The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 125: Chapter 125: Competition Overview

Seeing points as a reward, Ji You did not get dizzy with excitement immediately but checked the rules carefully before entering the campus network section.

Upon entering, Ji You swiped her Lanyue Star Military Academy student ID card, the gate opened, and she walked in.

Inside, she saw eight large screens standing solemnly in the hall, very eye-catching. Ji You focused and saw that these were the top 100 rankings of students from freshmen to seniors at Alliance University. Of course, the first place was marked in enlarged and bolded golden text, 2nd and 3rd places in red text, while 4th to 100th were in black.

Apart from the overall All Alliance rankings, there were also rankings divided by region: East, South, West, North, with Lanyue Star belonging to the East District.

Ji You paid special attention to the rankings of the East District and found none of the names familiar. The people here had such far-out names—’World’s Number One Handsome’, ’Universe’s Number One Tall’, ’Humanity’s Number One Strong’...

Who could recognize these embarrassing names?

Ji You looked down at her own name card: System number 2022244442444444, the corner of her mouth twitched involuntarily—such a number, what more could she say other than feeling speechless?

Change it.

Definitely need to change it.

But there was no rush. Ji You decided to look around when she suddenly heard some people nearby:

”Has it started?”

”It’s started.”

”Quick, quick, quick...”

”If we’re late, we won’t get good seats.”

As they spoke, the crowd rushed toward the direction of a screen, with Ji You running along to join the excitement. Fortunately, she ran fast enough and managed to squeeze in.

She also understood that these people were either going to watch or participate in the competition. This time, Alliance University officially organized an online competition to welcome the new school year, divided into four levels: freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The competition was of two types: individual mecha duel and team simulation battle.

Each competition would select 2 winning teams from each region to proceed to the finals.

So, a total of 8 teams from the four regions of East, South, West, and North would be chosen to enter the final round. To get into the finals, it was necessary to win within one’s own region.

Yue Qiguang, Shen Changqing, and others were discussing participating in the freshmen’s team competition during mealtime. It was quite challenging since their opponents were not just their schoolmates but encompassed all freshmen from schools within the East Star Domain.

No wonder they set such high standards for recruiting teammates.

Sigh~

Of course, Ji You, who couldn’t find a team to join, could fight solo in individual matches. The system was the same as the team competition, where 2 winners would be decided from within the local region to take part in the final battle.

To participate in a match, 1 point was needed to qualify. Once qualified, points could then be used to challenge others, with challengers setting the stakes. Those confident about beating their opponents could wager thousands or even tens of thousands of points, but if they lost, those points would go to the victor...

Therefore, most students would consider carefully before wagering points, absolutely not daring to go all-in.

Also, spectators could place bets, with the winner receiving 10% of the betting pool’s points as a reward.

At this point, Ji You’s eyes lit up again:

Points.

Points.

Points.

...

So many points.

Too bad they’re currently irrelevant to her.

Yingyingying~

Curious, Ji You chose to watch the individual mecha battle; the scene blurred for a moment, and she found herself seated in the spectator stand. On the expansive battlefield, two massive mechas were present, both with very cool designs.

But—

One was a Heavy Armor named Po Jun, strong in attack and defense but weaker in speed and agility.

The other was a Light Armor named Wind Wing, strong in speed and agility but weaker in defense and firepower.

In summary, both had their strengths and weaknesses.

At the start, the student piloting Po Jun stood serenely still, while the pilot of Wind Wing fired a few provocative shots in a testing manner. Just when he thought the pilot of Po Jun was indifferent, Po Jun’s cannons suddenly aimed at him. Wind Wing immediately spun, dodging and flash-stepping a few times before retaliating with a shot at Po Jun—

But Po Jun suddenly vanished from its spot.

In an instant, it had circled behind, directly set up its cannons, targeted Wind Wing’s cockpit, and boom—

With a loud bang, Wind Wing was shattered to pieces.

”Damn!”

”The guy piloting the Wind Wing is so weak.”

”I thought he was powerful. What a letdown, wasting my emotions.”

The surrounding audience was abuzz with discussion.

Ji You fell silent for a moment.

She didn’t think the pilot of Wind Wing was too weak, but rather that the pilot of Po Jun was somewhat abnormal. Po Jun had strong attack power, but its delivery speed wasn’t usually fast; however, this pilot managed to operate Po Jun, a Heavy Armor mecha, with the speed of a Light Armor. The pilot of Wind Wing seemed to have completely failed to anticipate this—

Strong in ability but weak in combat consciousness.

—Probably a newbie.

After that, Ji You watched several more matches, all of which ended fairly quickly due to being preliminary selection rounds. The strength of the players varied greatly, and the stronger ones quickly eliminated their opponents. As the competition progressed, those remaining were the stronger players, so the difficulty of winning increased.

This meant—

If one didn’t aim to win till the end, or rather didn’t have the strength to fight to the last, yet wanted to earn some points in the arena, they should join the competition earlier, because the initial weaklings were easier to beat!

Ji You felt somewhat tempted...

But—

Every match registration required 1 point, and this restriction barred many students who lacked confidence and were poor in points.

For example—Ji You.

Ji You dared not enter the matches right away, but after observing more than ten rounds, she placed bets on 2 of them and won, earning a profit of 6 points.

She had enough to pay for a serving of braised spare ribs with rice!

Ji You almost broke into tears of joy.

Although she didn’t participate, she seriously observed others’ battles throughout and tried her hand at tactical analysis.

Until—the training time she had set for herself arrived, and she reluctantly left Star Network.

After completing 9 sets of physical training, Ji You quickly washed up and went to bed.

The next day.

Ji You got up early in the morning, wearing a sporty tank top, and ran laps around the dormitory area. Several times, she nearly couldn’t keep up, but she gritted her teeth and completed the lap before going to have breakfast.

Gasping for breath, she walked into the dormitory area:

”Look—”

”Pig head!”

”Tsk—”

”Too shabby!”

”Is that a guy? Or a girl?”

Ji You: ”...”

It stung.

Especially that last comment.

Just then, Sheng Qingyan came over, covering her mouth and yawning, and looked at her disdainfully: ”4444—Why are you running laps so early in the morning...”

”And wearing a tank top...”

”I don’t even want to criticize you...”

Sheng Qingyan pointed to the dormitory buildings and asked, ”Do you know what area this is? It’s the turf of the self-paying class...”

”Your behavior can easily clash with the students of the self-paying class...”

Everyone else was slacking off, and here she was, the only one exercising so diligently in the early morning, which displeased the scions of the self-paying class.

—So they sent Sheng Qingyan to warn Ji You.

Ji You was somewhat speechless: ”I’m just a poor devil, what do I have to fear about not fitting in with the self-paying class—let me be frank, even my tuition fees are borrowed!”