"What ?!!" Moon and I both exclaimed.

"Apart from this incident, who of you had seen their high priest before?" Trist asked us rhetorically.

Moon and I both shook our heads.

"They Atlanteans like to do this, and the gods never know what their high priest is called. Moreover, their high priest had rarely shown his face before, and he wore their robes on this expedition, covering his head and his face half-covered. Aside from the crown on my head and the scepter in my hand, I'm not sure. Moon added.

"It's all very likely, that the high priest is fake." "Occupying the Earth should be their goal, and this kind of major event should be commanded by their highest figure, so it will not be far from the Earth." Even if it is no longer Earth, it will be a moon base or a Mars base. ”

"So kidnapping the High Priest as a hostage won't work?" I spread my hands to express my helplessness, and then said, "If a gentleman does not stand under the wall, it is impossible for the high priest to be on the front line, and it is very likely that he is in command from a safe position. So you say he will be the Moon or Mars? ”

"It's not important." Trist didn't dwell too much on this issue, "The key is how we approach the ship formation and go inside to wake them up." ”

"What's your solution?" I habitually threw the question at Trist.

But this time I miscalculated, he is good at analysis, but not omnipotent.

"That's where I get a headache, and there's nothing I can do about it." Trist threw away the cards in his hand and said with a sigh.

"White analyzes ......," Moon said discouragedly.

"Not really, at least we know the direction of the breakthrough." Trist showed his trademark smile. "But I think we need to get to know each other better."

"Anne showed us what she was capable of. Everyone kept a hand before, right? Now that we are grasshoppers on a rope, we are in the same boat, and we should be honest with each other. Trist said with a sincere expression.

"I think you have the most hole cards......" I said with a joke.

Trist raised an eyebrow, shrugged his shoulders, and said with a wicked smile, "You know, I'm a gambler, and I'm used to having a few more hole cards in my hand." Since you're all curious about me, let's start with me. ”

The Roma, commonly known as the Gypsies. Of course, the Gypsies are somewhat discriminatory against them, preferring to call them Roma. At the same time, as loud as the name is their way of life, a nomadic family with no fixed residence, no stable job, but never productive. It seems that idleness is synonymous with them.

Trist was born into a typical Roma family, and the lack of a permanent home was the deepest impression he had since childhood, and the way people looked at him was also deeply remembered. Tramp is usually a derogatory term, which is associated with words such as "leisure", "leisure", "idleness", etc. Usually the eyes of such people are not very friendly.

Unlike the nomadic peoples, who live by water, the Roma do not live in animal husbandry, but mainly sell their livestock, moving from town to town. A horse-drawn carriage was their mobile home, and of course it has now been turned into a caravan. The fact that they live in exile does not mean that they do not have a home, on the contrary, they still have a strong sense of family, even if their son is married, they still live with their parents, which is very unusual in Western society.

That year, Trist met a girl who, in his words, had an angelic smile, a heart of gold, a little romanticism, and, most importantly, did not look at him as strangely as the general public did about his Roma origin.

I have to say that Triste's appearance is still very handsome, especially now when he has a beard and a wicked smile, it is very attractive. Moreover, the Roma are a warm and cheerful people, in Spain they are known as flamenco, and it is their music and dance that are known to the world.

They use their wanderings to write the history of generation after generation, with birth being the beginning and death being the end. Many of them live in revival, living a life that only their own people can understand. This special national temperament has created a natural music. The guitar is not a person's self-playing and singing; The bass is not used to interpret the jazz of the Southern Ou Ou Guang; The accordion is not a lone of the snowfields; Singing doesn't express more helplessness and suffering; What you hear is always a piece of music played as a whole, no part can be missing, everyone is using their enthusiasm and madness to express their spirit, a kind of belonging to their nation, a special temperament.

Trist is also proficient in this way, he was a sunny and cheerful young man back then, and it is precisely because of this that he attracted the attention of the angelic girl, ignorant youth, and impatient feelings began to sprout between the two.

At the age of hormonal exuberance, this mutual affection quickly turned into a vigorous love. In the case of mutual affection between the two parties, the bloody thing happened.

The girl didn't care about Trist's origins and didn't look down on him in the slightest, but that didn't mean her family was the same. In their society, discrimination against the Roma is the mainstream, so they have done something to beat the mandarin ducks.

However, as a Westerner, even if you are dirty, you still need to work superficially, and maintain the so-called gentlemanly demeanor. Although it was proposed in a very tactful way, some obstacles were set up, and the easiest way to make Trist retreat was money.

As a nomadic people, they seldom have any decent wealth. To make this request is to tell Trist that this heart must be dead. However, Trist was a hairy guy back then, and he bluntly thought that as long as he made a lot of money, he would be able to stay with his sweetheart.

Although Trist was born in the Roma ethnic group, it does not mean that he is just a thief and a cheater, and he has always disdained these things. But it also seems to be blocking his way to making money quickly.

As the joke goes, everything that can make a quick fortune has been written into the law. But there is another one, and that is gambling. It's like the edge of the law. Although gambling is prohibited in many countries, gambling exists in many cases, and as long as the amount is not too excessive, it is basically in a default state. What's more, there are still many places in the world where gambling is allowed to exist publicly, such as Las Vegas and the like.

Ten bets and nine cheats, don't gamble to win, this principle is appropriate wherever it is placed. After experiencing the initial sweetness, Trist once thought that he saw the light, and soon he fell into darkness, not to mention all the money he had won before, and he owed an account.

Gambling and loan sharks are always the best partners, and behind the loan sharks is endless debt collection, as well as the shadow of the underworld. You must know that there are still many classic gangs in Europe and the United States, and they are the leaders behind this business.

And Trist fell into this life of debt collection, which also made him temporarily stay away from the girl he loved, he did not want to appear in front of her, and likewise, he did not want to bring this life to her.

However, the person in love is superior, and lovesickness will break through many obstacles, Trist pressed his thoughts, but the girl came to him without hesitation, and at the same time told him a secret, which was arranged by her family from beginning to end.

She was born in an upper-class society, and her family has contact with all kinds of religions and nine streams, of course, casinos and the like. In the case of lack of money, it is easy to fall into it with a little temptation, especially when you are given a little sweetness at the beginning, and you will indulge in it. Later, it was a matter of course to count the money and then borrow the money and turn it over.

Her family not only wants to stop this relationship, but also wants to kill him completely, using this way of killing people without seeing blood, and borrowing other people's hands to complete it. If it weren't for the girl's chance hearing the news, the two would still be in the dark.

This made him shudder, so they impulsively made a decision to elope! 、

How could an upper-class, face-saving family allow such a thing to exist? Even if you elope with someone, you are still a Roma who is looked down upon by mainstream society. So the family used some strength and began to chase and intercept him.

The power of an individual is small, especially for an ordinary person, who has no power to resist in the face of such power. Trist was soon arrested and charged with inexplicable charges that would allow him to spend the rest of his life within the walls.

This made Trist disheartened, he knew that this relationship was tragic, and it was not something he could achieve with hard work. The gap between the identities of the two is enough to make him die.

But this girl is really rare, and she still hasn't given up in this situation, and is still actively trying to help him clear his name. In the end, she succeeded, but at the cost of being a victim. became a victim of certain interests, married someone else, and exchanged her freedom and happiness for the rest of her life for his innocence and freedom.

When Trist walked out of the high wall, he happily went to find his sweetheart, but he got the bad news.

A hot-blooded young man naturally wants to prevent all this from happening, and even elopes away, and is he afraid of robbing the marriage? So Trist decides to go to the wedding and get his lover back.

However, Trist did not get back his beloved girl, and lost her forever. At the last minute, she used her delicate body to block the incoming bullets, buying him time to escape.

Faced with the pursuit of her family, Trist begins to flee again, he is a wandering people, but fleeing and wandering are completely different concepts, and he faces daily threats to his life.

One day he met his cellmate, a bad old man. The people who go inside are not necessarily ordinary people, and the old man is one of the talents. The old man came to his rescue, listened to his story, sympathized with his plight, and decided to do something for him.

The old man used to be a master of gambling and a master of disguise, and he first helped Trist to do a disguise, that is, through makeup, he escaped the pursuit. Then he taught him a good hand in gambling. As a Roma, he has been inseparable from cards since he was a child, but that is a tarot card used for fortune telling, but Trist is undoubtedly a gifted type, he learned it quickly, and he is better than the blue.

From that day on, he became Trist! Ditching his original name, he wandered around various casinos, constantly honing his gambling skills.

He wants to get revenge in his way, and her family is the backer behind a casino, and their political donations come from those casinos.

He succeeded, and there are many filthy things in addition to this kind of collusion between the family and the casino, and Trist successfully dug up these insider information through the casino step by step and made it public. It became a sensational event in European politics. Her family also declined, and her former power also disappeared.

When he finished all this, he still wandered between various casinos, which seemed to have become a kind of sustenance and life for him, and he also became a card master in the gambling circle.

Later, it was that incident that inexplicably passed the test, became one of us, and awakened some special abilities, one of which was his card.

"My cards are one of my abilities, and I can hypnotize people through singing and dancing." Trist said calmly, as if the story was telling someone else's story.

After listening to his story, we couldn't help but sigh a little, but Trist was calm, in his words, it was a thing of the past. He wants to live well, his life is not his alone, she fought for it with her life. He wants to carry her on his back to live a good and wonderful life together.

"From that day on, I began to hate fate, I changed my name to Triste, I want to reverse fate, I am not willing to accept the fate arranged by God." That's what Trist said about his name.

"If there's anything special about me, it's that I'm pretty good in my head. As a professional gambler, you must always stay calm, analyze rationally, and have various possibilities for playing cards. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the face does not change color, and the mood and anger do not change color. Since she left, I have rarely smiled. Such an indifferent face makes me even more advantageous at the table. Trist added.

"You should also have a nice ability, dynamic vision capture, and as far as I know, professional gamblers can remember the position of the cards during a quick shuffling process. Even a dozen decks of playing cards, that is, the position of nearly 600 cards, to do this in a short period of time, not only by memory, but also by having good dynamic vision. I glanced at him and said.

"It seems that you know a lot, and if this counts, then I can still be a little proud." Trist nodded in acknowledgement.

(End of chapter)