Chapter 5 : I Have a Guaranteed Winning Method Too

Taking out the already dead “Cat,” and “Bear,” who had been the narrator

The result of the ten-person vote was actually seven to three!

Not only had they failed to exile Fox… it had not even been a five-five tie.

They had been voted out directly by a landslide!

For an instant, Dog’s mind went completely blank.

“How is that possible?!”

Unable to believe it, he blurted the words out.

Of course Dog knew… changing votes at the last moment was possible.

But he had been watching very closely. No one had openly changed their vote, and there had been no channels of communication like little notes or whispers at all. Even the expressions of the others were hidden by these ridiculous animal masks, so there was no way to “read faces” or communicate through eye contact either.

When no one knew whether anyone else would change their vote, and no second person had stood up to call the vote

How did they dare?!

They must have cheated! They definitely cheated!

There was no way they would dare do something so illogical… Everyone here had already died once. Every one of them knew the weight of life. How could they possibly do something this absurd?!

“You still haven’t realized what you did wrong?”

Ming Po said with a smile, “What a pity…”

Hearing this, Dog glared fiercely at Ming Po.

But no matter what

Since “Wolf” was still alive, he had to be the instigator!

“You cheated!”

Dog roared loudly. Extremely furious, he jumped down from his chair and leapt straight onto the round table, intending to give Wolf a vicious kick. “This round doesn’t count…”

He was utterly unwilling to accept it. He could not understand why he had failed, nor did he know where exactly he had gone wrong.

And when he passed by the black cat on the table, he kicked hard at the “host” as if kicking a ball.

Even now, he still did not know whether this host was the black cat itself, or the mouth, hand, and eye on the black cat’s back… but at this point, there was no need to keep pretending!

But at that moment…

Three giant swords detached from the ceiling at the same time and fell naturally downward.

Before Sparrow and Penguin could even react, the falling giant swords instantly swallowed their bodies!

Dog’s pupils contracted sharply.

The instant before the giant sword was about to touch him, that muscular body abruptly tensed… his muscles twisted tight, and the right leg he had originally gathered strength to kick with snapped back in an instant. His body fell backward at once!

With almost impossible speed, he rolled backward and tumbled directly off the round table

Yet he had actually truly dodged the execution of that giant sword!

The stone giant sword stabbed straight into the very center of the round table, landing beside the black cat and blocking everyone’s view of those across from them.

Dog breathed violently. As he looked at the three “crosses,” the despair in his eyes gradually filled with hope.

“Haha! I’m alive!”

The strong man could not hold back the ecstasy in his heart and burst into laughter. “Looks like…”

However, before Dog could finish speaking, his body suddenly froze.

As Dog slowly lowered his head

He saw countless scarlet cracks suddenly appear across his body.

The next instant, his body exploded into pieces!

Countless droplets splattered everywhere in a flash, and amid the screams that rang out almost simultaneously, they dyed the masks of nearly everyone remaining a vivid red.

“What a pity. What [execution] refers to is not being crushed by the Sword of Damocles.”

The “host’s mouth” on the black cat’s back spoke slowly and leisurely. “A stone sword of that weight could not possibly crush a person completely. It is merely your ‘tombstone,’ nothing more.”

That was why the youth “Cat” had been crushed into a spray of blood.

In reality, before it pinned him down, he had already died.

The execution for failing the game… was absolutely inescapable.

As it spoke, the eyeball slowly flew over and looked at Ming Po.

“I roughly know what you were thinking. But are you not afraid?

Do you really believe the others are on the same level as you?”

With the host’s experience, of course it knew exactly where Dog’s so-called “guaranteed winning method” had gone wrong.

Dog was a person whose head was filled entirely with himself.

He was far too selfish… and from the very beginning, he had locked himself into the role of the winner. His decisions had been made on the basis of “how to let himself win.”

So naturally, he had not considered the issue from the perspective of the others.

From Dog’s own perspective, the plan he had proposed was indeed feasible in itself.

As long as he kept carrying out “inciting the majority to choose the same option,” he could guarantee that most people would be safe. The ones who died would either be those who opposed him, or the narrator themselves.

But the problem was

“His position was Number Eleven. Too safe.”

Ming Po said leisurely, “If the others followed his logic, then everyone would be in danger. First Rabbit, then me, and then Fox after that… everyone would be excluded by him.

In the end, I’m afraid only two or three people would be left.”

“It could only be two people.”

“Butterfly” at Table Nine spoke calmly, correcting him. “He would not leave me. As long as he and Raccoon chose the same answer, when I became the narrator, I would be eliminated.

Because if Raccoon did not do so, and instead went soft-hearted and left me alive, then he could eliminate Raccoon together with me.”

Raccoon stared at Butterfly in shock, as though she only now understood.

“In other words,” Lawyer Chen continued, “We had no choice.”

Rabbit also nodded.

If they followed Dog, they would die sooner or later.

This was a principle that all intelligent people could easily understand.

“And for those who are not that intelligent… or rather, those who cannot see that far into the future.”

Ming Po looked at Raccoon and said meaningfully, “They would worry… that I would cooperate with Dog.”

When no one else fought for the right to speak, Ming Po and Dog were clearly the two most influential people.

Whether violence could be used or not was, even now, still unknown. And Ming Po was a clever man who could make even Dog wary, and he did not conceal at all his act of using human lives to test the rules

If Ming Po and Dog truly reached a cooperation, then no one else would be able to play at all.

They could only gamble.

Only by executing “Wolf” and “Dog” in one breath would they have a chance of surviving!

Conversely, if Ming Po and Dog directly fought each other, then “those who feared Wolf more” and “those who feared Dog more” might end up fighting among themselves. The result would instead become difficult to control.

But now, the two of them had been on the same side, so there were only two sides: “support Wolf and Dog” and “do not support them.” Even if Wolf changed his vote at the last moment, if they all rebelled together, they could at least kill the most dangerous Dog.

After all, the others present were all old, weak, sick, or disabled.

With no weapons whatsoever inside this room, even if all of them combined their strength, they could not possibly defeat the tall and powerful Dog.

“Of course… actually, not everyone realized this.”

Ming Po wiped the blood from his mask with his hand, his tone relaxed. “Look… weren’t there still two people who didn’t react in time and voted wrong?”

Hearing this, people began whispering with those around them.

Some frowned and discussed something, while others sneakily conferred about something else.

“Then what if,” Lin Ya suddenly asked, “What if all of us really were idiots?”

“That depends on what you think of yourself.”

Ming Po merely smiled and did not answer her directly.

Instead, he replied gently, “It’s your turn now, Miss Rabbit. I hope you survive.”

The host actually followed Ming Po’s words and announced, “Second round, begin.”

As Rabbit’s round began, everyone else was silenced. Even if they opened their mouths, no words would come out. The room, which had gradually been growing noisy, immediately became quiet once more.

Seeing this, Fox’s heart sank.

He realized that the rhythm of this game had already been grasped by Wolf.

For some reason… he felt that this host seemed to be paying very close attention to Wolf.

…Could it be that my initial thought was correct? Is he really someone from the official side?

Then

While Fox was thinking, Rabbit uneasily swept her gaze around the round table, saying nothing as her thoughts raced. Around the round table, a terrifying silence fell.

At this moment, excluding herself at Seat Two, only seven people remained around the round table.

The “Gray Wolf” at Seat Three, her ally, that extremely dangerous “Mr. Ai.”

The “Fox” at Seat Four, an elite of society in his thirties or so who called himself Lawyer Chen.

The “Fish” at Seat Six was currently the most silent person. Up to now, he had not spoken a single word, and there was no information about him at all.

The “Red Panda” at Seat Seven had only said one sentence. He sounded like a man in his thirties or forties, and his speech carried a Sichuan or Chongqing accent.

The “Butterfly” at Seat Nine was a very intelligent and very proud woman, with a very obvious Shanghai accent.

The “Raccoon” at Seat Ten should be a female university student. Her family background was probably decent, and she was not very old. Her eyes were clear and foolish, without much scheming.

And then there was “Bear” at Seat Twelve

This narrator from the previous round possessed deep thoughts entirely different from his honest-looking face.

These seven people differed greatly in age, gender, personality, and background.

If all she wanted was to casually raise a question and make them choose different answers, ensuring that she survived, then that certainly would not be difficult. The reason Old Bear had once been targeted for an instant was because he himself had wanted to manually eliminate certain people.

Once such an intent to harm others was discovered, it would naturally trigger a counterattack.

But the chance to become narrator only came once.

Was there a possibility of increasing her own odds of surviving?

Thinking of this, Rabbit’s eyes suddenly lit up.

“Friends, I’ve thought of something… yes, what I mean is…”

Rabbit’s gaze became resolute. “I have a guaranteed winning method too.”

(End of Chapter)