“…Huh.”

It all sounded so logical that it was almost ridiculous. While the players were at a loss for words, completely aghast after witnessing death, Junsung frowned and said, “Where the hell is that flexibility you keep talking about?”

[We have to stick to the rules. Artificial Intelligence can’t lie!]

She sounded as though she was doing everyone a favor, but threw a fit. Thrusting her finger at the speaker in the living room, she said, “You showed us this horrific scene of someone dying just to stick to the stupid rules?”

[I don’t see what the issue is here… Those who get eliminated during the daytime trials will all end up dying like this, in front of everyone. Do I have to remind you that the eliminated players will die? I’ve been explaining this since the selection round.]

“……”

This was the perfect example of the difference between knowing something in your head and actually feeling it in your bones.While the players were panicking after witnessing death, put on a cold-hearted expression and grumbled, “Fine, do whatever you want, but I can’t play the game with a dead body around. Call the staff to take the body away and bury it somewhere.”

[Hmm? The staff will only arrive when the end conditions for this game are fulfilled. You can go through the front door and find a shed in the back, where there are coffins for you to use. As you know, I can’t exactly use my hands or feet, so you should do it yourself.]

“You mean we can get out of this house?”

[The front door has been open since I announced the start of this game yesterday.]

No one had tried opening the front door so far, afraid that their collars may blow up. As though mocking their fear, Reina began repeating the rules wryly. [Come on, it’s written in the rules, too. The designated area of the game is within 30 meters of the mansion. You can get out of the house if you want. I can even let you off even if you go slightly over 30 meters. This is me being flexible.]

“…Ha-ha, whatever.”

Junsung and volunteered to carry body to the shed. They saw a few mountains and realized that they were isolated in the middle of nowhere. Back inside, they may have guessed this with a glimpse out of the window, but this made it clear. Junsung muttered as he moved body, “So this collar wasn’t exactly a bomb!”

“Hmm… I guess it injects something through the neck, something that would kill you right away. Terrifying!”

It seemed like the collar around neck had injected drugs into his blood from the inside. Junsung and arrived at the shed Reina had talked about, where there were eight coffins.

Eight! Is this to prepare for the worst-case scenario when only four players will remain…?

At that very moment, a trivial yet brutal thought occurred to Junsung. Before participating in the game, he thought that there was a 7/11 chance that he would die even in the worst-case scenario, when in fact it was 8/12, because there was Artificial Intelligence among them. Holy shit! If I complain about this, she’s clearly going to say some bullshit about how she never lied!

Judging by the way was killed, Reina was definitely sticking to the rules and not lying at all. Nevertheless, Junsung felt in his bones that she had them all wrapped around her finger.

After placing body in the coffin, and Junsung gazed at each other, catching their breaths. Junsung asked, “Hmm… Where should we bury him?”

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“There’s no shovel or anything. I guess this is all we can do.”

“Poor guy. He was the same age as me. Well, I’m not in a position to worry about some else, though.”

shook his head as he stepped out of the shed. Junsung wasn’t feeling as sympathetic at the moment, as he had a thought he couldn’t quite understand. Artificial Intelligence, lies. Artificial Intelligence, lies, Bingo, players… Huh? He seemed to be missing something. As Junsung repeated the words in his head, a thought occurred to him, which became more convincing by the minute. “… No way…!”

When Junsung and returned to the conference room after putting the body away, was interrogating . “So what did you say to this red ball after sneaking into this room? What the hell did you say to kill that guy? Did you two plot something and kill ?”

“What’re you sayin’! I was just askin’ why she bein’ so quiet!”

seemed like he was just nitpicking, but everyone let him do it, probably thinking that it was suspicious that had talked to Reina in private. It was probably no big deal, but everyone was oversensitive about everything, especially after witnessing the first death. Reina settled the argument. She answered their question without anyone asking her, which was unusual for her. [ asked why I wasn’t speaking, and I remained silent. That’s all.]

“… And you’re telling us this yourself because…?”

[If I don’t tell all of you, you would probably come to me for private conversations or something. That would make the game unfair. So I will disclose every conversation you have with me to everyone.]

“Good! That machine girl said it. Thanks a mil. Y’all ain’t got faith! If I could plot somethin’ with this red ball here, I’d be outta here already with the prize money!”

Prize money! With that, all the players instantly turned to face the display board. At that moment, the numbers on it changed with a clanking sound like a casino slot machine.

[Total prize: 3, 300, 000, 000 won]

[Total prize: 3, 600, 000, 000 won]

“The prize money… has increased!”

The players checked the rules on their tablets.

Prize Money

3. The total prize money will increase each time a player is eliminated. A total of 300 million won will be added each time a citizen, the sheriff, or the doctor is eliminated; and 600 million won each time a mafia member is eliminated.

One player was killed, and the amount had increased by 300 million won. muttered with a blank face, “Naturally, the dead guy was a citizen. was a citizen!”

“Definitely not the mafia! But couldn’t he also have been the sheriff or doctor?” asked .

The players looked at Reina on the table. However, she remained quiet, which meant that she wasn’t going to tell them. summed up what they knew. “So the increase in the amount is the only clue we have, we cannot tell when the doctor or sheriff ends up dying!”

“You mean could have been the sheriff or the doctor?”

“There’s a 2/9 chance of that.”

“… Holy shit! If the doctor dies, citizens could die a hundred percent every night.”

“Worse still, it could’ve been the sheriff. In which case, how do we find the mafia?”

The conference room that had been full of optimism until yesterday was now shattered by pessimism. However, what the players felt wasn’t Reina’s problem. She was just intent on doing and saying what she had to. [Attention, attention! Let’s reestablish one of the rules. About being at night… It will be changed to being . In terms of mathematical expectations, citizens cannot control what happens at night, so it is better to just sleep well. However, in reality, most of you couldn’t sleep. You humans are so complicated. Anyway, now you can sleep soundly. Good night. Oyasumi!]

“How thoughtful, that little piece of…!” was enraged as usual, but Reina had a point. It was disturbing how she could learn and grasp these things so fast!

Junsung was annoyed by the almost neurotic “exclusion of lies” in Reina’s change of rules now. He looked down at his tablet and checked the two rules related to Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence Rules.

1. One of the twelve players is Artificial Intelligence.

2. Artificial Intelligence is not capable of lying.

So that’s it…

Enough of these random thoughts in his head. Junsung Kim stared at Reina. Before weighing the pros and cons, he began to shoot questions at Reina in front of the other players.

“Hey, Reina. Let me ask you a few things.”

[Sure thing, .]

“Are you Artificial Intelligence?”

[Of course.]

“And there is Artificial Intelligence among the players?”

[That’s correct.]

The conversation suddenly came to a halt. Both the human and the machine kept their mouths shut.

Then, Junsung, glaring at the red ball in front of him, spat out the next question. “Are you one of us?”

[I hate kids with good instincts like you.]