The senior colonel and his assistants carefully chose three people out of the 200 mecha operators on Ling Lan's side. They purposely excluded Yang Mingzhi, Liu Furong, and Gu Dongyang from the list of choices, as they knew that these three people had already bowed their heads down to Ling Lan.
The senior colonel thought they must have received some benefits from Ling Lan, and in turned regained some of their abilities. If not, arrogant people like them would not listen to a major who was much younger than them.
The three people they chose to compete against had unfamiliar names. Then, they chose the three strongest mecha operators based on the past achievements from the 50 useless mecha operators, one of them was even an ace mecha master with a title.
The senior colonel felt that no matter how weak a titled ace mecha master had become, he should still be stronger than a normal ace mecha master.