There is One New Rule Every Month Globally

Chapter 261: Chapter 246: “Child, if the questions are wrong, the answers will naturally be wrong as well.”_2

With only 2 minutes left in the countdown to the challenge,

the man sitting on the sofa suddenly broke into a grin, “Wrong by 13 digits—I knew my judgment wouldn’t fail me. Memorizing thousands of digits in one go, errors are bound to happen.”

Seeing her husband suddenly speak up, the woman let out a sigh of relief but still spoke anxiously, “So that was why you insisted on listening to Chen Yi recite while checking it against the pi document online?”

“That’s right.”

The man nodded, glanced at the last remaining two minutes of the countdown, then slowly closed his eyes as he leaned back on the sofa, picking up a grape from his wife’s lap and popping it into his mouth, murmuring tiredly.

“I could’ve just searched for those seven sections of pi and memorized them, but… as I said, I couldn’t be sure whether Chen Yi would make a mistake during his recitation.”

“Once he made a mistake, then even if I recited the seven sections of pi perfectly, the challenge would still end in failure.”

“So I had to follow along with the pi document the whole time, comparing and memorizing at the same time. The mental pressure is immense, but it is indeed effective.”

“My guess was correct, Chen Yi indeed made 13 errors in the last few sections.”

“This is a fatal issue.”

“Luckily, I caught it, or else I would have failed this challenge.”@@novelbin@@

“Actually…”

After hesitating for a moment, the woman still spoke, “Actually, it wouldn’t matter if you failed. I mean, although I really want the high reward, I don’t like seeing you so stressed. It makes me feel bad. We’re already living quite well as it is. Many people can’t even afford fruit.”

“No way.”

The man abruptly opened his eyes, looking at the countdown that was less than a minute away, his voice hoarse.

“I’ve never been much capable in my life, always mediocre, causing you to suffer alongside me. Now that an opportunity has appeared before us…”

“I must win, I have to win.”

“At least—”

“This time, I must win!”

“Player Lv Chao, challenge confirmed!”

…

Soon, the ten-minute challenge time had expired.

No more challenges could be initiated.

Up to this moment, not a single player had succeeded in the challenge.

However, this did not mean that the challenge was over.

The system indicated that there were still 170,000 players continuing to challenge, with half an hour of challenge time remaining, and only after half an hour would it be known whether any players had succeeded.

The number of players still challenging rapidly decreased.

From 170,000, to 150,000, then to 130,000.

The count was dwindling.

Chen Yi, leaning on a cane in the middle of the rooftop, smiled lightly as he looked at the panel in front of him without speaking. Suddenly struck by a thought, he glanced at Jiaye who was standing beside Tie Chui, continuously watching him.

Their gazes met.

He saw the deep, watery ponds in the depths of her eyes.

The corners of his mouth lifted slightly; having more bonds was actually quite nice.

He was a bit luckier than Tuberculosis Rabbit; Tuberculosis Rabbit only had one family member, while he now had two.

Everyone grows.

Just as he used to wait by the wall of the orphanage every day, hoping for his parents to take him home, everyone’s growth begins with the realization that their longstanding wait has been nothing but a bubble.

Thinking about it more closely,

Back then, Tuberculosis Rabbit never mentioned his parents, nor had he ever hoped for them to take him home.

Perhaps Tuberculosis Rabbit understood from a young age that no one would ever come for him.

In that respect, Tuberculosis Rabbit matured even earlier than he did.

But now…

Chen Yi’s gaze returned, his brows slowly furrowing as he pondered a serious matter.

How to resolve the drawback of Fatal Strike?

The title had an effect that allowed attacks to critically hit by chance.

The odds were small.

He hardly ever encountered it, which, of course, had something to do with most of the people he personally killed being taken down effortlessly.

But he did witness an incident recently on the streets, where he saw a man critically hitting a girl in a club, resulting in blood and a subsequent fight.

Bedroom affairs were judged as attacks.

There was a chance of a critical hit.

He didn’t know how this ruling system came about, but that’s just how it was.

So, in the past few days when he first became intimate with Jiaye, they did it from behind.

That could be considered taking advantage of the rules of August.

August rules, backstabs can’t do damage.

With that, even if you have a Fatal Strike’s Critical Hit Rate, there’s no worry about suddenly dying.

But… August will eventually end.

What about September? October?

August sweetheart?

And maintaining this angle is getting tiresome too.

Isn’t there a good way to solve this problem?

Chen Yi found himself lost in thought, momentarily at a loss for how to best tackle this issue, unless he obtained a corresponding Prop, title, or Skill.

For instance, a Skill that could temporarily disable a certain title.

Or perhaps a Prop that makes a player invincible for thirty minutes.

Give such a Prop to Jiaye, and naturally, he would have nothing to fear, but an invincibility for thirty minutes Prop would have to be at least S-Class, right?

That’s way too out of reach for him.

If he could acquire that Prop, this wouldn’t be much of a problem anymore.

“Huff!”

Chen Yi let out a sigh, regretting for the first time that he chose this title; it was quite inconvenient, mainly because this judgment mechanism was just outrageous. How could that thing be judged as an attack?

It’s unreasonable.

Of course, in an upgrade-based game, there isn’t much reason to speak of.

At that moment.

TWenty-five minutes had passed since the challenge time ended, meaning in five more minutes, even the players who issued a challenge at the last second would complete it.

Just five minutes left.

But so far, not a single player had succeeded in the challenge.

There were still 173 players attempting.

Just a challenge video saw a swift increase in click rates, and the likes were skyrocketing too.

The video showed a buzz-cut man, reciting seven segments of Pi steadily and seriously, then receiving a challenge failure notification. He stood there in disbelief and then, frustrated and furious, yelled in the video.

“Impossible!!!”

“I used an E-Class Prop, Memory Paper, how could I have possibly made a mistake?!!”

“BUG!!!”

“You guys have a bug, I’m going to file a complaint. Either the upgrade-based game has a bug, or it’s the E-Class Prop, Memory Paper, that’s bugged. There’s no way I recited it wrong!”

“I printed all seven segments of Pi on the Memory Paper and swallowed it, how could it still go wrong?”

At the end of the video, the man also shared the information of his Memory Paper Prop.

The video caused quite a stir.

Because according to what the man said, he shouldn’t have failed the challenge.

Unless… there really was a bug.

It wasn’t an exaggeration; every month’s version update for the upgrade-based game did fix a lot of bugs, so one more bug wasn’t seen as a serious issue.

But then—

More and more players began to claim that they were one hundred percent certain they hadn’t made a mistake, yet they received a challenge failure notification; it was a major blunder!

“Tsk tsk.”

Tuberculosis Rabbit looked at the information on the forum and the comments section below those challenge videos and couldn’t help but grin, “These people, really, are just too cute. Whatever Yi says, they believe.”

“Did none of these people ever consider the possibility that Yi might have made a mistake?”

“No.”

Sword Without End shook his head with a complex expression, “Haven’t you noticed that the ones currently claiming they should have succeeded in the challenge are all who used the Memory Paper, the E-Class Prop?”

“What does that indicate?”

“It indicates that these people probably also believe that Chen Yi used the Prop, so they basically believed from the start that Chen Yi couldn’t possibly make a mistake, after all, a Prop doesn’t make mistakes.”

“It’s like when you go to take an exam, and your first reaction is never to doubt whether the questions on the paper are wrong.”

“But when you copy directly from the answers and still get marked wrong by the teacher, naturally, you feel unjustified.”

“I literally copied from the answers, why did I get zero? Are you blind in marking, teacher?”

“Then the teacher, with a kind expression, tells you, child, the questions are all wrong, so naturally, the answers are too.”

“Yi’s practically played these people to death.”

Just then—

A notification sound rang in everyone’s ears.

「Ding, congratulations to player Lv Chao for being the first to succeed in the challenge!」

「Let’s give him a round of applause!」

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