Buzz! Buzz!

An overhead transport plane roared across the sky, and the magnificent mountains and rivers flashed by.

Flying over the great rivers and mountains, the group flew at a super fast speed to the 'slaughter city', which is known as the forbidden area of death.

More than 2,000 years ago, in order to conduct nuclear tests, the Kaisheng Empire specially migrated more than 100,000 scientific research and technical personnel to the depths of this desert Gobi and uninhabited land, and spent several years doing nuclear tests.

In the past, there were nuclear plants that produced enriched uranium, special railways and airfields for transporting materials and materials, canteens, dormitories, and sports fields for scientific researchers, and barracks for troops to defend nuclear bases......

Originally a highly militarized, closed city with architecture still in a very old age, the Slaughter City has now disappeared with the passage of time, even the blasting sites that once conducted many surface and underground nuclear tests.

Today's slaughter city has long become a special venue for the Hero Competition.

Far away from the densely populated towns, it is barren and inhabited by fierce beasts, and there are even some mutated creatures caused by nuclear radiation here, which have evolved from generation to generation and become extremely powerful fierce beasts and black demons.

Divert rivers to control desertification and return farmland to forests.

The Kaisheng Empire, which has been very developed in science and technology, used many large-yield energy bombs to forcibly blow up mountains and mountains in order to completely eradicate the desert and the Gobi many years ago, and led a river to flow through Tucheng from the snowy plateau, and finally sank into the depths of the former desert.

Not only that, but they also sowed all kinds of plant seeds that had been improved by genetic technology, and after all kinds of plants and trees that were extremely cold and drought tolerant took root and sprouted, they spread out oases from both sides of the river, and under the spray of sowing year after year, the desert land also became lush and green, so that the sandstorm finally disappeared completely from the planet Kaisheng.

Therefore, the current slaughter city is not as bare as imagined, there is no yellow sand in the sky, it is just a depression, especially after it is zoned as a competition site for the Hero Competition, it is even more dilapidated.

After all, the mecha rampage, the fierce beasts and fierce beasts are rampant, and the buildings of the former nuclear base cannot withstand the devastation of the biennial competition, and basically become ruins, but when they were built, they used high-grade cement and a lot of steel bars to boil the nuclear factory, armory and other places, and there are still some tenacious steel-concrete structure buildings

A radius of 100 kilometers has long been turned into a forbidden area for death, there are special multi-layer isolation nets and biological detectors, it is impossible for any species to enter and leave the slaughter city without permission, and people with a slightly normal brain will not go to the slaughter city to find abuse.

Inside the slaughter city, it is definitely a happy land for free fighting.

Every year, a large number of viewers watch the live broadcast around the clock, so in the slaughter of the city, surveillance cameras are installed in many places, such as trees, mountains, ruins, and sometimes a seemingly inconspicuous stone, which is a holographic camera and biometric detector, but it is very clever to avoid being destroyed.

Surveillance live broadcast is ubiquitous, in order to allow the audience to watch the whole game in an all-round, uninterrupted, and blind spot, so it is not difficult to explain that there are many buoyancy detection balls floating in the sky at any time.

This kind of detection ball similar to a hot air balloon can float in the air for a long time, and through a large number of instruments and equipment carried, it can monitor and shoot all the dynamics of the area it is responsible for.

Everything is ready and waiting for the arrival of the participants.

Airplanes!

After an overhead transport plane flew over the slaughter city, it began to disperse in formation.

The 11 transport planes are fanned apart, each carrying 4 mechs.

According to the rules of the knockout round, the competition field of the slaughter city is wide enough, which tests not only the player's mecha control ability, but also the ability to adapt to the dangerous field environment.

As a result, all mechs will be placed in different positions.

Dive! Slow down!

The anti-gravity device and thruster reverser of the aerospace transport aircraft quickly slowed down and flew at ultra-low altitudes almost grazing the treetops.

The cabin door opened, and the mechs in the cabin jumped directly out of the cabin in the order from left to right and from front to back.

If you're lucky, you might fall into a soft meadow that doesn't have to roll over to stand firmly.

And if you are unlucky, you may be in the gathering area of many fierce beasts as soon as you fall, and you will really fall into a dangerous encirclement as soon as you land.

In previous competitions, there have been players who fell to the side of the black devil as soon as they landed, and the super enlarged version of Donkey Kong really exploded in an instant, and he pounced and pressed it down, flattening the player and the mecha on the spot.

As for the airdrops, hitting stones and rubbles, falling into rivers and deep ravines, falling off cliffs and falling into quagmire...... All kinds of unfortunate things are not uncommon, after all, the slaughter of the city is not a great plain.

Poor character, airdrops have to be hung.

However, the 44 players in this competition, under the care of the referee team, are obviously not bad in 'character'.

Except for some players who jumped down, bumped into the cliff, and fell into a rut, they didn't fall into the beast's nest, let alone the black devil, and everyone landed relatively safely.

The reason why this is done is not because in the budget stage, the players in the domestic group of the Kaiser Heng Empire are too 'tricky', they know each other and are familiar with each other, so they join forces to bully the foreign contestants, and many people are eliminated.

Today's knockout rounds can't be too impersonal.

Therefore, before the airdrop, the referee team used the advantage of information reconnaissance to find out the situation in the airdrop area to ensure that there were no beasts and black devils to rest, and indirectly helped these players to participate safely.

Otherwise, with all kinds of reconnaissance and detection instruments in the air and on the ground in the slaughter city, how could it be possible not to know where there were fierce beasts? If you want to speed up the elimination, you can just drop the contestants directly to the area where they gather.

But......

The kindness of the referee team ends here.

The rules of the knockout round are ten left!

Whether it is defeated by a mecha player or defeated by a fierce beast, anyway, at most, as long as the record is in the top ten, and there is no time limit, and there is no limit to the rules of engagement.

If the tenth and eleventh players have the same record between the two players, then the game will continue until the gap is separated, anyway, this harsh competition environment will make many players be eliminated sooner or later.

Woo...... Boom!!

After Qin Tian jumped out of the cabin of the transport plane, after knocking down a few sea buckthorn trees, he rolled twice on the sand and landed safely.

Sea buckthorn is a very drought-tolerant plant that can grow in saline-alkali land, its stems, leaves and fruits are edible, it is a desert Gobi desert and other areas, especially suitable for windbreak and sand fixation to prevent soil erosion of cash crops.

However, since it is food, it means danger.

Because sea buckthorn can be eaten, there will inevitably be wild animals around it, although herbivores are not particularly large, and they are generally relatively docile, but once there are herbivores, it will inevitably attract carnivores, so as to form a complete food biological chain.

After landing, Qin Tian immediately launched a small probe, which is powered by a miniature nuclear battery, can fly up to three hundred meters, has an almost unlimited endurance, and looks the size of a hummingbird, but is equipped with various high-sensitivity detection instruments, which can help Qin Tian expand his field of vision, after all, he can stand high and see far.

After the hummingbird reconnaissance plane took off, it quickly surveyed the surroundings to ensure that there were no fierce beasts within a few hundred meters of the surrounding area.

In addition, reconnaissance and elimination of danger is only one of the purposes, and more importantly, it is more important to find the accurate location on the map in combination with the terrain and landform.

The Hero Contest has been held for many years, and the topography of Tucheng is unlikely to change much, so it is enough to identify the current location based on the surrounding images taken back and then matched by terrain.

"My current location is about three kilometers north of the nuclear explosion test site, and more than 60 kilometers away from the densely built area of the nuclear base, which is equivalent to a desert area!"

"In the public channel so far, there has been no report that any player has been attacked by fierce beasts and abstained from being eliminated, which proves that the location of everyone's airdrop this time is relatively safe, so in a short period of time, the threat that needs to be faced is the other three mecha from the same transport plane!"

"I was the third to jump out of the cabin, the first and second before, the interval between them was about ten seconds, and the flight speed of the transport plane at that time was about 300 kilometers per hour, which means that the distance between our landing points was about one kilometer, and it was basically in a straight line!"

"So I have a mecha in front and a rear, and based on the mecha mountain cross-country marching speed of 30 kilometers per hour, it basically only takes one or two minutes to reach the opponent's landing site, plus a certain amount of preparation time, so the mecha will inevitably attack within five minutes!"

"The three players on the same plane, they all know me, as the first place in the qualifiers, they have become the target of the public, if I were them, they would definitely find a chance to kill the top spot after landing, or stay away!"

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Alone, alone.

Each player is an independent combat unit, without logistical support and without the assistance of teammates, in addition to relying on their own mechs and the weapons and equipment they bring, they also rely on their own independent situation analysis and tactical choices.

In this vast playing field, it is impossible to foolishly punch and rush, and rampage without any rules, that is either to be attacked and killed by someone, or to encounter fierce beasts and fierce beasts.

Qin Tian didn't want to be in danger as soon as he started, especially now that his identity was the first place in the qualifiers, the object of envy and envy of many people was itself a target to attract firepower.

Two more hummingbird reconnaissance planes were released, and Qin Tian took himself as the center, established a reconnaissance and early warning circle with a diameter of about one kilometer, and then moved directly in the direction of the nuclear base.

He didn't go far before Qin Tian noticed that the reconnaissance information was finally displayed.

In the direction of nine o'clock and three o'clock, the two mecha that jumped out of the cabin in the second and fourth directions, they really came towards Qin Tian, and they were moving very fast.

The enemy is tired and disturbed, and the enemy chases and flees!

The game had just begun, and Qin Tian naturally wouldn't let himself be caught between two sides, so he immediately accelerated forward without hesitation, trying to get rid of the two menacing mechs as much as possible.

However, such a move naturally cannot be hidden, and the other party will naturally carry a small aircraft for reconnaissance and search, and when Qin Tian sees them, they will definitely be able to find Qin Tian through aerial reconnaissance, and it will only be a matter of time before they are discovered.

Heading slowly towards the nuclear base, Qin Tian avoided the mecha and fierce beasts as much as possible, and found a suitable hiding place.

This place has been held for many competitions, where can I hide mechas, where are fierce beasts and fierce beasts most likely to appear, where is suitable for ambushes, and where is the most likely place for multiple mecha to encounter...... Points such as these have been thoroughly studied.

Just like the field map of a competitive game, players have studied the basics thoroughly, and the terrain has not changed much, the only change is that the competition has not been held for two years, the vegetation has become more leafy, and some areas where the river flows may have changed slightly due to mudslides or floods.

Not long after advancing all the way, Qin Tian saw the winding river a few hundred meters away.

This is a river that was blown up from the snowy plateau by blasting all the way on the desert Gobi.

So it's not so much a river as a trench, a huge ditch blown out by a high-explosive energy bomb, and there is not much water flowing in it, more like a winding stream, and the water level will probably only rise during the rainy season on the plateau.

The river can't hide the mecha, the water is too shallow, and you can't even submerge your knees, but after jumping into the mecha weighing dozens of tons, it's easy to fall into the mud and sand and stumble, so the river is not a good place to hide, but a 'death trap'.

Keeping a few hundred meters away from the river, Qin Tian headed all the way downstream.

The hummingbird reconnaissance plane, which acted as a scout, had already found two mechs in front of it, and they did not fight fiercely, but were dozens of meters apart, heading together towards the highway and railway bridge that had been abandoned for many years.

The bridge across the river is the only way to enter the nuclear base within a radius of more than a dozen kilometers, and in the past battles, this bridge has really become a killing place, and many players have fallen here to sink in the sand.

Therefore, the two mechas, which are almost moving side by side, do not need to guess to know that they are contestants in the Kaisheng Empire, they know each other and know the importance of this bridge, so they maintain a posture of searching and advancing, and it is estimated that they either want to set up an ambush on the bridge, or they want to pass the bridge smoothly and go to the nuclear base to wander and fight.

Qin Tian followed them unhurriedly, the road that the two of them had reconnoitred and searched together was of course a relatively safe road, just like in the swamp and muddy ground, the road that others had walked would naturally not fall into the pit.

Slowly moving forward, Qin Tian quickly noticed that there were three more mecha in the rear, they gathered from four directions, they were all heading towards the bridge, and there was no battle between them, could it be that they also knew each other?

There are two in the front and three in the rear!

And each airdrop is a group of four, so there must be two mechs around, so will they already be in ambush near the bridge?

One to seven!

Qin Tian really had a feeling of falling into a thief's den, he was really surrounded by wolves!

The plan couldn't catch up with the change, Qin Tian immediately decided not to enter the nuclear base, and first stayed away from the bridge and away from the hot spots of the fighting.

Taking advantage of the fact that the encirclement had not yet been formed, Qin Tian immediately changed the direction of his progress and interspersed it in the direction of ten o'clock, preferring to go to the wilderness area to fight the jungle first, rather than rushing to find death rashly, even if there was a converged mecha that was safe and worry-free, but that was the last means of saving his life.

Opposite.

The other players all went to the bridge, and Qin Tian began to 'break through'.

His move is naturally no secret, many mecha will have reconnaissance planes in the air to reconnoitre, but for Qin Tian's 'rebellious' attitude, everyone simply chose to ignore it.

After all, the distance is getting farther and farther, and it is very troublesome to pursue, so it is better to hurry up with someone you know, seize the bridge and arrange an ambush circle, and wait for the rabbit than to chase and kill a mecha in the great wilderness.

Each mech is larger and heavier than a heavy tank, and it's not a fighter jet, flying around at will.

Qin Tian stayed away from the hot spots, climbed mountains and forests, and soon arrived at a relatively desolate place.

This is a piece of scorched earth, probably before many surface nuclear tests, nuclear explosions have produced many large and small craters, the deepest is more than 100 meters, and with the slow evolution of time, these large craters have gradually been filled by the yellow sand very shallow, but it has become a trap, once it falls in, it is difficult to climb out, soft sediment will greatly affect the activity of the mecha.

There are not many plants, there are many large and small pits around, and there are no footprints or anything like that, which proves that even herbivores rarely appear in the area, and it is a good place to rest.

As for hiding......

In broad daylight, on the desolate land, there are no mountains and deep pools, how can you hide? Just rest for a while, and don't worry about being attacked and sneak attacked.

Qin Tian found a relatively high place to stand still, and deployed three hummingbird reconnaissance planes to a farther position, as long as the mecha or fierce beast broke into the two-kilometer range, it would issue an early warning.

Subsequently, Qin Tian took out another aircraft like a model aircraft from the spare parts cabin in the lower abdomen of the mecha, and threw it into the sky with all his might, as if the unmanned reconnaissance plane had been ejected and took off, and quickly climbed to a thousand meters of airspace to activate the airborne reconnaissance instrument.

Visible light, infrared thermal sensing, synthetic aperture radar, biosensing, magnetic energy detection...... All kinds of highly integrated reconnaissance instruments quickly began to work.

The unmanned reconnaissance aircraft flew from a high altitude to probe the dynamics of the bridge and at the same time collect and analyze various signals.

For the venue monitoring and live broadcast of each competition, the communication method of all instruments and equipment will be changed, and the communication method of all instruments and equipment will be strictly encrypted to prevent eavesdropping, but there are no rules and restrictions, so many participating teams will find ways to collect and crack the live broadcast signal, so as to use the monitoring and live broadcast equipment covering the entire venue to indirectly 'control the overall situation'.

The magic is one foot high, and the road is one foot high!

Of course, the referee team knows that letting the players crack the communication signal means that the players can easily grasp the global dynamics, which is equivalent to 'map transparency'.

The player knows where he is, and he knows where others are, but others don't, and that's a terrible technical advantage.

It is precisely because of this that the strictly encrypted communication method is really not something that can be cracked casually, after all, this is a gathering of the wisdom of countless communication scientists in the Kaisheng Empire, no matter how awesome the teams are, it is impossible to compete with the communication scientific research capabilities of the entire empire.

However......

There are exceptions to this competition.

Qin Tian has entered a higher-dimensional civilization in the five-dimensional space, and his level in science and technology is naturally higher than that of the Kaisheng Empire, and the collected communication signals are transmitted back after analysis and processing, and the aggregate mecha is transformed into a supercomputing body, and it only takes less than ten minutes to complete the cracking.

Access to all signals, a steady stream of data is quickly used to form a super-large-scale holographic situation map.

This situation map covers the entire venue, including the real-time dynamics of each place, and integrates the data of every monitor and sensor in the competition venue to present it in real time.

Qin Tian knew at a glance where all the participating mecha were doing, and where there were beast activities.

However, soon Qin Tian discovered that there was a mecha, which was actually sneakily approaching slowly, was this the rhythm of a sneak attack?

(End of chapter)