Three Towers Game

Chapter 367 The First Team to Be Eliminated

After taking the drug, Clark felt himself becoming excited.

Numerous formulas came to mind, suggesting a significant improvement in my mathematical abilities.

He couldn't wait to start working.

However, Area A is different from other areas; it is the most competitive area.

Soon, Yun Xinghe began his preparations for work.

"We scored a total of 68 points yesterday, plus my two points, for a total of 70 points. Not bad."

"But some people didn't perform very well, A11 step down."

Yun Xinghe quickly began taking attendance.

A middle-aged woman with a hunched back and a somewhat sickly appearance soon emerged. Her belly was slightly protruding, clearly indicating that she was pregnant.

Yun Xinghe said:
"A11, your performance yesterday wasn't very good. You only worked one hour overtime, making you one of the few who didn't work two hours. Do you realize you're holding everyone back?"

Yun Xinghe's eyebrows and eyes still gave people a gentle feeling, and even his tone of voice was the same.

A11 said:

"Yes...I'm sorry."

Yun Xinghe continued:
"Everyone spent twenty points to attack Team C. Do you know how many lives were sacrificed to earn those twenty points!"

"Now, your punishment is to do twenty push-ups, in front of everyone."

"And everyone on the A11 team, let's do it together."

Pregnant woman A11 shed tears of humiliation, but still lay on the ground, struggling to do push-ups.

She didn't dare to work overtime because it would deduct five points from her HP score. She was scared; she was afraid it would affect the baby in her womb.

Fortunately, twenty push-ups aren't too many.

After A11 and the four members of the team finished, Yun Xinghe's expression softened, but the content of his words still betrayed his manipulative tactics.

“A11, you’re about to become a mother, and Three Towers is likely to be an absolutely safe haven.”

"Do you want your child to die here with you, or to continue wandering the post-apocalyptic world?"

"You might think I'm cruel, but how can I beat them if I'm not cruel now?"

"Remember, this is a team where scores matter most. Without scores, how can you be admitted?"

Without realizing it, everyone agreed with Yun Xinghe's words.

A11 felt fear, but also sensed that... everyone around them seemed to have been tamed, as excited as wolves about to hunt.

"Next up are Group 2 and Group 5. Tsk, both of you groups, although you have workaholics who have worked six hours straight, your contribution scores are the lowest."

"Now, both groups, step forward."

Ten people stood in two rows of five.

"Next, you're going to slap each other, and then curse yourselves, saying you're worthless. I want to hear your roars, I want to hear the sound of slaps."

Snapped!
"I'm a piece of trash!"

One person started shouting loudly.

Soon, someone slapped him back, harder and louder. The man's eyes held a hint of anger.
"I'm a piece of trash!"

Slap slap slap slap slap, the sounds of slaps and the sound of trash began to rise and fall.

This is Area A.

Clark suddenly remembered that he had experienced something similar when he was selling health insurance on Wall Street in the Free State.

In fact, even on the eve of the apocalypse, many companies were still promoting the so-called "wolf culture."

However, the wolf-like culture later seemed to have led to the emergence of some strange tales and bizarre creatures.

At this moment, he felt once again that Yun Xinghe was using wolf-like culture to tame these people.

People with poor sales performance will be embarrassed in public.

This scene made him somewhat uncomfortable, but the people around him even started clapping, because Yun Xinghe started clapping. So everyone followed suit and started clapping.

Amidst laughter and cheers, this twisted punishment finally came to an end.

Gradually, everyone became tinged with a murderous aura.

Especially the two groups that were slapping each other, they both seemed determined to use points to defeat each other.

Clark finally started working.

The four teams are finally about to face their second fierce battle.

Unlike in Sector C, Clark felt as if he had entered a state of self-forgetfulness!

Flow state?
He wasn't sure, but all the work was done very quickly, and time passed very quickly.

It seems like I've only been working on it for a short while, but in reality, several hours have passed, and I've already completed hundreds of math problems with super-efficiency.

That feels so good. This feeling is amazing.

He suddenly realized that this was the area he wanted to go to!
Here, work becomes a joyful experience. He can work overtime, work crazy overtime!
The loss of health points might bring some unpleasant feelings, but at this moment, Clark already felt his own value.

His DR value is actually rising like crazy.

……

Many people find happiness in their work, either because it is well-paid or because certain beliefs they hold give it extraordinary meaning...

But in reality, most jobs are actually meaningless.

It's like a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world trying to solve a math problem—it's completely meaningless to the apocalypse.

On his first day, when Yun Xinghe saw that his job was to solve math problems, he wondered why it was such a meaningless job.
This kind of work must be boring, right?
Therefore, he immediately realized that to make the work meaningful and to instill a sense of mission in these people, he only needed to brainwash them and make them believe that the work they were doing was meaningful and valuable...

They will then love their work.

He seems to have succeeded.

It also unlocked a rare achievement.

[If the average score of all members exceeds two points without any casualties, a special domestic affairs item will be unlocked.]

This item almost solved Yun Xinghe's problem of working overtime like crazy.

This item is called Life Loan.

Simply put, it's an HP loan.

The skill can only be unlocked when the average daily contribution score of all members exceeds two points. This is also why Yun Xinghe targeted the C-zone team.

The D team scored 47 points.

This means that Zone D has started requiring people to work overtime, but the overtime is not thorough. The strategy of the Zone D team is to have some people work overtime and some people not work overtime, rotating the overtime work.

Zone D certainly desires continued development. But not the kind of low-key continuation in the early stages; rather, it aims to consistently maintain a respectable score.

In Zone C, everyone was lying down. Surprisingly, not a single person was working overtime.

And there were no staff reductions.

This led Yun Xinghe to speculate that Zone C was the kind of person who planned to lie low in the early stages and then explode later.

Therefore, Yun Xinghe immediately spent twenty points to launch an attack on Zone C.

If the work efficiency in Zone C drops to 80%, then in order to survive, Zone C will have no choice but to work overtime on the second day.

However, the strategy for Zone C on the first day is unlikely to involve everyone working full overtime. Because everyone will be concerned about their health.

Ensuring sustainable development is a prerequisite.

Therefore, area C will work overtime, but not to an absurd degree. This depletes area C's health and reduces its burst potential in the later stages.

If this happens repeatedly a few more times, it will be impossible to trigger "Life Loan" in Zone C.

In other words, life loan...

This rule is unique to me.

My company can get loans from the rule makers, so what can you do against me?

Yun Xinghe's goal was to prevent other team leaders from knowing the rules of Life Loan, thus preventing them from achieving scores above 60.

In Yun Xinghe's eyes, Zone C's performance was the most likely to explode later on.

So, what about area B?

Yun Xinghe knew very well that Area B was nothing to fear; it was just garbage.

A group that loses people on its very first day is definitely not pretending to be weak or feigning weakness; it's simply... incompetent.

Or perhaps the boss has other problems. Those five employees who switched jobs clearly suffered some kind of abuse.

……

……

Area B.

There are currently 22 people left in Zone B. If we remove the boss, that leaves 21 people.

The situation in Zone B is indeed quite serious, with 3 deaths and 5 defectors.

The owner of Block B is named Alexander.

Greatest achievement: Survived for more than seventy days in a pure monster community with only one person.

Features: Durable.

At first, Alexander presented his military achievements, and many people were convinced of his abilities.

But soon they discovered that Alexander was a complete pervert.

After everyone had finished their day's work, quite a few people, in order to survive, submitted applications to work overtime.

Alexander, on the other hand, had already chosen his male and female lovers.

"You all did a great job. It's 6 p.m. now. You can go and rest. Your scores have been tallied up and are here with me."

"Next, it's your turn to perform."

"Everyone, take off your clothes."

The reign of evil has only just begun.

Yes, Alexander had absolutely no interest in the boss, the team, or the interview. In Alexander's view...

Being suddenly summoned to such a horrible place must be the work of some monster unleashing its strange power.

He didn't want to go through that again.

Seventy days, a full seventy days...

He spent seventy hellish days in that place.

If his experiences were filmed, he believes that "The Seventy Days of Alexander" would far surpass "The One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom" in terms of its perversion and grotesqueness.

Alexander's mind had already collapsed by the third day. In the apocalypse, human dignity simply did not exist. He was like a gopher, constantly burrowing holes. Some were as hard as rock, while others were as strange and foul as internal organs or intestinal walls.

Alexander had long forgotten how he survived in that place.

He lived for seventy days in a place teeming with monsters. He watched as each monster laid egg-like things, and as those eggs decayed, the bizarre creatures inside, with faces just like his, shouted at him, a man:
"Mother."

He felt so disgusted that he vomited, but he had already emptied his stomach of all the gastric juices.

This is Alexander's experience.

Having suffered such physical and mental torment, he had long since become a monster.

"You will all die tomorrow. If you please me, I can guarantee you a pleasant experience tonight!"

That night...

Three people were unable to bear Alexander's perverse methods and ultimately refused to participate, resulting in their deaths.

That same night, five people suffered the greatest humiliation of their lives. They even thought that monsters wouldn't do such a thing, but a human had actually done something bizarre that they couldn't understand.

This was an evil night, a night that even Satan would seek a priest to cleanse his eyes of.

They endured the humiliation and hardship, finally holding on until 2 a.m., when they submitted their job-hopping applications.

This is area B.

But why are there only five people?
Because some of the remaining people had their mental state completely broken by Alexander, while others had begun to fully enjoy themselves.

"Going to other regions just means working overtime and being exploited. You don't think HP and DR are just for show, do you?"

"Working overtime will inevitably consume these things. After you've been squeezed dry, your scores might end up being pocketed by the boss."

"But it's different here. Please me, make me happy, and let everyone be happy together! I'll make sure you survive. Although you can play with corpses, I prefer the living, the warm ones!"

Once a person's bottom line is crossed, they will feel that they no longer deserve redemption.

After that night, about twenty people actually stayed behind.

The "King's Game" in Zone B is still going on.

In reality, there are indeed such "bosses" who don't care about survival at all, only about enjoyment. They practice nepotism, and whoever makes them comfortable gets promoted. Such companies naturally collapse the fastest.

Alexander stayed because he thought everyone was as twisted as him.

But in reality, despite their decadence, they still maintained a competitive relationship.

Twenty-one people, like animals courting, used every trick in the book to win Alexander's favor.

Those who are liked will naturally receive more points.

Yes, since Alexander was running the operation based on his own selfish desires, he naturally couldn't be fair. He thought he could let the rest of the people survive, but in the moment when his desires got the better of him... he casually allocated the points.

Points that have already been awarded cannot be taken back.

If someone gets two points, then someone else gets no points.

……

……

Day two of the 30-day survival challenge.

When Clark finished his overtime work at 2 a.m., he was still full of energy and seemed oblivious to the side effects of the depletion of his life points.

He wanted to continue working.

Today, his performance was outstanding. After all, he was in perfect health. Although many people are eager to work six hours overtime, some people have already worked overtime for more than six hours on the first day.

The effect of losing 30 HP is completely different from losing 60 HP.

Today, Clark is arguably the most dazzling one.

His efforts earned him Yun Xinghe's commendation:

"You deserve more of my reagents, but before that, let's take a look at our results."

……

……

Area C.

Li Weiwei, Tang Zhe, and Wen Xishu stood together, looking at the financial report on the electronic screen.

Tang Zhe said:

"If Area A still has an extremely high score today and there are no casualties... then I'll say it, Area A might be using some methods we don't know about."

Wen Xishu agrees with this:
"Perhaps there will be a reward after reaching a certain score? Or... does Yun Xinghe possess some kind of superpower?"

Tang Zhe said:

"I don't know. After all, we only know the scores and the number of people. It's difficult to deduce the specific process."

"Let's look at the scores first."

The team scores for the second day were announced.

Area A: A total of 87 points were obtained. After deducting military expenditures, additional expenses, and population expenditures, 26 points remain (46 points accumulated over two days).

Area B: A total of 23 points were obtained. After deducting population expenditure, 9 points remain. (A total of 13 points over two days)
Zone C: A total of 35.6 points were obtained. After deducting population expenditure, 6.6 points remain (7.6 points accumulated over two days).
Zone D: A total of 45 points were obtained. After deducting population expenses and additional expenses, 5 points remain (22 points accumulated over two days).

This is the team score; the scores have actually already been distributed to the individuals.

Currently, Area A has demonstrated astonishing combat capabilities.

Wen Xishu and Tang Zhe were indeed somewhat surprised by the result.

Tang Zhe said:

“People will leave. I don’t know what’s going on in Area B, but it definitely won’t hold out. Area B will lose a lot of people, and it might even… perish by tomorrow night.”

"These people who have switched to Area A will bring new combat power to Area A."

"When HP is down to 30 points, it's like a person turning 35. At this point, you'll either be optimized by the company's algorithm or... promoted to management. But obviously, this game doesn't have a promotion mechanism."

"And after these people are optimized, there will definitely be younger people entering the workplace."

"This is exploitation."

“We underestimated Area A. Area A will keep exploiting the old employees, then welcome new employees, and then exploit the new employees again. As long as the company grows big enough and has enough points, it will immediately repackage itself and transform into a charitable enterprise or a humanistic enterprise.”

"Yun Xinghe, not bad at all. Boss Wen, do you think he'll continue to undermine us?"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"Yes, it will. Your analysis is correct, and Yun Xinghe likely has an extra access level than us, an access level that can only be accessed when the score reaches sixty or seventy."

"But I firmly believe... our company will win."

Tang Zhe laughed:

Hopefully.

To Wen Xishu's surprise, they didn't suffer any setbacks; it was Area B that did.

[Area A has launched an attack on Area B. The attack has been successfully completed. Area B's points for tomorrow will be reduced by thirty.]

[Area A has initiated diplomatic relations with Area B. Employees of Areas B, C, and D who are dissatisfied with their current boss can go to Area A, which is willing to accept them.]

[Area A issues a declaration to Areas B, C, and D: Welcome to our paradise of grade supremacy!]

Tang Zhe said:

"What's going on... the effects of the expedition have changed?"

As the boss, Wen Xishu was certainly aware of the effects of the expedition. The effect of the expedition was to reduce the opponent's work efficiency to 80%.

But now, he was also somewhat surprised. How could things have turned out this way?
Wen Xishu said:
"It seems that continuous campaigns will also lead to an improvement in the company's methods of external competition. In other words, if we really see it as a simulation of a business war, then the methods of malicious competition will change, not remain fixed."

"That makes sense. The first time, the efficiency was reduced to 80%, and the expected value was 29 x 0.2, or 5.8 points."

"If it were you, would you spend 20 points to make the opponents collectively drop by 5.8 points?"

Tang Zhe shook his head.

Wen Xishu said:
"But now, the expedition has been upgraded, and the upgrade rules are probably only known to Yun Xinghe. The expected value of the upgrade has now become 30 points."

"In other words, spending 20 points to reduce the opponent's score by 30 points is an effective tactic."

Tang Zhe sighed:

“Boss Wen, the rules are constantly changing, so it’s hard for us to predict what will happen next. But you’re right about one thing: HP is a hidden score, and that’s very important.”

"I just hope that no more rules will suddenly appear that are detrimental to us."

"Also, area B is probably beyond saving."

Someone died in Zone B, leaving only 14 people in Zone B. Some of these people will choose to switch jobs because Zone A is clearly trying to absorb the human resources of Zone B.

HP is an asset. There is no overtime in Area B, which is roughly equivalent to a college graduate just entering the workforce in Area A, full of exploitable value.

Tang Zhe was certain that someone would go to Area A, which would reduce the population of Area B.

Assuming there are ten people in area B, they need to earn ten points to cover their daily expenses. At the same time, they need to earn an additional 30 points to offset the effects of the expedition.

This workload is too much. Although there are still 13 points left in Zone B, will these 13 points really be rationally utilized under the management of this boss in Zone B?

Without a doubt, on the third day, area B will suffer a fatal blow.

Upon seeing this result, Li Weiwei was immediately surprised:
"And this is only... the second day is over."

She had initially wondered if Zone B was deliberately showing weakness, but it turned out they were genuinely bad.

At the same time, Li Weiwei also noticed something:
"Boss... should we try to poach people from Area A? The people in Area B definitely know their situation. Rather than being assigned to Area A, why don't we... try to poach them too?"

At this moment, area B is like a cake waiting to be divided up.

But Wen Xishu knew that at this time, Area A was at its zenith, and it would strike down anyone who showed their strength. Right now, his company was no match for Area A.

They could have fought back then, but with the upgrade of the expedition content, Wen Xishu was no longer confident.

He slowly shook his head and smiled:

"It's not yet time."

Wen Xishu seemed to have thought of something again. He realized that this was a "company war simulation game," and sometimes, it was possible to learn from reality.

Thinking of this, Wen Xishu seemed to have an idea and said:

"Li Weiwei, come in with me."

Come inside with me?

Li Weiwei was somewhat excited. Was her boss going to do something to her? Li Weiwei knew very well that the boss would rather die than the employee.

Wen Xishu gets two points every day. At worst, Wen Xishu will just not be accepted, but his score will not drop to zero.

Even if we fail, it wouldn't be bad to have some connection with someone like Wen Xishu, who has the fighting power to take down the Red House.

However, she clearly overestimated Wen Xishu's desires.

Wen Xishu had only come up with some plans that could be implemented through Li Weiwei.

(End of this chapter)