Forces of Temptation

There were originally 12 people in the car.

One person violated the rules, leaving 11 people.

Now, one "ghost" is out, and there are ten people left.

The job of voting hasn't been made easier by attrition.

Instead, the speed of advancement became difficult and slow.

After Jiang Fang stopped expressing his opinions, the irritable and talkative college student Wu Yukai began to want to become an opinion leader again.

Although he didn't dare to question others as arrogantly as before, he still hated the fat man's vote for him, so he bit the fat man, saying that he deliberately harmed himself with the rhythm, and resolutely voted for him. Fatty.

Fatty's second vote was cast by Zhao Guanglu.

He couldn't tell the reason, but he felt that Fatty had a sinister aura.

These two votes are emotional votes.

If it is convincing, it is definitely not enough, but it is enough to make the people who are voted panic.

Faced with such a situation, Fatty was actually able to hold on.

He leaned back on the chair with a blank expression, and took out a cigarette. Since he didn't find a lighter, he simply put the dry cigarette in his mouth.

The fat man bit his filter and said vaguely that he was an ordinary game programmer who worked in a third-rate game company that was about to close down. He was 34 years old and had achieved nothing.

He said coldly: "My wife and I divorced a long time ago, and my daughter followed me."

"Two days ago, she was at home and she was gone."

"You vote." He said indifferently, the fat on his face moved, "After voting for me, I will die and go to see my daughter."

What he said made the atmosphere in the car even more depressing.

Zhao Guanglu, who was also divorced, even felt a bit of sympathetic remorse after hearing his words.

... No one is going to follow the third vote anymore.

Nan Zhou watched all this calmly and curiously.

In fact, even if Fatty didn't say these things, everyone wouldn't easily vote with him.

The third vote is the death vote.

Normal people would not want to shoulder this responsibility.

After experiencing what happened to Liu Xiao, everyone did not become more decisive.

If the person who died on the other side was really a ghost, they would not have any psychological burden.

Every player is a real person, and everyone has their own experience.

Nan Zhou talked about the art courses he taught.

Li Yinhang talked about the strange things he encountered in the wiring work.

The men and women who sat together verified each other's identities, and jointly confirmed how improper the property in their community was.

Qin Yadong said that he is an ordinary small civil servant, working from nine to five, life is not turbulent, and the boss occasionally cheats, he just wants to live peacefully with a dead salary.

People who meet by chance are talking about their lives vividly, each with their own hardships and reasons.

...to survive.

Or earn points in order to kill others.

As a result of some discussion, Nan Zhou won two votes.

These two votes were cast by the pair of men and women who got on the bus together and sat in the same row.

Their question was, how did Nanzhou escape the people who checked the car in the morning, and how did he get out from under the seat without disturbing anyone?

Facing such reasonable doubts, Nan Zhou wasn't very nervous, and didn't even intend to explain.

Because this kind of problem is difficult to explain, if it is not done well, it will become darker and darker.

It is much more reasonable to attribute all this to "good luck" than to forcefully explain it.

Besides, Xie Yangyang, who was in the same group as them, was more panicked than the current Nan Zhou.

She and this pair of men and women are only temporarily allied, but she is quite embarrassed and does not want to play the role of deciding the life and death of others.

Time passes by the second.

The indescribable sense of urgency made everyone cast their votes one after another based on their feelings.

Fatty, who got two votes from Zhao Guanglu and Wu Yukai, voted for Qin Yadong behind him.

Because he still insisted that when he got into the car, he didn't feel anyone behind him.

Qin Yadong shrugged helplessly and good-naturedly, accepted the vote, and gave the vote to Jiang Fang without even retaliation.

He explained: "Mr. Jiang, I'm just worried... that there will be a situation where 'ghosts' will deliberately identify teammates and win everyone's trust."

Jiang Fang nodded approvingly, turned the silver ring on his wrist, and said with a smile: "Mr. Qin is right, there will indeed be such a situation."

Xie Yangyang was really uncertain and chose to abstain.

At present, only Jiang Fang, Nanzhou, and Li Yinhang have remaining tickets in their hands.

There are less than 3 minutes left to reach the next tunnel.

If you go through the tunnel, this round of voting will be invalidated.

On the human side, there will only be two rounds of voting left.

The probability of accurately picking two "ghosts" out of ten people is really too low.

...In order to ensure the survival of everyone in the end, it is difficult for them not to rule out several wrong options during the voting process.

Currently, Nan Zhou and Fatty were given two votes, while Jiang Fang and Qin Yadong got one vote each.

Excluding the abstention vote, three votes were not cast.

Those who have already voted can't help but focus on these three people.

Even if you try and make mistakes.

These three people have the ability to reduce the probability of finding a "ghost" from [-]/[-] to [-]/[-], or even [-]/[-].

Li Yinhang could feel everyone's looking forward to it.

But she didn't care about it, her fingers tightly gripped the edge of the seat, thinking, why did that person say that just now?

She wasn't sure if her guess was correct, and she didn't want to rashly become the one who decides life and death.While hesitating, suddenly, there was a soft sound of rubbing the hem of her clothes when she stood up from behind her.

Nan Zhou stood up and walked to the front row without looking sideways.

His leather shoes with a little heel stepped on the ground, tap, tap, tap, the rhythm was very soothing, and he didn't sound in a hurry.

Nan Zhou walked slowly to the front row under the watchful eyes of everyone.

Li Yinhang watched Nan Zhou sit down next to the person she suspected.

She stood up reflexively, staring at Nanzhou closely.

Jiang Fang, who was sitting in the front row of her, raised her head slightly, looked at Li Yinhang, and said with a smile, "Miss Li, what did you think of?"

... No one noticed the little movement on their side.

Nan Zhou's behavior was so weird that all his attention was drawn there.

Nanzhou, however, seemed to be unaware of his abnormal behavior. After sitting down, he even tidied up the wrinkled windbreaker before turning his face and asked, "Sir, what do you think is the biggest difference between human players and 'ghost' players?" What is it?"

"..."

This question is too direct, and the effect is of course quite explosive.

The fat on the fat man's face trembled slightly.

He looked at Nan Zhou, and said in a bad tone, "Mr. Luo, what do you mean?"

Nan Zhou seemed unable to hear the displeasure in Fatty's tone, and continued to ask, "What do you think is the most important thing to play this game well?"

The fat man didn't lose his mind, and replied, "Of course it's to find the 'ghost'."

"No." Nan Zhou said seriously, "It is to understand the rules of the game."

As he said that, he turned his head and looked at Liu Xiao, who had fallen on the ground, and the white pulp on the mushroom umbrella had turned gray-white and semi-liquid.

Before Liu Xiao died, he tried to change his life by revealing the identities of the two teammates.

However, in reality, he had no idea who his two teammates were.

People who are about to die are unwilling to give up even a little bit of hope.

At the moment of life and death, even if he did not drag those two teammates to die together, he would not give up asking for help from them.

But before his death, Liu Xiao looked at everyone with blank, hateful eyes and no specific focus.

This confirmed Nan Zhou's conjecture.

Nanzhou guessed this point from the beginning of the game.

The mushroom told them many rules of the game.

But the most important thing Nanzhou heard was——

"It's a fair game."

Fair, what do you mean?

——For "ghost" players, the game is fair, and for human players, the game is also fair.

"So, the 'ghost' couldn't have been in the car in the first place."

"Because if this is the case, the 'ghost' will have a lot of information in advance. It is not fair to the players at all."

"Similarly, 'ghosts' don't know who their teammates are."

"The reason is as above. It's not fair to the players."

"The three 'ghost' players should have been sent to this car at a special time after receiving the basic rules."

"No matter which side, they don't know who their companions are."

"People are looking for their companions, so are 'ghosts'."

After Nan Zhou talked to himself for a while, he looked at Fatty again: "So, this is how we can have fun."

The corner of the fat man's mouth twitched slightly, and the direction of his cheek muscles was on the verge of losing control: "Mr. Luo..."

"My surname is not Luo, nor is my name Luo Yan."

Nan Zhou said: "I used this name after seeing it from the missing persons notice posted on the light box."

Hearing this, for some reason, Fatty's complexion suddenly changed, and he stood up abruptly, but Nan Zhou grabbed his short and thick wrist.

He didn't seem to use much force, but the fat man's face was pale and his thick lips were trembling.

Nan Zhou still looked forward, under the intense pull of the fat man, he remained motionless and spoke calmly.

"Now, to answer the question I just asked myself: what's the difference between a 'ghost' player and a human player?"

"The difference is that the human players who have been in the car for a long time will only focus on observing people."

Nan Zhou looked at Fatty: "Only ghosts, since they are newcomers, will observe the surrounding environment more carefully than anyone else."

"So, the 'ghost' is most likely to be exposed when it is just teleported in."

"Sir, tell me, isn't that so?"