Chapter 2921: [Genesis: Time]

Xia De withdrew his hand from the box and shook his head decisively:

"No, not now."

He didn't come here because he really wanted to find Flora's missing uncle. His original purpose was the Vientiane Impermanence Cards, and his current purpose was to know the truth about Bennett. Before figuring out the situation here, he wouldn't just go to other time points at will:

"I still need to prepare. Creekwood Town in 1819 is different from now. Rash time travel will lead to big problems."

"Very cautious. Then we will see you next Saturday."

The masked person said and picked up the oil lamp, preparing to get up. Xia De immediately stopped him:

"No, no, next Saturday is really too late. I might not even be in the local area next Saturday."

Xia De planned to investigate the background of Flora's uncle after returning. If he could find Anthony Winstanley, who could not be found even by divination, according to the clue of "childhood playmate," he might be able to get more clues about this "Time Transit Station."

He didn't plan to waste too much time here. No matter what, after traveling through time from here next time and experiencing the principle of time travel here, he could almost end Bennett's story.

Pigeons, debt collection, Vientiane Impermanence Cards, royal illegitimate children—this family involved too many things. The outsider was distracted by too many things after coming to this city, but now that everything was about to end, all doubts could be resolved here.

"You want to see me in advance?"

The masked person shook his head:

"Sorry, this time I made an exception for you to open on Sunday, just because of the matter of the guest just now. I only open on Saturdays here, and there have been very few exceptions over the years."

Xia De was waiting for this sentence:

"Just happened to be idle, why don't we have a bet? Let's play a game of Rod Cards."

Last time was the first meeting, this proposal was too frivolous, but this time it could be tried:

"If I win, you make an exception for me again. If I lose, I will bring you two more portions of Time Sand when I come next Saturday. Since you need so much Time Sand, the consumption should be very large, and having more reserves is definitely not a bad thing, right?"

The masked person hesitated:

"Although 【Time Sand】 is not a Sage-level or Angel-level relic that cannot be circulated, you can take out so much sand at once. You wouldn't really be from the church, would you?"

"Just as I won't go to investigate your background again, I also hope you don't investigate this question. So, what is your opinion?"

He took out the deck from his pocket, and the masked person considered it for a while before nodding slightly:

"Finding something interesting to do on a boring night is also fine. But even if you win, you need to give me a specific date. I can't wait for you here every night next week."

Xia De laughed:

"Of course, if I win, I will come again the day after tomorrow, Tuesday night. Two days of preparation time is enough. I just need to prepare some paper money and then prepare the map of Vista Forest in that era. Speaking of which, did Vista City have steam pipes in 1819? I don't want to sleep in a rental house or hotel without heating in winter."

Both of their decks were placed on the table. Xia De still used his spare deck, which meant they were all ordinary cards. Fortunately, the Moon 2 used to pass messages in front of the doomsday time rift this afternoon was an ordinary card drawn from the real deck; otherwise, Xia De might have awkwardly discovered that his deck only had 53 cards now.

He thought there would be some twists and turns, but he didn't expect that when the two exchanged decks for inspection, the card Xia De was looking for actually existed in the masked person's deck.

Not only that most noble card, but in fact, in the masked person's deck, there were actually 27 special cards in the 54 cards, occupying half of the deck. Except for the outsider himself, he had never heard of anyone having so many special card collections.

"There will always be good things in the hands of those who have left. I have been trying to collect a full set of special rule cards for so many years, and now I have completed half of it. Of course, please don't try to track me through these paper cards. At most, you will only find that some missing people were last seen locally."

When Xia De checked his card deck, the masked person did not forget to explain:

"Sometimes I will also invite guests with unique cards to play a game. This is one of my few hobbies here. You probably can't imagine who I have played cards with."

He seemed to have become very talkative suddenly, and Xia De was very familiar with this kind of person, because he was also this kind of person. It seemed that 【Genesis: Time】, which had appeared in the demon's memory, was probably played by someone who had played cards with the masked person here:

"You have played cards with the champion player of the big city players?"

"Yes, it's a pity that I failed to convince the other party to take out that champion card of the big city players as a bet. That person said this was the most important honor in his life, and even if he died, he would take it into the grave."

"Then this card, was it also won by you from the guests who came to the Time Transit Station?"

Xia De drew the most special card among them, but the masked person shook his head:

"No, this one was a gift left to me by my father."

The upper right corner of the card was marked with the number 2, and the upper left corner was the extremely familiar small logo of the "Moon." Between the two, that is, in the center of the upper part of the card face, a black vertical line was drawn in a white circle. This was the logo of the "Genesis" series.

On the lower card face, an old man with white hair sat on a chair made of giant trees, and the branches above the back of the chair were intertwined and twisted, wrapping around a circular clock dial.

【Genesis: Time】, suit Moon 2. The composition was simple but the elements embodied in it were quite rich. The tree and time were integrated. As for the old man whose face could be seen on the dial, it was probably just one of the incarnations of the Infinite Tree Father.

Look at the rules again—

【During the period from drawing this card to the point-settlement stage of this round, you can choose any player to discard all hand cards and redraw the same number of cards. This effect can target yourself, and this effect can target multiple people. If this effect targets yourself, this card is reshuffled into the deck to be drawn.】

Even knowing that he was very likely to see this card, his heartbeat still accelerated inexplicably at this moment. For a powerful mage, it was easy to perceive the abnormally accelerated heartbeat of the person sitting opposite, but the masked person thought this was a normal phenomenon:

"Time is enough to grind everything."

Xia De disagreed:

"Do you know that there is a taboo miracle called 'Crystal Touch'? The crystals produced by this miracle belong to special substances that cannot be affected by time."

"I know this miracle. It comes from a story about a greedy elf... Let's start, I have far more special cards than you, so you set the rules."

"Then keep it simple. We will play games continuously. Whoever wins three times first will win the final victory."

"No problem."

Xia De simply rinsed the other party's deck and pushed it back. Both of them pressed their decks and wiped them gently, so 54 cards were arranged in a fan shape on their respective desktops.

The kerosene lamp was placed on Xia De's left hand side. When the two raised their hands to draw their respective paper cards, the huge shadows formed by their arms swayed on their respective decks.

This was not playing cards while telling stories with friends, so the game should have been silent. It was just that Xia De still wanted to probe for more information, so he opened a new topic while drawing cards:

"Please forgive my curiosity. If you want to stay in the past for a short time, you only need to pay a price like money, then as long as you ensure that the harvest of each exploration is greater than the price you pay to you, doesn't it mean that you can form a positive cycle of making money by traveling through time?"

He said and drew the first two cards. Because the deck was all ordinary cards, there was no need to pay attention to the rules. The extreme combination of Star 13 and Flower 1 made him raise his eyebrows, and then he raised his hand to signal that he would not stop drawing.

The masked person opposite the table professionally pressed the dark card with the ordinary card Moon 8 and lifted a corner of the dark card to check:

"Except for mages like you who take the initiative to come to the door, my invitation letters are usually only given to those who have regrets they want to make up for, or those who have completely given up on the 'present.' I won't say that I haven't encountered people who want to travel through time multiple times for wealth, but those people undoubtedly didn't have a good end."

He stopped drawing directly with two cards, and Xia De drew the third card himself. After taking a look at it, he threw it onto the table.

The crisp *pop* sound was the sound that only an old gambler who had been trained many times could throw out. The third card was Moon 5, 13+1+5=19 points, indeed no need to take risks.

The masked person also lifted his bottom card. As expected, it was a special card. The card face was a tilted street, and there were glowing gas street lamp posts standing on the street. Although it was a black and white card face, one could still see the tranquility in it:

【Steam Great Era: Gas Street Lamps Shining All Night】, suit: Flower 10.

【After drawing this card, roll a die. If the number is even, all participants in the game need to show their first dark card.】

Counting "The Textile Girl Off Work," "The Platform in the Whistle Sound," and "The Coal Miner in the Mine," this was already the fourth special rule card of the "Steam Great Era" series that Xia De had seen, and none of these cards belonged to him.

It was just a pity that this card had no effect at the settlement stage. 10+8=18 points, Xia De won the first game.

As for why this card had no effect when it was the first card, he did not activate the effect before Xia De drew the third card. Naturally, it was because if the effect passed, he would also have to show his bottom card. And in the case that there was no special negative price for bursting the card, Xia De, who knew the other party's bottom card, would definitely continue to draw cards even if he bet on bursting the card. ===== CHAPTER 2922 =====