Lumington City, in a trench south of the Sea Castle.

The comprehensive alchemy room of Hillenberg's team is parked on the cliff of the trench.

A diving room floated up from the dark trench and docked next to the alchemy room.

Xia Zuo walked into the disinfection pool wearing a heavy diving suit. While he was taking off his diving suit and waiting for disinfection, he checked the golden finger information.

In the past three hours or so, he and other members went to the trench in the aphotic zone to set up a field for actual combat training.

For this kind of underwater work that requires contending with water pressure and being carried out in a limited light environment, the golden finger will reward you with a sum of experience and attribute values.

Just now, Xia Zuo's force sensitivity and resistance attribute value finally rose to 13 points, and his experience bar was just full.

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【Level】Lv.33+1→Lv.34

【Experience】32/20000

【Strength】13

【Agility】13

【Endurance】13

[Free Attribute Points] 21+13→34 points

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They have not yet considered the precise time scale of the battle from hours to minutes, or even seconds.

For example, Heubron, who has the most actual combat experience, will lead two combat units as a vanguard team and go deep into the opponent's area. How to get closer to the opponent's flag faster requires Heubron to step into the opponent's side.

After the zone, the decision was made on the spot.

He was deeply impressed by the rapid counterattack of the crystal remnants. If it weren't for the excellent defense of the combat puppets studied by his team, there would definitely have been wounded in his combat unit during the brief contact battle just now.

"Oh, okay." Xia Zuo came to his senses, took off his diving suit with the help of the robotic arm, moved his sore arms a little, walked to the console and sat down.

After a courteous exchange of mines, Field's team was the most seriously damaged. When they were attacked, they had just fired two rounds of mines. The movement was relatively loud, and their position was easily and accurately locked by their opponents.

"I think we found a shortcoming of underwater bullets." Danielle said thoughtfully:

We can only look at each other across the trench, and then compete with each other using combat puppets in the actual battlefield.

Xia Zuo paused for a moment before glancing at the monitoring puppet screen, "Hubron, be careful, their mines are coming."

A muffled explosion sound came out, followed by a cloud of floating dust.

They will sound an alarm as soon as they discover an opponent, and do their best to contain the opponent until their own team members arrive.

"Field, launch a medium-range mine in the direction of B2:C4:B1. Let's see what the other side's reaction is. Pay attention to concealment after the launch is completed."

"Roger, Xia Zuo. You reminded me in time." Heubron thought for a while and said, "Field, you go to A3:B1:A4 and wait. Laurie, you launch a medium-range mine to B8:C9:C2.

.Team leader, please report to..."

It is worth mentioning that the actual combat competition in the aphotic zone environment is not limited to the surface, and both combatants can move freely throughout the trench.

Xia Zuo felt that this was not the full strength of the crystal survivors...

In his last life, he played a lot of military simulation games. He clearly knew how powerful the informatization and modern battle command system was.

These surveillance puppets are autonomous combat puppets that do not require human control and will operate according to established logic.

There was silence in the trench.

Undersea pools are usually highly acidic or toxic. Combat puppets must not fall into them, otherwise they will be seriously injured immediately or even scrapped on the spot.

In fact, heavy machine guns used in land environments kill enemies through parabolas rather than straight lines.

In other words, Xia Zuo now has a full 380,000 citizen points at his disposal.

The total cost of exchanging small elemental and condensed elemental shells is about 12,000 citizen points. Xia Zuo does not need to pay for this fee. When he provided information about the Blood Demon Cult to the Demon Hunting School, he had already obtained all the required raw materials.

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The number of people fighting this time is 16V16.

This research and development competition is fully supported by the Emergency Response Department of the City of Lumington. From funds to raw materials to training venues, all expenses are paid by the Emergency Response Department.

"Second."

With such advanced command technology, it’s not too much to want to have a function that can mark the advance on the spot or guide remote strikes, right?

Hillenburg also declined other members' plans to join the partnership in cash.

As long as Xia Zuo increases the number of well-behaved elements in the spiritual ocean to 100, condenses his own elemental body, and stays in the emergency response department for five years, he can go to Kristo to apply for promotion to a high-level mage.

At noon the day before yesterday, Hillenberg brought back a piece of good news. The crystal survivors accepted the invitation to a friendly match from Hillenberg's group.

He is Heubron's comrade-in-arms and a weapons alchemist.

"Then... Xia Zuo, send a signal to the alchemy room opposite, and we will use the only opportunity to rest." Hillenberg said.

Each side has a flag that needs to be protected.

"I think it should be like this too," the team members said.

Their remains sank into the sand bed and slowly decomposed. Due to the limited flow of sea water, the decomposition products accumulated in place and eventually merged with the water to form a small pool on the seabed.

[Silver Moon Federation Citizen Points] 382,700 points

"Whoops~" The mine, with a bit of blue light, cut through the dark sea water, flew to a place more than 20 meters away, and happened to fall into the mouth of a giant tubular coral.

Array control technology is a type of command technology.

"Team leader, I'm ready here." Xia Zuo turned around and said.

The actual combat game of 16V16 is a game where strategy comes first before combat.

"Don't be discouraged, everyone. Our goal in this friendly match is to find our own shortcomings and search for things worth learning from our opponents. Although we don't have much chance of winning, we have already gained something, haven't we?

"I suggest that we apply for a 10-minute timeout. Let's sum up the battle experience just now, and then continue the game."

The two teams are not far apart, but are bound by the temple's laws and cannot sit face to face and communicate as cordially as chatting.

"It couldn't be better. I just want to think about a strategy." Heubron made the final decision.

What Field meant was to use the automatic calculation function of the crystal array to help Commander Heubron and the observers at the control console offload some of the more mechanical calculations.

"Xia Zuo." Mars patted the opponent on the shoulder and woke up his companion who was in a daze. "Your diving suit has been disinfected. Take it off quickly. The actual combat training is about to begin."

"It doesn't need to be as efficient as the crystal array control technology of the crystal remnant. It only needs to be able to mark the flight path of the ammunition, the position of teammates, and the manually marked location on the combat puppet's visual system."

The crystal array will continuously use sonic spells to detect the surrounding environment and present it on the combat puppet's visual system in the form of a two-dimensional map.

"We can only throw mines high to attack the enemy, and we completely fail to take advantage of the energy-saving advantages of underwater bullets."

"The command speed of the crystal array control technology and the response speed of the combat units are at least 30% faster than ours. Their counterattack is faster than I expected." Heubron's tone was a little low, "If we take the initiative to attack, our

The odds of winning are less than 40%.”

Considering that the actual combat situation this time may be quite intense, and using the Stone-type surveillance puppet at close range may cause accidental damage, Xia Zuo does not need to synchronize with the Stone-2.

As soon as the mine deflected by Hu Bron exploded, Xia Zuo's voice rang in everyone's ears.

Hubron woke up from the soft sofa, immediately stood up and walked to the console to watch the images recorded in the image orb.

Hubron commanded four combat units and launched four mines respectively, finally finding the traces of his opponent.

The research and development competition organized by the Alchemy School will also use this battle mode in actual combat sessions.

He originally wanted to invest the money in a research and development competition for combat puppets, but Hillenburg refused.

He had to use auxiliary props such as observation orbs and imaging orbs to record real-time changes on the battlefield and collect materials for post-war summary.

"Then everyone, let's start synchronizing with the battle puppet." Hillenberg gave the order. He and the surrounding team members lay down on their own soft sofas, closed their eyes and entered shallow meditation.

"Prepare to deflect the projectiles!" Heubron roared, his eyes scanning the open space in front, and a faint blue light was coming quickly.

The way to defeat the opponent is to enter the opponent's area, find the opponent's flag and bring it back to your own flag.

Also marked by the crystal array are the locations of each friendly combat puppet, things marked as suspicious by team members, hostile targets identified by teammates, etc.

Underwater bullets with a flying speed of up to 150 meters/second are the fastest underwater offensive alchemy items except for a few weapons blessed with water spells.

"Xia Zuo is right. This is where our chance of winning lies. We have not exploited the advantages of underwater bullets. It is not too late to do so now."

Both sides temporarily lost synchronization with the battle puppets.

Because they are denser or contain certain substances, they come together to form seafloor pools.

The operation console oversees the overall situation, the secret message voice device enables communication among members, and the team leader conducts on-the-job command based on the overall situation and feedback from members.

"I saw it." Xia Zuo said, "Just 20 meters in front of you to the left, Huubron. Two combat units have gathered there. The mine just fired alerted them..."

Xia Zuo's mind turned around and an idea popped up.

This made Xia Zuo extremely curious about the past history of the Crystal Stone survivors and the destruction of the Kingdom of Truth.

Hillenburg took over and said:

Hubron speculated that this was very possible.
To be continued...