Chapter 188 Death Game Why is there a pointy tip on his head?
"Hello again, everyone," she said.
Several people were a little surprised at the appearance of the two.
"What a coincidence! You're also assigned to Group A?" the plush rabbit woman exclaimed. The man with the hollow gold mask looked at Lin Xi with eager eyes, but was glared at by Amuro Toru, who was standing in front of him.
Lin Xi nodded.
They were currently in a spacious room. The room was empty except for a rectangular table with ten chairs neatly placed on either side.
In front of the table, there was a huge curtain.
"There are ten chairs in total. Including the two of you, everyone in Group A should be here," said the man in the pure white full-face mask. There was a hint of worry in his tone.
He made a lot of money at the auction and was very excited. However, his joy turned into sorrow. Before he even got the money, he encountered this incident. Not only did he not get the money, but even his life was threatened.
"Ding, ding, ding! The players are all here! Please take your seats! Each chair has your number engraved on it. Players, please take your seats according to your number!"
A hoarse and unpleasant voice came from the loudspeaker in the hall.
At the same time, the projector hanging from the ceiling of the room started working, projecting a figure wearing a pointed hat and a mask, sitting in the shadows, onto the screen.
Lin Xi: ...?
"Hey." She poked Amuro Toru. "Look, why is the top of his head so pointy?"
Amuro Toru turned his head in confusion.
"He's wearing a hat."
Lin Xi: "...It's okay."
Sorry, she knows this meme is bad, but she just can't help it.
She looked at the chair and saw that there were indeed numbers engraved on the back of it.
She and Amuro Toru walked around and found two chairs that belonged to them. The two chairs were next to each other at the edge of the table.
Lin Xi also noticed that No. 3 and No. 5, who were bidding against him for Ms. X's painting, were also in Group A. No. 3 sat diagonally across from him, a man wearing a three-piece suit and an African mask; No. 5, also sitting across from Lin Xi, was a burly man wearing a pure white full-face mask.
The man who had bought the miracle drug was Mrs. Mizutani's former lover. Given his frail health, Lin Xi wasn't surprised he'd bought it.
"You're playing tricks on me... Why did you separate me and Axin? All the other couples were sitting together." The plush rabbit girl muttered.
The fox-masked youth patted her hand soothingly.
Their seats were separated. The fox-masked young man sat next to Lin Xi, and the plush rabbit woman sat one seat away from him. The woman in the middle seat was the one who had apologized to Lin Xi last night for her husband's misconduct. She made no comment regarding the plush rabbit woman's complaints, simply sitting demurely in her seat.
When everyone was seated, an unpleasant voice laughed a few times.
"Now that everyone is in place, let me give you a brief explanation!"
"Congratulations, Group A! Your game is the most interesting of all the others! The rules are very simple. I'm sure everyone here has played this game before—"
"That's right, it's Werewolf!"
He paused briefly, letting the players around the table whisper among themselves.
"Werewolf?" someone wondered.
"A ten-person Werewolf game? What kind of board?" Lin Xi was very interested.
Werewolf is a board game that tests logical thinking and reasoning skills. There are many templates. The most common one is a game with twelve people, four werewolves, four civilians and four clergy. The werewolves are all ordinary werewolves, and the clergy are prophets, witches, hunters, plus an idiot or a guard.
Expanding on this basic template, there are many other professions, such as White Wolf King, Night Knight, Wild Child, Thief, Wolf Beauty, Wolf Crow Claw, Knight, etc.
As for the ten-person board, she guessed it would be the most basic three wolves and four civilians, plus a prophet, a witch, and a hunter.
For humans to win, they must vote all the werewolves out during the day. If the werewolves win, they must either kill all the civilians, all the clergy, or all the humans.
As Lin Xi expected, the hoarse voice briefly introduced the rules to them. It was the most basic board, with three werewolves, a prophet, a witch, and a hunter. The rest were all civilians.
But unlike ordinary Werewolf, the game they participated in had other rules.
"--During the day, one person must be eliminated, otherwise, a random human will die. And at night, the werewolves must choose a target to strike, otherwise, a random werewolf will die."
The hoarse voice laughed cruelly.
"So, if you want to survive, strive to win! Lambs!"
This rule limits the possibility of no one being exiled due to inactivity during the day. Even if no one votes, someone will always be eliminated and die. It's better to try to deduce who the werewolf is and vote him out.
And the werewolves couldn't just sit back and play the game, because if they didn't choose someone to kill at night, they might be chosen to die.
When Toru Amuro heard the rules, his heart sank.
The people who designed the game were truly malicious. This rule had transformed them from common victims into mutually suspicious enemies.
Furthermore, there were several couples and married couples selected for Group A. It was hard not to wonder if someone behind the scenes had deliberately put them all into Group A to let them kill each other.
"Okay, okay, the rules have been explained. Now I declare that the game begins!" said a hoarse voice.
"Your ID cards will be displayed on the bracelet. Hehehe... I hope you can live longer so that I can have more fun!"
Lin Xi looked at her bracelet.
The bracelet's display screen flashed a few times, revealing her identity.
Witch.
Member of the clergy, good guy camp.
The ability is to have a bottle of poison and a bottle of antidote.
Both bottles of medicine can only be used at night. The antidote can save people who are killed by the werewolf at night, while the poison can be used on one person to kill him.
"It's daybreak. Everyone, please speak! Starting from my left, each person will have five minutes to speak. Haha, see how kind I am to you! Other groups don't have such a leisurely time like you. The daytime game time is so short. After you finish the daytime games, you can go back to your rooms and rest."
"Start the countdown!"
A white countdown appeared on the screen.
Amuro Toru clasped his hands together.
He is the first person on the left side of the projection screen.
He spoke calmly, "Everyone, we are all innocent people caught up in this. No one could have imagined such a disaster would happen at such a peaceful auction. I don't know if anyone here has a werewolf ID card, but I hope those who have been drawn will show mercy."
"This Werewolf game is a terrible one. According to the host, only one person will survive the entire game—and I'm not just talking about this one, but all the games played by all the teams."
"The host brought us together to participate in this game not to determine a winner, but to make us kill each other. This way, he can satisfy his perverted pleasure."
"But Werewolf is different from other games." He paused, his voice steady and powerful. "Werewolf has two scenes: day and night. As the host just said, the day and night in our game correspond to day and night in real life. In other words, if we eliminate only one person during the day and only one person at night in our game, the ten of us can hold out for at least three days."
"And the witch still has a bottle of antidote that can save the person who made the first move of the werewolf on the first day. So only one person needs to be eliminated on the first day."
"Everyone, although we are trapped here and there seems to be no way to escape and no signal to contact the outside world, we are not in an absolute dilemma."
"First, you may have noticed that only the guests attending the auction wore wristbands. Aside from us, the auction organizers and the remaining service staff didn't wear wristbands. And at yesterday's dinner, all the sashimi was fresh, which means that the people here purchased the ingredients."
"That is, these people have the opportunity to connect with the outside world."
"Even after Mr. Yue Jiangfeng—Ms. Yue Jiang's brother and the current auction manager—ordered everyone not to leave the island for fear that the criminals would detonate the bombs in all the guests' bracelets in a fit of rage, these people still had the opportunity to pass on the news to the outside world."
"Secondly, this auction normally only lasts two days, right? From the time we arrived yesterday to today, the auction should have ended. Including the time it takes to get back to the mainland from the island, it shouldn't take more than three days."
"If we don't return on time after three days, our family and friends will definitely notice something is wrong and start inquiries and investigations."
"Everyone, as long as the outside world becomes aware of what's happening here, we'll have a chance to escape. The most important thing now—and what we can do—is to delay time and minimize the number of people eliminated until help arrives."
"So, I hope the witch can use the antidote to save people when the werewolf attacks people tonight. And I..." Amuro Toru kept his hands in the position and slowly leaned back on the chair. Behind the elegant half-face mask, his gray-blue eyes flashed with determination and wisdom.
"Let me be clear with you all. Although I really hope to choose a capable priest card, unfortunately, I am a commoner."
"I can only watch your speeches and vote with you."
"Time is almost up. Please allow the next player to speak."
Toru Amuro ended his speech.
He said this at the risk of being electrocuted.
I didn't expect him to say so much about things that had nothing to do with the game. The figure on the screen didn't move, and there was no sound from the speaker.
Amuro Toru had no choice. He was familiar with this game, which had been popular in Japan for a while, and knew that the first person to speak on the first day often had nothing to talk about and had no chance to comment on what others had said.
So he could only establish his own persona by talking about things outside of the game, making himself look more reliable, so that he could gain more people's trust in the following games.
In fact, he was not as confident as he said.
Can the news really spread to the outside world? Can the police or the organization respond in time?
Most importantly, even if the police knew what was going on here, could they really solve the problem?
Amuro Toru doesn't know.
He can only do the best he can.
The rest can only rely on the police or organizations, and...
He glanced at the person next to him who was about to speak.
...and Punch.
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