novelraw Chapter 539 469: Tag Express
Chapter 539 469: Tag Express
Five beams of light flashed by, and the girls heard noisy chatter around them, the crisp sound of footsteps echoed, indicating they had appeared at a station, slowly heading towards a futuristic train parked at the platform.
They seemed unable to control their bodies, like characters in a cinematic opening scene, drawn towards the train by an invisible force.
"Welcome to Asimov Station. The Skyline special express passenger train is about to depart. We wish you all a wonderful day."
The relaxed platform announcement came from an unknown corner, time infinitely slowed down, allowing the minutest expression changes of every passerby to be seen clearly, along with... the tags popping out from these people?
Chichu Chun's gaze first landed on a woman dressed as a white-collar worker closest to her. The woman wore exquisite yet unobtrusive makeup, dressed neatly, rolling up her sleeves holding documents, exuding a competent air.
A blink of an eye, rows and rows, boxes of information introducing the woman's life popped out, arranged and presented simply and clearly in front of her.
"Name: Deli"
"Gender: Female"
"Occupation: Corporate Executive"
"Bionics Rating: 97"
"Tags: Emotionally Stable, Highly Intelligent Talent, Intellectual and Wise, Possesses Leadership Ability"
"Recent Trends: Gently greeted others 2 minutes ago, bought a cup of coffee 13 minutes ago, took emotion suppressants 20 minutes ago. *Click to view trends from 30 minutes or even earlier."
"Disciplinary Officer's Comments: A bionic with relatively stable personality, no potential danger, occasionally tend to self-harm when emotions are suppressed."
Chichu Chun slowly widened her eyes.
Not only this one, but all the bionics in the station had similar information panels!
Xu Xiaoyou's gaze casually swept over and fixed on a young man with a scar on his face, with branding marks on his exposed muscular shoulder.
Information arranged and combined in her eyes.
"Name: David"
"Gender: Male"
"Occupation: Street Punk"
"Bionics Rating: 52"
"Tags: Despicable, Orphan, Unclean Hands, Lack of Discipline, Prone to Emotional, Cognitive Impairment, Bad Temper, Advocates Violence"
"Recent Trends: Pushed others a minute ago, fed stray cats on the platform 2 minutes ago, bought animal meat paste 4 minutes ago, stole from others 6 minutes ago. Stopped a quarrel with violence 12 minutes ago. *Click to view trends from 30 minutes or even earlier."
"Disciplinary Officer's Comments: Likes to watch violent crime films, behavior easily loses control, at risk of Awakening, recommends heightened control."
"Little Trouble Maker, Graceful Gentleman, Giver, Vegetarian, Sweet Tooth, No Cilantro, Perfectionist, Pessimist, Optimist, Leader, Paranoid, Stockholm Syndrome, INTP Personality"
A variety of tags sprouted up on different bionics like mushrooms after rain, filling up the view, bewildering with a dizzying array. Xu Xiaoyou shook her head and looked towards the girls beside her, seeing tags marked in red, followed by a large red exclamation mark on them.
——"Awakened"
Their rating was 47.
According to the "New Gospel" bionics rated 47 and below are defined as Awakened.
At this moment, the system's broadcast sounded.
"Both combat teams 'Light Chasing Garden' and 'Slaughterer' have been loaded into the instance 'Tag Express', the rules for this match will now be explained to both sides."
"In the instance 'Tag Express', both sides will play as awakened bionics, avoiding destruction by the 'Tag Catcher' while seeking the conditions to clear the instance. At the instance settlement stage, the team with the higher overall rating wins."
"Before boarding the Skyline train, each side must select one member to act as the 'Tag Catcher' for this match, to hunt down the opposing team's members. Note: the Tag Catcher will receive enhancements, attributes far exceeding the average of both sides in the current instance, and cannot be killed by players."
Xu Xiaoyou thoughtfully looked at everyone.
"Me me me!" Chichu Chun's eyes shone brightly after understanding the rules and she raised her hand to volunteer, "You, this rule seems to favor Agility Specialization in Stealth Professions, let me handle it, I can definitely take them down in no time!"
"You're quite optimistic." Xu Xiaoyou glanced at her and said.
The Slaughterers rank ninth on the leaderboard with very strong overall strength. They paired up against their main team, with an average strength above the Fourth Tier. After confirming the rules, a stone in Xu Xiaoyou's heart fell.
This instance does not require both player sides to face each other directly. Without surprises, they and the Slaughterers would be arranged on different lines of the Skyline train for the instance, facing only each other's chosen Tag Catcher.
Moreover, the Tag Catcher's attributes would be very strong, unable to be killed by players, which is clearly more beneficial for their team with weaker overall strength, greatly narrowing the gap between teams.
With both sides' Tag Catchers having over-modded attributes, it would only test the combat literacy of the two individuals, with the only gap in the response abilities of escaping players.
Given this, the choice of the Tag Catcher becomes critical.
How to grasp this rule and minimize the power gap between Light Chasing Garden and Slaughterer is something that Dark Gold Rose must first consider.
The livestream screen froze on the red-haired girl's face, many guild analysts began their deductions in front of the large screen at Oasis Square.
"Without surprises, Dark Gold Rose will choose Chichu Chun as the Tag Catcher, her Agility Attribute is the highest, most fitting for this rule. When faced with pursuit, it is clear Light Chasing Garden will be more fatigued in responding, they need to end the battle at lightning speed."
"No, you missed a prerequisite." The analyst next to him shook his head.
"The rule only says the Tag Catcher can't be killed, it didn't say they can't be blocked. Slaughterer's support Jason has very high endurance, with a normal damage reduction of up to forty percent, and has skills to forcibly attract aggro. If he covers for his teammates, Chichu Chun could hardly break through Slaughterer's front line."
"I overlooked that, you're right."
"To be honest, Slaughterer is quite an odd team, composed without an Enhancer or Commander. The members consist of one Support Position, two Guerrilla Positions, and two Main Attackers, with Freddy and Pennywise ranking high among Guerrilla Positions, and Michael and Skin Face also ranking highly among Main Attackers."
"If a competent Commander could lead these madmen, their ranking would surely go higher."
"Should we say Light Chasing Garden is lucky or unlucky to match up with these guys? I remember these names, they are from some classic horror movies' serial killers from the old times, right?"
"These ones are better off, their activities are limited within the Cyan Red Battle Net, at least they won't run around biting people like the madmen from the Era of the Dead."
"The President will not choose Chichu Chun as the Tag Catcher." At this time, a previously silent, quiet guy with glasses suddenly said, "From my understanding of her, Bai Youyou and Angelina are far more likely to be chosen as the Tag Catcher than this Young Master."
"Why do you say that?"
"Intuition." The glasses guy adjusted his glasses.
"Could there be a possibility — that it might be Little Blue Bird?" Someone casually suggested.
The crowd burst into laughter, just as the person who didn't understand what was happening wished he could crawl into a hole, someone patted his shoulder:
"Come on, man, assigning such an important task to an Enhancer as a Tag Catcher? Do you think Dark Gold Rose has lost her mind?"