Crime Prison Island
Chapter 636 - 290 All Cards Have Meaning

Chapter 636: Chapter 290 All Cards Have Meaning

Li Fengqing stared at the other two as soon as he drew his card.

He had drawn a True Image Card, which was beyond doubt, and now he wanted to know the results of the other two’s draws.

However, Gao Xin and Mandala both managed their expressions well, showing signs of joy and relief.

"You really are from the Black Emperor, aren’t we all together now?" Mandala said, taking a glance at Gao Xin.

Gao Xin also said, "I never expected all the Black Emperor players to be undercover here; when I figured out there were no Black Emperor players on the other side, I thought of this possibility..."

"Just never imagined there would be three!"

Li Fengqing couldn’t spot any flaws and said happily, "I thought I didn’t have any teammates, but it turns out they’ve been right beside me all along."

Gao Xin and Mandala exchanged a look.

The three now had three different layers of thought.

Li Fengqing was on the first layer; he temporarily believed that Gao Xin and Mandala were his teammates, and all three of them were Black Emperor players.

So he was acting as a double agent, merely cloaked in black pretending to be white.

Mandala was on the second layer; he believed Gao Xin was his teammate, and both he and Gao Xin were Green Emperor players, deceiving Li Fengqing, who was a Black Emperor player.

He also had to act as a triple agent, outwardly camouflaged as white but secretly as black, when in fact, he was green.

As for Gao Xin, he was on the third layer; he knew the three were from different factions.

He had masqueraded as all three emperors, but in actuality, he was none.

Mandala said, "Li Fengqing, since you’re black, then the situation is very clear now, the three of us are black."

"Sivina, Yak, Black Pearl, and Big White Shark are white."

"Phoenix and Lester are green."

Suddenly, Li Fengqing waved his hand and said, "Hold on, the two of you claim to be black, so you must have drawn cards of your own level, right?"

"Show them publicly for me to see."

Li Fengqing wasn’t a fool to be led by the nose, although he was inclined to believe the other two were his teammates, he didn’t have any concrete evidence.

What if the two of them were collaborating to deceive him?

From beginning to end, it was these two PUAing him, testing his identity through his advancing to the strongholds; he wanted to test them in return.

"No problem," Mandala smiled and directly deployed a True Image Card publicly.

He had randomly drawn cards at the White Empire for three rounds, and just now, he had drawn two more, aside from the Sub-tiger which he had used at the start, he still had four random cards on him.

Among them was exactly one True Image, which he could use to pretend he had drawn normally.

Li Fengqing nodded and then turned his gaze to Gao Xin.

Gao Xin inwardly cursed his bad luck.

He had been so unlucky that he had never managed to draw a card of his own level from the start; instead, he had drawn three cards of Yak’s level...

"This pervert is cautious, too, countering us right back."

"Mandala conveniently had a True Image card to cope with the situation, but what do I do?"

Realizing his predicament, Gao Xin reluctantly considered that he couldn’t produce a True Tiger card now; should he boast that he had advanced and use an Infant Elephant card as a stopgap?

No, that wouldn’t do; all the players in this round were strong, and if he pretended to be an Infant Elephant, he would be quickly exposed.

Gao Xin steadied himself and chose to counter-question, "Hmm? You mean, you don’t know what the easter egg is?"

Both were startled: "You already know about the easter egg?"

Gao Xin nodded firmly, "Isn’t it obvious what the easter egg is? Isn’t the most important thing in this round the Combat Card? The easter egg must revolve around it, too."

"I guess you need to get the Dragon King Card."

Mandala made a sound of agreement: "That’s right, easter eggs are usually some kind of difficult achievement."

"Based on past experiences, it’s either related to identity, or it’s related to props."

"But in this game, if it’s the former, it’s a bit too simple, because faction identities are changeable anyway, and there’s even the special ability of being a traitor, which makes it very easy to have been each identity."

"So this time, the easter egg should be about collecting cards."

Li Fengqing then asked, "Tai Sui, even if the easter egg is about collecting cards, what does it have to do with you producing a True Tiger Card? You can’t produce one, can you?"

Gao Xin smiled, "It seems you’ve all played similar games before, I’m curious, have you ever obtained a Dragon King Card?"

Li Fengqing shook his head: "I haven’t; this is my second national war game, the last one was a pure national war, and the easter egg was the identity-type ’Thrall of Three Surnames’."

"At that time, we played until the end without the Dragon King Card ever appearing."

Mandala also spoke, "The odds for the Dragon King Card are too low; I’ve played pure national wars before, also identity-type easter eggs, and only two True Dragon Cards appeared until the end."

Gao Xin nodded, "The refresh rate for the True Dragon Card is one percent."

"You can imagine, how low could the odds for the Dragon King Card be? One in a thousand? One in ten thousand?"

"Now that you’ve said the national wars you’ve participated in never had a Dragon King Card appear, I’m even more certain about a speculation."

"That is, the Dragon King Card can’t be drawn at all."

Both were taken aback; the Dragon King Card can’t be randomly drawn?

"How can that be? The rules clearly state that there are ten levels of Combat Cards, with the Dragon King being the first," Mandala frowned.

Li Fengqing also said, "If it can’t be drawn, wouldn’t that be a rule error? Tai Sui, you’re misinformed; the Dragon King Card does appear, Milan has many experts who play national war games and have obtained the Dragon King Card."

Gao Xin explained, "So that’s how it is. Has Milan mastered the trick? Sorry, I misspoke. What I mean is, the random probability of drawing the Dragon King Card is so low, it’s infuriating."

"Even with a one in a thousand chance, drawing once every ten minutes, it would still take seven days!"

"Under normal circumstances, it’s nearly impossible to get... unless the remaining players work together, or there’s a lone wolf who kills everyone else. He has to win but also doesn’t end the game, just keeps dragging it out, constantly drawing cards, until the end of time, until he draws the Dragon King Card."

"But if you’re going to win anyway and can just mindlessly wait for the card draw, then what’s the point of the Dragon King Card? At most one person in the end gets their reward multiplier upped from ninety to one hundred, which isn’t that significant."

The two of them pondered—right, in most national battle games, the Dragon King Card never even appears.

It’s often the case that the game ends without a single one being drawn.

What’s the point of such a card’s existence? Getting it is like finding an Easter egg.

To suppose that the Easter egg is to obtain the Dragon King Card, and then the card’s probability is outrageously low... do they really expect the final victor not to end the game and just keep drawing cards indefinitely?

Theoretically, it’s possible to draw it, but what’s the point for the audience? Just watch as the players extend ’garbage time’ at the end for one card?

From the organizer’s perspective, it couldn’t possibly be so.

"There’s a special mechanism. Besides dragging it out and drawing by force, there’s another way to get this card," Mandala suddenly realized.

Gao Xin nodded, "That’s correct. Think about it, the ten levels of combat cards themselves are quite odd, aren’t they?"

"From Sub-tiger to True Dragon, they’re all normal physical levels. There are no Elephant King Cards, no Tiger King Cards, but there’s one extra Dragon King Card."

"The king itself isn’t a physical level. ’Dragon King’ refers specifically to ’the strongest True Dragon,’ and ’Elephant King’ to ’the strongest True Elephant,’ doesn’t it?"

Mandala and Li Fengqing experienced enlightenment.

They clapped their hands and said, "Exactly!"

The ten levels of combat cards—Sub-tiger, Sub-tiger Plus, True Tiger, Sub-elephant, Sub-elephant Plus, True Elephant, Hidden Dragon, Sub-dragon, True Dragon... are all normal levels, but the Dragon King Card is unique.

The Dragon King isn’t a higher level; it’s essentially still at the True Dragon Level. It’s just that its combat power is so strong, it seems like another level entirely.

"Are you suggesting that aside from forcibly drawing it, the Dragon King Card could also be transformed from a True Dragon Card?" Mandala quickly caught on to the train of thought.

Gao Xin earnestly nodded, "That’s right. This game corresponds to the reality of Crime Prison Island. What do you say is the way to transform a True Dragon Card into a Dragon King Card?"

Mandala said, "That’s training, right? Hardening oneself in battle until you’re forged into steel."

"Are you implying that True Dragon Cards can level up by fighting each other, and during the battle, one of them transforms into a Dragon King Card?"

Li Fengqing spoke, "That would be unbalanced. Why should your card suddenly evolve while fighting? The upgrading mechanism definitely isn’t about combat."

Gao Xin laughed, "Right, I have been pondering what the method could be..."

"Until I realized that Phoenix, from beginning to end, didn’t use a single card, nor did he deploy any—he just kept waiting!"

"This guy outright stated the probability of the True Dragon Card; he’s super familiar with this game. Besides, you just said that players from Milan have previously obtained the Dragon King Card..."

"This made me even more certain that Milan has mastered this game and knows all the ways to acquire combat cards."

"He’s not playing his cards precisely to breed them!"

The two were astounded, and Mandala asked incredulously, "Combat cards can breed?"

Gao Xin narrowed his eyes, "I was reminded by something Black Pearl said inadvertently. At that point, Phoenix should have played a card to keep up with us, but he stubbornly didn’t play any."

"Black Pearl was so annoyed, she accused him of keeping his cards just to breed them. I think, keeping the cards without using them is most likely one of the conditions to nurture the Dragon King Card."

"The reward rules also demand ’cards that have never been summoned’ to take effect, don’t they?"

"Probably only ’cards that have never been summoned’ can trigger the upgrading mechanism. Once summoned, a certain unknown potential of the card is destroyed, and it becomes nothing more than a robot locked into a specific level!"

Li Fengqing suddenly understood, after going through such a roundabout discussion, why Gao Xin had a True Tiger Card but couldn’t show it to him...

He exclaimed, "Are you saying that when I have two True Dragon Cards, I could combine them into one Dragon King Card?"

Gao Xin smiled, "If I already have two True Dragon Cards, why would I desperately need the Dragon King Card? Two True Dragons are enough to sweep across the entire map."

The two of them pressed further, "Then what exactly is the mechanism?"

Gao Xin looked up, "In the Black Hands of the Nine Cities of the Three Kingdoms, the weakest is at Tiger Level."

"The realms on Crime Prison Island start dominating from the Sub-tiger level, accumulating step by step, until they establish an enormous power that encompasses all the combatants from Sub-tiger to True Dragon..."

"And only after this does the Dragon King emerge."

"It’s unthinkable to have a Dragon King in your realm without even having all the Elephant Levels together, right?"

Mandala exclaimed, "Of course not. When the Dragon King emerged, the Evil Dragon Empire had combatants of every level."

"So the prerequisite for the Dragon King to be born is to collect all the cards from Sub-tiger to True Dragon. It’s not enough to have just drawn them before; they must all exist in the card pack at the same time, unused."

Gao Xin nodded, "Yes, it’s not good enough to be missing even one Sub-tiger! Every level of card has its significance."

"There are no useless cards in this game. Cards like the Tiger Level may seem of little use most of the time, but they can’t be absent!"

"Just like the Nine Cities of the Three Kingdoms, those lower-level Black Hands may mostly act as cannon fodder, easily killed by top-level combatants like you."

"But your organizations always need these people; they cannot be absent."

"A realm cannot be established by a few Dragon-level rulers alone!"

Gao Xin’s words were enlightening, and indeed, they made a lot of sense.

The two pondered, so the way to get the Dragon King Card early is to gather all the cards. It won’t work if they’ve been drawn previously; they must all be simultaneously present in the card pack, unused, from Sub-tiger to True Dragon.

Then, and only then, will the Dragon King Card appear as if by fate.

With all ten cards concurrently in the card pack, the Easter egg is thus triggered.

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