It was No. 1 Lin Huiru’s turn to speak after No. 12 Zhang Ji, and she agreed with Zhang Ji’s point of view without the slightest hesitation: “I agree! No. 8 should be voted out first. Even if he is innocent, there’s no use in leaving him till the end! If he is a killer, we can’t let him take advantage of his condition to live until the end! If the police don’t know who to check, then come and check my identity. I’m 100% innocent, not afraid of being checked! If the police have already checked me, then just say it out loud! That way, we know the identity of four innocents. The rules are like what the fried chicken shop owner said, it’s not like we’ll lose if the police are eliminated. We must first determine the identity of four innocents, before voting out the useless No. 8, and checking another person at night. If it’s a killer, then we vote them out, if it’s an innocent, then it would reduce a target of suspicion. Isn’t this very simple!”
Lin Huiru said a long string of words, which seemed to be deliberately provocative. However, it must be said that if the current Suspended Life Game was a normal version of the game and not unpredictable and crisis filled, this kind of plan could still be considered to be a good strategy. But in this case, the killer team has only one strategy left——jump out at the police in a direct confrontation, to gain the civilians’ votes and trust.
Lin Huiru’s words caused the atmosphere to become taciturn for a moment. No. 2 Jiang Shuyi began speaking: “I, I think that there is also logic for the police to not jump out. They also have a reason. For example, if the person who was checked yesterday was No. 7, or No. 7 herself was a police member…and if they know who the police are, the killers would probably kill the police first. After all, they are able to check the identity of the killers… ” Speaking up to here, Jiang Shuyi seemed to have thought of something, hurriedly explaining, “I, I am not a killer! I’m merely saying that the killers would really kill the police first, since the civilians have no ability, isn’t that right?”
Seeming as though she regretted saying the wrong words a moment ago, Jiang Shuyi was thrown into disorder, and ended her speech in a panic.
No. 3 Shen Mu spoke: “There is a point that presumably everyone has noticed; our game rules are a little different from the usual. Firstly, there are no death speeches as Liu Bo previously mentioned, which increases the difficulty of the game. Secondly, there is the change in the rules, as on the town side, regardless of the outcome, the people who survive to the end have a greater advantage compared to the people who were eliminated earlier, which undoubtedly greatly increases the difficulty of the game.”
Shen Mu swept his gaze around, before continuing to say: “Last night I carefully studied the rules of the preliminaries. I noticed that in several places, the most severe punishment is the violation of the rules, which causes the offender to be ‘erased’. This means to die directly, since no matter who is ‘erased’, it is impossible to remain alive. Second most severe, is the ‘direct failure’ of the game. For example, if the killer side loses, it is a ‘direct failure’ and no more chances will be given.”
“But after the good side loses, the living players have an opportunity to turn the turntable. Although it is called the “penalty turntable”, the punishment levels are 0-5. It can be inferred that 0 is having no punishment. Although it isn’t known what a level 5 punishment is, it won’t be more serious than a ‘direct failure’.”
Shen Mu took a breath, and continued to say: “So what I want to say is that everyone should understand, this game originally had a low difficulty level for the good side, but the premise was that each of us must seriously participate and cooperate with each other. If we can’t unite, a pig teammate is more terrible than 10 killers, so we shouldn’t be confused by the rules. It is only through winning that we can all live well.”
At this point Shen Mu’s words accelerated: “As for No. 8, if you vote him out just because you are afraid of death yourself, then that’s just extremely foolish. No. 8 has a 75% chance of being on the town side and we only have one opportunity to vote per day. By not finding the killers to end the game as quickly as possible and wasting your votes on the good people, are you really thinking that we are playing a normal card game?”After he finished saying his provocations, he glanced at Lin Huiru, “If he was a killer, could he decide who to kill by himself? If at the end we have a peaceful night, the game is not yet over, then No. 8 is the last killer! We have limited rounds, and we all want to find the truly threatening people as soon as possible, instead you want to vote out the least threatening player in the first round. I don’t believe that this is the line of thought of someone innocent. Player No. 1 must be one of the killers, and this can also explain why No. 7 was the person who was killed last night.”
Shen Mu had prepared his speech, speaking quickly, nearly but not quite exceeding the time limit. Regarding the question of the rules, if he didn’t say it himself, Yang Ge or Song Yue behind him would bring it up, so it’d be better to explain it first and gain other people’s trust.
The 3 in front of Shen Mu changed back to silver, and No. 4 Yang Ge began to speak: “It’s finally my turn, and there are only two people behind me. After listening to this round of speeches, I already have a tentative judgment in my heart.”
Yang Ge turned to Li Xuesong, and sincerely said: “Although you doubt me, I believe that after killing your own sister, you couldn’t pretend to be broken-hearted. I am an innocent. I hope that you can believe me since we must not have internal strife.”
Yang Ge went on to say: “No. 1 ’s speech was really bad. I am a player with no abilities so I don’t know her identity, but I have known her for many years. She had the same temperament even in high school, and she isn’t good at playing games like this. Therefore I’d like to ask the police to check her tonight. If she is a killer, we can vote her out tomorrow. If she is innocent, it gives her a chance to survive as a poor speaker. If the police don’t believe me, they can also check me, but I don’t think it’s necessary to waste this attempt. I will prove that I’m innocent through my speech.”
“I completely approve of what No. 3 Shen Mu said. If we lose, no one will be spared. Regardless if the police didn’t come out today due to their own reasons, or if they were afraid of being eliminated first, they should definitely come out tomorrow. Two days of information; whether they have identified good people or killers, both are important pieces of information for us. As for who should be voted out today, we should eliminate the biggest suspect, No. 12.” Yang Ge’s sharp gaze stared towards Zhang Ji, “No. 12’s speech has distinct loopholes, ‘Because they must massacre all, the killers will not kill the police first’. This is false logic! The police are able to discover the identity of the killers, and no matter what, they are a threat to the killers!”
Yang Ge continued to analyze: “Since No. 12 followed the trend of Li Xuesong’s speech, then he was obviously trying to find the police, and he finally brought out No. 8 to divert our attention. None of these actions were done well, No. 12 is definitely a killer! Please believe me everyone. Vote out No. 12 today, and tomorrow the police can come out to report the information they’ve gathered within these two days. It isn’t difficult to win this game and if the police really don’t believe me, then you can also check me, but I don’t think it’s truly necessary, since I actually am innocent. The killers know this since I have spoken like this today, maybe I can’t even survive the night, so… ”
Yang Ge sincerely said: “Please believe me, us innocents must unite as one in order to win. I also hope that everyone can give Huiru another opportunity. The police should check her identity.”
Yang Ge finished his speech, and No. 5 Sun Jieqing began to speak.
At this time, Sun Jieqing no longer looked like he was a daze, seeming as though he was seriously pondering over Yang Ge’s words, and ultimately said, “The person next to me should be an innocent, I think there is nothing wrong with what he said. Today, I believe him temporarily, and if he isn’t dead tomorrow, I will reconsider it.”
Hearing this, Yang Ge couldn’t help smiling bitterly.
“But the older sister to my left.” Sun Jieqing lifted his gaze to look at No. 6 Song Yue, “You are really interesting. You made such a high-profile appearance yesterday, and you are still safe and sound today. And after a whole round of speeches, no one brought you to attention, so you must have an identity role.” Sun Jieqing said, and gave a definite nod.
Sun Jieqing ended his speech, and it was the turn of the last player, No. 6 Song Yue. No matter if it was yesterday’s round or today’s round of speeches, the last one to enter the stage was this young woman.
Song Yue looked at Sun Jieqing with a smile: “You think that I am a person with an identity, then what identity do you think I have?”
Sun Jieqing looked at Song Yue innocently, and tiredness seemed to have crept up after speaking.
Song Yue gave a profound look to Sun Jieqing before moving her eyes away, and said loudly: “In this current round, except for older brother No. 11 who is a good person, the identity of everyone else is still X! If we are voting out the worst speaker, No. 12’s speech was very poor, but maybe he doesn’t know how to play. Why are we not voting out No. 1 and giving No. 12 another chance tonight? En?”
Shen Mu: Is this Song Yue our fourth teammate? She seemed pretty shrewd, as the last speaker, not giving a definite target to vote and instead spreading the votes around…
Or could it be that she is a police officer and has already checked No. 12 Zhang Ji’s identity last night, finding him innocent?
Unexpectedly, Song Yue also said, “However, I heard that this little brother opened a fried chicken and milk tea shop and although you haven’t played before, you should still have heard of it? But these things are also uncertain, what are you guys looking at me for? I’m not a police officer, the police didn’t jump out before, you want to ask them about it?”
“I’m the last speaker, and since the majority of people want to vote out either No. 12 or No. 1, then I won’t mention any other candidates. But don’t you guys think, the killer is someone with a team and just now…who was it, I remember that little brothers, No. 9, No. 11 and No. 3 all suspect No. 1? Who else was it, No. 12? To say there were no killers out of them, would you believe it? On the contrary, only No. 4 brought up No. 12 and I believe that No. 4 is not No. 1’s killer teammate. After all, the killer team only needs one person to live to the end, and No. 4 didn’t necessarily need to become so eye-catching just to save No. 1. After all, with No. 1’s sister alive… he will probably drag the hind legs of the entire team.”
Song Yue chuckled after she finished speaking: “If little brother No. 4 is a killer and he made himself a focus point to rescue sister No. 1, then that’s quite touching too. I agree to give No. 1 a chance to be checked. Vote out No. 12 first.”
As soon as Song Yue’s words fell, Zhang Ji’s face became extremely ugly. If it wasn’t for the fact that he would violate the rules and receive the most severe punishment of being “erased”, he would have long been unable to control his emotions.
All players have finished speaking, the voting phase has started.
Shen Mu closed his eyes and entered contemplation: Although Song Yue ’s attitude attracted enmity, it made sense to analyze the logical proposal that No. 1 and No. 4 might be in a killer team together. In addition, Yang Ge’s speech was infectious, and the players Yang Ge, Sun Jieqing and Song Yue in the latter positions were all inclined to vote out No. 12, so the probability that No. 12 Zhang Ji would be voted out today was the highest.
Shen Mu pressed the voting button, everyone focusing their attention on the operation or were reflecting, except for No. 8 who was lying on the table with a sleepy face, not even touching his phone.
While everyone was nervously voting and waiting for the result, one person noticed the drowsiness of No. 8, and secretly produced misgivings in his heart. The original considerations regarding the operations tonight also added on to these new elements.
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