Book II, 51: The Fourth Level That Was Subverted
It's the best of times, and it's the worst of times.
When humanity set its sights on the vastness of the universe, the entire society quickly swelled into an impetuous monster. While making great strides, the pace of work has become extremely intensive, and the pressure of life has become unprecedentedly strong, and all kinds of strange programs for the purpose of venting emotions have emerged one after another.
They will use all kinds of murderous or bizarre ideas and methods to win the attention of popularity, but in the same way, due to the serious homogenization and too many genres to choose from, it is difficult for a show to survive for a long time, and most of them are gradually rising a wave at the same time, quickly disappearing in the turbulent tide.
In this case, it has to be said that the Death Chamber is a very good show.
As a person that has been around for more than five years, but can still remain attractive enough to make the interconnection rate prosperous, there must be a set of extremely ingenious and unique design features as its biggest selling point, which can be used to attract the support of the audience for a long time.
At the risk of federal law, veterans are deceived into becoming participants, setting up huge strongholds in remote corners of the territory for show venues, and absorbing terrifying creatures from a planet to create strange and dangerous tests, all of which represent a huge amount of money that is beyond the reach of shoddy programs.
But really speaking, all of the above is just a foreshadowing for the last two levels.
The first three levels, which were incomparably complex and tortuous before, were only a means of selection: the first level tested the wisdom and enthusiasm of individuals. The second level tests the individual's ability and combat quality, and the third level tests the team's cooperation and overall strength.
Only participants and teams who meet the above criteria will be able to enter the fourth level, which is also the core setting of the show, the Death Chamber.
This is a gladiatorial arena the size of a football field, and participants from four directions will appear on the four enclosed hemispherical platforms suspended in mid-air, and the final number of people will be selected within 20 to compete in the final boss battle.
In terms of rules, of course, it will not be that ordinary goods, in order to be different from other programs of the same type, the Death Chamber has ingeniously replaced some of the traditional rules with a few changes.
First of all, in order to make the show's watchable performance long-lasting, there will be no teamwork options in the Death Chamber. Purely in the form of heads-up duels to eliminate the losers. And the requirement for a decisive victory is that the opponent must be completely killed.
Secondly, in order to make the fight more thrilling and exciting, both sides of the gladiatorial fight will use special equipment to remove the power in the armor before the end of the fight. It is saved by the system. When the gladiatorial battle decides the winner. Let the winner get all that the loser has.
The most rear. The gladiatorial candidates for each team's match shall not be decided by their own team, but by the vote of the other three teams. That is to say, the persimmon has to pick a soft pinch, and the four people elected will be voted on by all the people, so that which two will have a life-and-death struggle.
In addition, it is worth noting that the four teams can contact each other through devices, but only one-way calls are allowed (when the two are connected, the other person cannot know the content of the call and cannot access it), and the time limit for each game to vote cannot exceed 10 minutes, once exceeded, it will be decided by the off-site.
After the rule changes of the above four points, this fourth level can be said to be the culmination of various considerations, especially the setting of the last two points, which integrates the rules of "Killing Game" into the selection of gladiatorial candidates, representing the highest achievement of the show's thick black insidiousness.
The weak do not necessarily lose, they can bluff and mislead their weakest players not to be selected, or choose the strongest existence in their own team, and play the rules of Tian Ji horse racing.
The strong team will not necessarily win, and when the other three teams are likely to join forces, the candidate for the gladiatorial battle may be the strongest against the strongest, or it may be a big fish eating a small fish, or even a weak chicken against a weak chicken, because no one knows what the other teams will really think after each one-way conversation.
One of the key points is that these four teams must decide to have less than 20 candidates in a very short time, otherwise once the oxygen is exhausted in three hours, everyone will be dead.
This is quite a difficult task.
Because, as those in the control hall saw, all the images on the screen wall were already concentrated in the secret room, and a total of 36 participants had to die within the 180-minute time limit until less than 20 remained, which means that it would take a full 16 gladiatorial battles to determine the winner.
After excluding the time required for the battle, there will not be much time left for each vote, according to the past practice, it is basically within 5~8 minutes, which means that each one-way call to change the fate of their own team is only less than 1 and a half minutes (to ensure that the number of calls for each team is six calls).
With a sense of urgency, they need to engage in infighting within the team to make unwanted players the target of votes, and on the other hand, they need to fight with other teams to avoid their own numbers dropping and become more powerless in the next vote.
The intense rhythm involved in the above process is the most attractive part of the Death Chamber.
However, the scene that appeared in the Death Chamber today stunned everyone in the control hall and even went crazy.
Because all the wonderful processes in the past were completely messed up by Chen Xi, don't think about it, when this episode of the show is finished, the audience will definitely have a flood of bad reviews!
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What Chen Xi did was actually very simple, that is, he made three brief phone calls to the other three teams, asked them to look at them, and then showed his biggest hole card to deal with the boss of the fifth level - the controlled Tibit.
The effect of the display was very obvious, and the three teams have now begun to collectively eliminate the weaker members of the team, trying to get the remaining people close to ten places.
However, this practice obviously did not follow the basic rules of the level, and the place of the battle was not in the gladiatorial ring, but on the hemispherical platform of his team, and the ping pong was very hilarious.
"How do you know that magnetic card can control Tibit?"
Kolchak looked at the battle at the three platforms, and still couldn't believe it, the magnetic card that was originally used to control the cable car could also be put into the slot behind Tibit, of course, the most important thing is that how could Chen Xi find out this, it is really unthinkable.
"Do you remember the magnetic card hidden in the chair in the first level, if someone vents as soon as they get out of trouble, and they happen to be looking for a chair, they can skip the normal puzzle-solving process directly, do you think the person who can design this kind of shortcut idea will still have another bad idea?" Chen Xi asked casually, not at all thinking that this question would be difficult.
"You're saying that there are all kinds of tricks in the next few levels, but we haven't found them." The two Kahneman brothers also looked over with wide eyes, and their two faces that looked similar became very ridiculous because of this action.
"I don't know what to do, in short, this one is when I saw the cable car control slot, I suddenly remembered the slot that Tibit touched behind it, and then I had the idea of giving it a try, anyway, whether it succeeds or not, there is no loss."
"That's why I said that meaningful sentence in front of the cable car, but I didn't expect you to hear it at all, I remember that many people have touched Tibit like me."
Chen Xi did not answer honestly, but began to change the topic.
He is more concerned with the actions of Tibit and the "Governor" on the other side of his control than answering other people's questions.
In fact, there were a total of 11 people when they came in, which was nine short of the required number of 20 people at the fifth level, and now that they gave up ten places, of course, there was no need for another person. This is the real reason why he won over the "governor", when he saw that the "governor" could separate the body parts, he thought about letting this guy get out of the toilet, presumably he should have gone away now.
Thinking of this, after striking the IQ of the onlookers again, Chen Xi dropped a sentence and walked to a room behind the platform in a dashing manner: "Then this place will be handed over to you, and when they exclude most of the weak people and then vote or something, you will listen to Kolchak, I will go inside to rest first, and call me after the specified number of people." ”
He had more important things to do, which was to control the smuggling program of Tibit, who was being kept in another toilet. (To be continued......)
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