After the storm of the power plant explosion, Blue, Hugo and Douzi returned to Feiyun City together.

The bombing itself is not complicated, it is even more like a farce. However, the intervention of plasma and N makes this event, which did not cause a tragedy of death, complicated.

Justice and faith, these glorious terms, seem to be the most bloodthirsty things in the world.

On the waterway back from Liyong City to Feiyun City, Douzi, who has always been full of vitality, rarely said nothing.

It seems that after careful thinking all the way, after returning to the Yuqi Mansion, the future great director expressed her opinion to the detective like a speech-

"It's a weak act to reconcile with friends who have broken down, but we must learn to be soft as mature adults living in society."

Just like the "melting" skill used by soft Pokémon, sometimes weakness also means strength.

"What do you mean?"

Hugo saw the other party's intentions, neither denied nor supported, but only waited for the landlord's decision with respect.

"Hugo, you once said that in order to avoid conflict, it is better to avoid N and not see each other, right? Then I think it's the opposite – if you don't communicate, you can't change anything. ”

Douzi said with burning eyes——

"My dream is to make the world more open and fun! I want people to share their happiness with each other, to get people with different ideas to stop arguing and communicate with each other, whether it's through making a movie to record a story, or having a fairy battle to convey emotions. Therefore, I don't plan to give up on my friend N, even if he is a potential offender who is plotting to attack the police station, and he leads a super evil organization, I still want to continue this communication! ”

Despite the landlady's words, it still takes a lot of courage to rebuild old friendships between friends. Therefore, Douzi needs the off-the-field assistance of detectives.

"If you're so determined, of course it's fine. But Bilan is out now, are you sure you want to make a call at this time? ”

The detective asked Douzi with a black marker and a whiteboard for teleprompters that had been shoehorned into his hand.

At this time, the assistant lady left the office temporarily because she was going to the Pokémon center to store the elves. Only Hugo and Douzi were left in the Yuqi Mansion.

"Of course, I can't let Sister Lan see me look so embarrassed." Douzi said vigorously.

She shouldn't think that she shoulders a character like "excellent junior", right?

Suspicion flashed through the detective's mind......

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On the sofa in the living room of the Yuqi Mansion, Douzi sat cross-legged on a cushion as if he were facing a great enemy, fiddling with a suspicious device called an instant messenger in his hand.

The device is a phone watch, and although the appearance can be seen in the designer's determination to pursue fashion, in terms of function, it is completely a laggard on the road to mobile communication, and the smartphone is a loser.

This communicator is one of the two sample machines given by the merchant after Douzi shoots a promotional advertisement for the dealer. At that time, the bucket that was holding unsalable goods and didn't know what to do with it ran into N on the way, so he forced the other party to give one to him.

That's what made this call stand up.

But the conversation had just begun, and it was going in a strange direction.

Contrary to the girl's worries, N didn't have any grudges against Douzi because of the previous incident. After receiving Douzi's communication, he talked about the strange events he had encountered with some joy.

The king of the Plasma Regiment seems to have been a little too open and honest, and even in his narration, he does not hide the crisis of the Plasma Regiment, so that the two rounds of gambling on the Royal Union are fully described.

can only say that it is really worthy of the friend chosen by the fighter, and even the degree of nerve coarseness is even better.

On the phone, the green-haired young man who won a big win in the casino was obviously troubled-

"Before boarding the Royal Union, I received a communication from my father. If I had acted on my own volition, I would not have taken such a gamble. However, on the phone, my father insisted that I stand in front of the stage and participate in the gamble as the plenipotentiary representative of the plasma group. ”

N's voice and images emanated from the small screen of the instant messenger and echoed through the loudspeaker in the vast living room.

"Father - Quitchis, one of the Seven Sages, the de facto controller of the plasma cluster."

Behind the camera, where the camera camera does not touch, Detective Hugo is silent in front of Douzi on the call, silently adding information in his mind.

If the bilberry plan succeeds and the plasma cluster collapses, who will suffer the most in such a situation?

The answer is undoubtedly this old man who is called "father" by the green-haired youth.

This person has put no effort into the Order that no one can match, and he should be the one who cares most about winning or losing the game. And this head of the sage, who is used to hiding behind the scenes, chose to send his pawn as the king to charge into battle this time.

What is the meaning behind this?

N's conversation continued—

"My father asked me to make a bet on the financial certificates that had been taken away by the lingonberries on the condition of the dissolution of the plasma group. There are no specific instructions for the gambling items, but he thinks the more concise the better, and other than that, it's up to me to play. ”

"And then you chose the easiest roulette?" Hearing the interesting story, Douzi completely forgot about his previous plans and concentrated on the follow-up of the incident.

"Yes." N in the square screen nodded.

"Although I was forcibly pushed to the forefront, I had no intention of letting the plasma group perish, so I also seriously thought about how to win."

Ignoring the contradictory positions of the two sides of the exchange, the young people calmly and frankly expressed their feelings.

"Mr. Vio is the most calculating person I've ever met, and even he lost to the Bilberry King in Ssangyong Poker, so I'm not going to repeat the same mistake in card games. Gambling such as slot machines and craps is essentially a game of skill and can be easily manipulated by the casino side, so I don't consider it either. ”

"The only games left to choose from are roulette with completely random probabilities, right?"

Douzi speculated with a reasonable expression, and in other words, she didn't know anything about the rules of poker, and she boarded the Royal Circle, and the only thing left to show off her skills was roulette, which was extremely friendly to newcomers.

"As long as you guess the color, you can at least pull the winning rate to 50% of the two sides, so that everyone can compete for luck fairly and justly, which is indeed very similar to the noble approach that N will choose."

The girl, who is completely intuitive, nods her head and makes irresponsible conjectures innocently, which makes the detective in front of her can't help but show a sneering expression.

"I'm not as noble as you think." N also smiled wryly.

"I chose to guess the color of roulette partly because my father told me to play as simple as possible, and partly because I thought it would work in my favor."

"Proneficial?" The girl with a high ponytail has a question mark on her face.

"The ball spins uncontrollably, and it's up to heaven which column it falls into, shouldn't you and Mr. Bilberry have equal chances?"

"If it's roulette on land, it does."

The green-haired youth nodded and shook his head, "However, this is a casino built on a ship, which gives me a chance to boost my chances."

"Ships? What does the win rate have to do with the ship? Confused, she could only think of the shape of the roulette wheel resembling a round rudder.

"Unlike on land, the wheels on the ship are actually in motion. Although in theory, an object in a linear motion with a uniform velocity behaves in the same way as at rest, it is clear that the navigation of a ship cannot achieve such an ideal way of motion. ”

As if teaching physics, the green-haired young man said to Douzi—

"At that time, the voyage of the Royal Union was neither uniform nor straight, and in order to cross a strait, the ship was adjusting its course, making a circular motion in a north-west direction, which gave the ball on the disk a slight centrifugal force inclined to the southeast. In the same way, in order to cross the strait, the ship had to gradually reduce its speed, which made things on board move forward instinctively based on inertia - and I judged the 'heavier' end of the wheel on these two points. ”

"Hmm...... Like something tied to a rope can be thrown outward, and a person will fall forward when braking? ”

The props that Douzi gave to Hugo worked, and the two stick figures drawn on the teleprompter whiteboard made Douzimao pause.

"That's right." N nodded happily.

"In this case, the center of the circle of the ball will be slightly offset towards the heavier end, and it will be easier to land in the east slot, where the white block will be two more blocks than the blue slot. From this, I judged that the odds of winning by choosing the white column would be at least five percentage points ahead of the opponent. ”

Gamblers often win or lose by a fraction of a second. It only took such a short time for the mathematical genius to perceive the winning strategy of roulette......

While wiping the ink off the whiteboard, Hugo sighed quietly - N had mastered the trick of winning the game, and it would definitely be more beneficial for him to use the rules of the multi-round game at this time.

Even so, did he choose to trust his father without wavering, gambling in the "simple" way that Quitch instructed?

Unknowingly, to what extent was N domesticated by his father?

"I see, no wonder Mr. Bilberry has a troubled look on your face when you choose white, it turns out that it is because you chose the side that is easier to win."

Confused by the fact that Hugo is thinking about something, Douzi recalls the details that N told in the narrative and suddenly realizes it.

"In this way, it's not surprising that N was able to win in the end......"

"No, it's not."

Surprisingly, the green-haired young man began to defend himself eagerly, as if he had been poked in the sore spot.

"Although I have some theoretical advantages, but roughly speaking, it is still close to 50% to 50% of the probability of winning or losing, and I am not sure of winning at all. To be honest, until now, I can't help but have a stomach ache when I think about when the ball started rolling......"

"What's more!" N grass green eyes showed anxiety, "After the ball settled, I felt that something was not quite right!" ”

"Something is wrong?" The girl with a high ponytail was even more confused, "The ball fell in the white zone, it's completely N's victory, right?" ”

"But I still felt strange – especially when I saw the lingonberry king's smile, it was even stronger."

After losing the gambling, the lingonberries calmly handed over the plasma bills in their custody, and then apparently entrusted the Royal Union to his casino manager, and disembarked and left.

By the way, he also abandoned his status as a senior cadre in the plasma regiment, but no one was surprised by this incident.

Did you really bet on the 55% chance?

N felt that he had been calculated by the king—it was like a lingonberry tree with a large sign that read "There is a plan" on it, and he sat blatantly under the sign.

"Gambling wins...... That's what it is, right? ”

Douzi said his conjecture uncertainly-

"Placing a fortune on an illusory probability, even if it wins, has no sense of substance - that's what gambling is all about, right? In my opinion, your strange feeling just comes from the new experience that comes from winning your first gamble. ”

A guess that is very in line with common sense - even Hugo nodded in agreement with Douzi's reasoning logic, and this movie girl can always think of the most correct answer at a critical time.

However, in this matter, Douzi's intuition seems to be wrong-

"No, it's not the first time I've ever met." The green-haired young man said to Douzi very clearly, and then closed his eyes and thought hard......

After ten seconds of silence, N reopened his eyes.

"That's what it's like to be tricked!"

The young man said with a sudden realization, his gaze seemed to be on something in front of him.

"When I was a child, Zoroa played a prank on me, and when I dispeld the illusion and saw the messy room, I felt the same strange thing as this time."

Practical joke?

…… I see, I see.

Like the last piece of the puzzle, Hugo understood what was happening on the United Royal.

It turned out to be an "illusion" displayed by the Lingonberry King.

It is true that he is a heavenly king with the same attributes as Zoroark, which is really amazing.

Fraudsters don't use repeated tricks - now that the lingonberries have left the casino, there's no point in continuing to hide these clever tricks, so let's uncover them now.

Allowing such a ruse to be buried in a casino is really against the detective's reasoning aesthetics.

The detective raised his hand and left a mark on it with a black marker.

"Huh? Lamplight? ”

Douzi saw Hugo write the word "light" on the teleprompter whiteboard, so he subconsciously asked the caller.

"N, do you remember the lights in the transparent gambling room?"

"Lights? It's a breathing light that changes with the rhythm of the background music, so it's really a pleasing installation design, so what's the problem? ”

Hugo wrote five more words on the board – "The Essence of Colour".

"Hmm...... What is the essence of color? ”

I don't know if it's Hugo or N, Douzi asked this sentence.

"It's the light that reflects into the human eye."

As if it were an indelible knowledge imprinted in his mind, N replied without thinking.

"Wait...... Reflection? ”

Then, as if time stood still.

The green-haired youth's eyes slowly widened, and finally showed a surprised expression.

"I see, I see! No wonder Roulette chose blue and white as the colors of the partitions! ”

N was ecstatic, as if he had only now truly realized that he had won the bet that would decide the life and death of the plasma.

"Thank you, Douzi! Thank you very much! Now I fully understand what is happening in the game! ”

After surprise and ecstasy, the green-haired youth fully recovered his spirits, and with some excitement, he said many words of thanks to Douzi, and then cut off the communication on his own.

Before ending the call, N was filled with troubles and a sense of relaxation and refreshment.

In contrast, the girl with a high ponytail looked stunned, silently looking at the instant communicator in her hand that turned into a black screen.

"Hey, detective, what the hell is going on?"

Douzi's face turned unfriendly, and he slowly turned his gaze to Hugo, who was looking around innocently.