Chapter 884 Lu Hanwen Challenges Liu Xiaobie
Chapter 884 Lu Hanwen Challenges Liu Xiaobie
The general schedule for the first day of the All-Star Game is similar. The first day naturally features the Rising Stars Challenge, and Qiao Jingjing's role today is as a commentator. Therefore, she cannot travel with Xiao Nai and the others.
After a dazzling All-Star opening, the All-Star Rookie Challenge officially began.
This season has fully adopted projection technology, and after testing last season, holographic projection games have indeed become more popular. It has greatly enhanced the viewing experience of live games, directly causing home game ticket sales for various teams to break previous records. This All-Star Game will naturally be no exception.
The first match was clearly a friendly, so there wasn't much to see. However, when the list for the second match was revealed, it piqued the interest of Tang Rou and the others.
The rookie who appeared in the second game was Lu Hanwen of Team Blue Rain, who is the most watched player of the season and the strongest contender for Rookie of the Year. He is also the youngest professional player in history.
Who among the viewers doesn't know the relationship between Blue Rain and Tiny Herb? And this All-Star Weekend was held on Tiny Herb's turf. As Blue Rain's rookie, Lu Hanwen's appearance was expected to be quite different. Although Tiny Herb's fans wouldn't boo a kid because of his age, the applause was still very sparse.
As the host of the All-Star Game, it was impossible for him not to recognize Lu Hanwen. Although the audience's reaction to Lu Hanwen was lukewarm, he still had a brief conversation with him. When faced with the host's questions, Lu Hanwen was not at all shy and spoke frankly and directly, creating an unexpectedly harmonious atmosphere on the field.
Then the host asked the question everyone was most curious about: "So, Xiao Lu, which player will you be challenging next? I'm wondering if it's Huang Shaotian, the god from your team?"
"No." Lu Hanwen shook his head and said when asked by the host.
"If it's not the Great God Shaotian, then who could it be?" The host was originally quite confident in his guess, but he was somewhat surprised by Lu Hanwen's words.
Lu Hanwen, holding the microphone, turned to face the Tiny Herb players' bench and said, "Senior Liu Xiaobie from Tiny Herb, let's have a showdown!"
Lu Hanwen has brought too many surprises to everyone since his debut. This young man always shows his youthful vigor, but even so, when Lu Hanwen said he would challenge his opponent, it still surprised all the audience.
Surprisingly, most of the audience guessed the same way as the host, thinking that Huang Shaotian would be Lu Hanwen's target for this challenge. Just like many rookies would challenge their idols in this segment, this is not really a challenge, but more like a tribute.
But now Lu Hanwen has chosen Liu Xiaobie, a player who is his team's arch-rival. It's worth noting that even in the league, the two have no special connection. Furthermore, Lu Hanwen's words showed absolutely no intention of paying tribute.
"Why did Xiao Lu choose Liu Xiaobie? They don't seem to have any grudges against each other, do they?" Chen Guo asked curiously.
"If I'm not mistaken, this grudge shouldn't stem from the competition," Ye Xiu said.
"Hmm, if I remember correctly, the two of us faced off in an online game during the summer offseason," Xiao Nai said, recalling the moment.
At the time, they were all fighting for the boss in the wilderness for their respective guilds.
Although Liu Xiaobie was also using an alternate account at the time, even though Lu Hanwen had not yet become a professional player, he could still tell from the other party's actions that the other party was a professional player. By matching the account name to the person in question, it was easy to guess the other party's identity.
Although Lu Hanwen won that time, even he felt that his victory was somewhat underhanded. After all, when both of them had exhausted their magic power and were preparing to compete in the most basic basic sword techniques, his priest just happened to arrive.
One reply immediately boosted his mana bar. With the mana bar restored, Lu Hanwen's attacks on his opponents became incredibly clean and efficient.
"But judging from the outcome of that battle, Liu Xiaobie should have been the one to retaliate, yet this kid is now taking the initiative to challenge the other side?" Chen Guo asked curiously. "He probably wants to give the other side a chance to settle old scores," Ye Xiu said, also somewhat surprised.
Liu Xiaobie, who was called out, did not seem to have much of an emotional reaction. He simply got up, left his seat in the Tiny Herb team, and came to the stage.
"Why did contestant Xiao Lu choose senior Liu Xiaobie?" The host then asked the question that everyone was curious about.
"Ha, there's no particular reason. I just want to have a good fight with Senior Liu Xiaobie and settle the score," Lu Hanwen said.
For a moment, everyone felt as if they had heard a profound truth from the wise man...
"Then why did you have the idea of competing with Senior Liu Xiaobie?" the host continued to press.
"It's nothing, it's just that we had a chance to duel before, but it wasn't a real one-on-one fight, so I want to have another one," Lu Hanwen said.
The tournament is only halfway through, and Blue Rain and Tiny Herb have only met once. A group of uninformed viewers kept trying to recall what interaction the two had during that match. But after thinking for a long time, they couldn't come up with an answer.
At this moment, Liu Xiaobie had also taken his place on the stage. After the host and both sides made a few more remarks, they got down to business: "For this competition, do you two need us to provide roles?"
"Isn't that enough?" Lu Hanwen said.
Liu Xiaobie shrugged indifferently at this.
The host was pleased to see this attitude from both sides, since the appearance of professional characters was obviously more popular and anticipated by the audience.
"Without further ado, let's begin our second rookie challenge! Lu Hanwen, the youngest professional player in the history of Team Blue Rain, will challenge Liu Xiaobie, the speed master of Team Tiny Herb!" Amidst the host's shouts, the two entered their respective competition seats.
Swipe your card and enter the map.
The next moment, the map chosen by both sides was generated on the stage.
The map they chose this time was very simple, and neither of them hesitated. The moment their characters appeared at opposite corners of the map, they charged straight at each other.
Don't underestimate Lu Hanwen just because he's a newcomer. In terms of equipment, Liu Xiaobie's throwing knives are actually not as strong as Lu Hanwen's Flowing Cloud Knife.
After all, the strongest swordsman in Glory right now belongs to the Blue Rain team. In terms of swordsman equipment alone, no one in the professional league can surpass them. And with Night Rain's voice as a precedent, creating an account that rivals it shouldn't be too difficult for them.
In comparison, Liu Xiaobie's swordsmanship isn't a core class for Tiny Herb, so the resources allocated to him are ultimately limited. However, this is only a comparison over time; in reality, Liu Xiaobie's throwing knives are already considered one of the strongest characters in the professional league. (End of Chapter)
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