"Sir may indeed be the 'commander,' but isn't that way of putting it a little too unreasonable?" Gil remarked flatly.
"Why not be honest and tell us your true purpose directly?"
"My true purpose is to lead every Player who follows my orders through this game alive." Lu Li spoke slightly faster, sounding almost guilty as though he were trying to cover something up. "I can swear it to the Demon God!"
"The Demon God?" Gil sneered, completely tearing away the last layer of pretense as he spoke in a mocking tone. "That sounds very official. I suppose we really should trust you completely, then..."
"Of course. I'll definitely do everything I can to lead everyone through this alive!" Lu Li added, as though he had not noticed anything wrong with Gil's tone.
Gil did not continue speaking with Lu Li. Instead, he turned to address another patch of darkness. "Babayak, Glargong, haven't you realized it even now?"
"Will you stake your lives on following Li Yun's orders and wait for your survival points to hit zero?"
"Or will you pull the thin iron chain and preserve yourselves as much as possible?"
"The choice is yours!"
After saying that, the sound of a thin iron chain scraping came from the darkness where Gil stood.
Lu Li raised an eyebrow and mentally labeled this "random bystander" as an "instigator."
As for what answer the other side would choose, he already knew perfectly well.
Because without knowing the correct answer, if a Player chose to "betray" the commander and answered incorrectly, they could lose a full fifty points!
Yet if they remained "loyal" to the commander's instructions, even a wrong answer would cost them at most ten points.
For the sake of caution, they would definitely choose "loyalty."
At first glance, it