Chapter 27 Gambling
Now the one in front of us is the Skeleton Forest. Its lush appearance is really a death-free relationship, but the skeletons swaying in the forest clearly tell us that this is the Skeleton Forest.
For safety reasons, everyone first prepared their weapons before they began to carefully penetrate the forest. But what surprised us was that the skeletons were not interested in us. At first, we took the initiative to give in, but later we simply passed by them. It turned out that these skeletons completely ignored us and would not cause attacks as long as they did not hit them. Even if they were only a few centimeters away, they could safely walk past the side.
"What's going on?" I asked Ling.
Ling shook his head: "I don't know much, these skeletons may have felt our breath of death becoming quiet."
Rose said: "No matter what, everyone must be on guard. This may be just the tranquility before the storm." Boom! As soon as Rose finished speaking, a thunder sounded in the sky, and then suddenly a wind blew up. Rose said strangely: "I'm not talking about this storm!"
Boom! Another thunder exploded in the sky, and then the raindrops fell down. Fortunately, everyone was wearing armor, and there was nothing wrong with Ling and Xiaochun changing armor in panic.
The rain is not very heavy, but it is not small. The woods can start with rain. After a while, it will be useless.
The eagle dragged his cheek and said, "The mission said that we will go to the Skeleton Forest. This is already the Skeleton Forest, but what about the next prompt?"
Rose pointed at the skeletons: "They are the prompts. If you find the reason why these skeletons are so docile, you will find the answer."
Bai Lang suddenly said, "I think I know what the problem is." Everyone suddenly focused their eyes, and Bai Lang said slowly, "I heard a very low musical sound, which seemed to be a requiem."
"Can you determine the direction?"
"Come with me!"
Bailang was running wildly in front of us, so we had to run with us. As the distance shortened, we could even hear the melodious music. The forest in front of us suddenly opened up, and a lake surrounded by trees appeared in front of us.
While we appeared by the lake, the music suddenly stopped. Tens of thousands of skeletons standing by the lake turned around and stared at us almost at the same time. The situation seemed not very good.
"External?" A blue water ball floated in the center of the lake. A beautiful fairy in a royal blue gauze dress was sitting sideways on the water ball in a lazy position, while she was holding a small harp in her left hand. It seemed that the source of the music was here. Before we could speak, she said first: "Do you have a token?"
"Token? Yes, we're bringing it." I quickly looked at Rose, who immediately raised the token.
The beautiful fairy nodded and smiled and said, "Do you want a token of your partner, right?"
"certainly."
"Then go to the Golden Maze to bring Queman to me. Whether you invite him or tie him up, you can get the other half of the token as long as you bring him alive to me." As she said that, she took out the other half of the token and shook it: "Agree?"
"No problem." I agreed immediately. "Tell us the location of the Golden Maze and the appearance of Queman."
"Over there." The fairy pointed in a direction. "If you keep walking, you can see the golden maze. And Queman is a tauren. He is the only creature in the golden maze, and everything else is gold."
"No problem, let's go now."
Just as we rushed to the Golden Maze, the audience outside also began to boil. Sicanvia held the microphone and explained: "Okay, the Frost Rose Alliance has been the first to receive the task of obtaining the other half of the token, which means that the time for raising treasures that everyone is most looking forward to is here."
A burst of cheers immediately sounded off the court, and Scanvia raised her hand to signal everyone to be quiet, but it took nearly a minute to completely calm down.
Sicanvia continued: "Before we three hosts will give you some simple introductions to everyone to facilitate everyone to get rid of their chopsticks."
Kakaluka said: "First of all, let me introduce the rules for removing chopsticks. You can open the function menu through the ring on your hand, and then enter your own pressure limit, and the system will automatically deduct it. The limit on the time to remove chopsticks is 20 minutes. If someone has not removed the chopsticks after 20 minutes, he thinks that he will not participate in the treasure pressure activity. When everyone has finished removing chopsticks, all funds will be concentratedly converted. The organizer, as the dealer, will take out 5% of the total amount of funds entered and add to the money. At the end of the competition, the organizer can get 6% of the total funds, and another 94% will
Used as a bonus for the audience who suppressed the winner. If multiple audiences pressed the winner at the same time, the bonus will be allocated based on the proportion of the total amount of funds obtained by the team. If no one in the winner of the competition will take place, the audience who downloaded the chopsticks will receive 50% of the funds they invested, and the remaining funds will all belong to the organizer. If no one wins the competition in the end, but dies together, the funds will be returned and the 6% invested by the organizer at the beginning will be distributed equally to all the people who downloaded the chopsticks."
Lulukalu continued: "Okay, the rules have been introduced. Let me analyze the main tendency of this competition. Come on, the big screen." The viewers saw the scene and switched to the Gun God, who was running in a valley with his subordinates. "This is the No. 1 Hot Holy Gun League team this time. The Gun God player, the champion of the American combat power, is the captain of this team. You can imagine that they are so strong. At present, they are less than 10 minutes away from the token mission, and I believe they will be able to receive the token mission soon."
As soon as the picture changed, a team full of knights was running on the grassland. "This is the second seed team, the Lancer Alliance team from Salt Lake City. The overall strength of this team is excellent, and its guild is the strongest on landing. At present, they are also close to the token mission location."
The picture switched again, this time it was an acquaintance. The team of the second generation was crossing the river with great difficulty, and it seemed that it would take a while to pass. "This is the team of the assassination organization Shadow Association. Their captain seems to be a Chinese. The characteristic of this team is that it reacts quickly and can quickly find countermeasures for all situations. However, their ranking is not ideal at present, but I believe they still have hope of winning the championship. Well, there are only three main seed teams. Here are the dark horses, Sicanvia will introduce to you each of them."
Sikanvia said: "I will introduce the dark horse team you are looking forward to. First of all, the latest popular Frost Rose League." We are walking through the trees in the picture. "So far, their progress has been far ahead of other teams, but I don't know if they can continue to go so smoothly. And there is a very unfortunate news that the token task that the Frost Rose League has received is the most difficult one on their list of tasks of this difficulty. It is really lucky, but with their strength, it should still be very promising."
The picture immediately changed to the grassland, and only one person was running this time. "This is the speed player Jifeng Lightning. Although the distance is long, his path is relatively simple. If other teams are too popular, he will likely become the champion. If you want to try an upset, you can consider suppressing him."
The picture changed again. If I saw the character this time, I would be scared. She is the kitten No. 2. After we just built the bridge together, she just came over to us. Unexpectedly, she was on the list of dark horses. Sikanvia introduced: "This Asian girl is the third dark horse. Although she does not have any special skills, her progress so far is quite fast. It is hard to guarantee that she will not become a dark horse. If she wins and everyone does not suppress her treasure, then Mr. Sleepy Dragon will be dying of laughter."
Kakaluka said: "Okay, there are only so many recommendations. Please get off the chopsticks quickly? If you want to suppress other teams other than the 6 teams we recommend, please use the auxiliary function to check the teams still in the competition to get off the chopsticks. Also, please remind us that your funds will be deducted tax first and then calculated to get the fund."
At this time, Hongyue was betting on behalf of the official funds of our guild. Members took the chopsticks and counted their own. This is the activity funds of our guild. According to my explanation, Hongyue first put a crystal coin on all teams that have not withdrawn from the competition. This is to ensure that there will be no bye and that if there is a cheaper one, there will be no loss. The official capital investment will be a little larger. Hongyue put more than 11 million crystal coin on our own team. After taxes, it just happened to be a little more than 10 million crystal coin left. The tax is really ruthless!
After everyone finished cutting, everyone was shocked. After the taxes were removed, the total amount of all funds was 3.79 billion crystal coins. This value scared everyone. No one expected that it would be so much. In fact, the big leagues were too famous, and many players could not reach the scene and simply asked their friends to take the chopsticks on their behalf. As a result, almost all the people present were on behalf of a bunch of people, and the funds were getting more and more.
According to the rules stated in advance, the organizer needs to pay 5% to replenish it. In other words, another 189.5 million crystal coins must be invested to be considered as the end. The radio suddenly rang, and Sikanvia said: "Dear viewers, I'm sorry to notify you. Because the organizer did not expect that you have invested so much, he did not prepare enough funds to replenish the 5% part. At present, Mr. Sleepy Dragon has already stepped down to make a 10-minute delay in the settlement time. Please watch the game first."
Sleepy Dragon didn't expect that there would be so much money. He only prepared 150 million crystal coins. He thought it was more than enough, but he didn't know that it was not enough. The audience did not have much opinion on this issue. After all, the organizer's family is famous for its great business, and most people do not doubt that they can take out so much money.
Ten minutes later, Sleepy Dragon finally exchanged the money, and Sikanvia started broadcasting again: "Hello everyone, Mr. Sleepy Dragon has transferred the funds. After removing the taxes and adding your funds, the current total amount is 3.96 billion crystal coins. In other words, the audience who bet on the right treasure can get dividends from 3.762 billion crystal coins."
This number caused a boil again, but Hongyue did not react much. Ordinary people may be blinded by numbers. Hongyue is not an ordinary person. You can understand this economic problem at a glance. Although the winning team can have 3.762 billion crystal coins to score, the hit rate issue must be considered first. Each team has at least tens of thousands of people overwhelmed, and the last point is actually not too scary, but these are enough to bet the right people.
Hongyue specially checked the number of victory in our Frost Rose League team, which was only more than 70 million. Don’t everyone look forward to our guild? But this is good, there are fewer people to suppress, and you can get more money if you win. Among these 70 million crystal coins, our guild accounts for one-seventh of the 70 million crystal coins, which means that if we succeed, we can get more than 537 million crystal coins for 3.762 billion, which is quite a lot. Moreover, in addition to our guild’s concentrated pressure of more than 10 million, the guild members also squeezed 700,000 to 800,000 crystal coins as personal.
After watching the bets at our guild, Hongyue looked at the situation of several other popular teams. The bets of our three dark horses were similar. Our team was crushed with more than 70 million crystal coins in total, Kitten No. 2 was crushed with more than 30 million crystal coins, and the wind and lightning were crushed with more than 60 million crystal coins.
The focus of betting seems to be the three main seed teams. The team of the second generation reincarnation was suppressed by more than 800 million crystal coins. If they win, the winners probably won't get much money. The pure cavalry team was suppressed by more than 1 billion crystal coins, which is scary enough. The most terrifying thing is the Holy Spear Alliance, their status in the United States is unmatched, so there are more people who believe they have the strength. Their team actually received a betting of more than 1.8 billion crystal coins. I really don't know how much money those who win can get, and it's probably not much at that time.
With a total of 3.96 billion yuan, these 6 teams accounted for almost the same amount. All the remaining teams only received bets of less than 50 million. The most puzzling thing is that there are really teams that cannot bets at all. Before entering the competition venue, we told Hongyue that all teams have to cut off their chopsticks, and each team except their own team is an insurance method. In theory, everyone knows this method and many people will use it. However, when Hongyue checks the data, it shows that one team only received bets of 1 crystal coin, which means that no one in this team except Hongyue presses one crystal coin as required by me.
In order to find out the reason, Hongyue specially checked the team and found that there was only one person in the team, and she was a player majoring in life profession. This person is called "Give you a hammer". His main profession is a heavy weapon warrior, the kind of warrior who uses axe and a hammer. The information shows that this guy is currently only level 401, and is below the average level. What is even more unbearable is that the system's evaluation of his ability is: extremely poor combat power, average luck, low speed, extremely poor agility..., poor overall strength. Only that luck in a row of attributes is generally the best evaluation, and it's better not to read the others!
Hongyue switched the ring screen to this guy's position, but saw that the person on the screen was trying to swim across a river, and his mount was waiting for him on the other side. Looking at his game data floating on the screen, this guy has not even completed the first sign yet. What's worse is that the route he took is completely different from the direction. Either he misread the map, or he didn't understand the meaning of the prompt at all. Anyway, the route he took is far from the correct goal.
After reading these data, Hongyue had only one idea, that is, that is, that one crystal coin would be thrown away in vain. If such a person can win the championship, unless all participating teams are dead.
In short, after the bet, everyone started to pay attention to the game again, but this time there was a little differentiation. The three commentators began to explain the six main favorites to win the championship separately, and the main scenes were also divided into three, so that everyone could pay attention to their favorite teams at any time. In fact, it is different from the opening game. Now everyone is more concerned about whether the team they are pressing can win, so other teams are too lazy to watch.
At this time, the Gun God had received the token mission. Their mission was to destroy a small group of monsters and sweep the passages between the valleys, which was much simpler than ours. However, we started earlier, and they were still rushing to the target valley. We were already outside the golden maze.
Standing in front of the golden maze, I had an impulse, an impulse to move the entire maze away. The huge maze like a small city is made of gold, and the amount of wealth is so considerable! But after a little experiment, I gave up this idea because these gold walls are completely invincible and even eternity cannot leave even a little scar on it. This is definitely a task facility that is prohibited from being destroyed, otherwise there would not be such a hard thing, not to mention that gold is soft.
The maze is not only large in size, but also has a terrifying height. The walls that are more than 10 meters high are very tall, and there is also a top on the top. I can't implement the idea of walking from the wall!
"Let's go in?" said Eagle.
Rose interrupted, "Don't worry, we must be prepared first, right? If you go in, you probably won't be able to get out!"
"What should I do?"
Rose took out a cloth bag and said to me: "Husband, get some wood."
Although it was strange, I still made a lot of wood. The rose piled up the wood, and then asked Kris Dena to ignite the fire to burn it. After the wood was burned for a while, she asked us to use soil to extinguish the fire. At this time, I finally understood what she was going to do. The burned wood became charcoal, which could be used as a pen. We experimented and found that these charcoals could indeed leave black marks on the walls, and it was quite clear.
Rose said to us: "After entering, everyone walks separately. Take a few pieces of these charcoal each. If you encounter an intersection or turn, mark it. If you walk through it, draw arrows. If you confirm that it is a dead end, make a cross on the arrow. In this way, you can complete the search of the maze. If you search all the roads you walk by yourself, follow other people's routes. If you have a cross, don't go there."
"Okay, let's do it." We all took the charcoal and entered the golden maze and started a carpet-style search.
In the audience area, Lulukalu is explaining the progress of our guild: "The dark horse is indeed a dark horse. The Frost Rose League has designed a very practical method to deal with this maze that is known as super difficult. According to their method, as long as your luck is not too good, you should complete the task in front of the Holy Spear League and get another half of the token."
I turned left and right in the maze and encountered several dead ends in a row. Suddenly, I found a golden statue at an intersection. I thought I had made a fortune, but I didn't know it was unlucky. Among the golden statue was a tauren holding an axe. As soon as I approached him, I immediately moved.
This guy's whole body is made of gold. My weapon has an extremely poor effect on him. I took a lot of effort and finally killed him. I thought I could pick up some gold and go back to my original position when I died. I tried to cut it a few times, but I found that it turned out to be the same as the wall and could not be cut at all!
I walked several dead ends from this Golden Statue, but found that the entire branch was a dead end, so I had no choice but to run back. After I finished my own route, I walked towards someone else's route, followed the arrow and entered the Rose's area, and helped her check a branch to confirm that it was a dead end. When I came back, I happened to meet her.
"Husband? Why are you here?"
“I’m all dead ends.”
Rose shook her head and said, "I have the same place."
Kris Dena's voice suddenly sounded in the team channel: "Help! I found the target!"
"Where are you?" Everyone's inquiry sounded from the guild channel.
"I don't know either, just follow my arrow to look for it. Hurry up! That guy is chasing me."
"You can hold on for a while!" said the eagle's voice.
Kris Dena's voice was crying and choking: "I was chased so much that I didn't have time to chant the spell, so why should I take it?"
"Don't worry, you run to the junction point first, we'll come here. It would be best if we could lead him out of the maze."
Chapter completed!