Qi Si had, in fact, considered the Minimum Death Quota mechanism.
During the third round of blackjack, after receiving the "10" and "A" cards, he had seriously considered whether he should evenly reduce the other Players' hands.
But in the end, he dismissed the idea.
Ever since dreaming of Hansen, he had been plagued by a strange feeling—so strange that he suspected that if he got all the other Players killed, things might become even more troublesome.
More importantly, the Instance had still not generated a main quest. Yet all the Players had subconsciously assumed that the main quest was to survive for three days, or to finish performing the three acts.
It was not entirely their fault for being so easily misled. Charlie had said, "Everything will end on the third day." The statement was highly suggestive, and with the Instance named Grand Performance, it was difficult not to associate the quest with the performance.
When Qi Si had asked Charlie, "When will the performance end?" he had also intended to mislead the other Players somewhat. But he had not expected the smokescreen he had woven to last this long.
Under the influence of some force, nearly all the Players had cast the main quest to the back of their minds, treating the script and participation in the game as their foremost priority.
One day per act, three days in total, three acts in total... Through conceptual substitution and psychological suggestion, the Players had gradually blurred the boundary between the script and the Instance, treating the two as one and the same.
The place on the system interface where the main quest should have been displayed was blank. Qi Si could not help recalling Dialectical Game, and could not help suspecting: Was he part of some existence's scheme?
When