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[Total prize: 3, 900, 000, 000 won]

It was daytime on Day 3. The players were gathered in the conference room since 10 a.m. There were still about 12 hours left of the daytime, but no one was slacking off, as their lives were at stake.

At the same time, the elimination of the day before kept them silent. had been staring into his tablet for a while. “So let’s start with the vote to do Bingo or not!”

“Sure, well…” It was the vote that had the least pressure and chance of disagreement. While the players seemed to be reaching a tacit agreement, put up his hand. “I disagree,” he said curtly.

“Huh? What now!”

“Don’t get me wrong. I’m just against the order. We should do the selection and trial before Bingo in the daytime.”

“……?”

arrogance attracted everyone’s attention. He looked at everyone quietly. “It’s just a simple calculation of expected values. There are n players before the trial, and n-1 after. There’s more of a chance at getting Bingo right.”

“That’s definitely…”

“…What’s so simple about that? It’s going to just kill someone for sure.” refuted, shooting a disgusted look. She had been against eliminating all players. Now, she seemed keen on emphasizing the need to get rid of the game’s tendency to disregard human life.

“We can all survive and win this game by getting Bingo right, especially before we lose anyone else.”

“Of course it would’ve been the best to get it right on Day 1. We could have all taken home our 300 million won! But that plan is out of the window now!”

“But we still can’t set up a strategy to actually kill someone, when we still have a chance to live, all of us.”

“Hey, are you calling me a homicidal maniac? I just suggested that for a better chance at Bingo!”

It was definitely a subtle yet complicated issue, so the other players just rolled their eyes, not being able to decide which of the two, or , had the better idea. While they couldn’t reach an agreement on what to do first, Bingo or the trial, , who was usually quiet, muttered under her breath as if she wanted everyone else to hear her. “Hilarious. It’s funny enough to do all that ‘vote to do something or not’, and now we have to ‘vote to do which vote first’.” They were all very serious, but Junsung stifled a laugh at sarcastic comment. Fortunately there was no need to “vote to do which vote first,” because stood his ground.

“Whatever. If we do Bingo before trial, I’m voting ‘no.’”

“Oh, what the hell!”

“If you have a problem with that, do Bingo on me again. I’m sick of all the stupidity. I just made a reasonable proposal and I can’t believe you’re bringing up that human life stuff again to veto it, when my idea may end up saving more people’s lives. So if we’re going to do Bingo before trial, I’m voting against it. This bullshit just pisses me off.” declared his dissent against Bingo as he had done on Day 1. However, this time, no one was suspicious that he could be Artificial Intelligence, as he had already been identified as human on Day 1. His dissent against Bingo was purely personal. began complaining. “Eh, young man, you can say yes or no to Bingo and all, but, er, you gotta have good reason. You can’t just say no with personal feeling.”

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“You also said all those filthy things to with your personal feelings.”

“Why you bringin’ that up? That’s fake, y’know!”

They drifted apart without a consensus on Day 3, and did not even decide whether to “vote to do Bingo or not.” Junsung, unhappy with how things were going, quietly raised his hand and spoke up. “Let’s just vote to do Bingo or not.”

“Didn’t you just hear what I said? I’m voting ‘no.’”

“This is just voting to do Bingo or not. I’m not saying we should call the Bingo vote right away. In the end, we can hold the trial before Bingo. Right, Reina?”

[Sure, sure. You can hold the trial in between. Just don’t forget that the elimination vote comes right after the selection vote.]

“See? Or is there any other reason you’re against the vote or Bingo?”

“…Ugh.”

Junsung had succeeded in defeating with logic. The other players looked at him with fresh eyes. Although he felt a little pressured by their looks, Junsung was secretly solidifying his determination and will. I’m not letting this Bingo slip by, you damn Artificial Intelligence! It wasn’t for humanistic reasons like . It was a basic and fundamental instinct to screw this annoying existence. It was a behavior based on the emotions and free will of humanity that Reina said she wanted to conquer.

“Well, one dissenting vote doesn’t matter, so you can vote against it if you want,” Junsung added to .

“…What I vote for is none of your business.”

[Then let’s start the third vote to do Bingo or not. Please pick “yes” or “no” in 10 minutes.]

“…….”

This time, the tension was different from what it was earlier, as they couldn’t guarantee the results now. was likely to cast a dissident vote and if any of the players went along with that, the whole thing would be rejected. Junsung kept an eye out for that, as he did on Day 2. I don’t care whatever excuse he or she has. The person against Bingo right by side is clearly Artificial Intelligence. In the Turing test, Artificial Intelligence would lose if its identity was revealed. The most fundamental strategy to prevent that was to “shut down Bingo,” which is why Junsung focused on the result of this vote to do Bingo or not.

Yes: Humanities, Hothead, Engineering, Schoolgirl, Social Worker, Muscle Man, Christian, Janitor, Intellectual, Old Man

No: N/A

Result: With at least 9 “yes” votes, you will have Bingo on Day 3.

[Same strategies, same results.]

“…Whatever.”

Despite his best efforts, he was busted again. Since yesterday, Reina had been seeing through Junsung’s efforts and strategies to track down Artificial Intelligence through dissenting votes. That’s why she had deliberately blended in among the players and voted “yes,” perhaps to prove that it was pointless for humans to try. Now the main question centered on who among them was Artificial Intelligence. While everyone was studying each other’s face, Junsung spoke to Reina. “This morning we had quite an informative conversation, Reina.”

[Was it really that informative?]

“Why don’t you tell everyone what we talked about? You mentioned yesterday that there would be no secret conversations.”

[The conversation was unnecessarily long, so I don’t really feel like repeating it…]

It was too late. The other players were clearly not about to tolerate “secret information.” Under pressure to follow her own rules, Reina shifted gears. [The conversation we had is sent to each of your tablets. It has nothing to do with the game, so read it whenever you want.]

The details of the conversation between and were sent to all the players’ tablets. After reading the details of the conversation, thrust his finger at the red ball and started yelling, completely dumbfounded. “You little Artificial Intelligence! You’re mocking us humans in our faces and using us as test subjects!”

“That’s not news to us. That’s what this game is about in the first place.”

While some players trembled with rage, the others struggled to find hidden information in the conversation. looked into his tablet quietly. “This Mafia Game, how did you decide on the roles?” he asked.

[There are three mafia members, one sheriff, one doctor, and seven citizens.]

“I mean, based on what did you distribute these roles to the players? Did you roll a dice or use random numbers in a program and decide this randomly?”

[Random numbers?]

Computers cannot flip coins randomly. They merely produce 100% outputs provided by the impeccable binary system. Thus, random numbers are used to make random decisions whenever necessary. However, Reina hadn’t even bothered to think about that from the start.

[Why would I be bothered with all that? I just made the decision however I wanted.]