The second day of the preliminaries ended like this, and the journey of Valin Heavy Industry was also over - but Sister Guozi's Luna Cup was not over yet. She paid Valin an insurance claim.
I guess she ruined the order.
After coming out of the canteen at Xijiekou, all the children buying candied haws on the roadside knew that this sister looked very sad.
The pedestrian streets are crowded with people. It is the peak of summer with unlimited enthusiasm on August 1. The Luna Cup, the fastest money-making event of the year, has just started, and the first business has gone bad.
Since the game between Valin and Fairy Tale Kingdom was very early, Shark Pepper got off work at around 11 o'clock in the morning. He seized the opportunity and quickly called the gunsmith to fish for someone——
——If Fairy Tale Kingdom wants to go further, it must find a suitable substitute, and Jianbing Guozi is a suitable candidate.
The other team members pack their luggage and go to the hotel to rest. The best training is to squat in a small room and watch game videos. They can understand the opponent's combat habits in advance. If they can clearly see the composition of the element through the computer screen, that would be great.
happy event.
At this time, Jiang Xueming came back wearing a Garfield hood and a doll suit, waiting for the coach to meet him at the teahouse next to the military supplies store.
Shark Shark wore children's clothes and duck shoes and ran to the teahouse "chirping" all the way, attracting the attention of many people. However, there are many hybrid beasts in this place, and Shark Shark is not a rare special character.
The guests just smiled, looked at it a few more times, and then turned back to watch the game.
When it saw the gunsmith's hood, it didn't come back to its senses for a while.
"Are you cosplaying?"
Jiang Xueming whispered: "I have contacted people from the organizing committee and asked them to help conceal my identity."
Shark asked: "Did it succeed?"
Jiang Xueming: "I changed into a doll costume, but I didn't dare to take off the headgear - I was thinking about calling my little finger over and changing to a female character account."
Sharksha quickly said: "That's not possible! It's not possible!"
If the eldest sister runs away for vacation and the gunsmith quits her job, what will happen to the team members' equipment in a competition with live ammunition rules? The stick fighting and gun and bullet drills in the second half will not only test the players, but also the logistics.
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"What's the leader's order now?" Jiang Xueming gave up the idea of changing numbers: "Let's talk to Jianbing Guozi, right?"
Shasha immediately said: "Yes! If I have to talk to people about money at my age, we will definitely not be able to reach an agreement - after thinking for a long time, you are more suitable. Do you know Sister Guozi?"
To say that we know each other, it certainly doesn't count.
But during the Luna Cup finals, Xueming served as a referee for six seasons and as a small arms consultant for four seasons - this was also additional income for Anonymous.
Xueming had some impression of this older girl, but not much. Just like the drinkers at the front desk of a club, they came and went again. Only a few regulars could chat with her and seemed familiar with her.
In other words, Sister Guozi usually does not make it to the second half of the final day. In the world's top psychic duel competition, she is a second-rate player.
"I have some impression." Jiang Xueming replied truthfully: "Her real name seems to be... Let me think about it."
In the finals of the Luna Cup, each team has at least eight players, and more than 300 athletes have their own real names and player IDs. It is really difficult for the referee to remember everyone's names.
It just so happened that the gunsmith remembered such a little girl——
"——The Chinese name is Zhao Tingting, and the Japanese name seems to be Fujiwara Tamami. The team she belongs to is Laiyang Heavy Industry, Laiyang Foreign Trade Arms Processing Factory."
Shark asked: "Is that the one who sells steel pipes to use as rockets?"
The gunsmith nodded and said, "Yes, that's right."
Sharksha clapped his hands and said excitedly: "If I know you, it will be easy to handle!"
"Leave this matter to me." The gunsmith opened the mouth of Garfield's hood, poured a pot of tea into it like noodles.
Seeing the battle, Shark's mouth widened in surprise, and his expression suddenly changed to (⊙a⊙) - Suddenly he began to doubt the gunsmith's basic Homo sapiens nature. Do fisherman drink tea so fiercely?
"gone."
The gunsmith left these words, and the chubby Garfield pushed aside the tea guests, jumped down from the second floor, and went to find substitutes for the students.
Two booths next to the military products store is the unique human resources market at the Luna Cup competition venue.
Participating teams come here every day to select new teammates——
——During the competition, there will definitely be temporary changes in team members. The audition rules are very loose and there are no identity restrictions on the personnel. The girl at the registration point asked Qi Ji to just apply for a replacement ID card.
Based on this, the turnover of personnel in the team will also become very frequent.
In the preliminary stage, many teams that suffered defeats had low morale. It was normal for their players to leave, and many were disbanded on the spot. These improvised mercenaries carried the shame of defeat, and the coaching staff of each team would
Go to the second-hand market to find treasures and sign these losers as substitutes.
Many powerful psychics come to areas where the fighting intensity is not so high to fish for power leveling. This is also because this set of personnel change rules is convenient enough, allowing them to get pocket money and run away immediately, and then return to Rufeng all the way back to their homes.
The club continues to play.
According to the industry ecology, those who can receive big orders are team operations, such as the Snow Mastiff group that wandered near the Albert Scientific Research Station before. The area where they are located is not included in the Luna Cup competition because of its sparse population.
Officers, soldiers and young people also have no chance to participate in the Luna Cup.
In order to keep the brothers healthy and full, Hydra, the leader of the Snow Mastiffs, would mobilize the most powerful teams in the team to go to other competition areas to pick up individual fights.
However, this matter is also very disgraceful on the surface, just like whoever has the money and can buy a team of well-trained mercenaries can become a regional representative.
Guangling Zhixi and the militia organization have captured most of the boosting market. These professional teams can usually lead the clubs of regional companies to the second-selection stage of the city competition, and can save the energy of the young masters of the club during the long audition schedule.
——But often these teams that use cheats usually don’t make it to the end. They spend a lot of money, mostly to give extra meals to the soldiers who are struggling to maintain law and order at the transit station, which can be regarded as charity in disguise.
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Although the rules for personnel changes are loose, in the Luna Cup competition system, the penalties for match-fixing and quota trading are very severe. It is no longer a matter of suspension, but is directly included in the category of illegal crimes.
All members of the regional representative team can be changed, the coach can be changed, and the logistics can be changed, but the logo and the club's main body must not be changed. This is the rule set by Aoheng Mingde, and its meaning is also very simple - the game is the game.
, Money belongs to money.
This highly commercialized event is closely related to almost all walks of life in every region. To be able to perform on the final day stage, the trademarks of the team members must be displayed in front of 40 million viewers.
Even if it is a factory that makes children's toys, it suddenly becomes promising. The team members carry its banner and reach the final stage. This is also a toy that 400 million people watch together, and it will soon become an Internet celebrity.
As for trivial things like mercenary power leveling——
——On the stage of the final day, no matter how many shortcuts were taken before, they will be returned to the players through various pressures from the audience, public opinion and media.
The Luna Cup contestant instructions clearly state that contestants are expected to conserve their physical strength as much as possible, avoid useless training, and break through themselves to complete their evolution during the competition.
This comment also explains on the side that it is meaningless to ask for an acting training. The person who finally stands on the stage has to go through wind and rain, cross mountains and mountains, face challenges again and again, and only after going through disasters can he realize the preciousness of the journey.
On the other hand, if a lone wolf like Sister Guozi comes out to make money, the probability of overturning is very high. When she received the invitation from Valin, the story the boss told her was quite nice——
——It was a man who burst into tears. He talked about the miserable background of the company and how stingy and shabby the labor remuneration was. Finally, he used his sentiments and righteousness and the kindness of thousands of residents of the steelmaking plant to gradually coax the leading soldiers onto the pirate ship.
Until the end of the game, Sister Guozi looked at her ID card again and again. When faced with the insurance compensation in the contract, she said she was cheated!
"Yumei, Yumei! Yumei! You are confused!"
She hugged her knees and squatted next to a fast food restaurant in the human resources market, her voice almost becoming hoarse from crying.
"You are so stupid! Really! That boss is obviously here to defraud insurance companies!"
"Why did you remember this after I handed over the money?"
"There's not a single normal person in the team! I'll go to the Hedland Hotel to find a few people! Can they all make it to the semi-finals?"
"Replace the attacker and sentry with two military dogs with six points of health! They are both better than them!"
"Yumei! Yumei! You are confused!"
There was a black defeat badge on her player card, and coaches from several teams nearby were reluctant to talk to her because the girl was crying too sadly.
You can hear the whispers of these underlings, and there are also talent scouts sent by the head coach of Amethyst. They are the [Symphony Orchestra] mentioned last time, specifically to search for suitable players and craftsmen for the club.
"Hualing is really indifferent to people's affairs."
"I could tell from the first game that they just wanted to trick this girl into paying the insurance money."
"There are a group of Chinese and a group of Japanese in the team, and the coach doesn't care. She is asked to lead them. How can she lead them? You know she doesn't have the ability."
"I don't know how much money she lost."
This is part of the barbaric ecology of the local competition area. Although the Crazy Butterfly Holy Cult has disappeared, the bad guys who wander in the gray area and try their best to make money will not disappear.
They did not commit any crime, and the law cannot punish them, but what they did basically touched the lower limit of morality.
Fujiwara Tamami came to District 41 and offered help to Valin Heavy Industries out of compassion.
However, the team members assigned to her by this club had a huge problem. This team member was not intended to compete well from the beginning.
The older girl didn't think twice when she signed the contract. She wanted to be exposed to the mundane world of the Internet where tigers and wolves are surrounded. She was also an upright child who was cheated by routine loans, part-time jobs, and training fees for internet celebrity training classes so much that her mother didn't even recognize her.
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During the duel with the Fairy Tale Kingdom, this girl didn't talk about money the whole time, but she was very concerned about her player points.
Because she didn’t come here for the money——
——She thought that there were so many people in the small town outside Valin Industrial Park, hoping that the club could compete and go further with the honor of a regional enterprise, or at least show its style.
But she never expected that it turned out that the business representative was not looking for the Luna Cup bonus, but that he could cheat one after another, and he came specifically to take advantage of innocent people like her.
Yumei's intestines were filled with regret. She cried out loud at first. Then when she got tired from crying, she lay down on the table and slept for a while. Then she got up and ate two large bowls of boxed lunches because the prices in District 41 were very low and the food was pretty good.
She was very happy to eat, but she felt silly that twenty-four pyroxene currency could never buy two servings of shrimp, corn and pork rice in the first area. She laughed and started to cry again for a few minutes.
This time she cried so much that she was still talking about what to do with my son.
Until a fat and short Garfield cat sat in front of her——
"——Girl, are you missing a team?"
Sister Guozi immediately became alert; "Brother, didn't you see the failure on my certificate?"
"See, are you missing a team?" Jiang Xueming asked persistently.
Sister Guozi asked cautiously: "What kind of team is it? Do you sell children's toys? Your doll costume is very nice, but the model is a bit awkward. Is the club reliable? Your parents don't care about you at home? Calcium
You must have eaten too little, your voice sounds quite mature, but why does your height look so familiar?"
The gunsmith didn't know whether to laugh or cry. When he was a referee, he only knew that the contestant Guo Zi was shy when facing interviews, but he never expected that he would behave like this when off the field.
"You said my height looks familiar?"
"Yeah, take off your hood. You're probably on the same level as my unlucky referee." This Chinese-Japanese mixed-race girl spoke with an Eastern accent: "He's so old! Before the game starts, I'm going to sneak away.
In a few milliseconds, he took out the gun before the whistle sounded, and he actually asked me to take the card! Just a few milliseconds! His mind is the same as his figure, you know how small he is - then I felt, isn't it?
Short people are like monkeys."
Talking about this——
——Miss Yumei said all the bad things in front of the gunsmith.
"You're not here to cheat me out of money, are you?"
"Cough cough cough cough cough." Jiang Xueming didn't know what to say, so he could only tease me in Japanese: "I'm so sorry that I'm too short to be in your eyes."
Hearing the language of her hometown, Tamami immediately became nervous, because Valin's business representative used this national sentiment to trick her into signing the contract, saying that her family would not lie to her own family, Chinese plus Japanese - that is Fujiwara Tamami's relatives
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"Speak in Chinese! I understand! Brother, what do you want to do? Stop beating around the bush, okay?"
Xueming said straight to the point: "I am a craftsman from the fairy tale kingdom. The coach sent me to talk to you about whether you want to join our team as a substitute."
Yumei's head didn't turn around for a moment. She sifted out the words "craftsman" and "substitute" from a large list of information and understood it as if she had swallowed it all.
"How can this work? I am a breakthrough player, not a substitute! And wait a moment."
After finishing the main course, the 82-meter-old girl finally understood the rest of the meaning of this sentence, chewed up all the leftovers, and digested them in her brain.
"referee."
Fujiwara Tamami smiled and stood up suddenly. She crossed her hands and held each other's hands. She put her face against her cheek with a playful smile and tilted her head. Her red and black ponytail swayed behind her head.
"Hey hey hey hey hey. Isn't it okay to insult you in person?"
The gunsmith said in a kind tone: "Sit back and keep your voice down. You won't be fooled."
"I'm just saying it! Hey! I'm just saying it! The boys in Xiaohongshu who are only 1.8 meters tall have lost their human rights." Yumei whispered in Japanese: "I have been subjected to the distorted values of capitalism.
It’s poisonous! It’s understandable to have some stereotypes. After all, I am a Sino-Japanese joint venture, so I have some influence.”
Jiang Xueming: "Please stop for a moment."
Fujiwara Tamami immediately responded: "Hey!"
Her Chinese name is Tingting, which is quite down-to-earth.
Jiang Xueming covered Garfield's hooded face, feeling a little weak.
"Then what. Can you be Ahao's substitute?"
"Is there anything else to discuss? Whatever you say is right." Fujiwara Tamami nodded as if pecking at rice.
"Come back with me to sign the contract." Jiang Xueming stood up to leave.
Yumei is not particular at all, and has never been afraid of anyone when it comes to eating. She shows off her green tourmaline, which is a color full of vitality and is also the basic appeal of food, sex, and hunger.
“Cheap, big portion and delicious! Just eat it in one bite!”
On the way back, Yumei followed Xueming's buttocks, staring at Garfield's tail swaying from side to side. The noise level was comparable to that of a shooting star.
"Why are you moving your big tail? Referee?"
Gunsmith: "The doll suit has air conditioning, so the wind can blow up."
Yumei: "Is Sharsha also a doll costume?"
Gunsmith: "That's a beast hybrid. It's alive, not a toy."
Yumei: "Can I get extra points if I work here?"
Gunsmith: "It depends on your performance, but you should get extra points. I think you can do it."
Yumei: "Then you are my biological father!"
Gunsmith: "Ahem"
Yumei: "Let me ask you something, does my eldest sister snore when she sleeps?"
Gunsmith: "No snoring."
Yumei: "Well, I snore. Is there any way I can stop snoring? I want to be like a big sister."
Gunsmith: "Say a few words less, eat a few less mouthfuls, reduce the fat on your neck, lower your body fat percentage, sleep on a shorter pillow, and you will stop snoring."
Yumei: “It’s so difficult”
Gunsmith: "Any more questions? Ask them all at once."
Yumei: "No more."
Within a minute, Yumei seemed to remember something and completely forgot what she said [no more].
"How did you know I was sneaking away? Referee?"
Gunsmith: "When you want to commit a foul, there will be a nervous micro-expression on your face, and there are panic pheromones in your sweat. You can smell it from more than fifty meters away. I am very inspired."
Yumei: "Is there a way to cover it up? It will make it easier for me to do it next time."
Halfway through, Yumei finally felt it was rude and stopped talking.
Gunsmith: "There are high-speed cameras watching, so I'll stop in advance. It's more respectable."
Yumei: "Oh, that's it. Can you sign a few autographs for me?"
The gunsmith patiently rummaged through Garfield's trouser pocket and took out a marker pen from his tool bag.
"Where to sign?"
Miss Yumei opened her jacket and pointed to the chest of her shirt: "Here, here, here!"
The gunsmith rolled his eyes and tried to persuade the fanatic fan with good intentions.
"Why? Stay awake! Be more reserved! If my wife knows about this, you won't survive the next day. I promise you this in the name of Anonymous."
Yumei immediately said: "Then I will take it off and sign it for you? I have several more! Sign them all for me!"
"Ah?" The gunsmith was stunned.
Yumei is very sincere——
"——The gunsmith's signature! Even if I turn over the car again and hang my clothes on the salted fish, I can earn back the labor fee! I only know that I was deceived in such a remote place! I didn't expect that there would be more