Song Yun’s shoulders stiffened for a moment, then he shook his head, “No.”
“Oh,” Bai Lixin nodded, “it seems like it.”
“…,” Song Yun suddenly became frustrated, “I said ‘no,’ can’t you listen?”
Bai Lixin: “I listened. But your micro expressions told me you are.”
Song Yun: “What?”
Bai Lixin: “When people lie, they unconsciously blink frequently and pause when talking. It seems you’re not a habitual liar. Some fraudsters practice micro expressions to perfect their scams. But obviously, you’re not that kind of person. You’re easy to see through.”
Bai Lixin: “So, who are you venting for? Little Overlord?”
Song Yun pursed his lips.
“Or the man who lost to me in rock-paper-scissors last time?”
Song Yun glanced sideways again.
“Or the girlfriend of that player from the Shentian Guild who died in the copy?”
This time, Song Yun’s throat moved slightly, but he still didn’t speak.
Bai Lixin, “Oh, I see. It’s that girl. Thank you for telling me so much. I appreciate it.”
Song Yun suddenly turned his neck, and looked at Bai Lixin with wide eyes, “No, I’m not. I didn’t! Don’t make things up, I didn’t tell you anything!”
————————————
In the live broadcast room.
[Hahaha, getting clues is just a normal operation for God Xin.]
[ “I’ve Offended So Many People”]
[God Xin: I have offended so many people, so I have to sort through them carefully to find out who they are.]
[Hahaha, so this time Little Angel Xia Chi , is taking the blame for God Xin. Indeed, no matter how high the luck value, it can’t beat the strength of pulling others down.]
[Little Angel Xia Chi is so depressed now, extremely depressed.]
[So this Glasses is from the Shentian Guild. If he’s from the Shentian Guild, then his actions aren’t surprising. Hmph, after all, it’s a guild for old rogues.]
[Clearly, it’s a guild of old bloodsuckers.]
[Do you think the members of the Shentian Guild are peeking behind the screen now?]
[It’s good if they are peeking behind the screen! They dare to do but are afraid of getting scolded? Isn’t it just that you entered the game earlier than us? You still haven’t left the game for so long, so you’re not some formidable character. We are all clearing copies, who’s nobler than whom? Why do they always act so superior? I just don’t accept it, pull them down, pull them down for me!]
[Shentian Guild, right? You guys are just a bunch of cowards! Stop pretending to be masters standing above everyone else. Admit it, you’re just a group of losers who can’t escape the game!]
[By the way, how did God Xin discover that Glasses is the culprit?]
————————————
“I thought my disguise is perfect. How did you find out it was me?” Since he had been exposed, Song Yun didn’t continue to deny. He calmly accepted the current situation and even had the time to ask his question.
Bai Lixin, “Because you and Xia Chi entered the submarine together.”
Song Yun was puzzled, “What does that have to do with anything?”
Bai Lixin, “Dr. Camila’s curse began to spread rapidly after returning from the deep-sea exploration.”
“If he is like that, you guys shouldn’t be spared either.”
“Of course, I’ve observed the curses on other NPCs who returned. Their curses are severe, to the point where clothes can’t cover them.”
“The curse area on Xia Chi and your body should theoretically be larger than others. But you don’t have much curse coverage.”
Song Yun widened his eyes, “You determined it was me based on this?”
Bai Lixin: “More than that.”
“You said I was your target, right? Did you actually plan to attack me from the beginning? Last time we entered the sewer from the basement, you volunteered to guard the entrance.”
“What did you do back then?”
Song Yun’s gaze shifted, avoiding eye contact: “What do you mean, what did I do?”
Bai Lixin: “The NPCs living in the basement are generally indifferent due to their busy work. Unless there’s a big anomaly, they won’t gather. Back then, you said you heard footsteps, did you intentionally make noise to attract the NPCs?”
Song Yun’s gaze continued to shift: “What benefit would I gain from doing that? If I wanted to harm you, I could have just closed the sewer lid and walked away. I didn’t leave, I stayed in place.”
Bai Lixin: “If you had left back then, would you still have obtained the clues we found in the sewer?”
Bai Lixin: “Your words are incorrect. You’re targeting me, not Lin Xiao and Xia Chi, so you just need to direct the NPC’s hostility towards me.”
“Your characters are research interns, even if you were discovered, you wouldn’t face severe punishment. Because in this copy, the status of researchers is much higher than that of janitors.”
“But I’m different, my character is a janitor. If discovered, I should face punishment.”
“Just like when I was punished to clean the laboratory, didn’t you happen to encounter me being punished to clean the lab before?”
“As for when you transmitted the curse to Xia Chi, when we returned from outside early this morning, the black-clothed person Xia Chi met was you, right?”
“Perhaps you weren’t deliberately waiting for Xia Chi but searching for some clues. However, you happened to see Xia Chi at that time, so you casually transmitted your curse to him.”
“By the way, you were probably looking for the merfolk’s faith, right?”
Song Yun’s expression stiffened at first, but as Bai Lixin continued, he eventually waved his hand indifferently, “I give up, you’re right.”
“Can I leave now? Or are you going to kill me?” Song Yun even stretched his neck forward, “Come on, kill me.”
Xia Chi looked at Bai Lixin nervously, and subconsciously held his wrist, “Brother, don’t act rashly.”
Although harming players wouldn’t result in system penalties, killing players was still not allowed according to the system rules.
Song Yun, a scoundrel, was sure that they would not dare to take action and was confident.
Bai Lixin: “…”
Song Yun stood up from the wall, “Since you won’t take action, I’ll leave.”
As he approached the door, he turned around, scanned everyone and finally looked at Garlic Nose, “Oh, by the way, there’s one more thing. I never expected that even at this floor, there are still such naïve people. Haven’t you figured out the essence of this horror game?”
“It’s not unity and cooperation; it’s competition.”
“This game lobby summoned so many people from outside, but how many can reach our floor? Very few. What about those who couldn’t reach there? Because of inadequate abilities, either they died early or remained in the lower levels, in essence, they were eliminated.”
“Competition, what game doesn’t involve competition?”
“Between players, the relationship between opponents is constant, comrades are temporary.”
“Guess why the difficulty of lower-level copies is increasing? It’s because of our existence.”
Everyone was stunned
Song Yun chuckled, “We have raised the overall difficulty of the game. The main brain of this game lobby has autonomous thinking and can continuously learn and evolve.”
“The stronger we are, the higher the average ability of humans in the main brain’s analytical data. The difficulty of entry-level copies also increases. If a player dies in a lower-level copy, each of us on the higher floors has their hands stained with their blood.”
“We are accomplices in this game.”
“That’s the harsh reality.”
“The more you distribute prop cards in the game lobby, the faster the game’s difficulty rises.”
“This game needs to eliminate a certain proportion of people. If it can’t achieve that, it has to increase the difficulty.”
“Wake up, quickly abandon those ridiculous and childish ideals like ‘safely bringing everyone out’ and ‘unite and help each other.’”
“This is the chassis of the game, the main brain is the house, and we are gamblers. How to play this game is dictated by the pig brain.”
“That’s it, I’m leaving!”
The door was opened and then slammed shut, and an eerie silence fell in the room.
After a while, Bai Lixin spoke softly, “Xia Chi, you rest first, I’m leaving too.”
Seeing Bai Lixin about to leave, Xia Chi hurriedly stopped him, “Brother, don’t listen to Song Yun’s nonsense. He’s just a troublemaker, deliberately causing anxiety.”
“Don’t worry, I am not affected by his words, and what he said wasn’t directed at us, actually.” The young man’s expression remained calm, and his tone was steady.
Xia Chi: “Not directed at us? We are the only ones in this room.”
Bai Lixin: “It looks like there are only four people here, but in reality, there are tens of thousands. Don’t forget, our copy is being broadcast live; he said those things intentionally for the audience in the livestream. How big can the scope of anxiety be for just the four of us? What he wants is the effect of stirring up a thousand waves with one stone.”
———————————
In the live broadcast room
[So that’s how it is! Fortunately, God Xin explained, otherwise, I would have been fooled by this guy.]
[How insidious! Hmm, but he underestimates me. I’m someone who downloaded an anti-scam app!]
[But, don’t you think what he said makes sense? The difficulty of copies has indeed increased.]
[Can you please wake up? It increased because you climbed higher. But your normal performance abilities can’t meet the gradually rising copy difficulty, so you feel it’s challenging. Wasn’t God Xin’s first copy still difficult to the point of being abnormal? So, in this sense, lower-level copies are a mixture of simplicity and difficulty from the beginning, not a sudden increase in difficulty.]
[Oh, I see, this is guerrilla warfare tactics. I remember reading a story before about a fraud organization that used a long-line strategy for scams. They would send out mass text messages predicting horse race results. They didn’t actually predict anything; they just split the answer into two, sending different answers to different users. After the results of the first race were announced, they would abandon the part that received the wrong answer and continue sending answers to the part that got it right. Still the same strategy, half and half. This way, there would always be a portion of people who got it right.
The key is having a large base.
When they suddenly announced the final results of the championship, they said if you wanted to know the final answer, you had to pay them. Many people believed it and actually paid them, but they still split the answer and ran away with the money. In essence, it’s survivorship bias.]
[Wow, you all look so cultured. Suddenly, I don’t dare to call myself a fan of God Xin. Let me read a few more books first and come back to brag with you after expanding my knowledge. I often feel inferior because I’m illiterate.]
———————————
Bai Lixin had just left, and Lin Xiao followed suit.
He had just walked about five or six steps when he noticed Lin Xiao and instinctively slowed down, waiting for Lin Xiao to catch up.
When Lin Xiao walked up to him, he casually asked, “You already knew Song Yun’s true identity, didn’t you?”
Lin Xiao didn’t conceal it, “Yes.”
Bai Lixin: “Why didn’t you tell us?”
“I can’t interfere too much, I…” Lin Xiao opened his mouth, seeming like he wanted to say something, but he ultimately swallowed the unfinished words, “I’ll go back to the lab first, see you.”
Watching the man’s straight back becoming smaller in his line of sight, Bai Lixin continued walking.
The sound of the door opening echoed from behind, followed by the voices of Garlic Nose and Yellow Hair.
The two muttered quietly, but it didn’t prevent Bai Lixin from hearing.
“Pah, I don’t care about the newcomers. I’m almost dead myself. Who cares about newcomers and their lives? I haven’t seen any newcomers caring about us.”
“That’s right, the root of this thing is the damn rules of the game. Really, who has the blood of newcomers on their hands? Clearly, it’s the system. That guy called Song Yun actually substituted and said it was us, the high-floor players.”
“Isn’t he deliberately creating conflicts between high-floor players and low-floor players? Instead of jointly opposing the system that brought us to this ghost place, he’s playing divisive tactics here. It’s so malicious. Does he think we’re foolish to believe his words because we’re so dumb?”
“Maybe it’s because he’s been in the clouds for too long and naively thinks he can easily mess with us. What a joke, our generation is different from theirs. I’m a man who has downloaded an anti-scam app!”
Song Yun’s shoulders stiffened for a moment, then he shook his head, “No.”
“Oh,” Bai Lixin nodded, “it seems like it.”
“…,” Song Yun suddenly became frustrated, “I said ‘no,’ can’t you listen?”
Bai Lixin: “I listened. But your micro expressions told me you are.”
Song Yun: “What?”
Bai Lixin: “When people lie, they unconsciously blink frequently and pause when talking. It seems you’re not a habitual liar. Some fraudsters practice micro expressions to perfect their scams. But obviously, you’re not that kind of person. You’re easy to see through.”
Bai Lixin: “So, who are you venting for? Little Overlord?”
Song Yun pursed his lips.
“Or the man who lost to me in rock-paper-scissors last time?”
Song Yun glanced sideways again.
“Or the girlfriend of that player from the Shentian Guild who died in the copy?”
This time, Song Yun’s throat moved slightly, but he still didn’t speak.
Bai Lixin, “Oh, I see. It’s that girl. Thank you for telling me so much. I appreciate it.”
Song Yun suddenly turned his neck, and looked at Bai Lixin with wide eyes, “No, I’m not. I didn’t! Don’t make things up, I didn’t tell you anything!”
————————————
In the live broadcast room.
[Hahaha, getting clues is just a normal operation for God Xin.]
[ “I’ve Offended So Many People”]
[God Xin: I have offended so many people, so I have to sort through them carefully to find out who they are.]
[Hahaha, so this time Little Angel Xia Chi , is taking the blame for God Xin. Indeed, no matter how high the luck value, it can’t beat the strength of pulling others down.]
[Little Angel Xia Chi is so depressed now, extremely depressed.]
[So this Glasses is from the Shentian Guild. If he’s from the Shentian Guild, then his actions aren’t surprising. Hmph, after all, it’s a guild for old rogues.]
[Clearly, it’s a guild of old bloodsuckers.]
[Do you think the members of the Shentian Guild are peeking behind the screen now?]
[It’s good if they are peeking behind the screen! They dare to do but are afraid of getting scolded? Isn’t it just that you entered the game earlier than us? You still haven’t left the game for so long, so you’re not some formidable character. We are all clearing copies, who’s nobler than whom? Why do they always act so superior? I just don’t accept it, pull them down, pull them down for me!]
[Shentian Guild, right? You guys are just a bunch of cowards! Stop pretending to be masters standing above everyone else. Admit it, you’re just a group of losers who can’t escape the game!]
[By the way, how did God Xin discover that Glasses is the culprit?]
————————————
“I thought my disguise is perfect. How did you find out it was me?” Since he had been exposed, Song Yun didn’t continue to deny. He calmly accepted the current situation and even had the time to ask his question.
Bai Lixin, “Because you and Xia Chi entered the submarine together.”
Song Yun was puzzled, “What does that have to do with anything?”
Bai Lixin, “Dr. Camila’s curse began to spread rapidly after returning from the deep-sea exploration.”
“If he is like that, you guys shouldn’t be spared either.”
“Of course, I’ve observed the curses on other NPCs who returned. Their curses are severe, to the point where clothes can’t cover them.”
“The curse area on Xia Chi and your body should theoretically be larger than others. But you don’t have much curse coverage.”
Song Yun widened his eyes, “You determined it was me based on this?”
Bai Lixin: “More than that.”
“You said I was your target, right? Did you actually plan to attack me from the beginning? Last time we entered the sewer from the basement, you volunteered to guard the entrance.”
“What did you do back then?”
Song Yun’s gaze shifted, avoiding eye contact: “What do you mean, what did I do?”
Bai Lixin: “The NPCs living in the basement are generally indifferent due to their busy work. Unless there’s a big anomaly, they won’t gather. Back then, you said you heard footsteps, did you intentionally make noise to attract the NPCs?”
Song Yun’s gaze continued to shift: “What benefit would I gain from doing that? If I wanted to harm you, I could have just closed the sewer lid and walked away. I didn’t leave, I stayed in place.”
Bai Lixin: “If you had left back then, would you still have obtained the clues we found in the sewer?”
Bai Lixin: “Your words are incorrect. You’re targeting me, not Lin Xiao and Xia Chi, so you just need to direct the NPC’s hostility towards me.”
“Your characters are research interns, even if you were discovered, you wouldn’t face severe punishment. Because in this copy, the status of researchers is much higher than that of janitors.”
“But I’m different, my character is a janitor. If discovered, I should face punishment.”
“Just like when I was punished to clean the laboratory, didn’t you happen to encounter me being punished to clean the lab before?”
“As for when you transmitted the curse to Xia Chi, when we returned from outside early this morning, the black-clothed person Xia Chi met was you, right?”
“Perhaps you weren’t deliberately waiting for Xia Chi but searching for some clues. However, you happened to see Xia Chi at that time, so you casually transmitted your curse to him.”
“By the way, you were probably looking for the merfolk’s faith, right?”
Song Yun’s expression stiffened at first, but as Bai Lixin continued, he eventually waved his hand indifferently, “I give up, you’re right.”
“Can I leave now? Or are you going to kill me?” Song Yun even stretched his neck forward, “Come on, kill me.”
Xia Chi looked at Bai Lixin nervously, and subconsciously held his wrist, “Brother, don’t act rashly.”
Although harming players wouldn’t result in system penalties, killing players was still not allowed according to the system rules.
Song Yun, a scoundrel, was sure that they would not dare to take action and was confident.
Bai Lixin: “…”
Song Yun stood up from the wall, “Since you won’t take action, I’ll leave.”
As he approached the door, he turned around, scanned everyone and finally looked at Garlic Nose, “Oh, by the way, there’s one more thing. I never expected that even at this floor, there are still such naïve people. Haven’t you figured out the essence of this horror game?”
“It’s not unity and cooperation; it’s competition.”
“This game lobby summoned so many people from outside, but how many can reach our floor? Very few. What about those who couldn’t reach there? Because of inadequate abilities, either they died early or remained in the lower levels, in essence, they were eliminated.”
“Competition, what game doesn’t involve competition?”
“Between players, the relationship between opponents is constant, comrades are temporary.”
“Guess why the difficulty of lower-level copies is increasing? It’s because of our existence.”
Everyone was stunned
Song Yun chuckled, “We have raised the overall difficulty of the game. The main brain of this game lobby has autonomous thinking and can continuously learn and evolve.”
“The stronger we are, the higher the average ability of humans in the main brain’s analytical data. The difficulty of entry-level copies also increases. If a player dies in a lower-level copy, each of us on the higher floors has their hands stained with their blood.”
“We are accomplices in this game.”
“That’s the harsh reality.”
“The more you distribute prop cards in the game lobby, the faster the game’s difficulty rises.”
“This game needs to eliminate a certain proportion of people. If it can’t achieve that, it has to increase the difficulty.”
“Wake up, quickly abandon those ridiculous and childish ideals like ‘safely bringing everyone out’ and ‘unite and help each other.’”
“This is the chassis of the game, the main brain is the house, and we are gamblers. How to play this game is dictated by the pig brain.”
“That’s it, I’m leaving!”
The door was opened and then slammed shut, and an eerie silence fell in the room.
After a while, Bai Lixin spoke softly, “Xia Chi, you rest first, I’m leaving too.”
Seeing Bai Lixin about to leave, Xia Chi hurriedly stopped him, “Brother, don’t listen to Song Yun’s nonsense. He’s just a troublemaker, deliberately causing anxiety.”
“Don’t worry, I am not affected by his words, and what he said wasn’t directed at us, actually.” The young man’s expression remained calm, and his tone was steady.
Xia Chi: “Not directed at us? We are the only ones in this room.”
Bai Lixin: “It looks like there are only four people here, but in reality, there are tens of thousands. Don’t forget, our copy is being broadcast live; he said those things intentionally for the audience in the livestream. How big can the scope of anxiety be for just the four of us? What he wants is the effect of stirring up a thousand waves with one stone.”
———————————
In the live broadcast room
[So that’s how it is! Fortunately, God Xin explained, otherwise, I would have been fooled by this guy.]
[How insidious! Hmm, but he underestimates me. I’m someone who downloaded an anti-scam app!]
[But, don’t you think what he said makes sense? The difficulty of copies has indeed increased.]
[Can you please wake up? It increased because you climbed higher. But your normal performance abilities can’t meet the gradually rising copy difficulty, so you feel it’s challenging. Wasn’t God Xin’s first copy still difficult to the point of being abnormal? So, in this sense, lower-level copies are a mixture of simplicity and difficulty from the beginning, not a sudden increase in difficulty.]
[Oh, I see, this is guerrilla warfare tactics. I remember reading a story before about a fraud organization that used a long-line strategy for scams. They would send out mass text messages predicting horse race results. They didn’t actually predict anything; they just split the answer into two, sending different answers to different users. After the results of the first race were announced, they would abandon the part that received the wrong answer and continue sending answers to the part that got it right. Still the same strategy, half and half. This way, there would always be a portion of people who got it right.
The key is having a large base.
When they suddenly announced the final results of the championship, they said if you wanted to know the final answer, you had to pay them. Many people believed it and actually paid them, but they still split the answer and ran away with the money. In essence, it’s survivorship bias.]
[Wow, you all look so cultured. Suddenly, I don’t dare to call myself a fan of God Xin. Let me read a few more books first and come back to brag with you after expanding my knowledge. I often feel inferior because I’m illiterate.]
———————————
Bai Lixin had just left, and Lin Xiao followed suit.
He had just walked about five or six steps when he noticed Lin Xiao and instinctively slowed down, waiting for Lin Xiao to catch up.
When Lin Xiao walked up to him, he casually asked, “You already knew Song Yun’s true identity, didn’t you?”
Lin Xiao didn’t conceal it, “Yes.”
Bai Lixin: “Why didn’t you tell us?”
“I can’t interfere too much, I…” Lin Xiao opened his mouth, seeming like he wanted to say something, but he ultimately swallowed the unfinished words, “I’ll go back to the lab first, see you.”
Watching the man’s straight back becoming smaller in his line of sight, Bai Lixin continued walking.
The sound of the door opening echoed from behind, followed by the voices of Garlic Nose and Yellow Hair.
The two muttered quietly, but it didn’t prevent Bai Lixin from hearing.
“Pah, I don’t care about the newcomers. I’m almost dead myself. Who cares about newcomers and their lives? I haven’t seen any newcomers caring about us.”
“That’s right, the root of this thing is the damn rules of the game. Really, who has the blood of newcomers on their hands? Clearly, it’s the system. That guy called Song Yun actually substituted and said it was us, the high-floor players.”
“Isn’t he deliberately creating conflicts between high-floor players and low-floor players? Instead of jointly opposing the system that brought us to this ghost place, he’s playing divisive tactics here. It’s so malicious. Does he think we’re foolish to believe his words because we’re so dumb?”
“Maybe it’s because he’s been in the clouds for too long and naively thinks he can easily mess with us. What a joke, our generation is different from theirs. I’m a man who has downloaded an anti-scam app!”
