novelraw Chapter 171 - 109: A Demon God Lost His Cool—I’m Not Saying Who
Chapter 171 - 109: A Demon God Lost His Cool—I’m Not Saying Who
Lu Wenwu chuckled, raised his hand and drew a "井" character on the ground.
"Let’s play tic-tac-toe!"
"The rules are like this, we take turns playing, one person draws ○, the other draws ×."
"The goal of the game is to be the first to form a line of three consecutive pieces on the board, which can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal."
"Whoever connects three pieces in a line on this 3×3 board wins."
"How about it, pretty simple, right?"
"Haha, play? And such a simple two-dimensional game? Humans..." The Reincarnation Demon God almost burst out laughing, "As a challenger, I allow you to take the first move."
"Oh? How generous and magnanimous of you."
With that, Lu Wenwu casually drew an × in the center of the board, his eyes filled with amusement.
"Now, mighty Dimensional Demon God: Space-Time, it’s your turn to shine."
The Space-Time Demon God glanced nonchalantly at the board and the whole deity was stunned.
In that instant, it had already simulated all the possible outcomes of the next moves.
Along with reaching the conclusion, the Space-Time Demon God fell silent.
Because it immediately realized something terrifying.
As long as Lu Wenwu played normally and wasn’t deliberately sending him to win, he simply couldn’t lose!
The Space-Time Demon God instinctively wanted to deny this game, to activate time reversal and start over.
If it went first, then...
At this thought, the Space-Time Demon God was stunned again.
There aren’t many strategies on a 3×3 board.
Compared to the infinitely variable game of Go, the simplicity and directness of tic-tac-toe make its outcome easily predictable.
Without considering repetitions, it reviewed all 19,683 possibilities and 362,880 processes of tic-tac-toe in an instant.
Then, it reached a conclusion that left itself in utter despair.
The same as before.
As long as Lu Wenwu was playing correctly and not giving away moves, even if it went first, it couldn’t win.
At best, a draw!
But if it’s a draw, it would lose!
The silent Space-Time Demon God was sweating profusely by this point.
It painstakingly drew a ○ in the corner.
It drew very, very slowly.
Like a high school student who knew they’d bombed their exam but still had to grit their teeth and check their scores.
Lu Wenwu promptly drew an × next to it, giving it no chance of winning.
The Space-Time Demon God cracked.
It completely cracked!
The Space-Time Demon God began crazily trying to rewind the board, looking for any chance of winning.
But whether it or Lu Wenwu went first, no matter how many times it rewound, Lu Wenwu remained solid as a rock, showing no signs of faltering.
Influence the opponent’s mind?
Directly kill the opponent?
Impossible.
To prevent any outside tricks, Lu Wenwu preemptively used a Demon Contract to block every possible path; everything had to be resolved on the board.
The Demon Contract stipulated that the Space-Time Demon God couldn’t even reverse time to before the contract was signed.
But what use is rewinding after the game started?
Even if the Space-Time Demon God rewound the game endlessly, it still wouldn’t have the slightest hope of winning.
At that moment, the Space-Time Demon God suddenly felt disoriented.
Am I... really going to lose?
Am I... actually losing to a mortal!?
Did I... lose!!!
Defeated!!!
After an unknown number of rewinds by the Space-Time Demon God, time once again returned to the moment just after Lu Wenwu placed his first piece.
Mao Mao had separated from him, now squatting beside with two apostles and Lan Shan, watching intently.
Just as Lu Wenwu was waiting for the Space-Time Demon God to make its move,
suddenly, at a certain moment, he felt the atmosphere on site suddenly tense up significantly.
It seemed a powerful life form was undergoing extreme emotional turmoil.
This was followed by a series of incessant system prompts.
[Dimensional Demon God: Space-Time cast a gaze at you, expressing bewilderment at your existence]
[Dimensional Demon God: Space-Time’s favorability towards you decreased: -5]
[Current favorability: Indifferent (-5)]
[Dimensional Demon God: Space-Time cast a gaze at you, expressing humiliation at your existence]
[Dimensional Demon God: Space-Time’s favorability towards you decreased: -20]
[Current favorability: Indifferent (-25)]
[Dimensional Demon God: Space-Time cast a gaze at you, expressing anger at your existence]
[Dimensional Demon God: Space-Time’s favorability towards you decreased: -25]
[Current favorability: Displeased (-50)]
[Dimensional Demon God: Space-Time cast a gaze at you, expressing resentment at your existence]
[Dimensional Demon God: Space-Time cast a gaze at you, expressing killing intent towards you]
[Dimensional Demon God: Space-Time’s favorability towards you decreased: -25]
[Current favorability: Hostile (-75)]
Oh, annoyed!
A Demon God is annoyed!
If it were any other Demon God, they might not have gotten angry and even found the fact of losing to a mere mortal quite amusing.
But the Space-Time Demon God evidently didn’t see it that way.
It’s truly thin-skinned.
For such a previously arrogant and conceited being, being "toyed with" by a humble, insignificant mortal like Lu Wenwu was exceedingly embarrassing.
Very disgraceful.
Hence, it was not only angry now but also furious beyond words.
The favorability was even just five points away from reaching the level of [Bitter Grudge].