Game of Deception Chapter 131: Surrender and Lose Half

The card in front of Ming Po turned white, which ant... Gao Fan had guessed correctly.

In other words, the word Ming Po chose was related to the Ga of Deception! Gao Song hadn't even dealt them any damage yet, but Ming Po's own teammate, Gao Fan, had just breached his defenses!

"I-I'm sorry!"

Gao Fan's face drained of color, turning deathly pale as he imdiately apologized to Ming Po. He clearly realized what he had just done.

"It's fine..."

Ming Po shook his head, his expression turning solemn. "This isn't your fault... The rules of this ga are inherently designed to make us attack and suspect each other."

He completely understood it now. The core difficulty of this ga lay exactly in its "information barrier"!

The level of familiarity between Ming Po and Gao Fan was nowhere near the bond Ming Po shared with Ai Shiping.

Not knowing each other that well... ant they were not familiar with what words the other might have chosen. If soone accidentally revealed their teammate's information while asking a question, it was equivalent to helping Gao Song outside of his turn!

This ant that challengers like them actually needed to guess multiple nouns simultaneously. On one hand, they needed to guess the word Gao Song had selected while avoiding any misleading traps he might have laid.

On the other hand, they also needed to guess the word their teammate had selected. They had to figure out how to narrow down Gao Song's hiding scope with their questions while simultaneously avoiding their teammate's possible scope...

This increased the ntal workload exponentially! Moreover, their chosen word only had to be a word "soone in the opposing faction understands," but their own teammate might not necessarily know it.

If the word was completely in their cognitive blind spot—for instance, if Gao Fan had absolutely no idea that the Bacchus Shrine existed—he would have no idea how to phrase his questions to avoid the word Ming Po had selected.

But Gao Song had no such concerns.

Because he had no teammates.

And precisely because he had no teammates, he possessed the highest level of freedom to act.

However, during these first few rounds, Ming Po didn't have much ti to think. Gao Song's word had not yet been locked down, so Ming Po still could only offer a relatively broad question.

What was certain so far was that it was not a living creature, not a building or a natural landscape, and not fictional.

"Is it man-made?" Ming Po asked slowly.

The next mont, the black cards in front of both Gao Fan and Gao Song cleanly turned white. It took a few seconds for them to change back.

The answer was yes.

Furthermore, both Gao Song's and Gao Fan's words were "man-made objects."

Man-made objects that were neither buildings nor fictional... In an instant, this question narrowed the scope down significantly!

Ming Po clearly heard Gao Fan breathe a sigh of relief. Although Gao Fan's own word had also been swept up by Ming Po's question, he did not bla Ming Po.

On the contrary, the fact that Gao Song had been successfully narrowed down greatly encouraged him. Ming Po also noticed that Gao Fan seed sowhat afraid of Gao Song.

He viewed this elder relative of his as an insurmountable mountain. Now that Ming Po had managed to hurt him, it was worth celebrating for Gao Fan—even if the price was getting hurt himself.

Or rather, in Gao Fan's perception, if paying a "small price" himself could harm Gao Song, it was already a net gain. Looking at it now...

Gao Fan was a bona fide second-generation rich kid, yet his personality was so humble and gentle. There was probably an important reason for this... which was that he had always been in a state of being denied and oppressed at ho since childhood.

Thus, after providing the answer, Ming Po continued speaking:

"...You've really planned this out, Mr. Gao Song."

Ming Po looked at Gao Song. His calm tone slightly soothed the anxious Gao Fan, helping him cheer up. "Since only one side can make it out of this ga alive, the details of this ga cannot possibly be leaked."

It was precisely because they didn't know the rules beforehand that they were currently trapped by it. Otherwise, they could have just agreed on a set of secret codes in advance to communicate covertly and coordinate the words they would choose.

In other words, this was a ga that could only be played once... Only a first-ti kill was truly aningful.

"What? Do you want to concede?"

Despite being narrowed down by Ming Po, Gao Song remained entirely unhurried, looking at Ming Po with a smile. "If you surrender, I'll count it as you losing half."

"What do you an?" Ming Po asked with great interest. "Surrendering is an option?"

"Of course." Gao Song's lips curled into a slight smile as he kindly advised, "Although you cannot look at or peek at the contents of other people's cards, and you cannot let your own card be seen by others... the rules never said 'you cannot let your teammate's card be seen by others.'

"If you want to admit defeat, just flip Little Fan's card over and show it to . This way, I would be sanctioned for committing a foul. Although I'd also be innocent, so my punishnt would be reduced accordingly without an outright loss... but if you are the last person remaining, you can also be considered the winner. The victor can take away a Zhou's Azure Lead chip. Won't you consider it?"

"What about him?" Ming Po retorted. "What about Little Fan?"

"He, naturally... will be judged as losing for violating [Rule 2]," Gao Song said leisurely, his voice as gentle as a teacher having a heart-to-heart with a student.

Being judged as losing ant death.

"This is a victory condition I specifically left open. If you don't believe , you can ask Twenty Faces... I really have let people go using this thod before, and they left with chips in hand."

His words were filled with absolute certainty. "Many of them, in fact. From this perspective, you could say I'm doing charity."

Ming Po didn't even need to confirm it to know that Gao Song was absolutely not lying. It was the truth.

Which ant... there truly was another way to end this ga.

If one really couldn't withstand Gao Song's pressure, they could sell out their teammate in exchange for safety and profit.

Sacrificing all of one's teammates in exchange for a Zhou's Azure Lead chip... This might not necessarily be a losing deal. Because the Deceivers of the World who barged in here might not necessarily possess an authority level as high as Zhou's Azure Lead.

Take Ai Shiping, who was still at the Hour's Red Copper level, for example. Even if he emptied all his savings, he couldn't scrape together a single Zhou's Azure Lead chip.

This ant that Gao Song's ga was very likely operating at a loss. The fact that he had remained stuck at the Zhou's Azure Lead level without advancing...

Part of the reason might be that he had consud a massive amount of chips in this ga.

Then why would he run such a loss-making business?

The answer was self-evident.

His malicious intentions were plain for all to see.

He simply relished the pleasure of destroying other people's friendships! What he admired and sought after was exactly this twisted sight of friendships falling apart and friends betraying one another!