The second match began in the afternoon. This time, it was another humanoid robot playing against "Reformer 1", which also had a dominating name: "Fracture Vanguard". Fracture Vanguard was covered in gold, had a whale head, and a pair of 20-centimeter long sharp claws. When the referee blew his whistle, the fierce battle began. This time, Reformer 1 used a defensive tactic. Fracture Vanguard lunged forward with its sharp claws raised high, the Reformer punched it in the stomach, but unexpectedly, the opponent bounced him three meters away with a jerk, the Reformer was a bit surprised, he could only run quickly, circled the opponent and kicked him in the back. "Fracture Vanguard" stumbled and fell to the ground first, the people outside the arena thought it would get up quickly, but after two minutes, it was still on its back, not moving. "Is it dead?" someone speculated. The referee had no choice but to declare Reformer 1 the winner. There was an immediate chorus of boos and comments from outside the arena. "What the hell! this isn't helping! turns out all that golden light all over his body is just for show.”
"It's bad enough that this robot is being shown off."
"Turns out it was painted all over its body to look good, so when it fell to the ground, it would look even more handsome."
Ronnie and the others outside the arena were also a little surprised that this match had been won so easily. In the 9,822 City-states, the Reformer had two more matches, both of which he won easily. Finally, he entered the second round in first place. There were a total of twelve matches in the second round, and Ronnie's team won eleven and lost one. That loss came against a three-time You City champion, a flying robot bee: You City's "Stinger of Death." Reformer 1 was defeated in that match, and Stinger of Death kept shooting arrows into the air. When Reformer 1 tried to jump, it flew higher. Ronnie on the outside of the arena saw that there was no hope of winning, so he raised the white flag and surrendered. At the end of the second round of the tournament, they went into the finals in You City in second place. The final was held two days later at Dream Square in Zi City. Summing up the tournament, Ronnie said, "It seems that if we want to do well in the finals, we need to improve Reformer 1.”
"Do you have any good ideas, Slag Man?" Lily asked.
"What if we put the 'Enlightenment Chip' into 'Reformer 1' so that it has the ability to learn and upgrade itself?"
"Huh! that's a good idea, boss," Crockett praised.
Lily nodded, "Then let's modify it right away, we only have one day before we have to leave tomorrow."
The three of them immediately threw themselves into the task of upgrading. They were busy for a whole day, and the next day the upgrade was completed. The three of them gave it a new name, "Reformer 2". Ronnie called Alice, Yurina and Butch, plus George and Brown, a total of eight people, to go to Zi City. They had to take a plane to get from You City to Zi City, which was on an island in East Africa. After a flight of over two hours, they arrived on the island. George and Brown went ahead and found out the rules of the game and told Ronnie, which were as follows:
Game 1: Held on the morning of December 28th, 36 people were randomly divided into 18 groups for an elimination round, with the winners advancing to the next round.
Game 2: Held in the afternoon of December 28th, 18 people will be randomly divided into 6 groups, with the first of the 6 groups advancing to the next round.
Game 3: On the morning of December 29th, 6 people will be randomly divided into 3 groups, with the winners advancing to the next round.
Game 4: December 30th, morning and afternoon, 3 people will play 2 games each, the referee will decide the winner according to the number of points.
The "Dream Plaza" was located in the center of the central district of Zi City, almost twice the size of the "Sea of Dreams" where Ronnie was. The words "Continue Unceasingly, Without Stopping" were hung above the plaza. A huge shadow was cast over the square, sometimes a forest, sometimes a castle. When Ronnie's eight people entered the central area, it was a green meadow. Yurina, who was holding her stomach, saw this and took off her shoes and ran into the grass, shouting in surprise, "All this grass is real!”
Behind her, Ronnie saw her and shouted urgently, "You run slower, don't fall down.”
Crockett explained, "Not everything here is illusion, there's real and there's fake, that's what makes it so brilliant.”
The group followed as Yurina also stepped onto the grass and all sat on their butts. Yurina used Ronnie's leg as a pillow and lay down. Lily watched them coldly, a wave of jealousy flooding her mind. Alice, who now had an awkward relationship with Butch and Crockett, sat down next to Lily. Not long after, a large group of people entered through the west gate. These people surrounded a man in the center who was constantly being asked questions, the man was full of pride and seemed to despise everything around him. Lily suddenly stood up when she saw the man and shouted, "Andre!"
"Who's Andre?" Ronnie asked as he stood up as well.
Lily's jealousy had not subsided and she didn't want to talk to him, but she couldn't help but speak up. It turned out that this Andre was born in Mou City, twenty-seven years old this year, the same age as Lily, is the "Warp Engine Cosmic Spaceship" development team in the two youngest members of the team, at the age of twenty-one years old to receive the "Second Class of the Order of the Virgin". He was the champion of the previous two New World Robotics Competitions and the favorite to win this one. Ronnie listened to the introduction and was secretly surprised: "This person is much better than me, no wonder he looks so proud."
Lily saw his expression and scoffed, "How's it going? did you take a hit? a little genius like you was fine in that little place in You City, but it's nothing here."
"How do you know so much?" Ronnie couldn't help but ask.
"Because I'm from Zi City."
"Oh! no wonder you know so much, do you have a grudge against Andre? I saw fire coming out of your eyes just now."
"You could say that, it's because of him that I went to You City."
As the two of them talked, Yurina reached out and pulled Ronnie up, saying, "Don't stand there, sit down and keep me company, I'm a little tired."
Ronnie complied and sat down. Yulina was still lying on his lap, Ronnie stroked her hair and said, "I shouldn't have let you come this time, it's too inconvenient for you to be pregnant.” But Yurina didn't hear these words, she was already asleep.
The competition began the next day. This time, Dream Plaza was transformed into an arena, with seating for more than 30,000 spectators raised around the perimeter, and a huge circular glass dome in the center. The glass acted as a magnifying glass so that the robots fighting inside could be seen clearly. Ronnie's eight men sat in a row. George and Brown took out the drums again and used them to cheer. Crockett and Butch sandwiched Alice in the middle, and the duo continued to shower her with compliments. Once again Alice felt so tired of being in love, it wasn't as easy as being alone. Reformer 2's opponent this time was a hammer-wielding rhinoceros, also known as the Wilderness Rhinoceros. Although he was only one meter tall, his hammer was almost two meters long and weighed over a hundred kilos. Once you were hit by it, the battle was basically over. He had already smashed eight robots. Both sides stood on one side and the time counted down, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The referee's whistle officially started the match. The upgraded Transformer was much calmer and didn't rush to attack, the Wilderness Rhinoceros attacked first. It raised its hammer and brought it down on the Reformer's head, but the Reformer easily dodged it. The second hammer followed, the Reformer changed several positions in a row, the hammer followed closely, the ground was also shattered by the hammer puddles. At this time, the reformer was ready to counterattack, it was in the hammer over suddenly bend down, to the other side of the leg to fire a laser beam, cut off the bull's leg, "Wilderness Rhinoceros" lost balance and fell back, the reformer wanted to catch up with the victory. Unexpectedly, just as he was approaching the other side, the severed leg of the rhinoceros suddenly appeared and exploded in front of him, catching the Reformer off guard, half of his body was blown away, with only one arm and one leg left, he was unable to move at once. The Wilderness Rhinoceros was unable to get up, even with one leg missing, and the referee declared a draw between the two sides, with the winner to be decided by a draw between the two competitors. Ronnie was so disappointed with the result that he asked George to draw, and George was lucky enough to get a positive draw and win the match. Since arriving in Zi City, Ronnie's self-confidence had been shattered, he looked at the reformed man with half his body blown away and asked, "What are we going to do? is it too late to fix this?"
Lily helplessly replied, "Definitely too late, give up!"
Since the game was in the afternoon, Ronnie could only give up. All they could do was watch the others play. After watching a few matches, they realized that there was still a huge gap between them and the others, and on the 30th, Andre's Thunder Eater appeared in the championship match. The Thunder Eater has three forms, of which this is the second, and no one has seen the final form. At first glance, Ronnie couldn't help but stare at the Thunder Eater, which was a scaled-down version of his father's Ullian Warrior, a half-man, half-machine monster. It held a sword, its head held high, majestic, like a god of war. "Could this Andre be related to my father in some way?" Ronnie thought in his heart. The Thunder Eater's opponent was the bee called Stinger of Death, who had defeated the reformed man. Ronnie wanted to see this match so he could learn from the experience and prepare for the next match.