Chapter 451 'Gamble' A game that cannot be won perfectly
Ye Xiaojing's figure disappeared from Jiang Qian's sight.
1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds...
Jiang Qian pressed his hands on the table and fixed his eyes firmly on the stairs leading to the 7th floor and the 8th floor.
The call was still open, and there was faint and even sound of footsteps, coming from Ye Xiaojing stepping up the stairs.
At this moment, he remained completely quiet and trusted the other party completely.
The stairs to the 8th floor were nothing special, but Ye Xiaojing walked slowly and cautiously.
Until she reached the end of the stairs, Ye Xiaojing slowly opened the ajar fire door. With a slight "creak" sound, a beam of blue light projected across the dim room onto her slightly surprised face, freezing her expression in place.
This moment.
This is a control room.
The interior furnishings in this huge room are extremely simple. There are only two screens on the left wall, and an operating table covered with knobs and switches below the screen; and another elevator facing the stair door where Ye Xiaojing is.
The elevator shows it stops at the 10th floor.
Ye Xiaojing looked around the room, his keen eyes passing over the various lines and pipes laid on the four walls, until he refocused on the monitoring screen.
Then, she took steps and walked towards the console below the screen.
"How about it?"
Jiang Qian's questioning voice came.
…
"I'm here." Ye Xiaojing replied after a moment.
Then there was no further text.
Faintly aware that something was wrong, Jiang Qian thought about it and reminded: "Teacher Bai is approaching the stairs on the 7th floor. It won't be long before she catches up."
After a while.
Ye Xiaojing slowly said the answer Jiang Qian was expecting: "The 8th floor is the monitoring room."
"Control room?" Jiang Qian was somewhat surprised by this answer.
If the functions of layer 8 are synchronized with the safe house, then what is the purpose of setting up the replica like this?
"Well," Ye Xiaojing continued, "we are monitoring the safe rooms on the 9th and 10th floors."
Jiang Qian was startled, then sighed softly, and the corners of his mouth slowly raised.
I see……
"So now you can see what's going on in the room between me and Di Ting Wanjie?"
"more than."
Ye Xiaojing's eyes moved and fell on the control console, saying: "In addition to seeing your situation, I can also decide your life or death."
Jiang Qian listened attentively.
"On the control panel here, there are machine start buttons that control every room in the safe house, living room, living room, bedroom, bathroom... countless machines with clearly marked prices! I did a rough calculation, and all the machines are used.
It will cost about 200 million."
"And if you want to escape from it, the people in the safe house must at least have the level of five states and above... In addition, if the people in the safe house are not fortified, and the people outside are clever enough, they want to do it with a sword
It is not impossible to seal the throat."
When Ye Xiaojing said these words, Jiang Qian had already arrived at the entrance and started to try to open the door of the safe house - a "beep" alarm sounded from the digital door lock immediately!
Then there is a series of voice prompts: the access control will automatically unlock after the room becomes invalid!
Room failure?
Doesn't that mean that I can't leave the room until the last gambling game starts?
"It's useless. This door is locked and cannot be opened from the inside." Ye Xiaojing's voice came. At this moment, she could clearly see Jiang Qian's actions in the safe house.
Jiang Qian stopped and took two steps back: "Is the door also within your control?"
"yes."
Ye Xiaojing nodded and continued: "There are some written explanations here."
"What did you write?"
"What it says is: You can choose to unleash the beasts, or take their bargaining chips as your own..."
"That's it...heh, no wonder."
Jiang Qian's thoughts raced and he finally figured out the rules of the game from hotel room to safe house: two-way checks and balances, zero-sum game!
Generally, those who can get the right to use the safe house either rely on their strength or have made key contributions to the camp. No matter which one they are, they are the strongest in each camp.
The high floor where the safe house is located is a symbol of putting the strong at the top.
But it’s cold at high places.
Those who get the ordinary room card must go through tortuous searches and climbs to reach the "hub" where they can choose their destiny.
From top to bottom: The safe house can monitor and intervene in the dynamics of low-level players, but it cannot control its own freedom.
From bottom to top: The bottom player can overcome all difficulties and climb to the hub level to avoid the surveillance of the safe house and form a counterattack against the safe house players! But the prerequisite is that he has the opportunity to board the 8th floor hub!
Interestingly, if safe house players assist allies from the bottom through indoor surveillance, their arrival at the hub will be accelerated. Once the opponent reaches the 8th floor hub, their own safety will be in the hands of the opponent.
On the other hand, if the bottom players easily trust the safe house players and follow their guidance, they are likely to be plotted against them and lead to their own destruction...
What’s even more interesting is: once cooperation begins, either party may see the other party’s trump card clearly only when betrayed! Often by this time, he has lost any chance to counterattack.
So what about another form of cooperation?
Jiang Qian has not yet discovered the means of communication between safe house players.
However, even if he and Di Ting Wanjie could establish contact, at least one bottom player would need to reach the 8th floor first to see the full picture of the situation; thus, it was back to the above-mentioned endless loop.
But the players at the bottom have the opportunity to unite as one, put aside their camp ideas, completely ignore the intervention of the safe house players, and go all the way to the 8th floor!
Although this possibility is slim, it is by no means impossible.
But then what?
Do you want to take turns "fighting monsters" happily around the console? Only a ghost would believe that he is enjoying himself!
None of the murders that resulted from the robbery of the slot machines on the first night happened by chance...
Is there no winning strategy at all?
Jiang Qian regretfully concluded: No.
If the so-called "must-win strategy" is a perfect victory that eliminates all risk factors, then the answer must be no.
Undoubtedly, this is a huge gamble on "trust"!
Since it is "gamble", there is no such thing as a guaranteed win.
"How ironic..."
Jiang Qian raised his hand and touched the fine sweat on his forehead, and couldn't help but sigh:
"Everyone who chooses to believe may be betrayed in the most ruthless way; but which person in a high position does not rely on the blessing of others' trust?"
Ye Xiaojing listened expressionlessly and pressed the button without hesitation.
…
Bai Xiaoxi lingering on the 7th floor is looking for the staircase leading to the 8th floor.
She climbed from the 3rd floor to the 7th floor and had already experienced four guest room "mazes". Although her mind and ability helped her solve most of the problems - including those two large gains in chips, the long-term energy output was still
It made her feel tired.
Therefore, from the moment she climbed to the 7th floor, her exploration speed slowed down in order to accumulate strength for the last critical moment.
She understands: the closer you get to your goal, the more cautious you must be.
What she wants is to be foolproof.
Therefore, when Bai Xiaoxi appeared in front of the stairs leading to the 8th floor, she was already prepared to face any changes.
"What will happen on the mysterious 8th floor?"
An imperceptible smile burst out from the corner of Bai Xiaoxi's mouth. She grabbed her cool short hair and stepped up the stairs with light steps.
As she approached, two mice with rabbit heads and elk bodies and tails as long as wings had slipped into the bay through the gap in the fire door. Along the corner and the numerous lines on the wall, they took the lead in exploring the bay.
…
It took about a few minutes.
The fire door made a soft "squeak" sound, and Bai Xiaoxi stepped into the room facing the blue light scattered by the monitoring screen.
The elevator door directly opposite her was closed, and the parking floor was displayed as 10.
The two mice returned to her feet before she continued walking, climbed in along her trouser legs, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Bai Xiaoxi walked towards the two monitoring screens and stopped in front of the console.
Her keen eyes swept over the surveillance images, the knobs and buttons with clearly marked prices on the operating table, and the text prompts, all of which were visible to her.
The situation is not difficult to understand.
Bai Xiaoxi smiled slightly, faced the monitoring screen, stretched out his hand, and touched the console...
At this time, Di Ting Wanjie in the safe house on the 9th floor was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly, with his pillows falling to the ground; while in the safe house on the 10th floor shown on another screen, Jiang Qian was lying across the bathtub.
Take a bath with music.
Dense water vapor filled the entire bathroom, and the young man's back was looming under the soft light.
"Haha, I see, making the prison look like a safe house, restricting the performance of experts, in order to adjust the balance of the gambling game? I knew it would be like this..."
As she spoke, she adjusted the angle of the indoor mechanisms until the mechanisms in the two safe houses were completely aimed at the target:
"With such a cunning copy, no wonder no one has cleared it yet."
Then, Bai Xiaoxi seemed to hesitate.
Her hands hung in the air and she wandered left and right for a moment. Finally, she decided to start with the 9th floor of Listening to All Realms.
As the mechanism was triggered, the artistic lampshade on the ceiling of the bedroom suddenly cracked, and several hidden weapons were aimed at the sleeping person on the bed.
At the moment of life and death, Ting Ting Wan Jie suddenly opened his eyes!
However, he was unable to dodge, and the hidden weapon hit him in the chest, and the screams echoed through the 9th floor safe house...
Bai Xiaoxi watched the tragedy he created with cold eyes across the screen.
She didn't even wait for the chips to come in before pressing the button to kill Jiang Qian on the 10th floor!
Blood splattered in the dense bathroom - seeing a figure staggering out of the bathroom and appearing in the living room dripping with blood, Bai Xiaoxi touched the button of the living room mechanism with a smile...
However, her hand retreated in mid-air.
As she jumped up in time, she barely escaped the "gnawing" of the mantis-armed sickle...
Bai Xiaoxi turned around nimbly in the air, stepped on the edge of the console, turned over and landed easily a few meters away.
She had guessed the identity of the attacker and raised her head calmly...
But when he saw the other two figures walking out from behind Ye Xiaojing, Bai Xiaoxi's expression finally changed.
That's right, the two people who appeared at the same time as Ye Xiaojing were the "already killed" and "being killed" people in the safe house - Qianlong Wuyong and Di Tingwanjie.
The screams on the surveillance screen stopped abruptly, and the two bloody figures in the screen gradually turned into clay sculptures of warriors. Both were stand-in props provided by Listening to Wanjie as a thank-you gift for being released from the cage.
"I was almost tricked to death by you again! Senior Xiaoxi..."
Listening to Wanjie express its dissatisfaction bitterly:
"I heard that the Eternal Windsor gang has been eliminated? Since the other team has been wiped out and the only ones left are our own people, why are you doing this?"
Hearing this, Bai Xiaoxi only had cold rationality in his eyes: "Our special operations department also has to be ranked based on seniority."
In terms of seniority...
Di Ting Wanjie was stunned for a moment and stopped talking.
"Why, don't you want to earn more chips for yourself?" Bai Xiaoxi said with a smile.
Since we have to rank based on seniority, whether it is actual combat assessment or defeating foreign enemies together, naturally we can still win by one more point.
If she could get the first kill of "Gamble" by herself, she would never give it up to anyone else.