"How can you prove that you can always win? Team battles can no longer be played at the same table as MIT blackjack teams. So, your approach doesn't necessarily work, kid. The gray-haired middle-aged man said with a smile.

"Why don't you ask someone to play a game with me?" a smile curled into the corner of the boy's mouth, and a white light reflected from the lenses, "I know how to win." ”

He said lightly: "I'm not kidding, I'll know after trying it." ”

"Okay, can you come with me for a cup of coffee?" the gray-haired man invited.

"No problem. Alan said.

Su Xiaoqi only understood at this time, it turned out that they were talking about the card game. Seeing that Eren had already followed, she hesitated for a moment and followed the two of them. The three of them went to a private room in a leisure club, and the gray-haired man made a few phone calls, and four or five people came one after another, some were tall, some were thin men, some looked like IT engineers, and some looked chubby like blue-collar workers.

One of them, a tall man in a black leather coat, lit a cigarette and smoked, "I'm afraid this kind of thing is not suitable for girls." Mino, please entertain this young lady. ”

She was slightly angry, this is discrimination against women? What if the children in the family are taken badly? What do you mean that she is not suitable to listen to? Alan suddenly tugged at her sleeve and said, "I'm fine, you wait for me." ”

"Come, lovely young lady, let's go and sit down over there. The man named Minoan took Su Xiaoqi next door.

"Hello, let's play blackjack then?" said the tall man in the black leather suit.

"Blackjack?" the boy smiled back, "It's too easy......"

The gray-haired middle-aged man smiled and said, "Yes, blackjack is the game with the highest win rate for players. ”

Among them, a slender blonde man brought the cards, and the blonde man shuffled the cards with his fingers with a calm expression, and in a moment he had shuffled six decks of cards. Then he played the dealer and dealt the cards quickly.

After the game began, the boy was winning most of the time. They had a hunch that if he played blackjack, he would keep winning.

The gray-haired middle-aged man looked at his own people, luck is very important in the game, but the most important thing is the ability to read the cards and the ability to read the cards, the people at this table are very strong, they will observe the opponent's qiē, and hide themselves at the same time.

At the end of the game, the gray-haired man said, "So, let's introduce you to our team members!"

He gestured to the man in the black leather suit, "Davis, a computer program master, a high-level hacker. A program was developed that was able to accurately calculate the numbers that computers "randomly" spelled. ”

The gray-haired man pointed to the chubby man in the blue suit again, "Gülen, a master at assembling new high-tech devices, once created a way to deal with new high-tech sensitive devices that can deceive the most sensitive reactors. ”

Finally, he turned to the tall, lanky blonde man, "Ona is good at fast memory, and can remember 100 pictures in a matter of seconds. The other two have their own strengths, such as Mino, who will use skills such as quick draws. ”

After the middle-aged man introduced these people, he smiled and said, "The business card given to you has my name on it, Ronald, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." ”

In the private room next door, the man named Mino and Su Xiaoqi sat and chatted together, she asked a few of them about their interests and hobbies, and she was secretly taken aback, seeing that their interests were very similar to some weird and wizards or something, what are you looking for Alan? Gambling, just kidding? He is not yet 21 years old.

On this side, there has been a different game from blackjack, and the teenager is still in control.

"How?" the gray-haired middle-aged man looked surprised.

Alan said calmly: "Write a mathematical formula. ”

He lifted his glasses and said: "Since the mathematician wrote the Kelly formula, players can count up to 53% of the cards in a 21-point game, and people who are proficient in this algorithm and have high emotional intelligence can easily win money in the game." However, casinos have taken a number of measures, such as installing monitoring software to keep an eye on card counters. So, now the possibility of using the Kelly Formula to make a profit is slim to none. ”

"You mean, you've written a new formula?" the gray-haired middle-aged man was surprised and began to examine the teenager again.

Alan said quietly: "Let's put it this way, I'm not of legal age, I'm afraid I can't be a member of your team." ”

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "It's okay, we need someone who can read cards." ”

Alan lowered his eyelashes and said, "Mr. Ronald, I have no intention of doing this, but I can work with you on another collaborative project to write mathematical formulas for you to play specific games." ”

"Are you kidding us?

"Do you want to try? I can increase the odds to a very high level. Alan said.

"If you don't join us, what conditions do you want?" the middle-aged gray-haired man asked.

Allen glanced at the people present and said nonchalantly: "I don't want anything else, as long as the people on your team do a few things for me in five years, when I need them, I can write a probability formula for you for a particular gamble." ”

"What are you kidding. I refuse!" Davis, a senior computer hacker, was the first to stand up, saying that people like them don't like to be restrained the most.

Gülen, who is said to be a master of assembling new high-tech devices, said: "I don't think a formula is worth serving for five years. ”

Alan smiled, "No, you know, it's worth it. ”

"Mr. Ronald, I'll go back first, you can think about it. Alan got up from his stool and said, "If you are interested, you can call xxx-xxxxxxx." ”

"Little ghost, don't you want to join us at all?" The middle-aged man finally said: "Our team has attracted tens of millions of dollars in investment projects, and all of us can have more than one million dollars, and it is not a dream to become a millionaire or a multimillionaire." ”

"Mr. Ronald, I have no intention of doing this," said the boy, "and if you are interested in the terms I have offered, you may come to me again." ”

The corner of the middle-aged man's eyes jumped, when he negotiated with this little ghost, the other party was calm and relaxed, and he forced himself to jump his feet quietly, but he himself had no idea what to do with him.

Su Xiaoqi waited for a long time, but she didn't see Alan come out. She remembered that in the plot, Alan often encountered bad things before he was 17 years old, and she was nervous, thinking that if Alan was trapped in it, should she rescue him herself?

She and Mino were chatting without saying a word, when they suddenly saw Alan push open the door, stand at the door and say, "Alice, let's go." ”

Hearing Alan call herself, she looked up from the couch, then said goodbye to Minow, and immediately got up and followed him.

"Alan, what are those people coming to you for? They can't be 'professional winners' in the casinos, right?"

"Hmm. ”

"Ah, it's very dangerous to do this business!" Although Su Xiaoqi doesn't know anything else, she knows that casinos are not easy to mess with, and most of the famous casinos are invested and operated by underworld forces.

"Well, I refused. Alan said lightly.

Allen is really a good boy, and the author, who doesn't know the truth, is very relieved.

"Then let's leave!" Su Xiaoqi said, "Let's go and see elsewhere." She thinks that homestays like Allen should be taken out and exercised.

Alan and Su Xiaoqi left Pasadena City and went to a nearby ski resort. Cities north of the central United States are said to have ski resorts around almost every city.

Su Xiaoqi chose a ski resort that is not ranked in the United States, but it is in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The scene of ice and snow is vast and magnificent!

She dresses up, takes a deep breath, holds the skis parallel to her sides, steps on the board, does a habilitation with her left foot and right heel pan, and then practices the panning step. Try to jump on both feet, from small to large, and practice the whole adaptation for three to five minutes.

When she started to slide, she fell to the ground in a turn, struggling to get up, and heard a clear voice next to her say, "Fall, don't rush to struggle, slide with the trend, and definitely avoid rolling." ”

With that, Alan slipped out. Isn't it? Obviously he is the same as a beginner, why does he learn faster than himself? This does not conform to the style of a well-mannered boy, Su Xiaoqi felt that she had to catch up, but she fell several times before she slowly mastered the trick.

The road ahead is a world of ice and snow forests, and all kinds of wonders and scenery are endless. She had just slid down when she suddenly heard the young man's voice not far away, "Attention!"

What to pay attention to?

The wide slope descended sharply, and to her amusement, there was a dangerous slope on which the "dead bodies" of skis would fall into one piece, and n people would sit there to rest.

Even she herself plunged headlong into the snow, leaving two deep traces of snow. No, why does this guy learn faster and slide more steadily than himself?

"You've fallen twelve!" the boy squatted down to help her up, "The parts that are prone to frostbite on skiing are fingers, feet, ears, and the tip of the nose, so you should pay attention to heat preservation." Trauma that is prone to occur is thumb contusion, and diseases that are prone to occur are stomach pain, abdominal pain, and snow blindness. ”

He bowed his head and said, "So be careful of slipping." ”

She looked at him in a daze, this guy wouldn't write down all the skiing-related matters, would he?

"Alan, how do you know?"

"I saw it on the signboard before coming here. ”

It turns out that the premise of a good brain is that you have a good memory?

"In the afternoon, the sun shines and the snowboard turns to make the snow slurry, sticky and frictional. Beginners are more likely to ski on this type of snow than they can handle. ”

When they crossed the mountain, they saw a breathtaking white and pure landscape, and from the top of the high cliff, looking down, the view from the foot of the mountain was in full view, and the sapphire blue lake below could be seen.

Isn't there a bit of a Nordic mythology in the corner of the ski resort? She looked at the spiky roofs of the buildings, lit up orange like little castles covered with snow.

"Alan, do you feel like a fairy tale when you look at the village at the foot of the ski resort?"

The snow gradually fell, and Alan looked at her for a while, his eyes a little strange and a little puzzled.

"Are you going down the mountain?" asked Alan softly.

He wasn't smiling, but his blue eyes were warm.

She nodded.

They pushed open the door of the cabin, the walls and furnishings were in European style, and as the twilight of the night sank, Alan turned on the lamp. The lights were bright, and he looked at her face.

"We'll only be out tomorrow morning. ”

Alan walked over to the fireplace and lit the flames, which warmly lit up.

In the firelight, she looked at Allen's eyes, which were a beautiful blue.

"Alice, actually, you...... You know my secret, right?" Alan slowly ruffled his black hair, and a few strands of blonde hair grew out of it, "You've always known that. ”

He hid his appearance since he was a child, and after removing the lenses to restore the color of his eyes, Alice saw it but did not look surprised, only one thing, she always knew that his appearance of black hair and black eyes was just a disguise.

But she didn't ask about him, never about him.

In fact, he also doubted his origins, perhaps there was a deeper secret hidden in it.