Beastmaster: I am a true genius

The first day of the high school league can be seen as an audition for players. Anyone who signs up can participate. The characteristics are: many rookies, low attention, and long duration.

Especially for the players who enter the loser group, if they are unlucky, they may be drawn later and may have to wait until five in the morning.

Generally speaking, on the second day of the league, the regional finals will be held, and the top 10 in each regional, a total of more than people, will participate in the provincial competition.

Generally speaking, players who enter the provincial competition can be called star players and will become the object of scramble by various forces. Needless to say, they will receive various benefits and their future is bright.

——This is easy to understand. Although 100 seems like a lot, they are after all the top 100 high schools in the province, selected from the first to the third year of high school. They are top talents no matter where they are.

Finally, each province will decide the top four teams to participate in the five-province league. The five-province league is a single elimination system, and if you lose once, you will be eliminated.

……

Jinwu Province, Central City.

This is a slightly old apartment with a pool table and a dusty treadmill in the corner. In the small living room facing the door, there is a folding table with a computer on it, which is playing a video.

The house was filled with smoke.

Freddy was leaning against the sofa by the window, one hand casually resting on the armrest of the sofa and the other holding a cigarette.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

"it's me."

Xu Jinbai's voice came from outside the door.

"Come in, feel free to come in."

Freddy said, and as soon as he finished speaking, the voice-controlled door opened automatically with a "click".

"Are you pale again?"

Xu Jinbai asked as soon as he entered the door, then frowned and walked into the house. Although the smell of smoke did not cause him any harm, he had a keen sense of smell and was inevitably annoyed.

If it was someone else, Xu Jinbai would have stopped contacting him long ago, but Freddy was different. He was not simply addicted to smoking, but wanted to get rid of his parents' control over the marriage.

Xu Jinbai put himself in the other person's shoes and endured it.

However, compared to the smell of cigarettes, he was more concerned about Freddy's face - for no other reason than that his face was so white, and it was the kind of delicate white as a baby's, which made even the way he smoked look much more elegant.

"Oh, did you eat the pills Kitsune Shichi gave you? I thought you would give them all to your pet."

Xu Jinbai said casually. He walked over and sat down, turning the computer towards him. Without any surprise, he saw the scene of the blue slime taking off.

What was being played on the computer was the first match between Kitsune Shichi and Ni Ning - Slime vs. Cerberus.

This is a battle that subverts all your views.

Before seeing this battle, Xu Jinbai had never known what "the difference between heaven and earth" meant - it's funny, he knew he was very strong, and he always ignored those who were weaker than him. It was not until this moment that he realized that he was also one of the weak ones.

Kitsune Shichi's slime evolved into an unprecedented monster, with no blind spots or weaknesses, and nothing but strength - that's not right, the biggest weakness of that slime is probably its master, a future overlord who has already become a four-star beastmaster at a young age.

"Yeah, I got back my tan with great effort... But the pressure is too great. I can't help it. You guys are all going crazy, and I can't fall too far behind."

Freddy looked lazy, his dark eyes slightly narrowed, smoke curling from his fingertips and slowly drifting into the air.

He is indeed under a lot of pressure.

Last year, he was at least second, but this year, he has been beaten to a low position. With Kitsune Shichi, Xu Jinbai, and Alice, the top three are all locked in. Unless the last two people draw Kitsune Shichi at the beginning, the others still have some chance.

“…The pressure is indeed great.”

Xu Jinbai said, with the blue light of the screen reflected in his eyes. Anyone would think he was talking about the league, but only he knew how much he wanted to laugh in his heart at this moment.

On the computer, the mermaid raised her chin slightly, and the song slowly flowed out of its mouth.

Everything went dark. Countless ghosts swam around the slime like fish. The powerful curse force was like the rising tide, sticky, hot, and as black as ink.

The scene was like a grand and ominous performance. Ordinary people would feel as if they were beset by bad luck just by watching it through the screen.

At the moment when Slime was singing, countless people switched off the stage, put down their computers, and threw away their mobile phones.

Even Xu Jinbai was the same. He also watched the playback afterwards. At that time, he only listened for five seconds and subconsciously turned off the computer.

That voice... seemed to trigger endless malice, which was just about to burst out from the bottom of his heart.

Fortunately, he suppressed it again.

"I have a question."

Xu Jinbai asked, he didn't look at Freddy.

"Your parents always force you to go on blind dates. They know you hate it, and you also know they don't take your hate seriously. Why don't you hate them?"

How is this done?

“Hmm?” Freddy actually thought about it for a moment. “It’s too deep to say I hate him. In fact, I have given up communicating with my parents. I am still spending the family’s money, so it’s okay to deal with a couple of games occasionally.”

After saying that, Freddy snatched the computer back and skillfully dragged the progress bar backwards, perfectly skipping the slime singing and fast-forwarding directly to a single shot of a silver-haired girl.

In the screen, Kitsune Yachi was humming along. Although she tried her best to cover it up, she couldn't resist the high-definition camera, which was directly focused on her face, capturing her as she slightly swayed her head to the melody.

"Hey, look at her, she's actually singing along with the slime! Is she too intoxicated? As far as I know, sound-related skills...should not distinguish between friend and foe. Even if she's the slime's master, she can't be unaffected!"

"She brought a king-level pet. It was said online that the pet had the skill [Calmness]."

Xu Jinbai answered calmly. After a few seconds, he suddenly paused and looked up at Freddy, only to see that the latter's cigarette ash was about to fall to the ground, and he didn't even light it.

"Do you like her?" Xu Jinbai asked.

"Who?" Freddy was confused. He reacted right after he asked, "No one. Isn't this just a study? Many people are studying her...Xu Jinbai, what's that expression on your face? Are you doubting me?"

"I think you pay too much attention to her."

Xu Jinbai glanced over. Freddy was a rare friend he could trust, and he didn't want to conflict with him.

"That's normal," Freddy threw away his cigarette and retorted, "When I first met her, she was only one star, and this slime was still a small water ball. It's only been half a year... Even if she went to the secret realm to practice, it's too exaggerated... Wait, Lao Xu, why are you asking such a question?"

Freddy looked over suspiciously.

"Oh." Xu Jinbai did not evade the question, he nodded openly. "Because I like her, I will probably take some actions. In order to avoid us becoming enemies, I specially informed you in advance."

Freddy: ???

No... He opened his eyes wide, but Xu Jinbai's expression was calm, without any trace of joking, and his tone did not fluctuate - he did not seem to be immersed in love.

"Old Xu, are you crazy???"

"That's right." Xu Jinbai nodded.

At this moment, Slime's five-second song rang in his mind again, along with his mother's shrill cries and curses. These voices broke through the suppression and clearly surged into his heart.

Xu Jinbai suddenly laughed out loud.

"Yeah, I'm probably a lunatic, so..."

He lowered his voice and stated clearly:

"——Don't compete with me."