Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god

#665 - Zero-sum game and cooperation intention

After a brief negotiation, the two teams reached a consensus: set aside the dispute over their positions and prioritize clearing the instance together.

This was also within Lin Yu's expectations—he saw Gao Shan in the opposing team at the first moment and judged from Gao Shan's expression that Gao Shan definitely recognized Li Nian.

At the same time… Li Nian should also be aware that her exposure was inevitable.

However, since Gao Shan didn't immediately react and Li Nian didn't do anything excessive, Lin Yu could judge that…

The two sides would definitely not end up in an irreconcilable situation—this also aligned with the information he was currently receiving from 'Order'.

Within the [Instance], clearing the level takes priority.

After all, Lin Yu knows all three of the opponents and knows how high their level is.

Needless to say, 'Gao Shan,' Lin Yu, in his identity as 'MayFifthMonth,' can even be called a friend of his.

He is a backbone member of 'Order,' a 'Tier 2' captain. Although he retreated when facing the four members of the 'Freedom Alliance' before, he is definitely not a simple character.

The captain-level members of 'Order' are definitely not weak.

Lin Yu had also seen 'Seagull' before. He was very active during the Hai City auction.

Lin Yu also remembers that this guy successfully stole the key prop of Grandpa Carrot right under everyone's noses, in front of many 'Tier 3' players, which is enough to show that he has some skills.

And at that time, Lin Yu thought he was a 'Thief' or something—who would have thought he was a 'Student'!

This further highlights the gold content of Seagull's operation at that time.

After all, Snowy Owl is an open 'Tier 3' and Gao Shan is a 'Police Officer', then that 'Tier 2', 'Student' can only be Seagull.

The phantom just now is also enough to show that Seagull's frontal abilities are definitely not bad.

As for 'Snowy Owl'…

What kind of simple character would dare to directly participate in the frontal battlefield on the overpass that day, draw a knife against 'Fluoxetine', and be invited by 'Robin' to be his partner?

Although Lin Yu is confident in himself, seeing Snowy Owl appear in the opposing team, this matching result still made Lin Yu couldn't help but think: Is Li Nian more powerful than he imagined, or is Flying Knife actually hiding his strength?

In any case, Lin Yu felt that he should avoid direct conflict with them.

These three look more than one level stronger than Little Fire Dragon, Jenny Turtle, and Deadshot, who had their weapons taken away by Li Nian at the beginning!

And when the biggest point of contention, the identity issue of "Li Nian" as a member of the 'Freedom Alliance,' was set aside…

"Before we cooperate, we need to confirm one thing—that is, we really can cooperate."

Lin Yu spoke, bringing up an issue again.

That is…

Even though the two sides can ignore various factors in reality and cooperate sincerely regardless of organizational positions, but…

This is, after all, a high-probability [Confrontation] type instance.

"It is very likely that we are in a [Confrontation] type instance. Our respective conditions for clearing the instance are not the same, and may even be somewhat symmetrical."

Speaking of this, Lin Yu paused: "So, what are your conditions for clearing the instance?"

He chose to bring this up, not because he didn't want to cooperate with the other party.

On the contrary, it was precisely because Lin Yu didn't want to fight these three guys that he would take the initiative to bring this up—so that he could take the initiative in this controversial topic into his own hands.

And Snowy Owl didn't think too much. Hearing Lin Yu say this, he just nodded.

"Our condition for clearing the instance is 'Prevent Liu Town from appearing in the world'."

"This mission condition is a bit strange, because we entered the [Instance] in a place similar to a mountain village. There were some bandits there… Because their behavior was too inconsistent with our standards, and there were too many disgusting things in the entire village, we had a conflict after a few words, and then I killed them."

Snowy Owl said, and Lin Yu was greatly shocked.

The other party was indeed as he had guessed, initially on the side of wanting to rob the convoy—but what Lin Yu didn't expect was that Snowy Owl actually killed those bandits directly.

But seeing that Gao Shan and Seagull didn't seem to have any objections, Lin Yu felt that he had underestimated the moral standards of the traditional 'Night Watchers' and 'Order'.

Indeed, within the [Instance], clearing the instance should be prioritized in principle.

But… if you want to cooperate with bandits who do all kinds of evil, then you have already violated their principles!

The carefree Seagull also opened his mouth: "In short, we found some letters from those bandits, mentioning that they were going to rob a convoy that would pass through Fuyuan Mountain, Double Saw Mountain, Five Springs Mountain, and White Ridge Mountain, and that there was something in that convoy that was the 'key to preventing the reappearance of Liu Town'…"

"But we asked a few soft-boned survivors, and those surviving bandits didn't know what it meant to prevent Liu Town from appearing in the world—the Liu Town they knew was just an ordinary town, a few dozen miles west of White Ridge Mountain."

"It's just that a person who seemed to be the leader said that he seemed to have heard that Liu Town was renamed under the advice of a certain Taoist priest, borrowing the name of an ancient town… but that bastard was too badly injured, so he didn't say clearly, and died directly."

Seagull said, and Lin Yu also nodded.

"I see… then I can definitely tell you that this 'Liu Town' is not that 'Liu Town'. I can tell you that there is indeed a lost ancient town buried deep in Double Saw Mountain, which is the real Liu Town—and our condition for clearing the instance is 'Reach Liu Town'."

"And now, based on the information I have obtained, combined with your conditions for clearing the instance, the conditions for clearing the instance for both camps in this [Confrontation] instance are indeed not completely zero-sum."

"We can still cooperate."

Hearing Lin Yu's words, Snowy Owl frowned: "The meaning is that Liu Town is a lost ancient town buried underground, you want to reach Liu Town, and we can't let Liu Town reappear… how can we cooperate and win-win?"

"Isn't this completely a zero-sum game already?"