Survivorship Bias

Chapter 6: Survival game

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"Initialization completed, variables created successfully, the number before running: 8."

This statement made An Wugui feel uncomfortable.

They are clearly living people, but they are described by cold words like program variables.

Now I deliberately count the number before the start, probably implying that after the game starts, the number of survivors here may not necessarily be 8.

Shengyin continued: "8 variables are given 8 identities. There are capitalists who have great wealth, and there are homeless people who have nothing. The exchangeable value of each identity is different, and the power value they have is also different. For example, the capitalist survives. The exchangeable value is the highest, but the power value is the lowest."

"In addition, each of you will get completely different abilities, which may play an unexpected role in this survival battle."

"Also taking the capitalist as an example, this character will have the ability to occupy half of the resources of the entire safe bunker."

Hearing this sentence, An Wujiu immediately realized something.

Yang Ming on the side grinned proudly, "Can I use the reward for announcing the warm-up match now?"

There is no wave in the holy voice, but every word of the announcement dominates the fate of these people.

"Of course. The winner of the warm-up match, Yang Ming, should give priority to watching each character panel and choose the character and competition system he wants. The system will randomly assign everyone else except him."

"This! This..." Liu Chengwei yelled with dissatisfaction, but he probably realized that no matter how he protested, it was a fact that Yang Ming had gained a great advantage. Offending him would be bad for him, so he took the remaining He swallowed the swear words down into his stomach, his face was very ugly.

The expressions of the remaining few people were not much better, but there was nothing they could do.

Yang Ming flicked his hands, squeezed from the edge of several people to the middle, straightened his tie, and then told the system that he was ready.

"Okay, I'll show you the character panel."

Yang Ming stood upright, the gift box reappeared and opened in front of him, he stretched out one index finger and slid in the void, these character panels were invisible to others, so his appearance looked extraordinarily funny.

Soon, Yang Ming made a decision and chose the role of capitalist. No one was surprised when the system was announced.

When he turned around, An Wujiu saw a trace of disdain for him on his face.

"How about Brother Yang, isn't he very powerful?" Even Liu Chengwei, who thought he was strong at the beginning, now smiled enthusiastically when facing Yang Ming, the flesh on his face was huddled together, wishing he could wipe out that blind and shriveled eyeball It also injects some pleasing light, "Who are the other characters?"

Yang Ming snapped off his skinny fingers like Liu Chengwei did before, with a successful smile on his face, "You'll be able to see it later when the system randomly assigns them."

Zhong Yirou approached Yang Ming with a smile, raised his hand and lightly shoved Yang Ming's shoulder, "Oh, brother Yang, you still keep a secret in just a short while."

Not only these two people, An Wujiu could feel that almost everyone in this narrow space was staring at Yang Ming, like insects tending to the light, even the timid Ueno moved closer to Yang Ming, even though he couldn't speak.

His eyes inadvertently fell on the guy named Shen Ti.

Unexpectedly, the other party was so bored that he was playing rock-paper-scissors with his left and right hands, as if he sensed that someone was watching, Shen Ti raised his head, and compared the scissors in his left and right hands with the paper.

What a weirdo.

"Then..." Old Yu hesitated for a long time, and couldn't help but say, "Yang Ming, the next competition system..."

In the small space, Yang Ming was surrounded by everyone. The brief silence was like a blunt knife, slowly cutting through the nerves.

An Wujiu knew that as long as Yang Ming said a word, no matter what roles these people held, they would probably go forward for him and stand unswervingly in his team.

Yang Ming smiled, the brilliance in the cloudy eyes made them look like a pair of expensive prosthetic eyes.

"I choose individual battles."

If people are not for themselves, heaven and earth will perish.

If you choose a team battle, the winning team will most likely have an average score. Although a stronger alliance can be formed, from Yang Ming's point of view, a character with great advantages has been selected. Leading the team is undoubtedly doing charity .

The choice of individual battles has displeased many people, as can be seen from their expressions.

But for An Wujiu, this result may not be a bad thing.

"Now assign roles and load information for everyone."

In an instant, several blue laser beams appeared in the air, and green fluorescent fonts floating and scrolling appeared in the darkness, which were codes.

"Publish all variable assignment results:

Yang Ming - Capitalist

Wu You—company employee

An Wujiu - Intern of Internet Security Department

Zhong Yirou—Chairman's Daughter

Ueno—Scientists

Older than - tramp

Liu Chengwei - Robber

Shen Ti—a security robot. "

Immediately afterwards, a virtual character panel appeared in front of each of them, and An Wujiu stared at the information printed line by line by the blue laser in front of his eyes.

[Role: Intern of Network Security Department

Survival Value: 4

Number of blood bars: 3

Ability: Choose a player to invade its panel, swap your own red and black lines with the opponent's red and black lines, this skill only has one chance]

"Everyone has obtained their own role information, and the next step is the real game rules."

After finishing speaking, the heavy and solid steel door in front of them slowly moved away from left to right, revealing a dark corridor without light, like a bottomless well, filled with exhausted desires.

"The bunker survival battle lasts for five days and four nights. During the day, players distribute the survival materials by themselves. If there is a disagreement during the distribution process, the players can have a duel①, and no one can refuse the duel. The initiator can initiate or enter Duel Threshold Press the start button."

"Please remember that the number of duels is fixed every 24 hours, and the duel threshold will enter a dormant period after the number of duels is exceeded.

The duel is not one-on-one, and other players can choose a side to join or sit on the sidelines. "

"The health bars of all players in the camp will be superimposed on the player who initially initiates or accepts the duel. Two players will fight, and the one with the higher health bar will win and get supplies, while the other party will lose one health bar each."

"After eleven o'clock in the evening, all players are forced to return to their exclusive rooms to rest. Your rooms are sorted from 1 to 8. From twelve o'clock in the evening to six o'clock in the morning, hypnotic gas will be released forcibly in the bunker. You will be forced to sex sleep.

Players who run out of health will die. Like the previous game, when you die in the altar, you will also be brain dead in reality. After 9 o'clock on the fifth day, the final survival value will be given to everyone... "

Having said that, Wu You, who had been silent all this time, opened his mouth with some doubts: "Settlement?"

An Wujiu also finds it strange that the survival value in each character panel is fixed and constant, and the duel during the game will not lose the survival value, why should it be settled at the end.

"That's right. Here I will announce the hidden parameters on the character panel: the black line and the red line② (authorized adaptation from the board game Survival of the Waves), the black line is connected to the person you cursed, and the red line is connected to the person you have a crush on." People. This parameter is randomly assigned by the system, there will be no situation where you curse yourself or have a crush on yourself, and everyone may be connected by other people's red or black lines."

"No one but yourself can see your red and black lines unless you voluntarily disclose them.

If you survive the game and the person you crush on also survives, you can get the survival value of the crush, and if the person you cursed dies, you can also get his survival value. "

It turns out that this is the meaning of red and black.

"In the end, the top four players with the cumulative survival value will advance to the next round."

The deep passage suddenly lights up, and the road ahead is illuminated.

"The pilgrimage is starting again, I wish you all a pleasant journey."

There are ancient chandeliers hanging on the walls on both sides, and the milky yellow lights hit the concrete walls. The wallpapers on both sides are full murals, the theme of the Bible, not like the decorations of this century.

When walking through the corridor, An Wujiu paid attention to the wall, the center of the mural on the right was Jesus, the god that human beings believed in in the early years, but now Christianity has been reduced to a minority belief. Sitting on both sides of Jesus are the other twelve disciples with different expressions.

""The Last Supper"."

Zhong Yirou on the side opened her mouth and said what An Wujiu was thinking, and then she smiled again, "I have a fake, it took a minute to 3D print, it is very noble and elegant."

An Wujiu nodded. When I glanced sideways, I saw the guy in the mask bending over, holding a magnifying glass that he got from nowhere, and observing the murals in front of his face, which looked a bit funny.

Zhong Yirou put his hands on his hips and turned around to look at the mural on the left. In the center of this painting is the Virgin Mary holding the Holy Child, surrounded by pilgrims. She was not very familiar with it, it was beyond her understanding of classical oil paintings, An Wujiu, who had been silent all this time, said the name first.

"This is The Pilgrimage of the Magi, and it belongs to Da Vinci."

Shen Ti also turned his head and was still holding the magnifying glass in his hand. The mechanical Guanyin on his face combined with this dumb movement had a subtle feeling, but An Wujiu couldn't describe it.

"How do you know?" Zhong Yirou crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you say you lost your memory?"

"My... memory is missing part of it, but it doesn't seem... to affect cognition." The words were a bit long, An Wujiu could only speak slowly, with some effort, appearing more sincere.

"You mean you just forgot your memory after you came to the altar?"

An Wujiu was not sure, shook his head, and wanted to continue, but he heard Liu Chengwei who was walking in front with Yang Ming and the others roared, "What are you doing sneaking around behind? Why don't you come over?!"

Under such game rules, they had to take orders from Yang Ming temporarily.

A group of people walked through the long passage, which was strangely dark. The world they live in is full of light, the neon lights that never go out all night, the spotlights in the streets that linger like ghosts, and the most humid and dirty corners are piled up with light pollution.

Humans have a natural fear of unfamiliar things.

Everyone with ulterior motives groped their way to the end of the passage in unusual silence. There is only one extremely smooth black door, under the light of the wall chandelier, it looks like a mirror, a sea of oil floating.

"How do you do this?" Liu Chengwei booed from behind.

Wu You held the Rubik's Cube in his hand and muttered in a low voice: "Just know to open your mouth and ask..."

Liu Chengwei, who was getting angry, stretched out his hand, and pushed Wu You's shoulder hard from behind, "You fucking want to die, don't you?!"

Pushed by him like this, the Rubik's Cube in Wu You's hand fell to the ground, rolled for half a circle, and rolled into the black door. From the corners to the complete cube, it was swallowed up, and blue fluorescent data lines appeared where it touched. Spread from the broken wall and gradually disappear.

"Let's go, why are you standing still?" Zhong Yirou walked in towards the black door stepping on high heels, and the others followed, An Wujiu walked at the end,

The scene inside the door is completely different from the deep corridor outside the door. The entire front hall is wide and bright, with exquisite vaults above the head, and various angels and saints symbolizing theocracy are carved on the edges, sleeping in the light and shadow, and the dome in the middle It is a whole gorgeous mural, imprinting the brilliance of religion on the top of the head. Granite columns with gilt, arc-shaped structure, confessional-like room. Everything here is not like a so-called miniature nuclear bunker, but more like a baroque underground church.

Every inch of the ground was covered with dark red plush carpets, and even the sofas were arranged in rows, like rows of chairs for worship.

The strong sense of religion made An Wugui feel uncomfortable for no reason.

"Everyone." Yang Ming's voice broke everyone's silence at the bunker, "How about we get to know each other's character panels first?"

What he said seemed to be discussing, but his tone didn't mean it at all. Now that he has the most advantageous character, he has naturally become the dominant player in the game, and no one else dares to fight against him.

The character panel was called up and displayed at the same time, and everyone's eyes were on other people's panels, especially the ability column. An Wujiu was no exception, he wrote down other people's information as quickly as possible.

Yang Ming, who got the [capitalist], besides having the ability to control half of the survival resources, also has a very exaggerated special function for the red and black lines—you can learn the red and black lines of [company employee] (Wu You) the next day.

"The role of a capitalist is exactly the same as in reality. To give him a job is to sell even his personal dignity."

Zhong Yirou joked that what she got was the identity card of [Rich Family's Daughter], but the chairman's daughter is a medical student, so her ability is to restore other people's or her own blood, but there are only two chances, one at a time blood bar. If you use all the two chances on yourself, you will have to reduce 10,000 points when making the settlement.

She turned her head and saw that Ueno got the role of [scientific researcher] in the company, showing a rather envious expression: "I like people who engage in scientific research the most."

Ueno was stunned for a moment, his cheeks flushed, and he quickly lowered his head. The abilities he acquired also corresponded to the character-after three days of research and development side tasks, he could double his survival resources.

These skills are all very important in this survival game, either related to resources or blood bars. In comparison, the [Employee] card Wu You got is very weak. His ability It turned out to be just an opportunity to stay up every other night.

An Wujiu looked at Liu Chengwei on the other side, who was poking the holographic panel projected in front of him with his hand.

The character he matched was a terrorist [robber] who sneaked into the building and prepared to commit a crime, but was caught off guard by the poison gas attack. His ability matched the role very well. He had two chances to rob other people's food. .

And what Lao Yu got was [Wanderer]. The ability matches the name very well. You can freely move to other people's rooms during the night time from seven o'clock in the evening to five o'clock in the morning.

The last thing An Wujiu noticed was Shen Ti who was sitting cross-legged on the carpet. He was staring at the character panel, and the mechanical mask made it impossible to see his expression.

His role is not very good, it is the [artificial intelligence] in the company building, to put it bluntly, it is a security robot. Survival value is the lowest of all, only 1 point.

Such a setting completely highlights the arrogance of human beings as creators.

Shen Ti suddenly raised his arms and stretched his waist.

His skills are also somewhat passive - when others attack him, he can copy the opponent's skills, but there is only one precious chance.

"Why!"

Liu Chengwei rudely broke the silence, "Why is my survival value only 2 points?"

"Because your character is a robber." Zhong Yirou said with a smile, "But it's also fair. Look at the parameters of these characters, the rules are obvious."

Wu You played Rubik's Cube with his head down, and whispered, "The higher the survival score, the lower the health bar, and the lower the force value."

"Yes, it's actually balanced." Lao Yu nodded, "My survival value is only 3, but my blood bar has 6."

Zhong Yirou nodded and reported her family background, "My character is Miss Rich, which is the opposite of yours. My survival value is 7 points, but my health bar is only 1. Fortunately, I can breastfeed myself, otherwise it would be too fragile. Yang Ming is still better than me, and has a higher survival value than me, with 8 points and 2 points in the blood bar." After she finished speaking, she put her arm on Wu You's shoulder, who was playing Rubik's Cube with his head down, "The kid is not yet an adult. It becomes a social animal, with 4 blood bars and 5 survival value, which is not bad."

Wu You's hand playing with the Rubik's Cube paused for a second, and then continued to spin it expressionlessly.

Zhong Yirou's beautiful eyes swept over, staring at Ueno, who had been terribly afraid to speak, and jumped up to him, tilting his head, "Your parameters look so beautiful."

"The survival value is 6, and the blood bar is also five. It's really unbalanced." She smiled, "It can also copy resources."

Ueno stammered and explained: "But if the side mission fails... the skill also fails..."

Zhong Yirou shrugged, "This kind of thing should not fail, don't be nervous. Your comprehensive strength is so strong, maybe it will depend on you when the time comes."

Hearing this sentence, Yang Ming on the side couldn't sit still, his eyes glanced at Ueno's face a few times, and finally fell on An Wujiu.

An Wujiu began to get used to this man's sarcastic and slightly fearful eyes, but he didn't understand what made him fear.

At least the character card he got this time is not very good. The sum of survival value and health bar value is at the bottom of the eight people. Whether it is the control of survival resources or a duel with force, he can't possibly gain the upper hand. Nothing to be afraid of.

But even if he wins the warm-up game and picks the best character, he will definitely be dueled to death at the beginning of the game. No one will choose his side.

"If you just look at the strength value, I'm the highest." After listening for a while, Liu Chengwei began to accept the fact that his survival value was low, but he was also proud of his high strength value. He rolled up his sleeves to reveal his strong arms, "I have 7 health bars."

"No." Zhong Yirou, who was sitting on the sofa, spoke playfully, pointing his index finger at the Mechanic Guanyin who was sitting cross-legged on the carpet with his back to everyone. He tilted his head, as if meditating.

"Shen Ti is not a human being. He is full of blood. There are 8 of them."

An Wujiu looked in his direction.

The guy stretched out his right hand with his back to everyone, making a gesture of scissors.

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The author has something to say:

①②This game is a change and expansion of a board game - Survival on the Waves (similar to Werewolf). It is mainly about survival duels and the settings of favorite cards and dislike cards. Werewolf games appear in many novels, so generally the default is to write Yes, but Hailang Survival is relatively small, so I deliberately found the producer (wb@智研家) to authorize the adaptation and expansion. Weibo has the producer of Aite and the authorization record. If you are interested, you can play it, but most of the text is different from the game. Because it needs to conform to the style of this article, a major change in the background of the story has been made, and the characters and corresponding abilities that are more in line with the world view have been recreated. In particular, due to the previous trademark squatting problem, the Chinese trademark of Survival Survival was pirated and registered (that is, Survival of the Furious Sea), in fact Survival Survival is the genuine product.

Adding ①②③ into the text is often not for so-called science popularization or pretending, but mainly for labeling. For example, the first two chapters used the beauty contest game. Hats off, in fact, there are really many works that apply the beauty pageant game, whether it is film and television or comic animation, as well as other games such as the musketeer game, the smart pig game and the prisoner's dilemma, there are really many applications. I never said that this is a knowledge point invented by me. I am definitely not worthy. I just hope that everyone can read the label a little bit to avoid misunderstanding.

Happy Chinese Valentine's Day, I hope everyone will be happy.

For your convenience, here is a list of the characters:

1 Capitalist of a monopoly enterprise: Yang Ming (survival value: 8, force value: 2, ability: 1/2 resources, knowing the staff (Wu You) red and black lines)

2 Rich daughter: Zhong Yirou (survival value 7, force value 1, ability: there are two chances to increase the blood bar of others or yourself, one point each time, and 10,000 holy coins will be deducted if you use it twice on yourself)

3 Scientific research personnel: Ueno Daisei (survival value 6, force value 5, ability: after completing your own branch, you can double your own survival resources)

4 Company employee: Wu You (survival value 5: force value 4, ability: can stay up every other night)

5 Network Security Department Intern: An Wujiu (Survival Value 4, Force Value 3, Ability: Invasion Panel, Swap Your Red and Black Lines with Others, Only One Chance)

6 Security AI: Shen Ti (survival value 1, force value 8, ability: when others initiate an attack, they can copy the opponent's skills, only one chance)

7 Tramp: Old Yu (survival value 3, force value 6, ability: you can freely move to other people's rooms during the night time from 7:00 pm to 5:00 the next morning)

8 Terrorist robbers taking advantage of the chaos: Liu Chengwei (survival value 2, force value 7, ability: there are two chances to plunder other people's food in person and must not be resisted)

The rules look complicated, but as you can see later, they are not that complicated, but need to be introduced more.