Chapter 163: Gambling

After clicking the upload button, I felt like my bows were going to tie a bow...... However, I finally lived up to the expectations of my book friends, and I changed 10,000 words today, which is considered to have gotten these update tickets. But I suddenly found that it seems that there is still a renewal ticket to be taken tomorrow...... I had a big mess. No problem, I will continue to update it tomorrow, but book friends, please give me some motivation, recommend a monthly pass to renew the ticket or something, anything! Let the storm come harder!

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In this way, the Octopus Alliance was easily solved by the venture capital company, in fact, Yang Hai would not be surprised, because judging from the information he has now, even in the later stage of the game, the venture capital company is definitely one of the most powerful forces on the Western Continent. In fact, the VC is not a pure financial conglomerate as Kalkuluchia calls it out – it feels weird to discuss this in an online game – the VC is a behemoth in the absolute sense of the word, initiated and formed by thirteen neutral super-goblin tycoons, whose tentacles have reached out to all aspects of the Western Continent and part of the Eastern Continent; And in the face of the threat of force that businessmen often face, venture capital companies are absolute hawks among goblin businessmen, and they will never compromise with any power, even if it is a compromise in attitude, any power that has a relationship with their chamber of commerce, and the venture capital company is either exterminating them or is exterminating them, at least they are planning how to exterminate them.

In the 100 years since the establishment of the venture capital firm, they have broken out countless armed conflicts with the Broken Hand Ogre tribe, the Dark Spear Troll tribe, the Pirates of the Seven Seas, etc. in the Stans Hills, and the history of the development of the venture capital company can be written as a history of the conquest of Julius Caesar, and wherever they go, they take the war with them, and anyone, whether it is an enemy or a friend, as long as it violates their due interests, it is immediately a war of at least medium scale. They have exterminated the principality. Stepping on the shrine, the large, medium, and small chambers of commerce that died at their hands were as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Venture capital firms believe that any cowardice is meaningless, and in the days when Goblins are bullied in Akara's sleep, Venture Capital Firms believe that they can only protect their wealth by uniting all their fellow citizens and completely destroying any enemy who reveals "intent to invade them".

Of course, there are also forces that venture capital companies can't handle, such as the former Duchy of Wesley, where Grand Duke Wesley was once the most powerful paladin in the continent. He had countless followers, and he kicked venture capital firms out of his territory and confiscated all their property. Venture capital firms were unable to do anything about the principality at the time, but it didn't matter. After 80 years of plotting against any of their enemies, the venture capital firm finally got their revenge on their descendants, dismantling the Duchy, hanging all the royal families of the Duchy, and crushing the corpse of the Grand Duke of Wesley to powder. Sprinkle it in front of the graves of your ancestors.

"Now you know what company your old rival is facing, right?"

Sitting in the tavern of quicksand castle, Yang Hai sipped the smoky tea that was a specialty of the castle and described the nature of the venture capital company to Kakuluchia.

Kakuluchia looked sympathetic.

Yang Hai is very much looking forward to the next mission, because the experience of dealing with goblins will definitely bring him some completely different game experience. It was quite a challenge for him. Players in the entire forgotten continent have their eyes on him, because this is a PVE mission, there is no confrontation between players, and whether he can complete the task beautifully is related to whether the players of the whole continent can play happily.

According to the experience of the dragons. When Yang Hai does the main quest, he will generally be ahead of the normal game rhythm, so naturally hello, hello, hello, everyone, but if the players have done all the foreshadowing tasks. The progress on Yang Hai's side was not smooth, so everyone was stuck in the first stage...... What are the consequences......

So this task is very stressful, in fact, the pressure is actually very high.

However, this is not the first thing Yang Hai needs to consider, another work from reality is imminent.

On the 28th, the Torre Cup warm-up match between China and Germany will start. However, on the 27th, Italy and Germany also have a warm-up match for the Torre Cup, which is definitely a game worth watching, for Yang Hai, Germany and Italy are the fierce rivals he needs to face this year, it is no exaggeration to say that in the international arena, everyone knows who belongs to the championship group, who is the pure spoiler, this year's championship group is Italy, Germany and China.

For Yang Hai, as long as he can win Germany and Italy, he will win 99% of this game, and the rest is to solve the minions. GODLIKE AND VIVA'S SWEDEN AND NORWEGIAN TEAMS ARE BOTH ONE-MAN TEAMS AND NOTHING TO FEAR; The South Korean team was an absolute strong team before, and it was able to talk directly to Italy, but MINGH fell into an embarrassing situation after getting old, so there is no threat, and the American team looks strong, paper tigers, and the previous warm-up game has proved this.

Their opponents are Germany and Italy.

THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE HAD PREVIOUSLY PROPOSED THAT THE WARM-UP MATCH BE ARRANGED AT A NEUTRAL VENUE, BUT ICELORD DISAGREED.

"There is no need for a neutral venue." ICELORD SAID TO HIS TEAMMATES: "WE'RE GOING TO ARRANGE IT IN ITALY. ”

The organizing committee was very surprised that the warm-up match was an important competition to test the state, and many players did not want to affect their state judgment because of the venue. BUT ICELORD HAS ITS OWN REASONS.

"POSEIDON, YOU SHOULD ALL BE FAMILIAR WITH HIM." ICELORD SAID: "WILLIAN, HE'S YOUR CLUB TEAM-MATE, YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHAT HE CAN DO, DAKALA, YOU'RE ALSO POSEIDON'S MAIN DERBY RIVAL, YOU DON'T NEED TO SAY MUCH ABOUT HOW MUCH PRESSURE YOU HAVE AGAINST HIM. Playing away from home can add pressure to us and this year's Torre Cup will be different to the past, guys, I can feel it. AGAINST AN OPPONENT LIKE POSEIDON, WE NEED TO GET USED TO THE PRESSURE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE GAME. Italy's strength is inferior to ours, but the gap between China's strength and ours is probably not even a line, and going to play away is a good opportunity to adapt to the pressure. ”

"ICE," William said hesitantly, "you care too much about this." ”

"Damn it. Of course I care! ”

"If you care too much, your ability to judge will be reduced." William reminded: "DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT THE KIND OF PERSON POSEIDON IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DEFEAT IF YOU CAN'T CALM DOWN?" ”

ICELORD TOOK A DEEP BREATH: "OKAY, WILLIAM. You have a point. ”

"It's a good choice to play in Italy, though." The prince thought for a moment and said, "In fact, Italy is also one of our main opponents. We're better than them and I think it's good to play away because if we can win them away we can be more sure of the home game. ”

"You two just go for it." VETERAN CAPTAIN DAKALA SAID HELPLESSLY: "IT'S REALLY CAPABLE, INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS DON'T GO TO NEUTRAL VENUES." ICE is just a mess. You're with him too. ”

"What about you?" ICELORD LOOKED AT DAKALA WITH BIG EYES BLINKING.

"TAO," DAKALA SAID GLOOMILY, "IT LOOKS LIKE I HAVE TO ACCOMPANY YOU." ”

So the warm-up match on the 27th was very surprisingly arranged at the Scorching Sun Theater.

The Blaze Sun Theater is the sacred place of Klotto, the heart of the spirit of the Kloto people. The organizing committee is naturally happy to arrange it this way, because if it is arranged in a non-neutral venue, there will be more topics before the game, and the tickets will be better sold, so they don't care what the impact is.

Besides, the organizing committee doesn't think it will have much impact.

They were wrong. When it was announced that the match had been scheduled at the Theater of the Burning Sun, angry Italians saw it as a sign of German contempt for them, and the whole country was furious. In other countries in this world, professional gamers have a high income. But in general, the influence is still limited; But in Italy it's completely different. The game is everything in this country, and the professional gamers in this country have the power to decide almost everything - the choice of the president is up to Cloto; foreign policy, which is up to Cloto; War Raiders. It's up to Klotto to have the final say; The direction of the economy is up to Cloto. 30% of Italians are Clotto, and 70% aspire to be Cloto.

Gaming is the whole of Italian life. This is the basis of Italy's centuries-old gaming powerhouse, almost any international competition, Italy and another country compete for the championship, in almost all international competitions, Italy is either the champion or the runner-up, 80% of the time, they are the champions, they have only lost 15% of the games, and the other 5% is the case of them not reaching the bottom game. SPECIFICALLY, IN THE LAST 100 YEARS, THERE WAS A TORRE CUP A FEW YEARS AGO, WHEN ICELORD KILLED ALL THE ITALIAN COMPETITORS AND ELIMINATED THEM A DOZEN SECONDS AFTER THE START OF THE RACE.

After that game, the game manager released a new version for ICELORD, GAME-G, which was called "Visitors from Heaven".

The Italians never imagined that the day would come when a team from a certain country would ask to come to play on their home turf in Italy, and it would be a shame for them!

ORIGINALLY ICELORD BECAME A KNOT IN ITALIA BECAUSE OF THE GAME IN WHICH HE WAS NAMED A FOREIGNER, AND ITALIANS LOVED AND INDIGNANT ICELORD. In their opinion, such an elven player should have been born in Italy, but now, they can only watch in anger as this man becomes their eternal enemy.

WHAT'S EVEN MORE INFURIATING IS THAT THE ITALIANS CAN'T GET REVENGE, BECAUSE THE WAY ICELORD KILLED ITALY BELONGS TO HIM ALONE, AND THE ITALIANS MAY BE ABLE TO DEFEAT GERMANY AGAIN COUNTLESS TIMES, BUT THAT KIND OF GAME WILL BE REMEMBERED FOREVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME, AND THE ITALIANS WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO DO WHAT ICELORD DID, AND THERE IS NO ONE IN THIS WORLD LIKE ICELORD.

It's a thorn that can't be pulled out.

So, when the German team decided to play an away warm-up match, one can imagine what the reaction of Italian game fans was.

This is simply the MAX version of the new hatred + old hatred.

But the anger also shows that Italians today have no confidence.

IF TONY WAS STILL AROUND, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE REACTED SO MUCH. THE TRAGEDY THAT ICELORD CREATED A FEW YEARS AGO WAS ONLY BECAUSE TONY DIDN'T COMPETE, AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT ALL ITALIANS THINK. BUT NOW, IT'S NO SECRET THAT TONY HAS DECIDED TO RETIRE. AND WILL HIS SUCCESSOR, PATRICK, BE ABLE TO REPLACE TONY?

THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, NO, TONY'S GREATNESS IS OBVIOUS TO ALL, AND PATRICK, AS HIS HANDPICKED SUCCESSOR, IS STILL NOT QUALIFIED ENOUGH, AT LEAST NOT YET. In a country like Italy. It's unimaginable for a pro gamer to associate with a word like greatness.

"I hope Patrick is completely finished in this fight, and ICELORD won't let me down, right?" Dietrich asked Yang Hai as she ate a burger in the audience. "I WANT ICELORD TO BEAT PATRICK INTO A SIEVE AND CRUSH HIM ON THE GROUND SO THAT ALL OF ITALY WILL KNOW HE'S A PIECE OF RUBBISH."

Dietrich, the head of the Rome Tactical Research Center, is one of the most important tactical analysts in the team, and of course wants to go to Naples with Yang Hai to watch the game. When Yang Hai heard Dietrich's curse on Patrick, he couldn't help but feel a pain.

During the formation of the team, Patrick, who is now the head of Italy, felt that the Rome Tactical Research Center was inadequate. He chose to trust the team of students at the Precept Academy. At this moment, the feud between Dietrich and Patrick was great, and if it weren't for this, Yang Hai would not have been able to recruit this world-leading research team to work for him.

Although Yang Hai didn't like Patrick very much, his scalp was still numb when he heard Dietrich's words. When a woman is angry, she is really a terrifying creature, and Yang Hai wonders if she should change positions with the big boss Kakulucia, who watched the game in the back row, to avoid being accidentally injured by Miss Dietrich's powerful resentment force field.

It just so happened that Kakuluchia seemed to be interested in Dietrich......

At this time, something that made Yang Hai's scalp explode even more happened. Although TIGER, who was sitting on Yang Hai's left, had improved his emotional intelligence a lot in the past year, it was obvious that he had not yet improved to the level of a normal person. TIGER SAID TO DIETRICH WITH A BLANK FACE: "I'M SORRY FOR THIS, I READ THE ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS WHEN I COLLECTED THE INFORMATION, AND THEY SAID THAT THE HUAXIA TEAM USED GARBAGE THAT ITALIANS DON'T WANT, AND THE STRENGTH OF THE ROMAN TACTICAL RESEARCH CENTER IS FAR WORSE THAN THAT OF THE ACADEMY OF PRECEPTS." I think they are complete nonsense. I've made comparisons, and the gap between your team and the academy students is not as big as they say, just a little weaker than them. ”

As he spoke, he gave Dietrich a strange smile.

CAKULUCHIA IN THE BACK ROW DIDN'T BOTHER TO CHAT WITH THE KING, THE CAPTAIN, AND TERRY. EYES STUNNED TO LOOK AT TIGER - NIMA, THIS IS THE WORLD'S FIRST IEC ALONG WITH POSEIDON? It's really sharp to death, it's really better to be famous than to meet. Meeting is even more famous, long posture ah long posture.

DIETRICH LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS ABOUT TO KILL SOMEONE, AND YANG HAI STOMPED ON THE TIGER HARD.

TIGER WAS AGGRIEVED AND COMPLAINED, "YOU TOLD ME TO SAY SORRY TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY DESCRIBE THEIR MISFORTUNE AND COMFORT THEM. I comforted her, I lied - in fact, the students of the Discipline Academy are very strong this year, and her team is much weaker. ”

THE PROBLEM IS THAT TIGER DIDN'T REALIZE THAT HE NEEDED TO KEEP HIS VOICE DOWN AND SAY THESE WORDS.

Sandwiched between TIGER and Dietrich, Yang Hai is under tremendous pressure.

HE LOOKED LEFT AND RIGHT, AND FOUND EGGPAIN IN TIME, AND IMMEDIATELY STOOD UP AND GREETED ENTHUSIASTICALLY: "HEY! Hey! EGGPAIN! ”

Then jumped out of his seat and fled the land of right and wrong in time.

There will soon be a murder here, and Yang Hai thinks that his body is too weak, so it's better not to be involved-

YANG HAI GAVE EGGPAIN A BIG HUG.

EGGPAIN LAUGHED: "BOSS POSEIDON EXPRESSED THE JOY OF REUNION LIKE THIS, BUT I WAS FLATTERED. ”

Yang Hai looked at the old guy, this guy's spirit is not the same as when they first met, the teenager who cried "Coach, I want to play basketball" has gradually gained a foothold in the non-mainstream band of Visconti and has become the main No. 3 position. YANG HAI LOOKED AT EGGPAIN, AND THEN THOUGHT OF PLAYERS LIKE ICELORD, AND SIGHED IN HIS HEART, MAYBE THERE IS REALLY A GENIUS IN THIS WORLD.

EGGPAIN SMILED SHYLY.

"By the way...... Yang Hai thought for a while, and said, "You haven't joined the national team yet, right?" Your father is Chinese, your mother is American, what do you think. ”

EGGPAIN WAS A LITTLE EMBARRASSED: "I'M SORRY. POSEIDON BOSS ...... I have joined the Kloto Party and am studying at the Discipline Academy. I think they'll solve the nationality problem for me. ”

Yang Hai couldn't do anything about it, so he could only sigh that he was a step late. BUT THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY A BAD THING FOR EGGPAIN. Non-mainstream bands are a fantastic platform, especially for a newcomer, and joining Kloto will allow him to grow to the maximum, which Yang Hai has no doubt. KLOTTO HAS THE BEST GAME EXPERTS IN THE WORLD, AND THEY CAN HELP EGGPAIN SOLVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH HIS WEAK FOUNDATION.

So Yang Hai changed the topic: "By the way, why did you kid run to the neutral audience area?" ”

"In fact, the student team thought I had a strong ability to imitate other players, so I joined the tactical research team to build virtual models. THE MAIN THING IS TO IMITATE ICELORD, IMITATE YOU OR SOMETHING. "MY MAIN TASK IS TO OBSERVE. THE NORTH STAND WAS SO NOISY THAT THEY KEPT SHOUTING TO KILL ICELORD OR SOMETHING...... I couldn't watch the game properly, so I ran to the neutral zone. ”

YANG HAI LAUGHED, YANG HAI HAD ALREADY UNDERSTOOD EGGPAIN'S IMITATION ABILITY AS IF IT WAS GIVEN BY GOD. This guy managed to reach the knockout round of the title battle just by learning himself, and the academy team certainly won't let go of such a master.

"How's Italy doing lately?" Yang Hai asked.

EGGPAIN DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO HIDE FROM THIS, HE SAID, "IT'S NOT GOOD. THE STUDENT TEAM GENERATED A VIRTUAL BETA SHEET, AND THE RESULTS OF THE TEST SHOWED THAT GERMAN HAD A 50% CHANCE OF WINNING THE CHAMPIONSHIP. The chances of China winning the championship are 30%, and Italy is only 20%, which makes the players a little worried. ”

Yang Hai frowned.

"You've probably watched the warm-up match between Germany and South Korea the other day, and the muzzle of ICELORD's gun is hot. When we built the model, we had to infinitely increase the impact index of ICELORD. EGGPAIN WAS ALSO VERY HELPLESS WHEN HE SAID THIS: "ACTUALLY. THE RESULTS OF THIS SURVEY ARE INACCURATE, AND IT'S NOT SURPRISING THAT PLAYERS LIKE ICELORD DO ANYTHING, AND THERE IS NO WAY TO FULLY DESCRIBE SUCH PEOPLE IN NUMBERS. The simulated Huaxia VS Germany win rate is 50% for each other, and this is because the researchers cancel out the influence index between you and ICELORD. The influence index of the two of you is counted as 0. AFTER A PAUSE, EGGPAIN SAID HELPLESSLY: "BUT IN THE ITALY VS GERMANY MATCH, WE DON'T THINK ANYONE IN THE CURRENT TEAM CAN STOP ICELORD." Therefore, the simulated Italian win rate is only 25%, which is really miserable. This means that if it weren't for the bad luck of Germany, we wouldn't have won the race. ”

Yang Hai is a little unimpressed by this approach of the student team, and TIGER may applaud it, he has always been a loyal supporter of data flow, but Yang Hai believes in some other things, some things that data can't express.

It is with these beliefs that Yang Hai played a tie with TIGER at that time when his IEC skills were not as good as TIGER's skills and the strength of the team was not as good as TIGER.

"No matter how complex your calculations are, the game will always be much more complex than your calculations." Yang Hai said disappreciatively: "Can no one in Italy stop ICELORD?" Your team of students don't know the real Pooh, the two idiots of the White Owl and Ploucelyn don't know the real Pooh, and Kloto doesn't know the real Pooh. It seems that Pooh is indeed a fool, I don't deny that. But I know him, I know the real him. Should I make a bet? ”

"What bet?" EGGPAIN ASKED SULLENLY. POSEIDON HAD JUST WASHED THE WHOLE OF ITALY, AND AS A NEW CROTO, EGGPAIN WAS A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE.

"Italy will win this game." Yang Hai said with certainty: "No matter how optimistic you are about ICELORD, Italy will win this game." ”

EGGPAIN WAS A LITTLE UNSURE OF WHAT YANG HAI WOULD SAY, BUT HE TRUSTED THE ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENT TEAM.

"Bet." EGGPAIN SAID, "BUT CAN YOU TELL ME WHY YOU JUDGE THAT?" ”

Yang Hai didn't say anything more, because the game had already begun. (To be continued......)