Chapter 320

When a person's luck is good to a certain degree, their wishes will come true.

In the corridor backstage at the opera house, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, who had failed to summon the God of Wealth, bent down to pick up the copper coins he had just tossed, stuffed them into his bosom, and took the opportunity to fish out a notebook from the lining of his clothes, intending to confirm the situation on Xia Xia Yubing's side.

As soon as he flipped open a few pages, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe saw the newly appeared handwriting on the paper.

"Ah, this... Old Maid?"

Did I really guess right?

"No wonder the God of Wealth couldn't be summoned even after tossing the coins earlier; it was actually dragged away by the Gambler to play cards." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe smiled. This Gambler is quite overbearing; once you're at the gambling table, it doesn't let you leave, causing Wealth Wu Tong to be unable to even conduct business.

It seems he will have to wait until the gambling game ends before he can buy his life from the God of Wealth.

... Or maybe not.

The prerequisite for doing business with the God of Wealth is to meet Him first, and now the God of Wealth is trapped in the Gambler's game and cannot escape, so he cannot meet Him, which is why the rules of Wealth Wu Tong cannot be triggered.

However, Xia Xia Yubing, Sha Li Sha Li, and the others who are also in the game have already "met" the God of Wealth.

"Once this game ends, or the God of Wealth clears his hand and leaves, Wealth Wu Tong will break free from the game, and the rules of forced buying and selling will be triggered immediately; Wealth Wu Tong will then demand the lives of everyone present."

Perhaps girls are born with a talent for writing essays. Before long, Xia Xia Yubing had filled a page and a half of the notebook. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe quickly browsed through this essay and roughly understood the situation on Xia Xia Yubing's side and the several problems she urgently needed to solve.

First, in this game, the game the Gambler is playing is Old Maid.

But the Gambler neither removed the Joker and the 8s according to the domestic rules of "Drawing the Turtle," nor did it randomly draw a card from the deck to create a lone card as the "Old Maid" according to the international version of the rules. The Gambler started this game directly with the full 54 cards.

Now, except for the Gambler itself, who is in charge of shuffling, no one is sure which card is the Old Maid.

Secondly, the Gambler's luck is very good, good to an abnormal degree.

Xia Xia Yubing briefly described in the notebook the process of how that 4 of Spades was transferred from Ikes to Alun and then drawn by the Gambler, and expressed that she wasn't sure whether the Gambler had cheated or if it was truly just pure luck.

Finally, the Gambler has 4 cards left before it leaves the table.

What will happen after a player leaves is completely unknown, especially since the one likely to leave is the Gambler who started this game.

After reading the words in the notebook, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe closed his eyes slightly and took a deep breath. Okay... the first thing to determine is the reason why the Gambler can draw the cards it needs every time.

Is it just pure luck, or did it cheat? Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe can answer this question now.

He picked up the pen and wrote in the notebook:

【It is highly likely that it is good luck. Although the possibility of cheating cannot be completely ruled out, the possibility of luck being the factor is the greatest.】

Because the Almanac, which carries the rules of the Serpent God, has already been gambled away by He Nianjun to the Gambler.

The Gambler may possess a certain degree of intelligence, or perhaps all ghosts have an instinct to follow rules. The Gambler, having obtained the Almanac, relied on the "Luck" displayed on it to improve its own fortune, thus becoming invincible and having everything go its way at the card table.

—This is just a speculation with a high probability; the specific situation cannot be fully determined yet. But Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe has a way to increase the credibility of this speculation. After thinking for a moment, he wrote this idea in the notebook.

So Xia Xia Yubing, who was sitting by the card table feeling anxious, saw a new line of words appear in the notebook:

【In the next round of drawing, keep an eye on whether Alun will draw that 6 of Spades.】 With the tip of the pen circling a full stop, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe closed the notebook, walked through the staff passage to a dark window on the 2nd floor, and leaned over to look at the auditorium. He saw 4 corpses, two men and two women, lying quietly in the empty auditorium; they were the losers of the previous round of gambling, having lost their lives in Russian Roulette.

So there is a problem now.

When the Gambler's gambling target is a mortal like the driver Baier, their stake is their own life; losing to the Gambler in gambling means dying on the spot.

When the Gambler's gambling target is an extension of the rules of She Shen Zhao, that is, He Nianjun, their stake is the Almanac that carries the rules of She Shen Zhao.

And among the players participating in the gambling this time, there are both rule-ghosts like the God of Wealth, Gridders like Xia Xia Yubing, and ordinary people like Sha Li Sha Li.

Then, what will the stake of this gambling game be?

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe waited and watched.

At the card table, a new round of drawing had already begun. Everyone's eyes were focused on the Gambler, except for the God of Wealth, who had his head resting on his lap, and Xia Xia Yubing, who was looking down and peeking at the notebook.

After confirming again and again that no new handwriting had appeared, Xia Xia Yubing also moved her gaze away from the notebook and looked toward the ragged Gambler along with the other players.

The Gambler is the initiator of this game; it did all the shuffling and dealing, and every round of drawing also started with it, going in a circle and ending with Xia Xia Yubing.

In the silent room, under the gaze of everyone, a pale, rotten palm covered with corpse spots lifted from the table, reached out in front of Alun, pinched a card from the fan of cards in his hand, and gently drew it out to place on the table.

!

3 of Spades.

Immediately after, the Gambler drew 1 card from its own remaining 4 cards and placed it together with that 3 of Spades.

3 of Clubs

The color and number were both the same; the hand pairing was successful, and both cards were discarded by the Gambler into the center of the table. The atmosphere at the card table suddenly went silent.

The Gambler only had 3 cards left in its hand.

At this moment, even the dullest person could perceive that something was wrong with this game; the Gambler's luck was abnormally good.

"According to Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's statement, the probability of the Gambler cheating is very small; it is highly likely that it is just pure luck. The previous Russian Roulette also confirmed this point—out of the 6 players who participated in Russian Roulette, 5 died, and the Gambler was the final winner, which shows that its luck was already abnormally good back then."

Xia Xia Yubing looked down at the notebook resting on her chest and reached a conclusion in her heart: "The Old Maid card shouldn't be in the Gambler's hand."

After all, the Gambler's luck has always been very good, so how could it be dealt the Old Maid card?

While pondering, Alun across the table turned his head and exchanged a meaningful look with Ikes, who was sitting to his left.

It was his turn to draw.

Alun closed his eyes, took a deep breath, reached out in front of Ikes, drew a card from his fan of cards, and placed it gently on the table, suit side up.

The moment she saw the suit on this card, Xia Xia Yubing's pupils shrank violently.

—6 of Spades

"He was right..." Xia Xia Yubing's heart and spirit were shaken, and her palms were clenched tightly unconsciously.

(End of chapter)