Chapter 492: Chapter 492: Sacrifice Yourself to Lure the Tiger, Drag “Sin” into the Game!
Thinking inwardly, he felt a little annoyed at this moment.
He was already very different; compared to other Divine Messengers, his actions were the most cautious.
From the very start he maximized his use of authority, refusing to do anything meaningless.
He maximized his own benefits, pushing everything rapidly toward outcomes that favored him.
But now, there were still problems.
One was this “Sin,” and the other was Xu Long.
How could anyone from the beginning keep pressing the gray button nonstop—somebody out to court death!
However, even if this person truly pressed and got an instant-death type of “top prize,” by now people would probably have noticed the gray button’s issue.
The description of the gray button was simple—actually just one sentence: it would produce various different effects.
But this one person kept pressing......
In fact, his thinking wasn’t bad; by now some people had roughly figured out the button’s effects.
Under Xu Long’s exhaustive trial-and-error, Xie Antong no longer really needed the game’s description of the button.
In the other room, Chiyo Ming also squinted her eyes; after her serious expression, much of the surface-level coquettishness had faded.
She murmured softly:
“If it randomly gives all kinds of effects, then it can’t be only bad outcomes......”
.......
“After the red button merely delays death over and over, only then could this gray button’s random effects be hiding the most valuable things.”
In the room, Xie Antong spoke to herself.
What followed next—the move Xu Long made—directly verified all of this, and at the same time pushed the Divine Messenger right to the edge of a cliff.
Xu Long pressed that gray button once more!
This time, however, the speed and temperature of the rising lava did not change at all.
Instead, from above his head fell a blue garment as thin as a cicada’s wing, looking as if it were made of water.
At a glance, this thing was clearly a buff item!
“What is this thing?”
Xu Long instinctively reached up to take it. After glancing at it, he casually tossed it into the lava.
The blue water-like garment rolled twice on the lava’s surface, emitted a pale blue glow, and then vanished.
Members of the Dragon Group: ?
What? Aren’t you moving a bit too fast! We didn’t even have time to warn you.
In front of the screen, Xie Antong found it a little amusing, but only for a moment. Quickly she thought the elder’s decision had been correct.
When you have the ability, no one truly knows whether an in-game item is a benefit or a hidden trap.
Ignoring it was indeed safer.
But!
Judging from this, the gray button must be so important that it surely carries top-tier risks.
It might very well have things capable of directly killing these top players!
......
Volcano Hell, Xu Long.
After enduring two rounds of intensified lava punishment, even with his physical strength, he was beginning to reach his limit.
His face was flushed now, his whole body scorched by the high heat, like forged cold steel being heated.
Yet his expression remained unusually resolute; the beard on his chin had started to curl and burn, and his jaw was clenched.
The lava had already reached his waist!
He was about to press the gray button again.
But at this moment in the outside world, every Dragon Group member responsible for him received a message.
It was from the Dragon Group’s internal highest permission level!
So, inside the game, when Xu Long was about to continue and glanced at his own screen,
he saw the entire screen filled with red dots!
Only the Dragon Group could coordinate such a level of organized manpower; he knew clearly who had issued that order.
“Huh?”
Xu Long was somewhat surprised. To be honest, this Volcano Hell hadn’t reached his absolute limit; he still had a margin before life was in danger.
And now they’re not letting him try further?
“Tch, what is that old man thinking again? Has he lost his mind?”
He recalled what the Grand Elder had told them before entering the game this time.
Everyone participates except him, but he will watch over everyone.
“Follow orders!”
“I will try to make as many of you survive as possible!”
Although Xu Long had many complaints, his hands did not pause for even a moment.
He pressed the red button.
Punishment transfer!
At the moment he pressed the button, Xie Antong once again looked up at the lamp above her head.
There were still seventeen.
Now, the hidden information should be almost complete.
The button rules, how punishments are passed, and how crimes are judged.
As for how the final atoner would be chosen—she didn’t know yet—but she was certain it wouldn’t be by waiting for everyone else to be tortured to death by punishments!
It would definitely be by some other method!
Also, with Lu Ce’s longstanding objective—if he intended to beat the Divine Messenger to clear the game......
“Did you ever think about it this time?”
She looked up; the single lamp that hadn’t lit among the seventeen stood out, glaring and so isolated.
......
“How long do you plan to keep eating, you beast!?”
Seeing that Xu Long had almost figured out the gray button’s pattern, the big-bearded Divine Messenger began to grind his teeth.
In his own room, Lu Ce had virtually endured every imaginable test that the Divine Messenger could throw at him.
Whether it was restrictions on items,
or piling up things by sheer quantity,
the tiny body of Gluttony now resembled a vast bottomless pit, devouring everything thrown in.
At this rate, his lamp might never light up!
The Divine Messenger’s expression shifted unpredictably as he schemed in his mind:
Before people fully knew all the hidden information, before they truly understood those lethal things......
this guy who was stalling game progress must be forced in quickly!
Gritting his teeth, at times like this he had to risk something and sacrifice himself, lure the tiger, and drag him into the game.
Wait—why did that phrase come to his mind?
......
The game continued. The punishment moved to another hell, and the big-bearded phantom suddenly materialized in Lu Ce’s room.
“Do you know your crimes!?”
The trembling voice rang through the room, seeming to intimidate the soul itself.
Lu Ce turned his head toward the sound, appearing like a dead thing—with no vitality at all.
His red mask’s edges had already sunk deeply into the flesh of his face, as if it had been forcibly embedded.
He stared at that Divine Messenger phantom. When their eyes met, even the big-beard shuddered inwardly.
What kind of thing could have that look in its eyes......
But thinking of that final lamp, he continued:
“Wasting the five grains! Squandering food! Do you know your crimes?!”