Chapter 621 617 Trial [Star Devourer]

Chapter 621 617. Trial [Star Devourer]

In the discussion with Sera, Lu Yu saw through the key to this team competition - management difficulty and leadership ability.

If the rules clearly require the entire group to move towards a certain goal, then the side with fewer people will naturally have little hope. However, under the theme of the team competition [Predator], it seems that they need to cooperate with each other, but in fact it is still the sum of countless individuals, not the actual collective.

The loss of interests will not be directly presented to the group, but will first affect the individual.

The rules "At the end of the first stage of the trial, the twelve regions with the largest number of jades and still have the jade marks will enter the next stage of the trial," echoed "Every twenty jades can restore the qualification of one eliminated player, and the number of jades required for each player to restore the qualification increases with the number of times."

It seems to be a group, but the rules raise the risk of individuals. On the surface, the means for the group to resist risks for individuals is to consume more jades and bring them back to the team, so a very subtle problem is on the table.

How much is this temporary team willing to pay for a stranger who has just met for one night?

Compared with moving around, staying in a group near the mansion in the early stage when there are no special events is undoubtedly the most favorable option for each individual. In comparison, exploring and obtaining information from the outside world is undoubtedly very risky, so the leader elected by this temporary group or appearing in other ways must formulate rules to compensate these people.

With a small number of people, these are relatively easy to operate in practice, but once the number of people increases, everything is full of variables.

Lu Yu is creating management costs for each leading group by fanning the flames, that is, the conflict between the bottom-level personal interests and the team's big goal direction.

For each pioneer member, although they have received compensation and promises from the leader, once they suffer damage that is difficult to recover in a short period of time in this trial, it may be catastrophic for the subsequent trials. No one can guarantee that the next turntable will still stay on the team competition, and no one can guarantee that the original promise will not be turned into a bubble after the loss increases.

All this was brought to the table with the second special event that occurred after nightfall.

Special trial event [Dimmed Starlight], the jade mark in the trial venue will randomly self-destruct as the turntable rotates.

One-third of the jade that Lu Yu got from fishing was broken, and Chongwu and Gale, who stayed in the mansion, escaped this random wave with the "advantage" of only one jade.

"Interesting, really interesting, this is not a simple team competition at all, the real big deal is "management" and "dispatching", how to turn the number of people into a real advantage is something that every leading region must figure out, but in such a short time, this is so difficult."

Lulu finally caught up with the train of thought, she could already imagine the scene where the group of unlucky people who were ordered to go out with two or three jades happened to have all their marks self-destructed. If there was only one, the leaders might still pay for the continuation of the rules, but what if the number increased sharply?

Therefore, Lu Yu accelerated the fishing progress after the stars began to dim. At the same time, he would confiscate all the jades collected by people through various channels. In these occasions, Lu Yu and his three friends would always claim to be the trialists in the leading regions, and their words were full of sarcastic and extremely sarcastic, pushing the map cannon and indiscriminate AOE to the limit.

It should be said that the effect was immediate. Soon Lu Yu and his party saw that many regions with lagging jades were chasing and killing trialists in areas such as Granny.

"Granny region? That's fine. If you hand over all the stars, we won't do it. Don't ask why you hand them over. You asked for it!"

This is a relatively rational group that does not want to waste too much energy to deal with continuous events.

"Don't let them go. I want to see why you are so arrogant. You just happened to participate in a competition area with many qualifiers. People who don't know would think you are so strong."

"Don't you like to snatch? All your stars belong to us. Break your legs!"

This is a radical who just wants to vent his anger after not caring.

In fact, it is not just the Glenni area. The leaders of other leading areas also vaguely feel that someone is secretly pushing the situation to change, making the first day that should have been spent smoothly become extremely chaotic, but they can no longer control the situation.

[Starlight Dim] caused them to suffer heavy losses when they were originally in the leading position. It happened that the entire event did not provide direct data information, so there was no way to know the current results of other areas. Everyone was panicked.

Secondly, after the starlight dimmed, many people were eliminated unlucky, and they were basically the advance team who went out. According to the previous promise, they must pay 20 jade pieces to restore the qualification of these people to participate in the competition. After a while, the loss has made everyone who can sit on the fishing platform impatient.

The regions that had been secretly trying to reach a non-aggression agreement and achieve joint promotion have torn up the agreement and fought for the jade in the wild. It is difficult for the leaders to dissuade the actions of their subordinates, so they simply join in. Only in this way can they continue to slightly influence the warship that is out of control and prevent it from capsizing before promotion.

Lu Yu captured a trialist from the Grani region. He said that the wise and prestigious Mr. Pareska has been trying to promote an offensive and defensive alliance with the two major regions. Once formed, unless there is an extremely special event, promotion will be a foregone conclusion.

Sure enough, there are many smart people among the trialists who know how to make the most of their leading advantages, but... now all these ideas have become a bubble.

The confrontation between ordinary trialists is getting more and more intense. It seems that people in Glani are spreading the rumor that "stars have special uses and are likely to be exchanged for special items."

When talking with leaders of other regions, Pareska was publicly humiliated as "a shameless villain who says one thing in front of others and another behind their backs."

Pareska, who was born in an extraordinary family, also has his own pride. Adhering to the style of doing things "if it's difficult, then don't do it", he put down his gentlemanly manners and directly cursed at Serkalo. This unpleasant meeting intensified the mutual confrontation between the leading regions. The actions that were originally suppressed by the leaders became more frequent and evolved into a big fight.

After nightfall, the atmosphere of the New Year was everywhere in the trial site. The fireworks were no worse than Lulu's, and the New Year flavor was full.

"Is this all in your plan, teacher?" Heroura looked admiring.

"Almost. What I'm most worried about is that this group of people really stick together. In this way, even if special events occur frequently, their lead will most likely be stable. In this way, I will have to spend a little more effort to help you advance." Lu Yu said.

On the way back to the mansion with a whole day's harvest, Lulu accidentally sensed a basement hidden in the snow. Going down the stone steps, a puppet stood alone in this narrow, unfurnished secret room. Its shape is quite similar to the streamer of light that I saw before.

"If you have the jade, you can trade with me." The puppet said.

"What can be traded?"

"Information, props, everything."

"If I want to know the specific ranking of the number of jade ore in each region, can you provide it?"

After a moment of silence, the puppet, who was obviously directly controlled by the puppeteer in the secret meeting, spoke: "One hundred jade ore."

Papa shouted: "One hundred, your mouth is ten people!"

Lu Yu couldn't help laughing. In a trance, he thought that this was a discussion about RTS games, and the word population was quite funny, but after thinking about it, it was indeed the case.

"Information is always expensive. I can tell you that someone has already bought this information."

"What about the items? What does it include?" Lu Yu asked.

"Materials that can be carried out of the trial, equipment and props that can be used in the trial."

Now Lu Yu understood that the cooperation between the major leading regions was fragmented so quickly, perhaps because they gradually discovered that this level could also be exchanged for more with "redundancy", and individuals were already ready to move for themselves.

Why should I hand over jade ore for tactical needs? Can this bring me more benefits? It is better to exchange it for real benefits. Anyway, we are ahead and there is a high probability that we will not lose.

Once such a thought appears, the morale of the team will be scattered and it will be difficult to lead.

"Here are the 100 jades, but I need to confirm the statistical time of this information."

The puppet was silent for a while, as if confirming: "The final statistics of the secret meeting were triggered after [Starlight Dim]."

Lu Yu nodded: "Okay, I exchanged it."

The puppet began to broadcast: "First place: Granny 2074 pieces; second place: Delno 1970 pieces; third place..."

After a long broadcast, Lu Yu heard the name of Geglan.

"Ranked 21st, Gegelan has 464 jades, you are still 996 away from the 12th place of the promotion line."

Knowing that the people who bought the information only care about the data between themselves and the first place, the secret meeting puppet master directly paused the broadcast and said: "There are a total of 24 regions. Gegelan's performance has improved significantly compared with before. Congratulations."

Lu Yu was not surprised by this result. The natural gap at the starting line destined their pursuit to be very difficult, and the tactics adopted by other leading regions on the first day also made it impossible for them to quickly obtain jade. It was very gratifying that they were not the last.

After getting the result, Lu Yu was about to leave. Suddenly, he turned his head and said: "It seems that there is no rule restricting me from taking you away."

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Seeing Lu Yu coming back with a puppet, Chongwu and Gale, who stayed at home, stared at each other. After some explanation, they immediately moved the puppet to the basement.

After enjoying dinner, the three fell asleep. Other areas can take turns to go out, but they can't... Actually, it's Papa and Herora who can't. The trinity of Coal Ball can completely make one person work and two people sleep. Not only Sera, but even Lu Yu feels that Coal Ball Potion is really a good thing.

How come Lulu can't reproduce this good thing stably? Is it the product of failed experiments? Strange.

"Announcement, announcement, announcement!"

"Emergency, Lucky Star Falls."

Coal Ball, who had just taken a nap, suddenly opened his eyes. A bright track in the sky slid towards the forest not far away. The dazzling tail flame and the fireballs that kept splitting and scattering around, even if you know it's just a fake meteorite, you can't help but want to praise this group of puppeteers. They are indeed like a dedicated game maker, who has achieved a balance between visual effects and details.

"The first person to trigger the Lucky Star Master will add 500 jades to the area where he is located, and the fragments will provide 20 jades, and the jades will be counted off-site and will not be taken away or self-destructed."

"At the same time, the Lucky Star Master will turn the wheel of fate after being triggered."

Papa estimated the distance of the fall and sighed: "It's too late to rush over now. Why doesn't this good star fall on our faces?"

The lucky boy was quite sorry that the lucky star didn't hit his head.

Chongwu stretched out his rat tail in front of Papa and shook it: "It's okay, Senior Bass is very powerful, isn't he? I didn't expect that we would not be at the bottom so soon. We will definitely be promoted."

The puppet waiter was silent for a while, and suddenly spoke again.

"The lucky star has been obtained by the Delno region, and the wheel of fate has begun to turn..."

"The trial [Star Devourer] is about to begin. Please pay attention to all regions. The [Star Devourer] trial is about to begin."

There was no trial description, and all the servants fell silent at the same time.

The moon was in the sky, and several secret puppet masters in red clothes fell from the sky with a puppet about two meters tall and covered with black cloth.

With such a scale, everyone felt something was wrong.

The leader of the secret meeting, a white-haired old man, coughed and read out the trial rules that were not explained to the servants.

"The Star Devourer Trial will randomly select one person in each district mansion area to accept the challenge of the Star Devourer. If the challenge is successful, three hundred off-site calculation jades will be obtained."

The secret meeting red-clothed man uncovered the black cloth covering the puppet. Under the moonlight, its black, coarse hair reflected the cold light, and it was filled with a strong smell of blood.

"Nice to meet you, Lu Yu, the qualifier from the Gelan Field. I think you should be familiar with it. It is the puppet [Silent Pilgrim] that you opened in the Box of Destiny, which eliminated countless Gelan trialists."

"He received a restrained order in the Gelan Field that eliminated more than injured, and killing was not allowed, but this time... the Star Devourer Trial, it will be launched in full force." The secret meeting red-clothed reminded, "The surrender of you chosen ones is still valid, this is the only good news."

Lu Yu asked: "What is the price of failing the challenge?"

The old man in red raised his mouth: "Star Devourer, as the name suggests, the total number of jade ore in the area will be swallowed by it. Those who fight against it will be directly eliminated, and the cost of restoring qualifications is even higher."

"Is there a rule that what price can be paid to become its designated challenger?" Lu Yu tried to find a breakthrough point.

"I'm sorry, no."

The old man in red put his hand on the back of the Silent Pilgrim, and the flow of magic made its dark eyes begin to shine. The terrifying murderous aura gushed out of its body. It was like a weapon that had stained countless lives with blood. Just waking up was enough to be terrifying.

"Now, the roll call begins."

The Star Devourer slowly turned his head, and his murderous eyes fell on...

"Trialist Heroula, please be prepared. The Star Devourer has issued a challenge to you."

Heroula looked at the forbidden magic beast in front of her and had to look up to it, and swallowed hard.