Mai Senpai's Clutch Plays

Having escaped Yellow Team's island, Xiao Dingdang was still excited.

Then he saw a message pop up in the lower left corner.

Huh?

How come Red Team's bed was gone too?

He turned toward Red Team's island and saw someone.

[Grandpa Niu Has No Cows]

The orange lettering stood out.

At that moment, Grandpa Niu was being chased by Chen Ze and his two teammates.

Now that their bed was gone, why leave Mai Senpai at home? To farm resources?

Before long, Chen Ze and his two teammates killed Grandpa Niu on the center island. Just before he died, Grandpa Niu typed a line in public chat.

[I, Grandpa Niu, will always be awesome!]

After dividing up Grandpa Niu's resources, Chen Ze and his two teammates let out a long sigh. Their base had been raided, and it felt awful no matter how they looked at it.

Just then, something the three of them hadn't expected happened.

They were surrounded!

That was right, surrounded.

Black Team and Yellow Team had surrounded the three of them on the center island: two from Black Team and three from Yellow Team.

It looked like their team had no chance of survival this time.

As the two teams closed in, Chen Ze and his teammates fought back as hard as they could. After a few exchanges, Chen Ze made a decision: split up and run.

That was right. The three of them had absolutely no hope of taking on five players head-on, so they might as well split up and preserve their surviving forces. What if... what if there was still hope?

[Split up and run!]

The three of them threw their Ender Pearls in different directions.

Seeing this, Black Team and Yellow Team immediately threw Ender Pearls to follow, determined to wipe out Red Team this time.

Meanwhile, on Blue Team...

Xiao Dingdang frowned when he saw what was happening.

If they let Black Team and Yellow Team eliminate all of Red Team, there was no question who those two teams would target next: Blue Team.

With that in mind, he said to [Jiahao Shaonian] beside him, "Brother, we need to back up Red Team this time, or things will be tough later."

Hearing this, Jiahao Shaonian raised his right hand and pretended to push up a nonexistent pair of glasses, covering one eye as he said, "Mm."

"In a situation like this, a protagonist like a savior needs to descend from the heavens and rescue Red Team."

"And I am Red Team's savior."

Listening to the delusional teenager beside him, Xiao Dingdang rolled his eyes in exasperation.

All right, I guess I'm out of touch.

The two threw their Ender Pearls at the same time and followed, helping Red Team draw some of the fire.

A few minutes later, Xiao Dingdang returned to Blue Team's sky island with a grim expression.

The teams had really gotten fired up in that fight. Not only had the two Black Team players been willing to die to take someone down with them, but Yellow Team had also attacked like mad.

It could be said that the battle had ended in a truly brutal outcome.

Yellow Team had lost two players, and Red Team had lost two as well.

Now, only Blue Team and Black Team still had their full rosters. Apart from those two teams, Yellow Team and Red Team each had one player left.

Red Team's [Huangmao's Ox] and Red Team's [Mai Senpai].

To Xiao Dingdang's surprise, Red Team's Mai Senpai was actually incredibly skilled. Everything from placing blocks and maneuvering to escape, to throwing Ender Pearls with split-second reactions, amazed him.

He hadn't expected a player with a cute anime-girl skin to be so skilled. Chen Ze had even chosen to keep Mai Senpai hidden, so Mai Senpai had been a hidden strength.

At that moment, Chen Ze was watching his teammate Mai Senpai's moves with a bewildered look.

A clutch platform built in midair, followed by a wall built in a single second-even with three seconds, Chen Ze might not have been able to pull that off.

This... the skin doesn't look fierce, so how are the moves so fierce?

Is this the power of Mai Senpai?

In the view on screen, Mai Senpai was being pursued by a Black Team member. He leaped straight off the center island, threw an Ender Pearl, and switched to a Golden Apple, which he began to eat.

The instant he landed, he finished the Golden Apple, and his health, down to just two hearts, began to recover.

As Chen Ze watched his teammate's moves, his mouth never truly closed.

In the livestream, the comments were likewise filling up with question marks.

[???]

[Wait, is this for real? Mai Senpai is that good?]

[I couldn't tell at all. I thought Mai Senpai was a little white rabbit, but it turns out Mai Senpai is a big bad wolf.]

[There's a chance! With Senpai playing like that, Red Team still has a chance.]

[Seriously? No matter how good Mai Senpai is, there's no beating Blue Team and Black Team when they can respawn, right?]

[Why would I lie to you? It's almost the thirty-minute mark. Every team's bed will self-destruct.]

Bed Wars had a time limit. If the other teams' beds remained intact, Death Mode would begin at the thirty-minute mark. Every team's bed would automatically be destroyed, and no one would be able to respawn again.

A match lasted only forty minutes in total, so as long as Mai Senpai could really hold out until the thirty-minute mark, there might actually be a chance to turn things around.

Mai Senpai's escape also meant the situation was gradually becoming clear.

First of all, the two teams that still had full rosters and beds certainly wouldn't allow the lone wolves to remain.

Just like Orange Team before them, lone wolves were too unpredictable and had to be eliminated first.

So Blue Team, the team Xiao Dingdang was on, went after Yellow Team, while Black Team pursued Mai Senpai.

After briefly restocking on items and upgrading armor and weapons, Mai Senpai kept moving between the center island and the teams' islands.

Using the Ender Pearls in his hand, he kept kiting the Black Team members.

As Chen Ze watched Mai Senpai continuously show off his skills, he couldn't help starting to commentate.

"Mai Senpai has been caught by two Black Team members."

"No, she's thrown another Ender Pearl to Orange Team's island and is getting ready to exchange for items."

"Damn it, Black Team actually blocked the entrance to Orange Team's base with a wall. Mai Senpai dug through the wall and placed a TNT. What's she doing?"

"No, she wants to destroy the wall at the entrance to Orange Team's base completely, so it'll be easier to exchange for items later."

"It's now been twenty-seven minutes. If Mai Senpai can hold out for another three, she'll be able to fight back."

"..."

"Yellow Team's last member has been eliminated by Blue Team. Thirty minutes are up, and Death Mode has begun!"

Chen Ze didn't know when it had started, but the more he talked, the more worked up he became.

It was as though he were controlling Mai Senpai himself, and watching left him thrilled and excited.

The people in the livestream were also excitedly typing and discussing the match.

[Mai Senpai is incredible, actually managed to hold out until Death Mode.]

[Comeback! Comeback!]

[If this really turns into a comeback, I'll send a plane.]

[Senpai keeps proving how good she is. Sure enough, you can't underestimate any cute skin or name.]

[Why do I feel like there's really a chance to turn this around?]

[It's more than a chance. With Mai Senpai playing like this, she can kite Black Team to death.]

At this point, everyone in the livestream who had watched Mai Senpai play felt there was a chance to win the match.

Mai Senpai's play was simply too smooth, with hardly any mistakes.