Volume 3 - CH 14

Playing Fish Trapped in Secret Room

Book 3: Glory on the Other Side

Chapter 14

It was so intense.

She clenched her fist tightly.

He had to maintain his health above 50%, otherwise he couldn’t even make a forward

flip, forget about putting up a fight?

Dt crawled up a shelf in the warehouse.  He had only 60% health left.  Those two hand

grenades were too powerful.

Among expert players, to be 40% slower than the opponent was a death sentence.  He

could hardly jump up onto the shelf just now, fortunately he still had rope.

He could only do his best to stall for time.

There was one more minute till the time he had set with Grunt.

The outcome of the game all depended on Grunt now.  Nobody had expected that Buff

There was no red dot in the life detector.

His character continued to gasp for air, he needed to finish this quickly. He needed not

only to deter Buff, he had to stay alive as well, otherwise the opponent would gain an easy

kill.  The red dot appeared suddenly, he quickly squatted down as a black shadow jumped

over him.

Ai Qing was holding her breath.

The two rolled into a mass on the scene.  They both held short knives, but Dt was completely

defenseless being 40% weaker than Buff.  Buff kicked him away and he disappeared into the

darkness…...The second Buff stood up, Buff was pushed to the ground again with a knife stuck

between his ribs. Buff turned over, pushing Dt underneath him.

Dt knelt down.

Buff’s short knife came down------

He seemed to force his body to move forward another inch.

His knife stabbed right into Dt.

Dt’s health quickly dropped.

Everyone nervously watched the number on the large screen.

50, 40, 30, 20…...10……

The number stopped dropping……

Almost……

It was almost fatal……

Ai Qing exhaled a long breath.  Dt was still alive.

Dt tried to crawl and moved slightly, but he couldn’t get rid of the body on top of him.

Alright.

He smiled bitterly.

10% health meant 10% power, he already had one foot in the grave.

He couldn’t even move.

His role in this match ended here.

His computer screen displayed a line of small characters suddenly.

“Are you Gun’s brother?”

Did the dead body want to chat?

The small characters in the competition channel wouldn’t display on the large screen.

Dt really liked this person, because he didn’t use the tactics Dt had expected.  So he was

interested enough to reply,  “Yes.”  He also take look of his name, Buff.  The captain of the

opposing team?

“IMBA[1].”  Buff was always direct especially when he admired someone.

“Thanks.”  He gladly accepted the praise.

He heard Grunt burst out into a string of curses in his earphones.  “97’s out. Damn, I’m still

alive, but I’m too weak, just lying on the ground.  One opponent escaped.”  Dt listened calmly.  

He took off his headphones and took up the bottle of mineral water besides his chair.

He twisted it open and started to drink.

So much time had been wasted.  Only Demo and One were left and they couldn’t possibly

kill all 100 enemy soldiers. It was impossible for them to catch opponents who were ranked

in top twenty.

In other words……

“It is a tie.”  Ai Qing whispered.

Grunt and 97 were evenly matched with the opponents, but the remaining two players simply

weren’t a match to the enemy.

Dt’s strategy was excellent and his performance was flawless, except he lacked two qualified

teammates.

……

The match finished 30 seconds later.

It was exactly as she had anticipated.

Neither side destroyed the other team nor killed 100 npc soldiers.

It was a tie.

[1]: IMBA => Imbalanced.  Never heard of it used as praise directly, but basically he means

that Dt is better than Buff i.e. the fight is imbalanced.  IMBA is normally used to describe

imbalance in games, especially competitive games which must be balanced to allow competitive

play.