under the mask

By mid-October, the simulated battle competition had been heated up. From the east to the west of the entire city of Skell, whether it was the teaching area or the living area, even in the ordinary Skell aboriginal settlements and various markets Ads are placed.When the competition officially starts at the end of the month, the screening for the first half of the month will be closed, and all eight halls of the school will be open for the official competition in the second half of the month. At that time, both university personnel and aboriginal people can go to watch the competition.

This large-scale simulated battle competition is not as Li Wei imagined at the beginning, just using a simulated ship cabin or a simulated fighter cockpit to connect to a holographic network to conduct a battle-style competition, but more complicated.

In the first five rounds of screening, the school divided the starships or aircraft of different generations and models corresponding to the simulation cabin into modules or even smaller parts in the holographic network, and the students participating in the screening were randomly selected.Students must first assemble their combat partners in the holographic network. If the startup is correct, they will get basic points and pass the screening. If the assembly result detection performance is better, they will pass the screening and get extra points.The first three rounds of screening are equally difficult, and the last two rounds are clearly stratified.

After understanding this, Li Wei felt that what Amelia said was not wrong.Even if the school will not prevent first-year students from participating in the competition, for many students who have just learned the knowledge of starships, entered the simulation cabin several times, or have the opportunity to drive a starship but have never learned more about its internal structure, it is only a prelude to the competition. Five rounds of selection is an insurmountable obstacle—not to mention the official competition that follows.

Even so, the students who kept repeating the life of going to class and leaving class every day were mobilized with full enthusiasm.Li Wei glanced at the electronic bulletin board in his class at the beginning of the month, and the registration form for the competition showed that at least two-thirds of his class had signed up for the competition... Judging by this ratio, it is really a bit of a newborn calf. tiger feeling.

After class that day, Li Wei and Amelia met as usual, and the two of them drove towards the simulated cabin building of the starship department on the east campus together.Recently, due to the preparations for the competition, there are many people simulating the cabin. If you go late, you can only use the time-limited card.

"Wait for me!" Kashgar squeezed into the bus panting, sat down in front of the two of them, turned his head and lay on the back of the chair: "Why are you running so fast! At worst, use the time limit card, anyway, there is not much time at night .”

Li Wei stretched out his finger and flicked his face away: "Aren't you going to enter the workshop today?"

Kashgar rubbed his forehead and glared at him angrily, "Don't mention it, our teacher said that his legs became weak due to excessive indulgence last night, and he needs to ask for a day off... You know that the first graders are not allowed to enter the workshop without a teacher, it is really annoying."

Li Wei teased him when he heard the words: "It's sad not to see your mech for a day."

"It's more than that..." Kashi sighed: "My battle spirit has just installed two calves..." After speaking, he turned his head and sat down depressed, muttering to himself.

Another spirit of battle.Li Wei looked at him calmly and thought, before school started, this guy made War Spirit pillows again. Before the pillows were ready, he spent a lot of time making a model of War Souls... Actually, this guy really likes Andrew’s War Souls, but The bones of the mouth pretended to be tough and refused to take it.It seems that he was right in deciding to give the battle spirit to Kashgar after graduation. The data of the battle spirit has been cleared. Kashgar can make him activate 70.00%, which is quite rare for Kashgar's age... They really are destined.

Andrew must also hope that the war spirit can find a new owner.

He turned his head to look out of the window, but accidentally saw Amelia by the window, silently watching the brown-haired boy in the front seat with extremely obscure and soft eyes.The evening wind blew in through the half-open car window, and Amelia's light chestnut curly hair was gently raised, brushing against Li Wei's neck, slightly itchy.The dim lights in the car gradually came on in the gradually darkening night, and everything around suddenly became comfortable and lazy.

Li Wei couldn't help smiling, and relaxed back on the chair.

And I didn't use an uncle's pessimistic and trivial thoughts to speculate on my friends... Think about it carefully, everyone is so young, no matter what the road ahead is, the mood at this moment is an indispensable scenery.Even if Emilia's future life is still the same as her mother and her grandmother... At least during this time in college, she is like an ordinary girl, silently liking someone.

Kashi... Li Wei can only pray that he is strong enough in the future...

The shuttle bus arrived in half an hour, and they were all stopped when they entered the building.

"Scan the ID card and get all the time limit." The administrator said to them with a dark face.

"Is there a mistake?" Kashi's face also turned dark: "We came right after class, and we took the first bus. Why is there a time limit?"

The administrator rolled his eyes at him, and said impatiently: "It's not too early for you, people came at noon in the third and fourth grades... Can you get in? There are also limited time cards, and there will be more people if you don't get in later! "

Li Wei pushed him away decisively, and handed over the ID card: "Come in, please give us three time-limited cards, thank you."

Entering from the passage directly facing the hall, the light dimmed instantly. The entire passage was decorated with black gold, and stars flickered in the darkness. There was a ship cabin door every ten meters on both sides, and a room full of simulated ship cabins entered.Going to the middle, there are two elevators on each side that can accommodate 50 people at the same time.Each floor is divided into several areas, where starships of different generations and models are distributed, and the professional simulation cabin for fighter jets is still on the fifth floor.

In the half month after signing up, what they have to do here every day is to enter different ship cabins and get familiar with different starship operations.Start with the oldest models and work your way up.The elimination rate of starships is not lower than that of technological products such as communicators, but the internal structure of starships will not change too much after the operating system is updated, but the early models are different. Many ancient starships not only have internal The structure is complicated, and the operating system is mostly manual, which is very troublesome.For half a month, Li Wei and the others had only reached the innermost part of the second floor.

Today they chose a battleship that Levi is very familiar with, the OF1099 series.The pre-renovation version of his little lady "Olivia" belongs to this series, and it is a relatively old warship.This warship is small in size, but its shortcomings are obvious. The power and endurance are poor, and it cannot support long-term transitions between star gates. Moreover, there are few weapons and equipment that can be carried, and the large weapon slot takes up a lot of space. .At the beginning, he valued that this battleship was more flexible in size, and of course more importantly, it was already very cheap and easy to get.

Walking into the small hall of the OF1099 series, Li Wei saw Amelia and Kashi frowning at the same time, with vague or obvious expressions of disgust.Well... that's one of the reasons why this ship was eliminated so quickly in the first place.The appearance is too ugly.

The battleships located in the small hall have silver-gray shells and are small, but their shapes are really reminiscent of a large Zerg on a certain planet, which makes people feel chills when they see it.Looking at it this way, Li Wei has the urge to cry. After all, it is not easy to transform such an ugly appearance into his beautiful Olivia.

"It would be great if I could get this type of warship during the primary election." Kashgar rubbed his chin and pondered, "When you transformed that Vera, at least I gave you the whole process..."

"Even if it's not this type, you're more likely to pass the screening." Li Wei walked to one of the simulation cabins: "Let's not say that your mechs have been in the workshop for a month, and when we were in middle school, we often Assembling and disassembling battleships and mechs, I am afraid that many second-year students may not be better than you."

Kashgar is a little proud of what he said in a few words.He giggled a few times, and found that Amelia had already entered the cabin, so he randomly picked a simulation cabin with a green light showing that there was no one there, and got in.

Right now they are only familiar with the operation, but to pass the screening, they must have an understanding of the internal structure of various starships.In fact, this requirement is very high. There are many types of starships, and only a small number of small starships. More starships undertake various functions such as interstellar transportation and transfer. Therefore, they are huge in size and complex in structure. Even students in the second and third grades may not be able to master them. .Therefore, Levi guessed that starships that are too large or complex should have been excluded, such as Amelia's reloaded battleship, interstellar fortress, etc. will not be included in the random selection.This guess is correct. Specifically, most of the options are small and medium-sized warships, and small warships account for the majority.

To pass the screening smoothly, Levi's idea is to use the game Starship Fleet.The simulation cabin can only simulate driving, but in the Starship Fleet game, they can actually touch all weapons and equipment, including battleship mechs and aircraft.So Li Wei and Emilia discussed that they could use the night time to study the structure of the battleship in the game.

Li Wei was in the infantry station and had no access to battleships, but Amelia was assigned to the interstellar fortress.The land in the game is divided into east and west continents, each with a federation, and several planets. I heard that there are copies of extraterrestrial planets, but due to the progress, it has not yet been opened.Li Wei and Amelia belong to different countries in the federation in the game, but they are generally the invaders, and they are game players after all. Amelia passed him some battleship structural drawings without encountering any difficulties, and was not affected. System warning.

Their ingenious approach seems to work.

"What? Are you going to receive the commission for the desert underground workshop?" The doctor looked him up and down in surprise with a cigarette in his mouth: "Corporal, you are so courageous!"

Li Wei frowned: "What? What's the problem with the commission?" He looked down at the printed paper again, "Find the underground workshop in the flame desert, and bring out the blueprint of the new warship in the safe of the launch control center..." Request It is very clear that there are specific coordinates, and that the workshop was only temporarily evacuated because of an explosion nearby, so there was no monster or virus.

The doctor put out the cigarette, looked at him and said helplessly, "Have you noticed the danger of this entrusted task?"

Li Wei looked towards the end dully, and the full five stars showed that this task was the most difficult level among all entrustments.But he didn't think it was so difficult... He checked some information on the optical brain, and the workshop was built very solidly, but the entrance and exit were blocked, and the underground building did not collapse.As long as you bring enough food and water, it will take some time to go back and forth at most... Most importantly, there are a large number of battleships, battleship models, battleship parts and battleship blueprints! !He has already spent part of the virtual points to open the player's online storage function, and is determined to bring a battleship back!Must be no problem!

"Listen, corporal," the doctor said seriously, "the soldiers stationed at the station can accept commissions in order to improve everyone's lives within their limits of authority. In fact, it is for self-serving. But if an accident occurs because you accept the mission privately, your immediate superior will Therefore, he was severely punished. It is not worth losing the lives of himself and his subordinates for a little money." He pointed at the power of attorney in Li Wei's hand and explained: "Sometimes the degree of danger refers not only to the task itself, but also to the people on the way. The environment, the journey back and forth or the time it takes, etc... like the one in your hand, in order to ensure the safety of the underground workshop, they chose one of the most dangerous areas in the Flaming Desert."

He finally said: "I suggest that you consult Lieutenant Sterling before deciding to accept this commission. He has been to the nearby coordinates for some missions."

Li Wei came out of the office depressed and walked towards his room.Because there is no class tomorrow morning, he had already planned to complete this commission without going offline all night. Anyway, sleeping in the game can also rest the brain...

He stood in front of the door and paused, hesitating whether to go to that guy or not.According to what the doctor said, he wanted him to persuade Jacob to join... But when he thought of the kid's sudden cold attitude towards him, he didn't bother to rub other people's asses.The big deal is to die once.

As soon as he made up his mind, Li Wei ran into soldiers who came looking for him.

"Boss, the kitchen informed us that we can get beer coupons." The soldier named Tom said excitedly: "Everyone can get thirty coupons, and we can have a good drink at the bonfire party tonight! "

"Oh...I'll pick it up in the afternoon," Li Wei hesitated, then stopped him and asked a few names: "Are they there?"

Tom thought for a while and replied: "No, they all went to the desert for training, you know... recruit training."

"Are there only a few of you..." Li Wei frowned at Tom, and waved him to go first.He looked down at the paper in his hand and hesitated again.It seems that no one in the squad is online... Usually when the soldiers are not online, these NPC soldiers will be on top.However, Li Wei couldn't regard them as simple NPCs. This was not the keyboard online games he played before. These guys were just like doctors, just like himself. Wei is different, if they die, it is really dead.Zhinao will not refresh an identical NPC.

Such a brutal game.

Li Wei is hesitating, he can come back after he dies, but Tom and the others have family and friends in the game, if he dies because of his own private purpose...