Chapter 494: Boom - Interstellar Quidditch

Compared to the Mechanical Bird Contest, the Interstellar Quidditch Tournament is much more enjoyable to watch. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info because it is the first competition, and there are no normative regulations. As a result, this time the Quidditch tournament was played individually rather than as a team. The venue of the competition is the old place where the parade was held.

A curtain of white and soft light encloses millions of kilometers of airspace, forming a rectangular space with no upper or lower levels. This is used to delineate the scope of the competition, otherwise with the acceleration ability of the spacecraft in the interstellar age, it may not be possible to know where it will run.

In front of each light curtain is placed a ring of various sizes. The ring is stabilized at a fixed position by a small attitude adjustment engine. The perimeter is marked by a halo of light, with four rings marked white, red, green, and blue. In the very center of the entire site, a golden ring with a diameter of only fifty centimeters was placed. Unlike other fixed rings, the golden rings are in constant motion along a fixed track.

The ball used in the game is a five-color ball controlled by a semi-intelligent assistant program. They emit white, red, green, blue, and gold rays. There is no fixed procedure for the movement of the five balls, it is completely determined by the programme. All the contestants need to do is catch the randomly moving ball on the fast-moving spaceship and throw it into the rings of the corresponding color.

As a result, Quidditch is played not by one person, but by a team of two. One of them is responsible for piloting the spaceship, while the other is responsible for using a special high-strength net pocket to catch the high-speed flying ball and complete the next throwing action.

It is worth noting that the speed of the ball is not constant, and if you want to catch the ball, you must calculate the trajectory and speed in advance, and the ball can only be captured when the relative speed is allowed. Otherwise, the high-speed ball could crash the net pocket and interfere with the ship's course. It is easy to understand if you think about the situation where an airplane hits a bird ten times, and then consider what it will happen if a spaceship that is hundreds of times faster than an airplane hits a flying stone.

The radius of several balls varies, the largest white one has a radius of 2.5 meters, the red one is two meters, the green one is one meter, the blue one is only 0.5 meters, and the golden one is less than ten centimeters. Obviously, as the radius of the ball decreases, the difficulty of catching increases exponentially. Not to mention that the golden snitch at the end is always in motion, whether it is the ball or the basket.

Each ship resembles an enlarged version of the Earth-age bumper car, with two seats on it, a wheelhouse in the front and a captor's seat in the back. An electromagnetic shield is installed on the surface of the spacecraft to prevent flying balls from being hit, and to ensure the safety of players when they collide with each other. In fact, not only on the spaceship, but also on the smart clothes on the players.

The game adopts a point system, white one goal is five points, red ten points, green fifteen points, blue twenty points, gold fifty points! The competition lasts for four hours, and at the end of the competition, the rankings are confirmed through point comparison, and the champions, runners-up and third runners-up are selected.

"Beep ......" As the sound of the start of the game sounded in everyone's ears, the red light curtain flashed along the white light curtain like neon lights. The players who were close in front of the white light curtain started their engines at the moment when the red light curtain went out, and quickly rushed into the field.

Five balls of various colors of light kept jumping in the center of the field, as if to tease the crowd. In fact, at this time, due to the distance, the balls are not visible at all. But it doesn't matter, in the spaceship probe, these little things shine like a full moon in the night.

More than 200 spaceships rushed from all directions of the field, and the nets above the spacecraft had been erected by the captors in various strange postures, quickly and resolutely pounced on the ball jumping on the spot.

"Boom!" There was a violent collision sound, and the spaceships flipped away like rubber balls on collision, and did not readjust their flight attitude until they had flown for a long time. Unexpectedly, the movement of these balls was so flexible that the first batch of captured spaceships collided with ships flying from other directions, but none of the flying balls were caught.

"Oh! …… ...... hiss" A tooth-baring sound rang out in the audience. Although the inertial damper eliminated the overload in time, the feeling of constant churning and violent collision still made the audience in a cold sweat. If it weren't for the installation of a special electromagnetic shield outside, the arena would have become the scene of a terrifying space crash by now.

Perhaps because they had never experienced such a competition, all the players did not gain anything for a long time after the start. Compared with the spaceship, the flying balls are far behind in speed, but their routes are much more flexible. It wasn't until seven minutes into the game that a team of players from the Wa tribe managed to catch a white ball and throw it into the net.

Perhaps adapted to the rhythm of the flying balls, from the eighteenth minute, the field won one after another. First, a player from the Flame Adventure Team threw a green ball, and then a player from the Bulls team captured a basketball. However, the Bulls were unlucky, and before they could throw it, the Cowboys rushed from behind to snatch the ball.

At this point, the competition situation on the scene has become out of control, and the competition has become more intense. Crashing, grabbing balls, and even performing space fencing with a net. However, such competitions themselves are for the entertainment of the public, and there are no cumbersome rules.

But even so, it didn't take long for the scene to return to order again. Except for the occasional collision when grabbing the ball, there is no more chaos. Because there was more than one ball on the scene, when the two fencing players came back to their senses, several teams around them had already scored! Only goals are scored, fencing is not scored.

Many players miss the first blow and immediately turn to chase other flying balls. Therefore, it is common to see a team of spaceships colliding and chasing a ball, and suddenly one of the two spaceships in front of them successfully netted the ball, and several ships that were close to it crashed into it fiercely to grab the ball, and the others directly changed direction and flew towards the nearest ball.

Two hours and 35 minutes into the "Roaring ......" competition, a dramatic scene occurred. The first golden snitch fell into the net pocket of Ding Weijian of the cowboy squad. Of course, this does not show how superb Ding Weijian's level is, and catching this golden snitch is purely shit luck. The two teams of players have been chasing the Golden Snitch from the beginning, but the panicked Golden Snitch misjudged and crashed into the net pocket controlled by Ding Weijian, and the interstellar version of the Waiting for the Rabbit was really beyond everyone's expectations.

"Hurry up, fly overhead!" Ding Weijian controlled the angle of the net, and loudly reminded Zhang Jianwu, who was piloting the spaceship, to change the course. The two strings of players who missed the "baby" are desperately rushing towards the spaceship, and looking at their posture, it is completely a desperate expression.

"Don't talk nonsense, look at the net pocket!" Zhang Jianwu yelled in the helmet of the smart suit without looking back, manipulated the omnidirectional joystick in his hand to pull the spacecraft up directly, and then turned over to make a gyroscopic rotation attitude adjustment, and when the two teams of chasers reacted, Zhang Jianwu had already completed the turn, and the spacecraft drilled into the middle of the two teams of chasers.

"Roar ......!" The audience who saw such a scene immediately boiled, and more people began to pay attention to the fate of the small boat and the golden snitch in its outer net pocket. Because more than half of the people in the audience were already surrounding the ship. Two hours and forty minutes have passed since the game, and nearly three-quarters of the way through the process has ended. But there are still very few teams of players who have really won. If you can snatch this golden thief, the championship is almost no longer a suspense.

More than a hundred spaceships surrounded Zhang Jianwu's spaceship from four directions, and those who didn't come were also swaying, and even some smart guys had already turned around and rushed to the golden basket to prepare to wait for the rabbit. Compared to the 50 points, the other goals are already insignificant.

"Oh oh! "Ding Weijian controlled the joystick to control the net pocket fixed on the outside of the spacecraft, and shouted to Zhang Jianwu who was driving the spacecraft in the communicator.

"See! Pay attention to the direction of the net! Zhang Jianwu pinched the omnidirectional joystick and responded impatiently, and then the spacecraft turned and squeezed through the gap between the spacecraft that surrounded and intercepted. The shield of the spaceship traveling at high speed directly catapulted the spacecraft on both sides, but its course was not greatly affected by the balance of electromagnetic repulsion on both sides.

"Left! Left! The right side is also leaning over! Front, pay attention to the front, there are three ...... over there"

"Shut up!" Zhang Jianwu almost scolded angrily, it was a mistake to let Ding Weijian be an assistant, it was best to call a dumb man over, go back and check if there were any dumb people in the Starry Sky Cowboy, if so, immediately transfer to his side, even if he has three eyes, Zhang Jianwu feels that he can accept it.

Zhang Jianwu, who has more than ten years of experience at the helm of large warships, is absolutely skilled. Under Zhang Jianwu's control, the spacecraft deftly dodged like a butterfly in the flowers, always unswervingly approaching the moving golden circle. As the distance closes, the number of people besieging them increases.

"Now it's time to adjust the relative velocity! Pay attention to adjusting the angle and initial velocity of the throw! When the golden basket image became clear on the spacecraft's optical display, Zhang Jianwu began to control the angle and relative speed of the spacecraft by adjusting the attitude of the engine, and the ship's course became stable as the speed decreased.

"That's right!" Ding Weijian shouted.

"Cast quickly!"

"Boom!" As soon as Zhang Jianwu's words fell, the spacecraft flew out uncontrollably, and it took a long time to adjust the attitude to adjust the maximum output of the engine before gradually regaining control of the spacecraft.

"Damn! It's that little devil from Shiro Duanki! Dog ***" Zhang Jianwu cursed loudly. The spacecraft of the Bull Squad hid in the detection corner of Zhang Jianwu's bow probe, and slammed into it from diagonally below at the moment of throwing, knocking Zhang Jianwu directly out. The spectators in the stands booed and even threw things outside. However, in weightlessness, it is not known where the object with its initial acceleration will eventually fly.

"Uh...... I haven't had time to shoot yet," Ding Weijian's embarrassed voice rang out.

“…… Hahaha, okay, hurry, let's rush over! ......" (To be continued.) )