System: [This round — Little Shengsheng wins, rating...]
Listening to the system’s broadcast, Ji You stared with eyes wide open, unwilling to accept defeat: "We could have still talked it out... we could have still talked it out... we could still have..."
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Little Shengsheng, looking at Ji You ’lying dead’ on the ground, suddenly spoke: "No talking."
Holding her head, Ji You wailed: "Little Shengsheng, you’ve changed! You weren’t before! How could you be ?"
Little Shengsheng: "..."
Facing the Rag Queen who was throwing a tantrum, completely devoid of her image, Little Shengsheng remained silent for a while before choosing the exit button.
With a flash, Little Shengsheng was teleported out.
Suddenly, the audience burst into waves of laughter: "Hahaha... Rag Queen, you died so miserably! Don’t die! Get up and keep the party going!"
Ji You glanced at the audience and inelegantly rolled her eyes: "I can’t be bothered with you."
She arrogantly turned her head and clicked the exit button.
Audience reaching out: "Rag Queen! Don’t go! We can still laugh at you for a while more."
What was left to the audience was only the elegant back of the Rag Queen as she turned to leave, and the intentional flick of her waterfall-like, bright red hair just before she left...
After leaving the arena, Ji You raised her hand and fiercely grabbed her hair: "A mistake! A mistake! If I had just been a bit more careful, I could have escaped. Why didn’t I run?"
"Why did I choose to fight head-on?"
"First run, survive, then think about other things. I could have lived a few more minutes, and who knows who would have won or lost by then?"
During the match, Ji You faked death a few times, finally lowering Little Shengsheng’s guard a bit. Taking advantage of a moment of relaxation, Ji You surged forward, planning to deliver a deadly strike.
Little Shengsheng proved to be a tough nut to crack. Ordinary opponents, like Xianting Huailuo and Hero King, when locked by Ji You’s spiritual power and facing her full strike, would definitely not be able to withstand it and make mistakes in panic...
But Little Shengsheng, truly a beast among beasts! Just slightly disturbed for a moment, but Ji You couldn’t even launch her attack before Little Shengsheng stabilized the situation and began counterattacking...
At that moment, if Ji You had not thought of fighting Little Shengsheng head-on but instead immediately escaped, and then looked for an opportunity to strike, maybe this match wouldn’t have ended so quickly.
However, her inherent stubbornness and competitiveness suddenly emerged, wanting to test how she differed from Little Shengsheng...
The experiment resulted in failure.
In reality, this misfortune-turned-fortune increase in spiritual power greatly helped Ji You. Without it, she wouldn’t have been able to compete head-on with Little Shengsheng for so long. Also—after a period of expensive ’Medicine Bath’ and the Fierce Tiger Body Forging Technique given by Teacher Mu, both Ji You’s spiritual power and physical strength had significantly improved...
However, despite this, Ji You’s gap with Little Shengsheng was still very clear.
It wasn’t just a gap in talent, the experience and tactics during the fight clearly showed Ji You lagged far behind...
Shen Changqing sent a message: "Rag Queen, your performance, it surprised me, your strength, It has improved again."
Ji You chuckled and replied, "Just so-so, honorable even in defeat. I don’t ask for victory or loss, as long as I make a little progress each day, I’m satisfied."
Such balderdash, obviously nonsense at a glance.
Next to Shen Changqing, Yue Qiyuan said, "Don’t believe her nonsense. Do you believe that she is now hiding and scratching at some corner after losing?"
Having heard Yue Qiyuan’s words, Shen Changqing did not respond. After thinking for a moment, he only sent Ji You a few words: "I’m going to compete."
Ji You was furiously scratching her head and pounding on the wall, unsure whether Shen Changqing believed her or not. But can she admit that she’s very unsatisfied with her loss? No! So, it doesn’t matter whether Shen Changqing and Yue Qiyuan believe it or not.
Ji You took a brief rest, replenished her spiritual power, and immediately started the second competition of the evening.
In this match, Ji You played steadily and won.
Following that, she started three more matches, winning each one and improving her personal score, successfully squeezing into the top ten of East District. Moreover, her rank was not even at the very end, she was placed ninth.
Ji You was very happy.
This meant that as long as nothing drastic happened, she could securely get a ticket to the finals.
Ji You thought about fighting another round; just a little more points increase would make her chances of entering the finals even more secure. However, with less than 2 minutes left until the end of the selection match, there was simply not enough time to finish another match.
The final results finally came out.
Ranked first was still Little Shengsheng.
Second place was Fu Feng.
Third place went to Drunk Lying on the Beauty’s Knee.
Ninth place, Rag Queen.
Ji You quickly scanned through the names that weren’t hers, not paying much attention, until she saw her own name. Her face lit up with a smile; although placed last, one way or another, she made it into the finals. This meant she now had a chance to break into the top ten of the Alliance.
Then, Ji You’s gaze stopped at the last name:
Tenth place, Xiaoqing.
Ji You blinked. Shen Changqing made it through?
But throughout, she didn’t see Yue Qiyuan’s name, does this mean Yue Qiyuan was eliminated?
Ji You pondered then went to check Yue Qiyuan’s recent challenge records. She discovered that his scores in the last few matches were too low, ultimately ranking him only at twelfth place. The eleventh place was King’s Expedition, and the eighth -
Ji You widened her eyes.
How is that possible?
How could that guy make it into the finals?
There must be some backstage manipulation going on here!
Ji You couldn’t believe it and hurriedly checked the battle records of Hero King. She found that this guy, in the last dozen or so matches, was ruthlessly using points to pave his way, fully arming his mecha and weapons to the max. Coupled with Hero King’s decent skills and top-notch operational level, many opponents couldn’t handle him for a while.
The Star Network system has very strict judgment criteria, and such behavior by Hero King doesn’t count as cheating. If Ji You had a large amount of points, and was willing to equip her mecha and weapons to an impressive level, it wouldn’t breach the rules either. However, Ji You, being such a miser, spending a large amount of points? It’s like asking for her life, absolutely impossible.
From another perspective, Hero King also advanced relying on the strength of his points.