Prison Island

Chapter 42 Cowardice
Meimei's idea is too idealistic.

There was no need to even talk to the Viking gang. Everyone rejected the idea outright. They would never sacrifice Gao Xin.

And who knows, maybe the Viking gang wants to kill all of them.

However, the glass man of the servant team fell into deep thought.

Gao Xin looked at him: "What are you thinking about?"

A curly-haired boy shook his head and said, "Nothing... I was thinking about the invitation vote, what do you think?"

"Everyone must vote unanimously, otherwise they will have to fight the other side. The defending side can only send out the glass man, which means they will lose."

"It can be said that the invitation letter voting is the only 'shield' for each camp."

"Black attacks first. I'm sure the invitation will arrive soon. What do you think it will be like?"

Dongfang Yi smiled and said, "No matter what kind it is, the important thing about the invitation letter voting is that everyone chooses the same thing."

"But since we voted alone and couldn't communicate, we could only agree on an abstract strategy in advance."

"Well... let's agree to vote for the biggest option... three short and one long, choose the longest one."

Everyone was ashamed, this was too casual.

However, Gao Xin smiled and said, "Good idea, let's do it."

The curly-haired boy was confused: "No, what do you mean by three short and one long, choose the longest one? What if the options are the same length?"

Dongfang Yi rolled his eyes and said, "If the characters have the same number of strokes, just look at the strokes and choose the one with the most strokes."

"Ah? I only have ten seconds to choose. What if I can't count?" the curly-haired boy said nervously.

Gao Xin smiled and said, "If you can't tell them apart even with a stroke, then you should think about its content and choose the option that feels 'bigger'."

"Dongfang Yi is talking about an abstract concept, do you understand? In short, choose longer, more, higher, bigger, stronger..."

Everyone nodded. They understood it, but it still felt easy to make mistakes.

They wanted to discuss it further when suddenly there was a ding-dong sound.

The round table projection prompts that the invitation letter for the first round of duel for the Black side has been sent, and everyone in the White side’s base must enter the voting room within one minute.

The countdown has begun.

Boy, they had no time to discuss.

Gao Xin said, "Hurry up and go upstairs to vote... Listen, after you vote, we will start the rebellion and make Da Hammer defect first."

"Also, if the vote fails, you don't have to choose a gladiator, you can just come out directly."

The curly-haired boy shouted, "There are only two options in the first round. Why make it so complicated? Why don't we just choose the first one? No matter what option it is, just choose the first one."

Gao Xin and the others all laughed. Dongfang Yi was about to explain...

Xing Shiping turned around and said to his partner, "Brother, it's impossible. As long as the organizer is not stupid, the order of the options in the invitation letter they sent to us must be different."

"Otherwise, if everyone chooses the first one and always agrees, wouldn't that be absolute defense?"

The curly-haired boy suddenly realized that the countdown was already coming to an end.

"Go and vote!" Gao Xin's team acted decisively and rushed to the second floor.

The others followed immediately. There were twenty-five people in the room, and there were only ten of them. They could just choose one to enter.

Soon everyone entered the voting room and the door locked automatically.

Gao Xin checked the door and found that it couldn't be opened at all. It seemed that he had to submit the invitation letter before he could open it.

Then a projection appeared in the room and began playing the content of the invitation letter.

"Join the Black Team and allow five of you to survive to the end."

It played very quickly because the content of the invitation was too brief, just one sentence, but it was still intended to sow discord.

And the options immediately appeared below, which were two projected images.

One is a square and the other is a circle.

Looks like the same size.

No words, no description, just these two graphics.

After the options are listed, there will be a countdown and you will only have ten seconds to make a choice.

Gao Xin raised his eyebrows: "Amazing, it looks like we're going to fail in the first round."

They all guessed the question, but none of them were correct.

Gao Xin thought about it and chose the square.

Soon, the results came out.

"The votes are inconsistent. The only person who can be chosen as a gladiator in three minutes is the Man of Glass."

The projection immediately displayed the portraits of all the people in the white base. Just click on one to vote.

All the members of their white team are glass men, so all of them are on the list.

Gao Xin curled his lips. Sure enough, someone made the wrong choice.

He smiled slightly and said directly: "Launch a rebellion."

Waited for a while.

The screen for selecting fighters suddenly shrank and retreated, and was replaced by the avatars of the 19 members of the opposing black team, and even their names.

Only then did Gao Xin know that the man with the sledgehammer was named Louis and the woman with twin ponytails was named Sophia.

No need to think about it, everything has been discussed, just choose Louis.

After waiting for a while, Gao Xin saw that the rebellion was successful, so he opened the door and went out.

Dongfang Yi and Qiao Long had also finished their work, and soon the others came out one after another.

As soon as Suler came out, he shouted, "Damn it, there are no words!"

Meimei asked him, "What did you choose?"

"Square. Even though there are no words on it, just an image, I thought 'square' has three words, and I chose it since it has the most words," Suler said.

Meimei nodded: "I chose a square, too."

Su Le was fine, so there was no need to look at anyone else. She looked directly at Xing Shiping from the servant team.

Xing Shiping also looked over and frowned gloomily, "What did you choose?"

Meimei grinned: "Square, there will be no problem for the five of us. Whoever chose the circle, please stand up."

Xing Shiping looked depressed and turned around to talk to his teammates.

All four of them shook their heads and said they chose the square.

"joke!"

Dongfang Yi couldn't help but ask: "Do you think I made the wrong choice?"

Xing Shiping said solemnly: "Who knows? There is no standard answer. Maybe your people chose the wrong one. Anyway, I chose the square." Meimei said angrily: "How is it possible?"

Then he stared at the curly-haired boy and said, "Hey, didn't you choose the wrong one? The first one was round, did you stupidly choose the first one?"

The curly-haired boy looked confused, "Huh? I did choose the first one, but the first one is a square."

Meimei was stunned. Sure enough, the order was messed up.

"This is the wrong person." Gao Xin walked over and stared at a muscular man behind him. The man had a square face and looked righteous.

But Gao Xin could tell at a glance that he was lying.

Seeing Gao Xin staring at him, the square-faced man was stunned: "What?"

Gao Xin said with a stern look in his eyes: "If you just admit that you made the wrong choice, it won't be a big deal. After all, the other party is very good at playing. The first question is so difficult, so it's understandable that you made the wrong choice."

"But you clearly chose the wrong one but you refused to admit it. Are you trying to help the other team?"

"It's not too late for you to admit it now!"

The square-faced man was stunned.

Qiao Long patted him on the shoulder and said, "If you are wrong, it is wrong. I won't blame you. Everyone should be honest."

"They deliberately put 'joining the black team' in the invitation letter in order to shake us up."

"But think about it, if even the ten of us glass men can't unite, do you really expect to cooperate with the radiators on the other side?"

Hearing this, the square-faced man seemed to sober up a little: "I..."

Xing Shiping realized that he was lying, so he went over and hugged him, "Brother, don't be confused. If you choose round, then choose round. I actually chose round too!"

Hearing him say this, the square-faced man finally admitted: "I, I did choose the round shape, but I really didn't mean to do that."

Meimei asked, "Hey, why did you choose round?"

The square-faced man felt wronged: "What did you say was longer, more, bigger, higher, stronger..."

"When I saw the circle, I thought of the Earth. I wondered how big the Earth was, so I chose it."

Everyone was speechless; this was too abstract.

Sulerdu complained: "Oh my god, why don't you think it looks like a ping-pong ball?"

The square-faced man said in frustration, "No, there are only two shapes. How can I tell which one is bigger in such a short time?"

Su Le asked Xing Shiping again: "Then Xing Shiping...why did you choose Yuan?"

Xing Shiping said in a muffled voice: "I didn't choose the round one... Didn't you say to choose the longest one at the beginning?"

"When a square and a circle have the same area, the perimeter of the square is longer."

"I just said I chose Yuan on purpose so that my brother can relax a little. Don't lie."

The square-faced man looked at Xing Shiping pitifully, tears streaming down his face: "Brother Xing, I'm sorry, what should we do now? We have to choose a gladiator to die."

For a moment, many servant glass men became panicked.

There was inconsistency in the voting for the first round of invitations, and they, as the dueling party, had to send out a glass man.

Dongfang Yi rolled his eyes and said, "Why choose? Just admit defeat."

The curly-haired boy said, "Will surrender work? Don't the rules say that we must fight to the death?"

Gao Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "We don't have to fight. Gladiators must fight to the death, so why don't we just not select any gladiators?"

"Huh?" the curly-haired boy said in surprise, "But the rules say that the gladiators must be sent out within three minutes. You must!"

Gao Xin smiled and said, "It is necessary. So what is the price?"

The curly-haired boy was stunned and hurriedly looked at Xing Shiping's notebook to review the rules.

Indeed, the price is not a single kill.

If the invitation vote is inconsistent, it will be deemed as acceptance of the duel, and the base must send a glass man to become a gladiator to participate in the battle within three minutes. Violators will automatically be counted as the loser of the duel.

It is 'automatically counted as a defeat in this duel', and 'the defeated camp will deduct 1 health point'.

Gao Xin said: "In this game, you can change camps. It was also stated at the beginning that the 'initial allocation' requires at least five glass men."

"That is to say, you may be in a situation where you have no glass men to send out during the game. What should you do if you don't have glass men? You can just lose blood directly."

"The rules clearly mention the killing, which are: The gladiators are decided by a vote of all members, and the one with the highest number of votes must enter the arena within one minute, otherwise they will be killed."

"So I ask you, if the vote fails, don't vote for the gladiator, just come out directly after the rebellion..."

"And didn't I say it before? I can bring all the glass people alive. If the glass people must die, then what else can I say?"

The curly-haired boy then realized that he could be a cowardly lizard!

Only gladiators have no way out and must fight to the death.

However, Xing Shiping's eyes narrowed: "Really? Do you really want the glass man on the other side to survive?"

Gao Xin nodded and said, "In theory, it is possible. Although it is difficult, we should prioritize working in this direction. As long as everyone cooperates, we can do it."

Xing Shiping stopped talking immediately.

"Hey..." Meimei opened her mouth and was about to ask him something.

Gao Xin held Meimei down, then said with a smile: "Okay, stop talking nonsense. We admit defeat in the first round, and we will fight back in the second round."

"Once the fight is over, we will send out the invitations. Now we should think about the content."

"Xing Shiping, what option do you think is better?"

Xing Shiping raised his head: "The first option given by the other party was very abstract. A square and a circle, it's hard to choose."

"We can upgrade them based on theirs."

"For example, if you project three equilateral triangles, one is a regular triangle, one is an inverted triangle, and one is slanted. They are all exactly the same, except for the angles."

Gao Xin praised: "Wow, this is very good!"

Dongfang Yi, Qiao Long and others were also surprised. This was truly amazing.

If the opponent scrambles the order, how can they choose? Unless they have guessed the question in advance. Otherwise, no matter whether they have agreed in advance to choose big or small, strong or weak, or dry or wet, there is no way to distinguish.

"Sure, I didn't think of that." Dongfang Yi agreed.

Qiao Long nodded, and no one else objected.

Xing Shiping said calmly: "I like mathematics. When it comes to abstraction, the first thing that comes to mind is geometric figures."

Gao Xin smiled and patted Xing Shiping's shoulder: "Okay, let's make sure it's this."

"When the time comes to send out invitations, you will be responsible for editing them."

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ps: Sorry.

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