Crime Prison Island
Chapter 289 - 134 Don’t Cry Later

Chapter 289: Chapter 134 Don’t Cry Later

Gao Xin looked down at the entire field with disdain, finding not a single person making a move.

He dared to take the lead in the world, but who would compete for second place?

Perhaps Ling Sha would, with her extraordinary audacity.

But she was also bold yet cautious, not playing like a reckless brute.

Her words were overbearing, her bold declarations never ceasing, frequently treating everyone as mere pawns to be sacrificed.

She would even resort to widespread insults as if she never cared about making enemies with everyone.

But in reality, her play was quite sophisticated.

Did she just give away 8 points to increase the prize pool, all to create chaos and have everyone at each other’s throats?

Was this woman crazy?

No, perhaps it was precisely a clever play.

At this moment, Ling Sha had no points, strong capabilities, and loyal teammates; killing her offered no benefit and came with great risk.

So suddenly, she was excluded from everyone’s target list.

Now, all the hostility was directed toward Gao Xin.

But Gao Xin, was he not playing carefully?

He was greedy to the core, actually hoarding all the points in the game.

He went to the extreme, not sparing even a table with a measly 1-point child, sweeping up everything!

He might seem like a brute, but this was really the best choice.

If he was to be greedy, then he should be explosively so.

Now the situation was at a standstill, and all these complications arose because the others no longer had points.

The one with high points becomes the target of many arrows and is besieged and annihilated.

But what if one monopolizes?

With everyone at zero points and one at negative five, how exasperating?

Gao Xin monopolized 22 points, completely cutting off everyone’s bargaining chips for profit distribution.

In this game, there’s no transfer, the only way to share money is through betting.

When multiple people bet correctly on an outcome, they share the prize pool together.

If Gao Xin had not swept everything clean but left a few points outside, then others would have gambled for these points.

For example, Gao Xin decides not to offend Steel Axe and Iron Hand by sparing their 1 point each.

Now, centered around these two points, at least a small team of three individuals would form.

In the first phase, they would collectively duel with Gao Xin, and the person to ultimately take his head would become the executioner, gaining 20 points.

In the next phase, another duel would take place, with the executioner betting 19 points on the pool deliberately wrong, pushing the points into the prize pool.

Since the executioner himself left 1 point unbet, he becomes the third person with 1 point.

In the third phase, another duel happens, all three individuals bet their 1 point on a tie, end peacefully, and divide the money together.

Each person would get 6 points, with 1 point remaining in the prize pool.

Afterward, they could continue to allocate. For instance, someone could put in another point, bringing the prize pool to 2 points, allowing the remaining two people to gain an extra point each.

Depending on different strengths, some people could get more, some less.

That would be up to the team’s negotiation.

There could be many types of gambles within this, even a betrayal could occur.

For instance, in the second phase, the executioner might keep the 20 points for himself and not put them into the prize pool.

But that’s alright, the dead Gao Xin serves as an example.

A team with its core interests formed would be in high demand; just pull another person in to join.

Who betrays? Treat the betrayer like Gao Xin, kill them off once more, and repeat the above process.

After all, there’s plenty of time, the team’s already formed, not stopping until the division of interests is complete!

And no matter how the game is played, how it’s discussed, how it’s divided.

All this would be revolving around those two players with 1 point each, having nothing to do with Gao Xin.

Gao Xin is but the cake, the one being divided, the fish on the chopping board.

The only way for him to save his life would be to dump his points into the prize pool during the siege, forfeiting points to save his life, making him the third person to divide the money.

And even then, it would depend on others’ whims, as it’s strictly up to them to decide if he gets to play along or not.

If the team has a good negotiation without him, then Gao Xin is as good as dead.

Similarly, the more players left with points, the more dangerous Gao Xin’s position becomes, because this newly formed team would be even stronger.

If Gao Xin originally chose to take only the 12 points from the first betting round, and to not offend anyone, left two children’s tables untouched.

If he let Viper, Rocket Head, Steel Axe, Iron Hand—four players with points—stay outside.

Then it’s over for him; Gao Xin would be doomed.

It could be said that the previous so-called big greed and small greed which Black Knight talked about are all paths to death.

Minor greed leads to minor death; major greed leads to major death!

Not taking someone else’s points and thus not offending anyone? That’s a joke, an innocent man holds guilt as he carries a jade.

Gao Xin should either not have been greedy at all, keeping his hiding place.

Or he should have been utterly greedy, monopolizing, leaving everyone with nothing, cutting off their capital to unite.

"Where are the people? Come duel me."

"Why isn’t anyone making a move? Viper, you take the lead."

Gao Xin waited for a while, but there was no response, so he turned off his organ overclocking.

He sneered, "If you’re not going to fight to the death in the first round, when? When you’re about to die?"

Gao Xin shook his head. As long as the benefits were sufficient, he would choose to risk his life at his peak, because that’s when he had the greatest chance.

However, most people in the world are the opposite; they prefer to fight to the death only when it’s unavoidable.

Even if they know that they must fight to the death in this game sooner or later, they want to delay it as much as possible.

It’s as if each of them came with a procrastination disease when it came to fighting to the death, not going all out until the final countdown.

Gao Xin’s words were full of mockery, but to the ears of others, they didn’t take it as such.

Instead, they thought, right, why fight to the death in the first round?

They now had no points and could only rely on pure fighting.

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