Chapter 25: The Tournament Begins
The Lijiang Youth Challenge is a major annual event, and Battle.net attaches great importance to it, not only investing a lot of publicity in the early stage, but also inviting many star singers to hold a grand opening ceremony. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhang Liao had no interest in the opening ceremony, but Xiaomei watched it with relish, and Xiao Xunqiu, who was still relying on 406 after the renovation of the design room, looked at Zhang Liao who was wielding a casting hammer, and asked: "Do you really want to compete immediately?" ”
"Why not?" Zhang Liao shrugged his shoulders and used the forging sword as a warm-up activity.
The opening ceremony will be held in the evening and will end at 8 p.m., and the horn of the challenge will be sounded, and all eligible Li River teenagers will be able to participate in the competition through Battle.net glasses. The first round of the preliminaries lasts for a week, randomly matches ten players, and the winning rate reaches 60% to advance.
Anyway, the time span is very long, and there is no specified time, so Zhang Liao's classmates are basically using this buffer time to prepare for the start. However, as a seeded player, Zhang Liao could not do this, because Chu Yiren had a strict plan for him, not only to play at a fixed time, but also to play three consecutive matches as soon as he came up, then one game a day, and one more match on the last day to ensure that the attention could be maintained.
Zhang Liao, who is very likely to collide with older players, said that he was not worried that it was fake, but he did not have too much burden, after all, he had almost died several times, and his legs and stomach trembled with fear before he even competed.
The phoenix-eyed beauty shook Xiaomei's shoulder again: "Then when will Meimeng participate?" ”
The challenge is of great significance, almost all the freshmen of the Lijiang Tower will participate, Xiaomei is no exception, and when she found Zhang Liao putting down the casting hammer and looking at her, Xiaomei was a little shy: "The last day." ”
Xiao Xunqiu smiled slightly, glanced at Zhang Liao, and squeezed Xiaomei's little hand: "If you don't dislike it, my sister can help you a little, don't dare to say anything else, at least there is no problem in the first two rounds." ”
Zhang Liao raised his eyebrows: "You're not afraid of saying big things and flashing your waist!" ”
It's true that Xiaomei has an ice-based ability, but Zhang Liao didn't see her perform it much, and besides, Xiaomei's main attack in the game is an ice gun, and except for the first encounter, he has never seen Xiaomei touch a firearm.
Xiao Xunqiu suddenly straightened her waist, showing her attractive curves intentionally or unintentionally, and she snorted: "Let's see." ”
Zhang Mouren was too lazy to pay attention to her, and found that the time for the competition was coming, so he put down the casting hammer and sat next to Xiaomei, put on Battle.net glasses and landed on the live broadcast platform of the Lijiang Youth Challenge. It can be seen that Battle.net has put a lot of thought into the challenge, because Zhang Liao saw from the perspective of God at this time that the competition venue was actually located in a virtual world!
At the center of the virtual world are ten giant screens showing the ten seeded players, and next to each screen is a majestic Roman gladiatorial arena, which is a dedicated battlefield for the seeded players. In addition to the 10 dedicated venues, there are 100 smaller rings evenly distributed to showcase the high-profile competitions.
Looking at his own gladiatorial arena, Zhang Liao's heartbeat couldn't help but be a little faster, and at this time, many figures had already appeared in the audience of the gladiatorial arena, obviously they were full of curiosity about Zhang Liao.
"Zhang Liao, are you ready?"
Chu Yiren's voice suddenly sounded, making Zhang Liao stunned before reacting: "Of course! ”
The cheongsam beauty, who was waiting for her subordinates to report the viewing data, advised: "Today's three games must not be lost, otherwise your popularity will drop significantly, even if you can enter the main game, it is difficult to say whether the publicity effect is one-third of what is expected." Therefore, in order not to let the people of Lingyun Pavilion succeed, you must win, and you can only win. ”
Zhang Liao nodded heavily, for some reason, in the face of the pressure exerted by the Chu Yi people, his heart became more and more relaxed, and he suddenly said mysteriously: "The final champion award presenter is really that one?" ”
"I didn't expect you to pay attention to this?" A charming smile appeared on Chu Yiren's face, and he deliberately teased Zhang Liao, "Aren't you afraid that I will tell Xiaomei?" ”
Zhang Liao pursed his lips, and Chu Yiren then smiled: "Go quickly, if you can become a champion, I can help you!" ”
Help me? Help me with what?
Zhang Daguan, who was puzzled in his heart, had a strange face, and then no longer hesitated to choose to enter the battlefield, and his figure immediately came from the air to the special battlefield that belonged to him.
It wasn't until he was there that Zhang Liao realized how huge this gladiatorial arena was, there were people everywhere in sight, and the number of spectators was still increasing rapidly, and in this way, the 100,000 audience seats would soon be full. While Zhang Liao was looking at the audience, tens of thousands of viewers were also looking at him, but in comparison, the former had a flat gaze, while the latter was full of scrutiny.
It's not that there have been new seeds in the Lijiang Tower, but they all come from prestigious big conglomerates and big families, and there are basically no civilian backgrounds, not to mention people like Zhang Liao, who don't even have a blank family background. Especially when the audience checked Zhang Liao's battle net record, level recruits, thirteen defeats and one win (no record of the battle), they felt more and more that this year's seed selection was too hasty.
Fortunately for others, a young spectator sitting in the stands looked at Zhang Liao with the worst eyes, for no other reason, Zhang Liao snatched the seed seat that belonged to this person. Before the game, many companies approached his family to negotiate endorsement contracts, but as soon as Battle.net announced the seeding candidates, everyone was dumbfounded, and the contracts immediately fell into vain. This person's family also had some energy, and they directly contacted the person in charge of the Huaxia branch of the Battle.net Company, who readily agreed to deal with the matter, but was rejected by the Chu Yi people's tough attitude.
Not only did the family suffer huge losses, but even this person felt shameless, so he hated Zhang Liao more and more, and he couldn't look at it anywhere.
"Weak, unstable, blind, slow-moving, what qualifies him to be a seed? Just because he has a leg with the Chuyi? This person did not hide his disdain for Zhang Liao to his companions, and the man pursed his lips without saying a word, "The most outrageous thing is that he actually holds a sword, do you really think that if you worship Mo Feng as a teacher, you can become the proud son of heaven back then?" Ridiculous, ridiculous! ”
There are not a few viewers with the same mentality, although there has been a lot of information about Zhang Liao in the Lijiang Tower, but not many people believe it! Seeing is believing and hearing is false, you said that he killed the powerhouses of the Four Realms, it must be true? What about video? Moreover, even if there is a video, it doesn't mean anything, technology is so advanced, it is easy to fake a video, so Zhang Liao, whose reputation is chasing the twin stars in the north, is questioned in Lijiang Province.
Zhang Daguan stood quietly in the middle of the battlefield, like a dull wooden man, and he watched as the auditorium gradually filled, and then greeted the appearance of the first opponent.
Suddenly, the audience was boiling.
"I knew it was going to be like this!" A certain audience member couldn't help but laugh when he looked at Zhang Liao's opponent, "The biggest opponent of the new students of the Lijiang Tower is not the older one at all, but the one who uses a gun!" ”
The Lijiang Youth Challenge does not prohibit the use of guns, but only small-caliber pistols with slow fire rate are allowed in the first round, and this has become the most severe test that the new students of the Lijiang Tower have to face. Every year, many new students are defeated at gunpoint, and even the geniuses at the top of the grade have to deal with it carefully. Such a rule is not fair, but there is never an absolutely fair thing in this world, and the Li River Pagoda deliberately did so with the new future in mind.
It's just that when the audience expressed their silence for Zhang Liao's first battle, Zhang Daguan became more relaxed, because the small pistol held by the opponent, whether it was the rate of fire or others, was not as good as the pulse double gun of the two-gun girl. And the guy opposite is not much older than him, although his expression is happy, but his eyes reveal the nervousness and cowardice of being watched by 100,000 viewers.
The countdown to the game was ten seconds, the two sides were thirty meters apart, Zhang Liao held the sword in his hand and put on the most basic fighting posture, and his opponent also picked up the pistol to aim, but the muzzle of the gun was a little trembling, and Zhang Liao wanted to shake his head, but this could not break the audience's opinion of the result. It was as if they had expected Zhang Liao to hate the muzzle of the gun without even taking a step.
Zhang Liao's opponent's heart was pounding, and he tried his best to suppress his nervousness, holding the gun in both hands so that the trembling would disappear, but as the countdown gradually ended, his hands became more and more shaky. What is particularly outrageous is that the moment the battle began, the gunfire rang out immediately, but the bullet flew away because of the violent shaking, and when he was about to shoot again, he was shocked to find that Zhang Daguan's figure was rapidly approaching.
Boom!
Another gunshot rang out, and under the gaze of 100,000 spectators, the bullet did not deviate from the target, and the man's face showed a smug expression of victory to welcome him, and then a certain scene reappeared.
His head was shot in the head by his own bullet!