After four hours, the grouping of the fighters in the arena was finally completed.

"Great, we're not in the same group!" Mi Guo said excitedly as he looked at the results.

"yes, so we don't have to compete with our friends!" Nerro cared about the two friends.

"Come on, everyone, strive to reach the finals!" Ping An cheered them on, although he didn't have a bottom in his own heart.

"At the end of the group, all the players should enter their own venue after one hour, and the qualifiers will take the form of free melee, that is, among the sixteen venues, the winner of the qualifiers will be the last to stand in them, and only then will they be eligible to enter the final stage of the sixteen. "The host on the big screen said the rules of the game, and it's cruel.

So, an hour later, in 16 preliminary arenas, under the attention of hundreds of thousands of spectators, this year's Bazak Arena World United Government Elite Selection Contest officially began. A total of 16 groups of thousands of players fought in a melee battle, the scene was both hot and bloody, stimulating the eyes, blood and nerves of every audience.

Finally, in the evening, the three-hour group preliminaries finally came to an end. In the center of the sixteen fields stands the winner of their respective group.

"The winners of the sixteen groups of preliminaries have been determined, and the following sixteen players will be ranked according to the rules of the competition time from short to long. The host's sweet voice sounded again, and the final list of sixteen winners of the preliminaries was finally clearly announced on the big screen, and the dazzling lights in the venue were lit up to hit the top 16 of the finals.

"Defending champion, 'Fighting Epic' Hemingway!" - Hemingway smiled indifferently, holding a book of poetry in his hand, and the audience applauded.

"Last year's runner-up, Hegel's 'Flying Fly'!" -- Hegel glared at Hemingway, and the applause was not small.

"Catwoman!" - Catwoman is cool. "What a beautiful beauty!" There are many lustful and good deeds in the audience.

"Lucky Star!" - The handsome guy is playing the poker in his hand. "Wow, handsome guy, I love you!" Fuxing also has a lot of female fans.

"Drunkard!" - The old man only cares about drinking. "Come on, old man!" the old people cheered him on.

"The notorious killer, 'Deer Hunter' Gitels!" ―"Cut!" Jettels pouted, apparently unhappy with the host's name. The audience booed.

"Lightning' Lightning!" - Lightning' Lightning, combing her hair. "How much hairspray is used to stand on end!" someone in the audience whispered. "I didn't wear hairspray!" shouted Lightnin, who was sharp-eared, tugging at his neck.

"King Holly!" -- The big guy flexes his muscles. "Wow, that's fierce!" exclaimed the audience.

"Mammoth!" - A strange man with long hair all over his body. "It's disgusting!" is what the audience said about him.

"Gatling!" -- The guy dressed as a cop straightens his police uniform. "Are the police coming to the game?" puzzled the audience.

"'Quick Knife' Ye Fei!" ―Ye Fei put the double knife on his back. "It's too cunning to use weapons, isn't it?" "That is, if I win qiang, can I also go to the competition, maybe I can even win a championship!"

"Nero!" ― Nero clasped his hands. "The monks are also here to kill, the way of the world has really changed!" someone saw him say this.

"Hannibal!" ― Doctor Strange's glasses glowing. "Isn't this the guilty murderer Dr.?" someone in the audience recognized him.

"Oni Lantern Maru!" ― The boy who played with fire turned his back. "Is this the name of the Dongying people? It's strange, aren't all the Dongying people dead?"

"Mi Guo!" ― Mi Guo raised his arm: "Yay!" "Where is this stupid boy, no matter how you look at it, you don't look like a master of martial arts!" Most of the audience looked down on Mi Guo.

"And the last one—Anping!" -- "Ah." Did I make it to the top 16 too?" Ping An couldn't believe it was true. "Wow, is that young man so strong, what a human being who can't be seen!" In the distance, Nero, Migo, and Hemingway were waving and smiling at him.

"The next game will still take the re-draw method, select eight pairs of players, according to the pattern of the upper and lower halves of the battle against each other, of which No. 1 to No. 8 is the upper half of the district, No. 9 to No. 16 is the lower half of the district, the half of the game adopts the adjacent number game system, that is, 1vs2, 3vs4, and then the respective winners will fight against each other, and so on, select the winners of different halves, and then the winners of the two halves will compete for the final championship. The host on the big screen continued to explain the relevant rules of the final stage of the top 16 competition.

"Next, ask the players to come to the center of the field for the draw. The host instructed everyone to conduct the lottery matching ceremony.

The sixteen finalists, led by Hemingway, were arranged according to their respective rankings and walked to the center of the court in turn.

There was a "buzz", and an electronic console appeared in the center of the field, on which there was a huge red button, and on the button there was a handprint of the right hand on the dimpled mark, indicating that the players wanted to put their hands on it.

Hemingway walked up first, put his hand on it, and with a skillful press, a "beep" sound, his battle number appeared on the big screen, which was 15.

Immediately afterwards, Hegel, who was second in line behind him, also walked up and made the same action as Hemingway, and with a "beep", his result also came out, which was 13.

"Wow!" the audience in the stands was in an uproar, "I didn't expect that last year's first and second places were actually divided into the lower half, which means that they will meet before the final, and only one person can enter the final." ”

Hegel glanced at Hemingway beside him: "Great, I thought I would wait for a long time, but I didn't expect to be able to face you in the second round, I'm so lucky, I can't wait!"

Hemingway squinted his eyes at Hegel and said with a wry smile: "What a trouble, I still want to recuperate!"

After them, the other fourteen players also drew lots in turn and chose their battle numbers.

The final result is as follows:

No. 1: Jetels

No. 2: Rice and fruit

No. 3: Anping

Number 4: King Holly

Number 5: Lucky Star

Number 6: Drunkard

Number 7: Catwoman

Number 8: Mammoth

Number 9: Lightning

No. 10: Ye Fei

Number 11: Gatling

No. 12: Oni Lantern Pill

Number 13: Hegel

Number 14: Hannibal

Number 15: Ernest Hemingway

Number 16: Nero

With that, the list of first-round matchups is also out:

Match 1: Gitels vs Mi Guo

The second game: Anping (that is, wishing peace) vs Huo Liwang

Scene 3: Lucky Star vs Drunkard

Game 4: Catwoman vs. Mammoth

Match 5: Lettening vs Ye Fei

Match 6: Gatling vs Oni Lantern Pill

Match 7: Hegel vs Hannibal

Match 8: Hemingway vs Nero

"Oh no, Niero actually faced Uncle Hemingway in the first game!" Seeing the result of the battle, Mi Guo first sweated for Niero and became worried.

"This, that's not the point, the point is that the first game you face is that Gitels!" Ping An looked at the results announced on the big screen, but was very worried about Mi Guo, although he didn't know Mi Guo's true strength, but he learned from the mouth of others that Gitels was not an ordinary person, and it was even very dangerous.

"Ahh ”

Before Mi Guo's words were finished, Gitters had already staggered over and sneered: "Hmph, you will definitely die at my hands, hillbilly!"

"Gitels!" Mi Guo and Ping'an were shocked when they heard his voice, and quickly turned their heads to see that Gitels was standing in front of them, only 1 meter away from them.

"You two, a little ghost, a hillbilly, don't think too beautifully, you're going to die in this game. Gitels said with a gloomy face, pointing at Miguo: "You will die at my hands!" and then pointed to Pingan: "If you do not die at my hands, you will die at the hands of your opponents." As he spoke, he pointed his hand at King Huo Li, who was smiling proudly on the side.

"But I wish you died at my hands, that's your creation!" Gittels sneered.

"Bah, bah, I won't die at the hands of scoundrels and wicked people like you, I'll defeat you and prove it to you!" Mi Guo yelled angrily at Gitels.

"Well, I'd love to see your face distorted by fear as you are dying. With that, Gitters stepped out of the crowd and walked to the players' lounge.

"Wait and see!" Mi Guo said angrily at his distant back.

At this moment, the host's voice came from the venue: "The list of group battles has been announced, please go to the players' lounge to prepare, and in 15 minutes, the first game of the first round of the final stage: Gitels vs Mi|Guo!" ......

In a corner of the lounge, Mi Guo was sitting and warming up, and I saw him stretching his arms and legs, stretching his muscles and bones, and trying to make his body more flexible.

Zhu Ping'an, who was standing behind him, watched his actions and suddenly said, "Mi Guo, can I ask you a question?"

"Huh?" Mi Guo heard Ping'an's question, stopped warming up, and turned his head to look at Ping'an: "What's the problem?"

"Are you really just here for the top prize of the tournament?" said Ping An.

"Hmm!" Mi Guo nodded, answering in the affirmative.

"Why, why do you need so much money, I don't think you should be a money-hungry person, let alone pursue wealth at the cost of life and death. Ping An was puzzled.

"Actually, money doesn't matter to me, but my dream needs money to accomplish it. Mi Guo told Ping An the reason why he fought for his life to get the bonus.

"My hometown is a small village in Sicilia on the Western Continent, and compared to the prosperous and prosperous place of Laiken City, where you are in Heian, it is completely two worlds. In our place, there is nothing, no energy, no water, no high technology, just a piece of land, and that is still a barren land. It was so poor that no one cared about our life or death when the Heavenly Snake King started a war with the World Coalition Government in the First Six Paths, and that place was almost isolated from the world. Mi Guo told his story: "But our ancestors have lived there for generations, it is our home, and we have never been willing to leave and give up, since my grandfather, we have worked hard there, reclaimed barren mountains, turned over the land, dug wells and dug water. After a generation of hard work, the original barren to the grain of no harvest land, finally turned into fertile soil, the planted crops also into food, seeing that our efforts have been rewarded, the whole village of all ages bowed to the heavens. ”

"But the world is so unfair. During the war years, no one cared about and no one managed a small place, but since the defeat of the Heavenly Snake King in the Great War between the First Six Dao and the World Coalition Government, there have been unexpected changes. The World Coalition Government defeated the First Six Paths, not only recapturing and taking over the area occupied by the Western Capital and the Heavenly Snake King's rebels, but also penetrating deep into the entire Western Continent plate. When the military came into our village, we went to greet them warmly and build houses for the world coalition government to help them settle in. We never imagined that we were happy to usher in our end. ”