Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

Introduction: Human experimentation was once extremely popular in academia, and this story takes place during this period... Deep within an abandoned underground research facility, the mad scientist Dr. Alan Herman secretly rebuilt his laboratory. Once a military bunker, it has now been transformed into a complex consisting of three interconnected rooms. Dr. Herman, who leads the experiments, was once expelled from the academic community for his brutal methods. He holds the paranoid belief that fear fuels human potential, and that only in an environment of extreme fear can human potential be unleashed. He thus transforms this area into his own private hunting ground, capturing innocent people for behavioral observation. From IV tubes dangling from the ceiling, dark yellow liquid drips onto the floor, making a clattering sound, torturing the nerves of every innocent person kidnapped for his experiments...

Your identity is: participant

[Your task in this round of the game: survive]

[Type: multiplayer, level-breaking, non-death type]

Shit, just because I’m late, I don’t even have the right to have a name in the new copy?

After Qin Shang heard the introduction of the background board, the corners of his mouth twitched violently.

Then the scene around him changed rapidly, from a quaint town to a dark room in minutes.

Boundless darkness, and the sight is very narrow.

It was probably a small house of no more than 20 square meters, with very poor lighting.

The edges are surrounded by wire mesh, and the few lights are the chandeliers behind the wire mesh.

A foul smell like that from a sewer filled his nostrils, and there seemed to be a layer of smelly water accumulated under his feet. Qin Shang felt his feet were wet. The strange smell made him retch several times.

At the same time, he noticed something hanging on the wire mesh surrounding the wall.

Qin Shang raised his eyebrows and subconsciously summoned the 'Taoist robe'. The moment he turned on [Night Vision], even though Qin Shang was already an old player, he couldn't help but gasp and was frightened.

It turned out to be a series of broken arms and limbs, with rotten muscles on the arms hooked on the wire mesh...

"Why make such a big deal right from the start?"

His Adam's apple rolled unconsciously and he took a step back.

Then I felt something under my feet. The soft touch made it hard not to think about that after seeing some shocking things.

Qin Shang gritted his teeth, suppressed the fear in his heart and looked down.

Fortunately, it was not a corpse or body parts with festering skin as imagined, but a pillow.

He breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously glanced behind him, then he was struck by lightning again and his pupils suddenly constricted.

He saw a pale, rotten face facing him. The facial outline was blurry and the two eyeballs were bulging, staring at him straight. The corpse was standing ten centimeters away from him, swaying, and its long tongue was crawling with maggots like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue. The only support seemed to be a thin wire hanging from the ceiling, keeping the corpse from falling in front of him.

"I wipe!"

Qin Shang's heart trembled and he quickly stepped back, just as he was about to summon other divine props.

The result was that he was surprised to find that his inventory was locked.

At the same time, in the skill column, all skills turned into gray-brown fonts.

This situation has been encountered once before. In this dungeon, the player's divine path items and divine path skills will be [sealed], forcing the player to play the dungeon as an ordinary person.

In fact, this situation should be more common in "contaminated copies". The operation of [sealing] the inventory and skill columns is like a mechanism to strike a blow against high-level players to maintain the balance of the Divine Path, so the inventory of everyone is sealed equally.

"Dead, dead?"

Qin Shang took a breath, took half a step forward, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the person in front of him was a corpse.

The dim light shining on the face of the corpse was extremely creepy and terrifying. The most important thing was that in such a dark environment where you couldn't see your hand in front of you, the face of the corpse was facing the only light source. The pale face and the green light presented a picture as if hell had descended. Behind it, there was a wall wrapped in barbed wire and a small bed, and the corpse was standing by the window.

Hanging beside the bed was a hook commonly used in hospitals for IV drips. On it was a bottle of yellowish-brown substance. The IV line was connected to the corpse that had died with its eyes open...

"Fuck! Night Vision doesn't work at all..."

Qin Shang cursed in anger. In fact, if he had a clear vision, he would not be scared to death. The key point was that the surroundings were too dark and the environment was very cold. Qin Shang felt that the temperature here was only about seven or eight degrees Celsius at most.

There was a constant breeze blowing from somewhere, delivering cool air.

"Number 7, gone..."

At this moment, Qin Shang had not yet adapted to the overall tone of this copy when a voice sounded behind him.

The sudden voice startled Qin Shang. He turned his head suddenly and saw a skinny man standing not far behind him, his clothes ragged and torn, waving at him.

Through the little light from the backlight, you can see that the other person's cheek is seriously sunken. If it is not caused by physical injuries, it is most likely due to hunger. In this case, it is impossible to judge the level of a person's appearance. I just feel that the other person exudes a decadent and desperate temperament all over his body, a bit like the death row prisoners he met during the time he was in prison.

His eyes were empty, and he had long lost hope in life.

"7...Number 7?"

Qin Shang was stunned.

Only then did he realize that the other person had a big number 8 on his body.

Looking down, I saw that I had numbers on my body just like him...

wrong!

But the moment he lowered his head, Qin Shang was shocked.

Is this my body?

He was skinny as a stick, with arms so thin that they looked like they could be broken in half by a grown man with just a little force. His waist had become much thinner, barely the width of a palm. If he were thrown into the real world, this would definitely be an A4 waist. A -meter-tall man with a waist only as thick as his arm...

What's even more bizarre is that just the action of lowering his head used up about half of Qin Shang's strength.

He actually felt that even such a common action as lowering his head was extremely strenuous.

hungry!

So hungry!

The immense hunger coming from my stomach was so real.

Fatigue and hunger came over him, even dispelling some of Qin Shang's fear.

His expression also became a little decadent, as if all his strength had been drained away.

"Let's go. I heard today's experiment is related to food!"

"Dr. Herman just promised that no matter what the results of today's experiment are, we will have food to eat."

As soon as the three words "there is food to eat" came out, Qin Shang couldn't help licking the corners of his dry mouth, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes. Like a beast driven by instinct, Qin Shang staggered forward two steps.

Only then did he come to his senses and was immediately shocked by his current behavior.

"8...8! Why were we arrested?"

He shook his head to get rid of those random thoughts, but as soon as he opened his mouth, his expression froze again. My voice!?

It was hoarse and low, and there were heavy rales between his breaths, as if there was a mouthful of phlegm stuck in his throat.

Every breath puts a heavy strain on the bronchi.

"I don't know. I don't know either..."

No. 8 didn't seem to have much energy to speak. After he finished speaking, he looked at Qin Shang, shook his long black hair with only a few strands left in his Mediterranean style, and motioned him to walk towards the end of the barbed wire.

Qin Shang smiled bitterly upon hearing this, thinking that my identity in this copy seemed a bit miserable?

Not only did he not have a name, but he was also a pneumonia patient who could not speak clearly. Just breathing in him made Qin Shang feel very heavy.

You can imagine how healthy this body is...

"But my Trickster hidden quest and hidden hints haven't appeared yet. Does this mean I have to wait until the experiment begins?"

After a preliminary look, Qin Shang was probably certain that he was the experimental subject used by the doctor in the background to observe human behavior...

The next moment, after following Number 8 out of the wire-covered room, Qin Shang began to review the information on the background board in his mind...

That doctor believes that 'fear is the fuel of human potential', so he wants to experiment with our fear, right?

Thinking of this, he reviewed in his mind the experiments in his knowledge base that required fear as a driving force.

[Milgram experiment].

Flea Effect

Black Sheep Effect

Fear Conditioning

Stockholm Syndrome

……

Several familiar laws instantly appeared in Qin Shang's mind, but these also needed to be viewed in conjunction with specific experiments.

He frowned, wore a mask of pain, covered his stomach that was constantly feeling hungry, and followed No. 8 closely. There was a small reflective surface on the back of No. 8's clothes. Although it was useless, Qin Shang didn't want to lose No. 8 and have to crawl and grope in this dark environment.

Without props, I am just an ordinary person, surrounded by either electric fences or wires, which can easily cut my skin...

There are also many small scars and scratches on the arms of this body, which are probably the work of these barbed wires.

Fortunately, the reflector on No. 8 played a role. No. 8 was the only moving creature that Qin Shang could see clearly in this dark environment.

Soon, the two came to another room where the air quality was much better than the previous place.

At this moment, there were already about five or six people waiting in the house. When they saw the two of them arrive, they had no intention of greeting them, which made Qin Shang give up the idea of exchanging information with other players.

The only special thing is that the area of this room is a bit larger than every other room I have walked through.

"Zizizizi, welcome everyone who wants to participate in the experiment..."

"Next, nine slices of pizza will appear in front of you. One of the slices is poisoned. You need to finish the pizza within the next half hour. If the pizza is not finished in half an hour, or no one eats the pizza, then everyone will lose the game. On the other hand, if the pizza is completely eaten, then everyone who ate the pizza will get dinner as a reward tonight."

"...One more thing: those who don't eat pizza will be considered to have failed the game. You should all know the price of losing the game."

"The rules of the game are simple, just enjoy your pizza."

"Oh yeah, one last thing to add. Don't expect to wait until others eat their pizza first to try to determine who will be poisoned first. The toxin here takes effect very slowly, at least half an hour. In other words, even if someone eats the poisonous pizza, before the half-hour is up, you won't be able to tell whether the pizza on the table is poisonous..."

Creak... With a loud noise, Qin Shang's eyes suddenly became bright, and the chandelier above his head suddenly switched to incandescent mode. The strong light hit him, and his eyes were a little unable to adapt to the instantaneous change in light.

Xu narrowed his eyes and stared at the center of the changing room.

I saw a table slowly rising up.

There was indeed a pizza on it, cut into nine even slices.

This... is the game in this copy?

Probability?

There is a 1/9 chance of eating poisonous pizza. In other words, the probability of poisoning is the same for each slice.

Because there are only two situations here.

From the perspective of the results, there are only two possibilities for any player to get the pizza: eating poisonous pizza or eating non-poisonous pizza.

So the probability of poisoning seems to be 1/9, but it is actually 1/2.

"The rules of the game...are indeed simple."

The next moment, Qin Shang opened his mouth and made a hoarse sound.

The eyes of the other people around immediately fell on Qin Shang.

No one ignored him.

Everyone just glanced at Qin Shang before returning their gaze to the pizza in front of them, even number 8...

What is even more unbelievable is that there is desire in the eyes of each of them.

Have you been hungry for too long?

Qin Shang was stunned for a moment.

I was actually very hungry too, especially after smelling the aroma of pizza, my appetite was whetted. I felt like this was a delicacy in the world, and I immediately had the urge to grab a piece of pizza and swallow it.

But he restrained himself. When Qin Shang was in prison, he did not have a good relationship with the prison boss when he first went in, so he even had problems getting food at first. It was only after a new prison boss was replaced and Qin Shang also learned how to behave and survive in such a place that he changed his thinking and stopped going against them, and only then did he have food to eat.

"But it's true that animals can lose their minds when they're extremely hungry!"

He became alert and keenly aware that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

After a quick glance, I found that there were actually ten players in the field, including myself.

Ten people?

Nine slices of pizza?

That being said, there's a 100% chance that at least one person will be left without pizza...

In other words, unable to meet Dr. Herman's requirements?

Qin Shang narrowed his eyes.

"Other people should have realized this, but why didn't anyone eat the pizza? The rules state that those who don't eat the pizza have lost the game..."

While Qin Shang was thinking, he heard No. 8 beside him suddenly speak.

"If, if I took two more pills..."

Gulu.

After he finished speaking, his Adam's apple rolled and Qin Shang's mouth twitched.

"The probability of poisoning is the same!"

"The reduction in pizzas won't reduce your chances of being poisoned, and similarly, the fact that there aren't any pizzas left won't increase your chances of being poisoned. This is the point that people don't understand about this game... Everyone thinks the chance of being poisoned is 1/9, but in reality, for each of us, the chance is actually 1/2."

"Because we don't know which slice of pizza is poisonous, each slice we pick up is random, and there are only two outcomes: eating poisonous pizza or eating non-poisonous pizza."

"When you eat the first slice, the probability of poisoning is 1/2. When you eat the second slice, the probability of poisoning is still 1/2. The probability of poisoning remains the same every time you eat pizza. Eating more pizza will not affect anything..."

After saying that, Qin Shang narrowed his eyes and said;

"But as you eat more, you're almost indirectly eliminating the other players in the field."

Wow!

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the other players in the scene changed.

Qin Shang then said calmly;

"One more thing. There are ten of us, and only nine slices of pizza. If you eat two, the remaining nine will have to fight for seven. If you eat three, the remaining nine will have to fight for six. Furthermore, according to the rules, there are ten of us, but only nine slices. There's always one person left without any pizza, and that person is doomed to fail the game. Oh, yeah, to be precise, there should be two people, because one of them will eat the poisoned pizza... So, two people are doomed to fail this experiment!"