The sound of the noose sounded again, but Yu Zhesen did not feel any change in his height.
Soon, he realized that the noose making the sound was not the platform he was on.
The sound came from the opposite side, where Cheng Heyang was, and another hanging platform was lowered to the same height as his side.
There is a chair on the hanging platform, and Yu Qingxue is sitting tied up.
"Yu Zhesen..." Yu Qingxue had tears in her eyes, looking at Yu Zhesen with guilt on her face, and murmured on her lips: "I'm sorry..."
She lowered her head and repeated: "I'm sorry..."
Cheng Heyang was still leaning on the guardrail of the communication bridge. His position was just above Qingxue's platform. After the lowered platform stopped, he asked Yu Zhesen: "I see you are wearing night vision goggles, so what are you doing?"
You shouldn’t have had any electronic brain modification surgery, right?”
"No, what's wrong?"
Cheng Heyang took out a pair of simple electronic goggles from his pocket and put them on. While pressing the button on the glasses leg with his finger, he ordered: "Accept the connection request from the virtual space."
An inquiry command popped up in Yu Zhesen's eyepiece, and he chose "accept connection" without hesitation. The three-dimensional virtual scene spread out, turning their environment into a brilliant casino.
"Time in the virtual space will accelerate," Cheng Heyang said, holding the frame on the bridge of his nose, "So if you win quickly enough, you might still have time to rescue your little girlfriend."
Yu Zhesen looked at him silently, waiting for him to take the initiative to explain the rules of the game.
"Although I can see into other people's hearts, to be honest, I have no interest in gambling." Cheng Heyang waved his hand, and a stack of cardboard cards appeared in front of him and Yu Zhesen.
Yu Zhesen flipped over the stack of cards in front of him. Although the deck looked very thick, there were actually only nine cards because the card material was 3 mm thick cardboard.
The nine cards include three kings, three knights and three rebels.
"The king wins the knight, the knight wins the rebel, the rebel wins the king, and the same cards draw. After each round, the cards displayed by both sides are immediately invalid." Cheng Heyang said.
"Isn't this just rock, paper, scissors? This is the game you want to play? Why do you have to do something so fancy?" Yu Zhesen shuffled his deck of cards.
"You can understand it this way, but this game does not involve two people playing cards at the same time. Instead, one person puts the cards first, and the other person puts the cards last." Cheng Heyang also shuffled his own pile of cards.
Yu Zhesen frowned: "Are you setting this rule because you want to use mind reading to win when you are behind?"
"Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet." Cheng Heyang smiled, "After the first-hand player has placed the cards he decided to play, the second-hand player will also put a card. But before the cards are played, the first-hand player has
The power to change cards once."
"Change cards?"
"The person who puts the cards first can decide whether to change his own cards after the other party puts down the cards. After the card replacement is completed, the cards will be opened immediately to reveal the result."
Yu Zhesen was stunned for a moment, and he quickly understood Cheng Heyang's intention in setting up this rule.
The player who takes the lead can perform a card change, which gives the opportunity to play games that were originally impossible to play against mind readers.
But it shouldn't be that simple. Yu Zhesen doesn't think Cheng Heyang wants to play a fair game with him.
In order to try to extract more information from Cheng Heyang, Yu Zhesen deliberately pretended to be stupid and asked: "I understand, so if one of us wins five rounds, he will be the final winner?"
Cheng Heyang looked at him contemptuously like he was looking at a fool: "There will be a draw in this game, what are you thinking?"
Looking at the suddenly enlightened Yu Zhesen across from him, he changed his tone and said in a joking tone: "But if you can win four rounds in the game, your efforts will not be in vain."
"Oh?"
"Every time you win a round, the platform where Yu Qingxue is sitting will drop a quarter of the height." Cheng Heyang said, "So if you win four rounds, she can land safely. You win the whole game,
I’ll put you both down.”
"Sounds good, let's get started." Yu Zhesen nodded in agreement.
"I will give you a little benefit in the first game. You can choose whether to go first or second. In each subsequent game, the loser of the previous game will go first." Cheng Heyang smiled and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of invitation.
Yu Zhesen did not answer immediately, but asked him: "You said you gathered information about me from Chu Yuexi's mind, then you should know that I have predictive ability, right?"
"I know you have the ability to predict." Cheng Heyang nodded, "That's why I designed this game that is relatively fair to both of us."
"Is it really fair? If I choose to go first, even if you can read what cards I put, I can also predict whether to change the cards. No matter how you look at it, it will be more beneficial to me?" Yu Zhesen questioned. Cheng Heyang shrugged: "But your ability to predict is not useful when you are behind, right? The loser will get the first move in the next game."
"Then according to your logic, the one who goes first will definitely win. If you let me choose first, I will win five games before you."
"Really?" Cheng Heyang sneered, "Then let's give it a try."
Yu Zhesen continued to shuffle the deck, and after thinking for three seconds, he said: "Then, I choose to go first in this round."
"Let's put the cards down."
Yu Zhesen took a handful of cards in his hand, randomly selected a "King" from it, pushed it forward and placed it on the virtual card table.
Cheng Heyang stared at him with a half-smile, lined up the nine cards in front of him, and popped out the second card from left to right with his index finger.
Two covered cards touched together on the card table.
"Do you want to change the cards?" Cheng Heyang asked.
The prediction of the law of cause and effect was activated, and the picture of the result of the card opening appeared in Yu Zhesen's mind.
King vs. King, if the cards are not changed, it is a draw.
This was not what Yu Zhesen expected. He didn't understand why Cheng Heyang deliberately played the draw card. He had obviously leaked the information about the draw card on purpose.
The moment he stepped into the No. 1 bleaching pool factory and faced Cheng Heyang, Yu Zhesen let Shi Xin partially remove his mental protection and deliberately sold the vulnerability to Cheng Heyang.
The reason for doing this is to lower Cheng Heyang's guard and prevent him from jumping over the wall and hurting Yu Qingxue.
After all, what Cheng Heyang relies on most is his telepathy. Yu Zhesen is worried that if he finds that his thinking is impregnable, he will lose the confidence to play the game and directly take extreme actions.
Let Shi Xin properly release the protection so that Cheng Heyang can easily read the information, so that he can be dragged into his trap.
However, there are two things that Yu Zhesen is more concerned about during the actual operation. One is the game rules formulated by Cheng Heyang, which is the part he questioned before. The other is the current situation of the opening of the first game. Cheng Heyang should be very clear about the first thing he has done here.
The king was placed, so why did he put the exact same card?
Theoretically speaking, no matter what cards Cheng Heyang plays, it will not affect the result. After all, the first player can change the cards.
No matter what cards Cheng Heyang plays, Yu Zhesen can use a winning card.
According to the psychology of ordinary people, it doesn’t matter what cards you play in a game where you know you will lose. Could it be that Cheng Heyang’s card was played randomly?
Yu Zhesen was a little confused.
"What's wrong? Aren't you going to change the cards? It's about to start." Cheng Heyang urged.
"Wait! Change!" Yu Zhesen shouted.
He couldn't let go of a sure-win game, so he decisively replaced the king card that was placed first with a rebel card.
Then the cards were revealed and the result was revealed. Cheng Heyang's card was exactly as predicted by the law of cause and effect, it was a king.
In the first round, Yu Zhesen won.
"Congratulations, because you won a round, as agreed, the height of Yu Qingxue's platform dropped by a quarter." Cheng Heyang smiled and raised a card, "It's my turn next."<
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After saying that, he placed the cards in his hand on the table and pushed them forward.
Yu Zhesen did not predict what Cheng Heyang's card was, because the opportunity to rotate cards was in Cheng Heyang's hands.
He looked at the remaining eight cards in his hand and pondered, actually communicating with Shi Xin in his mind.
"Do you want to block his mind reading of your card information this round?" Shi Xin asked.
"It's too early, it's not the time yet." Yu Zhesen refused, "Just play normally this round and let him read my cards."
Although Yu Qingxue was lowered by a quarter of his height, he was still eight or nine meters away from the ground. It was too early to have a showdown with Cheng Heyang now.
Yu Zhesen drew a knight card from his hand, covering it on the table and pushing it forward.
Cheng Heyang smiled slightly: "If you don't want to change it, just drive it."
Both sides folded their cards and it was revealed that Cheng Heyang's card was the same as the first round.
"It seems that I have better luck in this round." Cheng Heyang showed a happy and satisfied look, "As a punishment for losing a small round, one of the mechanical locks on the bottom of your platform will be opened."
There are four remotely controlled mechanical locks at the bottom of the hanging platform. When all four locks are opened, the bottom plate will fall off.
"Oh, by the way, you also have a choice in punishment measures. You can choose to open one lock on your side, or open four locks on Qingxue's side." Cheng Heyang looked at Yu Zhesen's solemn expression with great anticipation.
Face.
"No need to say more, I choose myself." Yu Zhesen replied without hesitation.
As long as all four locks on the bottom of the platform are not opened, they are enough to bear his weight, so if Cheng Heyang wants to see him fall to death, he has to win four rounds.
Now in the third game, Yu Zhesen’s side has taken the lead again.