Chapter 180 Doomed to Failure
"Hurry up and check if there is a problem. Why didn't the student die after being infected and why can't he leave the competition cocoon cabin?" Ms. Yin from the league center was so anxious. Shouldn't this student be declared dead within 1-2 hours of being infected?
The Skynet main company's response was hesitant: "Well, this mechanism was changed at the last minute by President Jia. He said it would better demonstrate the inhumanity of the toxins and achieve anti-war propaganda."
"The inhumane way to demonstrate toxins is to torture the participating students?!" Ms. Yin was so angry that she almost laughed.
What kind of magic potion did the board of directors take to let Jatu become the CEO?
"There's nothing we can do. We can't change the system now. It's already in use." The main company was also helpless. "Let's wait until the competition is over..."
Ms. Yin wanted to rush to Jatu and beat him up, but she was the director of the league center on the Empire side, and if she left now, the problem would be even bigger.
She could only take a deep breath to calm herself down and pray that time would pass quickly.
Gu Tingzhi did not agree to Jia Xianglan's request to meet alone in the infected area.
"He did the right thing." Jia Xiangying nodded. "Given Jia Xianglan's personality, if we meet him alone, he will definitely provoke Gu Tingzhi in some way, causing him to shoot, damaging the infection device and accelerating the infection. Even if Gu Tingzhi is not angry, Jia Xianglan will stage a scene in which he panics and accidentally shoots, accidentally damaging the infection device and causing the infection to accelerate."
She knew Jia Xianglan's methods too well.
"But, Gu Tingzhi will definitely not allow the infected area to continue to spread." Jiang You sighed. He is a sophomore student at Dolanston. He also fought with Gu Tingzhi last year. He understands Gu Tingzhi's character.
As expected, Gu Tingzhi finally chose to take nine Longyuan students with him to shut down the device.
After hearing this news, Jia Xianglan's mouth curled up slightly, but he said, "Alas, we clearly said that we can discuss it, and the Qing Army can also send people to shut down the device. We can cooperate, so why did Gu Tingzhi take people there himself?"
You see, this is Gu Tingzhi's biggest character weakness. At the beginning, he still looked like a commander, ignoring the infected area and launching a series of attacks on the Qing army.
But as long as he sees the miserable condition of the infected, he will no longer be able to ignore the infected area. It is obvious that the commander will not be negatively affected, but he still wants to shut down the device. It is really stupid.
At this time, the entire game had been going on for five hours. Gu Tingzhi's tactic of killing the Qing army's S-level first had begun to show results. The number of kills on each side was 76 and 80, with a difference of only four people. The number of S-level soldiers on both sides also reached the same level.
Gu Tingzhi wanted to take nine people to shut down the device. Jia Xianglan expressed his respect for his choice to the camera, and then immediately took advantage of Gu Tingzhi's absence to order the Qing army to launch a series of counterattacks against Longyuan's people.
If he hadn't been worried about public opinion, Jia Xianglan would have gone straight to the infected area to ambush and kill Gu Tingzhi. Thinking about how his previous proposal for a private meeting was rejected, Jia Xianglan felt a little regretful.
He had planned a scenario where his own over-vigilance would cause him to accidentally fire a weapon, disrupting the device and accelerating the spread of the infection. The infection would then spread rapidly, and everyone except the two commanders would be doomed. Gu Tingzhi couldn't bear to see his companions suffer, and Jia Xianglan didn't mind, though he would certainly shed a few crocodile tears.
This script was not used, but instead allowed Gu Tingzhi to stand on the moral high ground, which Jia Xianglan felt very sorry about.
But that's the only regret. Gu Tingzhi's actions have basically ruined Long Yuan's chance of defeating Qing Jun and advancing to the finals.
Watching Gu Tingzhi and his men resolutely enter the infected area to find the infection device, Guan Chuanjun sighed helplessly.
"In fact, once this game map and this mechanism came out, Long Yuan was doomed to lose."
In the eyes of most people, this mechanism of Saitu is actually very fair. People from Qingjun and Longyuan will all suffer from the infection, and commanders on both sides will have to face inner torment and moral struggles.
But Jia Xianglan has no morals or conscience at all, or rather, his histrionic personality makes him act like he is suffering in front of everyone. In fact, he doesn't care about the feelings of anyone except himself.
This is a sophisticated egoist.
"Gu Tingzhi is an excellent person. He did nothing wrong. Before the game, he made careful tactical preparations. Facing a strong enemy, he fulfilled his duties as a commander and encouraged his teammates. Faced with his own infected teammates, he chose to take action himself, ending their suffering and shouldering the guilt. Realizing the horror of the toxin infection, he took the initiative to lead his men to shut down the device. He did not trust Jia Xianglan and step into a trap that might have been set. The only mistake he made was that he still treated Jia Xianglan as a human being..." Limuyi muttered as he looked at the big screen, "But even so, he was destined to lose."
History is a mirror, and the stories of Chernobyl and Fukushima are also being played out in different forms in interstellar space.
Some people are willing to sacrifice their own lives and those of their companions to stop the spread of the infected area, while others cry and say it is a pity, but openly let everyone bear the consequences together. As long as they are not dead, everything will be fine.
Gu Tingzhi knew exactly what he was doing. The moment the ten of them stepped into the infected area, he knew that he probably wouldn't be able to meet Moye in the final.
He couldn't help but laugh at himself in his heart. The consequences of setting a goal before the game were indeed miserable.
Gu Tingzhi didn't treat Jia Xianglan as a human being. He was fully aware of how bad Jia Xianglan was. He had calmly and thoroughly considered the direction of the next game.
If he left the infection device alone, Jia Xianglan would definitely try every possible way to destroy the device and accelerate the spread of the infection.
If he agreed to let the two of them meet alone, Jia Xianglan would be familiar with the infected area in advance and would definitely make some moves, and then he might even put the blame on Gu Tingzhi.
It's not that Gu Tingzhi can't accept Jia Xianglan's badness, but the consequences of his badness. The time limit of this Saitu is two days. Once the device is broken, it will spread rapidly and completely cover the Saitu within one day.
By then, everyone except Jia Xianglan and Gu Tingzhi will be infected, and Gu Tingzhi will have to watch his companions fall into inescapable pain for a whole day...
In the end, he might be driven to commit suicide by shooting himself due to the immense mental pressure.
Ten Longyuan students shut down the infection device, and the infected area stopped spreading.
Gu Tingzhi loaded the bullet and pulled the trigger at the nine companions.
At this time, the battle situation outside was such that in the absence of Gu Tingzhi and with the numerical disadvantage, Jia Xianglan led the Qing army to launch a fierce attack on Long Yuan's people.
Nine gunshots were heard, and what Gu Tingzhi heard was the inevitable defeat of his own end.
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