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Chapter 127 Lu Ming, don't cheat! (4.2k views)

In the void of darkness, ten semi-transparent phantoms appeared.

These ten people represent the two teams that entered the "Final Destination" instance.

Each person's panel only displays the most basic identity information, name, and gender.

However, this time, after the loading screen finished, Lu Ming did not immediately enter the instance.

Walls and floors appeared in the darkness, surrounded by bright white light, creating a stark contrast to the previous pitch blackness.

The ten figures, which were only vague outlines, gradually solidified and emerged, and the challengers from both teams appeared together in a closed space.

Lu Ming looked towards the distance not far in front of him.

The opposing team's five-man lineup was both unique and classic.

One tall and one short, one fat and one thin, and a woman who was leading the group, wearing a leather jacket and pants, with a lollipop in her mouth.

Judging from the positions of these five people, the woman in the middle with a cynical look in her eyes is probably the team leader.

She is known as Sister Xiao.

Lu Ming could see at a glance that beneath her nonchalant gaze lay a cold indifference.

This shows a disregard for life and a carelessness towards the dungeon, as if the outcome was already predetermined before the team-based competitive dungeon even began.

Of the five challengers, four are fifth-tier challengers, who are among the top-tier beings in this dimension of the God Space.

Upon seeing this, Jiang Zi couldn't help but gasp.

"What kind of matchmaking system is this...? Can I even win?"

Chen Xin, standing beside her, reassured her confidently, "We will win, believe in Ming-ge."

Chen Xin had never actually dealt with a fifth-tier challenger before, but she knew that many of them possessed special high-level abilities that were extremely terrifying.

However, her trust in Lu Ming was ingrained in her very being; there was no room for doubt, only unconditional obedience and belief.

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Between the two teams, there was a black platform with a semi-transparent panel on it, on which words made of light dots appeared.

[For one month, those on the Grim Reaper's list will be hunted down by Death. Protecting the safety of the victims during this month will be considered as saving a spot from Death.]

The Grim Reaper's pursuit will not cease; all challengers, please prioritize your own safety.

These few lines of text on the panel look ordinary, but they contain a great deal of information.

Of the ten people, Lu Ming, who knew the plot in advance, was the one who was most deeply moved.

"As expected, the team-based competitive dungeon is not as simple as imagined. The rules of death have changed, or rather, been accelerated. Without our interference, the main characters would definitely be wiped out within a month."

In the original Final Destination world, Death was relatively law-abiding.

Death will kill people in order by accident. If someone on the list is saved by accident, Death will skip that person for a while and come back to kill them a few days or months later.

But the current rule is that Death will kill everyone within a month, and hiding is useless. Even if you learn from Claire, the only surviving female protagonist in the first "Final Destination" movie, and lock yourself in a room in a mental hospital surrounded by sponges, you still can't escape Death's pursuit.

Choking to death while eating, choking to death while drinking water, being poisoned by rotten or moldy food, or even having a meteorite fall from the sky and crush the victim along with their safe house...

Survival is virtually impossible.

Unless one learns from the old woman in Final Destination 6 who single-handedly shielded her descendants from the curse, and sets up traps and mechanisms in the safe house by anticipating various ways to die, there is no chance of surviving this month.

The key issue is that the requirement for team-based competitive dungeons is not to survive yourself, but to snatch others from the clutches of death.

If there are too many people in a safe house, trouble is bound to happen.

Not everyone is as perfectly obedient as a robot.

Moreover, with a large number of participants, the number of uncertain variables increases, and the probability of accidents also rises significantly.

"This method can only be used as a reference."

Of the five people on the opposite team, apart from Sister Xiao, the other four stared at Lu Ming with wary eyes.

They did not speak to each other. For these challenger teams who had been playing together for a long time, their basic tactics and strategies were already relatively mature and stable.

The atmosphere was tense.

Since you've chosen the team-based competitive dungeon, you should have the determination of "either you die or I live."

Given the nature of the God Realm, if the number of people saved by both teams is equal, it will never allow everyone to leave. The most likely approach is to eliminate the existence of challengers from both sides.

Just then, a figure walked in with stiff steps. The white room was closed on all sides, with no door to enter, and no one knew where he came from.

Rather than a person, it was more like a walking corpse, its movements stiff and slow, emanating a faint stench of death, as if it had been dead for a long time and was devoid of any life.

"This is... a challenger to death?"

"What is he going to do?"

Lu Ming initially thought that the humanoid corpse was an administrator-like being in this God's Space, but he soon noticed the rusty bronze plaque hanging from its waist.

This is a challenger who has been dead for a long time.

He appeared here after he died.

Under the watchful eyes of ten people, the humanoid corpse raised its hand and took out two dice and two wooden cylinders, placing them on the table.

The dice and wooden tube were both old-fashioned, with peeling red paint that looked as if they had been soaked in blood for a long time before being dried.

Rules appear on the semi-transparent panel.

Jiang Zi stood behind Lu Ming and carefully read through the contents of the panel.

"The captains of both teams roll the dice, and the team with the higher roll gets to choose the order in which they enter the dungeon..."

"In other words, in this team-based competitive instance, the two teams will not enter at the same time. While one team is challenging the instance, the other team will be watching from this white room."

The inclusion of these additional rules in this team-based competitive dungeon is not surprising.

Because it's different from the "Ghost Call" instance at the time.

In the team-based competitive missions of "Final Destination," if two teams appear at the same time, they may affect each other.

If one side is lacking in virtue and kills the protagonist that the other side is trying to protect, then things will definitely turn into complete chaos in the end.

"The order in which you enter this instance is extremely important... Those who enter first will have no informational advantage and will definitely be at a disadvantage."

"The team that enters the instance afterward will know the specific objective and will be able to learn a lot from the lessons of the previous team."

"It's no exaggeration to say that in a horror movie parody, a single crucial piece of information can save a life."

Just as Lu Ming was making these analyses in his mind, the "dealer" who reeked of corpses handed the dice and wooden tube to Sister Xiao.

Sister Xiao crushed the lollipop she was holding in her mouth, casually spat the pink stick aside, covered the dice with the wooden tube, shook it lightly, and let go.

The four people, one fat, one thin, one tall, and one short, stood behind Sister Xiao, their facial expressions unreadable.

From an outsider's perspective, nothing seems out of the ordinary; one might even think that Sister Xiao is a person of strong character—she remains so composed even in the face of such a significant event.

Lu Ming sneered inwardly.

"The opponents we've encountered this time are quite interesting. Of the five, apart from that short, unremarkable guy, the other four are all at the fifth rank..."

"The four people who followed Sister Xiao didn't waste words with us, nor did they laugh triumphantly after successfully pulling off some tricks, showing their smugness on their faces."

Others might not have noticed, but Lu Ming saw it clearly.

It's obvious that the player "Sister Xiao" on the opposing team is cheating. As the saying goes, nine out of ten gamblers lose, and the remaining one is cheating.

In Lu Ming's view, the so-called God of Gamblers is often just a cheater.

The cheating techniques Sister Xiao just displayed were very sophisticated and subtle; most people wouldn't have been able to spot anything wrong with them.

Although this cheating technique is subtle, it is clearly impossible to fool the main god with it.

There is only one reason why Sister Xiao is so fearless.

That is, this behavior is actually permitted by the Lord God.

Thinking about it, that makes sense.

These preparations before entering a dungeon will directly affect the outcome of the team's competition and can be a matter of life and death.

Entrusting one's fate to luck, such an elusive and uncertain thing, is rather rash.

Cheating, in other words, means letting the challengers on both sides show their skills, and whoever is more capable will gain an advantage from the start.

After casually shaking the wooden tube, Sister Xiao returned to her previous position, crossed her arms, and looked at Lu Ming with a hint of amusement.

Lu Ming stepped forward without making a sound, and also shook the wooden tube in front of him, just like Sister Xiao.

"The dice in Sister Xiao's wooden tube show a six."

The wooden tube was not transparent, and Sister Xiao did not open it immediately.

Lu Ming knew the other party's dice roll because he had also rolled one.

He was a very honest person, and he didn't hide anything. He revealed the result directly after shaking the wooden tube.

The top side of the die has two irregularly round red dots.

"Two o'clock?"

Gao Mingzhe was somewhat surprised.

This result is quite dismal.

Even if the opponent doesn't cheat, it's still very difficult to win.

Sure enough, upon seeing this scene, Sister Xiao couldn't help but laugh: "So adorably stupid."

She knew very well that she was going to win.

The outcome was never in doubt from the beginning.

However, when Lu Ming's two points came out, it was really quite laughable.

He seems to be a clueless young man who doesn't know how to be flexible or how to cheat.

Actually, there's one thing Sister Xiao is right about.

Lu Ming didn't really know much about cheating techniques.

But this is not a big problem.

Because Lu Ming is able to use supernatural powers.

The reason I didn't use it casually before was that I didn't want to attract the attention of the main god on such trivial matters.

However, since secretly manipulating things was within the rules, Lu Ming had nothing to worry about.

When Sister Xiao opened the wooden tube and saw the dice on the high platform, her pupils contracted involuntarily.

"What a joke!"

The dice she rolled showed a single dot, not a six.

Sister Xiao is very confident in her methods and there is absolutely no way she would make a mistake.

"Was it Lu Ming who did this?"

Sister Xiao's eyes narrowed, and she looked at Lu Ming with a hint of wariness.

Although the challenger rank does not represent absolute strength, the rank difference between the two teams was so huge that Sister Xiao couldn't imagine any possibility of the opponent being able to turn the tide.

"It's clear that his abilities are far ahead of the rest of the team; everyone else seems to listen to him and trust him completely..."

Sister Xiao was mentally calculating whether she should risk the penalty of losing points to get rid of Lu Ming first.

While physical punishment is extremely severe, it is not entirely out of the question in special circumstances.

"Forget it, there's no need to rush. Maybe he just has outstanding abilities in one area. It would be ridiculous to say that the four of us fifth-level beings can't even beat him, a fourth-level being."

After weighing the options, Sister Xiao still did not take action.

Apart from Lu Ming and Sister Xiao, the other eight people were also stunned by the current situation.

I thought Lu Ming was doomed to lose with his two points, but then Sister Xiao threw out the smallest number...

No one would believe that this wasn't Lu Ming's doing.

The dice roll was only slightly higher than the opponent's; it was blatant provocation.

The "bookmaker" looked at Lu Ming with his dull, lifeless eyes, waiting for him to speak.

"We choose the second option to enter the instance."

As mentioned before, teams that enter the instance later definitely have an advantage.

However, Lu Ming wasn't after this slight advantage—he already knew the entire plot of "Final Destination".

I did this simply to annoy the opposing sister, Xiao Jie.

As soon as he finished speaking, the "bookmaker" didn't give either team a chance to waste words.

A melodious bell rang, and Sister Xiao's team was sent into the dungeon. The five figures slowly disintegrated in an incomprehensible way and disappeared from the spot.

However, a huge canopy appeared in front of Lu Ming and the others, covering their entire field of vision. Through this canopy, they could clearly see the details of the dungeon.

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After entering the instance, Sister Xiao and her five companions found themselves on a flight about to take off.

Looking out the window, the night sky was pitch black. I don't know when, but cold raindrops started falling, hitting the glass and forming crisscrossing water streaks.

The cabin lights were blindingly white, and everyone around was chatting excitedly, seemingly without any sign of anything amiss.

"Has it started yet?"

Sister Xiao looked at the skinny man beside her and said, "Prepare to use your abilities."

The skinny man nodded, and a life-size mirror appeared out of thin air in front of him. This life-size mirror did not seem to exist in reality, but was just an illusion. It could not be blocked by real objects, and ordinary people could not perceive its existence.

The thin man stared at his reflection in the mirror.

Strangely, the person reflected in the full-length mirror was not him at all, but a pale and cold-faced man, who only looked about 50% like him.

His exposed skin was covered with dense cracks, making him look extremely creepy.

Click!

With a crisp sound, the full-length mirror shattered, scattering shards of glass all over the floor.

At the same time, the thin man's body surface also underwent inhuman changes, like a piece of broken porcelain, with deep and shallow cracks appearing, and his skin lost its human color, presenting a cold and eerie feeling.

His image is converging with the eerie man in the full-length mirror...
(End of this chapter)