Chapter 127: Weapons are for people.

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

[I told you to stop milking! This is the end of the poisonous milk.

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

Widow Froggy scorched and blackened mostly from a green-skinned frog to a black-skinned froggy, Gu Tunan snapping out of his trance-like state, he glances at the damage to the mech, 60%.

To make matters worse the backpack that stored the mechanical vines was blown up.

Gu Tunan's face did not look impatient as he calmly reversed his original battle plan in his head, his brain like a precision machine running at high speed, the amount of energy consumed by each kill move, weapon use and even the normal functioning of the mechs was clearly marked in his mind.

Unlike Xie Ruhang, who fights with superb fighting instincts, Gu Tunan approaches a battle more like a problem to solve.

There is only one solution to the problem of victory, but there are countless ways to achieve it.

The damage to the mechs raced through Gu Tunan's mind and he came up with a new battle plan in almost a flash.

"Lone Froggy's speed isn't dropping!!!" The host shouted excitedly, " Gu Tunan takes advantage of the environment and starts kiting!"

The energy reserves of the competing mechs are limited, and although the Black Meteor of the Nixt is extremely deadly, it consumes a lot of energy each time and cannot be used indefinitely.

Pamela's mind grew restless as she watched her energy reserves dwindle, especially when each of her powerful attacks came up short and Gu Tunan's occasional well-timed long-range attacks worked.

Seeing how the widow Froggy subconsciously avoids the virtual npc every time she hides, Pamela suddenly has an idea.

"Nixt, the goddess of the night, flew off in the opposite direction to Froggy the widow, strange, what is she up to?" The presenter wondered.

Gu Tunan looked back only to see a huge shadow enveloping the npc's who had taken refuge together as Nixt, the goddess of the night, aimed her cannon at the turnout.

She didn't fire immediately, but rather seemed to be waiting for something.

There were NPCs on their knees begging for mercy, others shivering and unable to speak, and the holographic projection technology was so advanced that they looked like real people.

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

Although I know it's just a statistic, Pamela's threatening behaviour makes me physically sick]

[I'm cracking up, isn't Pamela a peacemaker?

I hope Gu Tunan doesn't have the brains to block the gun again, and I hope Gu Tunan doesn't really see it coming].

[Am I the only one who thinks it's Gu Tunan's problem? Pamela wouldn't have done this if he hadn't had a brain fart

[Victim guilt theory is late but arrives, am I the only one who thinks the upstairs is sb]

Gu Tunan frowns.

He reads an inexplicable ...... in the gestures of his opponents certainty?

As if sure that he would save these virtual NPCs.

The fact that Pamela chose to threaten him with these npc's is a bit strange in itself, this is a tournament not a real war and there is no need to use such unconventional methods just to win or lose.

If he chooses not to go, he may be attacked for being cold-blooded, but before he is accused of that, Pamela will be scorned by more public opinion, and only if he does go will there be support for Pamela, who, after all, has many times believed in results without questioning the process.

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

Is it Pamela's cool-headed nature? A desperate person who will do anything to get what she wants?

Speculations flew by and the two mechs froze in place.

Some npc's started praying for Gu Tunan to come, and when they saw that Gu Tunan was not moving, the desperate people started cursing at Gu Tunan again.

Just then, the little NPC girl Gu Tunan had saved came out of the crowd clutching her doll, her flowery dress dirty, her braided hair a mess and a little face wet.

The examples of other NPCs escaping and being killed were still fresh in her mind. This little girl just stood at the door of the shelter, and she touched the bear in her hand precious, her mother and father had both died in this explosion, and for her, the bear doll was the only family she had left.

She said something to the bear doll, tears streaming down her cheeks, and then she threw the bear doll out of her hand and shouted to Gu Tunan in the distance, "Big frog! You run!"

As she shouted the words, one of the NPCs beside her covered her mouth, as if she was afraid she would say something.

The bear doll, thrown with all her might by the little girl, rolled and landed not far from Gu Tunan.

It is alone, covered in dust and blood, and if bears could cry, it would be in tears at this time, just like the little girl.

Gu Tunan looked at the little girl with dried tears, eyes that held a million sorrows, eyes that for a moment overlapped with the amber eyes he remembered.

That day he and Tang Bai met at a restaurant and he ordered a mango dessert that Tang Bai did not like, and when Tang Bai was about to dissolve his relationship with his fiancé-to-be, Tang Bai looked at him with those eyes and said to him, "Gu Tunan, you really disappoint me.

Tang Bai's voice is so soft, but her eyes are so sad that she looks as if she is about to cry.

For a brief moment, Gu Tunan's excellent willpower allowed him to quickly realise that this was not a real person.

But he couldn't help thinking of Tang Bai.

Tang Bai, who loves Palulu dolls and can be very gentle with NPCs.

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

The Gu Family has a savings room with a lot of stuffed animals that my younger father bought for my older brother as toys, which were put away when he grew up.

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

Children always touch these before differentiation what if they become omega?

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

As soldiers, we cannot get emotionally involved.

......

The words of his father and grandfather floated in his ears, but no one ever seemed to teach him to be gentle.

As Gu Tunan thought this, he took a step away, suddenly eager to pick up the bear. That was all.

Pamela's turret wagon is constantly moving in the direction of Gu Tunan, and she will attack as soon as the widow Froggy comes into her range.

Victory must be hers!

So what if you are a genius?

Just as Pamela is caught up in the rhapsody of victory, she suddenly hears a strange starting sound.

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

Just as the widow Froggy's mechanical pincers were about to touch the bear doll, a blinding white light suddenly burst from the shelter, tearing through the hovering darkness in a grand explosion that obliterated everything around the shelter...

The desperate npc activates the self-destructing device of the refuge's homunculus.

-- "Goodbye, little bear, I'm going to heaven to find my mummy and daddy."

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

"Oh my goodness ......" The host dumbfounded, "The npc's and Pamela died together ......"

Everyone was stunned by the dramatic reversal in the moment, and only Gu Tunan was spared from the cataclysmic explosion.

On the public screen came a great replay of Lone Froggy at the game, the giant frog mech standing in the way of the crying little girl, her face beaded with tears as she raised her face to look at the comical and ugly frog, as the barrage of energy bombs continued to hit the frog's back with a deafening and horrific sound -

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

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

But she no longer has a mother and father.

The replay ended and the winner of the match was displayed on the public screen in foil lettering.

"The match is won by Federation Team Gu Tunan's Lone Froggy!!!" The host shouted first, and the loud shout broke the silence as the crowd erupted in applause and cheers!

*

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

" Federation Team Gu Tunan Cheating! Unfair Mecha Cup competition!"

The protest was initiated by Imperial Team, who submitted that Gu Tunan's inexplicable defense of the little girl's npc could not be explained by common sense, but assuming that Gu Tunan had learned from the Federation in advance that saving the npc could be won without a fight, then it all makes sense.

Imperial Team's coach and Pamela took to social media to strongly condemn the shady nature of the Federation match, a backhanded move that had some uninformed onlookers siding with Imperial, saying that Gu Tunan's move had brought shame on the Federation.

In the end things got so bad that the head of the federal map had to come out and clarify it himself: "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 taking into account natural disasters and geography, while the former takes into account human factors."

"Normally npc's don't activate the self-destruct device, only a player violating nppc's emotional outburst will cause an explosion."

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

"A good mech learns to respect life before using his mech to achieve victory, because weapons are at the service of people."

Due to Imperial Team's continued protests, the match was marked as a controversial match and went back into the adjudication process.

The referees at the Mecha Cup were divided over the match, with the Imperial Team referee insisting that the match was shady and putting pressure on the other two smaller referees, under which one of the smaller referees abstained and the other trembled in support of Imperial rights.

The Proa judges said that the Federation meant what I meant.

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

Grandpa Tang sits at the negotiating table, and the aggressive imperial magistrate is tempered by Tang Rong, a kindly-looking old man whom no one dares to underestimate.

"It was a controversial match and neither Pamela nor Gu Tunan won, so we're going to go ahead and call it a draw."

Grandpa Tang's words sealed the deal, as photos of the widowed Froggy trying to pick up the bear doll in the middle of an explosion went viral on Star Online as the Mecha Cup directors changed the outcome of the competition.

The picture of the widow Froggy is ugly and comical, and the bear doll he is trying to pick up is equally dirty, but the huge explosion has gilded them with a soft glow, as if they are escaping from this crazy and chaotic world in a companionable way, to another fairy tale world.

This is not the first time that Froggy the Widow has been the subject of much debate, as it was the first time that Froggy the Widow had been teased by the internet, and the netizens said that they had to give their good buddy this mech, not only to wish him widowhood, but also to wish him cuckoldhood.

But this time it was different.

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

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

At the same time, Pamela's rating has dropped wildly, and whether Gu Tunan cheated or not, Pamela's treatment of npc's in the game was clear for all to see.

-- "A cold-blooded war machine."

-- "I shudder to think what she would have looked like in the war years! Did Imperial Team always swing their swords at the weaker ones?!"

-- "Her performance made me physically ill."

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

......

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

But at the moment the anxious Imperial employees have no idea what kind of storm they are facing next.

*

Gu Tunan holds up his medical report which shows hormonal abnormalities in his body.

Mo Zheng, standing next to Gu Tunan, "I also had a moment of trance during the race and I thought I was in the wrong place."

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

They now had no evidence and mere suspicion could not convict Pamela.

Xie Ruhang looked at the players dueling on the stage and said calmly, "I'll challenge Pamela this afternoon and as soon as she uses that cheating technique again, we'll have the evidence on record."

They have reported their findings to those in charge, and the Federation has come up with a variety of temporary detection methods, but are not sure if they will actually work.

"What if she sees fit to stop using that cheating technique?" Gu Tunan frowned.

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

"A lot of players will use means that hurt their bodies to stimulate their potential."

"The path to victory through external forces is addictive and like a drug, just a little dip can doom a person."

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

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

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