Chapter 323 Greed
Chapter 323 Greed
As the saying goes, there is no greed without gambling, and no gambling without greed. Once the gambling begins, the result is nothing but winning or losing.
But the attitude displayed by gamblers at the poker table is extreme greed, and they cannot even accept to break even. They just want to win. Gamblers refuse to accept any other results except the winner takes all. They only accept winning.
"You win, win, win, but in the end you lose everything." Ning Zhe turned around and glanced at the empty deep corridor behind him, his eyes as calm as the sea.
On the card table, a new round of card drawing had begun. Xia Yubing nervously held the tip of her pen, and just as she was about to write to ask Ning Zhe what the conditions were for him to become the 'winner' in this game, before she lifted the pen tip, as if with telepathy, a line of black handwriting appeared on the paper stroke by stroke:
[I can’t tell you what the criteria for becoming a ‘winner’ are right now.]
[But I can teach you to identify who might be the 'loser'. ]
[Now look up and look at the cards of everyone at the table, and find the person with the most cards. ]
【The joker is in his hand.】
Xia Yubing shifted her gaze from the period at the end of the sentence and looked across the card table.
The gambler inherited the five cards of the dead Allen, and then drew cards from Ix's hand, and drew an Ace of Clubs, which matched the Ace of Spades in his own hand successfully, and the two cards were discarded to the deck together.
Number of cards held by the gambler: 4
Next was Ix, who originally held 7 cards in his hand, but after the gambler took one away, he had 6 cards left. He then drew cards from the God of Wealth and drew a 2 of Diamonds, which matched the 2 of Hearts in his own hand, and the two cards were discarded to the deck together.
Number of cards in hand held by Ix: 5
Then it was the God of Wealth. He originally had 9 cards in his hand, but after Ix took one away, he had 1 cards left. But then he drew a Queen of Clubs from Sally Sally's hand, bringing the number of cards in his hand back to 8.
Number of cards held by the God of Wealth: 9
"Ah, this..." Xia Yubing was stunned. She saw Sally Sally, who had had her card drawn by the God of Wealth, turned around and stretched out her hand cautiously.
Sally Sally originally held 5 cards. After the God of Wealth took away 1 card, there were 4 cards left. Then she drew a King of Hearts from Xia Yubing's hand, and drew a King of Diamonds from her own hand to match it, and discarded the two cards into the deck together.
Sally Sally has 3 cards in hand
Xia Yubing looked down at her hand again. She now held 5 cards.
It was Xia Yubing's turn to draw a card again.
"According to Ning Zhe, the joker is in the hands of the person with the most cards on the field. This person is undoubtedly the God of Wealth." Xia Yubing thought to himself.
The God of Wealth holds 9 cards, which is the initial number of cards in the hand when the gambler completes the deal and the gambling game officially begins. Each player's initial hand number is 9 cards, and this number will gradually decrease with rounds of drawing and pairing.
"But the number of cards in the God of Wealth's hand has never decreased. From the beginning of the game until now, in so many rounds of drawing cards, he has never discarded any card. The number of cards in the God of Wealth's hand has always been the original 9, and not a single card has been reduced."
This means that the God of Wealth has not drawn a card that matches the cards in his hand so far, so what's the point of playing this game?
"This luck is so bad..." Xia Yubing couldn't help but take a few more glances at the headless old corpse in the loose Confucian robe. The dark lightning-struck wood tattoo on the pale skin was so eye-catching.
While he was thinking, the gambler's hand holding the cards had already reached out. The rotten flesh gave off a foul odor that made Xia Yubing's nose wrinkle slightly. "Why are you so anxious?" Confused in his heart, Xia Yubing reached out and randomly picked up one of the four cards in the gambler's hand and pulled it out.
9 of spades
Xia Yubing looked down and found that the corresponding 9 of clubs was also in her hand. The two cards were successfully paired and she discarded them both into the pile in the middle of the table.
Xia Yubing now has 4 cards in his hand, while the gambler only has 3 cards left.
This round of drawing is over.
Okay, now let’s review the information we know so far.
1. Wandering gamblers will randomly drag people into gambling games and force them to play gambling games with them. The content of the game depends on the specific conditions.
2. All game types that have appeared so far must have the concept of "win or lose" and "bet"
3. Players who cheat in the game will be directly judged as losers, their bets will be confiscated and they will be expelled
4. Gamblers are extremely competitive or greedy. They will keep gambling until they become the winner and take all the bets of other players.
"It is known that the 'joker' is most likely in the hands of the God of Wealth. If the joker is not drawn in the next card drawing phase, then after all other players have cleared their hands and left the game, the God of Wealth who holds the joker will be judged as the 'loser'."
"Also know: Players who clear their hand and leave the game will not be judged as 'winners'. The winner of this ghost card game is determined by other conditions. The gambler left the game and then picked up Allen's hand and returned to the game in order to meet this condition and become the winner."
"So what is the condition? What conditions must be met to become the 'winner'?"
Think about it, Xia Yubing, think about it, is your brain that stupid? If Ning Zhe is not around, you can't do anything? If he is here, how would he find the only solution to this vague game rule?
"The joker... First comes the joker. The condition for becoming the loser is 'the last one holding the joker'."
"Now I know the joker is in the hands of the God of Wealth, but I don't know which card it is, because the gambling ghost neither follows the domestic rule of drawing the turtle to draw the king and an 8, nor follows the international rule of drawing the joker to randomly draw a card from 54 cards to create a lone card."
"Although I can't determine which card is the joker, I know a rule. Whether it's the domestic rule of drawing a turtle or the international rule of a solitary card being a joker, the jokers under both rules have one thing in common, which is that they can't be paired with other cards."
"The joker is a lonely card. It cannot be paired with other cards, so it will not be discarded in the deck. It will just change hands frequently between different players like a time bomb until the game ends, all other players get out, and the joker explodes in the hands of the loser."
"In a complete deck of 54 playing cards, which card cannot be paired with any other card?"
"There are only jokers, that is, the big king and the little king."
Xia Yubing lowered his head and checked the cards in his hand again, one of which was a colorful king.
The 'King' is in his hand and has been there since the beginning when the cards were dealt.
"We know that the Joker is in the hands of the God of Wealth, and we also know that the Joker is in my hands. If the Joker is really one of the Joker and the Jack, then the Jack in the hands of the God of Wealth is the Joker."
(End of this chapter)