Ten thousand I am across the heavens

While formulating his battle plan, Mo Chengzi headed to the registration venue, which was currently in the preliminary rounds of the competition. The total number of participants was expected to exceed 3000, making it a fairly large event. Nearly half of the participants were professional players, with the remainder being students.

Mo Chengzi estimated that he might still have a chance to run into his classmates, since the proportion of students who hadn't undergone cybernetic enhancements was relatively high. They often needed to carefully choose their replacement prosthetic bodies to maximize their academic performance. Therefore, most students opted for prosthetic body replacements in their senior year of high school, which is why many athletically gifted students in their first and second years wanted to try their luck in this field, hoping to become one of those poor kids who suddenly became rich and famous overnight.

However, most of them end up with bruises and swelling, or even serious injuries, and have to replace their prosthetic bodies.

Students participate in these competitions with confidence and without hesitation, thanks to their relatively advanced medical systems. They typically prepare funds for one or two organs to ensure that even if they are crippled on the field, they can immediately replace their injured limbs with prosthetics, thus avoiding the cost of treatment.

As for the fact that most people can't afford the cost of one or two organs, that's okay too. The loan system in this area is very mature, and borrowing money in this regard is easy.

Mo Chengzi squeezed onto the subway and arrived in the city center again. The registration location was a stadium in the city center, a spiral stadium with dozens of floors. Each floor had a huge field large enough to host a football match, with ceilings over ten meters high, enough to accommodate a large number of spectators watching the game simultaneously. After all, land in the city is extremely valuable. Even stadiums now have to be built in multiple layers.

Almost all sporting events are held in this large, spiral-shaped stadium, including concerts by some stars.

After filling out a registration form at the entrance, Mo Chengzi signed several agreements, all stating that he could not withdraw from the competition. Only then was he qualified to enter this luxurious stadium. Without signing the agreement prohibiting withdrawal, someone with tens of thousands of yuan in debt like him wouldn't even be able to enter the stadium. Even just visiting would require paying an entrance fee.

Signing an agreement prohibiting withdrawal means incurring hefty penalties for missing a match. However, there's no need to worry about not being able to pay. The organizers will allow for installment payments, or even grant a loan to the participant. If the participant cannot repay the loan, the organizers have the right to require them to participate in even more brutal competitions.

Mo Chengzi and his personal AI reviewed the contract in detail. Although the agreement itself was quite harsh, it was still within his acceptable range, with most clauses revolving around the competition itself. There were no additional personal restrictions; at most, he would need to give the event organizers a large share of the profits after gaining fame through the competition.

Similar to early-stage investment, signing contracts with celebrities or creators or acquiring their copyrights before they become famous means that even if they unexpectedly become famous, they can take the lion's share of the profits without paying too high a price.

He can easily relinquish these earnings. Even if he gains some fame in the future, he can simply choose not to pursue a career in boxing. The organizers would at most sign him up for the live streaming and broadcasting rights for most of his subsequent matches. If he intends to completely abandon boxing in the future, the organizers won't be able to do much about it.

He never intended to debut as a celebrity; based on his current understanding of the world, celebrities were merely toys for the wealthy. Even if they did make money, compared to the oligarchs who controlled significant social resources, it was nothing.

Therefore, the binding effect of this agreement on him is quite limited. His true career path is the military-industrial complex, and he wants a position in the military, not a company. Although the military has an even stricter hierarchy than the corporate world, capable individuals in this field tend to advance more easily. Especially with connections within the company, a technical position in the military offers rapid promotion if one can develop cutting-edge technologies.

They even have a chance to become a new era of military aristocracy, securing a place for themselves within the military-industrial complex.

However, if this route is taken, the binding force of this agreement is essentially non-existent, as no major figure behind a military industrial enterprise would need to personally participate in the competition to gain attention.

As for the possibility of being beaten and injured, or even killed, by opponents on the field, Mo Chengzi wasn't afraid in this unmodified arena. Although he hadn't controlled this body for long, after two days of familiarization and training, he had already regained his sense of control. Although this was a world without extraordinary powers, the human body still possessed immense potential.

Take, for example, the electrical signals constantly transmitted through the nerves within the human body. In conventional sports, the most humans can develop about their nervous system is to increase reaction speed, allowing for faster neural reflexes in various competitive events.

But just as human strength can be increased through exercise, the electrical signals transmitted within the human nervous system can also be subtly increased and controlled through exercise.

The increase in electrical charge may be negligible, and may not even cause any visible natural phenomena outside the body. However, when the electrical signal is injected into another person's body, it will have special effects.

The stimulation of nerves by a weak electric current usually does not cause much stiffness in the human body, at least not the electric current that the human body can release.

However, if this tiny current happens to hit a critical nerve node in the enemy, the effect will be outstanding, producing a sensation similar to hitting a nerve. After the nerve is stimulated by the current, some limbs may experience temporary burning or cooling, or stiffness and difficulty in moving. This kind of physical sensation that would not normally occur, in more severe cases, may even lead to cramps.

Such advanced skills are not needed in most sports competitions, but the virtual fighting competition of the Republic of Mountains and Rivers has developed fighting techniques to the extreme in all weight classes. Naturally, there are also competitions that rely purely on physical ability. The huge population base and the expanded time flow in the virtual world have resulted in a large number of athletes watching the relevant events, which has gradually pushed the excitement of this sporting event to its peak.

Although this technique is considered an advanced skill, Mo Chengzi, who has obtained the qualification certificate for becoming an immortal, can still confidently say that he has mastered all the common advanced skills at all levels. This naturally includes combat skills at the purely mortal level.

Given time to prepare, the electric current he generates from his body can even be projected externally, producing visible sparks that pierce the air. However, this would place a significant burden on his body. The human body didn't evolve in this direction; it lacks specialized discharge organs, and the current itself would cause harm. Therefore, in actual combat, he primarily uses invisible currents to penetrate the enemy's body, causing paralysis.

After filling out the registration form, he was finally allowed to enter the sports building. He took the elevator through the athletes' passage to the third floor, the venue for the competitions. The preliminary rounds had numerous participants, with hundreds of matches held daily, but not every match garnered much attention. Therefore, apart from the central ring, the stadium was divided into small cubicles. Competitors competed on their respective rings in minimal audience. Only highly sought-after players with a large following were qualified to compete on the central ring. However, even on the same ring, the level of attention varied drastically between the smaller cubicles. Some smaller online celebrities, already possessing a considerable fan base, often had numerous drones hovering nearby to broadcast their matches live. Numerous reporters also surrounded the area, making the ring extremely crowded.

Mo Chengzi, a poor student with no reputation or attention participating for the first time, wasn't assigned any extra cameras. He only had a camera position for recording the competition. They weren't even given a referee; a trash can-like AI robot was responsible for judging both sides. As for the fights that broke out between the two sides, the referee wouldn't intervene.

This is not a traditional boxing match; there's no scoring involved. All the competitors need to do is knock out their opponent. That's all.

Even if it's an unsightly wrestling match on the ground, it's perfectly permitted under the rules.

In reality, most matches involving non-professional fighters are this unwatchable. The fighting that people imagine is often just punches and kicks, attacks and dodges alternating. A flurry of punches and kicks, looking quite exciting.

However, for ordinary people, without sufficient professional training, in a fight without rules and restrictions, the best weapons are not fists and feet, but elbows and knees; the best weapons are not agile movements and footwork, but rushing up to grab the opponent, throwing them hard to the ground, riding on their backs, and attacking.

Therefore, before receiving professional training, fights between ordinary people will most likely escalate into rolling on the ground, with neither able to hold the other down, and it all comes down to who has the greater strength and who is more physically robust.

Mo Chengzi had already watched several pairs of students in school uniforms huddled together, rolling around on the ring, or one person riding on top of another, delivering powerful punches.

He could only shake his head helplessly. These ordinary students have virtually no opportunity to receive relevant vocational training in school. It's like how schools in the 21st century don't teach horseback riding. These skills, which are not needed in future life, are basically not covered in basic education.

Mo Chengzi waited a moment before his chance to go on stage. The trash can-like robot guided him, and following the glowing marks on the ground, he quickly found the arena where he would be competing.

The defeated contestant on the forum is being carried off by a robot. This cylindrical robot, besides acting as a referee, is also a cleaning robot, cleaning up the knocked-out teeth and bloodstains on the stage.

One of the contestants in the last match was badly beaten, losing several teeth. Fortunately, in this era where arms can be replaced with mechanical hearts and lungs, and even mechanical products can be replaced, losing a few teeth is hardly a serious illness. There are many people who choose to have their mouths fitted with chainsaws, and some with more unique aesthetics even modify their mouths, installing insect-like mechanical mouthparts. It is said that the recent user feedback on such products has been quite good, with several prosthetic limbs appearing in the mouth. Once familiarized with them, they are very flexible to operate, and can even be used without the aid of hands when eating.

However, the market prospects for these products have consistently been poor. The main issue isn't product design, nor is it a matter of human body fit. The problem lies in the market positioning.

The purpose of this product design was to shorten mealtimes; it was originally intended for business owners to exploit their employees by reducing their meal times, thereby increasing production line efficiency.

However, in practice, the effect is very poor, mainly because the staff meals are basically semi-liquid synthetic foods, which do not require complicated mouthparts to process the food. You can just gulp it down.

The poor at the bottom of society don't have many opportunities to eat natural food. The meat they eat is synthetic meat, and vegetables are even more expensive and rarer than synthetic meat. Most of the time, they can only rely on vitamin pills to get by.

When you really need to eat fish or natural, organic meat, and when you need to process ingredients with complex structures, it's usually in high-end restaurants, where you don't need this kind of design that doesn't conform to current human aesthetics.

Mo Chengzi turned his gaze away from the contestant undergoing failed dental work and realized he was already on the ring. Worse still, he noticed cameras starting to surround him. Several drones began flying towards his location. This was not good news. It meant his opponent was likely a professional fighter, or even a minor internet celebrity with some fame.

"Family members, today I'm going to demonstrate how to shatter a mouthful of teeth with just three punches! You've all been questioning the power of my Iron Fist, so today I'll show you the power of my fist, which is comparable to a mechanically modified one."

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Mo Chengzi spent half the day on the field trying to appear polite, thinking he should greet his opponent before starting the match, but he quickly realized he was overthinking it. His opponent just stood there reciting advertising slogans, seemingly not going to make a move. This guy just wouldn't stop.

[To be continued]

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