Chapter 377

The last two days of the preseason and midseason.

Wang Shun took a stack of documents, took a deep breath and walked into the meeting room of the Wandering Circus. He looked straight at everyone sitting there: "I believe everyone will agree with us this time. The information should be memorized backwards."

"Because they don't have any data for us to analyze." Wang Shun smiled wryly, "Russell Cemetery team, our last match's opponent."

As he spoke, he opened the system panel:

"Russell's performance in the preseason is similar to that of the previous years. Giving up the singles and doubles competitions and focusing on team competitions is a good thing and a bad thing for a one-man team like us."

"The good thing is that you don't have to play a game, and the bad thing is that this is the team game you are least good at."

Wang Shun clicked on the system panel, and the panel slid to the next page. There was a small video on it. After Wang Shun clicked to play, the video started to play, and a gray mist of smog was surging. You can see A few people were running indistinctly, breathing heavily.

Wang Shun paused, his expression became heavy:

"This is not the first time I will show you this small video. This is the video of the last game at Russell Cemetery. Throughout the preseason, the video of almost all of Russell's games is like this."

"It's a fog, you can't see anything."

Bai Liu leaned on the back of the chair: "This is what we have analyzed. Russell Cemetery should be in order to further keep the skills of the players in our team secret. A player with fog cover skills is in the team. Release skills during the game, confuse the player's vision and keep your information secret in front of the audience."

Wang Shun sighed: "This method is very successful, and it cannot be reproduced. They don't need the support of the audience so they can do this. Because of this method throughout the preseason, we only know the death toll at the Russell Cemetery. They don't know anything else."

"Compared to last season, the number of deaths in pre-season at Russell Cemetery has dropped significantly this year."

Wang Shun paused: "It should not be described as a sharp drop. In this year's preseason, the players from Russell Cemetery successfully entered the preseason finals."

"Before I got to this point, I never understood why Russell Cemetery, which ranked top 10 last year, gave up the qualification for this year's mid-season game and relegated to play the pre-season game, but at this point, Under Chairman Bai's analysis, I realized that I had entered into a misunderstanding."

Wang Shun shook his head and smiled helplessly: "I always thought that the Russell Cemetery, which sacrificed the lives of its players wantonly in exchange for victory, was a cruel, ruthless, ruthless, cold-blooded guild."

"Isn't it?" Mu Sicheng propped his chin, and asked while turning his pen, "Last year, this team sacrificed more than 80 people."

Bai Liu pulled out the pen that was spinning in Mu Sicheng's hand: "It's not."

"On the contrary, this guild, as they advertise, is a sanctuary for desperate players, a warm and humane collective cemetery. Russell Cemetery is a typical closed community guild. There is a sense of mutual help like relatives and neighbors, which is very united and friendly.”

Mu Sicheng started to have question marks on his head: "Solidarity and friendship that push people out to death?"

"You should change your thinking. When they joined this guild, they knew very well that most of them would die. In other words, these people didn't join this guild because they wanted to live."

Bai Liu raised her eyes: "It's because you want to die, but you don't want to die, so it's worthless."

"And Russell Cemetery is a place where their death can be maximized."

Mu Sicheng was lying on the table, peeking at Bai Liu and confiscating his pen: "But even so, the Russell Cemetery has nothing to do with unity and friendship, right?"

Bai Liu looked down at Mu Sicheng, and the topic suddenly changed: "What do you think is the greatest value of death?"

Mu Sicheng was taken aback for a moment, then sat up straight and began to think hard: "Money? No, I won't be able to spend it after I die, ? It seems meaningless if I die..."

In the end, Mu Sicheng gave up and leaned back on the chair: "I don't understand what these people are thinking. When people die, they have nothing. No matter what they get in exchange for death, it is worthless, and I don't know what to do. Entering the game, you can still earn points in exchange for something here, it’s not worth it to die.”

"That's you." Bai Liu said calmly, "A high-strength person that the big guilds are chasing after, Mu Sicheng, you are also top-notch in reality, with a good family background and a first-class school. ‌I have a solid understanding of my own value, so I will not easily go to the option of zeroing.”

"You haven't been involved, have you?"

Mu Sicheng was startled: "What?"

"Inward scrolling." Bai Liu said.

Mu Sicheng frowned: "Didn't that happen when you were employed?"

"No, where resources are monopolized, there will always be involution." Bai Liu picked up a pen and wrote on a piece of white paper, "Points in the game can be earned by playing games, just like wages can be earned through work. If you get it, then playing games is a way of working.”

"But there are various guilds in the game. They classify and contract playing games in a more efficient way, improve the efficiency of playing games in exchange for points, and provide various guarantees. Lowers the odds of you dying from the game, like a company of sorts."

"Ordinary players will take the initiative to join these companies in order to obtain points efficiently and survive better."

"This is the first mechanism to form, and it is also a reasonable operating mechanism." Bai Liu wrote down the words [Original Mode] on the paper, "Generally speaking, this mechanism can continue to operate for a long time. It will start to collapse, but at this time, there is a setting in this game that accelerates the collapse of the mechanism."

Bai Liu slowly opened his eyelids: "That's gambling."

"The gambling in this game is an expected loan mechanism. This mechanism binds your beliefs, interests, and your life in the guild, which doubles your betting cost, even if a player knows There is a high probability that you will be consumed by this guild, because the gambler's psychology and cost are sinking, and it is difficult to find a next home. It is difficult for this player to get out of this guild, which forms a necessary element for introversion .”

"—bound."

"The tighter the binding, the slower the flow of personnel between guilds will be, and the slower it will be, it will make everyone realize that the next home is getting harder and harder to find, and choosing a guild will become a lifelong choice , Then during the adult period, everyone will involuntarily involve in order to enter the Grand Council, lower their own treatment and so on."

"And once you get to this point, you will find a very miraculous fact." Bai Liu tapped the pen tip on the paper, "The efficiency of the guild to gain points has become higher, and the speed of game rotation has become higher. , There are more and more points circulating between the gambling pools, and the points in the entire game are exploding exponentially.”

"However, members of the guild are receiving lower and lower treatment, and no matter how many points the guild saves, in order to maintain their ranking status, they all vote in the league in the end, and there is no saving. how much down."

"Then where did all these points go? Who swallowed them up?"

Bai Liu put down the pen, gently pushed it with her fingertips, and the pen rolled to the stunned Mu Sicheng.

Mu Sicheng stretched out his hand to hold the pen pushed by Bai Liu, and he felt a chill down his back: "...in the gambling pool."

"Bingo." Bai Liu smiled, "That's right, the mechanism of the gambling pool uses five times the leverage probability to bet points out every time, which seems to be a loss, but everyone pools the points stolen from the gambling pool to make money. What he earns is eventually returned to the gambling pool, and then he is quietly swallowed up by a five to fifteen percent handling fee every time he wins or loses."

"From the fact that the richest guild is the Gamblers' Alliance, not the Killer Sequence, it can be seen that the gambling pool is the biggest banker in this game."

Bai Liu looked up at the data on Wang Shun's system panel: "Suppose you are an ordinary player in the game with ordinary skills and panels. star player."

"You're trying to survive, you couldn't help but bet all your savings on a certain team in a certain league, and then lost it all, you realized in the middle of the collapse that it was difficult for you to get out of the gambling pool. There is money in it."

"But after each league, the points from the five-fold leverage in the gambling pool will cause the price of the items in the game to rise. If you dare not participate in gambling, your points will not increase, and the items you can buy will increase. The less you have, the harder it is to survive in the game.”

"You don't have extra points in your hand that can be exchanged for money to use in reality. The game is not a place to release your desire, but it makes you more painful because you have worked six days in reality. After that, I finally took a day off, and returned to the game [to work], carefully saving points to buy items, so that I can save points to buy a life-saving item before the game next week."

Mu Sicheng's eyes straightened: "...Thank you, after substituting, I really want to die."

Bai Liu continued: "Exchanging the points in the game for items to use in reality is the high-level players who have points in their hands, and some players who don't care about it and just want to enjoy themselves. The former type of players is a minority, and the latter type of players Under the catalysis of the gambling pool, this type of players has become the largest base of players, that is, gambler players, so the gambler alliance can grow so big."

Wang Shun nodded in agreement with Bai Liu's words: "But there are gamblers' alliances and non-gamblers' alliances. After President Bai gave me an analysis, I thoroughly investigated the average investment in the gambling pool of the players in Russell Cemetery. "

"The result surprised me." Wang Shun touched the panel, and a data analysis form popped up, "Their investment in the gambling pool does not exceed ten points per person, so it can be said that they are not gamblers in a real sense." Union."

"Gambling is a kind of stimulating future expected consumption. When this consumption desire decreases, it means that their future expectations are very pessimistic."

Wang Shun sighed: "I can't get involved in the big guild, I dare not gamble, and I have experienced the test of the death game once a week. Many people are also very tired in reality. They work hard every day and have little money. Life is tight. Yes, I finally entered the game, and the result..."

"They had a hard time."

It's so hard that even he, the enemy's investigator, can't bear it.

"...No way..." Mu Sicheng began to feel bleak, "Did they win the mid-season team competition last year? Even if they swallowed the pot, it wouldn't be so miserable, right?" ?!"

Bai Liu raised three fingers:

"One, because there are no star players, they don't have anyone to invest in, and they don't have much money in the gambling pool, so they can swallow all of them."

"Secondly, even if you win, the majority of the gambling pool is won by the investment winners and the audience. After removing the handling fees charged by the gambling pool, the team can get 5% to 100% of the sum of the gambling pool. out of ten."

"Third, they were an unpopular team last year, and the mid-season games did not attract much attention. There were no spectators to raise their bets on both sides. The only thing they can get is the double of the small TV charging points of the big guild star players. Five percent of the deposit."

"In general, although they have been winning, they have not received much league bonus."

Wang Shun sighed and added: "And I found out that the president of the Russell Cemetery used the gambling pool points they won last year as compassionate funds, divided them into more than 80 shares and distributed them to the close people of the dead players. "

Mu Sicheng heard mixed feelings: "...I probably won't be able to hold on."

"Then let's go back to the original question." Bai Liu opened his eyelids, "If a person can't do anything, can't do anything, it's very hard to live for the rest of his life, and eventually he can't go on anymore. ‌ For him, what is the value maximization of death?"

"Qian Quan is meaningless to a dead person, why is a dead person valuable?"

Mu Ke, who had been silent all this time, said: "It is recognized as valuable at the moment of death, and this value will always be remembered."

"I was studying abroad before, and the murder rate there was very high. Many people would go to areas with high incidence of accidents before killing/killing, or they would wander around the streets and see robbers or gangsters. If they do, they will rush forward to do what is right and let these people kill themselves.”

"An interview in a magazine said that more than 70% of people who have had the idea of ​​killing/killing want to do a good thing that can make others remember themselves before they die."

Mu Ke paused, and continued: "Some ‌/Killers will form a team to help each other. I have read their special report, called [‌/Kill Community], the leader of [‌/Kill Community] Generally, it is the person who wants to kill/kill, and generally the person who takes the lead builds this community because he wants others to survive, so he will try his best to help other people in this community, hoping that they will survive."

"But the strange thing is that because of the existence of the community, the murder/homicide rate of these people sometimes increases."

Mu Sicheng asked: "Why?"

Liu Jiayi, who was next to her, replied: "Because someone remembers them, so they can be remembered and died."

"In this community atmosphere of abandoning me, it is easy to breed a sense of sacrifice. To describe it in an easy-to-understand sentence is—" Bai Liu's eyes moved to the system panel displaying the information of Russell Cemetery On, "—I died for you, I hope you will live instead of me, and remember me."

"Those who survived may suffer more than those who died, because they bear more burdens, and even the price of death becomes heavier."

Everyone in the conference room was silent.

Wang Shun coughed, interrupted the stagnant atmosphere and continued: "Based on the above information, Chairman Bai and I have made an in-depth analysis of the Russell Cemetery team."

"Everyone knows that for a team, the most important thing is the tactician, but because the members of the Russell Cemetery team are always changing, their tactician is also different every game, but Their tactical style has remained fairly flat."

"So we speculate that the tactician who really created the tactics is not the team members who were pushed out for rotation, but the president of the Russell Cemetery Guild who has never played behind the scenes."

"However, this chairman is really mysterious. He hasn't participated in the league in the past three years. We have very limited information about him. I have used many methods to find a so-called An old player who seemed to have watched the president of Russell Cemetery compete by chance many years ago, he told me that the president's skills are very amazing, and he quickly cleared all parties in a fog after playing. "

"It's not the first time we have seen the skill of defeating opponents at high speed, and this is not the most amazing thing about this president's skill."

Wang Shun raised his head with a solemn expression: "We all know that only five players can participate in the league team competition, but that old player assured me with a vow—"

"——The president entered the game alone, but when he got on the field, the system said that there are five players in the Russell Cemetery on the game map, and the game is running normally."

After the meeting.

Tang Erda, who had been taciturn during the meeting, rarely called Bai Liu who got up and was about to leave: "Can we talk about Russell Cemetery alone?"

Bai Liu, who just got up and was about to leave, sat back down again. He raised his hand to signal Wang Shun, who was the last to leave, to close the door. He sat on the chair and turned around to look at Tang Er: "Captain Tang, why don't you tell me alone?" of?"

Tang Er stared at Bai Liu: "Do you think [Russell Cemetery] is a [‌/Kill Community] type of guild?"

"It seems so at the moment." Bai Liu put his elbows on the table and clasped his fingers, "And the leader of the Russell guild is the soul of the guild, and he has the leader of the mutual aid type [‌/Killing Community] Typical psychological symptoms."

Tang Er frowned and asked: "What psychological symptoms?"

Bai Liu looked at Tang Erda flatly: "He is doing everything possible to save his members and team members."

"But Russell killed 84 people in the mid-season game last year." Tang Er tapped his fingers on the table, emphasizing, "I don't see how sending people to the league matches can be related to saving people." Tie."

Bai Liu suddenly smiled: "Captain Tang thinks, how can we save a group of people who want to die?"

Tang Er beat him up: "I don't know."

"Give them hope." Bai Liu looked at Tang Erda calmly, "Victory in the league is their hope. This guild doesn't care about points, life or death. They just want to win. I guess the president of the Russell guild started I want to win regardless of everything, and then use the reward of the championship—the wish to save everyone.”

"But they lost to Killer Sequence, and they were wiped out in the next ninety qualifying matches."

Bai Liu said: "Captain Tang, do you still remember Wang Shun saying that the Russell Cemetery team collapsed to the point of abstaining after the team was wiped out? Do you think a team that really wantonly sent more players to the field to be slaughtered? Will it collapse just because the group is wiped out once?"

"It's just that five people died." Bai Liu kissed flatly, "The life of the bottom players is the least valuable thing in this game, and their victory in the mid-season game already means that they can go this way. After all, they are one step away from success, and if they can’t say it again, it will be done.”

"But Russell abstained. They didn't play the mid-season game and started from the beginning of the pre-season game. Captain Tang, what do you think is the reason?"

Tang Er fell silent.

He had an answer in his heart, but he felt that the answer was unbelievable and... sad.

Bai Liu continued: "Because of casualties."

"Starting from the mid-season game, facing a strong team, even if they can win, they have to experience another huge casualty. They would rather give up the rankings that they have saved so hard. The gas, the points, the risk is huge. It is not true, in order to reduce casualties, restart from the preseason."

"They either want to win, or they just want to live."

Tang Er fumbled in his pocket, as if he wanted to take out a cigarette, but finally held back.

Bai Liu lowered his eyes: "The formation of this type of guild requires the existence of a group that wants to kill/kill from the very beginning, that is to say, the Russell guild first entered The group of people in the game should know each other in reality."

"This kind of harm is not allowed in my community in China, so I guess, their group existed in the meaning of another group at first."

Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Tang Erda who was silent on the face: "And you came to find me alone because of this group, isn't it Captain Tang?"

Tang Erda was silent for a long, long time before opening hoarsely: "You guys just analyzed the Russell Cemetery, which reminded me of something. At this time last year, the Bureau of Heretics received a report of an abnormal event, but after a long investigation , did not find any heresies, and finally closed the coffin with social events.”

"What is this unusual case?" Bai Liu asked.

Tang Erda was silent for a while: "The owners of the Sunshine Real Estate Building collectively jumped off the building. A total of 47 people died. They jumped off the building one after another within a month. Because we suspected that heresy was involved, we suppressed the news at the time, and we investigated it later. Just let it out."

Bai Liu asked lightly: "What is the social event?"

Tang Erda took out a cigarette, and when Bai Liu nodded in agreement, he took a deep puff and said in a hoarse voice:

"Sunshine Real Estate is an unfinished real estate. It has been unfinished for more than three years. The developers who invested in it attracted foreign capital. Once an accident happened, the money went abroad. The owners who jumped off the building were all unfinished buildings. Jump down, after the jump, the family is wiped out, and there is no one in the family to help collect the body."

"After the person who jumped off the building died, the remaining owners of the unfinished building helped collect the body and sent it to the funeral home. After cremation, the ashes were placed in their original house in the unfinished building."

Tang Erda slowly exhaled a puff of smoke: "There are not many people living in the rooms in the unfinished building. They are all columbariums, like a cemetery."