Sometimes Being Too Direct Is as Easy as Puncturing That Membrane

Simply put, it means assigning an identity to everyone, with only one identity being the king. The king can command the other people to do something, either by ordering everyone else or by specifying one person, but he can only specify that person's identity; the king does not know the identities of the others.

"The king's commands are divided into 'Truth' and 'Dare.' If someone can't answer 'Truth,' they have to answer 'Dare,' and vice versa. Of course, commands that are too outrageous are not allowed!"

"There's one more thing. In this deck, besides A to 10, the remaining two cards are the Big Joker and the Little Joker. The Big Joker is obviously the King, and the Little Joker..." Elysia smiled knowingly, "When the King designates someone else to carry out an order, the Little Joker must carry out the same order as that person. This is a special rule of our game."

The rules had been explained, Elysia handed the cards to Sakura, which relieved Lin. If she were to shuffle and deal the cards herself, she would inevitably do something underhanded.

Sakura shuffled the cards without saying a word and dealt them out. After receiving her cards, Lin held them in front of her, then secretly lifted a corner of one side...

... Xiao Wang.

Chapter 141 Sometimes being too direct is as easy as piercing that membrane.

The first person to draw the King was Su. He was clearly not fully integrated into the atmosphere of the headquarters yet... or more accurately, he had not integrated into Elysia's rhythm. He seemed very reserved. He carefully raised the card with his eyes closed and said, "Then let's go with number five."

According to the rules, number five and Xiao Wang had to reveal their identities, so Vill-V and Lin turned their cards over.

"..."

"..."

Lin and Vill-V exchanged a glance. Her smile was calm and composed, not the fleeting shyness of a flower.

Has she returned to her usual Vill-V...?

Su thought for a moment and asked a simple question, "What kind of music do you usually listen to?"

The King's Game is a game that skirts the line. Some brothels and their patrons are particularly fond of this game, as it can drive their minds and bodies to the brink of depravity.

They certainly wouldn't go that far, but they also wouldn't treat it like a guessing game. Some more personal questions are allowed.

However, Sue's personality meant that he would only ask these kinds of questions.

"Light music".

"The Song of Eden".

"..."

Eden's answer was unremarkable, and Lin's answer was not surprising to May and Kevin, as they already knew it. However, the others cast suspicious glances at Lin, and then at Eden, who also looked indifferent.

Only Elysia smiled and took the cards back, "Then let's continue."

The person who drew the King in the second round... was Mobius.

Lin held the number one card in his hand and glanced at the expressions of the others. He felt that something was wrong with this game, such as the meaning of the "Little King". The fun of the King's Game lies in the special nature of the King's orders and the targeted attacks. The existence of the Little King does not increase the fun of the game.

And Elysia doesn't seem to be acting quite right either...

"Which of you just left a lipstick mark on my pet's face?"

"..."

Lin retracted his previous statement, noting that Elysia seemed much more normal compared to Mobius.

"Hmm..." Elysia looked troubled, touched her lips, and said to Mobius, "Mobius, you can't do that, it's against the rules of the game~"

"How is it against the rules?" Mobius frowned and said coldly, "I am the king. If I want to play the Nine Clans Match-3 game, isn't it just a matter of a word?"

... It seems there's no problem.

"You can only designate one person to tell the truth, but if you ask everyone, you can't ask such instructive questions. It's like shooting the arrow first and then drawing the target."

"...This is so troublesome." Mobius clicked her tongue in annoyance. She lowered her head and thought for a few seconds, then looked up again. "Can you guarantee that everything you say is the truth?"

"This..."

After all, it's just a game. If someone cheats or lies, there's nothing he can do about it.

At this moment, Vill-V raised her hand and smiled mysteriously, "Oh! That's easy to say. It's a good opportunity to try out my newly invented 'Lin-Toku Unit 1'."

Why is it "against Lin"? And what is Special Aircraft No. 1?

"You've all seen those clips where there's a lie detector in a room, and it goes off whenever someone lies, right?"

She took out a palm-sized, alarm-ring-like device from her pocket, placed it in the middle of the group, and proudly introduced it, "This is the 'Lin-Toku Unit 1.' It can detect whether someone is lying by capturing information from those around them. Its lie detection accuracy has been tested and has reached 99%."

This is it? It's not that I doubt Vill-V's abilities, but it's hard to believe that she just casually pulled out something with a random name and called it a lie detector.

Lin Fei asked, "Elysia, have you gained a pound since a month ago?"

"No!"

"Drop--"

Elysia stared blankly at the lie detector that was sounding the alarm, then looked at Lin with a pitiful expression.

But Lin waved his hand and said, "No problem."

Therefore, everyone affirmed the accuracy of the lie detector.

Mobius impatiently swept his gaze across everyone's faces. "Then let's ask them one by one, starting with... number ten."

Coincidentally, Number 10 and Xiao Wang, who are Kevin and Su respectively, both shook their heads in perfect unison.

So the game continued, but what followed was no longer a simple problem like the first two.

"Oh, I'm the King." Elysia waved the cards in her hand, looking at Lin with a vengeful glare. She smirked, "Then, number three, please answer which woman you usually fantasize about?"

Lin turned his hand over and said coldly, "I choose Dare."

Su Ye smiled wryly and flipped over the card, "I'll choose Truth or Dare too."

"Great!" Elysia clapped her hands, her smile blooming like a hundred flowers. "Then please perform the act of eating noodles upside down."

On this vacation, Mobius even brought instant noodles with her. When she pulled them out, she said confidently, "Fast food is the most suitable way to eat for survival in the wild."

However, Elysia was destined to be disappointed. Lin easily supported himself with one hand, picked the noodles out of the bowl, and then sucked them into his mouth and swallowed them.

During the period when he was adapting to the absence of his senses, he had mastered his body to the point that he could control every muscle with ease, and eating noodles upside down was no problem for him.

But Su... was in a rather pitiful state.

"Pfft!" After spitting noodles out of his nostrils, he collapsed to the ground, noodles still hanging from his nose, utterly dejected. "I never want to eat noodles again..."

Next, it was Vill-V's turn to draw the King. She laughed loudly, displaying a strong sense of individualism, and stared at Lin's hand, commanding, "So... number seven... um, that's right, Lin, it's your turn to turn over your card."

... These guys aren't just playing a normal game.

With their dynamic vision and calculation abilities, it would be easy for them to know what cards each person has. Lin felt that playing games didn't need to be taken so seriously, but others didn't seem to think so.

Left with no other choice, Lin had to turn over his number seven card.

Vill-V snapped her fingers and chuckled, "Then, Lin, please leave a kiss mark on my face."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Suddenly, everything fell silent.

Even Lin suddenly looked up, staring at Vill-V, feeling a strange unease.

"Huh? Wait a minute, Vill-V?" Elysia chuckled awkwardly after a few seconds of hesitation. "Isn't this a bit inappropriate..."

Is there a problem?

Vill-V placed her gloved hand on her chin and rubbed it gently. Then she laughed from the bottom of her heart, "I really like Lin. It's normal for me to want him to kiss me, right?"

"..."

I need to ask for leave because of an urgent matter.

I have something to do tomorrow and need to get up early, so I'm taking the day off today. Tomorrow I'll be updating with a special feature on Vill-V, which I think is the most interesting part of the series.

This special series is almost finished. Apart from the high school boy series, the next special series will feature Lin whose personality is closer to the main character, making it more interesting to train him.

See you tomorrow then.

This chapter has not been approved.

The time is 7:15 a. m., and the location is a top suite in a top hotel in Changkong City.

Lin slammed the curtains open, squinted at the warm morning sun, and looked out over the city from this vantage point. Exposed to the sunlight without a single patch of clothing clinging to her body, she felt as if she had been cleansed from the inside out.

It feels so good to have a seven-day holiday.

It feels so good to be on vacation without Mobius, Prometheus, and Sakura.

He shielded his eyes from the glaring sun with one hand, then looked up at the floor-to-ceiling window that offered a panoramic view of the city. There were faint handprints, human silhouettes, and two circular marks on the window. On the carpet in that spot, there were still traces of liquid.

"Huff... hehe... huff... Brother Lin... I really can't drink anymore..."

Lin turned his head and saw the pretty brown-haired girl lying on the messy bed, snoring sweetly.

... It would be amazing to have a beautiful girl in a top-tier suite, pressed against the floor-to-ceiling window, and passionately displayed to the entire city during a holiday, doing it all night long and having a great time!

Thinking of this, he burst into tears, squatted in a corner and drew circles, wondering how he had become such a scumbag who spent all his time having sex with women...

However, all these conflicting feelings vanished as Pardo woke up. He leaned against the window, amused, watching Pardo wake up, first looking at him groggily, then remembering the embarrassing silly things she had done the night before, and finally... all that was left was reminiscing.

"Brother Lin, what are you looking at us for..." Pardo covered half of her face with the blanket, only revealing a pair of beautiful heterochromatic eyes. "Does it mean... we're going to have 'breakfast milk' again?"

"Eat my ass! What are you thinking about all day long, you pervert? Wasn't last night enough?" Lin patted her head irritably, making her close her eyes and not dare to move. Then he said gently to her, "Get dressed. I'm taking you to meet one of my friends today."

"Friend..."

"I can't let you keep stealing to make a living, and you're still of school age. Your roommates are all in school, how can you stop learning anything at such a young age?" Lin Lianxi patted her head and sighed. "I know two people who should be able to help, but there's one person I don't want to see right now... and she's not here, so I'll take you to find the other one."

"Brother Lin... you're so good to us!" Pardo hugged Lin's neck, kissed him on the cheek, and said with a grin, "Next time I promise I won't bite you with my fangs!"

"... If you dare bite me again, I'll spank your ass."

Lin covered the injured area with a livid face.

"Her personality is a bit strange, but overall she's a good person. Remember, keep your hands to yourself and don't touch her things, especially anything that looks odd," Lin warned Pardo on the road. "Otherwise, you might really become Pardo in the future."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Lin made a throat-slitting gesture with a blank expression. "It's Pardo | Phyllis."

Pardo shivered.

This time, Lin was truly, truly, truly at ease with the person she was about to meet. If there was a one percent chance with the previous people, then she was always a zero probability. It's just that Lin had never been too willing to meet her.

After all, when it comes to being mentally unstable, she definitely ranks first among the people he knows.

"Arrive."

Pardo was eager to see what Lin's friend's house was like, but all she saw was an inconspicuous abandoned phone booth in a corner of the city. Apart from not being filled with garbage inside, it seemed out of touch with the times.

"Arrive?"

Lin didn't answer her, but instead walked into the phone booth and waved to her.

With some skepticism, Pardo squeezed into the phone booth with Lin. Because the space was too cramped, she had to squeeze herself in, blushing as she hugged Lin's waist and rested her head on his chest.

"What are you still shy about? Last time you said I smelled good and licked me from head to toe. Is there any place we haven't seen before?" Lin was speechless at her seemingly innocent behavior.

Pardo proudly puffed out her chest and said, "W-what?! Brother Lin, you licked me back! And you even made me wear stockings for you... for you! Every time you wore different colors and styles, I don't even know how many pairs of stockings I've gone through!"

"... Didn't you seem quite happy when you wore it?"

"And he licked my armpits!"

At that moment, a woman's voice came from the phone in the phone booth, which should have been broken. "I'm not interested in the richness of your sex lives. Can you stop spreading your private sexual fetishes?"

Immediately afterwards, they felt a sense of weightlessness beneath their feet.

"There's such a huge space down there..."

Pardo was shocked by the enormous space that had suddenly appeared before her. This was no longer an illegal building; it had hollowed out the underground for hundreds of miles around, and yet it had managed to do so without anyone noticing, and the underground space remained stable with the above-ground space.

"Slap... slap... slap..."

A round of applause rang out, and from the shadows emerged a woman with a steampunk-style top hat and two shades of hair, her face expressionless.

"Welcome new guests to my Spiral Workshop."

"...'Expert'? That's quite unusual. I thought it would be a 'magician' or a 'conductor'." Lin observed the woman's expression, slightly surprised. "It just so happens that you're the one who woke up?"

"Yes, the rotation took place exactly three minutes and seventeen seconds before you arrived. The previous one was 'Conductor'."