In the 20th year of Yongtai, February 12th, Guangzhou.
Today is the day when the "Dragon Head Cup" war begins.
Early in the morning, the entrance to the Longmen Gang was already crowded with people; it could be seen from the hideous appearance of each of these people... almost all of them were characters on the Green Forest Road.
The purpose of their coming here today is nothing more than three: some are here to participate in the competition, some are here to watch the excitement, and some are here to eat and drink.
Some people may ask after seeing this, isn’t it just a martial arts contest? Why is there anything to eat or drink?
You have to listen to me say a few words about this...
On the Green Forest Road, there is such a rule: Anyone who meets someone above "the generation with the character of earth" or "the generation with the character of Zhou" If a big boss washes his hands in a golden basin, or if a big gang leader is appointed as a new gang leader, the person involved must have a grand banquet, dragon and lion dances, and invite all the local prominent comrades to make it a grand affair.
Don’t think they are just being picky, in fact they have a very good reason
Firstly, engaging in such a pomp can reflect the identity of the person concerned on the road. , status, and accumulated financial resources; that is to say, retired people can use this set of pomp to get a "final conclusion", while people who take office can use this to demonstrate their current strength.
Secondly, in that era without photos, you can use this method to let more local colleagues recognize your appearance; this will largely prevent you from walking on the street near your home. On the Internet, a gangster who doesn't know you treats you as an ordinary uncle and then slaps you...
Thirdly, the "treat culture" is also applicable here: the meal you invited today, although it is There are many juniors who come to eat and drink for free, but those big guys with some status will not eat for free. They will come with "congratulatory gifts"; how much can you spend on a banquet? Isn’t it just money to buy ingredients, hire a cook, hire some handymen, and add a few tables and chairs? How many can there be? But some of these gifts are very expensive. If you finish the treat, not only will you not lose money, you will probably make some money. Of course, if others treat you in the future, you will have to take care of it...
Finally, there is the most important hidden rule: although the person giving the treat cannot take the initiative to invite people from the government, if he is giving a banquet and someone from the government comes to congratulate him, such as the local head catcher, The master of the yamen or even the county magistrate himself came to the door in person... At this time, he had to receive the guests as he would receive them, and he was not allowed to mention the identity of the other party. Even if the other party was wearing official uniform at the time, he had to treat the other party as a "personal" Identity" comes from.
As long as you do this well, the local black and white will ensure that you are prosperous from now on.
But if you fail to do the right thing, for example, you say the wrong thing in front of the "adults" or do not entertain well, then you have to improve the relationship in the future... It cannot be settled over a meal. Yes.
From a certain perspective, this set of things is a set of gray procedures established by the "collusion between officials and gangsters" at that time.It's also a kind of trial.
In short, the rules are all there. Even if "the new gang leader takes office" and "the new leader takes office"... you will definitely not be able to escape from this meal.
Someone may want to ask again, even if you finish the game today and decide the new leader, can you treat me another day? Why do we have to do it together today?
Well... this is the "event organizer", which is the work of Huang Donglai and Sun Yixie.
A few days ago, after Huang Donglai saw the final registration list for the Dragon Head Cup, he relied on his many years of experience in organizing events (in the previous world) and the world he has accumulated in Dashu. Knowledge, a rough calculation... I discovered the fact that today's game, at most, can last a long time.
Because the ancient arena competition, compared with modern e-sports competitions, the process... is really too simple.
The competition does not need to consider all the trivial matters related to network broadcasting, nor does it need to insert sponsor advertisements; players do not need to spend time debugging equipment before and between games.
So basically, this game is one game after another, and the time between games is so short that it can be ignored.
Excluding the inter-game time, the competition itself is actually very short...
In the final analysis, fighting is not boxing, and methods such as "weight division" will not be used. Create "relatively fair duel conditions" for the players. In the ring competition, the strength of the two sides is very different, and there are countless examples of the winner or even instant kill within a few moves.
Therefore, it is common for the total time from the players to show up and greet each other to the end of the fight and each of them to pretend to be cool, in less than three minutes.
Even if you take it a step further and calculate that each game lasts an average of five minutes, plus one minute between games, the competition from the top 32 to the championship only takes just over three hours. It'll be over soon, but it's not even half a day away, right?
This is why, when more than a hundred people participated in the Young Hero Association, the literary test and the martial arts test only lasted for two days in total...
After settling the accounts , Huang Donglai went to discuss with Sun Yixie and said: "Brother Sun, I estimate that this game will start at ten o'clock in the morning and end at two o'clock in the afternoon...According to our previous habits, should we finish the game after it is over?" Let's all get together for a dinner or something, and whoever wins the championship will pay the bill?"
Of course Sun Yixie would like to hear this, how could he not be happy with this free meal?
There is no contradiction between having money and taking advantage of love.
So, after Sun and Huang reached an agreement, they told this idea to other people in Hunyuan Star Gate.
Jiang Muchan himself is from Green Forest Road. When he heard this, he explained to them: The person who was chosen as the leader was originally going to treat guests. In the past, every time There are usually only two or three people who have the chance to be selected, so in the morning when the uncles were discussing who to choose,, the two or three candidates are already making preparations and setting up banquets in their respective areas... As soon as the results are announced, the selected one will start sending invitations to various places in the city in the afternoon, and the contents of the invitations will also be It doesn't need to be complicated, just write down the time and place of the treat, such as "at four o'clock in the morning, you have the backbone". People on the road will understand it at a glance, and they will come in the evening.
It’s just... this time they used a competition to determine the leader, and there were many contestants. In theory, dozens of people might be elected. It would be impossible for people to prepare a banquet in advance, so this I'm afraid I'll have to ask again another day.
Shuangxi listened to what he said and summed it up: These people are all together, and they will leave without a meal. It’s not very particular... Otherwise, we won’t even have this "celebration banquet" "Isn't it great to be "hosted" together?
Thinking of this, they thought it was a good idea, and then they "notified" the matter as the organizer.
The people who came to participate said to themselves that since the Hunyuan Star Gate is willing to do this, let’s not refute their face. Who will handle it anyway? It’s really easy to do it all together today.
So the process was settled.
The day of the competition came in a blink of an eye, and the competition venue was set up at the entrance of the Longmen Gang.
The start time is 3:30.
The arena for the competition was set up yesterday.
Different from ordinary ring competitions, this time for the "Dragon Cup" competition, a "commentary stand" higher than the ring was set up two meters away from the edge of the ring... Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai had already been sitting there.
The big group of green forest heroes in the audience were also confused when they saw this scene. They didn’t know what the commentary table was for. If there were to be VIP seats, there shouldn’t be only two seats. ah? And why do they need to set up a table in front of them?
While the people in the audience were talking a lot, the time for the game was approaching.
Huang Donglai took out an object that looked like an inkstone from his arms and put it on the table in front of him and Sun Yixie.
Two seconds later, as soon as Brother Huang moved his hand away, Sun Yixie moved his head forward, pointed his mouth at the object and said, "Hello? Did you hear that? One "Two, three, three, two, one?"
Everyone, how can I describe this voice and this movement...
You can imagine that you are lying in bed in the middle of the night, holding a On my phone, I thought about clicking on a video or watching a live broadcast, and when my eyes got sore, I would turn off the screen and go to sleep; but at this moment, there was a eunuch-like voice, speaking through a headset with a built-in microphone that probably cost less than 20 yuan. , combined with the sound effect of the motherboard's built-in sound card, a sudden burst of wah-wah screams, and then the sound bursts out from the speaker of your mobile phone, coming out of nowhere... What does that feel like?
At this moment, everyone in the competition venue was experiencing this double torture of eardrums and skulls.
"Damn it, Brother Sun, please keep your voice down." Even Huang Dong, who was sitting aside,I can't stand it anymore.
"Damn it, aren't I just trying?" Sun Yixie said unhappily, "Who knew you, 'Mai,' had such a loud voice?"
Although this Brother Chusun said the word "mic", but obviously, in this era, there is no such thing as a microphone; almost all of the loudspeaker equipment that we modern people are familiar with rely on electrical energy. This is a big break. Impossible technology, so the so-called "wheat" that Huang Donglai took out at this time was actually a small magic weapon he brought from Xuanqi Sect and modified it.
When you see this, someone must be asking, what kind of magic weapon is this?
Actually, that’s not important. Just think of it as Mai, and that’s the end of it, right? Now I'm going to make up a plausible origin and identity for it. After a few chapters, when you think about it, you'll still only remember that the function of this thing is just a wheat.
As for why there is such a wheat? That's because it's easy and labor-saving to use this explanation... Not to mention that Brother Sun can't use internal power to amplify the voice at all. Even if Huang Donglai can do this, if you let him continue to use internal power to explain for several hours, He also had to vomit blood.
"Okay, okay, I tried it before when I made it. Just sit upright and say it. This radio range is just right. If you get up close and say it, it will explode." Huang Donglai is not afraid of being beaten. When people in the audience heard words like "radio", he just sat on the commentary table and directly reminded Brother Sun.
As he said, Sun Yixie sat up straight and said: "Okay, let's do this, uh...Brother Huang, are you here?"
"Uh-huh. "The next second, Huang Donglai cleared his throat, turned his head slightly towards Namai, and said, "Hello, everyone from Green Forest Road! Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to come here today and watch this. For the 'Dragon Cup' competition, I am the commentator Huang Donglai."
"I am the commentator Sun Yixie." Sun Yixie inserted this sentence very neatly and skillfully.
"Today's match is exclusively hosted by our Hunyuan Star Gate." Huang Dong said, waving his hand towards the ring, "As you can see, at the moment, there are stickers on the pillars on both sides of the back of the ring. This couplet was written by Zhang, the head of our sect, and written by Xudong Xudong... Although the two old men could not come in person this time, they still sent people to send the most sincere blessings to all the heroes. I hope everyone will follow the spirit of friendship first and competition second...to perform well and show style." After saying that, these two guys took the lead in applauding on the commentary stage.
The Hunyuan Star Gate members also clapped their hands.
The brothers in the audience who came to watch the fun were dumbfounded. What kind of words were they thinking? We have never heard of it. Is there such a slang?
They took another look at the couplet hanging behind the ring. It said "Happy competition" on the top, "Go home safely" on the bottom, and "Peace is the most precious".
What the hell is this?
Also, the one in front of these two guys can amplify his voice dozens of times.What is this thing that spreads so widely?
There are too many confusing points, but now that the atmosphere is here, it seems that it is not impossible to clap your hands a few times...
So, by Sun Huanger The green forest heroes, who were surrounded by the "fake big air" atmosphere and the strange atmosphere of the stadium, after a brief hesitation, gave this opening speech a sparse applause.
This is the beginning of the first competition held by "Unparalleled Double Harmony" in Dashu. In the future... they will hold many more such competitions, and the scale of the competitions will be bigger than the last. ...Of course we will talk about that later.
Now, when the applause stopped, Sun Yixie waved his hand and signaled to a group of people waiting behind the stage.
When he lowered his hand, a dozen men came out from the waiting area behind the ring; some of these men were holding suonas, some were holding gongs, and some were carrying drums. ’s...
Everyone in the audience looked at it: Okay, is it going to be a funeral or a wedding this time?
They were still complaining in their hearts, but the people on the stage started playing. You must have heard the tune they were playing. It was called "Men Should Be Strong", which is Huang Feihong's beating of others. The one that was specially placed when
This piece of music was given to these musicians by Sun Yixie who spent half an hour humming it a few days ago. I feel that it is quite appropriate to play this piece of music in Guangdong.
To our ears, this is also a golden tune, but to these green forest heroes of Dashu, this is a form of music that has never been heard before. When I hear this melody now, let’s just say... …It was lit at that time.
A few minutes later, after the music was played, Sun and Huang took a look and realized that the opening effect was indeed good. The purpose of "warming up" was achieved, a lot of time was spent, and the atmosphere was set in place. Then the next step Come down and let the fight officially begin.
The first duel of this "Dragon Head Cup" is between Gong Jingyi, the son of the former leader, and Luo Yu, the "goodbye at first sight".