Chapter 1902

The bus swayed toward the third mission location.

Batman, Seeing Natasha, and Be-Bat sat in the first row of the bus, while Shiler sat in the third row from the back. The three in the front looked straight ahead. Seeing Natasha spoke first: "Do you guys feel he is becoming more and more abnormal?"

Seeing Natasha, sitting between the two, turned her head slightly, looked at Shiler in the back with her eyes turned to the limit, and said: "If he keeps holding it in like this, he will definitely go crazy. When that happens, we'll be the ones who are unlucky."

The two Batmans also turned their heads slightly in unison, glancing at Shiler from the corner of their eyes.

Shiler's expression was very calm, and he even had the mood to turn his head to look at the scenery outside the window, but the sense of calm before the storm was getting stronger and stronger. Shiler seemed to be a dark cloud compressed to the extreme, and no one knew when thunder, lightning, and a storm would strike.

"Have you all seen him go crazy?" Be-Bat turned to look at the two people beside him, then looked back at Shiler and said: "His mental state might indeed have some problems, but after all, our physical fitness has been weakened, and he also..."

Then he saw Seeing Natasha looking at him with the eyes of looking at a retard.

"Haven't you seen such a lunatic yet?" Batman said another affirmative sentence. He finally turned his head to look directly at Be-Bat for the first time and said: "Not long after you return to the real world, you will witness that neither your own physique nor the external environment can stop this group of lunatics. Their madness is their best weapon."

Be-Bat's Adam's apple moved gently. It looked like he wanted to say something, but in the end, he didn't say anything. He took a deep breath and said: "I also feel a bit confused. The games we experienced in these two days can't be called difficult, and can even be said to be a bit too simple."

"Compared to a truly cruel competition of force or intelligence, this looks more like a real game. The first two murderers were both swindlers, one used shapeshifting ability, and one hid in the crowd. This really can't be called a threat."

"I have a premonition, you can take it as my intuition." Seeing Natasha frowned slowly, put away her playful expression, and said with a serious attitude: "Remember the name of this game? The Decameron. Boccaccio used several stories in ten days to satirize the various dark deeds of the church, and the number '3' is crucial in Christian culture."

"Are you saying that the third game will have a qualitative change?" Be-Bat thought for a while and said: "But I really can't guess the method they use to increase the difficulty. Could it be continuing to weaken our physical strength? Or making the murderer stronger?"

Batman shook his head and said: "I don't know what happened in the previous games you participated in, but at least the two games I participated in have a common attribute, and that is that they test human nature to a greater or lesser extent."

Batman relaxed his body slightly, leaned back in his chair, and recalled: "It seems that the organizer or the game planners he invited are all game theory enthusiasts. They are quite fond of creating some dilemmas or multi-dilemma choices, like to make the game a zero-sum game, and like to make people suspicious of each other."

"But the two games we have already experienced don't reflect similar properties. They are more like brain teasers or riddles. As long as you grasp a key point, you can crack the mystery of the whole game."

"But obviously the organizer knows about all the contestants. He couldn't possibly not know that such puzzles are completely child's play for us."

"The doctor's current state is less like being stifled and more like being bored. He thinks these games are not stimulating enough. From a lunatic's perspective, this is indeed the case, and there are at least two lunatics in our team."

Seeing Natasha and Be-Bat looked at each other, then turned their heads away one after another. Obviously, they each had different candidates for the quota of these two lunatics.

"We all know that the game can't go on so steadily." Seeing Natasha said: "I don't know if you have played video games. I often see people playing them at Dr. Shiler's clinic, and the more difficult the game, the longer the tutorial will be. Some even have a separate level to teach novice players how to play the game."

"You mean, the two days we have experienced are actually novice tutorials?" Be-Bat asked with some confusion.

"It's not impossible." Shiler suddenly said, and his tone obviously meant that it would be better if it were so.

The atmosphere in the carriage became quiet. Everyone was guessing when the game's difficulty would suddenly increase if it really did, what the method of increasing it would be, and how they would respond if the game really became difficult.

More importantly, if the game continued to proceed so steadily, when would Shiler explode?

The bus drove along the highway, and after passing through a thick fog, a tall black building appeared in front of everyone.

It was a huge arena.

It looked like a Roman arena from the glorious period made of materials like obsidian, but it no longer had the delicate and complicated decorative style. The overall structure was bold and unconstrained, and some corners used metal for support. Batman instinctively saw from the details of the mechanical structure that this was not just a building.

The four stood at the bus stop and sized up the whole building, but the owner of this arena obviously didn't want them to continue waiting.

Accompanied by a heavy friction sound, that black gate, which was almost towering into the clouds, slowly opened, and a small black shadow stood in the middle of the opened gate and bowed to everyone.

Looking closely, it was actually an obsidian robot. Its body was made of the same black stone as the building, but the joints were precise mechanical parts, and golden light flickered in its horizontal eyes.

"Everyone, please follow me, the competition is about to begin."

Several people followed behind the obsidian robot and walked into the arena from the gate. Just after passing through the long porch, they discovered that the center of the arena was an extremely open circular space, and they couldn't even see the end at a glance.

Suddenly, a projection appeared above the arena. It was a huge figure emitting colorful light, and when his voice sounded, it was almost deafening.

"Welcome everyone to—the Gem Arena!"

After the words fell, colorful light shot out from around the center of the circle, and row after row of seats rose from the center of the circle toward the outside, spreading to the edge of the building like surging waves, and they were filled with robots whose bodies were made of various gems.

They let out violent cheers, their eyes flashing with light of different colors, making the whole arena shrouded in a gorgeous and dreamy atmosphere.

"People often say that human virtues are like gems of various colors, emitting dazzling light at every moment. But the beautiful crystal structure of those gems also makes them fragile and collapse at a touch. Is it eternal brilliance or fleeting? Duelists, give your answer!"

"Bang! Bang!"

Two huge cone-shaped gems, one red and one blue, fell from mid-air and smashed into the ground, raising thick smoke.

Above the two gems, a huge word appeared—"Humanity".

On the blue gem was written "Brilliant", and on the red gem was written "Fragile".

And that huge figure stared at the four people in the arena with eyes emitting golden light, saying: "This is the way to play in the arena, please use your footsteps to make your choice!"

The four paused for a moment at the same time, and then walked toward the red gem written "Fragile" in unison without looking back.

The gem robot was stunned.

He slapped his hands on the edge of the arena, leaned his body forward, and his huge head hung above the four people, saying: "Aren't you humans? Are you so pessimistic about your own race?"

Then he stretched out two huge palms, grabbed two gems and crushed them, and re-inserted two new gems further away. The blue one was written "Although fragile, it can still be maintained", and the red one was written "Fragile to the point of being vulnerable".

Several people walked toward the red one again without looking back.

"Aren't you superheroes?!!" The huge gem robot roared: "Can't you have a little confidence in your compatriots?!!"

The two Batmans narrowed their eyes in unison, looked at the gem robot and asked: "Have you seen other superheroes?"

"Uh, no, no, don't look at me like that, I never lie... well, there were indeed other contestants before. They weren't as pessimistic as you."

"Then I can only say they were really naive." Seeing Natasha rolled her eyes and said: "In the absence of any external threat, humans also find all kinds of excuses to hurt and oppress their own compatriots. In this case, someone is actually hoping that the light of humanity will save the world. Stop joking."

"But aren't superheroes using the light of humanity to save the world?"

Batman, Seeing Natasha, and Be-Bat looked at each other and retreated two steps in unison, so Shiler stood at the very front, and the huge gem robot also focused his gaze on Shiler.

"First, I am not a superhero. Second, you are not a superhero. Finally, you are not a human at all, so this topic has no need for debate." Shiler replied. His voice had some imperceptible trembling, but he didn't know where it came from.

"I'm just curious about this. If you are unwilling to answer my questions with words, then explain it to me with practical actions."

The colorful light that had been shining on the whole field instantly went out, and the arena was always shrouded in thick dark clouds. After the light became weak, it was almost invisible in the field.

With a bang, a huge iron cage descended from the sky, and smoke and dust rose again around it.

When the dust slowly dissipated, a group of panicked humans were locked in the cage, men and women, old and young, some wearing sportswear, some wearing suits, and some even holding a dog in their hands.

It was as if they were all living their lives normally, and then suddenly they were grabbed here, with expressions of confusion and horror on their faces.

"These are experimental subjects randomly selected from the earth where you are. There is no doubt that they are your compatriots, and you should be clear about how high a human's physical fitness can withstand a fall from."

"If you refuse to answer my questions, I will raise the cage by one meter. When the Q&A ends, the cage will land."

The other three didn't listen carefully to what the gem robot was saying at all. They only saw the excitement gradually rising in Shiler's eyes, like a hunter who had been hunting in the dense forest for a long time and finally saw a moose.