Volume 8: Future · Gap 4 · Competitive Games Chapter 166: All the stars are moving in retrograde motion, I go against all the stars!
"Interesting!" Jerla picked up the ball again. He realized that he seemed to have underestimated Lu Bai.
"Then be a little more serious!"
"Venus is in retrograde!"
In Jerra's ball skills, the bright yellow ping-pong ball seemed to have turned into heavy metal at this moment.
Although the real Venus is not metal, in mysticism, it doesn’t matter what it is, what matters is what it symbolizes.
Venus symbolizes emotionality, aesthetic consciousness, the pursuit of harmony and adaptation, feminine beauty, peace and love.
In addition to Mercury, the five planets of Venus, Venus, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and even the root planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto can all retrograde.
When Venus is retrograde, a person's aesthetic sense will be affected and they will become less sensitive to harmony.
The moment the ball came flying towards him, Lu Bai felt something was not right the moment it made contact.
But it is hard to say exactly what is wrong.
Harmony is a kind of beauty in all things. Only when things are connected harmoniously can power flow smoothly.
At this moment, as the planets moved, Lu Bai was suppressed by this harmonious beauty and lost his sense of the movement of things.
Even when Lu Bai used his power, he could feel much more loss than before.
Just like when playing a music game, generally speaking, you will follow the music and press the corresponding button at the right time.
But at this moment, within one's personal senses, the timing has become disordered and can no longer be aligned.
A little bit of disharmony can make a huge difference in the operation of power.
When the ball flew back to the Jella table and bounced, the power of this thing was about 20% lower than when it was normally used.
Jella didn't give Lu Bai time to adapt, and the next move came immediately.
Mars is retrograde!
When Mars, your sign of militancy, power, action, and conquest, is retrograde, you can become restless and more aggressive than usual.
Among Jella's moves, this move even spreads to the power, and the surrounding energy becomes restless. Lu Bai can feel that his own desires also tend to be "violent".
Further reduced Lu Bai's control over power.
This feeling of having all the power but being unable to use it makes everything go mad.
After barely hitting the ball back, another move came instantly - Jupiter retrograde!
Jupiter symbolizes expansion, growth, luck, opportunity and other things, and is also known as the lucky star.
When it is retrograde, your power will be unexpectedly disturbed in the process of expansion, any action you take will seem to become "bad luck", and opportunities will be lost.
When the ball came to Lu Bai, Lu Bai's condition was much worse than before.
He could even sense that the power of his own desire was becoming unfortunate as it extended to the outside world.
Originally, the power from the racket in his hand could be easily injected into it, but now, when the power is injected into it, it will cause some instability due to the self-dissipation of power, causing Lu Bai's force to become unstable.
But this ball was easier to catch than the previous one because Jerra had no intention of letting it go out of bounds.
As long as Lu Bai follows the movement of the opponent's stars and exerts a little force, he can make the ball turn back.
And as long as he hits it back along this line, the next ball will be waiting for him - Saturn retrograde.
Saturn symbolizes asceticism, will, concentration, structure, solitude, and depth.
When Saturn is retrograde, you will suffer hardships, but as long as you can endure this period of hardship, you will be rewarded.
However, Jerra's behavior at this time made it not too difficult for Lu Bai to play back even though he was constantly suppressed. Therefore, all this training could no longer be called training, but became pure interference without any reward.
Then Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto all began to retrograde.
In astrology, these three planets respectively symbolize personality, creativity, technicality; inspiration, emotion, fantasy, mystery; change, destruction and regeneration.
When all of them are retrograde, your ideas for change, your inspiration to break through adversity, and your actions to change yourself will all face failure, and you may even be immersed in a comfortable dream.
In other words, an artificial comfort zone is established in this way.
"Even if we don't use any effort and don't fight against these stars, their own movement will make the ball go back. Why should we reverse these circumstances?"
A natural illusion has already been created, as if there is nothing good about Jerra's star power. He has already discovered the flaw in it. As long as he follows the retrograde force and pushes the ball lightly, he can easily hit it back.
Adapting to the retrograde environment, I no longer want to change.
During this process, Jerra did not make any excessive movements, or even any sound, just silently feeding the ball to Lu Bai.
It doesn't feel like a confrontation, but more like playing.
Because in this process, Gerla himself represents the sun among the stars, and in astrology, the sun symbolizes the self, the conscious personality, and the will.
His silence and distance from Lu Bai symbolizes Lu Bai's self-distance, and his will and personality become unclear.
And Lu Bai naturally brought in the moon.
The moon symbolizes sensitivity, unconsciousness, etc.
It is like a mirror, receiving the power of the sun.
Just like now, the whole situation seems that two people are playing against each other, but in fact, most of the power of the ball comes from Jerra.
It seems that Jerla did not score any points and Lu Bai did not lose any points.
But there is more to winning on the court than just scoring.
In addition, there is sovereignty over the "ball", as well as killing ping-pong to defeat opponents.
Naturally, Jerra is gradually taking control of the sovereignty of this one.
Once he completes it, Lu Bai will no longer be able to have any significant impact on the ball throughout the entire game. At that time, Jerra can easily win the game even with his feet.
"It's done!" Jerra's emotions gradually calmed down, without any fluctuations.
Although Lu Bai's goal to break Mercury's retrograde was somewhat unexpected, he then fell into his own retrograde planets and became powerless to resist.
"I guess it will be the same in the next few games." With this thought, Jerra looked at Lu Bai opposite him.
The other party's eyes were silent, as if he was immersed in the operation of his power.
Suddenly, Jerra felt a sense of disharmony, as if the power of the stars had shifted in its operation.
Instinctively, Jerla increased his power output, a certain kind of disharmony continued to magnify, and then suddenly exploded.
I didn't know when, but behind Lu Bai, a huge moon had already reached its waning phase.
And the ball that was rushing towards him was now filled with Lu Bai's demonic will.
In an instant, Jella realized where the disharmony came from.
We sink into the comfort zone dream of "smoothness" without realizing it, thinking that the enemy is nothing special and keeping our clear self-awareness away from it.
This is exactly the behavior that would occur after his stars went retrograde.
Jerra is an arrogant and condescending person, but that doesn't mean he would be so arrogant as to look down on his opponent.
It is too "comfortable" to achieve victory just by using the retrograde rotation of the stars .
His past victories were achieved by constantly changing these tactics and ambushing them, which eventually formed a trap. It was not that simple.
"Is the moon phase changing?" Jerra put down the racket and dissipated his strength.
There was no need to continue playing this round as Lu Bai had already taken possession of the ball.
Lu Bai was not completely ignorant of astrology; on the contrary, he made good use of it.
After realizing that Jerra treated him as the "moon", he constructed transformation skills with "moon phases" as the core.
Let his many retrograde powers follow the devilish nature, be concealed by the moon phases and infiltrate into the retrograde movement of the stars, and in turn affect Jerra.
The stars are moving in retrograde motion, but I am moving in retrograde motion.
"Your resonance rate should be around 35% now!" After losing a game and being fooled by Lu Bai, Jella did not show any emotion, but looked at Lu Bai with burning eyes.
At the beginning of the first stage of the competition, Lu Bai had the lowest resonance rate among all the contestants, only 10%.
At that time, the resonance rate of the first-tier players was basically stuck at 30%.
Now, after the first phase of competition, their resonance rate has basically reached 38% and 39%. After one game, it even reached 40%, an increase of 10%.
This improvement is already a good performance for them.
After all, the highest record in the past was only an increase from 30% to 50% after two stages of competition, which is only a 20% increase.
After Jerra finishes the second stage, if he can make it to the finals, he will be confident that he can increase the resonance rate to more than 45%, which is an increase of more than 15%.
But it doesn't make any sense anymore.
The record for the largest increase in history has been broken.
In the first stage, Lu Bai mainly used skill synchronization to fight the enemy, showing more of the diversity of his own abilities and the power quality brought by his country-destroying strength.
It's rare that he truly demonstrates his full resonance.
Therefore, everyone knows that Lu Bai has improved his resonance rate a lot, but no one has a specific impression of how much he has improved.
The reason why Jella called Lu Bai a weakling before was because he instinctively thought that Lu Bai's resonance rate was not strong.
However, his star power system can form a formation, and he is best at crushing the situation and overpowering the opponent with momentum and force.
Lu Bai's resonance rate is not high and his output power is insufficient, so he is confident that he has a 100% winning rate.
However, in reality, after the first stage of the game, Lu Bai quietly increased his resonance rate by 25% to 35%.
Although there is still a gap between them and the first echelon, they have the strength and skills to do so.
The person standing opposite him now is already a real first-tier strongman!
