Chapter 322 Winner
Chapter 322 Winner
Ding--
It was the sound of metal hitting glass.
As the gambler stood up, a copper coin with a square outside and a round inside fell on the glass table. The clinking sound startled Xia Yubing and was followed by a muffled bang. Allen, who was trying to draw cards again in the last second, fell on the back of the sofa behind him with his eyes rolled back, and the playing cards fell down his thighs and under the table legs.
Allen is dead.
"Ah--!" Sally Sally on the side screamed in fear, pearl-like crystal tears rolling down her cheeks. The girl's eyes were filled with fear. She lowered her head and covered her mouth with both hands, fearing that the gambler would notice her. Her whole body began to tremble rapidly like a sieve.
At the same time, two pale fingers emitting a foul smell gently picked up the copper coin on the table and pushed it to the side of the card pile in the center of the table.
"This is..." Xia Yubing tightly grasped the cards in his hand, staring at the copper coin in the middle of the table. The strange shape of the coin, which was square outside and round inside, and the ancient and twisted four-character inscription, every feature was so clear and familiar. This was clearly...
Life money.
Xia Yubing's eyes fell on the sofa as the gambler slowly sat back down. What happened at the card table just now quickly replayed in his mind:
At the same time as Allen died, a life-saving coin suddenly appeared out of thin air on the gambling table. The gambler stood up, pushed the coin to the side of the pile of cards in the middle of the table, and finally sat back in his original position.
"Looking at Ix's reaction, Allen must have just drawn the 9 of Spades... Even a stranger like me can guess it, so Allen, who has a close relationship with Ix, can definitely see it too."
"In other words, Allen judged the suit of the card he drew from Ix's expression, so he gave up the 9 of Spades he had already chosen and prepared to draw another one."
Thinking of this, Xia Yubing already had the answer in her mind: "Alan's behavior was judged by the gambler as 'cheating'."
Allen died while being convicted of cheating.
Xia Yubing didn't have a very deep understanding of the rules of the God of Wealth's Five Passes, but because of Ning Zhe, she knew the most basic rule, which was that in front of the God of Wealth, money = life.
"After being convicted of cheating, Allen lost his life, and at the same time a copper coin appeared on the table. This coin was most likely exchanged for Allen's life."
"But why didn't the gambler pocket the coin, but pushed it to the center of the table?"
While thinking, Xia Yubing did not stop her hands. She summarized what had just happened into a few sentences and quickly wrote them down in her notebook. The tip of the pen in her hand trembled. Across the card table, Ix's already pale face had become even paler.
It was his turn to draw a card.
Veins bulged on Ix's hands as he held the cards. The stench of a rotting corpse penetrated his nostrils, making him feel disgusted. His eyes moved back and forth between Allen's body and the gambler beside him, and finally stopped on the cards in his hand. The 9 of Spades that Allen had held was still half-pulled out, without any change.
"Huh..." Ix took a deep breath, pulled out the 9 of Spades that was supposed to be taken from his hand, and gently placed it in front of Allen's body.
As the card fell into place, the atmosphere at the table seemed to relax a little, and he knew that he had made the right choice.
Ix glanced at Allen's body, then turned his gaze to the center of the table and muttered, "That coin..."
Guests who could enter the Santa Gloria Opera House were either rich or noble, and as a member of the Ickes family, he was no exception. Ickes had heard a little about the God of Wealth in the far east... but only a little. He only knew that if he saw the God of Wealth, he could probably buy his life with money, but he didn't know any deeper details of the rules.
At this time, a new line of words appeared on the notebook in front of Xia Yubing.
She pulled the notebook off the table, placed it on her lap and looked down. The newly appeared black handwriting was very concise, with only one sentence:
【Has Alan's body disappeared? 】
Xia Yubing was stunned. For a moment, it was as if a flash of lightning flashed through her mind. She raised her head and looked across the card table. She saw Allen's body with white eyes still lying there. He did not disappear as Sally Sally described before.
In previous Russian roulette games, the loser would obviously leave the game and return to the real world.
Xia Yubing lowered her head and wrote on the paper: [No, he is still there]
Ning Zhe's reply quickly appeared on the paper:
【That makes sense.】
[That copper coin should be the stake of your game.]
【You are gambling with your lives. 】
[In a gambling game, once a player cheats and is caught, the player will be directly judged as a loser, the bet will be confiscated, and the player will be expelled. ] [This Allen's "bet" has been confiscated, but his body has not left the field, and the copper coin has not been pocketed by the gambler. ]
[This means that the gambler cannot take away this bet, even if He is the banker of this game. ]
[In a gambling game, besides the dealer, there is only one person who is qualified to take the loser's bet. ]
【——Winner】
[That is to say, among you, there is a 'winner' who can win this bet]
[He won't leave the field until the 'winner' takes Allen's 'bet'.]
As the black handwriting drew a perfect period on the notebook, Xia Yubing looked up with a sense of relief. Across the table, Ix had finished drawing the cards. He pulled out an Ace of Clubs from the God of Wealth.
Then it was the God of Wealth’s turn to draw a card, and He drew a 2 of diamonds from Sally Sally’s hand.
Then it was Sally Sally's turn. Her expression looked a little strange, but she still drew cards as usual and took out an Ace of Hearts from Xia Yubing's hand.
None of the three people drew a matching card, and now it was Xia Yubing's turn.
When Xia Yubing turned her gaze to the gambler and the cards in his hand, she suddenly realized one thing - there was only one card left in the gambler's hand.
"If I take away the gambler's last card, he will have no cards left..."
The rules of the game of drawing ghost cards are that the first player to clear his hand can be the first to leave. What if the first player to leave is a gambler?
Will it be considered the winner of the game if it leaves first?
If the gambler becomes the winner, what will happen to the rest of us?
Questions came one after another, but now there was no time for her to write to Ning Zhe. The gambler had already raised his hand and handed the last card in his hand to Xia Yubing.
Xia Yubing stretched out his hand tremblingly and pulled out the last card from the gambler's hand.
Plum Blossom 9
"It's indeed the 9 of clubs..." Xia Yubing paused and put the 9 of clubs into his hand.
She now holds a total of 6 cards in her hand, namely: 8 of Hearts, 9 of Clubs, J of Clubs, Q of Spades, K of Hearts, and King.
The number of cards held by the gambler is: 0
The gambler is leaving.
Several people at the card table held their breath, nervously watching the empty-handed gambler stand up from the sofa. His burly skeleton cast a deep black shadow on the card table, and the pale hand covered with corpse spots was raised under the light and stretched towards the card table.
"It's going to take away the bet that Allen lost?" This thought popped up in Xia Yubing's mind, but the idea was denied the next second, because the gambler's hand did not reach out to the pile of cards in the middle of the table, but reached out to the dead Allen and took away the card that Ix had placed on the table in front of him.
The 9 of spades.
The gambling game was still going on. The gambler first took the 9 of spades in front of Allen, then bent down and picked up all the playing cards scattered under the table one by one. He shuffled them in his hands, opened them into a round fan, and sat back in his original position.
Xia Yubing's expression remained unchanged as he quickly wrote a line of words on the paper:
[Just now, the gambler cleared his hand, but he did not leave. Instead, he inherited the cards in Allen's hand and sat back at the table.]
[It still wants to continue gambling]
Not long after, Ning Zhe's reply appeared below these two lines of handwriting:
[Of course He hopes to continue gambling. ]
[Because if you leave hastily like this, you can't become a 'winner'. ]
[How can I take away your bets if I am not the winner? 】
(End of this chapter)