The contradictory test questions made the audience talk nonstop, even knowledgeable people like alchemists and saints had to frown and think.
City Lord Ho Dai Quang turned to ask the master Duc Cuong:
– What do you think about this contradiction?
The wise and erudite master Duc Cuong stroked his beard and replied:
– Obviously this is a classification puzzle, candidates with a combative mentality, candidates who pursue offensive power will tend to choose the spear, while candidates who want to be safe and like to defend will tend to choose the shield, thus all candidates will be divided into two opposing sides. And these two sides will probably have to fight each other to break the conflict, if the spear side wins, it is equivalent to the shield being fake, and if the shield side wins, it is equivalent to the spear being fake.
– But of course there are exceptions, Vo Phi Duong chose both, as if to say the spear and the shield are one and the same thing. One thing has the function of piercing everything and also the function of defending against everything, of course it cannot pierce itself and that thing is still called Contradiction but there is no contradiction at all.
Ho Dai Quang asked again:
– So what do you think about the young man who didn’t choose any side and went straight into the forest?
Master Duc Cuong replied:
– Perhaps he thought that if the spear did not pierce the shield, neither side would win nor lose. The spear is the spear and the shield is the shield, these two things will forever exist side by side, and never fight to create contradictions… Contradictions and shields, it seems like there is only one of two choices, but there are actually four choices, I really want to see what the purpose and results of these choices are.
Master Duc Cuong did not have to wait long, the content displayed on the monitor screen began to change, including two very large screens showing two groups of contestants, each group in an area far away from each other.
As the master Duc Cuong predicted, these two groups were classified according to the choice between spear and shield. The group of candidates in the first screen all had spear-shaped badges, the remaining group of candidates all had shield-shaped badges.
The area where the contestants were choosing their models was filled with a gloomy atmosphere as the contestants had to be on guard and stalk their opponents. Suddenly, a referee appeared and broke the atmosphere:
– Welcome to the Fairy Forest, where the second round of the Heroic Youth Competition: Sexual Intercourse is being held. My job is to explain the rules of the second round, and first, please note that you should not fight with someone wearing a badge with the same symbol as you.
– Why?
The referee replied:
– Because this is round two. Based on the choices in the conflict question, the contestants will be divided into two opposing sides, you standing here are a member of the Contradictory side.
A candidate asked:
– Does that mean people on the same side cannot fight?
The referee nodded:
– That’s right, this is one of the rules of the second round: Contestants are not allowed to hit their teammates in any way, regardless of whether the action is unintentional or plotting to harm teammates, they will be immediately eliminated from the team and become a Rebel with a black badge and an X on the symbol.
The referee said as he took out a badge that was identical in shape to each contestant’s badge, but it was black in color and had a red X carved on the spear symbol, meaning that the person wearing this badge was a traitor from the Mau faction, while the traitor from the Thuan faction would have a black badge with an X on the shield symbol.
Curious candidates:
– What’s wrong with being a traitor?
The referee said:
– First of all, we need to talk about the Achievement mechanism. Each member of the Mau faction who destroys the badge of a member of the Thuan faction will receive achievement points, and vice versa, when a member of the Thuan faction destroys the badge of a member of the Mau faction, they will also receive achievement points. The amount of points the winner receives is the amount of points the defeated player has.
– How to know how many achievement points the opponent has?
– Based on the color of the badge! Currently, all candidates’ badges are transparent, meaning they only have 1 point. When they reach 2 points, the badge will turn to White, 4 points is Blue, 6 points is Green, 8 points is Yellow, 11 points is Red. 11 is the maximum score and candidates with Red badges will be called Commanders. The battle will end when all remaining candidates are Commanders. And these Commanders are the candidates who are qualified to enter the final round of the competition.
– Rebellion is a special case of destroying a teammate’s badge. The person who becomes a Rebel will not be able to increase their achievements in the usual way, but can only increase their achievements by destroying a Commander of the opposing faction to usurp the throne. Whoever destroys the Rebellion badge will receive the amount of achievements that the opponent achieved before becoming a Rebel along with 2 bonus points.
– There are also special cases, a person with a badge without a symbol and a person with a badge with the symbols of both sides. The person with a badge without a symbol is called No-Face. When No-Face’s badge has no symbol, the person who destroys his badge will not receive the achievement. And when No-Face destroys the badge of a person in any side, No-Face’s badge will show the symbol of the other side. That means when he eliminates a person from the Shield side, he will become a person from the Bear side, and then he can still destroy the badge of a person from the Bear side to become a person from the Shield side. No-Face can eliminate people from the same side to change sides without changing color to Traitor, but if someone eliminates No-Face when No-Face is in the same side, that person will become a Traitor.
Being able to switch between the two factions and eliminate people from either faction was a huge advantage, causing the contestants to curiously look down at the badge under their chests in hopes that they themselves were Faceless. But of course, everyone was disappointed, one person spoke up and asked:
– So who is that person? Why can he become Faceless?
The referee replied:
– Information about this person is a secret, but why did he become Faceless? It was because he didn’t touch the Spear or the Shield but chose to go straight into the forest.
– Is there such a choice? – The candidates of the Mau faction were curiously discussing but had no clue.
The referee continued:
– There is another special case where a candidate chooses both sides, he wears a badge with both the symbol of the Spear and the Shield, this person is called Two-Faced.
The candidates were surprised once again:
– What advantage does this guy have?
The referee replied:
– Like No-Face, Two-Face can eliminate anyone from both sides, including No-Face. Furthermore…
Being able to eliminate even Faceless, and yet there was “more”, it must be a terrible advantage, the contestants and the audience held their breath waiting for the judge to continue.
– Furthermore, anyone can beat this guy and get double the amount of achievements if they destroy his badge.
From a small screen came a loud “Fuck” sound.
Duong’s face turned pale after hearing the information from the referee in his area, he muttered in his head:
– Are you playing me again, Google? Is choosing No Face a good choice? Oh, or is there another advantage?
Google replied:
– Do not have.
– No? Then why do you want me to choose both?
– To increase the difficulty.
– Fuck! What to do now?
– Hide.
– Fuck…
After announcing a few more trivial rules, the referees simultaneously declared the start of the second round of the Heroic Youth War, members of the two sides quickly moved in different directions to hunt down their targets in the giant Fairy Tale Forest.