Chapter 491: The Mu/Shang Treaty (1/2)

Chapter 491: The Mu/Shang Treaty

Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The game was simple. It would take place in a simulated environment of Gray Valley. All three of them would have a fleet each. It would be a kind of Battle Royale. The last one standing would win the game.

That sounded simple...”Sounded” simple.

Day 1: Ye Chong was the first to leave the game. Mu won in the end.

Day 2: Ye Chong again became the spectator in the first 10 minutes. Shang, with a twist, won in the end instead.

Day 3: Ye Chong lost everything in the first round. Mu won.

Day 4... Day 5... Day 6....

The days went on.

Haskel was leading the gigantic fleet as they advanced forward. The fleet was having intense training. The modification project was carried out aggressively. Everything was smooth outside, contrary to what was happening inside Ye Chong.

He was troubled, very troubled. He was tortured, as if a real torment.

They had played the fleet game for 20 days already and he was always the first to leave the war field. If it was not his chilled personality, he would have flipped out. He settled down and figured, formulating a new strategy again and again.

Everyday when he became the spectator, he would observe the exchange between Mu and Shang. Well, it would be easier for Ye Chong to understand the dynamic of a war field from a god's view being a spectator. Gradually, he started seeing something.

Both Mu and Shang won on a rate of 50:50 while both of their performances were shocking to Ye Chong. Mu had fully expressed his efficiency and horrifying logical processing ability, as every step of his was meaningful and ahead of time, well-connected to each other. This could be seen especially during the few micro-matches where he clearly had an upper hand. Meanwhile, Shang took a different approach. His strategy was rather unpredictable, always able to surprise Ye Chong. A twist would take place the moment he was completely cornered. It was hard to imagine a humanoid to contain such cunning, creative schema in things.

One thing's for sure, Ye Chong was not able to harm either of them. Neither of the artificial intelligence's approach could be imitated by him momentarily, yet either of their strategies could set him on fire. As long as one side of Mu/Shang turned against him, he would be joining the spectators' seat in no time.

He started learning, bit by bit. He wanted to learn how Mu/Shang handled their own fleets. He had the brain for it, he was naturally talented in learning. Even though he was always the first to leave the battleground, the time he remained in it increased considerably over time.

It had been over 20 days. They had at least played 200 games and Ye Chong won none of them, nor he lasted to the later phase of each game. It was a horrible experience to lose so quickly that usually people would have given up and lost faith in life at the 100th game mark, unlike Ye Chong.

He was the one who had undergone far worse, far more boring training before. Moreover, it was not like he had no knowledge in his head. He had experienced a great deal of battles with individuals from all walks of life, even an actual war consisted of hundreds or even millions. The war game he had with Mu/Shang resembled greatly to whatever he had encountered in real life before. A lot of the details he had missed in the fights before somehow came to his attention out of a sudden after each game with Mu/Shang.

Ye Chong had always perceived himself as anybody but a commander. When he was with the Sangs, Sang Pu was the commander in every operation. He had no idea why Shang would suddenly think of training his charisma, his capabilities as an actual leader. Well, if the game had only shang, he could have pretended it as the artificial indulgence being indulgent and capricious again, but there was Mu too.

What made the logical, the probable, the feasible joined such pointless-looking game?

Wait, could it be that even Mu felt the need of training my capabilities as a leader?

When Shang mentioned about ”being a hero” that day, he thought the artificial indulgence was making a joke, since it was clear, almost a common sense, a law that he wanted something else in his life, as known among the three of them. Mu was more understandable in his behavior compared to Shang. He hardly interrupted whatever Ye Chong was doing, he only would, when there was a need, a need to improvise for better efficiency.

So judging all the premises...

Ye Chong's heart skipped a beat.

Does Mu seriously think I need this? These thinking training?

”HAHA! Take that you tin can!”

And the explosion in the field recaptured his attention. ”What was I thinking...,” muttered Ye Chong as he put his attention back to the field.

Meanwhile in the field, it was the final stage of the game. Both Mu and Shang would be taking out either of each other soon. Mu had cornered Shang. Obviously, Shang would lose the game. Well, if only Shang did not have anything up his sleeves, he was the professional, awarded actor to play victim and eventually engulf people with his palate. Given Shang managed to perceive one opening in Mu's formation, he would make a turnabout. Mu could certainly processed Shang's pattern of behavior, only if there was a pattern to begin with. It would still be a 50:50 even if Mu had produced a trend on Shang's behavior, let alone Ye Chong who did not have a super computer brain.

To be honest, Ye Chong preferred Mu's battle style which weighed everything on accurate calculation. The catch was, such style required everything mathematical, logical. Creativity, picking openings, playing off tricks were not allowed at all. If one did any of those, one would plan to fail. Ye Chong had not the necessary mathematical capabilities, he could only succumb to any of the techniques that looked useful to him between Mu and Shang.

Humans learned from their mistakes and only pressure could make them grow. Ye Chong's style had changed noticeably over the time fighting against the two extremes. His vision had improved greatly. Nevertheless, he was too engaged in handling Mu/Shang that he did not notice a thing on him.

Both Mu and Shang were too strong!