The shining Shoko Toyokawa

"You have a great mouth, but I wonder if your ability to pilot a mobile suit is that great?"

I don't know if the organizers are too busy, but they increased the trash talk segment from 30 seconds to 2 minutes.

"The famous Gaulish Tiger, after sleeping for a few years, has turned into a sick cat? Let me give it a try!"

Rencai was equally unwilling to be outdone.

Just like a real battle,

When two people disagree and cannot understand each other, they can only use fists to decide who is better.

"Stinky brat!"

"Dead sick cat!"

The countdown returns to zero.

The full screen lit up, and Rencai looked around the full screen.

Before my eyes was a lush and vibrant tropical jungle, with birdsong and the calls of various small animals echoing in the simulation cabin.

Just as Rencai was about to control the machine, she saw a little squirrel lying motionless on a treetop not far away and immediately released the joystick.

This kind of tropical rainforest terrain is quite unfavorable for her, who has lived in Area 11 since childhood and has not received any professional training.

What she was certain of was that if she acted rashly, the nearly twenty-meter-tall MS would scare away the birds and expose her whereabouts.

Countless contestants used their own painful experiences to tell Rencai the importance of not being discovered first.

"Drip drip..."

On the central control screen, it was shown that the superiors had designated a new combat area and required Rencai to go there within the specified time.

In fact, this is just the shrinking circle mechanism in FPS games.

After all, the contestants may be able to survive for a few days, but the audience can't wait.

This is one of the reasons why excellent simulator players can compete with veterans with rich actual combat experience.

Even if the simulator's ecology and maps are perfect, compared to a real battlefield, the amount of information the "player" needs to process and the amount of professional knowledge required are very low.

If such an "ace" does not undergo professional training and actual combat experience, it will always be just a simulation cabin ace.

In the simulated battle, the advantage of the 'veterans' was actually weakened.

For example, in terms of psychological quality, everyone in the simulation cabin knows that they will not die.

So the strength of mental quality does not have such a big impact.

But it is different in actual combat. No matter how skilled you are at driving an MS, if you are not aware and are overwhelmed by the fear of death and turn around and run away, you will naturally not be able to win and may even be brought to a military court.

"hateful…"

Jinna cursed inwardly and could only control the MS to slowly move towards the 'safe zone'.

But no matter how careful she was, once the huge MS started moving, it was not something that the small animals could ignore.

The birds on the nearby branches were startled and flew away. What made her most upset was that a few dead monkeys were screaming in the treetops, and the sound could probably be heard for miles.

"I hate monkeys!"

The simulated map is actually that small. Expecting that the other party couldn't notice what was happening here is obviously like trying to cover up one's mistake.

"Right, here!"

Rencai frantically checked the map in the corner of the central control screen. The map showed a river in the southwest.

The combat log displayed on the central control screen is now in late November.

Rencai tried hard to recall her geography knowledge.

Are there many water birds in the river in Badong in November?

Sometimes, knowledge really is power.

Amidst the chaos, the girl successfully reached the river and walked up along the river. Not far away was the "safe zone".

Because of the Iron Giant's 'intrusion', the big crocodile on the shore immediately jumped into the water.

Only the giant python perched on the treetop, with eyesight almost as good as blind, dared to bare its teeth.

Such scenes are rarely seen in reality because of the continuous wars and the destruction of the ecosystem.

The girl controlled the MS and walked cautiously on the soft riverbank, as if she had strayed into a corner of the long river of time.

She looked up at the treetops and the movements in the sky from time to time.

At this time, the time to be assigned to the 'safe zone' is running out. According to the implicit rules of the simulated map allocation,

The distance between the safe zone and the two aircraft should be about the same.

The other party did not alarm the flying birds and the damn monkeys, which means that he was probably also walking along the river, but in opposite directions.

He was going downstream, while Rencai was going upstream?

No, I need to grow my brain...

Rencai wanted to rush forward without thinking, but fighting was not something that could be done by just rushing forward.

In any case, we still have to go to the safe zone.

But when she rushed to the safe zone with her shield in hand, she was dumbfounded.

The sick cat...ah, the Gallic tiger, standing on the riverbank,

The Tiger of Gaul,

I like the front as well...

"Are you an idiot..."

Rencai was almost speechless. Why was she being so cautious all the way?

"Stop talking nonsense!" George's voice was somewhat exasperated.

"If I don't defeat you head-on, you'll definitely say you're just a sneak attack from behind, right?!"

"I wouldn't say that... No, that's not right," Renai almost didn't react. This guy was looking down on her. "What's wrong with you being a brat? Haven't you ever been a 'brat'?!"

"There's no point in talking too much. Only the victors can speak the truth!"

The Gaulish Tiger raised his beam rifle.

"Okay, then I'll defeat you first!"

'Storm Girl' pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The Gaulish Tiger is not slow either!

The two aircraft began to run at full speed while aiming at each other and firing. When the beam rifle emptied, they threw it on the riverbank and drew their beam sabers, like knights on an ancient battlefield.

In a flash, the two machines exchanged several rounds of combat.

"Damn it! The riverbank is too soft!"

But soon, the girl exposed her shortcomings of lack of experience.

Operating a MS in a special environment like a riverbank is very different from operating a MS on solid ground. She is not used to this terrain.

The Gaul Tiger was very adept at it and easily suppressed her. This was the power of experience.

"It's not over yet!"

The girl fired the head Vulcan cannon to cover the machine, and the machine quickly retreated into the jungle.

There is solid ground here, but there is also a fatal problem -

The jungle has always been the tiger's territory!

The Gallic Tiger did not pursue in a straight line, but escaped into the jungle.

For a moment, Rencai felt that the trees around her were shaking.

The occasional footsteps of the MS and the crackling of branches breaking were like the cries of a ghost.

It seems to be behind you, or to the side, but when you look closely, you can see nothing but swaying trees.

This feeling of being teased makes people feel extremely aggrieved, yet helpless.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

Rencai wanted to chop down the tree, but her intuition told her that if she dared to be distracted, she would be defeated in an instant.

Even if the position was changed, the advantage of the terrain would naturally be in the hands of the more experienced Gallic Tiger.

This is the case even in simulated battles, without having to think too much about it. If it were a real battle, those professional players who were very strong in simulated battles would probably find it difficult to beat him!

Fighting him in this kind of terrain, Rencai was like a hero, encountering the Four Heavenly Kings before even leaving the Novice Village.

Chapter 42: Old Soldiers Never Die

The battle situation was at a stalemate for a while.

To be precise, the girl was trapped in a dangerous jungle.

The Gallic tiger seemed to be everywhere, and the jungle within sight seemed to have become the girl's enemy.

After thinking hard for a long time and failing to find a way out, the girl made up her mind.

She was now certain of only one thing: the Gallic Tiger would attack from a certain direction.

"In that case!"

How about she move too?

As long as we are fast enough, we will have time to deal with the Gaul Tiger.

The jungle is the territory of the tiger, but the storm never bows to the jungle.

Even a jungle composed of towering trees that are hundreds of years old is just a fragile, swaying pitiful creature in the face of a fierce storm!

Rencai plunged into the jungle without caring about anything else, and drove the Mercedes-Benz to the maximum speed.

What the tiger is waiting for is the moment when its prey reveals its back.

But who is the hunter?

Who is the prey?

In MS battles, the identities of the two are always reversed!

“Here?!”

The girl barely caught the beam saber that was splitting the branches of the tree, and instead of retreating, she advanced, stepping on the fallen leaves and vegetation in the jungle, wrestling with the "tiger".

"what?!"

The Gaul Tiger couldn't believe that his attack was blocked, but he didn't slow down. He controlled his body and kicked the Storm Girl's shield, trying to distance himself from her again.

But the structure of MS determines that the speed of moving forward is always faster than the speed of moving backward!

The girl even used the thrust of her jet pack to close the distance in an instant.

"It seems that the Gaulish Tiger has also grown old!"

If it is a majestic tiger, it will never retreat in front of its prey. Even if its surprise attack is discovered and the prey wants to fight back, it will only rush towards the prey at a faster speed.

But as Jinna said, he is still "old" after all,

Having been suppressed and defeated by Doloris before, his confidence was severely damaged.

If his attack failed and he immediately launched an all-out attack, the outcome would be uncertain.

But now, he has been caught up in the girl's violent attack!

'Am I going to lose?'

"Are you going to lose to a kid?!"

The former war hero, the Tiger of Gaul, could not believe this.

But reality is not a hot-blooded comic book.

There has never been any explosive buff after the memory kill,

Maybe it was because he was really old, or maybe he hadn't used MS for a long time, so he was a little rusty.

The Storm Maiden is always faster than him,