Chapter 3134

The bald man in the tuxedo was of course not a normal living person; he was a mixture of memories, shadows, spirits, and other things Xia De couldn't explain.

Facing the other party's question, Xia De hesitated and opened his mouth. Combining the current situation, he could only come to one conclusion:

"I am very sure that before I came here this time, I didn't want to look for any turning point in fate. I was just waiting for a very important guest to visit... So, there is a hidden door on the first floor of my house leading to this place?"

The bald man smiled and asked:

"Is this the thing you want to win from the casino this time—the answer to this question?"

Xia De looked around:

"If I don't want to bet, can I leave directly?"

"Of course, this casino run by the God of Fate is the most fair. If you don't want to gain anything, you can turn around and walk into the depths of the white fog to leave. There is only one thing to pay attention to here—don't be overly greedy, after all, the gifts of fate always have a price."

Xia De really wanted to know what the situation was now. It wasn't that he couldn't accept having another door in his house in a short period of time; he just couldn't accept that the door was out of control:

"If I want to know why I came here from my home, what bet do I need to put up?"

Because he was going to welcome Ms. Gao De, he didn't bring any other valuable items besides the key and badge hanging on his chest.

And for the answer to this question, it was certainly not worth betting these two items—Xia De wouldn't be arrogant enough to think that he would definitely win.

The bald man replied:

"Then how about time? If you lose, you will lose two hours of time. When you leave here, you will find that two hours have passed in the outside world."

Compared to when he tried to return to 1854 by traveling through time, the price this time was certainly not worth mentioning. Although everyone says time is precious, if it's just to bet for an answer, Xia De is still willing.

But the problem now is:

"Isn't it a bit too coincidental? I tried every possible way to avoid going out and causing trouble today, and it looked like this morning was going to pass peacefully, but it happened that something went wrong in my own home... Even if I'm stupid, I can feel that something is wrong, right?"

The bald man put his hands on the edge of the gambling table, still smiling:

"What if this is fate?"

"Are you saying this was designed by someone else?"

The bald man, who didn't know in what era he had also come here to place a bet, said softly:

"Is your understanding of fate just a shallow belief that it is some kind of predetermined arrangement? I know I am not me; I am just a memory, a shadow, a string of echoes, but I still want to remind you—

Fate is by no means an invisible hand arranging everything in the world. Necessity gives birth to contingency, so contingency is necessity. Everything in the world has traces to follow, including your appearance here now; perhaps you yourself know why."

"Are you a diviner?"

Xia De judged from the tone of the other party's speech, and the bald man drew the circular holy emblem symbolizing the "Ouroboros" on his chest:

"The beginning is also the end, and the end is also the beginning. Everything that happens is like this. Fate is not only the trajectory where contingency and necessity are intertwined, but also a self-circulating, infinitely repeating process. Yes, I am a diviner. So, are you going to bet?"

Rationally speaking, of course, he wouldn't bet. He could almost be sure that once he was willing to stay, he would probably not be able to see Ms. Gao De this year.

But at this moment, he didn't turn around and leave. 【Fate Casino】 seemed to have no danger, and he had lived in the house for a year and a half, and this was the first time he encountered a problem, but staying at home was ultimately an unstable factor.

Especially since the young ladies who were coming to celebrate the festival tomorrow and the day after tomorrow would arrive one after another. Even if the probability was low, Xia De had to help them eliminate hidden dangers. The space left by the ancient god was only extremely low in danger to existences like him who had divinity. He couldn't guarantee whether others would subconsciously be attracted to the gambling table and then bet crazily once they appeared here.

Xia De actually didn't think about what necessity gave birth to the current "necessity" for the time being. He only knew that he actually had no choice:

"Two hours? Of course, can we bet on cards this time?"

He asked, and the bald man put his right hand on the card table. When he took his hand away, a deck of cards appeared on the table:

"Of course, then how about a simpler game this time?"

He picked up the deck and shuffled it skillfully with a swish-swish sound:

"I will continuously draw cards from the deck, but every card is a face-down card. You can ask me to stop drawing at any time. If the total points of all the cards at this time do not bust, and it is an odd number greater than 10, then you win, otherwise I win."

As he said this, he wiped his thumb, and two cards flew directly from the deck, landing in the discard area on the green tablecloth. When flipped over, they were a King and a Queen:

"These two cards don't count, we only play with numbers."

Although it was different from the normal rules, every card this time was a face-down card, but the conditions for victory were also simplified. The points that satisfied the winning game were reduced to six situations: 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, and 21. With all 52 cards present, it was possible to calculate at which card the winning rate was the highest.

Sylvia praised Xia De's mental arithmetic ability as very strong. This was of course not the witch deliberately boasting about her lover. The outsider's mathematics was really amazing; this was a skill brought from his hometown. Coupled with the improvement of his body and mental strength by the Ringed Shushi advancement, he only thought for a few seconds before coming to a conclusion:

"There is only 1 card when stopping, and only points 11 and 13 satisfy the requirement in one card, totaling 8 cards, the winning rate is 8/52 ≈ 15.4%; there are 1326 combinations when drawing 2 cards, 464 combinations satisfy the six winning numbers, the winning rate is 35.0%, drawing 3 cards, the total number of combinations, 5696 winning combinations, the winning rate 5696/... ≈ 25.8%..."

Calculating to this point, there was no need to calculate anymore, because there was an upper limit of "21", so the more cards drawn, the lower the winning rate. Therefore, as long as the other party stops drawing after two cards, Xia De's theoretical winning rate exceeds 1/3. Although it was still less than half, this was already a probability worth fighting for.

It was just that after the bald man finished shuffling the cards, he said to Xia De:

"If you are a good card player, you should be able to see that the winning rate is the highest when drawing two cards. But we are betting on luck here, so please say a number greater than 10 and less than 30. I will take that number of cards from the top of the current deck and put them into the discard area, and our game will be played with the remaining cards."

This made the situation more complicated, especially in the case of completely not knowing which numbers were still there, Xia De no longer had the need to calculate:

"Take away 10 cards. You draw two cards and it's over."

He said this, and the bald man counted 10 cards and put them into the discard pile, then took out two more cards, pressed three fingers on the back of the cards and applied a little force, and the two cards slid across the card table one by one, stopping exactly in the rectangular frame on the tablecloth in front of Xia De.

"You open the cards."

Xia De nodded and flipped over the two cards one by one. He had already thought that he would definitely lose this time, but after opening them, he saw Flower 11 and Star 2, which added up to 13 points.

He looked at the other party suspiciously:

"I won?"

The bald man was curious instead:

"Yes. Why, don't you want to win?"

Xia De took a deep breath. He really felt that he would definitely lose just now, and thus miss the meeting with Ms. Gao De. But in order to know the secret, he was willing to waste a few more hours and bet a few more times here:

"Well, okay, I won. I've won many card games, but this feeling is the strangest... at least I won."

He shook his head:

"Then about what happened this time..."

"The No. 6 St. Deran Square you own is a very special location. You already know that before you owned the house, there was a door in the basement leading to the 【Space Labyrinth】, you also know that there was an 'Edge of Life and Death' in the corridor on the third floor, and you also understand that the pearl once housed in Room 2 on the second floor was the cause of the mass suicide case."

He said to Xia De with a smile:

"Now I can tell you that there is also a problem on the first floor of your house. Although 【Fate Casino】 is open to mortals who long for a turning point in fate, this does not mean that there is only this one way to enter this place.

The casino still has some doors with fixed positions, located in the hidden corners of the material world, and one of the doors is hidden on the first floor of your house."

This completely matched Xia De's guess:

"Then why did I suddenly enter here today? I have lived in the house for nearly two years. Even if I heard the sound of dice in the past, it was not as directional as it is today."

The bald man continued to answer:

"Two reasons: on one hand, there are already seven stable doors in your house. Although these doors come from different ancient gods, you should know that there is a connection between them, and these white fogs are the proof. Too many doors resonate with each other, making the doors of the hidden casino start to become active."

This explanation was too reasonable:

"What about the second reason? You wouldn't say that I was destined to come here today, right?"

The bald man smiled:

"It's best not to destroy the stability of the house you own, otherwise some... will inevitably be interfered with. You can think of this as some kind of clever fate. And when someone tries to do this, the casino in the house is pulled by the ups and downs of fate and naturally manifests its power. So all contingency is the accumulation of necessity. Who told you to want to tear down the wall?"

"Sure enough, it's still related to that matter... Well, so the location of that door, and the way I can control it is..."

But this time he didn't get the answer:

"The bet you placed this time can only allow me to explain to you the reason why you appeared here, and does not include more detailed information about 【Fate Casino】. If you want to know, you can continue this game. But if you want to know everything, then the time is not just two hours.

The value of mastering the space left by the ancient god, very few people in the material world know better than you."

(End of chapter)