"But that’s not important! What’s important is, you cannot think that your opponents, in the story contest..."
"My focus can’t be limited to just winning the story contest... I have to understand the true essence of it! And if I limit myself to the contest, I may not be able to compete with these bastards for the highest expectation value in the final round!"
Yes, facing spoiled brats, psychopathic killers pretending to be fools, and lecturers who toy with women...
Wen Xishu might hold out for a round, but in the end, he hasn’t done much evil.
Compared to these people who have committed numerous real crimes, it’s very difficult to defeat them through storytelling alone.
And now, Wen Xishu has found the key.
"I didn’t catch on in the first or second rounds, but by the third round, I realized it!"
Wen Xishu realized that the key was not in the participants, but in the audience!
Those audience members sending bullet comments are the ones Wen Xishu really needs to be concerned about.
"I’ve been thinking about who the real player is! I’ve been thinking about how to get the invitation, but I was too narrow-minded. The answer was there in the first round!"
"In the first round, the story contest appeared as an incident!"
"That means, in the castle, you can turn stories into reality."
"That’s the answer!"
A minute passed, and Wen Xishu organized his thoughts. Suddenly, he said:
"There’s a bunch of fools who have always wanted to see me bleed, always eager to get from me the method of mentally controlling others."
"But I always deceive them."
"They shout through their bullet comments, deceived by me twice, teased by me, but unable to find my loopholes because according to the rules, I’m telling the truth."
"They rack their brains but can’t figure it out, just like... a bunch of bullet-comment-typing trash."
"They’ll keep being fooled by me, won’t they?"
Wen Xishu finished his story.
After he finished, the three participants all turned their gaze towards Wen Xishu.
"Is he... talking about those audience members?" the spoiled brat was shocked.
"Is he mocking the spectators? Is he crazy?" The lecturer man also didn’t expect Wen Xishu to do this.
The killer was also puzzled:
"Isn’t he afraid of lowering his expectation value?"
Wen Xishu smiled and said:
"I have finished my story."
He did deceive and tease the audience, and the audience indeed fit the characteristic of being "vast in scale."
So, although not evil enough, Wen Xishu’s story met the criteria.
Moreover, the expectation value did not drop.
Wen Xishu’s expectation value was unprecedentedly high.
Because the bullet comments were furious.
[Is he talking about us?]
[Damn, so he’s been mocking us all along?]
[Arrogant bastard! I want to teach him a lesson!]
[Let’s kill him together!]
[Did I just get insulted? I’m watching a story contest and got insulted by the storyteller?]
[Oh no, I’m the victim now!]
Countless bullet comments flew by, and Wen Xishu’s expectation value shot up to 405 points. This was the highest expectation value in the current, and even the entire, game process.
So, the story doesn’t have to be brilliant, but as long as you know how to stir things up and make the audience realize that you’re insulting them... the interaction might have unexpectedly explosive results.
Wen Xishu was now being incessantly denounced, but he didn’t care...
This was exactly what he aimed to do.
"My goal is not to win the story contest, but to uncover the cause and effect, to find the origin of the story contest!"
"Get the invitation."
With an expectation value of over 400, Wen Xishu could proudly dominate this round.
And Wen Xishu also began to look forward to what he would see in the upcoming incident phase.
"Using the story contest to make stories come to life, my best course of action..."
"Is to include the guests into my story as well. This way, everything becomes part of the story, and I can naturally find out what has happened with these audience members."
"Coincidentally, my performance in the previous two rounds fits my story’s authenticity! I did fool them; in a sense, I indeed wronged them."
"Come on, let me see what the origin of this story contest really is!"