At 10 o'clock, Zhou Zhe looked at his watch, finally completed the overtime task of his boss and left the company. The streets of Shenzhen are still bright, and in this city, Zhou Zhe has been working hard for 4 years since he graduated, saved some money, and grew from a small programmer in a game company

The newcomer in the planning department planned, which is the result of his efforts, although it is very tiring, but it is very fulfilling. He has become accustomed to going to the noodle restaurant he likes after overtime, and has a bowl of hot noodles with two cloves of garlic, and after eating, he sweats and can eliminate the fatigue of the day.

Noodle restaurants after 10 o'clock tend to have very few people, and today is no exception. Zhou Zhe said hello to the boss who was already acquainted, asked for a bowl of noodles and two cloves of garlic, first took the garlic cloves to the vacant seat, peeled off the garlic skin, chewed it and waited for the noodles to be served. At this time, an old man walked into the noodle shop, and there were few people in the noodle shop at this time, and the old man's entry also attracted Zhou Zhe's attention. Because there is something special about this old man's outfit. He was dressed in an old-fashioned black silk coat, black trousers, black leather shoes, and a black leather bag in his hand, the watch on his wrist shone gold in the light, and the eyes behind the glasses were very energetic and shining. The old man glanced at the store, asked for a bowl of noodles, and did not choose other vacant seats where there was no one, but walked straight to Zhou Zhe's position and sat opposite Zhou Zhe. Then he took out a box of pokers from the bag he was carrying, put it on the table, and played for himself. He opened the front of the poker and took out three cards, two ghost cards, an ace of spades, and a king of hearts, and turned the poker all the backs. The two sat opposite each other, and Zhou Zhe clearly saw that the back of the poker was black, and the pattern on the back was indeed some similar but different golden horizontal and vertical lines. I saw that the old man casually took out one from it, put it aside, and then lined up the remaining 49 cards into a seven-seven square, and began to move these cards, similar to a jigsaw puzzle, Zhou Zhe looked curious, and the old man smiled politely at Zhou Zhe

"My own poker is a little different from other pokers, and if I piece together the golden stripes on this square, I can figure out what the card I drew is. ”

Zhou Zhe looked at the poker on the table, with golden lines and a black underside. Let's compare it again

"Your card is a little different from the others, and the texture on the back of each of your cards seems to be different, so if you remember the cards, won't you be able to guess every card?"

The old man smiled and said:

"Yes, that's one of his shortcomings, if you remember the cards, you can guess every single one, but if you don't remember the cards, it's fun. As he spoke, he began to skillfully move the cards and began to exchange them, and then pointed to the center of the 7x7 square, "You look at the middle one, three horizontal lines, representing the suit is red and black square cotton squares, vertical, there is a thick line, 3 thin lines, representing 5 + 3." The old man took the hidden card that was originally deducted on the side in his hand, and shook the card towards Zhou Zhe, Zhou Zhe looked at the square 8 on the card, and it was really interesting.

"Old man, you are amazing, you are indeed a good deck of cards! What is your card called? Where do you sell it?" Zhou Zhe likes this kind of small game, which is not too brain-consuming, and it is generally very cheap.

"I'm old, make such a card, just for the picture of a music, by the way applied for a patent, just here to open a small commodity promotion meeting, so I came to Shenzhen, this card is not expensive, I'll give you a pair. It's just a promotion. ”

After speaking, he took out a small wooden box from the leather bag he was carrying, which was just the size of a palm to hold a pair of pokers and handed it to Zhou Zhe. Continue to laugh

"Don't remember the cards, entertainment first. ”

"Thank you, thank you, I'll come to this meal!" The old man was not hypocritical, nodded with a smile, and at the right time, the noodles were also on the table, and the two of them were talking and laughing and eating noodles, discussing the rules of the game.

After a short period of contact, Zhou Zhe had a good impression of the old man, and he was very happy to exchange a meal for an unexpected little toy. At 11 o'clock, Zhou Zhe returned to the apartment he rented not far from the company. Opened the box given by the old man, and looked at the golden stripes printed on the atmospheric black card, he was very happy, the Rubik's Cube, the nine-square grid these have become commonplace, and this type of poker, he saw it for the first time, is a very novel little toy.

Zhou Zhe carefully took out the cards and spread them out on the table, and there was a manual at the bottom of the box. It is a simple rule of the game, only a few, take out the king and the king, as well as any 2 cards except the ace of spades and the queen of hearts, a face card, and the remaining 49 cards form a 7X7 matrix, moving the matrix

When the horizontal and vertical stripes of all the cards form a loop, the pattern of a card in the middle of the matrix can be used to guess the face card, and of course, there is a picture.

Finally, write a sentence in bold font, don't remember the cards first. Zhou Zhe browsed at random, and started the game, took out the big and small kings, and took out two open cards at random, and deducted a hidden card, and then began to move and convert the cards on the phalanx, after all, it took a lot of time to play for the first time,

Finally, the stripes of the cards on the table were pieced together into a perfect circuit, and he looked at the card in the middle of the square, with four horizontal bars and four thin vertical bars. Cotton 9, it must be like this. Flip over the hidden card and see, sure enough, it is cotton 9.

After a few times, he has become very proficient in playing, but he is curious about why the instructions prohibit the ace of spades and the queen of hearts as open cards to take out, and he doesn't think much about it, just try it. Zhou Zhe still took out the big and small kings, and then took out the ace of spades and the Q of hearts as open cards.

A face down card was drawn, and the remaining 49 cards were used as a matrix to start the game, this time taking a longer time, but still putting together a loop.

"No! This is against the rules of the game, and it shouldn't be able to fight the loop. Zhou Zhe, who was in a trance, thought for a long time and didn't understand why the rules of the game were so stipulated, in order to verify, he turned over the hidden card that was held aside. At the moment when the cards were opened, the matrix of 7X7 suddenly changed, and the golden stripes that were originally just lines of light emitted a dazzling light at the moment, as if they were light paths, and the pitch-black bottom was as dark as lacquer, which seemed to be like a black hole that could attract everything.

The lights that were originally on went out, and the ears were full of buzzing buzzes. What Zhou Zhe couldn't see was that with him as the center, the lights of the entire city began to dim. Zhou Zhe also lost his vision for a while, and it was pitch black in front of him, and then he felt that fragments of memories that did not belong to him began to flash in his mind. Towering buildings, connecting heaven and earth, all kinds of unseen beasts are running or flying in the sky, and he even saw a samurai wearing golden dragon pattern armor flying in the domain. In a flash, he saw a woman of great grace standing on the top of a towering building, her long hair flying, her sword pointing to the sky, and her mouth chanting. Another scene flashed, and the sky and earth flashed red, and the towering buildings were gone, leaving only sections of what seemed to be cut through the wreckage of buildings, and then the earth fissioned, moving mountains and seas, some submerged in water, some buried deep in dust and the bottom of the mountain.

"Ahh The severe pain in the head and body began to escalate, the body began to curl up and spasm because of the severe pain, and then this situation spread to the brain, and the unfamiliar memory scenes in Zhou Zhe's mind began to rotate rapidly, under the effect of severe pain, Zhou Zhe's consciousness began to gradually blur, even if he held on for a long time, he still couldn't get out of the pain, there was a body, and there was also a resonance from memory. And the tears in the corners of his eyes prove that he is still alive.

Under the severe pain, finally, it was dark in front of his eyes, and Zhou Zhe lost consciousness.

On the top of the building in the distance, the old man who delivered the poker watched all this from a distance, sighed, and seemed to be relieved. As if talking to himself: "Heavenly reincarnation, your world, you will eventually return." "I went downstairs alone and disappeared in the darkness. It didn't take long for the city's power to begin to return. It's like none of this is happening, and more people just think it's just a trip. And the old man, who never seemed to appear, disappeared into the neon light and shadow. In Zhou Zhe's room, in addition to the disappeared Zhou Zhe and cards, other things related to him are also disappearing, as if the years are slowly peeling off, and finally disappearing into a cloud of smoke.