Crime Prison Island
Chapter 314 - 142: The Fewer Players, the Harder the Game_3

Chapter 314: Chapter 142: The Fewer Players, the Harder the Game_3

"Numbers?" Iron Hand pondered.

Gao Xin said, "During the first round, it was Ling Sha who started listing a bunch of names, signaling that she was number 8. Only after that did the AI begin to mimic her."

"But in the second round, you all hid your numbers and only mentioned one name each; no one took the lead... until the final Jack, when it suddenly listed nine names. The AI was the only one to express numbers by quantity..."

"That point, I think, made a deep impression on you all."

Ling Sha raised an eyebrow. She was certainly impressed, and probably the Black Knight was most affected—he was the one trapped by the Jack into blowing up.

"The AI has a memory of the game. It knew how we played in the first round, so in the second round, even though no one led, it played the same way."

Gao Xin nodded, "Exactly, so it’s not about who speaks first, but about who has more people!"

"If there are more than five players, the AI will follow the player’s way of playing."

"But if the number of players is less than five, then the AI will lead the way of answering questions, and the players have to figure out the AI’s thought process."

Iron Hand frowned, "This round, we just happen to have five players."

Gao Xin continued, "Exactly, this round we just happen to have five players, and five AIs answering questions. With equal numbers on both sides, that’s why I said to let the AI answer first. As expected, when the numbers are equal, whoever speaks first takes the lead."

"So if we still have five people afterward, we can ensure ending the game when we want to end the game."

"But what if people die in the next round? Or before the last round, excluding the Black Knight, then we’ll have four people, the AI six. Can the game really end?"

"Pretending to play five full rounds, fighting back and forth, thinking that we will for sure cooperate successfully in the end, synchronously answering questions, and leaving together."

"Little did they know, in the last round, it won’t be the players leading, but the AI!"

"When there are too few human players, can the quiz master guarantee to guess all the numbers that AI abstractly expresses?"

"Fighting cooperatively till the end just results in a total defeat for humans, unable to beat the AI."

The crowd was shocked. Gao Xin had probed so much with just one question, thinking so far ahead.

Everyone was thinking about how to score points in future cooperation, how strong the robots were, and if there might be betrayal.

Gao Xin was already studying the AI, considering whether he could really end the game in the end.

Everyone thought that as long as the remaining players truly cooperated in the end, the game would be easily cleared.

In reality, that wasn’t necessarily the case!

Their enemies were not just each other as players, the real hidden enemy was the AI.

"Haha, so you can’t kill me!"

The Black Knight had been silent until now, finally speaking up.

He twisted and howled in his room, like a ball of meat: "If you kill me, you won’t complete the tacit quiz. In the last round, if you can’t guess all the AI’s numbers, it’s a total extermination!"

"So you must give me points, enough points, let Tai Sui give me them!"

Gao Xin calmly said, "How to give? By killing or gambling?"

"You’re in negative points, you can’t gamble. Even if I put all my points into the pot, you can’t get any, you can only watch."

"As for killing, that’s possible, but what’s the point? Doesn’t it still result in one person’s death?"

"Since one player less is inevitable, why couldn’t it be you?"

Lin An chuckled, "Shut up, Black Knight, I’ll let you die slowly in despair!"

Ling Sha also said, "I’ve said it before, there’s either me without you, or you without me."

"Fuck! I fuck your whole family!" The Black Knight was desperate, collapsing, hysterical.

He was doomed; everyone had decided to let him die.

By the end of the fourth round of pairing, this group was sure to use the killing rule to eliminate him.

"Ah ah ah! I’m dead, you all have to be buried with me!"

"You can’t guess the AI’s answers, can’t guess them!"

He howled, voicing everyone’s earlier concerns.

Gao Xin had figured out that the AI would alter its style of answering questions, and also that the Jack, pretending to be number 10, had lied in the last round.

So, when there are fewer than five players, the difficulty of the question game will transform.

Thinking this, Ling Sha even regretted having forced Gao Xin into a fiery conflict with Viper and the others, resulting in a loss of four people.

"No, wait, how could the Redemption Game present a situation where players lose more than half and still can’t win? There must be a way," Ling Sha, experienced in gaming, was sure it was impossible.

Gao Xin smiled faintly, "Indeed it’s impossible..."

"So at least until we think of a solution... let’s not stab each other in the back, okay."

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