After dinner, Edwig invited his guests to a fight match.

On the planet Orens, people love fighting matches, just as people on Earth are keen on football, basketball, opera, singing and dancing and other entertainment.

Just one block from the E-Grumman Hotel is home to the largest and most famous fighting arena in Reagan City. Edwig must have been a frequent visitor to this place, because without his command, the waiter led them directly to a well-decorated box with a stunning view, and served refreshments and fruits.

Compared to the fighting matches on Earth, the boxing matches here should be more appropriately called "modern gladiatorial fights" - it can be one-on-one heads-up or many-to-many group K; It can be with bare hands or with a stick instrument.

After some vaudeville performances, the night kicked off with a fight match. In the first half, it was a four-on-four exhibition game. On one side are four bare-armed men with short sticks, and on the other are four men with arm sticks, blast shields, and standard protective gear. Such a parity-on-parity and suspenseful fight match was presented to the audience in a playful way: four strong men not only defeated an equal number of opponents by an overwhelming margin, but also smashed their shields and armor to pieces.

The first half was an exhibition match, and the second half was a challenge match. The six men who volunteered to sign up on the spot, using the same riot gear as the previous ones, fought against the four bare-armed men with short sticks. After the challenger is confirmed, the organizer will offer odds and accept bets from the audience.

"Gentlemen, bet? Red is 4 to 1 and blue is 3 to 2. ”

A hot, scantily clad girl walks into the box with a silver disc in her hand.

Edwig took out his wallet from his jacket pocket, put several "red beards" - 100 kroner bills, placed them in the blue half of the girl's tray, and introduced to the three guests: "Red is the challenger wins, blue is the defender wins, you all hear the odds." It is clear that the challenger is still not favored today. ”

Major Brooks, who had changed into civilian clothes, was still cold, and he stared at the two groups of people in the arena for a while, then took out a "red beard" and quickly put it into the blue half.

The fat vice president smiled and shook his head, indicating that he had no intention of betting.

Weiss squinted, turned his head and asked Edwig, "Are these challengers really the audience?" ”

Edwig smiled slightly: "Who knows? ”

Weiss happily took out his wallet and took out 5 "Red Beards" and placed them in the red half.

Edwig didn't look at Weiss's money, but when he put the money on the tray and got the cards from the girl for the betting area and the bet amount, the Grumman "young owner" said to him, "I have a hunch that you'll be our only winner tonight." ”

Weiss smiled: "If you change your mind now, you still have time to recover your losses." ”

Edwig replied calmly: "Sometimes, we don't have to worry too much about the details, it's all about getting the big picture going. Do you understand what I mean? ”

Literally, combined with the identity of the speaker, Weiss can probably understand the meaning of the sentence, but he is not sure if he has something to say. So, he nodded thoughtfully: "Well, those who achieve great things are not informal." ”

Edwig didn't say anything more. Not long after, the second half of the fight began with the bell ringing.

Obviously, because of the participation of the audience and the fact that many people bet, the atmosphere in the second half was completely different from the first. The four strong men took the initiative to attack, fighting more with less, and the surrounding spectators half cheered and half booed. Soon, the two challengers were knocked to the ground, rolling and crawling behind their companions, the strong men took advantage of the situation to attack, and one of them flew up behind the short-range main gun, and hit the opponent to the edge of the fighting arena with the domineering move of "human battering ram", and the shouts suddenly overwhelmed the boos.

This side-down scene is obviously very beneficial to Edwig and Major Brooks who bet on the blue half. Although the odds are not high, betting on 200 can only earn 100, with their identity and net worth, it is not bad for this little money, but a small win is also a win, and the mood will naturally not be bad. As for Weiss, facing the ending of "chicken flying egg fight" at the moment, he is not panicking at all.

He wasn't sure how others would judge the winner, but his "discerning eyes" that could quantify individual combat effectiveness clearly and clearly told him that there were two powerful guys among the challengers who volunteered to play. They may be the masters of the people, or they may be undercover agents who deliberately arrange the control of the book, in short, they definitely have the strength to turn the tables, but the outcome depends largely on the willingness of the bookmaker.

As Weiss expected, the challenger who was cornered did not collapse, but launched a Jedi counterattack under the leadership of those two "masters". I saw two people clamping a strong man with a shield, one person and one stick, and directly "stuffed" the strong man to the ground. Immediately afterward, they raised their shields forward, each carrying a strong man, and after a moment of wrestling, they suddenly crouched down and placed the police explosion-proof shield at an oblique angle. Seeing this, the two strong men lay on the shield, trying to crush the opponent with their weight, not wanting that this was the opponent's routine - they suddenly exerted their strength, turned up the shield horizontally, and flipped the strong man lying on it to the ground, and then jumped up with lightning speed to pinch the fourth strong man, and used the same method as the first strong man to knock this person to the ground.

In less than half a minute, all four strong men were knocked out, and two of them had their heads broken, and their faces were covered in blood when they got up. The spectacle outside the arena was filled with cheers, shouts and even roars.

As expected, Weiss's mentality did not change, and he looked at Edwig and Major Brooks quietly. The former's expression was still calm like a windless lake, and although the expression on the latter's face was still so calm, his body moved honestly and continuously.

The two challengers who directed a wonderful counterattack did not continue to attack because of the great physical exertion, and the other four people on their side wanted to "beat the water dogs", but the blow just now was far from enough to disintegrate the combat effectiveness of the four strong men, not to mention that their bodies and weapons were conducive to close combat, and they knocked the opponent to the ground in three strokes and two blows. The wounded beasts, their momentum changed suddenly, their combat strength increased sharply, they roared and attacked, and they rushed and struck, forcing the "explosion-proof police", who were mostly numerous, to the other side of the fighting ring. The challengers, who were once again cornered, threw away their armor and left only three shields and four batons in their hands. Although the strong men were imposing, they were also faced with the embarrassment of declining and exhausting, and repeated attempts were fruitless, and the two sides entered a confrontation for the first time.

The people inside the arena were panting and dripping with blood, but this scene made the people outside the arena extremely excited, and the shouts were higher than one after another......

Edwig duly introduced to the guests: "Allowing live spectators to participate voluntarily is one of the features of the Reagan City Fighting Tournament, and it is also its unique charm. ”

"Acts on the edge of the law." Major Brooks commented coldly.

Interestingly, he had just made a bet and was indisputably involved in it, albeit in small amounts.

Edwig turned his head and said: "After all, the law is a rule made by man, and after thousands of years of evolution, it has been constantly revised and expanded, but it is still far from the level of perfection, and there are still many loopholes. There are quite a few people who specialize in the law, not to act as enforcers and interpreters, but to find ways to find and exploit these loopholes, and then make a fortune. ”

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the fat vice president meaningfully.

The fat vice president didn't bet, but stared intently at the fighting arena as if he hadn't heard Edwig's words.

Since the dinner meeting, the dialogue and interaction between the uncle and nephew have been pitiful.

Major Brooks picked up his teacup: "Justice House once said that ill-gotten wealth is not advisable because it stimulates people's greed, blinds people's minds, and makes people unwittingly go from the edge of the law to the outside of the law, and end up in prison. ”

As he spoke, there was a new movement in the arena. The strong man who acted as a "human battering ram" flew up again, relying on his own weight to form a momentum, and the other three strong men followed closely, and they changed the rough play style of rushing and beating before, and after smashing the gap, they did not fight with the opponent, but dragged one person out of the challenger's camp, and then the three strong men played cover, and the remaining one rode directly on the challenger who was dragged out, and the short stick and fist greeted together......

The atmosphere of the scene suddenly rose again!

The people in the box were still seated, and the audience around the arena had already stood up, either raising their arms and shouting, or staring anxiously.

Suddenly, the brawny man who had beaten his opponent raised his arms high, his bloodstained face showing the pride of the victor, and the man on the ground curled up in a ball, except for his right hand raised, and a white handkerchief in his hand.

A white handkerchief was raised, the referee rang the bell, the fighting in the arena was temporarily stopped, and medical personnel quickly entered, and after a brief examination of the man's injuries, he was decisively carried away on a stretcher.

The bell rang and the battle continued.

With the new tactics used to take out one of the opponents once and for all, the strong men are in full swing, and the spectators who bet on the blue side are also in high spirits.

Weiss glanced at it, Major Brooks curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and Edwig was still the undisturbed surface of the lake.

Four against five, the strong men seem to have stepped into the threshold of victory with one foot. However, in the following time, instead of settling the battle in a devastating manner, they were dragged into a war of attrition by their opponents - the remaining five challengers fought desperately, not only did not let the strong men succeed in their old tricks, but also took the opportunity to kill the "human battering ram". Although the strong men won the first half easily, after all, it took some energy, coupled with their numerical disadvantage and more or less physical damage, which caused them to gradually fall behind in the war of attrition.

The 500 kroner "throw" did not make Weiss focus on the victory or defeat of the fighting match, and he investigated and pondered the mentality of the "young owner" of the Grumman Group and Major Brooks, while studying the quantitative relationship between human combat effectiveness and damage consumption. In regular combat confrontations, when an individual's biological function drops to two-thirds of the upper limit and mental vitality drops to half of the upper limit, there is a high probability of giving up the fight. Of course, this ratio varies from person to person, for example, those strong men who have obviously undergone professional combat training and have a lot of experience will still have a lot of mental vitality even if their biological functions have decreased a lot, and their biological functions will rebound over time, while those who are still physically fit and have less fighting skills and experience will decline very quickly once they are continuously attacked by the opponent.