My Level Zero System-Chapter 310: An Unpredictable Situation

"Why did you attack me?"

In the common meeting room, the Flamed Family representative questioned the Zento Family representative, showing a slight lack of composure.

The latter appeared extremely calm and said naturally, 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"The optimal choice, that's all."

"I just chose randomly, it was just bad luck that it landed on you."

"You..."

The Flamed Family representative frowned, his dissatisfaction becoming more pronounced. But in a game like this, attacking another person's room was not something against morality. He couldn't say much more.

He was simply unwilling to accept it.

At the same time, Kain, sitting to one side, was quietly observing the situation.

"The Zento Family representative attacked the Flamed Family representative instead of putting that gold coin amount into the treasury."

"Could it be that this person is afraid his treasury will be stolen?"

"No, that's not right."

"If he were that afraid of his treasury being stolen, it would be best to bid 0 gold coins, as the others did, because spending 18 gold coins just to attack doesn't seem very beneficial."

In fact, ever since he saw the Zento Family representative bid 18 gold coins, which was the entire amount of gold coins he currently possessed, Kain had been suspicious.

It should be known that, because of Faith's statement exposing the game's nature, everyone would be more reserved about placing a large bid. Excluding Kain, there were three others with the same amount of gold coins as the Zento Family representative. If the Zento Family representative decided to take a risk this turn, after judging that Kain wouldn't dare to bid all-in, the Zento Family representative would also face a great risk of nearly losing all his gold coins if someone else with 18 gold coins also bid all-in.

But the result was completely dominant. Excluding the Zento Family representative, the representatives of the Flamed, Raymon, and Don Families all chose to bid 0 gold coins.

"Could it be that the Zento Family player truly read the situation and thus decided to go against the thoughts of others to win?"

Kain couldn't help but contemplate. The Zento Family player took a gamble and succeeded, but he still felt something was amiss here.

As soon as he saw the rules, Kain had vaguely guessed that because this was a game that overly balanced the choices, there was no absolutely correct strategic choice. Therefore, this game was not just about emotionless calculation, but also required grasping the psychology of the majority to decide whether the next move was right or wrong.

And in turn 1, Cyrus was quietly creating a test to gauge the level of thinking of each player.

In that bidding turn, four players bid 2 gold coins, a choice that was stable enough without straying too far from reality and getting lost in assumptions. This also led to these four people reserving 18 gold coins each in turn 2.

Kain's judgment sounded a bit arbitrary and partly relied on instinct. But if those four players had an equal amount of money, their level of thinking should also be roughly the same.

"No, I'm overthinking it."

Kain quickly corrected his thoughts.

"Winning with 18 gold coins... presumably, that was the opponent's only gamble to secure the win against the players who possessed 17 gold coins. If the Zento Family representative truly had superior mind-reading abilities compared to the other three, he should have considered saving gold coins."

If there was one player among them who truly dared to take a risk, Kain thought the Madea Family representative would be a better fit, as he was the only one who decided to spend 5 gold coins in bidding turn 1. A result created by a judgment that was too far from reality and somewhat dreamy.

Of course, Kain could assume that the Zento Family representative's behavior in bidding turn 1 was fake, intended to mislead others into thinking he could only think that far, and then in turn 2, he truly made a move and secured the first successful bid. But as already mentioned, spending the entire 18 gold coins just to carry out an attack is too wasteful. And the Zento Family representative, after learning Cyrus's strategy, wouldn't hesitate to reveal what he had tried to conceal just to win a single turn immediately afterward?

Kain found it somewhat illogical.

Therefore, his temporary conclusion was that the opponent took a gamble and won, even though the opponent then didn't dare to put the money into his treasury but instead attacked another faction.

In reality, the key factor that led Kain to a wrong deduction was not the Zento Family representative, but another reckless gambler—the Acer Family representative, who failed after spending all 17 gold coins in bidding.

If there was only one reckless person, Kain would rigorously question in his argument why that person dared to take such a risk. But if there were two reckless people, Kain could only gradually lean towards the idea that this was a trend.

Frankly, the Acer Family representative's action somewhat blinded Kain.

But for Faith, his judgment was much sharper.

"These four... have joined forces."

As soon as he saw that among the four players who had 18 gold coins, only the Zento Family player bid 18 gold coins, while the other three, without exception, chose to bid 0 gold coins.

On this point, Faith's judgment was somewhat similar to Kain's, but he added his own assumption: the reason the Zento Family player bid 18 gold coins was because he knew no other player with 18 gold coins would bid.

That way, the Zento Family player put all 18 gold coins into the treasury. The claim of bidding all the gold coins to avoid being undercut by a player with 17 gold coins was just a distracting calculation by the opponent. Faith guessed for sure that the guy who arranged the cooperative situation had thought this far.

Because if the Zento Family player was truly cautious enough to spend all the money in his pocket to win and avoid being undercut by a player with 17 gold coins, he should have been even more cautious about the players with 18 gold coins.

Therefore, there is only one logical explanation for this asymmetry: the four players with 18 gold coins had cooperated, which is why the Zento Family player was not worried at all.

And with the premise that the four players from the Zento, Flamed, Raymon, and Don Families had cooperated, the so-called "Flamed Family" being attacked was just a tactic to mislead others. By assuming that the Zento Family player used the successfully bid gold coins to attack another faction, others would not discover that the Zento Family's treasury was now full.