Forces of Temptation

While Lin Zhisong was in shock, there were small footsteps coming from the communicator.

The footsteps were quite relaxed at first, but when he approached Yi Shuige, he obviously paused, then immediately turned around and walked in another direction.

But this noise was enough to attract Yi Shuige's attention.

"I'm going offline first." Yi Shuige put his finger on the earlobe and rubbed it twice, "Don't do stupid things. You are still valuable, don't force me to kill you."

Yi Shuige didn't hang up immediately.

Because in the next second, Xie Xiangyu's extremely angry voice sounded over there: "...What are you doing?"

Yi Shuige said confidently, "I'm in a bad mood."

"I'm fucking just passing by!" Xie Xiangyu struggled, "If you're in a bad mood, bang your head against the wall! ... You still robbed me of food!"

With peace of mind, Yi Shuige robbed the ice cream cone that Xie Xiangyu had just licked halfway through, took a generous bite, and carried the rebellious person into a temporary office where the table was covered with designs. He closed the door with his feet. .

"Well……"

The signal from the communicator was cut off.

After losing his communication partner, Lin Zhisong relaxed, lay down on the table, and buried his face in the crook of his arms.

I don't know how long he has maintained this self-closing posture, and the empty chair beside him made a thin "creak".

...someone sat on it.

He Yinchuan lay down on the table in the same posture as him, trying to have a heart-to-heart talk with the little comrade: "Xiao Lin, what's the matter? I don't seem to be in a good mental state recently?"

Hearing the captain's voice, Lin Zhisong lifted the upper half of his face from his arms, revealing only a pair of confused eyes.

At this time, he looks like a college student who hasn't gone through too much personnel training.

He caught a glimpse of He Yinchuan's pale and colorless lips at first glance.

Three official teams with a relatively complete organizational system took the lead in building the signal tower in the safe point, and the commotion caused by the toss was really not small.

As the game was coming to an end visible to the naked eye, they succeeded in stabilizing the restless people in the safe point.

The materials for their infrastructure construction came from legitimate sources, and the players responded consciously. Therefore, the high-dimensional people did not make obvious sabotage behaviors like "interfering with tower construction".

But they imposed more direct punishment.

Three days ago, a group of players invaded their safe house in the middle of the night, posing as if to loot items.

He Yinchuan had just negotiated a few words with them, and they immediately turned against each other and went up with their knives.

The intentions hidden under the surface are almost obvious.

In order to protect Liang Shu, He Yinchuan was fatally injured, his internal organs bleed, leading to hemorrhagic shock, and he almost hung up the phone directly.

Fortunately, Liang Shu had done a good job of pre-treatment for first aid to stop the bleeding, and Vice Team Zhou carried him to a safer medical clinic overnight, spending a lot of points to let him escape by luck.

But for the desperate Saburo of He Yinchuan, jumping back and forth on the verge of life and death is no longer used to it.

... He even thought about climbing out of bed to care about the mental health of the little comrade during the recovery period.

Lin Zhisong stared at his face suddenly, thinking, Dui He seems to be not a few years older than himself.

He had never felt childish before.

When the mass disappearance happened, he was one of the first students in the school to volunteer to participate in the search.

After entering "Gravity", he followed the team to help many people, received the most heartfelt thanks, and also received the most hurtful doubts.

He never cared about it.

Because he thinks he is mature enough to be mentally prepared for everything that might happen.

However, in fact, Lin Zhisong's spirit is now teetering on the verge of collapse.

Nan Zhou, Jiang Fang and Yi Shuige all made the most correct judgments after knowing the truth of this world from Yuan Ming and Qing.

Because let alone an ordinary player, when he learned that he was a plaything in the hands of Gaowei, Lin Zhisong, who thought he was invincible, also reached the edge of losing control, and almost made the worst choice.

He wanted the "Cube Ark" to win so much that he didn't hesitate to cause chaos.

...Anyway, as long as "Cubic Ark" wins against "Rumeng", as long as they can make a wish successfully, all the people who were killed or injured in the chaos will be able to come back, right?

Ke Yi Shuige's words gave him a slap in the face.

What is he thinking?

Did he really think about the people who were still alive?

Does he deserve the trust that ordinary players place in him?

... And, most importantly, is it really impossible for those who died to come back?

Can they really only choose between the two options of "casualties" and "infinite reincarnation"?

His beliefs, his efforts, the goals he fought for, and his desire to save everyone, if they can be overruled by a higher power, what is the point?

Confused, Lin Zhisong looked at He Yinchuan, opened his chapped lips, and asked, "Captain, if you win the game and you have a chance to make a wish, what wish would you make?"

"……me?"

Zhou Ao urged He Yinchuan to drink more hot water, and was afraid that he would be disobedient, so he hung the thermos around his neck with a satchel strap.

He Yinchuan casually poured Lin Zhisong a glass of water: "It should be us. If it's our turn to make a wish, of course we hope that the game will end and all those who died in the game will come back to life."

Lin Zhisong asked: "What if those people...don't come back when the game is over?"

He Yinchuan's pouring hand paused for a moment.

But it's just a moment.

He pushed the water glass towards Lin Zhisong, and said in a relaxed tone, "Am I dead at that time? If I were dead at that time, I would go down and guard those who died, so as not to let them be bullied."

Lin Zhisong smiled at his joke: "This is not materialistic at all. The political commissar will be angry when he hears it."

He Yinchuan laughed heartily.

Lin Zhisong took a sip of water: "What if... we are all still alive?"

"Alive." He Yinchuan rubbed his chin, "Then bear the lives of these people and continue walking."

Lin Zhisong was dumbfounded for a moment.

After a while, he said softly, "That's... a lot of people."

Lin Zhisong used to face countable human lives.

But when he looked back, he realized that from the time when the Gaowei people cast a glance at them, the road they walked was a mountain of corpses.

Are there thousands or thousands of casualties worldwide?

"If you can't be saved, don't think so much, save the rest first." He Yinchuan said, "Like now, just do what we can."

……

While Lin Zhisong was gradually adjusting his mood, the newly formed "Lifangzhou" team of four was launching a new round of analysis on "Douzhuan Casino".

Among the four, the one who knew the most about "Douzhuan Casino" was actually Yuan Mingqing who had previously opened the God's perspective.

He drew a simple schematic diagram of the Douzhuan Casino, and listed the average daily turnover: "As far as I know, the Douzhuan Casino uses a daily settlement model. After 24 o'clock every day, Qu Jinsha's points will be updated. Daily income minus expenses, the excess is the surplus.”

"If the 'three days' stipulated by the game party refers to 1 hours from the hour before they released the message—"

Yuan Mingqing put down his pen: "Qu Jinsha still has three chances to settle the settlement."

Li Yinhang carefully deduced: "On the first day, no matter how much everyone fears us, they will not flock to the casino to give away points for free. They will probably choose to wait and see, so when the first settlement is made, he should lose... right? ?”

"That's right." Jiang Fang agreed with her judgment, "It's a matter of life and death, and it's impossible for a normal person to make a decision right away. But from the next day, it might be."

"We still have a position in the team." The first analysis was effective, and Li Yinhang faintly gained some confidence, "Can we persuade a high-ranking solo player with a high score to join us?"

"At this point, they have an advantage over us."

Nan Zhou pointed to "Rumeng" on the leaderboard: "They have two positions."

Li Yinhang was immediately discouraged: "...that's right."

Humans are inherently gregarious creatures who like to cuddle together.

The evidence is that the length of the current single leaderboard is less than one-fifth of the length of the team leaderboard.

The game has advanced to the present, and the players who can still insist on being alone can only be a complete lone ranger, and they are bound to be wise and safe.

They can't hope that these people will suddenly switch genders and join them.

Of course, under the premise that there is no hope of competing for the first place, if these people have a wish that must be realized, it is indeed possible to give it a try and try to join the "Cubic Ark".

But that is only a small probability event.

After all, you need to be cautious when standing in a team. Once you make a wrong bet, you will lose everything.

And in view of Nanzhou's negative image and the fact that the difference between the two teams is less than 200 points, these lone rangers are far more likely to choose to join "Rumeng" than to join "Life ark".

... It's okay not to analyze, but the situation looks even worse now.

Jiang Fang said: "So, considering these circumstances, we have only one way to go now..."

Nan Zhou: "Yes. Go and win Qu Jinsha's points."

Yuan Mingqing agreed: "We still have to win a lot."

Jiang Fang added: "We also need to reserve some room for points to prevent them from filling the other two spots of 'Rumeng' with high-dimensional players on the last day and forcibly raising their points."

Yuan Mingqing: "But what if a human player with a higher ranking chooses to join 'Rumeng'?"

Jiang Fang didn't blink his eyes: "That is a high-dimensional uncontrollable variable. What we want now is a high-dimensional controllable variable, as a reference for the minimum value."

Nanzhou asked Yuan Mingqing: "How many groups of people can you use in Gaowei?"

Yuan Mingqing shrugged: "Only seven groups have entered the Chinese server. Two groups have been eliminated, one group is me and Tang Song, and the rest, exclude a waste group, and 'Rumeng'... Gao Weineng There's very little room for meddling."

Li Yinhang: "..."

China server...

Does this mean there are other regional servers?

However, this was to be expected.

Disappearances broke out all over the world.

...but that's something they'll have to worry about afterwards.

The most important thing right now is to win against Qu Jinsha and Rumeng first.

Nanzhou put his panel on the public screen: "Point out the current high-dimensional team."

They have the same interests, and there is no need to hide private matters in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

He swipe the screen trying to find his teammates so that he can calculate the point difference they need to reserve.

"...this...and this."

The list went down all the way.

When Yuan Mingqing pointed out the names of the "waste group" in his mouth, that is, Cao Shuguang and Ma Xiaopei, Li Yinhang couldn't help but twitch his brows even though he was mentally prepared.

After thinking of this absurd little couple, she then thought of the mysterious solo player Shao Mingzhe who didn't know where he was.

...Somehow, she wanted to see how his current ranking was going.

However, after sliding down the list a few times, Li Yinhang's expression changed.

She saw a familiar name on the single list that shouldn't have appeared here.

...Chen Sufeng.