Book 4: The Return of the King


    Chapter 25


    “That’s right.  Wallbanging.” Ai Qing replied,  “To call it a sixth sense,


    I would rather refer to it as a sense of positioning.  In other words, if


    you have enough awareness about the enemy’s position you can


    make a reasonable prediction of the enemy’s movement.  Certainly,


    this would only work against top players of equal level. If I have to


    face a bunch of players who don’t know how to play, I probably wouldn’t


    be able to do it since they’d just move about randomly.”  Ai Qing laughed.


    Amid the billowing smoke, Grunt also walked out.  But he just found


    a safe place to stay. He climbing up the broken wall of a store in a


    few seconds and sat down to watch the battle.


    If Dt lost, Grunt’s plan was to jump over and clean up.  Of course, the


    thought only crossed his mind briefly. He gently tapped against the


    keyboard and gradually became absent minded.


    It was very obvious that he had never seen anybody stronger than


    Dt in close quarters combat in this game.


    When Dt walked closer, Taotao also switched from his gun to a


    short knife.


    Dt switched the short knife in hand to a long knife in the next second.


    Taotao squatted quickly. A shadow jumped onto him. A long knife was


    more powerful and a short knife was faster.  But he didn’t expect Dt to


    be as fast as this.


    On the screen, the two rolled around into a ball.


    Dt very quickly pressed Taotao down with a single knee.  His long knife


    held down the other’s short knife. He began punching mercilessly at


    his downed opponent, once, twice, thrice.


    The blood splattered about, Taotao’s health rapidly fell.  Taotao could


    hear the sound of a violently beating heart in his earphones.  His


    character was panting. He couldn’t believe that his own knife was now


    lodged into his chest.


    His health was dropping on screen.


    90, 80, 70, 60, ……


    Taotao frowned his eyebrows.  He couldn’t imagine what was going to


    happen to him the next.


    ……


    The second before Dt stood up, he agilely switched back to a short knife


    and pierced Taotao’s chest without any superfluous movement.


    One last death notification appeared on screen.


    The first semi-final ended after nineteen minutes and fifty-six seconds.


    There was no delay.  There was no joking around.


    That was the K&K’s style…...Of course, the nominal captain sitting on


    top of the broken wall didn’t count.


    Xiao Mai was still very excitedly replaying and explaining the fight.  Ai Qing


    already saw one of Taotao’s teammates bent his head down in front of the


    computer crying.  Taotao’s team was the youngest among these four teams


    and the one most easily to show their emotions.  She supported her chin


    with a hand and watched Taotao hugging his own brother.


    It ended here, now Taotao’s team passed into history.


    These brothers would probably soon become opponents.


    Just like……


    Solo and All who sat in the SP rest area and the K&K club founder Gun


    who sat in the first row.