Chapter 50 The Devil's Luck

The title "Cyber Gambler" was one that Snow had acquired at level 50, and he had used it ever since because… the attached ability of the title, [Evil's Strong Luck], was practically a law of causality skill.

This ability allowed the user to change the probability of certain events before them, turning some extremely low probability events into 100% facts.

A simple example: roulette.

There's a saying—in roulette, it's impossible to get the same number twice in a row.

This saying is naturally inaccurate; it's not "impossible" to get the same number twice in a row in roulette, but rather "almost impossible."

Leaving aside cheating and other human factors, that probability still exists. Maybe it will happen once every thousand spins, maybe once every ten thousand, or maybe once every hundred thousand…

Regardless of the actual probability, in short, if you use [Evil's Strong Luck] to spin… twice.

As long as it's "theoretically" possible, it's something this ability can interfere with and control; then… how big is this "theoretical" value?

Another example using a coin flip: before the coin is tossed, the space for this "theory" is still very ample; when the coin is tossed, that space begins to shrink rapidly, and when the coin lands on the back of a person's hand, the "theory" will disappear completely.

The realm that [Evil's Strong Luck] can interfere with is within that "space where theory still exists"; once this space disappears, it's beyond the scope of interference, because that's no longer "controlling undetermined probability," but "rewriting reality that has already happened"...

Right now, Snow was interfering with this event before he was hit himself, changing the probability of Fupa's attack "missing" from 0.0000…1 percent to 100 percent… and thus managed to escape unscathed.

Of course, doing this came at a price…

Since it was "Evil's" Strong Luck, it was bound to be accompanied by extremely dangerous consequences; any act of interference would bring a corresponding "backlash of misfortune," the degree of misfortune being related to the original probability of the interfered event—the lower the original probability, the stronger the misfortune and the faster it would come.

For an event like "deciding the outcome of a coin flip," one only had to bear the misfortune of about a 50% probability difference, which, when realized, might be to the degree of tripping while walking or choking while eating; but something like "drawing the Ace of Spades directly from a brand new deck of cards" would require bearing the misfortune equivalent to a 98.149% probability difference, which, when realized, would be to the degree of falling down the stairs or being hit on the head by something falling from a high place...

By the same logic, "making [Cai Bupa Ne]'s skill graze by" also came with a price; to make up for a 99.9999…9% probability difference, the misfortune that materialized would certainly be life-threatening.

In a sense, it might have been better for him to be directly killed by Fupa, because the misfortune caused by such an extreme probability would be very outrageous… He could very well encounter an incredible "unlucky thing" like "being struck by lightning" or "choking to death on his own saliva" within ten seconds.

But, Snow happened to have a way to escape this misfortune, which was—[Devil's Dice].

The special effect of this spiritual energy weapon was also very interesting—[As long as three "6s" are rolled, the negative effects of a skill (whether released by others or oneself) can be negated].

The "roll" here wasn't a true roll in the literal sense; after all, this was a game world, so there was no need to be so troublesome. Players only needed to hold the item in their hands to activate the "roll dice" effect, and then the system would give a random number.

Seeing this, some people must have understood…

That's right, the number of [Devil's Dice] could also be interfered with using [Evil's Strong Luck].

Thus, there was such an operation: Snow first used [Evil's Strong Luck] on himself, allowing [Devil's Dice] to obtain three sixes, then activated [Evil's Strong Luck] on Fupa to make her skill miss, and then used the special effect of [Devil's Dice] to negate the misfortune caused by using [Evil's Strong Luck] on Fupa.

In this way, the price to be borne for "making Fupa's skill miss" was converted into the price to be borne for "rolling three sixes with three dice."

Although this also had a probability difference of 99.538%, it was much better than the former… at least there wouldn't be a misfortune that would lead to sudden death; for Snow… that was enough.

All he needed was two minutes.

And half of those two minutes had already passed.

"Don't panic, kill again!" After a brief hesitation, Fupa said in a deep voice, bringing Xiaobu back to her senses.

At the same time, she herself gathered her strength and advanced again, chasing after Snow, who was still not standing up, with a second wave of strikes.

This time, Snow couldn't use the same trick as before to resist; although [Evil's Strong Luck] had no cooldown time, [Devil's Dice] did; if he didn't use [Devil's Dice] to negate the negative effects, he would still die even if he activated [Evil's Strong Luck].

However, he still activated it…

If he didn't, he would be killed instantly by one blow, if he did… he would be killed by misfortune a few seconds later; this was a bitter choice, but it was still very clear how to choose.

*Duang*~

Two seconds later, Fupa's follow-up attack missed again, striking the sand.

That bizarre sound was actually a noise produced by the attack being interfered with by a law of causality skill; her weapon had lost its original properties after deviating from the target, so the power it produced was similar to an ordinary girl poking the ground with a stick.

"Tch…" Fupa wasn't too surprised when this second attack missed, she naturally understood… that the opponent must have used some means to interfere with her, but Snow's information was too little, and she didn't know what he had done.

*Whoosh*—

Just as Fupa's strike missed, Bu Tiange also flanked from the side, the shuriken in his hand creating a sharp sound as it slashed fiercely towards Snow's head.

"Sigh… just let it be…" At this moment, Snow really gave up.

He was originally a frivolous, indifferent, and even cold-blooded person, and even if he occasionally lost his composure, it was only when dealing with Brother Jue; for a person like Snow, expecting him to break through some kind of limit or explode with a counterattack in this situation… that wasn't "almost impossible," but "absolutely impossible."

*Hiss*—

In the next second, in the sand and wind, a sound like a gentle breeze brushing willows arose.

The wind was the blade, the body like a willow, the blood sang its song.

When the blood sprayed out and sprinkled on the sand, the expression on Bu Tiange's face seemed a little wooden.

He stared woodenly at his body being sliced open diagonally from his left shoulder to his right rib, splitting into two segments… until those two segments collapsed and vanished into light, he didn't know what had happened.

"How…" The Fupa girl, who witnessed this scene, was scared…

A chill instantly swept through her body, and the word "fear" flowed through her veins like adrenaline.

But before she had time to feel that fear, her body was cut open like Bu Tiange's… the only difference was that she was sliced horizontally at the waist.

Just as the entire audience was looking at this incomprehensible situation in surprise, another change occurred!

Just then, a flash of lightning streaked through the clouds, and with a "boom," a thunderbolt struck Snow, who was lying on the ground, and turned him to ashes.

Now… even the commentators didn't know what to say.

Within a short five seconds, all three people on the field were dead; two of them inexplicably had their bodies severed, and one was struck by lightning; no one knew what to say about this.

At this moment, the only known and certain information was—the score became 2:0, which meant that the system determined that the [Infernal Frontline] had won this "midterm battle."

…………

"What… happened?"

At the same time, in the [Order] conference room, Wu Si Can Xuan looked away from the screen with a puzzled expression and looked at Gui Xiao.

Not only him, but the other team members in the conference room, as well as the staff who came to watch the battle together (because [Order] had a bye in this round, the studio's data analysis team also came to watch the live broadcast with the team members), all looked at Gui Xiao with questioning eyes.

"Hmm…" At this time, Gui Xiao also had a solemn expression. After pondering for a few seconds, he replied, "I only saw a little bit…" He paused, "There was something very fast… um… maybe it was a person, if it was a person, then it should be [Wang Tan Zhi]…" He bit his fingernails and thought for another two seconds, "In short… there was such a thing, at the moment when Bu Tiange was about to kill Snow… it ran over from a distance and casually killed Bu Tiange… Then, it continued to run forward, leaving the range that the screen could capture. A second later, it turned back from the direction it left and casually killed Cai Bupa Ne."

"Hey hey…" Zui Wo Changran put on his half-smiling expression, "What do you mean by 'casually'? If it was really Wang Tan Zhi who did it, then call it a sneak attack."

"No… that's not how it was." Gui Xiao said, "Accurately rushing towards the target, killing it, and then turning to another target is called a 'sneak attack'; reaching out and cutting it open when 'passing by' the target is called 'casually'…"

"Huh?" Zui Wo Changran used an interjection to indicate that he didn't understand.

"It's hard to say now, after all, the live broadcast's camera has been staying on the three people fighting just now; we have to wait for the recording file to come out and determine what happened through Wang Tan Zhi's own perspective, but… if, I mean if… that 'thing' just now was really Wang Tan Zhi, then… in future matches, he will become a very difficult existence even for us." Gui Xiao rarely said in a serious tone, "The 'ability' he showed in this match, once used in a 2v2, even if I'm there, we'll still lose…"

As soon as this was said, the people in the conference room really couldn't sit still.

"What exactly is going on?" Ye Zhi, who was sitting next to Gui Xiao, frowned and said, "What exactly is his ability?"

"I told you, I only saw a little bit…" Gui Xiao squinted and replied, "And… what I saw wasn't Wang Tan Zhi moving… or anything else, what I saw was just the traces left by this thing after moving…"

"I didn't see this 'trace'…" Chan Ge interjected at this time and raised his eyes to scan the people around him, "Did anyone else see it besides Gui Xiao?"

"Of course you can't see it." Gui Xiao said, "Because that thing moved so fast that various mediums in the physical world didn't even have time to react to its passage, it had already passed… However, from a pure data perspective, you can still see a trace, like a very, very thin thread that you wouldn't notice if you didn't look carefully."

"So… what you mean is…" Wu Si Can Xuan tried to understand and summarize this matter, "What happened just now is very likely… Wang Tan Zhi used a speed that no one can see to 'casually'… cut down the two people from [Jianghu] while moving?"

"Yes, it's like you're sitting on a high-speed train, sticking a sharp blade out of the window to cut someone standing next to the tracks." Gui Xiao replied.

"Then…" Chan Ge then continued, "Can I infer that… Wang Tan Zhi abandoned his teammate and ran away alone before the barrier disappeared in order to hide in the distance to prepare for launching this ability?"

"That's what I think too." Gui Xiao answered, "But whether it's true or not, we still have to look at the recording to confirm."

"Hmm…" Chan Ge thought for a while and took a sip of his wine, "You really can't deal with this move?" He paused for half a second and added, "Even if it's extreme speed, it may not be impossible to overcome, right? For example, using space-time abilities, or at the moment of Ukemi…"

"There's no such thing as the 'moment of Ukemi'." Gui Xiao directly interrupted Chan Ge and answered, "I said… the various mediums in the physical world don't have time to react to his passage at all. By the time the system gives feedback on the 'Ukemi' state and activates some special effect on our bodies, we may have already been cut into two segments like the two people from [Jianghu]."

"Wait." Hearing this, Sheng Yu Pian suddenly thought of something, he quickly interjected, "If it's really as you said, then the two people from [Jianghu] shouldn't have died… their bodies shouldn't have 'had time to react to the fact that they were cut', right?"

"Finally, there's someone who can understand what I'm saying." Gui Xiao replied, "You're right, the result of encountering that kind of attack should be… 'the molecules that make them up didn't realize that they had been cut, so no changes occurred'."

"Therefore, I suspect that Wang Tan Zhi had already been back and forth on this battlefield countless times long before we 'saw' these two kills happen. Unfortunately, my attention was also focused on the battle between Snow and the others at that time, and I didn't notice any 'traces' around."

"And in the process of those countless 'comings and goings', Wang Tan Zhi must have also discovered that he couldn't hurt his opponents, so he tried various methods and finally… found a solution."

Speaking up to this point, Gui Xiao paused for a second and said in a deep voice: "In short, he used some means to make himself 'slow down' at the moment he attacked, thereby completing the kill."