When she came back to her senses, Hua Qiong found that her environment had changed.

In the center of the palace is a round table made of gold, flanked by a chair decorated with pearls and agate, giving it a luxurious look.

And the most eye-catching.

It is the financial reports that cover the floor around the golden round table and chairs, from precious stones, to gold, to all kinds of famous paintings, antiques, and almost everything that human beings can imagine and related to "wealth", which can be seen here, which is enough to arouse the deepest greed and desire in the human heart.

Most importantly.

All these treasures were left unguarded on the ground.

It's as if waiting for someone to pick it up.

“......”

It's a pity that Hua Qiong's heart not only has no fluctuations, but even wants to laugh a little.

"How?"

"Why don't you try to get some?"

Raising her head, on the opposite side of the golden round table, a woman with long hair, a crystal-like crown on her head, and a beautiful appearance that people couldn't take their eyes off was looking at Hua Qiong while smiling, the woman's lips were slightly upturned, and that proud temperament was barely concealed.

"I'll give you permission to take some."

“.... No. ”

Hua Qiong pouted: "I'm not interested in money. ”

Woman: "......."

You're making me lose face.

The atmosphere was awkward for a moment, and then the woman slowly spoke: "My name is Rowena, Rowena Ravenclaw, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

"Young little wizard."

"Rowena?"

Hua Qiong had already put away her mace at this time, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she looked at the woman who called herself Rowena Ravenclaw suspiciously, but she didn't choose to ask, but changed her words: ".... Miss Rowena, how do I get out of this place now? ”

"You've got to the point of the problem."

Rowena snapped her fingers: "It's actually very easy to leave, you just have to play a little game with me, and if you win, you can leave." ”

“... It's true? ”

"Of course."

Rowena smiled, "The content of the game is very simple, you know, in the distant past when magic was far from universal, and Hogwarts was not established, there was once a man who received God-given wisdom and became the greatest wizard of his time. ”

"His name is Solomon."

"So this game, I'm going to make it Solomon's gamble."

The smile on Rowena's face was rather strange at the mention of Solomon, and there were ten more gold rings on the golden round table in front of her.

"The legend of the Ten Rings is very famous in the wizarding world."

"Some wizards think that it is a medium for summoning, and some wizards think that it is comparable to the existence of the Three Hallows of Death, and in our time, the cognition of the ten rings has basically completed the unification, and we all agree that Solomon's ring symbolizes Solomon's authority."

"And that's our game."

Rowena lined up the ten rings, and then picked up one ring at random: "There are ten in total, you and I are two players, you and I can take at least one and two at a time, and they must be in order, and the player who gets the ring last is the winner of this gamble." ”

"Of course."

"I'll start with the picks."

As soon as the words fell.

Hua Qiong couldn't help but curse.

Ten objects, two players, each player can only take two objects at most, at least one object, can't not not take it, isn't this a typical stone game, and it's the simplest kind, the law of which can be seen even if you only have a diploma from primary school.

That's right.

There is a way to win this game.

In a nutshell.

The first to win!

"It's not fair! If you come first, won't I lose! ”

“.......”

In the face of Hua Qiong's questioning, Rowena didn't respond, just grinned, and her smile became more and more evil, as if she was saying that she did it on purpose, to be honest, Hua Qiong almost took out the iron thistle bone and smashed it at Rowena, but in the end....

... She gave up on the idea anyway.

“.... Whew, calm down, be calm, what the boss said, what seems complicated, may actually be surprisingly simple. ”

"Calm down....."

After slapping herself twice in her mind, Hua Qiong slowly sat back again, without turning her face with Rowena, and her actions made Rowena a little surprised.

“... Unexpectedly, the little wizard of Gryffindor did not act impulsively. ”

"You've gone to the wrong house."

"You don't have to worry about it."

Hua Qiong sat in her seat, looking at the ten rings on the golden round table, quickly recalled what Rowena said in her mind, and finally said in a deep voice: "Aren't you going to play a game, let's start." ”

"Let's get started."

Rowena smiled slightly, and then, sure enough, picked up the first ring on the far right.

"Well, now it's your turn, my friend."

Rowena put the ring on the little finger of her left hand, and immediately looked at Hua Qiong with a smile on her face, and made a "please" gesture, to be honest, the malicious smile made Hua Qiong feel the urge not to take the ring, but to rush up to give Rowena a punch to the head.

"Hoo ....."

Taking a deep breath, Hua Qiong didn't rush to get it.

No doubt.

Can't go at Rowena's pace.

If you continue to follow this trend, no matter how much you struggle, you won't be able to get the last ring, but then again, is there a way to counter this game?

Hua Qiong didn't come up with it.

No matter how you look at it, it's a dead end.

"There are ten rings in total, at most two, at least one, if you want to win, you have to get the seventh and fourth, but the tenth is taken, you either take the ninth, or the ninth and eighth, whether it is the former or the latter, the seventh is to give up....."

After taking the ninth, then Rowena only had to take the eighth and seventh.

It was better to take the ninth and eighth, and Rowena went straight to the seventh.

It's all losing.

The hopeless game made Hua Qiong a little anxious again, but then she seemed to remember something, and suddenly reached out and pinched her thigh.

Calm down, you must be calm, if you panic when you encounter trouble, then what kind of detective are you doing?

At this time, Hua Qiong's mind couldn't help but flash Gu Moli's figure, the time of the Twin Star Building, Gu Moli carried the danger of the entire building being blasted, but he still made a judgment calmly, and now that he is just a game, there is no way to face it calmly?

Are you kidding.

I'm the world's number one detective in the future!

.... Calm down!

Hua Qiong took a deep breath, while thinking back to what Rowena had said before, while looking at the ring on Rowena's little finger, constantly thinking about countermeasures.

Premise: There is no way to crack the game itself, and you will definitely lose.

Corollary: You can't start with the game itself, but from something outside the game.

Premise: Outside of the game, what did Rowena say? What was done?

Inference: The story of the ten rings is explained, and the ring is brought to his little finger, the ring symbolizes the authority of King Solomon, the ring, the little finger.....

......！！！

In an instant, Hua Qiong's pupils shrank suddenly, and a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.

"What's wrong? What comes to mind? ”

Seeing Hua Qiong's performance, Rowena said leisurely: "No matter what you think, I suggest you make your choice as soon as possible, although I don't limit the time, but if you delay for a long time, the more dangerous your other friend may be, and his current condition is not very good." ”

“.... Hum. ”

Hua Qiong didn't say anything, but slowly stretched out her hand and picked up the ninth ring on the round table.

"Uh-huh."

Rowena's face remained unchanged, and she directly picked up the eighth and seventh rings from the round table, and then took them on her middle finger and index finger respectively, and after seeing this scene, Hua Qiong, who was still heavy just now....

.... Suddenly laughed.

Then she picked up the sixth ring and the fifth ring, and put them on the thumbs of her right and left hand, respectively.

"Miss Rowena, I should have won, right?"

"What are you talking about?"

"If I don't win, then I'm really out of luck."

Hua Qiong is not stupid, she is actually very smart, especially recently she has a qualified role model.

"The boss said that first collect clues, and then deduce the truth from the clues, and when you can't deduce the truth, review the clues you got before, and take your time step by step, just like playing a jigsaw puzzle, combining the inferences drawn from different clues together, which is the truth."

"Think about the rules of the game you said, you said at the time: [There are ten coins in total, you and I are two players, you and I can take at least one and two at a time, and the player who gets the ring in the end is the winner of this gamble] right?"

Rowena raised an eyebrow: "Is there anything strange about this?" ”

"If you think about it a little, you will find that there are a few places in your sentence that seem quite twisted and strange, namely [a total of ten], and [the number that can be taken away at one time], you seem to have intentionally or unintentionally ignored the word ring, and in the end, you said "last to get the ring", not "to get the last ring", different terms will completely lead to different meanings, very strange, isn't it?"

"Of the words you've said, there are only two times when the word ring is actually mentioned, once because "the ring symbolizes Solomon's authority", and once when "the player who gets the ring last, is the winner of the game", and you deliberately omitted other places where the ring should have been mentioned."

"Then I can think so."

"What you really want to get in this gamble should be the [ring], and it is not the last one, but one of them, and the previous modifier is actually not important at all, the focus is on the ring that conforms to the characteristics of the [ring], that is, the one that symbolizes Solomon's authority."

Rowena couldn't help but narrow her eyes when she heard this: "Then why the sixth?" ”

"Simple trivia, rings stay in different positions will have different symbolic meanings, and most of the rings on the right thumb symbolize authority and wealth, the tenth, eighth and seventh rings you take are on the little finger, index finger, middle finger of the right hand, so that the sixth ring will naturally stay on the right thumb, so I chose it."

"Of course, I'll take the fifth one just in case, I guess the fifth one should stay on the left thumb, so if I don't win like this, then I'm out of luck, as for this stone game that seems to be the first to win, it's all your trick."

“..... That's just your guess, right? ”

"That's right."

Hua Qiong didn't deny it, but nodded: "It's just speculation, but the boss said that since it's a game, it can't be a sure defeat, the seemingly perfect dilemma must have a way to break the game, and the game you give is a winning game, so the victory method must be outside the game." ”

"So I'm pretty confident in my guess."

"Actually, if you change the game and give me a game with a slight chance of winning, I don't necessarily think so, because my attention will definitely be completely attracted by that little chance of winning, but you use this kind of winning game, isn't it forcing me to think about ways to win outside the game."

"But what I don't understand is that you don't actually need to take the ninth and eighth, but if you take the ninth, I can only take the eighth or the eighth and the seventh, so that you can at least lock the sixth, and won't you completely block my chances? That's my only concern. ”

“.... Not really. ”

After listening to Hua Qiong's explanation, Rowena was silent for a moment, and then shook her head: "Although I gave the opportunity, only the little wizard who found the truth and seized the opportunity will be recognized, if you only got the ring and didn't realize the truth, it would be useless." ”

"I see."

Looking at Hua Qiong thoughtfully, Rowena smiled: "So smart little wizard, you won the game this time." ”

"As a bonus, you're going to get a simple hint from me, what do you want to know?"

“......”

After a moment of silence, Hua Qiong spoke: "I wonder if Voldemort will be resurrected after the Seven Horcruxes are gathered. ”