Enforcer Manual
Chapter 314: I’m Really Fed Up with You Overachievers_1

Chapter 314: Chapter 314: I’m Really Fed Up with You Overachievers_1

Lightning was Ge Fu’s carefully selected seed player and his ace card for competing in the first Horn Bug Warrior Championship.

In some respects, this was a new type of cricket-fighting activity in 2166.

With the aid of technology, the owners of the "crickets" could even immerse themselves in the thrilling arena. The tournament format of the first Horn Bug Warrior Championship was very simple, adopting a one-on-one duel mode. Due to the small number of participants, the entire series could be completed in one day.

At that time, the victorious Horn Bug would be awarded the title of warrior, a status with exceptionally high standing within the tribe, second only to the King Bug.

After Ge Fu posted the advertisement for the event, those who were confident in their fighting abilities were eager to join the competition immediately.

Another interesting aspect of the event was the inclusion of a "cricket-catching" phase before the entrants competed. Contestants not only had to use headbands to enter the arena but also had to personally select from the Horn Bug Tribe a strong Horn Bug candidate—securing a competitive advantage right from the start.

After disconnecting the neural connection, Ge Fu excitedly began to explain the principles of this technology to Song Lan.

He was inspired by a theory proposed by Father Bruno, integrating the flesh and tissue of the Devourers into the technology of commercial gaming helmets to achieve a unity of thought between the user and the Horn Bug.

After creating such an unprecedented achievement, Ge Fu’s first thought was to apply it to "cricket fighting."

After listening to Ge Fu’s explanation, Song Lan understood why Dr. Bai Zhu had asked him to make the trip.

The true power of this technology was not in conducting "cricket fights" for entertainment, but in its ability to let them control Horn Bugs in covert operations such as infiltration and intelligence gathering.

Although the Horn Bugs had already formed scouting and combat squads, they were limited by their intelligence and expressive capabilities, only capable of carrying out simple information transfer, not the delicate work of espionage.

This technology would allow them to infiltrate, silently and unnoticed, the underground shelters occupied by the Aljom Army.

According to the intelligence gathered by Dr. Bai Zhu, the people of the Neutral Country seemed to allow these mutants to thrive in their underground networks. For the locals, avoiding these mutants was not difficult, but if unlucky outsiders stumbled into the subterranean routes, the most likely scenario would be getting lost and blundering into the lairs of the mutants, delivering a natural bounty to them.

But Horn Bugs were different.

Being a type of mutant themselves, they were, rounding off, distant relatives of those indigenous mutants.

Even thousands of miles apart, the exceptionally sociable Song Lan could imagine the Horn Bugs and the native mutants sitting around a table, happily chatting away.

Previously, Ge Fu’s "cricket fighting" event was just the opportunity to select from the Bug Tribe an individual with strong solo combat capabilities, capable of smoothly handling various complex scenarios.

However, from the reactions of Medea and others, while they recognized the technology’s significance, they seemed to lack interest in the competition itself.

They saw Ge Fu’s endeavor like someone who had discovered a tactical nuclear-grade technology but intended to use it as a prop in a neighborhood fitness competition.

Ge Fu’s past status still limited his vision. Falena had mentioned more than once how this technology would bring about a revolutionary change for the intelligence counteraction department of the United Government, perfectly augmenting hacking technology and taking their intelligence capabilities to a new level.

But for Song Lan, this was undoubtedly good news.

Among the competitors, apart from Xinyue and the security team, the others showed little excitement for the match, meaning that making it to the semifinals should not be a problem, and with some luck in the draw, he might even reach the final of the victors’ group.

Bidding farewell to Ge Fu, Song Lan made a special trip to the Horn Bug living area, choosing a large, dark-shiny individual from the many Horn Bugs.

Filled with optimistic expectations, the day of the competition arrived unexpectedly.

Song Lan took the day off and rode his bicycle to the dump early in the morning, energetically encouraging the Horn Bug he had chosen.

The goal this time was to break into the top four and aim for the championship.

"3, 2, 1, go for it!"

Before entering the arena, Song Lan’s fist and the Horn Bug’s pincers touched each other, as if they were the best partners about to step onto the final stage. However, when the doors of the arena slowly opened to them, the scene inside made both human and bug freeze in place.

After a long silence, Song Lan glanced at the time on his phone.

They had reached the arena nearly an hour earlier than the scheduled time, yet researchers like Medea, who claimed to have no interest in the competition, had already started adjusting their equipment.

Despite their seemingly amiable appearance, there seemed to be undercurrents swirling among the crowd.

Song Lan silently approached the group and eavesdropped on intelligence about their opponents.

Medea’s selected Horn Bug had undergone earth-digging modifications, capable of burrowing underground in the arena and launching surprise attacks on opponents; Dr. Bai Zhu had equipped his Horn Bug with hacking technology that could paralyze an opponent’s cybernetics in a short period; Falena had even brought out an individual that assimilated an Overload system.

The three top researchers in their respective fields stood together, pointed out the precise modifications on each other’s Horn Bugs with a mix of sarcasm, and each lamented that they were unprepared for this competition and would probably be eliminated in the first round.

This scene seemed to take Song Lan back to his distant student days.

Back then, as exams approached, he would also arrive early to the classroom. However, the top students in the class always got there sooner, and just like Medea and the others, they would gather and claim that they hadn’t had the time to review.

The naive him always believed them and joined their discussions, missing out on the golden time for revision.

When the exam results came out, he found that he alone truly hadn’t reviewed.

What was even more terrifying was that Song Lan found out that today, Lu Xiang had also taken the day off and arrived even earlier than him.

Human nature is treacherous!

It seems that by 2166, the King of Competitiveness had not faded into obscurity.

However, after another thought, he suddenly realized that the few people standing before him were the top researchers in their fields; in other words, they were the kings of the overachievers, the ones who could be crowned "King of Kings".

And he was still that naive youth who, apart from getting fired up in the moment, hadn’t done any sort of "revision".

The long-awaited Warrior League had commenced.

The arena was busier than ever, with thousands of Horn Bugs filling the stands.

Amidst the buzzing of the bugs, the first round of the series concluded magnificently.

Song Lan and the Horn Bug, as if weathered by the vicissitudes of life, took their seats in the front of the audience, waiting for the second round of the competition to begin.

"Actually..."

It was a while later before Song Lan finally spoke, "For a newcomer participating for the first time, making it to the top eight isn’t so bad."

At least, in this competition with nine participants, they had secured the commendable position of eighth place.

Far ahead of Samuel, who had missed the competition due to unforeseen circumstances.

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