In the silent lounge.
Pfft...
No one knew who couldn't hold back and laughed first, followed by the second, third... nth person, all breaking down and laughing.
Seeing everyone's expressions, Wang Mingxuan, who already felt a premonition, instinctively looked down.
It was better not to look, but as soon as he did... Wang Mingxuan froze stiffly on the spot.
"No! Impossible! There's no reason!"
After shouting loudly, Wang Mingxuan, with a frenzied and disbelieving look, suddenly raised his head and questioned me, "Where's the 'A'? Why isn't it an 'A'? I clearly fed you..."
Before Wang Mingxuan could finish, I directly interrupted him with a raised hand and said with a knowing smile, "Heh heh! Want an 'A'? Look, it's here with me!"
As soon as I finished speaking, I flipped over the second card in front of me.
It was the single 'A' that Wang Mingxuan had been eagerly anticipating!
Two points plus one point, my cards totaled 3 points.
Actually, if we strictly followed the rules of Blackjack, as the dealer, I shouldn't have revealed my cards early before Wang Mingxuan explicitly said he didn't want to hit. However...
This gambling match was conducted privately, and it was not a public event.
As long as the deviation from the rules wasn't too outrageous, minor issues like revealing cards early could be completely ignored.
Moreover, revealing my cards early was not beneficial to me and was beneficial to Wang Mingxuan.
He knew this in his heart.
Therefore, this idiot didn't dwell on the issue of revealing cards early at all, but shifted all his attention and focus to that 'A'.
The moment he saw the 'A' in my hand, Wang Mingxuan was struck by lightning. He stood there in a daze, muttering, "Why is it like this? It makes no sense! Absolutely no sense!"
"I clearly controlled you and erased all memories of 'A' from your mind!"
"And I left a command in your mind for you to mechanically search for 'A' based on the muscle memory left in your hands when shuffling, and then deal the cards to me."
"The previous hands were all successful, why did it suddenly go wrong on this hand where I went all-in?"
"Could it be that you did it intentionally before to lure me into a trap?"
After speaking, Wang Mingxuan stared at me intently, his eyes filled with madness and ferocity, and a hint of extreme urgency and desire.
It seemed he desperately wanted to know the truth.
Thinking this, and after chuckling inexplicably, I directly nodded and replied, "Congratulations, you guessed correctly! Too bad... there's no prize!"
Upon hearing this, Wang Mingxuan stood there in a stupor. After he came to his senses, he suddenly looked at me as if he had gone mad and shouted, "Impossible!!!"
"You can't decipher my mind-reading! Someone must be helping you from the shadows!"
"Mind-reading? Heh heh!"
With a dismissive laugh, I said coldly, "It's hypnosis, not mind-reading! Why pretend?"
"Don't you think I know that you used the special properties of ventriloquism to combine the generated sound waves with certain highly hypnotic movements and gestures, a two-pronged approach to give me a hypnotic suggestion?"
As soon as my interpretation came out, the frenzied look in Wang Mingxuan's eyes immediately subsided, and he asked with surprise and uncertainty, "You, how do you know so clearly?"
After lighting a cigarette and taking a deep drag, while exhaling a long, hazy plume, I pointed at Wang Mingxuan and replied casually, "Because of your nickname!"
"My nickname?"
Wang Mingxuan was bewildered, completely lost and confused.
Seeing this, I stopped beating around the bush and said directly, "The person who truly holds the nickname 'Mind-Reading Divine Calculator' is a super master renowned in the global gambling world!"
"In the year 2000, he used complex algorithms and formulas to sweep through the three major casinos in Las Vegas in a single night."
"While winning countless chips, he also led the three casinos to successively ban him for life."
"It has been eight years since then, and although no one knows the whereabouts of this super master now, but..."
"Since that person could easily enter and exit the most heavily guarded casinos in Las Vegas, even if he's not doing well now, he wouldn't have to come here to fight for a spot with me, right?"
"Clearly, you are definitely not that super master!"
"So, after confirming you were a fake, I've been secretly guarding against you, wanting to see what methods you, an impostor 'Mind-Reading Divine Calculator', would use to deal with me!"
"In other words, from the moment I sat at the table, I've been secretly wary of your every move."
"Of course, you weren't wrong just now! To be able to break your hypnosis so quickly, indeed, someone was helping me."
"It's just not one person, but a group of people!"
When Wang Mingxuan heard me say that a group of people were helping me, he, who had just begun to recover his composure, became confused and shocked again...
Changing the subject, I pointed at the surrounding onlookers and laughed, "I noticed that among all the onlookers in the lounge, except for a few people like Sister Xiaowan, most of the others didn't look at you directly."
"Or rather, most of them... didn't dare to meet your gaze directly!"
"So I deduced that your so-called 'Mind-Reading Divine Calculator' was most likely a form of hypnosis."
"Because hypnosis requires the cooperation of the eyes to be effective!"
"Coupled with your cough that came too abruptly, therefore..."
"Although you performed the hypnosis silently and without leaving any flaws, with my prior preparation, it was completely ineffective!"
At this point, the truth was revealed.
After my complete explanation, Wang Mingxuan's face immediately turned pale again, and then his head shook like a rattle, as if he couldn't believe any of it.
"No! This is absolutely impossible!"
"You must have been under my spell before, otherwise how could you have let me do as I pleased?"
Wang Mingxuan still didn't believe me and was making his final defense and struggle.
Hearing this, I retorted coldly, "Idiot! Have you heard of the fishing theory?"
"To catch a big fish, you need patience, and you must use plenty of bait!"
My words made Wang Mingxuan's face contort with anger, and he glared at me menacingly, shouting, "Bastard! Don't get too smug! I haven't lost yet! Hurry up and deal me a card!"
Seeing Wang Mingxuan exhibit typical gambler's psychology, I didn't say any more nonsense and directly drew a card from the deck and gave it to him.