Free Web NovelChapter 593: Chapter 592: Internal Arena Rules
Tang Qing looked at her somewhat baffled: "What nonsense are you talking about? This kind of obscure knowledge, people who haven’t quit smoking can’t possibly know. I don’t smoke."
"And besides, what good would it do me to hide such a thing?"
Bai Zilan revealed a meaningful smile: "Oh? You told me at the beginning that the three of us are smart people, there’s no need to use such low-level disguises to play dumb."
She paused slightly and continued: "In the previous two questions, you were always leading the conversation and eager to answer."
"From your previous performance, as a fan of detective novels, your breadth of knowledge is quite wide."
"So it’s not necessarily true that you wouldn’t know about quitting smoking gum, even if it is obscure."
"Of course, the real issue lies in your reaction when being tested."
"It’s quite clear that Mr. Lin knew the ’quitting smoking gum’ standard answer from the start. He pretended not to know and suggested quickly passing on the question, testing the two of us."
"My reaction is the normal one: even if I truly didn’t know, I should have thought about it for a while."
"After all, in this game, the three of us have players from the same community involved, and it’s a judgment game, meaning the information we obtain could decide their life or death."
"But you agreed decisively, which is obviously abnormal."
"Perhaps you also considered whether to react the same way as me to disguise yourself, but on the other hand, you would worry, what if we discussed longer and suddenly thought of the right answer?"
"Additionally, Mr. Lin’s acting was indeed excellent, causing you to subconsciously let down your guard."
"So in the end, you decided to quickly pass on the question and muddle through."
"To you, it’s very important that we don’t know this information, right?"
Tang Qing’s hand, holding the teacup, paused in mid-air for a moment before resuming.
"Huh, it seems the intensity of the previous games was too low, causing me to become sloppy unknowingly."
"Alright, you guessed correctly."
Lin Sizhi was the last to press the button, and this sentence on the big screen was marked with a ’√’ again before slowly fading away.
No new text appeared on the screen; instead, it switched to a scene from another location.
Six players were locked in iron chairs, sitting in a circle.
Lin Sizhi quickly found Lu Bingjun and Deng Xiao among them.
Tang Qing and Bai Zilan also didn’t speak further, seriously watching the screen.
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The ’Sinners Room’ where Lu Bingjun and Deng Xiao were located was very similar to the ’Audience Room’, both being a pure white space with no extra decorations.
To ensure all players could see, each of the four walls had a big screen, creating a sense of being trapped in a cage.
In the center of the room was a wide round platform, divided into six different sectors, each corresponding to a player.
Six players were restrained in iron chairs, sitting around the circular platform.
On the side of the platform, facing each player’s area, there were bright red timers.
Above the platform hung six swords.
The swords seemed to have no support, floating like magnetic levitation in the air, with a slight tremor upon close observation.
As for the six players, besides having their mouths sealed and unable to speak, their waists, legs, and feet were all locked in place, unable to move.
Their hands were free, but all they could do was pick up the special drawing board and marker pen in front of them.
They weren’t just waking up; they had watched the entire game process in the ’Audience Room’ on the big screen.
Thus, they had plenty of time to confirm each other’s names and check the equipment at hand.
Deng Xiao had already examined the special drawing board carefully.
It was broad and heavy, with a heart-shaped relief on the back with three thick blood vessels.
The blood vessels emitted a red glow, eye-catching, and placing a finger on it could even feel the heartbeat and the pulse of the blood vessels.
It seemed alive.
Moreover, the heartbeat frequency on the heart relief on the back of the board matched Deng Xiao’s completely, perhaps hinting at the game’s high risk.
The six players all wore name tags on their chests and had confirmed each other’s identities.
[Community 2 - Lu Bingjun]
[Community 7 - Li Hui]
[Community 11 - Wei Hongbing (Female)]
[Community 2 - Deng Xiao]
[Community 7 - Shi Guoliang]
[Community 11 - Xu Guangxin]
Community 2, Community 7, and Community 11 each had two players seated alternately, making Deng Xiao and Lu Bingjun face each other.
The other players were all unfamiliar faces.
The big screens on all four walls began to simultaneously display the game rules.
[From now on, players in the ’Sinners Room’ will not be able to hear discussions in the ’Audience Room.’]
[The following games will have several rounds, each lasting 15 minutes with time allocated as follows: 2 minutes ’Writing Time’, 12 minutes ’Speaking Time’, 1 minute ’Voting Time.’]
[1. Writing Time]
[During ’Writing Time’, you will see ’two sentences’ on the drawing board.]
[They are related to your ’crime’ and ’health’.]
[You can choose to transcribe either sentence on the drawing board or choose not to transcribe at all.]
[You cannot alter the phrasing or make any free interpretations; otherwise, it will display as blank.]
[After transcription, a ’lie detection’ will be conducted. If the content you wrote cannot pass the lie detection, it will display in red. Conversely, it will be displayed in black.]
[2. Speaking Time]
[In the first round of the game, players will speak in random order.]
[From the second round on, a player will be selected as the host to decide the speaking order of all players.]
[Players other than the host cannot speak for more than 2 minutes.]
[3. Voting Time]
[During ’Voting Time’ in each round, players can press the name button of a corresponding player on the drawing board to vote a ’Sudden Death Ticket’ for that player.]
[The ’Sudden Death Ticket’ must meet any one of the following two criteria:]
[1. ’Crime’: Believes the player holds significant responsibility in a related death case or the crime is most serious.]
[2. ’Health’: Believes the player’s health is extremely poor or has the highest risk of sudden death.]
[Voting must pass through the ’Lie Detection Mechanism’; players cannot vote against their conscience, although a small fuzzy space exists: when two players have close levels, either one can be chosen for voting.]
[Players receiving ’Sudden Death Tickets’ will be punished.]
[4. Community Assistance]
[Players can press the ’Assist’ button on the drawing board and choose to let a player from the same community in the ’Audience Room’ speak for them.]
[If assistance is chosen, the originally planned round will be completely canceled, and all free speech time (12 minutes) will be occupied by the audience, who can force the player to vote following either ’crime’ or ’health’ criteria only.]
[Each community has only 1 opportunity for assistance.]
[5. Disguiser]
[This game includes one ’Disguiser’.]
[The ’Disguiser’ will receive special system prompts and have more information than regular players.] fгeewebnovёl.com
[The ’Disguiser’ can ignore all lie detection mechanisms within the game and view real-time voting situations from other players.]
[When either of the following two situations occurs, the game will immediately end and settle:]
[Situation 1: ’Disguiser’ death.]
[Situation 2: Death of other Inner Court Players, and the ’Disguiser’ decides to end the game.]
[Except for these situations, the game will continue.]
[At the end of the game, all surviving Inner Court Players will have their hearts healed and share ’300% of the visa time carried by dead players’ as a reward.]
[6. Confession]
[Please look at the drawing boards in your hands; your individual crimes are clearly written on them.]
[The next 10 minutes are ’Confession Time’.]
[You can choose to confess immediately and suffer instant punishment.]
[As long as one player confesses, the game will end immediately; settlement will follow the original rules, and each player will receive an additional 5,000 minutes of visa time.]
[If no players confess, the game will officially begin after 10 minutes.]
[Make your choice!]
