Skeleton’s Training Manual - Chapter 53

Chapter 53: 053 The Atmosphere Is Getting Strange

“Team 233, please note that your preliminaries will start at 10:30 in Arena A8. Your opponent for this competition is Team 038. Please prepare in advance. Wish you success!

The organizing team of the Quancheng Cup. ”

Seeing the SMS that Lu Wu received, Tutu and Hao Zhijian’s faces turned ghastly pale.

The Quancheng Cup served as a warm-up match for the National’s High School League.

The scale of the competition was not small, and there was even an official website especially made for it.

On the official website, in order to warm up the competition in advance, the seed teams had been promoted from a week ago. Unfortunately, Lu Wu had been paired with Team 038, which was one of these seed teams.

Although the team was among the weakest of the seed teams, it was a seed team after all.

Their information was available on the official website.

Team 038 came from the special class of Quancheng No. 4 High School.

The captain was Zhang Ke, whose summoned beast was a coyote of Iron quality.

As for the other two members, one was called Zhang Yong whose summoned beast was a goblin of Iron quality, and the other was named Zhang Shan whose summoned beast was an elf of Iron quality.

This was all the information they had of Team 038, it was not much, but with this information alone, coupled with their authority-recognised identity as the seed team, could bring tremendous pressure to Tutu and Hao Zhijian.

After all, of these two people, one had always been timid, and the other was used to getting bullied by Lu Wu.

His inflated ego was rubbed hard against the ground by Lu Wu again and again.

After one month, Hao Zhijian had lost most of his confidence. He was really panicked when he saw that they were going to play against the seed team.

Lu Wu, the only one who remained calm, also felt somewhat aggrieved at this time.

What the f*ck? Pairing them with a seed team?

According to the routine, shouldn’t they have given him a few weak teams to practice first and wait for their team to accumulate enough experience before competing against a seed team?

Being paired up with a seed team right at the first round gave Lu Wu huge pressure.

But as the captain and the core of the team, he must not show the pressure at this time. He must show the confidence of a captain to appease his teammates.

Lu Wu had no choice. After sighing lightly, he held Tutu’s chubby hand and stroked her head gently, saying, “Don’t be afraid, trust me, we can win!”

Just with one sentence, all of Tutu’s anxiety suddenly disappeared, as she nodded her head at Lu Wu incessantly.

After he was done with Tutu, Lu Wu turned his head at Hao Zhijian beside him. Hao Zhijian also turned his head and looked at Lu Wu affectionately, hoping to receive Lu Wu’s love’s encouragement.

But the gentleness on Lu Wu’s face instantly switched to ferociousness. “You can be nervous all you want, but if you don’t perform well later and make us lose, I will screw your head off!”

Well, this Lu Wu had double standards!

But his trick was really effective for Hao Zhijian. With his fierceness, all of Hao Zhijian’s anxiety was gone in an instant.

Or more precisely, Hao Zhijian’s anxiety shifted to his fear of Lu Wu.

After getting the two teammates settled, Lu Wu took them around the training ground.

The game would start at 10:30, which was still some time away, so Lu Wu planned to take advantage of this time to stroll around the training ground.

One was to watch other people’s games, and the other was to find opportunities to touch other people’s summoned beasts.

Because today was just the preliminaries, the training ground was not open for live spectators. Basically, everyone here were players participating in the competition.

Maybe one of these players would become Lu Wu’s opponent in the next round. Therefore, it was important to collect some information in advance. Even if none of them were going to compete against him, Lu Wu, as an aspiring professional summoned beast trainer, needed to expand his summoned beast knowledge reserve.

It was just that Lu Wu’s plan of touching the summoned beasts did not go well.

On one hand, the participants were all very wary of strangers who tried to strike up a conversation with them, for fear that they were trying to pry out information.

Lu Wu had been trying to strike up a conversation for a long time, but only the girls were willing to talk to him.

On the other hand, the organizing staff noticed that Lu Wu was sneaking and fumbling around, so they immediately came to warn him to sit and watch quietly if he wanted to watch the match, and wait at the designated competition arena if he wasn’t watching. He needed to stop walking around and don’t make their work more difficult.

No choice, the disappointed Lu Wu could only bring his teammates to the waiting area of Arena A8.

When they came here, Lu Wu found that there were already many people sitting in the spectator seats of Arena A8.

Well, it was just that these people’s eyes were not on the two weak teams that were currently competing on Arena A8, but were on the waiting area.

Of course, they were not looking at Lu Wu’s team, which was currently the only team present in the waiting area.

What they were concerned about was Lu Wu’s opponent, Team 038, which had not yet arrived.

Of course, before Team 038 arrived, they could more or less spare some attention towards Lu Wu’s team.

After all, Lu Wu’s team was the opponent of Team 038 in the first round.

If possible, these onlooking participants were hoping that Lu Wu’s team could be stronger. In this case, maybe Lu Wu’s team could force the seed team of 038 to reveal more of their strength.

It was just that when everyone saw Lu Wu and his team, they suddenly lost their hope.

There were even some people who were hesitating whether to turn around and leave.

They could not be blamed, as the first sight of Lu Wu’s team would indeed give people an impression that they were the weakest of the weak teams.

Just look at the three summoned beasts of the team.

A skeleton and a piglet, both were recognized by everyone as rubbish summoned beasts. Although Hao Zhijian’s frozen bird was okay, it was just average, not particularly brilliant.

Even if the frozen bird was particularly brilliant, how could he perform well with these two burdens?

Therefore, when everyone saw Lu Wu and their team, they could basically tell that the following competition was destined to be a particularly boring one.

This kind of game was not what the participants, who took their precious time to watch the game, wanted.

Instead of watching such a game, they might as well watch other seed team’s games.

If they were forced to pick out one thing about Lu Wu’s team that could persuade them to stay, it could only be Lu Wu’s “average-looking” face.

Well, Cheng Qingqing stayed just because of Lu Wu’s face.

After seeing the summoned beasts of Lu Wu’s team, she stood up and was prepared to leave, but when she raised her head and accidentally glanced at Lu Wu’s face, she sat down again.

“Qingqing, shall we go?”

When her teammate Liu Qing saw this, she pulled Cheng Qingqing. “There’s nothing interesting in this game!”

“I’m not going, it’s pretty interesting!”

“A piglet and a skeleton, what is there to see… Uh, well, you are right!”

At first, Liu Qing’s attention was all on the summoned beasts, and she didn’t notice Lu Wu. But halfway through her sentence, she suddenly saw Lu Wu’s “average-looking” face and was taken aback. Then, she nodded vigorously and sat back down with Cheng Qingqing.

The actions of these two girls made their male teammate extremely confused. But when he also saw Lu Wu’s “average-looking” face, he immediately understood everything, and he felt a little jealous.

What made him even more jealous was that this situation not only happened to them, but also other teams with girls.

As more and more girls were charmed by Lu Wu, the atmosphere at Arena A8 spectator area started getting strange…