"In roulette, which is popular in the United States, there are not white and blue, but red and black."

"Hmm...... There seems to be a roulette scene in the movies of the past, and if you think about it carefully, it is indeed red and black. But what's wrong with that? ”

Faced with the bewildered Douzi, the detective explained unhurriedly.

"Gambling is a serious matter for gamblers like Lingonberry, and the color of professional gambling equipment will never be arbitrarily adjusted on a whim. In other words, the reason why the color is changed must be a more important consideration. ”

"What does red-black mean by changing blue-and-white to blue-white?" Douzi fell into deep thought, and then she remembered N's answer on the video call-

"Does it have something to do with the nature of the color mentioned earlier?"

A crisp snap of the fingers.

"Yes, the essence of color is light. The light is reflected on the surface of objects of different materials, forming reflected colors of different wavelengths, which are finally captured and confirmed by the human eye and become the colors we are familiar with. ”

The detective happily leaned back into the cushion of the sofa and said comfortably.

"The reason why a normal Poké Ball is red and white is because its upper part can absorb all light except red, so only the red light is reflected into people's eyes, forming a red color. The lower part reflects all the light, and the colors are mixed together to become white, so that we can see the so-called white. ”

"I understand, I understand. White is formed by the convergence of colorful rays, and I still know the principle of rainbow generation. ”

Douzi impatiently continued to ask-

"But what does this have to do with the Bilberry King changing the gambling plate to blue and white?"

"Of course, it's to achieve some kind of lawlessness."

As he spoke, Hugo raised the marker pen in his hand, and the cap of the marker pen had been removed—

"The reason why we changed all the colors was to make the disappearance of a certain color in the market look natural."

The axe-like beveled tip swallows up the reflected light, revealing a color that is diametrically opposed to white.

"Black?"

Looking at the pitch-black tip of the pen, the confusion on the girl's face still did not subside.

"Now that you understand how color works, it's much easier to explain the tricks." The detective put the cap on the pen and turned the marker flexibly, looking very pleasant.

"Since the color of an object is determined by the reflected light, you only need to change the color of the light source slowly, and the color of the reflector will change imperceptibly. On top of that, as long as a material with a special refractive index is used as a betting board, it is not difficult to achieve color conversion in various color zones with lighting. However, the surface of the black material absorbs all colors of light, and no matter how the light changes, black is black - which is why the lingonberry had to change the color of the board from red and black to blue and white to avoid the appearance of black. ”

The spinning marker stopped suddenly, marking the tip of the black color pointing at the tip of the bucket's nose.

The detective summed it up -

"In this way, you can "make" the color you want in a secret room where the light sways with the music."

"Do you mean ......?"

Douzi's mouth opened into a big "O", and his surprise was overflowing.

"Based on the information provided by N, this is the only conclusion." Hugo said bluntly.

"Mr. Bilberry left a mechanism on the gambling equipment to facilitate his cheating, which is essentially a high-tech technique similar to projection mapping - the roulette wheel is actually made of two special reflective materials, and when illuminated by a special color of light, blue and white can be reversed. The lights that flicker to the rhythm of the music in the game are just a cover-up, in order to get everyone present accustomed to the change of light, so as to ignore the light source that changes in the last moment of the game. ”

Blatant, lawless cheating. Are gamblers such terrifying?

Douzi silently swore that he would never spend a penny in a casino in his life.

"But in this way, won't it become Mr. Bilberry who will suffer losses in the gambling game? Why did he deliberately lose the bet? ”

The detective seemed to remember something funny, and the smile on his face deepened.

"To explain the reason for this, we have to start with the initial gamble. Remember why Vio, the sage of the plasma group, bet on Double Dragon poker against lingonberries? ”

As if squeezing out the little toothpaste left, Douzi recalled in fragments—

"It seems to be mentioned in N's narrative that it seems that because the total cash flow on the Royal Union exceeded Vio's expectations, he had to compete with Lingonberry in a gambling game of tens of billions of dollars."

"Isn't that funny?" The detective spread his hands, "Why would a sum of cash that even financiers could not have predicted appear in this gambling ship that has only been open for three months?" Douzi, do you know what the concept of 10 billion yuan is? ”

"Hmm...... More than 500 feather houses? That sounds a bit shocking. The girl said assumedly.

"This house was sold to you at a fracture price, and the actual value is much higher than the purchase price...... This is not talked about beforehand. Hugo believed that the number of houses could not vividly measure the value of the money, so he took the initiative to change the conversion method.

"Let's use this analogy, think about it, the real estate tycoon who sold you the Yuqi Mansion is a very rich big capitalist."

"Oh, that perverted old man who likes tyrannosaurs, he's really rich if you just look at money."

But even if such a tycoon is allowed to raise funds to go to the casino immediately, he can only come up with about 100 million yuan in cash at most. Because the financial market has its own inherent rules, when you have too much money at your disposal, you can't withdraw all your assets at will like withdrawing pocket money. Even if you risk your life to sell real estate to raise gambling funds, you will be slaughtered by business opponents in the middle, and in the end, you can withdraw assets and save one out of ten - the price of things that are actively delivered to your door is usually not high. ”

"It's cruel." Douzi nodded as if he didn't understand.

"In a normal casino, if you meet a billionaire like this who might take his entire assets to gamble, the casino will treat them as if they were guests. Casino owners will make them long-term customers of the casino, even if they often lose money, they will not be too ruthless, they will only slowly exploit each other, not let them win a few rounds to feel the fun of gambling, so that the rich can calmly and in line with the laws of the market, little by little, slowly withdraw their funds from the financial market - only in this way, the casino can squeeze all their net worth from the hands of gamblers in the most efficient way. ”

Hugo's expression became serious—

However, the casino in Bilberry has only been open for a quarter and has been open for less than three months. And he has already made tens of billions, do you know what that means? ”

"Does this mean that lingonberries don't have a chance to make money by ripping off customers for a long time?"

"Yes. If the casino only relies on squeezing money from gamblers' losses, it will be a gruesome scene to achieve what the Royal United is today......"

Money doesn't come out of nowhere.

The detective paints a terrible picture with words -

"Ninety days, tens of billions of yuan. This meant that hundreds of billionaires had to enter the casino more than one a day, and then all of them left the Royal United without losing a penny. Looting of property and life, and the pride accumulated over decades wiped out overnight – such tragedies have occurred hundreds of times in a row over the course of 90 days. ”

Hugo looked at the tall ponytail girl in front of him-

"Do you think it's possible for such a vision to become a reality?"

Douzi really imagined the picture of a billionaire kneeling on the dock crying, and then shook his head desperately: "It can't happen, and it's impossible for such a scary casino to have customers come to the door." ”

"But if there aren't enough gamblers to be exploited, where does the money come from?" Hugo then asked.

"Could it be a counterfeit banknote made secretly?"

"If it's a counterfeit, that Vio should have seen through it when he raised the game."

The girl came up with another highly probable guess: "Could it be that the United Alliance secretly supported the funds for the bilberry?" ”

The detective shook his head: "If you don't count us, the fact that Lingonberry is an undercover agent should only be known to the Four Heavenly Kings and the Adike Champion, although these people are not thin, they still can't get together tens of billions of yuan in cash after all." ”

"And who else will support the casino in Lingonberry?" The girl decisively gave up thinking and watched Hugo wait for an answer.

It can't be a miracle in a casino, right?

Hugo chuckled and looked out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Yuqi Mansion with a pleasant smile.

There, the skyscrapers of Feiyun City stand next to each other, and the glass of offices is like a matrix of pixels, and countless financiers are busy in these panes.

"I can raise tens of billions of dollars in cash in a short period of time, and have every reason to support bilberries, and I can also get benefits in the whole incident...... Who else but them? ”

Under a clear sky, the commercial metropolis, famous for its gamblingism, stares at the casino economy that has made its fortune by commercial operations.

There is no more unbreakable alliance of deception than this.

didn't sell off, and the detective happily announced the answer-

"The bilberry bet on Vio comes from the business organizations that can make a fortune when the plasma cluster is in trouble. In this scam, the former is responsible for serving as bait to bait the plasma group, while the latter, wielding a commercial scythe on a real battlefield in the name of reality, reaps the riches of the plasma group. This is the real gamble of the Lingonberry King! ”

A flock of gray beanie pigeons flew in the distant sky, blocking out the bright sun.

The detective's face then turned serious and melancholy—

"However, the real gamble comes with risks. Unlike the petty fights on the Royal, there is no foolproof cheating method for investing on the commercial battlefield, and this is the real thrilling leap. ”

"They have also frozen a lot of their assets......" Douzi muttered.

"That's right. The successful implementation of the scheme means that the business alliance that attacked in groups is actually the same as their opponent Plasma Group, and they have also entrusted tens of billions of funds to bilberry. Under the disadvantage of reciprocity, the former relied on the information gap and first-mover advantage to completely bluff the plasma cluster that thought it was in danger, so that the latter constantly cut the ground and sought peace, and could not make an effective counterattack......"

In the midst of the five-day financial tsunami, they are surging forward in a tightrope victory.

It's the madness of the insidious grown-ups, the battle of the hypocritical inhabitants of the grey world.

"However, since there is a scam, there must be a risk that the scam will be exposed. If lingonberry guessed that someone in the plasma cluster had somehow learned the inside story, how would this gambler, who believes in good and bad luck, react? ”

Avoid mistakes and take it when you see it.

Thinking back to the fighting style that Lingonberry showed in the Pokémon League - that almost cowardly steadiness in the King Competition. Douzi understood the reason why Lingonberry took the initiative to choose to back down.

"In this case, could it be that N saw through the bilberry's gamble outside the casino?"

"How is it possible, don't you think a little too highly of that guy?" Hugo smiled wryly.

"If he had seen through everything, he wouldn't have been so distressed on video calls. Remember the reaction of the lingonberries when they placed their N bets? ”

I remember he seemed to be confused, wasn't that because N chose white, which had a better chance of winning...... Ah no, he should have decided to take the initiative to back down at this time......"

"Exactly." The detective snapped his fingers again, "Lingonberries are not bothered by the cleverness of their opponents, but by their dullness. ”

"Before N boarded the ship, there should have been some bad signs in the wind direction in the financial markets. At this time, the king of the plasma group personally boarded the royal number, and proposed to the bilberry to compete in the most concise and clear gambling method, and put forward the most basic conditions for returning the ticket - this is actually an extremely tough way to sum. Even the treaty that was dissolved when it failed, in this context, represents the determination to fight until the net is broken. ”

The subtext is about-

I already know about the cheating you play on the gambling boat, and I know the fatal flaws you and your partner have left in the business battle. Now, either stop the war with the cheating you are proud of, or wait and see who gets into the quagmire from which you will never recover!

In some informal side chess, if two kings face each other without any obstruction, they can use the "flying general" to hold each other.

As the king of the Royal Unity, the bilberry was held by the king of the plasma group, and was forced to retreat with hatred.

"Is this the meaning of the actions that N's father instructed?"

Just listening to the detective's description, Douzi felt a dagger against the back of his neck.

And in such an atmosphere, N's calculations before the start of the game seem very inexplicable. Obviously he has forced himself to the point where he has to lose, why do he have to be so careful about gambling, Lingtang is troubled by this. ”

Hugo shrugged his shoulders -

"But just like us, the Lingonberry King quickly understood the reason - there was someone else behind the plasma group, and the 'king' in front of him who was pushed out of the table was just a chess piece."

Lingonberries and Quiches.

Gambling and threats.

Through ambiguous communication, the two prisoners at the bottom of the abyss finally reached a tie contract acceptable to both parties.

It's really an adult fairy tale that can't make people laugh.

"By the way, I'm still a little confused." Douzi suddenly raised his hand and asked like a student speaking in class.

"Please, Douzi-san."

"After the plasma group withdraws those financial documents and unfreezes the original wealth, won't it be able to overwhelm the business alliance in the commercial competition? In this case, why can lingonberries choose to lose so calmly? ”

"Good question." The detective nodded happily.

"This is, of course, because Lingonberry also brought back tens of billions of dollars in cash to his collaborators, and the returned wealth, coupled with the profit in five days, was enough for the united capitalists to fight against the plasma group for a while."

"But......" asked the girl eagerly, "I remember that Mr. Bilberry left the Royal Circle without anything, and how did he return enough cash to fill an entire room?" ”

"I said Douzi, don't you think that there can be a perfect relationship of trust between partners?" Hugo said leisurely, "Just putting their hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth on the ship of lingonberries, how can they sit back and fight with the plasma group without worry?" ”

"And what's going on?"

"It's one of the oldest casino scams. A rich man who has been cheated out of all his possessions in an overcrowded illegal casino reports the case to the police, who catch everyone and find out that everyone in the casino is in a gang except for the rich man. ”

"What!"

"Although the Royal Union of Bilberry did not do so much, the bustling crowd of passengers was definitely mixed in with a considerable proportion of representatives of the commercial alliance, who were also responsible for the triple duty of surveillance, custody and transportation. As Mr. Lingonberry left the gambling ship with his bare hands, the guests were also putting bundles of 10,000 yuan bills in their suitcases and landing on land under the kind care of the casino staff. ”

"Whew...... I see. ”

After the last knot in his heart, Douzi said his feelings-

"Casino, it's horrible."