mtlumby2d Chapter 535: Martial Arts Tournament
Chapter 535: Martial Arts Tournament
The "Exploration" is only slightly larger than a standard football field, and its overall outline is similar to that of an airplane. It can carry a maximum of 200 people and has an independent warehouse. When fully loaded, there is limited space for free movement inside. Theoretically, it takes one month to travel from the Blue Planet to the Moon.
Under pressure from the Zerg, the 'Exploration' took off from the base built by the Aerospace Corporation outside Base No. 10 in the Northern Province, lifted off, left the Blue Planet and entered the universe, heading towards the moon.
Until we successfully arrived at the Laurel City spacecraft docking station on the moon.
The Discovery completed the test mission perfectly, and arrived at the spacecraft docking point near the Moon's Laurel City in 29 blue star days.
There were no problems during the subsequent sea trials. In addition to improvements to the internal facilities, the several core parts operated normally as designed.
Xia Guo's first attempt was successful by sheer luck. Although many people did not expect it to be so smooth, success is success.
Of course, the success of the "Exploration" is closely related to the various new materials developed by Xia Country in recent years, as well as the core components made by the awakened people using their mental power, which are more practical.
The accumulated experience will be valuable for the subsequent optimization of the 'Exploration' or the development of other models.
With the successful experience of the first ship, the second one is not far away.
No matter what happens in the future, the Xia Kingdom now has the ability to transport a large number of people to the moon.
In the chairman's explanation, the development period of Xiaguo's aerospace industry was clarified. No one knew what others thought after hearing it, but no one openly asked for details.
After learning that Xia Guo had made some follow-up arrangements, the meeting was brought back on track to continue discussing the distribution method.
In the end, with the support of Xia Country and the agreement of several other countries, the plan proposed by Country G was unanimously recognized, and a competition was used to decide the ownership of the development rights of the new secret realm.
It’s just that the details need to be perfected, which will be left to Xia Guo.
This kind of competition was the first on Blue Star, and the Xia Country Psychic Association took on this task.
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Jiang Qi Zhang, who received the task of hosting the event, did not have much experience to draw on, and the schedule was decided by Jiang Qi Zhang and his team after several meetings.
First of all, the competition is in the form of a team competition, and its purpose is to select the forces capable of developing the secret realm.
Each team can have a maximum of seven people and a minimum of two people. There is no limit on the nature of the team (official representatives or civilian teams can participate), and there is no limit on whether the contestants are awakened (ordinary people's teams that meet a certain standard of strength can participate).
Secondly, all participants are not allowed to use their own weapons and equipment. The weapons, armor, and exoskeletons used in the competition can only be selected from the standard styles provided by the association.
Finally, the competition time is scheduled for July 2031 of the Yuan calendar (according to experience, the Zerg is least active in June, July and August each year, and it is safer to defend a large city or go out to participate in the competition at this time.), and the venue is set at Xia Kingdom’s No. 7 large city (Silver Boat).
The competition is divided into preliminaries and finals. The preliminaries are held in major cities, and only teams that pass the preliminaries need to go to the 5th major city for the finals.
In the preliminaries, the successfully registered teams will not compete against each other. The participating teams will go to the association branch in their own city and enter the star network.
With the cooperation of the Xia country's officials, the star network built by Peng Fei's Feiyue Technology Company has begun to take shape. It is no longer just a place where the military and major universities can conduct targeted training.
By the end of the year 2029, the Star Network has been put into civilian use and can be used by ordinary people without psychic cores.
However, unlike the awakened ones who can directly connect to the Star Network with their watches, ordinary people need to purchase external devices sold by Feiyue Technology in order to connect to the virtual world of the Star Network.
External devices are mostly in the form of headphones, which are designed to enhance the mental power of ordinary people. Ordinary people do not have mental power cores to store more mental power, and insufficient mental power cannot connect to the star network, so external devices are indispensable.
Back to the game.
The preliminaries only require each team to explore the maps assigned to them in the star network. The maps are inhabited by Zergs and monsters of different strengths, as well as various hidden resources. Points will be awarded for killing Zergs and monsters, and for finding resources.
Accumulate your points within the specified time.
The points of all teams will be drawn up into an overall ranking. Yes, all teams are evaluated together, not each city individually.
After the time is up, the top 100 teams in the overall ranking will enter the finals.
Because the preliminaries are held on StarNet, there are certain protection mechanisms in place, and it will not cause serious harm to the participants, nor will it affect the subsequent finals.
The top 7 teams in the preliminaries must arrive at City No. 5 before July 5 to prepare for the finals, which will consist of two elimination rounds and one points round.
After all the matches are completed, the ranking will be based on points.
First place: development rights for 10 secret realms.
Second place: development rights for 7 secret realms.
Third place: development rights for 5 secret realms.
Fourth and fifth place winners will receive the rights to develop three secret realms.
Sixth to tenth place will receive the right to develop two secret realms.
11th to 20th place will receive the right to develop a secret realm.
The final draw will ultimately determine the ownership of the development rights for each new secret realm. The top 20 teams will take turns drawing lots according to their ranking until they have used up the number of development rights they have obtained.
And the remaining teams that make it to the finals will not have made their trip in vain.
They all have one free opportunity to explore the secret realm on the moon, and the round-trip travel expenses will be borne by the association. The remaining eighty teams can choose any secret realm under the association's name on the moon for a one-month exploration.
It can be said that any team that makes it to the finals will not lose out.
As soon as the news that Xia Kingdom was going to host the first martial arts competition on Blue Star was released, it really aroused the attention of the whole nation.
There was a lot of discussion on the streets.
In recent years, under the shadow of the Zerg, the social atmosphere has been very depressed. Stimulated by this event that can be said to allow the participation of the entire nation, there has finally been some activity.
Even those who usually just keep their heads down and do their work will talk to others.
In a factory workshop in a big city in Xia Country.
"I heard that the first half of the competition was held in Star Network. I really want to experience what kind of world Star Network is like." One person sighed.
Yes, even among the citizens of Xia Country, not all of them can afford external devices, so even though Xia Country has built a star network, users only account for a quarter of Xia Country’s population.
One quarter of the population is more than 100 million, which is actually a lot nowadays.
"My son has seen it at his classmate's house. It's virtual reality. Our Xia country's technology is so advanced! If it weren't for those damn Zerg, my family wouldn't have been unable to save enough money to buy a set of equipment until now!" Another person nearby said indignantly.
But the fact is, the Zerg don't care about their feelings.
Someone started talking, and everyone around started discussing in low voices.
"I heard that playing games there is really fun!"
"You're still thinking about games! Are you tired of living like this?"
“I’m just saying…”
"Alas, I don't know when we can drive away the Zerg!"
Unlike those who can only watch the fun and have no ability to participate, those who meet the competition requirements seem to be more nervous. Those who are interested in participating have already started contacting people everywhere, trying to find teammates to form a team with them.
That’s a brand new secret realm on the moon, with abundant spiritual energy and rich resources. Who wouldn’t want it?
"Last year, that so-and-so, that woman, got extremely lucky and discovered a vein of mithril in a secret place! Wow, she made a killing in no time."
It is about the mithril mine discovered by Xu Wei and Gu Xi in a secret realm in City No. 2029 (Qingzhou City, Mo Province) in early 39. This is the first time that Xia Country has discovered a mineral vein in a secret realm, which is of great significance.
At that time, Gu Xi had already replaced Deng Ye as the captain of the East Province Battalion of the Operations Department. This discovery added another entry to her file.
Xu Wei chose to leave the association and run the mine.
"She discovered a mineral vein that even the government hadn't explored. To be honest, she deserves to be rich."
"The development value of the Blue Star Secret Realm is getting lower and lower. If we can get the development rights for the Moon Secret Realm, we might have such good luck and have a chance to try our luck."
"Yes, yes, Lao Zhao, isn't that guy over there a Level 4 Awakener? Let him lead the team. Let's get together and form a team to give it a try."
Similar exchanges took place within countless small groups. Even if they couldn't make it into the top 20, they would be satisfied as long as they could make it to the finals!