Alien Knights

Chapter 88: gambling

   Since he traveled to another world, Todd, who has never been in contact with aristocrats, still retains the impression in his mind in the film and television works and novels and comics of his previous life. He once thought that this group represented nobility and elegance. Therefore, in order to get the right to sell in Silver Ring City, he first thought of his previous life experience for his actions at the poker table. What he has to do is nothing more than a gambling game, deliberately losing a few pots of roses, everyone will have fun with each other, and then negotiate with these people in peace and mutual benefit. Everything will come naturally and logically.

   He originally thought so.

   But he has forgotten one important thing after all. This is not a past life of civilization at all, but a medieval world where wildness and darkness coexist. Any code of conduct and social cognition that has been proven to be effective in the past will be completely subverted here.

   If the bishop Fabian’s exhortation can only be regarded as a warning; the cheating by the nobles in the gambling game can only be regarded as an unpleasant episode; then the treatment of heterogeneous inhuman treatment really made Todd understand such a truth.

   These so-called nobles are just synonymous with barbarism and tyranny. Their greed is like a bottomless abyss, and there is never the word "stop".

   In that case, it is better to untie the chains on the "greedy" behemoth and watch it devour everything...

Before Todd returned to the gambling table, he picked up a silver-copper alloy playing card. The front of the card is a hand-painted pattern, and the back is a smooth, mirror-like plane. He tried to use the "perspective" ability. It's okay to see through this thin layer of metal. Although the pattern on the front is looming, it's a piece of cake to distinguish the face of the card.

   Viscount Kennard asked Todd, "Father, what do you mean by playing bigger?"

   "Have you heard of geometric series?"

  People look at each other, no one knows.

   Todd picked up a poker card in his hand and slowly said, "If you lose a card, you will get 10 silver moons."

   He held up the second one: "The second one is doubled and it is 20 silver moons."

   The third picture: "The third picture is doubled again, it is 40 silver months."

He raised the three cards in his hand together: "If the game is over and I still have three cards in my hand, I have lost 70 silver months of gambling chips. Except for the method of calculating gambling chips based on the number of cards deposited, all other rules are changed. Same, how?"

   Viscount carefully calculated, if the previous gambling game, according to this gameplay, Todd's hand had already won all the roses, how could it be delayed until now. Besides, even in the worst case, he would lose a thousand silver moons a lot, which was painless and painless to him.

After exchanging glances with another nobleman at the poker table, Kennard nodded: "A round is always won by dozens of silver moons. I'm tired too, just follow what you said! But, you have Is that much money?"

Todd glanced at the pot of roses placed in front of the king, and at the eleven pots of roses placed behind the Viscount, and asked: "For the flowers that grow in this sacred place, the price you recognize is still the same Was it the same as before?"

   "I just found someone to see it. A pot of 50 silver coins is still at this price!"

   Todd nodded, indicating that he had no objections.

   At this time, Queen Mary, who was sitting in the upright position, opened her mouth to say something, but after looking at the priest's expression for a while, she finally gave up her words.

  The card game under the new rules restarted. Todd has a dual purpose, playing cards while using his abilities to check everything around him.

   Soon, he found the two nobles at the poker table and looked up at his back from time to time.

   Todd turned the back of the card toward his shoulders and used the "Eagle Eye" ability to carefully distinguish the luminous mirror image. Not far from behind, a male servant who frequently touched his head attracted his attention.

   This person sometimes touches his ears with his hands and sometimes the bridge of his nose with his hands.

   "Peeper"?

   peek at the opponent's card, and then use gestures to give signals, old-fashioned cheating methods but simple and effective.

   used the "perspective" ability to look at the table in front of him, and Todd found that there was another secret in the deck of the two opposing people.

   The two nobles on the opposite side put the cards together on the table, facing down, with the thumbs of both hands facing inward, blocking the sight of others. And there is a hidden groove under the table, which can appear when the palm is strong, slide the smooth metal card along the groove in the table to the end of the groove on the other end, and the other person only needs to press the palm again to make it appear. Flick the playing cards in the slot into your hand.

   Todd shook his head. It seems that this group of people is really struggling for this bet.

At the end of the game, Todd lost 4 cards as a pirate and needed to pay 150 Silver Moons (10+20+40+80) to the Viscount who was a knight. In the amazement of the onlookers, the gambling chips were converted into three pots of roses. .

   "Are you sure you want to continue?"

   Unexpectedly, this voice actually came from Queen Mary. The latter stood up from the position and looked at the priest, there was something in his eyes that he couldn't understand.

   Todd and her looked at each other for a while, then nodded heavily.

   The queen sighed, waved her hand, and sat back again.

   A new round has begun.

   This time it is Todd's turn to become a knight, and after repeated defeats, he asks to shuffle the cards himself.

   Viscount Kennard looked at him with a funny look, as if he was watching an idiot who lost to the extreme and began to mess around, and quite generously agreed to this request.

Todd shuffled the cards in a strange way. He laid all the cards face down and the reverse side up on the table. While chanting prayers, he took out the cross on his chest and tapped three on the back of each card. Next, after doing all of this, one card after another to pack up.

Viscount    laughed. He looked at the priest and said, "Do you still expect the heavenly Father to deliver a miracle?"

   Todd glanced at him, pointed his finger to the rose flowerpot in front of him, and said piously: "Isn't everything in front of you enough to prove the supreme might?

   Kennard put away his smile, glanced at the cross in the priest's hand, swallowed, and stopped speaking.

   The servants began to deal with cards, first Todd, then two nobles, and the cards were distributed round by round. Everyone found that the playing cards distributed by the priest were scattered on the table, instead of picking up and sorting them, they were praying silently there.

Viscount    first glanced at the cards in hand, followed by a stare at Todd, who was motionless, and knocked on the table with his knuckles. He reminded: "Father, you should first play the cards first."

   "Heavenly Father lowered the sacred judge, and the outcome of this round has been determined."

   Listening to the opponent's words, Kennard's anger rushed up: "Father can't control my table! Take your card, Father!"

   Todd glanced at him, stretched out his hands, and turned over the cards that belonged to him on the table one by one.

   When people saw the card, UU reading www.uukanshu.com was chuckling at first, then was silent, but at the end it was a sound of cold breath.

   "Right 3, Right 4, Right 5, Right 6, Right 7, Right 8, Right 9, Right 10, Right J...Nine consecutive pairs! 』

   Seeing the two opposing people stunned, the cards in his hand also fell to the ground, Todd slowed down his speech, a little bit began to calculate the stakes.

"The first card is a 10 silver moon, the second card is a 20 silver moon, the third is a 40 silver moon, the fourth is an 80 silver moon, the fifth is a 160 silver moon, the sixth is a 320 silver moon... the tenth Seven 131072 silver moons and the eighteenth 262144 silver moons together make a total of 524,287 silver moons for one person. Oh, I almost forgot, if a card is not shown, it should be tripled again, which is 1,572,861 silver moons. . If you two are together, it will be 3145722 silver moons."

The priest pushed aside the chair, stood up and adjusted his clothes, glanced at the deadly hall, and said with a smile: "It may take some time to prepare for more than three million silver moons. But it's such a shame. I don’t think it will happen. Both of them are decent people, not to mention that with so many people present today, Her Majesty the Queen even witnessed this gambling in person."

   Viscount Kennard collapsed on the chair, his face was earthy, his body shook, and the dark mark under his crotch was getting bigger and bigger.

"Oh, that's right!" Todd snatched the chains of the alien girls from the sluggish servants, and said loudly to the people: "Handling aliens is naturally a matter of the church. Please also honorable people to raise your hands and cooperate with the work. ."

   Todd took the girl to the door of the hall, turned around and said to the silent hall: "Please keep your pious heart all the time. Please remember that Heavenly Father is watching us all the time."