Forces of Temptation

After taking a nap, Nan Zhou woke up and was fine.

Li Yinhang curiously observed around him for several times, and finally admitted that the Paper Man is worthy of being a Paper Man.

Sure enough, in the comics setting, there is no disease that cannot be cured by sleep.

Jiang Fang touched his forehead, and after confirming that nothing happened, he took medicine powder and applied a thin layer to his half-healed wound.

He looked at Nan Zhou's wound attentively and asked softly, "What did you dream about just now?"

Nanzhou said the truth: "Forget it."

His dreams are often funnel-shaped, no images or words can stop, only a faint aftertaste remains.

The aftertaste of the dream just now was a bit like coffee custard.

The ground coffee is slightly bitter when it just melts in the mouth.

But a little condensed milk was suddenly added later, which made it faintly sweet.

Jiang Fang drew a heart with medicinal powder on his shoulder.

The vertical, pale red wound naturally took the shape of an arrow, passing through his dull, dull, damaged heart that smelled of medicine, and stabbed him in the chest from the air Slightly numb.

Hesitating and hesitating, Jiang Fang still let his heart rest on Nan Zhou's shoulder like a butterfly.

With external application, it should also be taken internally.

The wound medicine just now was coaxed by Jiang Fang while Nanzhou was dazed with fever.

Now that Nan Zhou is awake, her sweet nature has flared up. When she smells the wound medicine whose packaging and smell are similar to Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, she has no interest in drinking it.

Seeing Nan Zhou sitting there, silently fighting with a tube of bitter medicine, Li Yinhang couldn't help laughing.

Nanzhou has always been cold and watertight, only the occasional shadow of a naive and stubborn child on his body makes Li Yinhang feel that "he turned out to be the youngest of them".

Jiang Fang took a sniff, took one by himself, and put one in Nan Zhou's hand: "One for you, one for me."

Nan Zhou was a little stunned: "You are not hurt."

Jiang Fang didn't answer, just took the medicine in the small brown glass bottle in his palm and tapped the small medicine bottle that Nan Zhou was holding.

—Ding.

Accompanied by him with a slightly mild and half coquettish tone: "Cheers."

Jiang Fang drank the bitter medicine seriously.

Seeing him like this, Nan Zhou also took a straw and drank it obediently to the rhythm of his swallowing.

Nanzhou sipped and was curious.

…weird, it’s really not that bitter.

They just sat opposite each other and looked at each other, they felt calm and very good.

After drinking the medicine, Jiang Fang wanted to ask him more about his friends, but unfortunately Nan Zhou was too energetic. End this 99ers race as soon as possible.

Li Yinhang disagrees.

According to Li Yinhang's meaning, since they have already dealt with the most difficult "Zhaohui", it is best to stay here, wait for the time limit to pass, and hold the points securely in their hands, Talk about other things.

Nan Zhou said, "I want to go out early to see the situation of 'Adam'."

Li Yinhang was confused: "Who is 'Adam'?"

Nan Zhou motioned her to look at her operation interface.

Li Yinhang glanced over and found the sudden change in the team leaderboard.

Li Yinhang: “…”

She can't figure it out.

Nan Zhou was fighting, injured, feverish, and busy flirting with Jiang Fang. Why was he able to notice the changes on the list faster than himself?

Is this the legendary time management?

The rocket soared into the sky.

Li Yinhang asked the same question as most people on the World Channel: "Is 'Adam' the reserve team of 'Zhaohui'?"

They may be well-connected and trusted allies, and they have long since reached an agreement in secret.

As long as one party dies, will all points be transferred to the other party unconditionally?

For Li Yinhang's speculation, Jiang Fang and Nan Zhou shook their heads in unison.

Li Yinhang thought about it and felt that it really didn't make sense.

Outsiders don't know, but they just played with "Zhaohui" just now.

The performance of "Zhaohui" at the end of the road, but it doesn't seem to have such a safe life-saving charm in hand.

Jiang Fang said: "If there really are props that can allow two independent teams to form an alliance, it can only prove that 'Adam' is more valuable than 'Zhaohui', and it is so valuable" All Zhaohui's members have the consciousness to fight for them and sacrifice their guns."

Does "Zhaohui" have such a consciousness?

The answer is maybe, but not in normal human nature.

Whether they rely on stepping on other people's corpses to make stairs, or relying on rich props to supply, they have their own ability to get to this stage.

While they were desperate, the other Covenant team was leisurely walking in the middle, unknown and without progress.

The "Zhaohui", who has been firmly in a high position, not only has no intention of breaking the contract with these two salted fish, but is also willing to work hard for them, standing in the height of the cold shelter them from the wind and rain.

Or, "Adam" has their relatives, lovers, and friends, which can make "Zhaohui" willingly sacrifice for them without complaint.

Or, "Adam" has terrifying power, and "Zhaohui" is just their pawn.

Or, "Zhaohui" was calculated and made a wedding dress for others without knowing it.

The second and third possibilities, under certain circumstances, can coexist.

Nan Zhou thought further.

He questioned because: "This is unreasonable."

His way of thinking is as always.

“…If there is such an item that can form an alliance, wouldn’t the teams be able to unite.”

This is obviously not in line with the original intention of the game makers.

In the game rules, points are not tradable unless they are exchanged in the form of items.

Even so, the premium isn't much.

Even if there are prop hunters in the game who like to block the road and loot like the former Sun Guojing trio, what they can loot by force is only props.

There is no point in forming small groups and preventing them from acting in groups.

However, there are such alliance props in this game.

This is extremely contradictory.

So why is there such a contradiction?

Nan Zhou bit the straw with thin edges and corners of the oral wound medicine, thoughtfully.

In the broadcast room, the slender figures composed of countless information streams stopped their movements and looked at Nanzhou, who was holding a drug tube like a lollipop from all angles.

One of them, full of surprise, asked the doubts in the hearts of everyone present: "...What's the matter with him?"

The seemingly contradictory props are of course the green light for the two-person team of "Adam" to better integrate into the game and win more logically.

"Adam" is their pre-determined champion.

How to control the direction of the game, the director team has two attitudes at the beginning.

One party wants to make "Adam" crushing from the beginning, erecting a ceiling, allowing players to repeatedly experience fear and despair in the constant challenge and battle peak, and finally can only watch let them win.

In short, it is an overwhelmingly cool script, which is convenient for the audience to enter and enjoy the pleasure of this kind of Buddha blocking and killing Buddha, and people blocking and killing people.

One party took out the massive observation data accumulated during the internal testing period of the game, starting from the actual situation of the brainwave waveforms, fear peak points, etc. of the more than 300 test players, and demonstrated in detail, Humans are creatures accustomed to staying in safety and comfort zones.

If you don't give them the illusion of "fair competition", but build an insurmountable wall directly in front of them, a small part of them will of course fight to the death Brave, but there are also quite a few who will lie down and commit suicide after trying unsuccessfully.

Finally, the director team adopted the second program script.

"Adam" can't be too overpowering at first.

In this way, it is not only convenient for them to take advantage of the poor information and profit from the audience, but also has the fun of reversing, and the transition is reasonable and logical, which can make these players have the illusion of "I can win".

As a result, a humble creature with a lower dimension than humans was the first to reach out and touch this layer of truth?

It's just that they couldn't control Nan Zhou's thoughts, let alone his actions, so they could only point more cameras at Nan Zhou.

Invisible eyes, like the compound eyes of giant insects, densely aimed at this little monster created by human beings, and observed everything about him coldly.

Nan Zhou bit the straw with bitter taste in his mouth, and was unaware of all this.

After about ten minutes, Nanzhou and the others left this carefully chosen hiding place and started wandering in the bungalow.

Wherever they go, there are a lot of cameras behind them.

…

If these prying shots were all exposed to the sun, Nanzhou and the others would have received as much attention as the most popular stars in the world.

And the data that the director team investigated at the beginning did come in handy at this time.

For the only single-digit players left in the 99ers, Nanzhou is the insurmountable wall.

99 people are almost dead.

The 20-person encirclement team was surrounded by Nan Zhou alone and rushed to pieces.

The most powerful "Zhaohui" all died.

The strong psychological impact caused by the successive facts made the two teams with mental breakdowns chose to commit suicide collectively, in order to be released from the endless fear and anxiety of waiting for death.

The few remaining people who had the courage to challenge Nanzhou also gave up their plans to take the initiative and waste their strength.

They patiently hibernated, hoping that Nanzhou and the others would relax their vigilance and have a chance to make a comeback and output against the wind.

Therefore, even if Nanzhou and the others walked swaggeringly in the corridor, even if they passed by these hidden people, no one dared to take a breath.

It can be said that there is no silence.

Under such unhindered and unobstructed wandering, Nanzhou successfully found Su Meiying's wreckage in a corridor.

More precisely, the ashes.

Su Meiying's hairpins, clothes, shoes and socks were scattered on the ground.

Dust and dust spread over half of the corridor, it is a masterpiece of the mountain wind outside the window.

The ashes of Su Meiying's body were evenly wiped by the wind, and fell on the floor among the slightly hollowed out, lifelike animal patterns, which stretched more than ten meters, forming a long scroll of totems full of vitality.

The statue of the Virgin Mary, which was worn white on one side of the corridor, lowered its eyes in mercy, looking at Su Meiying's corpse spread out on the ground.

Nanzhou looked at Su Meiying in one place: "Is this what the curse item does?"

Jiang Fang shrugged and said innocently, "Who knows."

…As if the current scene had nothing to do with him.

Nan Zhou didn't ask much.

Because he found something interesting.

He took out the [One-key Help Outside Audience] from under Su Meiying's sleeve.

The broadcast room was the first to see Nan Zhou's actions.

Their data flow was slowed down.

Someone even scolded swear words: "Fuck?!"

…

It was a communicator with a round red button, other than that, there was no frills.

The minimalist style is incompatible with the various props that have always been exquisite in the game.

...It's a bit like the communication station in [Brain Invasion], when they entered the final room to deliver the mission.

Nanzhou shook off the fine sand on it, looked at it curiously, and tried to put the props in the backpack.

A bright red x popped up on the operation panel.

This means "No Containment".

Of course.

Because, like the props bound with "Zhaohui" and "Adam" points, [One-key Help Outside Audience] is also a special prop that can only be used for "Zhaohui", and the owner Su Meiying is directly bound and non-transferable.

So it didn't disappear with Su Meiying.

…

In the studio, countless pairs of eyes stared at Nan Zhou's movements, hoping that he would quickly put down this prop and treat it as nothing happened.

… Then, in front of everyone in the studio, Nan Zhou frankly pressed the call button.

Su Meiying is dead, but the item library is still locked with this bug item.

Her props have been almost consumed by this thing that has been unable to get a response, but the skinny camel is bigger than a horse, as a prop hoarder, she still has a lot of stock.

Nanzhou paid nothing, only spent a C-level item of Su Meiying, and it was directly connected to the off-site.

In the planning team that is working hard, there are staff members who were arranged by the company that originally sponsored "Zhaohui" and who are specially responsible for "off-site reminders" for Su Meiying and the others.

At this moment, the button next to the staff member that should never be sounded suddenly lit up.

“…Hello.”

In the game planning group, Nan Zhou's cold and indifferent voice resounded: "Who are you?"