Chapter 127

Gu Tunan, is this a joke? Gu Tunan, is this a joke?

"I told you not to milk it. It's over! I'm going to kill myself with this milk!

I think it's a bit strange, Gu Tunan can't be confused between real people and avatars, is this a brain fart?

The Lone Widow Frogfrog charred and blackened most of the way from a green-skinned frog to a black-skinned frogfrog Gu Tunan snapped out of his trance, and he glanced at the mech's damage rate, 60%.

What's worse is that the storage mechanism Teng Man's backpack was blown up.

Gu Tunan's face did not have a look of impatience, he calmly overthrew his original battle plan in his head, his brain was like a high-speed precision machine, the energy consumed for each killing move, weapon use and even the normal operation of the mech were all clearly priced in his head.

Unlike Xie Ruhang, who fights with superb combat instincts, Gu Tunan treats a battle more like a puzzle.

The answer is only one solution, victory, but there are countless solutions to reach victory.

The losses from the damaged mechs flew through Gu Tunan's mind, and he came up with a new battle plan almost on the spur of the moment.

"The Widow and Orphan Froggy is not losing speed!!!" The host exclaimed excitedly, "Gu Tunan is taking advantage of the environment and starting to kite!"

The energy reserves of the participating mechs were limited, and although the Night Goddess Nyx's Night Meteor was extremely lethal, it consumed a lot of energy each time and could not be used indefinitely.

Pamela watched the dwindling energy reserves with irritation, especially as each time her powerful attacks came up empty while Gu Tunan's occasional well-timed long-range attacks worked.

Seeing that the Widow and the Frog subconsciously avoided the virtual NPCs every time she dodged, Pamela suddenly had an idea.

"The Night Goddess Nyx is heading in the opposite direction of the Widow Frog Frog... strange, what's she up to?" The host wondered.

Gu Tunan looked back, only to see a huge shadow looming over the NPCs who had taken shelter, as the Nix, the Goddess of the Night, aimed her guns at the tumble-down shelter.

Instead of firing immediately, she looked like she was waiting for something.

There are NPCs kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, there are NPCs shivering and can't even speak, the technology of holographic projection is very high, they look just like real people.

An NPC tries to escape from the shelter, and Pamela blows up the escapee with an energy bomb, scattering the virtual NPC into data.

[Although I know it's just data, Pamela's threatening behavior makes me physically ill.]

I'm cracking up. Isn't Pamela a peacemaker?

[Ah, I hope Gu Tunan won't be able to stop his brain from blocking the gun, and I hope Gu Tunan won't be able to save his life.]

Am I the only one who thinks it's Gu Tunan? Pamela wouldn't have done it if he didn't have a brain fart.

[Victims' guilt theory is late, but I'm the only one who thinks the upstairs is a joke.]

Gu Tunan frowned.

He reads an inexplicable ...... in his opponent's posture certainty?

As if convinced that he would save these virtual NPCs.

The fact that Pamela chose to threaten him with these NPCs is a bit strange in itself, this is a tournament and not a real war, there is no need to use such a no-holds-barred method just to win or lose.

If he chooses not to go, there may be people who will attack him for being cold-blooded, but before accusing him, Pamela will be scorned by more public opinion, and only if he does go, will there be people who will be supportive of Pamela, after all, many times believing in looking at the results and not asking questions about the process.

Gu Tunan himself doesn't know why he mistook that little girl npc for a real person, maybe it was the similar age of that child and his brother, maybe it was the fact that he was mentally exhausted from all the intense training he had been doing, but why did Pamela put her hopes for victory on such an unlikely event ......

Is it Pamela's nature to be mean? Is it Pamela who's just plain mean?

Various speculations flew by as the two mechs froze in place.

Some npc's started praying for Gu Tunan to come over, and when they saw that Gu Tunan didn't move, the desperate people started cursing at Gu Tunan again.

Just at this time, the little NPC girl that Gu Tunan had saved came out of the crowd clutching her doll, her flowery dress dirty, her braided hair disheveled, and a little face dripping wet.

The examples of other NPCs escaping and being killed were still fresh in her mind, this little girl only stood in the doorway of the shelter, she touched the bear in her hand very dearly, her mom and dad both died in this explosion, for her, the bear doll was the only family she had left.

She said something to the bear doll, tears kept flowing down her cheeks, then she threw the bear doll in her hand with all her might and shouted to Gu Tunan in the distance, "Big Frog! You run quickly!"

When she shouted this, an NPC beside her covered her mouth, as if she was afraid she would say something.

The bear doll that the little girl threw with all her might rolled down not far from Gu Tunan.

It was alone, covered in dust and blood, and if bears could cry, it would be weeping as much as the little girl at this time.

Gu Tunan looked at the little girl who had dried up her tears, eyes that held countless sorrows, overlapping for a moment with the amber-colored eyes he remembered.

That day when he and Tang Bai met at a restaurant, he ordered a mango dessert that Tang Bai didn't like, and when Tang Bai was about to break off her relationship with him as a prospective fiancé, Tang Bai just looked at him with those eyes and said to him, "Gu Tunan, you're really a disappointment to me.

Tang Bai's voice was so soft, but his eyes were so sad that he looked as if he was about to cry.

It was only a momentary trance, and excellent willpower allowed Gu Tunan to quickly react to the fact that this was not a real person.

But he couldn't help thinking about Tang Bai.

The Tang Bai who loves Palulu dolls and will be gentle with NPCs.

He actually couldn't understand why Tang Bai liked these things and why he wasted his emotions on virtual things.

The Gu family had a savings room where a lot of stuffed animals were stored, and it was said that they were bought by Little Dad for Big Brother to use as toys once upon a time, and these toys were put away when Big Brother grew up.

Those dolls are useless, something only omega's play with.

Kids always touch these before they differentiate what if they become omega?

Xiao Nan, you have to learn to reflect on yourself. You can't fall in the same place twice!

As soldiers, we can't get emotional.

......

The words of his father and grandfather floated in his ears, but no one ever seemed to have taught him gentleness.

Gu Tunan thought this as he stepped away, suddenly tempted to pick up the bear. That's all.

Pamela's turreted wagons are constantly moving in the direction of the Gu Tunan, and as soon as the Widow and Orphan Frogfrog comes within range of her, she attacks.

Victory must be hers!

So what if it's a genius?

Just as Pamela is caught up in her rhapsodizing about her victory, she suddenly hears a strange starting sound.

That's the sound of a large weapon being activated.

At the moment when the Lone Widow Froggy's mechanical pincers were about to touch the bear doll, dazzling white light suddenly blossomed from the shelter, tearing through the hovering darkness, a grand explosion that obliterated everything around the shelter ---

In desperation, the NPC activated the self-destruct device for the sanctuary's homo sapiens.

- "Bye-bye, little bear. I'm going to heaven to find my mommy and daddy."

In the countdown to death, she tried to send her bear out of the blast.

"Oh my god ......" The hosts geeked out, "The npc's went down with Pamela ......"

Everyone was shocked back to their senses by the dramatic reversal of the moment, and only Gu Tunan was spared from the cataclysmic explosion.

A replay of the Widow and Orphan Frog Frogship's highlights from this match appeared on the public screen, the giant frog mech blocking the way of the crying little girl, who had teardrops hanging from her face as she raised her face to look at the comical and ugly frog, and as the overwhelming energy projectiles continued to hit the frog's back with a deafening and horrific sound-

Her trembling body snuggled carefully into Frog's, her arms clutching the bear doll.

Just like she used to be afraid of the sound of thunder and would cry and hug her mom and dad when she couldn't sleep.

But she doesn't have a mom and dad anymore.

The replay ends and the winner of the match is displayed on the public screen in hot gold lettering.

"This match is won by the Widowed and Orphaned Frogfrog of the Federation team Gu Tunan!!!" The host was the first to shout, and the loud shout broke the silence as the room erupted in applause and cheers!

*

"It's not fair! It's shady!!!"

"Federation Team Gu Tunan Cheating! The Mecha Cup tournament is unfair!"

The protest was initiated by the Imperials, who submitted that Gu Tunan's inexplicable shielding of the little girl NPC could not be explained by common sense, but assuming that Gu Tunan had learned ahead of time from the Federation that saving the NPC would allow him to win the battle without a fight, then it all made sense.

The Empire's coach and Pamela took to social media platforms to strongly denounce the shady nature of the federation's matches, a backhanded maneuver that had some uninformed onlookers rallying to the Empire's side, arguing that Gu Tunan's move had brought the federation into disrepute.

In the end things went so far that the head of the federal map had to come out personally to clarify: "It's just a normal map, no different from a map of snowy mountains and volcanoes or something like that, except that the latter involves consideration of natural disasters and geography, whereas the former considers the human factor."

"Under normal circumstances NPCs don't activate the self-destruct device, only if the player violates the NPC and causes the NPC to lose control of its emotions will it cause an explosion."

"One of the reasons why this map is set up with the presence of NPCs, so that the NPCs have the ability to activate the self-destruct device, is to add uncertainty and interest, and the other reason is that we want to examine the quality of the players."

"A good mechmaster learns to respect life before he uses his mech to achieve victory, for weapons are for people."

Because of the Empire's constant protests, the match was labeled as a controversial match and re-entered into the adjudication process.

The national referees of the Mecha Cup had their own views on the match, the Imperial team referee insisted that the match was shady and pressured the other two small country referees, under heavy pressure, one small country referee abstained and the other trembled in support of the Empire's defense of its rights.

Proia's referee says what the Federation means is what I mean.

So everyone's attention fell on the old man representing the Federation.

Grandpa Tang sat down at the negotiation table, and the aggressive imperial referee tempered his temper in front of Tang Rong, and no one dared to underestimate this amiable-looking old man.

"The match was really controversial and neither Pamela's win nor Gu Tunan's win was convincing, so in that case, we'll just go ahead and call the match a draw for the time being."

Grandpa Don's words sealed the deal, and as the head of the Mecha Cup changed the outcome of the competition, a photo of the Lone Widow Froggy trying to pick up a bear doll in the middle of an explosion went viral on the astroturf.

The picture of the widowed Froggy Froggy is ugly and comical, and the bear doll it is trying to pick up is equally dirty, but the voluminous explosion gilds them with a soft light, and it is as if they are going to run away from this crazy, chaotic world in pairs, to another fairy tale world.

This is not the first time the widow and frog frog number caused heated debate, widow and frog frog number debut let the netizens scramble to flirt, also netizens said must send a good brother this mecha, not only wish widow and orphan, but also wish to wear a cuckold.

But this one was different.

They say it's a mech from a fairy tale.

Because in fairy tales, the big frog will take the little bear home and they will live happily ever after.

Meanwhile, Pamela's rating has dropped like crazy, and whether Gu Tunan cheated or not, Pamela's treatment of NPCs in the tournament is there for all to see.

-- "Cold-blooded war machine."

-- "I shudder to think what she would have looked like in the war years! Do all Imperials swing their swords at the weaker ones?!"

--"Her behavior makes me physically ill."

-- "Is this the main peace faction of the Empire? So disappointing."

......

All in all, it was also a bald day for the employees of the Imperial Propaganda Department.

But at the moment the anxious Imperial employees had no idea what kind of storm they were about to face next.

*

Gu Tunan held up his medical report, which showed abnormalities in his body's hormones.

Mo Zheng stood beside Gu Tunan, "I also had a momentary mental lapse during my race, which I thought was because I was in a bad situation."

The two men looked at each other, both noticing the anomaly.

They don't have the evidence now. Suspicion alone won't convict Pamela.

Xie Ruhang looked over at the dueling contestants going on on the stage and said calmly, "I'll be challenging Pamela this afternoon, and as soon as she uses that cheating tactic again, we'll be able to document the evidence."

They've reported their findings to the people in charge, and the Federation has come up with a variety of test methods on the fly, but aren't sure if they'll actually work.

"What if she sees the light and stops using that cheating tactic?" Gu Tunan frowned.

"No way." Xie Ruhang said calmly, "Have you ever met an underground arena player?"

"A lot of players will use tactics that hurt their bodies to inspire potential."

"The pathway to victory through external forces is addictive, like a drug, just a little bit of it can be all-consuming."

Looking at the dazed Gu Tunan, Xie Ruhang withdrew his gaze.

Another thing he didn't say was that rats are the best at tickling the evil desires of such people's hearts.

He won't let Pamela have a chance to close.