Chapter 364: Chapter 362: Deceiving oneself
Finally tricked them!
Le Yu rode the fierce boar quickly away from the area. With the performance earlier, the goblins should be temporarily fooled by him, at least they won’t suspect he isn’t the sole Le Yu.
On that night of welcoming guests, Le Yu didn’t choose to fall from grace out of impulse or malice, but to secretly ally with the five sword sheaths, although it was indeed interesting—he had deeper considerations.
Le Yu didn’t know the quality of cheating by other sword sheaths, but it’s conceivable that, except for the one who didn’t seek him, the other five sword sheaths were not confident that cheating alone could secure the Eye of Omniscience championship.
The evidence is that Le Yu initially had no intention to sabotage with others.
Why didn’t he?
Because he believed with Shi Wen, the library tool at his side, he was 100% sure to score full marks, meaning no matter how others tried, they couldn’t outperform Ming Shuiyun, so why would Le Yu sabotage?
Putting oneself in the others’ shoes, thinking the other way around, only when there’s no confidence in scoring first does one need to disrupt others’ cheating plans. It’s a very normal thought process; Le Yu didn’t proactively form alliances, not because he’s naive, but because he thinks from the perspective of first place.
So, how should Le Yu act to maximize the benefits for his side?
The answer is also obvious—preventing war.
If the Eye of Omniscience had full marks of 100, the rewards from their side’s cheating would be 100, while Niruo and others might only get 90 or 80, thus their choice of fighting is justified, because even if the fight becomes chaotic, everyone fails in cheating, the result is the seven Sword Masters all get zero, no win no loss.
But conversely, if someone wins the Eye of Omniscience first place, that grants a huge advantage in the sword-seeking competition, which the sword sheaths can’t tolerate.
In Le Yu’s view, who controls the overall situation, war is the least in his interest; he’s convinced that maintaining peace ensures victory in the Eye of Omniscience, naturally disallowing Niruo and others to fight. Or even if they do fight, they can’t interfere with his side’s cheating. This is like a late-game hero in development, naturally hoping no team fights occur, leaving him time to gather resources and levels.
But war isn’t something you can prevent just because you want to; when others forcibly start a battle, you can’t help it, let alone this game has seven camps, even those with intelligence defects like crazy goblin computers, how could you stop them?
This is why Le Yu chose the path of ’I love you and everyone else’—only by forming alliances with everyone could he control the whole situation!
The only possible exception was the sword sheath who hadn’t contacted him, but Le Yu had a hunch that this sword sheath probably wouldn’t disturb him either.
Thinking empathetically leads to the answer—Le Yin is the best partner. Not seeking Le Yin means he himself is confident in getting full marks.
Le Yu, with a dog and two cats, removed other nearby pins as well, causing the student studio to flee. Although students are professional in the Eye of Omniscience exam, they are amateur in fighting, while their enemies might be the most elite Integration and Mastery-level Martial Artists in all of Yanjing.
This feeling is like a moba game king’s internal battle, suddenly interrupted by seven blowers. While students are still dabbling, sword sheaths dare not kill, but they certainly dare to incapacitate several students without worry.
Le Yu had never seen such ’Do you know who my dad is’ children of noble families in the Imperial Academy, not because the overall quality of Imperial Academy students is high, nor because Cha Huan’s strict management, but because these children had long been taught lessons—as long as not killed on the spot, their bones broken to almost death, sent to the school Medical Bureau, the next day they’d be lively.
Such ’normal casualties,’ even Cha Huan would turn a blind eye, as long as it’s not malicious bullying, he wouldn’t intervene.
Soon, Yanjing Yao Bell Tower rang thrice, indicating it was now 3 PM, the exam time had passed one hour!
PM, also the time for handing in papers and leaving in the Eye of Omniscience exam, indicating the Eye of Omniscience cheating contest entered its second stage—outside race!
Le Yu arrived at the entrance of Nightmare teaching building, where many students were loitering. Now was not the time to act—in nearby woods, Cha Huan might pretend ’not seeing,’ but in front of the teaching building’s entrance, Cha Huan might directly crush you from Platinum Tower with a slap.
Students curiously watched the fierce boar and leopard cats beside Le Yu, even some came over to pet them. Without Le Yu’s order, the three cats and dogs could only let themselves be petted, and nobody had any opinion about Le Yu suddenly having a few large animal followers—they thought Le Yu was also an overseeing teacher, bringing the cats and dogs here to patrol.
With hasty and rapid footsteps, examinees streamed out, Le Yu saw Li Ying and Qin Yueshi mixed in the crowd, watching them run towards the White Box Library.
Second stage, outside race, means examinees bring exam questions out to find answers, but the outside race also has a threshold—examinees must quickly transcribe all exam questions onto a draft paper to take out.
But ’quick transcription’ is a professional skill. After all, the Eye of Omniscience has a huge amount of questions, being multiple choice questions mean examinees must transcribe options correctly one by one, or wrongly transmitted answers would be wasted.
The transcribers from Le Yu’s side were Qin Yueshi and Li Ying. Qin Yueshi didn’t actually read much, but as a child of merchants, she naturally knows how to fool account books, having her own set of ’looks messy but I understand’ quick transcription techniques.
And Li Ying is simply a natural talented transcriber, reportedly when Ming Shuiyun asked who could transcribe quickly, others looked towards Li Ying—during the last semester’s end at Imperial Academy, Li Ying tackled six major assignments, five ink pens, one night, a miracle.
They planned well, one transcribing the upper part, another the lower part, effectively reducing the burden and minimizing transcription errors.
Second stage’s outside race is beyond sword sheaths’ interference because students conduct it openly under the sun, meaning they are protected by Cha Huan, different from ’pins’ that actively entered PVP battle zones in the first stage.
Le Yu also needs to use this time to talk to Niruo; once Niruo boards his ship of thieves, the victory of the Eye of Omniscience for Le Yu is nearly half secured.
Based on Niruo’s departing direction, Le Yu followed the Nightmare teaching building to find him. As he turned past the flowerbed, a goblin suddenly jumped out beside him: "Where are you going?"
Le Yu looked at him, ready to fabricate an excuse.
But he had a sudden thought.
In the woods, perhaps ’sound’ was watching him.
Behind, perhaps Cai Nu was also lurking nearby.
The cats and dogs beside him, maybe they understood human speech, but Le Yu couldn’t understand their feline and canine language; in a sense, humans had already lost.
Lying is shameless yet useful, but it can’t always be effective; eventually, it’ll be uncovered.
Although Le Yu didn’t plan to keep secret forever that he’s not a ’virgin ally,’ he wanted to maintain his pure and flawless persona until the Eye of Omniscience concluded.
His mind churned, and a confident and proud blue flame smile appeared on his face.
"I’m going to find Niruo."
After speaking, Le Yu lifted his head and strode to the front of the woods, loudly calling, "Niruo, I’m here!"
Before long, Niruo wielding a long knife suddenly appeared in the tree. He looked at Le Yu and the goblin not far away, gesturing for Le Yu to follow him: "Come with me."
Le Yu answered, signaling the fierce boar and leopard cats to stay put, and followed.
Watching Le Yu and Niruo disappear into the grove, the goblin reflexively stepped forward intending to reach out, but withdrew.
His expression was hesitant but ultimately returned to resolve.
’Qin Le Yin must only want to lure Niruo out!’
’There will definitely be nothing else occurring when they’re alone!’
’That’s right, Qin Le Yin can’t possibly cooperate with Niruo after allying with me. What’s so special about Niruo anyway? Qin Le Yin can’t be unaware—if he chose Niruo, he’d get abandoned eventually, so he’d definitely choose me!’
’Stop overthinking, wait for Qin Le Yin to come out; nothing else will happen!’
At this moment, Qin Le Yin glanced back at the goblin, smiled slightly, immediately boosting the goblin’s confidence and eliminating doubts!
While Le Yu saw the goblin not following, and there was no sign of Cai Nu nearby, the metal badge in his pocket didn’t vibrate, he knew he succeeded.
People.
Actually quite simple.
You really don’t need to lie, just tell the truth.
As long as they sufficiently trust you, they’ll deceive themselves.