"I'm not stupid. Why would I do something so strenuous and thankless?"
After Golbu finished his last sentence, the dark space fell silent once more.
This time, Babayak and Glargong did not "speak for Lu Li" again. They simply waited quietly.
Only after the countdown chime rang a few seconds later did Lu Li calmly explain his reasoning:
"Because you're getting desperate."
Desperate?
The three Goblins present were all stunned.
Golbu in particular.
Wrapped in darkness, he furrowed his brows tightly, as though facing a formidable enemy.
"The increasingly powerful punishment currents have made you desperate," Lu Li said leisurely.
"You're worried that if you keep blindly following my instructions, the escalating punishment currents will electrocute you to death."
"In that case, as the general, even if I can't answer every question correctly, I could still easily put you to death."
"You're worried that this is my strategy for dealing with enemies."
"That's why you decided to abandon your initial conservative strategy of 'waiting for a question you can answer correctly,'"
"and instead adopt the risky strategy of 'hoping for or inducing me to give an incorrect instruction, so that you can choose betrayal and gain survival points.'"
"Am I wrong?"
Golbu remained silent, but his expression had already turned exceptionally ugly.
It was far more than merely "not wrong."
Li Yun's analysis had practically dragged every dark thought in his heart out into the blazing sun!
He got everything right!
Indeed, Golbu was already getting desperate.
The punishment currents grew stronger each time, and he had no idea how much longer he could endure.
If this dragged on, waiting endlessly for a question he was guaranteed to get right might as well be replaced by taking a gamble!
Even when Li Yun guessed at random, he still had a