Poverty makes me capable of anything.

One machine is used for my own analysis, and the other is used to perform the task.

If it were a higher-level map, Anran could use the large workshops that are open to players to make things, which would save her money on equipment. But she is currently wanted nationwide, which is quite dangerous. It's safer for her to keep the technology in her own hands.

“It might take a few more days,” Julie said.

"No problem, I can wait."

"Well."

An Ran could certainly afford to wait. She had more than twenty days to establish herself here before the players returned.

You need to gather intelligence on the pirates and understand the movements of the anti-piracy forces. Otherwise, if you go and make contact with a pirate group and end up being targeted, you'll be in big trouble.

Once everything is ready, let's make contact with the members of the Wangchuan Pirate Gang.

The people from Wangchuan, who came from elsewhere, are said to still uphold the tradition of using the red spider lily. The entire group consists of women, who may be people you can interact with.

……

"You're too kind!"

Lin Yumo let out a breath.

Her arms were a little sore. She hadn't expected to encounter such a formidable opponent in the qualifiers. The pair of berserker axes, wreathed in red flames that surged like thunder and lightning, had put her in a difficult situation, but she still managed to win.

"I'm not as good as him, damn it, why am I so unlucky?" The opponent left the competition venue in frustration.

"You won! You won again! Yu Mo, that means you've made it into the main competition. Amazing!"

Zhou Jieyu almost pounced on Lin Yumo.

"Let's go celebrate!" Li Zhuying suggested.

“Okay, okay.” Zhou Jieyu nodded repeatedly.

"Is this really a good idea?" Lin Yumo looked at Zhou Jieyu helplessly. "Our team's battle royale mode competition starts tomorrow."

"Uh……"

"Alright, alright, what's there to worry about? With our team's strength, we're definitely not going to get past the first round. So let's stop thinking about it and go have some fun." Li Zhuying patted Zhou Jieyu's shoulder casually.

"Hey, I don't like it when you say that." Zhou Jieyu glared at Li Zhuying.

"Oh, you think you can turn the world upside down?"

"I have a trump card up my sleeve," Zhou Jieyu said dismissively. "I'll definitely pass the first round, believe it or not."

"If they have a killer move, then so be it. Anyway, let's go celebrate with Yu Mo first."

"Alright, let's get going then."

"Walk."

Chapter 03 The Mission of the Mechanicus

The battle royale competition in the qualifiers has 20 teams participating, and only the top five teams in terms of points can advance to the next round.

The conditions are quite harsh. Most of the weak teams that participated based on interest and impulse were eliminated in the qualifiers. Even if they tried to survive, they couldn't outmaneuver the real pros. This is what is commonly known as the "revealing of the slackers."

However, if there are relatively few strong teams in the competition, then the weak teams will have their day. When the skill gap is not large, various tactics can be very effective.

"It seems there aren't any well-known teams."

After putting on her initial professional gear, Zhou Jieyu pulled up the statistics interface.

Li Zhuying also glanced at it: "I really didn't see it."

After celebrating yesterday, they spent the whole night discussing. First, Zhou Jieyu shared the tactics she had come up with, and everyone agreed that the tactics were feasible, but it still depended on the opponent.

Therefore, they memorized all the names of the teams that were most popular.

If you encounter such a formidable team, then you'll have to leave it to fate; if you don't...

Hey hey hey.

Tactical activation.

In a corner of the mechanical city, the Moyuzhu team encountered another team.

"The match has only been going on for 5 minutes. Even if they had arrived in the Mechanical City at the very beginning of the match, they wouldn't have many high-level weapons. Let me try them out first."

Li Zhuying's mental abilities also include the ability to detect things.

They were huddled at the bottom of the slope, which was a disadvantageous position in terms of terrain.

If you can't figure out the opponent's movements, the success of your tactics will depend on luck.

Li Zhuying pressed herself against the wall and activated her detection skill to explore the slope.

Ding!

Mental barriers create isolation.

“No, the other side also has players with psychic abilities.” Li Zhuying shook her head.

"Then watch me."

Zhou Jieyu confidently released all of her probe robots.

"I'm ready to go."

After sending out the probe robot, Zhou Jieyu left with the bomb in her arms.

"It's up to you now." Li Zhuying and Lin Yumo watched Zhou Jieyu leave.

They can also share and watch the images transmitted back by the detection robot. A team can have up to 4 people. Once the location of these 4 people is determined, it will be Zhou Jieyu's turn to appear.

It seems the Moyuzhu team is planning to use a self-destruct tactic.

As everyone knows, the essence of the suicide bombing tactic lies not in the person going to self-destruct, but in the teammates. If the teammates cannot provide cover for the player going to self-destruct, then this tactic will only allow the team members to be picked off one by one.

[Damn it, I think the one who self-destructs is more important. Last time I had a stupid teammate who sneaked around for minutes to get behind the enemy, jumped off a building with a bomb, and detonated it before even landing, killing himself while the enemy was completely unharmed. His body just fell into the pile of enemies, and we couldn't even rescue him before we were all killed. Next time we encounter a teammate like that, we should probably kill them first.]

Rather than letting him die at someone else's hands and give them points, let's finish him off.

[To tell you the truth, both I and Leg-Hugging King came from number 1886. During the faction war against Morning Star, Leg-Hugging King was a notorious bomber on the battlefield!]

[The Bomber is incredibly skilled; she's the originator of the demolition mechanic.]

[Hmm? Is there such a thing as a Demolitionist/Mechanic class?]

Hello, yes, we do.

The demolition mechanic flanked and killed two enemies in one go. Then, her strong teammates came up and took out the remaining two, and revived her.

To secure a top-five finish, eliminating two teams is a relatively safe bet.

Zhou Jieyu also had the same idea.

The Mechanical City is a place on the map with a lot of technological equipment.

Of course, bombs were indispensable.

After taking down the first team, they searched and found a number of weapons.

All the weapons were piled together, and the bombs were taken out separately and hidden around the house. The decoy tactic was thus launched.

To increase the feasibility of their tactics, they also sent Zhou Jieyu, who pretended to be a newbie picking up weapons.

After the opponent took down Zhou Jieyu with a few shots and walked in happily to take the weapons, several loud explosions rang out, and the match ended.

You see a pile of weapons in front of you, but what you get is a merciless bomb, and your joy comes to an abrupt end.

Zhou Jieyu was completely eliminated, but Lin Yumo and Li Zhuying used the same trick again and took down three more people. In total, they didn't actually fire many shots, but they still ranked third.

Leading the escape: [Yeah, that's right. I never intended to be number one from the start, so I'm not worried at all about losing all that good equipment.]

Leading the escape: "The fault isn't mine, it's your greed! Humph!"

Leading the escape: [The pain is on my body, but the joy is in my heart!]

Leading the escape: [Will it be cracked soon? So what? I'm satisfied with just getting through the first round. If 60 points is passing, I'm still above 75.]

[Damn, that leg-grabbing king is shameless.]

As expected of a demolition mechanic.

[The words may be rough, but the principle is sound. Playing this mode relies on skill, luck, patience, and the ability to make trade-offs.]

Good children should never imitate this.

……

"What's wrong with your sister? She's always restless while playing games. Tell me honestly, did you instigate her?"

"I'm innocent!" the leader of the charge immediately protested. "Dad, you know I haven't even been with her in this game. She's been avoiding me all the time. How could I possibly instigate her?"

Tell her she's out of allowance this month!

"Yes, yes, yes." The leader of the charge nodded repeatedly.

Your allowance has been stopped?

The problem is that my sister doesn't need pocket money anymore. After partnering with someone to buy a spaceship, she still has tens of millions of Biru in her account. She's also somehow acquired a virtual idol and is planning to explore new avenues for making money. There aren't many people in this game who are doing better than her.

Stopping pocket money is useless.

……

The space on the Enron is really too small.

After leaving the entertainment space, Anran went to transport a bunch of materials back.

She had planned the studio space in advance. Once the equipment she bought from Julie arrived, she would have to move all the equipment that was previously placed here to the outside so that there would be room for it.

However, this leaves very little space for movement inside the spaceship.

Even with three layers, this small spaceship, which is only twenty meters long, is still too small. It's impossible to modify it with weapons unless you turn it into a hedgehog. But that would require major modifications to the spaceship's power system, so it would be better to just buy a new spaceship.

We're still poor; the cost of building the Flying Star Ship is too high.

After sorting the materials and processing what could be processed in advance, Anran waited on Ishaan for three and a half days before receiving another message from Julie.

These devices were not considered high-end for this era, so the control over their movement was not strict.

Cash on delivery.