"A pair of eights!"
"A pair of 10s!"
"Sky Dragon of Osiris!"
"Three sevens with a pair of queens. Do you want them?"
"Of course. Three jacks with a pair of sixes."
"It's my turn. Geb's Giant Soldier God!
Do you want them? "
"… Old Cat, we don't seem to be playing the same kind of cards?"
Two people and a cat were fighting on the card table. Although Mai Dong was the landlord, Tang Yue and Old Cat were obviously not of the same mind. The man and the cat deeply demonstrated the essence of the peasant rebellion since ancient times. They were both outsiders and insiders, dragging each other down. Before the landlord was defeated, the two peasants were already fighting over a trivial matter like a hen and two eggs.
Tang Yue held a broken deck of cards in his hand. He looked at a pair of threes on the left and two fours on the right. He looked up at the cat face opposite him. The latter's expression was as calm as an ancient well, unfathomable.
Playing cards with an opponent like Old Cat was the scariest because, regardless of whether it was a comrade or not, it could secretly set you up and stab you in the back. This cat did not care about winning or losing when playing cards. It only cared about whether it was happy or not. You never knew what it was thinking, but its ability to remember cards was far better than that of ordinary people. In the later stages of a game, it basically knew what cards each player had.
You could not control it, but it could see through you.
The biggest card in Tang Yue's hand was the king. This was his trump card. Tang Yue estimated that the cards in their hands were quite fragmented. The probability of a bomb was not high. In the absence of a bomb, there was no other card on the field that could beat his king except for the king.
"A pair of kings." Mai Dong played her cards. "Tang Yue, do you think we are crazy?"
"A pair of kings … I'll take it. A pair of aces!" Tang Yue tapped the screen and played two aces. "Why do you say that?"
"The space station is about to crash, but we are playing Fight the Landlord."
The girl smiled. "For example, if a ship is sailing to the middle of the sea, the bottom of the ship is leaking and is about to sink, but the crew members gather together to play cards and play 'Fight the Landlord' until the sky turns dark. Anyone would think that they are crazy, right?"
"In essence, poker is a mathematical game. At least in my eyes, it is just a game of probability. Humans have loved this form of game since ancient times. Do you know when the earliest similar game appeared?"
"It appeared more than two thousand years ago during the Pre-Qin period. Its name is Liubo, and it's the earliest card game. From a certain point of view, human history is a history of card games."
Tang Yue raised his eyebrows.
"For humans, this kind of entertainment is so widespread and so addictive. From Greenland in the Arctic Circle to Peru in South America, as long as there are people, there will be people playing cards. No matter what kind of difficulties and disasters you encounter, no matter how urgent the situation is, even when your life is in danger, you can sit down and say to anyone in front of you …" Old Cat continued, "Let's play a round of Gwent."
Old Cat chattered as he played a pair of twos, blocking all of Tang Yue's cards. Then, he went easy on Mai Dong. This cat was indeed a traitor. It was an enemy agent infiltrated by the class enemy into the working people.
It did not have the thought of being united against a common enemy. It would hit whoever it wanted to hit, and it would hit its teammates head-on.
"So we are not crazy," Tang Yue said. "It's Archimedes."
"Archimedes?" Mai Dong did not understand what this meant.
"It is said that Archimedes died under the sword of the ancient Roman soldiers. When the ancient Roman army broke into Syracuse and the soldiers broke into Archimedes' house, Archimedes was drawing on the ground. The last words he left in the world were to the Roman soldiers: Don't touch my circle!" Tang Yue explained. "If the universe is going to be destroyed in the next second, then what should we say?"
The girl thought for a moment.
"Don't touch my cards!"
"Don't touch my dried fish!" Old Cat played his cards.
"Don't touch my police!" Tang Yue never played his cards according to common sense.
The two people and the cat took turns to play their cards. Soon, Tang Yue did not have many cards left in his hand.
He still had a few scattered single cards in his hand, including a pair of fours, which were too small for him to find a chance to get rid of. In addition, he also had a king.
The king had not appeared yet, and he did not know who had it. Of course, Tang Yue had enemies everywhere, so it did not matter who had the king.
Mai Dong still had five cards in her hand.
Old Cat still had three cards in his hand.
Tang Yue frowned. If he won this game, then he could get back some of the Happy Beans that he had lost before. If he lost this game, then his account balance, which was already stretched, would be even worse.
Old Cat obviously did not care about winning or losing. It was the real landlord. With hundreds of thousands of Happy Beans in its hand, losing a few games was not painful at all.
"Tang Yue, it's your turn." Mai Dong urged. "What are you doing?
Why are you in a daze? "
Tang Yue stared at the screen in front of him. There were a total of four cards, two fours, an 8 of Spades, and a king.
He was thinking. This might be the last chance to get rid of the pair of fours in his hand, but this pair was too small. As long as the other two had pairs in their hands, they would definitely be able to catch him. Once Tang Yue was caught, he would definitely die, and even his last trump card would not be able to be used. The game was coming to an end. It was not wise to play such a small card at this time … Damn, damn Old Cat. Not only did he have to deal with Mai Dong, but he also had to guard against the Old Cat's tricks.
Should he play?
Should he bet?
Should he bet that Mai Dong and Old Cat did not have pairs in their hands and could not catch his pair of fours?
What if he did not play a pair of fours?
If he did not play the pair of fours, then only the 8 of Spades and the king were left … Should he play the 8 of Spades first, then the king?
Tang Yue rejected this option. After the king appeared, he would definitely be intercepted by the opponent's king. Once he was intercepted, he could only hold on to the two pitiful fours until he died.
"A pair of fours." Tang Yue played his cards.
Old Cat glanced at it and shook his head.
"I can't afford it."
Mai Dong's voice sounded.
"I don't want it."
It was done!
Tang Yue was overjoyed. Mai Dong and Old Cat did not have pairs in their hands. Next, he was going to throw out the 8 of Spades. He only had a king in his hand. Victory was close at hand, and he was almost certain to win.
"8 of Spades!"
"King."
This king was indeed in Old Cat's hand.
It threw out the king and had two cards left in its hand. Moreover, they were single cards that could not be thrown out at once. In terms of single cards, there was no bigger card than the king in Tang Yue's hand.
Mai Dong and Tang Yue both expressed that they could not afford it. Old Cat threw out a queen of hearts and had one last card left in its hand.
Next, it was Mai Dong's turn. No matter what Mai Dong played, she could not stop Tang Yue. Tang Yue was sure to win. He could already see the Happy Beans coming in.
"Five of Hearts."
Mai Dong threw out a card.
Tang Yue was stunned. Old Cat threw out a queen of hearts, and you threw out a five?
Then Mai Dong played another card.
"Five of Diamonds."
"Five of Spades."
"Five of Clubs."
"The last ten." Mai Dong threw out all her cards and clapped her hands. "Mr. Kunlun Gambling Saint, I won."