I'm a god in the infinite game

The penultimate day of the preseason and midseason.

Holding a stack of materials, Wang Shun took a deep breath and walked into the meeting room of the Wandering Circus, he looked straight at everyone sitting there: "I believe everyone should be able to memorize the materials of our opponent this time. "

"Because they don't have any data for us to analyze." Wang Shun smiled wryly, "The Russell Cemetery team, our opponent in the last match."

As he spoke, he clicked on the system panel:

"Russell's performance in the preseason is similar to the previous two years. He gave up the singles and doubles competitions and focused on the team competition. This is a good thing and a bad thing for a rookie team like us."

"The good thing is that you only have to play one game. The bad thing is that this is the team game you are least good at."

Wang Shun clicked on the system panel, and the panel slid to the next page, and there was a small video on it. After Wang Shun clicked to play, the video started to play, and a gray mist of smog was surging, and only a few people could be seen vaguely Running inside, breathing heavily.

Wang Shun paused, his expression became heavy:

"This is not the first time I've shown you this little video. It's a video of a game at Russell Cemetery. Throughout the preseason, the video of almost all of Russell's games is like this."

"There is a fog, and nothing can be seen clearly."

Riliu leaned on the back of the chair: "We have analyzed this point, Russell Cemetery should be to further keep the skills of the players in the team secret, and fixed a player with the fog cover skill in the team, and released it during the game. Ability to confuse the opponent's vision while keeping your own information secret from the audience."

Wang Shun sighed: "This method is very successful, and it cannot be replicated. They don't need the support of the audience, so they can do this. Because of this method throughout the preseason, we know the death toll in the Russell Cemetery. The information is ignorant."

"Compared to last season, the number of deaths in pre-season at Russell Cemetery has dropped significantly this year."

Wang Shun paused for a moment: "It shouldn't be described as a sharp decline. In this year's preseason, only two players from Russell Cemetery have successfully entered the preseason finals."

"Before I came to this point, I never understood why Russell Cemetery, who ranked tenth last year, gave up the qualification for this year's mid-season game and relegated to play the pre-season game. Under the president's analysis, I have entered into a misunderstanding tomorrow."

Wang Shun shook his head and smiled helplessly: "I always thought that the Russell Cemetery, which sacrificed the lives of its players wantonly in exchange for victory, was a cruel, inhumane, cold-blooded guild."

"Isn't it?" Mu Sicheng propped his chin and asked while turning his pen, "Last year, this team sacrificed more than 80 rookies."

Ri Liu pulled out the pen that Mu Sicheng was spinning: "That's not it."

"On the contrary, this guild, as they advertise, is a shelter for desperate players, a warm and humane collective cemetery, Russell Cemetery is a typical closed community guild, and they have a kind of relationship with each other. It’s like a sense of mutual help between relatives and neighbors, which is very united and friendly.”

Mu Sicheng started to have question marks on his head: "Solidarity and friendship that push people out to death?"

"You should change your mind. When they joined this guild, they already knew that they would probably die. In other words, these people didn't join this guild because they wanted to live."

Ri Liu raised her eyes: "It's because I want to die, but I don't want to die so worthless."

"And Russell Cemetery is a place where their death can be maximized."

Mu Sicheng was lying on the table, peeking at Riliu and confiscating his pen: "But even so, the Russell Cemetery has nothing to do with unity and friendship, right?"

Ri Liu looked down at Mu Sicheng, and the topic changed abruptly: "What do you think is the greatest value of death?"

Mu Sicheng was taken aback for a moment, then sat up straight and began to think hard: "Money? No, I won't be able to spend it after I die, name? It doesn't matter if I die..."

In the end, Mu Sicheng gave up and leaned back on the chair: "I don't know what these people are thinking tomorrow. When people die, they have nothing. No matter what they get in exchange for death, it is worthless, and I don't care. Entering the game, you can exchange for something to earn points by fighting the game here, it’s not worth it to die.”

"That's you." Riliu said calmly, "A high-strength newcomer that the big guilds are chasing after, Mu Sicheng, you are also top-notch in reality, with a good family background and a first-class school. Your value to yourself I have a solid understanding, so I will not easily go to the option of zeroing."

"You haven't been involved, have you?"

Mu Sicheng was startled: "What?"

"Inward scrolling." Riliu said.

Mu Sicheng frowned: "Didn't that happen when you were employed?"

"No, there will always be involution where resources are monopolized." Riliu picked up a pen and wrote on a piece of open Japanese paper, "Points in the game can be earned by playing games, just like wages can be earned through work. Get it, then playing games is a way of working.”

"However, there are various guilds in the game. They classify and contract playing games in a more efficient way, improve the efficiency of playing games in exchange for points, and provide various guarantees. Lowers the odds of you dying from the game, like a company of sorts."

"Normal players will take the initiative to join these companies in order to obtain points efficiently and survive better."

"This is the first mechanism to be formed, and it is also a reasonable operating mechanism." Riliu wrote down the four words [Original Mode] on the paper, "Normally, this mechanism can continue to operate for a long time It started to collapse, but at this time, there is a setting in the game to accelerate the collapse of the mechanism.”

Riliu slowly opened her eyelids: "That's gambling."

"The gambling in this game is an expected loan mechanism. This mechanism binds your beliefs, interests, and your life in the guild, which doubles your betting cost. Even if a player knows that he is big The probability will be exhausted by this guild, because the gambler's psychology and cost are sinking, and it is difficult to find a next home, it is difficult for this player to get out of this guild, which forms the first element necessary for involution."

"—bound."

"The tighter the binding, the slower the flow of personnel between guilds will become, and the slower it will become, it will make everyone realize that it is getting harder and harder to find a next home, and choosing a guild will become a lifelong choice, then During the rookie period, everyone will involuntarily involve in order to enter the Great Guild, lower their own treatment and so on."

"And once you get to this point, you will discover a very miraculous fact." Riliu tapped the pen twice on the paper, "The efficiency of the guild to gain points has become higher, the speed of game rotation has become higher, and the number of players in the gambling pool has increased. There are more and more points circulating in the game, and the points in the entire game are exploding exponentially.”

"But new members of the guild are getting less and less treatment. No matter how many points the guild saves, in order to maintain their ranking status, they have to vote in the league in the end, and they don't save much."

"Then where did all these points go? Who swallowed them up?"

Riliu put down the pen, gently pushed it with her fingertips, and the pen rolled to the stunned Mu Sicheng.

Mu Sicheng stretched out his hand to grab the pen that Riliu pushed over, and he felt a chill down his back: "...in the gambling pool."

"Bingo." Riliu smiled, "That's right, the mechanism of the gambling pool is to bet points with five times the leverage probability every time. It seems to be losing money, but everyone pools the points stolen from the gambling pool to connect with themselves. What I earned was eventually returned to the gambling pool, and then the big part was quietly swallowed up by the 5.00% to [-]% handling fee in each win or loss."

"From the fact that the richest guild is the Gamblers' Alliance, not the Killer Sequence, it can be seen that the gambling pool is the biggest banker in this game."

Riliu looked up at the data on Wang Shun's system panel: "Suppose you are just an ordinary player in the game, with ordinary skills and panels. Although you can survive, you can't get involved in the big guild, and you can't become a star. player."

"You're trying to survive, and at one point in a tournament you couldn't resist betting all your savings on a certain team and lost it all, and in the midst of your collapse you realized that it was hard for you to get money from the pool .”

"But after each league, the points from the five-fold leverage in the gambling pool will cause the price of the items in the game to rise. If you dare not participate in gambling, your points will not increase, and the items you can buy will increase. The less you have, the harder it is to survive in the game.”

"You don't have extra points in your hand that can be exchanged for money to use in reality. The game is not a place to release your desires, but it makes you more painful, because after you have worked for six days in reality, After finally taking a day off, I still have to come to [work] in the game, earning points to buy items with trepidation, so that I can save points to buy a life-saving item before the game next week."

Mu Sicheng's eyes straightened: "...Thank you, I feel like dying after substituting in."

Riliu continued: "Exchanging the points in the game for items to use in reality is a high-level player who has points in his hand, and some crazy players who don't care about it and just want to enjoy the present. The former type of players is a minority, and the latter type of players Under the catalysis of the gambling pool, this type of players has become the largest base of players, that is, gambler players, so the gambler alliance can grow so big."

Wang Shun nodded in agreement with Riliu's words: "But there are gamblers' alliances and non-gamblers' alliances. After Chairman Ri gave me an analysis, I went to investigate the average gambling pool investment of the players in Russell Cemetery."

"The result surprised me." Wang Shun clicked on the panel, and a data analysis form popped up on the panel, "The average investment in their gambling pool does not exceed ten points, which can be said to be a veritable alliance of non-gamblers."

"Gambling is a stimulating future consumption expectation. When this consumption desire decreases, it means that they are very pessimistic about their future expectations."

Wang Shun sighed: "I can't get involved in the big guild, I don't dare to gamble, and I have to go through the test of the death game once a week. Many people are also very tired in reality. They work hard every day and have little money. Life is tight. I finally entered the game, and the result..."

"They had a hard time."

It was so hard that even he, the enemy's investigator, couldn't bear it.

"...No way..." Mu Sicheng began to feel that the other party was desolate, "Did they win the mid-season team competition last year? Even if they swallowed the pot, it wouldn't be so miserable, right?!"

Riliu raised three fingers:

"First, because there are no star players, they don't have anyone to invest in, and they don't have much money in the betting pool. If they want to swallow it, they can only swallow the opponent's money."

"Second, even if you win, the majority of the gambling pool is eaten by the winners who invest in the audience. After removing the handling fees charged by the gambling pool, the team can only get 5.00% to [-]% of the gambling pool deposit."

"Third, they were an unpopular team last year, and the mid-season games didn't attract much attention. There were no spectators to raise money for both of them. All they could get was 5.00% of the deposit that was doubled by the small TV charging points of the big guild star players. .”

"In general, although they have been winning, they have not received much league bonus."

Wang Shun sighed and added: "And I found out that the president of the Russell Cemetery used the gambling pool points they won last year as compassionate funds, divided them into more than 80 shares and distributed them to the close people of the dead players."

Mu Sicheng heard mixed feelings: "...I probably wouldn't be able to hold on to it."

"Then let's go back to the original question." Ri Liu opened his eyelids, "If a person can't do anything, can't get anything, lives a hard life, and finally can't keep going, for him, What is the value maximization of death?"

"Money, power, fame and wealth are meaningless to a dead person. What is valuable to a dead person?"

Mu Ke, who had been silent all this time, spoke up: "It is recognized as valuable at the moment of death, and this value will always be remembered."

"I used to study abroad, and the suicide rate there was very high. Before committing suicide, many people would go to areas with high incidence of accidents, or wander around the streets. When they saw robbers or gangsters, they would rush to them. Be brave and let these people kill yourself."

"An interview in a magazine said that more than 70.00% of people who had suicidal thoughts wanted to do a good thing to make others remember themselves before they died."

Mu Ke paused, and continued: "Some suicides will form a team to help each other. I have seen their special report called [Suicide Community], and the leaders of [Suicide Community] are usually people who want to commit suicide. The person who takes the lead builds this community because he wants others to live, so he will try his best to help other people in this community, hoping that they will live."

"But what's weird is that because of the presence of the community, the suicide rate of these people sometimes increases."

Mu Sicheng asked: "Why?"

Liu Jiayi, who was next to her, replied: "Because someone remembers them, so they can be remembered and died."

"In this community atmosphere of self-abandonment, it is easy to breed a sense of sacrifice. To describe it in an easy-to-understand sentence is—" Riliu's gaze shifted to the system panel displaying information on the Russell Cemetery. "—I died for you, I hope you will live instead of me and remember me."

"Those who survived may suffer more than those who died, because they bear more burdens, and even the price of death has become heavy."

Everyone in the conference room was silent.

Wang Shun coughed, interrupted the stagnant atmosphere and continued: "Based on the above information, President Ri and I have made an in-depth analysis of the Russell Cemetery team."

"Everyone knows that for a team, the most important thing is the tactician, but because the members of the Russell Cemetery team have been changing, so their tacticians are different every game, but their tactical style is different. Remains fairly steady."

"So we speculate that the tactician who actually formulates the tactics is not the team members who are pushed out for rotation, but the president of the Russell Cemetery Guild who has never played behind the scenes."

"However, this chairman is really too mysterious. He hasn't participated in the league in the past two or three years. We have very limited information about him. I tried a lot of methods to find someone who claimed to have watched Lara by chance many years ago. An old player who participated in the competition with the president of Sale Cemetery, he told me that this president's skills are very strange, and he quickly cleared the opponent in a fog after playing."

"This is not the first time we have seen the ability to defeat opponents at high speed, and this is not the most peculiar aspect of this president's skills."

Wang Shun raised his head with a solemn expression: "We all know that five players are required to participate in the league team competition, but that old player assured me with a vow—"

"——The president entered the game alone, but when he got on the field, the system said that there were five players in the Russell Cemetery on the game map, and the game was running normally."

After the meeting.

Tang Erda, who had been taciturn during the meeting, rarely called out to Riliu who got up and was about to leave: "Can we talk about Russell Cemetery alone?"

Riliu, who just got up and was about to leave, sat back down again. He raised his hand to signal Wang Shun, who was the last to leave, to close the door. He sat on the chair and turned around to look at Tang Erda: "Captain Tang, what do you want to say to me alone?" ?”

Tang Er stared at Riliu: "Do you think [Russell Cemetery] is a [Suicide Community] type of guild?"

"It seems so at the moment." Ri Liu put his elbows on the table and clasped his fingers, "And the leader of the Russell guild is the soul of this guild, he has the typical psychology of a mutual aid [suicide community] leader feature."

Tang Er frowned and asked: "What psychological characteristics?"

Riliu looked at Tang Erda flatly: "He is doing everything possible to save his members and team members."

"But Russell killed more than [-] people in the mid-season game last year." Tang Er tapped the table with his fingers, emphasizing, "I don't see that sending newcomers to the league matches has anything to do with saving lives."

Riliu suddenly smiled: "How does Captain Tang think he can save a group of people who want to die?"

Tang Er beat him up: "I don't know."

"Give them hope." Riliu looked at Tang Erda calmly, "Victory in the league is their hope. This guild doesn't care about points, life or death, they just want to win. I guess the president of the Russell guild started I want to win regardless of everything, and then use the reward of the championship—the wish to save everyone.”

"But they lost to Killer Sequence, and they were wiped out in the next ninety qualifying matches."

Riliu said: "Captain Tang, do you still remember Wang Shun saying that the Russell Cemetery team collapsed and abstained after the team was wiped out? Do you think a team that really wantonly sent new players to the field and was slaughtered will be killed once because of the team?" Just collapse?"

"It's just that five people died." Ri Liu said in a flat tone, "The life of the bottom players is the least valuable thing in this game, and their victory in the mid-season competition already means that they can go this way. They were so close to success that they could do it again."

"But Russell abstained. They didn't play the mid-season game and started from the beginning of the pre-season game. Captain Tang, what do you think is the reason?"

Tang Er fell silent.

He had an answer in his heart, but he felt that the answer was unbelievable and... sad.

Riliu continued, "Because of casualties."

"Starting from the mid-season game, facing a strong team, even if they can win, they must experience another huge casualty. They would rather give up the rankings, fame, and points they have saved so hard, and risk huge uncertainties. , in order to reduce casualties, restart from the preseason."

"They just want to win, they just want to live."

Tang Er fumbled in his pocket, as if he wanted to take out a cigarette, but finally held back.

Riliu lowered her eyes: "The formation of this [suicide community] type of guild requires a group of people who want to commit suicide from the very beginning. I guess that the group of members when the Russell guild was first formed should be the same group. Those who entered the game, and there is a high probability that this group of people know each other in reality."

"This kind of self-harming community is not allowed to exist in China, so I guess, their group originally existed in the name of another group."

Riliu looked up at Tang Erda, who was silent on the opposite side: "And you came to me alone because of this group, right Captain Tang?"

Tang Erda was silent for a long, long time before he opened his mouth hoarsely: "You just analyzed the Russell Cemetery, which reminded me of something. At this time last year, the Bureau of Heretics received a report of an abnormal event, but after a long time of investigation, all No heresy was found, and the conclusion was finally settled by social events."

"What is this unusual case?" Riliu asked.

Tang Erda was silent for a while: "The owners of the Sunshine Real Estate Building collectively jumped off the building. A total of 47 people died. They jumped off the building one after another within a month. Because we suspected that heresy was involved, we suppressed the news at the time, and investigated it after half a day. It was quickly released."

Riliu asked indifferently: "What is the social event?"

Tang Erda took out a cigarette and lit it with Riliu's nod in agreement. He took a deep puff and said in a hoarse voice:

"Sunshine Real Estate is an unfinished real estate. It has been unfinished for more than three years. The developers who invested in it attracted foreign capital. Once an accident happened, the money went abroad. The owners who jumped off the building were all unfinished buildings. Jump down, after the jump, the family is wiped out, and there is no one in the family to help collect the body."

"After the person who jumped off the building died, the remaining owners of the unfinished building helped collect the body and sent it to the funeral home. After cremation, the ashes were placed in their original house in the unfinished building."

Tang Erda slowly exhaled a puff of smoke: "There are not many people living in the rooms in the unfinished building. They are all columbariums, like a cemetery."