Chapter 127
【??? Gu Tunan, are you kidding me?】
[I told you to stop milking! This poisonous milk is going to kill me]
[I find this a bit strange. Gu Tunan can’t even confuse real people and fictional characters. Is this just a brain-wrecking moment?]
Most of the Lone Frog was charred, and it turned from a green frog into a black frog. Gu Tunan woke up from his trance. He took a look at the damage rate of the mecha, which was 60%.
What's worse is that the backpack storing the mechanical vines was destroyed.
There was no impatience on Gu Tunan's face. He calmly overturned his original battle plan in his mind. His brain was like a high-speed precision machine. The energy consumed by each killing move, weapon use, and even the normal operation of the mecha was clearly marked in his mind.
Unlike Xie Ruheng who fights with his super high fighting instinct, Gu Tunan treats a battle more like solving a problem.
There is only one answer: victory, but there are countless ways to achieve victory.
The losses caused by the damage to the mecha quickly flashed through Gu Tunan's mind, and he came up with a new combat plan almost in a flash.
"The speed of the Lonely Frog has not decreased!!!" the host shouted excitedly: "Gu Tunan took advantage of the environment and started flying the kite!"
The energy reserves of the participating mechas are limited. Although the Night Meteors of the Night Goddess Nyx have great destructive power, they consume a lot of energy each time and cannot be used indefinitely.
Pamela became increasingly annoyed as she watched her energy reserves dwindle, especially as her massive attacks failed every time, while Gu Tunan's occasional long-range attacks were effective.
Seeing that the Lonely Frog would subconsciously avoid the virtual NPC every time it dodged, Pamela suddenly came up with an idea.
"The Night Goddess Nyx flew in the opposite direction of the Lonely Frog. It's strange, what is she trying to do?" the host asked puzzled.
Gu Tunan turned around and saw a huge shadow covering the NPCs who were hiding together for shelter. The Night Goddess Nyx aimed its gun at this place.
She didn't fire immediately, but seemed to be waiting for something.
Some NPCs were kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, while others were trembling and unable to speak. The technology of holographic projection was very advanced, and they looked just like real people.
When an NPC tried to escape from the shelter, Pamela used an energy bomb to kill the person, and the virtual NPC turned into data and dispersed.
[Although I know this is just data, Pamela's threatening behavior makes me feel physically uncomfortable]
[I am torn. Isn't Pamela a peace advocate?!]
[Ah, I hope Gu Tunan won’t be so stupid as to try to stop the gun from coming, but I also hope Gu Tunan won’t just stand by and watch the person die.]
[Am I the only one who thinks this is Gu Tunan's fault? If he hadn't had a brain attack, Pamela wouldn't have resorted to such a desperate measure.]
[The victim-blaming theory is late but it’s here. Am I the only one who thinks the person above is stupid?]
Gu Tunan frowned.
He read an inexplicable...determination from his opponent's posture?
It seemed as if he was sure that he would save these virtual NPCs.
In fact, Pamela's choice to use these NPCs to threaten him was a bit strange in itself. This was a competition, not a real war. There was no need to use such unscrupulous methods just to win or lose.
If he chooses not to go, some people may attack him for being cold-blooded, but before blaming him, Pamela will be spurned by more public opinion. Only when he really goes will someone support Pamela. After all, many people believe in only looking at the results, not the process.
Gu Tunan himself didn't know why he had mistaken the little girl NPC as a real person. Maybe it was because the child was close in age to his brother, or maybe it was because of the high-intensity training he had been doing recently that made him mentally exhausted. But why did Pamela pin her hopes of victory on something that was impossible to happen...
Is Pamela just cold-hearted? Is she willing to do anything to achieve her goals?
Various speculations quickly passed through the mind, and the two mechas were deadlocked in place.
Some NPCs began to beg Gu Tunan to come over, but when they saw that Gu Tunan did not move at all, the desperate people began to curse at Gu Tunan again.
At this moment, the NPC girl rescued by Gu Tunan walked out of the crowd holding a doll. Her floral dress was dirty, her braided hair was messy, and her little face was wet.
The examples of other NPCs escaping and being killed are still vivid in their minds. This little girl just stood at the door of the shelter. She touched the teddy bear in her hand very cherishingly. Her father and mother both died in the explosion. To her, the teddy bear is her only family.
She said something to the teddy bear, tears streaming down her cheeks. Then, she threw the teddy bear in her hand away and shouted to Gu Tunan in the distance: "Big frog! Run quickly!"
When she shouted this, an NPC next to her covered her mouth, as if afraid that she would say something.
The teddy bear that the little girl threw with all her might landed not far from Gu Tunan.
It was all alone, covered with dust and blood. If the little bear could cry, it would probably be crying like the little girl at this moment.
Gu Tunan looked at the little girl whose tears had dried up. Those eyes, which concealed endless sorrow, overlapped for a moment with the amber eyes in his memory.
That day he and Tang Bai met in a restaurant. He ordered the mango dessert which Tang Bai didn't like. When Tang Bai wanted to end their relationship as fiancé, Tang Bai looked at him with those eyes and said to him, Gu Tunan, you really disappoint me.
Tang Bai's voice was so soft, but his eyes were so sad that he looked like he was about to cry.
It was just a moment of trance, but Gu Tunan's excellent willpower allowed him to quickly realize that this was not a real person.
But he couldn't help but think of Tang Bai.
Tang Bai, who likes the Palulu doll and is very gentle to NPCs.
In fact, he couldn't understand why Tang Bai liked these things before, and why he would waste his emotions on virtual things.
The Gu family has a storage room, which contains many stuffed toys. It is said that those toys were bought by the youngest brother as toys for him, and were put away when he grew up.
Those dolls are useless, only omegas would play with them.
If a child always touches these before differentiation, what will happen if he becomes an omega? !
Xiaonan, you have to learn to reflect on yourself. You can't fall in the same place twice!
As soldiers, we cannot let our emotions get the better of us.
......
The words of his father and grandfather echoed in his ears, but it seemed that no one had ever taught him to be gentle.
Gu Tunan thought about this as he took a step forward. He suddenly wanted to pick up the little bear. That was all.
Pamela's turret carriage kept moving in Gu Tunan's direction, and she would immediately launch an attack as long as the Lonely Frog came into her range.
Victory must be hers!
So what if I'm a genius?!
Just as Pamela was immersed in fantasies of victory, she suddenly heard a strange starting sound.
That was the sound of large weapons being activated.
At the moment when the mechanical clamp of the Lonely Frog was about to touch the bear doll, a dazzling white light suddenly burst out from the shelter, tearing through the swirling darkness. This grand explosion annihilated everything around the shelter.
The desperate NPC activated the self-destruct device that would destroy the shelter together.
——"Goodbye, little bear. I'm going to heaven to find my parents."
As the death countdown approached, she wanted to get her bear out of the blast.
"Oh my god..." the host said blankly, "The NPCs and Pamela died together..."
At this moment, everyone was shocked by the dramatic reversal and was unable to recover. It was as if in the catastrophic explosion, only Gu Tunan was spared.
The public screen showed a wonderful replay of the Lonely Frog in this game. The giant frog mecha blocked the crying little girl. The little girl had tears on her face. She raised her head and looked at the funny and ugly frog. When the overwhelming energy bombs kept hitting the frog's back, making a deafening and terrifying sound -
She carefully leaned on the frog with her trembling body, holding the teddy bear tightly in her arms.
Just like she used to be afraid of thunder and would cry and hug her parents when she couldn't sleep.
But she no longer has a father or a mother.
After the replay ended, the champion of the game was displayed in gold font on the public screen.
"This game is won by Gu Tunan's Lonely Frog from the Federation team!!!" the host shouted first. This loud shout broke the silence and the whole audience burst into warm applause and cheers!
“This is not fair! This is a conspiracy!!!”
"Gu Tunan of the Federation team cheated! The Mecha Cup competition is unfair!"
The protest was initiated by the Empire team. The reason given by the Empire team was that Gu Tunan's inexplicable behavior of protecting the little girl NPC could not be explained by common sense, but assuming that Gu Tunan learned from the Federation in advance that saving the NPC could win without fighting, then everything would make sense.
The coach of the Empire team and Pamela strongly condemned the shady dealings of the Federation game on social media. This kind of shifting the blame made some spectators who did not know the truth stand up for the Empire, believing that Gu Tunan's actions brought shame to the Federation.
Eventually, the incident got so serious that the person in charge of the federal map had to come out and clarify: "This is just a normal map, no different from maps of snowy mountains and volcanoes, except that the latter involves consideration of natural disasters and geographical factors, while the former takes into account human factors."
"Under normal circumstances, NPCs will not activate the self-destruct device. Only when a player invades an NPC and causes the NPC to lose control of his emotions will it explode."
"The reason why NPCs are set up in this map and have the ability to activate self-destruct devices is to increase uncertainty and fun. Another reason is that we want to test the quality of the players."
"A good mecha master must first learn to respect life before using mechas to achieve victory, because weapons are meant to serve people."
Due to the Empire team's continued protests, the match was marked as disputed and re-entered the judging process.
The referees from different countries in the Mecha Cup had different opinions on this match. The referee from the Empire team insisted that there was something fishy going on in the match and put pressure on the other two referees from small countries. Under the heavy pressure, one referee from a small country gave up his right, while the other one firmly supported the Empire in defending its rights.
The referee in Proya said that the federation means what I mean.
So everyone's attention fell on the old man representing the Federation.
Grandpa Tang sat at the negotiation table. The aggressive imperial referee restrained himself a little in front of Tang Rong. No one dared to underestimate this amiable-looking old man.
"This match is indeed controversial. Whether Pamela wins or Gu Tunan wins, it is unconvincing. In this case, we will temporarily declare the result of the match a draw."
Grandpa Tang's words were final. When the person in charge of the Mecha Cup changed the results of the competition, the photo of the Lonely Frog trying to pick up the teddy bear in the explosion went viral on the Star Network.
The lonely frog in the picture looks ugly and funny, and the little bear doll it wants to pick up is equally dirty, but the huge explosion has coated them with a layer of soft light. It seems that they want to escape from this crazy and chaotic world together, and escape to another fairy tale world.
This is not the first time that the Lonely Frog has caused heated discussion. When the Lonely Frog made its debut, netizens rushed to make fun of it, and some netizens said that they must give this mecha to their good brothers, not only to wish them loneliness, but also to wish them cuckolded.
But this time was different.
They said it was a mecha from a fairy tale.
Because in the fairy tale, the big frog will take the little bear home, and they will live together happily forever.
At the same time, Pamela's rating dropped drastically. Regardless of whether Gu Tunan cheated or not, Pamela's attitude towards NPCs in the game was obvious to all.
——"A cold-blooded war machine."
——"I can't imagine what she would look like in the war years! Did the Imperial Army always wield their swords against the weaker ones?!"
——"Her behavior made me physically sick."
——"Is this the peace faction of the Empire? So disappointing."
In short, today is also a bald day for the employees of the Imperial Propaganda Department.
However, the overwhelmed Empire employees did not know what kind of storm they would face next.
Gu Tunan took his physical examination report, which showed that his hormones were abnormal.
Mo Zheng stood beside Gu Tunan, "I was also dazed for a moment during the game. I thought something was wrong with me at the time."
The two looked at each other and both noticed something was wrong.
They have no evidence now, and suspicion alone cannot convict Pamela.
Xie Ruheng looked at the contestants' ongoing duel on the stage and said calmly, "I will challenge Pamela this afternoon. If she uses that cheating method again, we can record the evidence."
They have reported their findings to the responsible persons, and the federal government has come up with a variety of testing methods on the spot, but it is not sure whether these methods will work.
"What if she stops while she's ahead and doesn't use that cheating method anymore?" Gu Tunan frowned.
"No." Xie Ruheng said calmly, "Have you ever seen contestants from underground arenas?"
"Many athletes will resort to methods that harm their bodies to unleash their potential."
"The path of winning through external forces is addictive, just like drugs. Just a little bit of it can ruin a person forever."
Looking at Gu Tunan who was suddenly realizing something, Xie Ruheng withdrew his gaze.
What he didn't say was that rats are best at bringing out the evil desires in people like this.
He wouldn't give Pamela a chance to stop.
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