She is like a graceful girl who is about to put on a dress called autumn; the remaining warmth of midsummer is the last ray of gauze tied around her waist, while the pressure of starting school and the haze of quarterly reports are like that A pair of safety pants under the gauze.
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This September of 2055 is undoubtedly a horror paradise. After the preliminaries of Apex Contest S2 began, Dream Company took advantage of the situation and launched a set of corresponding publicity plans to create a lot of excitement for this competition. In just a few days, all kinds of news related to it were spread overwhelmingly in all media. Even many mainstream media that disdain the game industry have reported on this matter. The social attention it has can be said to be There is no difference in time.
In the gaming circle, this game has become the most eye-catching focus battle in recent years.
???The time point of five months after the server is launched, the form of team battles, and the ranking method of the points system It is not difficult to see that this preliminary system has a vague meaning of "testing the quality of the studio."
If the final ranking of s1 is unconvincing due to too many unpredictable factors in the finals, then this time s2 at least in the preliminaries, each team has no excuses.
In fact, most game studios have reached a consensus - the results of the preliminaries of Summit Season 2 are likely to determine the true strength ranking of each studio in the minds of the majority of players.
Therefore, for those well-known game studios, from the moment at midnight on September 5th, a fifty-day secret war has begun. .
Every day, the points they announce on their official website are an important cornerstone to victory.
And for those professional players who are regarded as "stars", this is also a protracted trial.
The result of each round, the process of each team battle, and even every survival point lost in each duel may have an impact on the team's preliminaries ranking.
From the perspective of a casual team, thirty-six games are just thirty-six wins and losses. In theory, 108 points is the best result.
But from the perspective of a strong professional team a score of 108 is just "qualified". "Victory" is a must. As a team that wants to compete for the championship, but you didn't even get a complete victory in the preliminaries, so how confident do you have to win all the way in the knockout rounds with so many strong opponents?
On the basis of a complete victory, they must also try their best to ensure that every game is won at the minimum cost and in the most efficient way Only the team that achieves this to the extreme can climb the preliminaries standings. the apex.
Simply put, teams pursuing the preliminaries rankings must take every game and every moment seriously and make no mistakes in the thirty-six valid points matches. It is impossible for them to play with the attitude of "it's good to win in the end anyway" like casual players. They are destined to pay more than ordinary players, because only in this way can they be called "professionals".
"Playing games with a salary." It's never as easy as it sounds; to be fair, it's more stressful than doing anything else for a paycheck. Even though the times are progressing, stereotypes in people's minds still exist No one will say that football players "play football with a salary", and no one will say that swimmers "play with water with a salary", but "professional players" "This industry is always criticized with colored glasses.
In fact, there is no essential difference between professional players and professional athletes. They both require talent, hard work and a little bit of luck, and they also have experience, technology, stress resistance and professionalism. The biggest difference between them is that one side uses physical equipment or venues as competitive tools. The other side uses virtual electronic programs as a competitive carrier. It is obviously unfair to treat its practitioners in a different light just because the entertainment tendency of the latter medium is greater than the exercise tendency of participants or brain power.
This time, Dream Company paid great attention to this point when promoting Peak Contest S2 to the general public outside the gaming circle. One of their advertising slogans is "I don't understand why some people can make a living by playing games? Then let's see what makes them special."
As soon as such a slogan came out. Not to mention the group of players who are involved in games, even people who know nothing about the game industry or have never been to the Thriller Paradise have become interested in this "Peak Hegemony".
And all of thisare all preparations made by Dream Company for the "live broadcast" in the second half of the preliminaries.
By late September, when this kind of hunger marketing of "only hear the news but never see the shadow" aroused people's curiosity, Dream Company smoothlyShishi released a message - "In three days, we will conduct a public bidding for the live broadcast rights for the second half of the preliminaries."
This hand. Not only did it allow them to recoup all their previous publicity costs, but they also made a huge profit
Of course, these are all things for later. At least before September 20, no one knew that the games in the later stages of the preliminaries would be broadcast live. Right now, the focus of most players is still on how to play their own game well.
Almost no one noticed At the beginning of this fifty-day preliminaries cycle, the prelude to Ragnarok had quietly begun.
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The main universe, the boundary of chaotic scorched earth.
On the edge of the void, a huge door stands quietly - the Door of Nothingness.
Back thenthe battle between gods and demons was earth-shattering. In the end, the God of War used all his divine power to use a life form with dual characteristics of gods and demons as the sealing hub, sealing Dou Mo inside the door.
Countless years have passed The ancient demon guardian successfully escaped from the seal by absorbing the demon-fighting energy seeping out of the door, and has disappeared.
Fortunately, the Seal of the God of War is indestructible. Even after losing the "wedge", it still persisted for a long time.
¡°However these days have come to an end today.
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After a dull crashing sound, the dark door shattered into debris.
In an instant, an incredibly dense ultimate demonic energy swept out from the door.
Then, heavy footsteps came from the door
Bang, bang, bang
A gigantic figure walked slowly out from inside the door. Every time it took a step, the whole earth would tremble.
But just when it reached the door and was only one step away from stepping out, it stopped.
"Huh?" it said to itself, "Have I stayed in the 'nothing' for too longor has something changed in this universe"
While speaking, it had already raised one hand (front paw) and stretched it out of the door. As a result in less than two seconds, its hand exploded from the inside.
The dark demonic blood flowed down, emitting a mellow, violent and distant smell like old wine.
This is the physical sign of the most extreme "devil". From a data perspective, every drop of blood on its body and every breath it exhales are highly condensed energy. Compared with those mortal things that exude a fishy smell inside and outside their bodies, there is simply a world of difference.
"Is this really the 'universe' I used to be in Why is the 'pressure' so small" Dou Mo retracted his hand, and many black fiber substances repaired its stumps at a speed visible to the naked eye, " It seems it will take me some time to adapt to this new environment."
As it spoke, it secretly channeled magic energy and began to modify its body.
Wrapped in the demonic energy, its figure began to shrink rapidly, and gradually turned into a human form.
Finally, after about three minutes, ¡°it¡± became ¡°him.¡±
At this time, Dou Mo has turned into a naked human man. He is about 1.9 meters tall, with a well-proportioned body shape and a gloomy appearance. He has pale skin and naturally curly black hair. Looking at his exposed body, there is nothing different from ordinary people.
"Huh" After successfully transforming, Dou Mo took a deep breath, and then he stepped out of the door that had trapped him for hundreds of millions of years (in "nothing", the feeling of time will become infinite) through the gate, officially stepping into the main universe of Thriller Paradise. (To be continued)