One blazing midsummer day, 49 of my colleagues and I are suddenly added to an unfamiliar gaming group chat. A notification window popped up with a message."Attention, players. This is a survival game set in an apocalyptic world. Players who succeed in surviving for a week will get a share of the 100 million dollar prize pool."The system then dropped a ten-million-dollar gift that anyone could claim, as if it were afraid that we wouldn't believe it.My colleagues, who at first believed that we had somehow gotten ourselves involved in a scam, immediately changed their tune when they got their hands on the money."Oh, my God! So, all I have to do is survive for a week to earn so much money? Who even cares about working anymore?""Hurry and tell us more! Stop dawdling!"The assistant manager, Frank Gideon, calmly chimes in, "What happens if we don't survive? Or if someone quits halfway through the game?""The game will be reset if all players perish. If there is a winner, the game
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