The BoB competition is divided into two days.

The first day is a preliminary round.

The main race will be held on the second day.

The preliminaries will take place on December 13, 2025.

The main event will take place on December 14, 2025.

In other words, today is the day of the preliminaries.

In view of this, after Luo Zhen submitted the registration, in addition to the battle table, a countdown to the start time of the match appeared on the screen.

Since Luo Zhen came relatively early, there was still more than an hour before the start of the game.

However, Luo Zhen determined his own battle group.

"Group A No. 1?"

Looking at the list that appeared on the battle table, Luo Zhen smiled slightly.

"It's actually the first number in the first group, is it a good luck?"

The roster of the battle table is all randomly assigned by the system, even the first person to sign up will be assigned to any of the fifteen groups after random assignment, and if the first number of the first group is always empty, and the last player to sign up is drawn, it is a normal thing.

Luo Zhen drew the first number of the first group.

This luck, there is no one.

But Luo Zhen still quickly browsed the battle table and found that there were several character names he had heard of on it.

For example, Gale, who finished 13th in the last BoB competition, was actually among them.

"Isn't that the one you escaped in the Land of the Dead last time?"

Luo Zhen couldn't help but be stunned, and then showed a playful smile.

"I really managed to escape for a while, but I can't escape for a lifetime."

After going around, this master, who once won the thirteenth place in the BoB competition, but fled in embarrassment in front of Luo Zhen last time, is now back in front of Luo Zhen, which is really providential.

I guess that player should even have the heart to die by now, right?

"If you meet him in the preliminaries, let's give him some water."

This is also a special kind of care.

Thinking of this, Luo Zhen did not leave at the first time, but stood in place for a while before he smiled slightly, turned around, and walked to the front of the hall on the first floor of the presidential palace.

There are several elevators lined up on the walls, you can go up and down, and many players use the elevators to go to the underground venue.

Among them, there is an elevator where there is a girl familiar to Luo Zhen.

"Tsk..."

The girl looked at Luo Zhen, who happened to come over, and after being speechless, she pressed the button next to the elevator door, hoping that the elevator door could be closed quickly.

It's a pity that Luo Zhen walked over leisurely and entered the elevator before the elevator door was about to close.

There were just two people in the entire elevator, Luo Zhen and the girl, and in the sense of falling, the elevator started.

Seeing that he couldn't avoid getting on the same elevator as Luo Zhen, Shi Nai could only keep a cold face, hugging his arms, and not saying a word.

Luo Zhen also did not speak.

Because, Luo Zhen is very sure that Shi Nai will take the initiative to talk to him.

Sure enough...

"What group are you on?"

Shi Nai asked coldly.

Luo Zhen smiled not at all surprised.

"Are you afraid of running into me?"

Luo Zhen uttered something akin to a provocation.

"I'm afraid you'll be dealt with before I even meet you."

Shi Nai spat out such words without wavering.

"Then I really want to know who can do it." Luo Zhen pursed his lips and said, "What about you?" Which group are you? ”

“...... Group D. Shino was silent for a while, and then said lightly: "I'm the twentieth in Group D." ”

"Looks like we won't meet." Luo Zhen shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm the No. 1 in Group A, and I can't meet it in the preliminaries." ”

"Then try to get into the main game." Shi Nai frowned slightly, then soothed, and said, "When the time comes, I will definitely return the hatred of the day before yesterday to you." ”

The words fell, and the elevator reached its destination, allowing the elevator door to open directly.

Shi Nai stepped into it directly without any hesitation, as if he didn't want to be with Luo Zhen, he walked quite simply.

Seeing this, Luo Zhencai shook his head as if he was amused, followed out of the elevator, and entered the competition venue.

It is as spacious as the hall on the first floor, but the light source is quite scarce, only a few arc lamps covered by iron frames emit a thin bright light, the floor and pillars are either black copper plates or red brown iron mesh, there are some rough tables lined up on the walls, and the roof part has a number of huge hologram panels, the current picture is pitch black, only the words "BoB3 preliminary" and the countdown before the start of the game are displayed in dark red font.

Luo Zhen walked into this venue.

The next moment...

“————”

One by one, his eyes were focused on Luo Zhen, making the atmosphere in the entire space become heavy.

It was a group of players gathered around a wall table or an upright iron pillar.

Some of them gathered together and whispered, and some stood there silently alone, knowing at a glance that they were the preliminaries of the upcoming BoB competition, exuding a vicious aura.

And the sight of such a person focused on Luo Zhen was also full of unkindness.

There is no other reason, but because the people who will come here are all participants in the BoB competition, and they are incompatible competitors with each other, and they will fight tirelessly after the competition starts, and in the end only thirty people will be able to stay, but they will continue to fight tomorrow, until only one person remains.

In that case, the only ones who will be concentrated here are the enemies.

If it's an enemy, it's impossible to be friendly.

It's just that when all the players saw Luo Zhen's appearance clearly, their complexions changed slightly.

"Hey... He's not..."

"It's him..."

"Damn, it's really here..."

"I hope I don't get bad enough to be in a team with him before the race..."

"Hmph..."

One by one, the players immediately turned their heads and ears, and their eyes at Luo Zhen were not as unscrupulous as just now, but full of fear and sighs, and they looked away.

As if he hadn't noticed this scene, Luo Zhen walked forward slowly, came to a corner by himself, leaned on the pillar, hugged his arms, closed his eyes, and raised his mind.

From time to time, all the players glanced at Luo Zhen, but immediately looked away, and only a few players looked at it with curiosity, scrutiny, scrutiny, and inquiry, as if they wanted to remember Luo Zhen's appearance, very seriously.

Among them, Shino is sitting in the corner.

"What's the spirit?"

Shi Nai held a cup of cold drink, looked at Luo Zhen who closed his eyes and recuperated, and buried a sentence in a low voice.

The response to this poetry is a male player.

A male player who walked up to him at some point.

"Because it's very strong, that's why it's angry."

The male player who said this was a man with long silver-gray hair, wearing a straight-line gray camouflage uniform that was slightly brighter than the dark gray, with a tall, thin face that suited his tall and thin body, and no armor on his body, which made people feel his agility, not so much a battle-hardened soldier as a member of the special forces.

Seeing this person, Shina's expression finally softened a little.

"You're here too, Mirror."

The poem speaks like this.

The other party is Kyoji Shinkawa's character in GGO———— "Mirror".

"I'm coming."

The mirror greeted Shino, and then looked in Luo Zhen's direction.

In the eyes, different colors are flashing.