Infinite weird games

April 30 afternoon, Eagle County, Nevada.

A carnival sanctuary named "Redemption" is located here. It was formerly an underground casino operated in the gray area. After the establishment of the Federation, it successfully turned into a bright place. It integrates various entertainment facilities, where people can enjoy wine and meat and live a life of drunkenness and dream.

In the lobby on the first floor of the basement, celebrities and politicians are toasting and playing charades, the second generation and the nouveau riche are talking loudly, and the charming boys and girls are moving between the neon lights and shadows with graceful figures. The atmosphere is set off to be passionate and enthusiastic. A gambling game that will focus everyone's attention is about to begin.

At 2 o'clock, the big screen in the center of the hall that was playing the winning and losing situation went black, and a deep male voice sounded on time: "Ladies and gentlemen! The gambling game that is about to begin is called "Crazy Black Jack". We have selected four players to participate in this gambling game, and you can watch the gambling game live on the screen and bet on their victory or defeat."

When the screen lit up again, it showed a small room with black walls painted with white patterns. The camera focused on a black round table. The four points of the round table were marked with numbers from 1 to 4 with a watercolor texture of white, and a person sat next to each number.

The male voice in the loudspeaker spoke in a high tone: "Our four players come from different places, but they all appear on our 'death list' without exception. Only fate can save them. No matter who wins this 'Crazy Black Jack', we will cross his name off the 'death list', write off the debt, and provide a certain degree of protection.

"I believe you all understand that this gambling game is different from the past. The loser will not face a huge debt, but a painful death. So, what you are betting on is not only the victory or defeat, but also the life and death of these four players!"

The young man sitting in seat No. 2 is wearing a black suit and looks gentle. He is Dong Xiwen who was caught by mistake in the gambling boat not long ago.

After listening to the introduction of the loudspeaker, he couldn't help but complain in a low voice: "It's 'Crazy Black Jack' again. I didn't expect that I have a good relationship with this game... Is this the rhythm of a reality show now? ”

Shortly before the game started, Dong Xiwen finally received a response from Qi Si, who calmly said that he would handle everything and let him play freely without worrying about the consequences.

He was vaguely suspicious in his heart, when did this humanoid become so easy to talk to? Then he received an order to take care of a player who was captured from Jiangcheng.

The words were still not finished, and it was not known to what extent "by the way" would be "by the way", but the rhythm of the conversation undoubtedly returned to the field that Dong Xiwen was familiar with: it was nothing more than giving a sweet date and then hitting a stick. If things were not done well, it might be his body that would be "dealt with".

Dong Xiwen turned his head to look at Player No. 1 beside him. This was the only East Asian face among the four people present except him.

He had inquired before the game started, This man is called Yang Yao, from Jiangcheng. He was arrested here because he owed too many gambling debts. He was caught cheating in a recent gambling game.

This man seems to be hopeless. He is full of thoughts that he can win the gambling game if he is given a few more chances. There is nothing else in his current life and future plans except gambling.

Dong Xiwen learned that this guy also has a mother who works early and late to sell breakfast to make money. All the income is used to pay off his debts. He felt even more contemptuous.

He didn't understand why Qi Si asked him to take care of this scum, and even suspected that the so-called "care" was a sarcastic remark.

In his opinion, such a person living in the world will only bring disaster to the family, and it would be better for everyone if he died early; however, maybe Qi Si, as a scum, is happy to see the suffering of others?

"Game start! "The organizer announced loudly, interrupting Dong Xiwen's thoughts.

A groove appeared in the center of the round table, in which a stack of black-bottomed poker cards was placed.

The other three players did not move. Dong Xiwen took out the poker cards and lined them up in front of him, looking at Yang Yao with bloodshot eyes: "No. 1, according to the rules of the game, you draw two cards first."

The gamblers in front of the screen in the hall watched Dong Xiwen's actions with bated breath. The monitoring covered 360° without blind spots, and there was no possibility of cheating.

He was just using this to put psychological pressure on other players and give some hints to Yang Yao, the "mission target".

Yang Yao was completely useless. I don't know if he understood his hint. After glancing at him, he took the two poker cards on the far right and turned one of them face up. It was [A].

"Brother, you are lucky. If the other card was 10 or K, Q, J, it would be "Black Jack". "Dong Xiwen smiled and used two fingers to pick up two consecutive cards from the deck. The exposed card was [10].

...

In the hall, many gamblers began to increase their bets on Dong Xiwen's victory.

After all, compared with the other three guys who were silent and dumbfounded, Dong Xiwen's calm and relaxed performance was really eye-catching.

A middle-aged white man with a slightly bald head pushed through the crowd and walked to the counter behind the betting. He slapped a gold card on the table: "Miss, I want to see your person in charge."

Without waiting for the other party to reply, he added: "By the way, they all call me 'Bob the Pig Farmer'. Your person in charge should know who I am."

Soon, a man wearing a silver mask and a silver suit came out and stretched out his hand to Bob: "Hello, I am the general manager of the Redan Shen Casino. You can call me 'Jack'. I wonder if you have any advice for me?"

Bob shook the man's hand and said with a smile: "An old customer asked me to do something. I hope I can protect the two Dragon County people. Mr. Jack might as well offer a price."

"No, no, no." Jack shook his head repeatedly, "You may not understand the rules of Ruidanshen Casino. Survivor Game is the most important program in our casino. Winners live, losers die, and no one can change it. You should Come early, before the person is selected.”

Bob also shook his head: "The client didn't have the idea of ​​breaking Rydanshen's rules. He just wanted the bet to be as fair as possible to make sure the winners survive."

"Do you doubt we will go back on our word?" Jack asked back, as if he had thought of something, his tone became unkind, "Crazy Black Jack usually has only one winner, but you want to protect two people, which is a specific issue with a very small probability. Too much confidence was invested in the ending.”

Bob looked straight at him, his face unchanged: "You should have heard of the 'insomnia slogan' near the Mississippi River, and have heard of the recent actions of the Balance Church. If you are in awe of the unknown power, I suggest you Don't be too hostile to him."

"Are you threatening me?"

"No, I'm just here to bring a message. And to show sincerity, I won't bet on the 'draw'."

...

In the room, "Crazy Black Jack" has gone through twenty rounds. Dong Xiwen doesn't know whether it's because of his good luck or excellent computing ability, and he wins more than he loses, so he has gathered most of the chips on the field.

There was only a small pile of chips left in front of the other three, waiting for the chips to be cleared, and what awaited them would be a miserable death.

The middle-aged man with a stubble face at the No. 3 position covered his face and wanted to cry. If he hadn't been fixed on the chair, he would have shown more ugly appearances.

The blonde woman in position 4 looked pale, staring blankly at the poker on the table, waiting for death to come.

Dong Xiwen's eyes also fell on the thin stack of poker on the table. He knocked his chin and asked seriously: "If no one uses all the chips in his hands after the poker draws, then how can he calculate the winning or losing?"

The male voice in the speaker said, "If this happens, the person with more chips will win."

The woman smiled miserably: "Although I know I will lose, I still want to give it a try."

"Try it, the game is about to end anyway. And I think according to the routine, you have said that, ma'am, and you are likely to survive." Dong Xiwen's tone was very casual, just like saying "play whatever you want".

Black Jack's deck library consists of eight poker decks that remove the Big King's Poker, and at this time, there are less than fifty cards left in the deck library.

Dong Xiwen is good at math, and it’s no problem to remember cards and count cards. In addition, he played "Crazy Black Jack" in the copy of "Grand Performance", so he is not familiar with the rules and routines.

——It is not difficult for him to control the situation in the whole game.

The game can end within five games, and Dong Xiwen's victory and the deaths of the rest are sure of.

But what puzzled the people outside the field was that Dong Xiwen seemed to have lost all his gambling skills and abilities in an instant, and soon lost a game of cards.

In the next two games, his total points were always smaller than everyone else, and his chips were about to tie.

In the last game, after pulling out the last poker, Dong Xiwen smiled brightly at the camera in the room: "All of us have 10,000 chips in our hands, and we have a draw."

The hall suddenly had an uproar, and no one could have thought of this extremely small probability result in advance—

How could a "Crazy Black Jack" draw? How could such a life-and-death game be tied?

No one bet on the market will end, and all the gamblers will lose all their money.

The curses and protests rose and there were louder people shouting: "Check! It's definitely cheating! I ask for a thorough investigation!"

A group of people even responded: "Either check the surveillance or compare it again! Do it again!"

The big screen in the center of the hall was black again. When it lighted up again, Jack's figure appeared on the gray background, and his voice was calm: "Please believe that there is no one who can make a thousand..."

At the same time, Yang Yao collapsed in the backstage, his face full of joy of surviving the disaster: "Haha, I just say I'm lucky, is this awesome?"

Dong Xiwen squatted beside him and held his forehead helplessly: "Brother, listen to my advice. If you don't want to die in the future, don't bet. Ruidanshen is not a generous legal organization..."

"How many of your meanings?" Yang Yao glared at him suspiciously, "Is the little pussy jealous, I'm so lucky? In the last game, I'm just a black Jack!"

Dong Xiwen sighed in his heart, knowing that this person was completely helpless.

In the last game, he saw Yang Yaoming's card as [K], deliberately fed Zhang [A] over, and received his hand...

With a creaking sound, the locked iron door in the backstage was opened from outside, and a ray of light leaked into the dim corner, illuminating the floating dust.

Dong Xiwen subconsciously tightened his waist and back and was ready to take action at any time, but he saw the person coming with a kind smile.

"Hello, I'm Bob, I'm here at the request of my old friend Tse." The middle-aged white man nodded at Dong Xiwen and took out a card with red background and black patterns from his arms, "Tse asked me to turn this one." Leave it to you."

The card is drawn with a magic show. The magician in red clothes on the stage bows deeply, and the audience simplified into a black shadow cheers around him. There is a person's heart that is decorated with scarlet color blocks, which at first glance is a flowing Bloody heart.

Dong Xiwen intuition that this card looks familiar. Although his body is controlled by Ruidanshen recently, he has also taken the time to enter the strange game once.

Combining the revelation monument of the Sunset Ruins and the players' discussion of the final dungeon, the answer is about to come out.

"Ha, it turns out that the final copy still cannot escape the fate of working as a gangster..." Dong Xiwen smiled mockingly, raised his hand to take the card, and silver-white words were instantly weaved in the void in front of him.

[Blood is a sacrifice for rewarding scams, and applause is a communion dedicated to lies]

[Carnival, in the hallucination feast carefully cooked by the fraudster]

[After all, even death is just a rehearsal prop for the end of the show]

[Congratulations on unlocking the identity card "Audience" (affiliated with the "Fool Fraudster" set)]

Seeing that he received the card, Bob stopped looking at him and turned to Yang Yao on the side: "Friend, before taking you away, I need you to sign a contract..."

...

In the morning market in the Xiacheng District of Jiangcheng, Qiu Lihua put the egg-filled cakes into plastic bags and handed them to the young man standing in front of the stall.

Half a month ago, she gave her son a sum of money and returned to the countryside. Before she could handle the trivial matters, she received news that her son was arrested for making a fortune.

She didn't expect that not only did her son not reform himself, but instead became bigger and bigger, and the debt she owed was a quantity she had never seen in her life.

She doesn't understand what "Ridanshen" is, nor does she understand the relationship between the casino and the federal government. She only heard that if she doesn't pay back the money in a short period of time, her son will really die.

She took out all her savings, and could pay back a little, and continued to set up a stall to make money, intending to use all the money to pay off her debts.

But it was still not enough, the hole was too big, and time was too tight... Those people said that her son would undoubtedly die.

Just as she was in despair, the youth appeared.

At six o'clock yesterday evening, Qiu Lihua was about to close her stall and go to work night shift. A young man wearing red suit and trousers appeared at the entrance of the alley like a ghost and reached out to her.

"You seem to have some trouble? I might have a way to help you." The young man paused and asked with a smile, "You can try to make a wish to me, maybe it will come true."

Qiu Lihua always felt that this person’s expression was indescribable. When she got closer, she found that this person was no one else, but an old customer who often came to her to buy egg-filled biscuits.

——But after changing outfits, I don’t look like the same person anymore.

Negative emotions are already in a state of depression and need to be expressed urgently. In addition, the person in front of me seems to be full of kindness, Qiu Lihua tells her son's story with an anxious attitude of seeking medical treatment.

She murmured, "It's because I didn't teach him well, but it's definitely not bad. He was born to me after all... I just thought that he could come back safely and that I could pay back the money I owe little by little... ”

The young man listened patiently, and finally put a piece of flower stem in her hand with a smile: "This wish is not difficult to achieve. Plant this rose and wait for it to bloom, everything will be as you wish."

Although Qiu Lihua felt strange, she still found a small flower pot, planted the roses and carried them with her.

Just now, she saw that the originally bare flower stems grew buds at a speed visible to the naked eye, stretching the petals and spitting out the stamens...

Yes, the rose that had returned without a trace last night bloomed without warning, as gorgeous and sudden as a illusion.

The young man in front of the stall curled his lips and smiled gently as usual: "It seems that your wish has come true."

The next second, the phone rang, Qiu Lihua took out her phone and connected, and a hoarse "Mom" came from inside.

She covered her eyes and cried in silence.

The young man turned around and left, passing by the trash can at the end of the alley, and his steps paused slightly.

A black dog looked up at him, suddenly barking loudly, and the turbid dog's eyes flashed with obvious fear.

He didn't care either, so he threw the egg-filled cake in his hand over and continued to move forward.

Behind him, dogs barking and storming.