For two straight days, Huang Ji spent all his time in the Virtual Universe.
He gathered a wealth of information and made excellent use of his time.
The Ziwei online store, however, received no inquiries at all. Even the professional followers he had paid for merely browsed a little, with no interest in spending money at a store with only 290,000 followers.
Huang Ji remained perfectly calm about this. He checked the Virtual Combat Tournament schedule. Over the next three days, there would be two top-ranked matches, both highly anticipated clashes between evenly matched fighters.
He casually wrote down his predicted scores: 3–0 for one, 2–3 for the other. He posted them on the Ziwei platform and pushed them out for free.
He also wrote an analysis explaining why one fighter would lose and why another would reverse a two-match deficit to win three straight. Starting with details of their daily lives and recent moods and mindsets, he worked through everything, including their training over the previous two days, peeling back each layer to arrive at his predicted results.
He made it sound as though he knew all those fighters personally, had connections with them in real life, and had watched their training with his own eyes.
Within the Star Alliance, everyone belonged to different species and civilizations at different levels of development, so naturally, the sports they excelled at differed too. If Earth's soccer were introduced to interstellar society, no one would appreciate it. A crowd fighting over a ball, their little legs flailing across the ground—other species would wonder whether something was wrong with them. Cultural and physiological differences made it difficult for the Star Alliance to establish a single set of sporting rules.
Ultimately, by finding common ground while preserving their differences, combat became the most popular