Chapter 1878

Before the safe zone expanded, everyone was still in the previous silver space. Steve, who had just become the team leader, planned to hold a war meeting during this time.

He stood in front of the circular platform, supported the tabletop with both hands, looked around, and said: "I think everyone here is a smart person, at least smarter than me, so I won't point fingers. Everyone speak freely, but try not to deviate from the theme. The theme of this war meeting is to analyze the known rules and formulate the principles for the next step. Let's begin."

Seeing Natasha gave him a thumbs up and said: "I like this about you the most, Captain. If this speech were given to Nick, he would have to talk for half an hour."

Steve smiled, shrugged, and said: "He wasn't like this when we were fighting. After being a director for a long time, it's inevitable to have some bureaucratic habits."

Stark pressed his brow with his middle finger, returning from deep thought. He put his hand down, tapped the tabletop with his index finger, and said: "I won't be polite with you either. I do have some thoughts about the rules I just heard."

"First of all, this is a zero-sum game, nothing more simple. There can only be one winner, and the loser has nothing. This means two points: first, we always have to grab resources from others; second, the first mover must have a huge advantage that is difficult to surpass."

"The purpose of my saying the first point is..." Stark's gaze wandered between Peter and Steve's faces, then said: "Competing for resources with our counterparts, that is, other superheroes, is inevitable. I don't know what you think about this?"

Steve pondered for a moment and said: "I think our focus should be on ensuring that every game is successfully cleared. After all, if the game is lost, everything is gone."

"I won't harm anyone." Peter shook his head vigorously: "I know I can't bring myself to do it, no matter what it's for."

"Okay, then going further." Schiller opened his mouth and said: "If members of other teams die, will you save them?"

Steve, Peter, and Stark looked at each other. Steve still spoke: "If he hasn't harmed us, we will help as much as possible. But if he wants to move against us, then don't blame us for being impolite."

Peter also nodded. Stark rubbed his upper lip with his index finger and said: "They haven't helped us, so I won't help them. If he helps us, I will repay the favor. But if he not only doesn't help us but also wants to harm us, or deliberately lets the water go leading to game failure, then I will take the initiative to attack."

At this time, Ma Te said: "If someone intends to harm us, or simply disrupts the game so that everyone loses together, then regardless of whether the points he holds are positive or negative, I will kill him."

Schiller nodded, considering it an understanding of everyone's principles of good and evil. In fact, this was not unexpected. Steve and Peter were very traditional positive characters, Stark was relatively neutral, and Ma Te hated evil. As for him and Seeing Natasha, it went without saying, mainly focusing on revenge for revenge and grievances for grievances.

"Then let's make a pact." Stark extended a finger and said: "On the premise of ensuring that the team's interests in winning the game will not be damaged, no one interferes with anyone's choices. In the case of having spare energy, those who want to save people go save them, and those who want revenge go get revenge themselves."

Seeing Natasha frowned, looking disapproving. She said: "But if the act of saving people leads to team attrition, isn't that also damaging the team's interests?"

"Someone has to take this risk." Steve pondered, thinking: "According to the game rules, sometimes saving people is not entirely out of conscience. In order to prevent negative numbers from entering the prize pool, we also have to save people for the sake of benefits. Similarly, in order to make the team win the final victory, someone may have to kill."

"If we pull each other, some people don't let others save people, and some people stop others from killing, I'm afraid we will only drag each other down."

Peter covered his face and said: "Anyway, I won't harm others, but I have to admit that there are always black sheep, so if you want to take revenge, I'll pretend I didn't see it."

"It's good to talk about this." Ma Te tapped the ground lightly with his blind cane and said: "So as not to have a debate on good and evil on the spot when a sudden event occurs."

"Then it's decided." Stark tapped the table and said: "Everyone acts according to their own position, but assume that other people's positions are neutral and do not interfere with the other party's actions."

"What if there is a contradiction?" Seeing Natasha asked.

"Team interests are the first priority." Schiller said.

The others looked around, exchanged glances, and finally nodded, considering this statement recognized.

"Then let's talk about the second point." Stark pulled the topic back to the main point and said: "The rule that you can buy items with points gives the first-mover advantage in the early stage of the game a huge advantage that is difficult to imagine. As long as you earn enough points and hoard enough items, you are almost invincible."

"So I think our combat style in the early stage should be more inclined to be aggressive and adventurous, earn as many points as possible, and then exchange them for items."

Schiller listened quietly to Stark's summary and found Stark looking this way. Schiller pressed his chin and said: "According to common sense, this combat strategy is correct, but if you think about it carefully, there are many problems. For example, is there an upper limit to the items purchased with points? Can items be stored in the safe zone? Or must they be carried on the members?"

Schiller looked aside, thought for a while, and said: "According to common sense, this combat strategy is correct, but if you think about it carefully, there are many problems. For example, is there an upper limit to the items purchased with points? Can items be stored in the safe zone? Or must they be carried on the members?"

Schiller looked aside, thought for a while, and said: "The game rules clearly encourage fighting among duelists, so I think the answer to the second question is likely that whoever exchanges for the items carries them."

"Once this is the case, if you are eliminated in the game, the items will fall along with the points, which adds another variable to the prize pool and also blocks the way to hoard a large number of items."

Seeing Natasha nodded and said: "Then it is very important to allocate points and item carriers properly, otherwise it is very likely to make wedding clothes for others."

"I always feel it's not that simple." Peter pursed his lips and frowned: "The rules are indeed clear and easy to understand, with nothing complicated, but I always feel that there are still many omissions."

Schiller opened his arms, supported his hands on the edge of the table, and said: "Remember, if you see 'the organizer reserves the right of final interpretation' written at the end of any announcement, then you can treat all the above as farting. There must be more important rules that have not been announced."

"Then let's discuss the next plan." Steve looked at the back of his hand and said: "Courage, wisdom, and unity, which category do you think would be better to lead the charge?"

"Need to ask? It must be wisdom." Seeing Natasha shrugged and pointed a finger at everyone present: "Everyone here is a smart person. It must be something like a trivia quiz that is more suitable for you."

"I always feel something is wrong." Stark rubbed his jaw with his thumb and index finger and said: "Wisdom is also all-encompassing. It could be simple brain calculation speed, abstract thinking, psychological games, or simple memory, etc."

"And the so-called courage classification is even more vague. What is called courage? Is it the courage to save people or the courage to kill? Is it moving forward regardless, or slowing down with a clear head? Isn't this all part of courage?"

Everyone thought about it, obviously imagining what kind of games there would be, and which category of games would be more suitable for themselves.

At this time, Schiller said: "I also agree to participate in wisdom-type games first. The rules of games that compare wisdom must be more complex, so we can more easily see the organizer's thinking in designing the game, so as to gain an information advantage."

Just as he was saying this, a prompt sounded in everyone's ears: "The safe zone is about to expand, ten... nine... eight... seven..."

After the ten-second countdown, the silver light screen was withdrawn. Everyone was surprised to find that they were in a wooden house. Looking out the window, they were surrounded by forests, and looking into the distance, there seemed to be shadows of city-states on the mountains on the skyline.

Steve and Stark pushed the door open without thinking. After rushing out, they found that this was a logging camp with five houses of different sizes, including a warehouse, surrounding the timber processing plant. Beside it was a small material yard.

"Our spawn point is not bad." Schiller said while looking at the environment: "It seems there are no other safe zones around, and the resources of the timber yard are all ours."

Seeing Natasha walked out, stretched, and said: "I don't know if they allow building weapons here. Give Tony Stark some raw materials, and he can take us to the moon."

Stark looked down and stepped on the sand under his feet, saying: "Judging from the terrain and climate, it doesn't look much like the United States, but rather like Canada."

Schiller also narrowed his eyes and looked. At this time, the light was like early morning. Strands of visible light shone through the colorful tall trees. The dry air was full of chill, and the bleak feeling of autumn surged into his heart.

Suddenly, Ma Te, who was walking at the end, said: "There should be an inlet for a stream nearby. I heard the sound of water."

Several people started looking, and soon found a clear stream not far from the camp. When Peter put his hand into the stream, he exclaimed in surprise at the coldness, looking curiously at the colorful pebbles under the stream.

The stream was surrounded by layers of shrubs. Walking along the stream all the way downstream, after only three minutes, they saw an extremely open lake surface.

"This wouldn't be Lake Superior, would it?" Seeing Natasha tidied her hair and said.

"Not that big." Peter immediately pointed out the problem and said: "If it were Lake Superior, the surroundings should have a marine climate, but the air is very dry, which means this lake is not big. It is almost impossible to be one of the Great Lakes. It is more likely a small lake in a national forest park."

Steve looked into the distance and pointed to the opposite side of the lake: "Look there, is there a city there?"

He pointed to the opposite side, and saw some man-made buildings on the colorful mountains covered by deciduous forests in the distance. Peter reached out to determine the proportion and said: "That can't be counted as a city, it looks like a mountain settlement. I guess that is also the safe zone of a team."

Stark walked up and stood shoulder to shoulder with Steve, blocking the dazzling sunlight with his hand above his eye socket, looked left and right, and said: "If I'm not mistaken, there should only be so-called duelists on this Earth. 100 teams sound like a lot. Even if each team has six people, there are only 600 people in total. If they are scattered on the Earth on average, they might never meet."

"But there is a safe zone of another team in front of us, which shows that the organizer intends to put some participants together," Steve speculated. "I'm afraid it is precisely to strengthen the competition among participants."

"Let's go back to the woods quickly. From the terrain, we can see their camp, but they can't see ours. This is one of our advantages. It's better to hide," Ma Te suggested.

Several people walked back along the stream, but halfway there, Peter rubbed his stomach and said: "Why do I feel a little hungry? Will I be hungry here too?"

Steve immediately turned his head to look at him. Ma Te sighed and said: "I felt it long ago. Even in this world, we have to solve basic survival needs ourselves. Do you know what this means?"