Sequence: The God Eater

"Why, do you want to use me as a scapegoat?"

"I don't know the situation..."

Li Tianming smiled: "You still want to fight in a round-robin battle? There is no such good thing. No matter how many people come, the octopus will only gamble with one person. If this person loses, all the people who are traveling with him will be killed."

"Then...then you should come. I really don't know the situation."

"The octopus chooses who to gamble with, not you. From the information it asked me to introduce to you, it should have chosen you."

"Ah?"

Qin Siyang looked at the octopus again and found that its eyes were indeed staring at him.

He subconsciously took a breath of cold air.

But he was choked by the corpse stench on the mask and felt sick.

"Old Li, is it possible that you can control it with [Earth Binding] and we can escape?"

"Impossible. As long as it escapes, it will go into a violent state, and my skills can't suppress it at all. With its size, it is easy for it to chase and kill the two of us."

"This won't work, and that won't work!"

Qin Siyang pointed at Li Tianming angrily and said, "It's all your fault. You insisted on kicking me down! I said I felt there was danger here!"

Li Tianming said calmly, "When you asked me to come out to hunt the gods, you didn't use this tone. Besides, my life is in your hands now, do you think I'm not upset? ? "

"Heh, from what you said, you still look down on me?"

"It's hard to say. Since you said you're lucky, then let you do it. Anyway, my luck has always been bad, otherwise I wouldn't have fallen to the point of teaming up with a newcomer like you."

"Who are you looking down on, you old bald guy? !"

"I know you have a background, but now against the doomed octopus, no matter how powerful your background is, it's useless. We are grasshoppers on the same rope now, do you still expect me to be afraid of you?"

"Old Li, you're a bit too much. I just helped you solve Zhou Xing, and you treat me like this?"

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up Bet your life with it. It's a one-time deal of life or death! I can't do anything now, I can only watch, the feeling of dragging and waiting to die is too uncomfortable. "

Qin Siyang snorted: "Tell me, how to bet with it?"

"I don't know. Each doomed octopus has its own rules for betting on life, you have to ask it. However, its rules seem a bit tricky."

"How do you know? Did this big head tell you?"

"No. But have you seen its twenty-two tentacles?"

"Yes, they are densely packed, like intestines."

"The doomed octopus originally , only two tentacles. Every time it wins a bet with a sequence ability user, it will grow an extra tentacle. "

"It has won twenty times in a row. It is more powerful than any doomed octopus I have ever heard of."

"Twenty times in a row?!" Qin Siyang looked ashen: "Isn't its winning rate in betting on life 50-50?"

"Each one is different. The one in front of me, according to probability, may have a winning rate of 19-19. You are 1 and it is 9. Maybe even worse."

"Okay, I give up. This is really...no way out."

Qin Siyang sighed, looking helpless.

Desperate.

"I should have left a suicide note before I came out. Lao Li, did you leave a suicide note?"

"Yeah. I set the suicide note as a scheduled email. If I can't modify the time, it will be sent to others in a month."

Qin Siyang rolled his eyes. Scheduled emails are really everywhere.

"Old Li, you are still a cunning person."

"In this kind of life, you may die one day, which is normal behavior. But I am a little curious, what do you want to write in your suicide note and to whom do you want to send it?"

Qin Siyang thought about it and nodded: "This is a good question. When I think about it, I don't seem to know what to write in my suicide note and who to send it to."

Li Tianming laughed out loud: "That's good, it shows that you have no regrets in life and no worries after death. I wish I could be as free and easy as you."

"Old Li, thank you, you are really good at comforting people."

"Why are you insulting the teacher again."

"It's already this time, don't pretend to be a big shot with me. Don't you care about my background?"

"That's right."

At this time, the doomed octopus in front of him seemed to be tired of the conversation between the two, moved away, and stretched out a tentacle to point deep into the cave.

"It's asking us to participate in the life-and-death bet. Stop talking nonsense and go over."

"Yeah. Old Li, do you think that its action looks like a hotel doorman inviting people in?"

"A little bit."

The two followed the fateful octopus and walked forward in the cave flashing with dark blue light.

Until three three- or four-meter-high rock piles appeared in front of them.

There was still mucus flowing between the cracks of the rocks, as if they were deliberately glued together by the fateful octopus.

Then, the fateful octopus stared at Qin Siyang, raised a tentacle, and pointed at the three rock piles in front.

Qin Siyang asked Li Tianming: "What it means is... there is a heart hidden in one of the rock piles. I will win if I find the one with the heart?"

"I think it should be like this..."

As soon as Li Tianming finished speaking, a tentacle wrapped around him, drilled through his mask, and accurately sealed his mouth with a suction cup on the tentacle, making him unable to speak and breathing only through his nose.

Qin Siyang knew that it must be the fateful octopus that didn't allow others to interfere with his choice.

When it comes to gambling with one's life, one can only participate by oneself.

But seeing Li Tianming's face almost green from the corpse stench in the mucus, Qin Siyang felt a sense of relief for no reason.

He turned around and said to Li Tianming in a mean way: "If I lose the bet, I will commit suicide directly. But Lao Li, you can only drown in this mucus!"

Li Tianming was so angry that his eyes widened, as if he wanted to stare Qin Siyang to death.

Qin Siyang stopped teasing Li Tianming and asked the octopus: "Can I go forward to observe these three stone piles?"

The head of the octopus slightly pressed forward again.

"Okay. Thank you."

Qin Siyang walked forward and carefully observed the stone pile on the far left.

The gaps between the stones were filled with mucus, and the scene inside could not be seen at all.

He endured the stench again and put his ear close to it, but he could not hear any movement inside.

The other two stone piles were in the same situation.

"If you can't see the shape or hear the heartbeat, how can you choose? Isn't it just random?"

But Qin Siyang felt that things were not that simple.

At present, he had a one-third chance of winning, and the doomed octopus had a two-thirds chance of winning.

But.

This doomed octopus's winning streak was too high.

Twenty consecutive wins.

He roughly calculated in his mind that the doomed octopus had only a few ten-thousandths chance of winning twenty consecutive games in this way of gambling on finding the heart.

Too low.

Could it be the survivor bias, and the doomed octopuses that lost the bet all died, so only this one with good luck was left?

Qin Siyang looked back at Li Tianming and found that Li Tianming frowned and looked puzzled, and then suddenly looked at Qin Siyang with a warning look in his eyes.