Chapter 207: Promote to Three-Star or Stay at Two-Star?

The Secret Room was terrifyingly quiet.

There was only the sound of beating hearts. A drop of cold sweat slid down Chen Ran's forehead, followed closely by cold sweat sliding down...

Diwu Zeyi's forehead as well.

'How did I forget the BOSS!'

Thinking of this, Diwu Zeyi immediately said, "Chen Ran, how about we join hands?"

"What if I say no?"

"Then I can only gamble, gambling that you don't have long-range attack weapons in your bag."

If Chen Ran wanted to screw Diwu Zeyi to death, he had to attack Diwu Zeyi's physical body when his soul transferred to Long Hui.

But, right now.

By using a long-range weapon to inflict a fatal wound on Diwu Zeyi's physical body, and then immediately using Eternal Kingdom, only then could he screw him to death.

There were too many uncertain factors in this. Diwu Zeyi clearly wouldn't gamble.

But, if he didn't gamble.

With the BOSS present, if he let Chen Ran, Qiu Yinong, and the BOSS occupy three safe surfaces, Diwu Zeyi would surely die.

However, when facing a situation of certain death, Diwu Zeyi would choose to perish together with Qiu Yinong. Therefore...

Whether he gambled or didn't gamble.

Chen Ran's duo and Diwu Zeyi both had irreconcilable conflicts, and they would all devolve into situations unfavorable to each other.

So...

At this time, a Future Lie was needed to neutralize this conflict and temporarily resolve the crisis.

Chen Ran nodded: "Okay."

Chen Ran looked as steady as an old dog, but in reality, he was panicking like crazy inside, simply because...

He really didn't have a long-range attack weapon.

There was a point to note here: whether it was Chen Ran or Diwu Zeyi, neither dared to lie. Once they lied, the BOSS could directly Judge them. Even if the BOSS temporarily didn't know if their surfaces were safe, when the results came out, he would know who was lying.

Therefore, lying = death.

Based on this, the three of them immediately established corresponding Future Lies:

[One: Report positions, stating whether the surface one is on is safe.]

[Two: Cannot block others from stepping onto a safe surface.]

[Three: Help each other, must ensure all three people step onto a safe surface.]

[Four: Neither Chen Ran nor Qiu Yinong can attack Diwu Zeyi's physical body.]

Under the constraint of the four Future Lies, as long as one of the three died, the other two would immediately be guilty of lying and be Judged by the BOSS.

But, it wasn't over yet.

The three forming an alliance only resolved the internal conflicts among the players.

They still had to face the threat from the BOSS. Simply put, it was [Thinking Through Changes].

Chen Ran looked at Diwu Zeyi, who closed his eyes and then fell straight down.

Falling down at the same time as Diwu Zeyi was Long Hui. Not long after, Long Hui stood up.

Diwu Zeyi, who had occupied Long Hui's physical body, walked onto the Center surface and picked up his own physical body.

Quietly waiting for the Secret Room's changes.

Soon.

The glass covers of the safe surfaces once again enveloped the people on the surfaces.

The temperature inside the Secret Room plummeted. Although they couldn't feel the cold, seeing the freezing degree of the surrounding scenes, they knew that this sudden drop in temperature was the kind of deadly extreme freeze that could completely seal a person in ice.

Catching the keyword: cold.

Cold means Winter.

Kidneys: Winter season, salty taste, black color.

Kidneys belong to Water.

Mutual Generation: Water generates Wood.

Mutual Overcoming: Earth overcomes Water.

Mutual Generation and Overcoming: Metal overcomes Wood.

Therefore, the information for the safe surfaces:

[Wood], [Earth], [Metal].

Looking down at the surface under his feet, Chen Ran found the characters on the surface under his feet were:

[Nourishing Water to Cultivate Wood]

Diwu Zeyi saw the characters on the surface under his feet were: [Benefiting Fire to Supplement Earth]

Both of them started.

But Chen Ran quickly said, "Nourishing Water to Cultivate Wood is nourishing Kidney-Yin to nurture Liver-Yin. So the Kidneys are the cause, and the Liver is the result. Then the result of Nourishing Water to Cultivate Wood is the Liver. The Liver belongs to Wood. The surface Qiu Yinong and I occupy is a safe surface."

Diwu Zeyi also said, "The characters on my surface are Benefiting Fire to Supplement Earth, which in traditional Chinese medicine is also called the method of warming the Kidneys and strengthening the Spleen. The Spleen is the result, and the Spleen belongs to Earth. So the surface I'm standing on..."

"Is also a safe surface!"

Both of their expressions were strange. They were both safe surfaces, so all that tug-of-war just now was for nothing?

Some things were just like this. Before the answer came out, one had to invariably lay out plans according to the worst possible result. After all, a person couldn't always rely on luck to gamble the odds.

Gambling was inadvisable; the fate of a gambler was often only death.

The three of them were relieved of a heavy burden, lying on their respective surfaces with a sense of gladness of having survived a disaster.

This Secret Room...

Although it wasn't difficult, it was very sickening.

However, precisely because it was sickening, Qiu Yinong had the possibility of killing Long Hui.

A Blessing in Disguise.

Three Three-Star players.

Dorje, planned by Chen Ran and executed by Qiu Yinong, was screwed to death within the Wheel of Time.

Long Hui, jointly planned against by Diwu Zeyi and Qiu Yinong, was fought to death by trading health pools.

The two Three-Star players who died were both killed using this kind of tricky method.

The fact that Diwu Zeyi could survive until the end already explained the problem, which was...

Trickery couldn't kill him!

In other words, Diwu Zeyi's overall strength was greater than Dorje's and Long Hui's.

Chen Ran felt that since there was nothing to do at this time anyway, he might as well extract some information.

"We're teammates at any rate, even if it's only temporary. Give us a suggestion: if Qiu Yinong and I make it out of the Instance alive, should we directly promote to Three-Star, or get stuck at Two-Star Player?"

But, there was a difference here.

Promote to Three-Star: The advantage is being able to obtain the Mental Cultivation Method. The disadvantage is that the First Floor Master is a Five-Star player and can form a team to track them down.

Stuck at Two-Star: The advantage is being able to avoid encountering the First Floor Master in an Instance. The disadvantage is being unable to obtain the Mental Cultivation Method.

Diwu Zeyi took a deep look at him and said leisurely, "Popping champagne at halftime is not a good habit."

"My suggestion is, with the strength of you two, getting stuck at Two-Star is meaningless unless you lower your status for Downward Compatibility. Only then can you avoid encountering Four or Five-Star players. Of course, you can also get stuck at One-Star and do Downward Compatibility into a Novice Instance..."

Based on Diwu Zeyi's understanding of the two, he felt that was very unlikely.

For Chen Ran to dare to plan the personnel composition of this Instance when he was at One-Star showed that he possessed some sort of extreme self-confidence.

This kind of self-confidence was a good thing but also a bad thing.

The good thing was that extremely self-confident people were often very difficult for others to influence.

The bad thing was that extreme self-confidence easily bred extreme arrogance. If one couldn't adjust their mentality in time, they would certainly die.

Therefore, Chen Ran, who possessed extreme self-confidence, couldn't possibly lower his status for Downward Compatibility in exchange for eking out a temporary living.

"So my suggestion is, you can directly promote to Three-Star."

Chen Ran's expression was solemn as he asked uncertainly, "Do you say there's a possibility that after we promote to Three-Star, the First Floor Master won't lower their status to hunt us down?"

Promoting to Three-Star meant that the First Floor Master might personally take the field to hunt them down.

"You were a novel author in life, right? Standing from your perspective, tell me, if the Emperor of Heaven and Soul knew in advance that an ant named Xiao Yan in the remote Wu Tan City was going against the Soul Hall, what would you choose to do?"

Chen Ran didn't even think: "I would personally lead experts to kill Xiao Yan, destroy his physical body, extinguish his soul, kill his entire clan, and even slaughter all the humans and animals around Wu Tan City clean."

"The name of an ant shouldn't appear in the ears of a superior."

"If an ant's name appears in a superior's ears, no matter in what way it appears, it already explains the problem."

Hearing this, Diwu Zeyi threw his hands out, his meaning very clear:

Would the First Floor Master not know a principle that even you know?