Chapter 147 Grand Performance (18) "Faust"
Most of the games in this copy are unfair, and this unfairness becomes more and more obvious as time accumulates.
The initial injustice was that Hansen was obviously not the most evil and worthless person, but because of his outstanding force value, he was voted out first.
The existence of character cards is another injustice.
Players are assigned various roles without knowing it; characters such as cannon fodder and supporting characters cannot get their own role cards and can only lie down and die; the protagonist and villain have A chance to rise from the dead.
The protagonist's resurrection from the dead is unconditional, while the villain's resurrection is based on the protagonist's survival. Players are divided into three, six or nine levels from the beginning, and their survival probability and death order have already been determined.
After that, games such as catching fox and black jack cannot be absolutely fair. They can only balance the odds of winning through multiple rounds of repetition...
Chis looked at Cynthia: "This Let's vote for Dong Xiwen together in the first round. When he dies, we will each rely on our own abilities."
Cynthia nodded and said the word "good" concisely, her eyes that were not very bright looked even darker at first glance.
"Hey! Is it really okay for you two to say this in front of me?" Dong Xiwen was about to cry, but he had no other choice but to express his dissatisfaction with words.
Two votes to one, the outcome was determined, he would die no matter what.
What is even more frightening is that after Hansen was voted out, he was suspected to have actually died. If he is thrown out, will he actually die?
“Let’s begin.” Qis picked up the quill and wrote a name on the white paper.
Charlie urged at the right time: "Gentlemen and ladies, I believe you have almost communicated. Write down your choices on paper! I have designed many interesting ways to die, just waiting for you. The results of our vote are here!”
Cynthia didn’t hesitate, picked up the pen and wrote a name.
Dong Xiwen's eyes flickered between Qisi and Cynthia for a while, and finally made a decision. He gritted his teeth and made his choice on the paper one stroke at a time.
After the three of them put down their pens, he closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and waited for death to come.
Time passed minute by minute and the expected pain did not appear. He was a little confused and tentatively opened his eyes a crack.
I saw an Arabic numeral made of black smoke appearing on the top of everyone's head. The one on Cynthia's head was 0, and the one on Qis's head was——
3 !
Ziss got 3 votes, which is a unanimous vote!
Dong Xiwen's eyes widened in disbelief.
He voted for Qiss because Qiss claimed in public that if he died, Cynthia would die too.
Even if the chance of taking away two people with one vote is very slim, it is worth trying.
What surprised him was that Cynthia did not vote for him as promised, but also voted for Ziss.
But think about it, this woman is not willing to be controlled by others, and naturally has her own plans.
She only needs to keep Dong Xiwen in this round of voting, and then use props to kill him in the battle royale session, so that the only surviving players are her and Qisi.
Then, she can use the prop to kill Zeiss.
There is a mechanism to guarantee the number of deaths. No matter how powerful Qisi’s soul contract is, he cannot take her away beyond the essential rules of the weird game...
But no one expected that Qisi would Vote for yourself.
"Unanimous vote! The result is clear! Congratulations to Mr. No. 1 for being selected as the most damned sinner!" Charlie announced the result excitedly.
Dong Xiwen looked at Qisi dumbfounded: "No, brother, what's going on with you? Knife yourself?"
Hansen did not appear in the birdcage after being voted out, and his life or death is uncertain. ; How could "Zhou Ke" be so brave and dare to kill himself during the voting and execution?
Wait! Did Cynthia not mention Hansen?
Dong Xiwen finally realized the blind spot and his pupils shrank.
Maybe Hansen didn't appear in the birdcage, but was killed by the two people who arrived later with props...
Doesn't this mean that these two human-like apes have the possibility of killing people? ?
Dong Xiwen looked sad and thought desperately: "It's over, it's over. When it comes to the battle royale, I'm afraid I won't be killed directly..."
On the other side, Cynthia looked at The numbers above Qisi's head made him understand everything immediately.
Ciss naturally cannot have the kind intention of sacrificing himself for others. He voted for himself just because he wanted to leave the show early and do some small tricks that cannot be seen...
It is very likely that he knows something and is fully confident that he can pass the level, so he dares to show his true face and expose his true intentions at this time...
And for an egoist like him, after he clears the level, he will inevitably There is no good intention to leave clues for latecomers.
If he survives, it will be equivalent to "swallowing" the guaranteed death toll mechanism. Cynthia knew that by then, even if she killed Dong Xiwen, she might not be able to clear the level.
Thinking of this, she pulled out a short knife from the interlayer of her dress, pretending to stand up and stab Qis across the table.
However, the next second, an invisible force fell from the sky and nailed her to the chair.
This play is the same as the previous one. Except for the battle royale in the third act, players cannot attack each other in the rest of the play.
Cynthia couldn't move and could only stare at Qisi: "Zhou Ke, there is no absolute conflict of interest between us. If you tell me the clues you know, Kyushu owes you a favor."< br>
The execution has begun. Zis leaned on the chair and allowed his flesh and blood to be bitten off and devoured by the invisible existence.
He actually has no special interest in cannibalism, so he has no excessive aversion to being eaten; reading books that describe the matter in a beautiful and alluring way, he cannot feel any empathy.
As far as he knows, appetite is often linked to love, and he is a monster without the quality of "love"...
Blood blurred his vision and poured into his ear canal along the wound. Chiss could only vaguely hear Cynthia's persuasion.
The woman's voice sounds calm, but if you touch it carefully, you can taste the fear behind it.
She couldn't do anything to Qiss, and deduced the outcome after Qiss' plan succeeded.
At this moment, she is in a weak position, and the only way to break the situation is to persuade Qisi to share clues with her so that she can survive together.
But it is a pity that Qisi has never had a good intention to save people, and he does not want to get too involved with Kyushu.
"Zhou Ke, I am a high-level executive in Jiuzhou. It will be beneficial and harmless for you to cooperate with me..." Cynthia was still persuading.
Feeling the dense pain all over his body, Qisi snorted a sneer through his nose: "As far as I know, that ridiculous guild values face more than life, and they don't dare to claim their family status after harming others. "
"Although I have not joined them, I am very familiar with their senior management..."
Qisi could not hear Cynthia's words clearly, and his consciousness began to separate from his body. And at a certain moment, it falls off like a ripe fruit and floats to the boundless sky. He vaguely saw his identity card in this play, and the word "villain" was particularly clear.
This time, he is still the villain.
This game no longer hides its "unfair" nature.
Qisi understood everything, suddenly enlightened, and wanted to laugh, but in the end he did not make any sound.
In the silence, a bright red page slowly turned over in the darkness...
[The main mission has been refreshed]
[Main mission: Escape from the Scarlet Theater]
......
When Charlie said frankly that "this world is unfair", Chiss finally caught the thread The sense of violation that I have always felt vaguely but cannot confirm——
The "unfairness" of this copy is too obvious.
It is true that the weird game itself cannot be absolutely fair. The probability issues that test luck, the uneven player strength and the difficulty of the copy are all manifestations of unfairness.
But Weird Games never truthfully informs players of this underlying logic.
On the contrary, it will give players a hint that everyone is at the same starting point and that the copy is selfless. Only in this way can players' safety expectations be met and they can be willing to struggle for survival.
Charlie spoke out about "unfairness" with confidence, and never concealed the existence of this unfairness in the design of the important element of character cards...
This cannot be helped. Qiss no longer doubted that some of Charlie's actions were really due to the mechanism of the copy itself?
In "Double Happiness Town", Qisi learned from Xu Yao that some important NPCs in the dungeon had autonomous consciousness, and staying in the dungeon to kill people was also due to a deal with the Lord God. And this transaction is not strict. This type of NPC can sometimes do things as they wish.
So, will this be the case with Charlie as well?
Is it deliberately transforming the identity cards that are part of the game mechanism into different "character cards" to avoid the attention of the weird game?
I don’t know how long my consciousness has been floating in the darkness, but it finally settled down.
Chis opened his eyes and found himself sitting in a high-backed chair.
The round table was empty, and he was the only one sitting next to it.
He was still in the theater, but the surroundings were no longer bright and glorious. The burning breath lingered on the tip of his nose. Looking around, he could only see the blackened ceiling and walls with the faint light.
This is a piece of land that has been burned by fire. I don’t know how long it has been abandoned.
Qisi stood up and walked towards the shimmering light.
I saw a hole in the dome of the theater. It was night outside, but moonlight leaked in through the gap.
There are five birdcages placed in the place illuminated by the light, four of which are empty. Only one of them has a figure in a red suit sitting cross-legged.
Qisi looked at the man and smiled with crooked eyebrows: "My sin, long time no see."
In the previous scene, he was locked in a cage; in this scene, he came out , but his sins were imprisoned - it's a bit dark humor to think about it.
“Long time no see.” The young man in red showed his fine teeth, “If you want to leave, you can stack the cages together and climb out from here. This is the only reminder, so you don’t need to ask me any more questions. ."
Hearing this, Qisi laughed out all the smiles he had saved before. He laughed and stepped back.
It wasn't until he stepped back five steps that he stopped smiling: "Good inducement. In the previous consciousness space, the player's body was locked in a cage, and evil was rampant outside; but in this space, the situation is It’s quite the opposite.”
He paused, and his voice was sarcastic: "Players who have experienced tragic deaths are weak-willed and can easily be misled into thinking that this is a real space opposite to the conscious space. But with all due respect, although this scene looks very real, But that's all."
"Oh?" The skin of the young man in red began to melt from the top of his head, flowing to the ground like cooked wax, undulating like waves.
The gelatinous mucus squirmed slowly as if it were alive, connecting to form new shapes. When it solidified and settled, sitting in the birdcage was a slender figure wearing black clothes and a white mask.
It’s still Charlie.
This weird puppet turned its masked face towards Chiss and asked: "How did you see it?"
"You said it yourself in the script." Qisi said, "Your theater has been burned down. After so many years, it has probably been razed to the ground. How can we escape? The Scarlet Theater we want to escape from has always been The space of your consciousness, the ghost realm created by your obsession.”
“Hoho, good guess!” Charlie clapped his hands twice, “He is indeed my favorite character. ! Unfortunately, there is no reward for answering correctly! The characters in the copy do not have equal rights, and the playwright cannot change the plot without authorization. You can only ask for it after the curtain ends. "
"Now. , Mr. No. 1, you can go back to your seat and wait!"
Qisi did not move, but continued: "It can be seen that you are a cynical and self-righteous person. Such an evil theater still leaves behind some boring scripts, misleading us into thinking that those bloody methods are the work of your puppets. How long will you continue to hide behind the scenes, Mr. Charlie?"
Puppet Charlie remained silent, but countless pairs of scarlet eyes suddenly appeared on the dark ceiling, staring viciously at Zeiss below, as if they wanted to eat him alive.
Ziss didn't seem to notice, and continued: "You clearly long for the audience's recognition, but you call yourself an artist and denounce the drama of sensationalism. I'm afraid it will be too difficult to let the players repeatedly engage in the drama you created in the form of consciousness. Is it just your own plan? "
The space shook violently, and the cold wind rising from the ground whistled, causing the hem of the white shirt to flutter.
Qisi's tone was still calm: "Players killed by props will truly die. This is the mechanism of the dungeon itself. And you took it upon yourself to squeeze players and produce evils that exceeded the limit. I guess you won't hand it over to the game, right?"
He paused for a moment, then raised a finger to his lips and lowered his voice: "I'm curious, if the weird game knows about you? "Can you continue to cooperate with Him..."
"He won't know." Charlie's voice became cold, "As long as I kill you, no existence will know."
"Really? It's a pity that I don't believe it..." Qisi put his hand on the fate pocket watch on his left wrist, and the smile on his lips turned full of malice in an instant.
He suddenly raised his head and said in a voice that everyone and the NPC could hear: "The Lord of Time and Space who is at the boundary between life and death, the Master of Fate who is in charge of disasters and blessings..."
"Shut up!" Charlie understood Qiss's plan almost immediately, and his voice was no longer as calm as before, "I will let you go, and I can also give you some benefits that I can..."
"No. "Qisi shook his head.
He raised his hand, and a bright red contract scroll appeared in front of him, automatically without wind.
On the blood-like background, the golden word "Qi" shines brightly, hunting like fire, reflecting the faint light that blurs the vision.
"Although I don't know why you need sin, from the perspective of poaching the Lord God, our positions are consistent. What I want to say is-"
"You might as well do it with me "A deal."
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[Note] "Faust" is a poetic drama created by the German writer Goethe, which tells the story of Faust and the devil Mephi. The story of ster's trading.
Thank you for the tip of 500 points from the rap artist, Mr. Lang! Thank you, boss! (The accumulated reward progress is 1947/10000) I may have to wait until tomorrow to add the chapter, I will try to finish it as soon as possible (T^T) (There are too many things this morning, sorry)
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