Chapter 581
The Test of Rules
"reason."
The white fox youth's expression didn't change in the slightest when he heard that the questioning had failed.
Instead, he calmly asked the question to the beautiful woman in the center of the round table.
Surprisingly, the beautiful woman's head actually spoke.
"Fact check - Sika deer, now 27 years old, when she was 8 years old, a level 3 fire broke out in the residential building where her home was located. The surveillance footage shows that after the fire brigade arrived, she and the neighbor's child left the corridor together with the firefighters' voice guidance. It was not that one party 'independently rescued' the other. The statement contains objective exaggeration."
"Conclusion - Using lies as leverage, but containing false elements, complies with the rules, therefore the challenge fails."
After saying that, the neutral chips that the young man with the white fox had bet on disappeared from the spot like melting snow.
Miss Sika Deer also discovered that a neutral chip had appeared out of nowhere in the dome that could only be seen from her direction.
According to the game rules, the betting chips used by the opponent when they fail to raise an objection will be transferred to her.
This brought a smile to Miss Sika Deer's face.
But the beautiful woman's remarks as the referee made everyone's expressions quite interesting.
This is actually allowed?
The young man with the white fox nodded and said calmly, "Objectively speaking, it seems that the game's judgment does not take into account our normal thinking logic. It emphasizes objective facts. Even if Ms. Sika Deer is speaking according to her true thoughts from her memory, and she thinks she is telling the truth, from an objective point of view, the presence of false content in her statement can be considered a lie. The judgment is very rigid."
He analyzed the situation as if he weren't the one who had lost the stakes.
“Being rigid means having many loopholes. Is that what you were really thinking?” Wu Wang’s voice suddenly appeared and teased.
The other party slowly turned their gaze back to Wu Wang.
His tone was as flat and emotionless as a robot's: "Indeed, rigidity means that traps can be created. Mr. Black Crow, from the beginning I felt that your sensitivity to the environment far exceeded that of ordinary people. You are a born criminal, and you may even have a criminal record. A fraudster? Of course, I mean before you became a player."
Everyone immediately turned their attention to Wu Wang.
After becoming a player of the Calamity, most of them have more or less stained their hands with blood, and their attitude towards the law becomes quite disdainful, even regarding it as something dispensable.
However, what the young man from the white fox was referring to was clearly the closed beta phase, and he already had a history of such behavior before becoming a player of the Spirit Disaster.
There aren't that many people like that.
Wu Wang raised an eyebrow and grinned, "Don't put it so harshly. What fraudster? It's just a wrongful conviction. I'm just an ordinary person who's better at... creatively stating facts."
He has indeed been arrested and taken to the police station more than once for various abstract matters, both big and small.
He even cheated the scammer out of several hundred yuan in phone credit when he received the scam call. When the police were investigating the case, they almost arrested Wu Wang as an accomplice.
He certainly won't explain anything to everyone now.
But the more this is the case, the greater the threat Wu Wang poses in the eyes of others.
Creatively stating facts?
Damn it! Isn't this just lying?!
Suddenly, everyone's expressions changed.
After all, in this game called the game of lies, isn't a fraudster a game of overwhelming odds?
This is totally their comfort zone!
"Putting aside who I was before, your penchant for analyzing others seems like an occupational hazard," Wu Wang said, raising an eyebrow. "A cop? Or a psychologist or something?"
Everyone was speechless after hearing his words.
Police...
You're not going to hide your criminal record at all, are you? Why would a normal person address a police officer like that?
"It's just a survival strategy. Obviously, in this game, the player's character information is the most crucial element, as it's the best way to determine if you're lying," the other person said calmly.
Miss Sika Deer blushed slightly.
After all, her true intentions were seen through at first glance.
It's obvious that the other party is not on the same level as me at all.
"Oh? Survival strategy? Well, you're quite generous with your survival strategy, using a neutral chip to buy a piece of rule information." Wu Wang joked, "You clearly saw that I wanted to question it, right? Why did you have to do it yourself?"
Now everyone else is just like a bystander watching the show.
His gaze then turned to the white fox youth.
The other party simply said, "I was afraid your questions wouldn't be on the right track, but it seems my worries were unnecessary."
Yes, the moment he threw out the chip, he actually saw Wu Wang reach into the cover.
Both of them noticed something was off about each other.
The two exchanged such heated words in their very first round of speeches that the other players around them looked at each other in bewilderment.
At the same time, an idea popped into my head—
"Oh no! We've accidentally entered a high-level game!"
goo goo-
Just as the atmosphere among the players was becoming somewhat awkward.
The beautiful woman in the center of the round table was making gurgling sounds, as if she were shuffling mahjong tiles.
The next second, she suddenly turned her head towards the white fox youth and spat out a topic card.
It was obvious that it was his turn to speak.
Unlike Miss Deer, the young man from the white fox didn't seem to care whether there was saliva on the card. He simply picked up the topic card casually, as if he were taking out a tissue to wipe his mouth, and flipped it over.
Please describe your occupation and field of expertise.
Oh? That's exactly the point I just mentioned!
The expressions on everyone's faces immediately became interesting, and they quickly pricked up their ears to listen to what the white fox youth had to say.
He slowly pushed out a neutral chip and began to speak:
"I am a PhD in psychology."
"Before becoming a player, I was a senior member of APA and held a senior researcher position in a professional research institute."
"The research includes ten branches of psychology, including experimental psychology, clinical psychology, and behavioral psychology."
These words brought joy to some and sorrow to others.
What's worrying is that this game is clearly in the opponent's comfort zone, not to mention there's someone present who can guess their profession and whose professional skills are comparable to theirs.
The good news is that the game has become more fun.
Of course, only one person was happy, and I won't say who it was.
Snapped--
Just then, a red lie chip was thrown onto the table.
"question!"
Surprisingly, the one who raised the doubts was not the Black Crow as many had expected.
Instead, it was the seemingly reckless and impulsive Tiger Brother.
He grinned and said, "I feel something's not right. I think you're just going to follow up on what Brother Black Crow said earlier, trying to make us think he's right, so you can keep solidifying your identity as a psychologist and put pressure on us."
"After all, it's easier for anyone to slip up when lying in front of a psychologist."
"I think you're lying!"
Now that you mention it...
That seems to make sense?
But not many.
Based on their current performance, even if this young man with the white fox isn't a real psychologist, the threat he and Black Crow pose is enough to put pressure on the others in the game. However, the beautiful head in the center of the round table spoke up: "Question successful."
This time, before anyone else could ask for the reason, she explained herself: "Fact check - Mr. White Fox is a PhD in psychology, whose research areas include ten branches of psychology such as behavioral economics. He has served as a researcher at many institutions, but his senior researcher title was revoked due to the termination of the last project. As of the time the record exists, his status should be that of a psychology consultant at the research institute."
"Conclusion - The current status of senior researcher is fraudulent, the use of neutral leverage to guess the authenticity of the language violates the rules, and the questioning is successful."
This explanation caused everyone's expressions to turn strange.
In other words, the young man from the White Fox is indeed a PhD in psychology, and he told the truth for most of what he said just now. No one present saw through his lie hidden in his final senior researcher position.
Even the tiger brother who raised the question didn't expect that he had simply stumbled upon the truth and pointed out that the other party's words were lies.
Under the cover in front of the young man with the white fox, a blue truth-telling chip silently disappeared and was transferred to Brother Tiger's side.
"Well... as the saying goes, good people are always blessed." Brother Tiger scratched the back of his head somewhat awkwardly.
Regardless, just admit you didn't win!
The process was completely wrong, but the result was correct.
This coincidence made everyone a little nervous.
Even though the young man with the white fox was the first to lose his truth-telling chip, he didn't seem flustered. He just looked at everyone's expressions and seemed to be thinking about something.
Wu Wang's sleazy voice naturally followed.
“Brilliant, Doctor, you’re using leverage to buy information again.”
"What was tested this time? Was it the system's judgment of neutral stakes? Or its level of understanding of the real world?"
His words stunned the already tense crowd.
Is this another intelligence-buying scheme? Isn't this just bad luck for the other side?
In response, the young man with the white fox said, "Not only that, there are other people's questioning patterns. For example, this Mr. Tiger, he relies only on superficial contradictions rather than logical analysis. Chips that cannot match intelligence will eventually flow back to the market. Let's just temporarily leave that truth chip with him. Compared to that, what I'm actually more concerned about is..."
Why don't you question me?
The spearhead was directly aimed at Wu Wang.
Wu Wang was not surprised by this situation.
He knew from the beginning that this young man with the white fox was no ordinary person.
Because his [Sight of Truth] couldn't see the other player's ID and level.
Wu Wang could actually see the player IDs and levels of the players next to him, beyond their tags. Miss Sika Deer was indeed an unlucky girl, just as Miss Cuckoo had said.
Because she is only level 18.
It's obvious that they didn't actively enter this special instance to compete for it.
Besides, even that reckless idiot is a level 25 player.
To be honest, sometimes there's not much difference between seeing and not seeing, because you can still identify the other person.
Throughout the entire game, Wu Wang felt that the number of players who could prevent the [Sight of Truth] from seeing through information could probably be counted on two hands, including the fortune teller who was like a reclusive master.
Moreover, their strength is at least at the level of Qin Shusheng and the witch, which is only slightly inferior to Qinglong.
In addition, this guy's face is really handsome and very distinctive.
The words "Little Li" that the witch uttered in the Wanbao Tower still seemed to echo in my ears.
The young man with the white fox is very likely the master of the Tower of Order!
I've actually run into this myself!
However, judging from the current situation, the other party does not seem to have realized that he is Yan Shuangying.
He was simply facing himself as if he were playing against a high-IQ player.
“Because I’m appreciating your teaching,” Wu Wang grinned. “You used neutral chips to make a technically incorrect statement. Title status is an easily verifiable fact. This shows that you are testing the database depth of this instance on the players present, or rather, on the real world.”
"If someone questions you, and you succeed, it means that the Thousand Machine Trial has a very detailed database of the real world. Basically, no fact that can be objectively verified can be hidden from it. If you fail, it means that it cannot thoroughly verify some details, and it can use this scope to set traps for people to speak in a deliberate manner."
After listening to their conversation.
Tiger, who had initially thought he had luckily won a truth-telling chip, suddenly found himself sweating profusely.
He asked instinctively, "What if no one questions it?"
In response, Wu Wang squinted and said, "No, there will definitely be people who question it. To understand the bottom line of this game, you have to question it. If we don't take advantage of having more chips in our hands to figure out the rules now, are we going to wait until we have nothing to start thinking?"
"If you don't have any doubts, then it really is my turn. It's a pity, but I guess I'll just have to consider it as losing out on a good friend's honesty."
For a moment, everyone felt immense pressure.
Even considering the current situation, the one who suffered the most severe losses was the young man from White Fox. After only two people spoke, he lost two neutral chips and one truth chip.
But everyone knew very well that this was only temporary.
Once the other party has roughly figured out the rules.
It seems the time is about to come when they will reap the benefits from these normal people.
Suddenly, everyone felt that having another smart person like Black Crow wasn't so bad.
At least, two smart people can put up a fight against each other, so they won't be led by the nose by one person from beginning to end.
“Very well, so it seems that all the information we had before becoming a Calamity player cannot be hidden from the game’s detection. The fact that I was demoted from senior researcher due to the project’s termination happened the night before I became a Calamity player. Its database is very comprehensive.” The white fox youth said calmly, “Our background is almost transparent.”
Then, before anyone could say anything more...
The beautiful woman's head on the round table began to spin again.
This time, she aimed at Wu Wang, who had a bright smile on his face.
call--
A topic card was spat out in front of Wu Wang.
He casually flipped it open, letting everyone see the words on it—
Please describe your biggest personality flaw.
Oh? That's an interesting topic.
A person's personality can change, especially after experiencing a completely different life before and after becoming a player of the Necropolis.
According to the game rules, the content of the speech must be something that happened before becoming a player of the Calamity.
In this situation, it would be even more difficult to distinguish between a lie and the truth.
brush--
Wu Wang threw out a white neutral chip.
"My biggest character flaw is that I am too kind and too compassionate."
"I can't bear to see others suffer, especially when I see smart people fall and get bruised because of their arrogance. I can't help but want to lend a hand. I believe there will always be people who remember my good deeds."
Everyone: "..."
Okay, actually it's not that hard to tell.
You're so kind, my foot! (End of Chapter)