TOFWFD Ch19 - Practice - Chrysanthemum Garden

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The first to react in this strange atmosphere was Qiu Yu.

“Did you come to call me along for lunch?”

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He asked casually while slinging his damp t-shirt over his shoulder in an exceedingly natural way, as though he had performed this action many times before, evidently completely unabashed by his unclothed torso exposed before everyone present. 

He even proceeded to take a couple of steps towards the door, moving closer to the shocked audience.  38dsUV

A droplet of water rolled down his chin, falling onto his delicate collarbones, and continued its path downwards. The light sheen of sweat gave his fair skin a pearlescent shimmer such that it seemed to sparkle with every breath.

Mu Feibai hurriedly clambered up, his adam’s apple unconsciously bobbing. 

Zhou Shu was still kneeling on the ground, his eyes darting everywhere. One of his hands was placed over his nose, and a trickle of red could be seen oozing out between his fingers. It was unclear whether it was because of his fall or… because of some other reason. 

Behind them, Du Chen gritted his teeth and held his breath, his ears flushed red. 

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Immediately, he turned away and spoke with inexplicable anger, “Put your clothes on! Ridiculous!”

He turned and left right after he finished speaking, as though he couldn’t stand being in that room for another second. 

Mu Feibai helped Zhou Shu up and turned in Qiu Yu’s direction yet didn’t dare to look directly at him, “Why don’t… why don’t you put on your clothes first?”

Qiu Yu: …… ESuFXK

He was careless this time. He had been so used to hanging out half-naked with his comrades in the barracks that he forgot it was considered uncivilised to be without a shirt in this world, as it was something only people struggling in the slums or wanderers on garbage stars would do.

Although he didn’t have much in his savings, he was at least someone who had had higher education, so it was indeed inappropriate for him to take off his shirt in public settings. 

Hence Qiu Yu quickly put his damp shirt back on, and smiled apologetically towards Mu Feibai and the others, “Excuse me.”

He was wearing a plain white shirt today, the one the original body had worn as sleepwear. The fabric was light, thin, and was somewhat see-through after being wetted. Because it was damp, it stuck tightly to Qiu Yu’s skin, fairly revealing two protruding dots of pink, rising and falling along with Qiu Yu’s breathing that still hadn’t fully recovered from the previous exercise.  9WTD6B

Mu Feibai moved his line of sight away as though electrocuted and a red flush spread from his ears to cover his entire neck.

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Afterwards, Qiu Yu followed Doctor Qi to complete a set of checks and arrived at the training room right before the pre-competition meeting began. 

This time, the entire team was present.

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Seeing Qiu Yu enter, Zhou Shu and Lu Cun flushed red once more and avoided looking at him. Du Chen and Lin Jinxi’s expressions didn’t change, but their eyes never left the ground. Even Mu Feibai, who was usually extroverted and liked to joke around, remained silent and fiddled with his bracelet, pretending to be calm.

The coach looked around suspiciously but didn’t find any answers so he cleared his throat and began, “On the starting lineup for tonight’s training match are Mu Feibai, Zhou Shu, Du Chen, Lin Jinxi, and Qiu Yu. Feibai’s in command so the specific strategies will be arranged according to the situation. Any questions?” zbpc9H

“No problem.”

“Don’t worry about it, coach.”

“Got it.”

Their answers were clear and concise with no one fooling around or initiating strange bets—they were so obedient that the coach felt confused as to whether they really were the kids on his team. XOGi7m

The coach was unaccustomed to it and swept his gaze around once more, but still didn’t find anything out of place.

After a moment of silence, he looked towards Qiu Yu, “The competition intensity will be higher than rank, so try to get used to it in today’s training match. We’ll give you thirty minutes and I’ll call for a stop if the game still hasn’t finished after then.”

“Ok.” Qiu Yu answered.

“Lu Cun, you’re up in the second round.” The coach continued. 7KdE1p

Lu Cun obediently nodded.

The pre-competition meeting was extremely short. The team members entered their respective gaming cabins and entered the competition grounds agreed upon previously.

Survival mode doesn’t appear in the pro-league regular competitions of “Century’s Finale” and it would only be arranged in some entertainment shows or special qualifiers. On the other hand, point-capture and defense-offense modes have a 40% and 60% chance of appearing, respectively, according to the ratio of available maps.

Training matches between teams would naturally be arranged according to the regular competitions, so only point-capture and defense-offense maps would be randomly selected and not survival maps.  VfCTG7

In the first game, both sides drew a defense-offense map consisting of an abandoned research facility along the coastline. The three lanes were each on a platform on the water and the abandoned building was connected to half-submerged caves. Mutant beasts populated the area surrounding and within the abandoned building—the terrain of this map was extremely complicated, challenging players to many different settings. It had an especially high skill requirements for junglers. 

“Zhou Shu, Lin Jinxi, and I will take a path each, Du Chen will jungle, and Qiu Yu will support.” Mu Feibai quickly made arrangements.

Zhou Shu was a little concerned, “Xiao Du’s jungling in this map?”

Mu Feibai glanced at him, “If he’s not practicing in a practice match, is he going to practice in the actual competition?” S8AEjI

Zhou Shu oh-ed and glanced around, his gaze falling on Qiu Yu and then Mu Feibai, seeming as though he wanted to say something but didn’t end up opening his mouth in the end. 

Mu Feibai guessed what he wanted to say and lightly coughed, voluntarily explaining, “Qiu Yu, it’s your first time playing in a competition in a gaming cabin, so too intense of a confrontation may injure you. Can you first play support to adapt for a bit?”

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Qiu Yu had already chosen his weapon and was currently standing at the doors of the base, waiting for it to open.

Hearing Mu Feibai, he turned back to answer, “No problem.” HZTnfl

The greatest duty of a soldier was to obey orders. Since the commander of this match was Mu Feibai, Qiu Yu could not, in good conscience, resist commands. Whether it was to play adc or to jungle, or to be a supporting soldier like he is now, he had no dissenting opinions. 

The battlefield does not tolerate two supreme commanders. Even if the command made a mistake, soldiers could not act on their own, or the team would certainly splinter and fall apart. 

The first lesson Qiu Yu learned as a soldier was this: you must engage your mind in battle. Your mind must be active in fighting tactics, but never in battlefield strategies—just do what the commander says. You can re-engage afterwards, during the battle review, and think more about why the commander chose to issue those commands.

The preparation countdown finished and the competition officially began. mCjonH

As a support soldier, Qiu Yu didn’t have much pressure to fight. He only needed to clean up some mutant beasts that slipped through to approach the baseline, exchange the energy contributed by Du Chen for supplies according to Mu Feibai’s orders, and then transport these supplies to where they were needed. He would also occasionally help to relieve the front-line fighters by assisting them in defense and providing cover, and also to participate in the final group battle.

The support position was at the bottom of the chain in receiving supplies, so it was only when his teammates weren’t lacking in resources would it be Qiu Yu’s turn to enhance his equipment.

“The other side is playing a bit too fiercely ah, having an Alpha on the team gives them courage, huh.” Zhou Shu tsked in the team channel, “Tang Weiran’s coming on the bottom lane.”

“Qiu Yu, go to the bottom lane to provide sniper cover.” Mu Feibai commanded. t RcUk

“Roger.”

Qiu Yu ran back to the base to retrieve a sniper rifle and exchanged two first aid kits requested by Mu Feibai earlier before heading towards the water lane under the caves.

The bottom lane in this map was located in a flooded cave covered with stalactites and stalagmites, with research equipment scattered throughout. Water in shallow areas reached the top of the knees and up to one’s chest in deeper areas. On top of the extremely complicated terrain, there were also tiny and speedy mutant beasts in the water, so one might flip the car with a single misstep.

If this was a normal competition, the lane with the highest difficulty would be left to Mu Feibai to guard, but as this was a practice match, it was left up to Zhou Shu. s SY0i

Zhou Shu had been used to playing the sniper cover position in the team, so it wasn’t often that he confronted the enemy head-on. Moreover, this time he was facing Tang Weiran—although she was a female player, she was an Alpha who had trained alongside Mu Feibai. Zhou Shu had been pressed back one step after another by her all the way to the second tower. 

Qiu Yu arrived on the scene with the sniper rifle, however, he couldn’t find a place with a good scope even after exploring several positions so he temporarily retreated with the heavily injured Zhou Shu behind a piece of cover, prioritising treating Zhou Shu’s injuries.

Zhou Shu looked at the delicate frame of the young man in front of him and his brain conjured up an image of the scene he had seen at the door of the training room. He immediately became startled, “Um, I, I, I… I’ll do it myself!”

As he spoke he snatched over the first aid kit and began to haphazardly wrap his arm in bandages. bth2aH

Qiu Yu unceremoniously slapped away Zhou Shu’s hand, took back the first aid kit, and quickly unwrapped Zhou Shu’s messy work before rebandaging his arm without saying a single word. 

“Century’s Finale” had requirements of skill in using first aid packs. If the bandaging technique wasn’t good enough, the treatment effect would be reduced. Although the worst technique can still result in only 50% effectiveness, the kit was, after all, exchanged for resources from the base, so there was no need to waste anything.

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How did the Eagle Riders even train their members? Such that they were so unskilled in doing these little things.

Qiu Yu glanced towards Zhou Shu, thinking of how he had to remind the coach when they got back as there were vital skills other than physical combat that were required on the battlefield.  WzuIJm

Zhou Shu held his breath under Qiu Yu’s glance. 

Tower no. 2’s defense alarm rang in their mics. At the same time, Du Chen’s anxious voice sounded in the team channel, “Caves area, water lizard! Two from the opposite side!”

Mu Feibai immediately made a decision. “Give up on tower no. 2. Zhou Shu, Qiu Yu, head over to the caves.”

The water lizard was a mutant beast unique to this map and there would only be one per competition. It would always spawn in the caves where the jungle on both sides intersected. After being killed, it would drop a special nucleus that buffed the entire team’s movement speed in the water by 20%, which would provide a significant advantage in this map. wpstDY

At this time, Qiu Yu caught sight of a tall and noble silhouette from the opposite side. Just as he raised his sniper, the other disappeared behind some stalagmites and was quite skilled in staying out of a sniper’s scope. He immediately reminded, “Tang Weiran’s also heading towards the caves.”

Mu Feibai spoke, “Prepare for team battle.”

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nagisa: what do you mean this chapter was almost 2 hours later than usual?? First of all… usual is a relative concept, so…