It was impossible for the two of them to push a mahjong tile as big as a house, but being trapped like this was not a solution either.
"Someone must be playing," Mingqiao calmed down, his brain working rapidly: "Although we can only see the things on this mahjong table, we can't say that there is no one outside just because we can't see outside. The shuffling and arrangement of the cards just now can prove that even if it's not a person, there must be an external force operating this mahjong table."
Shi Xin frowned: "If you want to go out, then you have to leave it to fate."
"You can say that." Ming Qiao nodded, "But I don't think it's that simple. If it were you, what would you deliberately do when playing transparent mahjong?"
Shi Xin thought for a moment and said, "If it were me, since the cards are transparent, I would have to think of other ways to distract other people's attention. For example, I would separate the cards I have put together to distract their line of sight."
"That's it." Ming Qiao's expression was heavy: "In other words, even if you can make a card, as long as you hold it in your hand, you won't touch it, because you can't let others guess your card."
"So the probability can only be based on the ones that are obvious."
"Ping and bar."
"right."
It seems that relying on only peng and kong is more in line with Mingqiao's original idea of "eliminating the game". Now the two of them have clear ideas and can always wait until the cards are put together.
Sure enough, after more than ten seconds, the mahjong on the left hand side began to move.
The cards they had happened to be the cards above the dealer, so their position was not good. The wind cards at the back would usually be treated as useless cards, so the two of them had no chance at all in this round.
After another round of shuffling and spinning the cards, the dealer took their mahjongs. Unfortunately, the numbers on the dice just missed their cards, so they still couldn't get out.
The third and fourth games were similar to the first two games.
But they were not completely without gain.
Although their cards were not touched, other cards that locked students were put together. When there is only one student among three or four cards, "elimination" does not work at all. Only when two students are put together at the same time will the mahjong have a slight crack.
The problem that gave the two of them a headache was that all the students were locked in different cards, and even if they managed to make a straight, they would be separated quickly. This resulted in the cracks being just cracks, not enough for a person to get out.
However, this discovery has made Mingqiao and Shixin feel a little relieved. On the one hand, their idea of "eliminating music" has been verified and is completely correct. On the other hand, the two of them are trapped together, which can immediately meet the number of people problem. They just need to wait for more than three south winds to collide with each other. This is like closing a door and opening two windows for the two of them at the same time.
In the fifth game, the mahjong pieces of the two were collected in the cards at the beginning, and they quickly formed a pair. As long as one of them played another Nanfeng, they could come out.
But the remaining transparent South Wind card that can be seen is among the last few cards, and the whereabouts of the opaque card is still unknown.
Both of them were very excited.
They waited for so long, and finally saw the dawn of victory for the first time.
Mingqiao sat cross-legged on the ground, while Shi Xin lay on the wall like a gecko, his eyes fixed on the card table.
Until an opaque South Wind card was played from the opponent.
Mingqiao's heart was in his throat. He immediately stood up excitedly and lay on the wall like Shi Xin.
The two of them began breathing rapidly, all their thoughts left their bodies, and the only thought left in their minds was that they hoped that the mahjong tile they were on and the one next to it would be pushed over together, and then collide with the opaque one.
As they expected, their mahjong was pushed forward.
Shi Xin and Ming Qiao had already prepared for this moment. When they were placed together with the other two Nanfengs, a crisp cracking sound was heard in their ears.
The sound was intermittent, getting louder and louder, extending all the way from the soles of their feet until an extremely clear crack appeared in front of their eyes. As time went on, the crack grew larger and larger. At first it was only the width of a hand, but now it has become more than enough for one person to pass through.
This crack hung abruptly on the wall, like a hideous and ugly scar. The originally transparent mahjong now cracked like ice, and tiny fragments burst out from the middle of the crack and scattered on the surrounding ground.
"Let's go, now is the time." Mingqiao took Shi Xin's hand as usual and quickly got out of the crack.
As he passed by, the debris fell on his head. After flicking his hair twice, he could see many small transparent pieces falling to the ground like snow.
Mingqiao was worried about those students. He had to quickly confirm whether they were alive and then find a way to send them out.
But just as the two of them walked out of the crack, they found that the surroundings had turned pitch black.
The green mahjong tablecloth under their feet disappeared, and the piles of giant mahjong players around them also disappeared. The area around them became empty, and even their breathing had a faint echo.
"You try the same trick again." Shi Xin said impatiently.
Mingqiao could sense Shi Xin's discontent. The two of them were getting more impatient than each other, which was not a good sign. So he slowly squeezed the hand he was holding a few times and said, "It's okay. I just can't see."
He pulled Shi Xin forward a few steps and kicked something. As Mingqiao kicked it, the object shifted and made a dull wooden sound as it scratched the floor.
"Chair." Mingqiao reached out and touched it.
"What's in front of the chair?" Shi Xin asked.
Mingqiao reached out his hand again and touched a place slightly lower than the level of the chair back. He felt a layer of short hair, and then moved forward and touched a number of cold mahjong tiles.
"Mahjong table, there is a chair."
When Mingqiao was thinking about whether to sit on it, Shi Xin had already sat on the chair before him: "I'll do it."
He started playing mahjong in college, and he and his roommates would play a few rounds of mahjong a few nights a month. After four years, he played quite a lot and could tell what the cards were just by blindly touching the patterns.
"Teacher Ming, I think this is the set of mahjong we were just in." Shi Xin touched a few of the pieces at hand and explained, "I noticed before I came out that the transparent mahjong has sharper edges, while the opaque ones are similar to ordinary mahjong, with softer edges, and the patterns on the two types of mahjong feel different. So I guess this is the same set as before."
"That means those students are still in this deck."
Shi Xin took a deep breath and said, "Yes. But I don't remember which card they are in."
"I remember." Mingqiao said firmly.
He has a way of memorizing things, and he always likes to organize what he needs to remember into a perfect logical loop, memorizing the entire logic first, and then separating what he needs.
But it was too much trouble to search one by one. There were too many cards here. It would take a long time to find those ten or so students. They couldn't afford to waste time.
Mingqiao lowered his head and thought for a while: "Sort it first, I'll go with you."
"Okay, as fast as possible." Shi Xin pushed the cards in front of him aside, leaving a large space. "I'll put the strip cards on my left hand side. Teacher Ming, if you're not skilled, just look for the strip cards. They're easier to distinguish by touch."
"good."
"Putting the card in the middle will make it easy to pick out the other cards. You can try it."
"Um."
"Put the Wanzi card on the far right. I'll take this."
Mingqiao responded and immediately started drawing the cards in front of him.
He threw back the cards he couldn't draw to Shi Xin, and piled the cards he could draw in the corresponding positions. Shi Xin was much faster, and within a few minutes, the two of them had sorted out the cards in front of them.
Mingqiao estimated that the cards were roughly divided, and said, "Then I'll start."
"Yeah, I'm ready."
"There is one person each from Yaoji and Santiao."
After listening to what Mingqiao said, Shi Xin immediately looked for the single chicken and the three strips in the cards. When the two of them were sorting them just now, Mingqiao couldn't tell the single chicken, so he put it back. Shi Xin happened to touch it, so he kept it in mind.
He quickly found three transparent one-piece chicken cards according to his memory, then found a two-piece, and then found three transparent three-piece cards, and combined them again and again until he put them together.
This time, it was not just the familiar shattering sound, but also a slight vibration when Shi Xin's hand was placed on the mahjong.
"It's open."
"Continue." Mingqiao tapped the table lightly with his fingers. "There is one person each in the seventh and ninth strips."
Shi Xin quickly found seven, eight or nine more and put them together.
Mingqiao remembered everything, and Shi Xin moved quickly, and soon, the cards that trapped the students were cracked one by one. The table in front of Shi Xin was almost full.
"The last two, eighty thousand and ninety thousand."
However, Shi Xin found four 80,000 cards from the Wanzi cards. Just when he put them together, one of the four cards cracked.
The cracked card is the opaque one.
"Teacher Ming, are you sure there is only one student trapped in one type of card?"
"Sure." Mingqiao's tone couldn't be more firm. He had complete confidence in his memory.
Shi Xin still put the three transparent cards of 80,000 and 90,000 together with the three cards of 70,000 and tried them one by one, and then split the two cards.
"But this time three pieces broke at once." Shi Xin reached out and touched the three broken mahjong pieces again. Two were transparent and one was opaque. The transparent one should be the student, but what about the opaque one?
He took the cracked opaque mahjong in his hand, felt around the crack, and then pried it open with force. The thing hidden inside instantly fell out. Shi Xin reached out to catch it: "It's the key."
"There is a door here." Mingqiao responded immediately: "You sit down, I'll find it."
He walked straight ahead, kicked the wall, turned, and felt his way down along the wall, just like when he was locked in the small dark room in the restaurant.
When he came back after feeling around, a cotton thread suddenly appeared on the wall where there was nothing there.
Mingqiao pulled hard, and the room instantly became brightly lit.
The room was not big, about ten square meters. In the middle of the room stood a mahjong table and four chairs. Right next to the line that Mingqiao had just pulled, there was a tightly closed wooden door.
"Save people first." Mingqiao said.
Now that they have lights, they don't need to continue searching in the dark. Besides, the mahjong tiles containing the students have all been broken into pieces. They just need to pour the students out of the mahjong tiles.
Just like them before, the moment each student came out, it was as if they had passed through Doraemon's tunnel of growing and shrinking, and it only took the blink of an eye for them to return from the size of a grain of rice to that of a normal person.
Mingqiao checked their breathing and listened to their heartbeats one by one, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he was sure that they were only temporarily unconscious.
On the other end, Shi Xin took the key, inserted it into the keyhole, and turned it gently.
The door opened.
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