novelraw Chapter 769: Death Countdown, Grab His Hand
Chapter 769: Death Countdown, Grab His Hand
[You... hmm, very pleasurable!]
[Pleasure] gave a solemn, respectful expression, offered his own highest evaluation, and raised a hand to give a thumbs-up.
Lu Ce glanced at him with the eye on that half-red face, completely ignoring him.
[Pleasure] didn't care either, reached out and patted Xie Antong's shoulder, and said:
[Little girl, you are truly pitiful~.]
[You came here to help him and almost got yourself killed, yet he's been busy helping another man all this time.]
Xie Antong: ......
Meanwhile, [Knowledge]'s expression had already begun to gradually twist towards ferocity, looking like he was gradually turning dark.
He had been mocking quite happily before, only to discover the other party hadn't reacted at all; he was actually distracted, helping someone else play the game over there?!
Then what was all that arrogance you were spouting at me earlier, and what was that about "I'm joining the game"?Purely... making a fool of me, right?
And at this moment, [Despair]'s sinister gaze was fixed dead on Perfect Life, a look that seemed to want to kill.
Yet within that gaze, there was also a hint of confusion.
What did he mean by cracking his rules?
He had heard the other party blurt out the word "rules," but had he set up any additional rules?
[What do you mean, rules that are like cheating?]
"Oh? Not willing to admit it," Perfect Life said through gritted teeth.
"This game of yours, whenever I choose to save one side, the other side always has all sorts of unexpected incidents that cause death."
"Your murder game is fundamentally unfair, completely following your whims, using your rules to make it impossible for me to save everyone, impossible to successfully make the correct choice!"
[Despair]: ......
What utter nonsense, those rules don't even exist!
His game was actually an idealist game. When Perfect Life truly believed in his heart that he could do it, he could do it.
Similarly, when he truly believed in his heart that he had made the correct choice, then he had!
But people with high moral standards always hesitate, and any choice they make will feel like they haven't done it completely right. Even if they saved someone in one round, they would still regret why they couldn't save the people before.
From the very start of their game, when that batch of players died right in front of Perfect Life, he had already lost. He could no longer have a clear, untroubled heart. His "perfection" was the reason for his failure.
But just now, how did he manage to successfully save everyone?
Was it because those words from "Sin" gave him confidence, or did the word "rules" truly dissolve something, making it so he didn't need a stable heart?
But of course, he wouldn't say this to Perfect Life. He just wore a profound expression and looked towards the Arbitrator in the sky.
At this look, he was stunned. The Arbitrator, for some reason, wore a somewhat dazed expression, floating in the sky looking like he didn't know who he was.
[Hey, Arbitrator!]
Under a mental shock from him, the Arbitrator finally snapped out of it, then reacted for a moment before speaking:
"The game continues. In [Despair]'s game battle, the player has not yet achieved victory."
"What?!" Perfect Life was dumbfounded.
He had already gone through all possible options by permutation and combination. How could he not have completed this game?
"I said the game continues. According to the rules of the previous game, you have not yet made the correct choice."
Perfect Life felt as if struck by lightning in an instant. The emotions within him churned, and his mind felt like a bowl of mush.
[Despair], meanwhile, stared at the Arbitrator for a while. Seeing that although he didn't explain how Perfect Life saved people, since it didn't affect him much, he let it go. No need to say more.
But just at this moment, [Knowledge] suddenly turned his spearhead towards the Arbitrator, speaking very rudely:
[What are you doing, not even managing the countdown anymore? If you're utterly useless here, then there's no need for you to be the referee!]
The Arbitrator felt these words sounded particularly grating. He frowned and said indifferently:
"There was a temporary issue with the game. I needed to adjudicate [Despair]'s game. My apologies."
As he spoke, a new countdown appeared once again.
[Knowledge]'s face remained exceptionally ugly, but he couldn't say much either. Looking towards "Sin" again, he found he was still facing away from him, shouting towards Perfect Life in the distance:
"Looks like you still haven't made the correct choice."
"Then let's play some more. No hurry."
In [Knowledge]'s eyes, this guy was also incredible. He was actually still ignoring him at this stage, talking to that Perfect Life over there.
He began to gradually grow furious.
[No hurry?!]
[Hah, my patience with you is gradually being exhausted.]
[I originally wanted to give you more time, so you could find your own ignorance a bit more. But if that's the case... I should impose some time limits on you.]
[From now on, I will use a suitable method to put your lives on a countdown. Stop wasting my time!]
As he spoke, he raised a finger.
[Swamp Calamity!]
As his words fell, the sound of tides once again rang in everyone's ears. The two pieced-together, distinctly separate worlds suddenly fused!
The endless black water from the Despair Secret Sea beside them seemed to break through some boundary, surging and crashing over, instantly swallowing Lu Ce and Xie Antong, who were relatively close!
The feeling wasn't at all like falling into the deep sea, but rather being squeezed within a vast expanse of viscous, solid matter. Xie Antong instantly suffocated in the pitch black.
Was [Knowledge] starting to kill people for real?!
No time to think. She instantly used the most efficient method among all her abilities—using Heartward Drift to arrive by Lu Ce's side!
Being crushed by terrifyingly heavy pressure, she couldn't extend a finger or open her mouth to speak. She only felt an immense force trying to crush and absorb her.
But in the pitch-black despair, a large hand suddenly grabbed her hand! The power in it was like a savior from another world coming to pull her out from hell!
Then, an immense, tremendous force came from that hand. Xie Antong only felt her arm go numb, as if she was being forcibly yanked out from underground!
Finally, her head broke through the water's surface. She turned to look. That half-crimson face was staring at her, and in his mouth, he was chewing something.
No time to ask about his condition. She quickly pulled her other hand out of the water and said:
"Calamity!"