Chapter 771 Players’ Talents
Liu Zhao's heart was beating violently. He had already decided that he would just live a normal life in this world. He really lacked talent for the game of the brave, the [Fate Game].
He should find a suitable wife within a year. The two of them would entrust their mission cycles to a suitable professional player organization, and then they would have children.
Perhaps, he would train his son to be an excellent [player]. Or perhaps, he would have a daughter and tell her many stories, so that she could become a recorder and record the past of those legendary players.
"You are distracted, Liu Zhao."
Tang Shutao was very different from the beautiful girl with long hair a year ago. She had neat short hair and a scar on her right cheek. She was burning with a flame-like fighting spirit.
She looked cold and even exuded a faint murderous aura.
Although Tang Shutao knew that Liu Zhao was always the warm and enthusiastic ordinary person, a "good guy" who wanted to do his best to help others despite his weakness, and a guy who was even more hopeless than the fool in her memory.
But such weakness can only be the reason for her defeat in the [Game of Fate].
Her eyelids drooped, and the powerful fighting spirit stimulated by the dragon hunting in the life-and-death battle became more and more terrifying.
Liu Zhao's mind was startled, and he came back to his senses. He took two steps back, knowing that he was shocked by Tang Shutao's terrible momentum and could not concentrate. If it was really a life-and-death battle now, he would have been killed by Tang Shutao.
Tang Shutao is indeed a professional player. Liu Zhao sighed again in his heart. The two met in the first round of this [Open Selection·Shancheng Preliminary Tournament]. It was a wonderful fate, and it was also like a difference in fate under different circumstances.
The two graduated in the same year as Tong Gu, from the same college, and also faced the feeling of losing friends in the [Awakening Trial], but they took two completely different paths.
As his mind was changing, Liu Zhao pulled away, and his hands were waving in the air like flowing water.
A faint sense of air flowed through his body, and at the same time, his breathing rhythm changed, and his whole body was also as unpredictable as water.
Tang Shutao stood in front indifferently, looking at this classmate who was walking on the road of ordinary people, with countless sorrow in his eyes.
Perhaps, if it was a peaceful era, if Zhu Xiuwen, that fool, was not so obsessed with himself and died in the [Awakening Trial] without authorization, he would not have come to this step. Now, he might be like a monster.
The air trembled slightly, and a stream of air began to radiate from Liu Zhao's movements to the surroundings, and the humidity in the air also increased slightly.
Tang Shutao was still immersed in his emotions.
In fact, she didn't have any love for Zhu Xiuwen, but she had a vague affection for him when she met an equally outstanding person in her youth. However, this affection gradually turned into a chain after his death, binding her tightly, like a vow, like a bondage, and became a part of her as she drank his graduation wine.
"Ancient Stream·Glacier Collapse!"
Liu Zhao stepped forward with his right foot, and his body was instantly wrapped by the flowing water. The distance of seven or eight meters flashed by, and he instantly appeared in front of Tang Shutao, stretched his whole body, and punched out, and the fist intention exploded at this moment.
All the power was superimposed layer by layer, and under the blessing of that trace of air, the space instantly exploded with a roar.
Liu Zhao felt a sense of excitement that he had never experienced before, which was the joy from the cells and soul after the individual mastered the extraordinary power.
Bang!
The airflow turned into a cloud of white foam and exploded in Tang Shutao's abdomen, accompanied by the white bandage on her waist.
Liu Zhao's pupils shrank. He had already exerted all his strength, but Tang Shutao didn't move?
He slowly raised his head and saw Tang Shutao standing there indifferently with her head down. At this time, she slowly raised her head and looked at him with a trace of... pity?
Then Liu Zhao felt that the opponent's abdomen he hit was as hard as steel. It didn't look like a girl's abdomen at all, but like a robot.
On the waist, the dense scars were almost all over the skin.
A chill instantly surged into his heart. What kind of tasks had Tang Shutao been doing in the past year...
Tang Shutao felt Liu Zhao's fist, the familiar ancient boxing, and the familiar sense of qi, but she was no longer the Tang Shutao who was suppressed by Zhu Xiuwen back then.
"I... have become a monster, Zhu Xiuwen..."
Her eyes were a little blurred, immersed in her own emotions, and she blurted out Zhu Xiuwen's name.
The fighting spirit burst out, and it burned more than three meters high in an instant, which made the people watching other matches on the ring around them exclaimed and looked over here.
"Let me experience that hellish world for you."
"You, just be an ordinary person and live well... that's enough..."
Puff!
Liu Zhao's consciousness went dark, and he couldn't see Tang Shutao's speed at all, so he was knocked unconscious by a knife.
"Shancheng No. 34 ring, first round, Tang Shutao wins!"
The referee immediately announced loudly, and then someone came up to release the healing ability to Liu Zhao, and Tang Shutao turned and walked into the winner's area, waiting for the opponent in the second round.
There are a lot of people who signed up for the competition today, and she estimated that she must win 3-4 games before she can complete the first round of selection today.
Boom!
A terrible explosion sounded, and Tang Shutao stood up suddenly, only to see the barrier of the next ring explode in an instant, and the huge smoke and dust caused a panic scream from the scene.
"Senior Dai Jincheng lost?!"
"Do Silver level players also need to participate in the preliminaries?"
"Silver level will also lose in the first round?!"
All kinds of exclamations came, Tang Shutao breathed away, and the smoke dispersed instantly. She saw the older generation of Silver-level players in the mountain city, [Ice Demon] Dai Jincheng, unconscious and lying on the ground, and a bald man wearing white monk clothes. Man, standing on the broken ring.
Half of his body was covered in ice, but his eyes were closed and his expression was calm.
"Referee, make the announcement."
Hearing this young man's voice, the silver-level player who served as the referee suddenly came to his senses.
Dai Jincheng's original intention was to build momentum for Tong Guzhuang. In fact, almost all the famous older generation players in the mountain city participated in the selection, and they showed their support with practical actions.
Even if they have to join the younger generation's forces, they will not hesitate as long as they can fight for Dongxia and humanity.
Unexpectedly, Dai Jincheng was defeated by this little-known young man Ku Lie in the first battle.
The referee lowered his head and looked at the information before announcing:
"Mountain City Arena No. 27, [Wusang] wins!"
Tang Shutao looked at the young monk named Wu Sang. The vague brilliance on his body exuded extremely terrifying fluctuations.
"Players who use Microcosm...are really rare."
Buzz!
A round of sword light lit up from a distance, and another burst of exclamations sounded.
Mountain City seems to have attracted a lot of people's attention because it is the actual location of the [Sealing Strategy Team]. The intensity of the selection in Mountain City is much higher than other places outside of Yanjing.
In the high sky behind where neither Tang Shutao nor Wu Sang could see, electronic eyes recorded the situation of all the arenas one by one. Several intelligent mechas floated in the high air, constantly calculating various data.
Zhao Xiaoqi was sitting in his office, looking at these data and amazed.
"There are so many talents. It seems I have to come up with something good."