Good luck with koi carp

Chapter 272 Competition 3
The dark clouds piled up layer by layer, so that even though it was early in the morning, the area around the competition venue was shrouded in darkness. Not only did visibility decrease a lot, but it also made people feel heavy in their hearts and inexplicably depressed.

The animals in the forest seemed to sense the coming storm and became more restless.

Since the live broadcast started this morning, there were not many conflicts between the students in the competition. Instead, they were attacked by many animals, which caused them a lot of trouble.

With such an obvious weather change, everyone naturally knows that it will most likely rain next, and the rain will definitely be heavy.

Some clever participating students have already started looking for places to shelter from the rain, while others have made defensive tools using local materials.

In order to test the students' ability to survive in the wild, the competition allows them to bring limited tools. In addition to one day's food and two sets of clothes, each of them is limited to carrying three tools. They can be weapons or something else. They can choose whatever they want, as long as they don't bring items that are not allowed by the organizer of the competition.

The list of items that are not allowed to be brought in mainly includes heavy firepower energy weapons that may affect the balance of the competition. Small weapons are allowed, but there are also limits on their power. The organizers still want to see the strength of the participating students themselves.

Therefore, for the participating students who are truly capable, it is more cost-effective to bring a good-use cold weapon than a small hot weapon. Of course, this varies from person to person. Some people are better at using hot weapons, and using them well is also a kind of strength.

In addition, each person can carry a micro-mech. Normal mechas are too large and too destructive to the venue, so they are not allowed.

Therefore, the participating students actually did not carry many extra items with them, including of course no rain gear such as raincoats and umbrellas. They could only either find a place to hide from the rain or make them themselves.

Fortunately, there are plenty of raw materials for making rain gear in the forest. At worst, you can just fold a large leaf and use it as an umbrella.

[The popular rain gear production environment, now let's see who has the best handicraft.]
[This teenager from Elysenk College is quite clever and made a raincoat out of leaves.]
[Brother Chen, don’t give up so quickly. If you really can’t help it, you can go to the pond in front and pick a lotus leaf to cover your head.]
[It seems that the Anderson College team plans to find a place to avoid the rain.]
[This is also a wise choice. There are still three days left before the competition. If you get sick after being caught in the rain, it will be a variable. There is no need to take risks at this time.]
……

After brewing for a whole morning, heavy rain poured down as everyone expected. The rushing rain instantly added a layer of mist to the already low visibility venue.

Everything is hazy and not very real.

Even the live broadcast picture became blurry, and everyone could only watch it with difficulty. They couldn't complain about anything, after all, this was an act of force majeure caused by nature, not a problem with the official equipment.

A small umbrella automatically rose from the back of the biological camouflage camera flying in the woods, blocking the rain from eroding the body, and then continued filming.

One of the cameras was quietly following a girl with a high ponytail. The girl was holding a knife that was slightly longer than a dagger. She took advantage of the dim sky and hazy rain to lurk in the grass and quickly move towards her target.

The loud sound of rain covered up the sound of her movements, so that the team holding leaf umbrellas didn't even realize that they were being approached by the enemy. By the time they discovered it, the only one left in the team was the terrified therapist, while all the other team members had been "killed" by the enemy with one blow and eliminated.

[handsome!]
[My sister Yan is mighty.]
[Mom, I saw a real assassin!]
[She defeated four people at once. Sister Yan is awesome.]
……

Bai Yan, another dark horse who emerged in this competition, came from a school on a not-so-famous planet. All her teammates from the same school were eliminated in the melee on the second day, leaving only one who roamed the field as a lone ranger, eliminating opponents and harvesting points like a ghost.

She is very agile and incredibly flexible, and is best at stealth and assassination attacks. After being noticed, she was given the title of "Assassin" by some viewers who like to play games.

In order to prevent the losing contestants from refusing to hand over the scoring ball and causing unpredictable consequences, the competition stipulates that every participating student must hang the scoring ball on the outside of their clothes. It cannot be covered up, and they can choose the hanging location at will.

As long as you bring the integrating sphere close to the fabric, the lock will automatically pop out to fix the sphere, and it will not fall off no matter how you move.

Some people choose to hang it on their collars, while others choose to hang it on their arms. No matter where it is hung, the enemy can see it at a glance.

Therefore, when fighting with others, everyone must be careful to protect their own points ball to avoid being destroyed by the enemy and being eliminated.

Just now, Bai Yan launched a surprise attack at the fastest speed. Before the members of the target team could react, he cut through their scoring balls with a knife and eliminated them.

Those who have been eliminated can no longer participate in the battle and can only wait on the spot for the patrol team to pick them up, otherwise they will be punished.

The personal points of those who were eliminated will be frozen at the moment of elimination, and will be automatically included in the overall ranking by the statistical system, and they will obtain their own ranking, which is also their final result.

"Give me treatment."

Bai Yan put the tip of the knife against the scoring ball hanging on the collar of the only remaining therapist in the team, and threatened in a low voice, asking her to give him mental treatment.

After three days of intense fighting, her mental strength was overused and she had a tendency to riot, so she continued to receive treatment from the therapist.

However, his fellow school healer had been eliminated long ago, so he had no choice but to turn his attention to the healers of other teams.

Why are there so few Mavericks in the game?

It is because of this that if the Mavericks themselves are healers, it would be fine. However, if not, then in continuous high-intensity combat, their mental power will inevitably be over-used, which may cause a mental riot. At this time, they need to get treatment from a therapist in time to calm down their mental problems, otherwise they will not be able to hold on until the second half of the game.

This is why most of the participating students who lost their teammates would spontaneously form loose teams. In addition to the fact that there is strength in numbers, they also need a therapist as a teammate.

Bai Yan is level A, and the threatened therapist is level B. He can indeed provide her with treatment, but the other party obviously wants to use this to negotiate conditions.

"I'll treat you, and I'll be with you in the rest of the game..."

"No." Bai Yan ruthlessly rejected the other party's application for a team: "Give me treatment, and I won't eliminate you this time."

[Hahaha…my sister Yan is like this.]
[Sister Yan is so cold and heartless, I love her so much.]
[Your team application has been rejected.]
[Key point: If you are not eliminated this time, come back next time.]
[Just turn the corner and it will be next time.]
[Not really, Bai Yan is a man of his word.]
……

The therapist was a little disappointed that her plan to take the opportunity to find a powerful backer failed, but she didn't want to be eliminated like this, so she could only continue to treat people honestly.

It doesn’t matter, she is a therapist after all. Even without Bai Yan, there are still many people who want to team up with her.

After the treatment, Bai Yan kept his promise, let go of the therapist and left.

The therapist glared at the useless teammates beside her in annoyance and left immediately. She had to find other people to form a team. Otherwise, it would be a big challenge for her to survive in this forest, not to mention whether she could survive the attacks of others.

Fortunately, the therapist was lucky. Not long after she left, she met another loose team. Although this team already had a therapist, they were still willing to accept her.

Since the loose teams are called loose teams, the number of people will no longer be strictly limited to eight according to regulations. Since they need to stick together for warmth, the more people the better. Therefore, in the later stages of development, the loose team gradually expanded, while the college team shrank a lot.

Moreover, a single intact college team had no advantage against a bulk team with an excess number of people, so the balance of advantage between the two sides gradually shifted towards the bulk team.

Under such a serious situation, some college teams were forced to start cooperating with each other.

Among them, those schools that were able to send out multiple teams showed great advantages at that time.

The most advantageous college team on the field at the moment is the one from Anderson College. Because they have been united from the beginning, they have always crushed other teams with numbers, and can help each other without worries. There are very few casualties, so their strength has been maintained very well.

"Colonel Chi, which team do you think will win in the end?"

In the monitoring room, a representative whom Chi Lili didn't know asked about this topic casually.

"It's hard to say. No one knows who the final winner will be until the last moment." Chi Lili said she would not make meaningless predictions.

"Don't you think Anderson's team has a big advantage?"

This was obviously a provocative statement. Chi Lili glanced at the man sideways without changing her expression. "Well, it seems that Anderson's team does have a certain advantage at the moment, but I still think it's better to wait until the end of the game before making a conclusion."

[Who is this old man? Why is he messing with our little sister again?]
[Little sister is difficult, in every sense of the word.]
[Won't these people ever stop being so agitated?]
[Although, I am also optimistic about Anderson and Chi, mainly because they do have a huge advantage. If they continue to play steadily, their chances of winning are still very high.]
[It’s hard to say. The first bird to stick its head out gets shot. A team that is too strong can easily be targeted.]
[The competition venue is still too big, light a cigarette and blow out the smoke.]
……

After a brief interlude, everyone turned their attention back to the competition venue.

As everyone expected, the bad weather did not stop the participating students from calming down. Instead, many of them took this opportunity to start causing trouble.

For example, the boy who was very good at honey trapping, he used the excuse of hiding from the rain to trick his unlucky teammates into the trap he had set in advance, and then began to harvest the spoils.

The insults from the unfortunate ones are his most beautiful medal of honor.

Another example is Zheng, the student favored by Chi Lili. She actually led a team of more than 50 people to attack two alliance teams from the same school and directly eliminated all their members.

The teacher in charge of the team from that school was also in the monitoring room, but he was not qualified to sit in those live broadcast positions. However, occasionally the live broadcast camera would scan him.

[His face darkened.]
[Red is warm.]
[How can I not feel ashamed when all the students of my own school are wiped out?]
[Teacher, I support you in giving those students ten times the homework when you go back.]
[What devil is in front?]
[Now I know what an overturned color palette looks like.]
[Hahaha, good image.]
[Wow wow wow…our entire school is ruined.]
……

Chi Lili glanced at the number of remaining participating students on the screen. There were less than four hundred people, and the number was still decreasing. Therefore, the harsh environment would not stop people from causing trouble, but would instead become the best time for them to take action.

Bai Yan, Ji Ziwen, Zheng Jingwen, and Chi Lili silently memorized these three names.

There is also a guy named Zhang Chen who seems pretty good too.
The son of a high-ranking official named Okos Leia did not have any outstanding performance today. But then again, he is a healer, and his greatest performance is to heal his teammates. However, their team is still hiding in a cave and has not encountered a single enemy. How could they possibly provide him with a chance to perform?

Not only that, there seemed to be internal strife within the team.

The two parties in the internal conflict were Chi Xinxin and another girl on her team. Chi Lili didn't pay attention to what they were arguing about. She just glanced at the barrage and knew that someone was arguing. Then she looked for the relevant surveillance footage and found that it was Chi Xinxin's team that was arguing.

The situation now is two against many.

The son of a high-ranking official and that girl confronted everyone behind Chi Xinxin.

Chi Xinxin looked aggrieved, while the girl opposite was aggressive. Comparing the two, it looked like the latter was bullying the former. Naturally, Chi Xinxin's admirers would not accept this and stood up to defend her.

The only person standing behind the girl was the son of the high-ranking official.

In fact, Chi Lili had discovered before that the son of a high-ranking official had a very good relationship with that girl. They might have known each other before. He was also a rare person who was not affected by Chi Xinxin's special charm.

So when he saw the girl being attacked by a group of people, he immediately stood behind the girl to make his position clear, but two mouths could not outnumber the twenty or so others, and in the end they simply chose to leave the team and leave together.

Seeing this, Chi Xinxin, who didn't want them to leave, immediately softened her attitude and quickly sat down to try to keep them, but was rejected by the other party. The two were determined to leave.

In the end, they failed to retain Anderson, and the so-called united team was divided into two halves, one big and one small.

[I came here because I heard someone quarreling.]
[I'm late. Why did they quarrel? Can anyone with the inside information help me explain?]
[I also want to know. ]
[Same request.]
……

After everyone's pleading, someone who had watched the whole process finally came out to explain. Chi Lili also watched out of curiosity.

[I watched the whole thing. In the morning, Anderson's team encountered a relatively large group of scattered soldiers. The two sides started fighting, and then Chi Xinxin, the healer, was attacked. In a hurry, she pulled the girl who had been protecting her to block the attack. Fortunately, the girl was quite strong and defeated the opponent and got rid of the crisis, but she also had a grudge with Chi Xinxin.]
[Just now, that girl was looking for Chi Xinxin to explain. Actually, if Chi Xinxin had apologized to her in a nice tone, she would have been able to swallow her anger because they were still in the middle of the game. After all, their team had a bigger advantage than other teams, and the points for a team win were pretty good. But Chi Xinxin didn't apologize at all, and just kept explaining that she was careless or something. Anyway, she got angry and started a quarrel.]
[As you can see, the two sides split up into teams. This is actually a good thing, as it will save us from getting backstabbed in the future.]
……

After reading the whole story, everyone was stunned.

[No, does this girl remember that this is a 24-hour live broadcast?]
[This kind of person is used to being selfish.]
[So I don’t bother to hide it.]
[She doesn't need to hide it. People around her are blind anyway. It doesn't matter whether she hides it or not. She has both talent and ability. Even if she has a bad character, it won't affect her bright future. So there's no need to hide it.]
[If she can really lead Anderson to victory, everyone will only praise her for her ability and will not judge her personal character.]
[I think she is used to being praised. According to the gossip that was dug up before, she is the favorite of her parents at home and a popular figure in school. Maybe she thinks she is the center of the universe and doesn’t bother to hide her true colors in front of passers-by like us.]
[The analysis makes sense.]
……

Although Chi Xinxin's behavior was indeed a bit problematic, as everyone said, they were just passers-by and could not affect her at all. As long as her strength and talent were still there, her future would not be too bad even without a group of admirers from wealthy families around her.

This is the most realistic gap brought about by the emergence of spiritual power in the interstellar age and the difference in talent levels.

The departure of teammates seemed to stimulate Chi Xinxin. She no longer let people hide in the cave. Instead, she took the initiative to leave in the rain and look for trouble with other opponents.

On the other side, the son of the high-ranking official and the girl met Ji Ziwen with blood on his face after walking for a while.

[Oh wow!]
[There's something interesting to watch.]
[It’s so difficult, what should I do now?]
[The backstab boss is coming.]
[Run away!]
[Run quickly, while there is still time.]
……

The contestants could not see the crazy warning in the barrage area, but just looking at Ji Ziwen's expression as if he had just killed someone and buried the body, they knew that this man was not someone to be trifled with.

The two of them took a step back together at first, and then, as if not knowing what was happening, the son of the high-ranking official took the initiative to step forward and started communicating with Ji Ziwen with a friendly smile on his face.

The rain was too loud and they spoke too softly, so the camera's sound reception was poor. Everyone tried hard to listen but could only hear vague fragments.

"I will give... treatment... cooperation... to you..."

[What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Is there anything that I, as a VIP, cannot hear?]
[Ahhh, I am curious. Half-hidden things are the most tempting.]
[I seem to have heard that Okos seemed to be asking Ji Ziwen to team up with them, so that he can heal Ji Ziwen or something...]
[Hell joke: Team up with Ji Ziwen.]
[What are you doing? What did my brother Ji do to you? His strategy is a plot and tactics. Those people were deceived because they were just stupid.]
[These two are finished.]
[I should have known better than to leave the team, ah.]
……

In the live broadcast, Ji Ziwen unsurprisingly agreed to Okos' invitation to form a team. He used his sleeve to wipe off the remaining blood on his face that had been almost washed away by the rain, then stretched out his hand and shook hands with Okos. Both of them smiled and reached a consensus.

Just when everyone thought that the two of them were about to be finished, they were shocked to see that Okos actually turned around and took the points ball from the girl and crushed it.

[No, man, what are you doing?]
[I was stunned.]
[To be honest, I was confused too.]
[Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!]
[Suddenly I don’t understand where this matter is going.]
[Backstab duo!]
[No, you were just fighting for him against the whole world, and now you turn around and eliminate him?]
[I don’t understand, I really don’t understand.]
……

The entire barrage area was confused by this miraculous development, and no one understood why Okos did this.

In fact, it wasn't just them. There was an uproar in the monitoring room as well.

"Why did Okos do this?" someone asked in confusion.

No one answered him.

Chi Li seemed to be thinking about something. She even reminded the host: "Look at the expression of that girl."

Hearing this, Chi Lili looked at the girl who was backstabbed and eliminated by her teammates, but saw that her expression was calm, and she didn't look surprised or sad about being betrayed. Before being picked up by the patrol team, she waved goodbye to Okos and the others, and said something, but it was still unclear because of the heavy rain.

After the girl left, Okos gave Ji Ziwen some mental treatment, and then the two of them walked in a certain direction together.

Maybe their inexplicable behavior just now aroused everyone's curiosity, and everyone was reluctant to leave their live broadcast room and wanted to see what they would do next.

[I want to see what conspiracy you two are up to.]
[I have a feeling that they are going to team up to do something bad.]
[So why did he eliminate his teammates?]
[I don’t know. Keep reading.]
……

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Okos and Ji Ziwen ran to poke the nest of an interstellar monster. The strength of this interstellar monster was A-level, but it should have reached the edge of a breakthrough and was infinitely close to S-level.

The two of them fled in a panic while being chased by the furious interstellar monster, all the way to where the Anderson Academy team was.

Clearly, after Okos and his team left, Anderson's team also left the cave where they were living, but Okos seemed to have installed a positioning system on them and found them accurately.

Mental power mark.

Almost everyone who watched the game saw how Okos found Anderson and the others, because he actually positioned them.

Mental power imprint is a skill of applying mental power. It is not difficult to master. Anyone who has received basic education can use it. Although mastering the skill is simple, whether it can be applied highly in practice depends on the individual.

Some people leave a mark just like installing a light bulb on someone else, which is incredibly bright and quite conspicuous, and they do it in a fair and open manner. Some people can leave a mark silently, and the person who is marked with the mental mark does not feel anything at all, and may not even know that anything has been left on their body the whole time.

Obviously, Okos belongs to the latter. Chi Li even guessed that he should have put the mark on Chi Lili. After all, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Chi Xinxin was the central figure of the entire team. As long as she was located, everyone else would naturally be found.

Chi Lili also had some guesses, but she was not quite sure. She just had a vague idea.

Okos and Ji Ziwen appeared in front of Anderson's team in a rather embarrassed and miserable state. When they saw their teammates with whom they had just had an argument, Okos' eyes lit up and he immediately waved to them and shouted for help.

Although Chi Xinxin and others were surprised that he came back, they still helped him because they were from the same school and drove away the interstellar monster chasing them.

When not in a psychic riot state, the interstellar monster is also rational. When it finds that it cannot defeat so many people, it naturally runs away.

Because it ran too fast, Chi Xinxin and the others didn't have time to chase it, so they just let it go. They turned around and looked after the two people who were covered in blood and were obviously seriously injured.

The rain gradually subsided without us noticing.

This time, the audience in front of the live broadcast screen could hear their conversation clearly.

"After we left, we met this classmate Ji and formed a team with him. Then we were attacked by other teams. The other team had more people and we couldn't defeat them. Xia Qiu sacrificed herself to cover our departure..."

At this point, Okos' eyes were red, and he tremblingly took out the scoring ball left by the girl named Xia Qiu.

In addition to displaying personal points, each person's score ball also has each person's school and name marked on it, so each person's score ball can be said to be unique.

Everyone saw Xia Qiu's broken points ball with their own eyes, and they immediately believed what Okos said. Even though they had just had a quarrel not long ago, they still felt uncomfortable seeing their classmate being eliminated, and everyone's expressions were a little depressed for a while.

Then they heard Okos say that after they had finally escaped from their opponents' pursuit, they accidentally ran into the lair of an interstellar monster, and were chased by it all the way until they met them. Everyone lamented his many misfortunes.

Perhaps it was after being beaten up outside that he finally realized the importance of the team. Okos sincerely apologized to everyone and asked to return to the team.

Chi Xinxin readily agreed to his request, and even tacitly agreed that Ji Ziwen would join them.

There was no major conflict between the two parties, and considering Okos's identity, Chi Xinxin had no reason to reject his kindness.

[He is lying to you!]
[This story is so convincing that I almost believed it.]
[These two are going to play big.]
[That’s it.]
[There's something interesting to watch.]
[I wonder how the principal of Anderson feels at this moment?]
……