80: Chapter 80 Su Fan's Talent

About two hours later, many players who had passed the novice tutorial began to arrive one after another.

When playing games, some people like PVE, some like PVX, and others like PVP.

Players who didn't go to explore the world immediately but instead rushed to the arena clearly belonged to the third category; they were passionate about PVP.

When Su Fan played games, his favorite was also PVP.

At this moment, a male player walked over, gave a simple greeting, and then directly sent a duel invitation to Su Fan.

Su Fan was taken aback, thinking to himself whether people nowadays were all so direct.

However, he had no reason to refuse, and since he wanted to experience what mecha combat felt like, he directly accepted the arena duel.

In the arena, Su Fan and his opponent, "A Big Tiger," stood facing each other in their massive mechas.

Beneath their feet was an endless desert.

This was the setting Su Fan had chosen.

Compared to fighting directly in outer space, ground combat was relatively simpler.

Neither of them knew the other, and without any redundant words, they started fighting immediately.

Su Fan didn't charge straight ahead; instead, he suddenly backed away, and the small laser cannon on his mecha's shoulder abruptly fired at A Big Tiger.

A Big Tiger was a novice after all; having just learned how to move, he hurriedly dodged in the face of the sudden, rapid attack.

But his dodging speed was too slow, and he was still hit in the shoulder by Su Fan's laser cannon.

Taking advantage of A Big Tiger's disrupted balance, Su Fan raised the massive high-frequency vibration sword in his hand and swung it at his opponent.

The opponent hurriedly used his sword to block, but this was only a feint by Su Fan.

Just as the opponent was about to parry Su Fan's sword, the laser cannon on Su Fan's chest suddenly fired, hitting the opponent square in the chest!

Boom—

The opponent was GG!

The corners of Su Fan's mouth curled slightly; he discovered that he had an extraordinary talent for mecha combat.

The system actually gave a rare word of praise for his combat talent; it was practically a first!

Next, others challenged Su Fan, and he dealt with them all.

Others also challenged each other, and the area in front of the arena was incredibly lively.

Especially in front of the arena's leaderboard, a crowd of players was there discussing and critiquing.

There were 100 people on the leaderboard, and the first place was impressively Su Fan's username—Mortal.

Total points: 13.

The scoring rules were simple.

The arena featured nine ranks: Iron 1-star to 5-star, Bronze 1-star to 5-star, Silver 1-star to 5-star, Gold 1-star to 5-star, Platinum 1-star to 5-star, Diamond 1-star to 5-star, Master 1-star to 5-star, Grandmaster 1-star to 5-star, and Challenger 1-star to 5-star.

One star was the lowest, and five stars was the highest.

In matches between the same rank, winning earned 1 point while losing deducted 1 point; in matches against higher ranks, the points doubled for every star higher.

There were no points for fighting those with a lower rank or star level than oneself.

Additionally, there were no draws in the arena.

For example:

If a Bronze 1-star player fought another Bronze 1-star player and won, they would get 1 point.

If a Bronze 1-star player fought a Bronze 2-star player—surpassing one star—winning would grant 2 points, which is 2¹ points.

If a Bronze 1-star player fought a Bronze 3-star player—surpassing two stars—winning would grant 4 points, which is 2² points.

In summary, the number of stars surpassed determined the power of 2 for the points earned.

If the number of stars surpassed is denoted as n, it can be expressed as [2ⁿ (n≥0, n∈N)].

Su Fan played in the arena for a long time, practically going wild with it.

He had always been obsessed with games, but because he had previously treated gaming as a job, he had gradually grown tired of that grinding game.

But now that he had wealth and power, he didn't need to play games for a living at all, so he was having a great time.

He became increasingly skilled with his mecha, reaching a level where he was practically invincible.

He played for a day and a night straight. Finally, because the gaming cabin's alarm went off, detecting that his body was in a state of severe hunger, he was forced to be ejected from the game.

When he climbed out of the gaming cabin, Su Fan was wobbly, and even walking felt awkward all over.

Besides the hunger, the most critical reason was that his brain had adapted to mecha mode; suddenly switching back to physical mode caused a brief period of maladjustment.

However, after only a few minutes, Su Fan adapted.

He ran to the cafeteria and wolfed down a lot of food.

The star wars world game was now on the right track, and Su Fan had already sent people to constantly monitor the arena leaderboard.

Once the mecha production line on the moon produced 10 mechas in a while, he would gather the top ten players from the arena leaderboard and let them test-pilot real mechas.

Of course, for the safety of Blue Star, these 10 people had to undergo a strict investigation.

Furthermore, they wouldn't be allowed to actually enter the mechas; instead, they would remotely access and control them through virtual cabins similar to gaming cabins combined with Quantum Communication technology.

If any problem arose, Su Fan could cut off the network or power at any time and pull the operator out of the virtual cabin.

The influence of star wars world was massive. Over the next month, almost everyone in the entire Xia country—except for minors and those uninterested—had entered the game and come to love it.

Some liked to travel and sightsee in the game, exploring the universe, while others liked to pilot spaceships, establish factions, and fight one another.

Some liked mechas, spending their time in the arena to enjoy the face-to-face collisions between mechas.

Su Fan was one of those who spent a long time in the arena.

Regarding this, Zhou Xiaoxiao often complained that he wasn't doing his proper work and just played games all day.

Su Fan argued righteously that excellent mecha pilots were needed to fight the Star-Devouring Beast, and he was preparing for that.

Zhou Xiaoxiao's counter-argument was also simple: with over a billion people in the Xia country, they weren't lacking one Su Fan who could pilot a mecha, but they lacked the Su Fan who belonged in the laboratory.

Su Fan shook his head and sighed.

A month passed quietly. During this month, Su Fan exchanged for intelligent robots to replace most human labor.

Besides the intelligent robots, he also exchanged for a large amount of Level 1 Civilization black technology to enhance and build foundations in various fields.

In addition to being used by the Super God Group, he also distributed some of this black technology to the Xia country's official authorities.

He had no ambition to establish a nation; maintaining a country involved too many things to do, and he didn't believe he had the ability.

He just wanted to be a carefree boss, upgrading the civilization level for the Xia people, serving the people well so they could live happily, have more babies, and then provide him with more influence points. Usually, if there was work, the secretary would do it; if there was nothing to do, he would... just play games.

This month, the Xia country underwent earth-shaking changes. The explosion of numerous technologies resulted directly in the Xia country having more and more resources.

Precious resources from other countries were exchanged in large quantities for the Xia country's obsolete technology at low prices.

Resources from the moon and outer space were also being frantically mined by the Xia country.

Another point worth noting was that during this month, no melodramatic plot of other Star-Devouring Beasts rushing to the surface together occurred.

Regarding this situation, Su Fan had consulted the system.

The system's answer was...

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