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Chapter 144 Drone Game Club

"Lin Dong, Xu Qingling, let's go!"

After school in the afternoon, all the students ran out as if they were being released from prison. Lin Dong stuffed his books into his desk and went home with Xu Qingling without even calling her.

Suddenly, Li Tao and Zhang Yihao popped out of the corridor window, waving and shouting, "The school club recruitment is about to begin!"

"What club is recruiting so early?"

Lin Dong replied casually.

As a key secondary school, Shishi Middle School has a wealth of club activities in its junior high school section.

Soccer, basketball, volleyball, as well as paper cutting, literature, musical instruments, fun chemistry experiments, and a top-notch robotics club that will win a championship at the World Championships next year.

But if Lin Dong remembered correctly, these clubs recruited new members some time after the start of the semester; they didn't recruit on the first day of school.

"Drone Club"

Li Tao walked in, looking excited, and said, "Xingdong Company has donated two high-performance gaming computers to each of the middle schools in Chengdu, as well as third-party spectator screens."

They also announced that they will be donating a batch of real drones and parts as teaching materials for the club... We just found out about this ourselves.

"A drone club?"

Before Lin Dong could speak, Xia Ran had already stood up: "How do we elect the president of this club?"

"Um... let's see who's better."

Li Tao wanted to call out names, but after a moment's thought, he realized he had forgotten them. He could only skip the name step and say directly, "Zhang Yihao and I heard it was a competition to see who was stronger... strength comes first."

Xia Ran nodded, then looked at Xu Qingling: "Xu Qingling, shall we have another match?"

"this……"

Xu Qingling did not agree and turned to look at Lin Dong.

"Go ahead and have some fun. I'll help you with your schoolbag."

Lin Dong replied with a smile, "If you're joining a club, then sign me up too."

"it is good."

Xu Qingling nodded happily.

She enjoys playing competitive games and has the competitive spirit typical of her age.

However, she knew that Lin Dong didn't like too much excitement, and it wasn't convenient for her to always be in the spotlight, so she didn't participate in offline competitive activities.

"Lin Dong, aren't you going to play?"

Xia Ran watched Lin Dong and Xu Qingling interact, and then saw Lin Dong actually help Xu Qingling with her schoolbag, but he didn't seem to be joining in. She couldn't help but ask him something.

After school at noon, Lin Dong and Xu Qingling hitched a ride home. She walked home with Huang Qingyao and Li Tao. During their conversation, she learned that the best drone user was not Xu Qingling, but Lin Dong.

Huang Qingyao said that Lin Dong was lazy and had a weak competitive spirit. He rarely played with them online except for Xu Qingling.

"I like playing farming games."

Lin Dong said casually, "I'm not really interested in competitive games."

"Well... okay."

Xia Ran didn't know how to respond to this answer. Seeing that Xu Qingling and the others were already waiting for her, she didn't ask any more questions, grabbed her schoolbag, and ran out.

Lin Dong wasn't in a hurry. Carrying two backpacks, he asked where the drone battle room was and then strolled over there. On the way, he even bought two bottles of water from the campus convenience store.

"come on!"

"Wow—they're so fast! So this is how swarm drones work; it's all controlled by commands."

"I only know how to control FPV drones in this game, how am I supposed to play? Am I supposed to take on hundreds with just one drone?"

"It's over, we've been completely crushed by the first-year junior high students."

"I've met them. They booked out the entire venue for the offline competition at the Chengdu promotion event in July..."

When Lin Dong arrived at the battle room in the corner of the school, there were already dozens of students watching, including second-year and third-year students.

Aside from some murmurs and gasps from the crowd, very few people actually dared to go on stage, except for Li Tao, Zhang Yihao, Huang Qingyao, and a group of others…

"It seems that when we get back today, many people will start studying these operating instructions."

"Even if we don't develop any innovative drone technologies, this can be considered an early step in cultivating programming and algorithmic thinking."

Lin Dong stood in the corridor, looking at the 100-inch spectator screen hanging there, and at the swarm of drones on it, and couldn't help but shake his head.

This team used swarm drones. A group of players who only knew how to use FPV drones were instantly killed when they entered the arena. The entire battle room was completely taken over by Li Tao and his team.

"This Xia Ran, she's actually using tactics and strategies now..."

Lin Dong watched for a few minutes as the two computer battlers were engaged in a lively and exciting match.

But after Li Tao narrowly defeated Zhang Xuebin, when it was Xia Ran's turn, the atmosphere changed immediately, and the familiar scene from the offline promotion event reappeared.

"Holy crap—"

"That guy is so cunning, he actually laid an ambush with three layers!"

Li Tao exclaimed in surprise.

Before he could react, his Red Team was swept aside by a map that mimicked a forest exercise in Guangxi Province, but with a radius of only five kilometers.

"Brother Tao didn't embarrass the Blue Team."

Zhang Yihao chuckled and it was his turn to go on stage.

But in less than three minutes, Xia Ran didn't even need to set up an ambush; he directly broke through his defenses with frontal control.

"Not bad, Hao didn't embarrass the Blue Team either."

Li Tao replied with a smile.

Seeing Xia Ran's posture and the group of students watching outside, Huang Qingyao, Su Yue, and the others who hadn't gone up yet exchanged glances and took two steps back, making Xu Qingling stand out.

"..."

Xu Qingling was speechless, but she wasn't scared. She just glanced outside before going up.

"come on."

Lin Dong noticed Xu Qingling's gaze and smiled, giving her a thumbs-up.

"Xu Qingling, come up here."

Xia Ran stuck her head out from the opposite side, took off her headphones, and said confidently, "I went back and studied tactics and strategies for more than a month. I will definitely win today."

Xu Qingling smiled at Lin Dong, then looked away, selected a random map, put on her headphones, and said, "Let's change the map. I'm more familiar with the mountains and forests."

Di-

The map is reset, and a town map appears on the screen, with the number of drones available to both sides and the victory conditions displayed below.

"Two military towns are locked in a crossfire, 8 kilometers apart in a straight line. Each side has 5,000 drones. Victory is achieved by destroying three key buildings and eliminating the drone pilots?"

Li Tao glanced at it and immediately gasped: "This map is almost the size of a real battlefield. To operate it alone is incredibly difficult."

Neither Xu Qingling nor Xia Ran rushed to start. Instead, they thought for a dozen seconds before confirming their choices.

hum-

From a God's-eye view of the spectator screen, both sides' drones began to take off.

Swarms of drones of all sizes flew out of the town under command.

Some flew straight towards the town opposite, some flew several kilometers before landing, some hid in the nearby mountains and forests, and some raised their altitude to scout the enemy's field of vision.

Within one minute, a swarm of more than 1 drones from both sides met in the middle of the town.

However, neither of these two drones clearly received the order to fight to the end. After losing dozens of drones each, they broke up immediately and split into nearly a hundred small groups.

Each group consists of three aircraft, with one aircraft self-destructing and two lasers hovering in the air in a mutually protective manner. Each unit spreads towards the enemy's town at intervals of several kilometers.

On the screen, representing the two sides' perspectives, a semi-transparent red and a blue background begin to blend together to form a white background.

soon.

The entire map was lit up by both sides, with reconnaissance drones from both sides floating on it like stars.

"On the battlefield, information reconnaissance determines victory or defeat, and there's no problem with that step."

"But with such an open operation, it's impossible to arrange things covertly..."

"It all comes down to the speed of both sides' offensive and defensive maneuvers. We can exhaust the opponent's drones faster and force out the ambushing drones."

Lin Dong's gaze sharpened slightly.

Within two seconds, a new swarm of drones from both sides rushed into the sky, carrying reconnaissance drones, while another swarm of drones rushed toward the other side's town. Some of these drones were purely offensive, while others were reconnaissance and support drones.

hum-

As the two sides continued their offensive and defensive battles, the buzzing of the swarm of audio drones never stopped.

The background color representing the field of view of both sides on the screen kept changing, and the reconnaissance drones of both sides kept falling and then being replaced.

Meanwhile, drones attacking each other's towns were intercepted immediately, but new swarms of drones continued to arrive.

Since both sides had guessed that they had drones lying in ambush outside, the number of these attacking drone swarms was less than a hundred, in order to avoid a large number of drones coming over and being caught in a pincer attack from both sides and wiped out.

"Lin Dong..."

At this moment, Huang Qingyao and Su Yue came out.

As the two watched the map on the spectator screen gradually disappear from the white field of view of both sides, and instead filled with patches of pure blue, and then glanced at the kill ratio of 3614:3298 between the red and blue sides, they couldn't help but worry and said, "We have a feeling that Qingling is going to lose."

"Qingling's reaction time was indeed a bit slow."

Lin Dong unscrewed the bottle, took a sip of water, and said with a smile, "But at this point, the drones that were planted as a potential game-changer haven't been used yet, so it's too early to talk about winning or losing."

hum-

As soon as she finished speaking, on the screen, one of Xu Qingling's drones lying in ambush outside took off first, quickly rushing towards one of Xia Ran's attacking drones, flanking it from both sides and achieving a kill ratio of ten to one.

"Ugh... Lin Dong, you jinx!"

Instead of being pleased with the casualty ratio, Huang Qingyao couldn't help but curse.

The next moment, Xia Ran saw the ambush drones move. More than twenty self-destructing drones that had been deployed around the area for reconnaissance instantly swooped down on a command and flew towards a large area around the takeoff zone of Xu Qingling's ambush drone.

boom--

The sound of the explosion echoed throughout the observation room.

Xu Qingling had more than two hundred drones lying in ambush around the area, but they were reduced to a pile of fragments before they could even take off.

Lin Dong didn't look at the destroyed drones, but instead looked at Xu Qingling's town base and the drone pilot who had somehow emerged from the core building and moved to a corner.

"They've learned to perform extreme maneuvers and play psychological warfare..."

Lin Dong smiled inwardly, looking at Xu Qingling's serious expression in the operations room, and wrung out the water bottle in his hand: "It's almost over."

Boom! Boom boom!

Next, as if the town's drones were almost exhausted, Xu Qingling launched two more batches of ambushing drones to intercept Xia Ran's attacking drones.

However, all the drones that were lying in ambush this time took off, and Xia Ran managed to destroy them all.

However, during the attack on enemy bases and the reconnaissance drones, these exposed drones quickly became combat losses.

"Battle losses: 4537:3894. Qingling only has one drone left in ambush, and there aren't many drones left in the town..."

Huang Qingyao couldn't help but cry out in despair, "We can't defend anymore! The enemy is going to blow up the town's core buildings!"

On the large screen, Xia Ran probed Xu Qingling's situation several times and the next moment he increased the number of attack drones to six hundred, sending them in two waves to swoop down on the core buildings of the town, crossing the middle distance.

Rumbling--

As drones self-destructed one after another, Xu Qingling's core building continued to collapse.

soon.

The first core building is shown to be destroyed, followed by the destruction of the second building.

The moment the second building was destroyed, Xu Qingling's few remaining drones seemed to lose control and become mechanical.

"I won!"

Xia Ran cheered excitedly, leaving behind a hundred drones and using the rest to destroy the last remaining building.

hum-

As Xia Ran's wave of attack drones rushed over, they began to clear out the remaining hundred-odd drones in Xu Qingling's town and destroy the last building.

Suddenly, Xu Qingling's few remaining reconnaissance drones all moved, swooping down from high altitude toward Xia Ran's base.

Meanwhile, two hundred drones that had been lying in wait but had not been used flew out from the mountains in the middle of the town and rushed towards Xia Ran's town base.

"No! Wasn't your pilot dead?"

Xia Ran's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly switched commands to deploy the base's drones for defense.

But faced with a numerical advantage of more than twice, the entire defensive line was breached in less than twenty seconds, with suicide drones rushing toward the core building where the drone pilots had initially appeared.

[Beep—Your drone pilots are all dead. Your drone has lost control and will continue its attack as previously instructed!]

On the screen, Xia Ran's interface was locked.

After the remaining drones cleared out the drones defending Xu Qingling, one machine after another rushed towards the remaining third core building.

Ten seconds later, the last drone self-destructed, and a result popped up.

[The war is over. All your pilots have been killed in action. The Red team's pilots have captured your town... You have been defeated!]