After soothing all the players in front of the screen, the young man with round-framed glasses began to sing.

It was a soothing and melodious song, and his singing skills were quite good, making Zheng Jie involuntarily give him a 'Interesting'.

"Luckily, it seems like there are still many rational players."

This made Zheng Jie feel a bit relieved.

The second performer was a girl who still seemed to have tear stains on her face, and while waiting for the young man's performance to finish, you could faintly see her body trembling slightly.

Zheng Jie noticed that there seemed to be a small wet spot on her chest too, not knowing if it's because she cried a lot or for some other reason.

[Community 12 - Zhao Duo]

Zheng Jie almost couldn't help but want to give her a 'Interesting' in advance.

However, as soon as the microphone switched to the second performer, a statement from the big screen left Zheng Jie utterly shocked.

"Don't trust him, he's lying!!"

The second performer, with a crying voice, shouted, directly destroying the somewhat stabilized atmosphere just now.

Zheng Jie was also stunned.

Lying? What do you mean?

The young man just kept telling everyone to stay calm and restrained, didn't he? He also said that the killer's resources are not unlimited.

These are all big truths, where's the lie?

Zheng Jie's attention was completely drawn to the talent show on the big screen.

"Two players have already died!

"They were both female players with a lot of votes! Is that a coincidence?

"What does this indicate?

"Just like the sister I just met said, many male players have already taken action!

"To the first performer just now, I don't know if you did it on purpose or by accident, but your words will seriously mislead all female players!

"What do you mean by 'The killer's number of 'steps' is limited'?

"The game is still ongoing, and we are still meeting, as long as male players 'step' each other, they can steadily gain 3 'steps' in the next three hours!

"If, in the last one or two meetings, these male players who have gathered five 'steps' jointly murder, they will be enough to kill all the female players, leaving none behind!

"You listened to someone's insidious words earlier, keeping restraint and rationality, but no matter how you exchange 'steps', the number of 'steps' will not surpass the male players!

"The final result can only be one, which is the death of all female players! All visa time will be taken by male players and Imitators!

"Even if you have already formed a stable partner, the other party can completely change their mind at the last meeting!

"So now there's only one thing you can do, which is to protect yourself through 'reporting' before enough male players exchange and gather 5 'steps'!

"This is the only way to survive out of this game!"

Zheng Jie's brow furrowed tightly, and right at the opening, his hand instinctively reached for the 'Boring' button.

"How can she do this!!"

Zheng Jie was very angry because the behavior of this performer was blatantly inciting conflict, and the harm of such a speech could be even greater than murder in a meeting.

Because murder by players has a cost, whether consuming 6 'votes' or 5 'steps', it's almost impossible to kill a second time in the short term.

But the performer's speech directly incited hatred among all players, and as long as a few players believed it, several more lives would be in danger immediately.

Pressing 'Boring', as long as 20 are gathered, the talent show can be cut off immediately.

But before pressing it, Zheng Jie again fell into a brief hesitation, because according to stage 2 game rules, cutting off the talent show through 'Boring' is equivalent to directly killing the performer.

Zheng Jie was not completely mentally prepared for killing.

After hesitating for a few seconds, he gritted his teeth and pressed the button anyway.

"Whatever, my life is also in jeopardy, at this moment there's no spare energy to manage so many trivial things!

"If other female players believe what she said and report me, then she's actually murdering me, why can't I fight back?"

However, after pressing the 'Boring' button, nothing happened.

Until the second performer finished speaking and the talent show ended, and the results appeared on the big screen, nothing happened.

[The first performer received a total of 22 'Interesting', gaining an additional 2 'votes'.]

[The second performer received a total of 17 'Interesting', gaining an additional 1 'vote'.]

Seeing this result, Zheng Jie suddenly collapsed.

He understood, even if he pressed the 'Boring' button, it was meaningless because 20 couldn't be gathered at all.

The players who voted 'Interesting' can't, and certainly wouldn't, actively vote 'Boring'.

There are 40 players in total in this game, 20 male and 20 female players.

If all male players voted 'Boring', it could indeed reach 20 votes, but that possibility is very low, because there will surely be some who hesitate and do not vote in time.

From the 17 'Interesting' votes, it's even possible that some male players voted 'Interesting' for Zhao Duo.

Because currently, the two deceased players are both female, plus the performer in the talent show herself, the female players can only have a maximum of 17 votes.

Some female players do not agree or don't want to vote 'Interesting', so the only explanation is that some male players also voted 'Interesting'.

Anyway, Zhao Duo finished saying this series of inciting words completely, and it had an irreversible impact on the progress of the entire game.

After calming down, Zheng Jie realized that from a female player's standpoint, her words really had too big a lethality and were too provocative.

Until now, almost all players had understood the basic rules of the game.

According to the matching mechanism, once in every three or four matches, there is a match between the same gender.

Unlike matches with the opposite sex, which is prone to friction, matches between the same sex are generally well-mannered and discuss matters sensibly.

And same-sex exchanges of votes and 'steps' might be rare in the first four hours, but it will rise significantly in the latter four hours.

This means it is indeed possible for a large-scale exchange of 'steps' to occur among male players.

As long as these male players had three or four 'steps' before, they are very likely to gather five during the exchange of 'steps' later.

And the female players? They have many votes, but votes do not cancel 'steps', nor do they prevent them from being killed.

They can report murders, but reporting must be accumulated three times to apply.

This means that if female players do nothing, by the last meeting, the worst-case scenario is:

Male players first agree on exchanging votes, make sure they can obtain the extra 30,000 minutes of visa time, and then press 'Murder' in the last second before the meeting ends, consuming their last 5 'steps'.

At this moment, female players will have no power to resist, a single report there's no threat at all.

The only way is to consume 'votes' to accumulate three reports and kill male players ahead of time before most male players exchange and collect five 'steps'.

But this is precisely the crux of the problem:

If this thinking continues to be deduced, then both sides will turn into a cycle of mutual harm:

Female players indiscriminately report male players, and male players, after being reported, indiscriminately murder female players.

In the end, the result is a bloodbath.

Due to the unique mechanism of the game where players get matched in pairs, even if everyone's conscience limited them in the early stages, it is completely possible for a mass death to occur if there is a total collapse in the final meeting.

Is there a way to protect oneself through 'votes' or 'steps'?

There is, but the conditions are harsh, and the cost-performance ratio is extremely low.

To avoid being killed by male players, female players must exchange 'steps' as much as possible between themselves; as long as the number of 'steps' is more than the male player who is going to kill them, they are safe.

But the problem is most female players originally have fewer 'steps', even if exchanged, they will still die when meeting male players with more 'steps'.

Moreover, whether to exchange 'votes' or 'steps', only one can be selected per meeting.

And the meeting between the same sex occurs once in every three or four rounds.

Compared to exchanging 'steps', it is obviously more cost-effective to exchange 'votes' for female players, as 2 votes can initiate a 'report'.

Although it does not result in immediate death, as long as enough female players report at the same time, the killing speed may not be slow.

It's the same for male players, although they can also protect themselves through exchanging 'votes', exchanging 'steps' is clearly more cost-effective.

All in all, until now.

'Matchmaking Game' has turned into a 'Killing Competition'.

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