After finishing her scolding of Lin Chen, Bai Qingqing turned to the others, the anger in her heart still burning.
"And the rest of you—don't think a single one of you is getting off lightly!"
"When you couldn't beat them, you just kept charging headfirst! Couldn't you use your brains at all?" Bai Qingqing rebuked them coldly. "You were rigid as boards in the ring, like mindless brutes, handing them the momentum and the advantage for nothing!"
"Yang Ke! Tie Zhan!"
Bai Qingqing called them out directly, her tone as stern as it could be. "One person tied up both of you, and you couldn't bring them down no matter how long you attacked. Couldn't you see you were outmatched? Didn't you know to pull back in time and support your teammates?"
"It was one thing for Tie Zhan to be stuck fast and unable to get away, but why did you stay nailed to the spot too, Yang Ke?" Bai Qingqing's brows knitted in anger. "You wasted our fighting strength and dragged the entire team down!"
"As for the rest of you, I won't scold you one by one." Bai Qingqing drew a deep breath, forcibly suppressing her surging anger. "Review the battle properly on your own, and reflect on what you did."
"Think it through and give yourselves an honest answer: did you lose because you weren't strong enough, or because you were impatient and your teamwork was a complete mess?"
The room was frighteningly quiet.
Everyone kept their breathing shallow. No one dared speak, talk back, or argue. They all knew perfectly well that every word of Bai Qingqing's scolding was justified. Every member of the team bore responsibility for this crushing defeat; none of them could wash their hands of their own mistakes.
Seeing that the