5 Is Insurance Still a Thing? (2/2)

Christian: ”Oh shoot, we didn't get the chance to roll down the glass wall in our living room so that thing's still open.”

In the group's luxurious beach house, there's a big glass wall in their living room that directly faces the backyard, the pool, then the sidewalk over the fence, and then the ocean. The wall works like a glass garage door, and it was able to roll up to open and down to close with a remote.

However, knowing how much noise it would make, the group decided to not touch it for now.

Alex: ”Crap, now we won't even know if someone got into our house or not, since the motion detectors wouldn't trigger the beep sound.”

Jay: ”We should probably shrink our normal activity area to a smaller part of the house and stick together from now on.”

Elon: ”Let's move up to the second floor, there's only one curved stairway connecting the two floors.”

Christian: ”Yeah there's also that control panel by the stairway on the second floor. Our phones can't connect to the home security app since there's no wifi or cellular service, but we can watch the sensors on the panel.”

Jay: ”Will it show something if a motion sensor's triggered?”

Elon: ”I don't know, but I can code it in if there's no setting to turn it on. My laptop probably has some battery left, just need to find a cord to connect the panel to it.”

The group discussed quietly, and knowing that the glass garage door in their living room was still open, they sealed their leftover food air-tight and placed it either in the cooler or freezer to avoid attracting unwanted visitors.

They decided to move all the necessary stuff to the second floor. Jay suggested having two people guard the only entrance to their house right now, which was the opened glass garage door in the living room, while the other two moved all the essential supplies.

Although that would halve their speed, the group agreed that it was a necessary caution to take. The group was able to sail smoothly in the online world of PUBG and proceed to win first place in the global tournament in 2018, and a lot of that could be accredited to Jay's leadership.

In a game of battle royale, the ability to kill certainly matters, but one could only win the game and eat chicken dinner if they could survive until the end. It didn't matter how many kills someone could get, if one dies then one is eliminated, and no amount of kills could reverse that.

To ensure winning in crucial games, Jay would always make calls that might sound like a coward and couldn't guarantee the squad with good loot. However, those calls would significantly increase their survival rate and put them in a better position to ambush other players.

He wouldn't be worried about not starting the game off with the best equipment, because, in his mind, other people were simply looting for them to collect later down the road.

Of course, for entertainment purposes, Jay did prioritize excitement over winning and often went balls deep when they were streaming.

Playing safe was a rule easier said than done, and a lot of players online would sometimes go with the ”feel of the moment” and end up making a play they would regret. Even in real life, some people would still occasionally go ”YOLO” and let Jesus take the wheel.

Now that the survival game is happening in real life, Jay was being more careful than ever, and the squad naturally followed his lead.

Just as they went downstairs and was about to have Alex and Christian go guard the door, Christian suddenly stopped in his track.

Jay: ”What's wrong?”

Christian lightly smacked his forehead and exclaimed, ”Wait, is insurance still a thing?”