Chapter 8: Absolute Defeat

The second round of fishing had officially begun. 

Four people reloaded onto the scene. 

The shota asked: “Pretty sister, do you want to fish?”

Bai Tian said: “Don’t want, let’s just fight!”

The shota: “Are they going to run?”

Bai Tian  smiled: “they should, but they’re pretty dumb.”

Bai Tian stood on the bow and shouted: “Gao Ting! Center of the lake, let’s fight fair and square?”

Gao Ting retorted: “I’m afraid that you’re going to cheat!”

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The shota had already jumped into the water, Gao Ting said to Wei Chuqi: “He’s coming, be careful.”

Wei Chuqi used her mental strength to perceive her surroundings. She found the shota had stopped at the middle of the boat, unmoving. 

Bai Tian called out: “Watch out!”

“Left!”

“Right!”

“Left, left, left!”

“Upper left!”

“Upper right!”

It really was fair play. 

Bai Tian reported her moves before attacking. Gao Ting originally thought that she was tricking her, but after a few hits, Gao Ting was proven wrong. 

Gao Ting was annoyed and was ready to retaliate. 

Bai Tian did a small jump: “Look up!”

Gao Ting instinctively raised her hands to block, but then she saw the bamboo stick retreat and moved to a downwards slash.  

Before she could react to the sudden offensive, it was already too late. 

She half-kneeled on the boat, one hand on the ground. 

  Wei Chiqi exclaimed: “Careful!”

But it was too late. 

 A pair of sinful little hands reached out from the side of the boat, pulling Gao Ting into the water. 

With a “plop”, the shota picked up their bamboo pole and jumped onto the canoe. 

“Hahahaha!” Bai TIan laughed devilishly, then she went off to beat the drowning dog. 

The shota waved the bamboo pole, creating a sweeping autumn breeze, trying to get Wei Chuqi into the water. The screen turned, it was over. 

“Wow……”

Everyone saw victory and felt unsatisfied. Scattered applause was heard. 

Wei Chuqi took off the headset and stood up with an uncomfortable expression. 

The shota looked disappointed and said: “Ah, that was so fast. Weren’t you so arrogant just a second ago?”

Bai Tian only cared about one thing, holding her headset, she said: “Apologize, apologize.”

Gao Ting: “In your dreams!”

Bai Tian and the shota said in unison: “Your Mind Control Department can’t afford to lose that much?”

The crowd booed. 

At this moment, students in the same Mind Control Department were sitting on pins and needles. 

Although they were unhappy, it was previously agreed upon. 

To deny after losing was obviously much more embarrassing than just losing. 

Losing is strength, shame is character. 

Du Yunyi asked: “Ah? Then should I apologize in place of the Department of Mind Control?”

The students were unwilling: “It’s their fault, why should senior apologize?”

“Don’t mix personal feelings with profession!”

“Apologize! Can’t you follow through with what you bet on?”

The words were getting harsher, the two had to bite the bullet. 

Wei Chuqi walked up to Bai Tian, bowed her head and said: “Sorry.”

Gao Ting followed up closely, spitting out: “Sorry ah!”

Bai Tian snorted. 

This was too insincere. 

“No. I’m asking you to apologize to everyone in the Department of Ancient Literature.”

Du Yunyi stood up and sternly looked at the two of them: “You two only rely on talent. What qualifications do you have to laugh at a whole department?”

Gao Ting: “We’re also working hard!”

“You’re bragging to me about strength you don’t have.” Du Yunyi said: “If Wang Xiaochuan had your talent, I believe he would’ve won MVP the first time he participated in the league competition.”

Wang Xiaochuan was a well known berserker in the industry. He specialized in violent attack units, with a mental strength of low-mid A tier. An underdog had become a professional god. 

Du Yunyi: “You think you’re very good? You’re not even qualified to enter the professional circle.”

He was very serious. 

Gao Ting bit her lip and started sobbing aggrievedly. 

Du Yunyi shook his head in disgust, and said: “Go back.”

Wei Chuqi took Gao Ting, bowed to everyone and apologized: “Today was really a misunderstanding. We didn’t mean to look down on the Department of Ancient Literature. We just got a bit emotional and said the wrong thing. I hope no one minds.”

Du Yunyi waved his hand and the four of them went back to their seats. 

Bai Tian’s really wanted to say, those who slandered should get out. Those that have slandered have yet to get out. 

However, she could only complain silently. If she were to speak aloud, she would appear unforgiving and unreasonable. 

“The level of mental strength is directly proportional to strength, but that’s not absolute. Why is that?” Du Yunyi said, “It’s because of the operating effectiveness.”

He brought up Bai Tian’s perspective during the game. Then she zoomed in on the video.  

The screen was frozen on the picture of Gao Ting raising her pole with both hands. He clicked play. 

“This is a slow playback. In less than two seconds, Bai Tian had made a total of five attacks.”

“The first time was when Gao Ting’s arms were raised, Bai Tian tapped her right elbow. Then she quickly shifted left to stab the left elbow. Moving down, tapped the right ankle. Block, stab, and hit the left ankle. Finally, jab the abdomen. Gao Ting falls into the water. The entire time, Gao Ting did not make any defensive movements. 

“First is speed, second is accuracy, third is strength.” 

Du Yunyi: “I want to ask, how many people saw this round of offensive?”

Barely more than half the people raised their hands. 

The image shifted. 

This time, it was from Gao Ting’s perspective. 

“Gao Ting has two fatal mistakes. One is underestimating the enemy. There are two problems that arise when one underestimates the enemy. The first is that t she doesn’t care about how the opponent attacks, so she ignores her defense. The second is that she doesn’t care about her own state, so she chooses to attack rather than retreat. Therefore, she lost.”

“After her two elbows were hit, her strength and accuracy have already been reduced by half. Hitting her ankles is more or less the same as her limbs being chopped off. Many of you saw the blow that knocked her down at the very end, but the results would’ve been the same if she was hit anywhere else.” 

“This was the purpose of the attacks.”

Du Yunyi’s commentary was very serious. 

Everyone realized that he didn’t intend to embarrass the two on purpose. But their decisive battle was really typical. 

Gao Ting bit her finger. She also began to seriously think. 

When did Bai Tian have this kind of strength?  

“The second fatal flaw is poor technique. There is only one method of attack, the rhythm is scattered, and there are too many useless actions. Only one step is planned out, the following development hasn’t been considered at all. Although this is just a stale fishing game, it is just like fishing in the way that  mental strength can be used to perceive the movements of objects, mental strength can also be used to predict their actions.” Du Yunyi said a lot in disappointment, “It’s not that the opponent is too strong, but you are too weak.” 

Listening to the analysis, this indeed seemed to be the case. 

Bai Tian’s actions were crisp, clean, and deadly. There was no fancy, unnecessary attacks, so it looked plain and unremarkable. 

But it was this kind of unremarkable plainness that showed off her precise control.

People who have not experienced her devastating offensive would not be able to understand. It wasn’t that Gao Ting refused to fight back, it was that she couldn’t fight back. 

Gao Ting was going through a period of enlightenment behind her dazed expression. 

Was it really because I underestimated the enemy? 

Du Yunyi used these two battles to successfully instill the idea that those with “weak mental strength can also counterattack.”

And Bai Tian and Xiao Zhengtai had become the representatives of this weak mental strength. 

It was time to get out of class, and just as Bai Tian was about to leave, the shota caught up with her. 

“Sister, you’re amazing!” he pulled Bai Tian into a corner, asking quietly, seeing that there were no other classmates around: “Are you also a professional player?”

Bai Tian: “……I seem to know some things.”

“Hey, hey.” The shota said, “The captain came to class, I was bored and decided to just follow along.”

Guan Yue overheard from behind, and said in surprise: “Captain? You belong to Xinyue Fox? No wonder you’re so powerful!”

The shota said: “I just joined the team this year. My name is Zhang Yuanyang. I play the musician, what about you?”

In this era, there were very few people who didn’t play games, and very few of those people didn’t play 《Hua Shi》.

Even for testing mental strength, most schools would use data from 《Hua Shi》.

Bai Tian said: “New server, Blue Skies, currently playing as a spear user.”

“Oh, new server,” the shota was disappointed, “I don’t have time to play in the new server.”

After that, the two exchanged contact information and bid each other farewell. 

Guan Yue emotionally said: “Gao Ting didn’t lose unfairly.” It turned out that there was a professional player. 

Bai Tian wanted to remind her that it wasn’t the shota who decided the outcome of the battle that was turned into a lesson, it was her. 

But she didn’t care about such things anyways. In any case, she successfully taught two people a lesson, she was happy enough. 

It was night when Bai Tian was finally able to log into the game. 

She glanced at the rankings and found that she was still first, Level 15, but the person in second place was already at Level 13. 

Aiyo, working hard? 

She went to the Beginner’s Village and met with the grandmother from yesterday. 

The grandmother said: “Hero, I have a lot of fox skins here. Let me give them to you.”

[System] Exceeded the maximum number of items that can be carried. 

Blue Skies: “How many are there?”

The grandma said: “There should be more than 30,000.”

Bai Tian almost spit out blood. 

More than 30,000! All the fox skins on the server were with her, weren’t they?

This was the real reward for the hidden mission!

But there were too many, she couldn’t take them all away. There was not much stamina left, it hadn’t been recovered, so it couldn’t be consumed. 

So she brought along the three Level 1 auxiliary accounts that were just created yesterday to come and help carry the fox furs. 

But it was still too much. Even after tossing a few, it barely made a dent in the supplies. 

She clicked on the private chat to send greetings to the only bright name in the friend column. 

[Private Chat] Blue Skies: You there?

“Here here here! Are you online right now?” It was Fairy, You’re Amazing, “Your on fire!”

[Private Chat] Blue Skies: How much fire?

Fairy, You’re Amazing: “Even if you fought twelve vs. two, it was Yubulo’s wasteland team. The whole server knows of you.”

[Private Chat] Blue Skies: Where where, so average. 

Fair You’re Amazing said with much remorse: “It’s so exiting! I got off too early yesterday and didn’t see anything!”

[Private Chat] Blue Skies: You want fox furs?

Fair, You’re Amazing: “Sure. Do you have the life skill? I haven’t learned that one yet. How many are there?”

[Private Chat] Blue Skies: Should be more than 30,000. 

Fairy, You’re amazing was silent. 

Two seconds later. 

[Private Chat] Fairy, You’re Amazing: Bro, you serious?

[Private Chat] Blue Skies: Serious. I’m trying to get rid of it all. The NPC gave me all the fox fur she received. 

“F*ck me!” Fairy, You’re Amazing cursed, “What a thicc golden finger!”