: One-Second Counterattack in the Pit, Match Point in Hand, Crowned Champion

The person in the smoke collapsed to the ground, their body falling off the fence and landing at the bottom of the pit.

The live stream chat exploded.

Many netizens who were seeing Ye Tian's skills for the first time exclaimed in surprise:

—【Holy crap! Is that a cigarette?】

—【Is it open yet?】

—[Headshots every time?!]

The player who was killed was named Qingjiu-Mo. He stared at the screen for three seconds, then immediately opened his microphone: "Referee, I want to complain! This guy definitely used a cheat code! He shot me in the head through the smoke and killed me!"

Teammate MwM came over and glanced at the kill ID.

"Ye Qiu, I guess."

Mo was stunned.

"Ye Tian," MwM said, "that Ye Tian."

Qingjiu-Mo fell silent.

The live stream chat was flooded with messages:

——【Hahahaha~】

—【This is hilarious!】

—【Does Ye Tian really need cheats? That MWM guy has never even been on the internet before, right?】

—【That's Ye Tian! He slew Zuo Shen on the central control bridge! He was the top seed in the qualifiers! He completely dominated!】

—【Dude, you've hit a brick wall!】

—【I think maybe he didn't want to believe the result, but couldn't find a better reason.】

Qingjiu-Mo's face darkened, and after a long pause, he managed to stammer, "...Fine."

Progress bar: 02:45.

The gunfire at the entrance to the buoyancy gate stopped.

Ye Tian heard footsteps approaching; the team that had finished fighting was now lining up inside.

At the same time, footsteps could be heard at the entrance to the centrifuge room on the first floor.

"Someone's come downstairs," Shrimp said, pointing his gun in that direction.

"At least two," Qingchuan added.

Ye Tian glanced out the window; there was no one in the pit. "Attack."

Shrimp pulled the trigger and fired a burst of bullets at the downstairs.

"Da da da da!"

The person downstairs had just peeked out when he was hit by a bullet and instantly felled. The other person shrank back inside, hiding behind the wall, too afraid to come out.

"Pour one over," said the shrimp.

No sooner had he finished speaking than hurried footsteps came from the left stairwell.

Ye Tian turned his head, and a figure rushed out. It was Red Wolf, who fired a burst of bullets at Xia Ren.

"Da da da da!"

The shrimp didn't realize what was happening and spilled.

"Damn it!" Shrimp cursed.

Another one rushed out from the right stairwell; it was Luna, sweeping towards Qingchuan.

Qingchuan had just turned his gun on himself when he was also taken down.

Holy crap!

People came from both staircases, and Ye Tian was instantly caught in a pincer movement.

He took a step back, creating some distance, and pulled out his Tiger Crouching Cannon, firing it at the stairs on the left.

"Bang!"

The compressed air bomb exploded, knocking Red Wolf down. He couldn't get up for five seconds.

Ye Tian used the power propulsion to pull out and fired two more shots at the fallen Red Wolf.

dead.

The skill charge bar instantly recovered a large portion.

As soon as Luna peeked out from behind the stairs on the right, Ye Tian paused briefly, waited for his skill cooldown to finish, and then used another power thrust to pull her over.

"Da da da da!"

Luna also fell.

Reload.

There was only one left. The third person in the group at the entrance of the buoyancy gate was a Wei Long, who sneaked over from the corridor.

Ye Tian was stuck in the corner, listening to the footsteps getting closer and closer.

three.

two.

One.

The moment the man showed his head, Ye Tian fired a burst of bullets at him.

"Da da da da!"

Weilong has fallen.

The team was wiped out.

"Awesome!" the shrimp shouted from the ground, "Come quick, help!"

Ye Tian didn't rush to save him. He changed his bullet first and stood there listening for three seconds.

There was no sound.

He ran over and pulled out the shrimp.

"Beep beep—beep beep—"

After rescuing the shrimp, they went to rescue Qingchuan.

Progress bar: 01:12.

Just as Ye Tian pulled Qingchuan up, he glanced out the window and saw someone in the pit.

A team of people had sneaked down there at some point and were running towards the decoding point.

"Someone has gone down." After saying that, Ye Tian jumped out of the window.

"Brother!" Shrimp called out.

Ye Tian opened his scope in mid-air and fired a burst at the person running at the front in the pit.

"Da da da da!"

The man fell down.

However, Ye Tian landed too high and fell directly from the second floor to the bottom of the pit.

"puff."

My health bar was almost empty.

With just one shot, Ye Tian would die.

"Holy crap!" Aokawa's scalp tingled.

Fortunately, the code is still being deciphered, with more than 40 seconds remaining.

If just one more team comes, we can go down and grab it directly.

"Quick, quick, go down and save them!" Shrimp shouted.

The two jumped out of the window, landed in the pit, and ran to Ye Tian's side.

"Beep beep—beep beep—"

The rescue progress bar was only halfway done when a notification popped up on the screen: One team remaining.

"There's another team!" Qingchuan's voice changed.

Shrimp's hands were trembling. "Quick, quick!"

Ye Tian has been rescued, with 20 seconds remaining.

The three looked up at the decoding point, and the progress bar moved slowly.

19 seconds.

18 seconds.

17 seconds.

The live stream camera switched to the last team.

Wen Qian, along with Tianba Huasu and Tianba YOLO, were squatting outside the buoyancy box, the three of them huddled behind it.

"When are you coming in?" Tianba Huasu asked.

Wen Qian glanced at the time. "There are only 30 seconds left. If we go in now and get caught, we're done for."

"OK."

The three people squatted still.

Countdown: 00:35.

"Let's go." Wen Qian stood up.

The three of them reached for the buoyancy.

Countdown: 00:25.

Buoyancy.

Countdown: 00:20.

Go up to the second floor.

Countdown: 00:15.

Enter the control room.

"Nobody here?" Tianba Yolo was taken aback.

Countdown: 00:10.

"In the pit!" Tianba Huasu shouted as she looked out the window.

The three of them climbed out of the window and jumped down.

Countdown: 00:05.

Landing.

Countdown: 00:03.

Run towards the decoding point.

Countdown: 00:01.

"boom--"

Deciphering complete.

Mandel bricks turned into a beam of light and disappeared.

The screen displayed large text: [The Xia Qingtian Team has successfully deciphered the Mandel Brick, gaining match point!]

Wen Qian stood there, stunned for a second.

"Hold!"

Neither Tianba Huasu nor Tianba Yolo spoke; they stood motionless in place.

The live stream chat went crazy:

—【Hahaha, Wen Qian! What are you doing?!】

— [The last 30 seconds were hilarious!!]

—【It's so nerve-wracking! If only I had been five seconds earlier, I would have gotten it!】

—【Wen Qian: I timed my entry perfectly!】

—【The timing was completely wrong!】

—【This command is hilarious!】

—【Ye Tian's luck is just too good!】

—【It wasn't luck, it's just that Wen Qian is too incompetent! She was just one second away, hahaha~】

The host chuckled, "Wen Qian misjudged the situation! Just one second too late! If he had given the order five seconds earlier, the bricks would have been theirs!"

Wen Qian's face turned ashen. Without saying a word, she quit the game.

Tianba Huasu and Tianba YOLO exchanged a glance and then left.

Inside the pit, Ye Tian and his two companions breathed a sigh of relief as they looked at the notification that the code had been deciphered.

"Holy crap." Shrimp sat down on the ground, his legs trembling. "That scared me to death."

Qingchuan collapsed, leaning against the wall. "We were almost gone by just one second."

Ye Tian didn't speak, watching Wei Long lying on the ground on the screen looking at the light above the pit.

That was too dangerous.

If Wen Qian had entered the pit five seconds earlier, no, three seconds earlier, in that final second, the brick would have been gone.

But there are no "what ifs" in a competition.

It's just one second away.

On the screen, the leaderboard has been reorganized.

The Xia Qingtian team has deciphered one Mandel brick, reaching match point.

If the next brick is successfully deciphered, the player will advance directly to the finals.

This was undoubtedly the moment that would determine the fate of the entire Group A group stage!

Everyone will put in their best effort and go all out.