The Unsolvable Stratagem, He's Not Crazy!

"Impossible!"

Lu Ce's slightly sinister voice echoed through the space. The moment he finished speaking, Number Two immediately began to curse, speaking anxiously.

"Everyone, don't listen to his incitement. We can definitely discuss a good distribution method for the specifics."

"I will distribute it, and it's absolutely impossible for anyone to get a complete zero."

"Please believe me, I swear on my integrity, we will not have a situation where someone takes it all."

"We all went through this hellish game together, it's like we've shared life and death…"

Number Two spoke incessantly, as if driven mad, as if trying to cover something up, as if trying to suppress the guilt in her heart.

Lu Ce's few simple words before had already filled her with immense dread. Now, almost instinctively, she wanted to vote Lu Ce out!

Get this devil with mental issues out of here! Then her chance would come!

Lu Ce, seeing her mental state, continued to smile and interrupted, "Oaths are never trustworthy. Compared to oaths, choices based on human nature are more worthy of belief."

"In those videos that stimulated everyone's deepest desires earlier, what did you see?"

"What are you afraid of?"

"Even if my policy passes, and you get no benefit, you still won't die. But right now, you're acting so eagerly."

"That deepest desire, the ultimate benefit, it's something you can't let go of, right?"

Sweat had already begun to bead on Number Two's forehead. She still wanted to say something to turn the tide, to get Number Three and Number Five to vote quickly!

It was just one vote short!

Just then, someone among the others, who had been silent until now, finally spoke.

It was Number Five. Since there was no threat to his life, he seemed relatively relaxed.

"I'd like to ask Number One first."

"Why did you say that if Number Four distributed, Number Three and I would only get zero?"

Lu Ce turned his head slightly in his direction. The blue mask formed a speechless expression ┌(′_ゝ`)┐.

"Are you… not using your brain at all?"

Then, he turned his head to look at the woman, Number Two, and said with a half-smile, "This proves you're still not as smart as Miss Number Two here. If I'm not mistaken, after I finished speaking just now, you already roughly understood the key to this game, didn't you?"

Number Two's body trembled slightly, as if her thoughts had been exposed, but she didn't dare to admit it. She wanted to remain stubborn, but Lu Ce didn't give her another chance. Leaning back in his chair, he continued, "Suppose there is only one person in this game."

"Then, without a doubt, he will take all the digital shares, one hundred percent, and happily go home."

"And if there are only two people, what would the distribution be? Fifty-fifty? Or what?"

"Of course not! It has to be 100 and 0! Because as long as half the people agree, it will pass. The person with the distribution power doesn't need to care about the other person's thoughts at all!"

Lu Ce's words captured everyone's attention. Except for Number Two, whose face grew increasingly grim, everyone else listened intently.

Lu Ce's voice continued, "So, when there are three people in this game, what will happen?"

His words were calm and steady, but those like Blank who were watching the live broadcast and thinking intently, instantly grasped the sinister nature of this game at the same time!

Inside and outside the game, they blurted it out almost in unison with Lu Ce's voice!

"The distributor only needs to give a tiny bit of benefit to the third person, and completely disregard the second person, and the distribution plan will pass!"

"The distribution will be 99, 0, 1!"

"Because if the third person disagrees, then when this person's distribution plan fails, and only two people are left, the last person will get nothing."

"So, as the number of people gradually increases, what will happen? I guess I don't need to say more, right, everyone?"

For a moment, everyone fell silent.

They weren't fools. Under the external pressure before, their thoughts were muddled, and no one had fully grasped the crucial point.

Now that Lu Ce had explained everything so clearly, they could deduce the subsequent possible outcomes themselves.

If there were four people, the first person's distribution plan only needed to consider the interests of the second-to-last person.

Because if the first person died, it would revert to the situation of three people distributing, and as clearly stated before, the second-to-last person would get nothing.

So the distribution method would be… 99-0-1-0!

And continuing this pattern, now for five people…

Although it was hard to accept, although it felt intuitively difficult to understand, if they followed this logic, Lu Ce's distribution method was actually unbreakable!

He was actually distributing it correctly!

But how could he dare? How could he dare?! After all, if even the slightest thing went wrong, he would pay with his life!

Yet, he had still made this decision, as if the crisis of life and death had not put any pressure on him, not even causing his mental state to waver in the slightest!

"So, that means I'm the luckiest one among you."

"If you say that, you really do love me!"

Lu Ce said this to the air, to the organizers, aiming to be placed as the first person.

[...]

"Not answering means you agree?"

[Five minutes have passed!]

Click.

The small door in front of Lu Ce opened and closed, dropping out a few seemingly "friendly" small animals. They chirped aimlessly, beginning to wander around the space without purpose.

"You even found me some little friends. It seems you really do love me after all."

Lu Ce continued his banter, even starting to actively lure the insects towards himself.

He wasn't rushing the other players, letting them digest the situation slowly. He, meanwhile, would play around a bit more, thinking about what other ways he could "fleece" them.

While he was leisurely enjoying himself, the other players were unwilling to accept reality. They eyed each other suspiciously, contemplating how they could break out of this predicament.

Especially Player Two, she was the most unwilling to accept it! At this moment, she was still thinking about how she could turn the tables.

"Everyone, this scenario is just the worst-case scenario, a ploy by this game."

"As long as we unite..."

But she trailed off, feeling like even she couldn't convince herself. Why would anyone believe her?

That's right!

"Player Three, Player Five, I can give you... in a private capacity..."

Just as she was about to try and win over Players Three and Five by giving them points directly, to gain their trust.

But before she could finish speaking, she remembered that in the previous round, Lu Ce had already extorted all the points from the four of them!

As despair filled Player Two's eyes, she looked at Player One with utter shock, as if gazing up at a towering mountain.

Could it be that, just now, he had already anticipated the current situation?!