"You cheated!"
"Explain the principle of cheating..."
The results of the fourth round of the game have been settled.
You Ai suppressed his anger and tightly clutched the card in his palm. The lines on it were burned out by the heat of the energy that gradually heated up.
This is it again.
Before the game is officially started, the opponent already knows in advance which part of the rules it has modified and the effect is achieved by "explaining the principle of cheating" to win.
This made You Ai's mentality completely explode.
It stood up and stared at Life Throat, its crystal-like eyes filled with anger.
It never believes that the other party can see through the rules and logic of the "game space".
The rules are a self-contained system. Let alone mortal beings like the other party, even those who claim to be gods are not easy to decipher. The other party must have used an ability similar to "mind reading".
The moment it generates an idea, it has insight into its motivation in advance, rather than finding the answer from the rules and logic of the game space after it inputs the idea into the game space.
But even so, the other party's behavior still made it extremely angry.
Since its birth, it has never encountered such a difficult opponent.
You Ai's chilling voice sounded in Life Throat's mind in the form of spiritual communication.
"What despicable means did you use?"
Facing the inquiry, Life Throat leaned lazily on the back of the chair and looked at the furious You Ai calmly. A hint of Taunt appeared in his silver pupils. "Despicable? You are really good at talking. It's reasonable to cheat, right? Hurry up and do it."
You Ai heard this and sat down slowly with anger.
The game has started, and now it can't do anything to the opponent. If you kill the contestants early and end the game, you will be repulsed by the game space. With a wave of your hand, it disperses the cards on the gambling table, and then presents the prize.
Life Throat packs it into the space bag without hesitation.
Looking at the other person's eyes as if he wanted to eat someone, Life Throat felt that he had never been so happy in his life.
This is the confidence of being a player.
Unlimited Trial and Error's rights, the capital to break the restrictions of rules, can tear apart all established frameworks in the most ostentatious way.
No matter what rules and blessings you have, so what if you are a strong God Realm?
I can scold me if I want to, and I can be embarrassed if I want to, and no one can try to restrict me with rules.
With the support of High-Dimensional God, you can be resurrected if you die, and you can start over if you lose.
This unlimited error tolerance is the player's greatest asset.
This is also a happiness he has never experienced in his "previous life".
As a demigod in the past, although he had a little more confidence in walking in the world than ordinary creatures, he still lived in the shackles of survival.
One wrong decision may lead to an abyss of death.
But now that he is a player, he has completely bid farewell to the days when he was walking on thin ice.
They can run rampant unscrupulously, and with the abilities given by Guidance, Soul Repository, etc. from the camp, they can easily break the "inevitability" in the eyes of Council of the Underworld members.
This kind of happiness is hotter than winning ten Fate Game games.
Seeing You Ai's depressed look, Life Throat laughed heartily in his heart.
So cool, so cool!
The joy of cheating, the joy of breaking the rules, the joy of being a player.
The sum of these is simply thousands of times more enjoyable than the future he had imagined when he was young.
The boldest fantasy when I was young still had limitations caused by the environment.
But now, the wanton behavior gained after becoming a player is the true wildness that breaks free from all shackles.
This kind of happiness is like a belated rainstorm, washing away all the conventional days in the past.
When I was young, I looked at Fate Race and explored the partial map outlined by Monster World. I had fantasized about it thousands of times, but it was an unimaginable pleasure.
He feels that even if he is new to the game, he will have more fun and freedom than Demigod Realm.
"What are you still lingering on?" The evil wind surrounded Life Throat, and his eyes reflected You Ai's suppressed anger, which made him feel ridiculous. "You can't solve the problem by delaying time, so hurry up and start the next one?"
These words were like a sharp knife stabbing into You Ai's most fragile self-esteem. It suddenly raised its head and stared at Life Throat fiercely.
Then he raised his hand and pressed it, and a picture scroll suddenly appeared on the gaming table.
Light and shadow suddenly flowed, and a three-dimensional sand table map emerged from the scroll.
The blue-gray mountains lie across the center like a crouching dragon, with the top of the main peak covered with white snow. At the foot of the mountains is a light blue river, which meanders along the canyon and merges into a sparkling lake in the plain.
Dotted villages are scattered around the lake, and the smoke from cooking slowly rises in the form of energy light and shadow. Even the crops in the fields are clearly visible. The wheat fields outlined with golden lines are swaying with the energy flow of the sand table.
A purple haze appeared at the edge of the map, and a creeping black shadow could be vaguely seen inside.
At both ends of the sand table, there is a stone platform suspended in front of Life Throat and You Ai, and on the left is a stack of cards.
You Ai's cold voice sounded at this moment:
"In this round, we each rely on our abilities."
As You Ai's words fell, the specific information of this round of the game immediately appeared in Life Throat's mind.
The gameplay has become more complex than the previous mode.
The game is mainly played in the form of simulated war. Each round, both sides can draw five cards from the card pile.
Card types are divided into: combat units (1-10 stars), natural disasters, engineering buildings, event cards, trap cards, etc., a total of 28 card types.
Each round, both sides have 1,000 action points, and the use of each card consumes action points.
Among them, natural disaster type cards can only be used once per round.
The effect is to change the natural terrain, or cause damage in local areas that ignores both the enemy and ourselves.
For example, natural disasters and floods can destroy bridges, sandstorms can obscure vision, and meteorites can directly destroy everything within the coverage area.
Secondly, there are a large number of resource nodes on the map, which can be used to upgrade troops, improve the level of engineering buildings, and unlock technology. For example, by consuming 10,000 resource points, you can upgrade technology and draw one more card each round.
Each resource point is guarded by wild monsters, and both parties need to use their troops reasonably to occupy it.
The specific gameplay is that after drawing a card, both sides need to decide which troops to place in the vacant areas of the map during this round. The placement location must avoid the resource points and functional buildings occupied by the opponent. If the position of one's own troops is adjacent to the enemy's troops, a battle will be automatically triggered in the next round, and the side with the highest comprehensive strength value wins.
The losing unit's unit cards are directly invalidated, and the winning unit's units are damaged to a certain extent, but can be restored through functional buildings. The rules for capturing resource points are also quite clear. Just place your own units near the resource points. If there are no wild monsters in the area or enemy units are stationed, you can harvest the corresponding resources at the end of the round.
The condition for victory is to lead an army of your own troops to capture the opponent's camp crystal.
After understanding the game settings, Life Throat asked Guidance what the cheating principle used by You Ai was in this round of gaming.
But the answer was that You Ai did not cheat in this round.
Realizing that You Ai had completely given up on the idea of cheating to win, Life Throat was extremely calm.
He decisively activated the Brain Overclocking characteristic of the fifth Star Vein Slot.
Suddenly, the war sandbox suddenly slowed down in his eyes.
The energy trajectory flowing above became clearly visible, and every ray of light and shadow, and every map node information, seemed to be disassembled into countless information points and pieced together in the mind.
His senses can keenly capture the frequency of energy fluctuations on You Ai's body, and can even deduce You Ai's mood at the moment through the changes in frequency.
The ability to think logically improves rapidly, at the cost of frantically consuming mental energy every second.
But at this moment, Life Throat doesn't care.
If you turn it off, I will turn it on.
At the beginning of the game, five cards automatically appear in the card piles of both sides and are shown to the other side with their backs.
Life Throat turns on the Eagle Head Demon feature at this time.
Suddenly, the five cards You Ai with his back facing him appeared in his mind.
They are: Shadow Stab (three-star military card), Rotten Swamp Trap (natural disaster card), Siege Hammer (six-star military card), Arrow Tower (1-star functional building card), and blur (group amplification card).
Coupled with analytical scanning, he can clearly know the specific function of each card.
This is where the game begins.
This is destined to be an unfair game.
You Ai gave up cheating, but Life Throat chose to use cheating to deal with this round of challenges.
With the help of Eagle Head Demon+ analysis function, You Ai is clear about the whole process, and every step is clearly visible in Life Throat's eyes.
As the game progresses, the resource nodes on the map are continuously occupied by Life Throat.
After drawing the card again, You Ai could Quantization's fingers hover above the card, hesitating to the point where he could not even decide what to do next. The originally carefully constructed tactics were unable to pose a threat under Life Throat's almost predictable suppression.
Whenever it tried to mobilize its troops, the opponent's front had already cut off its advance route in advance, or even set up an ambush in advance.
When it wanted to launch a natural disaster to reverse the situation of the war, the troops in Life Throat's hands had already predicted in advance and quickly evacuated.
When it wanted to use the "event card" to carry out a sneak attack, the engineering and construction card had already built defenses at the key positions it locked, causing its sneak attack to lose a lot of troops.
In the eyes of You Ai, the situation on the sandbox is like a slowly tightening net.
Every time it struggles, the circle set by Life Throat becomes tighter.
The resource points on the war sandbox will be partially eroded at the end of each round, but Life Throat's attack advances steadily like a tide, without finding any flaws and giving it no chance to counterattack.
I have tried every method, to no avail.
This made You Ai feel a chill in his heart.
It also confirmed the previous conjecture.
The other party has the ability to read minds and can know what it is thinking.
This resulted in the opponent clearly controlling the rhythm of the war.
For example, when it is preparing to fight to the death, the opponent's troops suddenly retreat, and various arrangements are tempting it to waste precious mobility. This is not a game at all, but a unilateral suppression.
The energy fluctuations dissipating from You Ai's body surface became violent during this period. It had never experienced such a suffocating sense of oppression in a strategic game. All its intentions were known in advance, and the opponent seemed to be standing in a higher dimension, easily judging its every step of the layout. The light and shadow of the sand table reflected on the blurred face, You Ai was unable to take the next step.
The countdown also ends at this time.
With a strong sense of frustration, You Ai wasted a round of layout.
Life Throat still calmly dropped cards one after another. After consuming all his mobility, he looked at it with a smile, and then turned his eyes to the camp crystal suspended in front of it.
At this moment, You Ai's mentality completely collapsed.
It knows that it has lost this round, and it will be useless to struggle any longer.
Most of the resource output points on the map have been occupied by the opponent. At this stage of the situation, the opponent can easily win by pushing through the obtained resources.
There is no point in continuing.
"Don't give up, what if you win?"
Life Throat encouraged at this time.
Facing Life Throat's provocation, You Ai was filled with anger, but had nowhere to vent it.
The army of Life Throat has also advanced to the vicinity of the camp crystal, and the end of this round basically declared its failure.
A new round begins.
Facing You Ai's almost giving up attitude, Life Throat suddenly smiled, stretched out his hand and lightly slid his fingertips on the card pile.
The next round of card drawing was over, and among the five cards in front of him, there was a large-scale natural disaster card Meteor Shower.
But what makes You Ai unbelievable is that this card was actively shown to it by Life Throat, and then casually thrown into the discard pile.
You Ai's eyes suddenly shrank.
Life Throat ignored its surprise and slowly played a one-star "Scout" and placed it in the wasteland far away from the resource points. That position had no access to the village or shop, and it could neither defend the main road nor occupy the resources. It was a stupid move that wasted mobility.
Immediately afterwards, Life Throat used his remaining mobility to take a picture of a "Raging Hurricane" natural disaster card. This card was supposed to be used to clear the enemy's natural disaster cards, but he chose to cover the iron ore resource point he had just occupied, which was equivalent to actively cutting off the supply line of his own troops.
The situation on the sandbox suddenly showed flaws.
You Ai stared at the iron mine shrouded by the hurricane, and then at the lone scout in the wilderness. The frustration in his chest was replaced by confusion. "It's your turn."
Life Throat's behavior is undoubtedly a naked humiliation in You Ai's opinion.
But it still suppressed its anger and began to make arrangements according to the rules of the game.
As the game progresses, unexpected situations for You Ai continue.
In the new round, Life Throat deliberately skipped Optimal Solution in the card drawing phase, leaving "Technology Breakthrough" that could upgrade the unit unused. Instead, he played a waste card "Herdsmen Migration", causing the two legions at the edge of the map to disappear out of thin air, and losing two potential resource points.
The next series of actions are all about breaking one's own arms.
Give up a great advantage.
It watched Life Throat continue to "commit" low-level mistakes, watched its own resources that had been eaten away bit by bit recover, and watched the opponent's military line gradually retreat due to supply shortages. The originally airtight encirclement revealed gaps in the opponent's deliberate retreat.
When it finally mustered up the courage to mobilize its remaining troops and charge towards Life Throat's camp crystal, the expected interception did not appear. This made You Ai realize that the other party seemed to want to give it a chance to start over.
Then humiliate it severely by winning again.
But You Ai did not let go of such an opportunity.
However, the process did not go as it expected. When the situation became evenly matched, Life Throat continued to give up resources and territory. Until the Siege Hammer it photographed hit the camp crystal in front of Life Throat, and with a crisp cracking sound, the game ended.
"It's not easy, you finally won a round." Life Throat grinned, the Taunt in his eyes undisguised.
You Ai froze in place, looking at the camp crystal that turned into Liu Guang and dissipated, but there was no joy in his heart from victory.
The opponent could easily win this round of chess, but like teasing prey, he pushed the victory in front of him step by step.
This kind of victory that is given away is more embarrassing than a complete defeat.
Life Throat didn't seem to notice its expression, a trace of amusement flashed in its silver pupils:
"This strategy game is really boring. Let's start the next round quickly."
Seeing You Ai's embarrassed expression, Life Throat felt something special in his heart.
At this time, You Ai had already torn Life Throat into pieces countless times in his heart.
The next four rounds of chess started a similar cycle.
The sixth round was rune deciphering. The opponent saw through the nine-layered rune maze laid out by it, but when he was about to win, he betrayed him again.
After letting your rune layout be broken through layer by layer, take the initiative to give hints and flaws, so that it can win along the sure-win route. The seventh round of the game is an evolutionary game, in which both parties need to use energy to outline designated life forms for confrontation.
In this round, the opponent outlined a large number of powerful monsters in the early stage, but when they were about to win, they began to outline some birds pecking the rice, small snakes entwining... which is to store the power of evolution and not use it again.
Until it can break through layers of defense and complete a desperate comeback.
Watching the army he had outlined complete the horizontal push, You Ai felt as if the energy core (heart) in his body was pressing down on a huge mountain, and he was panicking. The eighth and ninth rounds... the opponent's layout was like a scalpel, always able to accurately cut through the layers of defense laid out by it, but it always stopped suddenly when it encountered victory, and instead actively exposed the "flaws" leading to failure.
Just like a wild animal catching its prey, it suddenly lets go and plays with it to let it go.
You Ai won the whole body and was trembling. He had never felt so aggrieved.
It looked at the calm appearance of Life Throat, and the smiling eyes of the other party seemed to tell it: The victory or defeat of you and me all depends on my thoughts. At the end of the subsequent four rounds, You Ai won a total of five rounds of the game.
This means that You Ai has completely won the game.
It stood up suddenly and stared at Life Throat fiercely:
"Now, you are going to die."
You Ai's voice was filled with anger, the energy around him suddenly surged, and the shadow behind him completely unfolded.
The ripples of the resonance ability burst into a sharp buzzing sound, pointing directly at Life Throat's throat.
Although he won the final victory in a humiliating way, he is now the winner and has the right to deal with the loser.
The killing intent surging in its eyes could no longer be concealed.
I just want to tear up the joking face in front of me as soon as possible.
Life Throat just raised his eyelids lazily, without even a trace of ripples in his silver pupils:
"Please."
As he spoke, he raised his hand to brush away the non-existent wrinkles on his robe, and his tone was as relaxed as if he didn't care about death at all.
This made You Ai completely lose control of his emotions.
I wanted to use death threats to force out the fear in the other party's heart so that I could take a breather from the suffocation.
Even just seeing him panic for a moment can calm down the pent-up anger and surging emotions.
But Life Throat's calm appearance was like a basin of ice water poured down on him, causing You Ai's rising murderous intention to be instantly mixed with more irritable emotions. "Shut up!"
You Ai's roar turned into Spirit Ripple, piercing into Life Throat's sea of consciousness.
The energy gathered at the fingertips Quantization turned into a pitch-black spear, stabbing Life Throat's heart with a sharp roar that tore apart the space.
It saw clearly that the opponent did not dodge, or even mobilize any energy defense, and just faced death straight up.
The moment the spear penetrated the body, blood spattered, and Life Throat's body began to disintegrate from the wound like broken glass, eventually turning into black mist and drifting away.
But before it completely dissipated, there was still that unbeatable smile on his lips.
After the black fog cleared, the power of the rules of the game space began to operate.
In addition to the rule-derived energy that is constantly pouring into the depths of space, there is also a group brand that is slowly generated.
The brand is circular in shape, with a burning flame in the center.
The effect of ethnic branding is that it can lock the ethnic group of the loser in the game, and only needs to complete the killing logic to obtain an innate ability of the other ethnic group.
As more and more tribes are harvested, the life forms of their Council of the Underworld members are also constantly evolving.
This ability is similar to a rule ability of Combat Insectoids, but the process is very cumbersome and cannot be directly evolved through combat and pheromone collection like the Zerg.
You Ai stretched out his hand to pick up the ethnic brand suspended in front of him, and suddenly the game scene collapsed. It habitually looked up at the swirling space channel above.
Immediately afterwards, dozens of faint blue blurry figures appeared around it.
"Let's go and start the genocide operation."
The leader of the tribe looked at You Ai and said in a deep voice.
The 86 tribesmen who arrived are members of the Council of the Underworld "Slaughter Group".
And it is a member of the game gaming group.
Different groups have different divisions of labor. Every time a member of the game group wins the final victory in the game, the combatants of the killing group will receive a notification and come to meet the members of the game group.
Then they went to the targeted ethnic group together and started a massacre.
Complete the reward tasks given by the game space.
Faced with the urging of the clan members, You Ai did not activate the clan brand, but said in a solemn tone:
"Wait, I have a bad feeling."
The figure who just started the game with it appeared in its mind.
The victory of letting go, the deliberate humiliation, and even the calmness of dying, all seemed to it to be planned.
The five rounds of victory it won may be due to the knife that the opponent personally handed to it. The moment it stabbed it with its own hands, it truly fell into the opponent's trap.
Looking back on the game just now, it seemed that the other party was deliberately trying to lure him into launching a massacre plan.
For this reason, he even used his own life as bait.
Various thoughts intertwined in You Ai's mind.
It speculates on countless possibilities.
Maybe there is no danger at all, but I just think too much.
The opponent in the game just now happened to be tired of the cruel competitive environment of Monster World, and was unwilling to continue living, so he chose to end his life in this way.
But it is also possible that the other party is eyeing the "game space" rules in their hands.
In this way, I want to allow my tribe to successfully locate the specific Spatial Coordinates where the game space is located.
The opponent has almost perfect insight and can know what he is thinking through mind reading. Is it really easy for him to get the chance to threaten his own group?
Thinking of this, You Ai felt uneasy.
What makes it even more suspicious is the calmness shown by the other party when facing death.
This is by no means a disguised calmness, but an almost indifferent calmness, as if he is not afraid of death at all.
Looking at this information together, perhaps the generation of "ethnic imprint" was part of the opponent's calculations from the beginning.
Use failure in the game to cover up the deeper purpose.
It cannot determine the specific reason, but can only confirm that every step of the other party is deliberate.
The previous series of behaviors are like a carefully woven trap net.
The tribesmen around him were still urging him, but You Ai's thoughts became clearer.
If the other party dares to use his life as bait, he must have something to rely on.
Compared with temporary evolution, the survival foundation of a group is obviously more important.
Having made his thoughts clear, You Ai immediately said in a deep voice:
"Give up the killing plan. I can't see through the opponent. Since I can't judge the logic behind the opponent's abnormal behavior, giving up is the safest choice." After saying this, You Ai mapped the game process just now in the minds of the tribesmen around him in the form of mental projection.
After the other tribesmen learned the details, the temporary killing reserve team was disbanded.
The generated ethnic brand is thrown into the crushing pool and re-decomposed into rule-derived energy.
One hour later.
The figure of Life Throat appears in the resurrection of Colorful Mist Coast space Teleportation Point.
After the white light on the body surface dissipated, Life Throat turned to look at Guidance beside him:
"Brother Guidance, are there any members of Council of the Underworld coming with you?"
In the initial contact with Council of the Underworld, he activated the card BUG plan.
The plan is to repeat the failure experience of the previous player.
According to information recorded on the forum, the player who entered the game space at that time was defeated by strength in a game with members of Council of the Underworld. After being killed, the plot line was interrupted.
But the strange thing is that when he searched for relevant information about Council of the Underworld on the forum, he found that a competitive party player mentioned that he met members of Council of the Underworld in Ancient God Arena.
Based on the posting time and the number of wins of Council of the Underworld members, it can be inferred that the approximate time point when Council of the Underworld members entered the ancient god space was just after the player who lost the game died.
It all points to an answer.
Council of the Underworld successfully activated the "ethnic brand" and led the tribe to start a massacre plan.
But the members of Council of the Underworld obviously could not enter Emperor's Tomb Village or other Newbie Village nodes, but were sent directly to Ancient God Arena. After analyzing the cause and effect, he came up with the idea of a BUG.
Participate in the game as a player, use the final failure to generate a clan brand for Council of the Underworld in compliance with the rules and logic, and let Council of the Underworld start the massacre.
Next, members of Council of the Underworld can be sent in batches to Ancient God Arena and even other dangerous areas.
In this way, Council of the Underworld's combat power will be continuously consumed until the game space rules are finally won.
Facing his inquiry, Guidance slowly opened his eyes and glanced at him:
[No.]
"It seems like you went too far."
For this result, Life Throat has psychological expectations.
The process of cheating was so exciting. He stepped on You Ai under his feet and rubbed it in the most arrogant manner. The whole process was unscrupulous.
From blurting out "You're cheating" before the game was officially launched at the beginning, to his arrogant attitude when deliberately cheating later on, he didn't hide it at all. He clearly wrote "I'm kidding you" on his face.
Thinking of this, Life Throat felt a little helpless and a little funny.
At that time, I was focused on enjoying the pleasure that only a player can have, and I couldn't stop at all.
It was obviously this series of actions that caused You Ai to become suspicious and believe that he had a secret conspiracy, so he simply gave up the subsequent massacre out of caution.
His first attempt ended in failure.
But the trip was not without success.
He personally contacted and investigated the relevant information of Council of the Underworld, and also confirmed that the disguise plan was indeed feasible.
Secondly, after winning four rounds of the game, four resource rewards were obtained.
Next, he only needs to summon his clan members to start consumption actions in turn.
The aura disguise will inevitably be discovered one day, and then Council of the Underworld members will definitely have countermeasures to deal with it.
For example, strengthening the vital sign detection mechanism and breaking the aura disguise when they enter.
But he has plenty of ways to continue pretending.
For example, Monster Soul pattern.
Each Monster Soul has a life form.
Entering with different Monster Soul forms will show completely different life characteristics in the game space.
By activating the Black Armored Snake Soul form, the player's body will transform into a completely black Black Armor Snake.
Switch to Eagle Head Demon Monster Soul form, and it will grow fiery red wings.
In addition to changing the appearance, these Monster Soul forms can also confuse the detection mechanism of Council of the Underworld's vital signs.
Council of the Underworld will only be wary of a single individual life form, and cannot see through hundreds of completely different life characteristics.
Unless the business is closed down, the disguise plan can continue.
He will let his clansmen take turns to join the battle, and each clan member will use a different Monster Soul form each time to participate in the game in the most clumsy way.
They are required to produce the most "difficult" rounds of victory, but the final result must be that the members of Council of the Underworld win the game. The population of Council of the Underworld is not large, and they are following an elite training route, and their combat power will be quickly consumed during this period.
As for them, death only takes one hour to cool down.
Then return to Teleportation Point to resurrect, and change to Monster Soul form again.
This time it's Black Armor Snake, next time it's Eagle Head Demon, and next time it's Stone Gargoyle... As a player, the last thing you care about is your life.
The accumulated wasting actions will cause Council of the Underworld to suffer heavy losses in combat power.
Once all the Monster Soul forms have been blacklisted, you can find a way to let the Monster World tribesmen who have received the instructions enter the field according to their own Guidance to complete the final harvest.
The early consumption is also to allow the tribesmen who are lucky enough to advance to the game space more smoothly. War inevitably involves the risk of death.
The lives of clan members who have not obtained player qualifications are much more important than those of Council of the Underworld members.
To clarify his thoughts, Life Throat calls up the guild chat channel:
"Colorful Mist Coast space, gather!"
A series of replies suddenly popped up in the channel.
"Master, I am conquering the key nodes of Quicksand Dungeon. I will not participate in this gathering."
"Master, I have discovered a civilization ruins in the Broken Sand Spear area, and I am trying to crack it. I am about to make a fortune. Can you not join the group? Among the replies from the tribe, only a few said they would come as soon as possible, and the rest of the tribe said they were busy.
Faced with the shirking from the tribesmen, Life Throat's forehead veins throbbed.
He decisively resorted to the most effective threats:
"Stop talking nonsense, I'll give you two hours to gather. If anyone doesn't come, the internet will be disconnected for a week."