Chapter 323: Preseason

Preseason Day.

The line that hadn't left the gaming pool in a long time was finally back in the small TV area.

Mu Sicheng leans in as soon as he enters the small TV area, he stares wide-eyed at the center hall and exclaims, "What the hell?!"

Originally, the small TVs were densely arranged in the middle of the small TV area, and a huge, sunken hole appeared, which was lined up with seats layer by layer, forming a viewing area similar to the Roman Colosseum, which looked like a deep, flat, round pool when standing at the edge.

In the center of the arena is a huge, double-sided screen with countless small televisions suspended in mid-air, and a constant stream of spectators enters the arena to take their seats and talk excitedly to each other.

"Right, God Mu is the first time I've seen the small TV area during the league." Wang Shun shot his head, "I forgot to tell you that the center lobby changes shape considerably during league play."

Wang Shun pointed to the big pool Mu Sicheng was looking at with shock: "Some small TV areas will be converted into viewing pools, the one you just watched is the biggest viewing pool, it's for the mid-season tournament, and we can't board it."

"The midseason games are screened live in this largest pool."

"Besides this largest viewing pool, there are many other viewing pools of different sizes around." Wang Shun pointed around, "The pre-season games are shown in these different sized viewing pools."

Mu Sicheng frowned, "These pools are just like the small TV recommendation spots, there are good and bad positions for exposure, right? How do we make sure our matches get into the good pools?"

Wang Shun laughed a little bit, "That's going to involve another thing, called a [gambling pool]."

Mu Sicheng asked suspiciously in return, "[Gambling pool]?"

Wang Shun nodded a bit, "The amount of points accumulated by viewers charging on you over the past year will be quintupled by the system as a base fund into the [Gambling Pool], and of course, your opponent's as well."

"Generally speaking, the bigger the gambling base fund you have with your opponents, the bigger the [pool] you pool together, the bigger the viewing pool you get, the better the position, the more exposure you get."

Mu Sicheng raised an eyebrow and asked rhetorically, "That is to say, if I want my matches to be played in an exposure viewing pool that attracts more viewers, either the amount of points charged on myself is high or the amount of points on the team I'm playing against is high?"

Wang Shun smiled and nodded, "But you guys don't have to worry about that for now, you're already considered a team on the higher end of the charge points scale in the preseason, and the viewing pool you'll get won't be bad."

"And there will be a steady stream of spectators putting points into your [betting pool] as the tournament goes on, so as long as you win all the way, the viewing pool you get will get better and better."

Mu Sicheng looked at the largest viewing pool with his chest clasped and grunted, "Our match will definitely be aired here in the end anyway!"

"That's also if you guys make it to the playoffs." Wang Shun pushed Mu Sicheng's shoulder forward, "Let's go to the preseason registration point to draw the opposing teams first."

Wang Shun turned back as he walked, "Right, we need Du Sanying to draw the team, where is he?"

Bai Liu steps aside slightly, revealing Du Sanying, who is shivering and feeling on the verge of tears behind him.

Du Sanying tearfully held the corner of Bai Liu's coat, "Oooooooo, where is this place ......"

"A week is up." Bai Liu said faintly, "He doesn't remember anything again."

Wang Shun: "......=="

Forgot about this one.

After Wang Shun had given Du Sanying science until his mouth was almost dry, Du Sanying barely understood what this place was and what he was going to do now.

Du Sanying was taken to the preseason registry by Bai Liu.

The registration desk was packed, especially next to the line for the battle team draw, and there weren't many good-looking players gawking at Bai Liu's outwardly impressive and conversation-starved team.

Du Sanying's shaking hand pulled a slip of paper out of a large raffle ticket style box, he glanced down at the name on the slip and then whispered out, "[Nomadic House]?"

The faces of those guarding nearby changed, and Wang Shun's eyes lit up.

[System alert: (Nomadic House) has forfeited, (Wandering Circus) has won without a fight and annexed the opponent's betting pool.]

[Please draw the next team.]

Du Sanying hesitated for a moment and continued to reach in to draw, "[Polaris]?"

[System alert: (Polaris) has forfeited, and (Wandering Circus) has won without a fight, annexing the opponent's betting pool.]

[Please draw the next team.]

Du Sanying remained silent for a moment and continued to draw, "[Styx Boat Helmsman]?"

[...... has abstained ......]

"[Golem's Snake Shadow]?"

[...... has abstained ......]

"[Onslaught] ......?"

[...... has abstained ......]

"[Ursa Minion] ......?"

[...... has abstained ......]

"......"

The eyes of the preseason team members gathered around them could almost stare a big hole through Du Sanying, who was still pumping the team constantly, with gritted teeth and shock.

All forfeit teams, does this Damn it make sense?

Other people casually draw is a life and death battle, have to use all their strength to win a game, this person is like drawing scratchers, or the kind of winning rate of one hundred percent, draw one to swallow a betting pool.

Du Sanying, stymied by the stares around him, glances back at Bai Liu, who smiles and signals him to keep smoking.

"[Butcher]?" Du Sanying draws again and looks up.

The people around them watched Du Sanying intently, waiting with bated breath for the system to answer.

[System alert: (Butcher) is actively preparing for battle, please have the Stray Circus go to Game Pool 17 to play the game.]

Everyone breathed an involuntary sigh of relief - finally, it wasn't a forfeit team.

"I, I, I'm not fighting, I'm forfeiting!!!" A terrified voice came from the side, "I'm not fighting Mu Sicheng!"

Mu Sicheng gave a harrumph when he heard his name and looked over with a fierce glare, only to give a lurch when he saw the other's face.

The man said as he ran off bawling, "He even pulled my pants down for the monsters!!!"

"I don't want to be pantsed by him again!"

[System Alert: (Butcher) has forfeited, (Wandering Circus) has won without a fight and annexed the opponent's betting pool]

All: "......"

What the hell is going on here!

Bai Liu shifted his gaze slowly to Mu Sicheng's face, "You still have this hobby?"

Mu Sicheng was exasperated, "Can you fucking blame me for this! I was originally robbing something from him, he assassinated himself I didn't rob him, so what's wrong with me bullying him a bit! I didn't really kill him!"

Liu Jiayi taunts, "Only an idiot like you would do something so boring."

Mu Sicheng rages, "It turned out well anyway!"

Du Sanying continued to smoke as he slowed down suspiciously, "[Witch Sego] ......?"

A man next to me choked up and stepped forward, "I'm the tactician of [Sorceress Sego], I'll abstain as well."

"Our entire team was saved by the witch and are all fans of Liu Jiayi and would never do anything that would hurt her!"

The man glanced at Liu Jiayi with affection: "Little witch, win with our share!"

Then ran away crying.

[System alert: (Sego the Sorceress) has forfeited, (Wandering Circus) has won without a fight and annexed the opponent's betting pool]

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Mu Sicheng held his chest and let out a long drawn out wow sound, squinting down at Liu Jiayi: "Am I the only idiot who would do such a boring thing?"

Liu Jiayi was expressionless: "What are you talking about, I'm blind and can't hear you."

Du Sanying apprehensively continued to draw another one, "[Silver Rose] Warriors?"

Tang Er was stunned to hear the name.

Someone stepped out from the group and he looked at Tang Er hit a bitter smile, "I didn't expect to see you again in this way, Mr. Hunter."

"It seems I have no second option but to abstain."

The man stepped forward and shook Tang Er's hand, patting him on the shoulder with a sigh, "You keep up the good work, take care."

Tang Er paused and returned the grip, "Sorry."

Wang Shun explained to Bai Liu from the sidelines, "[Silver Rose] was a league team that had previously employed Tang Er to play Mr. Tang, and after leaving Captain Tang the rankings went down the drain, and they've been in the preseason for the past two years."

"One could say it's a team that relies purely on Captain Don."

Du Sanying continued to draw at Bai Liu's gesture, "Team [Puppet Remnant]?"

A man pushed his way through the crowd and slowly walked up to Bai Liu and Mu Ke, and suddenly smiled, "Long time no see, Mu Ke, Bai Liu."

Mu Ke paused, "Fang Ke?"

Fang Ke scratches the back of his head, "Your memory is really good, you still remember me."

Mu Sicheng narrowed his eyes, "Hiss - I feel like this person looks familiar, but I can't remember where I met him ......"

Wang Shun sighed with complexity, "I didn't expect to meet Fang Ke here."

"He was the last one to survive from the batch of puppets Zhang Gui had before he died, and was in the same batch as Liu Huai Li Gou." Wang Shun sighed, "After Zhang Gui's death, he left the King's Guild, not realizing that it was his own team that he had formed to compete in the league."

Mu Sicheng drew a blank, "Oh I remember, Bai Liu saved his life during the bursting last train."

Fang Ke looked at Bai Liu and Mu Ke with mixed feelings, and eventually smiled with relief, "After Liu Huai died, I was the only puppet left that Zhang Gui still had alive, and I joined the other guilds and became their tactician."

"But it seems I'm still not meant to be someone's tactician."

Fang Ke raises his hand, "System, I abstain."

[System alert: (Puppet Remnant) has forfeited, (Wandering Circus) has won without a fight and annexed the opponent's betting pool]

Before he left, Fang Ke looked back at Mu Ke: "We have to win together with Liu Huai's share."

Mu Ke hmmm'd, "I will."

Fang Ke gave Bai Liu another look and smiled, "I think you will too."

"You got a pretty good manipulator this time."

Fang Ke waves and leaves.

Du Sanying was still smoking carefully, and the gazes of the onlookers next to him went from unbelievable and unbelievable at first to envy and jealousy, and then to hatred.

But it had developed to the point where everyone's eyes were numb.

What's the point of comparing races, hurry up and destroy.