Chapter 384: The Instance Created by Lin Xuan (3)

'I looked at the rules, and it was like an opponent full of flaws provoking me.'

Shu Renjun slowly opened his eyes. He looked at the other two.

At this moment, Lin Xuan had finished dealing the cards.

The three cards on the table were:

King of Spades, King of Clubs, 2 of Diamonds.

Shu Renjun glanced at his own hole cards.

King of Diamonds, King of Hearts.

This hand left him speechless, simply because no matter what the next two cards were...

His hand would be the biggest!

Chen Ran made a "ladies first" gesture to Hua Changsheng. His purpose, naturally, was to test the measure of this Instance BOSS.

"First, I must confirm something. Just now in the Distance-Free space, you asked about the process and results of our first two rounds. How was it?"

Shu Renjun organized his wording.

"Judging from the results, the process and results you two answered were consistent with the process and results in my memory."

Hearing this, Hua Changsheng nodded, and at the same time organized her words in her heart.

"Since the process and results we stated were identical to the process and results in your memory, then theoretically speaking..."

"No one was spatially transferred!"

"But Chen Ran and my chips indeed decreased by some amount."

"Assuming that what was spatially transferred were the chips, wouldn't that make sense?"

"If this is the case..."

"My chips decreased by 10, and Chen Ran's chips decreased by 20."

"Does it mean that my chips and Chen Ran's chips swapped with our chips in different spaces?"

"And also..."

"You can shut up now!" Chen Ran directly interrupted her deduction.

She had been avoiding lies the entire time.

Chen Ran and Shu Renjun wouldn't believe a single word of her deduction.

Chen Ran lit a cigarette and looked at the two with disdain, saying: "Looking at your expressions, you should have both deduced the final answer, right?"

"Since that's the case..."

"All-in!"

Chen Ran directly pushed all the chips on his table forward.

In the previous round, the Future Lie of the three people contained the words 【this round】. In other words, the Future Lie just now only applied to the previous round.

In this round, the three hadn't established a Future Lie yet, so they could go all-in freely.

The two frowned as they looked at Chen Ran, simply because in this round, Chen Ran hadn't even looked at his hole cards.

"You can choose not to call, but you should also know that we don't have much time left. If we still engage in infighting, there's a high probability we will all die here."

Hearing Chen Ran's words, Hua Changsheng couldn't help but look at Shu Renjun.

"My chips are fewer than yours."

Hearing this, smiles surfaced on the faces of Chen Ran and Hua Changsheng.

"All-in!"

"All-in!"

Shu Renjun and Hua Changsheng both pushed out all their chips.

The result was self-evident.

When Shu Renjun said his chips were the fewest just now, the two knew that Shu Renjun had an unbeatable hand this round.

Shu Renjun's four-of-a-kind Kings won!

The third round ended:

Shu Renjun: 2910

Chen Ran: 30

Hua Changsheng: 30

After all, Shu Renjun's initial chips for this round were only 970, while the other two had 1000.

Even if they went all-in.

He could only win 970 chips from each of them, so the two had 30 chips left.

Shu Renjun picked up the gun and loaded the bullet.

He spun the cylinder and chambered it.

He pulled the trigger at Hua Changsheng.

Click.

It was still an empty shot. Seeing this, the hanging hearts of the three finally settled down.

In fact, all three knew that in this Instance, if the revolver was only loaded with one bullet, then the first shot was bound to be empty.

The reason was very simple; this Instance had to conform to Hell's Instance rules.

How could there possibly be...

A situation entirely dependent on luck?

Gambling was just a disguise.

The fourth round of dealing ended.

The chips on Shu Renjun's table were short by 30, but the three didn't care about this.

Shu Renjun tapped the table, thought for a long time, and then said to the smoking Chen Ran:

"I need a promise from you."

"When clearing the Instance created by Lin Xuan, I will not speak for two minutes." Chen Ran seemed to know what promise he wanted, so he stated it without hesitation.

"Not enough. I need you to keep a gloomy face for those two minutes."

"Acceptable." Chen Ran nodded.

Only after the two reached an agreement did the fourth round begin.

This time, they checked their cards in advance, and when they found out that Shu Renjun's hand was still the biggest.

Chen Ran and Hua Changsheng unhesitatingly went all-in again with their remaining chips.

The fourth round ended.

Shu Renjun: 2940

Chen Ran: 0

Hua Changsheng: 0

Shu Renjun fired at Hua Changsheng again.

Still an empty shot.

Shu Renjun retained two bullets.

Chen Ran and Hua Changsheng left the table.

But, just as the two left the table and walked away from their seats, two more people appeared in the seats.

Both of them were Shu Renjun!

It wasn't over yet!

The chips on their tables were the same amount.

And they both retained two bullets.

The five of them held their breath and stared fixedly at the dealer, Lin Xuan. The reason was very simple...

【If the gunshot fails to kill, the bullet is unloaded, and this bullet will be kept by the person with the most chips. Once a player keeps more than six bullets, they will fully load the Revolver's cylinder with bullets and fire a shot at their own head.】

This rule had ambiguity.

【Once a player keeps more than six bullets.】 Previously, they were influenced by the context before and after this sentence, thinking that it meant a single player retaining more than six bullets.

But thinking carefully about it, it should mean the total number of bullets retained by the three players exceeding six.

Right now.

The three Shu Renjuns had exactly six bullets retained, not exceeding the limit.

But Chen Ran and Hua Changsheng, who had left the table, each retained one bullet.

In other words, the total had exceeded six bullets.

But there was a problem here. Were the Shu Renjuns from the other spaces players?

No.

It had to be said, the setting of Lin Xuan's Instance was extremely subtle and could easily lead people to make wrong judgments.

What needed to be noted here was that in the Instance created by Lin Xuan, the people in the other spaces were created by the Instance, not by his skill.

Therefore, the two newly appeared Shu Renjuns were fundamentally not players.

Put simply.

Lin Xuan's skill was to create parallel worlds, and the people in the parallel worlds were real people.

In Lin Xuan's Instance, the people in the other spaces were NPCs created by Lin Xuan using Instance mechanics.

NPCs were not real people.

Naturally, they couldn't be players either.

Therefore, in the rule, when the bullets retained by the 【players】 exceeded six, it meant:

The bullets retained by the players—Shu Renjun, Chen Ran, and Hua Changsheng—exceeded six.

And these three players right now...

Had only retained four bullets!

Thus, the rule would not be triggered.

Right now, logically speaking...

It only required the player Shu Renjun to play cards with the other two Shu Renjuns and survive through the 18th round.

Then all three would survive!

Meaning they would clear the Instance!

But in reality, it wouldn't work. The problem was still the same. These two Shu Renjuns were created by Lin Xuan's Instance. They weren't Shu Renjuns from parallel worlds. These two NPCs were controlled by Lin Xuan's settings, which meant they didn't have...

The psychological defense line of 【Prioritize True Self】.

As everyone knows, in Instances below Three-Star, situations where oneself kills oneself often occur.

Therefore, players had all set up a defense line in their hearts. Once this kind of situation was encountered...

Prioritize True Self!

That is, prioritize the true one, rather than killing each other.

(This was mentioned many times in previous chapters. For example, in the Cat and Mouse Game, the Shu Renjuns in six spaces simultaneously controlled the Lin Xuans in those six spaces.)

Since the 【Prioritize True Self】 mechanism didn't exist.

Then the other two Shu Renjuns wouldn't let the real Shu Renjun easily survive through 18 rounds.

A situation would occur...

Where the two Shu Renjuns deliberately let the real Shu Renjun win, thereby accumulating bullets.

If this continued, the bullets retained by the three real players would exceed six.

Someone would die.

Once someone died, the other two also wouldn't be able to clear the Instance.

Therefore.

The real Shu Renjun had two choices.

One: lose all his chips early.

Two: use the mechanism where the winner's chips decrease, to survive through 18 rounds.