It consumed a teammate's life? Heh heh, could this even count as its game? If I'd known, should I have brought that guy "Life" instead?
"You call yourself Death—do you even have a life?"
Joy weighed a sandglass in front of it and chuckled as it looked at Death inside the Black Box beside it.
But Death showed no reaction whatsoever! It did not speak, nor did it even look over.
"Your teammates cannot hear you speaking."
At that moment, the Arbiter spoke at just the right time.
"In fact, their current state is much like death. They cannot hear or see; there is only absolute silence and darkness. The only difference is that you can still see them from outside."
"All of their lives are now in your hands, within the sandglasses before you."
As the Arbiter explained, the countless people in the audience kept shifting their gazes, looking at the twenty-five sandglasses on each side of the table.
Seeing that the number of sandglasses was the same, Xie Antong could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
When lives were converted into chips, she had initially worried that the other side would have an overwhelming number of chips while she only had a few.
But if that was the case... then something was wrong again!
Lu Ce becoming the chip had been based on the assumption that his life force was far greater than hers, so he should have had more chips. But if the number was fixed to be the same...
Then there seemed to be little point in having her sit at the gambling table...
This was Xie Antong's key to breaking the deadlock, and the core question she had been considering: why did she have to face Joy, or rather, why did Lu Ce