Chapter 34 Choice
After finishing a day's lessons and completing another energy stone array, Zhou Jiu informed the other two members of his group about forming a team for the mecha competition, and then clicked on the link shared by Chu Zhao.
A search for the name "Zhou Jiu" yielded 165 related posts.
Zhou Jiu was slightly shocked. What had she done to get so many messages?
The most recent post is about #HumanoidMecha#, which turns out to be Zhou Jiu, a freshman at our school. Click the link to access the Interstellar Society section for related news.
Zhou Jiu clicked on the post while browsing and saw the comments from netizens on the StarNet.
[The girl from Military Academy we interviewed today is practically a humanoid mecha! It's such a contrast, so cute, I'm in love!]
[Why did Ye Yang stand first when Miss Mingming was first in the interview?]
[Humanoid mechs really exist! I love how cool she looks fighting the alien beasts.]
[I'm drooling over this! Ah, I'm totally in love!]
[The comment above about wishful thinking should be deleted; be careful, you might get warned.]
[It turns out it really exists. I thought it was special effects or actors, but it turns out they are military academy students. I have only one word to say: Amazing!]
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Zhou Jiu casually scrolled through a few posts and returned to the original thread. She was unimpressed by the nickname "humanoid mecha." If there were enough mechas and they could fight, no one would choose to physically assault a monster. She simply hadn't expected that the videos Sun You released would get so many views.
There are several posts about battles on the campus forum.
Is the news that Zhou Jiu ranked first in the new recruit training true?
[Upstairs, this is authentic. Even in the earliest sophomore-level drills, Zhou Jiu performed exceptionally well, and it seems he even managed to eliminate quite a few students from other schools.]
[Why was Ye Yang chosen to speak? Historically, the representatives have always been the top students in the new recruit training: Sun Xiaoxiao in '58, Chu Zhao in '59, Duola in '60, and so on. The tradition continued into '61. Ah, a special year indeed, the First Military Region's "crown prince," Ye Yang, enrolled. Amazing!]
[Same as above, but the Crown Prince is indeed remarkable. There's a lot of news about him, and he's been outstanding since childhood. If Zhou Jiu hadn't suddenly appeared...]
Zhou Jiu is from E-star, so he can't represent Junyi. Who knows if he's Jx?
[They didn't even dare to say those two words upstairs, do they know they're slandering someone? Speechless.]
Zhou Jiu watched the increasingly heated discussion in the side thread, then scrolled down and saw a post titled #Mysterious Power of Divination for the Unknown—Rising Star Zhou Jiu#
The comments here are quite interesting, especially those about ancient planetary traditions.
I kept refreshing, and a new comment kept appearing, causing the post to pop up all over the homepage.
#Chu Zhao suffered domestic violence#
【?? My crush is married? He's not old enough!】
[How boring, there are even posts about this. Who is Chu Zhao?]
[The person upstairs is obviously a freshman, Chu Zhao, the famous Brother Chu, number one on the combat leaderboard of Military Academy 1]
Is this post a joke? Who can beat Chu Ge, the number one mech pilot?
Original Poster: [Sorry, the video has been added.]
[Wow, who is this? Wow, that's some serious mech piloting skills! Their hand speed must be around 600 APM! That's almost as fast as the famously fast-handed senior, Sun Xiaoxiao.]
[Breaking news: The girl is Brother Chu's girlfriend, and her typing speed is 800 APM]
[Is this for real? 800 hand speed? Is that a machine's hand? Who's upstairs? This is ridiculously fake.]
Original Poster: [800-second hand speed guaranteed, I also know this news]
Look at your hand speed and combat skills. I'm just curious about who Brother Chu's girlfriend is. It's shocking that Brother Chu, with his aloof expression, would actually be in a relationship.
[I recognize this style of boxing. A freshman sparred with Instructor Xiao Wen during basic training this year, and he secretly told you that Instructor Xiao Wen lost.]
[Upstairs, be bold and just tell us who it is!]
Stop kidding, it's true, it's a hoax, a human's hand speed can't possibly reach 800.
[To the person upstairs, saying it's 800 might be an underestimation. I studied the movements; this is Guwu Hongquan (ancient martial arts style). After using AI analysis and importing the entire set of techniques into AI, objectively speaking, the highest score is 960, with an error margin of less than 10.]
[Everyone's talking about Zhou Jiu, right? I don't know if you guys saw that trending topic a while ago, a girl directly fought a monster with her bare hands, it shocked my whole family, that's her, here's the link**]
It's quite lively. Zhou Jiu was browsing the posts and searching the entire campus forum for information about the mecha competition registration and recommendations for team mecha combinations.
It wasn't until the alarm clock reminded her that Zhou Jiu logged out of the forum, went online, and continued playing the basic training game related to mecha combat for a while. Then, Zhou Jiu clicked to start the military academy's mecha competition mode. She needed to learn more about attacks to be fully prepared and gain more experience in fighting mechas.
After opening the app, Zhou Jiu suddenly saw a lot of posts. He looked at them one by one and found that they were almost all from second-year students and most of them were posted today. However, there were three more from first-year students: Ye Yang, Lu Qi, and Feng Ziyue. Moreover, they were posted at the same time. He wondered if this was related to the news that had just come out online.
Zhou Jiu didn't make a direct choice. Instead, she opened the Mech Arena Ranking and looked at the information about commonly used mech types, their evaluations, and win rates.
Zhou Jiu's gaze fell on Chu Zhao, who was ranked first overall and first in the military rankings. (Note: A computer among humans, a strategist mecha. Remember, don't let him catch you doing anything wrong. Also known as Homo sapiens.)
Looking down, Zhou Jiu saw a mecha operator who was restraining her, Dora.
Dora, ranked 15th overall and 7th in the military rankings. Note: A versatile and adaptable mecha attack form, also known as the Shapeshifting Witch.
Zhou Jiu compared their win rates. In one-on-one combat, Dora's individual win rate wasn't much lower than Chu Zhao's, but in team battles (2v2, 3v3, and 5v5), the difference was like night and day. Even though team scores only accounted for 10% of the overall ranking, it still put Chu Zhao in first place. Zhou Jiu carefully looked at Chu Zhao's notes and clicked to see his defeat records, all of which involved slightly faster and more aggressive attack styles. Indeed, speed is the ultimate weapon, Zhou Jiu thought. She felt she could defeat Chu Zhao in just one tomorrow.
After reading many people's comments, Zhou Jiu was most interested in Dora. She relied on intuition to fight, but the un-anthropological movement of the mechs put her at a disadvantage in battles. She needed to get used to this fighting style earlier and understand mech combat better.
After reading the brief introductions of the top 100 on the list, Zhou Jiu finally decided to choose the shapeshifting witch who currently countered her mecha, Dora, who was also on her challenge list and was the senior who posted the earliest.
After Zhou Jiu clicked "agree," he was directly pulled into the arena, possibly because the other person was also in the arena.
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