Final Accusation: Is Lu Ce the Target of the Game?

Jiu Tian inexplicably felt speechless. Why were these two reacting so differently from what he had expected?

Kolk abruptly stood up, paced two steps back and forth, then turned to look at Jiu Tian and said solemnly, "Mr. Jiu, thank you very much for your analysis and intelligence."

"With this, many things make sense now. It's cleared up my train of thought!"

Jiu Tian:?

Wait, were his words really that credible?

He believed him just like that? Without even considering it, without even wanting to know how he had reached that conclusion?

And why did he look happy? What train of thought had been cleared up? Shouldn't he be terrified instead?!

Jiu Tian was a little dumbfounded. All this time, he had thought Kolk was someone relatively easy to communicate with. Though arrogant, he was rational.

Why was he suddenly so hard to understand?

He subconsciously turned to look at Lu Ce and saw a disdainful expression appear on Lu Ce's Red Mask (lll￢ω￢). Lu Ce said as if it were only natural, "Isn't that obvious? Did you really need to say it?"

Jiu Tian:???

How the hell did you, a lunatic, figure that out?

Oh, no, that wasn't right. He had actually hoped to discuss this kind of question with a lunatic...

Jiu Tian was a little lost. When he himself had thought of this possibility, he had been terrified and worried for a long time.

Why did neither of them seem to care much?

That madman in the Red Mask was one thing, but why was Kolk like this too? Was there something wrong with his Chinese? Had he not fully understood what Jiu Tian meant?

For the time that followed, Jiu Tian sat numbly on the floor, occasionally glancing from side to side at his two big-shot teammates.

There was naturally no need to say anything about Lu Ce. Once he was full, he just slept, sprawled out flat like a total couch potato.

Except he was a couch potato with terrifying power inside him.

And now, his condition was getting worse and worse. Even lying on the ground, he would occasionally let out bursts of laughter and strange, sleep-talking-like sounds.

Jiu Tian even suspected that this guy was about to transform into Ultraman!

Kolk was not behaving himself over there either. He paced back and forth in the distance, his expression shifting between confusion and realization, muttering to himself all the while.

Jiu Tian was completely numb. He touched his own face, wondering whether he was the one with a problem.

According to Long Liu, players would ultimately remain here forever...

Had the two of them already gone mad?

:Why are they suddenly acting all mystical and weird? What does this mean?

:It really feels like they've both gone crazy. It's giving me chills just watching them. Two players with perfect clears!

:This... isn't going to end with a total wipe, is it? Jiu Tian should hurry up and run.

:Can't he just quit? If they really have a mental breakdown, they might not even be able to use their Exit Coins!

The viewers were gradually losing confidence as well, with all sorts of comments appearing one after another. The last remark in particular made Jiu Tian's heart clench.

Right. If they really went insane, they probably would not even be able to use their Exit Coins!

Lunch time has begun! All players, please begin the game!

As the announcement ended, Lu Ce launched himself up and rushed out to stuff his face. This time, however, Kolk did not move. He merely slowly walked over to Jiu Tian's side.

"I think we shouldn't continue this game. There's no food or water, and we've dragged this out long enough."

Jiu Tian looked at him in surprise, only to watch him speak to the robot nearby.

"Host, I've found who has the most severe illness."

Jiu Tian:?!

Oh? Please call me Great Tom! Tom turned his head. Who is it?

"We'll talk when he comes back. If he doesn't come in, the game can't proceed anyway."

With both hands in his pockets and a confident look on his face, Kolk watched Lu Ce's back at the end of the road as he feasted away.

Jiu Tian seemed to have realized what the other man intended to do. He was so shocked that he simply stood there silently.

Alright, player ahead, the game is paused. Please return to the initial room as soon as possible.

Lu Ce ate extremely quickly. Before long, he swaggered back in again.

But by then, his unstable energy had already reached its limit. Even with his physical constitution, he had reached the point where he would explode if he did not release it.

A huge smile covered the red mask as he walked step by step toward the doorway. The aura around him seemed to radiate an evil, strange distortion.

Kolk stood at the entrance, and the two faced each other from afar.

Yet when Lu Ce reached the doorway, he simply sat down cross-legged, only one step away from the door!

Red warning lights began flashing, warning Lu Ce to quickly enter the ward. If he did not enter the ward during game time, bad things would happen!

But Lu Ce's figure was drowned beneath that scarlet glow, utterly motionless.

"Player, please come in!"

Tom Cat reminded him, but Lu Ce still did not move, as though provoking something. The corners of his smiling mouth stretched wider and wider.

"I don't think that'll be necessary. Things have already reached this point. It's time for me to reveal the answer."

Kolk spoke directly, looking at Jiu Tian.

"Every time we ask a crucial question, the patients completely lose their minds. That must mean something."

"Jiu Tian, your information is good. You said these people in the back used to be players. I don't care what happened to them, but it matches my own situation, so it must be true."

"Because when I asked what you came here for, my patient went mad too."

"And from this information, we can see that the patients may spout nonsense, but they don't lie!"

"So what they said at the beginning might really have been true. They aren't sick! And there is no sickest person here."

"It is precisely because there is no sickest person that the former players were completely wiped out."

"So the normal way of thinking about the game doesn't work. Then, after eliminating every possibility, the most obvious thing has been right in front of us all along—you!"

As he spoke, Kolk raised his hand and pointed at Lu Ce outside the door, the corners of his mouth lifting.

"You are the objective of this mission! The sickest person!"

"But... the game said the sickest person in the asylum..." Jiu Tian hurriedly spoke up, wanting to refute him, but Kolk raised a hand to stop him.

"Nothing is impossible. Isn't he inside this asylum right now?"

"And as long as this premise holds, all of his actions become reasonable."

"He possesses strength and abilities far beyond those of ordinary players."

"He has always been insane, and he looks like he fits in perfectly with this asylum."

"He ate all the patients' medicine in order to keep them in a state of confusion."

"In a game with no food or water whatsoever, he chose to forcibly eat all those vile things, cutting off the last source of food and weakening us."

"He doesn't care about exit coins at all."

"The patients here are all terrified of him..."

At that point, Kolk let out a long breath, as if he had swept away every obstacle.

"The answer has always been obvious. Even the viewers say he's severely ill. This game clearly isn't complicated."

"It merely exploited the weaknesses of human nature."

"We took it for granted that he was a player. The viewers even said they had watched his game streams before, so we never considered..."

"That's right, the game told us from the very beginning..."

"Our relationship may be cooperation, or it may be competition!"

"In your Chinese proverb, it's called being blind to what's right under your nose!"

"Am I right?"

Kolk's hawk-like eyes locked onto Lu Ce outside the door as he spoke sharply.