The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 161 Each Makes Their Own Choice
After a period of chaos, the new students quickly sorted out the current situation.

This is destined to be a chaotic war. Almost everyone you see is an enemy, and everyone you meet can be a target, a stepping stone for their advancement, depending on whether you have the ability to do so.

So when a certain critical point was reached, the whole scene instantly descended into chaos.

Because they begin to realize that awareness and concepts are one thing, but when things actually happen, it's another.

Perhaps at the beginning, some people didn't know what to do or where to start, but things changed once someone fired the first shot.

The game began the moment they entered the training ground; no one could remain outside of it. Everyone was a fish in this pool, either devouring or waiting to be devoured.

Some students couldn't adjust immediately, but others, like Jiang Hui, made their choices instinctively. The awakening of this small group naturally influenced the thoughts of others.

The hunting activities thus began.

Jiang Hui was actually quite lucky. She randomly landed in a remote place all by herself, and then immediately ran into three unlucky guys who came to her door and she got points.

However, many more people ended up in their home field or in crowded areas. If they were unlucky enough to run into the main force in an open area, a fierce battle was inevitable.

These freshmen are often sacrificed before they have even figured out the situation or adjusted their mindset, becoming someone else's badge of honor.

In fact, there are two modes for freshmen to participate in this orienteering competition.

One type is group participation, where teams are formed at any time via a simulated bra reporting system. Teams are capped at five members; teams with fewer than five are considered temporary. Scoring is still based on individual shot counts, and resources are distributed among team members, agreed upon internally. However, this five-person team isn't simply about cooperation; team members also need to share tasks.

Under normal circumstances, in a solo situation, a single hit would eliminate the player. The simulated bra has extremely precise positioning and recognition capabilities, leaving no room for error. Once hit, the bra automatically restricts the host's movement and simultaneously reports an elimination signal to the system. The entire elimination mechanism is extremely swift and decisive, leaving no chance whatsoever.

However, if a team of five can be formed, all members of the team will share three chances. In other words, when they are in a fully formed team, if any one of the five is hit by a shot the first or second time, they will not be eliminated.

If any member or individual in a five-person team is hit three times, the entire team must be forced to leave the field; none of them can remain. This applies even if no one in the team is hit at all.

Therefore, team formation requires caution. If you don't choose your teammates carefully, even if four out of the five are incredibly strong, having one weak member will likely not bring any benefits and will only incur additional costs.

It is obvious that this is a mechanism with strong collective characteristics, requiring sufficient trust and cooperation among team members. Used well, it is a powerful tool; used poorly, it can immediately drag them into a quagmire and become a huge limitation that harms them as well.

There is another mode, which is single-player. You can play the game alone, and you can score points by shooting people one by one without any worries or burdens. Even if you die, it only counts as your score.

For someone like Jiang Hui, who was alone in a remote and desolate place, the idea of ​​forming a team was secondary; thinking about it now was unrealistic, and she still had other options. But for those who had fallen into the chaos of battle, the situation immediately became complicated.

This isn't the kind of shooting training where you wait for orders from your superior to fire simultaneously in a coordinated line. Instead, it's a "free zone" where there are no orders, no controls, no restrictions, and no one to maintain order. Everyone can find their own targets and shoot at will, shooting whenever they see one and have the chance. Hitting a target counts as one point—it's a completely chaotic situation.

In this situation, even if you have excellent shooting skills and sharp eyesight, you cannot accurately control your own safety; you can only drift with the tide and rely on luck. It's a completely uncontrollable situation.

This is clearly not a good thing. They certainly want to score as many points as possible, but they don't want to be eliminated so inexplicably. If they're going to fight and show their true skills, they should at least have a proper arena. What's the point of this mess? Countless skilled players have been inexplicably eliminated by being shot in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Therefore, more and more people realize that if they want to continue the competition, they must either divide the battlefield or identify enemies and allies. If neither of the above is possible, they must at least get out of this chaotic situation.

"Good heavens..." How long is this going to go on? These guys are really scary.

At the edge of a small, fragmented war zone, a dusty, disheveled figure cautiously darted out from the edge.

Whether it was good luck or the people surrounding him simply didn't care about this little shrimp and let him run out, it's hard to say.

As he ran further and further away, the figure seemed to realize that it might actually be able to escape this terrifying chaotic zone, so it hunched over and ran faster and faster, no longer caring how ugly its escape posture was.

"Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah!"

He finally understood why people in this circle were still so entangled.

Even if he had thought about it before, he wouldn't have understood why these people insisted on getting bogged down in this internal conflict. Didn't they see that there were large areas of rocks and bushes all around, plenty of hiding places? Wouldn't it have been more meaningful and exciting to engage in jungle guerrilla warfare? Why did they have to pull each other's hair or even shoot each other in the face in such an open space... Wasn't they just making things more difficult for themselves?

He didn't realize until he had run quite a distance that the rocky area and bushes that looked close were actually quite far away.

If they fled individually, they would almost inevitably expose their backs to the enemy. They couldn't escape the battle zone safely while ensuring their own safety and avoiding elimination, just as they had no control over the actions and motives of others. Therefore, the only recourse was to "stop the killing with killing," eliminating a portion of the group first.

Only someone like Zhou Xiuwen, who had little hope of escaping and simply wanted to get away from the chaos, would do something like turning his back to the fighting crowd. When he ran out, he was mentally prepared to be eliminated and was even predicting when he would be hit.

But whether it was his luck or because he simply couldn't arouse the "hunters'" hunting desire, no one took the opportunity to give him a good whack on the back, and in the end, he actually managed to escape.

(End of this chapter)