Silicon Invasion

As teams were continuously eliminated, the competition progressed faster and faster. The second and third rounds quickly concluded. Luo Rui, having nothing better to do, watched quite a few matches alongside the Row Row Sit team.

He also discovered many interesting teams.

For example, single-unit mech teams. The so-called single-unit meant that, like the Row Row Sit team, all five members chose the same type of mech to participate in the competition.

Actually, this wasn't a particularly difficult idea to come up with, so there were quite a few teams with this configuration.

The most common was the five-long-range-firepower lineup. After all, human nature is basically to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so hiding in a relatively safe position to output damage became the priority for most people.

Of course, this was just the choice of the freshmen. But in subsequent studies, reality would make everyone realize that if they wanted to play long-range firepower well, and if they wanted to control several weapons at the same time, it required extremely high talent.

However, they all encountered the same predicament as the Row Row Sit team, which was that they couldn't restrict the silicon-based beasts' movements. After a barrage of attacks, the silicon-based beasts were injured but not killed.

In the end, nearly half of the five-long-range-firepower teams were eliminated in the first round. No wonder the Row Row Sit team could still rank high even after three members were killed; it turned out they were relying entirely on their opponents to make them look good.

Actually, Luo Rui had another purpose in watching the matches, which was to select future teammates. Tong Yue was right. The current members of the Shining Knights团战队 were all juniors or seniors, and at most they would graduate in two years. If they didn't absorb fresh blood during this time, wouldn't he become a lone wolf by then?

So, thinking about the future, he needed to have a good grasp of some of the experts in the freshman and sophomore classes, even if he didn't contact them now.

Among the five-long-range-firepower teams, not all of them performed poorly. There were still two teams, or rather, certain individuals, who performed relatively well.

Their control over long-range firepower was clearly stronger than others. Although they still couldn't reach the level of controlling three long-range firepower weapons, they could use dual recoilless rifles to fight.

In terms of automation, recoilless rifles were far behind rocket launchers. Therefore, the difficulty of controlling two recoilless rifles was naturally higher. Correspondingly, in terms of controllability, recoilless rifles were superior to a configuration of one cannon and one rocket launcher.

Given that the projectile speed of recoilless rifles was much higher than that of rockets, they could choose to use one cannon to block the silicon-based beasts' movements and use the other cannon for fatal attacks. Although their efficiency was still half that of Luo Rui, their hit rate was much higher than others, and their performance was much better.

With such a foundation that surpassed others, they might become powerful shooters after training in the future. Because Luo Rui found that the constraints of the third-generation long-range firepower mech were becoming more and more obvious to him. For example, his agility had now increased to 1.6, and attributes such as calculation power and reaction speed had greatly increased, but his combat power had hardly increased when controlling Archer III.

Because with 1.5 agility, he had already pushed the performance of Archer III to its limit. No matter how high his attributes were, he couldn't get any more out of this old mech.

In comparison, although melee mechs also had performance constraints, they were slightly better than the dual constraints of long-range firepower mechs and weapons.

Therefore, although their positions conflicted with Luo Rui's current position, Luo Rui still remembered them, preparing for a possible position change in the future.

In addition to the five-long-range-firepower lineup, Luo Rui also saw a lineup of five Warrior 7s. There were even more teams choosing this lineup than the five-long-range-firepower lineup.

The reason for this was that Warrior 7 was the school's teaching mech. Most students who hadn't had much contact with simulators in high school, and whose hand speed only met the standards, started with Warrior 7 at the beginning.

But what about this lineup? If the players' levels were all master-level, then 5V20 silicon-based beasts would be a piece of cake.

But freshmen simply couldn't reach this level. Some of them could barely make the mech move, so the result was predictable. They usually died miserably. In fact, only one of their teams passed the first round with only one person surviving.

However, this also allowed Luo Rui to discover a teammate reserve candidate. The survivor's name was Ma Ka, and he was in the same class as Luo Rui. They would sometimes bump into each other during class and were nodding acquaintances.

In fact, Luo Rui had noticed him a long time ago and remembered his name, mainly because his name was a homophone for a certain plant with some special uses, which made a deep impression. It is said that he also has a nickname called Viagra Brother, and another nickname called MD Kirby, or Kirby for short, but this nickname is a bit, well, few people call him that.

This name can't be blamed on the parents' rashness, it can only be said that the world is developing too fast, and each noun may have different meanings in a few years.

What Luo Rui didn't expect was that this guy was the kind who kept a low profile. This competition perfectly explained what a master and his four hangers-on were.

These guys also understood that they weren't cut out to be shooters, so they were all equipped with two rocket launchers, all using AI-assisted aiming. Although the accuracy wasn't very good, they also achieved the result of killing three silicon-based beasts after a round of rocket bombardment, and several others were seriously injured.

Then, after uninstalling the long-range firepower system, five Warrior 7s faced seventeen Dire Wolves head-on. This guy was ruthless, fast, accurate, and merciless. Under the cover of his teammates, the number of Dire Wolves quickly decreased.

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But his teammates were too weak, and they didn't even do a good job of being meat shields, which led to five Dire Wolves not being killed when all his teammates were dead. Although these survivors were also covered in scars, their number was still too large for a freshman.

However, Ma Ka's combat power was amazing, and in the end, he narrowly succeeded in a one-on-five, successfully advancing. Luo Rui felt that this guy might as well have had all his teammates choose the Warrior mech, at least it would be more durable, and he wouldn't expect them to attack anyway.

Unfortunately, this team, called Heaven is on the Left, Warriors on the Right, didn't have the idea of changing mechs. In fact, even if they changed, it wouldn't make much of a difference. Because in the second round, they were even more miserable than the Row Row Sit team. Ma Ka was also tragically besieged by the Dire Wolf pack. That kind of battle situation couldn't be changed by simply changing the Warrior mech to a Guardian.

With an all-Warrior 7 lineup, there was also an all-Guardian 3 lineup. Five Guardians back-to-back, with their large shields erected, don't you know, the Dire Wolves really didn't have a good way to deal with this iron bucket formation.

But there is no truly invincible defense. If it were a competition rule like "If you are a man, hold on for 60 seconds", they might be able to easily win the competition. Unfortunately, the competition required one side to be completely annihilated.

A lineup that couldn't effectively kill the Dire Wolves, the result was predictable, they could only be slowly worn down by the Dire Wolves...