"Absolutely impossible!"
Lu Ce's somewhat sinister-sounding voice echoed through the space. The moment he finished speaking, Two immediately began cursing, speaking anxiously.
"Everyone, don't listen to his nonsense. We can definitely work out a good way to distribute everything."
"If I handle the distribution, there absolutely won't be any possibility of someone getting zero points."
"Please believe me. I swear on my character that there won't be a situation where one person takes everything."
"We've all gone through this hellish game together. You could say we've lived and died together..."
Two kept talking almost frantically, as if she wanted to conceal something, as if she wanted to suppress the guilt in her heart.
Lu Ce's few simple words earlier had already filled her with intense lingering fear. Almost instinctively, she wanted to vote Lu Ce out!
Get that mentally unstable devil eliminated! Then her chance would come!
Lu Ce had clearly seen through her state of mind. He smiled and interrupted her.
"Oaths have never been trustworthy. Compared to oaths, choices based on human nature are far more reliable."
"What did you see in those videos that stirred up everyone's deepest desires?"
"What are you afraid of?"
"Even if my proposal passes, you won't benefit from it, but you still won't die. Yet you're acting awfully eager right now."
"That deepest desire, that ultimate benefit—you can't bear to let it go, can you?"
Sweat had begun to form on Two's forehead. She still wanted to say something to turn the situation around, to make Three and Five vote quickly!
She was only one vote away!
Just then, someone else who had remained silent all this time finally spoke.
It was Five. Since his life was not in danger, he seemed relatively relaxed.
"I want to ask Boss Number One something first."
"Why did you say that if Number Four distributes the points, Three and I can only get zero?"
Lu Ce slightly turned his head in his direction. The blue mask formed a speechless expression: ┌(′_ゝ`)┐.
"Do you... not use your brain at all?"
Then he turned to look at Two, smiling without quite smiling as he said,
"This proves you're still not as smart as Miss Number Two. If I'm not mistaken, after I finished speaking just now, you had already roughly figured out the key to this game, right?"
Two's body trembled slightly, as though her thoughts had been exposed. She did not dare admit it and wanted to stubbornly deny it, but Lu Ce gave her no further chance. Leaning back in his chair, he continued.
"Suppose there is only one person in this game."
"Then without a doubt, he will take the entire one hundred percent share and happily go home."
"But if there are only two people, what will the distribution be? Fifty-fifty? Or something else?"
"Of course not! It will definitely be one hundred and zero! Because as long as half the people agree, the proposal passes. The person with the power to distribute doesn't need to care about the other person's thoughts at all!"
Lu Ce's words guided everyone's train of thought. Aside from Two, whose expression was growing uglier and uglier, everyone listened with rapt attention.
Lu Ce's voice continued.
"So what happens when there are three people in this game?"
The words were calm and measured, but Blank and the others who had been watching the livestream and thinking all along instantly realized the evil of this game at the same moment!
Inside and outside the game, they blurted it out almost in unison with Lu Ce!
"The distributor only needs to give the third person a tiny bit of benefit, without considering the second person at all, and the proposal will pass!"
"The distribution will be ninety-nine, zero, one!"
"Because if the third person disagrees, then after this person's proposal fails and only two people remain, the last person will get nothing!"
"So when the number of people gradually increases, what happens next? I probably don't need to explain that to you."
For a moment, everyone fell silent.
No one was stupid. Earlier, under the intense external pressure, everyone's thoughts had been thrown into disarray, and no one had grasped the key point.
Now that Lu Ce had explained everything so clearly, they could work out the likely results that followed.
If there were four people, the first person's distribution would only need to take care of the second-to-last person's interests.
Because if the first person died, it would become the previous three-person distribution scenario. That situation had already been made very clear: the second-to-last person would get nothing.
So the distribution would be... ninety-nine, zero, one, zero!
And continuing that logic, the current distribution with five people...
Though it was hard to accept, though it felt intuitively difficult to understand, if they looked at it this way, Lu Ce's distribution method could not be overturned at all!
His distribution was actually correct!
But how could he dare? How could he dare?! If anything went wrong, the price he would pay would be his life!
Yet he had still made this decision, as if the threat of death had placed no pressure on him at all. Even his mental state had not wavered in the slightest!
"So, I'm the luckiest one among you."
"By that logic, you really do love me!"
Lu Ce said this to the empty air—to the organizers, who had deliberately arranged for him to be the first person.
"Not answering means you're admitting it?"
The five minutes were up!
Click.
The small door in front of Lu Ce opened and closed. Several seemingly "friendly" little animals fell out, chirping aimlessly as they began wandering around the space.
"You even found me a few little companions. Looks like you really do love me."
Lu Ce continued to taunt them, even taking the initiative to lure the bugs toward himself.
He was in no hurry to press the other players. He let them slowly digest it while he enjoyed himself a little longer, thinking about whether there was any other way to squeeze more benefits out of the situation.
While he was taking it easy, the other players were unwilling to accept reality. They eyed one another suspiciously, trying to think of a way to break the deadlock.
Two, especially, was the most unwilling to accept it! She was still thinking about how to turn the situation around.
"Everyone, this is only the worst-case scenario. It's the game's conspiracy."
"As long as we unite as one..."
But halfway through, she felt that even she could barely convince herself. Why would anyone else believe her?
Right!
"Three, Five, I can give you something privately..."
Just as she planned to use her current points to win over Three and Five and earn their trust,
before she could finish, she remembered that in the previous stage, Lu Ce had already extorted every last point from all four of them!
Despair filled Two's eyes, along with shock as she stared at Player Number One as though gazing up at a towering mountain.
Could it be that, back then, he had already foreseen the situation before them?!
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