Volume 7: Abandoned Sandstone City Chapter 331: Ruins Arena
Perhaps the group draw had used up all their luck, and in the next game, Ke Lan and the others were drawn to a three-on-three team battle - according to the original plan, they all chose to forfeit the two games against the top teams.
In the second round of the group stage, after winning two games in a row and ensuring that they would qualify 100%, they simply gave up all the remaining games. Among the many male pilots, Valentina stood out and her popularity had soared to the top three among all participating aces. Not only did abandoning many games not reduce her popularity, but it created a kind of "hunger marketing" effect. In the past two days, the office mailboxes of Hound and Chi Hanfeng were almost filled with invitations for business cooperation, and of course, there were also many "love confession letters" from fanatical fans expressing their love.
In the blink of an eye, the two-stage group stage has come to an end, and the new knockout stage system announced by the organizers of the competition has set off a new round of barrage frenzy on the Internet... However, compared with the online audience, the audience who bought tickets to watch the game were very excited. Even under the floating platform, Ke Lan could hear the roar of the audience in the ordinary viewing area below.
The constant shouts of “RNM, give us our money back!” echoed throughout the stadium. If the security guards who maintained order were not professional mercenaries armed with guns, the entire spectator stands would have been demolished by them.
The anger of the audience is not difficult to understand: because the knockout stage is located in the ruins of C-039 "Sandstone Ruined City", for safety reasons, the general viewing area is set up more than ten kilometers away from the ruins. As a result, these spectators who have spent a lot of money to buy tickets can only watch the game through the screen like the audience on the Ark who watch the live broadcast for free. Coupled with the poor food and accommodation environment, the dissatisfaction accumulated in the hearts of these spectators suddenly erupted, which led to the current situation.
The turmoil was not settled until the organizers of the competition stepped forward and promised to refund 50% of the purchase price of all tickets for the general viewing area and give each spectator a beautiful souvenir.
"To be honest, I think you guys are losing out on this." Layton muttered. The souvenirs promised by the event organizers were actually limited edition mecha assembly models. If you take these things back to the Ark and sell them, any one of them can be sold for several thousand credit points, and some of the popular and rare ones can be sold for more than five figures, which is almost worth the price of the ticket.
"Loss? Don't worry, they won't..." Ke Lan said with a smile, "Although it offended the audience, the new knockout tournament system has increased the ratings of the live broadcast several times. The advertising revenue alone can make the organizers of the event a lot of money. Who would care about the little money from the model? Don't you think so, Master Ye?"
"Ah, this..." Ye Yan suddenly felt a little embarrassed when asked by Ke Lan, "Actually...actually, I am not very clear about the specific operation of the competition...It should be, it should be about the same..."
The descendants of the noble families on the Ark are generally divided into two types. One type receives extremely strict elite education since childhood. They hardly have any time of their own. Even learning art, wine tasting, collecting and the like is just to cultivate the so-called "aristocratic temperament". For such people, the ultimate goal in life is to inherit the family power from their parents and bring it to a new peak... The other type is a real playboy who spends the whole day idling and waiting to die. Although they are still considered members of the nobility, the older generation of the family will never consider handing the family's future to such people. The meaning of their existence, apart from being the object of business marriage, is probably to help the family spend money.
And based on Ke Lan's observations over the past few days, Ye Yan is most likely the latter.
But it was precisely because of this that he was willing to deal with this fat man. After all, if you "make friends" with the former type of people, you will be calculating with each other almost every minute and every second. This kind of person who only cares about interests and has no emotions may be calling you a brother in the last second, and secretly selling you out in the next second... and the guy who was sold out may still be stupidly helping others count money...
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Two days later.
The sixty-four teams that qualified from the group stage boarded the Ye Group's super airship "Zulong" together. The "Zulong" is not only the VIP viewing area for the knockout stage, but also the starting point for the contestants.
The huge airship slowly sailed into the airspace above the "Sandstone Ruined City". This relic arena had been arranged several days in advance. Tens of thousands of drones surrounded the entire arena. The projection light curtain covered the top of the abandoned city like an oversized energy shield. Thirty-two recycling ships patrolled back and forth on the light curtain, and hundreds of laser beacons shot straight into the sky.
The "Zulong" will move forward along the large rift in the middle of the ruins. Contestants can parachute at any time before the "Zulong" leaves the competition area, and when they land, the signal transmitter will be activated - of course, according to the rules, contestants who land early are allowed to shoot at parachuting contestants, and if the mecha is destroyed in the air, it will also be considered eliminated.
As soon as the "Zulong " entered the competition area, two participating teams jumped down - these two teams were ordinary teams, and their tactical ideas were obviously not much different from those of Ke Lan and his team.
"Have you seen those laser beacons? Each laser beacon is a material supply point. If you want to get weapons, ammunition or mecha accessories, you must go to these supply points. The brighter the beacon, the richer the supplies at this supply point." Ye Yan was still following Ke Lan and the others, explaining some more detailed rules.
Ke Lan noticed that there were three extremely bright laser beacons in the central position at the bottom of the rift and on the left and right sides of the upper city. These three beacons were like three beams of light and were extremely eye-catching.
"Those three locations are super resource points. Although they are very lucrative, I advise you to give up..." Ye Yan said.
"Of course. I don't want to be killed the moment I land." Ke Lan nodded. As he spoke, several top-level teams jumped out of the cabin and glided towards the three super resource points.
"Let's jump here." Ke Lan chose a supply point on the edge of the ruins. The laser beacon here was very dim. If you didn't look carefully, it would be difficult to find that there was a supply point in this corner...
"Set off!"
