Chapter 494: Card Change (Two in One)
At the start of the game, the referee team seemed to attach great importance to fairness and justice in details. They actually used an automatic card dealing machine and a long solid wooden table. The automatic dealing machine dealt the cards one by one. No one touched the cards with their hands during the whole process. At most, the referee held a wooden stick to slightly adjust the position.
"Everyone takes a card in turn, then holds the cards on the table and waits. After five minutes, everyone opens the cards together. Before opening the cards, everyone can change the cards. There are two rounds in total in this round."
The rules were announced to be over, and Xia Wange took Lu Qiu to the card table. Everyone was very cautious when facing the cards. Some threw sticks, some started to calculate with a compass, some directly controlled the Shikigami to find a way to see through the cards, and some were like Zhou Qingze and Bai Yuyao. The two of them worked together to calculate, and in just a few breaths, they had eliminated many cards.
Bai Yuyao kept muttering, "Xiao Wang, Xiao Wang, count as Xiao Wang."
Her voice was not loud, but it was still heard by the person standing next to her. That person muttered in his heart that this person had no ambition, while controlling his little ghost to look at the cards.
This deck of playing cards seemed to be modified. You couldn't tell the outcome by simply looking at it. You could only count it, or use another pair of eyes to observe. For some things that couldn't be counted, you could only gamble, betting that the cards in other people's hands were better than theirs.
They were not good at counting cards, but they still had some skills in changing cards, so the scene was chaotic for a while, and everyone was secretly snatching the cards from others.
Everyone else was racking their brains to draw, grab and change cards, only Xia Wange and Lu Qiu were enjoying a peaceful and quiet time.
Lu Qiu walked to the table and took out a card, then put it under his hand and waited for the time to end.
"Is it the king?" Xia Wange asked curiously.
"I don't know." Lu Qiu shrugged. "I just randomly draw it. I need to open it every time to know whether I have drawn the right one or not."
Xia Wange was fine. If she couldn't draw the A, it would be a matter of fate. She had a lot of points, so even if she drew an A this time, she could handle it. So Xia Wange simply didn't count the cards and just stood next to Lu Qiu waiting.
The five minutes after drawing the cards are ostensibly your chance to change cards, but in reality the cards you change are not the cards that no one has chosen on the table, but the cards that everyone has already chosen.
These five minutes are when the real competition begins.
For example, Zhou Qingze and his friends who happened to be standing opposite them never stopped counting the coins in their hands and were constantly using them for divination. Zhou Qingze's hand holding the cards was never kept on the table. He was constantly adjusting his position to avoid those overt and covert attacks.
The little devils are fighting with each other, each trying to snatch the big cards from the other. On the surface, everything seems calm and relaxed, but in fact, there are undercurrents and everyone is biting their teeth.
It seems that Japan is determined to ensure that one person wins the championship. Every time the Onmyoji of Japan gets a big card, he will unconsciously switch it to the Japanese player who is currently ranked third.
Suddenly, Xia Wange felt a flash in front of her eyes. She looked at the cards in Lu Qiu's hand and said in a low voice: "The cards in your hand have been changed."
"Huh?" Lu Qiu was stunned. "Replaced?"
He felt nothing at all.
"Then should I change another card?" Lu Qiu asked.
"It's okay, just leave it as it is." Xia Wange said, "That's not right, just do whatever you want, no need to ask me."
Lu Qiu was silent for a moment, did not move, and still held the cards in his hand.
Not long after, Xia Wange said again: "Your cards have been changed again."
Lu Qiu: “…”
"I really don't feel anything at all."
He just felt that the cards were still pressed in his hand and had not moved.
Just when he was curious and wanted to raise his hand to take a look at the cards, Xia Wange suddenly said, "Be careful, someone wants to change your cards again."
Before Lu Qiu could react, a person across from him suddenly exclaimed, covering his hands with his hands, his fingertips trembling constantly. He looked at the cards in Lu Qiu's hand with uncertainty, as if wondering why he couldn't change them back.
Seeing this scene, Xia Wange raised his eyebrows.
When the five minutes were up, everyone needed to turn over the cards together. Many people took advantage of the last moment when others raised their hands to make a desperate attempt to get a big card. Others were very slow in turning over the cards, as they all wanted to take advantage of the last moment to see if there was a chance to turn the tables. Only Lu Qiu, when he heard that he could turn over the cards, raised his hand and turned them over.
Your Majesty!
Fourteen points added to the total.
When everyone saw that the highest score had appeared, they did not struggle and turned over the cards in their hands.
Zhou Qingze is Xiao Wang.
The score increased by thirteen point five points.
Facts have proved that his strategy of not fighting for the King was correct. He went straight for the King at the beginning, and started to defend after quickly getting it. It was very cost-effective. After all, the added score between the King and the King was only 0.5 points.
The top three players in Japan drew K.
Cards of the same score but different suits get the same number of points, so people from Japan get thirteen points.
Those who are able to stay until now all have some skills. The cards are concentrated in JQK and almost all of them have been drawn. The points in the individual competition are not much different, and there is not much difference in the ranking for the time being.
Soon, the second round began.
Lu Qiu clearly felt as if he was being watched.
Whenever he wanted to touch a card, as soon as he stretched out his hand, another hand would take the card away first.
He was stunned for a moment, and his hand moved to the side to draw another card, but the other card was also snatched away.
Everyone has found the trick. Instead of calculating the cards by yourself, it is better to steal the cards of the more powerful people.
After this happened several times, Lu Qiu didn't know whether he should smoke anymore, as he was being targeted.
He looked at the cards and suddenly lost the desire to play.
Looking at Lu Qiu who was staring at the scattered cards with a frown and was hesitant to make a move, Xia Wange put his arm against Lu Qiu's and asked in his heart: [What's wrong? ]
Lu Qiu said, "I suddenly don't feel like drawing cards anymore, I kind of want to grab them."
"Whose are you robbing?" Xia Wange asked.
Lu Qiu slowly raised his eyes and looked at Zhou Qingze opposite him. Zhou Qingze received Lu Qiu's gaze and immediately widened his eyes, "Don't look at me, mine is definitely not the biggest. No, you are staring at me, could it be that I calculated it wrong?"
Got the biggest one?
It shouldn’t have happened. He still went for Xiao Wang.
Lu Qiu shook his head and turned his gaze to the person in the corner.
Seeing his gaze, Xia Wange also shifted her gaze over. It turned out to be a person from the Benzi country.
"Wait a minute." Xia Wange followed his gaze and said, "I'll go change the cards."
"No, wait a moment..." Lu Qiu was about to call out to Xia Wange, but unexpectedly the other party just walked over.
In the sight of the contestants who were secretly grabbing and exchanging cards, Xia Wange casually walked up to the man from the country of Benzi, raised her hand and took away the other person's hand, then stretched out her hand and pressed it on the other person's card, saying lightly: "This card is mine, you draw again, I want to exchange cards with you."
Players from Japan: “???”
Everyone: “???”
The player from Japan widened his eyes and quickly raised his hand to indicate that his card had been snatched away.
Xia Wange corrected, "I was exchanging cards with you, I didn't steal your cards."
"Exchange cards?" The player from Japan looked at the cards in the opponent's hand, then looked at his empty hands, "What cards do you want to exchange with me?"
Xia Wange pointed to the scattered cards in the middle and said, "I'll trade those cards with you. Go and draw again."
Players from Japan: “???”
"This is called a card change? I am not good at China. Am I understanding it correctly?"
Xia Wange smiled and said, "It's written in the rules that you can exchange cards as long as you don't open the cards. So I'm just here to exchange cards with you. I haven't drawn yet. Whichever card you draw will be considered as my exchange with you."
Players from Japan: “…”
"You are violating the rules!" the man from Japan said quickly in broken Chinese.
"Okay, okay." Xia Wange looked at him helplessly. She raised her hand and randomly pulled a card from the scattered cards, then stuffed it into his hand. "Does this count as an exchange? You take it, and I'll take the one in my hand."
The player from Japan was stunned. He had never seen such a forced switch. This was not a card swap, this was clearly robbery!
The atmosphere suddenly became tense, but the referee team did not react.
That means Xia Wange's behavior did not violate any rules.
For a moment, everyone was speechless.
Just robbing like this?! No, just changing the cards like this? Is this considered changing the cards?!
You make it seem stupid that they were secretly changing cards and fighting just now.
Well, they were too shameless and thought this was a competition of divination and card reading, but they didn't expect it to be a disguised fight in the end.
The man from the Japanese country stared at Xia Wange with a look of surprise and doubt. He secretly covered his wrist that had just been pinched by the other party, and didn't know what to do for a moment.
The moment she touched him just now, he felt as if his arms were paralyzed and he couldn't move at all.
But seeing so many people around looking at him, the player gritted his teeth and began to summon the Shikigami.
Seeing an animal's soul gradually appearing behind the other party, Xia Wange raised his hand and took out a jade hammer from his waist, and gently knocked twice on the head of the animal's soul behind him. However, in an instant, the shikigami behind the other party dissipated.
Xia Wange put the thing back on his waist and said calmly: "If summoning Shikigami is your only means, then I advise you to take a break."
As long as it's a soul, she's not afraid of it.
This move made the other players from Japan open their eyes wide in shock. They had never seen a Feng Shui master who could deal with a Shikigami so quickly!
With just two simple strikes, the souls they summoned were beaten back? !
The several Japanese contestants present looked at each other in bewilderment.
Didn’t they say there was an undercover agent?
Why hasn’t the undercover agent appeared to rescue us yet?
If he doesn't show up at this critical moment, when will he appear?
In fact, Xia Wange was blatantly trying to steal the cards from the Benzi country people in order to trick them into thinking they knew she was an undercover agent. If they knew she was an undercover agent, the situation would definitely reveal clues.
After staring at the other person's expression for a moment, Xia Wange took in the expressions of other people from the Japanese country and slightly shifted her gaze.
The people from Japan didn't seem to know that she was an undercover agent. They seemed to know that there was an undercover agent, but didn't know it was her. Thinking of this, Xia Wange shifted her gaze to the Japanese player with the highest score at the moment, and found that the other person's eyes were wandering, as if he was looking for something.
In this way, Xia Wange was certain in his heart.
The contestants from Japan know about the existence of the undercover agent, but they don’t know who it is.
They are really... overly cautious. Even their own country's contestants don't know the specific list of undercover personnel.
Just as Xia Wange was thinking about how to move the card back, she saw Lu Qiu out of the corner of her eye. The other party shook his head slightly at her with a hint in his eyes.
Xia Wange understood immediately.
This one isn't the biggest.
Xia Wan Ge: “…”
"Look at what this has caused." Xia Wange suddenly laughed, raised his hand and pushed the cards under his palm to the other party, "Please keep your cards first, I won't change them. Pick between these two cards, there must be a big one, I'm always lucky."
After saying that, Xia Wange waved his hand and went back under everyone's gaze.
If the way other people looked at Xia Wange was inexplicable, then the contestant from Japan whose card was snatched away looked at Xia Wange as if he was a lunatic.
What the hell! She came to him for no apparent reason to snatch the cards, and after snatching them, she beat back the shikigami he summoned, and then for no apparent reason she returned the cards to him, and then she patted her butt and left.
What is this doing?
Is there anyone who speaks up for him?!
In fact, Xia Wange was also a little embarrassed. She returned to Lu Qiu and screamed frantically in her heart: [What's going on? ! ]
Lu Qiu whispered, "I just wanted to snatch his cards, but I didn't ask you to do it."
[Don't be so harsh, how can I be considered to have robbed someone? I went there to exchange cards, so be careful with your words.]
Lu Qiu: “…”
"It feels wrong, weird, I don't really want to draw a card."
Xia Wange looked at Lu Qiu, then glanced at the time, "Just pick one at random and see how it works."
"How does it work?" Lu Qiu asked.
"It all depends on how the heaven works." Xia Wange crossed his arms and said, "If you lose this game, he will be embarrassed. I will despise him anyway."
Lu Qiu: “…”
"I still think you think too highly of me."
He picked one up and held it under his hand.
"Maybe my luck ran out in the last round?"
He tapped the cards lightly with his fingertips, scanned the cards in each person's hand, and finally suppressed the strange feeling in his heart.
This round, it wasn't just him, everyone seemed to be counting non-stop. Someone had previously calculated that the big card was in Lu Qiu's hand, but this time, no one stopped counting.
The time is up and everyone needs to flip their cards.
When Lu Qiu was about to turn over the cards, they inexplicably fell to the ground, still with the back facing up, not turned over.
When he was about to bend down to pick it up, his eyes swept across the card dealing machine under the table. There seemed to be a card stuck in it. After hesitating for a moment, he pulled out the stuck card in the card dealing machine and turned it over to take a look.
It is indeed the King...
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