Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 727: This world is our bargaining chip in our gamble with the gods!

Looking at that suddenly increased progress, which actually appeared to be close to one-third, Nie Jiu Tian initially doubted if he was seeing things.

Just moments ago, he was thinking, how many people in this world would dare to actively choose this progress bar!?

And now it's already reached one-third?

He knew that when he checked earlier, he seemed to be ineligible to select this option, presumably it had to be players who had participated in this generation of the Game.

Did many people immediately choose it?

No, currently there's only one!

In the eyes of the whole world, it seemed that at some unknown distance ahead of him, a brilliant pillar of light shot into the sky, like a sharp sword thrust into this land.

And beside the second progress bar, a name abruptly appeared.

The strokes were sharp and solemn, as if when it was engraved here, it was written with bone-deep hatred.

—Sin!That's right, the first person to choose the second progress bar was, of course, Lu Ce. In his view, this didn't require much thought.

Being able to directly gamble with the gods in the form of a game—isn't this an opportunity?!

He was very clear about his current strength; confronting the gods through force was completely impossible.

So gambling in the form of a game was precisely the best opportunity at this stage, even the only opportunity!

They say the wager is the players' lives—nonsense! In which previous game, if he lost, would the Game have let him live?

Thinking that he could finally, to some extent, confront those existences on the same level, Lu Ce wearing the Seven Deadly Sins mask felt a thrilling tremor of excitement.

"Who designed this..."

"It must be you, Arbitrator, hehehe... you wouldn't really be?..."

In the deserted room, Lu Ce's eerie voice murmured there, talking to himself.

He didn't turn on the lights either; if outsiders saw this, they'd probably think the place was haunted.

"Hey, buddy, if you've got nothing to do usually, maybe you shouldn't wear that mask..."

Black Knight couldn't help but complain in the room.

"Being with you, I even feel the temperature dropping a bit now. Don't freeze my fuel tank later."

...

On the other side, looking at the unquestionable "Sin," Nie Jiu Tian suddenly felt a turn of events.

One person accounts for one-third?!

That didn't seem so hard to accept after all.

Just then, a screen in front of him lit up. Following the light, he saw it was a communication method from a member of the Council of Elders.

"Old man!" Xu Long's rough voice came from the screen, the noise almost comparable to Zhang Fei's.

"I found out, I seem to be able to vote on that blocking progress bar!"

Clearly, since the last veteran player return match ended, Xu Long had been continuously participating in the Game and maintained an all-win record.

"I know many of you probably don't have this qualification. It's a rare opportunity—should I join?"

Nie Jiu Tian: ...

He hadn't thought too much about it before, but now considering it, this thing was basically suicide!

"Sin" might still create some miracles, but Xu Long? His current strength among the current ranked players barely puts him in the top ten.

"Alright, I'm just letting you know, I'm joining."

After saying this, Nie Jiu Tian was stunned. Looking up, he saw the name "Xu Long" had already appeared on the progress bar.

"You... probably haven't recovered your past memories yet..."

Nie Jiu Tian said heavily.

These veteran players from the previous generation of the Game were all people who had experienced despair, whose confidence and fighting spirit had been completely shattered.

But Xu Long immediately interrupted him.

"Haha! Old man, if in those past memories, I was a coward who got knocked down, then what's the point of remembering them?"

"I'll just treat that as my past life! That's it!"

"Damn it! Why did the progress bar move so little after I clicked? Looking down on me, huh?"

After saying this, his screen directly went dark.

Only then did Nie Jiu Tian notice that after "Sin" made his choice, the progress bar directly jumped forward by one-third, but Xu Long... his progress seemed like it didn't move at all!

It seemed this progress bar wasn't equal for everyone; it likely quantified strength, ranking, influence, and a series of other factors.

The previous joy cooled down a few degrees. He didn't know how many people were willing to be that barrier standing before the iron tread of the "Game."

Nor how many were just temporarily drinking poison to quench thirst, merely offering themselves as cannon fodder.

One after another, names began to appear around the progress bar again.

—Blank!

After seeing that not-unexpected name, she acted without the slightest hesitation.

—Chiyo Eine!

Standing before Chiyo Ming's tightly shut door, no one knew exactly what she was thinking.

Behind the door, Chiyo Ming's eyes were dazed, yet she made no move to stop this outstanding descendant of hers. She seemed to be reminiscing about past memories.

"Here it comes again?..."

...

Meanwhile, in a house surrounded by Dragon Group's operational members, distorted heat waves were currently spreading.

Even in external air temperature measurements, the temperature here had reached a terrifying fifty degrees Celsius!

Inside the room, the camp bed beneath Sun was already on fire. He lay on the scorching metal frame, eyes wide with fury, desperately trying to lift one hand.

Before the last game, he had just devoured [Judgment]; during the game, he also swallowed [Slaughter]'s power and opened full-map taunts.

His body was being ravaged and tormented by terrifying energy, unable to move, unable to touch the option for the progress bar before him.

Sun: ?

"Damn your ancestors, not letting me choose, huh..."

"I want to gamble!"

Squeezing out surging rage through gritted teeth, Sun was speechless. What did it mean by not letting him choose?!

Suddenly erupting, a ring of fire burst out with him as the center, shaking the surrounding walls until they cracked, violently impacting the crowd outside.

Then, among the opponents in the sky, Sun's name prominently appeared. That name also visibly advanced the progress bar a notch.

Having regained his mobility, Sun flipped over, first extinguishing the fire, then directly spending a large sum of his ranking points in the Game's public communication channel to buy a voice pack.

"Damn it!"

"This thing must be chosen! There's no other possibility. This world is our stake in the gamble against the gods!"