Chapter 128 Dilemma

Chapter 128: Chapter 128 DilemmaWithin just ten minutes of the game rules being announced, hundreds had met untimely deaths. Some lost in the roulette game, while others panicked and tried to forcibly escape the confines of the Black-White Roulette, leading to their demise.

To prevent panic from triggering a new wave of suicides, the government had to deploy military forces to blockade the tens of thousands of people within the roulette area and evacuate the surrounding residents.

"...try to stay put and not wander around, rescue workers have already entered the blockaded area, the nation will not abandon anyone..."

Government announcements scrolled on video mobile phones, displaying some footage of rescue workers entering the blockaded zone. Xu Huo could tell that although these people were dressed uniformly, some of their movements and postures clearly showed they weren’t trained.

They were players.

The government wanted to use players to draw attention and buy time to seek an opportunity to resolve the crisis from its roots.

At this time, someone must have been sneaking toward the Skyscraper.

Xu Huo glanced at his tickets. Apart from the one leaving for Brick Fairy Tale Town in five hours, the earliest of the other tickets would take five days to wait.

If players from other zones were still scattered around the world, they could wait a few more days, but now the group calling themselves the Guile Sound Knights for some reason had attracted a large number of players to Sea City. If they didn’t see any Super Props within three days, this group would surely take their anger out on Sea City and even the entire country.

His original plan was to disguise himself as an outside-zone player, seize the Super Props, and then use the copy to escape, drawing the attention of players from all zones. As long as the Super Props couldn’t appear in Zone 014 again, the crisis would naturally be resolved.

Even if players from other zones were to arrive later, it wouldn’t be a situation where large numbers of high-level players were gathered.

But now an unexpected event had occurred, and he was trapped in the Black-White life and death situation.

If this was a copy, then tickets were very likely unusable, not to mention shifting attention.

Verifying whether one could escape the Black-White life and death situation by ticket was simple – just notice if other players had successfully escaped, or directly use Wang Chaoqing as an experiment.

But whether it was successful or not, he temporarily couldn’t leave. Once he escaped using the copy, he wouldn’t be able to return to Zone 014 for at least a few days.

And what might happen over these few days was unpredictable.

Moreover, due to the Guile Sound Knights, Sea City was no longer appropriate for implementing his plan. So, even though the government had certainly deployed people to find the instigators, he still had to think of another way to escape the Black-White life and death situation first.

"Wait wait wait! How long exactly do we have to wait!" Wang Chaoqing, who failed to get a ticket from him, smashed a cup in fury.

Xu Huo lifted his eyelids to glance at him and then continued to lower his head to look at his phone.

Seeing him not speaking, Wang Chaoqing had no choice but to come over in compromise, "Bro, think of a way quickly. We can’t just wait to die."

"Right now, there’s no better way than to wait." Unless the government side solved this crisis, their only option was to find an exit from the life and death situation.

"You might be able to wait, but I can’t. I will snatch a ticket if I have to!" Wang Chaoqing turned and headed out, but upon reaching the door and seeing the bloody mess on it, he faltered, especially after turning back to see that Xu Huo had no intention of stopping him, he dejectedly said, "You tell me, what do I have to do for you to give me a ticket?"

"Go check out the Skyscraper," Xu Huo finally gave him a serious look. "You don’t have to do anything. If there are outside players in the Skyscraper, try to follow them; if not, come back."

"That simple?" Wang Chaoqing looked at him in surprise.

"Can you do anything else?" Xu Huo countered.

"Fair point." Wang Chao scratched his head and picked up the store manager’s laptop, placing his hand on it.

At that moment, someone knocked on the door; it was an elderly couple.

"We are looking for a place to sit for a bit." The two were quite old and had waited outside for a while without seeing any rescuers, so they decided to find a place to settle down.

The seats in the mall were all taken, and other stores were equally crowded, only Xu Huo’s shop remained empty because someone had died there, and no one had come in.

The store manager hesitated for a moment but still opened the door, letting the people in, and poured water for them.

"Thank you, thank you." The elderly couple repeated their thanks, and the store manager hurriedly repeated Xu Huo’s earlier statement to them, adding, "If you two see the roulette, be sure to look closely. It might save thousands of lives."

"Manager, that’s not right." The female waitress couldn’t help but say.

"What do you know, the more people there are, the more chances there are." The store manager scolded. If he wasn’t worried that having more people might make Xu Huo disregard them, he would have already gone out to pull people in.

The waitress wanted to say something more, but Xu Huo spoke up to interrupt, "It’s nothing, the roulette seems to appear randomly, it’s unrelated to how many people there are."

With that said, everyone settled down again.

Xu Huo checked the time again. Nearly twenty minutes had passed since the last explosion, and no new life and death scenario had occurred yet...

"Snap!" The thought had just crossed his mind when a male waiter sitting near him suddenly stood up quickly, overturning the cup on the table.

"Roulette! Roulette!"

He stared straight ahead, his hands flailing aimlessly. Before the others could pull him back or move away, he exploded into a spray of blood, with copious amounts of blood splattering the ground and table.

"Aaagh!" A new round of screams erupted in the store. The Girl in the painting put down her phone and grabbed several handfuls of paper towels, stuffing them into their mouths.

"How did he die so quickly?" The store manager exclaimed in horror, "Wasn’t there a ten-minute countdown?"

"He touched the roulette with his flailing hands," Xu Huo said gravely. "The more panicked they are, the faster they die."

"So should we tie them up or..." Before the store manager could finish his sentence, two new sounds broke the silence – one from the female waiter who had scrambled onto the table earlier, the other from the elderly lady who had just entered with her husband.

Having seen what had happened earlier, Xu Huo quickly restrained the waitress’s arms, while the elderly gentleman chose to hold onto his wife to prevent her from moving.

Fortunately, after the initial panic, these two calmed down relatively quickly, especially the female waitress. Although her eyes looked vacant, she continually shouted, "A meter and a half tall roulette! Standing right in front... There’s a countdown on it... The countdown is ticking... Nine minutes, fifty seconds, nine minutes, forty-nine seconds, nine minutes, forty-eight seconds..."

Xu Huo tried to snap her out of it, but she quickly focused on the roulette like the previous person, counting down second by second!

"Hurry up and tie her up!" The store manager said in a fluster, "Since spinning it will kill you, maybe not spinning it could let you live!"

The others snapped out of their daze and searched for rope, during the waitress’s countdown, they tied both her and the elderly lady to chairs.