Chapter 4: The Liar's Paradox and the Logic of Language
"Why do you have a sense of déjà vu sitting in a university linguistic logic class and being forced to indoctrinate educational ideas?" I said in pieces. Xu Feng smiled and patted me on the shoulder.
"Hehe, it's worthy of Ah Zhenyou, no matter what the occasion, your words can always make people very dramatic. That's your biggest characteristic. ”
"Hey, it doesn't sound like a compliment." I glanced at Xu Feng and said.
"Why not, it shows that you have a heart that has already seen everything under the seemingly ordinary appearance. Saying that you are an ordinary person, in fact, you are the person who least wants to live an ordinary life. Xu Feng held his head in his hands, with a posture that was very true to what I said.
"Hey, don't say it, I seem to be a **** who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic." I retorted. "I'm just okay with my mentality, you can also say that I'm nervous, and it's easy to accept any strange thing."
"Yes, then, what do you think of this god game held by Miyoko?" Xu Feng glanced at me obliquely and asked.
"I can't say the clever opinion.,But if you have to say it.,It's easy to remind people of a childish game organized by a middle school director who has watched too many novels and TV series fantasy and doesn't have any original spirit.,The rules of the game that I think are smart but are full of loopholes.,There are so many slots that people don't know where to say the distribution of contestants.,It's so simple that it's so simple that you can't use the cerebellum to just pull out the name of the book and the like and so on.,In short,The guy who can come up with this kind of script.,Whether it's a god or a human., must be so bored that you spend all day picking your feet, and your mind is filled with the bloody and vulgar plots of some secondary two anime, film and television dramas, and you have no sense of existence in reality, you need to do something earth-shattering to have some fun for yourself. ”
"If the truth of this game is the old-fashioned ending of 'shooting boring reality TV movies to make high box office popularity', I just want to say that this is not the director's mind without market considerations, or the value of the audience is seriously distorted, and I can only say three words for this kind of indiscriminate plot: 'I wish a violent death'."
It's the best way to vent your emotions by saying the testimonials you've stored in your chest, and the point is that there is an audience next to you who will only pretend to be confident and giggle no matter what I say, which is the best place to vomit.
Sure enough, after listening to my words, Xu Feng first froze for a second, and then smiled from ear to ear.
"I admire you more and more, friend. You can always say such insightful things. Xu Feng said with a smile. So, Ah Zhen, do you think what we are experiencing now is a movie and a scene? ”
"I won't draw conclusions, but I think a team has a very smart supporting actor, a second female with a violent personality that causes the team to split, a girl with a gentle little jasper, a few supporting actors with a sunny personality, and an ordinary captain who can't do anything, which is simply a regular script routine that hasn't changed much since Aristotle's time. If all this is really a script written by Miyoko, it is estimated that she has either not studied Aristotle's three-act structure. Or she hasn't read Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces", if she did, she probably wouldn't have come up with such a boring and old-fashioned game, she definitely didn't know that the author of "Heroes with a Thousand Faces" had already proposed a strange circle of 12 steps to the plot of the 'hero's journey theory' that all novels, movies, anime, and dramas from the birth of mankind would inevitably fall into, and her script was still nothing new. ”
"Hehe, I see, I really want to read the book "Hero with a Thousand Faces" you said when I have time. If what you said is true, Miyoko will really be hurt by you. Xu Feng smiled happily, patted me on the back, and said, "Okay, the smog in Beijing is serious enough, and the air outside is really turbid enough, Ah Zhen, it's better to rest early." ”
"Okay...... Wait a minute. "I frowned, and called Xu Feng again," Hu Zixin ...... Are you really going to let her do that all the time, at first I thought she was hateful, but now I think she's really a little pitiful. ”
"Don't worry, she just doesn't want to accept the fact that God plays, in fact, her heart is as clear as Ah Zhen, after a while, she will naturally understand that this world is not her original world at all, she is lonely in this world, and when she figures it out, she will naturally take the initiative to stand on our side." Xu Feng threw this sentence with his back to me, and then his figure disappeared behind the automatic door of the hotel.
If I slept well that night, it would be a lie. In fact, the many worries and the air in Beijing, which tests the limits of human evolution, made me not sleep well all night, and my throat was uncomfortable when I woke up the next morning.
I wanted to inquire about Xu Feng's whereabouts, but I found that he was not in the room early in the morning, and I learned from Haizi that Xu Feng had gone to Hu Zixin's company, and it was said that he had begun to implement his plan.
However, Xu Feng's phone instructions to me were to ask me to be on call at the hotel, which made me really idle.
What tested my curiosity even more was that for the next week, Xu Feng went out early and returned late, going in and out of Hu Zixin's company, back and forth, until the night of the second Monday, Xu Feng gathered us together and talked about his results.
"Over the course of the week, I've gained a pretty good amount of information, and through phone games and scandal deals, I've learned about the private scandals of more than 3,000 celebrities, the scandals of 200 politicians, and the scandals of 200 people in the media system. The first step of my plan, which was to infiltrate intelligence into the political hierarchy through scandals in the entertainment industry, went quite well. ”
If you want to describe my expression after hearing Xu Feng's report, I think surprise should be more appropriate.
"Hey, you're not already at the point where you're going out and you're going out with a large group of enemies grinding their knives, are you?" I pinched a cold sweat and said.
"Don't worry, although there is this trend, it is not so serious, and my confidentiality work is still relatively strict." Xu Feng smiled heartily, "Through the way of the game, I have made those stars keep secrets." ”
Next, Xu Feng explained in detail the good things he had done this week. How to put it, it is similar to the most common black-hearted media black-hearted media blackmail in movies.
Taking Wang Feng as the starting point, Xu Feng first got the details of the scandals of fifteen celebrities, and then on the first day, Xu Feng asked Hu Zixin's company to expose the scandal of a celebrity surnamed Bi as a victim of killing chickens and monkeys, and then Xu Feng made anonymous calls to celebrities or their agents through Hu Zixin's company's celebrity phone directory, threatening to expose the details of the scandal and asking the victim star to reveal the scandal details of other stars he knew, so that Xu Feng could guarantee not to disclose his scandal. If the other party refuses or doesn't believe it, then Xu Feng will tell the other party that the scandal of the star surnamed Bi a few days ago was also exposed by him, and if the other party does not obey, he will follow in the footsteps of the other party. After that, Xu Feng ensured that he would keep his mouth shut through the game.
In addition, according to Xu Feng's own statement, Xu Feng also played a coin toss gambling game with some celebrities through video phones or webcams, saying that as long as the other party can toss a coin 51 times is the opposite side of the face he chooses, Xu Feng will not expose the other party's scandal, nor will he harass the other party and blackmail other celebrities, if the other party loses, then he must disclose the scandal, and he will also have to bear a certain "confidentiality fee".
"People have a self-protection mentality, rather than suffering from themselves and their own companies, it is better to betray the scandals of other stars, out of this self-interest, no matter how much, celebrities will be willing to reveal the scandals of celebrities who are not very related to themselves, and with the coercive force of the game, you can obtain a lot of intelligence information by using this nested interpersonal relationship."
Xu Feng said with a smile while leisurely drinking the coffee in his hand.
"You're talking very leisurely, but do you know how many contracts our company has terminated this week? How many people have complained, and our company's lawsuits are scheduled for next year, do you know? What a brute!! While Xu Feng was leisurely drinking coffee, the person who couldn't cry on the side was naturally Hu Zixin.
But Xu Feng looked at us as if he hadn't heard it, and said with a smile:
"The second thing is that just yesterday, as Hu Zixin's agent, I bought 100 sports lottery tickets and won the 5 million jackpot. Tomorrow, Hu Zixin will be able to claim the award. ”
Hearing Xu Feng's words, Hu Zixin, who was furious, suddenly showed joy.
But soon Hu Zixin's face changed back to bronze green:
"Compared to our company's losses, do you think this five million is a fart?!"
"Since I can win five million, of course I can win one hundred million, ten billion, or even ten billion." The corners of Xu Feng's mouth curled up with his signature confident smile again, and this sentence blocked Hu Zixin's mouth like a Texas burger, and then Xu Feng turned his face to look at me and said, "Ah Zhen, starting tomorrow, I will be your agent and go to Beijing casino to participate in gambling." ”
"Hey, you didn't talk about it before. At least discuss it first, right? I frowned and looked at Xu Feng and said.
"It doesn't matter, you don't need to do anything, just nominally be your agent, and any money I win from gambling will be credited to your account." Xu Feng said with a smile.
"That's not the point...... You're not trying to focus all the enemies on me, are you? ”
"Don't worry, friend, I won't do that. Zhen, you don't need to take any risks, you just need to watch me play as a spectator. Xu Feng said with a smile, "Even if you don't come to watch, you just need to let others know that I am your agent." I will only unilaterally transfer the money to your account, and you will not have any legal liability. ”
Xu Feng patted me on the shoulder and gave me a thumbs up, but I always felt uneasy about the supreme thief ship.
"At least tell me what you're going to do?" I stared at Xu Feng deadly.
"What about this...... Xu Feng blinked, "I want to get the title of God of Gamblers." ”
So I stepped into the gate of the Beijing casino the next day, and my eyes were pierced by the classical European crystal chandeliers in the circular hall.
According to the news Haizi inquired, the most in the world is the casino, as long as there is a little principal, you can set foot in any casino, the form of gambling can be any game, as long as it is the rules agreed by both parties, but there will be more game facilities in the casino.
Of course, depending on the size of the bet and the identity of the participants, the casino will also arrange the corresponding VIP level.
Because of Wang Feng's recommendation, Xu Feng was easily entertained by the guests in the casino, and the feeling of being noticed by a vote of people was definitely not a pleasure, but Xu Feng was calm and calm, turning a blind eye, and outsiders really had a bit of a star posture at a glance. However, this is not very practical.
The receptionist at the casino politely introduced us to the types of games in the casino:
"Welcome, welcome, it's a surprise to meet Mr. Wang and a few others, we have 13,000 kinds of games here, if you look at the participants, they are mainly divided into human games and man-machine games, and if you look at the information level of the games, they are divided into two types: complete information games and incomplete information games. Chess, Rubik's Cube, Turntable, Dumpling Slots, Sudoku, etc. are games with complete information, while cards and dice bets are games with incomplete information. Of course, there are also games in the form of sports competitions. I don't know what type of games you guys are going to participate in, sir? ”
Accompanied by Wang Feng, who was blushing, Xu Feng quickly made a decision:
"Chess."
"Board games? Mr. Xu, aren't you going to play something more exciting? After hearing Xu Feng's decision, the waiter was very shocked.
"It's okay, he's good at this," Wang Feng on the side smiled with a blushing face, "Just let him have a good time, it's best to choose the person with the highest chess level here to play chess with him, and it doesn't matter if he wins and goes bankrupt." ”
These words were obviously full of resentment, but Xu Feng didn't care, but accepted them happily, and said to the receptionist:
"Just as he said, I'm good at chess, and I'll arrange someone with a certain level."
"Yes, we have here the champions of the previous Tianyuan Battle and the Celebrity Battle in the Go world, and there are also world-class chess players, of course, if Mr. Xu knows chess or the Four Kingdoms Military Chess, he can also arrange a candidate......
"Go." After coming to the casino, Xu Feng's speech suddenly became very concise and crisp, and the two-word sentence pattern seemed to have become his representative way of speaking.
"Okay, since it's Mr. Wang's friend, let's arrange manpower...... By the way, I don't know how many gambling coins you are willing to buy, Mr. Xu, and how much are you willing to bet in the first game? The receptionist asked with a smile.
"Five million." Xu Feng said lightly.
I felt a slip under my feet, and I hurriedly pulled Xu Feng's sleeve and said in his ear:
"Hey, it's too much, I'll bet all your money on you in the first game, okay? Are you really good at playing Go? ”
Xu Feng patted me on the shoulder with a smile and said:
"Don't worry, Ah Zhen, I have complete confidence in this completely informative game that relies purely on brain power, and besides, I can tell you that I will not lose money from the moment I enter this casino."
Hey, where did this kind of bottomless inexplicable self-confidence come from, can you sell it by the pound? I looked at Xu Feng with the most surprise I could, and didn't say anything, at this point I was already a second-hand ship in a storm in the Pacific Ocean, although I was the captain, but the helm was not in my hands, and the ship was no longer in my control to run towards the gate of hell.
However, Xu Feng himself did say that the only memory he had in his mind was the knowledge of various games, and now I can only pray that Xu Feng was the closed apprentice of the gambling god Fa Ge or the reincarnation of Wu Qingyuan before he lost his memory.
It is worthy of being the first casino in the capital, the efficiency is really not covered, and in the blink of an eye, the master who claimed to have been the previous Go champion has appeared on the stage, and the glittering brain is dazzling under the European chandelier of the casino.
And I also watched Xu Feng sit in the challenge seat, watching him leisurely shake hands with other international masters, I was really a bit of a passerby. The conversation looks like this:
"Fortunately, Mr. Xu, I heard that you are a friend of Wang Feng, and you came to fight with me? Seeing that you are young, you are really young and promising. The other party asked with a smile.
"It's just that I'm very keen on chess, and I want to play tricks with masters, and I ask the master to teach me." Xu Fenghe replied kindly.
The other party smiled kindly:
"Teach to teach, but this is a casino after all, you still have to take some jackpots, I heard that you bet five million? That's not a small amount, and if you lose, don't regret it. Since Mr. Xu, you have gambled five million, then I naturally can't be timid, and I will also take out the five million jackpot. ”
"In addition to Caitou," Xu Feng said with a smile, "I also hope that if I win you, Master, you can promise me an additional condition." ”
"Oh, on what terms?"
"On the condition that I want you to introduce me to at least five of your friends in the chess world and in the casino, and the latter are more than good."
Hearing Xu Feng's condition, the master laughed and said briskly:
"It's easy to say, if you can really beat me, help you introduce a few friends, and play chess with you three times."
I know that Xu Feng must be setting up some game again, what this guy is best at is stepping on the pedal and getting in touch with people, ring after ring, every time this guy can always use individual people as a breakthrough to expand the network circle.
In this way, the game of Go soon began, and to be honest, my understanding of Go was just the first glimpse of the level of the doorway, and if I wanted to say that the mountains were up, I could only see the level of the small hills.
But what surprised me was that the crowd of onlookers was really unexpected, probably because the star effect and the master effect had some kind of chemical reaction, at least a hundred people in the chess hall were attracted by this gamble, when Xu Feng sat in front of the chessboard, and I was like a stake on the side I could only smile bitterly, this is not to say that I am a gentleman, because I really don't understand.
"Each person is limited to 10 seconds, start."
The person in charge of the casino pronounced the start of the chess game, and I could only pretend to be profound, but in fact I watched with beads of sweat.
Miyoko is on top, if you really want to play with us, at least take some more interesting games, don't let us plant here.
The first to fall was Xu Feng, speaking of which, I had never seen him fall before, but looking at his gestures, at least he didn't look like an outsider, I was finally relieved.
At this time, I noticed that some viewers had already started to bet on the outcome of the chess match. What surprised me was that the odds were actually one to one, the difference was not very big, and I didn't know which god dared to bet on Xu Feng, a hairy boy who suddenly appeared.
When playing chess, Xu Feng was really focused, it was the first time I saw him concentrating and thinking seriously to this situation, seeing him sitting cross-legged with his eyebrows locked and his eyes fixed on the hesitant appearance of the men, I couldn't help but be a little nervous, especially when I saw the master on the opposite side with a leisurely look, I was even more secretly frightened, the crackling chess pieces fell on the chessboard, but it was like hail falling on my head.
However, after ten minutes, the situation changed, because I found that Xu Feng really had some ability, at least on the chessboard, Xu Feng had actually begun to gain the upper hand, and I don't know where he learned this chess skill, but I heard that most of the masters of Go are very young, but I am also relieved.
"Your chess looks quiet at first glance." After almost half an hour, the other party finally made an unclear evaluation of Xu Feng's chess skills, "It gives people a sense of calmness in the Hanhai River, but when you rob, you are not soft, there is a sense of sharpness of the sharp edge, the sword is out of the sheath, good level, good chess skills, this game...... It's me who lost. Xu Feng, this name, I remember. I think that with your level, you can not compromise even against other big names in the Go world today. I don't know who you came from? ”
I'm sorry, although you are an international master, but when you encounter a brain monster like Xu Feng, you will not be beaten, although I held this sentence in my heart and didn't say it, but I still secretly sighed for this master.
"I conceded." Although the game of chess was over, Xu Feng did not rush to get up, but pulled me over with a smile, then patted me on the shoulder, and said, "This is my master, all my chess skills come from him, and his chess skills are far above me." ”
Aha!?
Hearing Xu Feng's words, I froze in place like a polyp solidifying into coral.
Sure enough, it was still the end of being sold on a thief ship, although I had been mentally prepared for 10,000 times, but at this moment, my psychological defense line still collapsed like the Danube defense line in ancient Rome.
"Oh, really? It's incredible, it's really someone outside the world, and the hero is out of a teenager. The master looked at me with a kind smile, "Do you want to play a game?" ”
I hurriedly shook my head like a drum, at this time I was better to be silent, I believe Xu Feng also wanted me to do so.
"Hehe, if you don't make a move, it's enough, and if you make a move, the sky will be angry and turbulent, and you will have a master's demeanor."
The master's false praise did not make me feel like I was ascending to immortality, but made me feel the urge to dig a pit in the ground with a shovel and write an epitaph without hesitation to bury myself alive.
I can only smile and humbly say that I am not good at chess and have no face to show my hands, but the more humble I am, the more it has the opposite effect, and obviously no one around me believes my words. And next, what makes me even more cerebral ischemia is that Xu Feng also coquettishly set up a challenge table in the casino, anyone who challenges him to win can get his five million bonus, of course, the condition of the challenge is to come up with a million challenge money first, this kind of small for big ring immediately aroused the interest of many Go masters in the casino, several of them thought that they lacked frustration and had a lot of spare money to spend the masters immediately began to challenge Xu Feng, but unfortunately Xu Feng was killed on his back, and soon Xu Feng's waist bulged, The initial test amount of 5 million soared like a ramjet rocket, and soon reached 20 million. But after this critical point, people who have seen Xu Feng's level gradually began to have stage fright, and those who dared to challenge Xu Feng finally became rarer, but Xu Feng soon set up an incredible challenge rule:
Anyone who wins against him gets all the winnings he got before.
Once this rule was established, it was like throwing a high-explosive bomb in the casino, because it meant that if he lost a game, he would be penniless and all his belongings would be confiscated. At this moment, the most willing to come forward is naturally to know the elite casino executives from all walks of life, and they naturally see that Xu Feng has made up his mind to smash the field, but at this time, it is not appropriate to blacken Xu Feng after all, it is better to find someone to win him and let him leave in shame, sure enough, Xu Feng's rule is certain, and the casino does not know where to find a group of foreign aid, the level of foreign aid composed of these seven or eight masters is really not low, it seems to be a hidden master, but he was still cut off by Xu Feng one by one, and in the end I have already seen Xu Feng"Raising a knife and beheading" made my eye mask calloused, and the rising gambling money became a number in my eyes, and its own value and significance had already flown to the outer universe.
It wasn't until the middle of the night that Xu Feng looked a little tired, but for the casino, the late night was just the beginning of the carnival, and at this time there was an endless stream of big shots, but there were very few people who dared to challenge Xu Feng with Go.
And at this time, Xu Feng picked up his second big killing weapon:
Stop playing Go, play chess.
This time Xu Feng was much more cautious, he lowered the challenge amount, and it became a challenge of five million again, naturally in the eyes of some people, Xu Feng is not confident in himself, those chess bigwigs who have been unhappy to see Xu Feng kill in the Go room soon began to start a new round of London-style bombardment against Xu Feng, but the tragic thing is that Xu Feng still cut off his head one by one and hung it on the city wall to display, and by the time the day is about to dawn, Xu Feng has become a myth of the casino, and the reporters who have swarmed have blocked the door. For this game-based world, people who are good at board games are in a sense close to god-like beings. From the beginning of entering the casino in the name of Wang Feng to now, Xu Feng has become famous, at least he has been able to appear in the Beijing newspaper, although it cannot be the homepage, but it will definitely be able to leave a good story in the industry.
But this uninteresting guy just humorously pulled me to say a sentence during the interview:
"These are all learned from my friends and my masters." Then he pushed me into the spotlight like a sales pitch.
If I still have the energy to do something, I would like to beat Xu Feng up, but the only thing I want to do at the moment is to sleep with my head bored, so I had to symbolically greet the reporter and get into Hu Zixin's car who came to greet him, and followed Xu Feng back to the hotel.
"Ah Zhen, in general, today's plan is quite smooth, and I have gained a lot." Although his face was a little tired, Xu Feng's eyes were shining with brilliance.
"Yes, relying on the gambling of Go and chess, you have already gained 120 million." I lazily said.
"120 million?" Xu Feng looked at me and smiled, "No, it's 400 million." ”
"Huh?" Hearing Xu Feng's words, I couldn't help but widen my eyes.
Then Xu Feng habitually explained:
"When I was playing, did you forget the people around you who bet, Ah Zhen, don't you wonder why the odds of a rookie and grandmaster of unknown origin are so close? That's because I had Wang Feng's people mix in the crowd and bet on my side. ”
"You asked Wang Feng's people to bet on you? But...... Will they be willing?! ”
"Of course they would, because I gave them four million of my winnings, and they didn't have to pay any of their own capital to take any risk to bet, and I promised that if I won, each of them would get a share of half a million." Xu Feng said with a smile, "I just bought them to operate the odds, relying on the high odds of the first few games of Go and chess, we gained a total of 400 million today." Of course, to be more precise, it is 392,389,734 yuan......"
I suddenly felt my blood pressure rise extremely high, and I was about to break through the Heavenly Spirit Cover.
"Hehe, there's nothing to be surprised about, it's too early to be surprised, if you are surprised now, you will inevitably miss the show." Xu Feng patted me on the shoulder and said, "Ah Zhen, I learned a few new rules of the game today and want to verify them." ”
"Hey, don't change the subject so fast, okay? And are you going to use me as a guinea pig again? I hurriedly said something first, but when I saw the smile on Xu Feng's face, I had a feeling that I was in a catastrophe.
"Please, Ah Zhen, this is very important, so I would love to verify it."
"You talk about the content first, and I'll think about it later." I held up my hand.
Xu Feng said with a smile:
"Good. It's actually quite simple, I want to verify two rules of the game. First, can a bet that is beyond the player's ability to be realized, for example, if I want to make Ah Zhen jump on the moon if you lose, can such a bet be valid? Second, which of the two contradictory rules of the game will prevail? For example, I played two games with Ah Zhen, the first game requires me to ask a question after I win, Ah Zhen and you have to tell a lie, and the second game requires me to ask you a question, you have to tell the truth, then the two contradictory rules shall prevail between the former and the latter, Ah Zhen, will you tell a lie or the truth......"
Ten minutes later, I confirmed Xu Feng's conjecture with my almost fleshy butt, the first one, if the content of the bet required by the game exceeded the physical limits of the losing side's ability, then it would not come true. But the losing side will still involuntarily try it. The second is that the two contradictory game rules are subject to the previous rule, that is, the latter game rules can not violate the previous game rules, can only be carried out on the basis of the previous one, if the contradiction, then you must play a game to cancel the previous rule, before the next one can be implemented, so in order to ensure that their bets can be absolutely realized, the two sides in this game world often have to play a small game before the official game is released, and there is a small game that may not cash out the game bet. And as for the so-called standard of falsehood and truth, it is also very subjective, for example, Xu Feng told me that he has three coins in his pocket, I believe this, and then Xu Feng and I played the game and won the game, and I asked me to tell him the truth and tell him that he has three coins in his pocket, but Xu Feng smiled and told me that he actually only has two coins, in this game, although I said the content that is true to me, but objectively speaking, it is a lie, that is, the so-called truth and falsehood, It is still judged by the speaker's own subjective will.