Facing Gu Lingfeng's aggressive pressure, I remained unmoved.
Seeing this, Gu Lingfeng smiled again.
"Hahahaha! Kid, you're feeling guilty, aren't you? You should feel guilty!"
"When you touched the last card, I clearly remembered its position."
"As long as it's not diamonds, unless you've memorized the sequence of high cards of other suits to form pairs, your hand will definitely be a mixed bag, just like mine!"
"Show your cards! If we both have mixed bags, the single cards will be compared by rank! Even if your fifth card is a single 9, my J on the fourth card can beat your single 10!"
"Not to mention, I have the high diamond, the club!"
"Don't try to cheat, show your cards quickly!"
"If you don't show them now, I'll consider it a win!"
To make something perish, one must first make it go mad.
At this moment, Gu Lingfeng's performance perfectly illustrated this point.
Of course, his madness was understandable.
He had brought me from the VIP room to the main hall with misplaced confidence, intending to defeat me openly in front of all the gamblers. However, in his arrogance, his cards were swapped.
Under these circumstances, Gu Lingfeng actually had no way back.
Now, he could only pin all his hopes on my fifth card, praying that I would also reveal a mixed bag, so that he could turn the tables and regain the key to victory.
Therefore, upon seeing my continued silence, Gu Lingfeng became increasingly frantic, attempting to mask his true emotions – fear!
And I, naturally, would not let him have his way.
Seeing Gu Lingfeng spiraling further down the path of self-inflicted madness, and with the attention of the surrounding crowd fully engaged…
I reached for the pile of cards in front of me, to reveal the card hidden on the table.
The moment I reached out, I clearly sensed countless eyes converging on me, fixed upon me.
If I made any unusual move, the owners of these eyes would undoubtedly call a halt and have those bodyguards restrain me.
Unfortunately for them, I disappointed them.
I made no extraneous movements, simply reached out to flip the card, and then decisively revealed it.
Without any delay, a conspicuous Club 10 appeared.
"Hahahaha! Clubs!"
"Kid, you're finished!"
"No straight flush, your hand is a pair of tens! Wait… how is that possible!?"
Upon seeing that the fifth card was not a diamond, Gu Lingfeng, whose heart had been pounding, first breathed a sigh of relief, then immediately began to taunt.
But before he could finish his taunt, he realized that something seemed to be amiss.
A, K, Q, 10, 10, this card sequence…
A pair of 10s!
I wasn't holding a mixed bag, but a pair of 10s.
Without a doubt, I had won this round.
"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"
The ironclad fact caused Gu Lingfeng's face to instantly display an expression of extreme disbelief.
Before his words had even fully subsided, Gu Lingfeng's entire mental state shifted from initial frenzy directly to utter despondency.
He suddenly stood up from his seat, reached out, and grabbed the Club 10 in front of me, wanting to verify if the card was real or fake.
From top to bottom, from front to back… he examined it meticulously.
After confirming that the card was indeed legitimate, Gu Lingfeng's face once again showed a hint of ferocious madness. Pointing at me, he roared, "There's no reason for this outcome!"
"As early as the first round of drawing cards, I guessed that you were aiming for a straight flush."
"At that time, I acted preemptively, disrupting the sequence of cards you wanted. You couldn't have seen through me! If you had seen through me from the start, why were you so silent and guilty earlier?!"
"Cheating! You must have cheated!"
"You swapped the cards, you secretly replaced the fifth card!"
"Guards! Search him!"
Honestly, Gu Lingfeng's current furious demeanor didn't resemble a card sharp at all, but rather those gamblers who refuse to admit defeat.
Before the game began, I had stated that the key to victory lay in the half-deck that the opponent had shuffled.
Since it was an all-in game, the foundation for winning had to be established from the start.
Because card combinations from 10 to Ace are much easier to remember than those from 2 to 9, and once obtained, they instantly defeat all other hands to form a winning straight flush.
Therefore, my initial strategy was: get high cards! Memorize the positions of the ten winning straight flush combinations!
After half a deck was combined into pairs and then mixed for five or six shuffles, there was no need to memorize complex card sequences. One only needed to lock onto the high cards from 10 to Ace.
Although I had memorized the positions of the ten high cards, I knew I absolutely could not be the first to snatch the card combinations Gu Lingfeng wanted.
If I did that, Gu Lingfeng would also try to snatch the card combinations I wanted, and in the end, both of our hands would be a mess.
These potential factors were known only to Gu Lingfeng and me.
Therefore, the game of winning and losing, both on and off the gambling table, had never stopped between Gu Lingfeng and me.
Subsequently, during the first round of drawing cards, he acted to disrupt the sequence of my next two cards.
I had seen this all along but pretended not to know.
After Gu Lingfeng made his move, I followed suit in the second round, disrupting his card sequence in a similar manner.
However, the difference was that I only disrupted his crucial fifth card. kanδん
When the first four rounds of drawing cards concluded, Gu Lingfeng, seeing that the Diamond 10 he had disrupted was indeed drawn by me beforehand, believed he had secured victory…
My ultimate killing blow had only just appeared!
When people are in a relaxed state, their control over subtle details tends to fall below their normal standard.
Gu Lingfeng could never have imagined that the fifth card I drew would be a Club 10.
This is the deceptive art of the Thousand Gate's Blue Path!
Winning early doesn't mean winning; losing later means losing!
In any gambling game involving card sharps, never assume you have a sure win until the final reveal!
………………
Just as Gu Lingfeng, desperate in his loss, recklessly refused to honor the outcome and called for me to be searched…
"Stop right there!!!"
A clear, crisp female voice echoed throughout the entire casino hall.
Following the sound, I saw Yu Shuang, clad in a red dress, the Queen Bee, walking down from the second floor, accompanied by Shi Jianguo, Leng Shuang, and others.
Possessing unparalleled beauty and an extraordinary aura!
This was the first time I had met Yu Shuang and her companions again since our parting in Anhai.
However, this time, it was not Yu Shuang's group hiding in the shadows, but me, having changed my appearance!