“Oh?” The eyebrows beneath the Black Butterfly’s mask arched as she replied with a delicate voice, “What… exactly do you mean by that?”

“I’ll explain the results of my ‘observation’ during the second round,” Feng Bujue said, standing up from his chair. “But for now…”

He didn’t finish his sentence, but quickly flipped over a card. The next second, he glanced at it, then quickly flipped over two more cards of the same suit.

“Judge, announce the score.” Because he was too fast, the judge was still a little dazed, so Brother Jue reminded him.

“Uh… this… this gentleman gets three points, please continue to flip the cards.” The judge paused for a moment, then stammered out this sentence.

Before the words were even finished, Feng Bujue made another quick move, flipping another “1+2” in less than five seconds, still the same suit—score.

“Th-three… points!” This time the judge’s reaction caught up, and he immediately announced, “Please continue…”

And Brother Jue’s speed increased again, flipping three more cards before the other person could finish the second half of the sentence.

The result… was still the same suit.

Just like that, Feng Bujue continuously revealed the suits on the table with a speed that seemed to see through the card backs, and the judge cooperated very well, quickly announcing the scores.

“Three points, please continue… three points, please continue…”

Even the players and judges at other tables were attracted by this almost uninterrupted announcement, and they all looked over…

In less than two minutes, Feng Bujue scored 24 points in a row; even he himself felt that he was quite lucky in this round.

Perhaps some people are still wondering… in the first ten rounds, the total number of cards flipped by the two people had reached 75 times. Even if you remove the 15 cards that have already scored, there should still be 60 known cards. Among these 60 cards, there should be at least 30 cards that can be combined to score, right?

Wrong!

First of all, almost all of the 15 scoring cards taken away by the Black Butterfly were cards that had been “revealed more than twice.” Among them… only one card was taken away after being “revealed for the first time,” because that card was an unknown card that she revealed in the first hand of a certain round, and she happened to clearly remember where the two cards that matched that card were.

In other words, just in the cards she scored, there were 14 that had already occupied those 60 “flipping times”…

Secondly, among the other cards remaining on the table, there were also cards that the Black Butterfly had “repeatedly flipped over.” These cards were mostly cards that she had accidentally flipped to near the scoring cards when she tried to score and failed.

In summary, at the beginning of this eleventh round, there were not 60 known cards remaining on the table. In fact… there were only 40 or so. And these forty-odd cards also included two *Wujian Diyu* (Avici Hell) that Brother Jue had flipped out in the first round, and a *Jile Jingtu* (Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss) that the Black Butterfly had flipped to in the seventh round; therefore, there were only a mere nine *sanxiang jie ming* (three suits are clear) cards that could actually be combined to score.

So, the question arises again… Of course, this time the question is not “Why did Brother Jue only get 24 points,” but “How did Brother Jue get 24 points?”

The situation is like this…

From the first round of this game, Feng Bujue never flipped an “known card”; until this round, every round and every hand that Brother Jue flipped open… was all an unknown card that had never been flipped before. Even if there had been two cards of the same suit as the card he flipped, he would not turn back to flip those known cards to score… just like he did in the third round.

But in this eleventh round, his tactics… suddenly changed.

In the first two flips of this round, he still used the offensive method of “flipping an unknown card first,” but these two times, after successfully flipping to a new card where “two cards of the same suit have already been revealed,” he chose to turn back to score; after taking those 6 points, he took the “known 9 points” on the table, for the first time adopting the tactic of “not flipping an unknown card first”…

Putting aside the hidden meaning behind this set of actions, at least in the eyes of the Black Butterfly, what her opponent accomplished was—in just one round, he used continuous scoring to tie the score difference with her.

This kind of change… undoubtedly caused the Black Butterfly’s heart to waver.

However, that’s not the end of it…

Next, Feng Bujue once again adopted the strategy of “flipping an unknown card first,” and succeeded again three times, raising the score to 24 points.

This scene also quickly turned the Black Butterfly’s wavering into panic and fear…

“Don’t you think this is a little unbelievable?” Feng Bujue opened his mouth at this very appropriate time.

“Heh…” The Black Butterfly squeezed out a stiff smile, “I wonder Mr. Crow… what method did you use…”

“I didn’t use any special method.” Feng Bujue seemed to be able to see through the other person’s thoughts, directly interrupting the Black Butterfly’s words and continuing, “Everything that has happened so far can be considered normal from a probabilistic point of view; in my opinion… it’s very boring, because this can’t be called ‘gambling’ at all, it’s just a ‘game’.”

“How is that possible…” The Black Butterfly finally couldn’t help it anymore. She put away her delicate tone and asked with a more normal tone and speed, “Can a normal person score twenty-four points in a row in this kind of game?”

“Heh… the ‘normal person’ you mentioned…” Feng Bujue laughed when he heard this, “Are you referring to the kind of person whose short-term memory is pitifully weak and whose observation ability is virtually non-existent?” He paused for a second and continued, “Um… now that you mention it… the average level of modern people is roughly like that. Taking white people as an example—an adult’s memory of a string of random decimal digits is usually less than or equal to thirteen digits… and that’s still under the premise that they are consciously trying to remember.” He spread his hands and looked down at the table, “This *Sanzhong Shenjing Shuairuo* (Triple Neurasthenia) game has as many as 102 cards, and the patterns printed on the cards are not familiar to most people. If two ‘normal people’ were to play, I’m afraid they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between victory and defeat even after playing more than fifty rounds.”

Speaking of which, he changed the topic: “But… what I just said was, ‘probabilistically normal,’ I didn’t say that I was a ‘normal person’.” He paused for half a second and said arrogantly, “I… am a person who ‘can clearly remember all the cards that have appeared’ and ‘knows which cards have not been revealed’.”

The Black Butterfly did not respond to these words.

Logically speaking… if it was five minutes ago, she would definitely not have believed these words, but now, she was skeptical.

“You don’t quite believe it, do you? It doesn’t matter.” Feng Bujue once again revealed what the other person was thinking, and continued on his own, “Let me continue…” He didn’t wait for the Black Butterfly to respond, and directly began to explain, “First of all, in the first ten rounds, I undoubtedly had the opportunity to score points, such as that *Shengru Fanwang Xiang* (Sound Like Brahma King Suit)… hehe… Speaking of which, do you really think your seductive posture will work? To be blunt… even if your opponent is an incurable lecher, in this important gambling game that concerns his future, he won’t be distracted by that kind of factor, right?”

“You mean… you were deliberately not scoring points at that time?” the Black Butterfly continued.

“Of course,” Feng Bujue replied, “When I flipped the first card in the third round, there were only twelve cards that had been flipped over on the table. Unless your breasts have the special ability to erase other people’s memories through the optic nerve or eat away at other people’s intelligence, even with the ‘average level of white people,’ you could score points in that round, right?”

“Hmph…” The Black Butterfly had no choice but to snort coldly at Brother Jue’s retort. After all, she had nothing to refute in this matter…

“Therefore, there is only one possibility for me not to score points, and that is—I don’t want to score points,” Feng Bujue continued.

“Then what do you want to do?” The Black Butterfly was already using an unkind tone at this time.

“Observe.” Feng Bujue replied succinctly with two words, and then added, “Although I gave up the points I could have scored in these ten rounds, I obtained valuable information—your mode of thinking, the upper limit of your memory ability, your style of confrontation, etc., I have basically mastered it all.”

“Hmph… is that so?” The Black Butterfly obviously didn’t believe these two sentences of Brother Jue; even if she believed that Brother Jue had a super memory, she wouldn’t believe that the other person could see through her thoughts.

The Black Butterfly entered the world of fame and fortune at the age of sixteen, and was a socialite who dominated the scene at the age of twenty; she had also been naive, fragile, and trusting, so she had been hurt, pained, and regretted. This year she is thirty years old, and she has become strong, mature, and cold.

She doesn’t even need this butterfly mask, because she has already put on a mask that she will never take off; no one really knows what she is thinking, even if she takes off all her clothes in front of someone, she will not open up even a trace of her heart.

“Whether it is or not, you will understand in the second round,” Brother Jue continued, “In this first round… I will first let you confirm my ‘memory ability’…” As he spoke, he flipped over another unknown card, “Um… it seems that my score in this round will be 24.” He said after seeing the card.

The Black Butterfly glanced at the card and continued, “What’s wrong? This isn’t a hell or heaven card, if you remember everything, you should be able to get…”

“Precisely because I remember everything, I know this won’t work,” Feng Bujue once again rudely interrupted the other person’s words and continued, “So far, among the cards that have been revealed on the table, except for the hell cards and pure land cards, there are six pairs of cards that can be ‘paired’, that is, cards that have been revealed as ‘two suits’; and the others… are all suits that have only been revealed as ‘one suit’.”

“In this *Sanzhong Shenjing Shuairuo* (Triple Neurasthenia) that requires ‘three colors of the same suit’ to score, cards that have only been revealed as ‘one suit’ are useless… just like the card I just flipped to.”

“Unless I flip another unknown card that is the same suit as this one, I will not only not be able to score points, but also create an extra pair of ‘two suits’ scoring opportunities for you.”

“Heh… of course, the premise is that you have to remember the positions of those ‘pairs’ clearly…”

After saying that, he quickly flipped over two more unknown cards that had never been revealed before, ending his round.

“After saying so much…” The Black Butterfly didn’t rush to flip the cards this time, but asked, “You still haven’t explained why you said that what you did in this round… ‘can be considered normal from a probabilistic point of view’.”

“It’s very simple,” Feng Bujue replied, “Think based on the fact that I ‘clearly remember all the cards that have appeared’, and you will understand…

“At the beginning of this round, I knew that there were a total of nine *sanxiang* (three suits) cards that could be scored directly, and sixteen… a total of eight pairs of ‘two suits’ cards. After removing the fifteen cards you took away and all the known cards, the probability of drawing a scorable card from the remaining cards on the table is more than 20%—a probability of one out of every five cards flipped.

“At the first hand, I didn’t have to consider this probability at all; if I didn’t draw a card that could score points, I just had to continue flipping new cards and observe you for another round. But the actual situation is that I succeeded in drawing it… so I took those three points first.”

“Then, I got the opportunity to flip the cards in the second round. The first hand in this round was very crucial. The probability was basically unchanged, but if I couldn’t flip a card that could score points, I could only give up.”

“As a result, I still flipped it, which allowed me to get rid of another pair of ‘two suits’ cards.”

“From here, I stopped flipping new cards and instead took away the 100% guaranteed scores, taking all nine *sanxiang jie ming* (three suits are clear) cards and tying the score.”

“After the tie… I was actually ready to stop scoring, because there were still six pairs of known pairs left, and after each scorable unknown card was flipped out, the probability of flipping it again would be reduced by a lot. I really don’t have much confidence in this kind of situation where I’m betting on luck…”

“To my surprise, I still successfully flipped out three pairs in the end, and at this time… the probability of flipping to a scorable card has been reduced to about 7%. It has changed from one out of every five cards to one out of every fourteen cards, and the result… as you can see.”

Hearing this, the Black Butterfly’s lips, which were not covered by the mask, were trembling slightly. There were two things she could be sure of now: first, she was already a little unable to keep up with her opponent’s train of thought; second, this feeling of not understanding but feeling like it was awesome probably meant that what the other person said about “remembering all the cards that have been flipped and being able to calculate which cards have not been flipped” was true.

Clap—clap—clap—

“Okay… okay…” After being silent for a moment, the Black Butterfly raised her hands and applauded Brother Jue, and restored that artificial attitude, “Mr. Crow, I admit that your memory ability is above mine, and I deeply admire it.”

“You flatter me.” At this time, Feng Bujue had already sat back in his chair, sucking on champagne with a straw, and replied leisurely.

“It’s just… you…” The Black Butterfly said charmingly, “Aren’t you a little too fond of showing off?” She leaned forward again, resting her elbows on the table, supporting her cheeks with one hand, and showing off her cleavage, “If you had waited a few more rounds in silence, only appropriately picked up some points, and then waited until the moment when both *Jile Jingtu* (Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss) cards became known, and raised the number of revealed suits on the table to ‘twenty-five suits’ in one breath, and immediately flipped out two pure land cards to turn defeat into victory… then, wouldn’t I have no chance at all?”

“Oh?” Feng Bujue smiled playfully and replied, “You mean… under the current situation, you think you still have a chance?”