Players are coming, fortunately I have a time travel simulator

The final match of the day pitted Alex's Nirvana Club against Shuidi Shenxing's Xingyue Club. This match, billed as a preview of the upper bracket finals, captivated players worldwide, drawing record crowds. The live stream was flooded with barrages of comments, so dense and garbled that even low-end laptops were practically freezing.

The map for this match is a rather unusual underwater city. It's unclear where the prototype for Apocalypse came from. Both players spawn on the ocean floor and have 60 seconds to breathe. Once that time is up, their health will continue to decrease until they drown. Additionally, there are two oxygen-producing bubbles located in the north and south of the map, each far apart. Only by occupying a bubble can you breathe.

In this match, Xingyue spawned in the south of the map, while Nirvana Club was located in the north. Both Shuidi Shenxing and Alex performed exceptionally fiercely, with Shuidi Shenxing being particularly impressive. Led by Xingyue, they launched a relentless attack, directly attacking Nirvana Club despite the debuff of oxygen deprivation.

Xingyue is a typical combination of one warrior, one meteorologist and three roamers. When the warrior Yuemingxingxi made a positioning error and was killed first, the meteorologist Xingyue Jiaohui directly used a small-scale earthquake to create a large gully that destroyed the seabed terrain, causing the opponent to fall into a state of oxygen deprivation.

Afterwards, across the ravine, Shuidi Shenxing and the Mammoth Fruit user Yueliang Xingchen fought a perfect team battle. After transforming into jackals, equipped with Phoenix armor, and taking Death Pills, they were simply human tanks. One man could hold the pass against ten thousand, and finally they exchanged 1 for 5 and crushed Nirvana Club to the ground.

By the end, comments were exploding every second, and domestic fans were incredibly excited, as if it were Chinese New Year. In fact, in a previous life, the outcome of this match was exactly the opposite; Zhou Ning's appearance changed everything.

Xingyue defeated a strong opponent and won 3 points, occupying the top of the Group B rankings. In another match that was held at the same time, Candy Super Sweet defeated the recognized bottom team, Brazil's Root Club, 5:0, ranking first in the group and having a very good situation to qualify.

"The Star-Moon Club crushes Nirvana!"

"Seed Club Showdown, Nirvana Loses Miseriously!"

“Is Alex overrated?”

After Xingyue defeated Nirvana, the forums were abuzz. As the strongest team in Europe and America, Nirvana had a large number of fans both in China and abroad, and this incident even triggered a heated exchange of insults. The forums were temporarily paralyzed.

Zhou Ning took a deep breath, and while peeking at the forum, he found a carriage and got in.

Before the driver could speak, he spoke first:

"Nathaniel Adventurer's Guild."

"6 Roshen." The driver answered familiarly.

Zhou Ning took out a handful of coins and counted out 6 Luo Shen to the other party. The carriage was very empty, so he found a seat and sat down, leaning his head on the carriage seat.

Not far ahead is the Fifth District, known as the Academic District. It's home to the Botanical Garden, a large library, and the renowned West Farik University. Farik College, along with various schools like polytechnics and technical colleges, is also home to museums, monuments, and bookstores. This is Nathaniel's premier area, rich in culture, art, and scholarship.

At this time, the streets were crowded with people dressed as students, who seemed to be participating in some kind of festival procession. Most of them were typical Sifalic people, with the occasional darker-skinned Byron people and local natives.

When Zhou Ning noticed that the flag they were holding up had the relatively familiar portrait of Archibald on it, he suddenly realized.

It turned out that today was Sir Archibald's birthday. He vaguely remembered that at the same time last year, he had foiled the Life Alchemy Society's plot to launch an alchemical bomb during a ceremony at Vic University. It turned out that a year had already passed without him noticing.

He started out as a student who had just stepped into the extraordinary world. After a year of training and overcoming one difficulty after another, he had become a half-human, half-god.

Thinking about it now, it feels like things have changed a lot.

After a moment of silence, Zhou Ning sighed and smiled, retracted his gaze, and continued to peek into the forum, just like a spectator.

At this time, the quarrel between Xingyue fans and Nirvana fans was still going on, and there was a tendency to expand. Of course, no matter what game, the winner would have a louder voice. There was no doubt that Xingyue fans had the upper hand in the quarrel, but soon after, the forum exploded, and even triggered protests from domestic audiences.

After watching the full match replays of the Star-Moon Club and Nirvana Club, the tournament organizing committee determined that the Phoenix suit used by the underwater star player was too powerful, affecting the balance and enjoyment of the match. Therefore, they decided to ban the use of the Phoenix suit and similar alchemical armor in this team competition.

Things change, and this time it is the turn of Nirvana's fans to celebrate the New Year. The media that were originally optimistic about Xingyue winning the championship suddenly changed direction and began to criticize Xingyue, just like a chameleon.

Frankly speaking, he felt that the ban on the Phoenix suit would have an impact on Xingyue, but not that big. Xingyue was still the biggest favorite, and the output advantage of the three roaming gunners lineup in the early and middle stages of the game was difficult to shake, not to mention that there were two devil fruit users among them. As long as the meteorologist did a good job of group control, the three roaming gunners could make anyone pregnant with their shots, and the opponent would lose people if they made a positioning mistake.

Of course, don't doubt Shuidi Shenxing's financial resources. It's foreseeable that he will continue to spend money to make up for the loss of the Phoenix Armor. The Shiva Temple Bracelet is a good choice.

At this moment, a game prompt suddenly popped up in front of me:

[Important Note: The fourteenth episode of the series "Apocalypse" has been released simultaneously on the forum and various platforms. This series is automatically generated by the optical computer. Players interested in learning more about the game's background are welcome to watch it.]

In an instant, the verbal battles and posts on the forum decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Oh? Zhou Ning couldn't help but be interested, but at the same time, he felt a little nervous:

Considering that he had accidentally done something big before, if nothing unexpected happened, he would still be the protagonist of this series. What he was most afraid of now was whether the computer would cut in that Hawkeye was himself.

Considering what Hawkeye had done, and how he had the audacity to brag about himself, if that were the case, then pure drama would have taken over, and his reputation would have collapsed instantly.

He opened the forum with a little trepidation and clicked on the pinned post. There were nearly a thousand replies piled up under the post. When he turned on the TV series, a thick layer of barrage popped up.

After taking a quick look at the comments, Zhou Ning couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed that he was still the protagonist of this episode, and his reputation should not have collapsed.

This video is not too long, about an hour. The beginning scene is at sea, and it locks on a northern man with messy hair and beard, and his name pops up above his head: Thunder General Bilson.

Accompanied by a rather brisk Byron ditty and the cries of seagulls, he was directing the sailors to salvage a shipwreck. Soon there was a cheer, and the shipwreck was salvaged. The scene switched skillfully, and they found a rusty oil lamp in the shipwreck.