Chapter 320: Three-person Landlord Fight
There are fifty-four cards, and the probability of choosing one is less than 2%.
“What happens if you choose the wrong one?”
"die."
Ryan frowned when he heard this expected statement.
He shook his head and said again: "Mr. Metternich, I feel... I am afraid I can't help you ."
Ryan never thought that he was lucky. If it weren't for the cheats and caution, he would have died many times on this journey of time travel.
This probability of one in fifty-four means that death is almost certain.
He felt that it would be better for Metternich to leave this opportunity of "suicide" to himself.
He didn't want to be involved in this matter of life and death because of someone he wasn't very familiar with.
…
"That's a pity."
Metternich didn't care either. He smiled slightly, as if he took life and death lightly.
He saw through Ryan's thoughts and said, "Originally, choosing this poker game is not based on pure chance, but on 'luck'. I think your luck is better than mine no matter what. But since Mr. Ryan is unwilling to do me this little favor, let it go."
It seemed that he had given up the chance to flip the cards. He raised his hand and waved it, and the shadows of the poker cards disappeared again.
“…”
Ryan was puzzled when he heard this.
Isn’t gambling on luck just gambling on probability? What is the difference between the two?
He asked, "Don't you want to try it yourself?"
Metternich shook his head. "No more trying."
Ryan: “???”
"Because I know...I will definitely lose."
Metternich smiled.
As an expert in gambling, how could he not understand his current situation? He said calmly, "The biggest taboo in gambling is to insist on gambling when you are not even sure of the outcome. This time, whether it starts or not, I have no chance of winning..."
Hearing this, Ryan became more curious about the backlash of the Gambler Sequence's ability and asked, "What will happen if I don't choose it?"
"If I choose, I will die immediately. If I don't choose, I can probably live for two or three days."
Metternich spoke in a relaxed tone, as if it had nothing to do with him, and added: "But now there is no point in living a few more days. What is bound to happen is bound to happen, and the ending is already determined."
As he spoke, he narrowed his eyes, revealing a fox-like smile, and said meaningfully: "It's all over."
But this time, he didn't look like he had deep scheming, but rather a smile of relief as if a heavy burden had been lifted off his shoulders.
Originally, Ryan and Ymir wanted to take this guy out of the Omar Capital, but now it seems that it doesn’t matter whether they take him out or not.
This guy seemed to be planning to die here as well.
As Metternich said, his life was always in his own control, and whether he lived or died had nothing to do with the old emperor's pardon.
Since this guy didn't plan to leave, Ryan didn't plan to stay any longer. "In that case, Mr. Metternich, take care of yourself."
"etc."
At this time, Metternich suddenly smiled and said, "I have been here for so long and I can't find anyone to play cards with. It's really boring."
The gambling mentality of gamblers is engraved in their bones, and even at the last moment of their lives, they will not forget this hobby.
After a pause, he continued, "Since we are here, Mr. Ryan, are you interested in playing a few cards with me?"
"good."
Ryan agreed without hesitation.
He didn't have a bad impression of the squinty-eyed guy.
Although I can't help this guy choose cards to determine life or death, it's no problem for me to accompany him to satisfy his card addiction at the end of his life.
Metternich smiled brightly when he saw that he had found an opponent to play cards with.
He took out a deck of cards and began to shuffle them skillfully.
The cards made a rustling sound, dazzling the eyes. He said, "We didn't have enough fun at the Plague Base last time. Let's have some fun this time..."
After a pause, he said with great interest: "It's a good opportunity for you two to tell me about your 'Black Dragon City'. Those guys who collect intelligence always bring some very one-sided information, which is naturally not as detailed as what you two have said..."
Ryan: “Okay.”
Metternich enthusiastically invited Ryan and Ymir, but did not invite Andrew.
Andrew naturally wouldn't play cards with this guy.
Then the three of them sat together at a table and started playing "Dou Dizhu".
…
Although Ymir had never played poker before, she sat down with Ryan.
The rules of Landlord are very simple. She learned them immediately after being told.
Facing this Metternich, Ymir's expression remained serious.
One is because of temperament and habit;
Secondly, this guy was, after all, a legendary warrior with strange abilities, and he had behaved in some "hostile" ways in the past , which forced her to be on guard against him.
"Three."
"Six."
"Pass."
“…”
The three of them quickly started playing, but the atmosphere was a little tense.
"34567, straight..."
Metternich seemed to see what Ymir was thinking. Between playing cards, he smiled and explained: "Ms. Ymir, although it seems that I had some conflicts with you in the past. But I never meant to harm you."
Ymir raised her eyebrows but said nothing.
But Ryan looked at him curiously and cast a curious look.
Perhaps because he was about to die, Metternich had nothing to hide, so he told everyone all the arrangements.
"Back then, you were intercepted by Prince William of Sid at Storm Lake. Although I arranged the plan, they would have killed you even if it wasn't me. And... I specially asked someone to remind you, so you avoided the deadly trap."
Hearing this, Ymir's expression changed slightly, and she asked in surprise, "Did you arrange that person at that time?"
When William, the [Blood Prince], ambushed her severely injured body in Storm Lake, there would have been no surprises at all, and she would have died without a doubt. However, because one of the ambushers was exposed in advance, Ymir became alert and avoided the deadly trap.
"yes."
Metternich spread his hands and said, "After all, I think you are the person most likely to take charge of the overall situation after the destruction of Omar. I also think your "New Deal" is very interesting. Perhaps it will be a hope for progress in this era. "
“…”
Ymir listened but didn't say anything.
It was after Storm Lake that she met Ryan in the Ice Ridge Wasteland.
From now on, it seems like a blessing in disguise.
"Yes, 2. Place the order."
At this time, the squinting eyes played two of the last three cards and said, "You 'accidentally' survived, and you were the strongest contender for the throne at the time, so those old nobles naturally wanted to kill you."
"But given the situation back then, that old man will not live long. Even if you ascend the throne, your 'New Reform Policy' is doomed to fail. The old aristocratic groups will join forces to continue this filthy aristocratic system..."
At this point, a hint of coldness flashed across Metternich's eyes, and he said sinisterly, "Besides, I want to let that old man and that woman watch with their own eyes the power they care about most collapse, so naturally I won't let them do that."
Ymir said calmly, "So, you deliberately showed your intention to kill me, forcing Doppler to divide me?"
This is what the old emperor had told her before.
Later in Glory City, he even sent her intelligence, which helped her avoid a conspiracy against the city-building power she had. This is how things are now...
From this perspective, although this guy is not a friend, at least he is not an enemy.
"yes."
Metternich nodded nonchalantly and said, "Originally, one of the possibilities I deduced through divination was that after Omar split, you would come back to take charge of the situation. Then, in that chaotic order, you would have more power than before..."
At this point, he frowned again, revealing a helpless expression, and said: "But I don't know why it suddenly became like this... Your 'Black Dragon City' suddenly appeared, giving me a big surprise."
When Ryan heard this, he seemed to think of something.
If he had not traveled through time, the plot of the Omar Empire would have developed according to Metternich's deduction.
And because of his coming, some butterfly effect occurred, and "Black Dragon City" came into being.
"A 5. Sorry, you two, I won."
Metternich won the game and murmured, "There are rules for the changes in everything. There are causes and effects. My divination and deduction have never been so wrong. Your 'Black Dragon City' seems to be a miracle that should not appear in this era... but it appeared anyway."
After a pause, he said something meaningful: "It's like the 'JOKER card' in poker. It's the only card that is not within the rules..."
In playing cards, the 52 cards of AK, no matter what the rules are, almost all have their own fixed sizes and uses.
The only card that is outside the rules is the Joker.
…
Continuing to shuffle the cards, Metternich asked, "So, I'm very curious, how did you build your 'Black Dragon City'? All the intelligence I got said that a city appeared out of thin air in the 'Karatwa Basin', and no one knows exactly how you did it..."
He said, looking at Ryan with curiosity.
It seems that he wants to get the answer to this question before he dies.
But Ymir felt that there was something more important than chatting.
She heard the word "Omar collapse" many times from this guy's mouth.
This is jarring.
After all, it was the empire founded by the ancestors of their Spurgeln family . Although it was already corrupt, Ymir couldn't bear to see it destroyed before her eyes.
She asked, "Mr. Metternich, what did you do to make you so sure that Oma would collapse?"
“This…”
Metternich smiled.
According to seniority, Metternich had to call Ymir aunt.
But neither of them seemed to have any intention of becoming relatives.
He did not hide it, but a hint of sarcasm escaped from the corner of his mouth, and he said: "The old man's life span was shortened so drastically because of poisoning. And the poison... was personally administered by the Queen who was sleeping beside him."
“…”
When Ymir heard this, her eyes darkened.
Although they had previously speculated that the old emperor was poisoned, the toxin did not leave any trace in his body.
Now, with Metternich's own admission, the mood of the matter changed.
Regicide and usurpation of the throne?
Haha, that queen is really good at scheming!
If the eldest prince Quentin had not died, their plan would have succeeded.
Of course, now that we know this was the plan of this squinty-eyed man, Quentin would not be able to ascend the throne even if he didn't die.
At this point, Metternich's expression became strange again: "When I divined, I knew that the Queen would lose the qualification to compete for the throne, and I found it incredible. Even now I still can't figure it out. She obviously had a lot of good cards in her hand, and she wouldn't be eliminated so easily. But she was eliminated."
When he said this, he looked at Ryan with a strange look and said directly: "I didn't expect that you would directly break into the Omar Royal Academy of Sciences and destroy the biggest card in her hand."
Even if Metternich had exclaimed "monster", he could never have imagined this would be the result.
After all, who would have thought that in the Omar Imperial Capital, there would be someone who could break into the Royal Academy of Sciences?
Kill Dean Brendan?
Ryan also became interested and wanted to know what exactly he had planned. He asked, "Then what, Mr. Metternich, which prince do you think will seize the throne?"
Metternich shook his head, not intending to reveal the answer. He smiled and said, "It would be meaningless if I told you all. You will know tomorrow."
After hearing this, Ryan and Ymir didn't ask any more questions.
…
The three of them played a few more rounds, but Metternich's card skills were indeed much better than those of Ryan and the other two, and he kept winning.
The conversation about the political situation in Omar could no longer continue, so they talked about Black Dragon City.
This conversation made Metternich, the guy who knew everything, drop his jaw in shock.
"So... there is a flying mechanical city in this world?! You found a wreckage and built 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 transcendence, there is also a sixth level of transcendence?"
“…”
One by one, the facts that sounded so absurd came out of Ryan's mouth, and Metternich was so shocked that he was speechless.
At this moment, some of his own cognitions were completely overturned.
The "Gambler Sequence" has the ability to divine, but it is not omniscient and omnipotent.
The fortune teller's ability is not to get the result directly, but to deduce and restore the reasonable way in which the event occurred based on certain "phenomena" revealed by divination.
And all speculations are based on the fortune teller's cognition.
Metternich was incredibly talented, but he was unable to predict anything beyond his cognition.
What "mechanical airship", what "living evil god", what "world beyond the fog"...
If it hadn't come from Ryan's mouth, Metternich would never have believed that there were such things in this world.
…
After hearing this, Metternich had completely lost interest in playing cards and said to himself in shock: "So that's how it is..."
Then, for the first time, Ryan saw the eyes of this "squinty-eyed" boy open so wide, with a gleam of light in them.
Unlike his previous calm attitude towards death, Metternich suddenly wanted to live again.
Originally, he had already avenged his great revenge, and his extraordinary advancement in the Gambler Sequence had also come to an end. He thought that there was nothing left in this world that could hope for him.
Death does not make him feel any fear.
But unexpectedly, I suddenly heard the scenery of the world outside the "bottom of the well".
After a moment of shock, Metternich regained his calm expression, but with a hint of regret. He murmured, "If I had a chance to survive, I would really like to visit Mr. Ryan's Black Dragon City and see the world outside the fog..."
At this time, he suddenly said: "If I draw a card now, my chance of surviving might be 10%."
Ryan was very surprised and asked, "Shouldn't it 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 a bet on 'luck'. Before, I didn't have a strong will to survive, so the probability was zero. Now..."
Metternich stopped talking there. He seemed to have thought of something, and slapped his thigh, saying, "I finally understand!"
Ryan 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, "Understand what?"
He felt that such excitement should not appear on this guy's face.
Metternich looked at Ryan, his eyes glowing with light, and responded, "I finally understand why my previous deduction went wrong!"
Ryan felt a little uneasy when he saw the scorching gaze of this "gay inside gay" man.
"Mr. Ryan, let's take a gamble!"
Metternich looked very proud, and reshuffled the cards, then placed them on the table. "Old rules, draw a card to bet on the size! If you win, I'll tell fortunes for you!"
Ryan felt that this guy was too excited, so he asked, "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 right. I... may actually survive!"
