Crime Prison Island
Chapter 295 - 135 Class Play_3

Chapter 295: Chapter 135 Class Play_3

Gao Xin nodded. Ling Sha indeed understood the gameplay from the very beginning.

While everyone was advocating for collective scoring in the first round, she refused, insisting on setting a trap for the Black Knight.

It was ostensibly because she wanted him dead, which on the surface seemed like a grudge, but in reality, if it was just about killing him, why didn’t she finish him off in a later duel?

What Ling Sha was really doing was capitalizing on waste, making the Black Knight accrue all the negative points until the night before the last round, where she’d then eliminate him.

Actually, this game did allow for a scenario where everyone survives.

Because the consumption value was not only negative five points, there was also a result that deducted only one point.

If the No. 10 player did not pair up each round, and all others paired perfectly, then only No. 10 would lose one point each round.

This one point could easily be regained in subsequent rounds.

As long as the player losing points in the penultimate round had scored before, there would be no player with negative points, leading to the possibility of all players surviving the last round.

But this... was too demanding.

Gao Xin could think it up, but he couldn’t pull it off. The duel rules, the betting rules... and coupled with the military struggle, all of these were squeezing the path to survival for everyone.

If even one person didn’t want to follow this path, it would be impassable.

Human nature is unpredictable, and he wasn’t the All-Knowing, nor did he possess the power to suppress everyone on his own.

More importantly, he wasn’t a saint; in the game of military struggle, there were quite a few who deserved to die.

Especially the Viper, if he wasn’t killed in the game, then afterwards in the battle for Yamaguchi Village, as a True Tiger Level member of the Yakuza, he would surely lead a team against Gao Xin.

The attempt to save Luo Yan was fraught with deadly peril; for every extra Yakuza officer, his success rate dropped, and it could very well come down to just a sliver in the end!

So for the Viper... he had to die!

Gao Xin said to the Swamp Alligator, "I know you’re No. 9, this round you just have to avoid pairing up."

The Swamp Alligator narrowed his eyes, "But what’s in it for me? I need to score points..."

"I don’t care if you die at someone else’s hand or successfully navigate the second intermission."

"I’m telling you straight, my bottom line is ten points."

"As long as I can leave with ten points, I can be your ally."

Gao Xin sneered at that bottom line, "Oh, ten points, huh? This round you get two points, the next two rounds four points each, that’s exactly ten points."

"If you fail, I’ll just give them to you, right?"

The Swamp Alligator raised an eyebrow, "How will you give them to me? And how can you ensure that?"

Gao Xin explained, "The players in this game are categorized as, negative point players, low-point players, mid-point players, and high-point players."

"As for zero-point players, they can be considered part of the negative tier for the first few rounds, but come the last round, they’ll betray us scoring tiers, because they can survive."

"And if you don’t pair up this round, you’ll get two points, becoming a low-point player and naturally my ally."

The Swamp Alligator, with a squint, "Naturally your ally? Are you saying I can only depend on you to take down other mid-point players?"

Gao Xin shrugged, "What else? Mid-point players will band together to carve up a high-point player like me."

"And you low-point players will be left out, because you can’t participate in their betting."

"If you want more points, you must work with me to eliminate the mid-point players."

"You don’t need to worry about me scoring too many points and crushing you, because our cooperation relies on force to take points from mid-point players: you take the heads, and I don’t want any."

The Swamp Alligator asked seriously, "Are you sure I take the heads and you don’t want any?"

Gao Xin rolled his eyes, "Otherwise? If I steal your heads, wouldn’t our cooperation shatter?"

"Then you could just turn around and join them in killing me, right? But that would be a lose-lose scenario!"

"If I die, you won’t get any points either, the mid-point team can’t give you points, and if you inherit my legacy, you would become me, continuing to be their target to carve up."

"Mid-point players are four-point players. If there are two, then you could get eight points."

"Plus the two points you get from pairing up, you’d have ten points, suddenly becoming a high-point player like me."

"And this is only the second round; after that, we’re both high-point players, even more so allies. If anyone tries to gang up on us, we take them out and carve up their points until the game ends."

The Swamp Alligator nodded, "Yes, although I would only have half your points, I would still be a high-point player."

"Because I too would become the target for every mid-point player that comes after."

"But Tai Sui, having only two mid-point players is an ideal situation. What if there are four? And what if Ling Sha and her group are involved?"

"These heads aren’t so easy to take."

Gao Xin analyzed, "If you don’t pair up, both No. 1 and No. 9 would be wasted, so the players who could get four points would only be the pairs of 2-8, 3-7, 4-6, and No. 10."

"However, since you are No. 9, then No. 10 is definitely a robot, and only players can earn points, so there could be at most six mid-point players this round."

The Swamp Alligator pondered, "Right, if we manage to break up two of these pairs, we can ensure there are only two mid-point players."

"Preferably we break up 2-8 and 3-7."

"Getting player No. 5 to pair up with No. 3, each scoring one point."

"That way, No. 7 won’t have No. 3 and can only go with No. 2 to score two points."

"And No. 8 would be isolated, left to score one point alone."

"The result would be the Black Knight losing one point, Nos. 3, 5, and 8 scoring one point, No. 2 and I score two points, and Nos. 4 and 6 score four points."

Gao Xin rolled his eyes, "That’s what you call an ideal scenario, huh? If those pairings happen, it’s game over."

The Swamp Alligator frowned, "Indeed, we can’t just pair up however we want."

"By the way, which number are you exactly?"

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