Watching the wonderful drama of violent swords and swords presented by 54 players in the four theaters, the audience was full of interest, as if watching a group of little ants struggling to grab a mouthful of candy first, and the audience with countless candies felt self-conscious. Countless experts waited and obtained great psychological satisfaction.
Fortunately, the organizer stepped in before the conflict between the southern and western theaters developed to the reduction of staff. It was a pity to reduce staff now. It was more valuable to leave them at the next level. So, the eerie and weird voice sounded again:
"Hehehe, all the warriors are really energetic, so let's immediately start the long-awaited third level. Let's play a game of Monopoly, okay? Friendly reminder, we must hurry up and play the game actively. Otherwise, the place you stay will fall together, hehehehe…"
In the harsh laughter, a huge white curtain fell from the sky above the stage of the theater, blocking the entrance of the passage.
The large curtain behind the surrounding stands was slowly pulled apart from the middle to the sides. The iron plate that was originally used as a closed wall dropped ninety degrees and lay flat from a vertical state to become a balcony without guardrails.
As the iron plates continued to fall, the players in the theater stepped forward involuntarily and were able to see the outside world.
A vast lake could be seen outside the balcony. There was a central island in the middle of the lake. The balcony and the central island where the contestants were staying were connected by lotus leaf-shaped green round piers.
The most noticeable thing was that the balconies and players in the other three rest areas appeared in the other three directions of the lake. So far, the 54 players who survived the battle of kings finally met each other.
Although across the wide lake, you could only see the shaking figures from a distance, it wasn´t a big problem. As long as the players turn around, they could see the clear close-up images of the players on the other balconies as the appeared in the white curtain below the stage.
Xia Ruize swept across the three split screens on the big screen, sighed slightly, and put away the inexplicable loss.
According to Xiao Jinlong, he and the teammate he met on the field mission were regarded as the same group of newcomers, and there may be opportunities to meet in the mission world.
Although knowing that the probability was small, Xia Ruize had been expecting it from the bottom of his heart, but unfortunately, now all the contestants have appeared, and this expectation had to wait until the next mission world.
Just when the players were confused, some colorful leaflets were suddenly scattered on the top of the theater. The players grabbed one and picked it up. It was the rule of the third level Monopoly.
The rules of the game, densely written on a piece of paper, made a few muscular men feel irritable, and wished to find a class representative to sum up the full text of black tadpoles concisely.
Xia Ruize read the rules of the game. When entering the mission world, the main god probably directly solved the problem of communication between the trialer and the natives. In these two worlds, whether it was the ancient battlefield or the future technology, Xia Ruize had not encountered a problem with communication.
Not this time either. He recognized all the words on the leaflet, but when connected, there was a lot of malice in it.
This leaflet was issued according to the number of players. Each leaflet had a number on the back. When the player picks up the leaflet, they would get a fixed number.
The so-called Monopoly game was even more complicated and malicious.
In the first round, the last numbered player in the four theaters in the south, east, and northwest stood up and fought randomly with each other.
In the theater where the winner was located, the player who gets the number 1 can choose to walk on the lotus pier between 4 and 6 steps. In the theater where the loser was located, contestant No. 1 can only choose to move forward between 1 and 3 steps. If the players in charge of the fight get a tie, both sides would not be able to move.
In the next second round, the second-to-last player in each theater would be responsible for the battle and determines the number of steps taken by the first player in each theater.
This cycle continues, the players take turns fighting from back to front according to the queue number, and the cycle continues until player number 1 reaches the central island or was out…
After that, the players in the battle would continue to fight, and the next player from the front began to move forward on the lotus pier.
Looking at the rules at a glance, wouldn't the players with the highest ranking take advantage?
In fact, there were already players with the lower numbers trying to change numbers with other players.
Xia Ruize looked at the number 5 in his hand, and then at the lotus piers, realizing that the situation was not as simple as the surface.
Because what punishment or reward each lotus pier represents was completely unknown at present. It was completely dependent on the players with the highest numbers to find the way. It was not a good thing that the numbers were too high.
Moreover, after the previous players successfully landed on the central island, they would also enter a rotation battle sequence, and then they would need to fight for their teammates.
That's right, under such rules, with the theater as a unit, the players in each theater were forced to bind together and become teammates.
Although it was unclear whether these teammates would pit or help each other, even the serial number of the battle was fixed, making everyone's previous behavior of vying for the leader of the team seem like a joke.
What was the use even if you grab it? Nothing could be decided, and it had no real effect at all.
He had to say that the organizers were really full of maliciousness towards the players.
Xia Ruize, who had no real feelings at all for the lead, just messed up the water, naturally there was no fluctuation in his heart, but the complexions of Cloris and Ivanov were not so good-looking.
Especially Cloris, who had gathered the four players who followed him for a small meeting.
Xia Ruize was much simpler. He just sincerely hoped that before his turn to the lotus pier, the heroic and reliable teammates in front could help to find out the meaning behind all the lotus piers.
Without giving the players much time to communicate, a moving board appeared on the balcony of each theater. The host's gloomy voice was full of schadenfreude, and the player with the last number in each theater was asked to board the moving board.
As a result, the No. 14 in the East Theater, the No. 9 in the South Theater, the No. 16 in the West Theater, and the No. 15 in the North Theater had to stand up, step on the moving board, and wait to be randomly divided into groups to fight.
But was it really random to fight in groups?
of course not!
This was another way for the organizers to earn money. They would open up voting opportunities so that spectators outside the venue could influence the games inside the venue.
There were three grouping possibilities for the four players, and the corresponding voting system would be opened before the official match.
The audience voted for the players they like or hated with the votes they exchanged for real money, to decide whether the player they were aiming at were against a weaker opponent or a stronger opponent.
This kind of interactive session fully mobilized the enthusiasm of the audience. The organizers tried their best to make money while tossing the players.
But the audience was expecting this kind of interactive session. After watching the performances of the contestants in the first two levels, the audience will more or less have "loved" or disliked contestants, they could personally control the fate of these people. Wasn´t it exciting?
Unknowing players had just stepped onto the mobile board, and the organizer's voting system had quickly rolled over. A large amount of money had been poured into it, and it had been replaced by the voting ratio of three different match results.
In order to extend this wealth harvesting link, the organizer even shamelessly controlled the four moving boards to rotate around the venue, allowing the players in the four theaters to see the players who were going to participate in the competition from close range. After a lap of the show, the four moving boards were sent to the central island.
At this time, the results of the backstage match between the organizers had come out, and the four players were sent to both sides of the island by two. Among them, West Theater No. 16 and East Theater No. 14 were playing against each other, and South Theater No. 9 and North Theater No. 15 were playing against each other.
The area of the central island was very large, that was to say, the combat area provided to the players was also very large, and it would not restrict the players' performance at all.
The battle on the island would also be broadcast on the screens of various theaters in real time. Therefore, the huge screen was divided into five pieces to show the situation of the two battles and the other three theaters.
The host excitedly announced the start of the first game.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the host's gloomy voice fell, something unexpected happened.
Contestant No. 16 in the Western Theater directly announced his voluntary surrender, so that a game was over before it actually started.
The choice of player No. 16 in the Western Theater shocked the other players, and also made the face of player No. 1 in the Western Theater dark. Wasn't it just a fight? deliberately dropping the connection when such cooperation was needed?
The failure of their theater meant that he could only go forward 3 steps at most. If the number of lotus piers was the same, he needed to walk one more round than others. wasn't it a pitfall for him?
But the action of player No. 16 in the Western Theater had inspired other players. If everyone could cooperate harmoniously and friendly with each other, you win once and I win once. Wouldn't it be possible to pass the third level with the least losses?
But was it really possible?
The deeply inspired player No. 15 of the North Theater also directly asked the player No. 9 of the South Theater opposite to admit defeat, but the player No. 9 of the South Theater was unwilling.
What he thought in his mind was that the number of players in the Southern Theater was already small. After the previous players arrived at the central island, whether he was in the bottom line or not would need to rely on the first few players. Now he was lazy and his teammates will be too lazy to cheat him.
More importantly, there was a big abnormality in their South Theater. In order to gather strength to fight the abnormality, he couldn't show the attitude of not cooperating with other teammates.
Therefore, the No. 15 contestant of the North Theater and the No. 9 contestant of the South Theater, who failed to reach an agreement, fought. You shot a shot, and I fired a protective shield to block the shot, and then I shot you too… The two of them were far away from the obstacle. After shooting several times, it was discovered that apart from consuming the energy of the protective shield and causing some obstacle losses, it did not pose a threat to the opponent's players. This was not the way to continue.
Laser guns were very energy intensive. If energy was consumed by this kind of fruitless behavior, then it was very passive. No one wanted to do such a stupid thing.
However, facing the threat of the laser gun from the other side, no one was willing to take the risk to narrow the distance between the two sides, so the battle was stuck here. After three minutes of inactivity, the host read the countdown to the tie.
At this time, the two players on the field suddenly realized that if there was a tie, the two theaters would not be able to move forward in this round, and a chance was wasted in vain.
In the entanglement of saving oneself and fighting for the team, the countdown reached 0. The host announced that the South and North theaters had a tie in this round, and the No. 1 contestant of the East and West theaters could advance on the lotus pier.
The No. 1 contestant of the East Theater was the cool red-haired young man who mocked Cloris before, because he could walk 6 steps, his face had a triumphant smile.
Xia Ruize thought for a while, and proactively reminded: "The punishment measures corresponding to each step are unknown. Be careful."
"I know, I know, you´re really wordy."
The red-haired boy didn't get close in the previous team battle. He was a unique faction and had a very personal character. Now he was very impatient with Xia Ruize's reminder. He casually replied, and immediately jumped onto the lotus pier. He quickly jumped 6 steps and stopped steadily on the sixth lotus pier.
But the next second, the sudden change occurred, the lotus pier suddenly sank, as if disappearing, the red-haired boy stepped on the air and fell into the water accidentally.
The onlookers screamed involuntarily.
But what was even more surprising was still behind. They saw the red-haired boy falling into the water trying to climb onto another lotus pier nonchalantly at first, but within two seconds, he seemed to be dragged down by something under the water. There was no sign of any more waves and struggles in time.
The ripples on the water surface swayed round, and it didn't take long for it to completely restore calm, and it was completely invisible that a life had just been swallowed.
Everyone was silent, and watched as the lotus pier that had just disappeared suddenly floated up from the water. It was clearly a fresh and energetic green lotus pier. The players looked at it as if they were looking at a terrifying mutant creature.
After hesitatingly accepting the fact that the East Theater No. 1 player had been eliminated, the four theater players all turned their attention to the West Theater No. 1 player. As the loser of the West Theater, he needed to pick between 1 and 3 steps forward.
To be honest, the No. 1 player in the Western Theater didn't want to choose any!
In the urging sound of the host, the Western Theater No. 1 contestant finally reluctantly chose to take two steps forward.
When he stood still, the lotus pier under his feet also sank and disappeared. The Western Theater No. 1 player was shocked, and the onlookers were also shocked. Was it a trap for one step?
Fortunately, different from the East Theater No. 1 contestant, the Lotus Pier immediately floated up again this time. From beginning to end, the West Theater No. 1 contestant's shoes were not exposed to water, and a line of characters was displayed in the center of the new Lotus Pier:
[Reward: Two steps forward.]
Contestant No. 1 in West Theater:? ? ?
Can he not have this reward?
The answer was obviously no, he had to take another two steps forward cautiously.
This time, on the sinking and floating lotus pier, a line was written:
[Punishment: Stop going forward for one round.]
Although it was a punishment, the Western Theater No. 1 player involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief, and directly turned to the Western Theater No. 15 player and yelled, asking him to surrender to the end of the battle. Anyway, even if he wins, he couldn't move forward. It was better to simply give up and save strength.
So far, the first round of Monopoly was finally over. Whether it was a player who was forced to fight or a player who was watching the whole process, the little heart couldn't help but be shaken. The test of this round was really too dark, there were traps everywhere, and it was impossible to guard against it.
The players from the South Theater and the North Theater watched the end of the No. 1 player in the East and West Theaters. They were still complaining in their hearts that the last player in their team did not work hard, but now they feel that fortunately it was a draw. They didn't have to go this round and were able to watch other people's experience first.
After the end of the first round, the second round began immediately. This time, the second-to-last player in each theater row was picked up by the mobile board and played pairwise.
After voting by the audience, the competition group was the East Theater No. 13 vs. West Theater No. 15 and the South Theater No. 8 vs. North Theater No. 14.
The No. 15 player in the Western Theater gave up immediately after the start of the game, and he did not even give him the chance of a draw just two seconds later for the player No. 13 in the East Theater who shouted "give up".
Contestant No. 13 in the East Theater was the contestant that like player No. 1 who just had an accident, was also a player acting alone.
Witnessing the accident of player No. 1 gave him a sense of crisis. Who said that teaming was useless? It was still useful, at least it was not easy for the same team to cheat each other. After thinking about it clearly, he decided to take the initiative to approach Cloris, who had the largest number of recruits.
The No. 2 player in the East Theater who was about to set foot on the Lotus Pier was exactly the one in the Cloris team. Therefore, the No. 13 player in the East Theater prepared to discuss with the No. 15 player in the West Theater to reach a tie, so that the No. 2 player in the East Theater didn´t need to make a decision.
It was a pity that the No. 13 contestant of the East Theater spoke a step slower. Before he could discuss it, the other party had already given up. In this way, the contestant No. 2 of the East Theater had to step on the lotus pier.
Seeing that player No. 13 had messed up with such simple things, his eyes were gloomy, hum, he said that he wanted to move closer to them, but the actual actions did not mean it at all.
On the other side, the No. 14 contestant of the North Theater who tasted the sweetness of the previous round was discussing with the No. 8 contestant of the South Theater: "Should we not move and reach another draw?"
Contestant No. 14 of the North Theater thought that the opponent would readily agree, but he did not expect that the opponent hesitated and said:
"I don't think this is really good. The ultimate goal of the third level is for everyone to safely reach the island in the middle. Don't forget, that voice reminded us to hurry up at the beginning, indicating that the time of this level is not unlimited nor can it be wasted casually.
It doesn't matter if there are fewer people on our side, but there are so many people on your side. Are you sure you will continue to delay like this, will have a chance to reach the central island safely? "
This question awakened all the players who were addicted to the so-called security loopholes through the broadcast. Yeah, how could the organizer allow them to drill into such loopholes, and rounds of draws made the whole game stagnant?
They remembered that the host had reminded them before the start of the third level, if their movements were slow, the players behind would sink into the lake with the balcony!
When they thought of the East Theater No. 1 player who had not survived even 3 seconds after falling into the lake, fear grew in the hearts of all the players, and a strong sense of urgency enveloped the players in the back row.
The director behind the scenes grinned and smiled extremely brightly. He was very satisfied with the effect of this kind of show. These poor idiots finally realized the critical point of the death, really let them drag on, do you want to watch the ratings?
Humph, it affected his ratings, so throw them all into the lake to feed the mutant creatures!
The No. 14 contestant of the North Theater, who was confronted with the impact of the questioning head-on, finally reacted after a daze for a long time, and asked dryly:
"So, then, are you willing to give up?"
The No. 8 contestant of the South Theater nodded indifferently, and had 3 easy steps to go after losing. At the beginning of the third level, he was worried about the least number of players on their side. Now it's alright. Realizing that there were benefits of fewer players, admitting defeat was just three steps less, better than stopping one more round.
Thus, the second round of competition was over.
Contestant No. 1 in the North Theater and Contestant No. 2 in the East Theater had the opportunity to choose 4 to 6 steps forward, the contestant No. 1 in the South Theater had the opportunity to choose 1 to 3 steps forward, and the Contestant No. 1 in the West Theater suspends one round in place.
After knowing the result, the East Theater No. 2 player did not delay and took 5 steps decisively.
He wanted to take a gamble. The sixth lotus pier had been proved to be a punishment, so the possibility that the fifth one was also a punishment should be less.
Facts have proved that player No. 2 succeeded in betting. After the lotus pier under his feet sank and floated, it showed a line:
[Reward: One energy box.]