Deceitful Game

Chapter 257 Mo Qian's Mistake

Therefore, their team collected the most parts, and more than one person secretly found weapons... The cost was that almost everyone had little understanding of the game rules. Furthermore, because they didn't follow the initially agreed-upon "two-person team" search structure, they couldn't trace who their previous partners were.

Is this what you'd call capitalists?

They possess such exceptional talent and audacity in areas like breaking rules and increasing profits.

Although he was a step behind, Mo Qian belatedly realized something by observing the reactions of the others.

Strangely, he suddenly fell silent, stopped lashing out, and suddenly stopped being angry.

Without that annoying clown arguing around, Mingpo continued softly, "People have already been killed. Do you know what that means?"

As if a teacher were asking a question, there was complete silence in carriage number seven.

"well……"

It seems that only Chen Bingwen has kept up with Mingpo's pace.

He sighed and frowned slightly as he looked at Mingpo.

He didn't quite understand why Mingpo had brought this up. Some things, once said, take on a completely different meaning.

But he could only explain, "Because the rules for killing in the 'dining car' are very clear."

"Players who have not killed anyone will die one hour after the food truck fails to be repaired."

"This means that someone who has already killed someone... can even physically damage the 'food truck'."

"What?"

The old man named Liu Jianguo's expression changed, and he instinctively retorted, "Why would the person do that? If too many people die, and the Paradox Engine can't be repaired, won't they all die anyway?"

When the old man first appeared, he spoke with a local accent and had a very honest and simple smile.

But now, his expression has become shrewd, and his speech has switched to standard Mandarin.

That's right.

Chen Bingwen glanced at him: "Then we need to do some calculations—what would happen if the dining car wasn't repaired?"

"Everyone... needs to find someone to kill!"

Liao Tinglan spoke with difficulty, revealing the terrible outcome.

"But clearly, in order to maintain a certain level of decorum for the sake of future cooperation, it's impossible to actually say, 'Let's randomly kill half of the people,' or 'Let's play rock-paper-scissors to decide which half of the people will be killed to protect the other half.'"

Chen Bingwen slowly began, "So the best way is to have everyone disperse and repair the heating system. Anyway, if the heating system isn't repaired, some 'sheep' will die. Therefore, even if no one else takes action, in order to avoid becoming the unfortunate one, the sheep that have repaired one area will be forced to move to other carriages to repair the heating system."

"And being alone means... creating an opportunity for killing. Therefore, for a sheep, this puts it in a very dangerous situation..." "More importantly," Mingpu said, "it creates an opportunity for its wolf companions."

"With others watching, the wolf can't open its own 'illegal resource point.' I even suspect that this dangerous poison needle, which will definitely kill after injection, may be obtained from such an illegal resource point."

"The wolf must kill the sheep to complete its game. Since everyone is alone, it means that the wolf can easily kill the lone and weak sheep by using its equipment advantage."

That is to say...

Liao Tinglan realized something, but didn't say it aloud.

The person who committed murder in full view of everyone was someone who hadn't yet realized that "a wolf's ally isn't necessarily a wolf."

To be able to carry out an assassination silently without revealing the slightest flaw in one's expression, one must not be a fool.

"…Huh?"

Suddenly, Liao Tinglan paused for a moment.

Because she saw that after Mingpo pushed the body against the wall, she began searching the man's pockets.

Then, four red chips were found in the man's pocket.

For a moment, Liao Tinglan wanted to express her doubts.

But this time she was smarter—before she spoke, she glanced around and found that everyone was ignoring it, and some even deliberately turned their heads away as if they hadn't seen it. Only then did she realize what was going on and quickly swallowed the question that was on the tip of her tongue.

But her reaction seemed rather noticeable.

Although she didn't say a word, Mingpo clearly noticed her.

Turning back, Mingpo tossed a chip, looked at Liao Tinglan, and smiled silently.

He then took out a chip and tossed it to Ai Shiping.

Ai Shiping reached out and caught it.

"Oh?"

Ai Shiping raised an eyebrow: "Why give it to me?"

"Because you contributed a part."

Mingpo said with a smile.

I contributed more than one!

Although no one spoke, someone's distorted expression conveyed the same sentiment.

"Um... Section Chief Ming."

The gaunt young man suddenly spoke up, pleading with Mingpo, "Could we exchange teammates?"

Hearing this, Mo Qian, who had been trying his best to suppress his anger, finally couldn't hold back anymore: "Huh? You bastard!"

"No, that's not what I meant!"

The young man, who looked unwell, quickly explained, "I mean... since one of us is a murderer, I don't want to be with him!"

"But I don't know who he is... so I want to go to the safer side!"

As he spoke, he pointed behind Mingpo: "At least no one died in there, right?!"

These words left Mo Qian speechless.

Mo Qian also knew that one of the reasons he couldn't find the killer was that he had ordered everyone to spread out and search.

After realizing that the carriages could be replicated indefinitely, he had everyone search for a carriage individually.

His original idea was to prevent these people from secretly chatting, communicating, and forming alliances, thereby creating a small group that could shake his control.

That effect was achieved.

At least until now, his people don't even know each other's names.

But this also means that... his "wolves" can freely search for those forbidden containers that only wolves can see.

If he hadn't given such an order, then nothing would have happened here.

"What do you mean by that!"

Mo Qian could only try his best to defend himself: "If it weren't for my orders, how could everyone have found so many parts!"

"Without my decision to have everyone disperse, we wouldn't even have finished repairing the first GPS navigator!"

Is that right?

But just then...

A tall woman who hadn't spoken before suddenly said coldly, "Don't you think it's because you fixed the GPS so quickly that our time has become so tight?"

Upon hearing this, some people belatedly realized what was happening.

Yup!

The GPS navigator took a full half hour to repair, and only after that could the next thing be fixed...

Doesn't that mean the later they repair the first device, the more time they'll have to search for parts?

But by repairing the safest device so early, they lost the best time for "development"!

Judging from Mo Qian's unpleasant expression, it was clear that he hadn't considered this matter at all.

After all, he really just wanted to show off because Mingpo's presence was too strong!