Chapter 425: Strange Land (IX)
"What is the sure way to win?" Liu Xingquan asked curiously.
Yan Zhen's eyes flickered: "You said before that maintaining the existing number of holy gems is the key to winning this game."
"Yes, you can only use gems to eliminate other players in the PK game."
Yan Zhen said: "Then how can we win in a PK competition?"
"Take out more gems than your opponent."
"So how can we be sure to get more gems than our opponent?"
"This is a psychological game." Liu Xingquan paused, his face changed, "Do you mean..."
"Maintaining the number of holy gems will not make you win." Yan Zhen's eyes became unusually sharp, "The only way to win this game is to increase the number of gems."
“…”
"Do you remember that one of the rules is that the winner can take the loser's items? Then the loser's unused sacred gems are also included."
"I remember."
"So the sure-fire way to win this game is to snatch the gems from other teams and use your absolute advantage to crush the last team left." Yan Zhen said, "It's not difficult to do that."
“…”
"Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui are our allies. Psychologically, they will prioritize being hostile to other teams. But if we betray first and find Team Bai and deliberately break the agreement in the PK match to win, we can snatch their gems. In this way, we will be ahead in the number of gems and can be said to be invincible in the competition."
“…”
"So, you can win by not being a human being."
"It's really inhumane."
"Yes."
"But you won't do that." Liu Xingquan stared at Yan Zhen and said slowly, "You can't do such a thing."
“…”
"Although the Yan Zhen I know likes to lie, he is never a bad person."
"What do you mean by liking to lie?"
Liu Xingquan said: "Don't deny it."
"..." Yan Zhen sighed and squatted down, "Liu Xingquan, there are many things in this world that can be easily won as long as you are ruthless."
"Yan Zhen, who is eager to save the world, would never do such a thing as trampling on other people's trust."
"……Hello!"
"And even if they betray us, I don't think it will be easy." Liu Xingquan said, "Maybe Bai Lianlian and the others are unusually vigilant. You also have to consider that the girls may also stab us in the back."
“This is the chain of suspicion between teams.” Yan Zhen smiled, “But our allies are Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui.”
"Um?"
"The interesting thing about this alien game is that the team consists of two members. Whether it is an alliance or betrayal, both of them need to reach a consensus. Of the two girls, Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui, I think Bai Lianlian is the key."
"Bai Lianlian is from the next class, and she's not very familiar with us. She might instigate Song Jiarui..."
"No, Bai Lianlian will not backstab."
"What do you mean?"
"What kind of person do you think Bai Lianlian is?"
Liu Xingquan thought for a moment and said, "She is from the class next door. I only know that she has a good relationship with Song Jiarui. I heard that she is also a bad girl."
"Rather than being a bad girl, it's more like the result of being excluded and isolated."
"Hmm? She has some rumors."
Yan Zhen said: "Do you remember our biology extracurricular activities last semester? At that time, we were divided into groups with Class 1 to go to the Natural History Museum ."
"Remember."
"Because the activity was conducted in groups of eight, a person from Class 1 was inserted into our group. This person was Bai Lianlian. Because the people in her class didn't want to be with her, she was assigned to our group." Yan Zhen recalled, "After the activity was over, we took the wrong bag, and she took the notebook that recorded the group activity information back. When I found out when I got home, I shouted in the group group asking her to remember to bring it to me tomorrow, and she agreed."
"Then what?"
"As a result, a typhoon hit in the middle of the night, and the school was temporarily suspended the next day, so we had to stay at home. If you encounter this situation, a normal person would definitely wait until the typhoon is gone and school resumes the day after tomorrow and bring your notes with you."
"Yes. I remember that typhoon. It was quite big."
"I was at home and it was windy outside. Suddenly my family told me someone was looking for me. I looked and saw Bai Lianlian standing at my door. She was soaked and her umbrella was broken." Yan Zhen said, "She looked like she had just been fished out of the water. Then she took out our group's notebook from her bag. It was covered with several layers of plastic paper and was not wet at all. Can you understand how I felt at that time?"
“…”
"There was a typhoon outside, and her home was quite far from mine. The buses had stopped running at the time. She actually braved the wind and rain to walk to my house just to give me a notebook. I was shocked."
“…”
"I told her that it was too dangerous to go out on a typhoon day, and that she could wait until the day after tomorrow to give it to me." Yan Zhen showed an admiring expression, "Do you know what she said to me?"
"What?"
"She said that because she promised me, she would definitely keep her word."
“…”
"So you understand, as long as we are allies, Bai Lianlian will never betray us first. She is that kind of person." Yan Zhen said, "Song Jiarui will never do that. Bai Lianlian was rumored to be like that, but Song Jiarui insisted on being friends with her despite all the rumors. Their friendship is very strong, and Song Jiarui will only stand on the same front with Bai Lianlian when she decides."
"I see."
"So the sure way to win is to betray Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui's trust in us."
"This is really inhumane." Liu Xingquan said with condemnation.
The two boys were silent for a while.
Liu Xingquan said, "Have you ever thought that we could persuade the Bai Lianlian team to lose to us on purpose, give us the gems, and then share the prize money afterwards?"
"That's not feasible. Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui both want to win. And they currently have the advantage, why would they give it up and lose to us on purpose? Don't forget that PK is a one-round game, and lobbying like this will only make us lose."
"Maybe Fan Yingjie..."
"Wait a minute." Yan Zhen stared at the ground, where black scars still remained as if they had been burned by fire. Yan Zhen reached out and touched it, and his fingers were immediately covered with black charcoal ash.
"What's wrong?"
"Liu Xingquan, this is a game."
"Um?"
"The game has its rules, which means we can do anything within the rules. We don't have to betray Bai Lianlian and the others."
Liu Xingquan looked at Yan Zhen expectantly. Whenever he heard Yan Zhen speak in such an eager tone, he knew that his friend must have had some brilliant ideas again.
Yan Zhen turned his head, his dark eyes shining like morning dew, "Let's create a scam."
[Plague soapworms] attacked Bai Lianlian.
The branches of the tree man swayed, and its tendrils with long leaves instantly bound the soapworms like hard chains.
With a hissing howl, the [Plague Soap Beetle] disappeared.
Song Jiarui raised her hand and cast a healing spell on the tree man. Stars of light flickered on the tree man's body. The tree man rustled and stretched out its branches and leaves, which was its gesture of joy.
What a lovely tree man, Bai Lianlian said to Song Jiarui more than once. Since they started exploring the maze, this tree man who was accidentally recruited has now become a powerful fighter for the two of them.
The monsters in this maze are mostly some strange-looking insects. Having a tree man as their teammate is like a breath of fresh air among the many monsters.
"It would be great if we could bring this tree man back to reality." Song Jiarui sighed.
Now they are in a wonderful game. They can cast spells with cool special effects and light like those in fantasy movies or cartoons. They can feel the vibrations in the air caused by magic spells, smell the unique damp smell in the underground maze, and smell the fresh scent coming from the tree people.
It was all too real.
Unlike the real world, here they have magical spells, a loyal tree man teammate, rewards for completing tasks, and they may have a chance to win a 700 million bonus.
A huge bonus that .
"I don't know what's going on with Yan Zhen's team." Song Jiarui said.
Bai Lianlian picked up the item dropped by the plague locust, which was another magic scroll of [Fireball]. She put the scroll into her bag and said, "Don't think about them. They are a pretty weak team."
"They told us a lot of information, and Yan Zhen's ideas were pretty good."
"Um."
"..." Song Jiarui said softly, "It's actually good not to be enemies with them right now. I really don't want them to be eliminated by other teams soon. When I think about the PK match later, I'm still a little scared."
"Don't be afraid!! "
"What I mean is that although I think the PK competition later is scary, I can't help but start imagining how to use my 350 million bonus. Lianlian, am I taking it for granted?"
The 700 million prize money will be divided equally between them. This is the agreement between Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui.
Bai Lianlian chuckled, "Normal, I've already started thinking about the decoration of my dream villa."
"I even thought that it was no longer interesting to take my parents to Europe. If we were to go, we would go to Antarctica or the Arctic."
Bai Lianlian said: "I'm not saying anything, but your parents treat you that way, and you still think about them every day."
"I just want to make them happy." Song Jiarui looked away, "So we must win in the end."
"Of course." Bai Lianlian looked towards the exit of the room warily, "Shh."
Two footsteps were coming from the other room.
Bai Lianlian shouted: "Who?"
The door was pushed open.
When Song Jiarui saw who was coming, her eyes lit up.
A system sound echoed in the ears of Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui.
[Bai Lianlian, Song Jiarui's team is about to enter the PK encounter mode]
At the same time, Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan's team are continuing to explore the maze.
They took the minesweeping and avoidance mode to the extreme, carefully saving time on the timer.
On this floor, the little spider marked a room. This time the notice showed that the room was a trap room, but there were [suspicious skeletons] in it.
[Suspicious Skeleton]
Note: The skeleton of a person who died at an unknown time. There is something suspicious about it. It may be related to a certain truth.
"That's clearly stated to be suspicious, right?!" Yan Zhen said, "Then we can only investigate."
"It takes three rounds to dismantle the trap." Liu Xingquan said, looking at the record.
"There's no other choice but to go ahead."
Just as Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan were about to open the room to dismantle the trap, a system voice echoed in their ears.
[Brave Bai Lianlian loses the PK match and is judged dead]
[Brave warrior Song Jiarui loses the PK match and is declared dead]
The two young men looked at each other in disbelief, and saw surprise and confusion in each other's eyes.
what happened?
