"Welcome to the world of Thunder Chariots." With the sound of cannonballs exploding with a whistling sound, the sounds of welcoming Arden and Hyperion rang out against the backdrop of the war-torn virtual world.

"It's very real......" Ignoring the welcome interface that was just a virtual synthesis, Arden crouched down and grabbed a handful of the ground, feeling the real touch and said.

"Cut, dismount? This little cannon still wants to scare me Hubelion? Huberian, who was splashed with mud from a shell that exploded at close range, said depressedly because he was not prepared.

Because it was only a preset service program of the system, Arden and Hyperion's behavior did not cause any other reaction from the prompt sound, but still said as preset:

"Now it's time for the new player registration process." As soon as the system prompt ended, a roaring sound of engines appeared very abruptly in the ears of the two starship mothers.

Then a tattered jeep jumped over the potholed battlefield and approached Arden and Hyperion.

"It's a bit fake." Seeing that one shell after another landed narrowly and dangerously next to this jeep, but it didn't hit, and even the speed of the car was not affected, Hubelian complained slightly.

"It's been done very well." His eyes were fixed on the jeep that was getting closer and closer as if it were bouncing and acrobatics, and Arden said in a tone that had not changed much.

When the jeep stopped in front of Arden and Hyperion in a dashing drifting tail, a female soldier with a steel helmet and a submachine gun dismounted from the jeep.

The female soldier who carried the submachine gun in her hand to her back casually saluted from a distance, and shouted as she walked towards Arden: "Welcome to Normandy, Commander!" Pls is your tank ......"

The female soldier, who was also programmed by the game's preset, didn't finish her sentence, and a cannonball that finally hit the spot whistled and smashed into the position where the female soldier was standing.

With a "......boom", there was only a broken steel helmet left in the original position of the female soldier, swaying in a circle.

"Ah, this is really ......" Although he had known from the cracked system that this would happen, Hubelian still wiped the dirt splashed on his face and said with a sigh.

On the contrary, Arden, who was closer to the female soldier who only had a steel helmet left, stood there spotlessly and with an unchanged face.

"Artillery fire is coming! Take cover! As soon as the driver of the jeep finished speaking, the shells that had just been chasing the jeep and had not hit for a long time exploded one after another around Arden and Hyperion.

"Should we find a place to hide as the system has set it to?" Arton, who was standing in the smoke of gunfire, asked Hyperion, who was beside him.

"You know, it's not really useful." Huberian, who stood upright with Arden, squinted to keep the dirt from being caught in his eyes by the cannonballs.

"Well, indeed, in fact, as long as you don't move." Arden, who had decoded the client like Hyperion, spoke.

"This should be called the rational use of bugs." Hyperion nodded.

After decoding, both Arden and Hyperion knew that the real-looking battlefield in front of them was just one of dozens of opening animations for new character registrations.

Normal players will look for a cover after hearing that phrase when facing this kind of artillery fire, especially those who are war machines themselves.

However, even if the reaction is fast and the response is timely, the preset system still sets the player to have a 30% chance of dying on the battlefield.

It's not about the player's experience, it's just a system setting.

An experienced hero-class shipwreck may be killed in several scenes in a row after dodging all the shells, and the scareless newcomers who are scurrying around may pass it all at once.

This setting is mainly to educate players to understand the real battlefield, and it is also to remind those ship girls that in this world, they are no longer humanoid warships with steel and iron bones.

After dying in the opening animation of this scene, it will immediately move to another preset animation, which is also a battlefield style filled with artillery fire, and also has a 30% death rate.

But both Arden and Huberion, who decoded the game client, knew that perhaps it was the programmer's negligence in making the scene, and the first scene that the player logged in to appeared in an absolutely safe area.

As long as it doesn't move, it's like being demobilized out of the world, and the so-called 30% elimination rate will not be triggered.

So when the sound of artillery fire faded away, Arden looked at the ground that had been almost plowed and said, "Next, according to the plot, should we use the materials at hand to repair the car, and then drive it to the logistics warehouse?" ”

"Let's talk about it first, I'll drive!" Huberian, who also knew the plot setting, got next to the jeep whose driver didn't know where it had been blown up, and tinkered with it and fixed it.

"Your skills ......" Although Arden looked at Hyperion with distrust in his eyes, he still sat in the passenger seat.

"Even if Arden doubts my Yamato cannon, he dares to question my driving skills!" Huberian, who had repaired the jeep, jumped into the driver's seat, threw the driver's manual originally intended for novice players to the ground, and the clutch brake ignition gear throttle was completed in one go.

The jeep, which had been ravaged by artillery fire and had been squeezed out of the last vestige of power by the Hubelians, burst out with a strong roar.

"When have I ever questioned the power of your Yamato cannon?" Without a seat belt or support, Arden's body in the passenger seat swayed with the jeep.

"I'm an old driver who can drive vulture cars to 300 kilometers per hour!" Apparently in a certain state, Hubelion, who was clinging to the steering wheel, did not listen to Arden's words at all.

"Well, do you know the route?" Arden remembers that in the setting, although the background of each opening animation is fixed, the terrain, the route, and even the two preset NPCs who were brutally attacked just now are all set immediately.

"Route? I remember putting it in the driver's guide, Arden, you take the map and be responsible for guiding the way! Hubelian raised the speed of the jeep to 100 km/h without raising his head.

"Driver's guide?" Arden looked back behind him and said, "Didn't you just throw it away?" ”

"Squeak...... accompanied by the screeching moans of brake pads and rubber tires, the jeep, which had reached a speed of more than 80 kilometers per hour on the roadless ground, made a small radius flick and drift.

And then...... And rightfully so......

"This is the old driver?" Arden, who finally had a bit of dirt on his body, straightened the overturned jeep and said to Huberian, whose neck was twisted.

"Ahem! It was just a little surprise, I didn't know that the stone on the ground was fixed, and I would have changed the suspension if I had known. Hubelian said stiffly.

"Do you want to change me?" Although he had never piloted such a primitive vehicle, it was not a big problem for a certain Star Spirit Ark.

"The chamber of the cannon can be fried, the fuel can flow! You can't lose the steering wheel! Even after a car accident, Hyperion was still reluctant to let go of his directional sign.

"Then go on, old ~ Si ~ Ji!" Arden made no secret of the sarcasm in his words.

"......" (To be continued.) )