The reason why the CPL is called the most brutal competition is that the qualifiers are all offline at the beginning, with no seeded players and random groups.

This makes it possible to qualify from the group, in addition to absolute strength, luck also accounts for a large component.

If you think about it, even if you have the strength of the main players of a first-division club, if you have four or five professional players from a Super League club in a group, will you still be able to qualify?

Even if they are top national team players, they may not be able to qualify in such a group.

Because the accidental surname factor of a knockout match is too big, the gap between the top masters is not large, even if you are stronger than others, there are also cases where you are accidentally killed by your opponent. Because even the top professional players in the Super League generally have a winning rate of only about 85%. And this is still the case of knowing who the opponent is, and having a certain understanding of the opponent's style of play and style, but this kind of offline game is not known, maybe two acquaintances, carefully played for a long time, after one side lost, take a closer look at the game, and suddenly realize: "Oh, it turned out to be that guy." ”

What's more, there is a situation where the fighting style is compatible, a person is strong in the violence, and in the case of not being familiar with the opponent, he wants to use his own advantageous violent soldiers to fight the opponent, but he may encounter a violent soldier who is more fierce than himself, or has a set of fighting against the violent soldiers, and does not eat the violent soldier flow play style at all. After such a game, it was too late for the player who wanted to use a thug to beat his opponent to regret it.

In fact, the last opponent in the group stage encountered by Zhang Peng was also like this.

This julypro is also a professional player in the first division, with Zhang Peng's current strength, if he usually fights with him, it may be almost the same if he can win two out of ten. But the characteristic of julypro is that the low-level soldiers of the Protoss are very strong, so he saw that Zhang Peng dared to fight against him, so he wanted to kill Zhang Peng with his hard work, but he didn't expect that Zhang Peng might be far behind him in other places compared to a professional player, but Zhang Peng's current micro work is also a professional-level level, Zhang Peng's fork and fork work is not inferior to him at all, and the dragon rider is even stronger than him. In this way, when Julipro found that he couldn't get Zhang Peng with a, it was too late for him to regret it.

So when Zhang Peng felt that the kufei of Guo Xi's group brought him a new professional-level realm, and at the same time wondered that he was playing so smoothly in his group, he didn't expect that some groups were already killing you to the death, killing bloody, and some well-known players and even star players in the Super League had already hung up in this cruel fight, and even Julypro in his group had met professional-level strongmen in his group. It's just that Zhang Peng just didn't encounter it.

"Gollum" was when Zhang Peng continued to watch Guo Xixian play with this opponent named Kufei and continue to figure out and study, when such a voice suddenly came out from under Guo's thin T-shirt.

Zhang Peng was happy all of a sudden, "It's only a little past ten o'clock, Guo Xixi, why are you hungry." ”

Guo Xixi's face flushed slightly, "What's the matter, I can't be hungry." I'm poor, I can't afford to eat. ”

Zhang Peng said: "You shouldn't have come over without dinner?" ”

Ai Jing smiled and said: "No, she saw a method of nutrition and beauty and weight loss and fitness on the Internet, saying that she eats fruit meals twice a week, and she eats fruit only at night, and she eats it for the first time tonight." ”

Zhang Peng suddenly realized: "So that's the case." ”

"Xiao Ai, what are you doing with him?" At this time, Guo looked at Ai Jing carefully and said, "Xiao Ai, let's have supper, shall we?" ”

Zhang Peng said angrily and funny: "No, you will have a fruit meal and a supper for a while, so that your nutrition, beauty, weight loss and fitness are still useful?" ”

"Hmph, what's the matter with you, I just like to eat supper, what's the matter, no." Guo carefully tugged at Ai Jing and said, "Let's go, Xiao Ai, let's go." ”

Ai Jing smiled when she was pulled up by Guo and asked Zhang Peng, "Do you want to go together?" ”

If someone else asked Zhang Peng if he wanted to go, Zhang Peng would definitely say no. Because now Zhang Peng has determined that a reasonable diet and physical training are very useful for the state and endurance of the game, and he has always been lazy and has insisted on it for a long time. And he also knows very well that the embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed in an anthill, and with the first time, there is a second time, as long as he indulges a little, he may not be able to persevere. But now it is Ai Jing who asks Zhang Peng, and this atmosphere makes Zhang Peng feel like when the three of them were together in the past.

It seems that there has been a long time since the three of them were like this.

So Zhang Peng nodded quickly and said, "Let's go, let's go together." Then the three of them closed the door and went straight to the West Garden.

"Holy!" As soon as they crossed an iron gate on the street of Xiyuan, Zhang Peng and Guo Xixian couldn't help but scream, it turned out that on a spicy stall not far away, Books and others were eating and sweating profusely, and when Zhang Peng, Guo Xixian and Ai Jing saw them, Books and others also saw them, and at this time Books was still dragging a string of hot yuba in their hands.

“nnd。” As soon as he saw that the group of books were eating like bandits, Guo Xixian couldn't help but walk up and said, "You still eat so many spicy hot days on such a hot day, and you are not afraid of getting hot." ”

Zhang Peng couldn't help but say: "Books, didn't you say that you are so poor now, why are you still eating and drinking here." ”

Hearing Zhang Peng say this, Books and the others laughed wryly, but Books immediately said to Zhang Peng shamelessly: "Zhang Peng, don't tell this boss, in fact, we have been hungry for two meals, and this time we are going to eat the overlord meal." ”

"Holy!" Zhang Peng rolled his eyes, "Books, do you think I didn't have an IQ card, I can believe you when you say that?" ”

"Haha, just kidding, don't take it seriously." Books dragged a few benches and said, "Let's eat together, I'm in for a treat today." To be honest, we are really tight on money right now, but today we are so depressed. ”

Guo Xixian is no longer interested in the spicy tang that is soaking together in this big iron pot, and he was interested in it when he first saw it. But it was very rare to meet this group of iron roosters who would only make a lot of money, so Guo Xixian immediately sat down. Zhang Peng and Ai Jing also sat down immediately, and then Zhang Peng deliberately grabbed the most expensive squid skewer and scalded it inside, and asked Books while scalding: "What depression happened today?" ”

As soon as he saw that Zhang Peng didn't choose the right one, but only the expensive one, Books was so distressed that he twitched it one after another. "Zhang Peng, try this cuttlefish skewer, the taste is similar to that of squid skewers." After recommending a skewer of cuttlefish (actually a soy product) that costs only five cents a skewer to Zhang Peng, Books said: "The level of CPL is indeed too high..."

“cpl？” When Books said this, Zhang Peng and Guo Xixi were suddenly surprised, "You participated in CPL? ”

"Hehe", the group of books smiled embarrassedly: "I didn't think about qualifying, I just wanted to go up and have fun." ”

Hearing Books say this, Guo Xixian immediately pulled a few squid skewers and scalded them in a steaming iron pot: "As a result, you were played." ”

Books was distressed to see Guo Xixian doing this, but he felt that if he recommended the cuttlefish skewers again, maybe Guo Xixian would pull another handful of squid skewers for Ai Jing to scald. So he could only say with a bitter face: "NND, I got a Yougg vest before the game..."

“yougg?” As soon as they heard this ID, Guo Xixi, Zhang Peng, and Ai Jing all widened their eyes.

"How?" Books felt that the reaction of the three people was a little strange, and couldn't help but pause, Guo Xixian immediately glanced at Zhang Peng and Ai Jing, and the three of them shook their heads together, smiled, didn't say anything, just said: "You ID is full of arrogance." ”

"Yougg, yes." Books continued: "It's just deliberately using such an arrogant ID.,After I entered the competition room.,I said very arrogantly to those who have already arrived.,If you come first, fight with me first.,Anyway, it's always going to be fought when the time comes.,It's not a death if you die sooner or later.。 Now let's fight first, don't stay here if you can't beat me. At the same time, I asked ACUP and FISH to sign up for a couple of vests, and then they went into that room as well, and when I shouted, they were the first to jump out and say they were going to fight me. So I pretended to get the three of them in a row. ”

Guo Xixi interjected at this time: "What are you trying to do like this?" ”

"I just wanted to create the illusion that everyone in this room was eight feet tall and eight feet waistline," Books explained. This may be able to scare away a few people directly, even if you can't scare away, the people in this room know how good I am, and when you fight me, you may think I'm a super macho man, and when you fight, maybe you won't be able to fight well, but I didn't expect a birdman to jump out..."

"Haha", books Speaking of this, Guo Xixian, Zhang Peng and Ai Jing finally couldn't help it, and they all laughed so much that they almost fell to the ground with the scalded squid skewers in their hands.

Books and the group looked at the three people strangely: "What are you doing?" ”

"How's that, room eighteen is fun." Guo took a few breaths and said to Books, "8bbrush is cool." ”

"Holy!" Books and the gang were stunned for a few seconds and then all of them suddenly shouted, "That for you guys?!" ”

"I'm sorry, but the one who jumped out to play with you was ohyes! Schoolmate. He came running through the door from the Twelfth Group and killed you at the same time. Guo Xi smiled and said: "I said that no wonder there are three abstentions at the beginning, plus one yougg, at least four abstained, but at the beginning of the game, there are only two abstentions, it turns out that those are your vests." ”

"I'm leaning on me, I'm leaning on me!" After the group of books screamed in amazement, they suddenly reacted again, "Zhang Peng, Guo Xixi, you also participated in the CPL competition?" How are you guys playing? ”

"I was killed anyway." Guo nodded Zhang Peng carefully: "But he won the first place in the group." ”

"First in the group?" The eyes of the group of people suddenly widened as if they had gone crazy practicing toad skills, and they bulged.

Although the group of books knew very well that Zhang Peng was very good, they didn't expect Zhang Peng to be able to win the first place in the group tonight.

Because although the first place in the group this year is not like in previous years, he can directly participate in the offline competition, and he has the opportunity to show his face and soar. But after all, the first place in this group is already the top 64, as long as the day after tomorrow wins another game, then Zhang Peng can go to the offline competition?

Books and the group were stunned for a while before coming back to their senses, and after Books came back to their senses, they immediately said to Zhang Peng: "Then I'm sorry, Zhang Peng, you should invite this supper." ”

"Damn!" Zhang Peng suddenly shouted: "Why did I invite it, didn't you say that you invited it, what, don't you invite it after eating two more strings of your squid." ”

"What are you talking about, how can you not be invited because of this." Books' old face flushed slightly, and asked Zhang Peng rhetorically: "Do you want to kill your opponent in the game the night after tomorrow, enter the offline game, and go to the Changsha E-sports Hall to show your face." ”

Zhang Peng glanced at Books and said, "Aren't you talking nonsense?" Do I wish I had lost? ”

"That's it." "If you win, we'll have to go there to cheer you on, you know, a ticket to a CPL game isn't cheap," Books said. Do you think you should have this meal? ”

Zhang Peng rolled his eyes and said, "I didn't ask you to cheer me on." ”

"Look at what you said, if you really go, it will bring glory to the faces of your brothers. Can we not go? Books patted Zhang Peng on the shoulder and said, "Otherwise, I'll invite you for this meal, but how about the nest outside your school for us to visit, it's been so long, and you haven't let us go in to watch." ”

"Damn, no!" Before Zhang Peng could answer, Guo Xixi immediately said, "I don't want a group of animals to go in and make the living room look like a pigsty." ”

"Don't be like this, Guo is a big beauty." Books and ACUP immediately assured, "We'll go in with the cleanest clothes, the cleanest shoes, and we'll change our shoes when we get in." And we didn't go in to visit your private life, we just wanted to see Zhang Peng play interstellar and learn from him. ”

Hearing a group of people calling themselves big beauties, Guo Xixi's position wavered, but Zhang Peng still shook his head and said that you still don't want to come tomorrow.

"Not really. Guo Xixian is going to agree, are you still so stingy? Books and the others suddenly shouted.

Zhang Peng said: "No, there will be a school team training camp tomorrow afternoon." In the morning, I also want to practice quietly, because if I think of something, I may forget it if I don't practice. ”

What Zhang Peng said is the truth, because the epiphany in the interstellar is like suddenly dreaming of something when you are dreaming, if you don't catch it quickly, you may not be able to grasp that feeling. And Zhang Peng's mood is also quite like the mood of a swordsman in a martial arts book after seeing a novel sword move, the same itching is unbearable, and he can't wait to study and try it. But when they heard Zhang Peng say this, Books and others were very disappointed. Seeing that they were very disappointed, Zhang Peng felt embarrassed and said, "Then why don't you come to watch me play CPL directly the night after tomorrow." ”

"Okay." Books and the group immediately became excited, and Books immediately said, "Okay, that's it, I'll invite you for this meal." ”

As he said this, the acup beside Books secretly poked him in the arm. Books asked Acup a little strangely, "What are you doing?" I'm carrying the money this time. Acup squeezed his eyes at him and motioned for him to look at Guo Xixi, only to have him almost cry out at the sight of it.

It turned out that just when he said that I had invited this meal, Guo Xixian grabbed n skewers of squid and skewered them in the pot.

As soon as he saw Books' extremely heartbroken look, Zhang Peng also laughed, and grabbed a large handful of squid skewers, and then Books' eyes were about to pop out again, but Zhang Peng immediately put it down deliberately and replaced it with a cuttlefish skewer, and when he heard Books shout "me", Guo Xixian and Ai Jing couldn't help but laugh out loud, Zhang Peng felt that the wind at night was much softer than usual.

***

After eating supper, it was already more than eleven o'clock after sending Guo Xixi and Ai Jing back to the dormitory, Zhang Peng was about to climb out from behind the 14th house, but when he saw that the light was still on in Wu Yingda's nest in the 14th room, Zhang Peng thought that he hadn't been to that nest for a long time. In the past, it was cold, and the covers were not outside, but now it's hot anyway, and there is air conditioning, so you can spend the night lying on the sofa. So Zhang Peng went upstairs directly, and then after knocking on the door, he pinched his nose and shouted, "Police rounds!" Then he took out the key and opened the door, and went in at once.

Wu Yingda was wearing a pair of briefs to brush his teeth, and when he heard someone knocking on the door, he walked out of the bathroom with a toothbrush in his mouth, only to hear a police round, and then the door opened, and a person rushed in. Frightened, Wu Yingda's hand shook and almost swallowed the toothbrush, after seeing that it was Zhang Peng, Wu Yingda was angry and funny and foamed at the mouth and said I, Zhang Peng, you don't sleep in the middle of the night, why did you come over and scare me.

Zhang Peng smiled, sat on the sofa and took off his shoes, looked at Wu Yingda and said, "I think you can't sleep, so I'll come and see you." ”

"yes, then I'll wash up and come back to accompany you." Wu Yingda also said this shamelessly, and then after brushing his teeth and washing, he directly dragged Zhang Xi over, and spread it directly next to the sofa where Zhang Peng was lying, and then said disdainfully to Zhang Peng, who already seemed to want to sleep: "Damn, you want to sleep without even washing your feet." ”

"Maybe it's a habit now, and I'm going to go to bed after half past ten." Zhang Peng got up from the sofa embarrassedly, ran to the bathroom and stripped naked, but he had a little energy, so he put on a pair of pants and ran back to the sofa to lie down, he said to Wu Yingda a little excitedly: "Brother Da, Guo Xixian and I are participating in the CPL game tonight." ”

"Yes." Wu Yingda turned over on the mat, probably thinking that it was a little cold to lie down like this with the air conditioner turned on, so he went to pull a blanket to cover it, and then said to Zhang Peng: "How is the fight?" ”

"Guo Xixian was taken care of. I topped the group today, and if I can win another game the day after tomorrow, I can play offline. ”

"Holy! Are you so fierce? ”

"I don't know what's going on, it seems that the opponent is not strong." Zhang Peng became excited as he spoke: "But Guo Xixi's opponent is called a strong." Definitely a professional player, guess how he plays, he actually uses his own style of play to change, forcing the opponent to drill into his own design. It's like we only look at this one step when we play chess, but the master has counted several moves after playing chess, which definitely means this. ”

Wu Yingda was stunned and said, "It seems that we didn't expect this before." ”

"It seems that professional players are still very different from ordinary amateur players." Zhang Peng immediately said to Wu Yingda: "Brother Da, why don't you go to my nest with me tomorrow morning, and I'll show you Guo Xixi's rep, and we will practice together?" ”

"It's okay to go with you. Anyway, we can eat together, and we have to go to the training camp together in the afternoon. Wu Yingda slept on the mat and looked at the ceiling and said, "But forget about practicing that, I'm afraid I'm greedy and not rotten." ”

"Brother Da, you are still practicing your timing and calculation," Zhang Peng immediately reacted, "Don't you feel bored?" ”

Hearing Zhang Peng say that, Wu Yingda immediately smiled and said: "I'm not like you, I learn things so fast, like a Martian, you can learn a lot of things together, but if I learn too much, I will practice well." But I've started to practice a little bit now. ”

"What are you doing?" Zhang Peng was a little surprised, he immediately sat up from the sofa, but seeing that Wu Yingda had turned off the computer, he felt that he was a little too anxious, smiled embarrassedly, and lay down again, "This is a good choice, you are not fast enough now, others are likely to beat you the, if you suddenly make a slight fork, it is really possible to kill the opponent at once." ”

Wu Yingda smiled and said, "Yes, I can't be faster, then I can be better." ”

If it's not fast, it's fine. Even if others attack on multiple fronts, I mostly take a defensive position, and only compete with the opponent in one of the parts, so that this part is easy to take advantage.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Peng couldn't help but say, Brother Da, you are indeed very good.

Because although this partial victory may not be the same as what Zhang Peng just said, killing the opponent at once, it is very in line with Wu Yingda's playing style characteristics, relying on the accumulation of small advantages to lay the victory. Wu Yingda's original style of play is already very consistent and threatening, but now if you add a special practice of micro-, it will be a bit like a tiger with wings.

"It's not like Niu Fork can't beat you." Wu Yingda said disdainfully.

"If I were as lazy as I was before, I guess I wouldn't be your opponent. , you're too single-minded. Zhang Peng smiled, it is true that Zhang Peng will never be as dead as Wu Yingda. And after saying this, Zhang Peng couldn't help but mention it again: "Did you see Zhou Xiaoyu after the exam?" ”

Wu Yingda shook her head and said, "No." After a pause, Wu Yingda suddenly said, "I have something I have always wanted to tell you." ”

Zhang Peng was a little hesitant when he heard Wu Yingda's voice, so he asked rhetorically: "Is it about Guo Xixi?" ”

Wu Yingda turned his head strangely, and Zhang Peng on the sofa exhaled and said, "Ai Jing has already told me." ”

"Ai Jing has already told you?" Wu Yingda said in surprise.

"Yes." Zhang Peng turned around on the sofa, looked at Wu Yingda and said, "I now feel that Guo Xixian likes me." But I'm a little confused right now, whether I like Mi Wei more or her more. ”

"Take care of it yourself. Anyway, this matter should be decided or decided, and it is not good to drag it out for too long. Wu Yingda felt that if he changed himself and let himself choose one of these two people, he probably didn't know which one he would choose, and it seemed that no matter which one he picked, the other one would be hurt a little. So after being speechless for a while, Wu Yingda could only say this, and then stopped talking to Zhang Peng about this, and asked Zhang Peng: "Do you think that if I want to make a move on the cupl in two days, should I do my best?" ”

Zhang Peng was stunned, he didn't know why Wu Yingda suddenly asked this question.

"Our opponent in the next group is not Shi Da. Now the Chendong of the Normal University has also made great progress. I don't think Murong and Velver can deal with them all. ”

After hearing Wu Yingda's reminder, Zhang Peng suddenly understood.

Divisional varsity. Although Zhang Peng knows that on the matchup table, the opponent of the next round of CUHK Cupl is the varsity team of the Normal University. But I didn't expect for a while that the one who taught Wu Yingda to play interstellar was Fang Xiang who killed him several times in the computer room of his department.

Zhang Peng knew that the reason why Wu Yingda asked that question was because the group of people at the Normal University were also brothers in the same school as Wu Yingda, and if they lost too badly, they would not be happy on face. But after thinking about it, Zhang Peng still said: "I think you not only have to do your best to play, but also have to play your best." ”

Wu Yingda asked, "Why?" ”

Zhang Peng said: "Maybe Fang Xiang will also see our game, if you play very poorly, he will not be disappointed and die." And if you deliberately release the water, it is also disrespectful to Chendong and them, in addition, even if Chendong loses in your hands, it is better than losing in the hands of others, because even if they lose, maybe they will feel very relieved. ”

Wu Yingda nodded, smiled suddenly, didn't say anything anymore, and turned over directly: "Sleep, sleep!" ”

"Wow, Dago, you've got a lot of muscles in your ass right now."

"Holy!" Wu Yingda immediately pulled a blanket and wrapped her exposed buttocks, "It's not like running with you every day!" ”

"Hey, hey, sleep, sleep!"

***

At half past six o'clock in the evening of July 21, there was still an hour before the final 64 into 32 of the CPL group stage and the official start of the game to determine the offline players in the final division.

Books and a group of people appeared on time at the door of Zhang Peng and Guo Xixi's old nest outside the school.

The group was indeed dressed quite cleanly, and after entering the door, they all took off their slippers and walked in barefoot.

"It's clean, it's so fragrant." Books and the group walked in as if they were visiting a zoo. "Huh?" Books soon discovered a new world, and said to Guo Xixi, who was sitting on the sofa and ignoring them, just watching TV, and Zhang Peng, who was warming up on the other side: "You only have one bed? ”

Guo Xixian didn't react for a while, but when she saw the lewd looks of a group of people, she immediately knew what kind of dirty thoughts this group of people were thinking in their hearts, and she immediately glanced at this group of dirty people, "What, one bed can't work?" ”

"Okay, okay." Books and the group immediately laughed.

Guo Xixian means that he can't sleep on the sofa alone? But looking at the obscene smile of this group of people, Guo Xixian knew that they must be thinking nonsense again, and at this time, Guo Xixi suddenly saw Acup and Fish and wanted to go to the balcony to have a look. Guo Xi suddenly remembered that the small cover and pants he had washed not long ago were still hanging on the balcony and had not been taken back. Then she immediately cried out, "If you still want to stay in this room, you should all sit down honestly and don't move." ”

Books and the others didn't have time to reply, but at this time, Zhang Peng was a little surprised and said, "This guy is also in a hurry." ”

"What's wrong?" Books A group of people suddenly rushed over, and when Guo who walked at the end couldn't see it carefully, he depressedly pulled apart the two people and squeezed in next to Ai Jing After sitting down at Zhang Peng's computer desk, Guo Xixi found that the ID that appeared in this competition channel at this time happened to be plot, which was Zhang Peng's opponent tonight on the matchup table.

Now there is nearly an hour before the game time, and this plot, like Zhang Peng, is indeed quite early.