"A draw?"

Xiang Nanxing couldn't help but exclaim. Takuma shrugged at him, signaling that he was equally surprised.

"How can it be a draw......

He muttered, looking down at the two wooden signs on the table. Not to mention the difference in numbers, just the "Qian" hexagram and the "Kun" hexagram, whether in the Bagua or the 64 hexagrams, these two are the two hexagrams that are the farthest apart, just like one south and one north at the poles of a magnet. With two cards like this, Xiang Nanxing really can't imagine any reason for a draw.

Is it because one heaven and one earth are close in importance? Or is it ......

He was thinking about it, when he suddenly came back to his senses and suddenly raised his head to look at Jiang Liang opposite. Yes, the most important thing right now is to confirm the opponent's attitude in time rather than thinking about "why the draw". Think back to the words that Jiang Liang said before announcing the results, it was almost as if he had foreseen the results.

Think about Xu Wen's meaningful words at that time. At that time, Xiang Nanxing thought that what he said was that both sides saw the law of respecting large numbers, but what if the two of them saw different things at that time? Perhaps, only the one that Jiang Liang has mastered is the real rules of victory and defeat.

With such a mood, Xiang Nanxing raised his face, and then his heart was like ashes the moment he saw Jiang Liang's expression. When he was a little flustered because of the shock, Jiang Liang had already signaled the host behind him to pick up the equipment for blood transfusion for him, and was ready to accept another "blood trial". When he made eye contact with Xiang Nanxing, he even raised his hand very politely and pointed forward.

"Why don't you choose first?" He pointed to the blood bag and said lightly.

Although he also thought about acting, the fact is that Xiang Nanxing saw real calmness in his eyes. This guy really saw that it was not a simple comparison of the size of points, but a more complex and precise set of rules. Recalling Jiang Liang's expression when Xu Wen said those words, Xiang Nanxing could even be sure that the other party had not fully confirmed his conjecture until the game just now.

But what is the truth?

Xiang Nanxing thought back to the past four games, and still couldn't figure it out.

In the first game, he used the "Heng" hexagram of the 32nd hexagram against Jiang Liang's "Da Zhuang" hexagram, that is, the 34th hexagram, and the final result was that the latter won. This made him determine two guesses at that time, one was that the one with the highest serial number would win, and the other was to take apart the hexagram and look at the order of the remaining half to determine the outcome after redeeming those identical parts.

In the second game, he defeated the "Tai" hexagram of the eleventh hexagram in Jiang Liang's hand with the "well" hexagram of the forty-eighth hexagram, which just verified his previous two guesses. Judging from the results, the side with the higher number wins, and after the hexagram is disassembled, the order of the two parts of the "well" hexagram is below the "Tai" hexagram, so the latter guess is not valid.

In the third game, Xiang Nanxing took advantage of the victory to chase, and the "Weiji" of the 64th hexagram easily defeated the 12th "no" hexagram, which seemed to verify once again that numbers are the biggest key to determining the outcome of the game. If one game is still a coincidence, two games in a row can be used to verify this same conclusion, which seems to show that it is indeed right.

Then came the fourth inning, and the unexpected happened. Obviously, the numbers are superior, and the content of the hexagram is completely different, but Xiang Nanxing's "Kun" hexagram ended up being a draw with Jiang Liang's "Qian" hexagram?

How did this contradiction come about? Xiang Nanxing was still thinking hard, but the host disagreed.

"Xiang Nanxing, please prepare for the 'Blood Trial' immediately and choose a blood bag."

It wasn't until Chang Changshan pondered and spoke that Xiang Nanxing noticed that the blood transfusion equipment had been connected at some point, and it was placed in his hand. "Ice Floe" Yukihiko was standing on his right side, his hands behind his back, waiting for the blood bag to be selected so that he could load it onto the device.

On the other side, Jiang Liang, who had been waiting for him for a while, also decided to choose a blood bag first and finish the process. At this time, Xiang Nanxing had not yet made up his mind, but half of his blood bag had already been transfused, and judging from his leisurely expression, most of them still chose the right one.

This made Xiang Nanxing feel a little relieved. You must know that among the remaining five blood bags just now, there are three blood bags belonging to Jiang Liang's type A blood, accounting for the majority. At this time, Jiang Liang took one, and the remaining four were two to two, which was like helping Xiang Nanxing eliminate a wrong answer, and the probability of selecting his own blood bag had obviously increased a lot.

"Please choose a blood bag now!" Takuma Yama urged again, "The player on the other side is almost complete the blood transfusion. If you haven't paid attention by then, I'll have to sentence you to defeat and declare the rest null and void! And when the time comes, we will force you to complete this round of 'Blood Trial', you can't escape. ”

"Who's going to run away?" Xiang Nanxing pursed his lips. He narrowed his eyes and ignored the replenished blood bag, hesitated among the first four, and then decided to leave his fate to the heavens, closed his eyes and randomly clicked on one of them. Watching Xue Yan put the selected blood bag on the device, connect the catheter, and watch the red liquid begin to flow, Xiang Nanxing was originally a little nervous in his heart, but it gradually turned into a wonderful sense of relief in the back.

Anyway, you can't change it, just depend on luck. He couldn't help but think.

With this relaxation, the chaotic thoughts in his heart began to come alive again. For example, this sentence that Jiushan Takumi said just now may not be impossible to delve into. According to what he said, if he doesn't make a choice, the host will directly sentence him to lose, and at the same time announce that the next few games are invalid, and there is no need to compare. But in that case, the game is over, and even if the "Blood Trial" is enforced after that and you are unfortunate enough to be hit, because it is outside the game, medical means can intervene in time. With a method that they can easily handle with a knife in the chest, it seems that it is not impossible to rescue people by performing surgery such as total body exchange transfusion.

From this point of view, the words of Changshan pondering just now actually suggest a way to save his life when he has to......

"Wait."

Xiang Nanxing suddenly frowned, and then his eyes lit up.

"Announced...... Void? His keen instinct suddenly caught these words from the above sentence, and then, somewhere in his mind, an inspiration seemed to be ignited by such words. His associations suddenly connected the game just now, and the key words that had just flashed through his mind.

"yes, no!" He shouted in his heart, and he almost got up with the case, "If both sides are invalid, then the final result will of course be a draw." ”

But under what circumstances will the cards played on both sides become invalid? And judging from the rules, there are probably not a few such cases, otherwise there is no need to specifically propose a "draw" to deal with it. Xiang Nanxing's excited mood just now suddenly sank again, and the question went back again, but it changed from "why the draw" to "why it was invalid", and the essence was still the same. If he couldn't find other clues, even if he had just thought of such a conjecture that was very likely to be true, he still couldn't solve the mystery in front of him for a while.

"Patience, the message is the same on both sides, if he can think of it, I will definitely think of it too."

Xiang Nanxing clenched his fists and cheered himself on. Indeed, in this game, he and Jiang Liang played under completely fair conditions. As the host, Higayama Takuma did not take sides because of his identity, and Jiang Liang did not use his good skills as a host to cheat. The process from the selection of the hand to the discarding of the hand to the final play of the cards by both sides is completely transparent, and even in the card selection stage, Xiang Nanxing has the advantage of taking the lead. Unlike other card games, they know what each player has in their hands from the start, but it's hard to determine the value.

In such a completely fair situation, if Jiang Liang has seen through the truth of the rules, and his side is still trapped in it, it can only show that there is indeed a gap in the strength of the two sides, and his skills are inferior. Of course, it is not a shame to admit that there is a gap between him and the host, but at this stage, such an idea is useless, so Xiang Nanxing always admonished himself with "he can, I can", and at the same time tried to find any clue that might see through the truth in the past few rounds.

Then, suddenly, in a certain moment, he realized a problem that he had overlooked.

"Wait, our situation...... It's not entirely fair. ”

Xiang Nanxing stopped thinking, almost stunned by his own thoughts. It's true that every detail of this game is trying to be fair, but there is always one gap that cannot be bridged: the familiarity of both sides with the game.

In other sessions, even if the selected games are randomly selected from a huge game library to avoid the host preparing in advance, compared with the players, this is at least "unfamiliar" versus "completely unknown", which has a somewhat advantageous advantage. When Xiang Nanxing arrived at this game, because it was a game temporarily designed by Huang Lao, the host didn't know the mystery, but they still had an advantage over Xiang Nanxing.

That is the understanding of Huang Lao.

Since it is a game designed by a person, it must more or less reflect the characteristics of this person. Jiang Liang in front of him undoubtedly knew what Huang Lao's characteristics were better than him, so he was able to deduce the truth of the rules in the same situation. At this time, Xiang Nanxing recalled Huang Lao again, and the first thing that came to mind was the appearance of an old man who was exercising in the morning.

With his temperament, and thinking about the nickname of "Old Yellow Calendar", wouldn't it be very reasonable to design such a game called "Mandate of Heaven", whose content is to fiddle with the sixty-four hexagrams? But at this moment, Xiang Nanxing suddenly remembered what Danqing said when he first introduced it.

At that time, Danqing said: "This is the game he said temporarily designed for this White Night Festival, which is known as learning from China and the West, and I am very proud." ”

"Learning from China and the West?" Xiang Nanxing frowned and subconsciously repeated. In his mind, these four words were beginning to blur into a net, stringing together all the doubts that had been big and small.

Why the awkward way of "pick ten cards and discard two"? Why do you even want to point out the impossible situation of "don't repeat"?

Why do you need two people of equal status to determine the winner?

Why was it that at one point there was a situation where the higher the number was more advantageous?

Why do two different cards end up being voided?

And the most basic, and the original question, is why the sixty-four hexagrams? The number sixty-four......

When he thought of this, he thought of such a game as "Blackjack" for no reason, which is a card game in which the cards are added together to calculate the maximum total number, and it seems that of course it has nothing to do with any oriental metaphysical hexagram or anything like that. It was just one of many jumbled thoughts that flashed through his mind in an instant, and in the next second he should have been left behind like any other thought.

However, at this moment, a small fire suddenly ignited in Xiang Nanxing's brain, and suddenly connected the two together.

Sixty-four, which is exactly the number of four kings plus one queen, and the maximum number of points that can be made up of a deck of cards......

"It's a card game!"

Xiang Nanxing shouted and shot the case!

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