Deceitful Game

Chapter 254 Infinite Train

"That little girl is quite interesting."

Mingpo slowly searched through the items, a slight smile playing on her lips: "Liao Tinglan..."

He slowly uttered the girl's name and memorized it in his heart.

If she manages to get back alive, we can keep an eye on her.

So naive, so righteous. Possessing a strange undertone that is completely out of step with the times.

But the most ironic thing is... that such a person could actually get here.

The fact that she was able to enter the Deception Game indicates that she was mistakenly killed by other Deceptionists.

There are two possibilities.

One possibility is that she became a mining machine for the company and was mass-produced and executed in a specific room.

It's like harvesting rice. But it doesn't seem like it; she had no determination to enter the deception game, nor any relevant knowledge. Another possibility... she was mistakenly killed by an agent.

After all, the prosthetic body of the escaped mining machine has been locked, so it basically has no ability to kill.

For ordinary people, just encountering a secret agent is already quite remarkable. To be killed is even more extraordinary.

Mingpo and Ai Shiping were killed because Gao Fan, the company's heir, almost committed suicide in front of them.

From this perspective, these "wrongfully deceased" were not "wrongfully deceased" at all. To become a wrongfully deceased person, if it wasn't a mining machine, then they must have done something wrong.

The agents never leave the company. If you encounter an agent outside the company, it means that they have returned from the future.

The fact that she was able to become a wrongfully killed person indicates that she was not the one who attracted the agents.

The fact that she could be killed by an agent who traveled back in time means that someone close to her did something extremely dangerous, potentially even threatening the company's future dominance. After killing that "dangerous person," they also eliminated him... or everyone around her.

This is equivalent to executing nine or even ten generations of a family.

Since she is an orphan, this person must not be her parents.

How could such a rebellious and dangerous person be by the side of such an obedient and well-behaved child?

Mingpo even made a special attempt to probe.

If she were wanted by the company, she should have been terrified when Mingpo offered to put her in her department. But she was clearly delighted… which suggests she didn't know why the company wanted to kill her. It also couldn't be the company's mining rig.

She had absolutely no animosity towards the company and probably didn't even know how she died.

What does this mean?

This means that there is some kind of secret hidden around her.

If Mingpo follows her, she might very well find some kind of force that could overthrow the company!

Of course... this also means that Mingpo could die as a result.

But so what?

Anyway, they've already been killed once.

If it weren't for the protection of that young master named Gao Fan, they would have been dead long ago.

If you can use this "second life" to overturn something you don't like... that would be quite a bargain.

This is probably what "waste utilization" means.

As Mingpo was thinking this, her hands suddenly stopped moving.

It was a blue part.

A component consisting of three metal strips perpendicular to each other at ninety degrees.

"...I feel like this thing could be used as barbed wire."

Mingpo complained, "How am I supposed to take this?"

He fiddled with the part, wondering if he should go back to the chair to get a bag to put his things in.

But then they suddenly discovered that in the rest room of carriage number eight... there was someone with a very low profile.

Or rather, he wasn't even a "person".

It was a blurry humanoid shape made of white mist.

In front of him was a round table, and opposite him was a stool. The figure sat quietly on the sofa, his hands on the table, his fingertips forming a stable triangle in front of him.

He made no movement and showed no temperature reaction, so he was not locked onto by Mingpo's prosthetic eye at all.

His prosthetic left eye misted the person. The defogging function even nearly obscured it. It was only with Mingpo's other eye that a strange white mist could be vaguely discerned.

Noticing Mingpo's gaze, the faceless mist figure turned slightly and uttered an ethereal voice:

Want to play a round?

As it spoke, it politely gestured towards the table.

"…Sorry, I don't have any money."

Mingpo politely shook her head.

If he had some chips, he could really play a game with this guy. Anyway, he's got nothing better to do now.

But he didn't get any chips from Liao Tinglan, so he couldn't play a round.

The other party simply nodded slightly.

It did not comment on or force anything about Mingpo, but simply stated:

We'll meet again someday.

As soon as it finished speaking, the figure vanished.

Immediately afterwards, the door in front of Mingpo suddenly opened.

Originally, there was a bright yellow "8" written inside that door.

Now, it has become "9".

The entire world inside was like a building block, shattered into countless pieces, then rotating and coming back together to form a completely new corridor.

Mingpo raised an eyebrow and slowly approached the door with interest.

Through the open door, he saw that the structure inside carriage number nine had become quite unfamiliar.

Just as Mingpo was about to walk inside, the communicator hanging on his waist rang, emitting a piercing beeping sound.

Mingbo took it down and saw that there was a "1" on the number that was glowing.

He clicked "connect," and Mo Qian's somewhat distorted voice came from the other side.

"We've found our first mission point. The navigator's here, everyone come take a look... Remember to bring the blue part." "Which carriage?"

Mingpo asked.

Upon hearing this, the other party paused for a moment.

"...Number Seven. Where are you?"

"Number Nine".

Mingpo narrowed his eyes and smiled meaningfully: "It seems you've already found a way to get into the next carriage."

"Yes, I completed the game myself."

Mo Qian's voice rose a few decibels, clearly quite pleased with himself: "It's just a five-tiered Tower of Hanoi, I solved it in less than a minute. And that's only because I forgot the formula."

"That's pretty impressive."

Minpo smiled.

Upon hearing this, a thought began to form in his mind.

So this is what mini-games are...?

It seems there's still room for players with high intelligence in this game.

Simply analyzing the rules of the game doesn't necessarily make you that smart.

To win, one must either follow Liao Tinglan's plan... but one must possess exceptional leadership skills to command this group of strangers who know each other very well.

Either you can see through other people's pretense and lies, and at the same time, you must have enough strength to defeat them.

Pure intelligence seems to have nothing to do with the game itself.

Now... Mingpa knows where these people's comfort zone is.

These are the "Fog Man Mini-Games" scattered throughout the various carriages.

Once you find them... whether you play the game with them or just give up, you can enter the next carriage. Of course, it's also possible that the mini-game on the other side has already been completed, which is why the blockade to enter Gate 9 has been lifted.

The number of carriages that can be explored has increased.

At that point, the players should disperse.

If it's just a communicator...

Thinking this, Mingpo turned around and walked away.

He saw Liao Tinglan standing motionless in front of a cabinet, so he gently patted the back of her head, gesturing for her to follow. Without explaining, Mingpo walked ahead. Liao Tinglan instinctively followed behind Mingpo, pushing open the door behind her. But then, they both froze for a moment.

Because when he pushed open the door, what he saw was not "the previous carriage, number eight, where they were born".

Instead, it was carriage number seven, which they had never entered before!

At that moment, the door behind Mingpo opened again.

"Hopefully we're not too late... huh?"

Ai Shiping was also taken aback for a moment when he saw Mingpo there.

In his mind, Mingpo should be in a carriage further ahead. How could she have gone straight into carriage seven without passing through their carriage eight?

Soon, Mingpo and Ai Shiping both understood the rules governing the movement of the infinite carriages.

As long as they don't open the door to carriage number nine, they can continue moving forward and move through an infinite number of "carriages number eight". But if they go back one carriage, they will directly enter the previous carriage... and vice versa.

So, the next ones to increase in value will likely be carriages nine and seven. Only after they find the Fog People in their respective carriages will they be able to open the paths to carriages ten and six.

The rules are easy to understand, but...

...What is the significance of the host setting this rule?

Mingpo sensed a slight unease and fell into deep thought.