The second game was about to begin, and Su Su was waiting in the preparation hall to enter.
It's especially lively here today, with participating players, relatives and friends, as well as some players who want to watch the game up close and feel the atmosphere.
Su Su sat alone in the waiting chair, looking a little lonely.
Until a shadow blocked the light above Su Su's head: "Are you...are you a white-scale shark?"
Su Su looked up and saw a player approaching him to chat with him.
The ID is [烏龍桃桃], and his real appearance cannot be seen because he is wearing a skin. However, judging from his voice, he should be a young boy, probably still in middle school.
"Is there anything wrong?" Su Su asked.
"It's really you! You were so good in the competition yesterday. It's the first time I know that a starship can go so fast." The boy said shyly, "It's like this, I'm also a contestant. Today's competition is more about teamwork. I saw you sitting here alone, so I wanted to ask, do you want to join our team?"
"Your team?" Su Su looked in the direction the boy pointed, and saw two other players gathered together not far from him. When they saw him looking at them, they immediately waved enthusiastically.
One is called [Taro Bobo] and the other is called [Cheese Mango], as if they were the signature long legs of a milk tea shop.
"The three of us are classmates. We usually get along well and often form a team together. This time there is a competition, so we signed up together." [Wu Long Tao Tao] said. What he didn't say was that their results yesterday were not ideal. They just barely made it to the finish line within the stipulated time.
That is why they hope to gain some points advantage in today's game, otherwise if they continue like this, they will definitely not be able to enter the top 100.
Seeing that Su Su was alone here, they wanted to try their luck. Su Su's performance in the first game was obvious to all. If he could join them, it would indeed increase his chances of winning.
Su Su didn't think so: "If we want to form a team, then you have to tell me what the plan is when the game starts? How do we cooperate with each other? How do we distribute the points?"
"Ah?" [Wu Long Tao Tao] seemed to be confused by the question. He had never considered such a question at all. It was as if he was suddenly asked by the teacher to answer a question. His face turned red with nervousness and he stammered as he made up an answer on the spot: "Just, we will set out together later, and then when we see players with high scores, we will focus our firepower on them. You are fast, so you can be responsible for interception. I am a turret player and can provide firepower. One of my friends is good at deceleration and control, and the other is good at defense. We usually cooperate well. The points we get can be divided equally between us..."
Su Su shook his head after hearing this: "This is a chase station. It is impossible for all players to enter at the same position. I guess it is more likely that the entry position will be refreshed immediately."
"You said to attack whoever has a higher score. That's right. I guess other players think the same way. So I have 20 points at the beginning, so I will probably be the target of concentrated fire. Have you thought about how to protect me? In other words, if I want to run away, can you guys catch up with me?"
"You may have cooperated well, but that's not the level of cooperation I'm talking about."
"Also, I can't possibly share the points with you. Because in my opinion, you are much weaker than me."
Su Su's refusal was not merciful. After all, no one had ever taught Su Su how to speak tactfully. In his logic, only the fittest survive, and helping the weak was not his habit. A fierce shark would not share its prey with a weak fish.
Want to form a team? Su Su looked around the hall. Indeed, in this game, having more people can bring many advantages.
But not now, these people can’t.
[Wulong Taotao] listened to Su Su's words, silently tugging at the corner of her clothes, seeming a little embarrassed.
“How can you talk like that! You performed well in the first game, but you don’t have to look down on others like that!” [Yoni Bobo] was a girl who spoke in a rather sharp tone. When she saw her friend being criticized, she immediately came over to help.
"Yes, we can't run as fast as you, but so what? You can't win this race just by running fast. We may not be as good as you if we fight alone, but if we work together, we may not be worse than you. If you think that the points are shared equally, we can discuss it. If you have any tactics, you can also bring them out. Taozi saw that you were alone, so she kindly dragged you along. What you said just now was too hurtful."
After being disturbed by [Taro Bobo]'s noise, many players turned their attention in this direction, with a look of prying, observing, and watching the excitement.
Among them were members of the Chongxiao Guild. One of them immediately became angry when he saw this: "I advise you not to waste your efforts. He even rejected the invitation from Youlaiwuhui to form a team. He is very ambitious and said he wants to take first place. He looks down on those of us who are weak."
Even the invitation to form a team from [Come but Never Return] was rejected?
The onlookers looked silently at the "You Lai Wu Hui" who was surrounded by stars. Seeing that he remained silent and did not refute, they immediately believed the story to 70%. The team that had originally wanted to try to get Su Su to join the team also gave up the idea. Why? He even looked down on the "You Lai Wu Hui" team. Wouldn't it be a waste of time to ask him?
After hearing this, [Yam Bobo] really stopped pestering and quickly left with [Black Dragon Peach].
【There is a way, but there is no return】He turned away without leaving a trace, as if the farce just now had nothing to do with him. But in fact, without his authorization, who would dare to say such a thing publicly?
He just wanted Su Su to be alone and helpless in this level without a team. It would be even better if he could attract more hatred and become the target of concentrated fire.
He knew that his plan was not fair and aboveboard, but what he wanted was victory, so what did it matter whether the means were fair or not?
"Who joins the competition if not to win first place? Why don't you look for strong teammates? Are you looking for those who are weaker than you? What? Is this targeted poverty alleviation?" A girl with a high ponytail and a pure black combat uniform spoke softly, crossing her arms.
When she didn't speak, her presence was very low and no one noticed her, but once she opened her mouth, she became the focus of the whole audience.
"It's [Simplify the Complex]!" The players whispered. The reputation of this number one player on the performance list is much higher than that of Su Su, the new dark horse.
【Simplifying】 ignored those who were looking at her, and instead raised her eyebrows at Su Su: "What's wrong with 【Give and Take】's invitation? Isn't his favorite thing to do to form a group to squeeze out the strong ones, and then send the weaker ones in the team to be cannon fodder? Teammates with bad intentions are more dangerous than strong opponents. Only fools would go against him. Right 【White Scale Shark】?"
"Yeah." Su Su didn't care what other people thought of him. He didn't care whether anyone wanted to recruit him into the team or not. However, he agreed with the saying "simplify the complex" and he liked the player who had taken the first place from him in the last game.
[Simplify the complex] She looked away. She usually didn't like to be in the limelight, nor did she have a saintly heart and fight for justice everywhere. She just didn't like to owe others. She unilaterally regarded those words as repaying Su Su for leading the way to the key point of the last game.
The second game begins.
Just as Su Su guessed, all players were refreshed randomly on the map.
The field was not large, and even after deploying more than nine hundred starships, it still seemed somewhat crowded. No matter where they appeared, there were at least a dozen to several dozen starships in the field of vision.
Su Su looked around and saw eye-catching numbers appearing above all the starships. As far as he could see, most of the players were players who had no points yet. There was only one player in the distance with 20 points on top of the starship shining brightly, illuminating the surroundings like a lighthouse.
Su Su: ...
He guessed that he was in the same situation now.
So even though he hid in the area between the two celestial bodies and tried to conceal himself, the starships from all directions still rushed towards Su Su with a clear goal.
Hiding positions became unrealistic, and Su Su could only rely on flexible movement to frantically dodge the incoming artillery fire, lock hooks, and starships that directly hit him.
The logic of these starships is also very simple. Although the [White Scale Shark] runs fast, it is difficult for it to escape the pursuit and interception of players in a limited map.
His starship is fast and light, so its defense system must be inadequate. If it gets hit by any chance, he will be in big trouble.
Fine, you all think he's easy to bully. Su Su gritted his teeth, his eyes full of bloodthirsty excitement. He used his mental power to scan the surroundings through the starship.
As long as a low-scoring starship attacks him, he can fight back.
Su Su dodged the attack while adjusting his position, and chose a heavy defense starship that rushed up to collide with him, and shot it away with one shot. Then he made a beautiful turn in the air, dodged the pursuing artillery fire, and fled far away.
The players who were chasing were all stunned. That was a heavy starship! How could it be destroyed by just one bullet?
Didn't you say that your light starships cannot withstand the recoil of heavy weapons and their attack power is generally weak?
Before they could recover from the shock, a system announcement rang out in the starships of all participating players: [Player White Scale Shark eliminated Player Tenth Generation Tenth. ]
This report was like a bucket of cold water, sobering up the players who were dizzy with the scores and madly chasing Su Su.
It is eliminated.
The players who were chasing Su Su realized belatedly that a low score was not a life-saving talisman. On the contrary, others had points and could be resurrected after losing points when they died, but they had no points at all and would be eliminated directly when they died.
Su Su eliminated several players with zero points in a row. The number of starships that were desperate to kill Su Su gradually decreased. Most players would prioritize their own safety when attacking. The smarter players would immediately turn around and change to a new scoring target if they missed a hit, never giving Su Su a chance to fight back.
Su Su ran and fought, and was lucky as he encountered several players with points attacking him. He defeated two of them, and his points slowly increased from the initial 20 points to 22 points.
Su Su sighed. The higher the score, the harder it is to gain points in this game. Killing a player with a lower score than you can only get one point, but killing a player with a higher score can split the difference. If he is killed by a player with zero points, the points he worked so hard to gain will be immediately reduced by half.
Some players in teams are more difficult to deal with. In the game, they will assign some low-scoring starships to act as defensive starships. When Su Su is ready to fight back, they will block the attacking starships of their own team. Because these starships have never attacked Su Su, Su Su's attack on the opponent will be judged as a foul. Not only will the attack be invalid, but he will also be eliminated directly, which makes his attack even more limited.
Simplifying things is even worse than Su Su. The huge points directly exposed her position completely, and the advantages brought by the stealth starship were greatly reduced.
She was also targeted by the team "You Come, No Return". She was initially entangled by several starships from the opposing team and soon became the target of the siege. In addition, some passers-by who tried to take advantage of the situation were unable to escape in the first place. After the team "You Come, No Return" successfully assembled, twenty starships, under the same command, focused on her alone.
This is different from those scattered teams. [Go but No Return] had already seen through the rules of the game when choosing sides. He deliberately left some players with zero points.
After entering the game, he let the players with points lose to players with zero points, so as to re-equalize the points. In this way, each of them would have more than ten points, so as not to be eliminated all at once. When facing other players with 20 points, they would be able to take the initiative.
Those scattered small teams saw that his team was large in number and did not dare to provoke them.
With such an advantage, [You Lai Wu Hui] assembled his team and immediately launched a siege on [Simplifying Complexity]. He used the same tactics as other low-scoring players, allocating some manpower to harass instead of attacking.
[Simplifying the complex] If she doesn't fight back, those long-range attacks will be enough to wear her down. If she fights back, the starships that haven't attacked her will push forward again, tempting her to attack.
After a wave of restrictions, I didn't get any points for simplifying things, and was killed once in less than half an hour. My points dropped to 10.
Afterwards, she killed a high-scoring starship and just when she had raised her score to fifteen, she was approached by the "Come and Never Return" team, and her score dropped to seven.
Su Su ran for an hour and finally overturned the car.
There is one thing that other players are not wrong about. Su Su's starship has high attack and fast speed, but its defense is really bad. So when he was unfortunately covered by a heavy artillery and his escape range was blocked by other attacks, he was directly killed by the range attack that ordinary starships can withstand. Points dropped from 22 to 11.
The starship's mental link was instantly disconnected, and Su Su entered a gray space. There was a big countdown in front of the space, which was decreasing from fifty-nine, one number per second.
It's time for his resurrection.
There are less than three hours left until the end of the game.
Su Su has realized that it is not possible to fight alone. When the points are low, it is not too dangerous, but once the points exceed 20, almost everyone will focus on him. It is difficult to increase the score difference, but it is very fast to lose points after dying.
Unless, like in [There is a way out], there is someone to escort you.
The resurrection time is up, and Su Su emerges from the resurrection point.
Ten points were equally eye-catching, but compared to before, it still had some advantages. At least he could hunt some players with higher scores.
However, this time, Su Su was not in a hurry to go hunting. He moved around the venue at a very fast speed and quickly found the target he was looking for.
【Simplify the complex】, score 7.
Tsk, even worse than me. But Su Su didn't think she was weak because of this.
Su Su sent a message to the other party: "Want to team up?"