Chapter 865: Three-Color Showdown

"Fifty people..." The one who had been beaten was a young man. His mouth was full of blood, and he didn't dare look directly at the player who had hit him, only begging softly, "Everything I said was true, please don't kill me..."

When he said this, several people around them involuntarily took a few steps back.

This scene made the attacking player's hands unconsciously relax a bit.

"What's going on?" Xiao Xianglin said. "It seems like there are rules here that only we players don't know about."

Xu Huo shook his head, indicating he wasn't sure.

Actually, this was practically laid out in the open.

Among those participating in the show were players and ordinary people. Perhaps some of the players had come aiming to settle in Sea World. For players, reducing competitors was easy enough, but the non-players present didn't treat this situation as their primary crisis. This showed that the show had relevant restrictive rules. It wasn't the case that players could kill whoever they wanted.

The main content of the "You're Well, I'm Well" show was the Three-Color Showdown and the subsequent task completions. The most important selection step required cooperation from both sides, and this had nothing to do with a person's identity. Since non-players and players were competing together, the task content would probably also be adjusted accordingly based on both sides' abilities.

"Time's up!" The Host's voice rang out again. "All 381 guests participating in the show have received their numbers. Next, please look at the bottom of your screens. After a five-second countdown, the number that appears will be your teammate. Five, four, three, two, one!"

Xu Huo looked at the two rows of numbers on the projection screen in front of him. The 313 on top was his number, and the 64 below was his teammate's number.

"You're 313, huh. What a shame." Xiao Xianglin was 340, matched with teammate 117. He waved at Xu Huo. "I'm going to find my person."

The two entered the crowd one after another, navigating the plaza according to the arrow indicators on their projection screens.

Just as he approached the center of the plaza, several people were gathered around a man, congratulating him with slightly envious expressions on getting a bye this round.

Out of 381 people, pairing up two to a team left one person over. This person couldn't get a teammate in the first round and could only enter the second round, becoming a substitute when someone in another group died.

In other words, this person could get through the first round without experiencing any danger.

Xu Huo walked around these people.

But in just two or three seconds, a faint slicing sound came from behind him. He turned back to see blood spraying from the neck of the person who had received the bye. The man hadn't even had time to raise his hand to cover the wound before he was already dead.

The moment he hit the ground, the several people gathered around him quickly scattered, warily searching for the attacker. Then, less than ten meters from them, the white block of the plaza floor suddenly dropped, and a player, along with several ordinary people standing beside him, fell through together!

If it had been a normal fall, the player could have handled it, but after the floor opened, it was as though there was a gravitational force underground. Not only did it pull in everyone directly above, it even dragged down a person at the edge who had accidentally slipped and was dangling by one foot.

After the people fell through, the floor closed back up. Starting from the location of the incident, the white blocks on the plaza floor began turning transparent one by one, allowing a clear view of the situation below.

It turned out that directly beneath the plaza was an ocean. The ordinary people who had fallen in didn't even have time to struggle before they were surrounded and torn apart by a swarm of piranhas. When blood surged and scattered, only that one player managed to escape. He fled far from the piranha swarm and tried to break through the floor to return to the surface, but even after using several items, all he managed to do was leave a few cracks in the floor.

"I haven't hosted this show in so long that I forgot to remind our guests of something important." The Host made his entrance with a smile. "Everyone here could become a friend. As someone who wants to gain friendship, how could you kill your future friend?"

"And this also violates the spirit of shared friendship in Sea World."

"Those who don't respect friendship naturally won't receive friendship. Therefore, Friendship Garden will expel, on behalf of Sea World, those who will never obtain friendship."

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The underwater player was frantically pounding on the floor. During gaps in his defense, piranhas had already bitten wounds into his body. The drifting blood and the vibrations of his strikes seemed to resonate with some creature underwater. Accompanied by a strange low cry, a shadow slowly rose from the depths.

Judging by its size, it was at least ten meters long, and it hadn't even fully revealed its body yet.

The watching participants wereso startled that they repeatedly fell back. The underwater player, seeing the strange reactions of the people above, also looked down into the water. But the next second, his entire body was pressed against the floor by a monstrous force, and his exposed skin was instantly covered with fine red marks like capillaries!

The plaza floor shook along with it.

The dark shadow, having simply swayed its body, sank back down. The player floated against the floor, and a few seconds later, blood overflowed from his mouth, nose, and ears, and a faint blood mist drifted off his body as well.

The piranha swarm, having finished off the others cleanly, surged to the player's side and dragged the corpse into the deep water.

The floor's light shifted and returned to its previous milky white.

Xu Huo looked up at the Host. The clear projection fully revealed the other's subtle expressions. He let out a pleased sigh. "What difference is there between living and dying for a person without friendship?"

Thunderous cheers came from outside the venue.

Xu Huo narrowed his eyes. This wasn't just about "expelling" those who broke the rules. Even the people around them were "collectively punished" along with them. At least, he hadn't seen the slightest hint that these so-called people sharing friendship had any intention of gaining the friendship of "people who could become friends."

"May I ask a question?" The female player Zhuang Mengtian raised her hand.

"So it's a beautiful lady." The Host gave a gentlemanly bow. "Please go ahead."

"Will a player who was expelled and comes back alive be expelled a second time?" Zhuang Mengtian said.

"If you no longer ruin friendships, we will of course welcome you to stay," the Host said with a smile.

Hearing this affirmative answer, quite a few players showed faint expressions of relief, and some were quietly testing the hardness of the floor.

"We just lost six guests. Guests missing teammates will be automatically matched," the Host said, bringing the topic back to the show. "Now, look at the central big screen. The system will randomly select the first group of guests!"

The numbers flickered and stopped on "164" and "73."

A few seconds later, two ordinary people walked out from the crowd and stood on the left and right sides of the big screen respectively.

The big screen then turned milky white. Without the other being able to see, three projection balls appeared in front of each of them: black, white, and yellow.

"As the first group of guests today who might give birth to friendship, they have three minutes to choose whether to make the other their friend." The Host's voice surrounded the plaza in three hundred sixty degrees. "So will they choose the yellow ball to share adversity with the other, or choose the white ball to show goodwill, or choose the black ball to end this friendship while also ending the other's life?"