Chapter 96: After Part 6
Un-edited so please don’t kill me if you find anything wrong, please gently commenting so I can fix it. Thank you.
“Now, please follow me. Your two friends have been waiting for you for a long time.” A figure gradually emerged from the depths of the corridor, wearing a tuxedo, a stiff collar white shirt and gloves.
https://www.oliverbrown.org.uk/blogs/blog/a-history-of-stiff-collars/
The two looked at each other and walked side by side into the room at the end of the corridor.
Fang Daichuan put the microphone in his palm, quietly turned it on and stuffed it into his belt buckle.
The police outside had already noticed the situation at the scene. Seeing that Fang Daichuan’s channel was opened, no one said anything and no one dared to make a move. They quietly told the helicopter and the fleet to standby with their sweaty palm.
The European carved door at the end of the corridor opened from inside. Waiters with plates in one hand and one hand behind their backs shuttling through the ballroom. A long table was empty. An Eastern-Asian-looking man sitting in the host* seat turned around and smiled at the two of them.
(T/N : Alright so I have been waiting to say this, but remember when I said that the author gives a lot of hints through the novel? One of them is this. As you can see, Sinian sits on host2 seat in the villa and the host seat is empty, because his mother is the real boss behind the scene and Sinian is the helper. I just love the author for giving a lot of hints lol, now let’s get back to the story.)
“I’ve heard a lot about you, Mr. Li,” he gestured for the tuxedoed butler to pull out the chairs for the two men, “I’m a loyal reader of yours, and I loved the trilogy of fraudulent games you’ve written, The Dunhuang Game, The Werewolf Game and The Galaxy Game.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang
The man’s eyes were fixed dead on Li Si Nian’s face, the corners of his mouth hooked into a smile that made Fang Daichuan feel very uncomfortable: “My lifelong dream is to be able to play a real game of fraud with you, this time I heard that you bought an island and finished doing the deserted island survival mode, I acquired this cruise ship overnight, issued the customs approval, and wanted to play a game of high seas cruise mode with you, I don’t know if you willing to.”
Li Sinian took a sip of wine, put down the glass on the long table, which made a cold and crisp sound: “You don’t seem to have given me a chance to refuse.”
The man seemed to like Li Sinian’s submissive attitude, he smiled smugly and snapped his fingers.
The unconscious female police officer and other plainclothes officers were pushed out, each tied up and with a gun on the back of their head. Fang Daichuan remembered that the Deputy Bureau himself told him that their informant had been out of contact for three days. Now it seems that, fortunately, they are all right.
“Two people? Solo game?” Li Sinian glanced at the hostage casually then averted his eyes.
(T/N : Solo game is in English.)
The middle-aged man smiled, seeing that smile on his oily skin, somehow it gives people a sticky disgusting feeling. His eyes then move toward Fang Daichuan: “This… Qin-gongzi? If you like, you can join in.”
Fang Daichuan politely declined.
“Don’t bring him in, how do you want to play?” Li Sinian casually blew at his nails.
(T/N : Yes, Sinian really did that. I Baidu, use a dictionary and this is not an idiom. Say hi to sassy Sinian lol.)
“Red and white cards, odd and even, 9 points, I found a sure way to win, do you believe me?” The middle-aged man was full of pride.
The red and white cards, odd and even, nine points, is a game designed by Li Sinian. It appeared in the novel “Galaxy Game”. It is a game of psychology and mathematics.
Each player will receive nine cards, the back of odd-numbered cards is red and the back of even-numbered cards is white. First the dice will be thrown to decide who goes first. The first one gets to choose which colour they will play and the opponent can only choose the card with the opposite colour. The person with the higher card gets a chip and gets the first move on the next round. A winner is announced every time a card is played, however, no information is given as to which card each player has played and the first person to take a five-kill chip wins.
Li Sinian raised his eyebrows and was noncommittal.
Li Sinian sat at the end of the long table, Fang Daichuan stood up and stood opposite the dealer, staring at the dealer’s movements. The four people’s positions are very coincident. If this is not a long table, but a square table, they will look like they are playing mahjong.
On the deck outside came the song from popular singers.
The men and women laughed and shouted; it was very lively.
The dealer threw two dice into a dice cup*, raised his hand and shook it.
“It’s so boring to play like this.” The middle-aged man sat at the other end of the long table lit a cigarette under the service of the tuxedo Butler. He glanced at the hostages and said, “We might as well make a bet.”
“How about gambling on his arm?” Before the middle-aged man finished his words, the waiter already put the informant’s right hand on the leather stool. A black suit lifted his leg and pulled out the dogleg knife* from the knife pocket outside his thigh. The bright silver knife surface reflected the light of the chandelier, grazing the informant’s right wrist before being inserted into the stool surface.
The informant swallowed his saliva and a drop of cold sweat slid down his sideburns.
Li Sinian didn’t turn his head to look, he stared at the beautiful dealer’s face with great interest: “It’s boring to bet on his arms, it’s better to bet on mine,” he said with a smile, “My hands are worth more than his.”
“Please guess if it is an odds or doubles.” The beautiful dealer stopped shaking the dice and threw the dice cup firmly in the centre of the table.
“Let’s do it like this. If you win, you can take the person away. If you lose, I will keep your hand.” Both of them stared at the small dice cup, the middle-aged man looked at Li Sinian’s eyes and smiled slightly, “I guess double.”
Li Sinian made a ‘as you wish’ gesture.
The dealer opened the dice cup.
Two bright red dots stop in the middle of the bowl.
“I’m sorry, I’ll go first.” The middle-aged man took a cigar and smiled.
“Mr. Song will go first, please shuffle your cards.” The dealer spread his hands.
“Find the information! Chinese, surnamed Song! He is this yacht passenger!” The policeman clasped his earphones tightly and yelled at the investigator.
Mr. Song shuffled the cards, drew a white card and pushed it into the centre: “My sure win method only works when I have the first move advantage,” he laughed. “Heaven is on my side.”
Li Sinian didn’t speak, only faintly smiled. His right index finger and thumb kept shaking. He rubbed his fingers and then took a sip of wine to suppress the trembling.
“Do Mr. Li thinks the first move advantage is important?” Mr. Song tried to interfere with Li Sinian’s thoughts. He played with the nine chips in his hand and made a crisp sound.
Li Sinian shuffled the cards, pondered for a while and said to him casually: “Of course it is important for a player like you who is superstitious in the so-called ‘sure way to win’.”
He drew a red card and threw it into the middle.
The dealer used a long rod to pick up two cards, slightly opened a gap and then smiled: “In the first round, Mr. Song won.”
Mr. Song smiled.
Li Sinian raised his right eyebrow and tossed the chip he had been playing with. The gold coin made a parabola and landed right next to Mr. Song.
(T/N : Alright so author using both chip and gold coin. Chip is a common word in gambling and it means currency so don’t be alarmed. They are using gold coins as currency and it is called chip here, just a note that I will keep using chip and gold coin because that is what the author uses.)
“Accepted.” He touched the warm chip. Fang Daichuan made a contemptuous smile on the corner of his mouth.
Mr. Song drew another white card and pushed it into the stack of cards in front of him: “So it seems that the first move advantage is very useful. We, the players of the ‘superstitious sure way to win’, are not without skill, don’t you think so?”
Without a word, Li Sinian casually drew another red card and pushed it into the middle of his own stack of cards.
“In the second round, Mr. Song won.”
Fang Daichuan secretly took a deep breath.
Mr Song smiled as he fiddled with his chips, Fang Daichuan couldn’t understand, he vaguely guessed that he was using the placement of the chips to remember his cards. Did it mean that he had really found the way to winning? Or could he guess what cards Li Sinian would play?
Li Sinian has lost two gold coins.
Then, in a very short time, he lost the third one. Mr. Song still use a white card and Li Sinian only had six gold coins left in his hand.
“If I win the next round, I will win for sure.” Mr. Song was confident.
Fang Daichuan knew that what he said was true. He only played three white cards from the beginning. The biggest red card, 9, was still in his hand. If he wins the fourth round, he only needs to use the highest card, 9, and Li Sinian will lose.
In the fourth game he threw a red card.
Li Sinian calmly uses a white card.
“In the fourth round,” the dealer looked at the cards and paused, “Mr. Li won.”
The corner of Mr. Song’s mouth twitched. He felt that he had neglected something but he looked at the 9 at his hand and he gained confidence.
He looked at the colours of Li Sinian’s remaining cards and arranged the chips in another direction.
Li Sinian just drew a red card and pushed it into the centre of the card stack without even looking at it.
Mr. Song opened up all his cards and looked at them. He needed to play a white card to deal with it. However, his white card had already been played and there was only one 2 left.
Of course he lost.
Li Sinian gained back 20%.
It doesn’t matter, Mr. Song thought to himself, he only has one red card left and sooner or later he will use a white card. As long as he uses a white card, he can use the red 9 to make a comeback.
In the next round, Li Sinian unexpectedly use a white card. Mr. Song was overjoyed and hurriedly pushed his red 9. Sure enough, he won. Although there were some small accidents in the middle, it was not important. In the sixth round, he took the lead.
He’s already won 4 games, and if he wins the last game, he will win. He stared at his cards, and there were three red cards left, 1, 3 and 5.
He carefully tosses a 5.
“I guess you played a 5,” Li Sinian smiled slightly and pushed out a white card. He didn’t count the chips. He randomly tossed a few chips around in his palm, “If I guess right, you will lose.”
Mr. Song was startled.
The dealer opened Li Sinian’s white card, which was a 6: “In the seventh game, Mr. Li wins.”
Mr. Song froze.
Li Sinian had two cards left, one white and one red. Li Sinian smiled: “Mr. Song has 1 and 3 left, right? I still have a 4 and a 9 left.”
He showed the two cards and as he said, a 4 and a 9.
Mr. Song was dumbfounded.
“Go! Go go go!” A dozen metres away, from the ship disguised as a small fishing boat, the leader of the action team shouted. Helicopters instantly forced their way down from high altitude, machine guns protruded from the windows and several ships surrounded the cruise ship from all sides.
Fang Daichuan breathed a sigh of relief.
Mr. Song silently turned over the two cards in front of him and asked through his gritted teeth, “How did you do it?”
Li Sinian stood up and tidied up his clothes: “I designed the red and white cards, odd and even, 9 points. The core conflict is the biggest 9 and the smallest 1. Basically it is how you use your strongest and weakest card. When you say you have a sure way method to win, I know you must use the 9 as the key point. The question now is, which round is the most crucial one? Given your character, I’m sure you wouldn’t drag it out with me until the final, so naturally a clean sweep of five games would be the most impressive. Unfortunately, there is never a sure win method in these games. When you played an even number of cards in the first three rounds, I figured you out and took the opportunity to lose the three smallest odd numbers to you. In the fourth game, you had to make sure you could win and you couldn’t use the most critical 9. The highest card can’t be used, so you had to use the highest number left. I don’t need to know which odd you used, just use the 8 to win the game. The rest of the game was easy to play and with your character, you will quickly recover from a setback. In the fifth game you used the crucial 9 and I played a 2, so I ended up with 4, 6 and 9, and you with 1, 3 and 5.”
“The 9 is indeed should be used in the most crucial rounds. Unfortunately, you forget that odd and even are not equal. Everyone has 4 even-numbered cards and 5 odd-numbered cards. 9 is not the only reliable method to win against even numbers. In the last round, when there are only odd numbers left, we still have to use it to win.” Li Sinian drank the red wine in his glass and smiled.
“Freeze! Put down your weapons!” The door was suddenly kicked open by bomb proof military boots and heavily armed police burst in with miniature submachine guns. At the same time, they also take control of the deck.
In the deck, the high officials, bigwigs and celebrities who came for socialising, using drugs or having fun became confused like a deer in the headlights.
The waiters in the room put down their weapons and hugged their heads.
“You, hand on your head! Don’t move!” One of the policemen pointed at Li Sinian as if facing a formidable enemy. Li Sinian remained calm, he raised his eyebrows before raising his hands.
Fang Daichuan looked flustered.
He remembered the promise he made in front of the Deputy Bureau to help them catch Li Sinian in exchange for getting close to Li Sinian and reuniting with Li Sinian.
However, at this moment, so many emotions mixed inside his heart and he does not know what they are.
Chapter 96: After Part 6
Un-edited so please don’t kill me if you find anything wrong, please gently commenting so I can fix it. Thank you.
“Now, please follow me. Your two friends have been waiting for you for a long time.” A figure gradually emerged from the depths of the corridor, wearing a tuxedo, a stiff collar white shirt and gloves.
https://www.oliverbrown.org.uk/blogs/blog/a-history-of-stiff-collars/
The two looked at each other and walked side by side into the room at the end of the corridor.
Fang Daichuan put the microphone in his palm, quietly turned it on and stuffed it into his belt buckle.
The police outside had already noticed the situation at the scene. Seeing that Fang Daichuan’s channel was opened, no one said anything and no one dared to make a move. They quietly told the helicopter and the fleet to standby with their sweaty palm.
The European carved door at the end of the corridor opened from inside. Waiters with plates in one hand and one hand behind their backs shuttling through the ballroom. A long table was empty. An Eastern-Asian-looking man sitting in the host* seat turned around and smiled at the two of them.
(T/N : Alright so I have been waiting to say this, but remember when I said that the author gives a lot of hints through the novel? One of them is this. As you can see, Sinian sits on host2 seat in the villa and the host seat is empty, because his mother is the real boss behind the scene and Sinian is the helper. I just love the author for giving a lot of hints lol, now let’s get back to the story.)
“I’ve heard a lot about you, Mr. Li,” he gestured for the tuxedoed butler to pull out the chairs for the two men, “I’m a loyal reader of yours, and I loved the trilogy of fraudulent games you’ve written, The Dunhuang Game, The Werewolf Game and The Galaxy Game.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang
The man’s eyes were fixed dead on Li Si Nian’s face, the corners of his mouth hooked into a smile that made Fang Daichuan feel very uncomfortable: “My lifelong dream is to be able to play a real game of fraud with you, this time I heard that you bought an island and finished doing the deserted island survival mode, I acquired this cruise ship overnight, issued the customs approval, and wanted to play a game of high seas cruise mode with you, I don’t know if you willing to.”
Li Sinian took a sip of wine, put down the glass on the long table, which made a cold and crisp sound: “You don’t seem to have given me a chance to refuse.”
The man seemed to like Li Sinian’s submissive attitude, he smiled smugly and snapped his fingers.
The unconscious female police officer and other plainclothes officers were pushed out, each tied up and with a gun on the back of their head. Fang Daichuan remembered that the Deputy Bureau himself told him that their informant had been out of contact for three days. Now it seems that, fortunately, they are all right.
“Two people? Solo game?” Li Sinian glanced at the hostage casually then averted his eyes.
(T/N : Solo game is in English.)
The middle-aged man smiled, seeing that smile on his oily skin, somehow it gives people a sticky disgusting feeling. His eyes then move toward Fang Daichuan: “This… Qin-gongzi? If you like, you can join in.”
Fang Daichuan politely declined.
“Don’t bring him in, how do you want to play?” Li Sinian casually blew at his nails.
(T/N : Yes, Sinian really did that. I Baidu, use a dictionary and this is not an idiom. Say hi to sassy Sinian lol.)
“Red and white cards, odd and even, 9 points, I found a sure way to win, do you believe me?” The middle-aged man was full of pride.
The red and white cards, odd and even, nine points, is a game designed by Li Sinian. It appeared in the novel “Galaxy Game”. It is a game of psychology and mathematics.
Each player will receive nine cards, the back of odd-numbered cards is red and the back of even-numbered cards is white. First the dice will be thrown to decide who goes first. The first one gets to choose which colour they will play and the opponent can only choose the card with the opposite colour. The person with the higher card gets a chip and gets the first move on the next round. A winner is announced every time a card is played, however, no information is given as to which card each player has played and the first person to take a five-kill chip wins.
Li Sinian raised his eyebrows and was noncommittal.
Li Sinian sat at the end of the long table, Fang Daichuan stood up and stood opposite the dealer, staring at the dealer’s movements. The four people’s positions are very coincident. If this is not a long table, but a square table, they will look like they are playing mahjong.
On the deck outside came the song from popular singers.
The men and women laughed and shouted; it was very lively.
The dealer threw two dice into a dice cup*, raised his hand and shook it.
“It’s so boring to play like this.” The middle-aged man sat at the other end of the long table lit a cigarette under the service of the tuxedo Butler. He glanced at the hostages and said, “We might as well make a bet.”
“How about gambling on his arm?” Before the middle-aged man finished his words, the waiter already put the informant’s right hand on the leather stool. A black suit lifted his leg and pulled out the dogleg knife* from the knife pocket outside his thigh. The bright silver knife surface reflected the light of the chandelier, grazing the informant’s right wrist before being inserted into the stool surface.
The informant swallowed his saliva and a drop of cold sweat slid down his sideburns.
Li Sinian didn’t turn his head to look, he stared at the beautiful dealer’s face with great interest: “It’s boring to bet on his arms, it’s better to bet on mine,” he said with a smile, “My hands are worth more than his.”
“Please guess if it is an odds or doubles.” The beautiful dealer stopped shaking the dice and threw the dice cup firmly in the centre of the table.
“Let’s do it like this. If you win, you can take the person away. If you lose, I will keep your hand.” Both of them stared at the small dice cup, the middle-aged man looked at Li Sinian’s eyes and smiled slightly, “I guess double.”
Li Sinian made a ‘as you wish’ gesture.
The dealer opened the dice cup.
Two bright red dots stop in the middle of the bowl.
“I’m sorry, I’ll go first.” The middle-aged man took a cigar and smiled.
“Mr. Song will go first, please shuffle your cards.” The dealer spread his hands.
“Find the information! Chinese, surnamed Song! He is this yacht passenger!” The policeman clasped his earphones tightly and yelled at the investigator.
Mr. Song shuffled the cards, drew a white card and pushed it into the centre: “My sure win method only works when I have the first move advantage,” he laughed. “Heaven is on my side.”
Li Sinian didn’t speak, only faintly smiled. His right index finger and thumb kept shaking. He rubbed his fingers and then took a sip of wine to suppress the trembling.
“Do Mr. Li thinks the first move advantage is important?” Mr. Song tried to interfere with Li Sinian’s thoughts. He played with the nine chips in his hand and made a crisp sound.
Li Sinian shuffled the cards, pondered for a while and said to him casually: “Of course it is important for a player like you who is superstitious in the so-called ‘sure way to win’.”
He drew a red card and threw it into the middle.
The dealer used a long rod to pick up two cards, slightly opened a gap and then smiled: “In the first round, Mr. Song won.”
Mr. Song smiled.
Li Sinian raised his right eyebrow and tossed the chip he had been playing with. The gold coin made a parabola and landed right next to Mr. Song.
(T/N : Alright so author using both chip and gold coin. Chip is a common word in gambling and it means currency so don’t be alarmed. They are using gold coins as currency and it is called chip here, just a note that I will keep using chip and gold coin because that is what the author uses.)
“Accepted.” He touched the warm chip. Fang Daichuan made a contemptuous smile on the corner of his mouth.
Mr. Song drew another white card and pushed it into the stack of cards in front of him: “So it seems that the first move advantage is very useful. We, the players of the ‘superstitious sure way to win’, are not without skill, don’t you think so?”
Without a word, Li Sinian casually drew another red card and pushed it into the middle of his own stack of cards.
“In the second round, Mr. Song won.”
Fang Daichuan secretly took a deep breath.
Mr Song smiled as he fiddled with his chips, Fang Daichuan couldn’t understand, he vaguely guessed that he was using the placement of the chips to remember his cards. Did it mean that he had really found the way to winning? Or could he guess what cards Li Sinian would play?
Li Sinian has lost two gold coins.
Then, in a very short time, he lost the third one. Mr. Song still use a white card and Li Sinian only had six gold coins left in his hand.
“If I win the next round, I will win for sure.” Mr. Song was confident.
Fang Daichuan knew that what he said was true. He only played three white cards from the beginning. The biggest red card, 9, was still in his hand. If he wins the fourth round, he only needs to use the highest card, 9, and Li Sinian will lose.
In the fourth game he threw a red card.
Li Sinian calmly uses a white card.
“In the fourth round,” the dealer looked at the cards and paused, “Mr. Li won.”
The corner of Mr. Song’s mouth twitched. He felt that he had neglected something but he looked at the 9 at his hand and he gained confidence.
He looked at the colours of Li Sinian’s remaining cards and arranged the chips in another direction.
Li Sinian just drew a red card and pushed it into the centre of the card stack without even looking at it.
Mr. Song opened up all his cards and looked at them. He needed to play a white card to deal with it. However, his white card had already been played and there was only one 2 left.
Of course he lost.
Li Sinian gained back 20%.
It doesn’t matter, Mr. Song thought to himself, he only has one red card left and sooner or later he will use a white card. As long as he uses a white card, he can use the red 9 to make a comeback.
In the next round, Li Sinian unexpectedly use a white card. Mr. Song was overjoyed and hurriedly pushed his red 9. Sure enough, he won. Although there were some small accidents in the middle, it was not important. In the sixth round, he took the lead.
He’s already won 4 games, and if he wins the last game, he will win. He stared at his cards, and there were three red cards left, 1, 3 and 5.
He carefully tosses a 5.
“I guess you played a 5,” Li Sinian smiled slightly and pushed out a white card. He didn’t count the chips. He randomly tossed a few chips around in his palm, “If I guess right, you will lose.”
Mr. Song was startled.
The dealer opened Li Sinian’s white card, which was a 6: “In the seventh game, Mr. Li wins.”
Mr. Song froze.
Li Sinian had two cards left, one white and one red. Li Sinian smiled: “Mr. Song has 1 and 3 left, right? I still have a 4 and a 9 left.”
He showed the two cards and as he said, a 4 and a 9.
Mr. Song was dumbfounded.
“Go! Go go go!” A dozen metres away, from the ship disguised as a small fishing boat, the leader of the action team shouted. Helicopters instantly forced their way down from high altitude, machine guns protruded from the windows and several ships surrounded the cruise ship from all sides.
Fang Daichuan breathed a sigh of relief.
Mr. Song silently turned over the two cards in front of him and asked through his gritted teeth, “How did you do it?”
Li Sinian stood up and tidied up his clothes: “I designed the red and white cards, odd and even, 9 points. The core conflict is the biggest 9 and the smallest 1. Basically it is how you use your strongest and weakest card. When you say you have a sure way method to win, I know you must use the 9 as the key point. The question now is, which round is the most crucial one? Given your character, I’m sure you wouldn’t drag it out with me until the final, so naturally a clean sweep of five games would be the most impressive. Unfortunately, there is never a sure win method in these games. When you played an even number of cards in the first three rounds, I figured you out and took the opportunity to lose the three smallest odd numbers to you. In the fourth game, you had to make sure you could win and you couldn’t use the most critical 9. The highest card can’t be used, so you had to use the highest number left. I don’t need to know which odd you used, just use the 8 to win the game. The rest of the game was easy to play and with your character, you will quickly recover from a setback. In the fifth game you used the crucial 9 and I played a 2, so I ended up with 4, 6 and 9, and you with 1, 3 and 5.”
“The 9 is indeed should be used in the most crucial rounds. Unfortunately, you forget that odd and even are not equal. Everyone has 4 even-numbered cards and 5 odd-numbered cards. 9 is not the only reliable method to win against even numbers. In the last round, when there are only odd numbers left, we still have to use it to win.” Li Sinian drank the red wine in his glass and smiled.
“Freeze! Put down your weapons!” The door was suddenly kicked open by bomb proof military boots and heavily armed police burst in with miniature submachine guns. At the same time, they also take control of the deck.
In the deck, the high officials, bigwigs and celebrities who came for socialising, using drugs or having fun became confused like a deer in the headlights.
The waiters in the room put down their weapons and hugged their heads.
“You, hand on your head! Don’t move!” One of the policemen pointed at Li Sinian as if facing a formidable enemy. Li Sinian remained calm, he raised his eyebrows before raising his hands.
Fang Daichuan looked flustered.
He remembered the promise he made in front of the Deputy Bureau to help them catch Li Sinian in exchange for getting close to Li Sinian and reuniting with Li Sinian.
However, at this moment, so many emotions mixed inside his heart and he does not know what they are.
