The World Is So Small! How Am I Supposed to Evaluate Myself? Urgent!

When Lu Ce opened his phone, the first thing he saw was a dark crimson space. The video's contents were extremely familiar to him.

Lava...

Saws...

Ten bound players...

Lu Ce: ...

Suppressing the twitch at the corner of his mouth, Lu Ce found himself momentarily at a loss for words.

Was the world really this small?

"Before the lava floods the platform, you need to find a way to free yourselves."

"What do you mean, make us saw off our legs?"

"Hehe... Sawing off legs isn't exactly new. Did you guys really pay Chainsaw Massacre the licensing fees?"

"What's the reward for being the first to get a saw?"

"..."

Listening to the organizer's voice in the video, along with the conversation from "himself" in the game, Lu Ce was so embarrassed his toes practically curled.

What could he even say?

What was he supposed to say?

After watching several minutes of footage, Xie Antong observed his expression from beside him and spoke.

"Sawing off his own leg—sawing, not chopping!"

"If it were someone without any training, I don't think anyone could truly make that decision. They'd rather die, giving up all hope of survival."

"But look at this guy!"

By then, Lu Ce had already seen himself in the video, casually sawing off his leg.

At the time, he had been wearing the Greed Mask and had not felt there was anything wrong with it. But now, seeing it in his normal state, it was indeed a little horrifying.

To put on a bit of an act, Lu Ce deliberately asked, "Why didn't he saw off the leg that was shackled?"

Xie Antong nodded and said, "At this point, I also thought maybe there was simply something wrong with his head. But after seeing what came later, I realized just how terrifying he really was."

"Keep watching. I edited this myself and picked out the most crucial parts."

As she spoke, Xie Antong dragged the progress bar and held her phone in front of herself, explaining the footage to Lu Ce.

But Lu Ce's scalp was already tingling. Listening to her analyze him right in front of him, he felt numb from head to toe.

After who knew how long, the game footage finally came to an end. Lu Ce's face was stiff.

Honestly, only from an observer's perspective could he truly realize just how monstrous his performance in the previous game had been.

It really was impossible for him not to attract attention.

"That's the overall situation."

At last, the video ended. Xie Antong took a deep breath and turned off her phone, unable to conceal the shock on her face.

No matter how many times she watched it, she never grew tired of it. Every viewing brought that same sense of astonishment rushing back.

Seeing Lu Ce sitting beside her with a somewhat blank expression, she assumed he was still in shock.

"So? Give me your assessment."

Lu Ce: ?(′?ω?`)?

What the hell was I supposed to assess?!

How was he supposed to evaluate himself? Someone answer quickly—this was urgent.

"He's pretty impressive. Truly remarkable, actually. I'd guess he probably cleared it perfectly."

With no better option, Lu Ce decided to praise himself a little.

"What do you mean, pretty impressive?! This is practically defying the heavens!" Xie Antong grew anxious when she saw how distracted Lu Ce seemed.

"Whether it's intelligence or strength, the existence of someone like this is enough to affect the order of human society."

"We actually had a feeling this might happen before, but we never expected it to happen so quickly."

Listening to her, Lu Ce felt that something about her words was off. He said, "Affect the order of human society? Isn't that still far too early?"

"The strength he's actually shown is just physical power far beyond that of ordinary humans, right? Can that kind of combat ability really affect the order of human society?"

"But this is only the beginning!" Xie Antong said seriously.

"Power will only keep snowballing, and no one knows how many people like this exist in the world."

"The changes Chosen Paradise brought to the world overnight were drastic and irreversible."

"In the future, the people controlling this world may no longer be high-ranking officials and politicians, nor capital tycoons, but the most elite players."

"Just like the Chosen Game said, players would eventually possess this world."

Lu Ce: ...

"This video—did you record it yourself?"

"Did you upload it online? Or is this video currently available anywhere on the internet?"

Xie Antong shook her head. "No."

"My family has some connections, so I can get firsthand information from the internet."

"I actually saw some people trying to send out your video through the backend, but they were all deleted very quickly."

"This doesn't just mean your video was too graphic and someone died. It also means that the authorities have probably already noticed the person in the video."

"Top players are definitely strategic assets. The authorities, the country, all kinds of departments, and even various other forces must have been keeping an eye on them."

"Now that the friend system has been unlocked, there'll probably be team-based games in the future too. Just wait—before long, all sorts of strange factions will spring up like mushrooms after rain."

Xie Antong said a great deal. Lu Ce knew that her family background was probably far from ordinary, but he did not ask.

What he could be sure of, however, was that quite a few people and organizations were probably watching him already.

He just did not know how long the Sin Mask could keep him hidden.

"After all that talking, it's your turn to tell me the truth. I already told you that I'm a Chosen One too."

At the end, Xie Antong suddenly flashed a sidelong grin, leaned close, and whispered in Lu Ce's ear.

"You're sure you're a player, right? Knowing you, you probably didn't listen to my advice and joined the game anyway, did you?"

Lu Ce slowly pushed her away without changing expression. The classroom is so noisy that no one is paying attention to us, but can you not get so close...

Breathing into someone's ear is really ticklish.

"Yeah."

This time, Lu Ce did not deny it.

"Then what difficulty was your game instance?"

"...I forgot to check. Anyway, although people died in our game too, most of us survived..."

"There were casualties in your game too?!" Xie Antong was instantly startled, then looked Lu Ce up and down.

"Then that's good. Your luck was pretty decent."

"You were probably in a normal or hard instance."

"According to the intelligence I've gathered so far, the games in Chosen Paradise are roughly divided into four difficulty levels."

"Normal, hard, nightmare, and hell."

Hearing this, Lu Ce grew serious. Although he had personally experienced a hell-level game, because he had been participating in the game, he actually knew very little about the games as a whole or the circumstances of other players.

"Tell me more. Do you have any conclusions? What are the rough proportions of these different games?"