The farce quickly subsided under the stern rebuke of the imperial officers, but the eyes of everyone looking at Morning Star changed, and a few people developed admiration, but the vast majority of them gritted their teeth and had unkind eyes. Xie Shiqi's speculation has been confirmed, and Chen Chao's wish should also be fulfilled.

Shortly after the Morning Star landed, another ship from the Flame Courtyard slowly approached Butkamp. On the ship are the second and third teams of Yanyuan, Morning Star had invited two teams separately, Fan Shutao's side naturally couldn't accept it because of the previous conflict, but I don't know why, the first-year team also rejected Morning Star's invitation. At this moment, if Morning Star saw the scene of Fan Shutao chatting happily with the captain of the other team, he should also know the reason.

Fan Shutao was a little puzzled, he didn't know why the eyes of the people around him were so densely focused on him, although he was well-known in Yanyuan, he didn't achieve such attention at all. Under the guidance of the imperial soldiers, Fan Shutao completed the due inspection and identity verification according to the process, and after standing in the long line, Fan Shutao felt a little unhappy, for the same reason as everyone else, as a contestant, Fan Shutao felt that the respect he deserved was not satisfied. But just when Fan Shutao was about to express his dissatisfaction to the surrounding imperial soldiers, he suddenly found that the atmosphere around him had changed, as if other people had put down the baggage in their hearts and became relaxed and happy, mixed with vague talk about life, for example, they didn't lie to us, and he was really the only one who received preferential treatment and so on, which made Fan Shutao confused, hurriedly gave up his previous thoughts, and stayed where he was.

Before the start of the competition, there is an important event to be held, and that is the group draw.

The draw took place on the fourth day after the arrival of the Morning Star, during which time the Morning Star led the team and support staff on a tour of many of the attractions in Butkamp, as well as riding an animal endemic to the planet, known as the Thunder Elephant by the Imperials. Grown up tall and mighty, there are occasional flashes of electric light in his eyes, but his personality is indeed docile and tight, and he is also very friendly to humans. Morningstar had a strange idea when he saw the thunder elephant, he wanted to get a few to go to ItGleeson, this thing is too gratifying, and it should be used when Itglishon develops his tourism career in the future.

The rules of the draw are completely random, and there is no seeding team. That is to say, the result may be a strong collision in the group stage, and it is more likely that there will be a team with outstanding overall strength that will not be as good as a weak team in the end. This rule has always been the criticism of the Mecha Competition, but it has never changed, and slowly everyone has chosen to accept it, after all, the team standing in the final will not be two weak teams. can fight out of the chaos, and the strength must also stand up to consideration.

The draw was supposed to be the captains of each team, but Morning Star sent coach Qin Qing here. Qin Qing was very reluctant to show up, after all, since the lottery began, it had been broadcast live to the whole human camp, but Morning Star insisted that Qin Qing go to the lottery. Morningstar has two reasons, one is that Morningstar has always disagreed with the captain drawing lots, and the core of the team should be the coach. This reason was hard to find by Morningstar, and it couldn't stand up to scrutiny at all. The second reason was the real reason why Morningstar didn't go, the experience of choosing to be forever wrong on Itgleson, in the cave where Quinn was found, made Morningstar not quite believe in his luck. Although he has no fear of other opponents, Morningstar, he believes that a gradual process of competition can lead to better results.

In the end, Qin Qing was defeated by Morning Star's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and reluctantly walked onto the lottery table.

Qin Qing's beauty has a unique flavor, her healthy physique and mature face made her quickly attract a lot of attention, and there were even students from other schools who ran out to confess, shouting Senior Sister I want to have a relationship with you and was dragged out by the security personnel. Such a small accident made Qin Qing very ashamed, so after stepping down, she pinched Morning Star fiercely, and the style revealed at that moment made many people stunned.

The result of the draw is good, the Morning Star team was divided into Group E, judging from the information obtained by Xie Shiqi, there are only three relatively strong opponents in this group, one is the Dead Water Military Academy from the Dead Water District of the Republic, this school is also one of the top two schools in the Republic, they have reached the semi-finals of the mecha competition many times in history, and the best result is the runner-up. Morningstar paused when he heard the Backwater Military Academy, and he always felt that the name had some impression, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it for a while.

The second formidable opponent is the Polar Bear Military Academy from Novosibirsk, the fringe sector of the Empire. The Novosibirsk Star Region is a relatively harsh natural environment, and the few habitable planets are also relatively cool, but it is rich in ores, from military manufacturing needs, to civilian use to luxury goods, almost every field in the human camp will have a shadow of Novosibirsk. The environment is harsh but full of opportunities, in the early days of the development of Novosibirsk, most of the people involved were outlaws, and after years of development, a fixed human community has been formed here, but the people are still fierce. In addition to various ores, the most famous in the Novosibirsk Star Zone is the Star Thief. Located on the border of the Empire, with a large number of trading ships coming and going, and the bitter cold conditions made it difficult to station a large number of troops for a long time, the Novosibirsk Star Region became a paradise for star thieves. The star thieves here are not at all as inhumane and reckless as the Kuroshio that Morning Star participated in exterminating. The star thieves of Novosibirsk seem to have some kind of strange balance, they are always only for things, not people, and even if they are robbed, as long as the victim's resistance is not too violent, there will be no casualties. Because of these star thieves, almost all the students of the Polar Bear Military Academy have participated in actual combat, coupled with the already fierce style, which makes the students of the Polar Bear Military Academy form a fierce style of rushing and fighting. In many previous editions, there have been many teams that have been suppressed by their style and lost the game inexplicably.

The third stronger opponent is very strange, the reason why it is strange is because the origin of this team is very strange, it comes from a rare non-military academy in the mecha competition, and even less is that this is still a women's college, the name of this school is Shengxilan Women's High School. New Charles, a co-governing planet located on the border between the Union and the Republic, Morningstar still has a deep impression of this place, and it is here that the reunion with Catherine takes place, as well as the sensible casino owner. The predecessor of Shengxilan Women's High School was an ordinary girls' school, but under the current arrogant and vigorous transformation, this school has made great progress, and it has appeared from more than 20 years ago a major that is incompatible with the overall style of this school, mecha driving, and in the second year's mecha competition, it reached the top eight as a dark horse and made a name for itself. Sheng Xilan's women's mecha team has a very powerful name, called Valkyrie, but their style of play is not very powerful, mainly agile archers and speed-based melee mechs. Perhaps because of women's innate keen sense of smell, this team has created miracles of defeating the strong many times in the later years, and many combat forces have been entered into textbooks by major universities, which can be called a miracle.

Except for these three teams, Xie Shiqi's evaluation of other teams is not very high, and most of them just come to see the world. But at the same time, Xie Shiqi still warned everyone not to take it lightly, it is very common to capsize ships in the gutter, and it is necessary to despise the enemy strategically and attach importance to the enemy tactically. Lin Tong even took the trouble to cite many examples of the weak defeating the strong in history, and the members of the Morning Star team were full of seriousness.

Qin Qing, as the teacher's teacher of the actors, paid more attention to the other teams of Yanyuan than the students of Morning Star, and she had already returned to the team at the moment after leaving, and said: "The other two teams of our school have also come out, and the second team led by Fan Shutao is in Group B, according to the competition system, it will not collide with us after the group stage, and it should be able to go further, but the three teams are very unlucky, they were divided into Group G, although Group G does not have a particularly shining team, but the average strength is very strong, Among the sixteen teams, eleven of them have reached the top eight of the mecha competition, which can be said to be a profound foundation. And, even if the three teams can make it to the finals, they will likely face the Royal Military Academy in the first round of the finals. ”

"Teacher Qin, the Imperial Royal Military Academy you are talking about can't be a school with those four supernovas, right?" Situ Yeyu has a lively temperament and takes the lead in asking questions that everyone wants to know.

Qin Qing nodded and replied, "Unfortunately, I said. ”

Morning Star shook his head and said: "That is probably hanging, there is no vanity under the fame, even if it is exaggerated, but considering the huge changes made by the empire to the schedule under pressure this time, presumably these people will not be good." ”

Chen Chao saw that everyone was worried about others, and couldn't help but say loudly: "Are you all right?" There is still time to care about them, the three teams were originally used to train the commanders to see, so why worry about being like that. ”

Qin Qing was a little unhappy with Chen Chao's coldness, glared at him fiercely and said, "Morning Star, there is another news that you must be interested in. ”

"Huh? What news. Morningstar replied.

"I heard that the leader of the Imperial Royal Military Academy, whose name is Katarina, could it be your eldest princess?" Qin Qing was a little playful, obviously stimulating Morning Star.

Morning Star thought for a moment and replied, "Probably not, I haven't heard her say anything about anything related to the Imperial Royal Military Academy before, and the name Caterina is very common in the Empire, so it should be the same name." ”

Situ Yeqi hugged Chenxing's shoulders from behind and asked with a playful face: "You say, if it is really your eldest princess, then if our two teams meet, will you deliberately show mercy?" ”

Morning Star angrily shook Situ Yeqi away and replied, "What do you say? ”

Situ Yeyu also learned her brother's movements after Situ Yeyu was thrown away, hugged Chenxing's shoulders and said, "My brother doesn't dare to say that I will say it, you will definitely release the water, because you will definitely be afraid that the eldest princess will be angry and make you kneel on the washboard!" ”

"Go away, go away, you two neurotics, hurry up and get ready to go!"