Chapter 188: Spirit Exploration Live Room
[I didn't lie to you. (This message failed to send)]
Xu Zhiyan is not someone who will be trapped by problems.
After realizing that he could not contact Bai Jin through information in the current situation, he stopped struggling fearlessly and temporarily put the other party out of his mind.
Anyway, the gift value has been credited to the account and it is impossible to spit it out.
Having just received a new and expensive order, he needed some information to determine whether the broadcasting building was the source of the regular pollution.
Xiaokuigu and Yu Xiu quickly wrapped several gifts. Xu Zhiyan chose a larger one and carried it upstairs.
The eighth floor is the landlord's residence.
He wanted to know who lived in this building.
Outside the residential building, the skylight showed unnatural changes. It was not from white to black from morning to night as imagined, but instead turned into a gray color. The light did not have the usual transparency at all, like an irregular sticky gelatinous substance, which was a bit disgusting just by looking at it.
Just like last time, the landlord's door was wide open.
Xu Zhiyan had a polite smile on his face, holding a beautifully wrapped gift in his hands. He didn't speak until he entered the door.
"Is Brother Yi here?"
Unlike last time when he rushed in directly, he stood at the door entrance and was very polite.
"Huh? Who is it? Xiao Xu? What's the matter? Forget it, come in first." The landlord heard the voice and greeted the person in with a little impatience.
After hearing the answer, Xu Zhiyan walked in with the gift.
Through the entrance hall is the open office area.
The bald landlord was still wearing his pink flip-flops, sitting behind his desk with his legs crossed, reading a newspaper.
"What's the matter? Don't ask me to fix your water heater again..." He muttered loudly, fearing that he would be caught by the tenant to fix electrical appliances. When he saw the gift in Xu Zhiyan's hand, he was slightly stunned, put down the newspaper, grabbed a pair of glasses from the side and put them on his nose.
"Xiao Xu? What are you doing?"
Unlike what Xu Zhiyan had imagined, the landlord was not happy after seeing the gift. His first reaction was to use the gift to pay the rent.
Before Xu Zhiyan could speak, the landlord waved his hands and said, "No, no, I don't accept items, only cash and transfers. I know it's hard for you to make money, but I have to eat, right?"
"Brother Yi, you misunderstood."
Xu Zhiyan took a few steps forward and placed the large package in his hand on the table.
"My live broadcasts have been quite successful these days. This is a gift from my fans. I thought you were very good to me, brother, and I was wondering how to thank you. Do you mind if I borrow your gift to express my gratitude?" He can make up eight hundred reasons like this at random.
In order to maintain the sense of reality, Xu Zhiyan added another sentence.
"It's just that the money I earn from live streaming can only be withdrawn next month, so I may pay the rent a little later next month."
The landlord looked at the handsome young man in front of him and scratched his hair as if embarrassed, and then he felt relieved.
It’s not just about giving up the lease or paying off the debt with property!
"Okay, okay. It would be the best if your live streaming business improves." He regarded the gift as interest on delayed rent and happily accepted it. His attitude towards Xu Zhiyan also softened a lot.
Although he considered this as interest, the landlord felt obliged to pay it back, so he hesitated for a few seconds and simply asked Xu Zhiyan to sit down and have some tea.
"Come here, come here, the tea I just bought is said to cost one thousand six hundred yuan per pound. It is this year's new tea." His tone was quite proud.
As he spoke, the landlord took out a new teacup from the side of the table and filled it up.
Xu Zhiyan took the teacup and pretended to take a sip, his eyes gleaming with surprise.
"The tea soup is clear and sweet at the beginning. It is indeed a good tea." Bullshit.
The tea had a musty smell, as if it were some strange hairy thing. It was definitely not something that humans should eat, so he didn't dare drink it at all.
The landlord was very happy to hear the praise.
"Hey, I'm not bragging to you. This is not easy to get. I didn't know that you, Xiao Xu, can actually taste tea..."
Xu Zhiyan listened to the landlord's excited introduction with a smile, only to find that he looked even balder.
After a few minutes, he finally managed to get closer to the landlord with the gifts and tea.
"By the way, Brother Yi, do you know what's going on with the other neighbors downstairs?" Although the system gave twelve hours of rest time, Xu Zhiyan still had a lot of things to do and had to hurry up.
"Neighbors? What neighbors?"
The landlord was stunned, looking very puzzled.
Seeing that the landlord's expression was not right, Xu Zhiyan was shocked and pretended to be stupid without saying a word.
"Ah? It's the other neighbors downstairs. Didn't you send me a message before, saying that this building is full of old men and women, and asked me not to talk?"
"What do you mean by texting...oh, you mean that? I remember I only told you that I had to help the photo if it fell."
The landlord looked as if he had suddenly realized something, pointed at Xu Zhiyan's nose and said, "What do you mean by neighbor? Don't scare me. There is no one else in our building except you."
"I really received Brother Yi's text message." Xu Zhiyan was possessed by a nagging spirit.
The bald man was a little anxious, frowning and waving his hands: "Impossible! You must have remembered it wrong! If you don't believe me, take out your phone!"
"Wait for me."
Xu Zhiyan pretended that he remembered it wrongly, took out his mobile phone, opened the message sent by the landlord, and showed it to himself.
The landlord glanced at the screen and scolded with a smile: "Look, look, I just sent you a few words! Go next door and help with the photo frame when you have time! There is no such thing as neighbors, did you remember it wrong?"
The middle-aged man who had the upper hand in the argument was smug.
Xu Zhiyan's smile froze for a moment, then he recovered and pretended to apologize, and the little episode just passed.
The two chatted for a few more sentences.
Seeing that the landlord really couldn't see the rules that were sent to him, he planned to leave as soon as possible.
Before leaving, Xu Zhiyan looked around and suddenly asked the landlord: "By the way, Brother Yi, do you usually watch live broadcasts? Mobile phones can cast screens now, and I don't see you have a TV in your room."
Yes, no TV.
He was in a hurry last time and didn't pay much attention, but this time, Xu Zhiyan discovered that the landlord's house seemed to have no electrical appliances for external communication except a broken mobile phone.
Speaking of live streaming, the landlord shook his head and lost himself in memories.
"I don't like watching that. I don't understand it. Someone asked me to download a live broadcast app before, but I couldn't find it. My TV was broken and it was always playing weird things. After I sent it to be repaired, the repair station went bankrupt."
He feels very sorry when it comes to TV.
"I went to the repair station to look for it, but couldn't find it. Then I wanted to buy a new TV, but it seemed to be out of stock on the market—"
The landlord stopped talking abruptly.
The expression of this middle-aged man, who had very little hair on his head, gradually changed from calm to confusion and then to fear.
"Yes, there is no TV anymore. Since when... I don't think I have watched TV anymore. I lent you my projector before. I can't buy a TV anymore. Why can't I buy a TV? This shouldn't happen. Why..."
He spoke incoherently at an extremely fast pace, and he looked like a software infected with a virus.
Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan shook the landlord's shoulder.
But the other party's voice was getting louder and louder, and the noise was transmitted back and forth in the room, which was extremely strange. In the end, only the three words "why" were left, which overlapped with the content left in the duty log.
Combined with the strange, creeping light outside the window, the landlord seemed to be infected by some kind of infection.
In the live broadcast room, viewers kept guessing the identity of the landlord.
[Fuck, he seems to be possessed by some monster. ]
[It's not possession, I think he seems to be infected by something, just like a computer virus. ]
[Eh——So what the landlord sees is different from what we see? ]
[Haven't you noticed? This landlord seems to be the only normal person we've seen so far, besides the players.]
The weird guest who delivered the posthumous photo on the eighth floor, the neighbor who peeked at the player going up and down the stairs in the dark, the woman who was trapped in the death video tape and completely collapsed...
[Oh oh oh, I wouldn't have noticed it if the above person hadn't mentioned it, but it seems to be true! ]
[There are quite a few passers-by left, but they have no connection with the players, so it is impossible to tell whether they are normal people or not.]
[But if calculated this way, the landlord is the most unreasonable one! ]
“Pah—”
There was a crisp sound of slapping.
Seeing that he couldn't wake up the landlord, Xu Zhiyan slapped him in the face. The "why" that sounded like a mumbling in a dream finally disappeared.
"Brother Yi, there are mosquitoes here." He looked at the stunned landlord with an innocent face.
The landlord, whose face was swollen from being beaten, was now holding his cheek. His eyes gradually became clear and his thinking returned to normal.
"You're using too much force! Just go away and stop bothering me!"
A slap ended the harmonious relationship between the two.
After asking all the questions he wanted to ask and seeing that the landlord had completely returned to normal, Xu Zhiyan didn't waste any more time and went straight downstairs.
After returning to Room 701, Yu Xiu and Yuan Chi waited for a long time.
Xu Zhiyan briefly recounted what happened to the landlord and put away his smile.
"… This is pretty much what happened. The landlord and I see things differently. In his eyes, there aren't that many rules at all."
In addition to the landlord, he remembered that during the previous live broadcast, what the audience in the live broadcast room saw was different from the players. They could not see the strangely moving passers-by on the road at all.
"Except for players, there are many kinds of creatures known to exist in this instance."
The contents of this copy were more complicated. In order to make it clear to Yu Xiu and Yuan Chi, Xu Zhiyan took out a piece of paper and classified and recorded all the contents in the copy.
Ignorant landlord.
The gentle, honest and transparent 'they'.
The live broadcast room is always online, and the audience has been stuck in time for ten years.
The black rule monster that appears when the rules are broken or revealed.
There are also monsters born in strange places, such as human-skinned Buddhas, student ghosts, clothes that can move and strangle, and weird humans in movies...
Xu Zhiyan tentatively classifies the neighbors who are not seen by the audience and the landlord and the passers-by with strange shadows into one category.
The last ones are the ones who sent the portraits into 701.
They didn't speak, but the landlord seemed to be able to hear their voices.
Yuan Chi didn't expect that he would get so many shared messages for only paying 100,000 points. He was very touched. He asked carefully: "Boss Xu, do you still want to go to the neighbor's house?"
According to the landlord, there are no neighbors here at all.
"Yes, of course I will."
Xu Zhiyan didn't care too much.
He had Xiao Tomoyu in his backpack, and the hand bones on his right hand that were capable of beating up regular monsters. More importantly, he got some clues from the system update.
"After we came back, the system said that everyone had entered a safe location, which means the room was safe."
At this point, he sneered.
"Guess why the system doesn't allow everyone to run around? Infinite game players don't know when they will die, so who would care about fast-forwarding ten days?"
The system locked everyone in the building simply because it was worried that players would discover items or side quests that they shouldn't have during these twelve hours and take advantage of them.
The greater the risk, the greater the reward.
Then conversely, if there is destined to be no return, the risk will be minimized.
"I guess not talking in the hallway isn't really a building rule, it's a city rule."
However, speculation is speculation, and Xu Zhiyan has no reason to verify this news.
A few minutes later, he knocked on his neighbor's door with the gift in hand.
“Boom boom boom!”
The cold sound of knocking on the outer iron door echoed in the corridor.
No one opened the door.
Xu Zhiyan turned his head to the side and leaned against the door, trying to listen to the sounds inside.
No movement.
Xu Zhiyan hesitated for a moment, took out a master key, and wondered whether to break into the house.
Just then, a text message rang.
[Sister: Don’t go in]
Xu Zhiyan stared at the text message for a while, frowning slightly.
He felt that there was something wrong with the text message, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Just then, the neighbor's door rang.
“Squeak—”
The inner wooden door opened, and in the pitch-black room, a skinny woman was staring at him.
Meeting the woman's cloudy eyes and smelling the slight musty smell emanating from the door, and considering that the information his sister had given him before was correct, Xu Zhiyan began to waver in his desire to enter his neighbor's house.
Suddenly, his game panel popped up wildly.
[The game update has entered a critical time point, and space errors may occur. Players are requested to stay in their rental houses and not go out. ]
Well, now I can’t get into my neighbor’s house at all.
But since I'm here and have knocked on the door.
With a smile still on his face, he raised the gift in his hand, weighed it, put it at the neighbor's door, and returned to 701.
Soon, the dim corridor on the seventh floor fell silent again.
This time I came back empty-handed and even lost a gift.
Before Xu Zhiyan could say anything, Yuan Chi began to curse Youxi in a low voice: "Why didn't you say it earlier or later? Why did you only tell me after the gifts were given out?"
Yu Xiu also nodded. Everyone was dissatisfied with the system's new prompt.
But soon, the next round of tasks appeared.
[It has been detected that the game update is going smoothly. A new round of tasks will be issued to everyone next! 】
[In order to improve the viewing experience, the game will have special settings for rewards. ]
When Xu Zhiyan saw this, he felt something was wrong.
[Congratulations to the players who survived this round of live broadcast and entered the next round of live broadcast! ]
[Main Mission [Part 2]: Become the strongest anchor. ]
[Task 5: Become the most popular anchor among all players! ]
[Progress: 0%]
[Note: Congratulations on completing the second round of live broadcasts, which proves that you are already an excellent anchor! But how can this be enough? There will be no restrictions on the following live broadcasts, but there is only one reward! Please fight for the first place! ]
[Tip: Streamers can enter the same ghost hunting location without being linked.]
[Reward: Points reward + one special branch line]
[Reward analysis: First place: 188888 points + special branch / Second place: -88888 points / Third place: -88888 points / Fourth place: -88888 points...]
Xu Zhiyan's breath was held in place after reading it.
He quickly clicked on the most popular branch, and sure enough, new content had been updated there.
[Who is the most popular? Let’s start the popularity contest! (Round 3)]
[Note: It is detected that you have successfully completed the second round of popularity competition! Now the third round of popularity competition is open for you! Only the most popular anchor is the real king of popularity! Come on! ]
[Tip: The third round of live broadcast popularity accumulation time is [22:00 to the next day 5:00], during this time, you can explore multiple ghost hunting locations. ]
[First round of rewards: Popularity King (title) has been awarded]
[Second round of rewards: Popularity King (cloak) has been awarded]
[Third round reward: Popularity King (Headgear)]
[Tip: The most popular item is a combination item, and the effect will be better if used in combination.]
Fortunately, this popularity competition did not add any new difficulty.
The missions of the branch line and the main line completely overlap.
The Popularity King is equivalent to increasing the weight of the prop reward for the first place in the main task.
But Xu Zhiyan's expression was not very good.
With the hint of Task 5, the system is clearly setting him up as a target. I hope someone will kill him in the next round of live broadcast!
In the game live broadcast room, the audience lamented Xu Zhiyan's bad luck.
[Xiao Baiwan was targeted, right? He was definitely targeted!]
[At present, Xiao Baiwan's points are in an absolute leading position. Some people may have thought that it would be fine if they could not get the popular king reward, but now this main line has directly broken everyone's mentality. ]
[Ah, what malice! The system's malice is about to overflow! ]
[It's normal. This is a competitive instance. And did you notice that the main quest has been updated to [Next]? That means the following quests will definitely be very competitive.]
[Oh, oh, oh, I understand. The first half of the mission is to let players get familiar with the spirit-hunting live broadcast and various rules. The second half of the live broadcast is to watch the players use all means to fight against each other in order to compete for rewards! ]
[After all, there is only one first place. Even if they are players on the same team, they will be upset if so many points are deducted at once! ]
[Little Millionaire is going to be in trouble. He will definitely become the target of public criticism.]
[Wow, I kind of want to know how Xiao Baiwan will crack it. No matter what, he can't beat so many people by himself, right? ]
The atmosphere in 701 has become much more depressing.
Yuan Chi and Yu Xiu were not fools, so they naturally discovered the intention of the game system from the mission content - in the next player competition, Xu Zhiyan would be the first person to be attacked.
But the strange thing is that Xu Zhiyan himself doesn't seem to be in a hurry.
He opened the game panel and began to ask questions about unimportant things.
"I am now the owner of the Popularity King item, and I think I have the right to know the contents of the item."
[I'm sorry, before the end of the game, no one can be sure that they will get the most popular item. Only the one who leaves the game alive with the highest popularity can get the reward.]
It was a cold answer, quite standard.
But the implications are chilling.
Xu Zhiyan acted as if nothing had happened and continued asking questions without any concern.
"But according to the current rules, if I don't get the first place in popularity, then the first two items will not be given to other players, right?"
[Yes, your understanding is correct. ]
"Okay, then if you don't show me the item information now, I will reasonably suspect that your game system is committing fraud in this round of tasks." He frowned, and in the confused expressions of Yu Xiu and Yuan Chi, he lightly retorted to the system.
[Please don't get angry out of shame. 】
[It is not possible to check the game props that you have not received in advance. This has always been the game rule. Please do not make trouble unreasonably. 】
Looking at the two lines of answers given by the system, Xu Zhiyan shook his head and refused to give in.
"If I don't get it, no one else can get it, so I now reasonably suspect that these two items don't exist in your game at all."
His reason is simple.
If I don't show it to him, then it doesn't exist. If it does exist, why don't you dare give it to him in advance? He can't take it away anyway.
[This game system assures you that the props absolutely exist. ]
"What's the point of your promise? I also promised that I would definitely take these two props, but you still didn't show it to me in advance?"
【……】
The system was silent.
It is caught in a logical circle of being asked to prove itself.
While the system seemed to have not yet reacted, Xu Zhiyan added fuel to the fire.
"You proved that this prop must exist, then what proof can you show me? How do I know whether these two Schrödinger's props exist or not?"
In the live broadcast room, the audience was also silent when asked.
[…Although I really want to say that this is useless, but, but, but the term “little million”? It seems to be okay?]
[Fuck, could it be that these items I encountered before but never got actually don't exist? ]
[Damn, I thought it was impossible, but with Xiao Baiwan asking this and the system being silent, why do I feel like it’s possible? ? ]
[Let him see! Let him see! Let him see! ]
[Let him live... ahem, let him watch! ]
[Support! @Main system, it doesn’t cost a lot to watch it, why can’t I watch it? ]
[Yes, yes, Xiao Baiwan should be the person closest to this set of props now. I think even if he can't get it in the end, he still has the right to see it. ]
In addition to those who support it, there are also many people who express their incomprehension.
[…So what’s the point of looking at information about items you haven’t gotten yet? = =]
[Yeah, what's the point of wasting time like this. ]
【It is better to take more rest during the hard-earned free time. 】
In the end, the game system compromised and opened the reward details to Xu Zhiyan alone, but the relevant requirement was that he was not allowed to announce the specific reward content to the public.
Even the system couldn't figure out why the player in front of it would go to so much trouble to look at this.
Even Yu Xiu and Yuan Chi didn't understand why Xu Zhiyan did this.
In this regard, Xu Zhiyan said.
"This is very important to me and directly affects how much money I will make in the future."
Soon, the game system sent the reward details to Xu Zhiyan.
【Title: Popularity King】
[Popularity King: A rare title. Players with this title can obtain an additional [Popularity King] aura. When the aura is turned on, everyone's eyes will be forced to fall on you, and the duration is 60 seconds.]
[Name: Cape (Popularity King)]
[Level: A]
【Type: Decoration】
[Introduction: This outfit represents popularity! Only those who are very charming are qualified to own it. Wearing it will give you an [Attractive] status. This BUFF is only applicable to NPCs who like good looks.]
[Notes: The [Attraction] status will make some high-intelligence NPCs more favorable to you and approach you, but we cannot guarantee how the NPC will approach you.]
[Mental Threshold Limit: None]
[Combination effect of two sets: [Popularity King] aura duration is extended. ]
[Three-piece set combination effect: [Attraction] status changes to [Attraction up↑]]
After reading it with a frown on his face, Xu Zhiyan wrote and drew on the notebook and gave a rough estimate of the price of the unknown popular item.
"Based on the appearance of the first two items, the last item should be worth only 50,000 points..." The halo of the title is the most useful.
Yu Xiu sat on the sofa and didn't dare to speak.
Yuan Chi held the phone with a troubled look on his face. He looked down at the screen and then looked up at Xu Zhiyan. It seemed that he had a lot to say.
A few minutes later, he finally couldn't help it and took out his phone to remind him loudly: "Boss Xu, um, everyone has started to target you! Why aren't you in a hurry at all?"
Although live broadcasts are not possible during this period, players can communicate with each other through mobile phones.
In the previous rounds of tasks, everyone was suppressed and no one got higher popularity than Xu Zhiyan, but this time, the game system almost made it clear that "if you kill the most popular player, you will become the next most popular player."
Even if people have no connection with each other, some people will still take the initiative to harm others.
Not to mention, with such a huge reward comparison, the system wants to encourage players to jump directly from the mild live broadcast stage to the more dangerous mutual calculation stage, so that players in the subsequent soul exploration not only have to prevent the rules, but also prevent opponents in the same industry.
Among the players who have managed to survive in the infinite game until now, how many of them are good people?
Someone immediately created a small chat group and invited everyone except Xu Zhiyan and Yu Xiu into it.
Although Yuan Chi asked Xu Zhiyan for help and now they have basically reached an alliance, he did not show these contents in the live broadcast, so other people are still unaware of their relationship.
"Boss Xu, they have already started to divide the work. How are they going to deal with you?" He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
As if infected by Yuan Chi, Yu Xiu's expression also became tense, as if he sensed danger.
He lowered his eyes and hesitated for a moment, then raised his head and said solemnly to Xu Zhiyan: "Brother Xu! I can protect you!"
Although he said last night that he would not hurt himself from today on, Yu Xiu still knew how to adapt if the situation was urgent. He felt that ensuring Xu Zhiyan's safety was the most important thing.
Seeing the two of them defending each other so firmly, Xu Zhiyan was the most surprised one.
"Ah, things are not that bad...but I am very touched!" He narrowed his eyes, his smile became more sincere, and reached out to put a piece of candy into Yu Xiu's mouth.
Before he could take the next step, his cell phone suddenly vibrated.
It’s news from Chang Xingwei.
[They are targeting you, be careful. [Picture] [Picture]]
There were several screenshots included in the chat, which turned out to be the chat content of other players’ small groups.
At the end of the second round of live broadcast, only one person was lost. Currently, there are ten players in the copy, eight of whom are in this small group. Their goal is to work together to kill Xu Zhiyan first.
Seeing Chang Xingwei's surrender, Xu Zhiyan was even more surprised.
[Why are you telling me this? Don’t you want to be the most popular person?] He even had the time to chat with Chang Xingwei for a while.
【? ? Xu Zhiyan, you... you're not in a hurry? I'm still waiting for you to blow up the dungeon! Who will blow it up if you die? Damn it, the emperor is not in a hurry, but the eunuch is.】 Chang Xingwei's answer was full of obvious anger, and all kinds of angry words came out.
However, the fact that he could think of exploiting system loopholes proves that he is not a stupid person.
Not to mention that he is currently ranked third in the overall popularity list. If Xu Zhiyan and Yu Xiu are killed, he will most likely be the next one. By then, time will be accelerated, which will be enough for him to bear.
【You saved a lot of money for your choice. 】
After replying this sentence, Xu Zhiyan borrowed Yuan Chi’s phone and directly used the other party’s phone to add his account to the group.
"...Let me find out how to make a video call here. Ah, I found it!"
Putting the phone on a stand, Xu Zhiyan waved at the camera with a calm smile on his face.
"Hey~ Your target is here. Is it exciting?"
【……】
[…]
The small group fell into silence.
Yuan Chi was also dumbfounded, but considering that his "undercover" identity had been exposed, he simply pulled in Yu Xiu, who was scratching his head anxiously to know the content.
At this point, all the remaining ten players in this round of the game were pulled into the group.
The backstab small group instantly turns into a harmonious large group.
Xu Zhiyan seemed oblivious to the awkward silence in the group, and started discussing the new deal with the other six people.
"This game is really rubbish. It actually wants to divide us, a group of good players who help each other. It's unforgivable. I know that everyone doesn't really want to kill me, but they just don't want to lose money."
He did not say anything bad about any player and shifted all the conflicts to the system.
Actually, this is true.
The purpose of the system continuously deducting points this time is to encourage players to start killing each other.
"Everyone knows my background. Unless there are special circumstances, I don't think anyone would want to be my enemy. After all, I am rich. If you can't kill me, then you will be rewarded with a huge reward when you leave the dungeon."
This is a naked threat.
Xu Zhiyan makes good use of all his resources to pave the way for himself.
He is not a saint, and he does not have much good feelings towards these players who are secretly trying to kill him.
Although not everyone is afraid of threats, if he wants to gain a dominant position in the cooperation, he must let this group of people know from the beginning that he is not easy to mess with.
But he was always smiling when he said these words.
"Just kidding. I know everyone's idea of forming a group. It's not possible that you want to pass the dungeon smoothly without losing money. But according to the popularity value rule, even if I die, others will be targeted."
"Instead of this, we should cooperate."
The moment he saw the content of the game, Xu Zhiyan thought of a perfect solution.
"I can be frank with everyone. In this group, besides Yu Xiu, Chang Xingwei and Yuan Chi are also my people, so our current situation is 4:6."
"……you!"
This is Chang Xingwei who couldn't help but speak up.
Yuan Chi on the side had already accepted his fate and was very calm.
Xu Zhiyan ignored Chang Xingwei and continued, "Although the six of you have been surrounded by me, I think it's not so decent to fight and kill in a rule-based dungeon. I'll take a loss. Each of you will give me 60,000 points, and I guarantee that you won't lose in every round."
His words were like cold water poured onto hot oil.
The six people who had been in awkward silence all started talking on the microphone.
"What are you dreaming about? Sixty thousand?"
"Heh, Xu Zhiyan, you don't really think that everyone is afraid of you, do you?"
"Impossible, there will definitely be losers, you are just the first one..."
"Not losing? So funny..."
The whole room was filled with various arguments, but strangely, no one left the group chat.
Xu Zhiyan didn't say anything. He held his chin and looked at his phone, waiting for everyone to quiet down.
After a few minutes, the other players who were jumping up and down calmed down a lot.
"How do you plan to make sure that no one loses?" Feng Yanyan's question made everyone quiet down again.
Seeing that everyone was beginning to be curious about this question, Xu Zhiyan slowly told them his plan.
"It seems that no one has ever held a joint live broadcast except me, so you may not know the rules. In the joint live broadcast, you can choose to share the popularity points among everyone."
As long as all surviving players start a joint live broadcast and choose the option to evenly distribute popularity, it can be guaranteed that everyone will get the same popularity value in each subsequent round of the game.
"You know, there will be more than one round of games to come." He concealed the fact that he was planning to end the copy early and bewitched.
"But in each round, there can only be one winner. Even if it's not me, it will be someone else. All the rest will become leeks in the game and lose a lot of points!"
"Almost half of the players have joined me now, and they all follow my lead. I will definitely take first place in every round. This time it's 188,000, and next time it might be 200,000... In addition, there will be special quests and popular king rewards."
At the end of this round, he can get a maximum of 188,000 points. If the copy is blown up, he may not have enough time to complete the special quest. The loss of the third round of popularity king rewards is currently conservatively estimated to be worth about 50,000.
And the most important thing is that Yu Xiu has a silly and cute face, his pockets are clean, and he even handed in the points he got in the previous round. In the end, he will definitely be the one to pay for the losses.
Not worth it, very not worth it!
"If you lose this round, you will have to pay 88,000 points to the system. If you lose the next round, you may have to pay 100,000 points to the system."
Xu Zhiyan's words were like the whispers of a devil.
"Since you are all giving it out, you might as well give it to me."
"I'll make a small loss and ask you for less. I only need 60,000 points. If you round it up, you'll earn more than 100,000 points for nothing!"
After he finished speaking, 701 fell silent, the communication group fell silent, and even Xu Zhiyan's game live broadcast room was hesitant and unable to send out barrages.
【……】
[…Silence is Cambridge tonight. ]
[Although, am I the only one who thinks what Xiao Baiwan said makes sense? ]
[What should I do? I put myself in the shoes of other players. I am actually a little tempted. ]
[Shit!!! I feel like something is wrong, but I can’t figure out what’s wrong! ]
[Because the rules of this game are really bad, the system is here to breed poison! No one can benefit except the final winner, and it is risky to be an opponent of Xiao Baiwan, it is definitely not as comfortable as cooperation. ]
[Xiao Baiwan: I don’t know what raising Gu is, I only know how to make money. ]
[…Has anyone ever calculated this? If it really works, Xiao Baiwan will make a damn near a million dollars in this round of the game, right?]
[Almost. Yuan Chi got over 100,000, Chang Xingwei got 250,000. He took the top two prizes in the last round and got 150,000. In addition to this 360,000, there are also many props and the most popular prize...]
[Who gave him this nickname? He actually earned nearly a million points by himself in the next instance!!!]
Unlike the audience who started to express jealousy.
Xu Zhiyan’s plan was very feasible, and everyone couldn’t help but start to waver.
In addition, the original number ratio of 8:2 suddenly became 6:4, which made the players who were initially excited to kill Xu Zhiyan back off.
After a period of intense discussion at the end.
The ten players who survived the current copy chose to start the long-term linkage mode.
Xu Zhiyan was the initiator. After collecting the points, he chose the popularity value equalization mode, which was very conscientious.
After completing Task 5, this communication group, which was originally used to discuss how to kill Xu Zhiyan, became a place for players to exchange information with each other.
Because we had a common goal, everyone was chatting enthusiastically and the atmosphere became quite relaxed.
Time slips away quietly.
There are still three hours left until the time update ends.
After receiving some vague information about the radio building, Xu Zhiyan turned off the live camera and planned to go back to his room to rest.
He hadn't slept for more than twenty hours.
If it weren't for the various medicines, he would probably have died.
Lying down on the bed in the master bedroom, he sighed and said, "I must sleep for twenty hours when I get back."
Except for the artifact for staying up late, no matter how powerful the other potions are, working around the clock will always make people feel a little tired.
The system panel sent a prompt, but he didn't care at all.
[After this round of games, the number of people participating in the live broadcast will be modified. ]
It doesn’t matter. This round of live broadcast is over. At worst he has found a safe house. It doesn’t matter if he can’t release the game. Maybe he can even make more money.
But when Xu Zhiyan was about to set the alarm, he found that he had received several new messages from Bai Jin.
【It’s the second day.】
【It's the third night now, liar.】
[I promise, if you come over now, I won't be angry, little liar. ]
Looking at these messages, Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows slightly.
“It’s not good…”
The other party is changing.
Especially the tone.
The first sentence "You lied to me" doesn't even have punctuation marks.
The news on the second day came to an end, and on the third day, this guy would call him a liar.
And the next message came on an unknown day later, and the other party used a coaxing tone... Damn, he was too familiar with it, it was all left over from his playing.
"If you're not angry, I'll twist my head off for you to play with."
Xu Zhiyan curled his lips and didn't believe it at all.
…
Three hours later, the game update was completed.
When Xu Zhiyan yawned and came to the living room, Yuan Chi and Yu Xiu were waiting for him, ready to go.
The sudden update still made them a little nervous. Looking at the two people with tense expressions, Xu Zhiyan suddenly crossed his arms and joked, "I wonder if there will be any more interactions with the audience later. Yu Xiu, do you want to change your clothes?"
"Huh? Okay, okay!"
The boy whose name was called was stunned, and turned around obediently to change into women's clothes in his room. This time, the clothes he chose were more normal and not so exaggerated, and he looked obviously not as tense as before.
“It’s very dedicated. It’s a good habit.”
Xu Zhiyan touched the boy's head and expressed his appreciation for his professionalism.
After the three of them went downstairs quietly, they walked in the night and prepared to rush to the meeting place agreed with other players as soon as possible.
On the way, Xu Zhiyan took out his cell phone and secretly sent a message to Bai Jin.
【. 】
Oh! Sent successfully!
[Sorry, I was sick a few days ago and couldn't get up. ]
He typed this sentence quickly, trying to use the trick of pretending to be sick to fool the other party who had stood him up for ten days.
[It doesn't matter, even though I know you are lying to me. ]
【^^ But I'm not angry~】
Xu Zhiyan narrowed his eyes as he looked at the emoticon.
Damn, it’s obvious that he’s so angry that he’s starting to speak sarcastically.
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