Long Table Time-Making Nice

Generally speaking, participants who have gone through a life-or-death race to get into the conference room usually treat the audience's questions as a hard-won relaxation and a freebie, and answering them happily is their usual choice.

Even after surviving a near-death experience, participants may develop a strong affinity and psychological dependence on the supportive comments from a group of enthusiastic viewers.

Who the hell cares about how much the bounty is!?

The problem is that none of the three people present fully experienced the terrifying aspects of the funeral mission phase.

Originally, the participants were supposed to blend in with the people in white, do something like use offerings to attract their attention, and then quickly complete the selection, opening of the coffin, and placement of the coffin while they weren't fully focused on it.

During this time, the participants might be halfway out of the coffin when they are captured by the men in white. At this point, offerings are needed to buy time and to seal the coffin lid tightly before the offerings lose their effect.

In other words, newcomers without a foundation of sacrifices have no chance of survival in Death Parallel Line scenario, no matter how intelligent they are, they cannot succeed without the necessary resources.

This is the difference between the Differentiation Tier simulation and the previous simulations. It blocks the path of newcomers with its hardware strength. Those who can enter and still survive are those who have gone through multiple simulations, obtained several offerings through their strength, or accumulated points to buy offerings.

Being grabbed by the man in white, facing the constant threat of being torn to shreds, requires immense mental fortitude, both in terms of the precise escape required on the spot and the psychological strength needed to infiltrate the man in white and come into close contact with the ghost. This leaves the participants utterly exhausted.

But Yu Xing and the other two were not like that.

The audience thought for a moment and realized...

Zhao Yijiu skillfully evaded the ghosts, and when he lay down in the coffin, the people in white had just rushed into the mourning hall. He never showed any emotional fluctuations and did not seem afraid of being chased by ghosts.

Zhao Ruru saw nothing and experienced nothing, yet she was forced to complete the deduction, even though she was the most frightened of the three.

Yu Xing was unhurried and even had the interest to kick each of the bosses' coffins one by one. He didn't seem like someone who would be scared at all!

Judging from the outcome, Group One approach was perhaps the optimal solution and the only way to obtain the red fingernail from Liu Xue's coffin.

The problem is that doing this requires a series of interconnected strengths, and for most teams, the first thing they lack is a player like the "Brother Jiu" who can kite the hunter without taking damage.

Other teams don't have Brother Jiu or Yu Xing.

Even Zhao Ruru is actually very talented. Before the audience witnessed Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu's abilities, Zhao Ruru was the reason why people paid attention to this Group One. She is a very smart and calm girl.

Some people can't even rationally control their emotions among those in white coats, let alone cry freely.

In conclusion, Yu Xing 'Group One solved the optimal problem in the shortest time and also collected the hard-to-obtain red fingernails.

Then, the most crucial point for the audience is that they still have the energy and courage to pay attention to the price!

Zhao Yijiu answered the reposted question and then said, "Yes."

One word.

The chat was silent for a moment.

What does "yes" mean? Oh, he said his surname is indeed Zhao.

But how could a single "yes" have tricked the questioner out of 600 points?

All formal questions are protected by the system, and the answerer's answer must be approved by the system.

The system only recognizes two kinds of answers: one is "the truth," and the other is that the respondent used very clever techniques to deceive all the viewers, commonly known as lying.

If the system deems an answer to be a lie worthy of that many points, it will also accept that answer.

At this point, Zhao Yijiu clearly belongs to the first category, meaning he is Zhao family and someone the questioner cannot poach.

They couldn't dig it away... and they even paid 600 points.

Thinking about it suddenly makes me so angry.

Of course, the audience was angry on behalf of the questioner, angry for a second, and then spent the rest of their time laughing.

Yu Xing watched the barrage of laughter on the screen and, with great interest, caught a couple of swear words among them.

The person asking the question doesn't seem very bright.

If he were smart, he would have stopped when he showed that he "didn't care at all about his or Zhao Yijiu's image in the other person's eyes," so as not to waste his time.

They weren't afraid. If they couldn't get rid of the Zhao family, it meant that the other party was wary of the Zhao family, and therefore wouldn't cause trouble for such a trivial number as 600 points.

It could be said that Yu Xing's move was perfectly timed to a point that was frustrating yet didn't warrant immediate action, and it was precisely this situation that made it all the more infuriating.

Zhao Yijiu heard the system notification about the points being credited to her account, pursed her lips, and found it quite interesting.

So playing tricks on people is so much fun! No wonder Yu Xing always plays tricks on people.

After the first pitiful person was identified, everyone became much more cautious with their subsequent questions, offering a minimum price of 400 points and asking questions about the three of them.

For example, ask Zhao Yijiu what level of weapon is his short sword?

Zhao Yijiu said that the sacrificial offerings have not yet been tested and graded at the sacrificial offerings trading center.

It's an extension function of the offerings trading center. After advancing to Differentiation Tier, you can send your offerings to be graded so that the system can price them during transactions.

A transaction fee of 400 points is charged per transaction.

Those with abundant points will send their unsold offerings to be rated, in order to gauge the Absurdity System's approval of the offering. This way, even offerings that are usually considered useless will not be replaced when a new offering is needed if the system assigns them a high rating.

What if it turns out to be surprisingly effective one time?

Zhao Yijiu had never used this function, nor had Yu Xing.

The former might not be the case; Yu Xing was simply a combination of laziness and poverty.

First of all, unlike other divination users, he is far less dependent on sacrifices than average. His intellect and terrifying physical abilities alone are enough for him to deal with most crises. In fact, the only time he used his ability to avoid death was to cover up the healing process of his body.

Once people learned of the doll's existence, his resurrection was no longer an incomprehensible event; people would subconsciously fabricate a seemingly reasonable excuse for it.

That's laziness.

As for being poor, his savings had shrunk considerably after buying the original, and he couldn't afford to waste 400 points at a time.

Therefore, he has never classified his offerings to this day.

Zhao Yijiu's answer once again passed the system's verification with absolute truth, making the question setter feel uncomfortable... After that, the number of questions targeting Zhao Yijiu visibly decreased.

Zhao Ruru answered questions calmly and appropriately, revealing only what she could, and directly refusing to answer those that were difficult to answer, displaying a completely businesslike demeanor.

As for Yu Xing... some people asked if Yu Xing's overly beautiful face was created using points.

Yu Xing wanted to say yes, but the system wouldn't allow it. He could only regretfully deliver a blow to the questioner. "Sorry, I've looked like this ever since I reached adulthood. And look at me, sculpting me like this would probably be very expensive, wouldn't it?"

He wanted to speak properly, but his words sounded inexplicably sarcastic.

This isn't about the price.

Theoretically, any human face can be sculpted. However, since the face is a crucial element in identity verification, to prevent someone from using a deduction to change their face to evade enemies, and to prevent some people from using this convenience to do anything excessive in the real world that might attract attention and expose the existence of abnormal events on a large scale, the system imposes very strict restrictions on the exchange requirements in this regard, and it is very expensive.

You can only change 10% of the details, which means that no matter how much a person embellishes themselves, they can't escape the general framework.

This is just for normal people. If someone wants to change their appearance to something like a "god," "demon," "vampire," or "ghost"—a category that doesn't have a specific, definitive definition—the system will notify them that it's "completely impossible."

Coincidentally, Yu Xing does have a somewhat inhuman appearance.

Han Xinyi thought he was like a god, Xiao Xuechen thought he was like a demon, Xu Shu thought he was like a vengeful ghost.

This kind of appearance and temperament can't be bought or sold.

The person who asked the question became withdrawn.

With three minutes left before the twenty-minute time limit for the long table, Yu Xing picked up a disposable paper cup provided on the table and went to the coffee machine next to her to get a cup to drink.

The next second, a new question arose.

Celebrity predictors are given a privilege to use their full names when asking questions.

So, when the questioner's name was revealed, the live chat exploded again.

Yu Xing was also taken aback. He didn't know who was in their live stream room, and he didn't expect Xu Shu to come back.

Tsk.

Looking at the unusually high 2000 points, he examined the question with great interest.

Clearly, the question is a common one; at most, it deepens the understanding of this deduction and incidentally provides another basis for judging his thinking ability.

It's not worth 2000 points at all. If someone else asked this question, they would only get a maximum of 800 points.

Ke Xu Shu... she really goes all out to show goodwill.

Yu Xing remained skeptical of Xu Shu's motives, but since Xu Shu had already shown goodwill a second time, perhaps he realized that his initial probing approach had lowered Xu Shu's favorability, so he was making amends? In any case, he did find Xu Shu much more agreeable, and the excuse he used when he came to see him might not have been entirely a lie.

Although Xu Shu might not necessarily be looking for a vengeful ghost to sign a contract with, but rather has ulterior motives, he might genuinely see him as a ghost hidden in the real world. The things he did in the funeral hall certainly reinforced Xu Shu's belief in him...

Many thoughts flashed through Yu Xing's mind in an instant, but he suppressed them all for the time being and chose to accept them.

"It wasn't difficult to confirm that the coffin was the door. First of all, as I said, the mourning hall is the most special area, and also the most dangerous. I've thought that if there's an exit, it's either at the bottom of the well in the garden or inside the mourning hall."

Having received a hefty sum of 2,000 yuan, he explained in great detail, exuding an air of "I offer you excellent value for money, please come again next time."

He said, "I prefer to stay in the funeral hall, so my plan is to go in first and check it out. If I find anything unusual, then I'll start taking action. If everything is normal, I'll quietly leave within three minutes and terminate the plan."

"What initially made me suspicious of the coffin was the preparation time before entering the simulation phase."

Upon hearing this, not only did the comments section flood with question marks and exclamation marks, but Zhao Ruru also looked bewildered, and even Zhao Yijiu's eyes flashed with surprise.

Why so early?

Then, as if recalling something, the two suddenly realized a detail they had overlooked.

At the time, every participant in the live broadcast was trapped in a cramped box during the preparation period.

Just before the formal simulation began, their boxes were moved, swaying from side to side as they moved forward. The cramped space, where they couldn't find a good foothold and swayed from side to side, was exactly the feeling they had when they were being carried out of their coffins!

Yu Xing must have already connected the two, which is why she focused her suspicions on the coffin!

Frankly speaking, preparation time is rarely related to the actual simulation; most of the time, the two are unrelated, so few people would think of it.

But it's not without examples; if you really want to find examples, you can easily find several in screen recordings from the past few years.

Now that Yu Xing brought it up, everyone realized the details.

Yu Xing gave a brief explanation, then said, "So after I went in, I specifically checked the condition of the coffins and found that they were all in different states, so I settled on this idea."

"Aside from the five coffins that were claimed, three of the remaining coffins were moldy, and four had bloody handprints. And from the two coffins in the middle that belonged to Liu Bingxian and Liu Xue, it can be seen that the coffins correspond to their methods of death."

The audience spontaneously began to reminisce.

A lot of water flowed out from under Liu Bingxian's coffin, which corresponds to the fact that he drowned.

Liu Xue's coffin was covered with scratches from a paper cutter, indicating that she had committed suicide with a paper cutter.

The remaining three bodies don't mean they don't match up; it's just that the manner of their deaths wasn't mentioned in the first phase of the mission.

However, if this equation holds true, then the strategist can even deduce how they died based on the state of the coffin.

"Something unusual must be going on. The coffins with owners are clues, so the unclaimed coffins are the mystery." Yu Xing smiled. "This Absurd World wouldn't place meaningless things in such a special place as a funeral hall, so the coffins must be useful. Combined with my previous guesses, the answer is obvious."

"Where there's a puzzle, there's a reward. It's a little Yugi where you live if you guess right and die if you guess wrong. If you choose to enter the coffin with the bloody handprint, then being killed inside the coffin and leaving your bloody handprint on the coffin wall is the death ending."

"Compared to that, merely getting moldy seems too merciful. It might mean it has died of old age, and in any case, there will be no external interference; it's the ending of the game."