Clown Game
Chapter 176 - 176 164 Dice Game One

Chapter 176: Chapter 164 Dice Game One Chapter 176: Chapter 164 Dice Game One After hearing this speech, Chen Xiao evidently paused.

Because the electronic synthesized voice clearly conveyed the phrases “The first round of screening” and “this competition zone.”

If this synthesized voice program isn’t just adding superfluous details, then it implies… this isn’t the official venue for the competition at all. The screening is still ongoing… At this moment, the eight people present are merely temporary qualifiers, undergoing a second round of elimination. Moreover, it seemed that each screening round would be divided into different zones.

Hence, the small room Chen Xiao currently occupied was just one of the venues for an “elite game,” a part of the “thought group,” in one of the competition zones….

“Uh…”

Chen Xiao couldn’t help but reflect inwardly, recalling the competition in the D region, where they had had to wait dryly for a week just to gather five people.

In contrast, the number of participants in this “Asian branch” seemed astonishingly high.

Indeed, this is understandable as this place is one of the five major divisions of the Order Foundation. The field staff’s base here surely was not on the same level as the previous small monitoring station, and higher than the C level area where no one just wasted their days. Everyone wanted to prove themselves in various fields and actions like giving away “invitations” would almost certainly not occur.

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The electronic synthesized voice continued:

“Game name: Dice Game

Game rule (1): All participants will be randomly divided into ‘Black team’ and ‘White team,’ four people each. Please display your team color within 30 seconds.”

As soon as the voice stopped, Chen Xiao felt his phone vibrate. He immediately lowered his head to check. At this moment, his screen had automatically lit up, displaying the word “Black.”

This meant that he had been randomly assigned to the “Black team.”

Then, he lifted his head, only to see everyone pulling out their phones in unison. After checking their assigned teams, they all looked up at each other. Even the despondent guy who had collapsed onto his chair as soon as he arrived pulled out his phone to take a glance, though half asleep.

Folowing this, the man who looked as if he had kidney failure spoke, “Looks like I’m in the White team!”

Saying that, he turned his phone screen towards everyone. Indeed, there was the character “White” on his phone.

Following his action, the person sitting diagonally opposite from him, known as “Gorilla,” also flipped his phone screen around and said in a deep and coarse voice, “Oh, what a coincidence, I’m White too…”

“Kidney-guy” glanced at Gorilla’s phone screen and gave a somewhat polite smile.

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Since the competition’s rules already stated to display their team colors, so nobody held back any longer, and everyone displayed their phones to each other.

A few seconds later, everyone knew each other’s team color.

Thus, the team distribution was as follows:

Black team: “Short-haired Man,” “Last Girl to Enter,” “Short Guy,” “Chen Xiao”

White team: “Kidney Failure Guy,” “Gorilla,” “Fragile Old Lady,” “Despondent Guy”

Then, the synthesized voice spoke again:

“Game rule (2): After the team display is completed, each participant will receive three dice, representing ‘1 point,’ ‘2 points,’ and ‘3 points,’ respectively.”

Once again, everyone looked at their phones, only to see the screen flash, and three dice appeared. These dice looked normal but differed in that each die had only one number, “all 1s,” “all 2s,” and “all 3s.”

The synthesized voice continued, “Each round, participants will have one minute to decide which dice to throw, and after one minute, the points from each team’s members will be added up. The team with the higher score wins.”

On hearing this, everyone remained silent; they knew that the rules were not yet complete because since the dice’s points were fixed, there was no point in comparing their sizes.

As expected, the electronic voice added, “The team that first obtains three wins, the member who threw the least points advances and receives the ‘chips’ of all others… All remaining players are eliminated. The total points of the teams will only be announced at the end of each round. At no time is it allowed to look at anyone else’s phone.”

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“The game begins!”

With those four words, the voice abruptly stopped.

A second later…

“Huh?” Gorilla was the first to lose his composure and cried out. This was not surprising, as the competition indeed seemed a bit rigged. Now, let’s analyze it in detail.

Firstly, the rule “The team member who scores the least points in the winning team advances.”

This meant, to advance, two conditions had to be met,

The first was to ensure that one’s team won by scoring points! This required inputting a relatively large number of points to ensure a total greater than the opposing team.

However, if too many points were input, advancing would be impossible. You would only be dressing up your teammates.

This is a completely contradictory operation—on the basis of cooperation among team players, they must also calculate each other… This was much harder than mere “alliance” and “opposition.”

And looking at the others, although they did not cry out like Gorilla, they all had serious expressions. Even the despondent guy, quite dramatically, lit up a cigarette and took a deep drag, murmuring, “This is tricky.”

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Chen Xiao licked his lips, pondering something. Then, he looked at his phone screen where, at the top line, a countdown had appeared showing precisely 3 minutes. On the left side of the countdown, there were two lines:

“Participant: Chen Xiao

Chips: 70”

Ah… so now it was clear that during the first round of screening, every individual’s remaining time was what was referred to as “chips,” though it was still unclear what these “chips” were specifically for. But evidently, the more the better.

Looking at the whole phone interface again, in the center, were the three dice, numbered one, two, and three. As mentioned earlier, each of the dice’s six sides had only one number.

At the bottom, there was a line:

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“Please select the dice you want to throw. Those who do not choose within the allotted time will be considered to have forfeited the round.”

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Chen Xiao paused after reading this sentence.

Because the sentence only stated, “Those who do not choose will forfeit the round,” not “Those who do not choose will lose competition eligibility.”

This implied that in each round of dice throwing, one could choose to do nothing and thus forfeit, and forfeiture would presumably represent zero points.

Chen Xiao chuckled…

“Hmm… this rule……”

(Ah, I won’t write this type of book next time; it’s mind-consuming, attracts fewer readers, and it’s quicker to write something simpler…)”