Chapter 527

"In the last round of games with her, because of her mistake, two new players died, and one veteran player died. This... was an avoidable casualty."

People who could have lived died.

This was a very difficult thing for the Paladin to accept.

This is not only because it relates to rating benefits, but also relates to this 'Knight's Heart' of his.

In this dangerous Eerie game where one can die at any time, he adheres to his principles and bottom line, providing help to many new players without experience and strength, letting them live as much as possible.

Many veteran players have advised him, but he just expressed gratitude and continued to persist in himself.

"Mr. Paladin, please don't pin the blame for the death of companions on me. They died, and in the final analysis, it also has something to do with you. If you could have persuaded them at the beginning, would they have died?"

Sawada Iko spoke immediately.

She had to do something.

"..."

This woman still dares to bite back? The Paladin looked at Sawada Iko.

"Without your cajoling, would they not have executed according to my instructions?"

"Don't you realize it yet? They, no, we don't trust you, so we don't do as you say, that's all. If we trusted you, why wouldn't we execute according to your instructions? In such a dangerous Eerie game, does such a good old man who protects strangers regardless of his own safety really exist?"

Sawada Iko looked at the other new players, "You ask how many people among the new players on the scene will believe it?"

Several people's eyes flickered.

"I believe."

At this time,

Hoshino Ai spoke, "I believe. Mr. Zero protected me, and also saved one new player after another threatened by Eerie bodies. You... aren't you saved by Mr. Zero?"

She looked directly at Sawada Iko, "If it weren't for Mr. Zero's stepping forward, you and your friend would have long been killed by Eerie infected bodies and mutated into new Eerie bodies."

Lin Ye's act of saving people is an undeniable fact. If Sawada Iko denies Lin Ye's act of saving people, she is also indicating her own unreasonable entanglement and lack of logic.

Sawada Iko felt the strange gazes from everyone, and also felt the gaze from Fujibayashi Kyou.

Arguing about this matter has no meaning, and she doesn't need to argue.

The reason she wants to find is also not this matter at all.

"Miss Rina, I remember Mr. Zero's kindness in helping me,"

"But at least, before this, I don't trust veteran players. Compared to veteran players protecting us, I believe more that veteran players keeping new players by their side is to use them as bait at the right time."

"Such veteran players are not non-existent. Not to mention the Eerie dungeon games I have experienced, just in this dungeon mission, that veteran player,"

Sawada Iko pointed to the two heads on the lobby, "Perverted killer player, in this round of the game, how many new players were killed by killer players?"

"How many new players believed this perverted killer player, only to be backstabbed and killed, dying with hatred, without even a chance to struggle?"

"At least if they died in the hands of Eerie bodies, they could blame their own lack of strength and bad luck, and could accept the fact that they were killed by Eerie. But dying in the hands of a perverted killer player, can they be willing? Being backstabbed by someone they trusted. If it were me, I would absolutely not be willing. Think about how they believed this veteran player, and were finally stabbed to death from behind."

Several new players felt a chill behind their backs, and Fujibayashi Kyou was also scared. If she had chosen to follow an old man at the beginning and was assigned to this perverted killer player, she would definitely have died miserably! She might even have been fiercely violated before death, and finally killed.

Thinking of this scene, Fujibayashi Kyou trembled all over. Fortunately, she didn't choose to follow a veteran player at the beginning. She could die, but she absolutely didn't want to accept being violated and insulted before death.

She looked at the Paladin, "If I remember correctly, you veteran players are each responsible for one new player. Where is the new player who followed you!"

Sawada Iko looked at it, and saw only Hoshino Ai, a new player who initially followed a veteran player.

The Paladin's expression dimmed. In this round of the game, the place where he didn't do enough was trusting the killer player 'Kuroko', which led to the death of the two new players who followed him at the hands of 'Kuroko'.

If he had noticed earlier, the two new players would definitely not have died in the hands of 'Kuroko'.

On this point, he couldn't refute, and there was no reason to refute. The new player died because they believed him and believed Kuroko.

He also disdained to find reasons to explain and find excuses for his own mistakes.

"It's two people," the Paladin said slowly.

"The two new players who followed you are dead, the new player who followed the killer player is also dead, and the new player brought by that veteran player 'Jack' is also missing, probably dead too,"

"That veteran player, the middle-aged man, is also dead, and the new player he brought is definitely dead too,"

"As a result, until now, only the new player who followed Zero is still alive. Among the six veteran players who brought new players, only one veteran player's new player survived. This survival rate, how do you expect us to believe they died because of bad luck? You tell me, how do you expect us to believe you veteran players? Can we live by following you? Sorry, at least I can't believe it."

"This game has a total of 35 players. Excluding you six old people and seven new players, the remaining 22 people survived on their own. Kyou and I were rescued because of your help, temporarily not counted as survivors, which is 3 people who survived on their own until now, a 13.6% survival rate. The new players who followed you are 7 living 1, a 14.2% survival rate. The difference is only 0.6%. This is based on the premise that no other new players survived."

These data comparisons all indicate that the assistance of veteran players did not improve the survival rate of new players.

New players listened, and facing this data and facts, they only felt that the death rate was very high! Among the six veteran players, only one veteran player's new player survived.

If they chose to follow the old people, and were unlucky, not assigned to Zero's hands, the ending would most likely be death.

At least going to the Paladin and perverted killer player's hands was definitely dead.

At this moment,

they felt fortunate that they chose to survive independently and lived until now.

It's a pity they didn't believe the veteran players at the beginning and follow the veteran players.

Otherwise... really don't know when they would have died. Thinking of being used as bait to fight for the veteran players' escape opportunities, they felt a sense of disgust in their hearts. Choosing to survive independently at the beginning was indeed the correct choice. At least they lived until now.

"This is result-oriented," Lin Ye spoke.

"But for us, life is only once, failure is death. What is important to us is also the result. New players believe you and follow you, but the result is heavy casualties, and only one new player survived. This is based on a one-to-one basis. If you bring a few more new players, you can't take care of them even more."

One-to-one can't be taken care of well, and one-to-many is even more impossible to take care of well.

When the number of new players following increases, facing danger, veteran players always have to make trade-offs. No one wants to be the player who is abandoned.

"No matter how beautiful your promises are, the fact is that the vast majority of new players who followed you died. And if we chose to believe you at the beginning and followed you, I don't think we could have lived until now."

Several new players agreed very much.

Living until now, they relied on their own strength and luck.

If they had followed the veteran players at the beginning, they would probably have been dead and become a member of the Eerie infected bodies.

"The Paladin brought the injured Jack back. He did take care of his companion and didn't abandon his companion, but what about the new players! Did the Paladin choose to save Jack and abandon the new players at that time?"

"Because new players don't have much strength, saving a veteran player, the veteran player can use props to restore injuries later and become combat power, but new players are purely burdens and are completely not worth the Paladin taking huge risks to save back."

Compared to veteran players, new players don't have very high value.

Even if the new players on the scene don't want to admit it, they know this is an unquestionable fact. If he were the party involved, he would of course also choose to save the veteran player first and abandon the new player.

But they are new players now, and they don't want to become the abandoned new players at all.

"At that time, there were only me and Jack."

The Paladin immediately explained, "If there were new players acting together, I wouldn't abandon them,"

Lin Ye knew that the Paladin had fallen into this woman's 'self-proving' trap as soon as he heard it.

"Now you can of course say so, no one can verify it. At the beginning, you also said to believe you, but the two players who chose to believe you are already dead, killed by a veteran player. They must have been very regretful at the moment before they died!"

Lin Ye looked at Sawada Iko, guessing that this woman wanted to fight for the right to speak.

Through a series of rhetoric, she wanted to make them veteran players think they were wrong and didn't fulfill their promises, so as to want them, these veteran players, to provide more protection.

But this woman got one thing wrong.

The right to speak has never been based on public opinion and morality, especially in this deadly Eerie game, strength is the foundation.

"You don't trust us? I can think so, right!" Lin Ye said slowly.

"Yes, if the vast majority of new players who followed you survived, my distrust of you is brain-damaged, stupid, my own stupidity, my own wrong judgment at the beginning, and making the wrong choice,"

Sawada Iko continued, "But the result... only Rina survived among the new players. Among the seven new players who chose to believe you, only one new player survived. This number... how do you expect us to believe you,"

"In these three-plus hours, how did these few new players who followed you die? We don't know. Besides you knowing, no one knows."

Lin Ye looked at Fujibayashi Kyou.

The girl thought and spoke, "I thank you for your life-saving grace to me, but I believe in my friend. Before being saved by you, I followed I-chan and lived until that moment. There was danger, and she also took the initiative to bear it. She didn't do anything to apologize to me. I am willing to believe her."

"What about you guys!"

Three new players were silent, they had already silently expressed their thoughts.

"Hmph," Lilith snorted coldly. She hated this woman very much.

"As a veteran player, why didn't you show up at the beginning."

"I think the probability of dying by following veteran players is too high. It's not like not showing up is wrong, right!" ===== CHAPTER 528 =====

"In these three-plus hours, how exactly did these few newcomers who followed you die? We don't know; apart from you, no one knows."

Lin Ye looked toward Tenglin Xing.

The young girl thought for a moment and said, "I am grateful to you for saving my life, but I trust my friend. Before I was saved by you, it was because I followed Yi-chan that I survived until that moment. When there was danger, she also took the initiative to bear it. She did not do anything to betray me; I am willing to believe in her."

"What about you all!"

The three newcomers remained silent; they had already expressed their thoughts without a word.

"Hmph," Lilith let out a cold snort. She truly detested this woman.

"As someone who is clearly an experienced player, why didn't you reveal yourself back then?"

"I believe that following experienced players carries too high a probability of death. Surely it can't be wrong not to reveal myself, can it!"