With the sound of "crunching" brakes, the quadruped robot that drove to the middle of the tent suddenly stopped.

Loosening the operating lever, unbuckling the seat belt, taking off the helmet and putting it aside, Zhang Xuyao did not get out of the cockpit, but chatted through the hatch.

After a battle, the Super Cangtian was shot all over the face and was covered with color, and the forked rabbit himself couldn't keep it clean and fresh, and now if she pushed the door out, her hands would inevitably be stained with a lot of paint, which was obviously what she didn't want to see.

It wasn't long before there was a thudding sound on the other side of the hatch, but it was the pilot of the support team who was helping the robot clean up. These paints act as a function to simulate blood stains, calculate attack damage, and are cleaned up at the end of each battle. Fortunately, the paints used in paintball are specially designed, and the stickiness is generally easy to remove.

After the cleaning was completed, a movable ladder was pushed in front of the robot, Zhang Xuyao pushed open the hatch and climbed down, greeted everyone, and walked towards the driver's rest area.

The first round is not over yet, and she and Forkrabbit won't be playing until the third round, with a short period of free time in between. Unfortunately, the phone was taken away by the security guard when she came in, so she can only lean on the recliner now, glancing at the small TV opposite.

The screen of the small TV is only 7 inches, and there is a bracket behind it that can be adjusted at an angle, and the appearance is simple like a tablet, but it is actually a pocket TV.

Smartphones are becoming more powerful, and media products such as MP3 players, DC card cameras, and MP4 video players have been hit hard, and even tablets have suffered a decline due to the popularity of large-screen phones. As an MP4 variant, PTV, which can watch wireless TV for free, has survived and has decent sales.

Due to the independent digital-analog fusion receiving chip, the global wireless TV system, and the high, medium and low-end complete, the development of Bee PTV has been relatively smooth, with annual sales of more than 20 million units, making it the world's third largest TV manufacturer after Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.

Of course, it is only the third in quantity, and the sales and net profit are not much, after all, the difference in selling price is more than ten times. For example, the device in front of Zhang Xuyao, although it is a high-end model with WiFi Bluetooth, cloud translation and multilingual subtitles, picture quality enhancement engine and 1080P touch screen, the actual price is only 300 US dollars, which is completely incomparable with large-screen TVs that often cost tens of thousands.

This small TV was originally an exhibit brought to the United States by Atletico Madrid, but Zhang Xuyao, who was happy to see the hunt, wanted to come over and say that he wanted to try it.

In the U.S., any American can set up a private television station and then find a TV network to rent channel slots to publish purchased or homemade programs, and usually, they work with cable networks and rarely get involved in wireless television. This is because the latter is more costly, more tightly managed, and less expensive, and only large television networks and government offices at all levels will bother to establish national and local public stations.

Since minors can also watch it, the content management of public stations is quite strict, not to mention the cannonballs and guns, even if someone mentions sh*t, f*ck, b*tch, pus*y and other foul words in the program, they must be silenced, otherwise the TV station will be punished by the regulator.

CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, PBS, these free public stations have the money and resources, and can produce or buy positive, healthy and clean high-quality dramas such as "The Big Bang Theory" and "Grey's Anatomy".

Several channels are replaying old movies and TV series in a row, and Zhang Xuyao has a familiar feeling in her heart, as if she has returned to China.

After watching a small half of the TV series, she was finally called up by the team members, the second round of the competition was coming to an end, and it was time for her to play.

This time, the opponent who appeared behind her was the original robot Joan of Arc of the French team.

Looking at the data on the screen in his eyes, Zhang Xuyao couldn't help but be a little nervous.

Rather than using a complex walking design, the French used a more mature monster truck chassis as a motorized platform, on which a low torso and short robotic arms were mounted, creating the most "human-like" combat robot. However, this is not a reason to underestimate it, Joan of Arc has two large-caliber air cannons and multi-barreled paintball guns, and the firepower is extremely powerful.

On this point, the Americans should have the most say, their Mark3 was sprayed into a mechanical Hulk by Joan of Arc, and the cleanup is not yet complete.

Speaking of which, the monster truck (bigfoot) is actually an American specialty, and it is a derivative of pickup truck culture. Based on high-power pickup trucks and even trucks, the tuning experts turn ordinary cars into "muscle monsters" by raising the chassis, replacing them with large-size off-road tires, and upgrading the engine power. In the United States, there are many monster truck races every year, and the number of spectators is quite impressive, which is why the organizing committee made an exception to allow Joan of Arc to participate.

The reason why Mark3 was sprayed as a dog was because he miscalculated the situation, chose to compare the output with Joan of Arc, and finally lost in a larger frontal projection area. After all, Joan of Arc is the base of a car, although it has a tall chassis, the overall height is still low, and other robots are generally half a meter to a meter taller than it.

Of course, Joan of Arc is so unusual, of course, it has its own shortcomings, and the tactics have long been thought of, that is, to fight guerrilla in circles.

"Joan of Arc's firepower is very strong, don't compare the output with it, you have to wander around in circles more, it's best to take it to places where the ground is undulating to reduce its hit rate," Zhang Xuyao's headphones inside, the coach of the fat baby team is giving final tactical guidance.

He had said this several times, Zhang Xu Yao said that his ears were about to become calloused, and nodded impatiently in agreement: "Got it!

This wasteland seems to be flat and open, but in fact there are still ups and downs, and although the monster truck is known for its super off-road performance, it cannot be as flat as it is because of the spring suspension, and the more potholes and complex the terrain, the more bumpy the body, which will naturally affect the combat effectiveness. It's okay to say that there is a robotic arm to balance compensation, otherwise the hit rate will go crazy down.

The organizer has provided terrain information about the competition venue, so that Zhang Xuyao does not need to compare and find it with his eyes, just make a request, and the fat baby's on-board computer can automatically find a suitable battlefield and arrival route. All she has to do is improvise and pick the most suitable of these routes.

Reality is always full of ambiguity and change, resulting in the optimal solution found by the computer under certain conditions often losing its utility, and it is not yet possible to do without humans as the ultimate decision-maker.

This is also the reason why driverless cars have accidents every three or five times, when the road conditions are stable, it is very good, and the calculation results of the unexpected state may be wrong. Of course, human drivers may not be able to handle emergencies well, and it is not uncommon for rookie killers to use the accelerator as a brake in an emergency.

However, although Zhang Xuyao said that she was a female driver, she was also a veteran driver who was proficient in robot fighting, and in the confrontation with the Joan of Arc, she fought steadily and steadily without revealing flaws, and slowly grinded without revealing flaws, and successfully killed the other party with a kite, and deservedly reaped the victory.

There was no suspense in the fifth round of the game, in the face of the more powerful fat baby X2, the slightly upgraded Mark3 was not an opponent at all, and the third game was defeated, officially sitting in the last place in the standings, and the dream of qualifying was completely ruined.

Receiving the three points offered by the opponent, the Fat Baby team successfully qualified for the first place in the group with three wins, and the Super Aoda of Japan Suidobashi qualified in second place in the sixth round. Joan of Arc got off to a stunning start, but then went high and low, losing to X2 and Chaocang in succession, and was eliminated along with Mark3.

In the group of death, the MegaBots team actually had the consciousness of losing, after all, the two old opponents in Group A were not weak chickens. It's just that they never expected the final record to be so miserable, and it was a shame to lose all three battles. The only consolation is that the Mark Legion was not completely wiped out, and two Mark2 modified versions successfully made it out of the encirclement, saving them a lot of face.

At the end of the six rounds, half of the 24 participating robots were eliminated, and only the German Steel Hans and another American team's Super Big Mouth made the cut.

The shape of the steel Hans is very distinctive, the lower body is a walking excavator, and the upper body is two scrapped industrial mechanical arms, which looks like a strange big crab, but it is full of heavy and practical industrial beauty. And its strength is not bad, although the industrial robotic arm is not as flexible as the bionic robotic arm, but it is better in stable and reliable output power, picking up a knife and stick is a good hand in close combat, and loading a long-range weapon is an excellent platform, which can withstand high recoil.

As the name suggests, the most conspicuous feature of the Super Big Mouth Machine is the super large mouth on the upper part of the body, which is its year-old air cannon. The caliber of this thing is half more than Joan of Arc's cannon, and it is much more powerful, but unfortunately this cannon does not have a separate turret, and if you want to aim, you have to twist your body to aim at the target, so the rate of fire is a little unsatisfactory.

The reason why Big Mouth was able to fight his way out of the encirclement was because of a simple spirit that you don't die, standing in place without dodging or dodging, relying on high hits and high damage to make up for the lack of firing rate.

It seems to have learned the previous lesson, and the results of the second grouping are much more rational, Fat Baby X2, Steel Hans and another domestic team's Fat Baby X were divided into Group A, while the remaining American robots were evenly divided into the other three groups, which happened to be without meeting, obviously encountering the "home advantage".

The 12 robots are divided into four groups, and the top four are then voted by the audience to compete in the group, and the winner can get the qualification to participate in the finals, and the loser can only compete for the third place. Although this loses the fairness and stability of the round-robin match, it can maximize the suspense and greatly enhance the sense of participation of the audience, after all, the game table is decided by their vote.

Although the American players have a home advantage, the performance of the two Mark2 robots is lagging behind as a whole, and they finally failed to make it out of the group, and the weak chicken group that the audience kindly arranged for them is cheaper than the British team's modified fat baby X and Japan's Super Aota.

Zhang Xuyao almost overturned at the Germans, and the two sides fought until the end of the time limit, and then relied on the slight advantage in "attack damage" to win, and finally won two wins to advance.

But that's the end of her bad luck, the other three opponents are the defeated Watanabe Sakurako, the British fat baby who is a generation behind, and the American big mouth with obvious shortcomings, as long as she gives full play to the performance advantages of the fat baby X2, she basically won't roll over.

The final result was not unexpected, she met Sakurako in the semi-finals, killed her opponent with ease, and then met the British fat baby in the final, and then won easily in the clash between two generations of fat babies, successfully defending the shooting title.

The British fat baby won the runner-up, and the unlucky one was naturally the American big mouth, first being stepped on by the seemingly weaker British fat baby, and then encountering the old driver Watanabe, and only ended up in fourth place.

The results were out, and the organizing committee did not delay, taking advantage of the last twilight on the horizon, held an award ceremony on the spot, and awarded a golden trophy to Zhang Xuyao, the champion of the robot shootout, and the others were cheaper silver plates, copper plates, and even customized porcelain plates.

Of course, even the champion gold cup has no gold content, it looks shiny, in fact, it is just 18K gold plated on the white copper alloy.

Packing up the supplies in the tent, everyone in the team left the camp with a smile, all the robots and large pieces of equipment that could not be taken away would be left here, and there was a special security company responsible for guarding and protecting, and no one should run to steal them without a long eye.

"Actually, it's better to lose it, the organizing committee doesn't have to worry about exposure, and you can change it to a more expensive trophy," secretly slandered, Zhang Xuyao got into the car, threw the trophy in the shape of the robot lifting the earth on the back seat, picked up the mobile phone to unlock the screen, and looked at the notification center for the first time.

I haven't looked at it for a few hours, but there are a lot of notifications in it. The 2TC client sent a message of "My all-purpose glue is on the leaderboard", and Bee News sent a "Summary of CES Hot Products" and "BBx2 First Day Match Wonderful Replay", as for the replies, comments, messages, and likes sent by social apps, there are even more.

After reading all this, Zhang Xuyao found that the light in the carriage had already dimmed, and he moved to the right to look out the window.

On the moonlit highway, a long queue of nearly 100 cars headed southwest, aiming for North and South Las Vegas, which is filled with colorful light pollution.

(End of chapter)