Volume 1: Origins of the Floating Dragon Chapter 12 Eighty-five Cards
In the next seven laps, Li Qing won consecutive battles, not only earning back the money he had lost with Yang Kaijia just now, but even having a little surplus.
"You can also play this hand?" The player in the position clicked on the pair in front of Li Qing, although it was a questioning tone, but the answer was already on the table, which was self-evident.
Since the fifteenth round, that is, Li Qing has won four rounds in a row, the players at the same table have already felt that something is wrong, but they can't regret it when they sit down, and they don't believe in the "luck" that Li Qing keeps professing.
When Li Qing won seven consecutive laps, this result obviously cannot be explained by "luck", at least not all the fact that Li Qinghao won seven consecutive victories due to illusory luck.
Just as Li Qing was about to continue shuffling the cards to start the next game, the smell of smoked tobacco wafted in, Yang Kaijia came back from smoking, glanced at it, took in everyone's demeanor, and asked with a little doubt: "How is the battle?" ”
In fact, while he was smoking, Yang Kaijia also wanted to open it, isn't it just a few dollars, if he loses, he will lose, but if he rushes back to replace Li Qing, anyone with a discerning eye knows that he is distressed about money, that is, he loses and loses, and his face will be lost.
The card friend was about to speak, but the heavenly card player knocked on the table, and seeing this, the former naturally closed his mouth in interest.
"Kaijia, your apprentice is a real person and doesn't show his face."
The tone of his words was a little strange, so that people couldn't tell whether it was praise or depreciation, among the people present, Li Qing was the least qualified, and he was his own apprentice, Yang Kaijia looked at Li Qing and asked, "What did Peng Ke say about showing his face or not?" At the end, he seemed to think of something, his face changed slightly, and his tone became stern: "Could it be that you kid is still out of the old man?" ”
Peng Kegan laughed, and said in a weird manner: "I don't know if I can't get out, but I won a lot anyway." ”
Yang Kaijia was stunned, his expression was slightly dazed, obviously he hadn't figured out what was going on.
At this time, Li Qing put out all the money he won, and the large and small banknotes were very good-looking, so he didn't bother to care about the world, slapped the money on the table, and said: "It's normal to play cards and lose and win, my master can afford to lose, and I, who is an apprentice, can also win." ”
With that, Li Qing was about to get up and vacate his place for Yang Kaijia.
At this time, Yang Kaijia came back to his senses completely, usually he lost ten bets and ten losses, and he lost a lot in Peng Ke's hands, it was the first time to raise his eyebrows so much, the joy in his heart came up, and he couldn't take care of the leader's emotions, he pressed Li Qing's shoulder and said:
"Good boy, worthy of being my apprentice, sit down for me and keep fighting!"
Peng Ke was Li Qingding's face turned blue and white for a while, isn't this just a mockery that he can't afford to lose, but it's not good to have a seizure, so it seems that he is too lacking, so he has to follow Yang Kaijia's annoyed and embarrassed and slammed the long card in his hand on the table, gritted his back molars and said:
"Shuffle!"
Li Qing was pressed back to his seat by Yang Kaijia, and he was not polite, and began to get busy according to Peng Ke's wishes.
At this wash, Li Qing noticed that something was wrong, he frowned, and counted the number of cards again with the help of splitting.
The long deck is 84 cards, so this kind of card is also called "eighty-four", and each card has a specific character portrait in the middle, but this time, Li Qing pointed out 85 cards.
Another lap, also the end of the nineteenth lap, unsurprisingly, Li Qing won again.
Li Qing, who had accepted a few banknotes, did not have the slightest joy of victory, he looked up and glanced at everyone, as a veteran of the battle, no one noticed the abnormality of the number of cards.
The dimness of the gas lamp and the crimson outside the window intertwined, like a ghost with teeth and claws, grasping at everyone's face.
Yang Kaijia and the others were talking and laughing about the wins and losses of this circle, and in this laughter, Section Chief Peng's face became more and more gloomy.
"Unknown changes have happened......"
Li Qing was suddenly taken aback, the purpose of his coming here was not to show his card skills, and just now he seemed to be a little too immersed in the card game.
"Find the eighty-fifth card that is extra and outside of logic."
Li Qing pulled the pile of cards, at this time, everyone seemed to have formed a tacit understanding, everyone was immersed in the previous round of the game, no one shouted to urge the shuffle to open the next round, but also the last round of the game.
After searching, in the end, Li Qing's eyes were fixed on a six-point red and six-point black heavenly card, which is the largest number of points in the long card, and the figure in the center of this heavenly card should have been the Qingyuan Zhengfa Heavenly Emperor, and now, the statue of the Heavenly Emperor disappeared, replaced by a portrait of a person wearing the work clothes of the ancient four twenty-seven.
The face of the portrait uses exaggerated techniques to highlight the hideousness and darkness of the character, but it is exaggerated but not distorted, and it is not difficult to see that the prototype of the portrait is Section Chief Peng who is sitting opposite Li Qing!
My dear mother...... The corners of Li Qing's eyes twitched, and the hand holding the heavenly card trembled slightly, and a fear called death instantly eroded his heart, and his seemingly strong but actually fragile psychological defense line was riddled with holes.
Li Qing had the illusion that it was not his master who was beside him, not his colleagues, not his boss, they were not even people, but monsters with masks, and they gathered together to discuss how to divide themselves.
He instinctively wanted to roar, to overturn the card table in front of him, and to vent the despair and pain that suddenly erupted in his heart by all kinds of means and methods beyond morality.
"Please be a good person who is polite and moral."
The blood-red warning words flashed in Li Qing's mind, and suddenly, extraordinary willpower suppressed the surging fear.
"A-Qing, A-Qing?"
His shoulders sank slightly, and the illusion of the surrounding swarming faded like a tide, Li Qing played a spirit, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was still sitting in the "human" position of heaven, earth and people, but his hands were buckled at the bottom of the card table at some point, and he could overturn the table with just one force.
Li Qing let out an "ah", stood up, and said, "I won't fight in the last lap, come on, master." Taking advantage of the time to get up, Li Qing put the eighty-fifth card in his hand into his pocket.
"How...... Okay, in this way, don't go yet, and when this round is over, I have something to tell you. Seeing that Li Qing won so lightly, Yang Kaijia's hand was already itchy.
No one wants to lose all the time, seeing that Li Qing took the initiative to leave, everyone naturally had no opinions.
Sometimes it's one thing to watch others play, and it's another thing to go on your own, in the last lap, Yang Kaijia unexpectedly failed again, but counting what Li Qing won before, the two still made a lot of money.
At the end of the twenty laps, Section Chief Peng and a few people started a new round of cards, while Yang Kaijia and Li Qing went to the corridor in the middle of the two carriages.
The doors on both sides of the corridor are made of large areas of glass, and the glimmer of light from the outside world can easily penetrate in, and with the specially installed light source, the entire corridor is shrouded in warm yellow.
Knowing that Li Qing didn't smoke, Yang Kaijia took care of himself and lit one: "You felt those movements just now, right?" ”
Li Qing's face was grim, he didn't expect that Yang Kaijia would talk to him about this topic: "I feel it, but the conductor said that it was a normal bump, and there was nothing to worry about." ”
"This is their job," Yang Kaijia dusted off his cigarette ash and took a deep breath, "and our work is not so simple. ”
"Something inexplicable is recovering."
"What's that?" Li Qing subconsciously asked.
Yang Kaijia shook his head and said, "I don't know, this is what Director Wang told me, he is my distant uncle, and now, I told him to my apprentice, that is, you." ”
The implication is that from now on, Yang Kaijia really regards Li Qing as his own person, and the friendship he formed because of a few rounds of long cards.
Li Qing not only did not feel the slightest honor, on the contrary, he only felt the cold behind his back, the eighty-fifth card in his trouser pocket cut him a little painfully, he rolled his throat, and said, "What do you need me to do?" ”
Yang Kaijia gave him an appreciative look and said, "We are archaeologists, and in front of us, all ancient things are old, decaying paper tigers!" ”
After an impassioned statement, the more Yang Kaijia spoke, the more excited he became, and his usual depression burst out, dyeing his whole person with a crazy color:
"In 427, my field of study is beliefs, religion, ancient gods, absurdity, bizarre and bizarre that are not accepted by mainstream archaeology, and each of the institutes under the committee has one or two people in this position, engaged in this kind of research, and like the research we are engaged in, we are in an awkward position, in a marginal position."
"But now, we have a chance to take center stage!"
"Those movements just now are because of a fight between a person and the military personnel on the train! Except for the people in the military, only Director Wang and I saw it, can you imagine that a person who does not rely on foreign objects, and relies only on his own strength, can fight against seven or eight guns at the same time! ”
As I can imagine, that's extraordinary power...... Li Qing thought so in his heart, and did not interject knowingly.
"In him, I saw that what I had been studying, which they called ridiculous, came true! The men of the army failed to catch him, he was wounded and fled, they were secretly hunting, but if, I mean if, we can find him first, can you understand what I mean? ”
Li Qing understood Yang Kaijia's intentions, but he didn't express his position immediately, but fell silent.
Looking at Yang Kaijia who was so excited that he was almost crazy in front of him, Li Qing vaguely had a sense of understanding, there must be some kind of connection between the unknown changes, the indifference of the passengers, the gloom of Section Chief Peng, Yang Kaijia's madness and even his own fear.
And the long card in the pocket......
At this moment, the door of the bathroom in the corridor suddenly opened from the inside, and a tall thin figure wearing a peaked cap walked out slowly, judging from his figure, it seemed that his legs and feet were a little inconvenient.
Yang Kaijia was stunned for a moment, and then shouted at a high decibel volume that is difficult for a man to reach and is enough to puncture the eardrum:
"He's here!"