Chapter 126: Wheel/Plate at Sea (4)
Every player who can stand here has experienced the baptism of survival games several times and is very sensitive to numbers.
The restaurant fell silent for a moment, and everyone lowered their eyes to look at the ground in front of them, avoiding eye contact with the people next to them.
There are only 15 sets of bowls and plates for 16 people. Does that mean one person has been "eliminated"?
Or is it that one of these people is no longer human?
"Yes, now it's time to distribute the food." The captain said with a cheerful smile, "Everyone, please take a seat."
He extended his hand in a friendly manner, pointing to the chairs placed at the table, but no one moved.
The captain seemed to sense the other players' concerns and comforted them, "Don't worry, everyone. The people standing before you are still your original companions."
Su Yue clearly saw some people looking relieved, and everyone sat down one after another.
Everyone was scrambling to get away from the Skeleton Captain, so they went to grab seats at the far end. Su Yue was suddenly squeezed to the left side of the Skeleton Captain. He didn't have the strength to grab the seat, and even if he was in good condition, he was too lazy to grab it. He would just sit here.
Cang Zhi sat down next to Su Yue, and pulled Su Chen, who was about to be pushed away, and asked her to sit on his left.
At least it seems that everyone is normal and everything is going well, but in fact, the current problem has not been solved.
There are only 15 plates for 16 people. What does that mean?
Fortunately, the captain didn't keep the secret and continued, "The bad news is that there was a problem with obtaining food. We are short on dinner tonight and can only provide fifteen servings. So one person has gone without food."
Someone immediately questioned the players in the cooking group: "Aren't you responsible for cooking? Why did you only make fifteen servings?"
There were three players in the cooking group: the man with sunglasses who had left a deep impression on Su Yue, and another man and woman. The man with sunglasses said nothing when questioned. The other man explained, "We cook, but the captain provides the ingredients and distributes the dishes. Once we're done, we put the food in two bowls and hand it over. We can't touch it at all."
"We were specifically told not to steal any food, or we'll die," the female player added. "If you don't believe me, try it tomorrow when you're assigned to the cooking group."
Of course they wouldn't lie. If they lied about something like this, the truth would be revealed once it was verified, and they would be courting death.
The players complained in their hearts, couldn't the captain just divide each person's share a little and make a total of sixteen portions?
But everyone knows in their hearts that this obviously won't work in this game.
This might just be part of the level.
After the small commotion died down, the captain spoke again under everyone's gaze.
The captain smiled and said, "So now we have to choose an impartial food server to distribute food to everyone, and the server will decide who will go without food."
He seemed very happy, and his smile became wider and wider. The player who was staring at his face suddenly let out a cry of surprise, and then covered his mouth in panic.
Because as the captain's smile grew, the flesh on his face began to melt away.
The movement of the dissolution itself wasn't terrifying, like a shadow dissipating into thin air. The problem was, after the flesh and blood melted away, the neck of the gorgeous captain's uniform became a skull.
And the skull still maintained a smiling expression.
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The Skeleton Captain didn't care about other people's reactions. He didn't seem to find those looks offensive, and even seemed a little complacent.
He continued, "It's important to note that I must eat, otherwise I'll be very angry. If I get angry, this 'Sea Breeze' will have no choice but to meet the Poseidon."
It means that if the captain is not given food, the ship will sink.
The captain's smile grew wider, his pale jaw almost separating from the rest of his face. "Also, the deprived expeditioners' body will suffer from accelerated disease progression, and they may rot and die tonight."
The scene was completely silent.
They originally thought that not having food would just mean starving or becoming weak, but now it seems that they were too simplistic.
Not having food to eat is equivalent to death, and the right to die is handed over to a player, the "dish distributor" designated by the captain.
This is really cruel.
Players who can survive to this extent in the game will definitely not put their fate in the hands of others, let alone this kind of targeted killing.
As soon as the captain finished speaking, there was a noise of tables and chairs, and at least four people wanted to push their chairs away and stand up, including the young man.
They all had the same idea: strike first to gain the upper hand.
However, after moving for a moment, it could no longer move. The table and chairs seemed to be welded to the ground. The key point was that even the player himself seemed to be welded there.
The young man shook the armrests of the chair desperately, his face flushed red, but the table and chairs not only did not move, he couldn't even stand up.
The Skeleton Captain admired the players' embarrassment for a moment with satisfaction before he spoke slowly, "I forgot to mention that to maintain order in the restaurant, once you're seated, you can't stand up again. Only the designated waiters can move you."
Suddenly no one moved.
But everyone's face was pale.
Su Yue finally understood the meaning of the "roulette" in the game's name, "Sea Roulette." Roulette is a notoriously cruel game. A bullet is placed in the left reel—one real bullet, the others rubber bullets. After spinning the reel any number of times, the contestant shoots themselves in the head. If they land on a real bullet, they die instantly.
The way to play roulette is to have spectators place bets and guess which participant will survive to the end. So far, there is no betting element in this survival game, but the feeling of "roulette" has already emerged.
At this moment, one of the 15 players is randomly selected to become a food server. The food server determines that one player can survive tonight, and then chooses one person to die tonight.
Everything is random.
Life is completely in the hands of uncontrollable external factors.
This is the "wheel" on this ship.
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For these players who have participated in many survival games, death is a consensus. However, facing death in this way, with no room for struggle and relying entirely on luck, with strength being of no use at all, is still hard to accept.
Some players with relatively poor mental qualities have collapsed and started cursing the Skeleton Captain, using all the dirty words they know in life.
Some people were very upset but did not dare to curse because they did not know how the captain chose the "dish server". However, the dish server could definitely serve food to them, so getting the position of dish server was equivalent to having a golden ticket tonight.
They thought that if the captain chose the waiter based on first impression, then the one who performed better might have a better chance of survival.
However, Skeleton Captain did not fight back against the players who insulted him, and he did not seem to have any good feelings towards the players who behaved well.
And he was just a skeleton, so it was impossible to observe his expression from his face.
The Skeleton Captain's head slowly rotated from the far left of the table to the far right, passing Su Yue, Cang Zhi, Su Chen... and finally landing on his right, next to the player wearing sunglasses. He then pointed at the sickly Su Yue and said, "It's you. You'll be in charge of distributing the food."
The moment the Skeleton Captain's finger came over, Su Yue felt his body lighten, and the invisible shackles were lifted.
He stood up and asked Captain Skeleton, "What should I do?"
The Skeleton Captain pointed to the fifteen plates neatly arranged on the table next to him. The fish and potatoes on the plates were emitting an enticing aroma.
"Put that plate before anyone you wish to feed, and remember two things."
"First, the captain also needs to eat. If you don't give me food, I will be very angry and the consequences will be very serious."
"Secondly, you have to eat too. If you don't prepare food for yourself, you will also become weak and die in the middle of the night."
"Do you understand?"
Su Yue nodded.
"Well, now please perform your duties." said the Skeleton Captain.
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I don’t know if it was an illusion, but even the lights in the restaurant turned cold and white, and the atmosphere of impending judgment was overwhelming.
There is a faint halo on each person's seat. This halo looks beautiful, but it is actually an invisible chain. Once you sit at the table, there is no way to leave.
Some people looked at the wooden table in front of them, while others looked at Su Yue, trying to judge from his expression to whom he would hand this death ticket.
Or maybe, seeing how slender and pretty he looks, he's actually a coward and might as well just not eat.
Because everyone can expect that after the first person dies today, the deaths may become uncontrollable.
If one more person dies, the probability of survival will be higher.
The young man was shaking like a sieve. He had cursed Su Yue all day and felt that he was doomed.
Under everyone's suspicious and nervous gaze, Su Yue walked to the desk.
He picked up a warm plate, thought for a moment, and put it down. The Skeleton Captain seemed to sense his hesitation and smiled as he repeated the rules:
"Those who have food can survive. Those who don't will die of weakness tonight. You must feed the captain, otherwise he will be angry. If you don't eat yourself, you will die too."
Su Yue listened to the rules quietly, the light illuminating his light-colored eyes, as clear as glass.
After a moment's silence, he walked towards the Skeleton Captain with a plate.
Just when everyone thought he would put the first dish in front of the captain, Su Yue put the plate on Cangzhi's table and suddenly punched the skeleton captain in the face!
No one expected that such a weak-looking man could have such great strength, nor did anyone expect him to be so fast. The Skeleton Captain seemed to want to resist, but before he could, Su Yue landed a solid punch on his face.
With a "crack", the skull was shattered and bone fragments flew everywhere.
Su Yue decided to go all out. He twisted his neck and with a "click", the skeleton captain rotated 360 degrees on the chair. The captain's body tilted to one side with a sound of bones breaking. The halo on the chair flickered a few times and then went out.
Everyone was stunned. After a long moment, someone asked in a trembling voice, "What...are you doing? Are you trying to kill yourself?"
But they all realized that nothing seemed to have happened, the boat did not sink, and there were no warnings of any violations.
And now there are only 15 passengers who want to eat, and there are 15 dishes on the table.
Under everyone's gaze, Su Yue shrugged innocently: "He only said that the captain cannot be deprived of food, but he didn't say that the captain cannot be killed."
Everyone: “…”
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