"Is this snow...mint-flavored?" Xiaorang stuck out his tongue to catch the snowflakes, and suddenly began to tap dance with twitching all over. His school uniform was corroded by the snowflakes, leaving countless small holes, revealing the thermal underwear printed with Sailor Moon.
"Kabu! This snowball will bite!" Kabuda's mechanical arm was stuck by the snowball, and the red shell was covered with ice crystals. What's even more weird is that there is a screaming chicken curled up inside the snowball, and every collision will make a high-pitched "Tentative" sound.
"Kabuda, what is going on with this competition?" Xiaorang frowned while patting the mint-flavored snowflakes left on his body. He turned to look at Kabuda, with some doubt and dissatisfaction in his voice, "We just won the treasure appraisal battle royale, how come there is a winter limited snowball contest? I have to go home quickly to tell my mother the good news that the Buddha is coming home!"
A trace of confusion flashed across Kabuda's mechanical eyes, and a big question mark popped up on the display: "Kabu... I don't know, this competition seems to have suddenly appeared. Otherwise, let's go home first, and this competition doesn't say when it will start." He raised his mechanical arm and tried to shake off the ice crystals stuck on the surface, but those ice crystals seemed to have life and firmly attached to his shell. Kabuda's voice was a bit helpless: "Kabu, these snowballs are really strange, they seem to have their own consciousness."
"Is Captain Dragonfly doing something again?" Xiaorang frowned even more, and his fingers unconsciously clenched the corners of his clothes. He recalled the treasure appraisal competition just now, those strange treasures and Captain Dragonfly's various actions, and felt more and more that things were not that simple. He turned to look at Kabuda, with a bit of worry in his tone: "Kabuda, do you think Captain Dragonfly is planning something again?"
A thoughtful expression popped up on Kabuda's display screen: "Kabu...possibly. Captain Dragonfly's behavior has always been hard to figure out." His mechanical eyes flickered slightly, as if analyzing something, "Moreover, this snowball fight competition came too suddenly, and even the rules of the competition were not explained. This is completely inconsistent with Captain Dragonfly's usual style."
Xiaorang felt uneasy in his heart. He always felt that there was some unspeakable secret behind this competition. He looked down at the Virgo Peace Star in his hand. It still emitted a faint light, as if responding to his doubts. Xiaorang took a deep breath, carefully put the Peace Star into his pocket, and said with a bit of determination in his voice: "Anyway, let's go home first."
Kabuda nodded, and a glimmer of approval flashed in his mechanical eyes: "That's right, Kabu!"
Everyone quickened their pace and walked towards their respective homes. On the street, mint-scented snowflakes were still falling, and the air was filled with a pungent coolness. Xiaorang's school uniform had been corroded and tattered, but he didn't care about that at all, and he just wanted to go home as soon as possible.
When the first snowflake fell on Kabuda's mechanical tentacles, Lake Okutama, 20 kilometers northwest of Asahi Town, had already turned into an icy secret realm. This huge artificial lake located at the western end of Tokyo, at this moment, has frozen into a three-meter-thick obsidian ice layer on the lake surface, like a black jade chessboard that the gods accidentally overturned. The dead branches of the beech and oak trees around are covered with icicles, the evergreen coniferous forests are covered with snow velvet cloaks, and the outline of the Chichibu Mountains in the distance is like a matcha cake with icing, with a cold blue-gray light in the twilight.
On the east side of the ice lake, there is a wooden pier for fishing in summer, which has now turned into a group of stalactites covered with icicles. The red painted railings of the west bank viewing platform were buried in the snow like cream icing, and the waterfall hanging from the southern cliff was frozen into a hundred-meter ice waterfall. The whimpering sound of the undercurrent under the ice layer could be faintly heard. The strangest thing was the small shrine on the island in the middle of the lake. The torii was covered with frost like a crystal door, but the stone lanterns were dancing with dark blue quantum phosphorescent fire.
A quantum vortex suddenly exploded at the edge of the ice lake, and Wang Ye's shadow was projected from the Peace Star. He looked at the rule runes dancing in the air, and a sly smile rose at the corner of his mouth: "Captain Dragonfly! Arm up!!"
Accompanied by this roar, seven golden lightning bolts suddenly fell from the void. Wang Ye's Pikachu pajamas were quantum reorganized in the strong light, and the black and gold two-color mechanical armor began to spread from the fingertips-the gears in the shape of the scales of judgment popped out from the elbow joints, the reliefs of the thirteen constellations appeared on the shoulder armor, and the Libra and Peace Star in the center of the chest armor burst out with the holy light of judgment. When the last arc struck, his face was covered by flowing liquid metal, turning into the iconic dragonfly compound eye mask, and the two arbitration antennas on his head "clicked" and popped out, flashing red and blue warning lights.
"First! You must have fun!" The new referee spun the black and gold scepter that appeared out of thin air, and the tip of the scepter carved a burning event logo on the snow. "Second! You must build the most ridiculous snowman! Third! You must referee cutely!"
Damn, it feels so embarrassing! I really don't know how Captain Dragonfly came up with such a weird line. He has to say a few lines every time he competes.
Wang Ye's compound eye mask suddenly projected a blue holographic screen. He reached out and grabbed the star emblem representing Libra, and his fingertips drew a burning event code in the air: "Competition module loading-Ice and Snow Brawl Special Edition!"
A giant golden compass suddenly unfolded above the ice lake, and twelve ice crystal tracks radiated like clock scales. Each scale is quantum reorganized: a Gothic church rises at three o'clock, and the walls are inlaid with screaming snowman heads; a tropical rainforest theme area is generated at nine o'clock, and coconut trees are covered with icicles and "Summer Soseki" is playing; the most outrageous is the space station observation deck at six o'clock, where the transparent dome is projected with Saturn ring special effects.
"The venue parameters are set." Wang Ye inserted the scepter into the ice surface, and the black ice layer suddenly became transparent, revealing the surging data stream below. Countless luminous runes spread from the tip of the scepter:
"Now loading the NPC camp." Wang Ye snapped his fingers, and quantum phosphorescence poured into the ice sculpture. The dark blue flames in the stone lanterns turned into three thousand ice sculpture soldiers. These soldiers, holding snowball launchers engraved with "Public Execution", began to run around the competition field to the rhythm of "Radetzky March".
When the last program was started, the entire Okutama Lake became a three-dimensional battlefield. The star sand gold foil under the ice rose to the air, forming a floating platform that was constantly reorganized; the frozen waterfall turned into a dynamic scoreboard, and the water solidified into the glowing words "Team Kabuda VS Cockroach Bully Team"; even the quantum koi in the undercurrent area became a reward prop - swallowing them can get a ten-minute "black history shield" buff.
The competition venue is settled, and the next question is the prize. How to trick Marulong's Peace Star? In Wang Ye's imagination, the first competition he held must have a real Peace Star as a prize to support it. Otherwise, it will leak! At present, the only real Peace Star that has not been wished for is the Aquarius Peace Star in Marulong's stomach. The Virgo Peace Star in Xiaorang's hand has already been wished for, and it can be absorbed by the system at a certain time. It is not suitable to be used as a prize.