Infinite weird games

On the ninth floor of the tower, with the last five seconds left in the countdown, Qiss sat up from the water.

He made a [stone] gesture, and his reflection was reflected in the water. His right hand was also curled up into a stone.

[Draw] Two big words appeared in the upper left corner of the line of sight as the conclusion of the first game.

As expected, the countdown was refreshed in time and was still one hour.

Zeiss lay back in the water again, his body and his reflection in the water overlapped, blending seamlessly into one after being immersed.

The cold invisible thing wraps around the whole body, and after penetrating the clothes, it forms a uniformly absorbed gravity, coldly dragging the body deeper.

Qiss lay there for a while, raised his head slightly, and said, "I find that I still can't understand the relationship between desire and soaking in water. On the contrary, I think it's quite interesting, and it's something novel. experience.”

"You can get out of this situation at any time, so you won't be afraid of it." The voice in his head replied, seemingly far away, "You have never really lost a game. When winning becomes the norm, no matter how many times you win, You won’t cherish it even if you win or lose.”

The voice is seductive, like a firefly in the dark that leads a lost traveler to the cliff, telling him that the ultimate answer lies in the most dangerous place, and can only be obtained by being broken into pieces.

If you have always had it, you will feel normal; only if you lose it, you will have desires.

Qisi sat up and grinned: "Is that so? I think it's good. I think I won't need such a thing as desire again in the future."

He knew the solution to the game from the beginning.

Even though for most people, beating oneself in the mirror in playing rock, paper, scissors is simply a fantasy, but Ziss does know how to do it.

He paid a lot of attention to the reflection in the mirror when he was very young. At that time, he had not yet learned the principle of mirror reflection, and he could not understand that the person who looked like him in the mirror was himself like most children. Enlightenment.

In his opinion, it was an existence of unknown origin in another world entirely.

Many scholars use mirror experiments to measure the intelligence of animals, but this is actually inaccurate. Whether you can tell yourself in the mirror depends more on self-awareness.

He clearly knows his own appearance and believes in its uniqueness and authenticity, so he can judge the vassal relationship of the image in the mirror.

But for a long time, Ziss lacked an accurate concept of his own image.

In his mind, he can be any object, including birds, animals, insects, flowers, trees, and even a ball of inorganic matter, a pool of mucus, or a tentacle.

So of course he became extremely curious about the pale and gloomy child in the mirror.

Words would not be answered, so he started making gestures again, starting with the simplest game of rock, paper, scissors.

After hundreds of draws, he finally figured out the rules and principles, and also recognized the relationship between the man in the mirror and himself.

The last time, he won.

【00:00:00】

The countdown has run out again.

Zeiss came out with [Scissors], and it was still a draw.

At the same time, everyone else almost completed another round of the game and each got a chance to make a choice.

With Chu Xun's words in front of them, players can no longer ignore the role of points. This time, Green, Qin Mu, Chang Xu, and Lainaan all chose the 500-point option, while Lin Ye chose food.

This directly caused Fan Zhanwei's team's points, which were tied for first place with Chu Xun from the beginning, to suddenly drop to fourth place.

Lin Ye's choice was undoubtedly his own, and Fan Zhanwei's face gradually turned gloomy.

The goat was watching the fun and didn't think it was a big deal. He clapped his hands in an extremely exaggerated manner and said with a smile: "It seems that there is a disagreement within a team. This is really a development of ups and downs! Now I will give you three minutes of communication time. I wonder what you want to say to your companions?”

He snapped his fingers, and Fan Zhanwei transformed from his lion form back into his human form.

Lin Ye's shadow appeared in front of him, exuding an unruly temperament from top to bottom.

From Lin Ye's perspective, it was probably Fan Zhanwei's shadow that was teleported into the tower.

The animals in the audience screamed in confusion, and the elephants sitting at the top waved their trunks and seemed to be booing.

They are undoubtedly waiting for the players to make some cannibalistic jokes, so that this game, which is still relatively routine at the moment, becomes more interesting.

Fan Zhanwei was oblivious and just looked at Lin Ye coldly and asked, "Do you know what you are doing?"

"I know. What else?" Lin Ye sneered, "Just now I finally figured it out. You keep asking me to choose points. You must have forgotten that you need two servings of food every day to maintain basic survival, right?

"So far today, each of us has only one portion of food. If I don't choose the food, where will the rest of the food come from? Another person will die? You are not planning to kill me, are you?"

"Idiot." Fan Zhanwei looked into Lin Ye's eyes, his voice cold, "Premise one, there is a mechanism to guarantee the number of deaths, even if everyone is short of food, it will not lead to the destruction of the group. Premise two, the most intuitive way for players in this dungeon Teams are ranked based on points.

"If you are a person with a normal IQ, you should be able to easily draw the following conclusion: Points are the key to survival under the guaranteed death toll mechanism, that is, the advantage that all teams must seize."

Lin Ye was choked and sneered with his neck stiff: "How can you be sure that your guess is right? Do you have evidence? Or did you find something and not tell me? Besides, who knows how many people can survive the guaranteed death toll mechanism.

"If only one person can survive, what does it matter if our team has the most points? Will you die yourself and let me survive?"

Fan Zhanwei said: "You can think of these, and other people will think of the same reasoning. Therefore, by the third round of the game at the latest, we will definitely reach a consensus through consultation and propose a plan for obtaining food that everyone can accept.

"But you just don't listen to orders, waste our team's game coins first, and give up the original advantage. It's stupid."

Lin Ye rolled his eyes: "It's none of my business how you smart people fight. Anyway, I just want to be safe. This wave chose food. No matter what happens tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I will definitely not die today."

He looked like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, and his face was full of "What can you do to me".

Fan Zhanwei stared at him and said word by word: "We are teammates. You said it's none of your business. This is extremely short-sighted.

"According to my original deduction, everyone's food is always missing. No matter what the consequences are, it will not exceed the guaranteed death toll mechanism. But you broke this balance..."

"So what?" Lin Ye shrugged, "Last night when you heard that 3,000 points could make your wish come true, your eyes turned green. Everyone knows what you are thinking. You just want to accumulate enough points to try to make your wish come true. You don't care whether other people live or die..."

"What do you know? "Fan Zhanwei suddenly raised his voice and interrupted Lin Ye's words.

The next second, the three-minute countdown ended, and Lin Ye's shadow disappeared from the chessboard.

Only Fan Zhanwei was left with his head slightly lowered, exhaling gently, and slowly regaining the image of a lion.

All the players on the chessboard heard the conversation between the two clearly, and a lot of information revealed in it was worth careful consideration.

Liu Yuhan hugged the Ghost Story Notes tightly, her eyes dimmed.

She realized that the situation in this copy might not be as simple as she had initially deduced.

If it were other copies, most of the players involved were normal people who wanted to pass the level safely. After Chang Xu started the task of [Kill Qi Si], it would be inevitable to form a situation of joint efforts to deal with Qi Si.

But this copy is above [Clearance] A more tempting option was imposed, namely [Fulfilling a Wish].

And there are many crazy players involved who are chasing their desires and put the value of [Fulfilling a Wish] above their lives...

Fortunately, the effect of [Dark Judge] is not limited to a single copy. As long as Chang Xu is not dead, Qi Si will still be wanted by the main mission in the future copies.

But... the effect of this identity card is open and transparent to both parties, and Qi Si naturally knows this information. He will definitely find ways to kill Chang Xu...

Liu Yuhan remained calm, spread out the ghost story notes in her arms, picked up a pen and wrote and drew on it.

At present, the total points of her and Chang Xu are 2,000. They only need to complete two more games to accumulate 3,000 points...

"Goat." Liu Yuhan raised her hand and said clearly, "I want to borrow 1,000 points from Chang Xu."

Goat shook his head: "If it was yesterday, before you became teammates, it might be possible. But unfortunately, you are teammates now, and various resources between teammates cannot be actively transferred to each other unless one of them dies. ”

Liu Yuhan still didn't give up: "If it can't be transferred, then can't it be borrowed?"

"Of course not!" Shanyang spread his hands, "If you really need points, you can borrow from other teams."

Other teams are naturally unwilling to lend points.

First, points are likely to mean the right to speak, which is closely related to the probability of survival.

Second, everyone knows that her and Chang Xu's wish is to kill Qi Si.

Qis's teammates and people who have ideas about realizing their wishes will not allow them to accumulate 3,000 points too early.

Liu Yuhan said no more and continued to bury her head in the ghost story notes.

…

On the ninth floor of the tower, the countdown for the third game is about to end, and the time for this rock-paper-scissors game has reached its limit.

The reflection raised his face and looked at Qi Si with a smile: "It seems that the time to say goodbye has come. From what I know about you, you must have known the solution, right?"

"If that solution works, I think so. "Qisi casually lowered his right hand, with his thumb, index finger and middle finger curled together, while his ring finger and pinky finger hung loosely.

From behind him, the volume of the three curled fingers completely covered the two hanging fingers, which was undoubtedly a [stone].

But the ring finger and pinky finger were exposed in the hand reflected in the water, forming a not-so-standard [scissors].

[Stone] beats [scissors], [victory]!

The countdown stopped after it was reset to zero, two draws and one win in three games.

"Congratulations, then I wish you keep winning. "The reflection said with a smile.

The water surface rippled under the windless sky, tearing the reflection in the water into mottled blocks of color.

When it calmed down again, only a dark and dull stone slab remained, on which three options were engraved in silver-white words:

[One action point]

[Five hundred points]

[Two portions of food]

Qis stood with his hands hanging down, and did not make a choice immediately. His right hand slowly relaxed into a palm, and his five fingers naturally hung down.

He had used this little trick to win the rock-paper-scissors game with his reflection in the mirror many years ago.

Some errors in visual effects, coupled with cheating in gestures, create the effect of the person outside the mirror beating the person in the mirror from a third-person perspective.

The person in the mirror can never win against the person outside the mirror, because no one can step into the mirror and stand behind him to observe the entire game.

All his actions depend on the actions of others outside the mirror. He is dominated, manipulated, and controlled, unable to control himself...

So, Qiss decided that the person in the mirror was not him.

[Please make your choice within fifteen minutes]

A new countdown appeared in the upper left corner of his sight, and Zis pressed his hand on the [Five Hundred Points] option at the end of the time reset.

After a moment of spinning, he stood in front of a magnificent stone door.

His image was reflected in the door leaf as smooth as a mirror, just like the figure in red suit trousers reflected in the full-length mirror before entering the copy.

[Please enter the next game within fifteen minutes]

The cold electronic sound rang in his ears, and Qiss suddenly felt a strong sense of familiarity.

The mechanism of spending points to realize wishes... the gimmick of multi-party competition to select a new god... the ensuing countdown...

The various games embedded in the tower are like small copies. After completing the level, you can also get rewards including points...

The audience sitting around the venue and the players in the venue form a stage mechanism similar to a live copy...

The players who come and go put their lives on the gambling table for the sake of desire, as a condiment for the carnival in the eyes of the gods...

Why should we establish rules and order that prohibit harm to each other outside of the beast fighting game?

Of course, it is to make the player's life more durable so as to extract more value...

"Could this 'value' be a 'sin'?"

"Could the weird game also be a huge colosseum?"

"If so, then what do those rat men underground represent?"

[00:00:00], the stone door opens automatically.

Qisi lowered his eyes and stepped into the darkness in the door.

…

Most of the remaining first batch of players who entered the tower exhausted their game coins, returned to the outside of the tower, and swapped positions with their teammates on the chessboard.

During the brief handover, Liu Yuhan put the mask into Chang Xu's hands and whispered: "Protect Nian Fu and don't let others kill her. If the resources are gathered on Qisi, it will be very troublesome."

After she finished speaking, she turned into a light blue beam and was absorbed by the glazed tower.

At the same time, Chu Xun put on a tiger mask for Green and said softly: "If conditions permit, try to kill Nian Fu."

Green twisted into an orange tiger shadow in a few seconds and rushed towards Nian Fu.

He is far less cautious than Chu Xun. He only dares to rely on the rules of the chessboard and use action points to capture Nian Fu.

In his opinion, as long as he gets it quickly enough, no one can change the outcome of someone's death.

However, the next second, a dark shadow flashed, and Chang Xu, holding a mask, held the [Death], coldly standing between him and Nian Fu.

Green glanced at the wolf head mask in Chang Xu's arms and smiled ferociously: "You are a wolf, I can eat you at any time."

"I am a lion, and I can eat you." Lin Ye's voice sounded not far away.

The huge lion shadow walked over, lowered his head and said twice: "Green, you are willing to be a dog for those smart people, but I don't want to be plotted by them anyway.

"While that bastard Fan Zhanwei is not here, Chang Xu, let's cooperate."

The situation suddenly changed. Green smelled danger and instinctively retreated.

Chang Xu had expended a lot of energy by activating the teleportation. He had no intention of confronting him at this moment, so he simply put on his mask and stood back to his original position.

The goat stood aside leisurely, watching the sudden friction.

Seeing that there was no fight after all, he shook his head with disappointment and regret, and announced loudly: "The intermission is over, all players please return to their seats within three minutes!" (End of this chapter)