But this time, I picked these people randomly. I just wanted to show you what ordinary people do when faced with danger.
The languid and handsome demon revealed a wicked smile: "Everyone fears death, so when danger comes and they are forced to choose to sacrifice others to save themselves, what do you think they will do?"
He leaned close to Yu Tang's ear and whispered, "I just want to see how you're going to get these people out of here alive. You lose if even one of them dies..."
"I can't wait to see you cry and beg me for help."
Good heavens!
The system exclaimed in Yu Tang's consciousness: [Host, his favorability rating is clearly already 70! How could he still do this to you?]
[And is he truly evil? Doesn't his conscience bother him to randomly capture these people and force them to kill each other?]
Yu Tang was silent for a moment, then frowned: Let's see. I don't think things are that simple.
Lu Qingyuan had been observing Yu Tang's expression. Seeing that Yu Tang did not condemn his behavior, he raised an eyebrow and smiled very lightly.
"Hello everyone, my name is Yu Tang. This is my younger brother, Lu Qingyuan." Yu Tang pulled Lu Qingyuan to the middle of the room and said to the people around them, "We suddenly appeared here when we were checking out at the mall. Just now we heard that voice saying that we are now in a survival game, and it also mentioned bombs."
"I think we should err on the side of caution and stick together to figure out how to break out of this empty room, escape this tower, or go up to the seventh floor, defuse the bomb, and finally leave here together."
With him speaking up, the others gradually calmed down and came over.
The middle-aged man said, "My name is Wang Zhibin. I am the owner of a private company. I was working with my secretary in the office before I suddenly appeared here."
The young woman next to him said, "My name is Jiang Yuan, and I am Mr. Wang's secretary."
The guy in the basketball uniform actually looks pretty handsome when he's not swearing.
He said, "My name is Chen Shu, and I am a second-year graduate student in the Physics Department of University A."
As soon as he said that, everyone looked at him in shock.
Yu Tang was completely dumbfounded.
He never expected that this seemingly most irritable boy would actually be a top student in the Physics Department of University A.
Everyone else shared his thoughts, their faces filled with disbelief.
Chen Shu frowned: "Why are you all staring at me like that? Haven't you ever seen a handsome guy before?"
Lu Qingyuan laughed out loud, only to be glared at by Chen Shu: "Don't think you can laugh just because you're more handsome than me. Want to fight?"
His words successfully eased the tense atmosphere and made everyone laugh.
The two girls introduced themselves. The short-haired girl was named Zhao Yuqing, and the long-haired girl was named Su An. They were both accounting students at a vocational school. They had just come out shopping when this happened.
Just as the group finished their introductions, a square display screen suddenly appeared on the previously tightly sealed wall, from which a voice announced: "Players, please answer the questions on the screen. If you answer correctly, the staircase to the second floor will open. If you answer incorrectly, the first floor will catch fire in one minute, and you will perish in the flames."
"Didn't you say 72 hours?" Wang Zhibin frowned, his expression clearly grim. "If we answer incorrectly, won't we be dead here in a minute?"
"Let's go take a look first." Zhao Yuqing pulled Su An to the screen, and the others followed.
Yu Tang was startled when he saw the question.
The screen displayed only one question: "If you had to choose one person to die before the stairs lower, who would you choose?"
The answers are: A: Wang Zhibin B: Jiang Yuan C: Chen Shu D: Zhao Yuqing E: Su An F: Yu Tang G: Lu Qingyuan. There are touch screen buttons on the screen, and no one knows what will happen after pressing the letter labeled with the other person's name.
But at least right now, everyone here wants to get out of here alive; nobody wants to die without knowing why.
Especially since there are seven people, why should one person have to die while the others can live?
Based on this point alone, this problem is a dead end.
There is no correct answer.
"What kind of stupid question is this?" Jiang Yuan said, "Seven options, seven people, how is anyone supposed to choose?"
"Besides, we don't know what the person who set the question thinks is the correct answer, so it's premature to make a choice."
Not only would they become murderers, but they might also never escape...
She waved her hand: "There's no answer to this question, I just can't choose."
Su An hugged Zhao Yuqing's arm tightly and said, "Yuqing, I don't want to die, and I don't want you to die either. We have to escape together."
Enraged, Chen Shu punched the wall next to the screen: "What kind of garbage is this! Are you trying to play word games with me?!"
Yu Tang stepped forward and said, "Everyone, please calm down."
"The game has a time limit of 72 hours. But this problem has no time limit. We can take our time to think about the deeper meaning of the problem, or we can choose to completely ignore the problem and find another way."
"After all, the display screen emerged from the wall, which means that the room itself has a mechanism."
"Once we find the mechanism, I think we should be able to get to the second floor without answering the questions."
Chapter 24
Died for the fifth time for the villain (24)
His words were somewhat convincing, although everyone looked somber.
Instead of arguing, they calmed down and began to explore the wall, searching for the mechanism Yu Tang had mentioned.
Yu Tang then walked to a corner with Lu Qingyuan and asked him, "What kind of stupid question is this? Do you think there's even a choice?"
While pretending to feel around on the wall, Lu Qingyuan smiled at Yu Tang and said, "Isn't it interesting when the questions are difficult?"
At this point, he moved closer to Yu Tang and asked him, "And do you remember the rules of our bet? I said you had to make sure all six players got out alive."
But now that question has seven options, and I'm one of them, but only you know that I'm not a player.
"So the correct answer to this question is to choose to let me die, and you are the only one who knows this answer..."
"The choice is yours..." he asked Yu Tang, "Would you choose to let me die?"
Yu Tang stared wide-eyed at Lu Qingyuan in disbelief: "Are you kidding me?"
"No..." Lu Qingyuan said naturally, "I already said I wouldn't lie to you again, and I will keep my word."
"So, choosing to kill me will save these people." He asked Yu Tang again, "Would you choose to kill me?"
Yu Tang gritted his teeth and remained silent.
Lu Qingyuan's smile widened as he asked, "Judging from your expression, you're reluctant to kill me?"
"I have 20,000 lives on my hands, and I have committed heinous crimes long ago."
The Heavenly Realm must have given me a death order a long time ago, right?
But none of them can kill me, and I won't give them that chance.
He changed the subject and said to Yu Tang, "But now I'm giving you this chance. As long as you press that button, I'll be utterly annihilated."
When you return to Heaven, those angels will probably line the streets to welcome you.
"Doesn't it make you incredibly happy just thinking about it?" he tempted Yu Tang. "So, choose. Kill me. If you kill me, you can not only save people but also achieve something for yourself. Isn't that great..."
Before he could finish speaking, Yu Tang suddenly interrupted him with a kiss.
A kiss on the corner of the lips, fleeting and ephemeral.
Apart from the two people involved, no one else saw it.
"Shut up already." Yu Tang released him: "You arrogant little devil."
"I won't let you die."
He said, "In the end, if there's really no other way, I'd rather press my own button than drag you into this."
Yu Tang's voice was serious, tinged with barely perceptible anger.
He didn't like Lu Qingyuan constantly talking about death.
The story about his background that Lu Qingyuan had jokingly mentioned before had already terrified him enough.
If what Lu Qingyuan said before was true, then this demon must have had an extremely miserable life as a human, suffering all kinds of injustices.
While this cannot be an excuse for him to harm humans, from Yu Tang's perspective, he had selfish motives at this moment.
He did not want Lu Qingyuan to die.
He just wanted to pull Lu Qingyuan out of his past pain and prevent him from making the same mistakes again.
Instead of acting as a judge, simply looking at the number of humans he killed, they stood on the moral high ground to destroy this heinous demon.
Yu Tang's kiss and his words made Lu Qingyuan slowly wipe the smile from his lips, and his face darkened.
He turned his head away and didn't look at Yu Tang again.
His slightly long, wavy hair obscured his eyes, making it impossible for Yu Tang to see his expression.
But at this moment, Yu Tang could sense that the other party's well-preserved facade was slightly faltering.
Then it slowly broke open, revealing bright red flesh, scalding hot and scarlet.
He saw Lu Qingyuan reach out to cover his eyes and rub them several times with the back of his hand.
Then she turned slightly, so that her back was to him, and took several steps towards the corner of the wall to make sure that she had distanced herself from him before stopping.
"Hmm, host, he's crying."
The system promptly reported: "[The Supreme God is crying so sadly. And his favorability has risen to 80...]"
Yu Tang sighed, not trying to comfort Lu Qingyuan, but giving the young man time to calm down.
After all, he knew that this arrogant and eccentric little devil had an absurdly strong sense of self-esteem, and crying would be a very embarrassing thing for him. In order to avoid the other party getting angry, Yu Tang thought it was best to pretend that he didn't know.
Lu Qingyuan quickly adjusted his emotions; after crying for a while, he happily ran back.
He even poked Yu Tang with his finger and said to him, "That question doesn't actually have only one correct answer, so please don't do anything foolish."
"If you dare to secretly press your own button to save them, I'll kill them all!"
Yu Tang was stunned for a moment, then didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
He teased Lu Qingyuan, "Didn't you say before that you wanted me to beg you for help while crying? How come you're handing the answer over to me now?"
He pinched Lu Qingyuan's fair face: "Does your face hurt?"
Instantly realizing that Yu Tang was subtly mocking him for slapping him in the face too quickly, Lu Qingyuan snorted through his nose, grabbed Yu Tang's hand that was pinching his cheek, and bit it hard: "Ouch, it hurts so much, so if it hurts, we'll hurt together, neither of us can escape!"
Yu Tang gasped for breath, freeing his hand. Seeing the two rows of bloody teeth marks on it, he twitched his lips and said, "Are you a dog? How could you be so ruthless?"
"Ha, men, you actually guessed right." Lu Qingyuan twirled the end of his hair and smiled at Yu Tang: "I am indeed a dog, born in 1958."