At seven o'clock on Friday night, the 28th round of the regular season officially began, and Wu Long took the lead in the first singles game, while his opponent was Liu Xichen, who had just joined the Thundering Club for only a year and had been serving as a substitute in the Entertainment Club before, and rarely had the opportunity to play.

I don't know if it's because the combat style of the entertainment club can't let Liu Xichen fit in, so he has no room to play, or if the entertainment people just mistook Liu Xichen's potential and chose to give him up.

In short, when Liu Xichen joined the Thundering Club as a free man, Liu Xichen, who was unknown before, seemed to have opened up the second vein of Ren Du and went straight to the sky, not only sitting firmly in the main position of the Thundering Club with 29 starts that year, but also becoming the strongest offensive player in the team during the team game.

According to the media exposure news, Liu Xichen, who initially entered Leiming with a guaranteed contract, had already begun to negotiate the premium terms of the contract with the club at the end of last season, and the value of the premium supplementary contract was conservatively estimated to be close to 10 million annual salary, I believe that with the growth of his professional years, as long as he can play stably to the level he should have, I am afraid that even if he cannot become Bao Qingyu's successor in Leiming, then it is enough for him to become the ace player of a club.

If Liu Xichen is an inspirational example of salted fish turning over, then Wu Long, who joined the alliance in the same year as him, is a typical counterexample with a diametrically opposite fate.

You must know that in the professional qualifying tournament that year, Wu Long signed a three-year contract of 9 million with the defense club with a fourth-place result.

On the other hand, Liu Xichen, although he was fortunate to enter the entertainment club of the same super league with a ranking of 20 out, neither the contract nor the treatment he received was far from being comparable to Wu Long.

After all, Wu Long at that time chose to leave the army to join the professional arena at the invitation of the defense club, but Liu Xichen was a wild newcomer with no identity background.

But what about the result? Wu Long's first season in the league was mediocre, and his second season became a burden to defend the club, so much so that he was eventually terminated by the defending club at the end of the season in order to make enough salary space for other players.

I believe that if he hadn't met Mu Qing and WIN was in dire need of manpower to supplement the active players, Wu Long might have returned to the military now and become a professional soldier, where would he still have the opportunity to compete in the professional arena?

One was once pinned on high hopes, but it turned out to be a slap in the face.

Even after Wu Long came to WIN, he avoided the relegation of WIN with his ability and firmly ranked at the top of the personal win rate list, but in fact, it did not change the fate of WIN at the bottom.

A person who was once not favored by others, but proved his value and potential with the cheapest price, not only became the main force of the Thundering Club, but also was considered to be the leader of the next generation of Thundering.

And when these two people meet in the arena, the intensity of the battle can be imagined, especially when these two people are already in the same professional qualifying tournament, regardless of whether it is a secret competition in their hearts, or for the honor of their own team, Wu Long and Liu Xichen have already done their best before the game starts.

But this is such a game that is destined to be fierce before the start of the game, and it is related to whether WIN can withstand the pressure and continue to create a winning streak myth.

This is a WIN home game, even if it is an away game, it is impossible for too many people to travel with the team, so the number of spectators will never be less than a dozen people.

But what about now? In the battle conference room, which was once overcrowded and almost had nowhere to stay, in addition to Mu Qing, the big boss of WIN who never missed the game, only Bai Zhanpeng and Xu Bowen, as well as Hua Qingqing, were the active players.

The empty room, coupled with the unusually quiet atmosphere due to the tense game, made the entire home battle room look extremely deserted.

It's just that they are lonely, but they don't care at all, because they all know that compared to those who are absent from the game, they are complete idlers.

In order to complete the R&D task assigned by Hu Xiaopeng as soon as possible, all the members of the design and R&D department were absent, including Yu Xiaoming, who likes to join in the fun, and even Hou Ziang, an active player, gave up the idea of watching the game because he did not have the opportunity to play in this round of the game, and chose to stay in the hangar to participate in the research and development of new weapons with Guo Zhao and them.

And Wang Hui, the minister of the Ministry of Machinery, chose to re-inspect all the active IAs of WIN because of the failure of the castle IA last time, including all the main IA and spare IA, even the Blade IA that participated in today's competition, and the Mammoth IA that will be contested later, were just finished last night after a comprehensive inspection before they were urgently transported to the arena this morning.

In order not to delay tomorrow's game, at this moment, Wang Hui is leading all the mechanics of the mechanical department to re-inspect the king of air combat who will participate in the competition tomorrow.

Since all the members of the mechanical department are reviewing IA, how can they not have the assistance of Li Mingxin at this time?

Therefore, as the head of the technical department, Li Mingxin naturally could not appear in the combat conference room to watch the game at this time, and even all the backbone analysts of the technical department stayed in the hangar on standby, waiting for Wang Hui's call in real time.

The design and development department, the mechanical department, the design department, and the three most important departments of WIN were all absent from the competition, and if this kind of thing is known to the outside world, there may be various rumors.

After all, in addition to their three departments, what is even more surprising is that Xiong Tianci, who is the head of the training department and the captain of the WIN team, is not in the combat conference room at this time.

As a captain, you don't care about the game, it's definitely amazing.

But at this time, WIN was not surprised by this matter, because Xiong Tianci at this time did not desert, let alone miss the game because of internal contradictions between personnel, but he had hardly left the simulation training center since the battle damage in the ancient castle IA that day.

The daily physical training was completely put on hold, and even the work of organizing training on weekdays was handed over to Lin Xi to deal with, all he had to do was to sit in the IA simulator day and night, and get familiar with the castle IA that he should know well, but still can't play its full strength.

"Hehe, it's not bad, the progress is obvious......"

After just finishing a 1V5 PVE challenge, Xiong Tianci, who seemed to have not washed for several days and had a tired look on his face, had just come out of the simulator when he heard Hu Xiaopeng's laughter outside the glass door.

"Xiaopeng? Why are you here? ”

Seeing Hu Xiaopeng appear, Xiong Tianci was obviously a little surprised, and couldn't help but lift the glasses on the bridge of his nose, rubbed his eyes vigorously and said.

"Oh, it's nothing, stop by and see your ......"

"That game ......"

"Oh, the picture is comparable to the theater level, and the stereo sound is also very shocking, but the two commentaries on the scene are too unreliable, at this level, are you embarrassed to say that you were a professional player back then? I'm really not afraid to flash my tongue. ”

Hu Xiaopeng pointed behind him while spitting out, only to see that the big screen in the training center showed two completely different pictures one after another.

One of the pictures is the real-time live broadcast of the game at this time, and you can clearly see that Wu Long and Liu Xichen are in an inseparable fierce battle, whether it is each other's competitive state or the degree of IA battle damage, it seems that they are in a state of half a catty.

The other picture is stationary, and I see a familiar and unfamiliar IA of Xiong Tianci standing in the middle of the picture.

There is no doubt that this is the synchronization picture of his simulator, and the IA inside is also the castle IA that has not been fully controlled so far.

While watching the game, Hu Xiaopeng has been paying attention to his training, but what is the result? Xiong Tianci himself didn't have the face to describe his performance just now, especially after he was "hacked to death" by the five system IA, and there was no chance of winning at all.

sighed softly, and then couldn't help but smile bitterly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak, just turned around and walked to the bathroom not far from the door.

Helpless? Or at this moment, Xiong Tianci feels even more helpless, because judging from the current situation, let alone giving him another day, even if he is given another ten days, he may not be able to meet the minimum needs of the battle.

Although WIN does not have a clear definition of who the players are, or as long as the team leader and the captain of the team determine the list of players, it is impossible for anyone to change or give opinions at will unless there are special circumstances.

But the problem is that even if there is no clear definition, as the captain, Xiong Tianci still has his own set of standards in his heart, and this standard is through the performance and state of the players in recent training, as well as according to the characteristics of the opponent.

So based on his current performance alone, Xiong Tianci actually knows very well in his heart that he can't meet the minimum requirements for representing WIN at all, and instead of sending him to play, it is even better to send Hou Ziang, who has never played in a single match.

Even if he and Hou Ziang have the same result, they still can't change the fact that they are not defeated, but even if they lose, then they may lose more than themselves, and they can also ensure that their wisdom will not be ruined.

If when he first came into contact with the castle IA, Xiong Tianci still swore that he would definitely be able to control it, then at this time, he did not have the slightest confidence in the game.

If the persistence at noon today is his attitude towards the game, then at this time, he feels that this persistence is more like a kind of stubbornness, a somewhat ridiculous stubbornness.

Standing at the door of the bathroom for a long time, I could even faintly hear the shouts coming from the arena in the distance.

Obviously, something must have happened between Wu Long and Liu Xichen.

Maybe at this time, I should choose to give up, because the arena seems to need to stabilize the morale of the army even more.

And the stubbornness that I have repeatedly insisted on may not be at all in the end.

Taking a deep breath gently, Xiong Tianci turned his head to look at the brightly lit arena in the distance, and it was not until dozens of seconds later that he turned his head to look at the simulation training center that was close at hand.

"Huh? It's ......"

Just when Xiong Tianci hesitated, and his eyes only drifted through the gate of the training center, looking at the scene inside the glass door, Xiong Tianci couldn't help but be a little stunned.

The picture that was originally in the live broadcast of the game continued, but another picture on the big screen changed at this time, only to see that a PVE solo challenge seemed to have just begun, and the ancient castle IA that made Xiong Tianci want to stop was running wild in the map at this time.