Xie Antong didn’t even need to turn around to know it was that guy nad Li Wei.
“Wanna chat for a bit? I believe anyone confident in their own strength wouldn’t want to play second fiddle to others.”
Li Wei said with a grin. He’d already chatted with a bunch of people, and now he was just playing the ga of socializing like a seasoned pro.
“Sit down for a round. We’ll talk while we play.”
Xie Antong replied calmly. She hadn’t found anyone willing to gamble with her for a while now. Soone walking up to her like this? Of course she had to seize the chance.
Li Wei glanced at her 13 stars and couldn’t help the twitch in the corner of his mouth.
To be honest, he hadn’t heard much about this contestant before. The fact that she was ranked number one really caught him off guard.
Ever since the last ga she played with “Sin,” Xie Antong had changed the appearance and color of her All-Seeing Eye helt.
It worked great—everyone’s attention was on “Sin” anyway. Except for a few observant folks, the general public didn’t recognize her much.
A beam of light from above enveloped the two of them. The ga began—Blackjack. The Fake Human had already started dealing cards.
“Impressive, winning this much.” Li Wei started up a conversation.
“Yeah.” Xie Antong replied.
Li Wei: ......
Since the beginning of the ga, she only played gas that involved calculation and deduction. Her win rate obviously exceeded fifty percent. As ti passed, the stars naturally piled up.
“Surely, in this ga setting, you don’t think you’re weaker than anyone else, do you?”
“I’m obviously weaker than him. You don’t seriously think you can beat him, do you?” Xie Antong glanced at Li Wei. Their eyes t, and Li Wei was a bit speechless.
Why didn’t this go the way he imagined?
“But he’s won fewer tis than you. A lot fewer.”
“Yeah, you did a great job pointing that out. Thanks.” Xie Antong nodded at him.
Li Wei: ?
What kind of nonsense is this!?
“Hit?” the skeletal Fake Human next to them asked.
Li Wei, a little irritated, glanced at his cards. His total wasn’t high.
“Hit!”
Then, he continued talking to Xie Antong:
“Actually, my plan is already—”
“Your plan’s almost done, right?” Xie Antong said while checking her own cards, responding casually.
“Let say it for you. You got everyone to avoid betting against ‘Sin,’ and then went around convincing people—whether through lies or bribery—to join a multiplayer ga.”
“And so of them don’t even know they’re being set up to go against ‘Sin.’”
“At the end, you plan to get ‘Sin’ to join the multiplayer round. Given his personality, there’s no way he’d say no.”
“But you won’t ntion how many people are in it. Once he agrees, the ga starts imdiately. No one can back out. And in the end, it turns into everyone vs. Sin.”
Li Wei’s eyes froze—he clearly hadn’t expected his plan to be laid bare like this.
Then he stopped pretending and said directly:
“Smart. No wonder you’re the one with the most stars.”
“This isn’t a fight. It’s a gamble. And in gambling gas, when multiple parties team up, their win rate skyrockets.”
“Take Dou Dizhu, for example. If two players secretly team up, the third pretty much has no chance.”
Xie Antong looked at Li Wei and said:
“Theoretically, yeah, the odds are very good.”
“So what? You’re not planning to join? Don’t have confidence in yourself?” Li Wei tried provoking her.
“You ever heard of ‘drawing legs on a snake’?”
“What?”
Li Wei didn’t quite get it. He suddenly felt like the woman across from him was looking at him with disdain—and a strange sense of disappointnt.
At first, when she saw Li Wei break Lu Ce’s Perfect Completion streak, Xie Antong thought he was pretty talented.
Now seeing him scrambling to gather people to gamble against “Sin,” she just found it boring.
You were doing just fine—why throw it away like this?
Even if the odds of winning are high on paper, soone like “Sin” could easily co up with so bizarre way to win. As long as you’re gambling, you’re giving him a shot!
This Li Wei… she really overestimated him.
And Li Wei, too, was now looking at her with a scrutinizing gaze. He didn’t know why, but this woman’s way of speaking was strange.
As if she could see the future. Like she had zero faith in their actions—as if they were already sentenced to death!
“You seem... to know him well?”
“Or maybe… you’re one of his fans?”
“You busted.” Xie Antong didn’t answer him. She just replied blandly and pointed at the cards in front of him.
Li Wei looked down and realized he’d kept hitting—his total was 23.
But when he looked up again, her revealed cards already totaled 20—and she hadn’t even flipped her hidden card!
“You didn’t bust?”
Xie Antong ignored him and flipped her card. A spade Ace appeared on the table.
“Heh.”
Li Wei was a bit dumbfounded. One of the stars on his chest vanished, while Xie Antong’s total increased to fourteen.
“Still wanna play?”
Li Wei: ......
He felt like he’d just swallowed a fly. Originally, he planned to recruit a top-tier player to gain a better edge in the ga.
But after just a couple minutes of talking, he didn’t achieve anything. The other person wasn’t interested at all—and it felt like he got dissed.
And to top it off, he lost a star!
He hadn’t even taken a loss against the strongest player yet, but here he was—already getting beat down by this woman!?
He gave Xie Antong a long, aningful look, then stood up. He knew there was no point in staying.
“Then let’s wait and see.”
Xie Antong shook her head. Suddenly, she looked at Li Wei and said:
“Since you gave a star, I’ll give you a tip.”
“Out of all the choices you can make right now, the best one… is to do nothing.”
Li Wei didn’t reply. Without looking back, he walked off in the direction where “Sin” was.
Xie Antong sighed. She was genuinely curious how “Sin” would break through this setup.
And now? People were lining up to hand him wins again!
......
“So? Co up with sothing interesting yet?”
Lu Ce was still playing with the small balls at the roulette table. He glanced at Li Wei walking over, clearly not surprised.
“Let the ga randomly assign us sothing. It’s a multiplayer ga—not just the two of us.”
“This is your idea of ‘interesting’?” The Lust Mask showed a mocking expression. “Fine.”
“Alright!” Li Wei replied imdiately, raising his right hand without giving any extra ti to think.
A beam of light shot down from the ceiling, enveloping multiple silhouettes in the room.
Above everyone’s heads, a massive number lit up in an instant.
—20!
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