178: Chapter 178 Luring the Tiger Away from the Mountain?

On the Star Chessboard, where the veil of fog had been lifted, nine countries were competing for over twenty resource points scattered across the left and right sides.

It seemed abundant, but in reality, it was far from enough.

For useful resource points, seizing the power within them could provide an extra option for placing a chess piece or grant the manifestation an additional ability.

For useless resource points, seizing the power within them could prevent other countries from obtaining it.

In short, regardless of whether a resource point was useful to them or not, every country was frantically and rapidly occupying them.

This was especially true for the left side of the Star Chessboard.

Since most countries had more ancient Heroic Spirits, the occupation of resource points on the left side was particularly rapid.

Seeing that the remaining resource points on the board were dwindling, Chen Aoyun, the Strategist responsible for overseeing the overall situation, could finally no longer sit still!

"Xiao Zhenghong, it's your turn."

With just a word from Chen Aoyun, Xiao Zhenghong immediately nodded and transformed into a chess piece, entering the Star Chessboard.

Likewise, since the manifestation was merely a display piece until a resource point was secured, Chen Aoyun did not place the manifestation of Heroic Spirit Zhuge Liang onto Xiao Zhenghong after he entered the Star Chessboard.

Seeing that the Dragon Country had sent out another Roleplayer, the audience in front of the screens mocked Chen Aoyun's stupidity.

"All the resource points on the left side are either blocked off by the people of Sakura Country, or other countries' Roleplayers have already entered them.

At a time like this, instead of trying to cut their losses or thinking about how to save the life of Zhao Hongxiu, who is already on the board, the Dragon Country actually sends out another Roleplayer!?

What kind of ridiculously stupid decision is this?

Your Dragon Country's Roleplayers are no match for the other Roleplayers to begin with.

Now, most countries have already started absorbing the power within the resource points.

Once the power from the resource points is absorbed, the Roleplayers of other countries will have the power of their Heroic Spirit's manifestation at their disposal. When that time comes, they can kill your Dragon Country's Roleplayers first and then kill the demons. Tell me, how are your Dragon Country's deployed Roleplayers supposed to survive!"

Dead people will deduct from the total score.

The appearance of this rule marked the prologue to the chaos in this Game of National Destiny.

How much total score can even be obtained in each act?

Killing one Raider from another country can reduce their score by one point.

To catch up with the countries with higher scores, killing Raiders has been deemed a simple and effective method by the Strategists of various countries.

Countries with lower rankings want to use this method to close the gap, and conversely, countries with higher rankings will certainly use this method to widen the gap!

Before obtaining the resources within the resource points, the Strategists of various countries were worried that other countries would benefit from their conflict, so their first priority was not to kill each other, but to occupy the resource points.

Once the resources in the resource points are completely divided up, one can imagine that a chaotic battle will perhaps be unavoidable.

When that time comes, how will the Dragon Country, having occupied not a single resource point, face it?

And the ridiculous Chen Aoyun, instead of thinking about how to save the life of Zhao Hongxiu, who is already on the board, after failing to secure a resource point, has sent out another Roleplayer.

What, does the Dragon Country's Strategist think that having only one Zhao Hongxiu die and losing only one point isn't stylish enough, and wants to lose another point from the total score?

Just as audiences around the world were criticizing Chen Aoyun's decision as stupid and incomprehensible.

On the Star Chessboard, a scene appeared that was even more incomprehensible:

The chess piece of the newly deployed Xiao Zhenghong was moving not toward the left side, where the ancient resources were gathered, but in the opposite direction, toward the right side!

"Why is the Dragon Country's newly entered Roleplayer heading toward the right side?

Are they crazy?

The right side is filled entirely with resource points designated as the modern era. Your Dragon Country's Heroic Spirit pool only has one Heroic Spirit, Heroic Spirit Zhuge Liang, who is an ancient Heroic Spirit. What is the point of running to the right side?"

There was no fog on the Star Chessboard, and Chen Aoyun's actions were fully visible to Saku Kenichi of Sakura Country.

The naturally suspicious Saku Kenichi looked at the types of resource points on the right side of the board, then carefully observed the Dragon Country's Heroic Spirit, Heroic Spirit Zhuge Liang, once again. After a moment of contemplation, his concerns vanished, and he spoke to Chen Aoyun, who was sitting diagonally across from him, with a smile:

"The Heroic Spirits in the Heroic Spirit pool in this act not only display their names automatically, but their appearances cannot be modified either.

Your Dragon Country's Heroic Spirit, Heroic Spirit Zhuge Liang, looks like an ancient Heroic Spirit no matter how you look at him.

Even though you only have this one ancient Heroic Spirit available, you are making your Dragon Country's Roleplayer run to the right side.

Trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain?

Isn't the intention a bit too obvious and too clumsy?"

After Saku Kenichi spoke with a mix of mockery and probing, Chen Aoyun spread his hands and said very sincerely,

"You're wrong.

If I were playing tricks, I wouldn't do it so clumsily!

I advise you not to underestimate me, and even more so, do not underestimate the Heroic Spirits of Huaxia!

If you send someone to chase Xiao Zhenghong now, you might still catch up. If you wait any longer, it will really be too late!"

Saku Kenichi wore an expression that showed he had seen through Chen Aoyun's clumsy acting.

Chase Xiao Zhenghong?

Leaving aside the fact that all of Sakura Country's Roleplayers were deep within the key paths on the left side of the board, the probability of catching up if they went now was low.

Even if it were a one hundred percent certainty that they could catch up, Saku Kenichi would not move his chess pieces to pursue.

Zhao Hongxiu was still on the side, and the Dragon Country still had one Roleplayer who hadn't entered the board yet.

In Saku Kenichi's view, these two people were the real variables.

As for Xiao Zhenghong heading to the right side, Saku Kenichi was certain that even if Xiao Zhenghong occupied a resource point there, the power within it could not be used by the Dragon Country's Heroic Spirit, Heroic Spirit Zhuge Liang!

The conversation with Saku Kenichi was broadcast to the whole world. Hearing their dialogue, audiences around the world were speechless at Chen Aoyun,

"This kind of strategy to lure the tiger away from the mountain is ridiculously laughable!

The Dragon Country Strategist is really trying to trick the Sakura people by treating them like fools!

In my opinion, he, Chen Aoyun, is the fool!

Let alone fooling the Sakura Country Strategist, he didn't even fool me!

Hahaha, the Sakura people didn't fall for it, but the Dragon Country sent another Raider to die. Trying to steal a chicken only to lose the rice—this Chen Aoyun is going to be embarrassed."

As to who will ultimately be embarrassed, we will have to wait until Xiao Zhenghong obtains the resources in the resource point to find out.

At this moment, Xiao Zhenghong had already approached the resource area on the right side.

Chen Aoyun's initial idea was to have Zhao Hongxiu attract the attention of the Sakura people, and then have Xiao Zhenghong occupy the 'Technology resource point' on the right side.

There was no shortage of duplicate resource points, but unfortunately, there were many countries eyeing the 'Technology resource points', and the only two 'Technology resource points' already had Roleplayers from other countries deep inside them.

Competing for them was certainly not going to work, and besides, if you are slow one step, you are slow every step. The method of acquiring resource points is 'winner takes all'.

When the resources in a resource point are divided and absorbed by different countries, the country with the highest proportion will obtain the final power after the resource point is emptied.

Therefore, there was no chance for the 'Technology resource points'.

But fortunately, there was still one 'wonder (Modern) resource point' that no one was interested in!

"The reason why there aren't many people competing for the 'wonder (Modern) resource point' is that this type of resource point not only requires the Heroic Spirit in the Heroic Spirit pool to match, but also requires having the corresponding wonder, understanding the corresponding wonder, and having a way to construct the corresponding wonder.

Since this resource point is not valued by other countries and has been left behind, then I will not be polite!"

On the Star Chessboard.

Under Chen Aoyun's instructions, amidst Saku Kenichi's cold laughter, and amidst the idle chatter of the global audience, Xiao Zhenghong had a clear goal and headed straight for the 'wonder (Modern) resource point'!