"8:0 re-emergence, China's Second Team dominantly crushes the Portuguese team!!"
"Who will claim the coveted advancement spot in the seventh competition zone?"
"Doctor Fang Yuan personally attends an interview to explain the mystery behind Dragonite's power!"
The battle between China Team and the Portuguese team wasn't over with Fang Yuan and Costa's match.
However, this battle indeed had a crucial impact on the subsequent matches.
Costa's six Pokemon were all severely injured, while Fang Yuan had barely any exhaustion, anyone could see that the Portuguese team was certainly going to lose the arena match.
After all, how could one fight when one side's team captain's members were all heavily damaged, while the other remained unfathomable?
Yet, the final result was that China Team pierced through Portugal once again with an 8:0 scoreline, without even waiting for the arena match.
Apart from Costa's ace, Portugal had no second top-level combatant, Zheng Hongyi, Shang Ren, and Mu Fan, facing opponents without top-level power, naturally dominated with ease.
Although, due to the opponents' improved strength, China's Second Team couldn't continue to achieve individual six-on-one victories, the result of "8:0" still sent the online world into a frenzy.
However, this time the hot topic was not the victory or defeat, but Fang Yuan's Dragonite.
The Alliance conducted the interview, with Fang Yuan himself accepting.
Fang Yuan educated the world's trainers through the media about "Sleepwalking Battle Syndrome," a disease, stating he had found the cause and would subsequently publish a research paper on it.
[Sleepwalking Battle Syndrome? The rare disease related to rest and Sleep Talk moves?]
[I'm a Pokemon medical student, I've heard of this disease... There are only a few dozen cases worldwide, and to date, no cause or treatment has been found...]
[Fuck, so that's why Fang Yuan's Dragonite is so strong, because it has perfectly mastered sleepwalking battle techniques? Got it, to train a Pokemon, first solve a world-class incurable disease!]
[Study Tyrant big boss, RBQRBQ.]
Now, although Fang Yuan couldn't guarantee that every Pokemon with this disease could transform it into combat power like Dragonite, after such lengthy research, he had basically found a treatment approach that kept the Pokemon undisturbed by the disease.
For the Pokemon medical community, this was indeed a great discovery.
Fang Yuan decided to disclose the cause of the syndrome, hoping for Pokemons like the one in dreams not to meet a tragic end like Dragonite's in the past but to have better development. Overall, after this round of interviews, Fang Yuan's persona as the Study Tyrant trainer was widely recognized...
Research, training, nurturing, medical care... he was truly capable of anything!
.........
April 29th, morning.
China Team versus Portugal First Team, China wins.
Israel First Team against Thailand First Team, Thailand wins.
That means, the next opponent for China's Second Team will be Thailand.
Afternoon.
The battles among the other four teams in the seventh competition zone were also highly intense.
After a day of matches, the national team of the land of windmills had the highest calls for victory.
"Haha."
"Poor Shang Ren."
In China Athlete Village, Mu Fan held his phone, quickly browsed through the news, and then burst into laughter. Just two days ago, it was the hot search term "China's Second Team's phantom fifth person, the deeply hidden former King," but today with Fang Yuan sending out Dragonite and taking interviews, the direction of the wind immediately shifted.
Shang Ren? Who's that?
Another reason was that in today's battle, Shang Ren didn't use his top-level power, so his performance was standard, and it was normal for him to be overshadowed by Fang Yuan solving "Sleepwalking Battle Syndrome."
"It's not a big problem." Shang Ren had now trained his mindset to be unaffected by honor or disgrace.
Shang Ren found that ever since he participated in the World Championships selection, his mentality was getting better and better.
"Let's not disband just yet."
Having watched matches all day, the five of them were tired, but Fang Yuan didn't immediately let them go.
"Let's draw lots for tomorrow's match first."
"We won't have a tactic meeting tomorrow," Fang Yuan smiled and told the other four.
A detailed tactics meeting had already been held yesterday, and they didn't even get to use the arena strategy against the Portuguese team. As for the day after tomorrow's match against Thailand, it was uncertain if those strategies would come into play.
Fang Yuan carefully considered and saw there was hardly anything left to discuss, so he planned to give the team members a day off tomorrow to prepare well for the day after tomorrow's match.
"Why not also draw lots for the fourth match," Tang Xinlan suggested with a grudge.
Shang Ren didn't get to play in the first match, and she didn't get to in the second; with the need to draw lots again, the team was once more on edge.
"Sounds good." Tang Xinlan's suggestion brightened Fang Yuan's eyes, "Then let's draw ahead of time. That way, those who draw the team battle can prepare in advance."
"That could work..."
Hearing Fang Yuan say that, the four were speechless.
While other countries were analyzing which two players would take part in the team battle and responding accordingly, their side, on the other hand, was deciding by drawing lots...
Was it an unorthodox approach?
But this method had its reasons. First, Tang Xinlan, Mu Fan, and Zheng Hongyi's strength gap was not very obvious, and secondly, Fang Yuan was confident that with him there, they could certainly conquer the arena match in the regional competition, which was why he arbitrarily decided to draw lots.
"The Thai team's strength is roughly on par with Portugal's, and even though this edition of the Thai team is very good, it's still not possible for all of them to have top-level combat power. Still, strive for an 8:0," Fang Yuan said.