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Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

Chapter 86: The Mapʼs Omission and the Emerging Deception · Oct 14, 2026

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51 Chapter 51: The Choice! The Second Room! 2026-10-14
52 Chapter 52: Coo! 2026-10-14
53 Chapter 53: The Cruel 2026-10-14
54 Chapter 54: The Second Question, The God of Change! 2026-10-14
55 Chapter 55: Testing the Waters 2026-10-14
56 Chapter 56: The Third Room! Five Statements! 2026-10-14
57 Chapter 57: Invitation, Deception, Betrayal 2026-10-14
58 Chapter 58: Lovers Turned Foes, Blood Debt Paid in Blood 2026-10-14
59 Chapter 59: A Web of Lies 2026-10-14
60 Chapter 60: Speak My Name 2026-10-14
61 Chapter 61: Future Lin Yu, Lin Yu the God? 2026-10-14
62 Chapter 62: The Fourth Room! 2026-10-14
63 Chapter 63: Reward Stage - The Origin of the Fraudster Class! 2026-10-14
64 Chapter 64: “Unforgotten’s” True Purpose and Identity! 2026-10-14
65 Chapter 65: The Final Deception! 2026-10-14
66 Chapter 66: Two Rewards: Teeth of Prophecy and Tongue of Deceit 2026-10-14
67 Chapter 67: Returning to Reality, Promotion Trial! 2026-10-14
68 Chapter 68: Evaluation and Inquiry 2026-10-14
69 Chapter 69: The Truth About Promotion! 2026-10-14
70 Chapter 70: The Tycoonʼs Invitation! 2026-10-14
71 Chapter 71: The Tycoonʼs Strength! 2026-10-14
72 Chapter 72: Unboxing! 2026-10-14
73 Chapter 73: Investigation Results 2026-10-14
74 Chapter 74: New Dungeon! The Cafeteria Freezer! 2026-10-14
75 Chapter 75: Entering the Game! Promotion Trial and the Fraudster! 2026-10-14
76 Chapter 76: A Thorny Problem 2026-10-14
77 Chapter 77: Ability Activated! Searching for Outposts! 2026-10-14
78 Chapter 78: Encountering Another Player 2026-10-14
79 Chapter 79: The Strategy to Complete the Mission 2026-10-14
80 Chapter 80: The Torch and Unexpected Findings 2026-10-14
81 Chapter 81: The Third Profession, Teacher! 2026-10-14
82 Chapter 82: The Fourth Profession, Ruffian! 2026-10-14
83 Chapter 83: The Great Detective Furbollo 2026-10-14
84 Chapter 84: Twelve Professions! The Cabin at the Center Point! 2026-10-14
85 Chapter 85: The Strange House, The Visiting Detective, and ʼChateʼ 2026-10-14
86 Chapter 86: The Mapʼs Omission and the Emerging Deception 2026-10-14
87 Chapter 87: Rest 2026-10-14
88 Chapter 88: Dream, Death, and Clues 2026-10-14
89 Chapter 89: Kidnapping the Detective! 2026-10-14
90 Chapter 90: The Detectiveʼs Discovery 2026-10-14
91 Chapter 91: Password, Dinner, and Puzzle 2026-10-14
92 Chapter 92: Researcherʼs Notes and the Truth 2026-10-14
93 Chapter 93: Vale Valetti 2026-10-14
94 Chapter 94: New Death, Accelerated Time 2026-10-14
95 Chapter 95: This Must Be Chateʼs Illusion! 2026-10-14
96 Chapter 96: The Truth of Extreme Winter Mountain 2026-10-14
97 Chapter 97: I Thought You Were From the Psychological Society! 2026-10-14
98 Chapter 98: The True Nature of Chate 2026-10-14
99 Chapter 99: The Truth Corporation and Ville Valetti’s Request 2026-10-14
100 Chapter 100: The Deal 2026-10-14

Chapter 86: The Mapʼs Omission and the Emerging Deception

Initially, Lin Yu hadnʼt doubted Furbolloʼs identity at all.

After all, Lin Yu had easily discussed profession-related information about the Death Game with him.

Although this detective had completely misanalyzed Lin Yuʼs profession during their first meeting...

He was indeed a genuine Detective.

The Death Game would never assign professions randomly.

Moreover, the Detective professionʼs abilities naturally allowed one to quickly obtain ”clues.”

But...

The ”explanation” Furbollo provided happened to be the least credible one possible.

Because there wasnʼt enough time.

No matter how talented a Detective was, reaching the conclusion that ”each abandoned stronghold happens to have seven adjacent strongholds” would require visiting at least sixteen strongholds.
Yet...

He couldnʼt have moved that fast!

Even so, Lin Yu might not have completely ruled out the possibility that this ”Furbollo” had used some rapid movement or enhanced observation tool.

Therefore, Lin Yu chose to take out the map for further testing.

After traveling all night, Lin Yu had confirmed one thing...

This map had ”omissions.”

There were 13 players in this game.

But on this map... even including the central point, there were only 97 strongholds—plus 12 abandoned ones.

Yet throughout the night, Lin Yu had indeed encountered all twelve other players.

At first, after noticing all the strongholds could form a twelve-sectioned circle, Lin Yu suspected a player might be spawning at the central point.

But after actually traversing the area last night, Lin Yu confirmed...

When drawing this map, each sectorʼs area had been slightly expanded.

After dividing it into twelve equal parts...

An entire sector had been concealed.

The hidden sector happened to be where Furbollo was located.

Lin Yu hadnʼt noticed when passing through—because Furbolloʼs area was almost identical in structure to the next sector!

When Lin Yu pointed his gun at him, Furbollo raised his hands in panic.

”I... Iʼm not Chate! Iʼm a Player!”

Seeing Furbolloʼs genuine terror, Lin Yu could tell.

This wasnʼt an act.

But... that didnʼt prove he was ”real.”

After all, the burly man theyʼd encountered earlier hadnʼt been acting either.

Both the burly man and this Furbollo were utterly convinced of their own identities.

Otherwise, Lin Yuʼs earlier deception against the burly man wouldnʼt have been believed and actualized.

So...

Lin Yu looked at Furbollo and didnʼt hesitate to fire his bullet.

A veteran player on the forum had once posted a guide noting that statistically, whether in Survival or Slaughter dungeons, the most fatal moment when encountering ”monsters”...

Was always during the first encounter.

Thus, Lin Yu didnʼt rely on his Soldier-enhanced physique or Enforcer combat skills to engage directly.

He simply fired.

”Bang!”

After the gunshot.

”Furbollo” collapsed in shock, his dying expression still frozen in disbelief.

Even Lin Yu, who had been certain this was an imposter, now felt a twinge of doubt.

Had he actually killed the wrong person?

Well, even if he had... better him than me, right?

But two subsequent events confirmed Lin Yuʼs judgment had been correct.

First was Furbolloʼs ”corpse” on the ground.

It rapidly ”melted.”

His entire body first faded to black, then softened in texture before becoming a viscous non-Newtonian fluid.

Soon, this black liquid seeped into the ground.

The entire process took mere seconds.

However, Lin Yu had been closely observing ”Furbolloʼs corpse” and missed no detail.

The second confirmation was...

Lin Yu still retained his Doctor abilities.

”So the Furbollo I first met was real, this one was fake.”

”While I canʼt confirm this was Chate in disguise... whatever it was, its disguise method involves creating replicas that ʼmimicʼ behavior.”

”And judging by Furbolloʼs reaction earlier, these replicas canʼt copy memories... probably only mimicking what theyʼve already observed.”

Lin Yu exhaled and pulled up a chair at the workbench.

”So the actual number of strongholds isnʼt 97, but 105...”

Pondering this, Lin Yu spread out the map on the workbench.

Beside it stood a pencil holder containing an unused pencil.

Lin Yu took it out and drew two dotted lines on the map, marking the ”erased” thirteenth sector.

This sector should be due north on the map.

”If thereʼs an unmarked sector here with the starting point at ʼcenter,ʼ Furbolloʼs stronghold was here last night, and I passed one...”

Lin Yu marked three points.

Then he froze.

Lin Yu suddenly realized all previous strongholds followed a naming convention of letters A to E combined with numbers 1-12.

But—if Furbolloʼs current location was labeled A13...

Connecting A1 to A13 like a childhood dot-to-dot puzzle...

Formed a perfect arc.

Next was connecting B1 to B12—though missing two points initially, adding them in the omitted 13th sector would form...

A cursive lowercase ”h.”

The C connections... shaped like an ”e.”

The D section formed an ”a.”

The E section—a cursive ”t.”

Though these letters overlapped, if the initial arc was considered a ”c”...

Arranging them from A to E spelled a word:

c, h, e, a, t—cheat.

Which in Chinese means...

Deception, fraud.

Lin Yu exhaled deeply.

”I see. Hiding this sector prevents people from connecting these letters.”

With this word revealed on the map, everything clicked into place.

”That monster ʼChateʼ the burly man mentioned—perhaps its real name is also ʼcheat.ʼ”

”So if the mapʼs strongholds are hinting that this is all a ʼdeceptionʼ... then my Fraudsterʼs Promotion Task must involve whoever set up this scam.”

Lin Yu murmured to himself.

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