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Red 14 fell to the ground and passed out, this situation was beyond everyone's expectation.After Petain was eliminated, all powerful guests were substitutes. How could there be such a weak-willed substitute?Dick froze for a few seconds, and shouted: "Doctor, doctor." He felt that the Blood Moon invitation he hosted seemed to be more than just a competitive game.The rich people lost, and what they lost was only their pocket money, and the substitutes lost, and it might kill them.

"Game paused."

After Dick announced, he returned to his room on the second floor, contacted the housekeeper of Blood Moon, and made a request: asking Blood Moon to ensure the safety of the substitute.The Blood Moon Steward told Dick that all the bosses participating in this game had promised Blood Moon not to harm the stand-in, and Blood Moon could only do so much.The subtext is: they violated the verbal agreement and Blood Moon has nothing to do with them.The blood moon steward told Dick that all the substitutes came to the blood moon invitation after they had paid enough. They were all adults and would pay for their actions.Dick's words reminded the Blood Moon Steward, who connected to London to send another 80 guards to board the ship in order to prevent accidents during the Blood Moon invitation.

Dick returned to the first floor and found that the eyes of all the guests were indifferent. Although they were surprised that Red 14 was threatened with bankruptcy, they fainted, but they did not have any sympathy for Red 14.For a moment, Dick felt that he was naive. Even if these people don't deal with life and death on a daily basis, their views on life and death, especially the views on other people's life and death, are very indifferent.

Red 14 still has 1 chip left. Considering the physical condition of Red 14, Dick decided to postpone the second session until 14 pm.Everyone has no doubts, disapproves or disapproves, and disperses separately.Dick heard them discussing not the red 4800, but calculating whether the players' total chips would be below 4800 million or above [-] million after the first round.

回到五层客房中心花园喝茶时，豪斯把豪斯团的信息告知了梁袭：“预估目前玩家手上拥有6500万的筹码，比4800万的筹码多出了1700万。第二个环节应该是要分配1700万。”4号和5号宝库让玩家筹码增加了近2000万。

Anthony said: "I don't quite understand. Is it just to play with chips? Is there any point?"

Liang Xi didn't hide his secrets, and expressed his opinion: "Yesterday was obviously a game, why didn't Dick admit that it was a game day? Did he say that yesterday was just the prelude to testing the system? The chips were redistributed last night, and today's first session , The second link is also to redistribute chips. He really doesn't want everyone to be on the same starting line. If I guess correctly, tonight is the time to spend chips."

House understood: "Distribute chips during the day and spend them at night. How do you spend them?"

Liang Xi said: "House, haven't you used your brain for too long? Have you forgotten how the top five quasi-subordinate elders are created? Whenever a neutral guest is eliminated, the person with the most chips immediately wins and becomes the quasi-elder. The next elder. We happen to be five people."

芬妮道：“现在筹码最多的应该是红4里斯通，1100万左右。红1、红10、红15，800万左右。再次是红8，700万左右。除了他们，其他人最少在今天很难成为赢家。”

Anthony looked at House: "This can't be done, we have to gather all the chips in our hands, and then let people retire."

House said: "I asked the boss yesterday if I bought chips from Liang Xi. The boss told me not to worry."

Anthony asked, "What's the number of your boss' double?"

House shook his head: "I don't know."

Having said that, Liang Xi saw the head of security winking at him, picked up House's cigarettes and lighter from the table, and pretended to go to the side to smoke and talk to the head of security.House comforted himself: "At least he's still covering up." Although the atmosphere of the conversation was harmonious, everyone knew that in this blood moon invitation, everyone was already a passer-by, or even a hostile relationship.

The security supervisor whispered: "5 minutes ago, a sailor found someone falling into the water at the stern of the ship. The guard rushed to the stern of the ship and met Red 7. Red 7 told the guard that it was Red 14 who fell into the water. For his own good, Don't try to save him."

Liang Xi asked, "Can it be saved?"

The head of security replied: "Basically impossible."

"Thank you." After thanking Liang Xi, he returned to his seat and sat down, saying, "Red 14 jumped into the sea."

"I expected it." Anthony replied: "I know Hong 14, he is a black jewelry and oil painting appraiser in the city, and he is also a legal consultant for an underground pawnshop. The only bad habit of this person is excessive gambling. If he is not desperate, he will definitely not come. Invite to the Blood Moon. A gambler will never make a fortune."

Chris asked, "Where did all the betting money go?"

Anthony smiled and didn't answer.

……

Hong 14's death was insignificant, not even comparable to Liang Xi's injury.After receiving the alarm, the British Coast Guard believed that Red 14 did not die on a British ship and had nothing to do with them.In view of the fact that the body has been salvaged on board, the cruise ship is requested to keep the body properly and send the body to the UK after the return voyage, and they will then contact the Czech police to deal with the aftermath.The subtext also blames the cruise ship for being troublesome, so why not just bury him at sea?

Dick was a little sad about it, but he was a Madonna at best and couldn't wear a watch.At three o'clock in the afternoon, Dick appeared on the stage in a state of trembling, forgetting what happened in the morning.

The purpose of the afternoon session is already very clear, because the total number of chips reached 6500 million in the morning activities, 1700 million chips in the hands of players must be cut.Cut whose?How to cut it?

Dick said: "It's tea time now, everyone must be hungry, please bring food out."

Six men in chef's clothes each entered with six large plates of cupcakes, crème brûlée, brioche, apple pie and six-slice cookies.There are 12 of each food, and the number is posted on it.The chef left after putting down the food.

Then the waiter came in and put a clean cup and a jug of ice water on each table.

Dick said: "Once the game starts, people who drink water and leave their seats will be deducted 50 chips. If you need to go to the bathroom, you should go now."

Liang Xi and everyone stood up, walked towards the toilet, and asked, "Dick, do you have a conscience for playing with us like this?"

Dick smiled: "Fun is king."

Liang Xi said, "I don't think it's fun."

Dick replied, "I think fun is fun."

The beauty scorpion squeezed Liang Xi, walked around Liang Xi's arms, and asked, "What?"

Liang Xi whispered: "Dark cooking."

……

Seeing that everyone was seated, Dick said, "The rules of the game: answer the questions. The wrong ones eat. If you have one, please invite the big screen."

A Korean sentence appeared on the big screen, and Dick said: "What does this sentence mean? a: brother, I am full, thank you. b, sister, you are too much, I don't want to see you again. c, teacher, this I can't answer the question, sorry. D, boss, I'm late, please don't fire me. Please play the voice."

The electronic voice reads the question and four options.

Everyone looked at Liang Xi together, and some guests were dissatisfied: "This is cheating, this is Chinese."

Liang Xi was relieved when he heard it, because he didn't understand it, so Liang Xi said: "Your Chinese is like this." Although he doesn't understand Korean, Liang Xi can understand this question.The Korean language was born out of the Chinese language. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, they refused to accept the Qing Dynasty, so they set up their own characters, and the language is similar to that of Dongying.If it is Japanese, Liang Xi can probably guess even if it is Japanese.If it's Korean, you have to be lucky.For example, there must be a brother in this passage.My brother is Oppa.The three famous Korean languages ​​are: Ouba, Smecta and Seba.

Dick excused Liang Xi: "This is Korean, Korean. Please use your watch to choose, the time is 1 minute, and the timer will start. Messages are not allowed." Seeing Liang Xi staring at the beauty scorpion again, Dick immediately issued a warning and temporarily supplemented the rules. .Although judging from Liang Xi's resume and information, it is impossible for him to know the meaning of this sentence.There are not many people who learn small languages ​​such as Korean. As long as they don't live and work in Korea all the year round, basically no one will deliberately learn Korean.

As a result, about 25% of the people answered correctly, and 22 of the 6 guests answered correctly.The next step is to order.Accompanied by the operation of the watch by the guests, the waiter delivered the food to the loser.Liang Xi looked at House's cream cake beside him. There was actually a green layer in the three-layer cake. Although it could be explained, it was rare in the cake world.

Dick said: "Please finish the food in 1 minute, prepare, start."

The cake is not big, usually enough for two mouthfuls of House.House gracefully cut the cake into four parts. After chewing the first part, House's face turned green on the spot.Others spread mustard on food, but this cake is cream on top of mustard.Wasabi is not only spicy, but also very spicy.If the spicy taste can be tolerated, it is necessary to relish the spicy taste.House is a smart person, knowing that he can't taste it slowly, so he stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it in two or three bites.A strong smell emanated from the mouth, making Liang Xi, who was one meter away, tilt his head and dare not look at each other.

How to relieve spicy?There was a jug of clear ice water in front of him, and the surface of the glass jug was coated with a layer of water mist due to the ice inside and the heat outside. House touched the glass jug with his hand, wishing he could use his tongue to add water to it.Since there is no water to drink, the second way to relieve spicy food is to jump in place. This physical understanding of spicy food can make people temporarily forget the pain.

But the rules stipulated that he could not leave his seat, so House could only inhale happily, and the sweat all over his body spewed out of nowhere.Regardless of his image, House took off his suit and threw it at his feet, unbuttoned his shirt, and fanned his mouth violently with his hand.

On the other side, Ristone didn't know what he ate, and he slammed his fists on the table, his body tensed to the limit with all his strength.Intuitively, the fist is useless, and instead of the head, it will make an ah every time it is hit.He's not alone, 50% of the diners are pretty miserable.The remaining 50% of the diners inexplicably took the food and gorged themselves.

Dick said: "1 minute, congratulations to all players for completing the task. Now we are going to the next question. This question is very simple, please look at the big screen. What is the following sentence that is most directly related to Socrates? a: Reason , why, result. b, idealist teleology. c: son of Apollo. d: spirit of the school. 1 minute to choose the time, and the timer starts."

Seeing Liang Xi's instant choice, Dick couldn't help walking over: "You know everything?"

Liang Xidao: "Philosophy is the cornerstone of human civilization."

Dick said: "Then tell me who these four sentences correspond to, and answer in random order."

Liang Xi asked, "Did I get the answer right?"

Dick said: "If you get the answer right, you will skip the next round. If you get the wrong answer, you will lose this round."

Liang Xi said: "Two sentences are related to Aristotle, one is related to Socrates, and one is related to Plato."

Dick: "Sorry, the referee shouldn't have redundant conversations with the guests, please forget what we just talked about."

Liang Xi said indifferently: "I will despise you from the soul."

"Okay, okay, it's up to you."

More than half of the people answered correctly this time, and 10 guests received food, among which 5 guests ate dark dishes.Two of the five players also ate the dark food in the first round. This time they couldn't hold back, took the ice water in front of them and drank it, and walked around the scene in a violent mood.Everyone felt that it was inappropriate to go on like this, and it took so many people to get two heads and 100 million chips.There are still 1600 million chips, how many rounds do you have to eat?Maybe it will be strangled to death.

The patience of the guests was beyond the expectation of Dick's program team, but in any case, the chips must be divided in the afternoon.

Dick said: "Since the progress is too slow, we have to modify the game. Now there are two ways to distribute the chips. The first one withdraws part of the chips according to the proportion of each person's chips. For example, number 1 is 100 million, number 2 is 200 million. The gap is 75 1, the result of the calculation, 2% each of No. 25 and No. 1600. The second is the per capita distribution method, 22 is allocated to 72 people, each of which is 72. As far as I know, there are nine guests whose funds are less than [-]. Therefore, if you choose the second method of per capita distribution, the nine guests will be expelled from the Blood Moon invitation. So I thought of the third method."

Dick said: "Voluntary distribution method: everyone can donate their own chips voluntarily. You can donate more, you can donate less, or you don't even need to donate. The first step is to select the median. Note that it is the median. The current guests There are 22 people, the number of chips owned by the 11th guest is the median, we assume the median is 100 million, of course I will not tell you in advance what the median is, everyone guesses for themselves.”

"In the second step, the maximum donation amount is 699 million. Those who donate the highest amount can be exempted from the bill, but if two people donate the same amount, they will not be exempted from the bill. If it does not exceed the median, the bill will not be exempted."

"The third step is that the donation amount exceeds or is less than 10% of the median, between 90 and 110 million, and the donation amount needs to be doubled."

"In the fourth step, the person with the lowest donation will pay 10 plus 3 times the donation amount."

After Dick made the announcement, he asked, "Do you have any comments on this rule change?"

Everyone has an opinion, and everyone has no opinion.As a result of the fight among the rich around the exemption of donations, it is very likely that some people will become poor overnight.The middle class fights around the median, and some of them will become poor overnight.The poor will become impoverished overnight if they fight around the minimum quota.How to make the best choice according to your net worth?

Relatively speaking, the rich have more choices. They can donate a minimum of 13 chips and pay 13 chips.Trying to lose 13 to escape this adventure.A donation of [-] is acceptable to the rich and even the middle class.Is it really?

Chapter 5 Seventy: The Battle of the Blood Moon (Eleventh)

After most people agreed, the first round of donations began. Everyone chose their own donation amount, and Liang Xi filled in 1.The results came out soon, and Dick read: "Red 4, Red 8, Red 10, Red 15, and Red 13 all donated a minimum amount of 100 chips. The richest people, their donations in this round are each [-]. Others Man... are you colluding? Everyone else contributed [-] chips. Anyway, we raised more than [-] million chips, thank you everyone."

Dick said: "The second round of donations has begun."

The second round made Liang Xi feel a bit difficult. He absolutely didn't want to be the last one, but now he couldn't predict how much the last one would bid.Ten thousand?The odds are low.What about twenty thousand?possible.The most frightening thing is that if you pay [-] or [-], you are still at the bottom.Looking at the guests, unlike the straightforward and quick selection in the first round, everyone fell into hesitation in the second round.

If the donation exceeds 10, it is better to donate 1 and be punished as the last one, and the total amount of 13 is enough.The main thing is how others will choose, not how you will choose.Everyone understands that the key point now is competition.The poor have already lost at the starting line of the competition. If the rich lose too much money, their bargaining chips are meaningless, because they are also competing.What the poor compete for is not to be out, and what the rich compete for is to win.

Dick announced the results of the second round: "8 minimum donations, the amount is 6 chips. No other rewards or punishments."

There was a lot of wailing, this time even Liang Xi couldn't avoid it, and 28 yuan was gone at one time.The maximum donation amount is 12.Another 400 million chips were raised in this round, and there is still a gap of about 1000 million.

迪克宣布：“白3、红16、17、18、19剩余一万筹码，退出本轮游戏。少于一万筹码我们会补到一万筹码，请五位立刻离开会场。”

There are 17 people left.

……

迪克宣布第三轮结果：“无其他奖惩，4位最低捐款额，额度为10万。本轮总捐款近300万，还有700万缺口。白2、红3、红5、红6、红7、红11、红12、红13，退出游戏，请离开会场。”

There are 9 people left, and there is still a gap of 700 million.Among the nine people, Liang Xi has been reduced to the poor class.

Dick announced the results of the fourth round: "There are no other rewards and punishments. The minimum donation for White 4 is 2 or 4. For White 100, please quit the game. The total donation for this round is [-] million."

剩下8人分别是剩余40万筹码的梁袭，克里斯、红1、红4、红8、红9、红10、红15。

Liang Xi already understood that the purpose of this game is to weed out the poor.Smart people can reduce some losses during the period, but poor people cannot avoid being eliminated, because their chips cannot withstand rounds of bombing.But the rich are also suffering. On the one hand, their assets have shrunk, and on the other hand, they cannot leave the game and must continue playing.

In Liang Xi's view, the worst game in this game is the middle class. The poor have nothing to lose, and they are out early.The middle class desperately persevered under rounds of high pressure, and finally fell into the poor class.

Fifth round: "White 1 is out."

Seventh round: "White 5 is out."

At this time, there is still a gap of 300 million, and the remaining 6 people are all rich, with millions of chips in their pockets.In the eighth round, Ristone made a surprise appearance and donated 699 million. Because he was the only one with the highest amount and exceeded the median, he was exempted from the order.

Fortunately, the middle class and the poor are at the bottom. Although the rich have suffered huge losses, they are still rich.Now there are two camps, 6 rich and 16 poor. The 16 poor are extremely poor, and they are very average.And the 6 tycoons can no longer count the bargaining chips of the other 4 tycoons. Red [-] Liston is recognized as the richest man.

As a super rich man who once owned 1500 million chips, Liang Xi was leisurely drinking tea in the five-story garden, while the house group around him wailed.Not all, only House is wailing, Chris and Anthony are wage earners.Fanny, who also lost cleanly, was in a good mood: "The final battle is at night."

House looked at Liang Xi and said weakly: "The former richest man, please speculate."

Liang Xi said: "It is impossible tonight without a physical confrontation, but at the same time they must be careful not to hurt the guests. The game is divided into two stages, one stage is to allocate chips, and the other stage is to use chips. I don't think the poor It may turn around tonight. Tonight, the poor are destined to be supporting roles, and the six rich people are the protagonists. Neutral guests are the target. As for how to play, I don’t know.”

Having said that, two people in red clothes, that is, the referee and the program production team, came out of the elevator, walked towards everyone and said, "Excuse me, please go to the second floor with us." The second floor is a restricted area, where the program team works. The fair place where the chips are exchanged is also here.

Of course there is no problem. The five people and a staff member took the elevator to the second floor and followed them to a meeting room.There are more than a dozen powerful guests sitting in the conference room.After being seated casually, guests from other forces entered the arena one after another.

Dick said: "It's 4 p.m. on the first game day, and the staff is arranging tonight's program. Please wait here for a while. At the same time, explain tonight's program, please watch the big screen."

The residence of powerful guests is on the first floor.The first floor is semi-open, the second floor is open to the notary office, and the third and fourth floors are closed.Dick explained that the scope of the game tonight is the entire first floor, and the notary office on the second floor is open as usual.Anyone who voluntarily leaves the game range will be eliminated, and anyone who uses external force to force others to leave the game range will be eliminated.

Dick: "Starting at seven o'clock tonight, a grand buffet dinner will be held on the first floor. We have invited a song and dance troupe to cheer everyone up. 17 influential guests and 5 neutral guests will participate in this dinner together. Today's dinner allows neutral guests to be eliminated , the elimination method is very simple, just kill the neutral guests correctly."

Dick introduced the background story. Five envoys from afar had an audience with the prospective pope. They represented the kings of five countries and would attend the coronation ceremony of the new pope the next day.The pope-to-be was so delighted that he ordered the biggest party ever.Enemies from five countries sent assassins to infiltrate the party. They wanted to kill the target and prevent the envoys from the target country from attending the pope's coronation ceremony.

The neutral guest is the messenger, and the powerful guest is the assassin.Of course the rules are not that simple.The Assassins did not know which emissary represented which country.Because there are 5 guests, they are divided into five camps: red, orange, yellow, green and green.If an assassin kills a neutral guest of a different color, he will suffer a series of punishments such as paying a fine.Those who are wrongly killed will not be eliminated, but can also be punished and confiscated.

At the same time assassins can kill assassins.Assuming that the red camp assassin a kills the red camp assassin b, then a will get 50% of b's chips. b must pay 50% of the chips. After paying the 50% fine, if b's chips are less than 50, then b will be kicked out of today's game.Assume that assassin a of the red camp kills assassin b of the green camp, which is considered to be killing the wrong person, so it must be reversed, a pays [-]% of the total chips, and b gets this part of the chips.

In addition, the game has many details, and many punishments include imprisonment for 15 minutes.If the person who is imprisoned or killed is not out, he must draw his own color card again.There are several safe areas in the game open area. Guests can go to the safe area to buy props, and they are not allowed to stay in the safe area for more than 1 minute within an hour.

At this time, Red 15 raised his own question: "Is the role of chips limited to fines in punishment?"

Dick smiled and said, "Of course not, krypton gold players must have the privileges of krypton gold players."

The six local tyrants were deep in thought: they first had to determine the camp of their assassination target, and secondly, they had to ensure that they assassinated the target when the chips were the highest.

Red 1 beauty scorpion raised her hand and said, "It seems that a piece of information has been missed."

Dick asked, "Which message?"

Red 1 said: "You didn't explain what reward the assassin will get for killing the right target."

Dick laughed and said, "I want to get past it, or you need to know what you need to know after watching the game. Since you asked, I have to answer. Kill the right target, and the assassin's chips will be doubled."

Red 1: "That is to say, whoever kills his target among us will win immediately."

Dick nodded: "In principle, it is."

Red 1 asked: "Actually?"

Dick said: "As I said just now, players with krypton gold must have the privileges of krypton gold players. If you hold the chips and don't krypton gold, you naturally don't have privileges. If you buy the privilege and kill the target, how do you know?" What about other rich people in the same camp? Your camp will change due to various accidents. In addition, if the messenger kills the right assassin, the messenger will get 50% of the assassin’s chips, and the assassin will be punished. The messenger kills the wrong assassin People will not be fined, they will only be imprisoned for 15 minutes, and after 15 minutes, a new camp will be randomly selected."

Dick said: "Before the game starts, each neutral guest corresponds to a camp. I don't know if there will be any changes later. What is the result tonight? I don't know. For more details, please return to the room Afterwards, check the rules of the game by yourself. Special warning, do not use excessive violence. If the purpose of killing or seriously injuring others is found, the referee team has the right to directly sentence him to be out of the game. It is not out of the game tonight, but to leave the Blood Moon invitation. "

Simple understanding: a total of 5 camps are divided, it is correct to kill each other in the same camp, and it is wrong to kill each other in different camps.

Dick said: "After half an hour, please take the elevator at the entrance of the meeting room and return to your room. Don't make any excuses to inquire about or spy on the game content. For specific game details, you can refer to the game rules after returning to the room. Thank you everyone."

Dick left, leaving the players in the conference room.House greeted the House group for a meeting, and the guests called their bosses. The beauty scorpion pulled Liang Xi's arm and dragged him to a position: "If we are in the same camp, let me kill you. I will give you 500 million euros."

Liang Xi asked, "How does it work?"

Beauty Scorpion: "You tell me your camp after the game starts."