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There is nothing to say about the KOF97 tournament in other countries, and the Sound Nest organization, which has the idea of casting a wide net, gave a considerable number of official entry places according to the population and national strength of each country when it was first advertised. After the final round of elimination, all the official teams assembled in Tokyo will have a total of 320 participating teams.

As Liu Qi, who has just become the boss of the sound nest, is also happy to see this happen, and by the way, the members of the organizing committee of the King of Fighters competition began to make detailed arrangements to collect the relevant combat data and blood genes of these fighters in the world of "The King of Fighters".

Except for the local snakes and wealthy people like Kusazhikyo, Kagura Chizuru, Yagami-an, and Banqi's family, other teams of contestants from all over the world are provided with free accommodation during the tournament in the best luxury hotels in Tokyo.

Of course, if you personally feel dissatisfied, you would rather go out to live, by the way, see the customs and customs of the country, and no one will stop you, as long as you arrive at the scene on time after the official competition starts. But so far, it seems that except for the Three Artifact Family, the Banqi Family, and the Superpower Team, few teams have chosen to live outside, and even the special teams and the Hell Band have chosen to stay in the hotel.

Following a large number of well-known martial artists from various countries came a large number of tourists, and the government of the country watched with joy and sorrow as hundreds of thousands of martial arts enthusiasts and tourists from various countries entered their own countries to stimulate economic consumption, but they also had a headache for the ensuing public security problems. The King of Fighters Tournament, the main arena of the world's attention, is held in the capital of one's own country, and the economic and invisible political benefits that can be brought are quite amazing, but that refers to something that can only be considered when the King of Fighters Tournament is successfully held and the curtain ends, if there is a mistake or an accident in the holding of the tournament, the shame can be thrown to the world.

So in Tokyo, all the police officers stopped their vacations and began to get busy around the King of Fighters 97 tournament!

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After auditions and eliminations, the King of Fighters 97 tournament finally held its grand opening ceremony at a giant stadium in Tokyo with a capacity of 100,000 spectators.

At the opening ceremony, after the process of salutes, band parades, and speeches by the prime minister and representatives of the organizers, several cousins and eloquent hosts began to announce the opening of the King of Fighters 97 tournament to everyone on the high platform in the center of the stadium!

After a brief opening speech, the hosts very simply announced to the martial artists and the audience in the stadium that the first day of the fight would begin in half an hour, and took the opportunity to announce the relevant rules of the King of Fighters tournament!

There are a total of 320 teams in this King of Fighters 97 tournament, and due to the large number of participants, the official competition is divided into 16 groups, and each group randomly selects 20 martial artist teams, and then each group selects opponents by drawing lots. The group stage is a best-of-three format, with players choosing whether to continue the battle or make substitutions depending on their situation – for the winner, of course. After two wins, the losing team is eliminated and the winning team advances to battle the other winning team in the same group until the bottom 16 winning teams are selected to advance to the Grand Final.

Because there are too many teams and considering the tolerance of the surrounding spectators, there is also a limit on the time of the fight, and a match can only last ten minutes at most. As soon as the 10 minutes are up, no matter how far the fighters in the fight are, the match will be forcibly ended, and then the judges of the King of Fighters will determine which team will win or tie according to the performance of both sides in the fight. In the case of one win, one loss and one draw, there will be an extra game to determine the team that advances to the next round.

After the 16 group winners are decided, the next finals will be held, and the finals will be held according to 16 into 8, 8 into 4, 4 into 2, and the most receive, to determine the winner team of this year's King of Fighters.

The teams that competed in the first three King of Fighters tournaments were exempted from the initial auditions and knockout rounds, and began to participate officially after the tournament began.

"No. 12 of the 13th group, it seems that there is no one I know" On the player's rest, Athena Asamiya looked at the group and team number that Liu Qi had just drawn, and then looked at the members of the 13th group displayed on the recent big screen, and found that there were no people she knew, so she couldn't help muttering.

"Well, they're all separated" Zhen Yuanzhai, who was taking a sip of wine, looked at the distribution on the big screen, and found that the teams of the previous three King of Fighters tournaments did not appear in the same group but were scattered into various groups, and understood something, but he didn't say anything more.

This kind of black-box operation trick that claims to randomly assign teams by the computer obviously can't be hidden from the discerning people, but the insiders haven't said it, after all, this kind of thing can be known by themselves, and there is no need to shout about it all over the world, and it's in their interests anyway, isn't it? No one wants their team to face strong opponents like Kusakakyo in a group, Yagami-an, Ryo Sakazaki, etc., right?

"Wait a minute, which of us is on?" Wang Yuyan didn't answer this conversation, looked at the people around her and said.

"It doesn't matter, but the husband must be the first to go up" Asamiya Athena is very sure of this question, because there are two women in the superpower team, an old-timer, Liu Qi, who is not the first to go up? As for whether Liu Qi can beat or not, including Zhen Yuanzhai, he is very confident, and even Wang Yuyan, who has the lowest combat experience, is sure to sweep against those passers-by in the same group, not to mention a humanoid monster like Liu Qi.

"That's of course, we are the third game of the thirteenth group, at least an hour later" Liu Qi, who had just returned from the lottery site, heard Athena Asamiya's words, and said directly and affirmatively, this is something he must do.

Once the groups are assigned, the official competition begins. A martial artist who is famous for fame or money starts fighting in the ring of the gym, and everyone basically fights with all their might! As for keeping or retreating, don't mention it, who would be willing to fail and quit in such a world-renowned arena? Therefore, the battles are extremely fierce, and the losers are basically the lightest with bruises all over their bodies, and it is already the best result to be able to walk out of the ring by themselves, and there are many players who are carried out by medical staff lying down

Of course, the situation of dead people did not happen, and even the Three Heavenly Kings and others, who had awakened to the Heavenly Kingdom Divine Clan, did not make a move to kill people - killing the opponent directly deprived them of the qualification for the next competition.

Perhaps the more important reason is that the opponent he is facing is too weak, and he really doesn't want to kill it, watching a screen showing Chris in the Hell Band directly beating an opponent dressed as a wrestler into a comminuted fracture and being rushed to the hospital, Liu Qi thought silently.

Now in the ring, the Legend of the Hungry Wolf team in the original book of "The King of Fighters" has become a Thai team composed of two Muay Thai masters led by Dongzhang, and the members of the female martial artist team have also become KING, Kagura Chizuru, and Fujido Kazuki. Other than that, there are no other changes, at least most of the rest of the teams have maintained their original line-up without substitutions.

"Group 13, No. 11 and No. 12, please go to ring No. 6" Suddenly, the voice of the staff of the King of Fighters Organizing Committee came from the liaison device on the seat of the superpower team, and the voice was repeated three times before stopping.

"Come on, husband," Wang Yuyan said with a smile and waved her hand to Liu Qi, with a plan to see the excitement.

"Husband, come on," Athena Asamiya also looked at Liu Qi and said, not to be outdone.

"Don't worry, it'll be done soon" Liu Qi shrugged his shoulders, stood up and said something to the two girls and Zhen Yuanzhai, and then turned around and walked directly towards the scheduled competition venue.

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"The rules of the battle are until one side admits defeat or loses the ability to fight, the battle time is up to ten minutes, and no hot weapons and killings are allowed, are there any other rules prepared? OK, 3, 2, 1! Game starts!!"

After a referee from the Organizing Committee of the King of Fighters Competition saw that Liu Qi was the only one in the ring, he did not have the slightest strange or inquiring or anything like that, and directly said the lines that he had said once to the two people in the ring, and then directly announced the start of the game.

"Hit!"

"Kombat!"

"Kill that guy!"

Because of the fierce competition of more than an hour ahead, the bloody and seemingly exciting battle set off the atmosphere of the scene very warmly, and when the referee announced the start, the audience at the side of the No. 6 ring or the audience staring at the TV began to shout, cheering for their favored side from time to time.

"Ha-" In this atmosphere, the first player sent out by the martial artist squad that Liu Qi faced, a black man who seemed to be of African descent, directly carried a steel chain with the thickness of an ordinary person's wrist and shouted, directly activated the absolute realm, and then sprinted while swinging the steel chain that shone white light at Liu Qi's head.

Woo –

The steel chain infused by the Absolute Realm let out a piercing whistling sound under the high-speed wave, and swung directly towards Liu Qi's shoulder.

"Bored" Liu Qi ignored the hideous-looking black fighter opposite, and directly waved his hand after spitting out two words.

Bang –

The black fighter was suddenly forced to stop when he was at least five meters away from Liu Qi, and then the whole person flew upside down with a frightened face and fell heavily in the ring.

"Next" Liu Qi looked at the other party who still had a tone, and shouted directly to the referee who ran to the ring at some point.

"The next player on the No. 11 Lions team is on the field!" After being stunned for a moment, the referee, who didn't expect the battle to end so quickly, rushed into the ring, and then after taking a look at the black fighter who was foaming at the mouth, he began to shout to the two people of the South American martial artist team called the Lions.

Obviously, the remaining two martial artists also knew that they were definitely not Liu Qi's opponents after seeing their companions lose so easily, but the two were not willing to admit defeat like this, so after a little discussion, one of the martial artists who knew from his appearance that Lu Dao was a typical South American mixed-race descendant jumped into the ring and continued to fight Liu Qi. For this kind of guy who automatically jumped up and sent him to death, Liu Qi said that it was the best way to put the other party in the other party as soon as possible, and saving himself was like bullying a child here.

So seconds later, the Lions who came to the stage fell unconscious on the ground like the first black fighter, and was taken to the hospital for free treatment after a brief examination found that he was only in a coma with a severe head injury.

After easily solving this Lions passer-by, who did not appear in the "King of Fighters" series at all, Liu Qi went back directly and chatted with the beauty, without continuing to pay attention to these three unlucky people who actually reached more than 60% of the absolute field.

The official competition lasted for three days before the teams from the 16 groups were decided for the finals.

There is no doubt that the teams of the three artifact families, Kusazhikyo, Yagami An, and Kagura Chizuru, directly pushed all the way to the finals. Then there are several well-known teams such as the Three Days King of the Hell Band, the Dragon and Tiger Fist Team of the Banqi Family, the Korean Team led by Kim Jiapan, the Thai Team led by Dongzhang, the Rage Team belonging to the mercenaries, the "I" Team led by Billy, and the superpower team of substitutions.

The other six teams that made it to the finals were the Cavaliers representing England, the Bears representing Russia, the Athletics representing the United States, the Continental representing the Celestial Empire, the Gallic representing France, and a team called the Nordic team.

Unlike the "King of Fighters" games and comics, where there are almost no national forces (except for the first session of the 94 King of Fighters), the five hooligans are unwilling to be left behind in this kind of competition, and at least send a strong team to participate. After all, this is a matter of showing the great strength of one's country at the level of the entire world, how can one of the five hooligans be left behind?

For this, both Yinchao and Liu Qi expressed their happiness to see it, after all, as the five major hooligans in the world of "The King of Fighters", how can they do without the force at the bottom of the box, even the rice country with the deepest power of the sound nest has the highest force that the sound nest cannot touch, and the other hooligans also have their own trump card troops, in this case, it is not bad to look at the quality of the armed forces of various countries.

Of course, Liu Qi's biggest goal on this trip home with Athena Asamiya is to meet the big snake, one of the top bosses in the world of "The King of Fighters", rather than just fighting fighters from various countries. So after Liu Qi thought about it for a while, when the sixteen teams were randomly selected in the finals, the hero team, the hell band, the Yagami team, and the female martial artist team were all separated and did not meet at the first time, at least until the semi-finals, these teams could not meet.

"Tut-tut, Gaonitz's blood sample has been obtained, and the blood of the king must be obtained in the remaining three days, and there is also this big snake" Liu Qi looked at the battle that had been arranged under his instruction, and sighed with emotion, and at the same time, Liu Qi's face also showed a very unscrupulous smile.

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After the 16 teams participating in the King of Fighters finals were decided, the Organizing Committee of the King of Fighters Competition gave the winning teams a two-day rest to recuperate and do a good job of publicity, and then the highlight of the King of Fighters 97 Tournament - the finals!

Although it was still held in the stadium where the official match was held, the entire stadium had changed dramatically in just two days! The venue, which originally had more than a dozen small rings, was completely leveled and emptied by the staff in two days, and replaced with a super-large arena with a steel base and marble floor.

At the same time, the battle time has been extended to 15 minutes, and each team is now eliminated after all three teams have lost or forfeit, but other rules remain the same.

With countless cameras broadcast live, the final of The King of Fighters 97 began to be broadcast live around the world!

The top eight finalists will be determined on the first and second days, the top four will be decided on the third day, the semi-finalists will be determined on the fourth day, the third and third place teams will be determined by the losing team in the morning of the fifth day, and the runner-up and champion will be determined in the afternoon by the finals.

Of course, according to Liu Qi's personal estimate, there is no need to wait until the day of the finals, as long as he makes a little move to arrange for Kusa Zhijing or Kagura Chizuru to meet the Hell Band, Brother Orochi is estimated to have to come early and stage a big drama of destroying the world Boss pretending to be forced to be X. Liu Qi did not advance this stage with a bad taste, but first planned to kick those unknown teams out of the game, and then let the protagonists such as Cao Zhijing face the bleak life after passing the addiction of the real version of the King of Fighters fight.

So under Liu Qi's arrangement, everyone in the superpower team on the first day of the game directly watched the excitement in the fighting arena on the player's seat. As a result, the No. 1 team on this day, the three Cao Zhijing, the Korean team, the Hell Band, and the Thai team won the promotion places, and their opponents left according to the compensation of 1 million meters for each team in the top 16.

Liu Qi arranged for the superpower team to be the No. 9 team, and the opponent was the famous Dragon and Tiger Fist team, and when Sakazaki Liang saw this result, he deliberately waved his fist at Liu Qi, signaling that this time he must do a good job in the last game.

Liu Qi also gladly accepted the battle invitation of Sakazaki Liang, and said that he would not show mercy to his subordinates.

So on the second day, Liu Qi, as the starting lineup of the superpower team, just walked into the ring under the referee's beckoning, and saw Sakazaki Liang already standing in the ring with a pair of eyes looking at him excitedly. (To be continued......)