Chapter Ninety-Six: The Gambler's Mentality
After three rounds of drinking, Zhou Bailong said with a smile: "Brother, I have seen a lot of trialists, and I have also seen a lot of real trialists, and there are such people around me. But there is no one like you, and your ball skills can't rely only on the skills of the trialists, right? ”
"Skills are only part of the story, the key is to rely on yourself." Zhou Bailong is an understanding person, and Li Xiu doesn't need to talk nonsense.
"Okay, with your words, I Zhou Bailong will not be wronged if I lose." Zhou Bailong poured Li Xiu a glass of wine: "Are you interested in coming to me to help, I happen to have a trial door here, and the trial item in it is golf, I have no other abilities in my life, only two benefits." One is that you play golf well, and the other is that you have money. ”
"Of course, I'm definitely not as good as you, but I'm definitely much better than the average person." Zhou Bailong continued: "At my age, I have everything, but my body is not very good, I think I can go to the trial ground to improve my physical fitness, otherwise there are so many wives in the family, maybe which turtle grandson will be cheaper." ”
"What do you mean?" Li Xiu somewhat understood.
"I mean, I don't dare to take risks with other trial gates, Govre is good at this, and I am sure, as long as it is not too advanced trial, I should have no problem. However, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, so I want to ask you to escort me. Zhou Bailong said.
"It shouldn't be as simple as escorting, right?" Li Xiu said surgingly.
Zhou Bolong's subordinates even have real trialists, and they just want to go to the low-level trial ground to improve their physical fitness, there is no need to look for him at all, it is not a simple matter to find a few professional-level trialists at random.
"My brother is really an understanding person." Zhou Bailong laughed: "Actually, this door of trials does not completely belong to me now, there is another person who is fighting, we have discussed that we will decide the winner through the trial, whoever wins the trial, this door of trial will belong to whom." ”
"I am determined to win this trial gate, you help me win this trial gate, and you can open it as you like." Zhou Bailong said.
"Let's talk about the trial rules first." Li Xiu didn't make an offer, just asked.
"It's the rules of golf, one-on-one heads-up, winning through the trial, losing to death." Zhou Bailong did not hide it, and explained the rules of the trial clearly.
"I can take this job, but I have one condition." Li Xiu looked at Zhou Bailong and said.
"You say." Zhou Bailong also looked at Li Xiu, and he also wanted to know what conditions Li Xiu had.
"I want to enter the gates of purgatory." Li Xiu said slowly.
"You want to enter the gates of Purgatory?" Zhou Bailong, Mr. Yu and Chu Jun were all shocked when they heard this.
The Gate of Purgatory is famous in the Southern Cross Federation, and everyone knows that it is difficult to open the Gate of Purgatory, and it is even more difficult to come out alive.
"Yes, I want to enter the gate of Purgatory, is there a way?" Li Xiu asked.
"I'm afraid this is not easy to do, since that time, the gate of purgatory has been sealed by the city lord, and no one else is allowed to open the gate of purgatory. Brother, why can't you think so much, you want to go to that kind of place, thousands of people go in, and only one of them comes out alive, and in the end his whereabouts are unknown. Zhou Bailong glanced at Mr. Yu and said.
"I just heard about the magic of the Gate of Purgatory, and I want to see it." Li Xiu said.
"It's better not to go to that place, and if you have a life, you will go to a place where you can't go back. In this way, you can enter the Gate of Trials under my name in the future, and I will take all the gems that open the Gate of Trials. If I have the opportunity in the future, I can also arrange for you to enter the gate of purgatory, and the gem that opens the door will also be mine. But there is no guarantee that there will be a chance, after all, it doesn't matter if I say this, it depends on when the Red Sand City Lord unlocks the Gate of Trials. Zhou Bailong said with a deep groan.
"Deal." Li Xiu was still very satisfied with such conditions, what he lacked now was the opportunity to enter the door of trials.
After signing the contract with Zhou Bailong, Zhou Bailong sent a list to Li Xiu, which were all the Trial Gates under his name, and there were as many as thirteen, five of which were near Hongsha City, and the rest were distributed in various places of the Southern Cross Federation.
The closest trial gate from here is on the side of Red Sand City, it is impossible to go now, Li Xiu can only wait for the matter here to be dealt with, and then go to Zhou Bailong's side.
The golf duel on Zhou Bolong's side was in Hongsha City, and the time was also a month later, so it would be a few days in advance, so it would not hinder the affairs of Chongshan City.
Li Xiu also asked Zhou Bailong about the Chongshan City Lord, Zhou Bailong seemed to have some taboos, and he didn't say it very clearly, only saying that the Chongshan City Lord's status in the Southern Cross Federation was prominent, and he asked him not to provoke that person at will.
"I didn't expect your ball skills to be so good, I knew you had such ball skills, I wouldn't have to work so hard, just find you to play with him." On the way back, Chu Jun said with a smile.
"It's nothing." Li Xiu thought about the matter of the Chongshan City Lord, and said absentmindedly.
He already knew Zhou Bailong's identity, and even Zhou Bailong, the gem king, was very secretive about the Chongshan City Lord, and the identity of the Chongshan City Lord must not be simple.
If Ximen Guan wants to get his magic costume back, I'm afraid it's not that simple.
"Why do you want to go to the gates of Purgatory?" Chu Jun asked curiously.
"True trialists should want to go there, it's just a matter of daring." Li Xiu replied.
"That's it." Chu Jun nodded, as if thoughtful.
After returning to the hotel, Li Xiu took the ghost-faced demon costume to Ximen Guan, and added a lot of tools to his room, but Li Xiu was very skeptical, can these simple tools really be used to transform the magic costume?
In the magic chamber in Space City, the instruments and tools he had seen were much more high-end than this.
"You can rest assured that you can leave it to me, a real master, you only need the most primitive tools to create the best magic costume, brother, I will let you take a long look and see what a handmade magic costume is......" Ximen Guan saw Li Xiu's doubts and immediately bragged.
Li Xiu shook his head and went back to his room.
When the Brave Trial Ground opened again, Li Xiu and the three of them went to the City Lord's Mansion together.
Before leaving, Ximen Guan told them that they would participate in two more brave trials, and I was afraid that there would be A-level trials later.
A is not A-level Li Xiu doesn't care, it would be better if he could get out of S-level, he is worried that there is no place to get attributes.
This time, he tried to get attribute rewards as much as possible, and his body strengthening level was high, and he was no longer affected by the Fire Lotus Sword, and his clearance speed would be faster.
In addition to the three of them, the Chongshan City Lord found seven more trialists, two of whom were familiar faces from the previous time, and the others were very unfamiliar and should have been newly recruited.
One of the familiar faces was Ye Yuzhen, seeing Li Xiu seeing it, Ye Yuzhen glared at Li Xiu viciously.
I haven't seen him for three days, and the injuries on this guy's body are almost healed.
The adjutant led them to open the Brave Trial Ground, and several people walked in one by one, and came to the white room again.
"Welcome to the Proving Ground of the Brave, the A-rank trial is about to begin, and the trial rules are as follows......" The synthesizer sounded.
The A-level trial came earlier than Ximen Guan expected, and this time there was an A-level trial.
In the first round of the Dark Labyrinth Trial, the countdown was as much as an hour, which was twice as long as the time limit of the B-level trial, and it seemed that the difficulty had been reduced.
Thinkers
It is clear to everyone that it is not that the difficulty has decreased, but that the difficulty in the dark labyrinth has increased, so the time will increase.
Seeing that it was an A-level trial, Ye Yuzhen's expression also became solemn.
He hadn't entered the A-level trial either, so he didn't know what kind of changes would happen to the A-level dark labyrinth.
Although it has the advantage of being able to see, the maze is not something that can be seen and can be walked out.
Ye Yuzhen glared at Li Xiu, and decided to explore the maze first, and if there was extra time, he would go to Li Xiu for trouble.
Seeing Ye Yuzhen glaring at him, Li Xiu smiled at him.
"Hmph." Ye Yuzhen snorted coldly, turned his head over, and ignored Li Xiu's provocation.
The other trialists, seeing that it was an A-level trial, all turned extremely ugly, which was much more difficult than the previous trial.
There are several trialists who have participated in the Brave Trial before, but the trials they have participated in before are E-level and D-level, and few people have even seen B-level.
This time there was a sudden A-grade, and they thought it was their bad luck.
When the countdown ended, the light screen suddenly went out, and the entire room was immediately plunged into darkness, and the door sealed by the invisible force was also opened by the trialists, who chose different directions and rushed out.
Ye Yuzhen didn't rush out immediately, nor did he chase them.
In the A-level trial, there were not many people who could get out alive, and he didn't have to waste his time, so let them die in the trial.
Originally, Ye Yu really wanted to explore the way out by himself first, but he saw Li Xiu and the three of them holding hands, heading in the direction he was about to go.
"Okay, let these three guys help me find my way." Ye Yu moved in his heart and followed behind the three of them.
This time he didn't plan to do it, but in case something happened to Li Xiu and the three of them, he didn't mind beating the water dogs.
"Last time it hurt me so badly, this time I also have a praying mantis to catch cicadas and yellow finches." The more Ye Yuzhen thought about it, the more proud he became, and he was deeply impressed by his intelligence.
Li Xiu walked in the front, he walked very slowly, and after each door was opened, he would listen carefully for a while before entering.
Fortunately, there was nothing special about the first few rooms, but Li Xiu still walked cautiously.
There are already poisonous snakes in the B-level dark labyrinth, and the ghost knows what will be in the A-level dark labyrinth.
Li Xian thought about it, and suddenly felt his right foot sink down, and the floor seemed to be sunk by his step.
"It's not good, there's a mechanism." Li Xiu immediately felt bad, and shouted to remind Ah Bandit and Sha Chu.
But the three of them had just reached the center of the room, just as far away from each door, and it was too late to move forward or backward.
Ye Yuzhen, who had just followed into the door, was startled when he heard Li Xiu shouting that there was a mechanism, and he turned around and wanted to flee back.
But the door that opened just now couldn't be opened at this time.
Bang!
The floor in the room suddenly caved in many places, and only a few pillar-like blocks still maintained their original height.
Ye Yuzhen only felt that his feet were empty, and his body fell down, and he hurriedly waved his arms desperately, trying to grab something.
Luckily, he was lucky enough to find a square pillar next to it, and he grabbed the edge of the pillar and climbed up.
When I looked down at the place where I had sunk next to me, I was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat.
The place where it fell was more than ten meters deep, and it was covered with steel cones nearly a meter long.
Li Xiu and Ah Bandit stood on the pillar in the middle, while Sha Chu had already let go of Ah Bandit's hand and stood on a pillar next to him.
Li Xiu couldn't see anything, and slowly probed the edge of the pillar with his foot, and found that the pillar was empty on all sides, and there was no way to go at all.
"Are you all right?" Sha Chu's voice came.
"It's fine." Li Xiu heard Sha Chu's voice and immediately understood: "There should be some places in this room that have not sunk, and we can only pass through this room by jumping to those places that have not sunk." ”
"But how do you know where you haven't sunk?" Sha Chu tried to use the contract, trying to use the light of the contract to light up the room, but it didn't have any effect at all, the contract was like a dead thing that had lost its life, and there was no reaction at all.
Ye Yuzhen stood on the pillar and was happy, he could see clearly, knew where there was a pillar, and it was easy to get out.
Li Xiu and they can't see it, if they jump in any direction, there is a chance that they will fall down and be pierced into a hornet's nest.
"It's a shame that I can't kill you myself, but it's nice to be able to appreciate your death." Ye Yuzhen said suddenly.
"So you're here, too." Li Xiu said.
"Hehe, of course it's here, how could I miss you being pierced into a sieve? Let me tell you the truth, the places where you have fallen now are full of sharp cones, and falling down is a dead end. Ye Yuzhen said mockingly: "Do you want me to tell you, where is there a place to stay?" ”
"Okay, thank you very much." Li Xiu said with a smile.
"Hehe, listen, directly in front of you, two blocks under your feet, there is another square pillar foothold, you can jump." Ye Yuzhen said with a sneer.
Ye Yuzhen really didn't lie to Li Xiu, there was indeed a square pillar foothold there, but he expected that Li Xiu couldn't believe his words.
As long as Li Xiu doesn't believe him, the other three directions, no matter which way Li Xiu jumps, will end up dead.
He deliberately pointed out the way to live, but in fact, Li Xiu didn't dare to choose that way of life.
Who knew that as soon as his words fell, Li Xiu jumped up in the darkness and landed in the position he said.
"Friend, thank you, what should I do next?" Li Xiu asked the bandits to jump over, and Sha Chu jumped to where they were before.
The corners of Ye Yuzhen's eyes twitched, and he was secretly angry in his heart: "This kid is very good, he must have thought that I would deliberately point out the right direction, I didn't believe it, he dared to continue to believe me, so I just pointed him in the right direction again to see if he dared to jump again." ”
"The two squares on the right are pillars." As soon as Ye Yuzhen's words fell, he saw Li Xiu jump up again.
But this time, Li Xiu jumped over as he said, and landed firmly on the pillar again.
Ah Bandit and Sha Chu also moved their positions in turn, and they were a little closer to the door that went out.
"I'll go, this kid shouldn't be able to see it, and deliberately act for me here, right?" Ye Yu had long doubted that Li Xiu could see it, but when he thought about it, he felt that it was wrong, if he could really see it, he would just go over directly, what would he play with him here?
"Friend, and then?" Li Xiu's voice came again.
"I don't believe that there are such people in the world who really believe in their enemies." Ye Yu really looks like a gambler who is in a hurry to lose.
After betting on a few singles, he didn't believe that there would be a single out, so he resolutely bet on a double again.
Ye Yuzhen pointed in the right direction, but Li Xiu jumped over without hesitation and landed on the pillar.
"Let's play psychological warfare for Lao Tzu, then let you see what real psychological warfare is." Ye Yu was really depressed, and when he heard Li Xiu ask him where to jump again, he sneered and said, "There are six pillars that will be able to reach the opposite side next, the order is front, left, left, front, left, you believe me, jump it." ”
Seeing that Li Xiu and the others really listened to his words, jumping over one pillar after another, Ye Yuzhen couldn't help but sneer secretly.
Among his six steps, the first four steps are correct, and he wants to use these four steps to make Li Xiu fall into a gambler's mentality, and then the fifth step is actually to the right, and he is talking about the left.
If Li Xiu didn't have a gambler's mentality, then he wouldn't believe Ye Yuzhen when he took the first four steps, and then it would be a dead end.
If Li Xiu has a gambler's mentality, then the fifth step will be dead.
As for the sixth step, it doesn't matter, the fifth step is already a nirvana.
Seeing that Li Xiu led Ah Bandit and Sha Chu to jump over step by step, and the first four steps were all according to what he said, Ye Yuzhen showed an evil smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Sure enough, this guy has a gambler's mentality, so this step is his mortal step." Ye Yuzhen looked at Li Xiu, and a voice in his heart shouted: "Jump down, jump down, this is your life." ”
In Ye Yu's real expectation, Li Xiu finally jumped, but he didn't jump to the left, but to the right.
"What's going on...... How do you jump to the right? Ye Yuzhen's eyes widened and he cried out.
He didn't understand why Li Xiu was able to see through his plan, it was impossible, his plan was seamless.
"Friend, I'm not very smart, but you can't take me for a fool, can you? If you jump to the left as you say, you'll jump to the left corner, and you'll jump to the right to face the door......"
Li Xiu's words made Ye Yu really like he was struck by lightning, his old face turned red, he only thought about the gambler's mentality, and he really didn't think about this problem.
Ye Yuzhen can't wait to find a hole to drill down now, this kind of mistake is too low-level.
"Thank you, friend, without you as a beacon, it will take some time to get through this room." Li Xiu had already taken Ah Bandit and Sha Chu out of the room, and turned around and thanked Ye Yuzhen.