"Is there no signal on Line 4's CCTV yet? My popcorn is almost cold!"
"I don't know what happened. The girl who was sitting in the office was obviously acting normally when she came on stage, but as soon as the real host came on stage, the signal was cut off." Potato Chip Girl sat on the big floor covered with snowflakes and noise.
The keyboard in front of the screen was typing with sparks, and I tried all the backdoor programs but could not successfully connect to the CCTV signal of Line 4.
"Do you think it's a technical problem or man-made?" Mai Shutoku threw a popcorn in her mouth.
"It must be man-made, otherwise how could such a coincidence happen? What are you doing?" Potato Chip Girl turned around and saw Mai Shutoku on the sofa, a little stunned.
In the small dark room backstage, Mai Shutoku was standing upside down on the sofa next to the wall with one hand, her legs pressed against the wall, a bucket of caramel popcorn on her left hand, and a can of aluminum Coke in her right hand.
Drinking by mouth, God knows how she managed to drink Coke while standing upside down without getting it into her nose and trachea, and at the same time she could still speak freely.
"Eating too many carbohydrates and sugars can easily make you lose shape. I have been here for the past few days without moving. I have to find something to do to use up the body's stored calories." Mai Shutoku munched on the popcorn.
"Your fat and calories have been accumulated in the right place. There is no need to worry about the things that we otakus need to worry about. Or you can go down to Nibelungen and go to Line 3 in person. The rules in the maze
'It's just for people like you who are obsessed with weight loss and body shaping." Potato Chip Girl continued to work hard at the screen with a cold face, but her words were almost "involved in your mother" and "female competition"
"Your mother" is written on her face.
"If you really can't figure it out, just forget it. Anyway, the questions on the reality show are all funny. I took a peek at their question bank, and most of them are not serious. It's impossible for the prince to overturn in front of such a reward level." Mai Shutoku persuaded.
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"I'm curious." Potato Chip Girl kept typing on the keyboard, lifting her bangs to reveal her eyes under her forehead, staring straight at the error window that popped up on the screen, "The reality show quiz show on Line 4 is based on the knowledge of the challengers.
The questions are given in person, and the identity information of everyone who enters the Nibelungen is transparent. The six questions ensure that each question is their area of expertise, and there will be no situation where they are completely confused by the six questions.
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"If I put it this way, if it were you, the questions would probably be about women's shoes, bags, and stock futures, right?"
"No, if I go on it, I'm afraid the organizer will give me some shoes to wear and give me a few dragon calculus questions to burn up my CPU. Generally speaking, the more you know about this show, the harder it is to pass it.
, on the contrary, if your mind is empty, the questions he will give will be much simpler. It is a typical anti-involution level and has a positive meaning of educating and entertaining."
"I'll listen to it seriously." Mai Shutoku curled her lips, "Stop tinkering. The people inside don't want us to see it, so we won't see anything."
Potato Chip Girl kept typing on the keyboard for another ten minutes, and finally, in the eyes of Mai Shutoku, she suddenly moved back, moved the swivel chair back a long distance, and let out a powerful cry.
Cursing, "Damn!"
"What's going on over there with Lu Mingfei? Is it almost the end of the level?" Mai Shutoku asked.
"It should be soon, after all, we bought him so much time." Potato Chip Girl grabbed the armrests of the chair with both hands, stretched her legs back to the screen pile, and called up the closed-circuit TV of the next few lines.
I watched the screen on the wall carefully for a while but couldn't find the figure of the shabby child.
"Why is there no one in the sixth, seventh, and eighth levels? Hasn't he already reached the last level?" Potato Chip Girl panicked for a moment and frantically cut the screen to find someone, "Damn it, let him go quickly.
Let him go so fast! The main character is still listening to the cross talk at Deyun Club. Is he trying to break into the empty door by rushing so fiercely?"
"Don't really make a mistake. If one person is lost, it will be troublesome. Boss Qian warned and warned that there should be no deviations in today's affairs." Seeing the panic of Potato Chip Girl, Shutoku Mai also realized the seriousness of the matter.
, fell down from the handstand position, turned over and stood upright, leaning next to Potato Chip Girl's chair and looking at the screen.
"You think I'm up to something wrong? I just didn't keep an eye on him for a while and he did all this to me. Damn it, I found it! No one is missing!" Potato Chip Girl suddenly gasped.
"The fifth level? Why is he still in the fifth level? What the hell? Lin Nian has already rushed to the fourth level. It's only a matter of time before they pass. They can't meet in advance in the Nibelungs." Jiude
Mai frowned.
"I remember the fifth level was playing poker, right? Isn't he pretty good at this stuff? His lucky column in the character attributes panel should be A!"
"Why not S?" Mayi Shutoku asked in disbelief.
"Because the highest is A. According to the boss's wishes in this game, the mission attribute panel is not accurately digitized, only in terms of intervals. Recently, he has become obsessed with Nao Mushroom's novel collection. In the novel's worldview, the upper limit of the attribute panel is
A."
"Isn't there an EX level? I've seen Fate, Status (ability points) and so on. I still understand."
"Then you are still half a pot of water! EX means 'extra' not 'extreme'. It is an intensity that has no comparative meaning. Lu Mingfei's luck is in this Nibelungen without cheating.
Constancy is 'A', as long as it's a game of luck, no one can beat him! This is a fatal character setting!"
"Then why hasn't he passed the fifth level yet?" Mai Shutoku raised her eyebrows and looked at the scenes on the big screen.
"How did I know wait, damn, no wonder." Potato Chip Girl slapped her forehead and felt a little headache looking at the silhouette of the person captured in the surveillance camera on the screen.
"Let me see, no wonder." Mai Shutoku glanced at the screen, saw the figure that the potato chip girl was staring at, and instantly understood what was going on.
"Why did she break through so quickly?" Potato Chip Girl couldn't help but ask.
"What other reason could there be? Just like Lu Mingfei, he was cheating!" Mai Shutoku shrugged and looked at the other "Lucky A" on the screen. It was no surprise that she would appear in such a deep level, "They
What are you playing at?"
"Play cards."
"I know it's a card game, but am I asking about the type, Napoleon, Landlord or Blackjack?"
"With so many people here, it must be Texas." Potato Chip Girl said, "The boss and the emperor both like Texas Hold'em because this game tests not only luck but also people's hearts. It is a gambling game that leaves no room for argument.
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"Isn't Baccarat more about luck than Texas Hold'em? It has lower technical content? That's pure gambling, right?"
"Who told you that only games that gamble on luck can be considered gambling?" Potato Chip Girl sneered twice, "Looking at my experience working in a casino before signing a sweat contract, real gambling games will always be
It is the most intense game between people’s minds. Gambling is never a comparison between people and luck, but a comparison between people’s hearts and minds. This is gambling in the true sense!”
"But are they betting money?" Mai Shutoku pointed at the screen with a curious look on her face.
"Of course not, gambling is so tacky." Potato Chip Girl said, "When the real big players come to the table, they will bet on anyone's life!"
"You are betting on other people's lives with your relationship!" Mai Shutoku stared at the screen with a joking face.
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"Full house." Lu Mingfei revealed his hole card, and found two "3"s, which happened to match the other "3" among the public cards on the table to form a good card pattern.
The public cards in the center of the gaming table illuminated by the chandelier are: clubs, 3 hearts, 9 diamonds, 9 hearts, 10 diamonds, J.
According to the rules of Texas Hold'em, his two hidden cards and the public cards on the table are freely combined to create the largest card, so Lu Mingfei's card type in this round is not just three of a kind, but Full House. Of course
In some places, it is also called a full house, which is the fourth-highest card among all Texas cards.
This is a vast dark space. A huge international tournament standard gaming table is displayed under a suspended chandelier. Players participating in Texas Hold'em are sitting around the gaming table, but almost every player has a pale face and looks at it.
It turns out that their luck today is not very good.
According to the theory of relativity, everyone is unlucky, so there must be one or two people who take all the pots of these unlucky people, and Lu Mingfei happens to be the lucky one with the hottest luck.
Unlike other Texas hold'em poker games, there are no chips on their gambling table. This does not mean that they are playing with points, but that the chips held by each person are too huge to fit on this gambling table.
Looking around, there is a chandelier behind each gambler. What the chandelier illuminates is a row of steel cages. Inside the cages, there are people wearing blindfolds on their faces and muzzles on their mouths. Their faces cannot be seen clearly.
People. They stood in the cage tremblingly. Their hands were tied with cable ties in front of them and they lost their freedom. Their clothes were also changed into uniform linen clothes. They stood barefoot in the cold cage and shivered.
These people are their gambling capital, living people.
A group of ordinary people who are powerless.
Lu Mingfei's opponent, the one who fought against Lu Mingfei to the end, stood up from the gambling table with a pale face and took two steps back. The row of cages behind him was empty.
He lost everything.
"Alive, alive, alive."
There was a frightening and strange laughter coming from the gaming table, accompanied by the sharp sound of bones rubbing together. Where the croupier of the gaming table was standing, there was a human figure covered in dark brown linen sitting, with the hair protruding from the neck of his clothes.
It is not a human head, but nine snake-like dark golden spines, each of which is connected to a bird-like human head.
This is a sickle, or the queen of the sickle, with nine heads swinging along with the spine, and the dense pupils are locked on the man who lost his light.
"FULL HOUSE versus THREE OF KIND, FULL HOUSE takes them all," the dealer said.
In the last game, this man played stud with Lu Mingfei, and all his chips were the five chips in the cage behind him. The five imprisoned people walked to the designated place under a spotlight, and other
Dozens of people stood together, forming a neat square formation like a middle school or high school gymnasium.
They are all innocent people, they are not even hybrids, but a large number of ordinary people, used casually as chips, just to add some "entertainment" to the game.
At the dealer's order, those people, as if guided by something invisible, walked to the cage behind Lu Mingfei and stood in.
"I'm sorry, you were eliminated!" the croupier said, looking at the man who had nothing.
"I won't! I'll return it!" The man was about to say something, and was even ready to turn around and run away, but on his shoulder, a dark red air flow quietly passed through, and his throat was instantly torn open with a huge gap.
His mouth, cervical vertebrae, and trachea were cut into two pieces, and he fell to the ground and died suddenly.
Lu Mingfei looked at this scene with no expression on his face. He turned his head and looked at his right shoulder. It was empty. But if he looked at the chandelier light source on the gambling table from the right angle, he would find that there was an almost transparent
The thing stood there.
The ghost chariot birds in the capital call day and night, and the moon is over. Their sounds are very sad, and they even gather at the observatory, which is particularly strange.
It was a female sickle, whose scientific name is the ghost car bird. There is a ghost car bird on the shoulders of every gambler, and even every "chip" in the cage who has lost their freedom. They are extreme addicts after the mutation.
The blood-sucking dragon blood mutant, the vampire scythe, is extremely aggressive. If it were not for the croupier on the gambling table, that is, the huge scythe queen, I am afraid that I would have been eager to rip out everyone's throats and drink thirsty.
Blood.
"As usual at the end of each round, repeat the rules of the game again." The croupier shook his head and said, "Each player's basic chips are 20.
The game is standard Texas Hold'em, but there is no big blind or small blind. Players participating in the game need to invest 1 head as a pot chip each time. The minimum call bet thereafter is 1 head, and the raise can only be 2 heads.
Multiples of , except Stud.
There are now six players on the field. When the dealer circles the field and returns to the dealer, it is deemed that a round of the game has been completed. The gambler with the lowest chips in each round of the game and his chips will be excluded from the gaming table.
If a player accumulates 50 chips, he can immediately use the chips to redeem himself and get a ticket to the next level."
Finally, the dealer muttered, "And, I remember this was supposed to be the last game of the round."
As soon as he said these words, the expressions of most of the players sitting at the gambling table changed. Many people quickly turned around to count how many heads were left in their own cages. They glanced over and saw that Lu Mingfei was included at the gambling table.
There are a total of six players left - obviously there were more people before the game started, but now only these people are left, and as the game rounds increase, the number will be even smaller.
Lu Mingfei also subconsciously glanced behind him. The cage behind him could almost be described as overcrowded. At a glance, there were estimated to be more than forty people wearing blindfolds and restrained without freedom.
Similarly, Lu Mingfei also glanced at the female player diagonally across the table. The cage behind her was also overcrowded. At a rough count, there were thirty or forty players. If you are lucky, you might be able to get enough for the next game.
50 heads for ransom.
"It seems like we both have pretty good luck today," Lu Mingfei said, looking up at the female player.
“The dealer just dealt the cards well.”
Su Xiaoqiang, who was sitting diagonally opposite, also looked at Lu Mingfei.
Judging from the current situation, she and Lu Mingfei are probably the biggest winners at this gambling table so far, but the way of winning is a bit disgraceful.
The two of them tacitly agreed not to discuss this topic again, but instead looked at the other people at the gambling table.
The other four gamblers on the gaming table all lost and turned pale. There were only five or six heads left in the cage behind them. There was also an unlucky guy who only had one left, and that was a man with a short head.
, half of his face was tattooed, and he looked like a ruthless character, but now his face was pale and his hands and feet were cold.
He is the player with the fewest chips after the settlement of this round.
ps1: You can’t blame me for changing the scene. The mysterious grand prize in the sixth question is a long-term foreshadowing. This really needs to be buried.
ps2: But smart readers can guess the answer based on ps1, so I don’t need to say more.