Chapter 8: Opening and Butterfly Celebrations

Darkness shrouded the four fields, the ring-shaped Guanyue Stadium was like a bright moon in a total lunar eclipse, occupied all the space by deep darkness, in this darkness, the passage of time also became blurred, and the contestants who were guided to the corresponding area by the staff wearing night vision devices were all silent, and subconsciously clenched their bamboo swords. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Some of them were blown by the breeze with the scent of grass and trees, and some of them heard the sound of tinkling water in their ears. Some people feel that the soil under their feet is soft and moist, and some people are hurt by the hard stones. Someone felt the heat and seemed to have a bonfire in front of him. Some people couldn't help but wince, surrounded by the bone-chilling cold.

In the darkness, there seemed to be an indescribable giant plankton, gliding silently through the air like a ghost, like a dark veil, reflecting the strange illusions in the human heart.

In the stadium, thousands of people held their breath, and people across the empire watching the live broadcast of the tournament stared at the complete darkness of the screen, their eyes as if they were about to be drawn in by an invisible hand.

Darkness is frightening and calming.

I don't know when.

In the darkness, a lotus blossom formed by the convergence of brilliant white light suddenly bloomed!

The gorgeous petals of the plain lotus blossom instantly covered the air above the circular pond of the Guanyue Gymnasium, lighting up everyone's vision, and also unveiling the dark curtain of the first battle of the Imperial College Kendo Tournament in the 72nd year of the Dieli calendar.

That's the unveiled lotus flower!

The cheers caused an earthquake in everyone's eardrums! The holographic projection wall covering the stadium turned off the shading mode and retracted to both sides, and the impatient audience immediately turned their eyes to the center of the field, where miniature hills, flatlands, forests, swamps, meadows, rivers, canyons, lakes and other terrain appeared on the vast field, and there were even extreme terrains such as lava and ice fields.

Thousands of contestants from the top 100 kendo universities in the Imperial University were scattered all over the vast field where they needed to use binoculars to get a glimpse of the whole leopard, and began to carefully examine the surrounding terrain and the distance of their opponents.

Wearing the black armor of the miscellaneous fish, Feng Zhemu held the Dark Flame Dragon and looked left and right, he was assigned to a grass, and he didn't know how to proceed next. Luckily, he found a swordsman five or six meters away, also dressed in miscellaneous fish black, with the words "Kamiyama Rishi" embroidered on his waist and a name bag hanging from his waist.

Feng Zhimu quickly approached him: "Fortunately, we are not too far apart, and the seniors don't know where they were taken." ”

Li Zhi raised the bamboo sword in his hand and knocked it on the head of the protective gear of the sealed wood.

"You are too lax Origi, in the 36th year of the Butterfly Calendar's national competition, there was a swordsman with the ability of optical camouflage butterfly disguised as someone from other schools, and successfully sneaked up on hundreds of players who had hoped to advance."

Feng Zhimu suddenly became vigilant, and pointed at his throat with a black dark flame dragon: "Although you called out my name, and your style of speech is no different from Li Zhi, who is known as the database, but will you be a butterfly with the dual ability of disguise and hypnosis?" Maybe now everything I see and hear is my own hallucination. ”

Li Zhi sighed helplessly, reached out and pressed twice on the back of the neck of the miscellaneous fish black protective gear, the originally black protective gear mask quickly turned into a transparent color, and his face was exposed behind the mask: "Now that the competition has not officially started, it is just to give the players time to familiarize themselves with the terrain, is it necessary to be so nervous?" ”

Feng Zhemu put away the Dark Flame Dragon and returned to his lazy appearance: "Yes, the game hasn't officially started yet, is it necessary to be so nervous?" He also learned from Li Zhi to press twice on the back of the neck of the protective gear, and sure enough, the option of "whether to show appearance" appeared in the field of vision of the mask of the sensing protective gear.

Feng Zhimu also showed his face and said, "This thing is quite advanced." ”

"If it is a custom-made protective gear, the whole body can be transparent, and it can also be modified and beautified to show off the appearance, and the comfort is much higher than the miscellaneous fish black we wear."

"Ha, what's that, beauty armor?" Feng Zhimu said with a smile.

"I've already checked the nearby terrain, there's nothing particularly noteworthy, and there's still about ten minutes before the official start, so I'll briefly explain to you the rules of the game." Looking at his indifferent appearance, Li Zhi hated that iron could not be made of steel, "You were sleeping when the team leader spoke yesterday." ”

Feng Zhimu moved his arm and said, "Anyway, your database will tell me again, and you will talk about things twice, just listen to it once." ”

Li Zhi shook his head and began to explain the rules of the game: "Do you see that there are two numbers under the field of vision of the sensor protective mask, 1024 and 0 are the number of surviving players and your own points respectively, each time you kill an opponent, one point will be added, and the built-in program of the sensor protective gear will derive the due pain and reaction according to the blow received, and then transmit it to you through the neural connection."

In order to test the swordsman's ability to fight in a real environment, the competition time is 24 hours, and the arena simulates the corresponding light, temperature and humidity conditions of the day. Also, you have to pay attention to the terrain, the lava and icebergs may be fake sets, but if you do, the sensor armor will count the damage as if they were real lava and icebergs, and they will be accompanied by real pain.

The rules of the individual competition are that you are only allowed to fight alone, and you can attack those players with blue light spots hanging above their heads in the visor's field of vision, and once two players enter the battle, the light spots above their heads will turn yellow in the field of vision of the other players, and no one else is allowed to attack.

Death, coma, and bleeding wounds will be displayed on the sensor gear, which are the skull, blood red of the mask, and different shapes and shades of red in the corresponding position, respectively, and the player who dies or is unconscious for more than 30 seconds is automatically eliminated. If there are only 100 players left on the field, the match ends immediately, and if there are more than 100 players alive at the end of the match time, the top 100 players will qualify. ”

"Wait." Feng Zhimu interrupted, "Then just hide and wait until everyone fights until the blood is flowing into a river and the mussels are fighting, and then come out to pick up the cheap, and wait for the promotion." ”

Li Zhi said with a smile: "With such an obvious flaw, of course the organizing committee of the competition will not miss it." The points you get from defeating enemies can be used to reset the state of the Sensing Armor, as long as you don't die instantly or fall into a coma, you only need to consume 1 point to reset the armor and refresh it to full status. Therefore, those who are enthusiastic about fighting and have more points will get stronger and stronger as if they have several lives. ”

Feng Zhimu said: "Even if you can reset the state to remove the injury, the physical strength and energy consumed in the battle will not be able to replenish it, in that case, the person who is dormant in the early stage will still have an advantage." ”

Li Zhi smiled mysteriously: "You'll understand later." ”

In the middle of the arena not far from Feng Zhemu and Li Zhi, on a hill with sparse vegetation five or six meters high, Qin Xin, who was in black sportswear, held his sword under his arm, rummaged through it with a large bag of snacks, and An Jing, who was wearing an elegant blue and white protective gear, stood next to him to scout around.

"Senior, this hill is surrounded by plain terrain, the terrain is open and in the center, and it is likely to become the main battlefield with dense players when the competition begins."

An Jing analyzed.

Swamps, forests, lava, and other terrain with outstanding characteristics may be able to buff players with the relevant butterfly ability, but the swordsman who takes the initiative to go to those terrains after the match starts must be the ones who can use that place as their home field. Rather than worrying about opponents who can multiply their strength in a special environment, it is better to fight it out on the plain where there is nothing, and the members of the kendo club who have been shortlisted in the top 100 kendo clubs of imperial universities for many years generally adopt such a steady strategy.

"The players who belong to the six giants in the field of vision......" An Jing narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance, and two swordsmen wearing aqua blue and dark red color armor could be faintly seen on a cliff in front of him, "In addition to me and the seniors, there are also people from Yukawa Industries." ”

Qin Xin followed his gaze and looked over: "Ah, I don't know if Wei Ye is there, by the way, Anjing, do you want to eat Xianbei?" There are both salty and sweet flavors, wow, there are actually spicy ones, and the tolerance of small gifts is really wide. ”

An Jing's calm face showed a helpless expression: "Senior, I'm wearing protective gear, and I can't take it off by myself before the end of the game, and besides, senior, aren't you too leisurely." The chief teacher Xi said that the heart of a swordsman should always live in battle. ”

Qin Xin tore open the small package of the small packet of Xianbei and ate it with a click: "A man who doesn't know how to have fun can't achieve great things, this is what the life guide of the White Rabbit Village Apartment told me." Relax, you were just unlucky to meet Yan Ling's ace at the entrance ceremony of the individual competition last time, and now you are also a fourth-order butterfly warrior, how could the main general of Dongming lose in such a place, I am looking forward to meeting you in the final. ”

"Senior, I'm not nervous." An Jing put his hand on the position of the emblem of Winter University on the protective gear, "I am already the main general of Winter Name." ”

"It's good." Qin Xin praised, and suddenly there was a faint chanting sound in the air, and his expression froze, "It's about to start." ”

On the highest floor of the circular staircase stand of the Guanyue Gymnasium, hundreds of butterfly officers wearing black uniforms in the butterfly hall with solemn expressions stood at even intervals, and every few dozen people there would also be an assistant officer in black and gold uniforms.

They clasped their palms together and sang in a voice so flat that they couldn't hear the intonation.

"The throne, the spirits, the unknown, the gaze of the heavens beyond the heavens."

"Wings and chains, boiling iron, rust of dusk."

"Chase through the wilderness, tearing, galloping, thorns entwined with the left of the road."

"Break free, hang away, promise a burning gaze!"

All the members of the Butterfly Hall moved in unison and pushed out their hands with the seal on their chests, and shouted in unison:

"Butterfly Wishing Thirty-Three, God Falling Feather!"