Chapter 292
**Chapter 379: The Divine Game: The Little Painter 5**
The game lasts ten minutes per round, and at the end of each round, all players will randomly switch factions.
After winning three times, players will be forced to leave the battlefield and will receive a chance to translate one of their own game rules.
There are a total of five rounds in the game, and once the five rounds are over, the battlefield will disappear within two minutes.
**Current number of players in this safe zone: 813**
She looked around and noticed that all the different races could read the words on the stone tablet. It seemed that everyone saw different texts.
She tugged at Wu Ren's sleeve, pointed at the stone tablet, and began counting: "1? 2? 3? ... 9?"
Wu Ren shook his head and shrugged: "No idea how many there are."
Yu Xunge hesitated for a moment but ultimately decided to stay.
It was an extreme stroke of luck that she had encountered Wu Ren shortly after entering the battlefield, but she wouldn’t forget the game prompt—**the law of luck conservation applies in the world battlefield.**
This meant that no one would remain lucky forever, nor would anyone be perpetually unlucky. If one experienced a stroke of extraordinary luck, it likely meant that misfortune was just around the corner.
So if she participated in this game, she might face some unfortunate events, such as becoming the flag bearer.
This was the safest yet most dangerous role.
But she couldn’t leave the safe zone; at least within the safe zone, her teammates from different races would have to protect her if they wanted to win. However, if she left the safe zone, she would have no protection at all.
If it weren’t for Wu Ren, she would have struggled to find the safe zone alive. Moreover, she needed to know what her other two rules were.
After deciding on her next course of action, she felt there was no need to stay with Wu Ren any longer. It would be awkward if they ended up on different teams later. After saying a quick goodbye to Wu Ren, she took to the skies with Tu Lan, beginning to survey the terrain to determine escape and hiding routes, just like most players.
Many of the different races rushed to chase the blue light pillar to see what was happening, but Yu Xunge refrained. She worried that it might be her past self causing trouble...
Eight minutes passed quickly.
In the center of the oasis, a fiery meteor shot up into the sky, exploding in mid-air.
The game had begun.
A blue triangle appeared above Yu Xunge's head.
As she expected, a flagpole emerged behind her, bearing a blue flag that shone brightly, reaching for the clouds!
She was the flag bearer for the blue team.
The moment the flag appeared, all the different races around turned to look at her.
A few strong players from the blue team rushed over, pointing in different directions, urging her to follow them.
She could go, but the directions they pointed were all different. Fortunately, none of them were the type to let pride get in the way of making the right decision at a critical moment. The oddly shaped beings exchanged glances; some had scouting skills, while others recognized the strong players from the leaderboard.
Soon, a few of them stepped back, ceding command to a 15th-tier powerhouse.
Yu Xunge immediately followed this scorpion-tailed being, with other races flanking them for protection.
One minute passed.
As soon as Yu Xunge entered a small room, a throne appeared beneath her feet, and a blue light pillar shot up from the throne, reaching the clouds. She jumped off the throne, only to find that the blue light pillar on her flag had not disappeared; instead, it followed her.
She faced the other beings, waiting for them to escort her to the opposing throne.
Just then, a player who had gone out to scout for information on the red team returned. It was a humanoid creature with purple skin. Upon entering the room, he wasted no time, directly opening the leaderboard and pointing to one of the IDs, then gesturing outside.
The implication was clear: this person was on the red team.
Yu Xunge saw the name, and all the beings in the room saw it too—**19th-tier overlord, Sha Leng!**
Yu Xunge: "..." It seemed that being the flag bearer was indeed pure misfortune.
All the beings in the room looked at her with sympathetic eyes, clearly indicating that she should give up this round. However, a few of them seemed to recall something, their expressions shifting to realization.
She tried the advanced version of the Illusion Spell, but it was useless. Even if she turned invisible, the blue light pillar behind her remained bright, impossible to remove or hide. But she didn’t linger; she left the sandy hut.
Staying there was not an option. If Sha Leng came to protect the red team’s flag bearer, and these beings had already decided to give up, they wouldn’t put up a futile struggle. Conversely, if the red team’s beings decided to kill her, the blue team wouldn’t protect her.
The beings didn’t stop her as she left. Only a rookie would be so fearless. Once she understood the terror and madness of Sha Leng, she would realize that giving up was the wisest choice.
This safe zone would only allow Sha Leng to win three times before leaving; then the game would truly begin.
They might give up on themselves, but Yu Xunge couldn’t so easily give up on herself. Although winning three times would provide clues to the rules, there were only five rounds in total. If she gave up the first round and something unexpected happened in the second, would she give up again?
From the moment she entered this place, she had already been in danger. It was a dead end either way; she had to try.
Her only choice might be to go back to the past. She recalled the blue light pillar she had seen when she first entered the safe zone... It seemed that was indeed her past self.
Her only path to survival was to get out, and not just to escape, but to take the initiative.
She remembered every new player reminder clearly, the last one being, "The Divine Game emphasizes a balance between fun and fairness." She didn’t believe this game would weaken the strong. If the rewards earned through effort and adventure couldn’t be transformed into strength for the game, then all the dangers would be meaningless.
However, at the same time, when the strong players who entered the game first encountered newcomers, the Divine Game had to consider fairness; otherwise, wouldn’t the game be too dull?
The players who entered the game first would always stand at the pinnacle of the pyramid, while later entrants would be mere fodder.
The divine would not allow such boredom.
She hadn’t completely lost yet.
After leaving the wooden hut, Yu Xunge saw many blue team players, but perhaps they all knew about Sha Leng’s presence in the red team, as none of them approached to escort her.
Some of the different races looked like they wanted to take a gamble, but upon seeing her combat power, their expressions clearly showed disappointment.
In this situation, even if they worked together to block Sha Leng, even if Sha Leng couldn’t directly attack this being due to the combat tier protection mechanism, any red team being below 10th tier could easily break through their defenses, and this being wouldn’t survive.
Yu Xunge held her breath, rationality telling her that these beings’ choices were correct, but as the sacrificial lamb, she felt nothing but rage.
Tu Lan was equally furious, thinking these beings were utterly clueless!!! They didn’t even have the courage to take risks. What a bunch of so-called prodigies from all races, pfft!
One person and one dragon—this was a clear double standard. It could only be said that they were truly kindred spirits.
Yu Xunge said to Tu Lan, "You go back to the space."
After Tu Lan returned to the space, Yu Xunge maintained her invisibility and flew high into the sky, looking at the red light pillar that reached the shield on the other side of the oasis. There, two red light pillars overlapped, one of which had already begun to move, clearly the red team’s flag bearer.
She memorized the position of the stationary red light pillar.
She took out her lantern and returned to fifteen minutes ago—at that moment, she suddenly understood why the game was so considerate in providing them with time data; it was likely to allow them to use time-related items, enhancing the game’s fun.
Time reversed, without wasting a second, she flew at top speed toward the location of the red team’s throne. Along the way, some beings came to watch, but since this was the safe zone, even if they wanted to kill her, they couldn’t act.
Moreover, they could tell at a glance that Yu Xunge was using a time item to go back to play the game. In this situation, the beings couldn’t be sure whether they were on the same team as Yu Xunge, so they watched for a while before dispersing.
Yu Xunge reached the location of the red team’s throne without any hindrance. It was empty, but the most difficult moment was about to begin.
When she left the timeline to return to the past, the blue light pillar disappeared. The red team beings would surely realize where that vanished blue light pillar had gone. When she returned to the correct timeline, she would likely be met by all the red team beings.
She called out to Tu Lan, "Give me a shield, a last-ditch counterattack."
Tu Lan, upon hearing this, didn’t hesitate to use her powers, immediately casting a **Last-Ditch Counterattack** around Yu Xunge.
**Last-Ditch Counterattack**, an A-grade skill, similar in effect to the **Royal Bloodline (Passive)** skill of the Fire Spirit Ring, it could block a fatal blow once, but had no other use. Once used, it was gone. All the beings here could kill her in an instant; with just two hits, she would undoubtedly die, but at least it would buy her a second.
With everything prepared, Yu Xunge took a deep breath. All she could do was maximize her only advantage at the moment.
Yu Xunge began to carve the same sentence into the walls of the sandy hut with her finger as if it were a pen—“Let me have a round; I will translate a rule for everyone present.”
Now at level 15, she had only 15 minutes to stay. It took her 2 minutes to fly here, leaving her with only 14 minutes to write. At a rate of three sentences per minute, she could manage to write out just over forty languages at most.
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