Chapter 276 Mad Dog Theory
As the competition progresses, more and more viewers with mechanical experience have seen the clues. Xia Fei and Constantine did not repair the samurai-class light combat drone, but were using limited parts to perform new assembly!
It is impossible to explain what their works look like, but it is definitely a combat drone, but it is not the same as the common models and does not belong to any known type in the league.
Since it is a temporary drone, their works are more than one level different from the original samurai level, whether it is firepower or defense. However, this is not the key. The key is that Xia Fei and Constantine did it. The parts are so incomplete. They combined these defective products into a usable drone by hand.
This is by no means an easy job, nor is it as simple as building blocks. First, you need to re-plan various subsystems of a drone, and then arrange the circuit output and input ports, firepower allocation, and power allocation.
If powerful intelligent engineering software is used to assist, Xia Fei's work will definitely be much easier. Unfortunately, the game will not allow the use of computers. Everything must be done by relying on his own brain. Few people can understand the amount of calculations and the complexity of calculations.
Li Mo, who was a little far away, saw Xia Fei and Constantine's movements. He suddenly realized that he might have gone in the wrong direction. He always thought that today's game was to test the players' proficiency in sending difficult and complicated diseases, but he suddenly realized that it was the real purpose of the game to test the players' creativity and adaptability in extreme difficulties!
Li Mo's forehead was quickly covered with sweat. He hurriedly dismantled the assembled drone. If he continued to install it, even if the drone could recover from appearance, it would not be possible to fly. Although he was reluctant, he decided to follow Xia Fei's approach to redesign and assemble the drone.
The biggest problem now is that there is no time left, and the electronic timer instructions tell the contestants that they only have seventy-nine minutes left.
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In the lounge of the honorary member of the Mechanics Association, several senior mechanics are becoming more and more interested in this game. Since they are the chief referees of this competition, every move and choice of the contestants will be clearly known. Just click on the computer in their hands, and everything will be clear.
"Who do you think has the better plan of Xia Fei or Constantine?" asked Nian Fuguang, the general manager of this competition.
Everyone was silent. The competition was still in progress and Xia Fei's drone had not been finalized yet, so it was not easy to judge the pros and cons.
The fat old man Lu Xuanxin said bluntly: "Xia Fei reduced the firepower of the drone in full force in the defense system, and Constantine is more balanced. All factors have been taken into account. Constantine's design should be better."
An old man with a goatee beard next to him said, "Old Lu, you can't say that. Although Xia Fei's design lost some defense, it adjusted the attack power of the firepower system to a level similar to that of a brand new drone. You see, he is still deliberately correcting the speed of the speed gun. If it can be successful, the firepower of his drone is probably sharper than that of the brand new one. You are a defense system, and of course you will be towards Constantine, but we fire control hope to get the maximum firepower output. From my standpoint, Xia Fei's design is relatively excellent. It is not possible for everyone to push the firepower to the limit under such limited conditions."
The fat man Lu Xuan snorted coldly and said to himself: "If there is no defense system, it would be useless if the attack power is strong."
"What did you say?!" Goatbeard became anxious on the spot. He stood up and sternly said: "Observation is the best defense. Have you never heard of it?"
"I've heard of it." Lu Xuan countered calmly: "But that's just a wave of flow. If it's a protracted war, it depends on his own defense performance."
These top veterans of the Mechanics Association are experts in various systems. They have different positions and will of course have differences. For example, the question of defense or offense has been quarreling within the league for tens of thousands of years, and there has never been a fixed answer.
Even the most powerful warships in the universe are difficult to balance. No one can explain the proposition that there is a chicken or an egg first.
Defense expert Lu Xuan and fire control expert Goatbeard quarreled endlessly. Soon authorities from other different fields joined the battle. The most important VIP room of the Mechanics Association became a vegetable market in a blink of an eye, and abuse was heard.
"Enough!" Nian Fuguang said in a deep voice. As the Supreme Emperor of the Mechanics Association, the commander-in-chief of the Goldfinger Cup for 11 consecutive consecutive times, the chief judge of the CEO, Nian Fuguang's influence has even exceeded his field. When he shouted, everyone immediately calmed down, sat in his seat angrily, with each other's faces.
"You don't know that there is no fixed answer to the question of firepower or defense. Even if you argue for ten thousand years, you won't have any results. I don't think so. When the game ends, Xia Fei and Constantine are called here, and let them talk about their design concepts. If anyone's idea is more reasonable, then he will give whoever has a more reasonable idea, how about adding a full score to a tournament?" Nian Fuguang said.
This method is naturally good. Listening to the players' ideas is much better than a few outsiders who argue. Everyone agreed. Although they agreed, they did not speak to each other anymore and remained in a cold war state.
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Seven minutes and forty seconds before the end of the game, Xia Fei took the lead in completing his work. Since his superpower is speed, he has an absolute advantage in hand speed. His drone is much more complicated than Constantine's design, but it takes less time.
Avril stood up nervously from her seat. Through the video system, she already knew that what Xia Fei had done was not a samurai drone, but a very strange thing.
Avril sought Pang Xing’s opinions on this and wanted to know what Xia Fei had done. Unfortunately, Pang Xing had only a slight understanding of machinery and did not understand the key points of combat drones.
I have to say that Xia Fei's taste is very problematic. He made the drone he made up made it look very ferocious, like a huge black cactus covered with hard thorns of varying lengths, which can almost be described as ugly.
Seeing that other players had assembled a warrior-class drone that was exactly the same as before, while her Xia Fei was equipped with a messy monster, Avril couldn't help but worry that she didn't want to see Xia Fei lose the game, especially in the hands of Li Mo and the inappropriate Constantine.
In fact, there are many people who think that Xia Fei's machine is ugly. Star Network has added hundreds of millions of messages in an instant, all of which are evaluating the appearance of Xia Fei's work. Almost everyone thinks that this machine lacks aesthetics and is ugly.
Someone who is interested in the incident initiated a *** to select the ugliest work of the Goldfinger Competition ever. Xia Fei's cactus drone was decisively elected with a high vote of 99.99%.
Xia Fei did not know the world's evaluation of his works. Even if he knew, he would not change his original idea. The combat drone was not born for beauty, but its existence was for combat. As for the others, it was completely out of Xia Fei's consideration.
After lighting a cigarette, Xia Fei quickly checked his drone. After all, it was a temporary piece of work. Without the test of the engineering simulation system, Xia Fei was not very sure about its performance.
On the other side, Li Mo was already sweating profusely. Although he imitated Xia Fei and started to assemble the machine again, he had a late chance of doing it, and it was not as fast as Xia Fei, so he had just completed about 55% of the time, and there was only a few minutes left for him.
Two minutes and seven seconds before the end of the game, Constantine's work was completed. Compared with Xia Fei's hideous cactus, Constantine's drone seemed average. It was like a rectangular box, stupid and clear.
Countless people watching the competition were once again angry. Constantine's works were slightly more regular than Xia Fei's, but they could never be called good-looking. So his drone quickly occupied the second place on the ugliest works list.
The audience frowned. It was a strange game. Xia Fei and Constantine, who had performed well before, created the two ugliest drones in history. Li Mo, the No. 1 seed of the tournament, failed to complete his work even when the game ended.
A considerable number of contestants assembled samurai-level drones, but none of them looked good because they knew very well that such drones were just decorations, let alone fighting, they could not even fly.
Xia Fei checked his work and felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he took a step and walked out. He raised his head and smiled slightly at Avril in the stands. Avril's hanging heart finally fell down after seeing Xia Fei's confident appearance, and waved to Xia Fei with a red face.
On the other side, Constantine followed closely behind and walked outward. He looked at Xia Fei's works and then his own, and couldn't help but laugh proudly.
"Drip! The competition time has come. Please stop the work at hand and leave the scene within ten seconds, otherwise you will be judged as violating the rules." The cold girl in the competition monitoring system said. All smart computers have this kind of sound, as if they were carved from a mold, without any freshness.
Xia Fei passed the detection door and then stopped aside and waited for his score, but for a few seconds, there was no indication on the light curtain. Constantine was the same. They looked at each other strangely, and they were inexplicably in the dark.
Each of the contestants who came out immediately had scores, but without exception, all scored zero!
The scene was infuriating, and it was incredible that so many zero points were scored at the same time. In the eyes of many laymen, the cactus assembled by Xia Fei should score zero points, rather than these well-behaved players.
Li Mo followed the abortion to the test door, and felt a little sweaty. He hesitated at the door before he gritted his teeth and passed, as if he was generously executed.
"Twenty-three points!"
"Since someone scored a point!"
"No, why would Li Mo have scored if he didn't finish the game?"
"Yes, many players have already completed the competition requirements but still got zero points. Li Mo has only completed more than half of it, why does he have a score?"
"The Li family has a great career, and it is unknown if they can bribe the referee if they can't do it well."
The people in the stands and the audience watching the game through Star Network were talking, and they couldn't figure out what was going on today's game. Not to mention so many zero points, there were people like Xia Fei who didn't score.
The richness of human imagination discourages other creatures. Just a few seconds after Li Mo's score came out, the Star Network was full of rumors. Some said that Li Mo bribed the referee, some said that the intelligent monitoring system had failed, and some even linked this bizarre assessment with the Zerg's conspiracy, believing that some aliens sneaked into the Human Alliance and deliberately sabotaged them.
Li Mo came to Xia Fei with a malicious smile and constantine, deliberately wandering around them, as if mocking them for not even having a score.
At this time, a staff member said to them: "The tournament committee asked you two to go to the referee center, now."
Xia Fei was slightly stunned, wondering why the competition committee called him over, and Constantine was also unaware of it.
After saying hello to Avril, Xia Fei and Constantine walked out under the leadership of the staff, but Li Mo did not leave. The competition committee summoned Xia Fei and made him extremely interested, wanting to know what the reason was.
Taking the elevator to the sixth floor, Xia Fei came to this old men's club. There were nine people here. They all had the Medal of Honor of the Mechanics Association on their chests and wore blue uniforms only those who had trade union veterans. However, these people were old, and many of them looked big belly, and when they wore uniforms, they would no longer have the style of the past.
"Please sit down." Nian Fuguang said with a smile: "I am the president of this Goldfinger Cup Mechanics Competition for a long time. All of us here are veterans in the association. We want to know some questions."
Xia Fei said: "If you have anything, just ask."
Nian Fuguang nodded and said, "Constantine, let me first talk about the key points of the drone you assembled in today's competition? What purpose is it assembled like this?"
Constantine said: "My idea is actually very simple. Try to make combat drones more balanced performance, especially in terms of armor. If a combat drone does not have strong defense, no matter how strong the firepower is, it will be useless. On the battlefield, it must first survive and then be able to strike the enemy."
"So I used fifteen mm alloy steel plate to re-reinforce the shell and made corresponding adjustments to strive to improve the survivability of the drone."
The fat old man Lu Xuan was very satisfied with Constantine's answer. He was a researcher in defense systems and naturally focused on the defense capabilities of drones.
Nian Fuguang nodded, "What you said makes sense, but the drone you modified is insufficient in power, it is very slow in speed, and cannot track high-speed targets. Moreover, the warrior-class drone is equipped with a fast cannon and has a short range. Why don't you improve the range of the cannon so that it can attack the enemy on a large scale?"
Constantine spread her arms helplessly and said, "Because I don't have enough time and materials, it's my limit to be able to make this look."
Everyone was still very satisfied with Constantine's words, which were reasonable and without any exaggeration.
Nian Fuguang asked Xia Fei again: "Your work has a weird appearance. Of course, this is not the point. We want to know why the drone you assembled is crazy about improving vitality without considering the defense you deserve?"
Xia Fei smiled and said, "Because on the battlefield, I can't think of anything else to do except output firepower."
Everyone was curious and the quick-mouthed Lu Xuan said: "How can there be nothing else to do? When a drone is attacked, it must be flying around to avoid being hit. If you are hit, you still need to resist strike ability. After interrupting communication by an enemy electromagnetic bomb, you need to establish a secondary contact with the command system immediately. It is not just as simple as firing a cannon."
Xia Fei said lightly: "What you are talking about is a normal drone. The one I assembled is not only attack, but also attacking, and fighting for life."
"Why do you think this way?" Nian Fuguang asked with a frown.
Xia Fei said: "Constantine just said that in order to improve the survivability of the drone, he installed fifteen mm alloy steel plates. The steel plates can indeed improve defense, but what can the fifteen mm steel plates defend against? Is the enemy's spear?"
"The defense of the fifteen-mm alloy plate is too weak. If this layer of steel plate is added, it will not play any role, but will reduce the speed of the drone. I have carefully calculated that relying on existing raw materials cannot improve the drone's defense capabilities."
"You may think what I said is wrong. If you use all the accessories, you can improve your ability to fight 10%. What I want to say is that this is just a push of scrap copper and iron. Is it that important to have that 10% defensiveness? No matter how you strengthen it, the enemy will kill it in one shot, so you won't waste limited resources on defense."
Everyone was speechless. What Xia Fei said made sense. A piece of white paper would be poked with a light poke. The same is true for overlapping the two pieces of white paper.
"My goal is very simple. I will use this temporarily pieced together combat drone as a disposable item, concentrate superior resources and strengthen the attack power with all my might, and strive to bite the enemy hard before death, so that the other party will feel pain even if they don't die."
"Use these materials to create a qualified drone, so I made it a qualified mad dog. There is nothing to say if I can't bite others, because its performance is there, probably only one-tenth of a brand new drone, but as long as the opponent is accidentally bitten, it will be bloody!"
"And the appearance you mentioned before, the reason why I welded so many alloy spikes on the drone shell is that if the cannon cannot hit it, it will directly hit the enemy and die with him."
Everyone was stunned. Xia Fei's idea of "making things worse than being broken", which was a bit crazy. The ghost once gave Xia Fei a very appropriate name.
It's called the Mad Dog Theory!
Chapter completed!