Chapter 145

Chapter 145

Mecha score 532? ? ?

New netizens were completely confused when they saw this situation. When KID was settled yesterday, they were indeed ranked first, but their mecha score was only 195 points.

There are 32 tracks in total in the elimination round, and the competition in other tracks was also very intense. For example, on the first day, the track where Team Hayate was located eliminated nearly 170 mechas, which was very close to KID's result. However, what netizens did not expect was that after just one day, KID's mecha points had completely widened the gap from the first day. How did they manage to climb from 195 points to 532 points in one day? ! And what’s going on at the signal tower? Why are so many people running out?

【? ? ? What's going on? 】

[The mecha score is 532. This is too outrageous. Isn’t it too exaggerated? 】

[This is a long story, and we also think it’s outrageous…]

Netizens couldn’t figure out what was going on and could only go back and watch the recorded replay of the live broadcast.

Time goes back to 21 hours ago. KID finished his rest and started from the old commercial center and headed towards the signal tower.

The signal tower is the midpoint of the fourth island, and its construction area is very high. The Keze Floating Island is a heavily polluted abandoned area, and the fourth island is the central city of the entire floating island area. This tower, which was once the landmark of the Keze area, is still lit up today, and passing mechas can see the building from afar.

There are a total of 4,159 teams participating in the Keze Floating Island, of which only 485 are assigned to the fourth island. When the mecha pilots enter the registration area to register, they can see all the jump coordinates of the entire Keze Floating Island.

No team knows which jump location they will be assigned to.

The jumps are distributed randomly, but the jump locations that can be built in each contaminated area are fixed.

Ji Qingfeng asked: "Then shall we go directly to the signal tower to fight?"

Lin Yao asked worriedly, "Is there really anyone in the signal tower? Will they disperse when our mechas pass by?"

"That won't happen. The signal tower is the center point of the entire fourth island of Keze Floating Island. Judging from the density of the initial jump coordinates, the signal tower and the old commercial center have the most jump mechas around them."

Huo Yan looked at the map and said, "Chen Lin's analysis is correct. If we want to fight, we can only go to the signal tower, but we don't know what the situation will be like when we go there. If it doesn't work, we can wait until the isolation shields of other islands are closed, and then we can go there to fight."

The signal tower, like the old commercial center, is one of the areas with fierce fighting in the entire Fourth Island. Its intensity is even stronger than that of the old commercial center because the most concentrated intersections of most jump coordinates are around the signal tower.

With a bit of luck, they were caught in a firefight when they rushed over.

Unfortunately for them, the crowd had already dispersed when they got there.

"We can't go directly there, it's a bit disadvantageous." Ying Chenlin suddenly said: "We have to take a longer route."

Lin Yao: "Wouldn't it be even slower if we took a detour?"

"As long as we meet more people on this road, it will be fine." Ying Chenlin said, "Don't we have to get more points in the elimination round?"

Ji Qingfeng became interested when he heard this, "Can we get more points by taking a longer route?"

Ying Chenlin marked several coordinates on the map and said, "Let's go in this direction."

The audience in the live broadcast room finally saw KID, who had been silent for a long time, start to move. While others were fighting, they started to rest despite their excellent record. They played badly for nearly 7 hours, and some of the audience in the live broadcast room ran away.

Now seeing that KID is heading towards the signal tower, netizens feel that KID is finally ready to start working. With a God's perspective, they can see most clearly that the area around the signal tower is where the fighting is most intense.

During the period when KID and Fenghuo were fighting, an unprecedentedly fierce battle broke out at the signal tower. At the end of the first day, the number of eliminated teams in the entire fourth island was reduced from the initial 485 teams to 275 teams, of which nearly 120 teams were eliminated around the signal tower.

The people in the live broadcast room didn’t know what KID discussed, but when KID was heading towards the signal tower, they discovered that the path KID took was a little different. They did not follow the straight path from the old commercial center to the signal tower, but instead took a winding route through multiple locations on the fourth island of Keze Floating Island, taking the longest route to the signal tower.

Are KID’s people stupid? There’s a fight going on over there at the signal tower now. Isn’t it a waste of time to take a detour?

Why is their route so weird? 】

[Wouldn't it be faster to go directly to the signal tower? 】

But this kind of doubt only lasted for half an hour, until they saw KID encounter the first lone mecha, and this mecha crashed into the encirclement of KID with full strength and combat power.

[Isn’t this mecha’s luck too bad? 】

[After escaping from the signal tower, I ran into KID? 】

However, after the first one, the second one soon appeared, and then netizens suddenly discovered that most of the teams that were damaged or defeated from the signal tower actually chose the longer route that KID took.

The commentator was surprised when he saw this: "KID is calculating the route...?"

Calculate the route, this is one of the most commonly used tactics in the knockout stage.

The knockout round is a points-based competition. This does not mean that victory can be achieved just by having strong combat power. The most important thing is how many mecha points you can get.

It is not like the promotion or ranking matches where several teams are crowded in a contaminated area and cannot find opponents no matter how far they go. The knockout matches have a higher probability of confrontation between teams due to the dense concentration of teams and regional divisions. It is different from other competition systems in that if you want to win in the knockout matches, you can only encounter more mechas and get more points.

The experienced mecha team will calculate the route from the moment they enter the game, and which route will allow them to encounter more teams and have a higher chance of winning. The transition coordinates are calculable, and the specific area of ​​fierce fighting can be identified from the intersection of each coordinate. At this time, a strong team can go there and reap a wave of rewards. Just like in other elimination tracks, the strong teams such as Jifeng and YDS use this method to quickly calculate the optimal solution.

I'm just used to KID fighting randomly, this is the first time I see Kid actually using his brain to figure out a route to advance?

[Can you include your opponents in your route calculation? 】

How is this calculated? 】

When the head coach of Hayate saw this, he immediately realized, "No, he is not simply calculating the route. KID's commander is calculating the team's route to retreat from the signal tower. The direction they are moving in is calculated according to the retreat route."

Normally, the route is calculated to calculate the location of the battle, but KID's route calculation this time has an extra step. They are indeed heading towards the signal tower, but they are heading in the direction that other teams are evacuating from the signal tower. This means that along this route, they can not only reach the signal tower, but also clear out those teams that are avoiding the battle due to damage to their mechas.

"But can this be calculated?" asked the person in charge of Jifeng.

The head coach immediately drew a table on the scene map and said, "The teams gathered over there by the signal tower are all fighting teams. The goal of the elimination round is to get higher points. All teams are trying to get higher points to improve their rankings while avoiding losses on their own side."

"If you were an evacuee, which direction would you retreat to? Don't go to places with a lot of pollutants, places with few obstacles, places where fighting might break out..." The head coach crossed out the locations on the map that involved this information. "No one will go to the east of the signal tower because there are pollutants there. There are few buildings to the north, and they are all short buildings that are not suitable for hiding. The only other directions are the west and south."

Assistant coach: "And the road Fenghuo originally came from must have been cleared once. Other teams don't know Fenghuo's path and may avoid unknown roads, but KID knows... so the direction they can go is southwest of the signal tower."

After marking all the coordinates, they were surprised to find that they were mostly consistent with the route taken by KID, except that KID's route was more detailed.

Head coach Jifeng looked at this scene and said, "KID's command was a great move."

Not all teams will choose this route to evacuate, but there will definitely be teams that choose the best route to evacuate. Commander KID is calculating this step. He analyzes the psychology of other teams' route choices during their retreat, and then moves forward in the direction of their evacuation.

The process of moving forward is fighting.

Sure enough, after KID encountered the second and third mechas, the audience in the live broadcast room suddenly discovered that the teams evacuating from the signal tower, as long as they chose to move towards the old commercial center, almost all overlapped with the route chosen by KID.

The team that had just suffered damage in the battle encountered KID who was at full strength and had rested for 7 hours. It was undoubtedly a sheep walking into the tiger's mouth.

[Damn, if it weren’t for the game-time system, I would have thought they had turned on their X-ray vision. 】

[Just harvest along the way!] 】

The teams in the knockout rounds come from all over the Dawn Galaxy, and their combat readiness levels vary. There are relatively more weak teams, and their mechas have all experienced more or less wear and tear. KID even defeated a team like Fenghuo, so when they met other small teams of Shuguang, no one could stop them.

KID gained a lot of wealth along the way, and would fight with any team he met along the way.

The longer the distance they walked, the more mecha points they earned along the way. This long trip was well worth it. By the time they reached the signal tower, they had already earned nearly 50 mecha points along the way.

As soon as he entered the signal tower, KID repeated the same trick he had used in the old commercial.

The routine is neither new nor old. As long as there are people in Keze Floating Island who have not been fooled, this routine can still be used.

The signal tower had already experienced several battles, and the mechas on the scene had more or less been damaged. The stalemate between the mechas of each team was barely maintained. KID's joining directly disrupted the situation and disrupted the mutual restraint. No one on the field could tell where the fire was coming from and which teams it was.

After a wave of chaos, the situation around the entire signal tower changed completely.

But the teams on the signal tower side were not pushovers either. They had stayed there for a long time. Except for some small teams with weak strength that were thrown into chaos by KID, some teams with slightly stronger strength quickly determined the locations of several mechas above KID and tried to outflank them from behind.

KID's strategy of taking advantage of troubled waters is effective, but the only downside is that all the mechas are too scattered.

Once a mecha's position is exposed or targeted, it will be completely trapped and can be easily outflanked by others.

Seeing other teams taking action, netizens in the live broadcast room originally thought that KID's bandit behavior would be punished by other teams. However, they did not expect that when others began to go around and prepare to encircle KID's high-altitude long-range mecha, KID's mechas seemed to have discovered this problem. They had distanced themselves before other teams took action and began to avoid attacks by using the terrain around the signal tower.

And because KID's six mechas were scattered, the teams that reacted basically only chased the KID mechas closest to them, and as a result, the problem was completely exposed. There were a total of six mecha targets, but the teams on the field who were aware of KID's problem were on guard respectively, and the fighting was scattered. When they were about to hit KID's mecha, KID hid in a blind spot where they couldn't see him in the blink of an eye, and the subsequent attacks could not keep up, so he escaped.

In addition, some teams that had not reacted in time continued to fire, causing smoke to fill the area around the signal tower. Not long after they locked onto KID, they lost their target due to interference from other people.

[No, why did this allow Kid to escape? 】

【Those six mechas just now couldn’t catch the trace? ! 】

[Yan was detained, but he is a tank and has shield protection! 】

"The gap in strength between the top 16 teams and the ordinary teams is still too big." The commentator said after seeing this: "The old system of the Mecha Alliance did not allow the top 16 teams to participate in the elimination rounds. This is also one of the reasons. If the top 16 teams were completely separated into multiple tracks, the quality of their mecha technicians would be too different from that of the ordinary teams, and it would be easy to encounter a one-sided problem like now."

The top 16 teams from the Dawn Galaxy are the top teams compared to the nearly 100,000 ordinary mecha teams participating in the knockout rounds.

In a real head-on confrontation, one of the top 16 teams can rely on its combat readiness resources and the excellent operating skills of its mecha divisions to stop the mecha divisions of several ordinary teams.

Differences in strength, combat readiness resources, coaching resources... Many professional mecha masters in the league want to reach the top position, and the league is one of the paths to the top.

[If Fenghuo was still there, KID would definitely not dare to act like this. 】

[Stop talking, the beacon fire is over.] 】

If Fenghuo outflanked KID under such circumstances, it is obvious that KID would be afraid of Fenghuo's strength and choose to retreat, but there is no stronger team around the signal tower. Originally, it was just a fight between weaklings, but now a big devil has come in. Either they join forces to sanction him, or they can only lose their mecha in KID's chaotic tactics.

The commentator said: "The current situation of the signal tower, unless these teams are completely united, they can still sanction KID."

Will the teams unite? The answer is no.

In such a chaotic environment, everyone is worried about being stabbed in the back, let alone joining forces to sanction a strong team.

What would happen if there were no sanctions? 】

Soon, KID told others what the consequences would be if they did not join forces to impose sanctions as their advantages accumulated more and more.

The quicksand enhancement cannon of the mecha Lucy controlled by KID is a disguised enhancer. It can help enhance the sniper cannon of the gun mecha trace, and can also double the effect of the energy cannon of the medical mecha sink, which originally has little power.

Although the three long-range mechas were in three different directions, Lucy did not waste energy every time she fired the enhanced cannon. She followed the two long-range mechas very flexibly. Whenever trace or sink was ready to fire, she could always switch to the enhanced cannon in a timely manner to keep up with the rhythm.

This is equivalent to the three mechas being able to fire shells in three directions. As other mechas chase KID, KID's direction changes faster. Only when others control KID's mecha can they barely control their attack rhythm. But once the control effect is over and the subsequent control fails to connect, allowing KID's mecha to escape, he will face a hybrid enhanced cannon attacking from an unknown direction.

Mechas with high tankiness can still hold on, but they are no match for the fragile gun mechas and stealth mechas.

The hybrid sniper gun's enhanced cannon can reduce a fragile mecha with a damage level of nearly 60% to 80% with one shot, eliminating it directly.

The commentator was a little surprised to see this: "Lucy's reaction speed is very fast."

[These cannons can all be responded to, isn't this extremely fast? 】

[It's scary to have this kind of supporting control mecha. I didn't realize Lucy's supporting ability is so strong before. 】

[I wanted to say this before when we were at the old commercial center. Lucy is so powerful that she can fire her enhanced cannon so accurately every time. 】

Jiang Simiao saw the discussion about Lu Xi on the barrage and touched his nose with a bit of pride. Of course.

In the past, Luxi's support speed was only half of what it is now, but this depends on which gunner and mecha she is supporting.

You Su's attack rhythm changes are the fastest among all KIDs. He is aggressive and swift, and his playing style is fierce. Lu Xi has also been working with You Su for nearly a year. They have played in the league and visited the contaminated area. As a control mecha, he is always by You Su's side and has already kept up with You Su's combat rhythm invisibly.

The little girl looks quiet, but she works as hard as anyone. ~

As the battle becomes more intense, more and more mechas are eliminated on the field.

The teams around the signal tower finally realized that something was wrong. After discovering that they could not control KID, they changed from trying to sanction KID to trying to evacuate from the signal tower. After the battle just now, the buildings around the entire signal tower were bombarded by the mecha warriors and the situation was completely changed.

If they wanted to evacuate, it meant retreating under the fire from others and KID. Even so, many commanders with clear minds decisively ordered the tanks to provide cover and evacuated directly from the signal tower under the fire.

"Holy crap? Why did so many people run away?"

"If you don't run, will you stay here and get kicked out?"

The team that ran first got away early, but the other teams that didn't have time to run were chased by KID.

The signal tower is too tough for KID, and the mechas with higher damage dare not confront KID's mechas head-on, but KID is not afraid of them. They will even go forward to collect the mechas' points under the artillery fire. While other teams were trying to retreat, KID would chase them relentlessly, taking kills if possible, and finding ways to cripple their opponents if not.

The battle at the signal tower lasted for more than ten hours. Some teams escaped in time, while other teams that did not escape were killed in the melee and the battle with kid. The mechas that came from other places had not yet stepped into the signal tower area, but they could see several mechas fleeing from afar, and the mechas following behind them attacked them mercilessly.

By the time other netizens entered the live broadcast room, the signal tower battlefield had come to an end.

Each KID suffered 40% mecha loss per person, but they gained a lot of mecha points in this wave of confrontation. The most important thing is that Kid's medical mecha is still there. After this wave is over, the medical mecha can be repaired again, and KID will be full of energy again.

After watching the replay in the live broadcast room, netizens were silent. They never expected KID to be so cruel. He harvested people along the way and even intensified his behavior when he arrived at the signal tower. They immediately understood why they let the other mechas escape. This kind of melee situation would just be giving points to KID. If they didn't escape, would they just wait to be harvested by KID on the spot! Whoever sees this will not run away.

KID is a big boss just standing in the signal tower, and with such a record, unless someone on the other six islands can reap a wave like KID, once the other floating islands merge, KID will firmly sit in the first place on the Keze Floating Island track.

[They dare to rush forward and kill even after 40% of their strength has been depleted? ? 】

[It’s only the second day, and there are only 178 teams left on the Fourth Island…? 】

[I thought the YDS next door blocking people on the road was bad enough...]

【YDS is still kind, but KID is trying to kill everyone.】 】

In the field, other teams fled in different directions, and the mecha being chased by KID thought it was unlucky. Just as he was about to escape from the signal tower, he was grabbed by a stealth mecha with its thrusters pushed to full blast from behind and was pulled back.

[It’s so tragic.] 】

[The tank moves too slowly, it is normal for him to be caught up. 】

[He should have run in the direction of the Bear Team just now, but the Bear Team's tank ran away. 】

Netizens looked at the mecha

Being dragged away, I immediately felt pity for him.

Ji Qingfeng said through the loudspeaker: "I told you not to run, why are you running?"

The mecha master angrily turned on the external speaker and said, "Even the robbers are not as good as you!"

Lin Yao, who was following behind, looked innocent. "How can we be considered robbers? Robbers always steal things. We won't steal things, okay?"

Seeing that all his teammates had run away, the mecha master couldn't defeat KID, so he just gave up and said, "Just eliminate the mechas. You might as well just steal the things!"

[It is true that the robbers let the people go after stealing their things. 】

Lin Yao said: "The key is that you are not valuable. Your most valuable thing is your mecha points."

Ji Qingfeng was also tired of chasing, so he simply dragged the mecha and waited: "Don't say we are unkind. If you have something more valuable than the mecha, we will let you go. Chasing you is a waste of energy. We can't let our brothers return empty-handed."

The captured mecha master was speechless. He threw a tube of energy to the ground and said, "How much energy can it buy to chase me? I'll use this tube of energy to compensate you. Can you still let us go? If we're eliminated, then we're eliminated. Don't make so many excuses."

[It's so funny. Chasing him really doesn't waste much energy. 】

[If KID is really that easy to talk to, will he let you go just by paying for the energy? 】

[My brother is a smart man, so he won’t run away.] 】

The live broadcast room was discussing something, but KID and the other person suddenly stopped.

They looked at the captured mecha pilot and the energy tube in front of him, then raised their heads to look at the video camera robot high up, and glanced at each other.

Lin Yao: "You just want to bribe us to break the rules."

The mecha master said, "Bribe, bullshit. The alliance only limits the number of energy tubes that mechas can carry. The system is broadcasting live during the game. If there is a problem, the alliance would have stopped it long ago. Otherwise, how can you and your teammates trade energy if there is not enough energy?"

A member of the Alliance Supervision Team who was also monitoring the live broadcast room’s information outside the camera: “……?”

It is indeed against the rules for a mecha to carry a large amount of energy before entering the venue, and it is also against the rules for hiding or storing a large amount of energy before entering the venue, but there is no rule that stipulates that a mecha pilot cannot use the energy of teammates when he is short of energy after entering the venue.

Netizens in the live broadcast room: “?”

No, why don’t they do it?

In the distance, several KID mechas saw that Ji Qingfeng and Lin Yao had been chasing someone for a long time and had not returned, so they quickly rushed over following the radar location. As a result, they saw a mecha running away from the two of them and pushing its thrusters to the maximum.

Seeing this, You Su immediately raised his sniper cannon and locked onto the fleeing mecha in the distance.

"Brother You, stop it!" Ji Qingfeng shouted, "He has paid!"

The author has something to say:

KID: We are really easy to talk to.

I'm halfway through writing the second update, so I'll put this up first.

I'll add the second update after I finish writing it.

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