Survivorship Bias

Chapter 64: A tooth for a tooth

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Time passed little by little.

The score of the purple team is getting higher and higher, and the rate of increase is astonishing, almost several times that of the previous four hours. Enduring severe pain, An Wujiu sat on the cold floor of the hall, opened his eyes, and stared hard at the screen in front of him.

"This is impossible!"

Fujido Sakura was beside him, she looked unbelievable, "How could their total chips rise so fast!"

"How many times do you think he will use such an easy-to-use method?"

Hearing An Wujiu's weak voice, Fujido Sakura suddenly understood something.

"You mean... they not only instigated people in our group, but also people in all groups? Is that right?"

An Wujiu's face turned pale, he only hummed lightly, and didn't say any more.

Just looking at Zhou Yijue alone, he lost so much chip value in the "Roasting the Emperor" game, there shouldn't be many chips left.

But his increase is astonishing, the chip value has reached 7000, close to the current An Wujiu, and he is currently the second person.

Not only him, but even his team members are increasing their points. The whole group's points are getting more and more. Just at this moment, they have already surpassed the red group led by An Wujiu by nearly 3000 points.

Zhou Yijue is much smarter than Maguire.

In order to win, Maguire adopted a centralized method, treating the whole group as his own bargaining chips, and only he participated in the gambling. In this way, no one can hurt him, even if the yellow team can't become the final victorious group, as the person with the first points, he will not die.

But Zhou Yijue adopted another method, not attacking himself, but disintegrating external enemies.

He instigated the members of other groups one by one, cooperated internally and externally, and generously gave each team member a chance to gamble, so that they could also win.

That's why the team points of the purple team rose so fast.

This move not only hoarded chips for one's own team, but also strengthened the morale of the army and defeated the enemy. It was indeed a very lethal move.

But there are still two doubts in An Wujiu's heart.

First, under what conditions did they agree to Zhou Yijue's request.

An Wujiu thought, in this place, everyone is using their own life as a bargaining chip, if they want to survive, they must be the number one in the team.

The promise Zhou Yijue made was nothing more than to give them corresponding chips as a reward after the cooperation lost, so that the betrayer could logically become the final winner in the team.

An Wujiu looked up, and as expected, Zhou Yijue's team had nearly 3000 more points just now, and at this moment, the purple team, which ranked first, only had more than 1,000 more chips than them.

It is not normal to reduce the block by half.

Unless they took out half of it, converted it into points, and gave it to the traitors as a reward.

It's really sad that the child can't be tied to the wolf.

Zhou Yijue has a deep understanding of people's hearts, and he is familiar with these things that use human nature.

But there is another problem, or in other words, this method of instigating rebellion has another drawback.

Just as he was thinking, Wu You, who was arranged by An Wujiu, returned back. Seeing his expression, An Wujiu guessed that the result was not good.

"Brother Wugui."

After Wu You came back, he squatted in front of An Wujiu, "I found the captain of Team Orange, and told him that there might be traitors in the team, but he heard it as if he didn't hear it."

An Wujiu actually guessed it.

And he also thought that the rest of the people should get the same result.

Sure enough, Zhong Yiruan and Nanshan also came back, and the feedback they received was almost the same as Wu You's.

This verified the thoughts in An Wujiu's mind. Zhou Yijue had already thought of the drawbacks that An Wujiu thought of when setting up the game - the captain had veto authority over the arrangement of the chips.

Once, like An Wujiu, is betrayed by someone in the group, he only needs to close his bargaining authority to minimize his own damage.

If every group is like this, he can only get the chips of the first round of gambling at most, because as long as it continues, the captain will definitely close the authority.

Unless, that traitor is the captain himself.

These captains also knew very well that even if they tried their best, in the end, among the six teams, only the team with the best team could survive.

Instead of fighting for the elusive No. 1 with half his life, he might as well keep his No. 1 position in the team.

Survival is more important than anything else.

After An Wujiu told them his thinking and judgment, the rest of the red team also understood.

"That's why." Zhong Yirou sneered, "Losing the lives of other people in the team to other teams in exchange for a reward, of course some people are willing to do such a thing that hurts others and benefits themselves."

Nanshan nodded, "It seems that Zhou Yijue has already bought off all the captains except our team, including Maguire."

That's right.

An Wujiu looked in the direction of Team Yellow.

This is the reason why Maguire has not come out to make trouble at this moment.

But this is only temporary.

With Maguire's temperament, seeing Zhou Yijue so rampant, it would always be unbalanced.

"Brother Wugui."

Hearing Wu You calling him, An Wujiu came back to his senses and looked at him, "What's wrong?"

Wu You pursed her lips, "Shen Ti is gone."

A smile appeared on An Wujiu's pale face, "I know."

Wu You's eyes widened, "When did you know?"

"He asked me specifically before he left, of course I know."

"Then..." Wu You asked again, "Aren't you worried about him?"

Of course I'm worried.

But he knows Shen Ti's ability better than anyone else.

An Wujiu didn't want to say it at first, but maybe because of the side effects of excessive blood loss, he had a headache and brain fever, so he said it for a while, "I'm worried, but I know he is very strong, so I don't need to worry."

"It's just... I'm quite lucky."

Hearing these two words, Wu You was extremely puzzled, and frowned, "Why? You have been injured so badly."

Under the light, An Wujiu's pale and beautiful face was like a white jade statue soaked in the golden sunlight. The shoulders where the arms were missing were bandaged, and there was only a blurred, blood-soaked red.

In many cases, An Wujiu has a divinity beyond ordinary human beings, a quality that people are willing to trust and follow.

He was neither calm nor normal, but at this moment, An Wujiu's face showed an expression that only ordinary humans would have, like a false alarm, or reunion after a catastrophe. born.

"Before I left here to go to the first floor, I joked that I asked Noah to use Shen Ti as a bargaining chip." He lowered his eyes, his eyelashes trembling slightly, like two clumps of butterflies about to fly away.

"Fortunately no..."

Fortunately it wasn't him.

An Wujiu just imagined that scene, and felt heartache, unable to accept it, as if Shen Ti's life was really tied to his own heart, and he couldn't tell who owed whom.

Wu You was silent.

In his eyes, An Wujiu is like a pool of still water, only when the state is changed, this pool of water will set off monstrous waves.

But it turns out that the still water runs deep, and the deepest part of An Wujiu's heart has already contained a person.

But... He always felt that An Wujiu seemed to be unable to distinguish his own emotions, as if there was some obstacle, since he and Shen Ti were already so close.

"Hey, people like him have a lot of life, so they won't get hurt casually." Wu You said this deliberately, wanting to comfort An Wujiu.

Seeing that his condition was slightly better than before, Nan Shan asked, "What shall we do now?"

Seeing that Zhou Yijue took the lead and already exceeded An Wujiu's personal chip value, Todo Sakura was also a little anxious, "That's right, Zhou Yijue is already number one."

But An Wujiu still looked calm, the serious injury made him even more fragile and paranoid. He looked around, as if looking for someone.

"I know."

An Wujiu withdrew his gaze.

He was sure that Zhou Yijue was not in the hall at this time.

"Don't worry, just wait a bit." An Wujiu said softly.

He looked up and looked at the countdown, there was one hour and forty minutes left.

Fujido Sakura was puzzled. What they were facing was almost a dead end. The longer the time, the more chips the opponent would accumulate, and they would not be able to catch up at all.

"How long will we have to wait? Time is running out. If this continues, the gap between us and their bargaining chips will only grow wider."

An Wujiu nodded lightly, "You are right."

"But there are other ways to play this game."

Chen Yu limped around a long corridor and walked towards the exchange area.

He felt uneasy and regretted what he had done countless times, but now it was too late to regret, Shen Ti was pointing a gun at his back.

In front of the gate of the exchange area, as soon as he stood still, the gate in front of Chen Yu slowly opened. As expected, there were several people from the purple team standing inside, including the yellow hair, who seemed to be waiting for him.

"Are you here?" Huang Mao smiled kindly at him, "I'm still waiting for you, see for yourself, we've already exchanged out the points."

He patted his pocket, and there was indeed the sound of gold coins colliding.

But at this moment, that voice could no longer move Chen Yu's heart.

"What's the matter?" Huang Mao was a little surprised when he saw that he didn't come in, "Don't worry, go out and ask, who hasn't got points for cooperating with us? Everyone has, don't worry."

Standing behind him was a tall man with delicate features, staring at Chen Yu all the time, making his back soaked in cold sweat.

Chen Yu suddenly remembered that this person was the captain of the purple team, Zhou Yijue.

"You guys do it, I have to go out to participate in the gambling game." Zhou Yijue suddenly stopped looking at him, lowered his head to touch Huang Mao's hand, and pressed the exchange button, "I leave it to you."

"Captain, go!" Huang Mao put the gold coins prepared in his pocket into the exchange machine with a look of admiration, and then watched Zhou Yijue leave.

Zhou Yijue brushed past Chen Yu, and Chen Yu's heart felt like a drum beating, he was so nervous that he almost vomited.

Did he notice something, that's why he wanted to leave

definitely is…

Will Shen Ti kill him

But he heard the sound of Zhou Yijue's leaving footsteps gradually drifting away, and there was no other sound coming from outside.

Just when Chen Yu was puzzled, Huang Mao had already exchanged the gold coins for his bargaining chips. With a ding, Chen Yu looked up and saw that the original 900 on his head had really become 1900 at this moment.

"I didn't lie to you, we are very honest." Huang Mao laughed like a philistine, and while talking, he walked towards him and stretched out his hands, "There is only one thing, there are two, don't worry, just go back and continue to help us …”

Before Huang Mao could finish his sentence, a gust of wind passed by Chen Yu's ear, and with a loud bang, blood splashed directly on Chen Yu's face.

Huang Mao was shot in the chest.

There was only one person left in the purple team. Seeing this scene, the whole person panicked and shouted for help, but soon, this person was also like Huang Mao, whose breath was taken away by a bullet.

The two fell in front of them together, and Chen Yu's body trembled like chaff, and even his lips couldn't stop trembling, "You...you..."

He never thought that Shen Ti, who was playing around in a team, would have such a decisive side.

Shen Ti passed behind him, stepped forward, kicked Huang Mao's "corpse", turned his head, and looked at Chen Yu.

He was playing with the dangerous gun in his hand, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"You killed them..."

Hearing Chen Yu's words, Shen Ti shook his head, "How can this be considered murder?"

He smiled and pointed his gun at the top of Huang Mao's head, "Did you see it? His chip value is still there."

"The rules of the game have already been said, as long as you become the first team, even the team members who died before can also be resurrected in the end." Shen Ti knelt down and fumbled in Huang Mao's pocket, "So... now They are not counted as dead, but dead and alive."

Shen Ti found some gold coins from the hands of the two purple team guys, and Shen Ti was very satisfied, "It's really good, and there are unexpected rewards."

Chen Yu looked at him and smiled, and when he listened to him, he felt creepy, because he didn't feel any fear or guilt when he killed someone, as if he just trampled an ant to death.

"You, why do you still ask me to ask them for this thousand..."

Shen Ti got up and looked at him, "Because this is An Wujiu's bargaining chip, even half of it belongs to the red team."

With a cold face, he gave orders to Chen Yu, "Come with me and deal with these two people."

"deal with… "

Chen Yu was afraid that he would suddenly kill him with a single shot, so no matter how confused he was, he had no choice but to do so. Shen Ti said that dealing with it was similar to burying a corpse, and asked him to drag the two "bodies" to another room on the first floor.

Chen Yu dragged his injured leg, and limped one of them to the corner of the wall. The man's wide-open eyes made Chen Yu's heart shudder.

He had an extremely strong premonition, feeling that Shen Ti's killing intent had enveloped him completely.

It's so quiet here, so quiet that I can almost hear my own heartbeat, and there is no one around.

No one will find them.

Thinking about it, Chen Yu knelt down with a plop, and wanted to beg Shen Ti for mercy. He had already thought about it, he still had a sick little daughter to save, so he couldn't just die here.

But before he really opened his mouth, the moment he knelt down, Shen Ti raised his gun and hit Chen Yu on the forehead.

Blood spattered on Shen Ti's cheek.

"Shut up."

Chen Yu, who failed to beg for mercy in time, just fell straight on the other two.

Shen Ti looked down at his "dead state", raised his hand to wipe away the splashed blood, there was no trace of pity on his face, but regret.

"You shouldn't be allowed to 'die' so happily."

If it wasn't for losing chips, the team's total score would have dropped. Shen Ti really wanted to use this traitor as a chip, dismantle his body bit by bit, and lose completely.

He knew that he was not a normal person at this moment.

Therefore, killing Chen Yu for the time being also has Shen Zi's own selfish intentions.

He didn't want Chen Yu to tell the truth, and let the kindest and most selfless An Wujiu know that he was such a lunatic who disregarded human life.

An Wujiu waited quietly, watching the time go by bit by bit.

If his interpretation of the rules of the game is not biased, the victory of this gambling dinner does not depend on luck, nor does it depend on whether the gambling skills are superb.

It's about stealing.

Suddenly, An Wujiu, who was thinking, sensed something, turned around, and actually saw Shen Ti walking towards him.

The moment they looked at him, Shen Ti gave him a smile.

But An Wujiu immediately saw the red marks on his face that he couldn't wipe off, and the blood drops on his chest.

"What's wrong with you?" An Wujiu walked towards him until the two faced each other, he stretched out his only hand to touch the blood on his chest, "What happened? You are not injured, are you?"

He obviously only had one arm left, and his whole body was as pale as a piece of paper, but he just asked him what's wrong, if he's okay.

A rare trace of panic appeared on An Wujiu's calm face, as if he had changed into a very fragile person.

"Why don't you talk? You don't talk about where you go." These words seem to be complaining, although the degree is very slight and it is difficult to detect.

Shen Ti finally couldn't help it, stretched out his arms, and gave him a very light and careful hug.

It's like hugging a bubble that may disappear at any time.

"I'm fine."

He half leaned on An Wujiu's other shoulder, speaking nonsense in a hoarse voice with a gentle voice.

"I just saw you from a distance."

"Your right shoulder is so beautiful, it looks like a very red and beautiful rose."