Abnormal crossing

Chapter 41 The Forgotten City
Player vs. player?

Hearing what Kay said.

Gu Wei, who was originally immersed in the joy of hitting the target, was suddenly stunned.

I'm a bean
Is the player battle about to begin?

But now I only know how to operate on the ground and don’t even know how to fly. How can I engage in actual combat with others?
At that time, others will fly in the sky while you will be a target on the ground. This is simply like beating a primitive man.

Perhaps guessing what Gu Wei was thinking, Kai quickly controlled the Streamer Mech and walked to Gu Wei's side: "Gu Wei, don't worry, didn't I tell you before that the entry difficulty of Mech Overlord is well designed, and novices will not face advanced battles from the beginning."

"For example, if you have just passed the ground operation level, the only player battle mode you can participate in is the ground battlefield - in this mode, all players cannot take off and can only fight on the ground."

Only then did Gu Wei understand.

That's it
If it's limited to ground fighting, then this is worth a try.

And from a process perspective, it is also a very reasonable model - after all, the operation of mecha is too complicated, and it is too much knowledge to instill all of it into novices, which makes it easy to get confused during actual operation.

Therefore, it is better to divide the ground and the sky into two stages, allowing novices to learn to run first before considering flying.

"In the current "Mech Overlord", there are a total of 24 maps for the ground battlefield," Kai gestured to Gu Wei, showing the number 24 in the starry sky:

“The difficulty backgrounds of the 24 maps vary. Some are post-war ruins similar to training grounds, some are vast plains that stretch as far as the eye can see, some are prosperous cities, and some are deserted asteroids, etc.”

"As for the matching mechanism of the mode, it is based on ranking points, divided into single-player ranking and double-player ranking - a bottom-line algorithm will be added during the novice period to ensure that you will not encounter top monsters right away."

"Um, Kai, wait a moment," Gu Wei interrupted Kai before he finished speaking: "What does [encountering a top monster right away] mean? Since points are the core mechanism, how can a novice encounter a top player?"

"No, no, no, it seems you haven't fully understood what I mean." Kai glanced at him and said, "Beginner players are one thing, and novice players are another. Novice players will never meet top players."

"But for those who have completed the beginner level, or the beginner's guide, it's hard to say - the 'friendliness' of Mech Overlord is limited to the beginner level, which is what I call getting started."

"You have to remember one thing: the matching mechanism of Mech Overlord does not look at the record or the duration, but only at the points, because it is the same on the battlefield."

Gu Wei frowned.

This time he didn't understand.
"Okay, you'll understand soon." Seeing that Gu Wei was silent, Kai controlled the Liuguang and gave him a slap on the head:
"We'll talk about the future later. Now choose a map and enter the game. I'll watch the video after it's over to judge your mecha talent. The game entrance is in the previous light screen, and the permissions should have been unlocked."

Seeing this, Gu Wei quickly came to his senses and opened the main menu of the game.

Sure enough, the originally gray [Ground Mode] in the game menu has turned into color. After clicking [Single Player Battle], a new set of options appeared in front of Gu Wei:

[Single Player Battle] and [Multiplayer Battle] - the former is in color, while the latter is still gray.

The comprehensive mode is obviously the unlocking target of the next stage, but Gu Wei is not clear about the specific unlocking conditions.

It may be that completing the ground mode once regardless of winning or losing will automatically unlock it, or it may require winning once or multiple times.

Then under the guidance of Kay.

Gu Wei randomly chose a map called [Forgotten City].

【Forgotten City (Area C)】:
Countless years ago, a once prosperous city was reduced to ruins in the flames of war. Now only the quiet streets are left, echoing the hustle and bustle of the past, and the collapsed buildings silently tell of the former glory.
[Map area]: 9.8 square kilometers. [Building debris density]: 343.8 square meters/building

[Optional main weapons (multiple choices)]: Small energy cannon, plasma lightsaber, heavy impact hammer, kinetic melta spear, generator shock gauntlet.
The player chooses a small energy cannon.

[Optional armor (choose one)]: multi-layer composite armor (chest) / disposable energy shield generator / optical camouflage cloak / deflection shield
The player chooses a deflection shield.

[Optional secondary weapons (multiple choices)]: 8 604-type dump bombs/poisonous insect armor-piercing bombs/avoiding explosives/magnetic bombs.
[Paid value-added services]: Colorful weapon/armor skins, one-on-one analysis of combat images, off-field cheerleading details can be clicked to expand
[Victory Conditions]: Destroy the enemy's mecha within half an hour. If the time limit is exceeded, both sides will be declared the loser.

【Opponent matching】

Gu Wei's heartbeat quickened a little.

coming soon.

I don’t know who my first opponent will be?

Humanity?

Or some other form of life?

By the way, I never know if someone in this game will suddenly come up to you and ask, "Brother, do you want to buy a cheat?"
Just as Gu Wei was daydreaming, the light screen in front of him suddenly changed:
[Battle match successful, enemy player ID: Xiao Feng]

Xiao Feng?

The moment he saw this ID, what came to Gu Wei's mind was not Xiao Feng in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, but a female singer who had covered "Beethoven's Sorrow" more than ten years ago.

The song that Xiao Feng covered was considered a non-mainstream song at the time, but many years later it became a memory of many people. I wonder if time has made the ears more tolerant.

As for the singer Xiao Feng, he was like a shooting star, leaving no other trace except for a few songs.

But what’s more interesting is...

Some time before the time travel, Gu Wei accidentally learned that a WeChat friend he had added for several years was actually Xiao Feng himself.
Life is so wonderful sometimes.

However, Gu Wei quickly put this feeling aside, forced himself to cheer up and prepare for the upcoming battle.

The light curtain indicating a successful match quickly began to expand after it appeared, and finally completely covered Gu Wei's field of vision. When he came to his senses again, he was already in the ruins of a city.

This piece of ruins is more complicated than the remains of the training ground. Many buildings have collapsed on half side, exposing their internal structures. Twisted metal and broken bricks and stones are piled up like mountains, and occasionally you can see some fragments of billboards or screens.

The ground was covered with cracks and potholes, with only a few sporadic blades of grass growing tenaciously from the cracks, embellishing this dead land.

At the same time, Kai's Streamer Mecha also disappeared, and was replaced by another strange mecha that appeared five hundred meters away from Gu Wei.

At this moment.

There was a number slowly counting down on the strange mecha:

[There are 60 seconds, 59 seconds, and 58 seconds left before the battle begins.]

(End of this chapter)