Chapter 373: Will hard work make us ignore smoke grenades?

ENCE and Vitality clashed in mid for several rounds.

ENCE had high intensity on this map. That round was lost due to Vitality's counter-clear and Xu Beifang's smoke-piercing and wall-piercing kills, but they didn't pay much attention to it.

Aleksib began to adjust his moves based on Vitality's pushing patterns.

ENCE had a win rate of over 70% on this map; their proficiency was not comparable to the first map, Inferno.

Whether it was tactical foundation or the players' operational details, it was much better than on Inferno.

ENCE found several opportunities in the following rounds. Vitality's overall proficiency on this map wasn't as high as ENCE's, but Xu Beifang and Zywoo's performance kept the situation from becoming one-sided.

The confrontation, without knowing it, reached the last point of the first half.

In the CSBOY broadcast room, Ma Xixi looked at the numbers on the score and joked with a smile, "The confrontation between the two teams is quite intense. The score is now 9:5, Vitality leads by 4 rounds. They actively called a timeout to discuss tactics, but will the final result be 10:5, or will it end in our familiar posture!"

The sewer smoke exploded abruptly, instantly disturbing the ENCE crowd doing their default at B2.

"But are they still going to push mid this point? No, they jumped directly into the sewer."

Under the gaze of CSBOY, Xu Beifang pushed a smoke grenade directly into the sewer corner.

ApEX's eyes held some anticipation.

"The sewer might be pre-pushing, don't rush to use explosive utility!" Aleksib said very vigilantly, "Two people go try to see if you can eat him."

It was just a pity that he fired a few shots and clearly heard the sound of landing, followed by a short segment of running backward.

It was just a pity that their positioning now couldn't intercept Nice in the sewer.

Reaching the leftmost side of the smoke grenade, leaning against the wall, Xu Beifang clearly got the vision above the sewer.

Coordinating with the M4A1 silenced weapon, he could produce quite stunning results.

Xu Beifang's excellent aiming ability always allowed him to gain an advantage in early firefights. Once he gained an advantage, he could slowly operate based on information.

He wasn't sure of the opponent's specific location, but the opponent only had these few positions to steal people, so he tried to solve the problem with firepower coverage.

Aerial, under Aleksib's instruction, was already very carefully holding the sewer, but the sound of gunfire suddenly rang out, and he was instantly killed.

This guy on the opposite side was famous for mixing smoke. Today, he had already mixed several people to death in this BO3, so Sergej couldn't help but hesitate a bit.

Only after confirming the opponent wasn't mixing randomly did he step out silently.

"Mid is not easy to operate." Xu Beifang responded, "In the last round, I was hit by two bombs thrown by the opponent at the start, and it almost sent me away."

"ENCE's map control speed has slowed down these few points. We can't really play against their synchronization from several angles in our normal default." ApEX explained what he felt, "We still have to actively find opportunities. They won't come to mid to duel. Shushu, jump to B2 at the start later and see if you can steal an opening kill to play with."

However, not playing many one-way smokes didn't mean he didn't know many.

"But this point, ENCE just happens to have four people gathered at B2, preparing to hit with explosive utility in the second timing." Ma Xixi's tone held some anticipation, "This wave, Xiao Xu has run into them head-on again."

In the sewer area, there is an extremely excellent one-way smoke.

On the contrary, during boring map-running time, Xu Beifang had come up with many one-way utility tricks.

Sergej had the heart to pursue, but with the smoke grenade blocking, he was afraid the opponent was counter-holding the smoke.

Hearing this, Sergej pulled out horizontally and directly sprayed a magazine into the sewer smoke with a Galil.

It wasn't that easy for a one-way smoke to gain an advantage.

"Da-da-da!"

"Mid can't be operated, but I can go play in the sewer." Xu Beifang then turned to look at JackZ, "Give me that A1, I'm going to the sewer to play with a one-way smoke."

Looking at the terrorists carefully holding the sewer, Xu Beifang didn't hesitate, aimed at the opponent's head, and fired a short burst.

【Nice used M4A1 to headshot kill Aerial】

Aerial couldn't see the opponent's figure in his vision at all. He was stunned for a moment before shouting, "The sewer is a one-way smoke!!"

Losing one without exposing too many people at B2 could be considered a timely stop-loss.

The advantage of the M4A1 was revealed at this time: no tracer bullets, and the sound of gunfire was ridiculously small.

MO raised an eyebrow. He knew Xu Beifang wouldn't do any redundant operations. A smoke grenade given at the start like this must have some meaning.

ApEX nodded, "Standard defense is not impossible, then Shushu needs to be more active here."

Xu Beifang didn't like playing one-way smokes much, because if this thing was used too many times, if the opponent was experienced, it would be easy to detect in advance.

After the countdown ended, Xu Beifang picked up the M4A1 thrown by JackZ and lifted his legs to walk toward the VIP direction.

Then he turned to look at Xu Beifang, "Beifang, your position is actually fine. Do you want to try pushing mid again?"

After Xu Beifang gave the smoke, he didn't rush to mix in directly but waited for a hand.

Xu Beifang didn't know ENCE's thoughts now, but he could roughly understand. After all, he was originally planning to catch this psychological blind spot to find an opportunity.

He didn't want to expose too much information to the opponent. Speeding up in the B area was to catch the opponent off guard. If Vitality was prepared, the B area couldn't be hit.

"At the start, Beifang still jumped down VIP directly. With a good position, he never wastes these advantages to find opportunities."

"Just happens that someone is holding the sewer. Can Xiao Xu trade for a kill this wave?"

After taking one out, actively release a wave of footsteps, letting the opponent think he's going to run after stealing one.

At this time, the spirit will inevitably relax a bit.

Xu Beifang mixed back to the leftmost side of the one-way smoke, looking at the terrorist's side profile who was just reloading, and the M4A1 fired again.

"Da-da-da!"

【Nice used M4A1 to headshot kill Sergej】

Watching Xu Beifang take two kills in the early stage again, Ma Xixi couldn't help but exclaim, "I'm convinced. This guy is truly a kaleidoscope of offense. How many more small routines and opening-kill techniques does he have in his hands?"

"The previous mid-push, then the sewer mouth and teammate coordination to sweep mid, this wave directly coming to the sewer to play a one-way smoke—is there anyone who can sanction him!"

【Looks like today's match DEMO is a must-watch】

【This is why everyone likes to watch Xiao Xu's DEMO; you can really learn a lot of things】

【What era is this, still learning traditional pre-pushing? Come try this one-way smoke!】

【Already learned it, I'm going to use it to rank up!】

【Stop learning, the opponent is directly looking down!】

【Not for anything else, I'm determined to be this rat today!】

【...】

After Xu Beifang took two kills in a row, he originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to push forward and clear B2.

But the moment he took out Sergej, he keenly heard the footsteps coming from above his head.

"There's still someone at B2!" Xu Beifang threw a bomb directly above the sewer, then hopped and skipped away. ApEX at the archway also threw a smoke grenade, easily receiving him back.

"Xiao Xu has retreated into the archway, but ENCE is still very cautiously holding their guns because Xiao Xu has tricked them once before. Now ENCE's spirit is already taut."

"But this wave they are destined to fight wits with the air. Xiao Xu took out two at the start, and this grenade also left the two at B2 all crippled. The rhythm of the attack was completely disrupted by Xiao Xu alone." After Ma Xixi analyzed the situation, he gasped.

Originally, if ENCE had succeeded in the second-timing explosive utility, with a sniper rifle and a rifle in the B area, they felt ENCE would have had a chance to take it.

But all preparations were scattered by Xu Beifang alone. Now with a huge numerical disadvantage, and the survivors not in great shape, ENCE's attack was forced to become constipated.

Aleksib finally decided to clear the sewer first, confirm the sewer's safety, and then organize a wave in a group later.

"—Bang!"

The sound of the sniper rifle rang out, and the AWP bullet passed through B2, hitting Aleksib right in the chest.

Allu pulled out from the kitchen immediately, but only saw Zywoo's agile jumping back.

1 minute 20 seconds, ENCE was forced into a 2v5 clutch.

No miracle happened. Vitality's discipline was maxed out, just holding their guns by default, and they easily won this last round.

The first half ended, and the score was fixed at 10:5.

"This Nice..."

Sergej's face no longer had the high spirits. Constantly being solo-killed by Xu Beifang in various ways, he had already put the pain mask on his face.

As the offensive side in the first half, they basically relied on trading kills to take out Xu Beifang head-on.

But Xu Beifang, as the defensive side, played exceptionally aggressively, forcing them to come and deal with him.

After the first half ended, they saw Xu Beifang's data was ranked first in the entire match.

18 kills, 2 assists, 6 deaths.

As a rifler, a KD ratio as high as 3 made ENCE not know what to say.

"Calm down, the biggest pity in the first half was not winning the pistol round, otherwise we would still have a chance to gain an advantage." Aleksib comforted them.

To be honest, he was actually a bit disappointed.

He considered his tactics to be quite good, capable of stably eating apEX for a head.

But the tactics often hadn't even been deployed before they were shattered by Xu Beifang's personal ability. This was too frustrating.

Excellent data, exaggerated influence—several rounds made Aleksib start to doubt himself.

Fortunately, on the map Mirage, only getting 5 points in the first half didn't mean there was no chance to continue playing.

"In the second half, let's communicate more frequently. Nice isn't that easy to find opportunities on this map."

As long as they can play good defense, with a wave of rhythm, it's not impossible to overtake the score.

Soon, after a short halftime break, the second-half confrontation officially began.

Second-half pistol round.

Vitality directly hit the B area with explosive utility in the pistol round, but this point ENCE was already prepared in the B area.

Aerial jumped to B2 to sway and scout, and Allu had already grabbed flashbangs in the back.

When Vitality's front-side explosive utility unfolded, Aerial took advantage of the flashbang opportunity, directly single-pointed and ate one, then Allu gave a second flashbang, letting him retreat back to the bomb site.

These two flashbangs greatly delayed Vitality's attack.

But at this time their utility was already given, it belonged to the arrow on the string and had to be fired, so they could only jump down and fight.

But ENCE's retake was already in place. In a wave of local chaotic firefights, Vitality couldn't even plant the bomb and lost this round sloppily.

ENCE was obviously also stifled for a long time. After the victory in this round, Sergej roared loudly twice excitedly.

Hearing Sergej's shouting, the Vitality crowd looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

Shox looked at Xu Beifang and joked, "Look, look, you've beaten the kid until he's confused."

JackZ chimed in, "If it were me, I'd shout too. It's not easy to win a point easily. In the first half, he was beaten by Beifang to 7/12. If you don't let him shout, he'll have psychological problems after the match."

The score advantage in hand, plus the practice of directly ECOing in the second round, meant they didn't need to be particularly nervous.

Several people just hung out at home for a while, chatted about subsequent tactics, and when the time was about right, they flew down from A2, but unfortunately, the opponent didn't give them a chance.

The score reached 10:7.

The first full-buy round arrived.

In the confrontation with Aleksib, apEX also learned a lot, such as the first full-buy round, there is no need to deliberately unfold the default.

Directly use the prepared tactical deployment, use tactics to collide with the opponent's default, and they can review it later, which can also collect the opponent's habits.

So in the first full-buy round, he directly arranged a wave of Liquid A, using utility to send teammates directly into the firefight, bringing the gun advantage into play.

"Vitality's positioning is to directly unfold an explosive utility hit on the A area. No need to play anything fancy. ApEX's brain is just to find you for a gunfight, using my big brother to crush you!"

"I have a group of big brothers here, can you ENCE hold on?"

Frontal explosive utility unfolded. After Xu Beifang finished throwing the connector smoke, he directly threw a flashbang to clear A1 to the left and jumped down.

When he landed at A1, the three standard smoke grenades for the A area had already unfolded. Xu Beifang waited for his teammates to give a lamp-post flash and rushed out directly.

"This position under A2 is not cleared. This point only Sergej is defending the A area. Is there fire to clear this position?"

"No, but the teammates' flashbangs are coming over. However, he pulled out and just happened to eat the A1 flash, so he could only retreat fully white!"

"Sergej has no choice but to give himself a flash to fight. How about this wave!"

"Beifang turned his head and slapped Sergej to death. Sergej really has no way!!" Ma Xixi exclaimed directly.

The director's quality was online this wave. They completely saw all of Sergej's actions after this flashbang was thrown.

Sergej gave himself a flash and came out, then saw the terrorist at A1 turn his head and crouch, and Sergej directly died violently.

After Xu Beifang took out Sergej, he immediately moved toward the bomb site. As an entry fragger, he couldn't be afraid of death at this time and had to quickly clear the gun positions at the bomb site for his teammates.

Then, in the process of advancing, he clearly saw a series of tracer bullets hitting from the archway direction.

The hard practice in the system instance space had already formed his instinct for gathering information and judging positions.

Almost instantly, he judged the opponent's location, and the AK in his hand sprayed a magazine toward that direction.

Noticing the kill information in the top right corner, Xu Beifang intended to continue pushing toward the CT spawn and asked his teammates for a flashbang to occupy the CT spawn.

He suddenly saw a grenade fly out from the jump platform. Almost subconsciously, Xu Beifang flicked his muzzle over.

"Sergej was beaten to death, but ENCE's retake is very fast. Utility is being poured into the bomb site like it doesn't cost money. Aleksib wanted to spray through the crossing point, but Beifang directly counter-mixed him to death with a spray. Wait!!" Allu, who hadn't fired a shot at the jump platform, was also beaten to death by him!!"

Ma Xixi's voice was full of surprise, "What is this!! Nice, what are you doing!! Did he really see the opponent's character model? Allu didn't even fire a shot and was directly beaten to death in the jump platform smoke by his spray transfer!"

"Brothers, Xiao Xu has started again!! Can't find anyone to kill head-on, so he directly started mixing smoke. Does hard work make us ignore smoke grenades?"

"ENCE directly stopped playing. What is this, just save!"

【He's anxious!】

【Beifang directly stopped acting】

【Doesn't matter, Beifang will really take action】

【Xiao Xu: Even if you don't give me room to perform, I can still kill】

【I can understand Aleksib being mixed to death, but why was Allu also mixed to death?】

【Really scary!】

With Xu Beifang's crazy breakthrough, the A area was successfully taken.

After the match ended, apEX couldn't help but wipe the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead. During the attack, he inadvertently glanced at Xu Beifang's monitor and saw Xu Beifang spraying crazily at the smoke grenade, directly taking two kills.

"Awesome, Beifang!! Just play like this. We only need you to perform, and it's enough to win against the opponent!!" apEX also shouted passionately, "Come on!!"

"However, if possible, I still hope Beifang you don't waste time at the bomb site next time. Just go occupy the CT spawn."

Although relying on Xu Beifang's crazy breakthrough, they successfully took this round, apEX felt the thinking was still a bit off.

While the two big brothers on the team were performing like crazy, and he was happy about it, XTQZZZ did not ignore the problems in their gameplay.

Xu Beifang nodded, "I have a count in my heart."

This wave was because he confirmed the opponent's position, so he started mixing smoke. Otherwise, he would have gone to the CT spawn at the first moment.

ENCE had originally won the pistol round in the second half and regained some spirit.

But in this round, being killed by Xu Beifang in this smoke-piercing way again, their mindset was slightly unbalanced.

Although they communicated very actively later and tried very hard to make some beautiful kills, in a passive situation, the more they fought, the more chaotic they became.

The scales of victory constantly tilted toward Vitality.

Finally, at the match point, Vitality played a fake A real B, and the score was fixed at 16:9.

Vitality also successfully won this BO3 with a 2-0 landslide victory.

This also signaled that they successfully entered the champion stage as the first in the group!

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