Fifty-four poker cards, choose one, the chance is less than 2%.
"What happens if you make the wrong choice?"
"die."
Ren frowned after hearing these expected words.
He shook his head and said, "Mr. Metternich, I think... I'm afraid I can't help you."
Renn never felt that he was very lucky. If it weren't for cheats and caution, he would have died many times during this time traveling trip.
This fifty-fourth probability can almost be said to be death.
He felt that this kind of "suicide" opportunity was better left to Metternich himself.
He didn't want to be tainted with this kind of life and death because of someone he didn't know well.
... ...
"That would be a shame."
Metternich didn't care, smiled slightly, and seemed to take life and death very lightly.
He saw through Renn's thoughts and said: "Originally, I chose this poker to gamble not based on pure odds, but on 'luck'. I think your luck is better than mine no matter what. But since Mr. Renn If you don’t want to do this little favor for me, just give up.”
It seemed that he had given up the opportunity to turn over the cards. With a wave of his hand, the poker figures disappeared again.
"..."
Ren was confused when he heard this.
Betting on luck is not betting on odds. What is the difference between the two
He asked: "Aren't you going to try it yourself?"
Metternich shook his head: "I won't try."
Renn: "???"
"Because I know... I will definitely lose."
Metternich smiled.
He was already proficient in gambling, but he didn't understand his current situation. He said calmly: "The biggest taboo in gambling is to insist on betting on a game that you are not sure about. In this game, whether it is open or not, I have no control over it." Any chance of winning..."
After hearing this, Ren became more curious about the backlash of the "Gambler Sequence" ability and asked, "What will happen if I don't choose?"
"If I choose, I will die immediately. If I don't choose, I can probably live for two or three days."
Metternich's tone was very relaxed, as if the matter had nothing to do with him, and he added: "But it is meaningless to live a few more days now. Everything that should happen is destined to happen, and the ending is already determined."
As he spoke, he narrowed his eyes, showed a fox-like smile, and said meaningfully: "Everything is over."
But this time, it didn't look like he was scheming, it was just a smile of relief.
Originally, Ren and Ymir wanted to take this guy out of the Omar Imperial Capital, but now it seems that it doesn't matter whether they take him out or not.
This guy seems to be planning to die here.
As Metternich said, his life was always under his own control, and whether he lived or died, it had nothing to do with the old emperor's pardon.
Since this guy doesn't plan to leave, Renn doesn't plan to stay any longer. "In that case, Mr. Metternich, please take care of yourself."
"etc."
At this time, Metternich suddenly smiled and said: "I have been here for so long and can't find anyone playing cards. It's really boring."
The gambling mentality of a gambler has been engraved in his bones, and he will never forget this hobby even at the last moment of his life.
After a pause, he added: "Now that you're here, Mr. Lane, are you interested in playing a few cards with me?"
"good."
Renne didn't hesitate and agreed immediately.
He didn't have a bad impression of the squinty eyes.
Although I can't help this guy choose cards that will determine his life or death, I can still help him enjoy his poker addiction at the end of his life.
Metternich looked at his opponent, with a bright smile on his face.
He turned over his hands and took out a deck of playing cards and started shuffling them very skillfully.
The pokers made a clattering sound, which was dizzying. He added: "I didn't have enough fun at the plague base last time. This time we will have fun..."
After a pause, he said with great interest: "It just so happens that you two are telling me about your 'Black Dragon City'. Those guys who collect intelligence always bring some very one-sided information, so naturally it can't compare to the two." The biter told it in detail..."
Renn: "Okay."
Metternich warmly invited Ren and Ymir, but did not invite Andrew.
Of course Andrew wouldn't play cards with this guy.
Then the three of them gathered at a table and started playing "Fighting Landlords".
... ...
Although Ymir had never played poker, he sat down with Ren.
The rules of Landlord Fighting are very simple, and she learned them immediately after being taught a few words.
Facing this Metternich, Ymir's expression was always serious.
One is because of temperament and habits;
Secondly, this guy is a legendary strongman with weird abilities, and he has also had some "hostile" behavior, so she had to be wary.
"To three."
"To six."
"Pass."
"..."
The three of them started playing quickly, but the atmosphere was a bit clumsy.
"34567, Shunzi..."
Metternich seemed to see what Ymir was thinking. Between playing cards, he smiled and explained: "Miss Ymir, although it seems that I had some conflicts in the past. But I have never meant to harm you."
Ymir raised his eyebrows but said nothing.
But Ren glanced at him curiously and cast a curious look.
Probably because he was about to die, Metternich had nothing to hide, so he told all the arrangements.
"When you were intercepted and killed by Prince William of Sid at Storm Lake, although I arranged the plan, they would kill you even if it wasn't me. And... I also asked someone to remind you, so, you Only then did we avoid the fatal trap.”
Hearing this, Ymir's face changed slightly, and he said slightly surprised: "Did you arrange that person at that time?"
When [Blood Prince] William of Storm Lake ambushed her seriously injured body, there would have been no accident at all, and she would definitely die. But because some of the people in the ambush were exposed in advance, Ymir was alerted and allowed her to escape the fatal trap.
"yes."
Metternich spread his hands and said: "After all, you are the person who I think is most likely to preside over the overall situation after Omar is wiped out. I also find your 'New Deal' very interesting, and may be a hope for progress in this era. "
"..."
Ymir said nothing.
It was after Storm Lake that she met Renn in the Ice Ridge Wasteland.
From now on, it seems to be a "blessing in disguise".
"Yes 2, place an order."
At this time, he narrowed his eyes and played out two of the last three cards, and said: "You 'accidentally' survived, and at that time you were the strongest contender for the throne. Naturally, those old nobles did not extinguish it." I want to kill you."
"But in that situation, the old man's life is short. Even if you ascend the throne, your 'New Reform Deal' is bound to fail. The old aristocratic groups will join forces to continue this dirty aristocratic system..."
When he said this, Metternich's eyes flashed with coldness, and he said sternly: "Besides, I want that old man and that woman to watch the power they care about most collapse with their own eyes, so naturally I won't let them Do that."
Ymir said calmly: "So, you deliberately showed your intention to kill me and forced Doppler to encircle me?"
This is what the old emperor told her before.
Later, in Glory City, intelligence was specially sent to her, allowing her to avoid a conspiracy targeting the little city-building power she had. This is how it is now...
Looking at it this way, although this guy is not a friend, at least he is not an enemy.
"yes."
Metternich nodded indifferently and said: "One of the possibilities that I deduced through divination was that after Omar split, you would come back to take charge of the overall situation. Then under that chaotic order, you would have more control than before. Many rights..."
After saying this, he frowned again, showing a very helpless expression, and said: "But I don't know why, it suddenly became like this... Your 'Black Dragon City' turned out to be a big surprise for me. . ”
When Ren heard this, he seemed to think of something.
If he had not traveled through time, the plot of the Omar Empire would have developed in the direction of Metternich's deduction.
And because he came, a certain butterfly effect occurred, and "Black Dragon City" was born.
"A 5. Sorry two, I won."
Metternich won the game and murmured: "Everything changes in a regular way, and if there is a cause, there will be an effect. And my divination and deduction have never made such a big mistake. Your 'Black Dragon City' seems to be a miracle that should not have appeared in this era...but it happened to happen."
After a pause, he said something meaningful: "It's like the 'JOKER' card in poker. It is the only poker that is no longer within the rules..."
In poker, the fifty-two cards of AK almost have their own fixed sizes and uses, no matter what the rules are.
But only the "Joker Card" is outside the rules.
... ... .
Continuing to shuffle the cards, Metternich asked: "So, I am very curious, how was your 'Black Dragon City' established? Any piece of information I got said that it was in the 'Karatva Basin' out of thin air. A city appeared, and no one knows exactly how you did it... "
He said, looking at Ren, full of curiosity.
It seems that he wants to get the answer to this question before he dies.
And Ymir felt that there was another thing that was more important than chatting.
She heard the words "Oma collapse" from this guy's mouth many times.
This is jarring.
After all, it was the empire created by their ancestors of the Spurgeon family. Although it was in decay, Ymir could not bear to see it destroyed before his eyes.
She then asked: "Mr. Metternich, what have you done to make you sure that Omar will collapse?"
"This one"
Metternich smiled.
According to seniority, Metternich had to call Ymir her aunt.
But neither of them seemed to have any plans to become relatives.
He didn't hide it, but a touch of sarcasm overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and he said: "That old guy's lifespan was shortened so much because of poisoning. And the poison... was personally administered by the queen who is beside him. "
"..."
When Ymir heard this, his eyes became gloomy.
Although they had previously speculated that the old emperor was poisoned, the poison did not leave any traces in his body.
Now that Metternich himself admitted it, things changed.
Regicide and usurping the throne
Haha, that queen is still very good at calculating!
If the eldest prince Quentin had not died, their plan would have succeeded.
Of course, now that we know this is Narrow Eyes' plan, Quentin will never be able to ascend the throne even if he doesn't die.
And when he said this, Metternich's expression became very strange again: "At the beginning of the divination, I knew that the queen would lose the qualification to compete for the throne, and I found it incredible. Even now, I can't figure it out. She obviously has a lot of good cards. , it would not be so easy to be eliminated in any case. But, she was eliminated."
He said this, looked at Ren with a strange look, and said directly: "I didn't expect you to directly attack the Omar Royal Academy of Sciences and destroy the biggest card in her hand."
Even if Metternich exclaimed, he would never have imagined that this would be the result.
After all, who would have thought that in the Imperial Capital of Oma, there would be someone who could break through the Royal Academy of Sciences
Kill Dean Brendan
Ren was also interested and wanted to know what he had planned, and said: "Then, which prince does Mr. Metternich think will win the imperial power?"
Metternich shook his head and had no intention of revealing the mystery. He smiled and said, "It's no longer interesting after you've already told me. You will know tomorrow."
After hearing this, Ren and Ymir didn't ask any more questions.
... ... .
The three of them played a few more games, but Metternich's card skills were indeed much better than those of Ren and the other two, and he kept winning.
They could no longer talk about the political situation in Omar, and then they talked about Black Dragon City.
This conversation shocked Metternich, a guy who felt like he "knew everything".
"So... there is a flying mechanical city in this world?! You found a wreckage and then established the 'Black Dragon City'?"
"That guy from Glory City believes in a living god?"
"There are other human worlds outside the fog. Above the fifth level of extraordinary, is there also a sixth level of extraordinary?"
"..."
Metternich was so shocked that he was speechless as each of the absurd-sounding facts came out of Ren's mouth.
Some of his own perceptions were completely overturned at this moment.
The "Gambler Sequence" has divination capabilities, but it is not omniscient and omnipotent.
The ability of a diviner is not to directly obtain the result, but to deduce and restore the reasonable way in which this event occurred based on certain "phenomena" derived from the fortune telling.
And all speculations are based on the cognition of the fortune teller.
Metternich's talent was astonishing, but he was unable to speculate on things beyond his cognition.
What "mechanical airship", what "living evil god", what kind of world "beyond the fog"...
If it hadn't come from Ren's mouth, Metternich would never have believed that there were still these things in this world.
... ... .
After listening, Metternich had completely lost his mind about playing cards and said to himself in shock: "So that's how it is."
Then, for the first time, Renn saw that this "squinting" eyes could be so wide open, and his eyes were shining brightly.
Different from the mentality of facing death calmly just now, Metternich suddenly lived again.
It turned out that his great revenge had been avenged, and the extraordinary advance of the gambler sequence had come to an end. He thought that the world had nothing to look forward to for him.
Death did not make him feel any fear.
But unexpectedly, I suddenly heard the scenery of the world outside the "wellhead".
After a moment of shock, Metternich regained his calm expression and murmured: "If I have a chance to live, I really want to see Mr. Ren's Black Dragon City and the world outside the fog... "
At this time, he suddenly said: "If I draw a card now, my chance of surviving may be 10%..."
Ren sounded very strange and asked: "Isn't it supposed to be fifty-fourth? How come it became one tenth?"
Metternich explained with a smile: "I said before, this destiny card is not pure probability, but the 'luck' of gambling. I didn't have a strong will to survive before, so the probability. Now... "
Where Metternich stopped when he wanted to continue speaking, he seemed to have thought of something, suddenly raised his thighs, and said: "I finally understand!"
Ren was almost startled by the loud shout. He looked at the squinting eyes that were getting wider and wider with a puzzled look on his face, and asked, "What do you understand?"
He felt that this kind of excitement should not appear on this guy's face.
Metternich looked at Renn, the light in his eyes seemed to be burning, "I finally understand why my previous inference went wrong!"
Renn felt a little uncomfortable because of the "gay" hot look in his eyes.
"Mr. Lane, let's take a gamble!"
Metternich's face was full of pride, but he shuffled the poker cards again and put them on the table. "Old rules, draw a card and bet on the big or small! If you win, I will 'divide' for you once!"
Renn felt that this guy was too excited, so he asked one more question: "What if I lose?"
"If you lose, it proves that I was wrong. Nothing has changed."
Metternich narrowed his eyes and said meaningfully: "If you win, it means that I guessed it right. I... It is really possible to survive!"