Chapter 185 Arrival at Beidu, the highest city in Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 185 Arrival at Beidu, the highest city in Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 185 Arrival at Beidu, the highest city in Ming Dynasty!

The weather in early June was already a little hot.

At this time, the residents of Beidu, which is located in the northern part of Ming Dynasty, also changed into light short-sleeved shirts.

"You still look so impressive."

At the Kitato Central Railway Station, a bald middle-aged man was shielding his eyes from the sun with his hands and sighed.

Behind him were five young men with different expressions.

"I'm back again." Liu Yu, who had a slicked-back hair, held You Mengnan's hand and murmured to himself, "I must win this year."

Last year, he followed his sophomore seniors to Beidu to participate in the national competition.

But unfortunately, last year's NCU was also a weak team, with both individual and team performances being completely wiped out.

"Let's go, let's go to the place where we stay first."

Chai Hao called out his own small bread and greeted Russell and the other four.

Accompanied by strange singing, the van drove all the way to a hotel that towered into the clouds.

Hotels of this height are rarely seen in Daming. After all, because of the existence of secret monsters, no one knows whether the building will one day resemble the Twin Towers.

Therefore, the general limit of a building is only more than ten floors. Those who would build a building of this height are either official departments or have high-level card makers in charge.

Liu Yu was not surprised because he had been here once before. Seeing Russell and the other three looking up at the hotel in front of them, he could not help but explain, "This hotel was built with funds from the court and the association. It is used as a place for students to stay during national competitions."

"Normally it would be open to ordinary people for use."

Russell understood what he said. No wonder the atmosphere around here made him feel a little strange. He couldn't even detect the level of the card makers in some houses.

From this perspective, the Northern Capital court must have gathered the students together for the convenience of management and protection.

After all, almost all the geniuses of the Ming Dynasty are gathered in the northern capital, and the loss of any one of them will be painful for the officials.

During the conversation, Chai Hao had already taken the documents to the front desk to complete the check-in procedures.

"Let's go to the old place, the eighteenth floor."

When they arrived at the elevator, Chai Hao distributed the room cards in his hand to Russell and the other four.

"We at Nanda have been assigned to the 18th floor all these years. Last year, Jinghua was on the same floor, and this year it should be the same."

Liu Yu whispered aside.

"Ding dong."

With a clear prompt sound, the elevator door opened.

What greeted Russell's eyes was a luxurious corridor covered with plush crimson carpet.

"Hey, Lao Chai, you're here."

The people from Nanda University who came out of the elevator ran into a group of people head-on.

"From Jinghua."

Without Liu Yu's reminder, Russell naturally knew the identities of these people.

"Old Fang, long time no see."

Chai Hao politely shook the hand of a middle-aged man among the visitors.

Old Fang had a smile on his face, but his eyes were fixed on Russell who was following behind Chai Hao: "This must be the new treasure you received at Nanjing University this year."

"I also watched the fight a few days ago. The young man is really capable."

Russell laughed a few times in agreement but did not answer.

Several students behind Lao Fang looked at Russell with scrutiny.

However, nothing provocative or embarrassing happened afterwards until I left.

It makes sense. With the strength that Russell has shown recently, any school that attaches importance to national competitions will definitely mark him as a key target.

Apart from ordinary spectators, there is no such hero as ordinary spectators in the national competition after all.

"Jinghua has always been strong. Last year, we won third place in the team competition, and one of our students made it to the top eight in the individual competition."

After the people from Jinghua left, Chai Hao suddenly spoke.

“Hopefully we can surpass them this year.”

Russell and the other four nodded silently when they heard this. Since they were already here, no one was willing to just be a runner-up. Everyone wanted to make a final push.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Chai Hao couldn't help but want to tell Russell that it didn't matter if he lost, he would still have a chance next year, but he finally held it back.

Because this is the last year for Liu Yu and the other four. If they don’t achieve any results, next year’s national competition will have nothing to do with them.

Saying these words at this time will only discourage students' enthusiasm.

He believed that Russell was not the kind of fragile student who needed his comfort.

Unfortunately, Chai Hao didn’t know that Russell had already touched the threshold of the gold level and there was not much time left before he could break through.

And once Russell reaches the gold level, it will naturally be impossible for him to participate in next year's national competition. According to Jiang Wang, he will most likely be sent down to a small or medium-sized city for training in advance.

After putting their luggage away, the Nanzhong people set out to familiarize themselves with the battlefield in advance.

Caruso saw a lot of strange vehicles along the way, including dogs, horses, motorcycles, and birds.

This also shows that the number of card makers in Beidu far exceeds that of the two cities where he lived before.

Just as the noise gradually faded from his ears, a circular building covering a large area appeared in Russell's eyes.

"So big?!"

Russell was a little surprised, he didn't expect the national competition venue to be so large. He would have believed it even if they said it was for gold or even emerald level card makers to compete against each other.

The other people in the van were also shocked by the scene before them.

In addition to Chai Hao, as an old veteran, he has led several battle clubs and it is not his first time to come to Beidu. He has seen so much and naturally become numb.

However, when Russell entered the venue, he understood why this battlefield was built so large.

Because there is more than one fighting platform inside.

Since there are so many people participating in the national competition, it is naturally impossible to hold the competition one game at a time.

In order to improve efficiency, many games must be played at the same time.

When there are fewer teams following up, these small venues will be integrated into one large venue, and that is when the national competition will truly begin.

At this time, there were already many people scattered around in the venue.

Russell immediately spotted the most eye-catching female card maker among them.

Because she was sitting on the shoulders of a giant muscle man.

Liu Yu followed Russell's gaze, shook his head and said, "From Beijing University."

"She participated in the national competition last year, but her strength was at the bottom of the Kyoto University Battle Club, and that muscular man..."

Russell nodded when he heard this: "I know."

Liu Yu was stunned. He didn't expect that Russell would have any connection with students from Peking University.

But what Russell was thinking about now was the female card maker who liked to ride muscular men that Xiao Yifei mentioned to him when he first came to this world. He didn't expect to meet her here.

"Your circle is really messy."

Russell sighed inwardly. But thinking about how he also frequently battled Pokémon, he felt relieved: "We are like-minded people, respect and understand each other!"

However, as a Pokémon trainer, Russell used Onix, while the female card maker used Scallop.

Speaking of Onix's quadruple weakness to water, Russell's should be considered Steelix, even though Steelix is ​​also twice as weak to water.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic towards the other party's card.

"Okay, that's it for the venue. Now let me go back and tell you about a few schools that need your attention in this national competition."

Chai Hao's voice pulled Russell out of his wild thoughts.

The group returned to the hotel in silence.

In Chai Hao's room, he solemnly took out five tablets from his storage cards and handed them to the five people.

"The information is all in there, take a good look at it."

Seeing several people starting to look through the materials, Chai Hao's explanation sounded at the right time.

"Due to the nature of the national competition system, the strength of major universities will fluctuate greatly every year, so you will need to make your own judgment on the spot."

Since students need to choose a job for practical training in their third year, the main members of the combat clubs in major universities are only sophomores at most.

This also means that almost all members of the battle club are iterated very quickly.

It is possible that all the champion members of the previous year had already gone to training this year, and were replaced by a group of newcomers, resulting in the defending champions not even making it to the quarterfinals.

Let your mother go, I will be in the top eight or top sixteen?!
There are also schools that were originally at the bottom but suddenly soared to the top because they recruited a few monsters.

Therefore, there is a lot of uncertainty in the national competition every year.

This also resulted in very high ratings for the national competition.

After all, the audience likes dark horses, and no one wants to watch the same few schools fighting each other all the time.

Coupled with the endless creativity of card makers, all kinds of strange cards will appear. They may not be very strong, but they are definitely alive.

"Also, the team competition is held before the individual competition, so."

As he said this, he looked at Russell.

Russell also understood what Chai Hao meant. Because of the order, some card makers might choose to hide their trump cards in team competitions in order to use them in individual competitions.

He nodded silently to Chai Hao, indicating that he understood the other party's implication.

However, Chai Hao's face darkened, and it was unknown what he was thinking of.

After calming down, Chai Hao combed the few hairs on his head and continued.

"The first one is Jinghua who lives on the same floor as us."

"They were third last year, so they should try their best to make another run this year. However, since the main members are already juniors, all the contestants this year are new players."

"The specific information is in the materials, you can take a look."

"Personally, I think they have little hope this year."

Russell looked through the information in his hand carefully and felt that Chai Hao was right, because the cards revealed by Jinghua Battle Club were rather mediocre and did not have any highlights.

Ox-headed and horse-faced generals.
Not to mention Russell, I guess even Liu Yu and the others can’t beat them.

"Next is last year's champion and this year's defending champion, Mingke University."

“They had two key players last year who were freshmen, and they will definitely continue to compete this year.”

"To be honest, it's not easy. Even if we have Russell, we may not be able to win."

Russell found the information about the two people mentioned by Chai Hao.

Yue Chuan, male, his cards are basically the strange beasts from "Classic of Mountains and Seas" with some of his own re-settings. This is the strength he showed last year.

Wu Shilan, female, Chai Hao secretly researched and found that the cards should be derived from the epic "Edda", which is one of the more familiar Norse myths.

Looking at the two men who looked so heroic in the information, Russell sighed: "As expected of the geniuses of Mingke University, their knowledge reserves are so solid."

You have to know that normal card makers have no way to understand the specific mythological system outside of the Ming Dynasty.

"World Mythology Atlas Revised Edition 4.8" only records some relatively famous foreign gods, such as the Twelve Olympian Gods and the Ennead Gods.

More detailed works like the Iliad and the Edda certainly did not exist originally.

After all, in the current situation of the world, although the Ming Dynasty has some exchanges with other remaining countries, it actually has little relationship with the grassroots people.

The series of technological products that Russell sees now are also technologies obtained by the Ming Dynasty from the secret realm and have nothing to do with other countries.

After all, there are secret realms that can produce materials like [Universal Prosthesis], so it wouldn't be surprising if a Cyber ​​or even Cybertron secret realm Russell appeared one day.

It would be better to say that if such a secret realm really exists, then Russell's various armors and robot cards can also be made from it.

"Well, Jida also needs to pay attention." At this point, Chai Hao looked at Russell, "This year, there is an acquaintance of yours in Jida."

Russell was stunned when he heard this. For a moment, he didn't think about who at Jilin University would have any connection with him.

Chai Hao didn't keep anyone in suspense: "Hu Lai, do you still remember it?"

"After the Jiangxi Province Unified Examination, he was accepted as a disciple by Master Fang and taken to Jilin University."

Only then did Russell think of the young man whose martial arts dream was shattered by Luffy's three punches in the Jiang Province Unified Examination.

"Master Fang's fighting style is very similar to Hu Lai's, so even though we didn't get any useful information about Hu Lai, it's probably going to be tricky."

[Fighting God] Fang Wenlong, as the name suggests, is an evil card maker who likes hand-to-hand combat.

No, now no one dares to say in front of Fang Wenlong that physical combat is a heresy.

After all, he had conquered the entire north with his own hands.

Now, under Fang Wenlong's guidance, Hu Lai has probably made great progress and achieved a qualitative change.

"What is this? A physical battle against a skeleton Trisolarian?"

Russell was already feeling a little nervous when he thought about the possible scenes that might occur on the battlefield.

In fact, Russell is not weak in close combat. His body is doubly strengthened by the vampire bloodline and arrogance bestowed by the Great Ninja, and his actual combat experience can be replaced by arrogance.

It’s just because the cards are so powerful that he basically has no chance to make a move.

Of course, if someone thinks Russell is a weak card maker, then his terrifying body will also give the other party a big surprise.

"Others, such as Peking University, Xiamen University, and Zhejiang University, should not be underestimated."

“However, our strength this year does not mean we have no chance. I hope everyone can work together to achieve a good ranking.”

Chai Hao concluded after explaining for a long time.

His personal expectation for this year's team competition is to reach the semi-finals. After all, if Russell fails to break through to the gold level, there will be more hope next year.

In the individual competition, he thinks Russell has a chance to win the championship, provided that no strange player with sudden enlightenment emerges.

There are players with this kind of sudden realization every year. They were apparently just ordinary freshmen the year before, but this year they suddenly have an epiphany and become a leader in card-making.

Russell is also such a person in some ways. After all, the original owner did not show any talent before his senior year of high school.

Unlike him, he is gifted in copying and making cards.

"Okay, you guys go back and rest first. Don't forget there's an opening ceremony tomorrow."

Seeing that the five students had returned to their rooms, Chai Hao sighed silently: "I hope we can get a good result this year."

(End of this chapter)