Chapter 669: Chapter 636: This is Stable Now!
In most people’s expectations, Daxia, as the current “World First War Zone,” would definitely choose the most resource-rich position without hesitation.
That is the center of the entire battlefield, the only large city, and the only area marked as [Six Stars] in terms of abundant resources.
Not only does it have rich resources itself, but industrial districts, power plants, airports, anti-aircraft shelters, and scattered villages are also distributed around the large city…
Not to mention there is a river running through the city from which you can reach the ocean downstream and reach the mountains and forests upstream, the transportation is quite convenient.
The tactical options are extremely rich.
But when Super Tomato joined the discussion group prepared by Cloud Dream according to the roster link, it found that this place wasn’t well-received among the crowd in the group–
“Middle of the map, whoever goes there is a dumbass.”
“Holy shit, six-star supplies, can’t anyone see that this is a trap?”
“Nope, nope, whoever wants to go there just does it.”
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Super Tomato thought about it, and it really made sense.
Daxia is already everyone’s target, and if they choose the middle of the map, they will truly be surrounded, fighting the whole world.
Even if they were strong, they would be destined to fight from beginning to end, with basically no chance to take a breath.
The rational approach should be to avoid this place, choose a well-defended location, and keep a low profile throughout the early and mid-game.
When everyone is battered enough in the late game and their numbers have dwindled, they can come out and clean up the mess.
But that raises a problem–
That is, this tactic is too simple and can be thought of by anyone.
If every group in the world keeps playing it safe and staying hidden, how can the contest continue?
Wait a second!
Could it be that Cloud Dream is going to play another “Earthquake Shrinking Circle” hand?
Super Tomato had a myriad of thoughts.
But under Lincoln’s leadership, Cloud Dream always likes to “create surprises for the players,” and come up with some unexpected tricks.
There’s too much uncertainty in this first edition of [Peak War].
For example, now everyone can see the resources and military abundance of each area labeled by Cloud Dream, but they only know the “Star Level.”
As for what weapons are available and how many there are, Cloud Dream has no intention of announcing it before the contest.
At the lowest [one-star] level, whether it’s [Rifle], [Pistol], [Bow and Arrow], or [Kitchen Knife], nobody knows.
Similarly, as the resource limit, the [six-star] level, no one can predict the upper limit of weapon power.
At times like this, Super Tomato couldn’t help but think: Could there be nuclear weapons?
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One hour after the roster announcement, the number of players joining the group finally exceeded 800.
The first round of position voting officially begins.
The voting is real-time, one person one vote, limited to 10 minutes, and if the number of votes exceeds 60% of the total number of participants, it’s considered the final result.
Super Tomato was dumbfounded to see that suddenly the votes for [Area 1: City Center] soared, passing 100 in an instant!
Everyone in the group was terrified–
“??!!”
“Don’t screw around!”
“What kind of lunatics are these? Where do all these war fanatics come from??”
“Calm down!! If you want to mess around, do it next time. This is the first game of [Peak War], the championship must stay in Daxia! Keep it low-key and don’t lose face!”
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Whether it was because of the massive opposition or because there were only so many war fanatics in the group, [Area 1: City Center] stopped gaining votes after it passed 100.
But what followed was an even crazier event–
The votes for [Area 33: Underground Cave] began to rise rapidly!
There was instantly chaos in the group:
“Don’t play tunnel warfare here! That’s a natural cave, not dug by humans!”
“This is a modern battlefield, you’ll be buried alive by bombs!”
“A thousand people crawling through a cave together? What kind of idea is that…”
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While they were still trying to calm people down, [Area 22: Meteor Crater] suddenly got a surge of votes for no apparent reason.
Super Tomato was completely baffled by these people’s unusual tactics.
He originally thought that among the players who made the big list, there would be 400 random ones, and the other 600 would be experts.
Since they were experts, they would be very rational and only care about victory.
But now, he found that he was greatly mistaken!
There were a lot of “madmen” among these experts who went crazy at any opportunity they got to mess around.
10 minutes passed, and the first round of voting for the battle site failed without a doubt.
None of the options got more than 60% votes.
The staff member with the ID “Cloud Dream Official Tool Man No.1” didn’t waste a single second and, ignoring the noisy conversations in the group, started the second round of voting.
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10 minutes later, the second round of voting failed again.
This time there were fewer people messing around, and very few voted for places like highlands, deserts, or marshlands that were clearly unsuitable.
But the votes were still scattered.
Tool Man No.1 strictly followed his own name, acting like an emotionless tool man, and silently began the third round of voting.
The third round of voting failed once again.
However, the options finally started to become more concentrated. By this round, all areas with less than four-star resource levels were abandoned, as were most wild environments and villages.
Then came the fourth, fifth, sixth rounds…
The players in the group discussed while voting, persuading and compromising with each other, and the votes finally became more concentrated.
But in the end, they were still undecided between [Area 6: Airport], [Area 8: Seaport], [Area 13: Underground Stronghold], and [Area 16: Desert Oasis], with heated discussions.
Tool Man No.1 finally showed some emotional fluctuations: “Russia finished the pre-selection in one round of voting, and France took two rounds.”
“How about…we speed up the process?”
“Honestly, I’m not used to working overtime…”
Tool Man’s complaint about overtime was ignored by the group members.
But they were surprised that Russian and French players were so efficient, especially Russia, who had results in just one round of voting?
Compared to their intense differences, it seemed incredible.
They tried to find out the voting results of Russia and France from Tool Man No.1, but Tool Man No.1 strictly followed the rules and kept his lips sealed.
After another hour and a half of heated discussions, the group finally completed the difficult process of narrowing it down to one choice: [Area 8: Seaport] as the final battlefield.
Tool Man No.1, relieved, immediately submitted the result.
Three minutes later, the official Battlefield account announced the T1 War Zone battle site selection results-
[Daxia-Seaport-Four-Star Resources]
[Russia-City Center-Six-Star Resources]
[France-Anti-Aircraft Hole-Five-Star Resources]
This result was beyond the expectations of countless players, especially Daxia, who ranked first in points, choosing only a four-star resource area, which surprised many people.
Ivan Ivanov, who had just achieved an excellent third place in the Hunting Contest and his popularity soared again, successfully obtained a War Reporter spot with his anchor identity.
He was now in his live broadcast room, laughing loudly:
“We thought Daxia would definitely choose the only six-star area. We chose the city center just to try our luck, and were prepared to change it if needed…”
“But we didn’t expect to win right away!”
“It’s all set! We got this!”
Of course, someone in the live broadcast room asked, “What if we’re besieged?”
Ivan Ivanov replied confidently, “Then we’ll fight the whole world till the end!”
“Victory belongs to the brave!”
“Like the French, hiding in the anti-aircraft hole waiting to steal a victory, the Slavic people disdains to do such a thing!”
It was clear to see that the French players’ tactical choice didn’t require any thought, anyone could tell.
The French players were not afraid to let people know their tactics, and the patriotic French and part-time Turner also agreed with this strategy:
“Once the game starts, close the door of the anti-aircraft hole, and it becomes an unbreakable defense!”
“Then, we just wait until the situation outside settles down before we come out to clean the battlefield and wrap everything up.”
In the end, Turner summarized it with one sentence:
“Flawless tactics, we got this for sure!”