novelraw Chapter 689: This game is almost over now
Chapter 689: This game is almost over now
The small boat made a U-turn on the sea's surface and charged toward the golden reef behind it.
When this game first started, no one had imagined that the game could actually involve turning back and actively crashing into a reef.
But it was too late to say anything now. After Xie Antong made her decision, no one could force her to change the ship's course against her will.
With Dark Clown's ugly expression, the small boat on the sea charged forward and crashed onto that "golden reef," instantly meeting its demise.
He thought this game was utterly absurd.
Everyone had a consensus from the very beginning: the first round wouldn't end directly, and everyone should conserve their moves.
From this perspective, being the last one in the first round should have been a stroke of good luck for him.
Who could have anticipated that man's plans are no match for heaven's will...
[Bang! It blew up~.]
The boat crashed into the reef. That was just a representation on the table; in reality, it didn't make any sound.However, the Arbitrator mimicked the sound of a collision, providing his own sound effect, seeming to be in a rather good mood.
At the same time, the small boat and the figure on it instantly vanished, leaving only a few pieces of broken wood floating on the sea's surface.
The figure on that small boat represented the people present here.
As the ship shattered, everyone felt the space around them tremble, accompanied by a strange sense of dizziness.
But when they truly focused their gaze to look, they found that the surrounding space hadn't changed at all.
......
[Why is no one speaking, hehe.]
[Game over, Player failure!]
[Alright, Miss Blank, you may now exercise your reward power.]
As he spoke, a large screen appeared in the sky above, displaying the game's success-to-failure ratio, which had now reached 2:1.
According to the game's initial rules, as long as the Troublemaker ruins one more game, they would already be considered the winner!
Xie Antong looked at the fragments floating on the sea's surface. Even at this moment, she wasn't in a hurry, seemingly lost in thought about something.
"Xue Zou, we have zero margin for error."
"Do you think what I did was right?"
Xue Zou: ......
Xue Zou had lost count of how many times the other party had proactively mentioned her.
As time passed, she increasingly felt the terror of this person's ability. It seemed like she had been observing the movements of every single person present the entire time.
Not just the Players, but all the "Heroes," and even the "Arbitrator" in the air.
Every word she spoke now, when heard by Xue Zou, felt like a probe or a trap being set for her.
So, unprecedentedly, Xue Zou simply remained silent this time, offering no response whatsoever.
This made the atmosphere between the two of them seem somewhat tense, and even the other "Hero partners" around them grew a bit nervous.
[Having trouble deciding whose identity to check?]
[Choose carefully, after all, if you lose one more round, the Players lose.]
Xue Antong raised her head, her eyes directly meeting the Arbitrator's, and shook her head.
"No, I think this game can pretty much end right about now."
"No, I've made up my mind. The question I want to ask is..."
"Are you the Troublemaker?"
Silence.
The entire room suddenly became exceptionally quiet.
Perfect Life slightly furrowed his brows but said nothing. Actually, he had harbored this suspicion for a long time, but he never voiced it, and there wasn't any clear evidence anyway.
Since this opportunity presented itself, asking this question was fine.
"Is this your question?" At this moment, Dark Clown, who was feeling very displeased due to being completely sidelined and having no sense of participation, spoke up.
"You came up with just this one question and dare to boast that the game is about to end?"
At this moment, the Spectators watching the game also began to speculate.
[: Actually, I had this suspicion too. It's not based on any deduction, mainly because it seems like the referee always participates in "Sin's" games.]
[: But even if we know, what difference does it make? You wasted the only margin for error. If you lose again, it's truly game over.]
[: Not sure, I feel "Blank" might be acting a bit impulsively.]
Xie Antong's own mind was free of distracting thoughts. In truth, she had already anticipated this question. What she needed was to definitively eliminate one possibility and get a concrete answer.
[Oh, hehe, sorry, what kind of question is this.] The Arbitrator didn't respond directly.
[What was said before was that you could ask whether a specific Player is the Troublemaker.]
"That was just an example. And when you said it, I didn't agree," Xie Antong said calmly.
Xue Zou subconsciously followed her train of thought and recalled, only then suddenly remembering.
When the Arbitrator previously asked if she intended to ask for specific information about a Player, her response was to shrug her shoulders with a smile, not actually engage in conversation!
And what was verbally agreed upon in the end was the "asking one question" that Xie Antong had mentioned earliest!
Wait... would the Arbitrator care about this kind of trickery?
While Xue Zou was inwardly shocked, Xie Antong beside her continued speaking calmly:
"Of course, you can also refuse to acknowledge it, casually claim it doesn't conform to the game's Rules, and then break the agreement."
[Hehe, little one, are you trying to provoke me? It's meaningless.]
[But since I promised, I can answer your question—I am not the Troublemaker!]
[I've said it from the beginning, I am only the referee, the fairest person here. Why won't you believe me?]
As the Arbitrator's voice faded, the Players around the round table instantly frowned, feeling this was purely a waste of a game failure opportunity.
But Xie Antong seemed to instantly let out a sigh of relief.
Although she still felt a bit puzzled by the Arbitrator's seemingly lenient, almost accommodating mode of response, she was basically certain now.
"He should have told you, right?" Xie Antong suddenly turned her head towards Feng Wang again.
"In his sleep state, he is exceptionally weak, with no ability to fight back at all."
Then, without paying attention to Feng Wang's utterly confused expression, she suddenly spoke loudly to everyone at the table:
"Everyone, it's basically confirmed."
"The identity of the [Troublemaker] is not among us, but rather..."
[Alright! A long time has passed, the daytime game is over!]
[Now, night falls!]
The Arbitrator abruptly cut off Xie Antong's words, causing the second half of her sentence to be drowned out by his booming, bell-like announcement.
Around the round table, everyone instantly vanished!