Duels should be played with a smile.

"You...you dare to fight me head-on!" K roared.

Leyou had intended to tease him about his impotent rage, but after seeing the two unidentified items he was holding, he abandoned his mocking intentions and nodded slightly.

A strange look flashed in his eyes, and Le You said with a half-smile, "Fine, you want a head-on fight... then I'll give you a head-on fight!"

"But I hope you won't regret your decision this time!"

"Ha! Don't underestimate me!" K clenched his fist and slammed it on the table. "I admit I'm not as good as you at using these underhanded tricks, but if it comes down to a head-on confrontation, I won't back down an inch!"

"I'll show you my true strength!"

“Then let’s do it.” Leyou nodded, neither agreeing nor disagreeing: “I also want to show you my true strength, but not in this round, but in the next round.”

"Oh?"

K wanted to make a sarcastic remark, but remembering his two consecutive losses, he suppressed his thoughts and calmly asked, "Are you so confident that you can surpass me in terms of raw skill?"

"I can't say for sure." Le You shook his head and laughed. "Hard power is hard to measure, otherwise I could brag every day that I'm the champion of hard power."

"However... sometimes, a head-on confrontation doesn't necessarily mean that you have to rely entirely on your raw strength."

With a mysterious smile, Leyou lightly tapped his forehead with his index finger: "I'm the kind of person who likes to use my brain."

Race already selected

[Leisure Tour: Terran Race]

【K: Zerg】

"Tsk tsk tsk, this time I'm going to show you what 'real' really means!"

Looking at the randomly generated map that was relatively fair to both Z and T, Leyou revealed a smile that was hard to decipher.

However, in the game of Seventeen Cards, if you don't want to win, it's hard to lose!

"Hey, I don't play human much, so I feel pretty rusty. I got carried away and agreed to a head-on fight with you, but I feel like this match is going to be a bit risky. I feel like it'll be hard to beat you."

At the start of the third game, Leyou used the same chat strategy as before, chatting with his opponent while starting the game normally.

"Heh, if you want to change your mind at the last minute, then I have nothing to say."

"Not really. It is indeed quite difficult to beat you, but as you know, I usually play games not for winning or losing, but just for fun."

"What kind of crazy idea are you thinking of now?"

Leyou smiled slightly. Although K's answer was quite brief, he could still sense that this guy had developed some psychological trauma from the previous two matches.

If it were before, this guy would probably have arrogantly and nonchalantly mocked him.

However, Leyou wasn't lying; he hadn't played the human race much, and his proficiency wasn't particularly high.

But... it's not a big problem. If you're playing Terran against Zerg, knowing a few tactics is enough.

Moreover, this tactic doesn't require a high level of proficiency from the human race.

Previously, this tactic only placed a significant burden on the bladders of both players—but now that Leyou has abandoned all restraint, this tactic no longer has any drawbacks.

"It's nothing. I just realized that my head-on ability isn't actually that strong, so I'm planning to use a defensive counter-attacking tactic—you shouldn't have any objections to that, right? Head-on defense is also a head-on battle, isn't it?"

K didn't respond, but continued to focus on development. He slightly changed his plan, originally intending to develop slowly and then launch a surprise attack. Instead, he placed the hatchery ahead of time and created a few dogs at the normal time before opening a second base, heading straight for Leyou's base.

K was willing to delay development in order to find out Leyou's tactical intentions; it's clear that he was quite traumatized.

Meanwhile, Leyou...

As an honest and trustworthy young man, Leyou truly never told a single lie.

If you say you'll defend, you will.

However, this defense is a bit ahead of its time.

While K was developing normally, Leyou directly engaged in a naked doubles match.

A naked double has no defensive capabilities, but if the opponent has a normal opening, a naked double can just barely set up some defensive fortifications before the enemy reaches your base, forcing back the opponent's first wave of scouting fire.

So when K led the six dogs to Leyou's doorstep, they saw that in front of Leyou's second mine, three supply stations and a bunker were lined up, blocking all the routes into his second mine.

Since they were already there, they couldn't leave empty-handed. So K commanded his dogs to start attacking the bunkers that weren't occupied by any soldiers. In the early stages, Leyou didn't have any extra resources. He hadn't even built any barracks yet, so he built these things to block the road first. The bunkers were just for show.

When the enemy came to conduct reconnaissance with fire, Leyou remained calm and unhurried. He simply dragged a farmer over to start repairing the bunker that was under attack, and continued his development in an orderly manner.

The puppy's attack power wasn't high, and the building's defenses were quite strong. Plus, a peasant was repairing it. When Leyou's first Marine entered the bunker to start the counterattack, the bunker still had a lot of health left.

Left with no other option, K had to return empty-handed. However, this reconnaissance mission was not entirely fruitless. Seeing that Leyou was developing in such a cowardly manner from the start, K ​​closed his eyes and began to focus on developing his own strength.

K's idea is very simple - if you defend, you will not have many resources to attack, so I simply ignore everything, start to expand like crazy, and then crush you with an absolute economic advantage!

Just as Leyou had placed its third base, SD's K, with his eyes closed, had already expanded wildly, opening a fifth base. Because of Leyou's sneaky tactics, the rhythm of the game began to become strange.

Neither side ventured out to engage in combat; both were focused on development. Leyou proceeded step by step, expanding to a third base only after fully defending its second mine, and a fourth only after fully defending its third. K, on ​​the other hand, completely disregarded these considerations, simply moving workers to the new mining area and turning it into a base without any further action. The other bases behind it also did not produce any unit types, focusing entirely on workers.

Soon, just as Leyou opened its fourth mine, K had basically occupied all the other mining areas on the map.

This map has a total of 12 mining areas. Leyou has only occupied 4, while K has already taken 7, leaving only one unclaimed mining area.

There's only one reason why K didn't continue expanding—there were too many farmers.

Each mining area requires more than ten farmers to operate at full capacity. Considering that he already has enough resources, K decided to leave one mining area and switch to war mode.

During this frenzied expansion, K was not entirely unprepared for Leyou. However, every time he sent out troops to probe, he would see an incredibly solid Great Wall of Steel, instantly extinguishing any desire to attack.

Just like when he first opened his second mineral patch, every time Leyou opened a new mineral patch, he would build an iron wall around it with various Terran buildings and place many tanks behind the buildings to defend against them with the tanks’ long range and powerful firepower.

Moreover, Leyou's ironclad defenses have an even more absurd defensive core—the planetary fortress.

The Terran main base has two upgrade modes: one is the orbital control base, which can scan and mine MULEs, and the other is the planetary fortress.

The planetary fortress lost the flight capability of Terran buildings, replacing it with thicker armor and a hypothetical super-powerful cannon mounted on the base.

Furthermore, the planetary fortress also has a unique upgrade that can extend its firing range.

Upon arriving at a new mining area, countless diligent SCVs will construct numerous anti-air towers and supply depots near the main base of the mining area as the outermost edge of the defense line. Then, bases built in other mining areas in Leyou will fly over, land in key locations, and be upgraded into planetary fortresses, completing the most important link in the defense line.

What remains is the mobile support of numerous tanks and other mechanized units—Leyou has a small number of expansion mines, and the resources in the four mining areas are sufficient. Moreover, because the mining areas are close to each other, the defense does not require troops to travel long distances. With the existing anti-air towers and planetary fortresses, they can easily hold out until Leyou's main force arrives.

Generally speaking, the Terran army is composed of two types of units: biological units and mechanized units.

"Biohazard" does not refer to its original meaning; it simply means an infantry unit whose main production building is a barracks, supplemented by medical transport aircraft for resupply.

Mechanization, as the name suggests, refers to various mechanized units, primarily heavy factories and starports.

Leyou is currently using mechanized forces, with a large number of tanks that can blast away any enemy that comes from the ground. The aerial tech unit "Raven" has powerful support skills, and when paired with the large mech unit "Thor" with invincible anti-air capabilities and a sturdy build, it can be said to be the best match!

Moreover... Leyou's mechanized forces are only on the surface; the tactic he used in this battle is called "urbanization"!

Mechanized troops are just the safety net; the real core is the Great Wall of Steel built by Leyou!

In StarCraft, there is an indispensable mechanism: population. There is a soft cap on population, which depends on the units that each race provides, as well as a fixed hard cap of 200.

After Leyou's four mines were operating at full capacity, more than a quarter of its population were farmers, and the remaining 150 were the war population.

However... population restrictions only apply to the military! There are no population restrictions for any other buildings!

As long as you have enough space and enough resources, you can build buildings without limit!

In this game, Leyou's urbanization strategy was implemented very thoroughly. No matter how frantically the opponent expanded, they didn't leave their homes and played it safe. They would never open a new expansion base unless they had several planetary fortresses guarding their current base.

So much so that by the time the Zerg creep had reached his doorstep and occupied every other corner of the map, he had only just finished building the last planetary fortress for his fourth base.

Is this your defense?

Having already illuminated the entire map with creep, K could clearly see the clumps of incredibly tough buildings and the clusters of tanks hiding behind them, which made him feel a bit annoyed.

He knew that Leyou was going to play defensively and engage him head-on... but he didn't expect their defense to be so... ruthless.

That's right, "ruthless" is the only adjective K can think of to describe Leyou's defensive line.

In all the information he had gathered, there had never been such an outrageous operation.

He's taken over the whole map, and that guy on the other side hasn't even crossed the halfway line yet!

It's outrageous!

That's not how you act like a tortoise!

Despite the complaints, K didn't hesitate at all. The Terran's tortoise shell wasn't a perfect defense, and the Zerg had ways to counter it—otherwise, what would be the point of having the other two races? Everyone could just choose Terran and build infrastructure together, wouldn't that solve the problem?

With ample resources, K unlocked all the technological buildings and upgraded all the units after the expansion ended. Upon seeing the tank group hiding behind the defensive line, he immediately turned several larvae into "flying snakes".

The Viper is the Zerg's most advanced tech unit. It can use abilities by consuming energy, one of which is to drag enemy units from a distance to its front.

Without a doubt, this is a skill specifically designed to counter those sneaky tactics.

Moreover, after conducting several reconnaissance missions and gaining a general understanding of Leyou's troop composition, K decisively assembled all his current troops and launched a desperate charge towards the furthest defensive line.

More than seven bases provide K with a minimum of 21 larvae per unit. In addition, the Queen can add 4 more larvae to each base every now and then, so K can have more than 50 larvae at the same time.

This means that as long as he has enough resources, he can transform his troops into other compositions at any time, or "buy back" them after they are wiped out.

K's current resources... are more than enough for him to buy back three times.

"Army attack!"

Without any further instructions, K led his somewhat mixed force toward Leyou's defensive line.

Dogs, cockroaches, hydralisks, bulls, wyverns, corruptors, and the newly created serpent worms and brood lords—K's massive army stretched as far as the eye could see, blotting out the sky.

With the army pressing in, Leyou, through the human race's sensor towers, immediately detected K's movements and mobilized most of his troops to rush to the attacked defensive line.

"Cannons will pacify the four seas!"

Without further communication, the tanks positioned behind the planetary fortress unleashed a barrage of fire on K's ground forces from a distance.

K showed no fear whatsoever; in fact, he was prepared for total annihilation from the very beginning.

Large numbers of ground troops charged toward the impregnable defensive line, but the buildings blocked their path, and under the tank fire, these ground troops could not hold out for more than a few seconds.

"Ha...now is the time!"

In the sky, slender flying snakes flapped their wings, hiding behind the corrupted beings who were fighting against the Viking fighters. They seized the opportunity, swiftly lunged forward, and extended their extremely long, tongue-like appendages.

The soft flesh, from a great distance, locked onto the tank on the ground, binding it like rubber, and then effortlessly dragged the tank from its original position into its own formation.

Tanks possess formidable long-range firepower, but once they are brought close, they can't even fire their cannons.

It didn't even last a second before the tank was torn apart by the claws of countless puppies.