NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 9: Mechanical maze
A huge light screen unfolded against the backdrop of the sea of stars. Countless people stared at the screen, waiting for the result. Even the two hosts on the stage stopped talking and looked up at the screen.
Countless images were broken and reassembled on the light screen, and finally fixed on an unclear image with countless winding lines, which made it visually very chaotic.
What map is... this?
The audience in front of the screen was speechless for a moment, staring at the picture on the light screen, and fell into thought.
This can't be blamed on them. In order to avoid some things, such as contestants collecting map information in advance and cheating, the map used in the Interstellar Tournament is not only randomly selected by the Star Network Intelligent Brain, but also not fixed. A map may be deleted then a new one may be added at any time. Under this premise, it is completely normal for the audience to not recognize the game map.
There are quite a few viewers watching the live broadcast at this time. Among them, there will be some who are quick-witted. Some people react quickly, after suddenly realizing it, they send a barrage.
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[If I am not mistaken, this seems to be a newly built mechanical planet of the Ange civilization.]
[The one that was popular on StarNet before? Didn't they stop the project because of insufficient funds and only built half of the planet ma?]
[I checked what you said, it turned out to be true! But from this picture, it seems to have been completed a? Where did the Ange civilization get the money? They build planets every day, so they must have run out of money ba.]
[It's like this, I know some inside infos. Before the Interstellar Tournament started, I heard a news that the Ange civilization sold something to the Alliance. Now I think about it, it might be this mechanical planet.]
[I also heard from my friends that the game maps of this Interstellar Tournament have been replaced in large quantities, there will be many new maps.]
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The barrage chattered, each sharing the gossip they heard.
The two hosts looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes... Unlike ordinary audiences, as the hosts of the Interstellar Tournament, the two had received new game maps and other related information of this Interstellar Tournament in advance, so that they could introduce it fluently during the live broadcast.
They had seen the game map drawn on the light screen and remembered it very clearly. Why ne? Because this is... a special type map. As everyone knows, the maps in the Interstellar Tournament are confrontation type, survival type and special type. Among these three types, the special type is the least, so the chance of being drawn is also the lowest.
"I didn't expect, this map would be drawn in the second game." The mermaid host smiled and looked at the camera: "Everyone is unfamiliar with this map, right? That's right, this Interstellar Tournament, still added a lot of new maps~ Well, let me tell you first, in the light screen is a special type map."
The white rabbit host nodded, and rarely didn't squeezed her partner away, but continued: "This special type map is called 'Mechanical Maze'. Hearing this name, you should all know where this map belongs to ba?"
The audience in front of the screen understood it immediately, except for the newly joined Earth civilization audience.
In this galaxy, as long as it contains the word 'mechanical', then 80% of it can be connected with the Ange civilization, because Ange civilization is the civilization with the highest technological advancement in the Interstellar Alliance, also known as the mechanical civilization.
"Yes, that's right, this map comes from the Ange civilization, one of the five major civilizations!" The host's answer was as expected by everyone, the mermaid laughed with ten point of teasing: "It seems that the Ange civilization has sold a artificial planet again this time."
Hearing this, the audience in front of the screen couldn't help laughing.
The fact that the Ange civilization sold artificial planets has become a regular joke in the interstellar world, and is often used to whip corpses1 for fun... This happened a long time ago. Ange civilization, which had advanced technological development, suddenly turned to the research of artificial planets, but because of miscalculating the energy required for artificial planets, it almost emptied the entire finances of the Ange civilization. In the end, they could only find a buyer and sold the artificial planet to the Alliance.
Perhaps because of the more setbacks, the more courageous, the Ange civilization seemed to be fighting with artificial planets. It sold the first artificial planet to the Interstellar Alliance, but in the blink of an eye, it invested in the research of artificial planets again, then the funds were emptied again, and the Interstellar Alliance became the receiver again. After repeating this several times, even though the Interstellar Alliance was a big household, it couldn't stand it and called for a stop.
After being forcibly suppressed by the Interstellar Alliance, the Ange civilization finally became honest and stopped fighting against artificial planets, but they still set up artificial planet projects every few hundred years to satisfy their cravings. After experiencing the pain of being forced to sell children due to lack of resources, this time, the Ange civilization cleverly learned to hoard resources. The only problem is that since all the research of the Ange civilization consumes a lot of resources, although they will not sell artificial planets like crazy to earn back resources as they did at the beginning, they will occasionally fall into the embarrassing situation of project suspension.
"Yin Lan, if you say that, Ange goldmaster dad1 will be unhappy, the kind that even coaxing won't work." The White Rabbit host moved her three-petal mouth to remind her partner.
"Oh my, okay, okay, I stop joking~ Bai Xue, you are really too serious la."
The mermaid host named Yin Lan swung his tail helplessly. He and Bai Xue were both interstellar superstars specially invited by the organizer. Their emotional intelligence can not be said to be extremely high, but at least above average, so he stopped laughing immediately after his partner Bai Xue reminded him. Ange Civilization is a major sponsor of the Interstellar Tournament. Many machines and equipment in the competition, such as the live broadcast system on all contestants, are from Ange Civilization.
For goldmaster dad, he can only tease lightly. It is not a good thing to piss it off.
"Let's get to the point ba. Let's talk about the rules of this game first. The map of this round of competition is a special type map -- mechanical maze." The white rabbit host introduced: "This is a mechanical artificial planet composed of a maze, which is divided into 50 000 small maps, the number of contestants on each map is about 100 000."
As Bai Xue narrated, the light screen behind changed and turned into a high-altitude aerial view. In the picture, countless steel walls stood, forming a huge maze like a city.
The white rabbit host raised her paw and prepared to draw on the light screen to introduce it, but found that her original paw was too short. After a second of embarrassment, she naturally retracted her rabbit paw and continued to introduce the rules: "In the maze of each small map, there are 100 promotion medals. Only people or teams who successfully obtain a medal can be qualified to advance to the next round of the competition... Ah, by the way, I almost forgot to say, this is still a team competition. Contestants can freely form teams according to their wishes."
After his partner Bai Xue finished explaining the general rules of the competition, Yin Lan added a sentence while wagging his tail: "There are some small surprises hidden in the mechanical maze. As for whether these small surprises are good or bad, then I just don't know, so, let's wish contestants good luck together ba~"
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Compared with the first sudden game transmission, the second game transmission seemed much gentler. Just a few minutes before the transmission started, Su Yu received a system prompt that the game was about to start, asking him to prepare in advance.
[Transmission started, connecting... Please wait.]
Su Yu opened his eyes again, what he saw was a steel wall as high as seven or eight meters. He turned his eyes slightly and found that the surroundings were the same... If the wall was removed, his position would be like an ordinary road with a few houses scattered on both sides.
To be cautious, Su Yu first found a place to hide himself, followed the information tutorial sent by the superpower base, and called out the light screen. This is a configuration for every contestant, which will prompt the background introduction and rules of the game.
①: This is a mechanical planet belonging to the Ange civilization, pay tribute to Ange civilization.
②: When the time is a multiple of two, the mechanical maze may change.
③: This game is a team competition, contestants can form teams freely.
④: There are a total of 100 promotion medals in the maze. After obtaining a medal, go to the center of the maze to get promoted.
⑤: There are many nice surprise gift boxes built in. Contestants are welcome to explore and find them, but please be careful to distinguish them.
Su Yu wrote down the important information and turned off the light screen.
[King, build a Zerg base ba!] The system reminded impatiently.
Su Yu also thought so. He was not stingy about looking at this Interstellar Tournament with the greatest malice, the life and death agreement that must be signed to participate in the competition also proved the danger of the competition. Being in such an environment, it is really impossible to feel safe, so the first thing is to accumulate as much help as possible for yourself.
Pulling out the short knife from his waist, without hesitation, Su Yu directly slashed at his wrist.
[What is this Earth contestant doing? Why can't I understand it, is he self harming ma?]
[No way, no way, right? With such a fragile spirit, he dared to participate in the competition?]
[Sure enough, don't have any hope for low-level civilizations. I thought there would be an unexpected dark horse.]
[Bai Wuqing is miserable, too miserable. One careless mistake, he was actually stepped on by this little trash. The Chalk civilization is probably going to be angry and vomit. Hahahaha, I feel like I'm going crazy again.]
It has been about a month since Su Yu became popular on the front page of Star Network. Although he has fallen from the popular position now, he still retains his previous popularity on Star Network. There are quite a few people on Star Network who follow Su Yu. This can be seen from the increasing number of viewers in Su Yu's live broadcast room after the second round of the live broadcast started.
Most of the people in the live broadcast room are here to join in the fun. They don't think that a contestant who advanced by luck can have the ability to struggle through the second round of the game, but... it's too outrageous to commit self-mutilation and suicide or whatever at the beginning ba? It's totally unworthy of their expectations!
At the same time, on Earth, there are also many humans squatting in Su Yu's live broadcast room, including officials from various countries, among these countries watching the live broadcast, China is the most concerned about this.
"Comrade Su Yu, what is he doing?!" When the leader saw Su Yu cut his wrist with a knife, he couldn't help but ask the person behind him in a heavy tone: "During the days in the superpower base, no one noticed that Comrade Su Yu's mental state was not right ma?"
Seeing this, someone immediately retrieved the psychological evaluation records of Su Yu made by the psychologist. The comments on it can be summarized as one meaning, that is -- the psychological evaluation is normal.
When he looked up again, his eyes were back on the screen of the Star Network live broadcast room. A bloody crack was across Su Yu's wrist. A lot of blood flowed along the palm of his hand and finally fell to the ground. Su Yu seemed to feel that the blood was too slow, so he cut his wrist a few more times.
Mentally normal? This is called normal? He committed suicide!
"No!" Someone found something unusual and quickly reminded: "The wound on his wrist is healing quickly!"
After a few seconds, someone else found another abnormal situation.
"There's something wrong with the blood on the ground!"
Everyone looked over and saw that the small pool of blood on the ground seemed to be suddenly given life and began to flow slowly. The surrounding land seemed to be swallowed and assimilated by it. In just a few seconds, the pool of blood expanded by more than a circle.
The audience in the live broadcast room were not blind. This kind of scene certainly attracted their attention. The quickly healing wound and the strange blood, all the abnormalities indicated one thing, that is, Su Yu was obviously not self-harming as they guessed.
So what was going on? Was it a special ability ma?