The bidding continued. Once they realized that the person with the fewest points might lose their qualification to form a team, the remaining newcomers with only one thousand points grew nervous and hurriedly joined the bidding.
Unfortunately, they ultimately could not compete with the veterans who had more points and could only be left as auction items for others to choose from.
The team arrangements were soon finalized. Dong Xiwen teamed up with a young white man named Lai Na'an, leaving the two of them with a total of 1,100 points.
A middle-aged man named Zhang Mo formed a team with a young woman named Qin Mu, also leaving them with 1,100 points.
Lin Ye teamed up with a young man named Fan Zhanwei, leaving them with 1,200 points.
Qi Si and Nian Fu had 1,100 points remaining, Ge Lin and Chu Xun had 1,700, while Chang Xu and Liu Yuhan had 1,000.
As expected, Chang Xu's team had the fewest points and became the so-called "tail wolf."
A middle-aged white man named "Cinderella" was left over, unable to form a team successfully.
His elimination was merely due to bad luck—he had simply been the last one to take the stage.
The moment all the other Players had formed teams, he understood his fate. He dropped to his knees before Qi Si on the stage, his voice trembling. "Please, I really don't want to die... My research is only one final step away. There are still thousands of people waiting for my medicine..."
He began rambling on about his contributions to society, throwing around all kinds of incomprehensible technical terms in an attempt to tell everyone how his research would benefit humanity.
Whether any of it was true did not matter.
Bringing up one's value in reality was enough to