Battle to the Top is ranked first in the battle game rankings in the gaming area. Rather than being a game, it is more like a holographic world that integrates training, competition, and examinations.
Also an official game, Nightmare City is designed to improve the mental strength of ordinary people, while this fighting game is designed to enhance the combat awareness and practical experience of the entire population.
Although the empire is relatively peaceful now, this huge country has always been a military society.
Martial arts competition, mecha confrontation, survival in desperate situations, starship command... There are rich and diverse types of training. No matter what kind of training you want, or what you like, you can get the maximum training here.
Alvia is very familiar with this game, so there is no need to worry about unexpected situations like before.
After entering the game and logging into his account, Elvia pulled Zhou Zhou into the game, while Zhou Zhou was still immersed in the previous game and doubting his life.
Suddenly I came to another game and looked a little dazed. It took me a long time to realize that I had changed the game.
'Battle to the Top' has been ranked first in the game area rankings for many years. Both its popularity and history are much higher than 'Nightmare City'. There are even various national competitions every year, so the number of real-time online players in the game is very high. After registering a personal account, you must first select a different area before entering.
You can set your appearance and nickname in the game at will. Even if you want to set your appearance to an animal or an insect, no one will pay much attention. Zhou Zhou did not make any changes and still used his own appearance and name.
He just had a hard time choosing the area. There are several major categories of areas, including mecha, wilderness, starship, military force, etc., and below them there are competition areas, living areas, and training areas. Zhou Zhou had no idea how to choose.
He looked at Alvia. Alvia was still a common face in this game. Zhou Zhou didn't know how to choose. He said, "Which area do you want to visit first? You can choose any one. You can visit all of them later when you have time."
Zhou Zhou randomly clicked on a mecha area and selected the competition area in the category below.
Seeing this, Elvia immediately chose the same area, and the two were immediately transferred to the mecha area.
The mecha area looks more like a high-tech city, with towering buildings everywhere, which is very different from the nightmare city with a strong atmosphere of life.
Zhou Zhou was fascinated by the giant billboards and robots walking everywhere.
His negative emotions came and went quickly. He had forgotten what happened in the love game and turned to observe the environment here.
Alvia took Zhou Zhou to a building in the city center with familiarity. Zhou Zhou followed Alvia closely like a little tail. Even though he turned his head around to look at everything around him, he did not leave Alvia's side at all. In an unfamiliar environment, especially a crowded place like this, he subconsciously followed the person he was most familiar with.
"Where is this place?" Zhou Zhou asked curiously when he saw Elvia bought two tickets on the first floor.
"This is the mecha competition area. The most common thing here is various mecha competitions." He raised the ticket in his hand, "I bought a ticket for the ring competition. Let's go take a look first."
Zhou Zhou nodded obediently. He understood nothing about this and naturally followed Elvia's instructions.
The two of them went to the corresponding match together. He hadn't logged into the game for several years. When watching the match, he had never heard of most of the people's nicknames. In the end, he chose a player he had some impression of.
After entering the venue, Zhou Zhou discovered that the space inside was very large. There was a huge competition field in the middle, surrounded by crowds of people. Everyone was discussing the players of the game and guessing the outcome of the game.
Zhou Zhou listened in confusion and followed Elvia in his seat. These completely touched upon his blind spots in knowledge. After all, there was no content about mechas in books written thousands of years ago. Before the game started, Alvia patiently explained the rules of the game, allowing Zhou Zhou to understand and absorb them bit by bit.
Zhou Zhou nodded as he listened, looking very serious. It turns out that different areas of the game have a special ranking list, which ranks players according to their strength, and the rankings are arranged through continuous competitions. If you want to get a higher ranking, you have to keep playing games. Of course, if you lose in the game, your points will not increase but decrease, and your ranking will also decrease.
"Al, haven't you played this game before? Do you have a ranking?" The ranking can be seen by anyone. Zhou Zhou asked when he learned that Alvia had also played this game before. In his opinion, Alvia was the most powerful person he had ever seen and must be ranked very high.
Alvia smiled, his ordinary face looked very honest: "Fortunately, I was ranked first in every district for a while, but I haven't logged in in recent years, so I guess my ranking has fallen behind."
Because of his impure motives, Elvia often slacked off in the Nightmare City dungeon. Although his accumulated points exceeded those of most players, they were much lower than those of Zhou Zhou, who was seriously following the story and completing tasks in every dungeon. However, he did not care much about the points.
But several years ago, he was not as nonchalant as he is now in this game. At that time, he was still young and had a bit of teenage indignation and unwillingness to admit defeat. He would not be able to sleep for several days after losing a game, so in the end he won the first place in all regions. Of course, this process was not easy. After all, there were so many masters in the game, and it took him several years to reach the top.
He never entered the game again after that. One reason was that he had no opponents, and the other was that there were too many messy things in real life. He had to clean up the mess left by the previous emperor, so naturally he had no free time to do other things.
First in every district! Zhou Zhou opened his eyes wide. Although he didn't know how popular this game was, it must be very impressive to be ranked first in every district.
While the two were talking, a middle-aged man who was waiting for the game to start boredly behind them was also listening to them. Seeing the honest-looking man patiently explaining the various procedures of the game to the handsome boy beside him, he just thought they were some young master and bodyguard. He also thought that the nobles were so pretentious that they even had to bring bodyguards to play a game. Then he heard the boy naively asking the other party about his ranking.
He curled his lips. Not everyone can get a ranking. After all, there are so many people in the entire galaxy. If everyone who participates in the game has a ranking, there will be billions of people ranked. However, judging from the other party's ordinary appearance, he should be able to be a bodyguard of a noble family. The highest ranking is probably tens of thousands.
The middle-aged man was silently estimating in his mind when he heard the bodyguard say in a very calm tone that he had been ranked first in every district for a period of time. His first reaction was that this guy looked honest, but he was really good at bragging. He was the first in the whole district, so why didn't he say that he was the emperor of the empire.
Being able to achieve first place in an entire region is already a very high achievement, and these players are all extremely famous figures in the game. Getting first place in all regions is simply a dream...
Suddenly, the middle-aged man paused.
No, one person did.
He thought of the legendary figure who dominated the entire game many years ago, the only player who reached the all-around number one. Just like the name of the game, he really became the only person to reach the top, and when his most glorious era came, he suddenly disappeared. Many people tried various ways and means to find out his identity in reality and his whereabouts, but all failed.
Until now, many players in the game have wanted to replicate his victory, but no one has succeeded.
The middle-aged man looked at the ordinary-looking guy sitting in front of him and boasting about himself, and snorted coldly. This guy dared to pretend to be the legendary player, how could anyone believe it.
But when he looked at Zhou Zhou, he discovered that the young nobleman was looking at him with starry eyes and actually believed it!
Middle-aged man: “…”
He just felt that these two were really hopeless. One dared to brag and the other dared to believe. No wonder they could get together.
He originally didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but the silly boy looked like the kind of idiot who would help count money after being sold, so he decided to give him a reminder. As for whether he listened or not, it was none of his business.
"Hello, hello." The middle-aged man called Zhou Zhou.
In a strange state of mind, Elvia used the calmest tone to quietly show off his past achievements in the game. He did not mention that he had also stumbled all the way when he first entered the game, with wins and losses, but simply mentioned his later achievements.
It was the first time that Elvia told others this. His usual taciturn image was deeply rooted in people's hearts. Apart from political affairs, he seldom communicated with others about anything else, which made his image in the empire more noble and cold.
But in front of the person he liked, Alvia couldn't help but want to say more, wanting Zhou Zhou to know him better.
But when the person behind them saw that they didn't respond, he poked Zhou Zhou's shoulder with his finger, which made Elvia stop.
The two turned around and looked at the strange middle-aged man. Zhou Zhou blinked and said, "Excuse me, what can I do for you?"
Seeing that the young nobleman's tone was not bad, the middle-aged man felt that he was not too kind-hearted. "Don't listen to his nonsense. You may not know since you just came to the game. In all these years, only one player has become the first in the entire region in the top battle, and that player has disappeared for many years. Some people brag but don't know how to choose a reliable one. Don't be fooled."
As the middle-aged man spoke, he stared at Elvia with a scrutinizing look, and his direction was very obvious.
Alvia: “…”
Zhou Zhou was stunned for a moment, and said to the middle-aged man: "Thank you, but how do you know that person is not him?"
Of the two, Zhou Zhou definitely believed Al, he just wanted to know how the other party knew that Al was not that person.
The middle-aged man naturally scoffed at the boy's words: "Isn't this obvious? There have been so many people pretending to be legendary players over the years, it's nothing new."
Zhou Zhou looked at Alvia again. Alvia raised his eyebrows, which looked a little funny on this ordinary face. Zhou Zhou was amused by his expression.
He smiled at the middle-aged man, knowing that the other party was also reminding him with good intentions: "Thank you, I will pay attention to it."
There was no argument that Alvia was the real legendary figure. Zhou Zhou thanked him and then watched the upcoming game with Alvia.
The middle-aged man wanted to say something, but seeing that the two people had a very harmonious relationship, he stopped talking. He just felt that young people nowadays would only be willing to listen to the advice of others after they have suffered a little.
The game started and the people chatting also focused their attention on the game.
Two mechas appeared on the huge arena in the center. One had a silver metallic luster, majestic and cold; the other was fiery red, dazzling. The moment the two mechas appeared, there was a burst of warm cheers at the scene.
Zhou Zhou looked at the cheering crowd around him and was also infected by their enthusiasm, so he sat there and clapped his hands vigorously.
When the game officially started and the two mechas were moving, Zhou Zhou, who was applauding along, focused on the two mechas on the field that were almost turning into shadows.
Many people on the field had poor dynamic vision and couldn't even see clearly how the two mechas were fighting. They could only rely on the slow motion and detailed explanations on the screen above to understand their fighting process.
Zhou Zhou's amber pupils moved quickly with the mecha, and Elvia knew at a glance that Zhou Zhou could also see the actions on the field clearly.
He occasionally glanced at the field, but his attention was more focused on Zhou Zhou. He guessed that artificial intelligence with human thinking also has its own unique personality, just like Zeus, who seems to be interested in everything and always likes to play around, but in fact, he doesn't care about the things he's interested in. He won't be sad if he loses them, but will continue to look for the next interesting thing. With an almost cold emotional perception, he should be said to be more like a qualified artificial intelligence.
Zhou Zhou, on the other hand, is more like a human being. He has things he likes and things he dislikes. If he likes something, he will do it seriously, but if he doesn't like something, he will just ignore it. Although judging from his copy data, his actual emotional ups and downs are more dull than what he shows, but as the copy progresses, his emotions become more extroverted, as if he is absorbing and digesting different emotional perceptions and transforming them into his own.
There are only two of them in the current artificial intelligence, and there is no other reference, but Alvia can almost conclude that the development directions of these two artificial intelligences are different. As for what they will become, he doesn't know either.
After all, the emergence of the two of them was unpredictable and could be said to be a miracle.
Seeing that Zhou Zhou was indeed interested, Elvia explained the actions of both parties, the purpose of their moves, and predicted what the next move would be. He even said that the red mecha would definitely win in the end.
The middle-aged man behind them couldn't see the movements of the two mechas clearly. After all, it was a fight between two masters, and they could only watch many of the movements in slow motion to understand what was happening.
The ordinary-looking man in front started chatting with the boy again. Amid the fierce competition and tense atmosphere, his slow and leisurely tone, which was in stark contrast to the atmosphere on the scene, once again attracted the attention of the middle-aged man.
After hearing the other party's explanation to the young man, he felt that the other party's strength was indeed good and he looked like a veteran. However, when he started to predict the actions of both sides, every word he said would appear in the mouth of the game commentator shortly afterwards, as if he had already known the entire process of the game.
The middle-aged man got closer and closer. Listening to his predictions and watching the game, I felt more and more that he had underestimated the opponent. With this level, he would probably be ranked in the thousands.
Until the whole game was over, the result was just as the opponent expected, the red mecha won.
Zhou Zhou watched intently and listened to everything Elvia said. He watched the game while listening and learned a lot of new words after the game. After watching the game, he felt as excited as the cheering crowd around him and wished he could go up and play a match himself.
Since Zhou Zhou wanted to give it a try, Elvia naturally would not object. However, Zhou Zhou didn't know anything yet and had to start from the basics.
When Alvia took Zhou Zhou to learn the basics, the middle-aged man posted this incident as a funny thing in the game forum, but he didn't know that it caused an uproar.
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