Chapter 114 Competition System
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Is this true or false?
[No matter life or death? ! ! ]
[Are you asking students to risk their lives?!]
[They are not ordinary students, they are military academy students, okay?]
[Oh, so military academy students aren't students anymore? Military academy students don't need protection? Then what do the soldiers of the nine military regions do? Just eat and eat?]
If that's the case, then military academy students will also join the military and become soldiers. So, do they also need protection? Who will protect them?
Just the four words "life or death" caused a heated debate on Starnet.
Many contestants were talking about this, but the Sunflower Five didn't take these four words to heart. They were very busy all day and just wanted to relax during their break. They were too lazy to think about these twists and turns.
After all, their commander is by their side and someone has arranged everything for them.
"This isn't even a conspiracy; it's an open conspiracy."
Shi Hanqiao hadn't read the specific rules yet, his eyes fell on Luo Wusheng's screen.
He received news that a viewing city had been built on the nameless planet where this league was held.
Important generals from the nine military regions, imperial dignitaries, and important members of various families will come to the viewing city to enjoy the event together with the people watching the live broadcast.
The young man frowned: "So many people——"
I don’t know who Shi Qi and Claude’s targets are.
Before he could finish his words, he felt a warm touch between his eyebrows. He looked up and saw that it was girl A who put her fingertips on his eyebrows, smoothing his frown little by little.
"Don't worry." It's just an unknown star, and Shi Hanqiao's mental power can completely cover it.
No matter who their target is, she can sense it, and it will not be difficult to obtain the other party's information and purpose at that time.
Luo Wusheng grasped her wrist and pulled it down, following the veins in the palm of his hand, and inserted his five fingers into her fingertips, interlocking their fingers.
He looked at her intently. "The City Construction Group is under my name. I have the authority to oversee and monitor the city. There's no need to trouble you."
Woman A said, "It's not a problem."
"You're not needed then." The young man's voice rose slightly.
Woman A lowered her head slightly, seeming depressed.
The corners of his lips, hidden in the shadows, were raised.
The young man took a deep breath. He would have been fooled before, but now he knew that this was just the poor acting of girl A.
But he still fell for it, willingly.
He took the initiative to move forward, leaning into her arms and leaning close to her ear.
"I'm worried about you." He didn't want to rely too much on Female A's abilities. Even though he knew she was very strong, he still worried about her.
The deliberately lowered voice whispers were very alluring. Several months of training life made the two people enter the ascetic state not long after they started having sex.
Shi Hanqiao didn't think much of the training, but the young man was not her and still needed improvement.
"That--"
Female A stretched out her tone, and when her phoenix eyes raised, she lightly kissed her bright gaze.
"—Should I thank you for your concern?"
"certainly."
The young man's eyebrows were slightly curved, a fox-like sly smile flashed across his eyes, and his fingers hooked on the belt of woman A and slowly pulled it down.
Before the intense league matches, an indulgent carnival is needed to let people unload their heavy hearts and greet them with a good and satisfied mental state.
In the following week, countless precious starships and rare starships descended on the remote and nameless planet like a swarm of bees.
I'm already numb.
[+1]
Who isn't?
I've seen so many luxurious starships these days that I don't think much of ordinary starships when I see them outside. The problem is, I can't even afford an ordinary starship!
[There are so many wealthy people in the empire, why can't there be one more like me! ]
【I want to go see it live too! 】
[They've made such a big fuss, even built a viewing city. The league is supposed to be a competition to select outstanding military academy students, but now it's become a show for the rich and powerful to enjoy?!]
【Ah, if you don't like it, you don't have to watch it. 】
[Previous league matches were broadcast live, available to everyone in the Empire. I've never seen anyone call the league a show, but how can it be considered a show when people go to watch it live?]
This move is great for the people living near the nameless planet! It's boosting the economies of several nearby planets, which is fantastic!
StarNet is always a place where people come to vent their emotions loudly, and anything can cause a quarrel.
Amidst the noise, the league kicked off and teams from various schools gathered in the newly built city square.
There are more than a thousand military academies in the empire, and each school has a team quota to participate.
More than 8,000 people gathered around the miniature 3D map in the center of the square, but the scene was not noisy or chaotic at all.
They were all waiting for instructions, and this process required extreme silence.
Before the instructions were even issued, the commanders in the team had already begun preparations - memorizing the map firmly in their minds.
The map is reduced in size to a certain extent so that each tree can be seen clearly. The height of a tree that is more than 20 meters high is reduced to about 10 centimeters.
Even so, the scaled-down map still occupied half of the center of the square.
Woods, streams, rivers, seas, mountains...
The map shows a complex landform.
"I believe you have seen the rules issued in advance."
A large projection screen appeared in the air, and Major Ling, who had appeared during the military training, appeared on the screen. He said, "The same old saying: survive."
After that, the screen disappeared.
Shi Hanqiao held Luo Wusheng's hand, dispelling some of the solemnity in his phoenix eyes.
More than a thousand unmanned helicopters took to the sky and headed for the vast competition venue.
"What does Major Ling mean by surviving? He's not going to let us kill each other again, is he?" Celia frowned.
Albert continued, "Killing each other is fine, but the rules this time say life or death is irrelevant. This is a fatal attack!"
Killing each other during military training is not a cruel thing, because "death" is fake, so after understanding the rules, you can attack others without any burden.
This time they are serious, and it is clearly stated that it doesn’t matter whether you live or die.
In fact, after the life-or-death rule came out, some teams had already given up the competition.
A large number of the current contestants still hold this mentality, believing that the Empire will never really allow cadets to kill cadets.
They all thought so, but when they got on the helicopter to check the weapons, they became even more panicked.
"These are real swords and guns!"
Luo Wuming exclaimed in surprise. He was the first to discover the weapons box on the helicopter, which contained seven space buttons.
The weapons in the space button are all the same.
Their appearance was exactly the same as the ones we saw during the last military training, but anyone who had been trained could tell at a glance how lethal they were.
To be precise, the appearance of the prop guns used in military training are simulated those in front of us, but the inside is replaced with harmless white mist bullets.
[Are you serious?!]
[No way, what if someone does something like what Han Qiao did during the last military training? Wouldn't that kill them instantly?!]
[Does the Empire really want to force the cadets to kill each other with real weapons? This competition system is too cruel! How did they pass?! !]
"Don't be so hasty, okay? Look, the helicopters are flying to different locations, creating distance. When they land, they'll only be surrounded by their team members. Who would be so stupid as to kill their own teammates in a league?!"
[Yeah! I forgot in a hurry! This is a league, not military training.]
Unlike the random team formation and obvious individual-oriented hints in military training, this is a league known for teamwork.
Although the competition system has changed, the core of teamwork will not change.
All the participating teams are comrades who have been working together for a long time. They have established friendships with each other long ago, and no one will point weapons at their comrades.
[But what if they run into another team? Are they just going to have to watch a livestream of people getting killed?!]
As this barrage passed by, the screen, which was full of real-time barrages, was blank for several seconds.
However, someone soon reacted.
[I really don't know what the point of this 'life or death' is?! Is it to scare someone?! Or does it really mean they have to kill their opponent!]
Why are humans killing each other?! Shouldn't they be killing the Zerg?! I really don't understand!
For a moment, my eyes couldn’t keep up with the speed of barrage and comments refreshing on Starnet.
Ulysses was confused and he was not sure what the situation was.
"The rules simply state that the league lasts for one month, that the competition venue has safe houses, supply stations, and other structures, and that there's a special sign that says 'Life or Death Matters,' and nothing else."
"And Major Ling just added a word about survival. Does that mean we have to rely on these weapons to survive for the next month?!"
Unlike the military training where equipment was drawn from blind boxes, this time the equipment was distributed uniformly. Everyone had a saber, a light energy particle pistol, and a sniper rifle.
The equipment is pitifully small, but fortunately there is no limit on the two types of bullets.
But, the thought of 'surviving'.
Are these real bullets really going to be fired at other people?!
[Why are you so anxious? Don't you still have the option to abstain?!]
There was another blank moment.
【!!! ！ ！】
[What a unique angle! Why didn't I think of that?]
[Yeah! There's nothing in the rules that says you can't give up. There's a give up button in every space button.]
So? This league is like military training, with lots of hidden rules for the participants to discover?!
[I think it should be! Otherwise, this is too unreliable! ]
【A possibility suddenly occurred to me! 】
【explain! 】
【Don’t keep me in suspense! 】
[Hurry up and tell me! Don't make me kneel down and beg you!]
After waiting for a while, the long text finally arrived.
The last military training was also live-streamed, clearly a warm-up for this league. Could this rule be a deliberate trap set by Han Qiao and Luo Wusheng after they prematurely deciphered the core idea during the previous training? Just like when we heard Major Ling say "survive," we naturally thought of the previous training and the actions of Han Qiao and Luo Wusheng.
The inertia of thinking is a maze that is very easy to get into.
It's happened before.
That's definitely the case.
People always believe what they see and firmly believe in the information they get.
But everything is changing every moment.
"Yes, survive." Luo Wusheng nodded.
Josephine looked at him and said, "What should we do after we go down?"
They only had simple weapons, no food supplies, no telescopic tents, and so on.
"Wait." Luo Wusheng said and looked at Shi Hanqiao. Seeing her unchanged expression, he breathed a sigh of relief.
To be honest, he was still a little uneasy this time.
Although his mental power could cover the newly built viewing city, he was still concerned about the purpose behind Shi Qi and Claude during the game.
He especially needs his female A to support him.
"Do you already know the core idea of this league?" Luo Wuming looked at the commander and female A with shining eyes.
The latter's caring eyes were as if he was looking at a mentally retarded person, "To use stillness to control movement is the simplest way to deal with it."
[So, the new competition system wasn't really designed to target Shi Hanqiao and Luo Wusheng, right?]
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