Volume 7: Abandoned Sandstone City Chapter 330: Qualifying in Advance
After defeating this quasi-rich team, Valentina won the remaining three games against the "make-up" teams without ace pilots with overwhelming personal strength. In this way, Ke Lan and his team have already obtained the tickets for the knockout rounds in advance.
Compared to the "group of death" that includes four or five powerful teams, the difficulty of qualifying for the group that the God Hunters were assigned to is already very low - provided that no dark horse that can "jump to the next level" emerges from those teams that are just making up the numbers.
"There are still two games left in the first round of group matches against top teams. My personal suggestion is that if we are not drawn into a one-on-one SOLO match, we should just give up... Anyway, we have won five games now, so even if we only beat those teams that are just making up the numbers in the second round, we can still qualify." Chi Hanfeng said.
"I agree with this proposal." Ke Lan nodded and said, "We have already stepped half a foot into the knockout stage. Instead of fighting to the death with those powerful teams in the group stage and exposing all our cards, it is better to choose a strategy of keeping a low profile. Valentina's strength has been revealed without a doubt, and her popularity is among the top ace pilots... and I, although I only played in one game, because my machine and fighting style are too special, and I killed an ace pilot who is much stronger than me in seconds, there will definitely be many teams who regard me as the key research object. Now our most hidden trump card is Asano Akira. At least in the group stage, we can't use this trump card."
"I agree too." The third person to speak was Hound. "It's just pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger... I understand. That's how it's written in exciting novels. Anyway, there's no extra bonus for winning all the group matches. Taking the initiative to avoid a tough battle can also save a lot of repair costs."
"It's still uncertain who the tiger is and who the pig is. Even those long-established powerful teams must have a lot of unknown secret weapons. Almost every final will have amazing new tactics, coupled with specialized machines built specifically for such tactics... this is the most exciting part of the final." Layton said.
"You guys, you just like to target me, right?" The Hound rolled his eyes at Layton with great dissatisfaction.
"But this year is completely different from previous years. The quarter-finals and semi-finals have all been cancelled... The top sixteen teams are directly thrown into the same competition area. The randomness is too great. Even if there are trump cards, they may not be able to survive to the end... After all, if there are casualties at the beginning, the second half of the game will probably be very difficult." Chi Hanfeng shook his head and refuted.
"By the way, speaking of the elimination mechanism and the safe zone, I think the organizers of the event should not be able to create a poison circle like the ones in the game in the ruins, right?" Ke Lan looked at Ye Yan and asked.
Ye Yan glanced at Song Shiyun beside him, hesitated for a moment , and said, "There are two types of elimination, namely, elimination of aircraft and elimination of pilots. Suppose two teams meet, and one team is completely wiped out, while the other team loses two aircraft. Then the completely wiped out team will be judged to be eliminated with all its personnel and aircraft, and will be taken out of the arena by the recovery ship patrolling over the arena. As for the team that lost two aircraft, as long as the pilot has not lost his combat capability, only his aircraft will be judged to be eliminated, and the pilot himself can continue to stay in the arena... If you can find the special item "Resurrection Beacon" in the next game, you can summon a supply ship to airdrop a blank skeleton... But the movement of the airdropped skeleton can be seen by most of the arena, which can easily attract nearby teams... After all, a blank skeleton without any weapons has almost no combat capability."
"It's basically the same news my brother got." Song Shiyun glared at Ye Yan. "Why, Fatty, are you still worried that I'll tell my brother about these things? You can rest assured, he knew all the details of the elimination match the night before yesterday... You're not the only one in the Ye family who's betraying their own people."
"Hey, Shiyun, this is called intelligence sharing. Brother Ke Lan and the others are my partners now. Can it be called betrayal?" Ye Yan explained hurriedly - the 500 million bet just now made him a lot of money. You know, when he placed the bet, the odds of betting on the Beast Hunter Group to win all the games today were still very high.
"What about the safe zone? Are they using biological toxins or ionizing radiation? Or some other special mechanism?" Ke Lan asked.
"Actually... there is no such thing as a poison circle..." Ye Yan was a little embarrassed, "Because the change in the competition system was a temporary decision, we didn't have time to make such a thing. The so-called safe zone is just a circle of shrinking holographic light curtains. The area within the light curtain is the safe zone, and those who stay outside the light curtain, whether they are pilots or machines, will be eliminated."
"..." Ke Lan was slightly stunned. "That is to say, as long as you leave the safe zone, even for less than a second, you will be eliminated?"
"Yes." Ye Yan nodded. "Signal transmitters are installed on the participating aircraft and pilots' suits. If they touch the edge of the light curtain, they will be eliminated."
"So, tactics like hiding outside the poison circle, circling around, etc., which are common in chicken-eating games, can't be used in this elimination match..." Ke Lan pondered, " I didn't expect this. In this case, the team in the fate circle will have a great advantage."
"Uh... there is no destiny circle either." Ye Yan responded, "The safety zone is not random, but shrinks at a uniform speed with the center of the stadium as the center."
"This design is quite reasonable. Those in the center don't have to worry about escaping from the poison, but they still have to face attacks from multiple directions... and there will definitely be a lot of teams jumping into the central area at the beginning." Ke Lan commented.
"With a configuration like ours, we're definitely no match for those triple-ace giants in a fight right now, so we might as well just stay close to the circle and develop safely, wait for our chances, try to avoid battles when our equipment isn't good in the early stages, and never initiate fights if we can help them stop fighting. We should adopt a timid approach as a whole. It may sound a bit mean, but it can at least ensure that we make it to the second stage of the knockout round." Layton analyzed. Unlike the Hound who didn't play many video games, he still liked to play games when he was bored, especially mecha and shooting games.
"There's one more thing. I don't know if you've noticed it." Zhuo Ligetu, who had been sitting cross-legged on the sofa and listening, suddenly spoke up. "Didn't the young master of the Ye family say that as long as the signal transmitter installed on the body of the aircraft or the pilot touches the edge of the light curtain, they will be eliminated. So when fighting at the edge of the safe zone, can't we just push the opponent out of the safe zone and kill him instantly? It's just like a sumo match. If you step on the ground outside the circle, you lose."
"Good idea. Using the rules to eliminate the opponent directly is indeed very valuable in practice!" The Hound immediately gave Zhuoligetu a thumbs up. "I didn't expect that besides being a muscular man, you, Mongolian, are also quite smart."
"Hehe, it's nothing. After all, in the Mongolian settlements, 'Bok' competitions are often held... and there are often some Japanese people who come to our place to recruit sumo wrestlers. I also practiced wrestling and sumo for a while, so I thought of this right away."
