Thanks to Mountain Lord and Tu Ge... and to Long Qi himself, his attempt to "slow the pace" was instantly ruined by the introduction of a terrible topic.
Moreover, the prolonged stagnation around the card table made it impossible for any casual conversation to continue.
The game inevitably shifted onto the fast track Mountain Lord had demanded.
The second round went far faster than the first... In fact, it took less than thirty percent of the first round's time.
After learning and adapting quickly, the two Extraordinary Species had grasped certain tricks. Their predictive abilities also far exceeded those of Long Qi and the others, to the point that midway through the game, they already knew there was no chance of accomplishing anything and simply demanded a restart.
Long Qi's scalp tingled, but he had no choice but to restart as instructed.
In the third round, the two Extraordinary Species immediately resorted to the most extreme methods, wreaking destruction and slaughter in search of an opportunity to destroy the "Basic Environment."
At first, Long Qi and the other order-aligned players still had some fighting spirit, determined to save the hundreds of millions of Lake City residents from the two demon kings of the Extraordinary Species. But after several rounds of high-speed confrontation, their energy was nearly exhausted.
By the fourth and fifth rounds... before midnight had even passed, everyone around the table was already slumped over in every direction.
Long Qi's ominous premonition had become reality. Once they learned how to restart the game, sleep became an impossible luxury for him. Others could collapse when they ran out of energy, but he, the one holding restart privileges, had become the waiter required to serve them throughout the whole ordeal. No matter how sleepy or tired he was, whenever Mora tapped