After hearing Qi Hanyi's affirmative answer, everyone had more ideas. Sure enough, Qi Hanyi's proposal to hold this competition was not aimless, he already had a promising goal.
Some people looked at Jian Cheng with inquiring eyes, wondering if it was because of the proximity that Qi Hanyi took a fancy to his sister Jian Fan?
Jian Cheng immediately shook his head in denial. At first, he thought it might be Jian Fan, until the admiral asked him for Jian Fan's information that day. That was several days after the competition announcement was sent out, which meant that the admiral only noticed Jian Fan at that time, and he was really paying attention to someone else.
Not Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese? The drivers looked at the screens with even more confusion, looking at the talented youngsters on the screens, and pondered the purpose of the admiral's competition. In fact, he could have brought the chosen ones directly to the military department for discussion, or put them in the Imperial Military Academy for training for a few years.
So what exactly is this competition, an interview, a selection?
Qi Hanyi was also looking at the screen, but what he noticed this time were some bullet screens related to Su Su.
Most of the comments were filled with astonishment and surprise at Su Su's playing style, there were also some who praised her, and a few who were even a little outrageous, drooling over Su Su's beauty and shouting "husband, wife".
But Qi Hanyi did not show any special emotions, just watched quietly.
This competition was not his interview with Su Su. He knew that the young man who could amaze him would definitely be able to meet his expectations and did not need a competition to test him.
The original intention of this competition was to lure people into the jar. Rather than luring or inviting them, he hoped to see the young people he favored take the initiative to participate. And all he had to do was to pave a way for them.
At that time, he didn't know that the young man he was waiting for was Su Su. But this arrangement, which was a bit wrong, was just right. Mermaids want to step into the starry sky, but the resistance is much greater than that of humans. This competition became Su Su's stage. He wanted the other party to show himself to his heart's content, prove himself with his talent, and amaze the world.
Therefore, he did not log on since the beginning of the competition. He did not want his participation to affect the fairness of the competition. Su Su wanted to win, and he had to win fairly.
The more amazing and unique Su Su performs in this competition, the more favorable the public opinion will be in his favor. All this support will be his bargaining chip against those prejudices.
The successive eliminations created some gaps in the formation and suddenly increased the defensive pressure on the defending players.
"Help! Help!" Su Su was driving a starship to fight against an S-rank Zerg. Just when he found an opportunity to kill it, he suddenly heard a cry for help from a nearby starship.
If you hurry over, you can save him.
So do you want to save him?
Su Su was inclined not to save him.
That player's strength is very average, he can't even beat an A-level Zerg, he's alive now basically by luck, he would let go of any Zerg that passed through his defense, now that all the points have been deducted, he has to bite the bullet and fight, even if he is saved this time, he will be eliminated next time. I can't always be on guard against him.
Su Su took a short time to think. After making his decision, he rushed towards the S-level Zerg without looking back.
After dodging some dense, ray-like attacks, the light blade cut directly into the most vulnerable tentacles of the S-level Zerg.
Unfortunately, killing Zerg does not reward points. Instead, 5 points will be deducted for not supporting your teammates.
Su Su pursed his lips, feeling a little unhappy about being deducted points.
But if there is a next time, he still won't save her, because the rules require them to forget that this is a game and treat it as a real war.
In a real war, he would not give up the opportunity to kill an S-rank Zerg, which he had worked so hard to find, just to support his teammates who couldn't even defeat an A-rank Zerg.
"Thank you, thank you." The player's grateful voice was transmitted through the signal to the starship [There is no return].
"You're welcome. We're all comrades. It's what I should do." Youlaiwuhui responded gently.
[There is no return] The approach here is completely different from Su Su's situation.
The Phoenix is highly mobile. Without leaving its own defensive area, it does its best to help nearby players. It almost single-handedly supports the entire front line near it. Although the battle is difficult, no matter when, even if it misses a Zerg, it will prioritize protecting the lives of its teammates.
[There is no return] The calculations are very clear in mind. This is a game, and the rules are above all else. The so-called forgetting the game and joining the war only means changing to a more hidden set of rules.
At this point in the game, he has almost figured out the rules of the game.
First of all, this round of competition follows the deduction system, but it does not mean that strength is not tested. Strength is a hard indicator of this round, which is reflected in how many points you have earned before that can be used for deduction, and also in whether you can survive the siege of the Zerg.
Besides that, all the penalty rules are actually quite regular. They clearly point to the opening sentence - real war.
In a real war, you have to obey the orders of your superiors, so leaving the position will result in a point deduction.
You have to complete the combat mission, so points will be deducted if monsters are missed in the defense line.
You have to support your teammates, so you will lose points if you don't help them.
Judging from the feedback from the players' trial and error, the deduction items for leaving the position are calculated based on time, with one point deducted for every ten minutes until all points are deducted. If you return before ten minutes have passed, the time will be reset. If you miss a monster, regardless of its level, you will be deducted one point. And if you fail to help a dying monster, you will be deducted five points, which is the heaviest deduction among all the deductions. Some players with few points will even be directly deducted from the game just because they ignored the help requests of the players around them.
But is that all there is to the game? They support each other until players are eliminated and only the last hundred remain?
[Go but No Return] I don't think so. If the game was just like this, they could just be thrown into the battlefield. Why was there a commander's speech at the beginning? Why did they land in the lobby instead of on the starship?
The commander gave them a defense map that was not reasonable, and anyone with a little knowledge would know that it was a defense map that made these so-called trainee starship pilots, whose strength was far below the standard, defend a supply point here and wait for reinforcements. However, more than half of their men were killed or wounded, and there was no sign of reinforcements. According to the game design, they would either never come, or they would only come when they had only one hundred men left.
Is this arrangement really reasonable?
Also, the commander said that all of them have communication signals on their starships and can receive orders from the command room, but so far, countless requests for help have been sent to the command room, and the command room has not responded to even one of them.
The stupidity and arrogance displayed by that commander, his attitude that was clearly about sending the interns to their deaths, is probably not the image of a commander that the military wants to promote.
Therefore, [There is no return] suspects that there may be a hidden branch of the mission hidden in the command center. Revealing the true identity of the commander, seizing the control of the supply points, and re-planning the reasonable formation is also a way to play.
Since this is a simulation of a real war, there shouldn't be only one outcome. And command is exactly what [Go, No Return] is good at.
【Give and Take】 thought that this should be his chance to show himself to the world, and even to some military members who were silently following the game.
Worth a gamble.
One point is deducted for every ten minutes away from the post, while it only takes half an hour to reach the command center.
The Phoenix broke away from the battle line he was on and flew towards the supply point without looking back.
There were quite a few Zerg that had escaped within the defense line, but most of them had been dealt with by the defense system of the supply point. Only a few actually broke into the supply point. The Phoenix spent some time cleaning up and dealt with the last few Zerg.
[There is no return] After getting off the starship at the port, he sprinted towards the command room at the fastest speed.
The door of the command room was ajar. The current combat status of all defense points could still be seen on the screen. Some command equipment was spread out on the table, but the commander who had just given them orders in a haughty manner was nowhere to be seen.
At this moment, a contact message suddenly popped up in the control room, attracting the attention of [You Lai Wu Hui].
There is nothing superfluous in the game, and [There is no return] is almost certain that I have triggered a hidden branch.
The information said that the troops stationed here received an emergency mission last night and rushed to an area a thousand star ranges away to fight.
But the battle order was actually forged by Zerg spies in order to divert their team and then lead the Zerg army to attack their supply point. Without the support of the supply point and running out of fuel, the team would be doomed to die in the face of the Zerg army.
Two hours ago, after receiving the information here, they tried their best to rush back, but it is estimated that it will take another four or five hours to arrive.
[Go but never return] It is clear from here that what they are waiting for is not any reinforcements, but the team stationed here.
But since the commander was leading the team outside, who was the person who just gave them the defense map?
[There is a journey but no return] I continued to read on. The message said that there were interns from the Imperial Military Academy at the supply point. They had not yet graduated and were only here to observe and learn. They had no practical experience in fighting against Zerg, so the captain of the guard team here was required to lead the guard team to protect the students' safety.
He also said that if danger arose, students should be evacuated first, even if the entire supply point was destroyed.
So the fake commander who gave them orders was the captain of the guard? What about the members of the guard? [You came but never came back] retrieved the previous combat video.
From the video, [There is always a way] clearly saw that not long after they arrived at the defense line, the guards took advantage of the fact that they were defending the line and took advantage of the situation to fish in troubled waters in the direction where there were no Zergs, and all the members ran away.
Just as he finished reading all the clues, the system popped up a prompt: [Ding Dong, congratulations to the player for discovering the hidden clue. The hidden mission has been opened, temporary commander.]
[As students of the Imperial Military Academy who came here for internship, you were unexpectedly attacked by a tidal wave of insects. The real army was a thousand star ranges away, and the guards who were afraid of death all fled, only deceiving you students to defend the line of defense.]
[You are proficient in command. You discovered the irrationality of the defense map early on and became suspicious of the fake commander. Now that you have uncovered the truth, as a future imperial soldier, are you willing to become the temporary commander here and lead your classmates to persevere in this cruel battlefield? Yes/No?]
[Note: After accepting the mission, the existing game rules will change. Please do your best to protect the supply point and the survival of every student. After completing the mission, the temporary commander can obtain additional hidden points based on performance.]
[There is no return] I chose yes without hesitation.
As a result, all players simultaneously received the clue that Youlai Wuhui had just learned, as well as the new notification released by the system.
[Congratulations to the player Youlaiwuhui for becoming the temporary commander. The previously designated defense area is invalidated. Please follow the commander's orders for the next battle. ]
Next, the gentle and calm voice of [You Lai Wu Hui] came over the line; [Hello everyone, I am You Lai Wu Hui, your temporary commander.]
[I believe everyone has understood the situation just now. It is useless to defend the defense line. We must reorganize our forces and deploy the defense line more reasonably to ensure the survival of more people. Next, I will formulate a new deployment based on everyone's abilities. Please follow my orders and go to the designated positions to deploy defenses.]
He made the defense plan very quickly. There were still more than 400 players on the scene, and he reorganized them into 26 teams according to different starships and their respective capabilities, with each team responsible for defending a direction.
In addition, four roaming spearhead teams were set up to deal with high-level Zerg.
【Go but never return】 His excellent command ability was well demonstrated at this moment. He knew all the front-line players' areas of expertise clearly. He divided these people into teams and gave them reasonable tactics. He even took into account the deployment of supply points. According to his arrangement, the pressure on the defense line was greatly reduced, and the player's reduction rate also decreased rapidly.
The barrage of comments started flooding the screen when [You Lai Wu Hui] found the clue. [You Lai Wu Hui]'s fans were severely suppressed in the early stages of this game, and they immediately felt proud after seeing this operation, and praised him to the sky.
[He probably discovered it at the beginning. He mentioned it before setting off. The defense map was not reasonable.]
[Too strong! While others are still busy killing monsters, he has already discovered the commander's problem. This wave will never return in the atmosphere.]
【He! Is! The! Commander! 】
[He has always been the best conductor. I don’t need to tell you who won first place in the preliminary round.]
[This brain, this ability, must not be the loss of the expeditionary force.]
But there were also some questioning voices: [This commander is really good. He put all his people in the safest position in the inner circle, thinking that others would not find them. ]
[That sharp knife team exudes ill intentions. They know how dangerous it is to deal with S-rank Zerg. They put all the players with high scores in one go. It's clear that they are taking the opportunity to exclude dissidents.]
[Heh, he's always been good at excluding dissidents.]
[I feel sorry for Wo Fan. It wasn't enough to target her in the first two rounds. In this round, they directly put her in the position of the sharp knife captain, clearly sending her to her death.]
[Also, White Shark, half of his points have been deducted. If the Sharp Knife Team eliminates a few more teammates, his points will probably be at the bottom.]
[This time, I won the game. My team didn't have to be eliminated, and I was able to suppress my competitors. In the end, I also got a lot of hidden points.]
[Simplifying the Complex] When she received the message, she already realized that she had been tricked. She had some guesses about the deployment map and the commander, but she was not as sure as [Going Without Return], and she did not intend to take the risk.
I didn't expect that [Come but never return] would take the lead and put me on the passive side.
But in her opinion, the arrangement of "Go but not return" is indeed reasonable. Letting these powerful players deal with high-level Zerg can indeed minimize casualties. It is not wrong for her to be the captain of the spearhead team.
Although it was very unpleasant to be used by [Give but No Return], after weighing the pros and cons [Simplify the Complexity], he decided to accept the mission.
So what if we trick her? As long as she is strong enough, she can complete the mission and survive.
"This player named You Lai Wu Hui is really good. He is decisive, courageous and smart. He dares to question and dares to try. He can come up with a plan as soon as he takes the command position. He is a good candidate to be a commander." A starship pilot who also serves as a commander looked at You Lai Wu Hui with admiration and commented.
"This branch line is actually not difficult to find. As long as you have learned some basic principles related to deployment, you can see that there is a problem with the map. The key is to see if anyone dares to take the risk of going back after deducting points. It also depends on whether he has the courage and ability to really take over this position."
"He has a good brain, but I don't want to be a comrade with such a man on the battlefield. He is too cunning. The tricks he used in the first two rounds were not very honorable, especially the second round he targeted Xiao Fan, and this round he targeted others. Can't we have a fair competition?" A female driver who has a good personal relationship with Huafan Weijian spoke up.
But as soon as she finished speaking, someone immediately refuted her, "I know you have a good relationship with Jian Fan, but this competition must be fair and you can't be partial. The player named [You Lai Wu Hui] targeted Jian Fan because of his stance. The two of you are competitors, or to put it bluntly, enemies on the battlefield. When dealing with enemies, the goal is to win, not the means. Look, doesn't he protect his own people very well? He can ensure their survival and give full play to their abilities. This is the embodiment of a good commander."
A group of people were arguing with each other, but their eyes were all looking at the main seat. This person who had come back without a reply had performed well and unlocked a hidden task. They were wondering if this person was the one that Qi Hanyi was paying attention to.
But Qi Hanyi's expression remained indifferent, as if he didn't care about what was happening in the live broadcast just now.
The sharp-eyed driver noticed that Qi Hanyi's gaze was always on another split screen. The person on it was neither Jian Fan nor [You Lai Wu Hui] who had just shined, but [White Scale Shark], the player who was frequently deducted points in this game.
Everyone was puzzled. White Scale Shark's skills were good, but there was nothing particularly outstanding in this round. In terms of killing Zerg alone, he was not skilled in simplifying the complexities, and in terms of strategy and tactics, his round was a mess.
Not to mention that he was not as good as the top ten players, even some of the top 100 players had better ideas than him. In the previous battlefield, they knew how to form alliances with each other, form a defense line with several people, and cooperate to kill the Zerg. Or use the terrain to lure the Zerg to the vicinity of the defense cannon, or use tactics to restrain the attack of a few people.
Even Jian Fan, who is usually a lone wolf player, knows that he should save his teammates in this game. But [White Scale Shark] doesn't care about anyone and only cares about fighting the Zerg.
Just when a group of commanders were thinking whether Qi Hanyi was really paying attention to the [white-scale shark] and what exactly he was interested in the [white-scale shark], the [white-scale shark] in the live broadcast suddenly ran away.
He did not go to the position designated by [There is no return], nor did he flee the battlefield like a deserter. Instead, he went against the tide of insects and ran in the direction where the insects were coming without looking back.
"Fuck! That's the nest of the insects!" A driver couldn't help but swear: "He's not going to kill the queen insect alone, is he?"