After the game, Chen Xiao calmly accepted an interview with reporters.
When he lost to Tang Muzhou in the fifth season, it was still in the audition stage of the individual competition. The reporters were all around Tang Muzhou, who had won 50 consecutive victories. No one paid any attention to him who left, but today, his performance was clearly appreciated by most of the reporters. Recognition, the interview room is full of people.
A reporter asked very directly: "Do you feel very disappointed that you lost the game with Tang Muzhou today? You failed to beat Tang Muzhou five years ago, and you still can't beat him five years later. Does this prove that you do? How about him?"
In the face of this mean question, Chen Xiao was not angry, but smiled and said: "Tang Muzhou's personal strength is there, losing to him is a normal result. I left the league for five years, and I can have such a relationship with him after I come back. I am very satisfied with a duel. As for strength, I admit that I am indeed inferior to him now, but I will work hard to improve, and I will not necessarily lose to him in the future.”
I didn't expect Chen Xiao to be so calm and confident. When he was interviewed, he was full of confidence, which made the fans who saw the interview finally feel relieved.
A female reporter asked, "I heard that you and Tang Muzhou are good friends in private, right?"
Chen Xiao nodded: "Yes. So, I am very happy for him that he can reach the final."
The reporter said: "There will be the finals next. In three days, Tang Muzhou and Ling Jingtang will compete for the individual championship, and you and Shan Lan will also have a game to decide the third runner-up. Do you have confidence in Shang Shanlan? ?"
Chen Xiao said calmly: "Shan Lan was the champion last season. Against him, I have no certainty of winning, but I will do my best."
- There is no certainty of victory, but I will do my best to give it my all. This is Chen Xiao's attitude.
The reporters at the scene gave him applause.
This is sincere applause, containing expectations and encouragement for him.
Chen Qianlin saw his brother's calm and calm appearance in the interview in the background, and the corner of his lips couldn't help but raise a smile.
The little boy in my memory has grown up and has become a responsible man, and he is also very relieved to be a big brother. Let the past things pass completely. As long as Chen Xiao comes out of the shadows, he believes that his younger brother will become stronger and stronger.
***
When Chen Xiao returned to the backstage, Xie Mingzhe, Yu Ke and Qin Xuan all took the initiative to walk over to hug him and praise him for playing well. Chen Qianlin didn't say anything, so Chen Xiao cheekily walked over to hug his brother, put his chin on his shoulder, and said with a smile, "Brother, I tried my best, but I didn't make it to the finals, I'm really sorry."
Chen Qianlin patted his brother on the shoulder and said warmly, "It's okay, I'll talk about it when I go back."
Although Chen Xiao really wanted to hug his brother for a while, but many people around him saw that he was too embarrassed to hug him for too long, so he let go of his brother quietly and went back to the club with everyone.
After going back, Chen Qianlin replayed today's game from the beginning and explained the details patiently. After the replay, he asked, "How confident are you in the next game against Shan Lan?"
Chen Xiao thought about it carefully and said, "Forty percent."
Xie Mingzhe interjected: "Xiao Lan was the champion last season, and this season, he also beat Nie Shen in the eighth stage and four stages. I think that Shan Lan's strength is no longer inferior to Nie Yuandao, but Nie Shen has been playing for a long time. He became famous very early, so he has always surpassed Shan Lan in terms of popularity, right?"
"Well, you're right." Chen Qianlin nodded and said, "Old Nie has been playing for ten years, and after the age of 30, his condition is indeed not as good as when he was at his peak. In addition, Shan Lan is very talented, and Lao Nie is very fond of him. Granted, it will be a matter of time before he surpasses Master."
Yu Ke scratched his head: "It seems that it is difficult to fight Shanlan!"
Qin Xuan said calmly: "Shan Lan and Nie Shen have similar styles, but Nie Shen's style of play is very violent. Shan Lan pays more attention to skills, and the air attack bird card is really difficult to deal with."
Chen Xiao said with a smile: "Anyway, I will give it my all. If I win, I will bring a bronze medal back. If I lose, I will be the runner-up."
Xie Mingzhe embraced his shoulders and encouraged: "Brother Chen, don't be under pressure, there are so many powerful players in the league, it's not easy for you to make it to the semi-finals, you see, the great gods like Gui Sirui, Fang Yu, and Pei Jingshan, Didn't make it to the semi-finals this season!"
Chen Xiao said: "This is also my luck."
Chen Qianlin looked at his younger brother: "It's best if you can maintain this mentality, don't worry about winning or losing in the next game, take the showdown with Shan Lan as an opportunity to challenge the masters, and accumulating more experience is the most important thing. "
Chen Xiao nodded seriously: "Don't worry brother, I know what to do."
Chen Qianlin never wanted to put pressure on his younger brother. He knew that Chen Xiao had not been easy all these years. In addition, Xie Mingzhe had abstained from the individual competition, and the burden of Nirvana was all on Chen Xiao's shoulders... Before the match with Tang Muzhou, he was very worried about Chen Xiao. Xiao's psychology would go wrong and his spirit would be overwhelmed. He didn't expect Chen Xiao to be tougher than he imagined, forcing Tang Muzhou to a 2:2 score.
There is only the last game left in the individual game. He hopes that his younger brother will put down all the pressure and enjoy this game.
***
Three days, time was running out, Xie Mingzhe and Chen Qianlin worked together to help Chen Xiao with tactics.
Shan Lan's bird card is difficult to deal with, the main reason is that the bird card moves very fast in the air, and it is difficult to hit single skills.
Xie Mingzhe wanted to help Brother Chen choose some complicated maps, but when Grandma Liu entered the Daguanyuan, Flaming Mountain and other maps that required a lot of displacement, it was more beneficial to the bird cards with flexible air displacement. Bird cards with strong healing and support capabilities, such as Lark, are not afraid of delaying you.
Therefore, after repeated discussions, the three decided to bring more large-scale group attack cards, play violent waves, and not drag the rhythm with Shan Lan.
This is also the style that Chen Xiao is best at.
That is, Wang Zhaojun, the dead card, can be carried according to the situation, especially the birds that Miaoshanlan is difficult to deal with.
With the help of Xie Mingzhe and Chen Qianlin, Chen Xiao's card group was quickly determined, and the next few days were sparring time for his teammates. It was rare that Tang Muzhou took the initiative to send a message to Chen Xiao: "Do you need me to spar? Free."
Chen Xiao laughed and scolded: "You want me to be your sparring partner, right?"
Tang Muzhou said bluntly: "Anyway, I will fight Lingjingtang in the next game, and you will fight Shanlan. We both practice the card deck with each other, and we promise not to leak it out. It is also mutually beneficial, right?"
Chen Xiao wondered: "Can't Xu Changfeng, Zhen Man and Shen An in your own team help you practice?"
Tang Muzhou said helplessly: "I'm too familiar with them. I can guess what skills they use with my eyes closed. Is it more effective to practice with you, and call Master over to help us as a staff officer?"
The other party took the initiative to send it to the door, of course Chen Xiao would not refuse, and informed Chen Qianlin and Xie Mingzhe of the news.
Xie Mingzhe didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "He is obviously looking for you as a sparring trainer for free, and he can also find out your plant card pool by the way."
Chen Xiao said: "Tang Muzhou's reasons are always irresistible. Just practice, and fighting against him will not hurt each other."
Chen Qianlin built a ring room and let Tang Muzhou and Chen Xiao play the card group, while he and Xie Mingzhe watched. Occasionally Xie Mingzhe would end up playing a few games with the two of them.
Three days passed quickly, and the final of the individual competition of the eleventh season finally came.
On the evening of September 30, the top four players gathered again. Today's game will determine the final ranking of this season. It is hard to get a ticket on the spot, and the ratings of the online live broadcast outside have also set a record for this season!
Backstage, Shan Lan smiled and slid his fingers quickly on his brain—he was taking part in the pre-match quiz.
Nie Yuandao asked in a low voice, "Guess you win, or guess Chen Xiao wins?"
Shan Lan didn't hesitate: "Of course I guess I win. I put all the 400,000 quiz coins in this time, and for the quiz coins, I also want to win."
Nie Yuandao thought to himself, then you have to work hard, don't lose your money. Your master also gave you all these quiz coins.
Of course, Nie Yuandao didn't say this sentence in order to avoid his own crow's mouth attribute.
In the first game, Chen Xiao vs Shan Lan, the battle for the third place!
The third runner-up will sound much better than the third runner-up, and there are special trophies to take. The third runner-up has no trophy, only a bonus. Of course, the bonus is nothing to Shan Lan. He won the championship last season, and there is no difference between third and fourth today, so the look on his face is quite relaxed.
The audience thought that Chen Xiao would be more stressed, but unexpectedly, Chen Xiao's expression on the big stage was quite relaxed.
The two met in the middle of the stage, and Chen Xiao smiled and said, "Lan Shen, please give me more advice."
Shan Lan said with a smile: "Don't call me that. To be honest, I debuted later than you, Brother Chen."
He debuted in the seventh season, and Chen Xiao in the fifth season. If you really rank according to seniority, it is true that Chen Xiao is older than him.
Chen Xiao readily stretched out his hand: "Okay, Xiaolan, let me see your bird card."
Shan Lan nodded: "Well, I've been looking forward to the showdown with the dark plant card for a long time!"
The two walked back to the swivel chairs and sat down. Su Yang looked at their expressions and said, "Both of them are very relaxed. Shan Lan has won the championship and runner-up in the individual competition, and the demand for the third trophy is not very urgent. Chen Xiao seems to It is because he has completely put down the pressure, and he has already completed his task to enter the semi-finals. If he plays the game in a relaxed state, today’s matchup should be very good.”
In the final round of the individual competition of the eleventh season, the battle for the third place, Chen Xiao vs Shan Lan, officially started.
In the first game of Shanlan's home game, the map he chose surprised the audience - the top of the sky!
As soon as it came up, it was an aerial combat lore map!
Don't look at the relaxed expressions of the two, no one will be polite when they really fight.
Shan Lan's aerial combat lore map is also a major feature of the alliance. On the map above the clouds, all cards need to stand on the floating clouds to fight. Once you step on the air and fall from the clouds, you will die.
There are many unexpected factors in this type of lore map. After all, if you are hit by skills such as chaos and displacement control, it is very likely that a card full of blood will fall directly into the cloud and die, so players must also be vigilant at all times.
When Chen Xiao saw the opponent's map, he immediately changed to the deck that had been arranged for a long time. During the pre-match analysis, Chen Qianlin guessed that Shan Lan's home map was likely to be the lore map, so Chen Xiao also made corresponding preparations. .
He brought a displacement-controlling "bat flower", which could pull opponents in the air and directly pull the opponent's cards down to the cloud. At the same time as he fell, he pulled three or four cards and perished together, which was no loss at all.
However, Shan Lan is experienced in aerial combat after all. When Chen Xiao summoned the bat flower and wanted to pull him, he suddenly summoned a white peacock - the peacock opened its screen, and the pure white feathers radiated a soft light, covering the surrounding, the whole group was free Control without injury!
Following Shan Lan to summon the golden eagle, with the sharp chirping of the golden eagle, Chen Xiao's bat flower was thrown directly into the cloud, instantly killing it!
The audience screamed, and Shanlan's fans excitedly swiped the screen in the live broadcast room: "Lanlan 66666!" "I am really unmatched in air combat, I love his air combat style!" "Lan Lan laughed. So gentle, yet so violent in the game!"
In the first game, Chen Xiao lost.
There is nothing to be ashamed of losing to Shan Lan in the air battle map, Chen Xiao quickly calmed down and entered the second game.
The map selected by Chen Xiao in the second round made the audience laugh out loud - Yihong Courtyard!
Yihongyuan is fighting indoors. No matter how awesome your Shanlan's bird cards are, you can't fly out of the house, right
This kind of indoor scene is extremely restrictive for Shan Lan's birds. His birds are not flying high, and Chen Xiao's plants can easily hit them in a large-scale group attack. And Yihong Night Banquet is also one of Chen Xiao's favorite maps. When the night banquet opened, the whole map exploded, which just made Chen Xiao hit a wave.
How strong is Chen Xiao's wave of violence, Tang Muzhou had learned from the last game.
A large number of groups attacked the cards in a wave of pressure, which directly destroyed Shan Lan and moved back to the score!
The two played back and forth, which was very exciting. In the third game, Shan Lan won at home, and in the fourth game, Chen Xiao equalized at home. The score went from 1:1 to 2:2, and it was a decisive game in a blink of an eye.
A game is decided!
At this time, the random map will be very critical.
The maps randomly obtained by the system are "Weapon Room", "City of Eternal Night" and "Endless Icefield".
The City of Eternal Night is the map of Ghost Prison. Tang Muzhou chose it in the last game. Chen Xiao's blind typing performance on this map impressed the whole league, so Shan Lan naturally disabled it without hesitation.
In the remaining two maps, Chen Xiao cleverly disabled the weapon room.
The weapon secret room is an organ map, which requires a lot of hidden weapons to move around. Bird cards are faster than plants, and their positioning will be more advantageous. The Endless Icefield is a map from Frost City, and the cards on the whole map are slowed down.
Plants don’t need a lot of movement in the first place, standing in place for long-range attacks, and the impact of being slowed down is not so great; many birds have basic attack skills, and flying geese and golden eagles are close-range attacks, and the rhythm of the mountain after being slowed down Definitely will be greatly affected.
Seeing this, Su Yang couldn't help but sigh: "The random map of the system will try to ensure fairness as much as possible. In principle, the random map of the tiebreaker will either not show the home map of the clubs where the two players belong. The system, the three random maps are from other clubs, but careful analysis is actually more beneficial to Chen Xiao."
Wu Yue also said: "Chen Xiao just played the picture of Eternal Night City three days ago, and he also won Tang Muzhou, so Shan Lan must be banned. In this way, Chen Xiao can choose the endless one that is more beneficial to him in the remaining two pictures. Icefield."
Liu Chen said: "But this is only beneficial in theory. The slowdown of the Endless Icefield will take effect on all cards. Shanlan's bird card moves at 500% speed. Even if it is slowed down, its movement speed is still much higher than that of the plant card, and both sides are slowed down. Down, Shan Lan can still play fast breaks."
The influence of the map is only relative, and powerful players can beat their opponents even in away games. Shan Lan has no problem with this map. He was often slowed down when he played Fang Yu before, and he has a lot of experience playing this map.
However, to Shan Lan's surprise, Chen Xiao's style of play was more violent than he imagined!
At the beginning of the game, Chen Xiao instantly summoned five cards, standing in different directions, surrounded the three bird cards summoned by Shan Lan, Shan Lan had no choice but to summon the white peacock to protect him.
However, at the moment when he just summoned the white peacock, Chen Xiao directly asked Wang Zhaojun to play the pipa—
Get out of the song, shoot down the bird card in the air, and you will be judged to die!
The peacock with wings is naturally also a bird card, even if it has a high blood volume and has the whole group protection skill, but Chen Xiao has long been waiting for it to appear, and uses Wang Zhaojun to kill it in seconds before it can use the skill—
Thanks to Tang Muzhou's sparring during this period of time, Chen Xiao has mastered the rhythm of using instant-death cards when playing against masters.
When the opponent summons the card, and you use the instant death card, it will be too late.
Most masters can achieve the synchronization of summoning cards and using skills, so they must make predictions in advance. Before Shanlan summons birds cards, Wang Zhaojun should be summoned first, and the time difference is about 0.3 seconds. The moment the card appeared, Chen Xiao's instant-death card was already waiting, and he could use his skills to kill it in seconds.
The death of White Peacock was too unexpected, and Shan Lan didn't expect Chen Xiao to be so decisive.
Immediately after that, Chen Xiao came with a wave of critical attacks!
First, the Snapdragon fear group control, followed by Black Rose, Black Mage, Blood Rose, and Giant Konjac. The five cards were attacked in a violent combo, and Shan Lan's three birds were instantly killed.
Although Chen Xiao's card skills take a long time to cool down, Shan Lan can quickly counterattack with basic attack cards.
However, Chen Xiao's advantage in the opening wave was too great. Even if Shan Lan relied on the agility of the bird card to kill Chen Xiao's two output cards quickly, he was entangled by Chen Xiao's blood-sucking vines and dragged to the later stage.
In the end, Chen Xiao won a thrilling victory by one card!
3:2, Chen Xiao wins!
Su Yang's eyes widened in disbelief: "I can't believe that Chen Xiao's violent one-off play would be so decisive. If there is a 0.5 second error in the operation, he is likely to be killed by Shan Lan! At the critical moment, Chen Xiao still dared to Dare to fight hard, this third runner-up is well deserved!"
Wu Yue also said excitedly: "The audience who guessed Shan Lan won before the game was as high as 80%. After all, Shan Lan was the champion last season, but the result was unexpected again - Chen Xiao always surprises everyone, he is really a player who can create miracles. !"
Liu Chen said: "From the least favored player in the group stage to being the third runner-up this season, Chen Xiao has staged counterattacks again and again! Let us applaud and congratulate Chen Xiao for winning the eleventh season. Runner-up!"
At the end of the game, Shan Lan smiled helplessly.
His betting coins are all lost now...
Chen Xiao took the initiative to come over and shake hands with Shan Lan, Shan Lan smiled gracefully and said, "Congratulations to Brother Chen."
Chen Xiao said: "I was lucky enough to win you once, but I won't be so lucky next time."
This is not humility. It is true that the weather, location, and people are all taken by him today, and the map of the tiebreaker is also in his favor. It seems that the strength is not as good as the opponent, but it is possible to defeat the opponent. Competitive games are full of unknown factors. That's the beauty of the game.
Shan Lan returned to the backstage and looked at the master with his head lowered, embarrassed: "I didn't expect to lose..."
"It doesn't matter." Nie Yuandao didn't care, and said lightly: "Master will help you to get a million guess coins. Bet with Master in the next round, and you will earn back if you lose."
"..." Shan Lan was stunned: "Where did you come from?"
He opened the professional alliance group in doubt, and saw a message sent by Nie Yuandao: "@All members who have unused forum quiz coins in their hands, please transfer to my forum account NYD1224, thank you."
Gui Sirui asked, "Why does Nie Shen want to guess coins?"
Ye Zhu: "It's for Brother Lan! Haha, I know he likes to play lottery. Did he miss out on guessing [shut up, I seem to know the truth]"
Bai Xu: "I have 100,000, and I transferred it to Nie Shen."
Pei Jingshan: "150,000 has been transferred."
Zheng Feng: "You must have principles when you love your apprentices, old Nie, if you ask everyone for quiz coins, how should you repay the favors you owe?"
Nie Yuandao said calmly: "At the end of the season, please have a meal. The place is your choice."
Zheng Feng: "Okay, 200,000, you're welcome!"
Shan Lan: "..."
Seeing these chat records, Shan Lan's ears were hot, and she was very embarrassed. He knew that Master had always spoiled him, but he didn't expect that Master would actually go to the great gods to ask for coins. Now the whole league knows that he guessed wrong and lost all his fortune, what a shame!
Shan Lan blushed and lowered his head, wishing to find a seam to bury himself, until Nie Yuandao's voice interrupted his thoughts: "Next game, Tang Muzhou fights Lingjingtang, guess the other side, who will lose at home, be steady. Earn or lose."
Shan Lan: "… "
Well, he is still very confident in Master's crow-mouth ability!