Chapter 601: Chapter 601: Risk
The short-haired woman was rendered speechless as she hadn’t expected her flaws to be so easily spotted. She stubbornly asked, “But still, determining that I am not a mole based on this is rather arbitrary, right? It’s possible I’ve been pretending!”
“Your demeanor then was so natural; it didn’t seem feigned at all.” Bai Youwei remarked calmly, “And of course, there’s always the unlikely chance that my judgement might be wrong. If so, I fully accept my loss.”
In such a game, nothing is won without risk. Every move made is a calculated probe, each step fraught with chance and probability.
The actions made by Bai Youwei were simply attempts to increase her own chances of winning.
“There’s another thing.” Bai Youwei continued, “By actively recruiting Blue Eyes to your team, it shows that you’re impulsive and risk-taking. Red Eyes, from the outset, had the numerical advantage. However, despite this, you sought to increase this advantage even further with the intention of determining victory or defeat as quickly as possible. Such a course of action is pointless for a mole. That’s because, no matter the final color of the players, as long as they live until the 5th round, they’re the winner.”
The short-haired woman challenged, “So what about Doctor? Isn’t it the same since you were invited into Yellow Eyes Team? Why would you still be suspicious of him?!”
Bai Youwei smirked slightly, “It’s not the same. I wasn’t invited; rather, I voluntarily joined their ranks.”
The short-haired woman: “…”
She fell silent, speechless in the face of Bai Youwei’s explanation.
“By the way,” Bai Youwei spoke again, “How did you vote in the last round? The numbers don’t match up.”
“In the last round we voted for number 2- three votes, number 12- four votes, number 16- three votes,” the short-haired woman explained, “We predicted that Yellow and Blue would form an alliance, and with total votes as 5+5+5, they could at least eliminate 3 of our members. Our 10 votes, whether distributed as 5+5 or 4+3+3, could only guarantee two ranks among the top five vote recipients. Hence, we chose the latter option, gambling on luck. However, we didn’t expect that they wouldn’t use the 5+5+5 voting method.”
Bai Youwei mused, “So, number 22 really was voted out by them…”
The short-haired woman inquired, “What’s the matter?”
“Nothing.” Bai Youwei replied, “Number 22 represents Yellow Eyes, a number that we had already crossed out. Blue Eyes’ choice to do this gives off the impression of a deliberate attempt at maintaining numerical balance.”
The numbers which Yellow and Blue decided to vote out this round were 4, 5, 17, all of whom were Red Eyes.
If Red Eyes also eliminated 1 person from both Yellow and Blue teams, the situation would look :
Red Eyes: 8 people, after eliminating 3, becomes 5 (including one Blue Eyes).
Yellow Eyes: 6 people, after eliminating 1, becomes 5 (including one Red Eyes).
Blue Eyes: 6 people, after eliminating 1, becomes 5.
All three teams would have exactly the same number of members.
Alternatively, it could become Red: 5, Yellow: 6, Blue: 4, or Red: 5, Yellow: 4, Blue: 6.
This would depend on what number Red Eyes team finally voted out.
“Are we sure about voting for 28 and 29?” the short-haired woman turned to ask Bai Youwei.
Bai Youwei creased her brows and pondered for a while.
If correct, the mole would be eliminated, and the remaining 15 players would win the game.
If incorrect, then only 4 of Yellow Eyes, 5 of Red Eyes, and 6 of Blue Eyes would remain.
By then, Blue Eyes would stand unopposed and undoubtedly target Red Eyes for the next elimination. Even if Red and Yellow teamed up, it would be near impossible to avoid losing at least one member. And once they lost one member, leaving Red Eyes with just 4 people, Red Eyes would also lose the chance of victory like Yellow Eyes!
And an even worse case!
That would be, after the round of voting, none of the three teams fulfilled the condition “remaining 5 members with the same eye color”!
In short, if she didn’t win in the next voting round, she would certainly lose in the round after that!
Gain is always accompanied by risk – it’s unavoidable.
Bai Youwei shut her eyes in frustration and said, “Let’s discuss this again tomorrow. If everything goes as planned, vote for 28 and 29.”