<h4>Chapter 172 – Low Period</h4>
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The fourth week of the regr season would start soon. The first ce in the team standings was Wind Colour while second ce was Time. This week happened to be the showdown between Wind Colour and Time so many eyes were naturally attracted to this heavyweight event. Rtively speaking, there weren’t many people concerned about the confrontation between Cann and Ghost Spirits. The match started at 9 o’clock on Saturday morning and many viewers were sleeping in bed.
The live broadcast ratings for early morning games wasn’t high but the Cann team’s home attendance was more than 70%. The local fans gave face by going to the venue to watch.
To everyone’s surprise, Cann didn’t choose three arena games like before. Li Cangyu chose to fight three team battles.
Everyone knew that the Lou Zhangbination in Ghost Spirits had an extremely high understanding and were fierce in team battles. The viewers couldn’t understand Li Cangyu’s choice and Yu Bing didn’t know how to exin it. She could only say that Li Cangyu never acted ording tomon sense and would surprise people in every match.
Theyout of this match was also iprehensible. In the three team battles, the first game was directed by Li Cangyu. During the battle, Cat God was identally assassinated by the Lou Zhangbination and he fell to a disadvantage from the beginning, leading to a loss.
Themander of the second game was suddenly changed to Zhang Jueming. Li Cangyu didn’t y and Zhang Jueming’smand style was partial towards being bold and unconstrained. Lou Wushuang was extremely cautious and Cann failed to find a good fruit to eat.
In the third game, themander was once again Li Cangyu and Cann scored 1:2 after a hard struggle.
The fans weren’t happy with the result of 1:2 at home. However, the killerbination of Ghost Spirits was the best at killing core yers during a team battle. Everyone could understand this.
In the post-match interview, Li Cangyu was very calm and didn’t exin his arrangements. Many professional yers watching the live broadcast knew that Li Cangyu had started the second step of his training n.
Of the eight yers on the Cann team, Li Cangyu was most reassured about his old partner Bai Xuan. The two of them had cooperated for many years and Bai Xuan’s healing ability was one of the best in today’s Miracle League. The second person was Xie Shurong who yed in the foreign ICE Club for two years. Ah Shu’s level had matured after being honed by foreignpetitors and he wasn’t much worse than his brother Su Guangmo.
Objectively speaking, Bai Xuan and Xie Shurong were on the level of gods in the Miracle League. Li Cangyu didn’t have to worry about them as they could cope with various situations in thepetition.
However, the standards of the other yers were somewhat different.
Li Cangyu first had to train Li Xiaojiang, who was the weakest in the Cann team. Li Xiaojiang achieved remarkable results in the Flying Feathers and Red Fox matches. Therefore, Li Cangyu started to train the powerful auxiliary. Based on today’s match, he had shifted his focus to Zhang Jueming.
Zhang Jueming’s talent really wasn’t good in the league. In the first year, Zhang Jueming was invisible and he left the league with regrets after his team disbanded. Then he set up a studio to make a living. These years had been very hard.
The duration of an e-sports professional yer wasn’t long. It was necessary to practice regrly to prevent their state from declining. Zhang Jueming had abandoned the league for a few years and he was getting older. His state wasn’t as good as the past and wasn’t enough to support him returning to the league. It was just that he felt regrets in his heart.
His level might not be good but the 25 years old e-sports yer could stand on the field. This courage was worthy of respect.
Li Cangyu wanted to give him a chance to show his talents and made himmander in the game against Ghost Spirits.
Old Zhang seemed bold and unrestrained but he was still a captain. There were a few tactical ideas in his head that hadn’t been realized. Now they were working together to return to the league. Li Cangyu couldn’t always stand alone in the limelight.
As Zhang Jueming’s friend, Li Cangyu should give Zhang Jueming an attempt tomand andplete the wish he couldn’t fulfill in the past.
Cat God was a person with a special loyalty. Zhang Jueming had heard this before but he hadn’t expected it to reach this extent. Letting go of themand and risk losing the match… was this necessary?
After the game, Zhang Jueming found Li Cangyu and scratched his head in a guilty manner. “In fact, you don’t need to let memand. My tactical ideas aren’t necessarily useful. I lost the game but everyone will scold you. Why?”
Li Cangyu smiled. “Results aren’t everything. It isn’t good for yers to win all the time. You don’t have many chances so you should grasp them when you can. We are teammates, needless of other things, I let youmand because I just believe in you.” He patted the man’s shoulder and said seriously, “Old Zhang, I believe that you can win. A few years might’ve passed but your thoughts are still valid.”
Zhang Jueming was moved to tears. As a rough man, this was the first time he almost shed tears in front of other people. He quickly reached out and wiped his eyes. Then heughed and cried out, “Yes! I will try again since you believe in me so much!”
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The fans were puzzled. After the 1:2 loss against Ghost Spirits, the next match was an away match with Pure Cleansing and Cat God actually let Zhang Jueming takemand again.
The Pure Cleansing team was located in Hangzhou. In the past few days, the weather in Hangzhou was rainy. The Cann team came from far away to y. Despite having the disadvantage of location and people, Li Cangyu boldly let Zhang Jueming y. This game Cann fans a bad feeling.
It turned out that recently Cann was surrounded by bad luck. In this game, Chu Yan chose a map that was very helpful to Pure Cleansing. The mode was three team battles and the ssic illusionist flow caught the Cann members off guard. They lost all three games!
The reporters were disappointed with Cann’s recent performance.
However, Li Cangyu was still calm. He just smiled in the interview and said, “It is normal to win and lose. You can rest assured that the mentality of the yers won’t be affected. This is the first round of the regr season. There are still more matches in thetter half and we will continue to work hard.”
His sentence was almost an omnipotent official statement. One reporter stood up politely and asked, “You let Zhang Jueming continuously act asmander. Cat God, do you feel that this is a mistake?”
Li Cangyu shook his head. “I can’t say that we would necessarily win if I was themander. Pure Cleansing’s home match is very hard to win and the yers aren’tfortable with the illusion flow. The fact that we lost three games today was an ident. I will sum up the mistakes when we go back.”
“It’s my fault.” Zhang Jueming took the initiative to take responsibility. “I was too careless whenmanding today. I will go back and reflect on it. I will work hard to win the next match!”
The reporters, “…”
The fans, “…”
The next match?
Uncle Zhang, you are old. Can’t you let go ofmanding and peacefully act as an auxiliary?
Many people left messages on Li Cangyu’s Weibo. Their words were fierce as they directly said: [Old Zhang is old. Can’t you let him have peace of mind as an auxiliary?] [The ranking of Cann has fallen. The yoffs are in danger!]
Li Cangyu didn’t care about the messages. He had his own ideas. In fact, the original ranking was so high because he unexpectedly used Cataclysm in the first match to grab the point from Time. In the second match, he used the extreme method of three arena games to attack Flying Feathers and win with a 2:1 score. Time and Flying Feathers were strong teams. Cann won two matches and temporarily ranked in the top three.
Since the Red Fox match, Cann continuously lost and the e-sports weekly magazine even used ‘Cann Fell 3 Times in Session’ to report on the matter.
1:2 against Red Fox, 1:2 against Ghost Spirits and today it was 0:3 against Pure Cleansing. The key reason was that Li Cangyu didn’t appear, Zhang Jueming was slightly rusty when it came tomanding and there were neers in the Cann team. After several games, they all exposed their shorings and were specifically targeted by the captains of the other teams.
After returning to Changsha, Li Cangyu summoned the yers and watched the games they lost.
The teenagers found that not only did they not progress, they actually became more stunned. Li Cangyu exined, “Every neer will experience a bottleneck. You yed fairly well against Time and Flying Feathers. This is because the other gods of those teams weren’t familiar with you. After those two games, your performances were analyzed by the tactical gods of other teams. They identified your weaknesses and made targeted arrangements.”
“It is the reason why thest few games have been tough. In order to break through this bottleneck, you need some understanding and some opportunities.” Li Cangyu watched the four teenagers as he spoke. They were incredibly dazed and he couldn’t helpughing in his head.
These four people were like simple, older children. They believed everything Li Cangyu said. His words were true but there were also things that Li Cangyu added. In order to relieve some pressure on Old Zhang, he put the loss of the matches on everyone.
Li Xiaojiang’s performance wasn’t a problem and Xiao Han’s y was also stable. The key was Zhuo Hang and Gu Siming.
Li Cangyu thought this and said, “The next game is at home against Cheetah. I hope that everyone can get a good performance. I don’t want to see the headline change from ‘three losses’ to ‘four game losing streak.’”
Everyone, “…”
He could actually stillugh. Cat God’s mentality was really good!
Bai Xuan couldn’t help smiling. This man’s mentality was extremely strong. He could calmly encourage his teammates when FTD experienced a 10 game losing streak. How could he be upset by losing three games now?
“Come on, everybody.” Bai Xuan said with a smile. “The Cheetah team is the overall weakest team in the league at the moment. If we lost then I’ve decided to let you be hungry for three days.”
The four teenagers’ eyes widened. The punishment of going hungry for three days was too serious!
Bai Xuan couldn’t helpughing when he saw the four pairs of stunned eyes. “If you don’t agree then should I make it five days?”
Gu Siming immediately raised his hand. “I agree! Three days, three days!”
Zhuo Hang nced at him. “We will only go hungry for three days if we lose. What are you anxious about? Who said we will lose?”
Gu Siming scratched his head. “Yes…”
Li Cangyu smiled and patted Zhuo Hang’s shoulder. “The Cheetah team has the best hunter in the league, Jiang Xu. Starting from today, you will watch videos of his games and study every one of his movements. This match depends on you, Xiao Zhuo.”
Zhuo Hang immediately nodded. “Yes, I understand!”
This neer was somewhat proud, slightly narcissistic and often boastful. Li Cangyu decided to use this match to test Zhuo Hang’s true standards.