Chapter Ninety-Seven: Running a Thousand Strongs in a Low-key Manner
Six days later.
The first round of all tribes is finally over.
Of the more than 100,000 contestants, only about 40,000 made it to the second round.
The content of the second round is still very simple, to put it bluntly, it is to climb the steps with weights.
The entire Rilian tribe is a large and flat basin, and the edge of the basin is raised with a circle of slightly undulating hills, which is about a hundred zhang high from the bottom of the basin.
Between these hills and the bottom of the basin, there are more than three hundred long steps, and it is astonishing that the number of each step is nine hundred and ninety-nine, and each step is exactly the same height, exactly one foot and three inches. Next to each step, there is a slide more than a foot wide that leads from the top of the hill to the basin.
After knowing this situation, Shi Zhiyi couldn't help but be in a trance, how did this huge basin come into being, and why was the height around it so uniform, as if it had been measured?
What the contestants in the second round of the competition have to do is to shoulder a log about two zhang long, more than one foot thick, and weighing about five or six hundred catties, run from the bottom of the basin along the steps to the top, and then throw the log down the slide.
From the time the contestant starts to climb the steps to the time the log returns to the starting point, the whole process takes no more than two quarters of an hour, and it is considered a successful pass.
This challenge is naturally very easy for Shi Zhiyi, he estimates that if he uses the glimpse of the Xi family, he is afraid that he can complete it with a cup of tea at most, but he did not do it, but completed the task in a quarter and a half hours and successfully advanced again.
But for most of the Jing Barbarians, the challenge was much more difficult than a simple bouldering pile, and many of the contestants lost their strength after only half the steps, not even reaching the top, let alone the two-quarter hour time limit.
In the end, out of more than 40,000 participants, only more than 7,000 successfully passed the level, and the ratio of about 6 to 1 fully demonstrated the difficulty of this second round of challenges.
And there are still two contestants left in the Piggy tribe except for Shi Zhiyi, which is already a very good result for a tribe of Piggy's size, after all, at this point, about half of the more than 10,000 tribes have been eliminated.
What's even more surprising is that one of the two qualifiers of the Piji tribe is none other than Sugulu. At only fifteen years old, he was able to get this far, and the entire team of the Pigy tribe was thrown into a carnival.
In order to ensure the excitement of the competition, after the second round, all the participants were given a day off.
Two days later, when the sun rose again over the distant hills, all the contestants were in high spirits and ready for a new round of challenges.
Being able to stand out from the hundreds of thousands of contestants to this point has fully proved the strength of these warriors, but for their tribe, there is no real benefit to be gained from it.
But the third round of the competition is different, but all the contestants who pass three levels in a row and enter the top 1,000 will win three additional places for their tribe in the next Barbarian King Festival, and the number of places for a tribe to participate in the Barbarian King Festival not only reflects the strength of the tribe, but also plays a key role in the future development of the tribe.
The morning light sprinkled on the bodies of more than 7,000 contestants, like tall and mighty gold-armored warriors.
When the bell rang for the opening of the game, all the warriors beat their chests with their right hands and shouted in unison:
"For the Horde!"
The third round is still very simple, spear throwing.
The spear is the most commonly used weapon of the Jing Barbarians, and can be used both in melee combat and as a long-range attack weapon.
On the battlefield, a spear salvo of a Thousand Men Regiment of Jing Barbarians, under the condition that the wind speed and terrain are normal, can kill two to three percent of the strength of a Thousand Men Regiment of Terran Heavy Cavalry.
Casualties of two to three percent of a unit are usually judged to be severe, and the rest of the troops, even if they are not wounded, will have to treat their colleagues on the one hand, and on the other hand, their morale will be seriously affected, and they will no longer be able to continue fighting.
And in hand-to-hand combat, the spear is still a terrifying killing weapon, and with the innate divine power of the Jing Barbarian clan, even the heavy infantry does not dare to use their armor alone to force the power of the Jing Barbarian warrior's spear.
Of course, in actual battles, Terran troops rarely directly confront Jing Barbarian warriors in formation, but usually give full play to the advantages of high-end combat power, terrain and strategy.
All in all, the spear is the most common and handy weapon for Jing Barbarian warriors, so the content of this third round of the competition also has a strong practical significance.
The third round was played on a large open meadow on one side of the basin. The contestants stood on the right side of the meadow, and at a distance of 100 to 500 zhang from them, hundreds of wooden piers two feet square were scattered scattered.
Each pier has a different number on it, representing the distance from the contestants. From near to far, the numbers are getting bigger and bigger. Contestants need to stab their spears into a wooden pier to get the result, and if they are pierced on the grass, it is equivalent to losing the qualification.
The number on the wooden pier stabbed by the contestant is his result, and the final runner in the top 1,000 will be qualified for the promotion.
In this round of competition, in addition to the strength of the contestant, the test is also the degree of control of his own strength, how to find a balance between strength and accuracy, in order to improve their performance as much as possible, is a problem faced by all contestants.
Shi Zhiyi, who has been steadily increasing his strength recently, is also facing this problem, and the rapid increase in strength will lead to a deviation in his perception of his own strength, resulting in a decrease in the degree of precise control of force.
In the abandoned village in the south of Yongzhou, he had actually had a similar problem. His unfamiliarity with his surge in power caused the feather arrows to deviate from target, eventually allowing two cavalrymen to escape from his arrows and exposing his and E-Ning's whereabouts.
Shi Zhiyi weighed the spear in his hand while observing the performance of the other contestants.
Among the first dozen or so people on the field, except for two who did not stab the wooden pier, the others were all killed, and the fighter with the highest score was more than 190 points, which means that he stabbed the target more than 190 zhang away from him, and the lowest was only 103 points.
As the game progressed, the record for the highest score was constantly being broken, gradually increasing from more than 190 to 269. Of course, there are also many contestants who deviate from the flight trajectory of the spear when trying to reach a farther target, and finally have to regret the exit.
On a high platform far away from the arena, more than a dozen tall figures were watching the direction of the arena from afar.