POSTED ON JANUARY 4, 2023 BY JACK RUSSELL

Quickly sufficient, the four-minute public chat time was over.

Scrumptious Wind Goose pressed the “8” key with out hesitation.

The receiver additionally shortly answered the telephone:

“Who’re you? What’s your id?”

Scrumptious Wind Goose requested instantly.

“I’m Dove, Power Falteration Faculty, and never a Prophet,” Dove responded shortly, “You’re the captain. Time is working out, so converse shortly. I’ll go in your command to Anderson.”

Scrumptious Wind Goose didn’t have a lot time to assume, however he already had a tough plan, “They placed on the villager function to remain defensive. So long as nobody dies by the subsequent evening, the harmless will win.”

His pondering step by step turned clear as he spoke, “However they’ll’t defend on a regular basis as a result of they may inevitably vote out three individuals. Then, on the subsequent day, somebody among the many eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh will use their talent. “

Furthermore, there was additionally the Idol Wizard bringing chaos into this recreation.

The Idol Wizard solely wanted to ensure that two individuals had been useless. On the identical time, the remaining wouldn’t need the Idol Wizard to win. Then, if the Idol Wizard disclosed his id and declared it the subsequent day, the opposite individuals should let the “survival goal” he named die to cease the Idol Wizard from profitable; on the identical time, the “dying goal” he declared couldn’t be executed.

The choice left can be to kill the Idol Wizard straight.

However it doesn’t matter what, so long as the Idol Wizard used his talent, it will result in dying.

Then, the Idol Wizard would nearly actually kill individuals on the primary evening to change sides. If the swap failed, he would possibly throw away his offensive stance and act defensively.

Nonetheless, so long as the Idol Wizard succeeded in killing individuals on the primary or second evening…on the newest on the third evening, there can be no less than two nights the place murders would occur.

There was no solution to shelter away this chance.

“If we go together with the harmless group, we will’t combat again and kill anybody. As soon as villagers are literally killed, we will’t kill individuals who have already got a kill depend to cease the opponent. That forces us to change sides…

“I don’t know if the seven ‘villagers’ on this spherical are actual or not. If Anderson is a wizard, I counsel killing No. 1 and No. 6 tonight. So long as we will get a villager useless, we are going to commit suicide and provides him the kill depend on the third evening. Then, that can full our mission.”

Time was working out.

With out hesitation, Dove dialed quantity 12.

Scrumptious Wind Goose realized that the best issue with this recreation was timing. Time was so tight that advanced logical pondering was nearly unimaginable. Moreover, it was laborious to persuade different individuals as a result of time was tight, and nobody would hear.

…Then, how will the voting go throughout the daytime tomorrow?

However at this second, Scrumptious Wind Goose noticed the lights of No. 8 and No. 12 lit.

He instantly felt a chill down his backbone.

Wanting on the dim runes of others, he appeared to see others wanting down at him indifferently.

Scrumptious Wind Goose realized one factor.

Among the many twelve individuals, it appeared solely three of them had a personal chat.

This meant that if somebody died tonight, they could have been uncovered!

Sadly, that was unavoidable. The killers couldn’t talk with one another at evening.

Scrumptious Wind Goose couldn’t modify his plan instantly.

He might solely look ahead to daybreak.

Quickly sufficient, the primary evening was over.

“Then, it’s daytime.”

Ike’s voice sounded: “Primary died final evening. He was murdered.

“Converse within the order of actions final evening: Twelfth, 9, Eighth, Eleventh, Sixth; the remaining didn’t act final evening. We’ll begin with quantity two at the moment. Your likelihood to talk is organized in numerical order.”

—That is dangerous.

It was completely different from what he had anticipated at the beginning. Even the individuals who don’t take motion will likely be introduced?

Scrumptious Wind Goose’s coronary heart sank.

Does this imply that the identities of the three of us are revealed on the primary day?

Longjing Tea, who watched the stay broadcast, sighed.

“—Outdated Goose, your mind energy continues to be missing…”

Annan couldn’t assist however shake his head as he muttered, “It’s not the tip. It will depend on the way you act.”

Scrumptious Wind Goose appears to understand one thing.

However he nonetheless couldn’t discover the crux of the issue.

The end result of this recreation doesn’t fall on the “wizards” however on “villagers”.

No. 12 was clearly greatly surprised for a number of seconds.

He didn’t appear to anticipate that he can be the primary to behave.

He hesitated.

Then, he instantly began to talk, “I’m the Prophet wizard. I didn’t reveal my id on the primary day. I examined on the seventh yesterday, and he’s certainly a Destruction Wizard, not an Idol Wizard.”

…What?

Scrumptious Wind Goose was greatly surprised.

—Fantastic!

Though this speech was not top-notch, it salvaged the scenario somewhat.

Then it was quantity 9’s flip to talk, “I’m the precise Prophet Wizard! I examined quantity 8 final evening. He’s an Power Falteration Wizard. They’ve negotiated beforehand! Let’s first vote for imposter quantity 12 at the moment and vote for quantity 8 tomorrow! I noticed the third and eighth having a dialog. So, we are going to vote third out on the fourth day. I’ve already made preparations for you all. Cross!”

Then, it was adopted by Dove.

She stated totally, “Quantity 9 is flawed. I’m not an Power Falteration Wizard. After all, I’m not a Prophet Wizard both.

“—I’m a villager.”

The corners of Annan’s mouth turned upward.

It was Dove who reacted first.

Dove stated calmly, “From the first to the sixth, the sixth villager claims will shield them, however I could also be killed as a lone villager. Thus, I’ve claimed to be a Prophet Wizard. At the moment, there was no Prophet Wizard. Clearly, I’ve to put on that hat. On the identical time, we’ve quantity 7, the actual Prophet Wizard, to carry out the verification in order to stop him from pretending to be the Destruction Wizard as an Idol Wizard to mess up the voting.

“Quantity 9 goes towards me after I declare to be the Prophet Wizard. Nonetheless, as an alternative of voting me out, he voted for the actual Prophet Wizard quantity 12 first. I think he intends to kill me, an actual villager, tonight. Now, he’s mendacity about his id. Due to this fact, I suggest to forged your vote to execute quantity 9 at the moment. Cross.”

The corners of Annan’s mouth rose barely.

Though there have been nonetheless many flaws with Dove’s speech, she was fairly alert in comparison with Scrumptious Wind Goose simply because she had by no means performed Werewolf.

Dove efficiently disrupted all the primary three speeches, creating doubts that ruined their credibility. Those that converse later should decide a facet and supply new info and concepts. In any other case, it will be deadlocked.

There was an apparent distinction between the rule of this nightmare and Werewolf.

That was as a result of villagers might hardly kill anybody and couldn’t act. Thus, they had been mainly thought to be harmless individuals.

In different phrases, villagers with out expertise had a better social standing than wizards with expertise.

In spite of everything, this was not a [killing game] that centered on logical interpretation and hiding id.

It was a [War Game] that centered on incitement with [killing game] as a disguise in its look.

It could have a transparent dividing line. Earlier than the dying of the second corpse, everybody tended to be defensive; after the second corpse appeared, everybody else would are likely to kill.

Beneath strategic deterrence, nobody would act rashly. Whoever acted first can be the goal of the general public.

But when everybody began to behave, those that had not acted would develop into “sheep”. At the moment, everybody needed to change sides with blood on their palms to keep away from being persecuted. The scenario would instantly develop into chaotic.

To forestall the “wolves” from consuming extra “sheep” and turning into fats, villagers should be protected. Right now, villagers had the best standing card. Nonetheless, after the struggle broke out, the sheep can be eaten within the shortest time. By then, the villager function was probably the most harmful card once more.

The victory situation of this recreation didn’t lie in the best way to conceal one’s personal id or the best way to see via the id of others.

It was about how individuals with ulterior motives might disrupt others and the way individuals who needed to take care of order might persuade everybody to be rational.

It was about the best way to management individuals’s hearts and the best way to set off momentum.

In different phrases, the best way to instigate and cease a struggle.

So, this was a ritual about “struggle”.