Haidu: Top of the Tower

Chapter 22
The landmark building of Arcana University, a top university in Haidu, "Jiwai Tower" is two black towers connected by multi-layered stone corridors.

The spiers of the two towers point straight to the sky, and the towers are embossed with complicated carvings. If one stands in the center of the two towers and looks up, there are more stone corridors stacked in the air between the two towers; , It seems to be just a thread of black love that links the twin towers.

For the trial competition venue, the committee only opened the ground floor of the Jiwai Tower; on this floor, there is only a stone corridor connecting it.

At four o'clock in the afternoon that day, the contestants wearing uniform trial uniforms got off the car one after another in front of Jiwai Tower.Amelia seemed to have been waiting for a long time, she clapped her hands and said, "Welcome everyone to participate in this 'Kidnapping the King'."

In the "Kidnapping the King" game, thirty contestants were divided into two camps.Milady and the other fourteen players all belong to the "own tower" camp. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but the three members of Luo Geng from the Gaota family are all in the opposite "outer tower" camp.

Was it arranged this way to give the Gaota family a chance to take him down?

Milady took a closer look at the players from both camps.

In both camps, there are several current patriarchs and patriarch heirs: in the "Outer Tower" camp, there are Hanxing, Changge, Gaota, and Hefengjiao; ——Unexpectedly, the boy with a pair of iron-gray eyes, who is the next heir to the executioner's patriarch, happened to be in the same camp as her.

I have to say that the trial committee is very considerate.In faction battles, players from the same family will be divided equally into two groups, one for each side; in this way, no matter which side wins, the family will get half of the points.

"The game of kidnapping the king has many rules, please allow me to explain it carefully."

Amelia said with a straight back and a flat voice: "As you can see, the first floor of the twin towers is the base camp of both sides. After the game starts, all the entrances and exits of the outer towers will be blocked, and you can only use the only stone. Corridor pass.

"The goal of this game is to capture the king of the opposing camp. But the identity of the king is hidden, that is to say, you don't know who is the king of the opposing camp."

Everyone was slightly taken aback.

According to Amelia's introduction, before the start of the game, the staff of the base camps of both sides will designate a player as the king.Subsequently, the staff will write down a prompt according to the identity of the king.

3 minutes before the game, both parties need to try to snatch the hint; once the 3 minutes are up, if the hint has not been snatched, it will be destroyed by the staff.Scramble is the only time in the entire game when you can use force, but you can't arrest people.

After the game officially starts, players on both sides are free to go out to catch the king; but no matter where they are, they may be caught instead.

"Before the game starts, the staff will add a long feather to your collar, which is your personal representative. Even if you are in your own camp, if your long feather is taken away by the enemy, it means that you have been captured by the enemy. People on the same side can't capture each other."

When Amelia said this, a staff member already came with a handful of long white feathers.

"After being captured, your enemy can ask you a question, or you can ask the staff to identify whether you are the king. You can only choose one of the two, but there are only two opportunities for identification. Automatically lose. When answering questions, the arrested person can only answer 'yes', 'no' and 'can't answer'. The arrested person must tell the truth, and the staff will supervise to ensure the authenticity of the answer."

How do they know if the answer is true?

Just now Milady was puzzled, but after thinking about it for a while, she also understood: If only one question can be asked, it must be related to the king, and the staff will naturally be able to distinguish the authenticity from the false.

"What if I want to ask a few more questions?" Someone suddenly asked.

"It depends on whether the other party is willing to answer." Amelia replied, "But the captured person must tell the truth only when he answers for the first time."

"Where is the staff?"

"It can be found in the base camp and in the corridor. In order to fully monitor the venue, a large number of staff are distributed in the venue." Amelia said: "In addition, the contestants cannot stay in the corridor for more than 1 minute. Once timeout, The contestant will be punished by being taken into the enemy's camp and making a true statement to the enemy about the king of the camp. Neither the answer nor the statement can take the feather."

Judging from the reactions of the players, the trial committee was fairly fair, and did not give the major families a chance to communicate in advance and determine the winner or loser.

But it is conceivable that after the game starts, private negotiations between the two parties may be indispensable... Luo Geng will definitely seize the opportunity and lobby the various patriarchs to let him win this round; but this time, he may not be able to succeed, Mi Lai Di wouldn't just let him go without saying a word.

"In addition to these main rules," Amelia's voice recalled Milady's thoughts, "there are supplementary rules."

Like the warm-up match, physical conflicts are not allowed in "Kidnapping the King"-this is why it was favored by Milady but abandoned by Luo Geng.

Secondly, the players did not bring their own mechanisms, and could only use several organs prepared in the camp hall.

After the supplementary rules were introduced, Amelia nodded slightly and said, "Now, please take your positions from both camps."

When the contestant walked around, the long feathers on the back of the neck trembled with the steps, and looked very delicate; Milady tried to pull it out with her backhand, but found that it was fastened tightly in the special collar button. With a little effort, I really can't pull it off.

After everyone walked into the first floor of Ji Tower, the door was closed from the outside with a bang; through the corridor, everyone entered a standard rectangular hall.

Milady looked around: on the opposite side of the hall was the entrance of the stone corridor, which led straight to the outer tower; at the end of the right hand side of the hall was a round table, on which were placed a wooden box and five or six books. Various organs.

A staff member stood by the round table and greeted all the contestants, turned his gaze around them, and said, "Welcome everyone to enter the game. The king of the Tower faction is the Xiyado contestant from the Executioner family."

What a coincidence.

The thin young man with iron-grey eyes seemed to have never heard of it, and remained motionless, as if Xiyado was someone else's name.

Next, the staff wrote a reminder note, put it into the thin wooden box on the table, and snapped the lock on.Milady craned her neck to see what he wrote, but was blocked, and only saw that the last word was "sheng", which was useless.

"Now is the preparation time. When you hear the bell ringing, the three minutes of snatching the note will begin," he explained. "When the bell rings again, it means the snatching is over."

As soon as he finished speaking, several patriarchs approached Xiyado and discussed in a low voice.

"I said," the head of the Quicksand family asked without hesitation, "How do we arrange this game? Which side wins and which loses?"

"It doesn't matter," said the patriarch during the meeting, "Anyway, the next one will be changed."

"It's just that kid from the Gaota family..." The head of the Mengsheng family stopped talking when he looked at Milady who was approaching.

Siyado raised those iron-gray eyes coldly, as if he wanted to block an iron gate in front of Milady with his eyes and keep her out.

As if she didn't notice it, she stopped in front of the boy who was half a head shorter than herself.

She just wants a chance of a fair game, and she can't let this group of patriarchs decide the outcome of the game; no matter how small the chance is, she must try her best.

"Everyone," she said as sincerely as possible, "how can the internal affairs of our Gaota family affect everyone's competition?"

Several people looked at her without saying a word.

"I just want to remind you of one thing. There is also a faction game in this trial, right? I don't need to say, you also know that in the next faction game, the faction will be divided into the same two Call someone."

Of course, the Trial Competition Committee understands that the players will communicate with each other in private to decide whether to win or lose, and they are willing to cooperate; there is no change in personnel, and the team that lost this time will win the next time, making up for the points they deserved.

"If you all decide to lose the Kidnapping King, it will be my side's turn to win next time. Do you think Luo would be more willing to watch me score [-] points for nothing? At forty points, he will be [-]% sure to eliminate me. If it were you guys, you must try your best to make me lose two games? At that time, you who are in the same camp will be dragged down."

Several patriarchs obviously listened to her words, and their expressions changed; Xiyado laughed, and his voice dispersed like a cool mist.

"Your premise is wrong. Next time, just change yourself to Luo Geng's camp next time, and this problem can be solved."

He spoke as if he could inform the committee to make arrangements—maybe he could.

Milady shook her head. "No, you forgot, the next camp match is a guessing game."

Siddho raised an eyebrow.

"No matter how you decide to win or lose in private, the fact is that the first person who answers more than six questions first, her camp will win." Milady smiled slightly and said, "Even if Luo Geng made an agreement with you, Guaranteed to let you win the next camp battle, as long as I don't cooperate and answer the questions first, you will still lose. I don't think I'm slow, so I will just watch myself lose and do nothing?"

The memory of her just winning the warm-up match was still fresh, and the expressions of the several patriarchs were indeed a little dignified.

Milady emphasized again: "That is to say, no matter who I am in the same camp next time, you are very likely to lose again. As patriarchs, when you enter the fourth game, you will only have [-] points, no matter what. Big insurance, right? The only chance to win points is today’s kidnapping of the king. Do you still think it doesn’t matter which side wins today?”

"You're still doing it for us?" Xiyado said slowly.

"I remind everyone out of good intentions. After this game is over and everyone gets the points, no matter how much Luo Geng and I fight, it won't affect you."

"I know you have selfish intentions," the Quicksand patriarch murmured, "but what you said is not wrong..."

Milady secretly heaved a sigh of relief, feeling sweat on her back.

Except for Xiyado, who was vaguely hostile to her, the patriarchs on her side were reluctantly persuaded; even the executioner's family had to consider the wishes of the various patriarchs...

Next, maybe she can concentrate on dealing with Luo Geng, and have a fight with her real skills, right?
As soon as the thought flashed through my mind, the bell rang.The staff reminded loudly: "The 3-minute battle begins!"

"What should we do?" The Quicksand patriarch still hesitated, "Let us win, can the other side agree?"

"Wouldn't it be over if they win back next time?" The head of the family seemed to have made up his mind during the session. "Who has a good relationship with the other side? Ah, Xiyado, if you speak, the other side will definitely agree."

Seeing that the several patriarchs had almost unified their opinions, Xiyado nodded slowly.

Milady could feel his intense, quiet displeasure.

Why did he stop himself?
However, now is not the time to think about that.Milady looked at the contestants who were not nervous at all, suppressed her anxiety, and reminded: "We should release people to defend the round table."

"No need, we all know each other, just discuss it." The quicksand patriarch waved his hand.Not only him, but the other two patriarchs also looked not in a hurry.

Milady wanted to say more, but the sound of Deng Deng's footsteps came from the stone corridor, and hearing the echo, more than one person came.

"Come here so fast?" A Jita player stood at the entrance of the stone corridor and greeted the person who came: "Oh, it's you—"

As soon as he started speaking, the figure rushed over in an instant.

The player was stunned for half a second.

From behind the first person who rushed in, three more people rushed in one after another. Without a word of nonsense, they all rushed straight to the round table.Several patriarchs stood by the table in a daze, and the patriarch Mengsheng shouted: "Carter, what are you doing?"

"I'm sorry,"

When the Changge clansman named Carter replied, he knocked the Mengsheng patriarch away with his shoulder, and reached out to fish for the wooden box on the table. "Our patriarch said, let us win this round first!"

When Xiyado immediately turned his head to call Changge Patriarch, he stopped.

Only then did Jita finally realize that there was not even a patriarch among the visitors.No one who could make a decision came. Obviously, the Outer Tower had no intention of discussing it at all.

In the next few seconds, countless confusion and confusion erupted.

"Go back and tell your patriarch—" someone shouted angrily.

"Don't touch it!" Another man tried to block Carter's hand.

"Second uncle, are you okay?" Someone hurried to help the patriarch Mengsheng who was on the ground.

I don’t know which patriarch was calling for help, the round table was knocked out with a bang, wrestling bodies surged on the ground, fists and curses flew around, Xiyado yelled “stop” several times but no one listened ——In the chaos, Carter's fingers were already closed on the wooden box.

The players in the outer tower had already completed the division of labor. As soon as Carter held the wooden box, he turned around and threw the wooden box to another person standing outside the melee circle.

As soon as the man caught the wooden box, he turned around and ran towards the entrance of the stone corridor. He was clever, and unlocked the wooden box while running; but at this moment, with a "bang" gunshot, the thin wooden box was knocked down Into the air.

In the hall that was stunned by the gunshots, Milady held up the light pistol in her hand and yelled clearly: "Flute, grab the wooden box!"

The traps provided by the trials are not very lethal, the man just suffered from pain, and he may snatch the wooden box back into his hand at any time; the man who greeted the enemy just now finally reacted, and rushed up to grab it in a few steps. Milady breathed a sigh of relief after keeping the wooden box.

"There's one and a half minutes left!" The staff member who didn't know when to hide in the corner announced loudly while pinching his watch.

Seeing several people rushing towards him, Si Di didn't dare to stay, turned around and ran with the wooden box in his arms; no one expected that when he ran to the entrance of the stone corridor, he was knocked down by a figure who rushed out suddenly, Roll to the ground together.

Milady immediately raised the gun again, but the two of them wrestled together, and there was almost no chance; while trying to aim, she shouted: "Didn't you say that you are not allowed to stay on the stone corridor for more than a minute?"

"He only stayed for 40 seconds!" came Yaoyao's answer from the stone corridor.

In other words, the outer tower divided the offensive into two waves... Can Luo Geng not only convince the other family patriarchs, formulate the strategy, and even allocate the personnel within a few minutes of preparation?
At this time, Si Di couldn't resist, and the wooden box was snatched by the opponent again.Player Jita was caught off guard and lost again and again, as if the situation wasn't bad enough, but at this time there were figures on the stone corridor again, this time it was her old acquaintances: Li Wei and Nawa.

As soon as their eyes met, Milady realized that they were coming for her.

They weren't aiming for hints—she knew that.

In the "Kidnapping the King" game, you can only use force during the 3 minutes of grabbing the hint; I'm afraid Luo intends to take this opportunity to make her unable to even stand up in the next trial match?
Milady's reaction and speed were extremely fast, seeing that the two of Gaota couldn't catch up with her for a while, Li Wei immediately grabbed a chair in the hall and raised it above her head, shouting: "Milady, traitors don't last long! "

He was born with supernatural power, and even Dao Minke would be ashamed of himself. If she was hit by a chair, she might be broken more than one bone—but he didn't realize that he provided Milady with a chance.

The moment Li Wei raised the chair to throw it, he was an immovable target.

Milady stopped, turned around, raised her gun, and aimed a series of processes, like flowing water, and sent a round sand bullet to Li Wei.

If Nava hadn't bumped into him hard at the critical moment, the round sand bomb should have been able to hit Li Wei's knee in the opposite direction; unfortunately, it missed a line and brushed past his leg, only hurting him. Flesh wounds.

"It's time!" The staff in the corner shouted anxiously. "The reminder of the tower camp has been taken away, please return to your place, the game will officially start in 1 minute!"

Milady glanced away, only to find that the wooden box fell to the ground with its mouth open, and the note was long gone.

(End of this chapter)