Chapter 2 One Step to Heaven, One Step to Hell
As a professional gambler, you not only need superb probability arithmetic, observation and basic skills to identify the elderly, but most importantly, intuition.
Many times, intuition is often the key factor in saving a gamble. This is not new to Yunqi galloping in Las Vegas.
This time, directly at the moment when he made his choice, the red light of his soul lit up.
He slowly lowered his hand to the doorknob, and the whole person fell into deep thought.
The scene of the conversation with the jigsaw just now was replayed in my mind.
Jigsaw's words and deeds, subtle changes in expression, replayed in his consciousness like a video rewind.
He was suddenly surprised to find that the jigsaw was not expressionless all the time, and the expression on his face when he explained the rules of the game and answered YES and NO proved that he was definitely not lying.
In that case, Jigsaw is a person who knows how to control his feelings, and he is by no means the ordinary person Yun Qi has encountered before, who can only put on a dead poker face and get things done.
Feelings are the most difficult thing to control, and they represent sensuality. People can often learn to suppress their feelings and hide their feelings, but to completely control them is definitely not something that an ordinary person can do. Those who control their sensibilities must be dominated by reason. Such people are often labeled as "high IQ" and "high EQ".
Would a criminal with a high IQ and high EQ play a game of luck with a person who is also not low in IQ?
Yun Qi finally realized that he had made the low-level mistake of belittling his opponent.
Thinking of this, Yun Qi's gaze quickly shifted from the metal door.
Since the problem is not as simple as it seems, the way to solve the problem cannot be focused on the intuitive thing.
The biggest characteristic of high-IQ crimes is that they like to leave some subtle flaws for you to think about and discover. Your failure is just the right proof for the offender that your IQ is not as good as his.
Once a breakthrough has been found, more observations are needed to confirm this idea.
Fortunately, the room is very narrow, and the things are very limited, which can be described as clear at a glance.
Yun Qi's gaze scanned in a regular manner, taking in everything in the room.
After a while, he made a "I see" nodding motion.
Yun Qi turned his face to the old man on the TV again: "Mr. Jigsaw, because of your generous promise just now, I have a fifty percent chance of leaving this ghost place." On the surface, it's a good odds, and if I give it a go, I still have a good chance of getting into heaven......"
As he spoke, the corners of Yun Qi's mouth curled slightly: "But there is a premise, that is, whether your so-called 'heaven' is consistent with the heaven in our hearts." Heaven can be understood as leaving here and returning to a place of bliss, but in the East, heaven has a different meaning. I very much doubt that what you call 'heaven' may not be the place I thought would be safe. Because sometimes, heaven is also a synonym for death. And in the eyes of your followers, human beings who are born with original sin, as long as they are redeemed, death is an important link to liberation and access to heaven, isn't it? ”
After a pause, he added, "Perhaps, 'hell' is the only way for me to survive. Am I right, Mr. Jigsaw? ”
"As I said, I won't answer any of your questions again." Jigsaw replied firmly.
"Of course I don't want you to answer, because I've already found the answer."
"Oh, it's the first time I've met such an interesting little guy as you." The jigsaw expressed a strong sense of interest.
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Man is the most complex animal in the world. The high intelligence that surpasses the creatures of the same planet makes human beings proudly stand on top of the world, controlling the life and death of all living beings.
But that doesn't mean people can sit back and relax. Because of the existence of the same kind, "people" face all kinds of tests that they have to face.
Therefore, the relationship between human beings is more complex and diverse than the relationship between any living beings.
How to deal with interpersonal relationships is a problem that everyone has to face. Of course, this is not the most critical.
The most important thing is that the answer to this question is not static, even in the face of the same person, it will change as people's minds change.
This is the impermanence of the human heart.
But no matter how fickle the human heart is, no matter how complex the human relationship, there is one eternal purpose: to take the lead.
It manifests itself in society, just as the difference between the boss and the worker, the subordination between the leader and the subordinate, the gap between the laborer and the laborer.
By taking control of your relationships, you are at the heart of controlling the actions and wills of others.
Yun Qi is a top student in psychology, so he naturally understands the truth.
Just like between the kidnapper and the bitter master, the bitter master is always the meat on the chopping board, allowing the kidnapper to fish and meat.
However, the "kidnappers" Yun Qi met this time were a little different: first, he was not for money, fame and fortune, and second, he did not have personal hatred and hatred for the country.
All he wants is a test game.
Therefore, this type of person is the most difficult kind of person Yun Qi has ever encountered.
To make matters worse, Yun Qi fell into absolute passivity from the beginning. Like a marionette, in the pre-set rules of the game set by the other party, they follow the same step and walk on thin ice.
Anyone in Yunqi's position can only be obediently satisfied, and the only thing to hope for is a little more "generosity" of the jigsaw.
Isn't it possible to reverse the relationship?
What Yun Qi is doing now is the answer to the reversal.
If you don't want to be led by the nose, the only way is to let the other party take the initiative to have a strong interest in you.
As long as he is interested, Yun Qi can rely on superb psychological inducement to slowly seize the dominance back.
Now, Yun Qi's words really worked.
"There can be two very different interpretations of heaven and hell." Yun Qi said.
Jigsaw couldn't help but say, "The problem is, you don't know which version is the right one. ”
Yun Qi snapped his fingers: "That's right, as you said, I really can't be sure." But nothing can be created out of thin air, and since it is not created out of thin air, there are traces to follow. ”
"What did you find?" Unconsciously, the jigsaw followed Yun Qi's topic, of course, in his subconscious, as long as he didn't answer the other party's question, it was not against the rules of the game.
He didn't know that at this time, if he was not careful, the dominance of the topic had been reversed.
Yun Qi pointed to the ground and said, "This is the trace I found." ”
The jigsaw showed a puzzled look, from the perspective of his monitoring, the ground was blank and white, and there was nothing there, he couldn't help but wonder: "Are you playing tricks?" ”
Unexpectedly, life and death were imminent, Yun Qi could still laugh: "It seems that your camera needs to be changed to a higher resolution." From my point of view, they're pretty clear. ”
Jigsaws are high-IQ criminals after all, give him a few more seconds to think and immediately find the answer: "You mean...... Dust?! ”
"Bingguo, you got it right." Yun Qi snapped his fingers and said, "Fortunately, what you left me was a secret room that was uninhabited all year round, and if it weren't for this, I wouldn't have been able to find out the contradiction in your words." ”
Jigsaw began to move: "Contradiction? ”
"That's right, it's a contradiction. As you said, one of the three doors leads to heaven and two to hell. In my previous understanding, hell represented death and heaven represented the way of life. It's strange why do I associate heaven and hell with life and death? ”
The jigsaw on the TV was still expressionless, but just after saying what he had just said, Yun Qi noticed that the jigsaw's Adam's apple rolled up and down slightly, a detail that could not escape his observation.
Yun Qi continued: "The answer is very simple, I was unconsciously inspired by your psychological suggestion, coupled with the half-angel and half-demon pattern on the door. The kind angel naturally represents life, and the hideous demon naturally represents death. It's a clever psychological and visual cue that misleads me to the wrong end. ”
After a pause, he continued: "Man is a very interesting animal, and the complexity of his mind can sometimes become a tool for others to use. If I remember correctly, after you introduced the three doors, you gave me a kind reminder that my next choice would determine my life and death. It's really funny that you didn't directly tell me what the Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell stood for, but you made me jump into the trap of thinking by myself without warning, following the train of thought you conceived. ”
"Are you trying to say that I deceived you and deliberately led you to death?" Jigsaw said.
"No, on the contrary, you are not deceiving me, but I am being swayed by the habitual thinking of human beings themselves. As for you, it's just a clever use of language arts, plus a little bit of visual and psychological cues, that leads me into the wrong direction. In fact, your attainments in language arts are even comparable to those of a fraudster. It's a pity ......"
"What a pity?"
"It's a pity that this time you are facing me, who also masters the art of fraud."
As a professional gambler, if you want to go to the casino and fight in the world's most popular game, Texas Hold'em, you must not only have extraordinary card reading skills, but also know how to cheat. In the words of a Texas Hold'em expert: I don't care how strong my hand is, as long as I know your hand isn't strong enough, it's even more sufficient.
Many times, you have the worst hand in your hand and your opponent has a slightly stronger bad hand than you. At this time, the true master gambler will never fold, but will use bluff to make the opponent mistakenly believe that he has touched a good deck of cards.
This requires a certain amount of deception, because you're not just dealing with bad gamblers, many of your opponents are also professional gamblers who have mastered the skills and reading of cards. At this time, if you don't know the art of deception, the result will be that the other party will turn around and lose to the bottom of the bottom.
Since the jigsaw was able to kidnap Yun Qi, he naturally knew his past well, and he also understood the meaning of the "fraudster" that the other party was referring to.
"Mr. Yunqi, you'd better make a real choice first than waste your precious time here." Jigsaw said calmly.
"What I have is time." Yun Qi replied.
"No, there isn't as much time as you think." The saw raised his eyebrows and smiled: "I forgot to tell you that you're not the only one trapped." If you can't get out of here before anyone else, the consequences will be severe. ”
"Anyone else?" This was not what he expected.
Looking at the jigsaw again, Yun Qi suddenly found that the face of the old man in front of him, who was still kind and kind, suddenly had a little more frightening madness.
"Look around you, there is a function in the ventilation hole in the wall, which has the ** I prepared for you."
**It is a highly toxic gas, the most famous, which is the gas chamber in the Jewish concentration camp during World War II, which is used in it**.
"So, it's that you don't have a lot of time, not mine." The words of the jigsaw almost buried the dominance that Yun Qi had fought for so hard.
Fortunately, Yun Qi has seen the world, and it is not something that can be intimidated by one or two sentences, but I have to admit that the abdominal draft that Yun Qi is going to use to tease the jigsaw can only be stillborn.
"Well, I'll admit, you're the toughest opponent I've ever faced." Yun Qi no longer detours.
"You have misled me into associating heaven with 'life' and hell with 'death'. The result of drawing an erroneous conclusion is inevitably a path to the wrong truth. In fact, you're almost on the verge of success. But you made a mistake, a fatal mistake. ”
"You mean the dust on the ground." Jigsaw said.
"That's right, this is the secret room, uninhabited for a long time, and a layer of dust has risen on the ground. Just because it's a secret room, then the entrance you send me in only needs to go through the birth door. When I was about to make my choice, I noticed a strange thing: there were footprints on the ground in front of the three doors, and there were footprints in one out and one in the other. In this way, the problem arises. There is only one gate to heaven, and it is naturally impossible for those who send me in through the 'door of death'. So, I realized that you were making a misleading suggestion. ”
Yun Qi paused, his face turned cold: "It is precisely because of a small flaw that I realize that the gate of hell is the hope of my life, and the gate of heaven is just a road of death in a gorgeous disguise." ”
Speaking of this, Yun Qi suddenly walked to the three doors and opened the middle one without a trace of hesitation.