Since Qianye challenged the Golden Gym in that match, Nancy had never been so nervous as today, and even the noise-reducing telekinetic barrier was withdrawn unconsciously. She was surrounded by the most annoying noise but was completely unaware, her eyes seemed to be glued to the screen of the arcade.
This was already her twelfth challenge, and the previous eleven had all ended in miserable failure. It was obviously the same character, but in Kuroko's hands it was like a baby who couldn't even learn to walk and could be played around with at will, while in Alicia's hands it was like a towering mountain blocking her way.
But fortunately, after so many trials, she finally saw a glimmer of hope for victory - relying on the teleportation and pulling tactics, she and Aliga successfully took down a lamp each and reached the deciding round.
And at this crucial match point, she successfully reduced the opponent's HP to only a trace, while Alakazam still had half of his HP left.
The tension brought about by the desire for victory made the hands that were tightly gripping the joystick begin to tremble slightly. When the strange force in the picture withstood the fluctuations and was approaching the dangerous distance, the command for instant movement was already issued before the brain issued a warning.
However, Alicia's strange power did not move forward as expected, but instead retreated several steps as if she had already guessed her decision, and directly stuck in front of Alakazam who had just teleported over.
The flash of light representing the super special move lit up on his muscles. The strange force stretched out his four arms and directly hugged Alakazam, then jumped into the air, rolled for a while, and slammed into the ground.
"Strange power, win!"
Looking at the row of big words that suddenly appeared on the screen, Nancy froze in her seat. My health bar... disappeared?
"Phew... I was really scared. I almost got killed by Nancy. It seems that I am more skilled than you." Alija chuckled as she wiped the non-existent cold sweat from her forehead.
Hearing this, Nazi just silently began to search for the next game coin from her pocket. Although it was hard to tell from her expression, it was obvious that this game really gave her a lot of fun, otherwise the girl wouldn't be so eager to win the next game. This was also what Qianye wanted to see.
"Qian Ye, it's all used up." After pulling out her empty pockets, Nazi looked up at the young man, with a rare burning fighting spirit in her eyes.
"Nazi-chan, then use my coins. They were originally yours anyway..." Ailijia said before Qianye left. But before she could take out the remaining game coins, a shrill voice came in:
"Brother, you finally came. I have been waiting for a long time."
The young man with a crew cut who suddenly came out put his arm around Qianye's shoulders in a familiar manner. After seeing the girls around him, he was amazed and showed a look of admiration to the young man:
"There are several more of you...hiss~brother, you are really capable. I have made this friend my friend."
"Sorry, it took us quite some time to get here." Qian Ye glanced at the ball-like object with a red corner revealed in the other person's side pocket, then he withdrew his gaze and answered very naturally.
"No, no! I'm already very grateful that you're willing to come. At first I was a little worried about what would happen if you didn't come."
The young man laughed a few times and patted the boy on the shoulder. At the same time, Nancy, whose attention was no longer on the arcade machine, stood up from her seat and looked at Qianye and asked:
"Qian Ye, who is it?"
"It's just a friend I just met yesterday. He was the one who told me about this kind of competition here."
Although he said this verbally, the telepathic channel showed a completely different situation.
"He came to me suddenly. Although he gave a very good reason, he must have other purposes. I plan to follow him and see what he is up to."
"Will there be any danger?"
"Don't worry, I'll be on guard. Besides, Kuroko and Umbreon are by my side, so they'll be able to handle it even if something does happen."
The telepathic channel was disconnected, but in the eyes of the young man with a crew cut, he could only see that the somewhat cold and aloof beautiful girl thought for a while, nodded, and continued to sit back in her seat and fiddle with the joystick.
"Then without further ado, come with me to sign up now." Perhaps because he was afraid that Qianye would go back on his word, the young man was very anxious and wanted to drag the other person to the sign-up office. However…
"I see. Mr. Qianye is also going to participate in the points challenge here. I wonder if you can bring me along as well?"
No one present had expected Ai Lijia's sudden words. Qianye narrowed his eyes slightly, but did not directly refuse. Instead, he looked at the young man and asked, "It should be okay, right? Anyway, the quota for the team is not full."
The young man with a crew cut was stunned for a moment, then he quickly nodded and said, "Of course no problem, welcome!"
He was the only one who knew that this match was almost all for the young man, who was the one who had the vinegar wrapped in the dumplings. The main character himself had no objection, so how could he dare to have any objection. What's more, the new teammate was a pretty girl. Anyway, he didn't plan to rely on his teammates to win. Even if he didn't do anything, it would be great to keep her as an eye-catcher.
…
Entering the competition area, the topics discussed by the people around him suddenly became unified. It seemed that he had only taken a few steps when he heard two people arguing about who was the strongest character in "Pokémon Fighters" -
"In a fighting game, the most important thing is the ability to stand back. In my opinion, Dragonite, who has the most powerful ability to stand back and the most comprehensive mechanism, is the most powerful character!"
"Its attack and damage are not as good as a Liebite Land Shark. I don't want to be too rude. Please prepare the mega stone for the hypertrophy."
"Land Shark who? You?"
"Gruisle killed a hundred Dragonites with a single blow!"
"Dragonite eats Garchomp in one bite!"
The quarrel was like that of naughty children. Finally, a passerby couldn't stand it anymore and walked up to them aggressively, intervening between them and yelling:
"I've had enough of you cloud players! If you had actually played the game Pokémon Fighters, you would know that Cricket is the strongest character!"
All in all, the argument didn't make any sense until the end. Heizi, who had been listening for a while, drooped his ears and muttered in a low voice:
"I still think that the character played by Sister Nazi is the strongest. It's too unfair that she can't even be touched!"
"Actually," Qianye stretched out his hand and rubbed Heizi's smooth hair, and then said, "Each character has his own strengths, and it is difficult to use a single standard to divide the strengths and weaknesses. The so-called strongest character is better to say the character that suits him best."
Hearing their conversation, Ailijia suddenly became interested. She came close to Qianye and asked with a smile in her eyes: "So for you, Qianye... which character is the strongest character?"
"I?"
The boy's tone was very calm, as if he was saying something that was a matter of course: "I just happen to know a little bit of everything."
All-round players? It's not like Alijia hasn't seen this type of player before. They don't pursue practicing only one specific role, but strive to reach a decent level in all roles.
But the price of being good at everything is being good at nothing. Such a player may be able to rely on his broad knowledge to use some strange tricks to make specialized players suffer a little. However, if the opponent happens to have also practiced this role, he will expose his own shortcomings.
"Then I am really looking forward to competing with you after the game, to see the strength of an all-round player."
"It's not that troublesome. We'll see each other soon, right?" Qianye raised his head and looked at the broadcast location. The first group of teams had already been announced, and one of them was a team composed of a few people they were not familiar with.
After hearing the announcement, Qianye went straight to their captain, the crew-haired young man named "Brother Long," and said, "I haven't played this game for a long time. Why don't you let me go in and try it out in the first round?"
The other party naturally agreed to his request. The boy quickly walked to the designated machine, sat down and put the game coins provided by the organizer into it.
His opponent had been waiting at the seat next to him. He was a tall middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties or forties. When he saw Qianye put in the coin, he turned around and gave him a "friendly" smile:
"It turns out that my opponent is a child. Don't worry, I will try my best to let him win."
After saying this, the man manipulated the joystick and selected the character he wanted to use. Coincidentally, the one he chose was the same one that Kuroko and Aliga had used - the command-throwing character Super Strength.
There were a large number of benches at the back of the competition area, which were prepared for the contestants who had not yet played and for those who simply wanted to watch the game. In order to facilitate these people to watch the progress of the game, the organizers specially prepared a large screen that could project the arcade screen in real time.
The young man with a crew cut, Ailijia, and Qianye's friends and family sat on the bench, watching the two teams in the competition on the big screen choose their roles one after another.
"Interesting, Qianye actually chose Lucario... This is a very popular character, isn't he planning to win by relying on monsters?"
Listening to Elijah's explanation, Heizi pricked up his ears curiously and asked:
"Lucario? Is that character strong?"
"I guess so. Lucario is a character with a lot of suppression methods in Pokémon Fighters, and the power of wave also allows it to become one of the top characters in terms of damage under certain prerequisites."
"It's just that... because it's too good at attacking, the designer deliberately weakened its ability to withstand pressure for the sake of balance. Once it's suppressed, it will be at an absolute disadvantage."
While Elijah was still analyzing the pros and cons of Lucario, Kuroko's attention had already shifted elsewhere, because...
"Great! Qianye won the first light!"
Hearing the cheers of the girl who suddenly jumped up from the bench, Alicja looked up at the screen in astonishment. How is this possible! It's only been less than ten seconds. Even if Lucario's damage is so high, it shouldn't be able to kill the opponent so quickly? !
As she thought about this, the next moment, she saw what the "little bit" that Qianye mentioned was exactly.
Lucario's disadvantage in resisting pressure was not fully reflected in his hands, because the opponent's strange strength never took the initiative in the battle from the beginning to the end. At the beginning, he was forced into a corner by a single attack, and in the end, under the huge defensive pressure, he guessed wrong several times in a row and was taken away by Lucario's three sets of combos.
A brilliant quick kill! After two rounds, Qianye didn't even lose a single drop of health, and directly hit two big "perfects".
As the winner, Qianye twisted his neck and shook his arms, as if the battle he just experienced was just a warm-up.
"Next one." Putting his hand back on the joystick, the boy said lightly.