Chapter 20: Fog and Electricity

"Pay attention, it seems someone is building an expansion at the 6 o'clock position, Li Lin."

"...That’s the area you are responsible for, didn't you see I’m busy dropping another house?"

"Then can your Psionic Storm be accurate? My Marines are almost all killed by you!"

"You still blame me? My Dark Templars were all blown up by your tanks. That one was a great hero who had already killed more than ten workers."

"Who told you to rush when you saw me setting up tanks? You don't have to do this to grab credit."

"I grab credit?! I’ve already beaten my opponent’s house to a pulp, and I came to help you because I saw your progress was so slow."

"If I hadn't set up two tanks on the enemy’s high ground to harass, could you have fought so fast?"

"...That’s your willingness. Besides, I also sent a Dark Blade to kill workers for you."

"My plane killed all his Overlords, and you only sent a Dark Blade to grab credit, and you are still embarrassed to say it!"

"Wahahaha, my opponent has already been forced to quit, and I am faster than you! I win!"

"You didn't see my opponent type 'gg' first? Obviously I am faster!"

"Surrender doesn't count! I am faster!"

"..."

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Relying on super strong individual strength, KID and I quickly broke through the first two rounds of the competition and attracted a large number of spectators. Our dazzling operations were certainly an important factor in attracting people, but I think more people were probably here to watch the fun...

We didn't have no cooperation in the competition. On the contrary, our cooperation was very tacit, and the complementary advantages of unit types could be said to be seamless. The Terran’s steady suppression and expansion, the Protoss’s powerful offense and omnipresent drops, plus the Terran’s late-game technological advantage and the Protoss’s ghost-like invisible units, the only thing the opponents could do was to give up the competition helplessly after a sweat-drenched struggle.

The opponents who were not heavy enough made the competition not very exciting. What made the audience watch with relish was actually the bickering that KID and I had never stopped since the beginning of the competition, and the "meticulous" trouble we caused each other:

When the fragile Marines faced the impact of large groups of Hydralisks and Zerglings, there would always be one or two Psionic Storms falling at the right time, but unfortunately, the location of the fall was always a bit too close to the Marines...

And when the Zealots started a charge following the Dragoon big brother, the tanks would sing and set up their incomparable cannons in the rear...

The Terran’s built expansion base finally flew to the minerals, but helplessly found that there were already a few Protoss light balls flashing. When flying to the next mineral point, coincidentally, a Dragoon just happened to lead the enemy’s main force over...

And as a reward, the SCV came back from a stroll and had to build a bunker in the Protoss base, claiming to assist in defense, but actually forcing the innocent Dragoon to lose weight, otherwise it would be stuck between the bunker and the Gateway forever. And what was even more terrifying was that until the end of the competition, no Marine had ever drilled into this bunker...

The pressure of almost 1V3 plus the extra operation of constantly typing and arguing during the competition made my APM almost exceed the level of my peak. After a short period of maladjustment, I found my best state, and even performed extraordinarily in some aspects. KID’s performance could only be described as perfect.

Only Lily frowned and muttered to us after the competition: "...Do you really have the consciousness of being partners?"

I smiled gently: "We are partners, of course."

Then when I finally successfully pushed the opponent a few seconds earlier than KID in the competition, I still kept that smile: "It’s just that in a sense, it will be more interesting for us to be opponents!"

KID was also smiling.

Only Lily shook her head helplessly: "You are really a pair of willful partners..."

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On the other hand, Ling Tian and Lei Xue met a Protoss-Zerg combination in the first round.

The enemy Zerg’s experience was obviously very rich. Seeing Lei Xue choose Terran, he judged that their side would have less pressure in the early stage and immediately prepared to use a double-base opening. But the Protoss worker sent by Ling Tian to scout agilely stuck to the drone sent to build the expansion. That poor bug circled around, but could never become a base under Ling Tian’s interference. After delaying for nearly ten seconds, it finally started building the expansion base with the help of another drone, but the position was not very good and could not completely cover the entrance. And that Protoss worker who made the opponent miserable slipped back with a trace of blood proudly.

The opponent had just breathed a sigh of relief, but a Zealot and four Terran workers had already killed their way to the door. At this time, the Zerg’s expansion base was only half built. The Zerg, who had no troops, immediately mobilized almost all the drones to deal with the enemy. The Zealot was like a tiger in a flock of sheep, and the 4 Terran workers carefully attacked the lone drones.

Ling Tian carefully manipulated the only Zealot, letting it attack continuously but not fall into the siege of too many drones. So when this heroic Zealot was red-blooded, more than half a squad of bugs had been sent to the kingdom of heaven. Lei Xue’s operation was obviously not so detailed. When she killed 3 bugs, two SCVs had already died. The tenacious Zerg added 1 defensive structure in a good position and immediately organized 6 newly born Zerglings to plan a counterattack, but the newly arrived 1 Zealot and 4 Marines not only dispelled this idea of his, but also forced him to add another Sunken Colony. The Zerg economy suddenly faced exhaustion, and the newly born eggs had to become drones.

While the Zerg was struggling to death, he was also very angry and confused about his ally’s attitude of not saving him. When he finally found time to observe the situation, he found that his ally was also powerless. Ling Tian’s 2 Zealots blocked the exit of the Protoss high ground, and behind the Zealots were 3 Marines who were eyeing them covetously. Although the ally already had 4 Zealots, it was obviously very unwise to fight Ling Tian, who had fire support, in such narrow terrain.

Time is always fair. When the Zerg turned his perspective back to his base again, 4 Zealots and more than half a squad of Marines had launched an attack. Although the ally already had 6 Zealots, the smiling face of the Medic sister appeared behind Ling Tian’s Zealots blocking the entrance...

The Zerg player was forced to quit in a hysterical despair.

The stim-packed Marines didn't even let go of the remaining eggs, until all moving objects were beaten into a pool of blood, Xue'er was satisfied to mobilize the troops to follow Ling Tian’s Zealot group.

Facing the army, the opponent’s Protoss perfectly interpreted the professionalism that a professional player should have, and didn't politely type GG until all living forces were eliminated, but his politeness was met with the same fate of being forced to quit by a large group of Marines...

When Xue'er finally clicked to exit, the game time had just passed 13 minutes.

The audience let out a breath in unison and used thunderous applause to express their admiration for this battle. For a time, Xue'er and Ling Tian’s limelight was the best in the audience.

Objectively speaking, KID’s and my performance was certainly wonderful, but we always wasted too much operation in inexplicable mutual sabotage. Even if the audience locked the screen of one of us, they couldn't fully see these small actions, not to mention that an audience had to watch 4 people at the same time. After watching such a competition, there were always many places missed. The final impression left was a fog. Before they fully understood what we were doing, the competition ended inexplicably.

The competition between Ling Tian and Lei Xue was different. From the beginning, it was full of fierce confrontation. Perhaps there were no profound tactics in it, but this direct and tragic playstyle was like the sparks ignited by lightning collision, giving people a kind of explosive beauty. Most of the audience’s StarCraft level was not high, and this kind of competition that could be understood and was exciting was naturally more popular than the fog of KID and me.

The opponents of Ling Tian and Xue'er in the second round were even worse than the first round. As a result, the competition process was almost a repeat of the previous game. Although the opponent increased the number of defensive towers with self-knowledge this time, the competition ended faster. When Xue'er forced the enemy’s last building to quit, the time was fixed at 12 minutes and 40 seconds.

Perhaps because this was not a very formal competition, the level of the participating players was uneven. After Xue'er and Ling Tian broke through the first 5 rounds of the group stage, the average time used per game was only 13 minutes. But what was even more surprising was that they were not the fastest players. The partner littlebear and Faith took an average of only 11 and a half minutes to complete the first five games. In sharp contrast, another pair of partners, wzllt229 and cool-water, each of their games lasted more than 40 minutes, and the battle that decided the qualification lasted for more than an hour before the winner was decided, so that the competition in that group ended much later than other groups. However, with the qualification of this pair of partners, the top 8 were finally born, which meant that the final round of the competition was about to begin.

In order to improve the randomness and excitement of the competition, the final round of the competition still adopted a 1-game decision, so it only took 7 games for the top 8 to decide the champion.

After the draw decided the schedule, the organizer took advantage of the situation to do some prize-winning small activities for advertising, while the players used this time to dine and rest. What I regret is that Xue'er said she wanted to discuss secret tactics with Ling Tian and refused the invitation to dine with us.

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Due to KID, I wasted a lot of energy and physical strength in the morning, and these exotic foods were quite delicious, so while the other few people had finished their meal, I was still burying my head in eating.

And at this time, KID took a sip of black tea, picked up the schedule for the afternoon, and then elegantly frowned.

Lily keenly noticed this and couldn't help but worry: "What? Is the opponent in the afternoon very strong?"

"No, our opponent is very weak, and it’s easy to enter the finals." KID answered nonchalantly.

"Then what are you worried about?"

"I’m not worried, I just think our kids have met a very interesting opponent."

I also raised my head when I heard this: "Ling Tian?"

"Hmm." KID handed the schedule to me, "Li Lin, what do you think of Ling Tian’s tactics?"

"It’s just that the two of them work together to produce troops, then use the troop advantage to suppress, then break the opponent’s defense line separately, and then..."

"In other words, it’s the extreme troop massing flow of two people together, right?" KID interrupted me.

"Hmm... can be said so." I thought for a while and answered.

"Then how do you think Ling Tian and the others apply it?"

"This... Ling Tian’s style determines that he is not suitable for troop massing, Xue'er’s resource allocation and construction order in the early stage are perfect, but her operation and the race she uses determine that Xue'er also cannot exert the maximum power of this tactic." I analyzed very carefully.

KID smiled: "littlebear, nickname Animal, specializes in Zerg, likes to pester in the early stage to gain economic advantages, and relies on the overwhelming Zerg sea to crush the opponent in the middle stage. Faith, nickname Assassin, specializes in Protoss, produces troops extremely fast, and is seen by early rush..." Then he pointed to the schedule in my hand, "These two are the representatives of the European extreme troop massing flow, and they are Ling Tian’s next opponents."

Lily was very worried when she heard this: "These two people can win a game in an average of 11 minutes in the preliminaries, Xue-jie and the others are very dangerous."

"If it’s like this, Ling Tian and Xue'er will win for sure." I chewed the food in my mouth firmly. "Right, KID?"

"I think so too," KID smiled again, "but they will meet 229 and Cool-water in the top 4."

"229 and Cool-water? Are they the two super-slow rookies?"

"Rookies?" KID put away his smile, "I only got the runner-up in the last competition, and the champion happened to be this pair of rookies."

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