Cold, very cold, very cold.

This is Richard's feeling when the body is assimilated by glowing figures, and it continues to intensify.

As if he had taken off his clothes and been in a polar ice field, the endless chill continued to hit, making him feel like his blood and even his soul were going to freeze.

Just when he could barely bear it, his vision flashed, and then he appeared in a completely unfamiliar environment.

The body assimilated by the luminous digital is restored, and the clothes on the body are exactly the same, and the only thing that changes is the environment.

It looks like it's no longer the top of the mountain it used to be, but a plain.

Under the gloomy sky, it was snowing heavily on the plains, and the snow was almost knee-thick, allowing a slight chill to envelop Richard's body again.

Richard squinted his eyes and looked around, Rao was as smart as him, and he couldn't be sure what the situation was at this time, so he could only choose to act cautiously.

For a moment, he saw a faint light flickering in the distance, thought for a few seconds, and walked over.

"Rustling ......"

......

The footprints left in the snow were quickly covered by the new snow, and Richard walked to the place where the light appeared.

I saw that it was a tavern built on the side of the road, small in scale, but it was exuding faint energy fluctuations from the inside.

Richard held out his hand and knocked rhythmically on the tavern door.

"Bang bang bang, bang bang, bang!"

With a "squeak", the door opened, and a middle-aged man with a fiery red beard appeared, who should be the tavern owner, glanced at Richard, and asked in a buzzing voice, "Passing by?"

"Hmm. Richard nodded.

"Come on in, this damn weather, it's freezing people to death. The tavern keeper said, rubbing his hands together to let Richard in, and kindly pointed to a stove in the center of the tavern, "You sit over there for a while, and warm up first." ”

Richard nodded again, and sat down by the fire, as the tavern owner had said.

The stove burned beside him, and from time to time sparks floated out, but for some reason, he never felt the warmth, at most it relieved the chill that was going to freeze his soul a little.

Richard frowned slightly, and sat as he sat down and looked inside the tavern.

As you can see, this is indeed a very ordinary tavern, with a half-old bar, a rickety wooden table, and the tavern owner just now, and the scattered guests make up everything.

If there is anything different from the previous hotel in the wizarding world of the Tester plane, it may be that around the largest table in the middle of the tavern, there are many people gathered and playing a very special kind of cards.

The size of the cards, similar to poker on Earth, but thicker. The material is also very special, the surface is gilded, printed with exquisite patterns, and the faint energy constantly emanates from the inside of the card, which is exactly what he senses outside the tavern.

This is......

Richard approached the table where the cards were being played and stood on the periphery to observe.

At this time, there are two people playing cards, one is fat, and the other is also fat.

The first farmer dresses up, the second ...... It is also a farmer's dress.

But the first one is a little younger, and the second one is a little older, and it looks like a father and son.

Richard observed for a long time and found that the rules of the cards were a little special, and the content of the cards was too unusual. For example, on the cards, he saw the pattern of the wizard, the pattern of the orc, the pattern of the floating airship, the pattern of the jet fighter, the pattern of the self-propelled artillery, and the pattern of the nuclear bomb.

The person who plays the game is no stranger to the pattern and even knows its purpose.

The young son vigorously punched a "floating airship", and the older father immediately picked up a "jet fighter".

"Your airship is too slow, and it doesn't have over-the-horizon combat capabilities, I can completely overwhelm you. The older father, commenting, "Airship is a good card, but you're a little early, and you're losing the advantage you've just worked so hard to build, my son." ”

"Dad, your words are too early, I shot the airship, in fact, it is just a decoy, the real killing trick is here. As he spoke, the young son threw out a card with the black-robed wizard and shouted, "Mind Wizard, take control of your plane, so that I will have absolute air superiority." ”

"It's hard to say, don't forget I have the ultimate weapon. ”

"Smack!"

The older father threw out a card with the "nuclear bomb" on it, and saw that an extremely small mushroom cloud had actually grown on the table.

The surrounding spectators let out a "ah" in unison, and the young son pursed his lips.

The tavern owner behind the bar shouted dissatisfiedly, "Hey, be careful, don't break my table!"

But no one paid any attention to him, and the game continued.

A few minutes later, the game ended, and the older father used the Doomsday Mecha to kill his young son's biochemical troll and win.

Father smiled on his face, then looked up, looked at Richard and invited, "You seem to be a fresh face, you've been watching here for a long time, do you want to play a game with me?"

"What ...... me," Richard thought for a moment, shook his head, "forget it, I'll just take a look." ”

"Oh well. The older father didn't bother with it, and played cards again with another old man of the same age.

Game after game, the cards continued, and the players changed pair after pair, but no matter who it was, every time they finished playing, they would send a sincere invitation to Richard.

Without exception, Richard refused.

In his opinion, what is happening so far is too strange, and until enough information is gathered, it will not be possible to make extraneous branches.

In this way, the game was played 100 rounds, 200 rounds, 300 rounds......

By the time the five hundred and twelfth rounds had been played, Richard noticed that the father and son who had started playing had returned to the table and started the game again.

......

"Floating airship!"

"Fighters. ”

"Psychic Wizard!"

"Nuclear bombs. ”

“......”

......

"Biochemical trolls!"

"Doomsday Mecha, haha, my son, you lost. ”

The exact same order of cards, the exact same result, and of course, the exact same invitation after the hand is over.

"You seem to be a fresh face, you've been watching here for a long time, would you like to play with me?" asked the older father, looking at Richard.

Richard had already left the table and returned to the fire, and when he heard this, his heart moved, and suddenly he guessed some truth.

The next moment, he put his hand straight into the stove, and saw that his hand was not damaged under the raging fire.

Is that so......

Richard raised his eyebrows, looked at his older father, and responded, "Okay, then let's have a game." ”