Chapter Forty-Six: A Duel Watched by Trillions of People (Part I)
Ten days passed in a hurry, in the midst of intense preparations. There was also an episode in the middle, the day before the duel agreement, Zhuo Chuan received a message from the Earth Mother in the communicator at home.
It was the first time he had received a message from the superintelligent system, and for a moment he thought the duel was canceled, and the result was completely opposite.
"Citizen E3488432 has made a request for a duel to you, location: school zx77692432 sports training hall, duel start time: October 23, 3243 A.D. at 10 o'clock in the morning, no one is allowed to advance or delay. Do you agree? Note: No other party will be held accountable for any casualties in a duel"
If Xie Cheng didn't threaten him with opening an underground death arena with a high-grade soul crystal, and if he didn't agree to the duel, he would take him in, Zhuo Chuan would naturally refuse, and there would be no benefit. However, after agreeing, his mind changed.
After he chose to agree, after sending the message, the communicator immediately swarmed with countless messages. Fortunately, this communicator seems simple, and the software has also been done to the extreme, and Zhuo Chuan has been screened and the most important ones have been placed on it.
"Hello, Mr. Zhuo Chuan, we are the largest media and entertainment company among the underground reserve citizens, and we hereby apply to you for this duel broadcast, the conditions for you are very generous, ninety percent of all broadcast income, of course, is calculated in underground currency, and the broadcast process is accessed through the earth mother, without any disturbance to your duel"
Zhuo Chuan read the first one, and he understood that the underground social life in this new world, in addition to the extremely developed technology, is not much different from the modern world in terms of entertainment. After all, people's spiritual needs have not changed much from ancient times to modern times. The ancients liked prostitutes and women, and modern people liked it too, the ancients liked to listen to small songs and read wild historical novels, and modern people liked music and novels, but the content changed.
This kind of duel, as soon as you think about it, you know that it is unprecedented, and the gimmick is too big, one side is the top soul successor among the reserve citizens, and the other side is an E-level citizen, which also belongs to the median citizen level, and many reserve citizens have no chance to meet. It is also the combat content that has been loved and paid attention to since ancient times, and as long as there is survival pressure, combat will always be the content of human interest.
It is conceivable that once it is allowed to be broadcast, how high the ratings will be, how high the click-through rate will be on the network, and the income that should be there is indispensable.
Zhuo Chuan is from the modern world, and naturally knows that if he can come out of the duel alive, it can be said that he will not need to worry about the problem of underground currency in the new world in the future.
But if he had a choice, he still didn't want to risk his life to get rich overnight.
Shaking his head, he casually clicked on the second message, and this message was more generous. The content is similar, except that they say they are the second largest media company, but they will give all the broadcast income to themselves, as long as they have the broadcast rights.
This is something that can never be seen in the modern world, Zhuo Chuan smiled bitterly, and then looked at the rest, not only to give himself all the broadcast income, but also willing to post some money to himself in advance, these are more sincere, after all, if he loses in the duel and is forced to hide in the modern world, he can also take the money in advance and squander some knowledge in the new world to return to the modern world in the remaining time.
However, Zhuo Chuan naturally didn't have this mind now, he believed that he would definitely win, so he decisively chose the first message. That's right, in any world, if you can do it first, you won't have too many problems choosing it. Especially Zhuo Chuan, he didn't have the heart to understand them one by one.
It seems that these media companies have been paying attention to this duel for a long time, but they have not bothered Zhuo Chuan in any way, before the duel is officially determined, these people have no action, but they are indeed smart, after all, they are still just underground companies, involving E-level citizens, before it is determined, there are always some hidden dangers in intervening in advance.
Zhuo Chuan took care of these chores, went to the modern world, cleaned up the personal hygiene of the other body, and after eating and drinking enough, he waited for another six hours and returned to the new world.
And now there is only one night left until the duel begins.
Zhuo Chuan calmed down, the preparations that should be made were all prepared, and the soul power was absorbed to the upper limit again, but he could only use the "Sigh of Time and Space" twice, after all, such a little time was not enough to increase the upper limit of the soul power.
He was idle, thinking freely.
Now his use of soul power is based on the soul skills left by his predecessor, but his mastery of the soul power at the bottom is not at all. This is very easy to understand, the soul skill left by the predecessor, just like the program call interface left by the operating system, is a programmer, as long as you learn to use, but the use effect is also fixed, but the soul power itself, is the lowest code of the system, only the core developer of the system, can contact and call at will, combine different effects.
Time was spent in his thoughts, and before he knew it, he was asleep.
The scheduled alarm clock reminder also rang at 8 o'clock the next day.
Zhuo Chuan slept a lot and didn't have any dreams, he slowly cleaned himself up, and then went out.
It is naturally difficult for him to calm down at this time, and it is inevitable that he will be nervous, although he has a lot of self-confidence, but just like the previous exams in the modern world, he is ready for everything, which does not mean that he will not be nervous.
Less than two hours before the start of the duel, he called a driverless car, said the location, and soon arrived at the school.
The school was empty, no one was touched, only the cleaning robots that could be seen every day were working according to a fixed procedure, and Zhuo Chuan passed by, and they didn't have any extra reactions except for avoidance.
Zhuo Chuan guessed that they were probably all concentrated in the sports training hall.
He drove to the gym and pushed open the door.
As a result, he was stunned, there was no one inside, Lao Xu, Feng Lan, and his classmates in the new world, none of them were there.
Isn't today the day of the duel? Or is there something critical? Zhuo Chuan didn't believe that it would be the latter possibility, he had been here for more than four months, and he had never seen a critical situation, and the Earth Mother would make arrangements in advance.
It didn't take long for him to know why.
"B47995 has arrived at the duel site, there is still 1 hour and 15 minutes before the duel starts, for safety reasons, the duel venue has been cleared, and now it is beginning to access the broadcast, and the organizations that are allowed to broadcast the duel include: underground reserve citizen first media entertainment company, above-ground citizen virtual network management company. The number of viewers is 922,374,323,724 underground and 316,00324 above-ground citizens. Citizens watch it for free, and reserve citizens need to pay 2.5 yuan per person to watch it."
In the sports training ground, there was a prompt sound of the earth mother without feeling. This made Zhuo Chuan know that the duel was not just about to begin, but that behind countless screens, there were trillions of people watching his every move.
Therefore, although the gymnasium was empty at this time, Zhuo Chuan could still faintly feel that there were countless eyes and countless voices looking at him and talking about him.