"Hey hey hey... very good, the first person successfully succeeded." Woody crossed his legs on the table, rested his head on his hands, and looked at the broadcast screen and said.
"Your tone seems to be describing a 'chess piece' that has been 'used to its full potential.'" Vincent sat across from the conference table and continued leisurely.
"Isn't that what happened?" Woody asked.
Sid on the other side of the conference table said: "Anyway, I can't figure out how this plan got to this point when there are so many variables..."
"Didn't I explain it to you..." Vincent turned his head and lectured earnestly, "The setting of special invited players is to ensure that the 'ten people' can appear in front of Root."
"That's the strangest thing..." Sid said, "Now that Xu Huaishang has not entered the finals at all, isn't there one person missing?"
"Yes...this is indeed a question." Vincent said, turning his head to look at Woody, "I want to ask you too."
"Hehehehe... It's simple, because someone manipulated the grouping in [Butterfly Battle]." Woody replied with a sinister smile.
"Oh? Who?" Vincent asked.
"To be honest, I don't know... It should be one of the archangels." Woody pushed up his glasses that glowed with white light.
Sid looked puzzled and said, "But in the past few days, I haven't heard of any archangel being killed or falling to heaven..."
Woody smiled and replied: "Hehehe... don't worry, it's not Simon who is negligent in his duties, but me, as the organizer of the competition, who acquiesces to their behavior."
"Is this okay?" Vincent asked.
"Of course." Woody replied, "The Peak Contest is just an event in the game, and its own rules have nothing to do with the gambling. As the designer, operator, and technical supervisor of the game, I naturally have a strong understanding of this game.
management rights for the game.”
"That is to say...as long as you don't protest, the matter of changing the grouping will be considered over?" Vincent said.
"Hehehe...that's right." Woody smiled sinisterly.
"Oh...I understand." Vincent said. "This is a wonderful trick."
"That's right." Woody said.
Sid was dumbfounded. After looking around for a while, he interrupted: "Hey! What are you talking about! I don't understand!"
"This is a trick of playing hard to get and killing with a borrowed knife..." Vincent read in a formal tone.
"Teacher! Please explain it in human words!" Sid said again.
"Okay..." Vincent shrugged and said eloquently, "First of all, according to Woody's calculations in advance, he needs ten people to defeat Root's ten forms. As for the candidates... of course they have already been selected.
It’s certain. In order to reduce the probability of these people being accidentally eliminated before entering the finals, Woody set up a ‘special guest player’ seat.”
Woody continued: "According to the original arrangement, the system will not allow these ten seed players to meet in the random grouping of [Battle of Butterflies]. But there are some good people in heaven, and it seems that they are not satisfied with such an arrangement.
So satisfied. So... when the groupings were announced, the pairing of Feng Bujue and Xu Huaishang appeared."
"Wait a minute... If you want to cause trouble, why not just make it a situation where all ten seeded players meet in pairs?" Sid asked.
"Hehehe...isn't this obvious?" Woody said with a smile.
"You've really been going on for decades...you've made no progress at all..." Vincent took over and looked at Sid with contempt and said. "I no longer expect you to calculate the steps after five or six steps."
It has developed. I just hope you can clearly see the changes in the next one or two steps. But you are still asking this kind of question..." He shook his head and sighed, and then asked, "What if people really do what you say?
If we try to do it in a different way, can we still call it 'tampering'?"
"Well...it's too obvious, isn't it..." Sid said.
"'The ten specially invited players were exactly assigned into five groups in the [Battle of Butterflies]'..." Woody continued, "Even if I believe it, the players won't believe it either~ By then
They made a fuss on the forum... Hehehehe... I just need to post an announcement - 'Re-randomize', and the problem will be solved." He paused for a second, and then said, "Besides, it's tampering.
People still have to worry about Simon’s existence and dare not go too far.”
"Of course, I think there are some personal factors involved." Vincent added, "Why did the two people who met happened to be Feng Bujue and Xu Huaishang? This is undoubtedly aimed at Woody..."
Woody smiled and said, "Hehehehe...I'm so happy too."
"In short... Xu Huaishang's elimination will have some impact on the process of the peak competition, but the result will not change." Vincent continued, "And those guys in heaven thought they were hiding the truth and took advantage of it.
It's cheap, and they will live in peace for a while." His expression suddenly became gloomy, "Woody's pretending to be deaf gave them this chance of luck, and this chance of luck...maybe they will be in the future.
One day, it will become the foreshadowing of their destruction..."
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At the same time, in various broadcast areas of the mall and in the meeting rooms of various societies.
A rather strange atmosphere is spreading...
Although most people would not think of some supernatural settings because of the game in front of them, the audience still felt that the atmosphere of this final was a bit abnormal...
There are many players who have obviously died in battle, but their bodies have not turned into white light and disappeared. This alone is inconsistent with the basic settings of the game.
In addition... when friends of those players who died in battle look at the friend list, they will find that these players are still "in the game". This is also an unreasonable situation.
Finally, there is the issue of derivatives...
Now, the existence of derivatives is no longer a fact that can be concealed. There are also many people in the audience who have heard of the word "derivatives". They have heard of this term on the forum a long time ago.
But there has never been any reliable official channel confirming the existence of the spin-off.
Until today, on the stage of the peak competition, this group of "strange NPCs" shrouded in mystery have appeared. Their AI and strength are beyond doubt; and the most intriguing thing is... they actually directly refer to the players as "
player".
Are they Easter eggs in a horror park? Or are they out-of-control data with self-awareness? Or are they something else?
At this moment, no one knows the answer.
But they all vaguely felt that... when this peak competition is over, Horror Paradise will undergo a huge change.
