San Tian Liang Jue
Chapter 1187 Do You Think You Still Have a Chance?
"Regarding the results I've 'observed,' I'll explain it to you in the second game," Feng Bujue said as he stood up from his chair. "Right now..."
He didn't finish his sentence before quickly flipping over a card. In the next second, he glanced down at the card, then swiftly flipped over two more cards of the same suit.
"Referee, announce the score." Because his movements were so fast, the referee was still a little dazed, so Brother Jue spoke up to remind him.
"Uh... this... this gentleman scores three points, please continue flipping." The referee paused for a moment before stammering out the sentence.
Before the words were finished, Feng Bujue struck again with lightning speed, flipping another "1+2" in less than five seconds, and it was still the same "phase" – scoring points.
"Three... three points!" This time, the referee's reaction caught up, and he immediately announced, "Please continue..."
Brother Jue's speed increased again, and before the other party could finish the second half of the sentence, he flipped over three more cards.
The result... was still the same phase.
In this way, Feng Bujue continuously revealed the phase cards on the table with a speed that seemed to see through the backs of the cards, and the referee cooperated very well by quickly announcing the scores.
"Three points, please continue... three points, please continue..."
Even the players and referees at other tables were attracted by the almost non-stop announcements, and they all turned to look...
In less than two minutes, Feng Bujue scored 24 points in a row; even he felt that he was quite lucky in this round.
Perhaps some people would still wonder... In the first ten rounds, the "total number of card flips" for the two had reached 75 times. Even after removing the 15 cards that had already scored points, there should still be 60 known cards. Among these 60 cards, there should be at least 30 that could be combined to score points, right?
Wrong!
First of all, the 15 scoring cards taken away by the Black Butterfly were almost all cards that had been "revealed more than twice." Among them... only one was taken away as soon as it was "revealed for the first time," because that card was the unknown card she revealed in the first hand of a certain round, and she happened to clearly remember where the two cards that paired with that card were.
In other words, just in the cards she scored, 14 cards had already occupied those 60 "card flip times"...
Secondly, among the remaining cards on the table, there were also cards that the Black Butterfly had "repeatedly flipped," and those cards were mostly cards near the scoring cards that she had accidentally flipped when trying to score and failing.
To sum up, at the beginning of this eleventh round, there were not 60 known cards remaining on the table. In fact... there were only 40 or so. And these forty-odd cards also included the two "Avici Hell" cards that Brother Jue flipped out in the first round, and the "Sukhavati" card that the Black Butterfly flipped in the seventh round; therefore, there were only a mere 9 "Sanxiang Jieming" (three phases all clear) cards that could actually be combined to score points directly.
So, the question arises again... Of course, this time the question is not "Why did Brother Jue only score 24 points," but "How did Brother Jue get 24 points?"
The situation is like this...
From the first round of this game, Feng Bujue never flipped over a "known card"; until this round, every round, every hand that Brother Jue flipped open... were all unknown cards that had never been flipped over. Even if two cards of the same suit as the card he flipped had appeared before, he would not turn back to flip those known cards to score points... just like he did in the third round.
But in this eleventh round, his strategy... suddenly changed.
In the first two rounds of this round, he still used the "flipping unknown cards with the first hand" offensive method, but these two times, after successfully flipping a new card that "already had two cards of the same suit revealed," he chose to turn back and score; after taking these 6 points, he took the "known 9 points" on the table for the first time with the "first hand not flipping unknown cards" tactic...
Not to mention the hidden meaning behind this set of actions, at least in the eyes of the Black Butterfly, what the opponent accomplished was—in just one round, he used consecutive scores to equalize the score gap with herself.
This kind of change... undoubtedly shook the Black Butterfly's heart.
However, this was not the end...
Next, Feng Bujue adopted the "flipping unknown cards with the first hand" strategy again, and succeeded three more times, raising the score to 24 points.
This scene also quickly transformed the Black Butterfly's wavering into panic and fear...
"Do you think this is a bit incredible?" At this very appropriate moment, Feng Bujue spoke.
"Heh..." The Black Butterfly forced out a stiff smile, "I wonder, Mr. Crow... what method did you use..."
"I didn't use any special methods." Feng Bujue seemed to be able to see through the other party's thoughts, directly interrupting the Black Butterfly's words, and continued, "Everything that has happened so far is something that can be considered normal from a probabilistic point of view; in my opinion... it's very boring, because this can't be called 'gambling' at all, at most it's just a 'game.'"
"How is that possible..." The Black Butterfly finally couldn't help it anymore. She put away her delicate tone and asked in a more normal tone and speed, "Can a normal person score twenty-four points in a row in this kind of game?"
"Heh... the 'normal person' you mentioned..." Feng Bujue smiled when he heard this, "Are you referring to the kind of person whose short-term memory is pathetically weak and whose observation ability is virtually non-existent?" He paused for a second, then continued, "Well... now that you mention it... the average level of modern people is roughly like that. Taking Caucasians as an example—an adult's ability to remember a string of random decimal numbers is usually less than or equal to thirteen digits... and that's still on the premise that they consciously want to remember it." He spread his hands and looked down at the table. "This Triple Neuro-Weakness Game has as many as 102 cards, and the cards are printed with patterns that most people are not very familiar with. If two 'normal people' were to play it, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between victory and defeat even after playing for more than fifty rounds."
Speaking to this point, he changed the subject: "But... what I said just now was, 'normal from a probabilistic level,' I didn't say that I was a 'normal person.'" He paused for half a second, and said arrogantly, "I... am a person who 'can clearly remember all the cards that have appeared,' and 'knows which cards have not been revealed.'"
The Black Butterfly didn't respond to these words.
Logically speaking... if it was five minutes ago, she would never have believed these words, but now, she was skeptical.
"Don't quite believe it, do you? It doesn't matter." Feng Bujue once again saw through what the other party was thinking, and continued on his own, "Listen to me..." He didn't wait for the Black Butterfly to respond, and directly began to explain, "First of all, in the first ten rounds, I undoubtedly had opportunities to score points, such as that 'Sheng Ru Fan Wang Xiang' (Sound Like Brahma King Phase)... Heh... Speaking of which, do you really think that your coquettish posture would work? To be frank... even if your opponent is an incurable lecher, he wouldn't be distracted by that kind of factor in this important gambling game that concerns his later life, right?"
"Are you saying... that you were deliberately not scoring points at that time?" The Black Butterfly replied.
"Of course." Feng Bujue replied, "When I flipped the first card in the third round, there were only twelve cards that had been flipped open on the table. Unless your breasts have the special ability to erase other people's memories or eat away at other people's intelligence through the optic nerve, otherwise... even with the 'average Caucasian level,' you could have scored points in that round, right?"
"Hmph..." The Black Butterfly could only snort coldly at Brother Jue's complaining. After all, she had nothing to refute on this matter...
"Therefore, there is only one possibility for me not scoring points, and that is—I don't want to score points," Feng Bujue continued.
"Then what do you want to do?" The Black Butterfly was already using an unkind tone at this moment.
"Observe." Feng Bujue replied concisely with two words, and then added, "Although I gave up the points that could be scored in these ten rounds, I got valuable information—your thinking patterns, the upper limit of your memory ability, your duel style, etc., I have basically mastered them."
"Hmph... is that so?" The Black Butterfly obviously didn't believe these two sentences of Brother Jue; even if she believed that Brother Jue's memory was outstanding, she wouldn't believe that the other party could see through her thoughts.
The Black Butterfly stepped into the world of fame and fortune at the age of sixteen, and was already a socialite who dominated for a while at the age of twenty; she had also been naive, fragile, and gullible, so she had been hurt, pained, and regretted. This year she is thirty years old, she has become strong, mature, and ruthless.
She doesn't even need this butterfly mask, because she has already put on a mask that will never be taken off; no one really knows what she is thinking, even if she undresses in front of a person, she will not open up even a trace of her heart.
"Whether it is or not, you will understand in the second game," Brother Jue continued, "In this first game... I will first let you confirm my 'memory ability'..." As he spoke, he flipped over another unknown card, "Well... it seems that my score in this round will only be 24." After seeing the card, he said this.
The Black Butterfly glanced at the card and continued, "What's wrong? This is not a paradise or hell card. If you remember everything, you should be able to..."
"It's precisely because I remember everything that I know this won't work." Feng Bujue once again rudely interrupted the other party's words, and continued, "So far, among the cards that have been revealed on the table, excluding the hell cards and the pure land cards, there are six remaining cards that can 'form a pair,' that is, have 'two phases' revealed; and the others... are all suits that have only 'one phase' revealed."
"In this \[Triple Neuro-Weakness], which requires 'three colors and the same phase' to score points, cards that have only 'one phase' revealed are useless... just like the card I just flipped over now."
"Unless I flip another unknown card that is the same suit as this one next, not only will I not be able to score points, but I will also create another pair of 'two phases' scoring opportunities for you."
"Heh... of course, the premise is that you have to remember the positions of those 'pairs' clearly..."
After saying that, he quickly flipped two unknown cards that had never been revealed, ending his round.
"You've said so much..." The Black Butterfly didn't rush to flip the cards this time, but asked, "You still haven't explained why you said that what you did in this round... 'can be considered normal from a probabilistic point of view.'"
"It's very simple." Feng Bujue replied, "You will understand if you think based on the fact that I 'clearly remember all the cards that have appeared'..."
"At the beginning of this round, I knew that there were a total of nine 'three-phase' cards that could be scored directly, and sixteen... a total of eight pairs of 'two-phase' cards. After removing the fifteen cards you took away and removing all the known cards, the probability of drawing a scoring card from the remaining cards on the table is more than 20%—the probability of one appearing for every five cards flipped."
"In the first hand, I don't have to consider this probability at all; if I don't draw a card that can score points, I just need to continue flipping new cards and observe you for another round. But the actual situation is that I successfully drew one... so I took the three points first."
"Then, I got the opportunity to flip cards in the second round. The first hand in this round is very crucial. The probability is basically unchanged, but if I can't flip a card that can score points, I can only give up."
"As a result, I still flipped it, and let me deal with a pair of 'two-phase' cards."
"From here, I no longer flipped new cards, but took away 100% of the points that could be obtained, and took all nine 'Sanxiang Jieming' cards to equalize the score."
"After the tie... I was actually ready to stop scoring points, because there are still six pairs of known pairs left, and after each unknown card that can score points is flipped out, the probability of flipping it again will be greatly reduced. I really don't have much confidence in this kind of situation of gambling on luck..."
"What surprised me a bit was that I still managed to flip out three pairs in the end, and at this time... the probability of flipping a card that could score points has been reduced to about 7%. It has changed from one appearing for every five cards flipped to one appearing for every fourteen cards flipped. The result... as you can see."
Hearing this, the Black Butterfly's lips, which were not covered by the mask, were already trembling slightly. There were two things she could now be sure of: first, she was already a little unable to keep up with her opponent's thinking; second, this feeling of not understanding but feeling powerful probably meant that what the other party said about "remembering all the cards that have been flipped and being able to calculate which cards have not been flipped" was true.
Pa—Pa—Pa—
"Okay... okay..." After being silent for a moment, the Black Butterfly raised her hands and applauded Brother Jue, and restored that pretentious attitude, "Mr. Crow, I admit that your memory ability is above mine, and I am deeply impressed by this."
"You flatter me." At this time, Feng Bujue had already sat back in his chair, sipping champagne with a straw, and replied leisurely.
"It's just... you person..." The Black Butterfly smiled charmingly, "Aren't you a little too fond of showing off?" She leaned forward again, resting her elbows on the table, propping her cheeks with one hand, and showing off her assets, "If you had kept quiet and waited a few more rounds, only appropriately picked up some points, and then waited until the moment when both 'Sukhavati' cards became known cards, raising the number of clear phases on the table to 'twenty-five phases' in one breath, and immediately flipped out two Sukhavati cards to turn defeat into victory... wouldn't I have had no chance at all?"
"Oh?" Feng Bujue replied with a playful smile, "Are you saying... that in the current situation, you think you still have a chance?"