Deceitful Game

Chapter 112 The Battle Between Deceivers

"Okay, thank you."

The Red Queen beer smiled as she took it from the clerk, pulled the tab, and drank it straight down.

After taking a few sips, she said lightly, "Is the previous matter resolved? Do you need me to help you with anything?"

"...The captain has already taken care of everything."

Since they were in public, Gao Fan couldn't be too explicit.

That's really great.

The Red Queen exclaimed, "What a united team!"

She turned back to Gao Fan with a smile and asked, "But didn't you say... you didn't like the team led by the Domain of Slaughter?"

Gao Fan was trembling all over.

Mingpo also realized why Gao Fan was so afraid of the other party.

This "Red Queen" clearly belongs to the Domain of Slaughter!

A Moon Silver in the Realm of Slaughter!

"Um...can I ask?"

Ai Shiping spoke again, breaking the somewhat awkward and stiff atmosphere.

He looked at me with curiosity, his eyes as clear as a child's: "Does someone as important as you need to hire team members from outside?" "Ah, yes."

The Red Queen smiled and nodded: "Our original 'guide' was a 'lucky navigator.' You don't understand yet, 'lucky' is a very important prefix. Only truly lucky people can obtain it."

"And once this prefix is ​​present, it's as if 'that stroke of luck' has been solidified."

"In lower-level games, skill plays a significant role. But in higher-level games, 'death without reason' becomes more common. Because at that point, luck itself is also a skill."

"...That sounds very illogical."

Ai Shiping thought for a moment, then shook his head: "Isn't that just randomly eliminating a group of people?"

"Is it really that simple?"

The Red Queen smiled enigmatically.

She reached out, picked up a piece of horse meat, dipped it in soy sauce, and put it in her mouth.

"For example... I came here and met you all. Isn't that a kind of luck?"

She said meaningfully, "As people who deceive the world, you don't think the randomness of 'luck' still applies to us, do you?" "...Is luck also an 'attribute'?"

Suddenly, Mingpo spoke up and asked.

"bingo"

The Red Queen snapped her fingers.

Her smile was so radiant: "Higher levels of luck will overwhelm lower levels of luck—luck is absolute for us, not random. It can even be counteracted... or cancel each other out."

"Borrowing luck rituals exist, as does changing one's luck. Similarly, exchanging one's fate also exists. But for children whose abilities aren't yet that high... they'll need a 'guide' who uses their own luck to lead the way."

As the Red Queen spoke, she tapped her fingers lightly on a beer can: "But our team's previous leader, I beheaded him."

"...Beheaded?"

Ai Shiping was stunned, and asked as if to confirm.

"Yeah! I accidentally chopped too much, and ended up chopping off the guide too."

The Red Queen's smile was as innocent as a little girl's.

She didn't explain why she was beheaded—was it to quell a rebellion? Was it a trial? Was it execution? Was it punishment?

They simply take it for granted, as if it's something that doesn't need special explanation and everyone can understand.

"Hey buddy, we're colleagues, you'll understand, right?"

Her bright eyes looked at Mingpo, filled with joy: "I want to take you back with me, what should I do? What a rare title... The last time I saw Madman, he was still the Pseudo-Gold of the Sun!"

"Sorry... I also have to take care of my team."

Mingpo shook her head, abruptly changing the subject: "You said that appearing here was also due to 'luck'... Do you usually use chips?"

Yes!

The Red Queen said excitedly, "I usually stay in the material world. If you want to find me, then manifest yourself in the material world. As long as you think that way, I can find you. Or you can all come and stay with me... I have plenty of people here, enough room for you all." "Usually stay in the material world? That's a bargaining chip..."

"You'll understand when you reach Zhou Zhiqing's lead level~"

After drinking, she seemed even happier: "By then, one game can last for weeks. Taking a few hours out of there will basically allow you to stay in the material world indefinitely."

She spread her arms wide, beaming: "Think about it! There are 24 hours in a day, so you need to sleep for eight hours, right? Ordinary people also have to work eight hours a day! After deducting eating and resting, you only have four or five hours left, don't you?"

"So, exchanging for four or five hours is equivalent to spending a whole day in the material world!"

"………Well."

Ai Shiping seemed interested in this topic and asked, "What if you run out of money?"

As if amused by this remark, the Red Queen's smile grew even brighter.

"You're so cute!"

She praised him directly, saying, "If you're broke, just become a boss!"

She picked up her chopsticks with a smile and, without any hesitation, took a piece of beef intestine from the hot pot: "My company is now very big, one of the top in the country."

"Isn't it easy for con artists to make money? They can steal some business intelligence and technology from the future, send it to the past, find any agent—even an idiot—and make money. A round trip won't cost much. When you come back, you'll find you're rich. If that agent is indeed a complete idiot, just kill him."

"If someone tries to get back at you, just take them out. Whether it's a competitor or a leader, just eliminate them from a sufficiently distant past, and no one will find out. We are the masters of the world, after all."

"As for running out of chips, simply have your subordinates in the team make offerings to you."

The Red Queen's smile was radiant as she ate her food and casually remarked, "If they won't give it to us, just kill them. We can extract chips from their bodies anyway. If you haven't found any teammates yet, go kill some people at the subway station. Although not many of the people there are wealthy, you can still squeeze out some chips."

She didn't even shy away from discussing time travel and murder in public.

At this moment, Mingpo finally noticed something was wrong.

The Red Queen seemed to be happy all the time... inexplicably happy.

She was smiling from the moment she appeared.

At that time, Mingpo thought it was because she had a cheerful personality and was naturally fond of smiling, or perhaps it was just a polite smile.

But they later learned that... the Red Queen was actually a deceiver of the Realm of Slaughter.

She could kill her own teammates with ease. That constant, joyful laughter, in that context, seemed rather unusual.

And at this time.

She suddenly put down her chopsticks, and the smile on her face faded a little.

The next moment, Ai Shiping and Gao Fan's expressions changed simultaneously, as if they had sensed some danger.

"Unfortunately, some..."

The Red Queen rose.

Before she could finish speaking, the izakaya exploded!

Mingpo's pupils suddenly contracted.

But in the next instant, time and space froze.

The explosive material frozen in mid-air resembled a magnificent flower.

As the emerald glow spread, time seemed to reverse.

It was as if nothing had happened.

"...It's a pity that some dim-witted little devils always try to harm me. I'm so sorry you were affected." The Red Queen stood up. "But don't worry, they've been caught now."

The bright, gentle smile on her face vanished completely, replaced by a cruel and ferocious expression: "I have to go and cut their heads off." The next moment, as crimson flames rose, she disappeared as if it were a hallucination.

It wasn't teleportation, but rather using chips to slip into a crack in time, entering the future an hour later.

Mingpo clenched her fists.

His expression turned serious.

Without a doubt, this was the first time he had seen a Deceiver use the power of time to fight in the material world.

Although it was only for a moment...

But he felt utterly helpless in that moment.