Chapter 318: Invasion of the Brain Cell 26

Back to the present…

Weighty Words turned the card over and placed it before him . The front of the hint card was printed with a black ball of twine .

“Am I going to get tied up?” Weighty Words looked at the picture and guessed . Before he finished, the way Ambitionist, Autumn Zither, and Feng Bujue looked at him changed .

“What…” Weighty Words was about to ask what was wrong, but before the question left his lips, he was shocked by what was happening .

At that moment, from a spectator’s perspective, Weighty Words’ hair started to expand like a ball of yeasted dough and soon became a large, fluffy afro . Then, this pool of ‘hair’ started to ‘rain’ . Of course, what fell was not water but waterfall-like hair . This process stopped about thirty seconds later . Weighty Words’ crew cut seemed to have bloomed into a giant mushroom, and under the hat of the shroom dangled a curtain of long hair . If he stood up, his body would have been hidden behind the curtain . From afar, he looked like a black, fluffy jellyfish .

“When you think you have gotten the thing you want, you will actually have lost even more . ” Weighty Words repeated that as he used his hands to part away the curtain-like hair to reveal his face . “Even though I recently considered changing my original crew cut into another hair style because of Dream Inc’s announcement that a new hairstyle adjustment option would be given in the latest Thriller Paradise patch, I doubt I’d pick something like this…”

“When you think you have gotten the status of the king of salons, you have lost your honor and taste,” Feng Bujue mocked snidely .

“Hahaha…” Hearing that, Autumn Zither guffawed, but seconds later, more blood poured out from his wound . “Cough… Stop… don’t make me laugh, or else I don’t think I’ll hold on for another hour . Compared to the rest of us, yours is much better . “

He poked his fingers through the bars and pushed on his glasses out of habit .

“I’d rather have a cage over my head . ” Weighty Words kept pushing away the hair, or else he would not be able to say anything .

“Gentlemen, let’s continue,” Moriarty said, his tone still even . “Mr . Words, your timing is perfect . Before you arrived, your three teammates all completed their turns . At this moment, I believe you have familiarized yourself with how to play the game . “

“We’ve seen the effects of the cards, but what about the game rules?” Feng Bujue said . “We can’t just keep on playing by following your orders, right?”

Moriarty turned over to exchange a look with Holmes before telling the players, “Language is a type of power . “

He raised an arm and made the introduction . “Please remember that because in this space, or in this round table game, that is the most basic rule . “

Moriarty used his hand to point at the cards on the table .

“As for the basic rules of this game, every player has to use the four types of cards—hints, questions, conjectures, and assumptions— at least once . ” His eyes scanned the players’ faces . “But there is a problem . At this table, only Mr . Holmes and I know the ‘truth’ . As gentlemen who didn’t know the truth, there is obviously no reason for you to choose the hint card . “

“That’s why we have to enter the game with the hint card, huh?” Ambitionist asked .

“Yes,” Moriarty answered . “We left the messages with the ‘hint’ element at various parts . So that in the process of going up the building, you can see for yourself, the influence ‘language’ had on other characters . “

“Can I understand it this way? In this word, ‘language’ is a kind of power, and ‘hint’ is a skill that possesses a negative element,” Autumn Zither concluded .

“Not quite . ” Holmes chimed in . “But close enough . “

“At the table, there is no positive and negative element . The premise of deciding the card’s effect is whether the language that you use is of value or not,” Moriarty added . “Now it is my turn . I will give a hint to give you an example . Hint—there are no lies in this world . “

When he was done, a hint card moved to the professor . Moriarty turned it over and showed it to the guests . The front of the card was blank . “See, no punishment . “

About five seconds later, a smirk leaked out from Feng Bujue’s cheeks .

“Humph… I get it now . ” He toyed with the blade and looked at ease . “Since you are ‘in the know’, what you said can help us get closer to the ‘truth’, so your ‘hint’ has its value .

“And us who don’t know merely said the ‘language’ that you left for us . Even though they are called hints, at this table, they are meaningless and of no value . “

“Indeed, looks like you have gotten it . ” Moriarty smiled in reply .

Weighty Words thought about it and concluded, “Then… in this game, for us not knowing the truth, choosing a ‘hint’ will get us punished because the people who know don’t need the hint from us . And for the people who know, an assumption is a choice that cannot be made because you have known the truth from the start, so there is nothing to be assumed . “

“But the problem is,” Ambitionist interrupted, “every player must use each of the four cards once, yes?”

He tossed a sharp gaze at Moriarty .

“Yes,” Moriarty answered matter-of-factly . “Don’t worry, Mr . Holmes and I are not the kind to cheat . “

“As participants who don’t know the truth, the first sentences that you used to enter the game will be taken as hints . ” Holmes puffed out the smoke . “But the people who know are not limited by this . We can start the game with any kind of card . But… for the first four rounds of the game, neither party, be it the people who know or those who don’t know, can pick the same card more than once . “

“In other words… every player has to select each of the four cards in the first four rounds,” Ambitionist said . “Then does that mean… from the fifth round, we can select repeated cards?”

Moriarty scoffed . “Yes, from the fifth round, you can select ‘questions’ for every round if you wish . “

He pointed out the plan that Ambitionist was thinking of .