Silicon Invasion

At this time, the freshmen are all fresh out of high school.

Before university, they haven't had any relevant professional or systematic training. Even if there are some learning classes, those who can pull off this kind of operation are definitely rare.

Don't underestimate Old Zhang's disdain for this operation just now, and don't think he was talking about dozens of students; the prerequisite is that they are not in an ordinary college.

Beishan Heavy Industry Affiliated College.

Don't let the school's name fool you into thinking it's a vocational school with incomplete qualifications. In reality, it's quite impressive in certain fields, with many of its majors leading the country. The mecha pilot major is even among the best on the entire Blue Star, far surpassing those ordinary first-tier or second-tier colleges.

In fact, the most competitive, professional, and entertaining mecha competition on Blue Star isn't the World League with countries as participating units, but the Enterprise League with companies as units.

The reason for this has to do with the development history of mecha competitions.

Mechas were originally created to fight against silicon-based beasts and explore Maikan, but related research requires a lot of financial support. Although the Serso Alliance has good scientific research capabilities, it is composed of dozens of countries, and there are too many restrictions on allocating funds. Seeing that the research was about to fall behind other major countries, the person in charge gritted his teeth and started looking for a way out.

Thus, the first Mecha Competition came into being.

However, due to limited conditions, mechas were only in the early stages of research, and many things were not yet mature. Therefore, this so-called Mecha Competition looked like a turn-based game with tractors that grew arms and legs.

Several things that could barely be called mechas would give you a punch, and you would return a blow, without any movement or positioning, and no skills at all.

But it was this thing that ignited people's unprecedented passion. Mechas are not only a man's romance, but also appeal to men, women, and children.

Where there is demand, there is a market.

Now, various events have sprung up like mushrooms, frantically igniting people's enthusiasm. Among them, there are virtual events and offline events.

Among them, performance matches, internet cafe matches, college leagues, and various levels of leagues such as B-level, A-level, and S-level are all virtual events based on "Ace Mecha Pilot."

The World League and the Enterprise League, on the other hand, are serious events that require real combat.

However, due to the high technological content of mechas, not many countries in the world can handle it. If the competition requires self-developed mechas to participate, I am afraid that only a dozen teams in the world would participate. This would not only reduce a lot of attention, but may even cause unnecessary conflicts.

Therefore, in order to allow more countries and regions to participate, the World League competition can choose from various foreign trade models, so that the hardware facilities of all teams are at the same level, so as to be as fair as possible.

But the Enterprise League is completely different.

If the World League is a competition that takes care of everyone's feelings, then the so-called Enterprise League is a competition that only the real top players on Blue Star can participate in.

The entire process of mecha research and preparation must be supported by an extremely large industrial chain. There are only a few countries in the entire Blue Star that can possess a complete industrial chain with their own strength, and even with the addition of those small country alliances, there are only a handful.

In order to take care of the feelings of some backward regions, these behemoths organized the Enterprise League in the name of domestic companies. In this competition, not only are the pilots top-notch, but each company will also display their most advanced models, and even some customized concept models.

This kind of collision, whether it is technology or operation, is the most cutting-edge, enough to feast the eyes of everyone.

Of course, the reason why the major countries and alliances do this is not simply for the meager ticket revenue or broadcast authorization.

Mechas are the patent of major countries, but the space rifts in Maikan don't care about these things. Their appearance is random around the world.

Although major countries have deployed orbital emergency forces in space, even with the support of silicon-based beast energy cores, sending dozens of tons of behemoths to their destination is still expensive.

Therefore, these troops are basically reserved for dealing with rifts in sparsely populated areas such as the North and South Poles. If other regions want to request support, they will have to pay a high appearance fee.

The "Blue Star Defense and Exploration Agreement for Maikan," which was jointly and voluntarily signed by all countries and regions on Blue Star, led by several major countries, clearly requires how many mechas must be deployed for every certain area of land for mobile defense and possible counterattacks.

Therefore, countries and regions without mecha research and production capabilities can only purchase mechas to form troops if they do not want to be garrisoned or bear the appearance fees of orbital troops.

The Enterprise League, to put it bluntly, is an event to showcase its strength to customers. If the competition results are excellent, the mecha sales of related companies are likely to climb to a higher level in the future.

There are two companies in China that are qualified to participate in the Enterprise League: Beishan Heavy Industry and Nanling Technology.

From this, it can be seen that the weight of the Beishan Heavy Industry Affiliated College is to provide targeted training for relevant talents, whether they are mecha researchers or mecha pilots.

As a teacher at this college, the students he teaches are top talents from all over the country, so his vision is naturally very high.

But just looking at the fact that even students who graduate here cannot 100% achieve Luo Rui's previous operation, you can know how terrifying the difficulty is.

"Freshman? Freshmen are still in military training, how would I know? What? Is this person a student? Which school is he from?"

"I don't know if he's a freshman or not, and I don't know which school he's from, but I saw on the barrage that someone said this person is a high school student from a team called Star Arena in Fengzhou City." Director Bai leaned back in his chair and turned to his brother-in-law to tell him the information he knew.

"Why are you looking at me? You are the director of the college's admissions office, wouldn't it be better to check it directly?" Old Zhang curled his lips in disdain. He has no computer, no data, so what's the point of telling him?

"I have already checked. Only two students from Fengzhou City have been admitted, but unfortunately, neither of them is majoring in mecha piloting," Director Bai pushed his glasses and said calmly, it seems that he had already watched the video.

"Maybe people applied to other schools."

Old Zhang still disdains, he will argue with Director Bai for three points even if he is unreasonable.

"Impossible, Fengzhou City is much closer to us than Nanling. If he wants to apply, he must fill in our school first."

Director Bai was seriously thinking and analyzing the possibility of Old Zhang's statement. His brother-in-law's argumentative thinking can often broaden his horizons.