Chapter 346: Yinshan Village

Ornamental Pool.

The audience watched Bai Liu, who was about to walk to the Ghost Bridge on the screen, talking, but the discussion was small and not offensive.

This kind of two sides are very popular team confrontation, at least in the viewing pool, these spectators do not dare to say anything bad, after all, people did not enter the game team members are sitting at the bottom of it, if you say something to be heard, offended the other side, followed by the pursuit of death is not an impossible thing.

The previous lesson of clowns killing audiences is still sitting somewhere.

But it is inevitable to discuss the direction of the tournament, which is clearly not in Bai Liu's favor at the moment.

"...... Gee, I think Bai Liu is finished."

"Kong Xuyang always likes to toy with his opponents after panel silence, but I didn't realize he was hiding such a big card as Devouring Memory, the combination is truly unbeatable."

"Panel Silence is a difficult skill to get, and a lot of big guilds have fallen for it ......"

Wang Shun turned his head back to the audience and looked worriedly at Bai Liu on the big screen, "The growth rate of points in our pool has slowed down a lot."

Mu Ke witnessed the Wild Lamb players across the table, "The point growth rate of the Wild Lamb betting pool has tripled."

"The growth rate of the betting pool depends on the momentum of the game, once it slows down, it will be hard to go up." Wang Shun is getting more and more worried, "The lower growth rate of the betting pool means fewer viewers are favoring you, which also means that it is less likely that you can get the gold medal at a later stage."

"This match is one of your rare high-profile matches in recent times, and Kong Xuyang is a very popular player, so I don't think Bai Liu will lose to Kong Xuyang ......" Wang Shun sighed. "What I'm worried about is that if Bai Liu doesn't win this match well enough, his popularity won't go up."

Wang Shun paused for a moment, "You're about to meet the Russell Cemetery Battle Team, they are not going to come down from the field alive, using the same method of fighting, if you can't eat the popularity bonus in this match, it will be hard for you to eat it in the next."

"Without a death warrant, it's going to be a tough battle with Russell Cemetery." Wang Shun smiled bitterly.

Liu Jiayi was calm: "The pool can make a game, right?"

The pool is an unspoken cheat between teams, and the fast-growing pools are displayed on a vertical TV screen next to the entrance to the game, which is also known as the "Team Points Leaderboard", and the teams that make it to the top of the leaderboard are quickly noticed by the audience.

A fast pool growth rate means that the team that owns the pool has excellent momentum and is currently looking up all the way.

Just like stocks and funds, a rapidly rising betting pool will have many spectators placing blind bets, that is, rushing in without asking any questions at all and placing bets on the players and teams, thus rapidly expanding the pool and boosting the popularity of the players, and only after placing the bets will these spectators focus on the teams in turn.

The [betting pool to do the game] is their own team first down a large number of points into, so that their own pool rushed to the [team points growth rate list], to attract a large number of viewers to place blind bets, this practice is also known as the [banker to do the game], is used when the team towards the decadence of the team used to throw a desperate time to use, in simple terms, is the first to cheat people in and then say.

If this practice fails, that is, the player loses, it will be scolded [dead also want to pull a few burial] of the battle team is usually no way back to go, will be directly by the losing points of the audience siege to dissolution.

And if this practice is successful, the short, quick and efficient gains will make the viewers who have tasted the sweetness quickly get on top, thus becoming more loyal to this team, betting more in the next tournament, and insanely piling up the player's popularity value so that he can get a get-out-of-jail-free card, which is a typical [Gambler's Mentality].

Liu Jiayi looked at Wang Shun: "Our mastermind, Charles, started his career as a game maker, isn't he coming to control the scene at this time?"

"Personally I don't like this way of getting to the top, the audience it attracts are too extreme, it's easy for things to go wrong and it's not really fair to those viewers ......" Wang Shun frowned and let out a long sigh, "but I did previously also asked Charles if he wanted to make a play."

Liu Jiayi asked, "What did he say?"

Wang Shun said, "He said no preseason, he's not going to be involved in anything with Bai Liu in the preseason other than helping to fund Bai Liu's training."

"Charles' exact words were [If the dark horse can't run in front of him by himself, then it doesn't deserve him to put more energy into it]." Wang Shun took a deep breath, "In the preseason, Charles clearly told me that he would not give Bai Liu any boost."

Liu Jiayi quickly shifted his focus, "So do we have enough storage points in our own guild to make a game?"

"Far from enough." Wang Shun shook his head, "And Bai Liu explicitly said that these points cannot be moved, saying that they are the foundation of these members of the guild, and that moving them will easily scatter people's hearts."

Liu Jiayi pursed her lips and looked at Bai Liu on the screen, "What is Bai Liu's current popularity ranking?"

She actually had no doubt that Bai Liu could win the match, but ...... how she could get her popularity back up in a declining situation, and rush into the top one hundred in popularity before she hit Russell Cemetery, and get a get-out-of-jail-free card, that was the core of this match.

"Bai Liu now has a popularity ranking of 151, storming into the mid-season circle." Wang Shun replied, "But there's still a big gap from the top 100."

"Now if we must do a game to raise Bai Liu's momentum, we can only count on the sudden parachute of very high points audience to place massive bets on him."

Said Wang Shun again did not hold back a bitter laugh, "But this kind of dirt-cheap audience has long been wrapped up in the season of support by all kinds of star players, all in the mid-season betting pools to play rolls, where to see Bai Liu, a newcomer to the pre-season?"

Tang Er looked at the team's betting pool on the system panel and propped his hands on his knees and said in a deep voice, "The growth rate of our side's betting pool is almost zero."

Wang Shun was startled and quickly opened his system panel, quickly inspecting it, "How did it drop so much!"

"It's not just on our side, the growth rate of Fever Lamb's pool has slowed down as well ......" Wang Shun muttered as he watched, "The growth rate of all teams' pools has slowed down throughout the preseason ...... What's going on?"

Liu Jiayi reacted quickly, "Which team is playing which team in the midseason now?"

Wang Shun was reminded by Liu Jiayi and slapped his head, regretting, "I was so focused on our guild's battle today that I forgot about this big event!"

"At the same time as our match, there is also a big match in the mid-season tournament." Wang Shun's eyes complicatedly looked at the matchup table presented on the system panel, "...... Killer Sequence versus King's Guild."

"Right now all the points in the entire game are pouring into the betting pools of these two guilds, this situation is mostly a sign that the match is going to come to an end." Liu Jiayi stared at the insanely rising betting pool points data of the King's Guild and Killer Sequence on the system panel, "I can't tell who's going to win from the data for the time being, Wang Shun can you?"

Wang Shun slowly shook his head, "The growth rate is too fast for me to analyze."

Midseason viewing pool.

Two snow-white lanes of light lit up on either side of the huge screen, and within them columns of members of the Slayer Sequence and the King's Guild stepped out.

The Killer Sequence walking at the front was Reverse God, and the King's Guild walking at the front was Heart, and after they stepped out of the passageway, they crossed over to the moderator standing in the center, holding a microphone with a blank expression, and exchanged handshakes in a very civil and polite manner.

The entire audience basically had the same blank expression as this presenter, as if they simply couldn't believe they were seeing the scene in front of them.

Obviously a competitive viewing arena of that many people, obviously the most exciting moment of the end of the match, and not a single person made a sound.

The room fell silent to an eerie degree.

Everyone stared blankly at the two teams walking towards each other in the center of the field, as if they hadn't yet regained their senses from the game they had just played and hadn't reacted to what was going on.

The Adversary smiled and shook Heart's gloved hand, "Very brilliant tactic."

Heart smiled flirtatiously, "That's more appropriate for you, isn't it?"

"After all, you did nothing but forfeit a single match." Heart flicked up her eyelids and swept her eyes at the Reverse God, "But shaved one of our heads."

The host looked like he was just now coming back to his senses, excitedly jumping up and down with his microphone in the air and yelling, "Everyone! The result of the match is Killer Sequence's 22-1 win over King's Guild!"

"This is the largest game spread in a midseason game in history!!!"

"The Single Match Killer Sequence forfeits, the Double Match Killer Sequence earns 6 points for an early kill, and the Troupe Match Killer Sequence earns 16 points for an early kill, for a total of 22 points!"

"That's a high score that no team has ever achieved in the midseason, and the Killer Sequence is playing against last year's second-ranked King's Guild!"

The room, after a brief silence, fell into a manic frenzy, all of them shouting, or cursing, the names of the killer sequences in unspecified, red-faced excitement.

Amidst such vociferousness, Heart looked unfazed at Adversary, "Forfeiting the singles match was your tactic, wasn't it?"

"The rule of the points tournament is that the first team to get eight points wins, and you're giving up a solo match to try to get two early kills and maximize the benefits of getting points in the later doubles and team matches."

"You've got a lot of nerve to do that against us." Heart lightly swept the Slayer Sequence members behind him, his eyes only pausing for two seconds as they skimmed over Spades, "You've got this team on your hands that still narrowly escaped from me last year, and this year you've got the audacity to pave the way for yourselves with a sacrifice to my guild."

The Reverse God feigned honesty and scratched his head with a friendly smile, "I was just trying it out, I didn't expect it to really work."

Heart is silenced for a second by the Inverse God's shamelessness.

Midseason has different rules than both preseason and playoffs, with midseason centered on points, betting pools, and get-out-of-jail-free cards, and the Slayer sequence saw a big crew change this year, and while it still voted the five main crew members into the top 100, the crew popularity rankings are pretty polarized.

Spades and Against the Gods were solidly in first and third, but other than that Bai Yi, Bai Jiamu and Liao Ke were hovering in the lower 70s to 90s, a very precarious position that could be squeezed out later on if a popular player made a push.

The reason for this phenomenon is also simple, as there will be a ranking disconnect due to the poor performance of the Killer Sequence's regatta, resulting in the team's average ranking not going up.

The same thing happened with the Stray Circus.

And the only thing that can fix this situation is a strong, and highly visible, team game.

Adversary made a risky move by picking this regimental match as this one against the King's Guild.

"Solo matches have always been your strongest event, and every time Spades has been able to kill the match early and secure two points." Heart looked over to Against the Gods, "I didn't expect you guys to give up Spades' solo matches, not letting him play, and postponing Spades' immunity to the group matches."

Heart gazes quietly at the Adversary, "Spades isn't very good at team play, you took a close gamble."

The Reverse God smirked again as he gave an afterimage to Spades, who was standing next to him and clearly starting to walk away, "People change all the time."

Heart releases Retrograde's hand and bends demurely in a slight salute, then rises to look at Spades, who is standing next to Retrograde.

She paused for a moment as her eyes went to the black whip Spades was holding in her hand, then Heart took off her own red gloves and extended her hand to Spades as she gave a very elegant smile, "It was a great pleasure competing with you this time, Spades."

Spades' wandering eyes pause on Heart's face for two seconds, "Who are you?"

Heart: "......"

A loud choking cough erupted violently from the Adversary God as he calmly stepped in front of Spades and took Heart's hand firmly and forcefully, shaking it up and down twice as vigorously, "Yes, Spades had a great time this game too!"

"Pleasant enough not to remember who I am?" Heart drew back her hand with a smirk as she gave a small nod to the rest of the Slayer Sequence and turned to lead the rest of the team off the stage.

The Reverse God let out a sigh of relief as Heart stepped down, and then turned around and disliked Spades with his hand, "You've already played with him twice! He was so polite to you, you should at least remember what he looks like!"

Spades recalls seriously, "Has she ever fought us before?"

Against the Gods: "......"

Bai Yi: "......"

Bai Jiamu: "......"

Liao Ke: "......"

Heart, give up on this man and go find your next spring, it's really not worth it when you play him once in the finals and he doesn't even remember you!