Chapter 119: Guo Jia Must Die

Zhou Leping is a junior at An University and also the president of the club formed by the merger of their school's board game and card game societies.

According to custom, they hold a club activity every two weeks.

Most of the time it is Monopoly-based; although some people have suggested D&D, it was passed over for being too time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Compared to board games that require dozens or hundreds of hours to run a campaign, the members of their club prefer Monopoly, which can be played in one or two hours.

However, after they arrived at the activity location early today, the member responsible for bringing the Monopoly set had not yet arrived.

"Why is Gao Pengfei so slow?" the vice president of the board and card game society complained.

"He probably has something to do. He told me on QQ that he'd be here soon and also said he had a surprise for us." Zhou Leping checked his watch and found that it was indeed more than ten minutes past the agreed-upon time.

The other five members participating in the activity were all asking over there when they would start.

Not many people in college sincerely participate in activities; most just think about coming to get some credits and leaving, so naturally, the shorter the activity time, the better.

Zhou Leping had no choice but to let them wait a while longer.

After another seven or eight minutes passed, Gao Pengfei's short and chubby figure finally appeared not far away.

"What's going on with you today? Don't you know that group activities need to be on time? You've got so many of us waiting here for you!" Zhou Leping scolded.

Gao Pengfei bowed and apologized embarrassedly, saying: "Sorry, sorry, I went to pick up a package, but that delivery station is too far from the school. I'm really sorry for wasting everyone's time."

"Next time, wait until the activity is over to go pick up your packages. Don't pull this stunt again."

"It's not that, Senior, I really couldn't not pick up this package."

"Would you die if you didn't pick it up?" Zhou Leping said speechlessly.

"If I didn't pick it up, our activity wouldn't be able to go on, hehe." Gao Pengfei gave a mysterious smile and pulled an unopened delivery box from the back of his pants.

"What is it? Where's the Monopoly?" Zhou Leping asked with a frown.

"This is the surprise I was talking about."

Gao Pengfei didn't hesitate; he nimbly used a pair of craft scissors to open the delivery box, revealing an exquisitely packaged flat square box inside, with the golden characters "Three Kingdoms Kill" printed in the center and the words "Xianwan Production" marked below.

"Have you guys heard of Three Kingdoms Kill?"

"Three Kingdoms Kill... that new board game that came out recently?"

The others all shook their heads, but as a board game enthusiast, Zhou Leping was relatively knowledgeable about this area.

Gao Pengfei immediately nodded: "Yes, yes, that's the one."

"Isn't that thing sold out in all the convenience stores?"

"I managed to snag a copy online." Gao Pengfei is the trendy surfer type; he had been exposed to online shopping several years ago and understood the convenience of online sales channels better than they did.

At this time, a club member said: "But none of us know how to play it."

"There seems to be an instruction manual. They say it's not very difficult. Anyway, since none of us know how to play and there are no experts, let's just treat it as entertainment."

Gao Pengfei tore off the plastic wrap while speaking.

Inside the box, three stacks of cards were neatly embedded in plastic slots, with two sheets of paper underneath.

One was something like a Monopoly map—in Yu-Gi-Oh! this is called a playmat—and the other was the instruction manual.

"Everyone draws an identity card at the start, divided into four types: Lord, Loyalist, Rebel, and Renegade. According to the identity, the Loyalist must protect the Lord and help the Lord kill the Rebels and the Renegade; the Rebels must kill the Lord; the Renegade must kill everyone except themselves..."

Gao Pengfei read through the rules, but everyone was still confused after listening.

But Gao Pengfei clapped his hands and said: "This is quite simple! I've understood it all!"

Three Kingdoms Kill is indeed not a card game that is hard to pick up. With Gao Pengfei leading and teaching the others, plus the guidance of the instruction manual, everyone soon grasped most of it.

Because there were eight people playing, it was divided into a composition of one Lord, two Loyalists, four Rebels, and one Renegade.

Twenty-four of the twenty-five general cards were drawn; everyone randomly drew three, chose one, and put the rest back.

However, they were all playing for the first time and didn't know the strength of the general skills. Two of the girls chose generals with good-looking card art, one Guo Jia and one Da Qiao. As luck would have it, both of these first-edition Three Kingdoms Kill starter-level generals were chosen by them.

And they were both Loyalists, so they looked up at the Lord in unison.

The Lord was Gao Pengfei, who had chosen a character that looked very valiant but was actually close to a blank slate: Zhang Fei.

The rules of Three Kingdoms Kill are somewhat similar to Fight the Landlord; people at the table are divided into different factions, and you win by defeating people from other factions. The two girls also knew at this time that they would win if they protected Gao Pengfei well.

Looking at the general skills, their two generals seemed quite suitable for protecting people.

"The Lord goes first in the first round, draw two cards."

After everyone had finished drawing their four cards, Gao Pengfei drew two more. At this moment, he noticed two sharp gazes staring fixedly at him.

"Why are you two looking at me with ill intent? Are you Rebels? Damn! Still looking!"

Gao Pengfei's vigilance spiked, and without hesitation, he played a Slash, aiming a blade at the girl next to him: "Because you are sitting on my left and right, the distance between us is one. According to the rules, I can attack you directly."

Girl: "???"

"Big brother! I'm a Loyalist!"

"Don't talk nonsense, do you have a Flash? If you don't have a Flash, you lose a health point."

The girl playing Guo Jia was stunned. She had a horse and a Male and Female Dual Swords in her hand, and the remaining two cards were both Slashes; where would she get a Flash?

There was no other way; having been slashed by the incompetent ruler, she could only obediently lose a health point.

"Then I activate my general skill, Legacy: after taking one point of damage, I can look at the top two cards of the draw pile and then give these cards to any character."

She flipped over the top two cards of the draw pile, a Slash and an equipment card, and shoved them into Gao Pengfei's hand, thinking that since she had shown her loyalty like this, he would surely be able to see that she was a Loyalist.

"Haha, foolish! You still want to use this method to deceive my eyes? Take another blade from me!" Gao Pengfei laughed, "Zhang Fei's general skill: I can use any number of Slashes in one turn. Then I use this card, Wine, which can increase the damage of the next Slash this turn by one point."

"Rebel, die!"

The frail Guo Jia successfully achieved the feat of dying in the first round without even drawing a card.

But this is also the norm; Guo Jia, after all, it's normal for him to die first.

But this Guo Jia was hacked to death by her own Lord. The girl flipped over her hidden identity card, feeling aggrieved.

A Loyalist. The whole table suddenly fell silent.

Gao Pengfei scratched his head awkwardly: "How about... we start over?"

"No, I just want to watch a lord like you get sliced into a thousand pieces by the Rebels!" the girl said, pouting.

"..."

The first round of the game ended, unsurprisingly, with a victory for the Rebel faction; even though the Renegade Zhou Leping had tried very hard to help the lord kill the Rebels, he was unfortunately outnumbered.

The three-person team had fewer turns to draw cards than the four Rebels.

However, the outcome of one round clearly could not dampen their love for Legends of the Three Kingdoms, and soon the group was immersed in the fun of the game.

Scenes like this were appearing all over the country at this very moment.

Legends of the Three Kingdoms, with its features of being easy to learn, fast-paced, affordable, and highly playable, quickly sparked a craze among students.