Silicon Invasion

Sun Yue's personality was undeniably cautious, and his reaction speed was exceptionally quick. Seeing that things weren't right, even with only a 50% risk, he still pressed the small button.

The screen in front of Luo Rui instantly froze, the machine went offline, and the adorable little circle started spinning.

It was so round, so smooth...

Luo Rui took his hands off the keyboard, leaned back, and the sturdy chair dipped slightly, supporting his body.

"Hoo..."

A breath of stale air escaped, his eyes gradually regained their sparkle, and his emotions returned. The adrenaline was still pumping, making him feel somewhat excited.

"It's all up to fate now..."

All the previous weakness and miserable performance were to numb the opponent, for this sudden strike at the end.

But Sun Yue's reaction was very fast. He had just pressed the launch button when he was kicked out of the game. Therefore, he didn't know whether the shell had actually been fired.

Even if it was fired, he didn't know if it had achieved any results.

Luo Rui was locked in a small dark room and couldn't see what happened next, but Sun Yue's side was normal, and the perspective from the audience seats outside was also normal.

From the audience's perspective, Luo Rui's situation was extremely miserable. His mech was about to be whittled down to a human stick, and defeat was only a matter of moments. But his tenacious spirit was admirable, and many people silently cheered for Luo Rui while cheering for the soon-to-be-victorious Sun Yue.

But just as Luo Rui's mech was about to fall, he fired. The suddenness of this firing caught almost everyone by surprise, and its concealment was so good that most people didn't even notice it.

Until...

The message indicating the end of the match appeared.

They naturally assumed that Sun Yue had won. This was reasonable. Some people had already started typing in the multi-message group, urging the bookmaker to quickly distribute the rewards. Although Sun Yue's odds were very low, even a mosquito was meat, equivalent to a free ride.

However, a small number of people noticed that the machine seemed to have a bug, and the color indicating the winning side was wrong.

The school's arena machines could not input personal IDs, only red and blue markers. Luo Rui was red, and Sun Yue was blue, but clearly Luo Rui was destroyed, so why did it show red winning?

Moreover, after the victory, there should have been a system-automated evaluation, extracting the highlight reel, but all they saw was Luo Rui's mech twitching constantly in the distance of the screen, as if it had epilepsy, and the highlight reel did not appear, as if everything was stuck.

"What's going on? Why did Luo Rui win? Is there something wrong with this machine?"

"Looks like it. MD, I haven't heard of the school's computer room having this kind of problem. Could it be a system bug?"

"If it's a bug, then it's amazing. This system was written by our school's professor according to the actual situation of the school and has been running for more than ten years, it's already perfect."

"How do you know?"

"Are you kidding me? Didn't you study the school's information before going to school? This is a promotional gimmick for Beishan School."

"Does Beishan Academy still need a gimmick? Are you kidding me?"

Beishan Academy certainly doesn't need promotional gimmicks. As the highest institution of higher learning for mecha pilot-related majors in the country, countless students apply to Beishan Academy every year.

"I'm not kidding. Promotion is always necessary, but if this is really a bug, then it will be interesting. A program that has been running without bugs for seven or eight years suddenly has a bug, it will definitely be hyped by some media."

"But how did this bug occur? Although Assistant Instructor Sun and Luo Rui fought fiercely, it was only limited to the degree of fierceness, right?"

"Who knows? We are reckless men in the mecha pilot major, let professional people handle the specifics."

"It's stuck now, I don't know what's going on, but Luo Rui seems to have indeed won."

"Are you blind? How could Luo Rui win?"

"I can attest to this. At the last moment, Luo Rui fired a shot that hit the blue mech's chest armor, and then the red victory prompt appeared. It seems that Assistant Instructor Sun was unlucky and was killed in one hit."

"Are you kidding me?"

"How could I? I believe someone else must have seen it too. If it hadn't been stuck, this segment would definitely have been cut into a highlight reel!"

"Then why is it stuck? Why is there no highlight reel?"

"How would I know? After the red mech fired this shot, it got stuck in mid-air. How would I know what's going on?"

"I attest, I saw it too, but I don't know why it got stuck."

"Damn, could it be a disconnection? My game gets stuck like this."

In fact, many people have thought of this, but no one said it. It's normal for computer games to get stuck, but this is the school's arena, and the school's local area network is connected by thumb-thick network cables with unknown layers of protective covers, making the probability of problems almost impossible.

However, almost impossible does not mean completely impossible. Even if the probability is small, there is still a possibility of it happening.

"Before, the red mech didn't move for two or three seconds, I felt something was a little abnormal, and now it seems that it was indeed a little abnormal."

"Didn't someone say earlier that Luo Rui did it on purpose? So that he would have an excuse when he lost."

"Hehe, look at Luo Rui's performance at the end, does he look like the kind of person who would do such a thing?"

Objectively speaking, Luo Rui's tenacity has earned the respect of many people, and perhaps this is one of the reasons why he was specially recruited. Now, almost no one will believe that Luo Rui deliberately created flaws because he couldn't hold on, so as to make an excuse for losing.

How could someone who was still organizing a counterattack even after his mech was whittled down to a human stick do such a thing?

"Then who the hell won?"

"Didn't they already say in the multi-message group that the settlement will be given after the match result is confirmed?"

"Undeniably, the current situation is indeed very strange, and no one knows who won."

"Why haven't they come out yet?"

"Could something have happened?"

The audience hall was buzzing with discussion, but the two people involved were silent. Luo Rui was because his emotions returned after the Concentration state, and he was so angry when he recalled what had just happened that he needed to calm down.

But Sun Yue's side was a bit more complicated.

Anxiety, unease, and disbelief filled Sun Yue's heart.

He was the only one among all the people present who could be sure of the outcome of the match.

Because he felt the heat, the heat of the armor-piercing shell penetrating the armor and releasing thousands of degrees of heat inside the cockpit. He could be sure that he was eliminated before destroying Luo Rui's mech.

This was a result he couldn't accept until now.

How could it be?

How could it be!

Luo Rui, that kid, is only 18 years old. Logically speaking, he should be preparing for the college entrance examination in his senior year of high school. Why did he have to appear here, why did he have to create trouble for him?

Damn special recruit!