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Looking at the unconscious girl being sent away.
"Thank you for your help."
The students of Alolan Royal Academy expressed their gratitude to Ikerit-san who had helped them.
They didn't expect that the students of Ikerita College would respond to this emergency situation so decisively and quickly, and the medical staff who came from the Alchemy College were also orderly. The whole process went smoothly without wasting a second.
It was just like a drill just two days ago.
The students of the Kingdom of Alolan could not help but marvel at the strong execution and unity capabilities of the students of Ikerita in dealing with emergencies.
"Don't worry, she may have fainted due to anemia, and her life is not in danger."
The students around him said modestly.
After all the problems were solved, the attention of the students on the stone steps of the square, from near to far, gradually returned to the screen.
From the audience's perspective, the camera is facing two adjacent cells. Adams is on the left and Lanci is on the right. They are both behind iron bars, and the cells are separated by walls. There are also prisoners in the cells next to them.
In addition to the initial supplies, if you survive every half hour, you can get a supply delivery. It could be food and water, or it could be medicine, textiles, or even things like fire-attribute crystals.
If there is a supply shortage, such as an urgent shortage of food, but there are extra fire crystals, you can find a way to exchange them with the prisoners in the next cell at the edge of the wall and iron bars.
But at this time, you need to infer the other party's needs and level of availability in order to reach the best transaction conditions.
Veterans who have played in this artificial shadow world know that when exchanging supplies, one must not let the other party see what one is lacking. Sometimes one must even pretend to have sufficient supplies when one is not, or make predictions when one is already full and improve the structure of one's own supplies. At the same time, one must also judge the risk of the transaction being defaulted, because if the prisoner next door is about to die, he may conduct a one-time scam transaction.
In addition, if you have extra supplies, you can exchange information with other prisoners, and collecting intelligence will also earn you extra points in this shadow world.
"In this endless mode, the temperature will gradually drop. Even if you have plenty of supplies, you can't sustain it indefinitely because it's only level 2. The current record holder for the single-player mode has lasted for a full 20 hours and 5 minutes."
Among the colorful umbrellas in the square, senior students were explaining the mechanisms of this shadow world to the confused junior students around them.
"Adams' advantage is that as a warrior, his physical fitness is better than Ranch's, and he has a lot of experience. Most of Ranch's advantages are difficult to play out in this shadow world."
"The main reason is that I am very sure that Ranch has never challenged this artificial shadow world. Some of the problems in multiple rounds of experience are difficult to make up for with wisdom."
For squishy characters, it takes more wisdom to last for two hours, but combat characters like Ranch and Adams, who are born with high physical strength, can hold out in the early stages.
The real competition lies in who can stockpile as many supplies as possible in the early stages, and who can put on an ultimate show of willpower in the final stages as the temperature gets lower and lower.
……
In the area where the Academy of Sages belongs, there is a small library attic. Although it is small in size, its interior design is full of ancient and noble magical academic atmosphere.
The bookshelves in the attic are carefully arranged into a gorgeous pattern, starting from the floor and extending along the walls to the ceiling, like the barriers in an ancient castle.
Going up to the second floor of the attic, an independent magic screen hangs high on the wall, with light and shadow flickering on its surface from time to time, playing the same picture as the open-air giant screen at the Jera Memorial Square.
And in the most conspicuous position of this attic.
"Hahaha, Lanqi is playing such a big game."
A woman in a black dress sat in the main seat, commenting on the scenes on the screen and laughing so hard that her body shook.
This place belongs to a strong team of Sage Academy, and the school also allows them to have a unique venue for activities.
The current leader of the team is the gold-level challenger, the Marquis Modan Gasigs, but it is very obvious that the woman in the black gauze dress, who is a fourth-year student at the Sage Academy and a platinum-level challenger, is the real speaker.
Modan, who was standing downstairs watching the screen, still looked uneasy.
He had a feud with Lanqi and always believed that if Asna, the vice-president of the Student Union, did not accept the challenge among the third-year students of the Sage Academy, he would be the strongest.
In the end, everyone unanimously nominated Ranchi.
However, after seeing the content of this shadow world, Modan did not think that Lanqi could win easily.
"Lanqi is playing such a big game this time, do you think he dares to lose?"
As if she had noticed Modan's condition downstairs, the woman in black veil stood up, leaned on the railing and asked with a smile.
"..."
Modan was speechless.
He couldn't figure out the mood and stance of the person on the second floor at the moment. She was more or less related to the bet.
Because she was one of Dean Loren's fiancées.
"Senior, do you still think Lanqi can win?"
After a moment's silence, Modan looked up uncertainly and asked.
“I think he will lose.”
The woman in black veil covered her cheeks, as if she was praying.
"Lose it, lose it, Lanqi, play Dean Loren even harder!"
Although she liked her teacher, Dean Loren, she felt very happy every time she saw Dean Loren suffer, and she really hoped that one day she would be able to play with Loren herself.
Just thinking about it, her face gradually turned red with joy.
At this moment, the shadow world is displayed on the screen on the wall.
As expected, Lanci and Adams both chose to rely on their physical strength to hold out, stockpiling supplies and waiting for the prisoners in the surrounding cells to initiate a trade with them.
It looked like they were really going to engage in an ultimate contest of wills.
Chapter 189: Lanqi always considers his opponents
An hour has passed since the beginning of the Shadow World.
Lanqi touched the rough stone wall with his cold fingers, and the tingling pain from his fingertips made him sober.
As the cold wind whistled in the prison and the prisoners in other cells trembled in silence, the chains bit tighter on his hands, and his wrists were scratched so painfully by the shackles that he almost lost consciousness.
Every pore in my body was resisting the cold, but it was in vain.
"It's so cold..."
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, felt the cold air spreading in his lungs, and then slowly exhaled the white mist. He could feel every vibration inside his body, every heartbeat, trying to fight against the endless cold.
As time went on, Lanqi began to get used to the cold, until his muscles became stiff and his thinking became slow.
It was hard to imagine if he continued to stay in this prison, whether cold and despair would become his only companions, accompanying him through the long and silent night.
Although there is nothing wrong with the film world Adams chose.
After all, Lanqi said he would accept any type of challenge.
But considering their strength, a fight to the end would definitely result in both sides suffering losses.
"Student Adams..."
Finally, Lanqi said helplessly near the wall of Adams' cell,
"If we continue like this and insist on deciding the winner, I'm afraid it will hurt the harmony."
soon.
"What's wrong, Lanqi? Are you a little overwhelmed now? I believe you are not the kind of person who would regret it halfway, right?"
Adams laughed and said with a hint of sarcasm.
To the left of the wall separating the two of them, Adams' cell was also in a bad condition.
Although he had stockpiled some supplies like Lanci, after enduring for an hour without using any supplies, a little frost formed on Adams' face.
He never underestimated Lanqi.
At the same level, when neither side can use magic cards, his basic ability to resist cold is stronger than Ranchi's.
However, Lanci is also good at analyzing intelligence and using strategies, and he is likely to be able to exchange more supplies from the prisoners on the other side.
Adams has decided that no matter what Ranch says, he will not make a deal with him. Ranch himself is a man with magical words, and cheating the opponent of supplies is also a possible winning point.
As long as he didn't let Lanch take advantage of him in terms of supplies, Adams was very sure that he would never lose to Lanch in terms of willpower and determination for Knight Commander Juliana. Only by defeating Lanch in this open and honest way could he make Lanch admit defeat with a sincere heart.
Lanqi was stunned for a moment. He felt that Adams obviously misunderstood what he meant.
"I never regret my moves. You can rest assured about the spirit of the contract."
Lanci said calmly.
The two people were communicating through the thick wall, and their voices were transmitted to the corridor through the gaps in the iron bars and then drifted into the next room.
"Then there is no need to say more. No matter what you say, I will not be shaken by you."
Adams chuckled.
He knew that sooner or later, Lanqi in this shadow world would try to communicate with him.
Because he had already anticipated that Lanqi would try to drag him into a mind game and use tricks to defeat him, but he didn't expect Lanqi to start so soon.
"..."
After this message was conveyed, Lanqi did not speak for a while.
"In that case, let you win."
After saying that, Lanqi's voice next door stopped abruptly.
"Wait a minute?"
Adams was slightly stunned and shouted outside the iron bars.
However, there was no response from the cell next door.
"…Lanqi?"
Adams was unable to comprehend the current situation for a moment.
Adams was confused by Lanci's mysterious desire to win.
Is this person really the type who doesn't care about winning or losing?
I heard rumors that Lanqi's character is unpredictable.
But even Adams had never thought that someone would surrender so easily in a competition representing the college, like a creature made purely of rationality, making judgments without any emotion or anger.
Adams thought about it for a moment, and finally exhaled a puff of mist with relief.
Presumably, Lanqi realized that there was no hope of defeating him through hard power or willpower in this shadow world, so he chose to stop at the right time and follow the principle of friendly competition.