Crime Prison Island
Chapter 637 - 291: Everything is Ready, Just Lack a True Dragon

Chapter 637: Chapter 291: Everything is Ready, Just Lack a True Dragon

Gao Xin’s words made sense, and the two were already inclined to believe them.

However, Li Fengqing felt that there was a problem.

Li Fengqing furrowed his brows and said, "Collecting all levels of cards will trigger an Easter egg, I agree with that."

"As for the Dragon King Card, the mechanism of it being produced by hoarding the other nine levels of cards at home... that rule has never been mentioned."

"Hidden rules should also be deduced from the existing ones."

"The breeding mechanism isn’t hinted at all in the rules, maybe we’re overthinking this."

Gao Xin laughed and said, "If we’re overthinking, then we’re overthinking, haven’t you grasped what I’m talking about?"

"This is a deeply hidden rule, don’t look at how hidden it is, and it’s completely unmentioned in the official rules, but we can still trigger it."

"The reason is that the way to obtain the Dragon King Card coincides with the achievement of the Easter egg!"

"As long as you want to trigger the Easter egg, you’ll eventually activate this card-upgrade mechanism, won’t you?"

"Whether or not the rule is mentioned, you have to keep one of each level of card, and when you have all nine kinds, the Dragon King Card will automatically pop out, and the Easter egg completes itself. Why mention any rule?"

The two of them suddenly understood, right.

Just by thinking that the Easter egg is about collecting all the cards, the rules don’t need to be explicitly stated.

The Easter egg is either having been all identities or collecting all the Combat Cards.

Under the rules for traitors, being all identities is too simple, so this time’s Easter egg must be about collecting all the cards.

Everyone agreed on that point, the Easter egg is definitely a card-collecting achievement.

And the probability of getting a Dragon King Card is very low, whether it’s due to sheer luck in drawing or a hidden upgrade mechanism, players still have to collect the first nine kinds of cards.

Now, whether after collecting all nine cards, you wait out time madly drawing for a Dragon King, or it automatically pops up, depends on whether the organizers allow players to trigger the Easter egg within a reasonable game time.

If the organizers allow it, then just collecting nine cards is enough.

If not, players have no choice but to wait out for the Dragon King.

Would they not collect those nine cards because the mechanism might not exist at all? Would they give up on the Easter egg?

They still have to collect them, right?

So the card-upgrade mechanism doesn’t need to be explicitly stated in the rules; speaking of it might even be counterproductive.

Gao Xin said, "Whether this mechanism exists, I can’t be 100 percent sure, I admit it’s a guess."

"If it doesn’t exist, then it doesn’t."

"But I think it probably does, otherwise the downtime is just too long, waiting out just for one card at the end, meaningless to the audience."

"On the contrary, the Easter egg for collecting all the cards actually just requires the first nine, and the last one is automatically given to you, making the game more streamlined."

The two nodded repeatedly, completely conceding.

Whether from game logic, the corresponding meanings in reality, or the organizers’ intentions and audience psychology...

Everything should be as Gao Xin said.

He had completely penetrated the game.

Mandala said in admiration, "Incredible, Tai Sui."

"All these factions played the wargame two or three times and still didn’t get through all the rules, and you saw through everything on your first play, your thought process is so clear."

Gao Xin replied, "You just haven’t encountered a card-collecting Easter egg in a wargame before, most wargames are probably just about identities, right?"

The two nodded, at least the ones they had encountered were all about identities.

Gao Xin continued, "Then let’s work together and take back our kingdom."

"Let’s put aside identities and just help Sivina defeat the opposition, focusing our attacks on Black Pearl and Big White Shark first."

"They are both White Emperor players, but they are traitors, so Sivina and Yak will definitely support us."

"After that, we’ll push for a ceasefire, and since the opposition lacks White Emperor players at that point, they’ll surely send a Green Emperor player."

"And any one of us three representing the White Empire at the negotiations is actually a Black Empire player negotiating."

"Ultimately, it’ll be us negotiating with the Green Empire, with White Empire kicked out of the negotiation table, and we can freely divide the spoils of the White Empire."

Mandala and Li Fengqing both nodded, admiringly looking at Gao Xin, "Great idea, let’s do that!"

In Li Fengqing’s perspective, they three are Black Empire players, disguised as White Empire players, staging a backdoor listing, planning to reclaim everything that belongs to them at the negotiation table.

In Mandala’s perspective, both he and Gao Xin are Green Empire players.

If during negotiations, the opposition also sends a Green Empire player, wouldn’t that lead to a situation on Diplomatic Square where only Green Empire players are present! Wouldn’t they then negotiate however they wanted?

They all thought it was a good idea, while Gao Xin secretly wiped away a bead of sweat.

"That’s a relief, I’ve bluffed my way through."

"Li Fengqing didn’t notice my glaring flaw... "

Gao Xin sighed with relief, within his explanation about the Dragon King Card’s mechanism, there was actually a logical flaw.

He had talked a lot, spinning a complex web of game mechanics, all just to explain to Li Fengqing why he couldn’t show his cards.

Li Fengqing had asked him to reveal a True Tiger Card to verify his identity, a completely reasonable request.

But he didn’t have one... How could he explain not having a single card of his own level?

Gao Xin had been cornered and had simply blurted out everything about the Easter egg and the Dragon King Card mechanism, all to cover up the fact that he had no True Tiger Card.

All the deductions were correct and connected seamlessly, but Gao Xin also took the opportunity to slip in something for his own benefit...

That is, ’A Combat Card must remain unsummoned to breed a Dragon King Card’.

Yes, he made that condition up!

He told countless truths, all so that this one lie would take root in Li Fengqing’s mind.

Of course, it wasn’t entirely unfounded. At the end, the reward rules require that only ’unsummoned’ cards could be used to double the reward quotient.

Gao Xin utilized this point to derive the concept of giving birth to a Dragon King Card, as well as the concept of it having not been summoned.

He then took advantage of knowing the mechanism of the Phoenix seat, which kept the card hidden on the pretext of concealment, using it as a backing.

One could say, logically speaking, it completely made sense.

Moreover, this concept, mixed within numerous true logics from Gao Xin, made Li Fengqing believe it outright.

Even more so, Li Fengqing was astonished.

Because his gain was too great, the achievements of the Easter egg, the mechanism of the Dragon King card... Gao Xin had told him many great things, all hardcore substance.

Gao Xin’s operation directly made Li Fengqing overlook one critical flaw: since you say the Easter egg and the Dragon King card mechanism overlap, that collecting nine cards would automatically trigger it without needing to mention it in the rules, then why is there still a prerequisite that they must ’not have been summoned’?

Isn’t that self-contradictory? Doesn’t that make it very hard to discover again?

Even if this condition really exists, showing the True Tiger Card briefly wouldn’t be a problem, right?

Gao Xin himself is at the Tiger Level, and if he wants this card, he could draw it anytime at the Black Emperor’s stronghold, so what if one is wasted?

Just show it to him once, and then draw another later, right?

This was a critical logical flaw that Gao Xin couldn’t explain.

It was just too unlucky for him, having followed so many times yet never once drawing a card of his own level. What could he do?

Fortunately, he could compensate for such bad luck with operations.

After all, logic is logic, and the human heart is the human heart.

Li Fengqing’s attention was completely captivated by other things Gao Xin discussed. At the moment, he was still marveling at Gao Xin’s prowess, nowhere near remembering his initial mission to just take a glimpse of Gao Xin’s True Tiger Card.

He had only made a small request, yet Gao Xin smashed a huge gift in his face, dazing him with logic.

Not to mention Gao Xin might just be a Black Emperor player, even if not, Li Fengqing still wanted to team up with him!

It definitely is, it must be, it has to be!

As long as in his heart he hoped Gao Xin was his teammate, then his brain would automatically ignore those details in Gao Xin’s words that are disadvantageous to him being ’his own teammate’.

This is the basic principle of a ’lovesick brain’.

It’s not just women who have a lovesick brain, nor is it only in love that one has a lovesick brain.

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In the time that followed, both sides started a tug of war.

They concentrated between the stronghold on the left wing of the White Empire and the right wing of the Black Empire, wearing each other down.

Gao Xin returned to keep the main city with Sivina, leaving Mandala and Li Fengqing to hold the left wing of the White Empire.

As long as there were these two people here, the opposite side could only send one person to attack, naturally at a disadvantage.

As soon as Gao Xin left, Black Pearl came killing over, facing two against one.

She summoned a True Image Card to assist, but Mandala also had a True Image Card, and Li Fengqing had just stablely drawn a True Image Card in his own stronghold.

Thus, not only was Black Pearl outnumbered two to one by herself, but her Combat Card was also outnumbered two to one, and she ultimately retreated with serious injuries.

Mandala pursued but also fell into an ambush.

Just out of the passage, she was ambushed by Big White Shark, had an arm severed, and returned severely injured.

Then Big White Shark pursued over.

Thus, the cycle repeated, and the national battle continued for another ten minutes.

Everyone drew the fifth round of Combat Cards, and Gao Xin had to draw two random cards, now having five cards.

They were Young Tiger, Sub-tiger, Young Elephant, Sub-elephant, Sub-dragon.

Yes, the last two he drew were Sub-elephant and Sub-dragon, Gao Xin sighed, finally some good cards.

Especially the Sub-dragon, finally in the fifth round, such a high-level combat card appeared.

The combat power of the Sub-dragon card was unmatched by any player, it was at least equivalent to three Hidden Dragons in strength.

However, he didn’t want to use any of these five cards, because none was a repeat.

To quickly gather all the cards required for the Easter egg to birth a Dragon King Card, he had to keep one card from each level.

Moreover, the Sub-dragon card was not invincible.

Not to mention, Sivina already had five Hidden Dragon Cards, plus herself, the power of six dragons, the Sub-dragon wouldn’t be able to withstand it.

Of course, that was among teammates, but Black Pearl and Phoenix seat, they were also Hidden Dragons, and they surely had one or two Hidden Dragon Cards in hand as well.

Including people and cards, the power of four or five dragons was definitely there, jointly enough to destroy his Sub-dragon Angel.

If it were destroyed, it would be hard for Gao Xin to obtain a Sub-dragon card again.

"This Sub-dragon card, is my most precious one, with it, I’m actually not far from the Easter egg."

Gao Xin checked his lineup and found it to be very good.

For the goal of assembling nine different kinds, he was only missing True Tiger, True Image, Hidden Dragon, and True Dragon, these four cards.

It seems like a lot is missing, but actually, it’s very simple!

Because True Tiger is his own level, just by occupying a stronghold, he could farm it.

True Image is at the level of the Quasi-Elephant Kings present, also a card that can be stably farmed and has already appeared many times.

Hidden Dragon as well, with Sivina alone having five.

That is to say, these cards with stable sources, as long as they begin negotiations, Gao Xin could get them from others.

What he still lacked was only the True Dragon Card!

"Everything is ready, just lacking the True Dragon."

"It’s alright, expecting to draw it in the first national battle is a bit too hopeful, and if someone else draws it first, it might ruin my plan."

"It’s time to call a halt to the fighting."

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