"People often try to find shortcuts when they encounter difficulties, which is actually a kind of misconception."

Hugo cleared his throat and said to the three girls present—

"First of all, we should consider the possibility of bilberry head-on to crack the rules of Ssangyong poker dealing. While Vio's theory using the clock face algorithm is flawed, that doesn't mean that other mathematicians and gamblers can't find a smarter way. ”

"Are you saying that Lingonberry found a card counting theory that is even more powerful than Vio, and used it to defeat Vio head-on?" The client had a hard look on his face.

"If a foolproof calculation exists, the owner will naturally know all the folds at the table – a very boring answer, but the possibility is there." The detective replied.

"Professor Fischer has been on the Royal Union for at least two months, and I don't think it would take that much time for a leading mathematician to crack a thirty-year-old paper. With the wisdom of a math genius and a gambler, you may be able to write a fantasy formula for cracking the ultimate mystery of solitaire. ”

"Well, perhaps, he's just loitering on a gambling boat?"

Nazi thought back to the first time she saw Fischer in the casino lobby, the old man mingling with a crowd of drunken gamblers, chatting with ordinary customers and squandering his chips, not like he was tackling a difficult math puzzle......

However, according to the updated intelligence, it seems that many of those "ordinary guests" are also spenders from business alliances. They were accomplices in the bilberry scam and were affectionately mixed with Fischer by then, so could they have gotten a better card counting theory and were testing it with actual hands?

No, no, no, it's not necessary to drink alcohol for testing experiments...... Nazi shook her long blue hair sharply, denying her position that was gradually wavering—

"That's right!" Nazi found strong evidence for herself, the confession of the person involved in the incident -

In a casual conversation before the start of the roulette game, Fischer himself said that according to the rules of Double Dragon Poker agreed between Lingonberry and Vio, no matter how superb the calculation theory, it is impossible to lock in the outcome of a certain round of betting, let alone manipulate the game perfectly. In addition, he praised Vio to his face, saying that although he finally lost the game, the theory he relied on was already the closest to a perfect prediction. ”

However, as if there was no need to think about it, the detective immediately retorted-

It is also possible that Fischer lied on purpose. If he and Lingonberry really work together to develop an algorithm that can suppress Vio, for the sake of the long-term interests in the future, the two will definitely not confide in outsiders. ”

Can't deny ......

If the professor had been here, he might have been able to provide more evidence to disprove the detective's speculation - but now she was the only one in the Hasu Mansion, a bystander who knew nothing about the game and the game.

"But Hugo." Seeing the dilemma that the client fell into, Bilan helped put forward another counter-argument -

"Calculating the hand requires a lot of math skills. After all, the Bilberry King is not a professional mathematician, and even if he has mastered the corresponding theory, he cannot make judgments as quickly as Vio. ”

"When reasoning, you should avoid preconceived stereotypes, blue. I don't think that a skilled gambler will be less capable of calculations than a mathematician. And, even if your argument is plausible, there is a lack of actual evidence to support the counterargument. ”

Hugo's retort left Miss Assistant speechless.

The available evidence is insufficient – so that such a seemingly absurd reasoning cannot be refuted.

"Then there is the second guess, that bilberry has achieved real cheating by some means."

Seeing that everyone was all in an embarrassed speechlessness, the detective threw out the second answer sheet with satisfaction-

"Due to the lack of blind spot surveillance and the presence of glass secret rooms, two fraudulent methods can be eliminated in advance - stealing chips and exchanging cards. If you use these two methods, you will be spotted by the personnel on the plasma side in an instant. ”

"Physical trickery leaves traces of cheating that cannot be concealed, and it is also dangerous for business alliances that invest in bilberrys."

Turquoise tried to win back a city for her previous gaffe, and said before the detective.

"That's right. In the gambling game, the plasma group must always pay attention to the number of chips on both sides, and such obvious cheating will inevitably not be used. The superb Thousand Masters can swap cards in a blink of an eye, but Double Dragon Poker is not a game that requires repeated cards, and Vio, who has excellent card skills, is unlikely to let that happen. Therefore, no matter how powerful the lingonberry is, it will not find an opportunity to use card magic to steal the day. ”

"It's hellish conditions." Nazi sighed.

"Really? I think it's like heaven. ”

The detective shrugged his shoulders -

"First of all, bilberry can play tricks on the referee of the game. Let the henchmen lurking in the plasma mass deliberately pretend to be clumsy and not good at gambling, so as to lead Vio into the trap of contrarian thinking. The plasma team member who has been promoted to a dealer is clumsy, but at the same time he controls the flow of every card on the table, carefully manipulating the winners and losers of each round according to the rules agreed with the lingonberries - so that the lingonberries naturally know when to go all-in and when to retreat. ”

"Oh, it's a mutual cooperation between undercover agents."

As the topic entered familiar territory, Douzi shook his head and commented: "If this kind of scene appears repeatedly in the movie, it will make the audience feel a little tired, as if there are few real bad guys in the villain organization." ”

The assistant also picked up the stubble: "And Vio should be a pretty smart person, he shouldn't find himself an insider to be an undercover agent in this kind of life-and-death gamble." ”

"I guess so." The detective was noncommittal, "But we can't rule it out." ”

Not again...... Natsu cupped her cheeks with a headache, and she finally understood what the detective meant by "a miracle of this magnitude is easy".

In general, the person who makes the reasoning must present sufficient evidence to support his or her conclusion. But today's detectives and clients have no evidence, and can only let the reasoning stop at the point of speculation, and let the truth lie ambiguously between hypocrisy and truth.

But on the other hand, what the detective is operating in front of him is indeed a means of reasoning that can be relied on - since the conditions are insufficient and the conclusion of the reasoning cannot be converged, then simply list all the possibilities one by one, and wait until all the possibilities are analyzed, then the real answer must be in the conjecture listed.

Excessive reasoning - "saturation solutions" that would rather believe what they have than what they don't, and indiscriminate bombardment in the name of speculation.

"In addition to the anti-dealer, there are other ways to fool Vio."

Hugo's voice rang out again.

"One of them is to know in advance the suit and the number of points on the poker table before the cards are opened, through means such as off-court assistance."

"Off-site assistance?" Nazi was a little surprised.

"But it was an airtight glass chamber, which had been strictly inspected by Vio inside and out, and there could be no way to communicate with the outside world. With its special location at the top of the casino, even if I tried to use my superpowers for telepathy, it would become an intermittent murmur, unable to convey even a clear word, let alone control the game. Besides, how can the off-the-field facilitators know the information about the covered cards? ”

"It's because it's a one-way reflective glass chamber that some kind of trick is possible."

The detective puts his palms into a pyramid, looking like a Vio sage who has the upper hand in a gambling game.

"The two duelists in the mirrored chamber are wary of each other, and they hide their hole cards from each other. The dealer is even more careful to pile the cards on the table, and does not squint when dealing the cards, for fear that because of his own mistakes to expose the community cards issued, resulting in the invalidation of the current round of gambling. In the live footage of the live broadcast, the audience in the gambling hall has the same perspective as the duelists in the game, and they are equally unable to know the card points hidden in the darkness - but isn't it just that the lingonberry deliberately made the gambling room so fancy that it wants to hide some kind of mystery in it? ”

"What do you mean?"

Nazi instinctively realized that the trick that the detective was telling at this time was very different from the outrageous reasoning that had come before—and this time the solution was chillingly feasible.

"What do you do when you want to cover up the cards in your hand and avoid being seen by the people in front of you?"

Hugo shook the business card case in his hand and tapped it with his knuckles, and two business cards of the firm popped out.

"Miss Nazi, imagine that you are in Vio's position, and what will you do when you have just been dealt two hole cards by the dealer and want to check your score?"

The detective is like a real dealer, handing out two business cards to Nazi like a frisbee on the table.

The innkeeper hesitated for a moment, recalling in her mind the usual practices of the guests in the casino, and then imitated it according to the script—

Cover the business card with both hands and carefully move it in front of you, then transfer the paper from the table to between your palms, so that your palms and shoulders form an impermeable fortress, and only rely on the reflection of the light on your palms to peek into the corner of the business card.

"Yes, the action simulation is so vivid that if I were your table opponent, I would never be able to peek into your hole cards."

The detective said unpleasantly compliments, and then, unsurprisingly, the conversation changed gear-

"But that's just airtight for your opponent, and if someone is standing behind you and looking closely from the top left corner, they can still see your hole cards. In fact, if you try to check the cards in the palm of your hand with your eyes, you're bound to leave enough space for others to peep. ”

Nazi did it again, this time calling Bilan to check behind her, and sure enough, she found a gap that was enough to see the contents of the business card.

"Light travels in a straight line, and it's everywhere. Wherever the eye can reach, there are naturally other rays of light that transmit information to the outside world. That's why lingonberries have gone to great lengths to create a one-way transparent room. ”

Looking at Bilan, who sat back on the sofa, Hugo explained-

"When you are in a gambling room, the mirrors around you give participants a sense of enclosure. This made Vio subconsciously think that as long as he avoided the sight of the bilberry and the reflection of the wall, the information of his hole cards would be safe and secure - but this was a false sense of security, because the secret room that reflected the indoor scene was actually completely transparent to the outside world, and the lingonberry accomplices could peek into the contents of the hole cards as long as they set up high-precision binoculars in various corners of the casino. ”

Don't underestimate telescopes – humans can use astronomical telescopes to observe faint planets 5,000 light-years away; As long as you are well prepared, it is not too simple to see one or two numbers tens of meters away under the cover of your palms and shoulders.

"Even so, how can the accomplices of the lingonberries pass on the information to the lingonberries?"

Nazi asked again that the idea of off-the-court surveillance was indeed feasible, but it was not the accomplices who stayed behind the telescopes who participated in the gambling game, but the bilberry who was under heavy surveillance.

Before entering the tenth-floor gambling room, both he and Vio had undergone a full-body metal check, and it was impossible for him to carry any communication devices.

"It's a lot simpler." The detective calmly replied, "Or use the light." ”

Like the game on roulette, it's the same magic of light and shadow.

Single-sided see-through glass is amazing in that it can transmit light to the outside while reflecting light to the inside – but this phenomenon can only be achieved when the light on the inside is stronger than the outside. In the case of similar lighting inside and outside, the so-called magic glass can only be an ordinary glass plate.

"What the lingonberry accomplices have to do is not complicated. They waited in the distance, picked up the gambling information from the observer on their mobile phones, and then quickly compiled the suit of the cards into a long line of passwords, and shone a laser pointer at the glass mirror facing the lingonberry. Mirrors that are exposed to strong light from the outside world lose their reflection function, and naturally reveal the black sky outside the room. ”

The detective took the business card back to the card box and said in a summary -

"Therefore, it only takes a glance at the frequency of the black dots flashing in the corners of the glasses to know the hole cards in the opponent's hand - no matter how talented Vio is, he will not be able to detect this trick in advance."

"Telescopes and passwords...... It's a huge fraud. Nazi sighed, she didn't want to continue the reasoning game.

As the detective said, a miracle of this magnitude is a breeze. If Bilberry had intended to cheat in the first place, he had already lost badly from the moment Vio entered the game.

"You can do without a password, but it requires the cooperation of the Pokémon." Hugo said nonchalantly.

"While you claim that Vio inspected every nook and cranny of the room very carefully, the Ssangyong table for two players should be the standard black and white, right?"

Seeing the client nod, the detective continued-

"In that case, it should be a table carved out of two black and white rocks as a whole, and no matter how frantic Vio is, he can't smash the whole table for inspection, right?"

"It's natural, but what's wrong with that?"

"Since you're from Guandu, you should have heard of a thousand techniques called 'Hundred Monster Cards', right?"

"I've heard of it, but it's not in the Kanto area......"

To be precise, I heard bilberry say it on the Royal United a few days ago.

"So, can you rule out the possibility that the entire table is "transformed" from beginning to end?"

“……”

"Perhaps, the Changeling can grow eyes directly at the bottom of the fold to peek under the cards, and then use the sense of touch to write the name of the card on the palm of the bilberry flat on the table, Turbulite, can such a trick be realized?"

"It's a bit of a curiosity, but ...... Seems like it's okay, probably. ”

Miss Assistant glanced at her Poké Ball and replied tremblingly.

Don't do such a strange thing with a variety of monsters—the blue facial expression is screaming.

"In addition, using a ghost-type Pokémon that is good at piercing walls, you can create the same effect. Although Vio will check the ghost energy fluctuations on the scene before the game starts, as long as the energy is estimated and the energy dissipation time is estimated, it is enough to let the elf hide inside the table in advance, but it must be a small ghost with fingers to operate......"

Like an arsonist who slipped into a powder magazine, the detective happily ignites one lead after another, making a thousand strange reasoning explode, without the slightest consideration for the feelings of the listener.

"Okay, I already understand how bilberry wins, please don't go on."

Feeling a little sick to her stomach, Nazi begs the detective to stop reasoning.

"Is that okay? I have a few other very interesting conjectures here......"

"No, my curiosity has been completely satisfied, and it is not an exaggeration to say that I have eaten it...... Please don't continue to pollute my spirit. ”

Faced with the resolute client, Hugo shook his head regretfully.

Obviously, among these last tricks, there is also a cheating method that does not require the assistance of on-site accomplices or Pokémon, which is a rather crazy and gorgeous solution......

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"That's right, Nazi."

Taking his mind away from the game of Ssangyong Poker, the detective said to the superpower hall owner without warning.

"At the beginning, you said that Lingonberry is a real gambler and cannot surrender voluntarily in the face of risk; And I'm refuting your argument by saying that lingonberries are committing fraud rather than gambling. ”

Natsu blinked her red eyes and looked at the detective in confusion, not understanding why he wanted to bring it up again.

"But when I was discussing psychological suggestion before, I suddenly had a new inspiration."

"What kind of inspiration?"

"The transmission of emotions has a recoil force - when it provokes the opponent, the provocateur is also influenced by the aggressive state of mind; The staff who pretend to be ghosts in the haunted house will also have fear in their hearts when they scream loudly to scare tourists; In the same way, Lingonberry plays the role of a poker fanatic gambler in the gambling game, and exerts Vio's desire to win. With this level of emotional backlash, there's no reason why bilberries shouldn't get carried away by competitive emotions. ”

Gambling is addictive and extremely difficult to quit.

Even if he is the most famous gambler king of the United Nations, can he really resist the temptation to gamble?

Then why did Lingonberry finally choose to surrender to the green-haired young man and admit defeat? For an enthusiastic gambler, tearing up a pre-contract or two should be a no-brainer, right? ”

The detective's expression was more serious than ever.

"Nazi, bilberry hasn't said a word since she lost the gamble until she got off the boat and left, right?"

"Yes." The superpowered girl replied softly, she felt that the detective's expression at this time was somewhat similar to that of the lingonberry at that time.

Hugo exhaled a long breath, and his reasoning without any basis spat out—

"The situation may not be as easy as we expected, and the reason why bilberry gave up decisively should be that there was an off-market incident that made him rein in his playfulness. This also led to a long silence in the casino - normally, people would always complain when they had to lose a game, but the Bilberry King on the United Royal was not in the mood. ”

Outside the Yuqi Mansion, there is the sun at twelve o'clock in the afternoon, but in Hugo's eyes, it seems like a sunset.

"The mountain rain is coming, the sound of insects is scattered, and some great things are about to happen."