EBE Chapter 439
Chapter 439
[Now, I, the initiator of the group, will briefly clarify the principles of cooperation.]
Lu Zheng and Liu Zikang looked at each other across the translucent light blue screen.
[1. Principle of Equality and Voluntariness: All members have equal voice and decision-making power. Cooperation is based on voluntary consultation. Unfair practices such as deception due to information asymmetry, violence, and coercion are strictly prohibited.]
[2. Principle of mutual benefit and win-win: Avoid unilateral transfer of interests, encourage innovative cooperation methods, and apply for third-party arbitration during consultation to ensure the smooth completion of each member's main tasks.]
[3. Flexible Collaboration Principle: Members are allowed to adjust the depth of cooperation based on their own development. Major decisions strive to seek system consensus, supplemented by voting. In principle, exiting the group is flexible (after exiting, members will no longer enjoy the rights to information sharing and support within the group).]
Liu Zikang read through the entries one by one and raised his hand to type:
[I firmly support the team leader's leadership! I agree with everything!]
Ni Yangzhou glanced at the girl:
[4. Principle of Anti-Idol Worship: Be wary of irrational deification of group members, avoid blindly following others and damaging your own rights, decentralize and discuss decisions together, and avoid a single person having the final say.]
Liu Zikang made a sweating emoji, puffed up his cheeks and typed:
[But your principle is very centralized and targeted at me! I'm passionate about the group, so please don't discourage me from actively speaking up!]
Ni Yangzhou smiled and felt that Liu Zikang, who had read more books, was indeed different from before.
[Okay, if you have any opinions, please feel free to raise them at any time. Everyone can speak freely!]
The first two worlds were more about the ferocious animals, and Lu Zheng, struggling to survive, rarely had to use his wits. He was silently digesting all the information. He sat up straight, finally waking up from the deception, and asked:
What if the main quests of team members conflict?
Ni Yangzhou nodded. This was exactly what he wanted to tell the two of them. He had talked so much about the spirit of the meeting and the principles of the meeting. In fact, he just wanted the two of them to take it seriously, make their attitudes right, and solve the problem together.
[Because of this, before adding someone to our group, we must first examine their character.]
Liu Zikang complained:
[Big Brother, you haven't spent as much time with Lu Gong as I have with him, so why did you drag him into this?]
Ni Yangzhou quietly took out a thick folder from under the bed, which contained all the information about Lu Zheng's life.
Lu Zheng fully understood. Before joining the Penghe team, he even looked through the information and even life expectancy of other people.
Liu Zikang turned around and asked Lu Zhengdao:
[You came so late at night when I called you. Aren’t you afraid of being kidnapped?]
Lu Zheng shook his head, and seemed relieved at this moment. There was no need to hide the fact that he was actually a little happy that he could still find his comrades in arms after so many years.
[I have a trial card that allows me to escape, and I can see lifespans. Right now, among the three of us, I have the longest lifespan.]
Liu Zikang had nothing to say, but Ni Yangzhou had something to say:
[Okay, based on this, let's talk about Kang Kang's 20-year lifespan.]
Liu Zikang closed his eyes and confessed everything.
In fact, Ni Yangzhou, who was slept in Yan Congzhi's arms that night, was not idle. He and Lu Zheng had a long talk in the system all night. The two of them got along better and better, and even introduced the task points exchange to each other.
Lu Zheng's mission is very clear. There is no change in each world. It is to survive as long as possible. Although it is very dangerous, as long as the original death date is exceeded, the mission is considered a success. The rating depends entirely on the length of life.
In this world, five years later, he would jump off a building out of shame because his child was an Alpha and had a pheromone riot in the hospital due to glandular abnormalities. He would use too much force when trying to stop it and the child would die accidentally.
Lu Zheng was determined not to marry anyone, to live a celibate life and not to have children. Even so, when the day came five years later, he would have an opportunity to die every day.
Compared to his own mall, where the redemption items only had confusing four-character names, Ni Yangzhou was extremely envious of Lu Zheng. Because of the underage protection mechanism, Lu Zheng was still in high school when he was Ni Yangzhou in the original world, so he was naturally under 18 years old. The items he could redeem with points had introductions, just like Kang Kang's.
There are also three products, and the points are 5, 8, and 10 respectively.
"Noble Help": 5 points. A random NPC will be triggered to solve the game for the host. The time limit is 5 minutes. The success or failure is not guaranteed.
"Fair Trade": 8 points. If both parties uphold the principles of fairness and justice, willingly and wholeheartedly enter into a trade, and sign an agreement, the trade will be completed. (Note: One of the traded items must be lifespan.)
"Mustard Seed Sumeru": 10 points. A 30-cubic-meter portable space capable of storing any object, person, species, or soul. Adjustable time flow, allowing you to take anything away from any mission world.
Kang Kang and Lu Zheng used the second product. Lu Zheng first used 8 points to redeem this function, and then paid Kang Kang two points in exchange for 20 years of life.
Lu Zheng wanted to live a life free of illness and disaster, free from the constant threat of danger, like a wild rabbit watched by its predators or a diminutive mermaid in the deep sea. The only way was to find someone willing to exchange their lifespan with him. It sounded easy, but there was a prerequisite: the system couldn't be revealed to anyone in this world. Therefore, Lu Zheng had never used this function before.
In principle, the system does not allow points trading, which will lead to the flow of points ownership. The host, as a consumer of the points usage terminal, will become a middleman due to the points trading or transfer. However, the main system itself encourages points consumption, which not only increases the probability of completing the task, but also promotes the host's enthusiasm for conquering. Therefore, Lu Zheng can do this, but he only exchanges more for the system than he trades out.
[So Kang Kang, what are you going to do with the points you redeemed for? How many years do you have left to live?]
Liu Zikang avoided answering the previous question and said to Ni Yangzhou:
[There are still ten years left.]
Ni Yangzhou sighed. It was only more than fifty years in total. Even with the advanced medical technology today, it could hardly be considered a long life. Scientific research was still very tiring both physically and mentally. If he still had to give up another twenty years of his life, wouldn't he be doomed to die young?
Ni Yangzhou wanted to criticize the other party, but he felt that he had no right to do so.
That night, after Ni Yangzhou learned about Lu Zheng's products, he also wanted to trade his life. Unfortunately, he was too short-lived and only had more than three years left to live.
Ni Yangzhou was used to death, but there were still people around him whom he couldn't let go.
In order to pursue him, Yan Congzhi gave up his Taoist body which had an incalculable lifespan in his original world. Now, in just over three years, it is hard to say whether this is the last time they will be together.
Because of this, Ni Yangzhou did not make the exchange immediately. He wanted to wait until Yan Congzhi's mental state stabilized before making an appointment with Lu Zheng.
Who would have thought that when the three of them met today, a difficult problem would come up.