“Death Roulette?! ”
“Mom and Dad weren't lying, gambling really can kill you!”
“Zhumeng really has ideas, this gameplay must be super exciting in VR!”
“Let's go, let's go, Aji, your gun skills are terrible, but you can't be bad at cards too, right?”
… …
The viewers cheered.
The Brave Sniper was also eager to try: “Stop kidding around, my level, can it be summed up by just saying 'not bad'?”
“I watched my parents play cards at 1 year old, was at the card table at 3, beat all the kindergarteners at 5, swept the after-school casinos of Baitashan Elementary School at 7, and won the youth group championship of the Guangming Community Weekend League at 8!”
“If I hadn't quit to focus on my studies, I should be in Las Vegas participating in the World Series of Poker now!”
The viewers couldn't stand someone bragging so much, and they all complained.
But the Brave Sniper didn't continue chatting with the viewers, and stood by the table, seriously watching the entire game.
He quickly understood how to play the game—
There are a total of 20 cards.
2 Joker cards.
At the beginning of the game, the dealer will randomly draw a suit from Q, K, A as the [Target Card] for this round.
Then, each person is dealt 5 cards.
After that, everyone discards 1 to 3 Target Cards from their hand, face down.
You can play real Target Cards, or use fake Target Cards to confuse people.
—Joker can be used as any card, and is always a real card.
If the next player doesn't question it, then you get away with it.
If the next player questions it, then the played cards are checked.
If it's a fake card, the person who played it shoots themselves.
Until all three people are dead, leaving only the final victor.
“…Isn't this just bluffing?” The Brave Sniper said easily, “I completely understand!”
“Next, watch me win every penny in their pockets!”
The game at the card table had already ended, and three people fell onto the round table, their heads spurting blood.
Only the final victor was left, blowing on the nonexistent smoke from the muzzle of the gun, smugly lighting a cigarette.
Behind him, several people simultaneously reached out to light his cigarette.
A glorious scene.
The dealer divided the thick stack of banknotes in his hand into two halves, one half for the victor, and the other half for the successful bettors.
Several people came forward and dragged away the three dead card players.
The bartender took out a dirty towel and wiped the table a few times, cleaning up the blood on the surface.
The tabletop under the blood wasn't clean either, full of scratches and dark red marks, as if blood had seeped into the surface.
But the dealer couldn't wait to start the next game—
“Rookie! How about it, want to play a round?”
“I can cover the first round's bet for you, if you win it's yours, if you lose it's mine!”
A pop-up reminder appeared in front of the Brave Sniper—
[Participate in Death Roulette?]
[Participate] / [Decline]—
The Brave Sniper couldn't wait any longer, and readily accepted the invitation, sitting down at the card table.
The dealer immediately announced loudly:
“Everyone! Look!”
“A young new card player has stepped onto the roulette of death!”
“Let us welcome this brave warrior!”
All the customers in the tavern stopped what they were doing, and let out earth-shattering cheers, almost overturning the tent above their heads.
Applause, cheers, and whistles were endless.
Many people also came over to pat him on the shoulder to encourage him.
The Brave Sniper's vanity exploded.
But he also had some regrets: “This kind of welcoming ceremony should be an exclusive privilege only for the first game, right?”
“If I came to play wearing a haptic suit and VR glasses, the experience would definitely be unbeatable!”
But it was too late to say anything now, he could only see if he could delete the save later.
“Come on, come on, don't keep our warrior waiting!” the dealer urged.
Three soldiers quickly walked out from the crowd, casually threw money to the dealer, and sat down one by one.
The onlookers also took out money and continued to bet.
They were also shouting things like "beginner's luck", heavily betting on the Brave Sniper.
“Then, the players are all here, let the game begin again!”
Four revolvers and four bullets were placed on the table.
The players loaded the bullets themselves, rotated the cylinder, making the position of the bullets random.
The dealer shuffled the cards.
Although there were only 20 cards, the dealer still used fancy flourishes.
After shuffling, he casually drew a card and showed it to everyone, while announcing loudly:
“[King]!”
After putting the card back in and shuffling again, he split them into four piles and sent them to the four players.
“Spacebar to see cards?” The Brave Sniper was a little confused looking at the prompt on the UI.
He pressed the spacebar, wanting to see his cards.
But the character in the screen only raised his hand and then put it back down.
“?” The Brave Sniper was stunned.
He held down the spacebar again, and the character finally held the cards in front of him.
“No, do I have to keep pressing the spacebar to see the cards?”
“Why is it designed like this?”
“Can't I just hold them in my hand?”
He didn't understand, and planned to give feedback to Zhumeng after the stream.
After complaining, he checked the five cards in his hand, which were:
[K], [Q], [A], [Q], [Joker]
“Two target cards, not bad, average level.”
—No matter which target card is drawn, it's r, exactly 8 cards, averaging two per person.
“Let our newcomer play first!”
“Me first?” The Brave Sniper found that the character automatically raised the cards, the spacebar became select, A/D switched targets, and E played cards.
At the same time, a 30-second countdown started at the top of the screen.
“Play one card first, to be safe?”
“No, the probability of being exposed should be lower at the beginning, let's start with some fake ones.”
He selected two Q's and threw them out.
As expected, the next player didn't even acknowledge him, casually throwing out two cards as well.
Then the player after that also played two cards.
The fourth player also played two cards.
Once again, it was Valiant Sniper's turn.
He looked at the K and Joker in his hand, then at the 8 [K]s on the table, and felt that something was wrong.
He turned to look at the player before him, whose face suggested he was French.
Valiant Sniper's “gaze” seemed to make him uncomfortable: “Play your cards, why are you looking at me?”
After saying that, he shifted his gaze.
Valiant Sniper immediately concluded: “He's avoiding my gaze! He's guilty!”
The next second, he pressed the [X] key, questioning the previous player's play.
The character in the game then slammed the table hard: “You're lying!”
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The dealer revealed the cards to check, and sure enough, it was an A and a Q.
The previous player glanced at Valiant Sniper, picked up the revolver in front of him, cocked the hammer, and pointed it at his own chin.
The air seemed to freeze, and everyone watched him.
In the quiet headset, Valiant Sniper heard a deep breath.
Then—
“Click.”
Empty chamber.
“Oh oh oh!!”
“Escaped death!”
“Hahaha, the first shot has a very low probability.”
The crowd cheered, and some even raised their glasses to congratulate him.
The dealer reshuffled the cards.
Valiant Sniper then smugly began to impart his experience:
“Let me tell you a trick: even game companies like Dream Weaver that aren't short on money still have to consider costs when developing games, so they can't possibly design too many rich expressions for these random players.”
“So I guess they only have a limited number of expressions, actions, and lines.”
“When they play fake cards, their reaction must be different from when they play real cards!”
“I've already figured out the pattern while watching the game just now!”
The viewers immediately sent a string of question marks in the live stream:
“This kind of trick???”
“Amazing! Who says psychology doesn't count as gambling skill?”
“I think this isn't even psychology, right? Isn't this just exploiting the game mechanics to cheat?”
“What cheat! This is a reasonable use of game mechanics!”
“You don't have any gambler's spirit! A person like you is not worthy of being a gambling king!”
… …
Valiant Sniper didn't take these words to heart at all.
In the second round, he continued to use this technique, judging the truth by “gazing” and “analyzing lines.”
At this time, he only hated that his somatosensory suit hadn't arrived yet, and there were too few operations that could be performed with the mouse and keyboard.
If he played with the somatosensory suit, he would even want to try snatching the cards from the opponent's hand!
Or point the revolver at the other person's head instead of his own, to see if he could shoot the other person.
… …
—He had a ton of ideas, but they were all limited by the keyboard and mouse, so he couldn't use them.
Compared to those outrageous ideas, now he was just reasonably using the game mechanics, just a little thing.
He even had the mood to complain about his opponents, creating program effects:
“Call him out! He keeps looking at the next player after playing his cards, that look is obviously guilty!”
“Voluntarily letting the next player verify? Then verify! This is bluffing!”
“Last two cards, I'll throw them all out first, you guys play slowly.”
… …
Valiant Sniper quickly gained a clear advantage by relying on external tricks.
The previous player was directly verified three times out of four, and sent away on the spot.
The new previous player lasted until the fourth shot, but was still sent away by him.
Finally, the two reached a peak duel, each eating five bullets and still not ending.
Valiant Sniper pursed his lips and didn't say any more flirty words, and unconsciously became nervous.
But in the tavern in the game, everyone was嗨 (high/excited), and every empty shot would stir up super enthusiastic cheers.
In the last game, Valiant Sniper judged that the other party had played a fake card based on the opponent's action of closing his eyes for a full 3 seconds after dealing the cards.
“Liar!”
“Verify the cards!”
The verification result was indeed as expected.
With a “bang,” blood splattered everywhere!
The last opponent also fell under his gun.
Triumphant music sounded in the headset, and a large amount of paper money was thrown into the air, falling like a heavy rain.
The dealer announced loudly—
“Let us congratulate this new player on becoming the ultimate winner!”
“From now on, you are no longer a newbie, but a professional player!”
“Cheer! Today, even Death raises a glass for you!”
Glasses clinked, and deafening cheers rang out in the tavern.
The atmosphere was so strong that Valiant Sniper couldn't help but feel smug.
“Did you see that?”
“I told you I was the Gambling King!”
“You must use everything you can use, use all your wisdom, to win on the gambling table!”
… …
He straightened his back and gave a triumphant speech with a radiant expression.
A large number of comments flooded the live stream, so fast that people couldn't see the content clearly.
Valiant Sniper excitedly talked a lot about “winning skills,” “gambling experience,” and “game-playing ideas” before stopping reluctantly.
It was not until this time that the moderator, who had been silent, finally sent an eye-catching message:
[Aji, is there a possibility that… ]
“?” Valiant Sniper, who was excited, was stunned, and a sense of unease suddenly emerged in his heart.
“What possibility?”
The moderator posted a second eye-catching message:
[The possibility that “the first game is a tutorial level, and 90% of players can win in the end”]
The Valiant Sniper in the picture suddenly froze in front of the camera.
Like the picture was stuck, motionless for a long time.
“Hahaha” comments instantly swept the live stream!
After a long while, Valiant Sniper “came back to life” and stared at the eye-catching message, refuting loudly:
“Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!!”
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