Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough-Chapter 19: Rationality May Not Be Reliable, But Greed and Human Nature Are Eternal!

The moment Player Two thought of this, her gaze turned blank.
"As long as… as long as we all trust each other, there won't be a situation where only he gets the biggest share..."
She was still racking her brain, muttering to herself in vain. This problem was actually quite simple.
As long as everyone trusted each other, as long as they all trusted her, how could the four of them end up with such a pitiful share?
But it was precisely this bit of suspicion that kept everyone stuck.
"Stop thinking, Number Two."
At that moment, Lu Ce spoke again, cutting off her train of thought.
"Can you truly face your own heart? Do you believe that if I die, you won’t want to take the biggest share for yourself?"
"And even if you really manage to find a way to gain everyone’s trust, to throw me out, putting yourself in the best position…"
"Don’t you think Player Three would use the same method to throw you out too?"
The light in Player Two's eyes slowly dimmed. Upon hearing this, she finally realized—there was no solution.
At first, she thought she could turn the situation around with her 'intelligence.'
If only…
But there were no 'ifs.'
By now, Lu Ce had started playing with the little bugs that had crawled inside. One of them, shaped like a scorpion with an enormous tail, had already climbed onto his body at his beckoning.
He picked it up, gave it a slight squeeze, and the seemingly tough, giant insect instantly became powerless.
After a moment of thought, Lu Ce brought the bug closer to the wound on his severed leg.
The next second, the scorpion’s tail convulsed violently, and something no one expected happened—it sprayed fire!
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"Holy sh*t! What kind of alien creature is this?!"
Lu Ce was genuinely stunned. Looking at his half-charred, half-raw severed leg, he never expected the bug to be this powerful.
"It breathes fire? Though… I gotta say, its cauterizing effect is pretty decent."
Cauterizing? You're calling burning your severed limb 'cauterization'?!
The other players, already burdened with immense stress, felt an even heavier weight on their hearts as they watched him casually test the bug’s abilities.
"Can I take this thing with me? Can I have it? Where's the Game Host? Why aren’t they saying anything?"
【......】
No one responded to Lu Ce anymore.
Whether it was the previous escape game or the current loot division game, at their core, they weren’t that difficult.
But… a severed leg, boiling lava, a rusty saw.
A swarm of bugs, looming death, a doorway that could open at any moment to release venomous creatures.
These things kept piling on the pressure, pushing people’s psychological limits, breaking their mental defenses, forcing them to make mistakes—forcing them to give up on life.
But none of that worked on Lu Ce.
"Number One, I have a question for you."
Amidst the silence, Player Three finally spoke, as if in one last struggle.
"Your analysis makes sense, but this distribution method assumes that everyone is rational."
"What if someone among us doesn’t care about benefits, doesn’t care about anything, and just wants to throw you out—to kill you?"
The moment he finished speaking, a loud bang rang out.
Player Five, as if losing his mind, violently rocked the chair he was sitting on.
"I don’t care! I don’t care! Why the hell should I suffer a severed leg, endure all this torture, end up in the safest spot, and still get nothing?!"
"I want at least ten points! I don’t care who’s distributing, if I don’t get them, I won’t agree! Screw it, we can all die together! I’m the last one anyway, I won’t die!"
Player Five shouted hysterically, like a man pushed past his breaking point.
But whether he was just putting on an act or if he had genuinely lost it—no one could tell.
In a game of strategy like this, dealing with people like him was the most troublesome.
Player Two, whose eyes had been dull with despair, suddenly regained her spark. She locked her gaze on Player Five.
As long as Player Five went crazy… as long as Player Five was an idiot! No matter the reason, as long as he opposed it!
But then, the player who had been allocated 0 points—Player Four—suddenly spoke.
"Number One! Give me five points! Ignore Player Five, I’ll agree!"
......
Silence.
Utter silence.
In the vast room, even the sound of breathing seemed to disappear. The buzzing of insects faded into the background.
Player Five's eyes widened to the extreme. His crazed expression instantly vanished as he stared in disbelief at Player Four.
His act of madness—his desperate attempt to pressure Lu Ce—collapsed in an instant, effortlessly dismantled.
"Hahahaha."
"Hahahahahaha!"
Inside Room One, Lu Ce laughed loudly, his expression beneath the mask brimming with amusement.
He had done nothing but watch a farce unfold—the collapse of a weak alliance, undone by itself.
Turning to Player Three, he finally gave his answer:
"Rationality may not be reliable, but greed and human nature are eternal."
"You all instinctively believe that no matter who is in charge of the distribution, once they hold the authority to allocate, they will inevitably make the choice I previously described."
"You want to maximize your own gains while ensuring that others don’t have the chance to do the same."
"Greed and suspicion are eternal."
"Whether I live or die doesn’t matter. The only choices you truly have are life and death—0 or 1."
"This is a Hell Mode Game. The difference between 0 and 1 in terms of rewards could be massive."
"The things I just showed you—the things that stir the deepest desires in your hearts—they won’t let you ignore the gap between 0 and 1."
"Besides, after this experience, you all might never dare to set foot in this game again."
"In other words, this could be your last chance to gain benefits—to change your reality..."
In the end, only Lu Ce’s voice echoed in the room.
It sounded like he was speaking to the others.
But it also felt like he was reviewing the game for himself.
No one responded.
Not even the Game Host.
Under the suffocating tension, every player awaited some unexpected turn of events.
But nothing happened.
When the second five-minute mark arrived, a massive spider crawled into Player Three’s room.
Moments later, both Player Three and Player Five silently changed their votes to 'agree.'
No one tried to justify it.
No one resisted.
It was like completing an unspoken contract.
【Game Over!】
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