Everyone who was extremely nervous, but also thankful that they had not become neither human nor ghosts, but also sad that they missed the chance of survival again, looked at Winnie who stood up before the host announced the tenth auction item.
"Everyone, calm down and listen to what I have to say first!" Winnie's sharp voice easily attracted everyone to look at her, "We can't go on like this, we can't donate endlessly, and we can't live in order to survive.
Let yourself become half-dead first!"
"Yes!" Qiao Dun quickly agreed, "This is not cost-effective! You can obviously survive at the minimum cost, so there is no need to drive up the cost just to compete for quotas!"
"What you said is simple, but the quota is not enough for everyone. If we don't increase the amount of donations to win, aren't we just waiting to die?" Viscount Oscar, the apparent initiator of the charity dinner, questioned.
Others, whose desire to survive outweighed everything else, were no longer concerned about Winnie's family background, and maliciously speculated: "You don't want us all to stop grabbing, so you can get a spot without any effort, right?"
?”
Suddenly, many people's eyes became full of hostility.
Do you want others to stay still and you can leave easily?
No way!
Winnie controlled her emotions and did not talk nonsense. She directly expressed her views in public: "Everyone, there are two choices before us! One is that eight people will die, and the remaining eleven will pay a heavy price.
, went out half-dead! One of the eight people died, and the remaining eleven people left alive at the minimum cost!"
Qiao Dun's mind was not as fast as Winnie's, but he believed that Winnie was definitely striving for the best way: "Yes!"
"Since both choices will result in eight people dying and eleven people surviving, why can't we choose the one with a relatively better outcome?" Winnie asked everyone.
Viscount Oscar narrowed his eyes: "What do you mean?"
"The current competition is meaningless, it will only make us both lose! My suggestion is that the nineteen of us will screen out the eight who will die in advance, and then the remaining eleven will equally distribute the eleven auction items without fighting.
, all completed the bidding with the initial bid!" Winnie provided a better way.
As a result, the result has not changed, and eight people will still be executed because of unsuccessful bidding.
But the remaining eleven people do not need to pay a cost far exceeding the initial conditions to survive in order to fight for a spot.
The logic of this method is very simple, and everyone quickly understood it, and at the same time the most important question was raised:
How to screen out the eight people who must die in advance?
"On this point, let's all brainstorm and anyone who has an idea can mention it!" Winnie wisely did not say it herself.
The screening rules she mentioned were beneficial to herself and could easily arouse collective hostility from others. She was regarded as saying that she was actually paving the way for her to live a good life.
The screening rules she mentioned are not beneficial to her, which is equivalent to digging a big hole for herself. Once everyone agrees to follow these rules, she will become the first victim.
It's much easier to leave it to others.
Whoever proposes rules that are beneficial to them will support them. In this way, even if they are opposed by others, the firepower will be concentrated on the proposer, not those who agree.
Lin En, who watched silently, believed that this behavior was not considered disturbing the order so far, so he did not intervene or stop it.
Instead, he sighed in his heart with great interest. Winnie was really not that simple. Compared with the depraved powerful people he had dealt with before, she was several levels higher.
At a young age, he secretly planned a fake charity dinner to make money, and built a seamless industrial chain.
Now, he became the first person among the dignitaries present who did not completely obey the mysterious power. He began to formulate new rules under limited conditions, which not only made the situation beneficial to him, but also chose himself out of it to avoid siege.
If she is an upright person like her brother Reiner, it shouldn't be difficult to become a [Transcendent].
Unfortunately, her corruption value is as high as [230].
Although he and his brother were as thoughtful and thoughtful as ordinary people, they embarked on a completely different path.
"The eleven youngest people share the living quota equally? Our future will be longer and our lives will be more meaningful." There is a suggestion from a younger person.
"Why?!" Viscount Oscar, who has reached middle age, retorted forcefully, "Do you know how to respect your elders? What does it mean for young people to live more meaningfully? In my opinion, it is better to allocate quotas to people with high status! This is the most direct measure.
The standard of a person’s worth!”
There are also people whose status is obviously not competitive, such as Miss Kangna: "Everyone has learned that ladies are first, right? I don't care about the rest, but we women should be among these eleven people!"
"That's right! Ladies first!"
"We should be among the eleven!"
"Why can women be among eleven people? Everyone is equal, and gender cannot be used as a basis for selection!"
"Agreed! We should forget about gender now! This is the last thing worth discussing here!"
The powerful people quarreled.
The aristocratic saying "respect the old, love the young, ladies first" that was once required to be remembered and followed throughout life was completely thrown away.
If you perform like this under ordinary circumstances, you can get a lot of praise and appreciation.
But if you still show courtesy to them at the critical moment of life and death, you are really a fool!
Seeing that things were going out of control, Winnie pulled Qiao Dun beside her: "Do you want to survive?"
"Of course!" Jordan asked Winnie habitually, "What do you think?"
"There will be more people who survive than people who die, so we have to win over the majority of people." Winnie didn't want to stand on the side of the minority and be ruthlessly kicked out.
"What should I do?"
"Support Viscount Oscar, just put forward your opinion from his perspective, that is, more capable and valuable people should be allowed to live, but status is also not a criterion." Winnie taught Jordan step by step.
The reason why we do not support using status as a measure is because although Winnie is one of the undisputed ones with the highest status, the definition of status is relatively vague and cannot divide the crowd into two groups well, let alone ensure that they will become the majority.
That faction.
Qiao Dun understood and began to intervene in the discussion: "I support Viscount Oscar's view. We should judge whether a person should live based on his ability and value. Of course, judging by status is too one-sided."
Winnie deliberately stood from another angle to win over more people: "I also think it should be like this. Ability is the fairest screening method. It does not look at a person's age, gender, or status and origin... I think
No one will reject this approach!”
"Then how do you think you can judge without relying on these?" Viscount Oscar asked.
"We can judge by introducing ourselves and voting by a collective show of hands. In this way, everyone participates, and no matter whether they are selected as people who should live or are eliminated as people who should be sacrificed, there will be no complaints."
Winnie said, "Who comes first?"
"Me first!" Miss Kangna bravely fought for the opportunity for herself, "I will not exaggerate my abilities and say that I am excellent, but I am indeed not bad! I am proficient in the language of the Luman Empire! I can play the violin!
I am also very helpful, I have opened a violin class, and I have taught many people to learn about music for free..."
Miss Conner said everything worth saying about herself.
"If you think Miss Kangna is a capable, valuable person who is worthy of living, please raise your hand!" Winnie raised her hand first.
Jordan followed closely.
The rest of the people were not so happy, after all, raising their hands once could result in the precious survival quota being given up to others.
After more than ten seconds, only four of the others raised their hands.
"Miss Conner got six votes! Next, who introduces themselves?" Winnie unknowingly became the one controlling the rhythm of the scene.
"Let me do it." Qiao Dun thought that the sooner he came out, the better. After everyone knew everyone's vote count, they would be even more stingy. "I think I am a valuable person. In the past year, I
I have been following my father to investigate various industries and make investments. I can proudly tell you that all the investments I participated in this year have made more or less money. As for music, I am good at piano and also organize
A small solo concert..."
It is not difficult at all for the rich and powerful to talk about their own strengths and achievements.
In the end, Qiao Dun received eight votes.
Even Qiao Dun received eight votes. Winnie thought it was time, so she stood in the middle and talked about her resume: "I am proficient in four languages. I once accompanied my father to the royal capital of Lezein as an office worker.
I am an interpreter who communicates with customers from other countries. When I was sixteen, I completed all the public school courses by myself. This year, I was successfully admitted to the best Royal Academy in the Kingdom of Ven. I... Apart from these, I am actually the original student today.
The real initiator of the charity dinner. In order to avoid too much interruption and influence, he entrusted Viscount Oscar to come forward on my behalf."
After talking about her impeccable advantages, Winnie even revealed the secret that she was the manipulator of the charity dinner just to be sure.
"I prove that what she said is true." Viscount Oscar publicly admitted.
For a moment, other dignitaries were speechless.
It's quite shameful to use charity dinners to make money, but I have to say that Winnie is really capable of organizing such an industry and attracting them.
After voting by show of hands, Winnie received twelve votes with an overwhelming advantage.
With such a high number of votes, she obtained a survival spot in advance.
In the next twenty minutes, everyone else introduced themselves and voted.
Everyone showed their votes and ranked them. Winnie, Jordan, Viscount Oscar and others became one of the eleven people who could survive.
Kangna and others became the eight people who must die.
"I don't agree! It's not fair!" As soon as the rankings came out and they learned that they were among the eight people to be executed, the powerful people began to turn their backs on each other and refused to obey this rule.
"Why do you have so many votes? There must be some secret operation here! You are the best at this!"
"Change the screening method! I don't agree with this!"
"You disagreed earlier and later disagreed, but you only said it was unreasonable after the voting was completed. Aren't you just trying to break the rules?"
"I'm telling you, once you've done it, you should abide by it! If I were ranked at the bottom, I would definitely not say anything!"
"You bitch, stop being so hypocritical. If you have the ability, would you change places with me now?"
"Say that again?!"
"I'm talking about you, and you, you, you are all a bunch of bitches! You are working together to trick us, right? If you don't admit it, what's going on?"
"I think you're looking for a fight!"
"Come on, I've tolerated you for a long time!"
The nineteen people who were originally scattered became two incompatible camps.
The top 11 people want to maintain their own interests, while the bottom eight people are unwilling to die like this. Both sides don't care about the status and demeanor of the nobles, and will fight if they disagree.
Lin En, who watched the whole process, felt a little bit regretful about this solution.
This method is good. It re-writes the rules and uses the majority to suppress the minority. In the end, the quota is obtained at the lowest cost and eliminates vicious competition.
But Winnie made the biggest mistake when executing this plan:
It's too late.
Nine rounds of auctions passed before she started to propose.
There are now eleven surviving places and eight dying places. In fact, the difference is not that big. It is not so big that the eight people assigned to the dying places have the ability to overturn this rule and refuse to abide by it.
If the proposal was made around the fifth round, then there would be sixteen survivors and eight dead, and the gap in numbers between the two sides would be huge. Even if those eight people were dissatisfied, it would be difficult to successfully resist.
But Winnie is still very smart.
She knew that it was a little late for her to do this and it might not go well, so she prepared a second-hand plan.
A plan that builds on the first plan.
That is, after the quotas are allocated, if the minority disagrees, the conflict between the two parties will be intensified, causing them to fight and kill people. This will reduce the number of powerful people in advance and directly reduce the pressure of competition!
Whether they beat each other to death, or were killed by Lin En while maintaining order, as long as eight people died, the remaining people would not have to fight for quotas, and they could all pay the lowest price to survive!