Crime Prison Island
Chapter 634 - 289: Everyone is a Traitor

Chapter 634: Chapter 289: Everyone is a Traitor

""Impressive, Tai Sui!" Li Fengqing exclaimed in admiration.

However, Gao Xin’s face was expressionless; he was considering another possibility...

Could it be that Phoenix was, in fact, from the Free People Camp?

Did he deliberately spare them at the end just as a courtesy?

Had he had a Hidden Dragon Card, wouldn’t it have been better to reveal one to prove that he possessed it?

Unless... he didn’t have a single Hidden Dragon Card! All three of his random cards were duds!

Black Pearl and the others had also been deceived by Phoenix.

The likelihood of this was incredibly high!

It wasn’t that Phoenix had given anything away, but rather... Mandala.

When Gao Xin declared that Phoenix was a Green Emperor player, the most unbelievable aspect was Mandala’s behavior.

Mandala had personally fought with Phoenix and believed he was a black player, which is why he dared to make a move.

That implied Mandala definitely was not a Black Emperor player; otherwise, would he not fear being targeted and killed?

And when Phoenix had an encounter with Sivina, he didn’t eliminate her either.

So now, if Phoenix was a Green Emperor player, then Mandala had to be a White Emperor player.

If Mandala wasn’t a White Emperor player, then Phoenix must not belong to any empire and was certainly from the Free People Camp.

Therefore, by confirming Mandala’s identity, one could ascertain the identity of Phoenix.

Regrettably, even though Gao Xin suspected Mandala to be a Green Emperor player, he had always claimed to be a White Emperor player, and Gao Xin had no definitive evidence to believe otherwise.

As he was pondering, a huge voice came from above: "The Green Empire is at war with the White Empire, and the territories within both nations have entered the war phase."

Everyone shuddered; the Green Empire had joined the battle.

It seemed that Lester had already been informed of the recent developments and thus decisively attacked their right flank.

The right flank’s stronghold of the White Empire had now become a stronghold of the Green Empire.

Sivina said solemnly, "What now? Their alliance hasn’t broken, and I’m afraid they’ll be attacking the main city soon."

Gao Xin sneered, "Heh, the fourth round of card drawing is coming up soon. You’ll see, Lester is about to declare war on the Black Emperor Main City."

And sure enough, as soon as his words fell,

the imposing voice boomed again: "The Green Empire is at war with the Black Empire, and the territories within both nations have entered the war phase."

Everyone’s eyes lit up; a real battle had begun! Now it was a three-nation melee!

"How could this be? Lester actually backstabbed the Black Emperor?" Sivina exclaimed in shock.

Gao Xin explained, "Firstly, their alliance was unstable from the start. When they schemed to kill you, under what premise did Phoenix refrain from playing a card? It was to make Lester play one."

"So, Lester now has at least two True Image Cards, which he has secretly deployed on the Green Empire’s left flank, and they cannot be moved now."

"On the other hand, what about Phoenix? He hasn’t played a single card and still has three hidden, and Black Pearl and Big White Shark didn’t play either. There’s no point in wasting their Combat Cards to ambush you from their alliance."

"In other words, the plan they formed as allies meant that all the effort and cards played came from Lester."

"In the end, we headed to the Black Emperor Main City and avoided that trap, which made his deployment a waste... Not only that, none of our side was killed in the skirmishes."

"Up until the point he let us go, Phoenix hadn’t played a single card."

"Tell me, if you were Lester, what would you think?"

Sivina clapped her hands, "Ha! He probably thinks it’s the Black and White Empires conspiring against him!"

Gao Xin said, "That’s only one aspect. It doesn’t matter if Lester thinks that way or not, just consider it as planting a seed of doubt.

"The key point is, we have given up the flanks and have all retreated to the safety of the main city."

"Although this has allowed him to easily take our right flank, he can no longer draw double cards."

"In an enemy faction’s stronghold, you can randomly draw two cards."

"Lester had already lagged in the number of cards due to his futile previous plans. If he can’t draw double cards, he will continue to lag behind."

"So whether their alliance is still solid or not, Lester now must find an enemy faction to draw double cards from!"

Mandala mused, "Because we’ve hunkered down, the right flank is empty, so when he moved in he took over immediately, turning it into his own camp’s territory."

"If he wants to draw double cards, he either has to breach our main city, defended by five of us, or go to Black Emperor Main City. He would have to declare war on the Black Empire and become an enemy faction."

"However, there’s no need to declare war, right? He could just enter a Black stronghold and draw a card—why wouldn’t Phoenix allow that?"

Gao Xin scoffed, "It’s not about allowing or not, it’s that among them, there are no Black Emperor players!"

The realization dawned on everyone: that’s right, Phoenix is Green, and both Black Pearl and Big White Shark are White.

No Black Emperor players?

In that case, when Sivina had pursued Phoenix to the main city, she already passed by and took over the Black Emperor’s right flank.

And as Black Pearl and Big White Shark returned from the Green Empire, while passing the left flank, they also took the Black Empire’s left flank on the way.

So despite it looking like their retreat, the Black Empire actually lost two strongholds!

Gao Xin explained, "When we retreated, the Black Empire was left with only the main city, with both flanks taken by White."

"Then Lester declared against White, and the Green Empire joined the war. He didn’t dare to enter our main city defended by five people, so he went around to the Black Emperor Main City instead."

"On his way there, he naturally turned the Black Empire’s left flank from White to Green."

Everyone pictured the map in their minds: the Green Empire’s land, spreading from their right all the way to the Black Empire’s left, capturing a vast territory!

His one-man nation swept across half the map, taking over wherever he went.

To draw double cards, he’d either have to come to the White Emperor Main City or go to the Black Emperor Main City, and he would have to declare war on the Black Emperor, becoming an enemy faction."

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