Chapter 425 Meng Yiran's First Appearance
Enjoying the cheers, Gu You soon returned to the team rest area under the murderous eyes of the referee.
The first single-team rest area in Douluo Continent is located directly below the audience seats. It adopts a semi-sunken design and is connected to the fighting arena by a short downward staircase.
In addition to the most conventional lounge, the rest area also has a dedicated viewing area that can accommodate all players. A half-meter-high and palm-thick glass is inlaid on the wall, which makes it convenient for players in the rest area to see their teammates fighting bravely.
On this basis, the fighting arena also arranged a locker room, toilet, team doctor's room, and a special tactical room in the rest area according to the requirements provided by the royal family (Gu You).
If you want to ask why there are so many things, the reason is also very simple-
Many soul masters regard fighting souls as a profession. Since it is a profession, it is reasonable that the template prototype given by Gu You is a professional sports team.
As for the fighting soul arena, they initially had a little controversy about the royal family's requirements, but now it has disappeared without a trace.
Just kidding, the fighting soul arena is to open its doors to make money. The four matches the day before yesterday alone were enough to show them the huge potential of the new competition system.
If it weren't for the fact that large teams of 15 people had not yet become a trend and there were no teams to compete with, the Douhun Arena would have copied "Master Douhun 1.0" and modified it, and launched a brand new rule of "Master Douhun 1.0 (Douhun Arena Edition)" to make a lot of money.
As soon as the door was opened, a dry towel was handed over.
"Thank you for your hard work, big brother."
The person who handed the towel could not be anyone else, of course, his most caring little cotton-padded jacket Ranta.
"Yeah."
Since he was a family member, Gu You was too lazy to say thank you, and took the towel and wiped it on his face.
To be honest, both of them knew very well that it would not be possible for Gu You to feel tired just by fighting Yu Tianxin. If you want to make Gu You tired, at least 15 people on the opposite side must come together.
However, the towel was just there, and it would be a waste if it was not used.
After wiping his face with a towel and throwing it into the laundry basket, Gu You asked Meng Yiran, who had appeared beside him at some point and was both nervous and excited, "Are you ready?"
"Of course."
Finding that Gu You, who had beaten Yu Tianxin crazily, had not even changed his breathing rhythm, Meng Yiran took a deep breath, then nodded vigorously, his eyes firm.
"Very good." Gu You raised the corner of his mouth: "Since you are not afraid of failure, then go all out."
Gu You's admission was like a shot of adrenaline, Meng Yiran instantly smiled, and walked out radiantly.
Ranta said faintly: "Brother, it is wrong to lie."
Gu You was anxious: "Soul skills cannot be considered a white lie! Can the affairs of scholars be considered a lie?"
A series of difficult words followed, such as "illusion is too difficult" and "illusion", which made everyone laugh, and the lounge was filled with a happy atmosphere.
Amid the laughter, Gu You went into the locker room to change clothes. Seeing that the protagonist of the prank was gone, everyone stopped talking and continued the topic that had just been interrupted with their teammates.
As for watching the game in the viewing area.
It's not impossible, the key is whether there is such motivation.
The original seven members of the Royal Fighting Team, plus Gu You, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Meng Yiran, four strong new generations. There are eleven soul masters, and they don't know how to lose.
Since they are sure that they will not lose, there is no need for all members to watch the game like the last game against Xiangjia Academy.
Should we go to watch the game or appreciate the various defeat postures of the opponents?
Let's save some face for Yu Tianheng.
Thanks to the Tiandou Royal Academy, which lacks everything except money, the logistics staff prepared no less than ten sets of change of clothes for everyone in the Royal Fighting Team. Gu You quickly changed into a clean team uniform and walked out of the locker room. He looked around and decided to call Xiao Wu and Lanta to the window.
Lanta stood up quietly and nodded without surprise.
On the other hand, Xiao Wu spent an entire night writing 2,000 words yesterday. She was dejected and asked with the last glimmer of hope, "Aren't you going to the sidelines to replace Teacher Qin Ming?"
The rules of the competition stipulate that only the team leader or the deputy team leader can provide real-time guidance on the sidelines of the fighting spirit. Gu You appeared on the sidelines to provide guidance in the last round of the competition, and he must appear on the sidelines this round as well.
He will definitely appear!
It's a pity that Xiao Wu's wish did not come true. Gu You shook his head and took the two of them straight into the viewing area: "The preliminary round will be randomly drawn, and the pre-match arrangements can only be based on stability. If you don't want to play a team battle, you must go up and micro-manage."
"As for the semi-finals, which have plenty of time to arrange before the game."
Gu You smiled mysteriously: "The good show is just about to begin."
On the fighting spirit stage, Lei Tian, who had been preparing early, gave the sideline leader a puzzled look.
'Why did you replace me with the former captain of the Royal Fighting Team with the agile attack soft bone rabbit? ’
The leader of the Thunder Academy was shocked to find that the opponent’s players did not match the plan, and then looked at Qin Ming, who was wearing a white windbreaker and folded his arms across his chest, showing the demeanor of a strong man.
In theory, the disadvantaged side will take the initiative to adjust the lineup to seek new possibilities. Since the advantaged side is in the advantage, of course, it only needs to stabilize.
Tiandou Royal Academy has a suspected double-digit soul master, but it took the lead in changing the formation. He can only think that Qin Ming is skilled and bold, and is confident that he will win no matter how he changes the formation.
In particular, the act of arranging the control-type soul master who is at a disadvantage in singles to participate in a one-on-one fight shows Qin Ming’s confidence to the fullest.
In this case, don’t blame us for being rude.
“Leitian, don’t be influenced by the opponent!”
After going through Meng Yiran's information in his mind, the leader of the Thunder Academy quickly shouted to Lei Tian: "Stay steady, remember your advantages, and act as planned!"
Compared with the incompetent team leader who only said "believe in the children", the strong self-confidence displayed by the team leader of Thunder Academy successfully led Lei Tian out of his uneasy mood and quickly restored his calm.
‘It’s a pity that we couldn’t face that agility-type rabbit, but it’s not bad to deal with the previous Captain Huang Dou. ’
Lei Tian stared at Meng Yiran with sharp eyes, as if he could hear the students of Thunder Academy cheering for his victory on the sidelines.
'Hey, human, can I poke his eyes out? ’
"Um, no, Xiaoyou will be angry if he maliciously maims his opponent."
'Why? It was obvious that his eyes regarded us as dishonest. ’
"If it doesn't work, it won't work. We can't take the lead in violating the rules set by Xiaoyou."
‘Only the strong have the right to make rules! ’
"You mean Xiaoyou isn't strong enough?"
‘.That’s not what I meant. ’
"I understand, I will tell Xiaoyou truthfully what you said."
‘Hey, don’t! I just said it casually, there is no other meaning.’
Listening to the voice echoing in his mind, Meng Yiran couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.
Walking to stand in front of Lei Tian, Meng Yiran was the first to speak: "Tiandou Royal Academy, Meng Yiran, a forty-level all-around control soul master."
Lei Tian followed closely: "Thunder Academy, Lei Tian, forty-level armor-breaking attack type soul master."
"Both parties, salute."
The two bowed at the same time, and the break caused the slightly cooled atmosphere to become lively again. Especially the students from Lei Tian were trying their best to cheer Lei Tian up.
Although in the last round of competition, Thunder Academy was dragged into the team competition by Lanba Academy despite its absolute advantage in strength. But the fault does not lie with the team leader, and there is no problem with his formation.
The main reason is that the Blue Lightning Overlord Zongzhi Shame on the opposite side is too good at using the rules and is keenly aware of the loopholes in "Master Fighting Soul 1.0" specially reserved for small colleges.
That's the mechanism of a genius drawing a genius and then changing his fate against the will of heaven.
The rules require that the first team to score seven points wins. In other words, as long as the opponent does not score seven points in the previous battle, there is a chance to complete the comeback in one fell swoop with five points in the final team match.
After all, Yu Xiaogang is a man who has been in the Wuhun Palace, and even walked out with a beard and tail after having sex with the former saint.
Although his act of sorting out the "Ten Core Competencies of Soul Masters" in the huge database of Wuhun Palace can be called gold digging, his ability to accurately pick out the most useless shit from a pile of gold is also a side effect. Proving his ability to focus on key points.
Based on this idea, he asked Dai Mubai, who was supposed to play in the first round to show his momentum, to go out at the wrong time. He first scored two points in the two-on-two double battle, and finally won the final victory by scoring five points in the team match.
To put it simply, they just hope that Dai Mubai can make a comeback in the team competition.
As for the other team members, they are all disposable items used to consume Thunder Academy's soul power and physical strength and obtain information.
Theoretically speaking, Yu Xiaogang's idea coincides with the shortcut carefully reserved by Gu You. If the competition expands in the future, the small colleges participating in the competition can rely on this move to change their fate.
The only question is whether the talent of the Academy Stud is good enough and whether he has the strength to fight seven against one.
Obviously, Dai Mubai belongs to the group that is not good enough.
In the original work, Dai Mubai, who ate the strange velvet celestial chrysanthemum, couldn't crush Yu Tianxin. If it were replaced by Dai Mubai who had never eaten the fairy grass, the ending would be even less impressive.
The total score was 11 to 2, and the two points lost were due to the opponent's trickery. It's no wonder that Thunder College still maintains confidence in its leader.
"In the second round of the second half of the semi-finals, Meng still faces Lei Tian, and now it officially begins!"
"Thunder Eagle, possessed!"
As soon as the referee finished speaking, Lei Tian immediately released his martial spirit. Along with a thunder, a pair of huge wings covered with twisted thunder suddenly unfolded.
The third millennium-level soul ring shines with purple light, Lei Tian flaps his wings amidst the continuous thunder, and soars into the sky in the strong wind.
"The fearful snake staff appears."
In the strong wind, Meng still held her greatly transformed slender snake staff. The eyes of the snake-headed staff were fully opened, staring straight at the thunder sky hovering in the sky.
Seeing that the four soul rings hovering up and down on the indigo snake staff were as expected, the leader of Thunder Academy couldn't help but smile.
‘Sure enough, Meng Yiran is also a Soul Sect. ’
Considering that the two newcomers who appeared were both soul sects, the leader of the Thunder Academy assumed that Meng Yiran, the former captain of the Imperial Team, was also a soul sect.
The tactics he deployed in the semi-finals and the part about Meng Yiran were also based on the fact that she was a soul sect.
‘Stable. ’
The leader of Thunder Academy, who lost the ace collision, raised his head and stared at Lei Tian hovering in the sky with expectant eyes.
Lei Tian, the powerful attack-type soul master with flying martial arts, almost perfectly restrained Meng Yiran, the control-type soul master who lacked long-range attack skills.
The first victory is inevitable.
While the team leader looked at Lei Tian in the sky with expectant eyes, Lei Tian was also looking down at Meng Yiran on the Soul Fighting Stage with confident eyes.
Unlike the invisible captain Gu You who disappeared after a disagreement, Meng still accumulated a lot of appearance records during his time as the captain of the Royal Dou Team.
Meng Yiran's name can be said to be familiar to all the senior soul master academies in Tiandou City, not to mention that they are familiar with it.
‘The first soul skill is the snake blade for close combat, the third soul skill is the snake rain for field control, and the second soul skill is unknown, either difficult to use or rubbish. ’
After flying for a long time, Meng Yiran did not make a move. Lei Tian quickly reviewed the information in his mind and determined that Meng Yiran lacked long-range attack methods. He opened his arms and hovered in the air, using his eagle eyes to lock Meng Yiran's position.
In order to obtain the three precious soul bones, he had to use the strongest attack method to defeat Meng Yiran.
Lei Tian thought so, and he did it.
The remaining purple soul rings also emitted dazzling light, and the blue-purple electric current quickly shuttled around Lei Tian's body.
Surrounded by the lightning, a dark blue shadow quietly emerged from behind him. The huge wings and sharp beak showed that this shadow was Lei Tian's martial soul, the Thunder Eagle.
After the shadow appeared, the electric current that was originally shuttling through Lei Tian's body began to condense towards the Thunder Eagle. With Lei Tian's body as the center, the released electric current formed a dazzling thunder pool with a diameter of about five meters in the air.
In contrast to the Thunder Pond, the originally bright special soul guide lamps in the fighting arena seemed like old parts that were about to be scrapped, forcing all the audience to squint their eyes.
In the fighting arena, Meng Yiran protected the snake staff in front of her, and the four soul rings flashed one after another, posing a defensive posture.
In Lei Tian's eyes, Meng Yiran's posture was as if she was about to use the slender snake staff to block his fourth soul skill.
"Ridiculous."
The Thunder Pond slowly shrank, and the illusory Thunder Eagle that received sufficient thunder and lightning gradually became solid. When the Thunder Eagle grew to its limit, Lei Tian's body quietly sank into the huge thunder energy behind him.
Lei Tian's body merged into the Thunder Eagle, and the eyes of the Thunder Eagle that turned from virtual to real lit up. The sharp eagle eyes with Lei Tian's emotions instantly locked onto Meng Yiran.
Fourth Soul Skill-Brave Eagle Thunder Attack
The high-pitched eagle cry penetrated the eardrum, and the Thunder Eagle, which gathered all the power of Lei Tian, fell from the sky. With unparalleled momentum and the power to tear through all obstacles, it covered the position where Meng Yiran stood.
"Heh, the winner is decided."
Meng Yiran on the fighting spirit stage was about to lose, but Gu You in the viewing area smiled calmly.
"Ata, go and call Tianheng, Yanzijie, and Lingling to warm up."
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ps: The order of appearance of the Royal Fighting Team in the semi-finals:
Position 1 (1 point): Gu You
Position 2 (1 point): Meng Yiran
Position 3, 4, and 5 (3 points): Ye Lingling, Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan
Position 6 (1 point): Bai Chenxiang
Position 7 and 8 (2 points): Xiao Wu, Oslo
Team competition (5 points): Gu You, Meng Yiran, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, Yu Feng, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong
Appeared twice: Gu You, Meng Yiran
Substitute: Tang San