Survivorship Bias

Chapter 44: Believer Mist

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As soon as the figures of the two left the lobby on the second floor, Zhou Yijue said to Huang Mao beside him, "Go."

"What if he doesn't agree? Are you looking for someone else?"

Zhou Yijue's eyes stared not far away, and his tone was firm, "You can't convince others, so he is the only one."

"Okay, I'm going." Huang Mao nodded, and walked towards the gambling table in the center of the hall according to Zhou Yijue's instructions.

At the edge of the gambling table, a member of the red team was waiting for the end of this round of gambling. He was staring at the cards on the table intently, but suddenly his shoulder was tapped.

"Hello, hello." Seeing him turning his head, Huang Mao smiled earnestly, "Take a step to talk."

There is actually a "golden mountain" hidden in the so-called exchange area, which An Wujiu never expected.

He walked in, and there was nothing inside except the biggest Jinshan machine. There were metal pipes on the ceiling, and a certain section of the pipe was connected to the machine.

An Wujiu approached, through the glass walls on all sides of the machine, he saw a mountain of gold coins piled up inside, what caught his attention was that the pattern on the gold coins turned out to be a totem of the sun.

The frequency of this pattern appearing on the altar is a bit too high.

Turning his head, An Wujiu stared at Shen Ti's Adam's apple.

Shen Ti noticed it, and reached out to touch his neck, "What's wrong?"

"What is your relationship with the altar?"

An Wujiu asked this suddenly, Shen Ti didn't know how to answer, "Do you think I should have something to do with the altar?"

"The tattoo on your neck is very similar to the recurring symbol of the altar, except that there is an extra eye in the middle. Don't tell me that when you tattooed it, you just found a random pattern."

An Wujiu said again, "Of course, this kind of sun pattern is common, it may be a coincidence, but... people like you are not common."

Sometimes it looks like a living body that is different from human beings, and sometimes it looks like it has a deep understanding of human nature and overlooks all living beings. Even he can't give Shen Ti a definition.

"Really?" Shen Ti smiled, "You're not common either. I'm not sure if I'm related to the altar. Like you, I've lost a lot of memories, and I've basically told you everything I can remember."

An Wujiu is a person who doesn't like to ask rhetorical questions. After all, he will find out what he wants to know by himself, but when facing Shen Ti, he has an urge to listen to him. As long as he speaks conclusively, he will be willing believe.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that he was lost in thought, Shen Ti asked again, "What did you think of?"

An Wujiu was about to answer, suddenly, a dense fog formed in front of his eyes, he couldn't see anything clearly for a while, but the fog got deeper and deeper, covering everything.

There are no longer piles of gold coins in the exchange area, but nothing.

"Shen Ti!"

An Wujiu shouted Shen Ti's name in the void, but there was no response. A wet and thick smell came from the thick white fog, and the surroundings were silent. Just when he was vigilant and confused, countless slippery and sticky tentacles suddenly appeared in the depths of the mist, and they all attacked him.

An Wujiu stretched out his hand to resist, those tentacles could wrap around his limbs accurately, the tip of each tentacle suddenly split open, turning into mouths full of blood, with viscous green liquid sticking to the fangs, like Snake-like letters spit out.

Outside the illusion, Shen Ti noticed that An Wujiu stopped talking suddenly, he thought he was thinking, but after waiting for a while, he found that something was wrong with him.

His pair of black eyes seemed to be staring at the exchange machine, but they seemed to have lost focus, and a golden light reflected in his distracted pupils.

"An Wujiu." Shen Ti felt something was wrong, and reached out to grab his arm, "Wujiu?"

He stood between An Wujiu and the exchange machine, holding An Wujiu's face with both hands, "What's wrong with you?"

Originally thought that the golden light in An Wujiu's eyes was reflected by gold coins, but after looking at it this way, it was clearly that weird sun totem in his pupils.

It's the sun again...

There was a strange expression on An Wujiu's face, which he had never seen before. Shen Ti had only seen such an expression on the face of a cultist he had met before. In the nihilistic belief, he almost lost his own consciousness, dispelled himself, and only followed the Lord in his heart.

Why is this happening

"Wake up, An Wugui."

An Wujiu still didn't respond, he was like a machine with a power cut off, it lost its power of movement, leaving only an empty shell.

Shen Ti had never seen An Wujiu like this before, worried in his heart, first probed his breath with his hand, then extended to the side carotid artery to check, the pulse and breathing were normal.

What happened

Shen Ti stretched out his hand, and was about to put it on An Wujiu's chest, to check whether his heart was beating normally, but the moment his fingers touched his chest, a severe pain came from within Shen Ti, which he had never felt in his life greatest pain.

It's like a piercing heart.

He could hardly bear it, but at the same time, An Wujiu also woke up like a dream, he panted heavily, his body shook slightly. Ignoring his own heart-wrenching pain, Shen Ti immediately stretched out his arms to catch the fallen An Wujiu.

An Wujiu suddenly woke up from the strange thick fog, as if there was a powerful force that dragged him out of the tentacles tightly entwining him, allowing him to breathe.

He left the fog that couldn't get out, and fell into a warm embrace.

"No fault, are you okay..."

Vaguely, An Wujiu heard Shen Ti's voice.

When he woke up, he saw Shen Ti's eyes, which were different from before. His expression was a little painful, and his brows were tightly frowned.

"I'm fine." An Wujiu stood still, his chest heaved and heaved, his lungs seemed to have leaked a bloody hole, no matter how he breathed, the suffocation brought by the tentacles could not be easily recovered.

The heart-wrenching pain on Shen Ti's body gradually subsided, he checked An Wujiu's pupils, and they had indeed recovered.

"You seemed to be controlled by something just now. You couldn't hear me or see me, but your body functioned normally."

An Wujiu noticed that his voice was also a little weak, he never spoke like this, so he asked Shen Ti first, "What about you? Are you feeling well too?"

Shen Ti didn't expect that he would care about himself first, but just shook his head, "I'm fine."

Fortunately, he just woke up.

"You just said... I seem to be controlled by something."

An Wujiu thought of the many dreams he had before, all of which were very similar to the illusion he had just fallen into.

Fog, slime, tentacles, inescapable fate.

He told Shen Ti all these, together with the many previous nightmares.

"This should be related to your lost memory." Shen Ti guessed.

An Wujiu didn't want to think about it anymore, as soon as he thought about it, his mental strength seemed to be weakened, it was difficult to concentrate, and the nightmare situation would constantly appear in his mind.

But what he is facing now is a time-limited death game.

"Maybe, anyway, I'm awake now." An Wujiu came out of Shen Ti's arms, breathed calmly, and walked to the front of the machine, "Let's get to the bottom of it after we get out."

Shen Ti found that he had switched states again, and now An Wujiu's state transitions became more and more frequent and natural, with almost no boundaries.

It's hard to say that the abnormality on his body has nothing to do with his nightmare.

He suddenly thought of the name of the game.

Why choose such a religious name

An Wujiu didn't speak any more, just stretched out his hand, and pressed his palm against the glass.

Cheerful music suddenly came out of the room, and then a synthetic voice appeared.

"Welcome to the exchange area. First, let me introduce the chip exchange rules:

First, at least two players are required when exchanging chips, one is the captain, and the other is the player who needs to redeem the winning chips. If the captain himself needs to redeem, he needs to bring a player who has participated in the game in the same group. "

Second, the player who needs to exchange presses the red button on the right side of the machine, enters the chip value to be exchanged by hand, and can proceed after contacting the captain. The exchange takes time to process, please wait for a while.

Third, the points obtained will be given to everyone in the form of holy coins. The holy coins have no affiliation. Players can deposit them into their own game boards or exchange them for chips of players in a team.

Fourth, during the processing of the redemption task, the player can choose to go back and give up the redemption chips, but it needs to be agreed by the captain. Just like the redemption, the two people can touch each other and they can go back. "

After listening to the reading of the rules, Shen Ti said: "Sure enough, it can be exchanged for points to buy chips, so that chips can be circulated within the team."

"But it's very difficult to achieve." An Wujiu thought for a while, "According to the set rules, at least two people must be required every time, one of them is the captain, and the two need to touch each other. The captain also has the right to renege. This may be Avoid the appearance of traitors, but in this way, it is easy to create another possibility."

"You mean the monopoly of the captain's power." Shen Ti said.

An Wujiu nodded, "The captain has too much power, as long as he wants to repent, he can go back. Players can exchange chips into points, and the captain can also keep these points as his own."

Especially a captain like Maguire, who abandons his players and uses their lives to make money, is most likely to do such a thing.

"It's all here." Shen Ti turned to look at him, "Do you want to exchange it?"

"Is it too early to change to points?" An Wujiu frowned slightly, thinking, "If it is to change to points, and then buy chips and transfer them to other people, I'm afraid it will cause panic."

Shen Ti understood what he meant, "You said before that they can use your body as a bargaining chip at any time, but if you add it to other people, it will indeed make people feel that you want them to be a bargaining chip."

"That's right." An Wujiu stared at the gold coin in front of him, "I don't really care if they bet on me or not, even if they do, as long as we can survive to the end and get the first place, even if I die, I can be resurrected. It's just that Wu You and the others probably wouldn’t care if they gave it to someone else without discussing it, they’re afraid that the teammates they met this round might misunderstand.”

This is indeed a better way at the moment. Shen Ti is unwilling to put An Wujiu's chips on other people because of his selfishness. The smaller the chip value, the more dangerous the penalty after losing the game.

He didn't want to see that scene.

After learning the rules, the two planned to leave for the time being and return to the casino lobby to tell their teammates the rules. An Wujiu had been restless all this time, when he stepped out of the gate of the exchange area, he suddenly discovered the problem.

"Why is there no one in this place?"

They have been here for at least fifteen minutes, and no one has come here.

When he was wondering, a familiar figure stepped down from the corner of the stairs, and the sound of high-heeled shoes was particularly clear in this silent space.

"Hi, handsome guys."

It's Amy.

She waved her hand and said hello to them, "I knew you would be here, and I wanted to try my luck, and I really happened to meet you."

An Wujiu guessed that she would come to find him, after all, she took the initiative to exchange the guard cards with herself at the gambling table.

Nothing is free in this world.

"Whatever you want, you can tell me directly."

An Wujiu's face was calm, his eyes were sincere and sincere, completely different from him who was stirring up the situation at the gambling table, Amy was stunned when he saw it.

"What are you talking about, and you say it so seriously." Amy came over and approached him, "I don't want anything."

Her voice was really ambiguous, Shen Ti couldn't see it, and stretched out his hand to drag her away from An Wujiu.

"Why are you dragging me?"

"There was a worm under your feet just now." Shen Ti opened his eyes and said nonsense, Amy looked down, but couldn't find the worm he was talking about, she also raised her feet to see, the soles of her high heels were also clean.

"Don't scare me less." Amy scolded.

The moment she lifted her foot, An Wujiu suddenly noticed a detail, which was very strange.

"Your shoe size..." He pointed, then looked up at Amy, frowning slightly, and tilted his head in doubt.

"Are you a man?"