Silicon Invasion

Perhaps to accommodate the freshmen, the difficulty of this year's preliminary map was significantly reduced. Luo Rui felt that even he might be able to solo it.

However, Luo Rui still fell into a cognitive bias because not all freshmen are as strong as him. Many freshmen only meet the standards for academic performance and hand speed. Before entering the school, they hadn't even experienced mecha simulation battles a few times.

So, for most freshmen, this difficulty was still a little high.

However, there are so many tactics that can be applied to this kind of map. As long as you dare to think and dare to do, even if your level is a bit lower, you can still pass.

Just like the 'Sit in a Row' team formed by the three roommates, they adopted an extreme five-long-range fire lineup. Now it seems that this lineup has a very big advantage in this map.

But you should know that the roommates didn't know what the inside of the map looked like before they entered. If they were assigned to a small forest map, their lineup would be completely useless.

The battle started quickly. The monsters spawned 500 meters away, and in the same direction. This made the 'Sit in a Row' team not even need to spread their firepower. They could just bombard in this one direction.

The two teammates that Zhang Jiasheng and the others found seemed to be the ones they often played games with, but they were just sitting in a row in two different dormitories, not really sitting together.

Although they were addicted to games, they still had some skills. According to Luo Rui's understanding, their family backgrounds were all pretty good, and their families were relatively supportive of their choices.

Although they didn't buy a machine directly like Luo Rui's mother did, they got an annual pass at a place similar to the Starry Sky Arena. Except for having to walk a bit, they had plenty of training time.

It's not that their families couldn't afford a simulation device, but mainly that this thing required too much space. Generally, even if the area of a house was large enough, the height couldn't meet the requirements.

Just like Luo Rui's training room, the normal floor height is only 3 meters. If it weren't for the fact that the height of the basement floor was as much as 5.6 meters, even if it was an empty room, the simulation equipment couldn't be set up.

But with Luo Ma's financial resources, this matter could always be accomplished. At worst, she could buy a plot of land…

The overall strength of the 'Sit in a Row' team is at the upper-middle level among the freshman teams. Five long-range fire mechas are lined up in a row, everyone is an ADC, and there is no concept of who is covering whom.

Their strength is naturally not comparable to Luo Rui's. Even with their skills, they are still a long way from being able to use handheld long-range fire weapons.

So, they didn't do anything fancy or showy. They all honestly used a combination of rocket launchers and recoilless rifles.

There were twenty silicon-based beasts, all of the wolf type. This wasn't because the school had any grudges against the wolves, but according to big data statistics, it's not known whether the wolf is the most numerous silicon-based beast in terms of number, but it is the silicon-based beast that humans encounter the most. So, the wolf was lucky enough to become the entry-level beast for novices.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh ~"

"Boom boom boom!"

Five Archer III mechas, with a full ten long-range fire weapons, created a feeling of a war blockbuster with the barrage of artillery fire in a short period of time.

However, after the smoke cleared, only five silicon-based beasts were reduced, which was shocking.

This wasn't because their accuracy was bad. With the cooperation of intelligent AI, their scores for hitting fixed targets were quite good. It's just a pity that silicon-based beasts are not fixed targets. In their eyes, whether it is a rocket missile or a recoilless rifle shell, although the speed is very fast, it is not completely impossible to avoid.

As for why Luo Rui was able to destroy one with one shot, that was thanks to the handheld sniper榴炮 of the third long-range fire. The attack of the sniper榴炮 is more concealed, and the flying speed of the shell is also faster. Before Luo Rui's recoilless rifle attack, he would usually use the sniper榴炮 to hit the selected lucky one first, slowing down their movements, so that the subsequent shells could hit the target.

In that expert mode clearance, Luo Rui could destroy one with one shot in the early stage, but when the silicon-based beasts escaped in the end, the reason why the hit rate decreased was because he chose to discard the sniper榴炮 and choose two metal short blades in order to enhance close combat attack power when the silicon-based beasts broke through the defense line and were close to him.

If the silicon-based beasts hadn't been busy escaping and ignored what was behind them, they might not have even been able to maintain a 50% hit rate.

Therefore, even Luo Rui's hit rate would not be very high without the auxiliary means of blocking the position. If the 'Sit in a Row' team hadn't fired too many weapons in a short period of time, causing the wolves to be dazzled, I'm afraid they wouldn't have even achieved the result of destroying five.

The distance of 500 meters is indeed a long distance for humans, but it is nothing in front of the wolves, whose body length is generally between four and five meters and run on four legs.

So, even if their progress was hindered by various explosions and shells, after the five long-range fire mechas carried out indiscriminate shooting, they had already crossed half the field.

This meant that the wolves were only two hundred meters away from them.

Fortunately, the remaining wolves were more or less injured, and there were not many that could maintain normal speed. In addition, the reaction time to the shells was correspondingly reduced as the distance shortened.

The five people finally killed another eleven wolves and successfully reduced their number to four after firing a ammunition base.

At this time, the wolves were less than 20 meters away from them. At this distance, the wolves could cross it with a pounce. Reloading was meaningless. The five Archer III mechas pulled out their alloy short blades and rushed up.

In a tragic close combat, even though the wolves were scarred and their body length was only half of that of the Archer III, the combat power of the five members of the 'Sit in a Row' team was not high, and they didn't have much time to practice cooperation before the game, so that they even accidentally injured their own teammates during the attack.

Fortunately, they didn't crash in the end. In the case of three people being "killed in action", they finally won and successfully passed the level.

It was just that five against four, and they were still counter-killed by three. Luo Rui shook his head straight when he saw this combat power. Although the Archer III is defined as a long-range fire mecha, its bone armor is not much different from that of the Warrior 7. Some of the force exerted on various parts during close combat is not inferior to the Warrior 7 at all. If they had a little bit of skill, it wouldn't be so difficult.

However, for freshmen who have only been enrolled for a few months, it is impossible to demand too much. Luo Rui sighed secretly, feeling that with this result, the dormitory trio's team would hardly be able to advance.

However, Luo Rui still overestimated the combat power of the freshmen. The 'Sit in a Row' team not only successfully advanced, but even their comprehensive combat score was among the top in the entire freshman year. This result also made Luo Rui a little dumbfounded.