Tianguanzhi

Chapter 110 Ten Raptors

Gu Jianqiu finally had to break the last coin given to him by Solong Gaowa to pay the compensation for the pickup; when he returned to Zheng Yuanfu's building, it was already 8:30 in the evening and the preliminaries of the Fanqi Cup were about to begin.

Solongova was wearing her usual grey vest, military pants and riding boots, with a McDonald's logo athlete brooch pinned to her chest. She was squatting in the corridor without any image, chewing on a butter puff she had just taken from a passing food cart, not caring at all about the crumbs getting on her chest.

"Ms. Zoro, we have been urged several times. We don't have much time."

The Kapok security guard looked a little anxious, but Solongowa turned a deaf ear to him and just reached out to wipe the cream stain off his chest.

Gu Jianqiu quickened his pace and came in front of the other person.

"Sir."

Suolong Gaowa raised her head and saw that it was Gu Jianqiu. She complained to him with a little dissatisfaction: "Don't bother with Tianxiong. You are mine."

Zhu Shao was from the Tianxiong Army, and Suolong Gaowa might not have remembered his name, so he used the nickname of Tianxiong. Because Gu Jianqiu was not there, Suolong asked about it, and Jin and Li could only tell Suolong Gaowa that Zhu Shao had ordered him to go to the ancient street.

"Understood, sir."

Gu Jianqiu nodded slightly.

"Now that everyone is here, let's get going."

Security urged at the right time.

Zoro wiped his mouth and then set off.

Gu Jianqiu glanced at Jin and Li, and the latter both spread their hands at him.

The four of them were led by Zheng Yuanfu's subordinates and soon arrived at a somewhat crowded dressing room.

Yes, the dressing room.

The Fanqi Cup is a commercial competition, and the tickets are expensive. They can also be recorded into hard disks and sold to various ancient stars. The box office has remained high over the years. Because of its performance nature, I don't know when it started, putting makeup on the contestants has become an unspoken rule in the industry.

A man wearing yellow sunglasses, a floral shirt, and with an indescribable feminine demeanor, was yelling at the staff in the dressing room.

"The audience will enter the venue in half an hour. Why hasn't McDonald's sponsored player arrived yet? Even if he is the champion of the last Fanqi Cup, there should be a limit to his big shot."

"Supervisor Yan, I heard that McDonald's sponsored player has been replaced. It seems that the commercial spacecraft that the champion star was riding on lost contact when the radio burst occurred. But I don't know why the person hasn't arrived yet..."

"I'm coming."

Supervisor Yan turned his head and ignored Gu Jianqiu and the other two. His gaze was fixed directly on Solong Gaowa, his eyes becoming brighter and brighter.

"Are you a sponsored player of McDonald's?"

"Yes."

Solongova was still chewing something in her mouth.

Supervisor Yan walked around Suolongaowa a few times and clapped his hands immediately: "She doesn't need to put on makeup, she can go on stage like this."

"But……"

The staff was a little hesitant.

Supervisor Yan glared at the other person and said, "If you know the audience's taste better than I do, you should be the one scolding me instead of me scolding you."

He then looked at Gu Jianqiu and the other two, frowned and asked, "Are you also players sponsored by McDonald's?"

The rules of the Fanqi Cup do not limit the number of players sent by sponsors, but a considerable registration fee must be paid to compensate for the use of competition equipment and material consumption.

Gu Jianqiu said: "We are just hanging around..."

"he."

Zoro pointed at Gu Jianqiu.

"He, participates in the competition, too."

She swallowed the last bite of butter puff, put one hand on Gu Jianqiu's shoulder, leaned close to his ear and whispered, "You are a talented contestant, and I will give you the prize money and soldiers. Only if you are valuable on the battlefield can you survive."

Gu Jianqiu was a little moved. He looked at Sauron deeply and nodded slowly: "I understand, sir."

Supervisor Yan carefully looked at Gu Jianqiu's face, and suddenly turned to the makeup artist and said, "Make him look whiter."

The qualifying match venue is approximately the size of two football fields. As the content of the commercial war welding game is diverse and there are many exciting scenes, a large venue is necessary.

There were a total of 33 contestants in the preliminaries, and each contestant was sponsored by a different company. For example, Solong Gaowa represented McDonald Space Station this time. Others, such as Doumu Palace, Mars Leap, Menge Energy, Boston Shenji, etc., were business giants that operated businesses across various ancient stars. But for some reason, Solong Gaowa had a lot of camera positions, as many as seven or eight. You know, even the contestants from Doumu Palace, the biggest sponsor of this Fanqi Cup, only had four camera positions.

The audience entered the venue on time at nine o'clock, and Fu Lemei also entered the inner field to watch the game as a student recommended by the association.

"Is welding really worth watching? I see the ticket prices here are quite high, even more expensive than Huo Yanling's theater tickets."

Some candidates who had never seen a welding competition were whispering to each other.

Gu Yiqiu hugged his shoulders and spoke softly: "The Fanqi Cup is very famous in the ancient star war welding circle. It is considered a first-class commercial competition. If you have never been involved in a war welding competition before, this time it will be an eye-opener."

Fu Lemei turned her head and asked: "Brother Gu, do you have any research on welding competitions?"

Perhaps because he was born in a national library in the provincial capital, Gu Yi Qiu always spoke and behaved in a somewhat arrogant manner, so he was not very popular among the candidates, but Fu Lemei did not care about that.

"No problem." Gu Yiqiu nodded slightly. "The Battle Welding Competition is not just a simple welding technology competition. You have to know that there is a word 'war' in front of it. Since everyone is from a martial arts school, I believe you have seen the hard drive copy of the Olympic Free Machine Fighting Competition, right?"

Everyone nodded. The Olympic Free Machine Fighting Tournament was the highest place for martial artists, and those present certainly knew it.

"The war welding competition is actually similar. Its full name is the combat welding competition, or the war welding competition. The organizer provides equipment and materials, and the contestants weld weapons according to the rules and compete against each other. A small commercial station like McDonald's is certainly unable to host a free-range combat competition with fierce battles at famous levels. However, in the Brahma Cup, various tactical individual soldiers and front-line hot weapons often appear."

"Because of the high risk and the scenes of a large number of contestants bleeding directly, most countries on the home planet do not allow the War Welding Competition to be held. Related reports are also suppressed. Only a few copies are circulated, so you don't know about it."

He smiled at the other candidates and said, "I am a big fan of the welding competition. When I was in Nanhua Prefecture, I often rented some copies to watch."

As soon as Gu Yiqiu finished speaking, a burst of ambiguous moans burst out from the speakers of the stadium. Two expensive screens were separated to the left and right, and several blond and blue-eyed plump models came out one after another and cast a coquettish glance at the audience in the viewing area... "Amitabha!"

Jie Yan couldn't help but widen his eyes. He had never seen such a scene before.

"It's awesome! The striptease show at Dorothy's Club alone is worth the price of admission!"

"I heard that we can see the components of alien civilizations in the finals?"

"Then it's going to be the second or third game, right?"

There were bursts of whistles from the audience, but the candidates in the hall were in dead silence, and everyone couldn't help but stare at Gu Yi Qiu.

"this!"

Gu Yi Qiu was stunned and his face turned red.

Fu Lemei already regretted joining in the fun, but seeing Gu Yiqiu in such an awkward situation, she couldn't help but comfort him: "It must be that the customs and habits of Jin Taihua are different from those of Nanhua Prefecture. People in Jianghu are not particular about trivial matters. Senior Brother Gu doesn't need to take it to heart."

But the more she said this, the redder Gu Yi Qiu's face became.

The lively dance had just ended when a slicked-back host stepped onto the stage on a lift and introduced the topic of the preliminaries to the contestants and the audience.

Ten-Raptor Power Armor.

This is the latest product of Mars Leap, which takes up 20 standard electrocardiograms. It is a weapon of mass destruction prepared for Level II celestial officials. The power of its full output is enough to destroy ordinary explosion-proof exoskeletons, and it can even compete with the main combat soldiers of various countries.

The basic parts processed by the mother machine and the welding modification drawings are provided by the organizer. The contestants must complete the welding assembly within one hour and independently defeat the security personnel driving the explosion-proof exoskeleton.

"Only if you have value can you survive? Haha..."

Gu Jianqiu lowered his head and began to examine the drawings distributed by the staff. The soldering points and soldering paths on the pale yellow drawings were like a tortuous maze, which would make an outsider feel overwhelmed when seeing them.

After about a minute, Gu Jianqiu had read the drawings thoroughly and began to check the basic parts, with a rough idea in mind.

"It's not difficult. The whole process only requires ordinary arc welding. The welding path is relatively complicated, but it will take about 20 minutes instead of an hour. Um, here?"

Gu Jianqiu stared at the parts in a daze. But a contestant next to him, dressed as a monk with nine scars on his head, had already started the welding torch.

This part of the competition is relatively boring. The camera will faithfully broadcast each contestant's welding technique and process, and a dedicated person will explain it. However, if you know nothing about welding, you can only see the sparks flying and the crooked weld marks, and naturally you can't tell what's going on.

"The preliminary rounds are usually like this. There won't be too many intense confrontations. They are just used to eliminate the underachieving players. When the contestants finish welding, they will fight against explosion-proof soldiers. That will be the highlight of the show."

Gu Yi Qiu explained gloomily.

The bright red numbers pointed to twenty-two minutes, and two bells indicating completion rang almost simultaneously.

Solong Gaowa turned off the welding gun and took off her fire mask. Her hair, stuck to her cheeks due to sweat, made her shake her hair uncomfortably.

On the welding table was a huge arm armor that was big enough to cover everything. The light golden five-finger flail was as big as a tire, and the back of the hand was shaped like a shield with distinct scales and horns. The green tubes were curled like dragon mane, and it looked extraordinary.

"McDonald's Commercial Space Station sponsored contestant Solon Gaowa has completed it."

"Meng'e Energy's sponsorship of athletes has been completed."

"Master Zhending is a welding monk from the Shaolin Luohan Hall and a seeded player in this Brahma Cup. However, it seems that McDonald's players are a little faster."

The host's voice penetrates into the audience's ears through the microphone.

The audience's whispers reached their loudest when the camera focused on Solongova, and frivolous whistles could be heard from time to time.

Solonggawa turned a deaf ear to this and just took out a piece of chocolate from her trouser pocket, leisurely tore open the package, put it to her mouth and chewed slowly, while glancing at the countdown screen, she put on the gorgeous Ten Raptors. With a crisp sound, the buckle of the arm armor was fastened, and the ten finger flails stimulated by electrocardiogram suddenly burst out with deep blue arcs of electricity. Immediately, Solonggawa walked into her own competition venue.

An explosion-proof skeleton more than four meters tall was released on the field, holding an exaggerated steam chain saw, which seemed to be slightly larger than the police version on the mother planet.

On the other side, a monk named Zhending also dressed up the Ten Raptors and walked into the venue.

The tracks of the explosion-proof skeleton rolled up a cloud of dust. Zhending chanted a Buddhist name, and the blue tubes on his arm armor lit up one by one. He suddenly kicked the ground with his legs and jumped high, narrowly brushing past the steam chain saw and crashing into the top armor of the individual soldier from top to bottom. The professional camera captured the whole process of the exoskeleton steel plate being ruptured by the impact of the Ten Raptors.

A wave of air was raised around the explosion-proof skeleton, the steel plates in various places cracked and deformed, the tracks collapsed, and all kinetic energy was lost immediately.

"call!"

There was a loud gasp from the audience, but it was immediately interrupted by a loud cheer.

Zhen Ding, who had landed, subconsciously turned around and looked in the direction of Solong Gaowa, only to see that the four-meter-high explosion-proof skeleton was caught by the huge impact force and almost overturned. It rotated 360 degrees before falling to the ground with a bang, rolling several times, and dragging a deep pit of more than ten meters. The security personnel wearing protective measures pushed open the deformed driver's door with a pale face and couldn't help vomiting.

All the cameras immediately switched to broadcast, replaying the punch of Solon Gaowa against the explosion-proof soldier from various angles, and the overturning process of the explosion-proof skeleton from various angles. There were also shots focusing on Solon Gaowa's heroic posture of punching, wet gray vest, strong waist, bulging wheat-colored muscles, and shiny high boots. Everything was revealed on the closed huge screen.

"!!!"

The audience erupted in cheers that lasted for a long time.

"What a handsome man."

Fu Lemei in the audience couldn't help but be amazed.

"Amitabha."

Zhending bowed slightly to Suolong Gaowa, but the other party ignored him and left directly. Before leaving, Suolong Gaowa glanced in the direction of Gu Jianqiu and couldn't help frowning.

"I say, how long have you been under contract with McDonald? Do you have any career plans for the future? Do you want to join Huayou Brokerage? How about a two hundred yuan annual contract fee?"

As soon as she came off the stage, Supervisor Yan followed up immediately, speaking as fast as frying beans; in addition to her high welding skills, Supervisor Yan was also impressed by Solong Gaowa's image.

But he was soon stopped by the Kapok security guards, who whispered something to him.

"Sequential Army?"

The strict supervision was confused for a moment.

The preliminaries continued, sparks flew across the field, and most of the contestants had already entered the final stage. Suddenly, the host exclaimed in surprise: "This contestant, it seems that he hasn't started yet?"