Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

In the beginning, Lin Yu actually did not doubt Forbolo's identity.

After all, Lin Yu easily chatted with the other party about information related to these "death games" professions.

And even though this detective's analysis of his profession was completely wrong during their first meeting...

But he is indeed a genuine "detective".

"Death Game" will never give out professions randomly.

What's more, the ability of the "detective" profession itself can allow people to quickly obtain "clues".

but……

The "explanation" given by Forbolo is precisely the most unreliable one.

Because there is not enough time.

No matter how talented a detective he was, if he wanted to reach the conclusion that "there were exactly seven strongholds next to each abandoned stronghold", he would have to visit at least sixteen strongholds.

but……

He's not that fast!

But if that were the case, Lin Yu might not be able to rule out the possibility that this "Forbolo" was using some kind of prop to move quickly or increase his field of vision.

Therefore, Lin Yu chose to take out the map for further exploration.

After traveling all night last night, Lin Yu has confirmed one thing...

This map has "gaps".

There are 13 players in this game.

However, on this map... even if you include the center of the circle, there are only 97 strongholds - and 12 abandoned strongholds.

But Lin Yu did meet the other twelve players throughout the night.

At first, after Lin Yu discovered that all the strongholds on the map could be drawn into a circle divided into twelve equal parts, he suspected that a player might have spawned in the center point.

After actually walking through it last night, Lin Yu had confirmed...

When this map was drawn, the area of ​​each sector was expanded a little more.

After dividing it into twelve equal parts...

It hides an entire fan-shaped area.

The area that was covered and hidden happened to be the area where Forbolo was.

Lin Yu hadn't noticed it when he walked there - because the area where Forbolo was located happened to be very similar in structure to his next area!

After being pointed at by Lin Yu with a gun, Forboluo raised his hands in panic.

"I... I'm not a 'Chat', I'm a 'Player'!"

Looking at Forboluo's genuine fear, Lin Yu could recognize it.

The other party is not acting.

But... this does not mean that the other party is the "real thing".

After all, the rough uncle I met before was not acting.

Whether it was the rugged uncle or Forbolo at this moment, both guys firmly believed that they were themselves.

Otherwise, Lin Yu's previous deception of the rough uncle would never have been believed and come true.

and so……

Lin Yu looked at Forboluo and did not hesitate to use the bullet in his hand.

A very experienced player on the forum had posted a strategy tip. According to statistics, whether it's a "Survival" or "Brawl" dungeon, the highest mortality rate occurs when encountering the "monsters" within the dungeon...

This is often the first time you encounter a monster.

Therefore, Lin Yu did not rely on his physical fitness as a "soldier" and the fighting skills as a "thug" to go forward and fight the opponent head-on.

He just shot straight away.

"boom!"

After the gunfire.

"Forbolo" fell to the ground in astonishment, with an expression of disbelief and fear on his face before his "death".

Even Lin Yu, who was absolutely certain that the other party was a fake, couldn't help but feel a little doubtful at this moment.

Did I really kill the wrong person?

However, it doesn't matter even if I kill the wrong person... I can't kill myself, right?

But then, two things happened that proved that Lin Yu's judgment was not wrong.

First is Forbolo's "corpse" on the ground.

He melted quickly.

The whole person first faded into black, then became soft, and then began to take on the shape of a viscous non-Newtonian fluid.

Soon, the black liquid "seeped" into the ground.

The whole process took only a few seconds and happened very quickly.

However, Lin Yu had been staring at "Forbolo's body" for a long time, so he did not miss any details.

The second piece of evidence is...

Lin Yu still has the ability of a "doctor" at this moment.

"So, the Forboluo I met first was the real thing, and this one is a fake."

"While we can't be certain this is Chat in disguise...whoever it is, its method of disguise is to create a replica that can 'imitate' its behavior."

"And based on Forboluo's reaction just now, it seems this copy isn't the kind that can replicate memories... It's probably only able to imitate what he's already shown."

Lin Yu let out a breath, pulled out a chair and sat on the workbench.

"So, the actual number of strongholds isn't 97, but 105..."

Lin Yu thought about it and spread out the map on the workbench.

There is a pencil holder next to the workbench, with an unused pencil in it.

Lin Yu pulled out the pencil and drew two dotted lines on the workbench, marking the thirteenth area that was "erased".

This area should be located exactly in the north of the entire map.

"If there's an undrawn area here, the starting point is at the 'center,' where Forbolo was last night, and I passed by another..."

Lin Yu drew three dots.

Then, he froze.

Lin Yu suddenly discovered that the standards of all previous strongholds were a combination of five letters from A to E and numbers from 1 to 12.

But—if the current center of the area where Forbolo is located is marked as A13...

Lin Yu connected A1 to A13 from the bottom, like the dot-com notebook he bought in elementary school.

It became a perfect arc.

Next is to connect B1 to B12 - although the beginning is missing two points, if you fill in the two points in the missing area 13, it will become...

A curly lowercase "h."

The part connected to the C...is in the shape of the letter "e".

The D part is in the shape of "a".

The E part is the shape of a connected "t".

Although these letters overlap, if you add the arc at the beginning, they will form the letter C.

Put these letters in order from A to E to form a word.

c, h, e, a, t, cheat - Chinese can be translated as...

Deception, scam.

Lin Yu let out a breath.

"So that's how it is. This area is hidden so that people can't connect these letters."

When this word appeared on the map, everything seemed to be connected.

"The monster you mentioned at the beginning, 'Chat', might actually be called 'cheat'."

"So, since the base on this map suggests this is all a 'scam'... the 'swindler' who gave me the rank-up quest is probably the one who orchestrated this scam."

Lin Yu murmured.