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Chapter 38 Mecha Contest

The No. 18 school-wide mecha competition of St. Romia Military Academy finally officially started two days later on the weekend.

This competition coincides with the celebration of the [-]th anniversary of the empire. As long as the top ten students in the school can represent the school to the Cepheus to participate in the national finals, they may even participate in the mecha performance of the military parade and meet His Majesty Trande in person. .

In addition, all the students who qualified for the national finals will have the treatment of "Exemption from Examination of C-level Mech Driving Qualification Certificate", and the final top three contestants in the national competition will be specially rewarded with a mecha worth more than 50 crystal coins!

All the above attractive conditions made this year's mecha competition extremely popular, and the number of participants hit a record high. The number of students who signed up for the competition alone exceeded 1000!

Due to the large number of participants, the school directly held an audition on the morning of the first day of the competition. All contestants were numbered in order according to the registration time, and they were asked to drive the C-level mecha provided by the school through all the competitions in the mecha training room. Difficult training tasks, players who fail to pass will be eliminated directly!

In the morning audition, a group of amateur contestants were eliminated, and by the afternoon there were still 200 contestants left.

The 200 people are divided into 20 groups for the preliminary round. 10 people in each group will play a points match. The time limit for a game is 15 minutes. 1 point will be awarded for a win, 1 point will be deducted for a loss, and no points will be scored for a draw. The top 4 in the final group will qualify .

The first day of competition was as spectacular and fast as washing sand in the sea.

There were more than 1000 contestants in the morning. After the audition in the morning and the preliminary round in the afternoon, there were only 80 contestants left in the evening.

The level of these 80 people has obviously improved a level, and those who are a little amateur have already been eliminated. Among the 80 people, 60 are students majoring in mecha control, and the remaining 20 people are evenly divided between the command department and the engineering department.

——Lin Yuan and Caesar were naturally among the 80 people.

The audition tasks were a piece of cake for Lin Yuan. He practiced these tasks with Caesar every day, and he was familiar with the various simulation scenarios in the simulation training room, and directly scored full marks.

There were no particularly strong opponents in the group assigned to the preliminary round. Lin Yuan qualified for the first 9 games in the group.

The 80 people who entered the rematch round were re-divided into 8 groups, namely the upper half of the A1-A4 group and the lower half of the B1-B4 group, with 10 people in each group. They still played the points match within the group, and the top 4 qualified. , to determine the top 32 of the school.

After Lin Yuan got the group list, he accidentally found Baker's name in the list. He didn't expect this kid to be able to enter the semi-finals.Apparently, Baker also noticed him, and sent a special message saying: "Boss, we will be in the same group for the rematch tomorrow morning!"

Lin Yuan replied with a smile: "Well, you are welcome to meet me in the arena!"

Thinking of the scene of Lin Yuan bringing down an Alpha in three seconds, Baker suddenly trembled in fear—you're welcome?Does he also want to put me down in three seconds?

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In the rematch the next morning, Lin Yuan was not polite.

The rematch is still uniformly provided by the school, and it will be held in the training room dedicated to the competition. The mechas are all C-level, and the shape can be chosen by the students. Lin Yuan chose the human-shaped mecha according to his habit, which is the most familiar and familiar to him. The best type.

Lin Yuan's registration number was No. 77, and he was assigned to Group A1. In the first game, he directly faced Beck with No. 198.

Baker chose a black bird, the two greeted each other, and started the game under the referee's signal.

As soon as the timing card lights up, Baker's mecha takes off immediately!

He originally wanted to go around behind Lin Yuan and launch a sneak attack. However, after watching the battle between the eldest prince and the little prince these days, Lin Yuan has already become familiar with the characteristics of various flying mechas, so he secretly thought about how the mechas take off. Without hesitation, Lin Yuan opened the ion cannon in his arm, aimed and shot!

With a bang, Classmate Baker's No. 198 Mecha was instantly blown off its wings...

Baker: "..."

Lin Yuan: "..."

Not only did Bei Ke not recover, even Lin Yuan himself did not recover.

It was very easy to win in the preliminary round yesterday, he thought it was because of the poor level of the preliminary round, but today it was the semi-finals, why did he still win within a minute?

Classmate Baker, who was killed in ten seconds, once again showed admiration for the class leader.

When Lin Yuan came out of the cockpit, Baker immediately walked up to him and gave him a thumbs up: "Boss, you are so awesome! You can definitely enter the final at your level! Come on!"

"Yeah." Lin Yuan smiled at him a little embarrassedly, and then started the next game.

What surprised Lin Yuan was that in the next few games, almost all battles were resolved within 10 minutes.

The shooting angle of the humanoid mecha is extremely precise, almost without fail.Catch loopholes, fight counterattacks, surprise attacks, sneak attacks, and succeed every time.

Lin Yuan won nine games in a row, and finally caught the attention of his opponents in the same group.

——No. 77, a first-year command student who likes to use humanoid mechas, is actually a beta?

——That Beta was so fierce, I didn't realize how I lost!

——When you meet No. 77 in the competition, you must be careful, that Beta is super powerful!

The name of Lin Yuan as a Beta monster spread throughout the school within a day.

In the afternoon of the same day, such a post appeared on the school’s internal forum——

"Who says Beta isn't sharp, look at our command system!"

Such a hate-inducing post was undoubtedly posted by a pig-like teammate, Baker, who is good at attracting hatred.

Excited, Baker wrote Lin Yuan's brilliant record of winning both the preliminaries and the semi-finals in the post. By the way, he helped the class leader get some popularity. In just a few hours, Lin Yuan gained a lot of Beta admiration and a lot of Alpha hatred value.

The number of replies is increasing, and this post quickly became one of today's top ten hot topics.

After the competition, when Lin Yuan went to the cafeteria to have dinner, several bold senior Beta girls came here admiringly. They asked Lin Yuan to invite their juniors to dinner, and exchanged their mech driving skills by the way.

——The way those seniors looked at Lin Yuan made Caesar extremely upset.

——The scene where Lin Yuan was surrounded by a group of people instantly ignited Caesar's anger.

Caesar walked into the crowd calmly, put his arms around Lin Yuan's shoulders, and said with a graceful smile: "I'm sorry, senior sister, I have an appointment with Lin Yuan to train tonight, and I don't have time to accompany you guys , let me treat you next time."

Lin Yuan: "...Huh?"

When did you make an appointment for training?Didn't you say you have a rest today?

Before Lin Yuan realized what was going on, he was forcibly dragged away by Caesar.

Caesar cursed "pig teammate" Baker a hundred times in his heart.

His hate-inducing post gained popularity, and at the same time attracted a lot of peach blossoms to Lin Yuan...

Although Lin Yuan didn't understand what was going on with Caesar, Lin Yuan was still very happy that Caesar rescued him from being surrounded by a group of strange girls, so he didn't mind Caesar's lying, and went back with Caesar Arrived at the dormitory.

After the day's game was over, Lin Yuan went to the bathroom to take a hot bath to relax his tense nerves.

After coming out of the bathroom, he habitually took out the medicine from the drawer and took a piece with warm water, only to find that Hubby was squatting beside him, drooling eagerly.

Lin Yuan smiled, carefully put the medicine away in the drawer, picked up Happy and said, "Are you hungry again?"

Happy immediately nodded desperately.

Lin Yuan has been training late every day for the past few days, and often forgets to feed Hobby. Fortunately, Hobby is very smart and can go to the refrigerator to get food by himself, so he won't be hungry.

Anyway, he didn't plan to go to training tonight, so Lin Yuan took Happy to the restaurant, took out a box of cheese, and fed it himself.

When Snow came back, he saw Lin Yuan feeding his pet, so he went to the restaurant and sat down, asking, "How's the result of today's rematch?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Fortunately, I won the rematch without a doubt!"

"A complete victory?" Snow said with some surprise, "The players who can enter the semi-finals are not low-level, and many of them are seniors and sisters from the mecha control department. You can win a complete victory, which is really impressive."

When Snow said this, Lin Yuan also felt a little strange in his heart.

The notes left by the mysterious master, which he has read countless times this month, are indeed very helpful.Coupled with the repeated observation and discussion with the little prince and the eldest prince on the Internet in the past month, Lin Yuan also felt that his level had improved significantly.

It's just that the result of today's game still surprised him a little.

Originally, I thought it would be full of twists and turns, but I didn't expect it to go so smoothly, and I won a complete victory directly.

——It's no wonder Lin Yuan couldn't figure it out.

The people who came to practice with him this month are Marshal Rosen, who commanded the three armies, and Prince Caesar of the Empire, both of whom are owners of S-class mechs. They personally guided Lin Yuan, and the apprentices they taught are: Could it be weak?

Lin Yuan competes with the top players in the empire every day!

The skills and consciousness he has trained are all at the top level of the empire!

When encountering a slightly ordinary master in the school, it is directly the rhythm of a one-minute spike...

Of course, Lin Yuan, who knew nothing about all this, could only attribute it to——

"Probably my luck is better?"

Lin Yuan scratched his head with a smile, and said: "There are 8 groups in the semi-finals, all of which were randomly assigned. I was assigned to Group A1. It seems that the players in Group A1 are not particularly strong. It is relatively easy for me to win. It may be that many masters were defeated Sent to another group."

Snow actually didn't know much about mech competitions. Hearing Lin Yuan's explanation, he nodded and said, "Anyway, if you can win the first place in the group in the rematch, the final should be relatively easy, right?"

"Yes!" Lin Yuan said excitedly, "The final is a knockout round based on the results of the rematch. The first place in Group A1 will face the fourth place in Group B1. Caesar is the first in Group B1, and I am the first in Group A4 , I don’t have to face him directly!”

——In Lin Yuan's heart, Caesar is a real master.

Lin Yuan really knew Caesar's level very well, and it was because of his understanding that Lin Yuan knew how terrible Caesar was.

The scary thing about Caesar lies not only in his super-fast hand speed and neat technique, but also in his psychological calm. No matter what the situation, Caesar can calmly grasp the situation and make the most accurate move. judge.In a real game, this kind of calmness with a well-thought-out plan is a very important advantage.

Many of the skills learned by Lin Yuan were taught by Caesar, and Lin Yuan also witnessed Caesar's astonishingly fast operation speed when connecting several difficult movements together.

Lin Yuan didn't have the confidence to win against Caesar at all.

Fortunately, he won the No.1 in Group A1 in the rematch, and Caesar happened to be the No.1 in Group B1. The No.1 in the upper and lower halves will be staggered. Lin Yuan will always avoid Caesar throughout the final round.

After chatting with Lin Yuan for a few words, Snow went back to the bedroom.

Caesar just came out of the bedroom and saw Lin Yuan feeding Habi, so he came over and touched Habi's ear, and said in a low voice: "Lin Yuan, in tomorrow's game, your opponent is No. .4 Danny. That player is a senior in the mech control department, although he is fourth, he is quite capable, so don't underestimate him."

Caesar's concern warmed Lin Yuan's heart.

It stands to reason that everyone participated in the same competition, and they are considered competitors. However, Nishizawa didn't care about it at all. He not only lent the mecha to himself for practice, but also shared a lot of skills in the operation of the mecha. I do training by myself, and come to encourage myself when the final is about to come.

—— Such a friend is really too loyal.

Lin Yuan couldn't help but raised his head, smiled at Caesar, and said sincerely: "I know, I will prepare seriously. Thank you, Caesar, if it weren't for you this month, I guess the rematch would have Can't get past it."

Facing Shang Linyuan's grateful eyes, Caesar's heart suddenly softened into a mess.

Caesar looked at Lin Yuan tenderly, and said with a smile, "Don't be so polite with me, I hope you can enter the top ten."

Lin Yuan said earnestly: "I will try my best! I also really want to go to the national finals, to see Cepheus!"

After hearing "Cepheus", Habi immediately shrunk his body in fear, and buried his face in his wide and big ears.

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At nine o'clock in the morning the next day, the finals of the Mech Contest finally officially started.

Unlike the group competition in the training room during the rematch, the final was held in the school's central gymnasium.The central gymnasium covers a very large area, enough to accommodate more than [-] spectators, and the space left in the middle is also very wide, which is specially used for mech competitions and large-scale performances.

The 32 contestants who can enter the finals are undoubtedly the students with the highest level in the school, and the beauty of the finals is naturally several grades higher than that of the semi-finals.At 08:30 in the morning, the entire stadium was full of seats. The cheerleaders who came to cheer for the students even pulled up slogans on the spot, and the sound of cheering and cheering resounded through the audience.

Snow came to watch the game, of course he wanted to see how Lin Yuan performed.As the number one follower, Brian naturally followed Snow. The two arrived at the venue early and found a seat with a good view.

At 9 o'clock, the game officially started.

The first is the brief opening ceremony of the finals. The top 32 who entered the final round each drove their own mechs into the competition field, humanoid, bird, snake, wolf, dragon, spider... various colors, various The shaped mechas were lined up neatly in the huge open space of the Central Gymnasium, and the audience seats were filled with enthusiasm and thunderous applause!

The big broadcast began to introduce the owner of each mech one by one.

When introduced to number 77...

——Contestant No. 77, the pilot of the humanoid mech, a first-year student in the Command Department, Lin Yuan's classmate.

When Lin Yuan heard the voice on the radio, he operated his humanoid mech and waved politely towards the audience.By the way, the indicator lights of the eyes blinked, which is regarded as greeting everyone.

He chose a red mecha today. The whole body of the red mecha looks like a dazzling flame bathed in the sun. He flashes his eyes rhythmically to say hello, which is mischievous and full of confidence.

Deafening cheers suddenly sounded from the audience.

Snow in the stands was a little surprised and said, "How popular is Lin Yuan?"

Brian rubbed his nose and leaned into Snow's ear and said, "Among the 32 contestants who entered the school finals, only 6 were Betas. Lin Yuan qualified first in the group and had the best results in Betas. Supported by many betas."

Snow nodded, and said indifferently: "Oh. No wonder there are so many calls for Lin Yuan's appearance. Those Alphas are usually high and arrogant. It's time for Lin Yuan, the Beta, to teach them a lesson."

"..." Brian was a little puzzled, "Do you really hate Alpha?"

Why is there such a dismissive tone every time Alpha is mentioned?

Snow said coldly: "Am I wrong? Those Alphas think that they are genetically superior, and don't take Beta and Omega seriously, especially some Alpha chauvinists, who even lock Omega in as if it were their personal belongings." At home, Omega is regarded as a tool for procreating offspring... Forget it, I am too lazy to talk about them."

Snow's tone was full of disgust, as if mentioning Alpha was an insult to his own mouth.

Bryan was silent for a while, then secretly held Snow's hand unwillingly, looked back at Snow, and said flatteringly: "Not all Alphas are like this, I am Alpha too...do you also see me like this? ?”

Snow was stunned for a moment, and wanted to withdraw his hand, but found that Brian's hand was clenched even tighter.

Looking back at his flattering eyes, Snow's heart softened inexplicably, and he said in a stiff tone, "You...you are different from them."

Brian's eyes lit up, "What's the difference?"

Snow thought for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion, "You are the boyfriend I chose, so you are naturally different from those Alphas."

Brian: "..."

Although none of this sentence is a compliment to Brian, Brian is still very happy to be a special existence "different from other Alphas" in Snow's heart!

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At this moment, there was a burst of warm applause from the auditorium, and the game had officially started.

The huge venue is divided into 4 arenas, east, west, north, south. The match between Group A1 and Group B1 is in the east arena. The game adopts a scoring system. Each attack on a weak point of the opponent is worth 1 point, with a cap of 11 points, the first to get Those with 11 points advance to the next round.

Group A1 vs. Group B1, the first game.

No. 77 human-shaped mecha, piloted by Lin Yuan, and No. 299 wolf-shaped mecha, piloted by Danny.

Because Danny was an unfamiliar opponent, and his strength was unknown at all, Lin Yuan followed the principle that the mysterious master said-brake with silence, and immediately put on a defensive posture at the beginning of the game.

Danny is a player in the third-year mecha control department. He obviously underestimated the ability of this first-year Beta junior. As soon as the competition started, he rushed over aggressively in a gray wolf mech!

The sprinting speed of the wolf-shaped mech was like a whirlwind. The light energy cannon in its mouth blasted directly at the abdomen of the human-shaped mecha. At the same time, it kicked its legs on the ground and jumped up. The claws opened at the same time, and grabbed the opponent's neck violently!

Such a fierce offensive directly erupted in applause from the audience!

Lin Yuan was not nervous at all, he calmly calculated the distance between each other, and began to retreat quickly!

The two pursued one, and the other retreated. They quickly retreated to the edge of the field, and it seemed that there was no way to retreat—at that moment, Lin Yuan suddenly performed a backflip followed by a sideways spin, precisely avoiding the sharp blade and the With the attack of the cannonball, he raised his right foot at the same time, opened the electromagnetic gear hidden in the toe, and directly stabbed the opponent's abdomen with one foot!

There was a loud bang, and the wolf mecha that had been kicked to the abdomen was directly kicked out vigorously!

The red indicator light above the head of the wolf-shaped mecha immediately lit up, and the score of 1:0 was simultaneously played on the huge electronic screen in the judge's seat!

Lin Yuan, who was in a defensive position, actually scored a point first!

The audience was stunned!

Obviously it was the No. 299 wolf-shaped mech that rushed over aggressively, and the human-shaped mecha kept retreating, and was about to be hit in the neck, but somehow, it was No. 77 who got a point in the end?

How he hit the opponent's weak point, the audience hardly saw clearly...

The action of No. 77 was really too fast, the situation changed almost in the blink of an eye!

The next game was gradually brought into Lin Yuan's rhythm.

Danny suffered a dumb loss in front of his first-year juniors. He was already aggrieved, and he attacked more fiercely, but the strange thing is that every time he attacked first, Lin Yuan seemed to be on the defensive all the time, but Every time, it was Lin Yuan who scored.

1：0……3：0……7：2……11：3。

Lin Yuan won the game with a score of 11:3.

Soon, the games in several other arenas also ended, and the broadcast began to announce the results——

"No. 77, Lin Yuan, has successfully advanced to the next round."

"No. 65 Caesar, successfully advanced to the next round."

"Number 298 Will..."

The top 16 who have advanced will continue to the second round of the final round.

The second round was another single-round knockout match. Lin Yuan faced Will, the winner of Group B2, driving a black bird.

Precise operation, neither arrogance nor impatience, quick reaction ability... The red humanoid mecha operated by Lin Yuan ran on the field, and it was as flexible as a vigorous human being.

The audience only saw a red whirlwind blowing quickly in front of them, jumping, turning around, raising their weapons, raising their knives and falling with their hands-the transition between difficult movements is really smooth and impeccable!

Once again, they easily won this round with a score of 11:5, and the applause from the audience almost toppled the roof!

—— Lin Yuan, this first-year Beta boy in the command department, like a powerful dark horse that suddenly broke out, actually successfully entered the top eight in the school-wide mecha competition of the St. Romia Military Academy!

How incredible is this? !The audience was almost stunned!

The first-year Beta entered the quarter-finals of the school?This is something that has never happened in the history of many years of competition!

However, the shock that Lin Yuan gave everyone was more than that.

In the quarter-finals in the afternoon, he still focused on playing very seriously.

In the end, under everyone's dull eyes, Lin Yuan made it to the finals!

A Beta from the first grade, all the way through the test, meeting gods and killing gods, meeting Buddhas and Buddhas, is so fierce that it is unstoppable!

In the finals, Lin Yuan finally faced Caesar in Group B1 of the lower half. Both of them played mercilessly and played very seriously. The enjoyment of this match was comparable to that of the national finals!

In the end, Lin Yuan lost to Caesar with a slight disadvantage of 9:11, and won the runner-up of this year's school finals!

The audience was stunned. What happened to the first-year conductor department this year?

A Caesar, with decisive and crisp shots, clean and neat operations, has never lost a game since the competition, it is simply admirable!

There is also Lin Yuan, as a monster in Beta, his operation skills are even better than some Alphas, and his psychological quality is even more amazing. With a bright smile, she doesn't seem to be nervous at all...

In fact, the reason why Lin Yuan himself was not nervous was because he hadn't recovered until the result was announced.

After entering the quarterfinals, he was relieved to know that he could go to Cepheus to participate in the national finals.

In the quarter-finals in the afternoon, he didn't think too much. He just relaxed and tried his best to play every game well and enjoy every game. He never thought that... he could go so far.

Standing on the podium, Lin Yuan was still in a foggy state.

...Uh, is this the end of the game?

...Why is it the runner-up?

It wasn't until Principal Belfast walked up to the front with the trophy to present the award that Lin Yuan, who had been dazed during the game, finally came to his senses. He was flattered and took the trophy from the principal, holding the heavy trophy, not knowing what to do.

Belfast smiled and patted Lin Yuan on the shoulder, his eyes full of appreciation, "Lin Yuan, great job! On behalf of the school, go to Cepheus to participate in the national competition, keep going!"

Lin Yuan immediately stood up straight and saluted the principal with a standard military salute: "Yes! Principal!"

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After the game, Lin Yuan returned to the dormitory with Caesar holding the trophy.

The trophy for the runner-up is silver, and Caesar's trophy for the champion is gold. Lin Yuan has been studying the trophy in his hand with his head down all the way. The shape of the trophy is an eagle flying with wings spread. Each stripe is very clear, and the school's logo is printed on the base.

Lin Yuan said excitedly: "I didn't expect that I could get No.2!"

In fact, when Lin Yuan faced Nishizawa in the final, if Nishizawa let go a little bit, Lin Yuan could win the championship.

Caesar did not expect that this guy would improve so quickly after these two days of competition.

It's not that Caesar doesn't want to let Lin Yuan win the championship, but he knows that if Lin Yuan wins the championship with a beta, this unprecedented situation will definitely attract the envy of many Alphas.In the future, Lin Yuan will have difficulty moving an inch in school.

It is easy to hide open guns, but difficult to guard against hidden arrows. Excessive limelight is not a good thing.

Therefore, for Caesar to win this championship, it is still necessary to suppress the situation.

——The so-called shooting the first bird, those senior seniors who are not convinced, just attack me if you get angry.

Caesar turned his head and saw Lin Yuan holding the trophy and lowering his head to study seriously, and couldn't help feeling soft in his heart.

Such an excellent and hard-working guy, but because he is a Beta, he can't show his true brilliance, and because of his ordinary family background, he has to be careful and be on guard at all times...

This world is too unfair to Beta and Omega.

——Fortunately, I am here.

——I will always be with you, and I will do my best to protect you.

Caesar suddenly stopped and said, "Lin Yuan."

Lin Yuan, who was still studying the trophy with his head down, also stopped, looked back at Caesar, and asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"

Caesar smiled slightly, and stretched out his hand towards Lin Yuan, "Congratulations on winning the runner-up, let's go to the national competition and cheer together."

Lin Yuan also smiled and stretched out his hand, and shook hands with Caesar, "Okay, let's work together!"

The artificial stars in the evening cast a warm light and shadow on the vast planet.

The two teenagers held hands tightly, Lin Yuan's eyes were full of excitement and joy, but Caesar's eyes were full of friendship and tenderness that couldn't be melted away.

Volume II Cepheus