Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 276: Boring Trolley Problem, The Person Never Truly Seen

“What are you thinking about? You didn’t seem to respond at all when I just greeted you.”

Xie Antong calmly withdrew her hand and rubbed her fingers slightly, unexpectedly feeling a bit numb!

Inside, she was already shocked. Whether Lu Ce was “Sin” or not, with just this one move, there was no way he was some unnoticed player.

This instinctive avoidance of force was definitely among the top tier of frontline players.

Tsk...

However, no matter how stormy her thoughts were, she still looked completely innocent.

Lu Ce: ...

Hearing her question, Lu Ce’s mouth twitched with some speechlessness.

Though he was indeed thinking about some “god”-related matters, he didn’t recall ever zoning out so completely that he couldn’t hear others speak.

If that were the case, he’d have died countless times in the game already.But he didn’t want to say anything now. Scanning Xie Antong up and down, he felt something was off about her today.

Why did she seem a little more lively?

This time her emo level was lower?

Because of the game’s aftereffects, it seemed like it had been a long time since this woman had carelessly touched him.

It felt a bit unfamiliar.

“Nothing much. I was just listening to Teacher Zhao’s lecture, seeing what test he was talking about.”

Now it was Xie Antong’s turn to be speechless. This guy really didn’t bother making up any lies anymore.

“Really? What was he just talking about? I didn’t pay attention.”

Xie Antong deliberately asked.

Lu Ce: ...

He lifted his head and glanced. On the blackboard was the boring trolley problem—this human nature test always involved this thing.

“Everyone can look at this picture. I’m sure you’ve all seen it before.”

On the podium, Zhao Jiacheng was patiently playing a PPT, explaining.

A very classic topic: Five people were tied on one track, and one person was tied on another.

If you pull the lever, the train will kill the one person but save the five.

“But in the past, this was just some abstract thought experiment. We all know in real life, we almost never face a situation where we have to pull a lever.”

“But now, everything has changed. Everything is different! With the birth of the Divine Selection Game, perhaps some of us will face such a choice in the future.”

“I want to know, how would you choose?”

Answers started to come in from the class, scattered and casual. The young people gave self-righteous responses, half mocking, half showing off.

“Destroy the train!”

“I’d just drift the train and crush all six people on the tracks!”

“Can they all just lie down together and be sent off together?”

“I don’t have a lever, so that thing’s a toilet plunger!”

The voices gradually became frivolous and chaotic, like a contest to see who could say the most outrageous thing.

Seeing no one took it seriously, Zhao Jiacheng’s face first stiffened, then relaxed with relief, smiling at the people before him.

No one is serious—well, that’s actually good.

It proves that the vast majority of ordinary people haven’t entered another world in thought, haven’t realized the seriousness of the matter.

That’s a good thing!

...

“Playing the trolley problem, huh.”

From a corner, Lu Ce casually said, roughly answering Xie Antong’s earlier question.

Xie Antong was stunned, thinking, Your level of brushing me off is truly top-notch. I clearly asked what he was just talking about, and you just lift your head and start describing the picture.

But she didn’t call him out and continued to ask:

“So what do you think? How would you choose?”

Though it seemed casual, she was actually quite curious.

In the last game, she always wanted to ask “Sin” one question—if the truth about the prison break wasn’t to kill all prisoners but actually gave a chance for everyone to escape, what would he choose?

As “Sin,” what would he choose? Did he really kill everyone just because the game required it?

But last time, she felt she didn’t have the identity or qualifications to ask this question, since “Sin” led everyone through that Hell Mode alone, facing the underground gods.

But now, with Lu Ce right in front of her, she really wanted to ask.

“Oh, just pull the lever and save more people.”

What she didn’t expect was that Lu Ce’s answer was so thoughtless, as if he hadn’t even considered such a meaningless question. He said it outright.

Xie Antong: ...

“If that’s your real thought, I’ll eat this table.”

“Go ahead and eat it. I swear that’s my true thought, or else I’ll have a miserable death.” Lu Ce said casually.

He didn’t care about such curses; swearing “death to the whole family” meant nothing to him.

“Do you have to be this dismissive?” Xie Antong sighed, helpless.

Was this guy always such a tough nut to crack?

Really hard to deal with.

Lu Ce glanced back at Xie Antong and narrowed his eyes slightly.

He could clearly feel this woman was off—not just her emo mood had vanished, but the questions she asked were strangely calculated.

What was she probing for?

But even Lu Ce himself hadn’t realized that he was no longer who he used to be.

When his gaze became serious, that intense pressure surged out like the eyes of a beast in the jungle.

Xie Antong didn’t know if it was just her imagination, but instinctively she thought of another person’s shadow.

“This question is meaningless. You would never encounter such a situation,” Lu Ce said indifferently.

“Why?”

“Because in reality, people never need to make choices unrelated to their own interests.”

“And if interests are involved, choices are never difficult.”

Perhaps sensing some strange “intent” in Xie Antong, Lu Ce’s voice turned colder this time.

Xie Antong fell silent.

Suddenly, she felt that what she didn’t ask in the last game could actually be answered well by Lu Ce’s words—

If interests are involved, choices are never difficult.

Just now, she suddenly realized how determined the Lu Ce beside her was.

Someone so unwavering in their path would definitely stop at nothing, because any means were “secondary issues” that could be sacrificed for the main contradiction.

And speaking of stopping at nothing... the image of “Sin” became unusually clear.

Her hand moved under the table, gently rubbing, feeling the sensation of her knuckles from before.

It seemed that today she finally realized that she had never truly seen this person clearly before...