The Earth is Online - Chapter 40

[Chapter 40]

This white wall is more than three meters high, separating the two teams of players on both sides.

Tang Mo raised his head and saw Pinocchio lying lazily on the wall, humming his out-of-key “Merry Christmas” song. Tang Mo listened carefully for a while. Not listening to Pinocchio’s unpleasant songs, but listening to the voice on the other side.

Very strange, this wall did not completely seal the space on both sides, but he could not hear the sound of the opposite team.

The white wall falls, no sound can be heard, no people can be seen.

After confirming that the other side really couldn’t hear his voice, Tang Mo turned to look at his three companions. The female high school student tentatively stretched out her hand, touched the edge of the grid, and said in surprise, “It’s gone, I can get out of the grid.”

All four tried it.

The four grids are connected into a line. Originally, everyone was confined to his grid and could not take a step outside. But after the white wall fell, the three invisible walls in the middle of the four grids disappeared. Tang Mo still couldn’t get out of the grid area, but he could walk freely in the four grids.

Four people stand in the middle of the grid and look at each other.

The young man said first: “Well then, it’s teammates next. Let’s get to know each other first. My name is Zhao Wenbin, and I was a junior high school teacher before Earth went online.”

The other two apparently had the experience of introducing themselves. The female high school student did not fully reveal her identity: “Just call me Xiaolu.”

The middle-aged man also said, “People used to call me Brother Qiang.”

It was Tang Mo’s turn: “My surname is Mo.”

The young man nodded, and he looked at the four cards on his side: “You also heard that, in our game, first of all, it is definitely impossible to follow the so-called rule of first-out slaves.” He said these words, No one objected, and even Tang Mo listened to him calmly and continued, “This is a very classic prisoner’s dilemma type game theory game. You may not have heard of this theory, it doesn’t matter, it has nothing to do with the card game we are going to play. The same. Even the Black Tower said that the correct rules for playing cards in the Underworld Kingdom are slaves, knights, ministers and kings. But do you think we can play slaves?”

The high school girl didn’t even think about it: “They can’t make slaves. If we make slaves, they will definitely use other cards to suppress us and eliminate us.”

The middle-aged man also said: “Slave is a fool, absolutely can’t play. If our slave card is gone, we will not be able to deal with their trump card. We are almost certain to lose.”

Tang Mo listened quietly by the side, and didn’t say anything.

Zhao Wenbin glanced at him, and seemed to think that he was an unimportant ordinary person, and continued to say to the other two teammates: “So what we need to determine now is, except for the slave card, what are we going to play in this round?”

All three fell into deep thought.

Tang Mo turned his head and stared at the queen card. He fixedly looked at the woman in the crown with long curly hair on the card, and his brows gradually tightened. At this time, Zhao Wenbin said: “Since everyone has no opinion, then I will say it first. I think we should play the minister card this round.”

The middle-aged man asked, “Why?”

“It’s very simple. First of all, we didn’t play the slave card because we were afraid of being suppressed by the opponent in the first game. The slave card can be suppressed by the minister card and the knight card, and the opponent has a 1/2 chance to make our slave card invalid. As long as they are not fools, any team will not play slave cards in the first round of cards.” Zhao Wenbin analyzed, “Secondly, the most unlikely cards on both sides of us are the trump card and the queen card.”

This is easy to understand. The female high school student said: “Yes. The trump card and the slave card are too important, and they are almost a final decision. It is better to put it in the back. If the trump card is eliminated in the first round, the next game will be played. It’s too hard to play.”

As soon as this sentence came out, the middle-aged man thought: “Then let’s play the minister’s card!”

Zhao Wenbin nodded: “That’s right, we should play the minister card. Eight out of ten on the opposite side | Nine is the same as our idea, they will not take risks in the first round, and they will only play one of the minister card and the knight card. The ministers restrain the knights, we will definitely not lose if we choose the ministers. At most, we will play the minister cards with them, and the two cards will be invalid at the same time. In this way, there are three cards left on both sides, and the probability of playing a pair of slave cards is also reduced from one quarter. up to one-third.”

Both high school girls and middle-aged men agreed with Zhao Wenbin’s words.

Tang Mo listened to Zhao Wenbin while looking at the queen card.

Zhao Wenbin’s words are not unreasonable. This is a typical prisoner’s dilemma game. Under normal circumstances, no one will play slave cards and trump cards in the first round. These two cards are too important. If you lose one of the tickets in the first game, you will lose the initiative in the next game and be passive.

Among the four cards, the most important card is not the trump card, but the slave card.

Once the slave card is lost, as long as the opponent always plays the trump card, then in the order of priority from top to bottom, the minister card and the knight card are played in turn. In this way, the first team to lose all cards is considered a failure, and Tang Mo’s side has no chance of winning.

So the first game is definitely not a slave card.

But it doesn’t have to be a ministerial card.

“That… Mr. Mo, do you agree that we will play the minister card first?”

Tang Mo turned his head and looked at Zhao Wenbin: “I’m more inclined to play the queen card.”

Zhao Wenbin looked at him in surprise, and the high school girl and middle-aged man were also very surprised.

Zhao Wenbin pondered for a while, then shook his head: “No, this is too dangerous. In case the slave card is actually played face to face, then although they can’t see our card face, they see that our card is restrained by their slave card. , they knew we lost the queen card.”

Tang Mo said lightly: “It’s just that I prefer the queen card. If you all want to play the minister card, I have no objection.”

“Okay, then it’s settled.”

In this game of play, most teams choose to play minister cards together at the beginning. There is a great possibility that a minister card will also be played on the opposite side. This is the safest way for both sides to get through the start smoothly. It is necessary to understand the other party’s thoughts better, in order to judge the psychological way of thinking of the other party, so as to judge what cards they will play next time.

One of the reasons why Tang Mo wanted to play the queen card was that in his judgment, there was an 80% chance that the opponent would not play the slave card. There is only a 20% chance that the queen card on your side will be countered and discarded. Such a probability is worth betting on, as long as the two sides lose a card first, whoever is at a disadvantage.

Another reason is because of this queen card.

The Eighth Rule of the Black Tower: The Queen’s Card can trigger the “Going Home Kneeling on the Washboard” effect, asking the other side a question.

Zhao Wenbin said: “We have the queen card, so we can ask the opponent a question at any time. Have you thought about it, what question should we ask? The question cannot be related to the content of the card, and the opponent can only answer yes or no.”

The female high school student immediately said: “Do you still remember, Heita said that if the other side lied when answering the question, even if we win. Then… can we ask a question they don’t know, so they have a half chance If it is wrong, it is a lie.”

Middle-aged man: “It makes sense, you can indeed win like this.”

Tang Mo retracted his gaze from looking at the queen card, and stood one meter away from the three, with a calm voice: “The Black Tower will not give you such an obvious loophole. With a 99% chance, you will only waste one opportunity to ask questions. , the Black Tower considers this question ineffective. Are you really going to waste it?”

Tang Mo’s looks are quite outstanding. When he was standing in the distance just now, the female high school students kept looking at him secretly. But being stabbed so coldly by him, the high school girl glared at him dissatisfied, turned her eyes away, and never looked at him again.

Zhao Wenbin also said: “Let’s think about a more important question. But don’t worry, wait until you observe the other side to understand their personality and psychology, and then you will have time to make a choice.”

At this moment, a loud child’s voice sounded in the white world——

“Ding dong! The first round of Pinocchio’s Honest Card Game is about to begin, and the cards are now shuffled.”

The whole white world made a loud noise, and the ground began to tremble. I saw the four silver and iron cards flying up with a rumble, and after they were suspended half a meter above the ground, the four cards suddenly changed rapidly. The four cards changed positions at an extremely fast speed. With Tang Mo’s dynamic vision, he was able to catch up with the speed of changing cards at first, but soon, he could no longer see the contents of the cards.

ten seconds later.

boom!

The four cards stopped in the four grids, and a silver light shot out from the center of the card, connecting to the eyebrows of the four Tang Mo. The object connected to each card is the person standing in the grid, but the position of the card itself has changed.

Zhao Wenbin’s card was originally a knight, but now he has become a slave.

The high school girl was originally a slave, but now she has become a minister.

The middle-aged man is a knight, and Tang Mo is still a queen.

After shuffling the cards, the black tower issued a prompt——

“Ding dong! After three minutes, please all players stand in the card grid where the card is decided to be played. The cards in this grid are regarded as the cards to be presented in the next round.”

Zhao Wenbin and the middle-aged man began to walk into the minister’s grid. The female high school student saw that she had changed from a slave to a minister, and stood there hesitantly, without moving. Zhao Wenbin turned to look at her: “What’s the matter, let’s stand in the minister’s grid together.”

The high school girl clenched her fingers: “…I’m the minister.”

The middle-aged man understood what she meant, and asked in a very aggressive tone: “Then I was a minister just now, and I didn’t want to play my cards without saying it. This is the first game, what are you afraid of? It’s also a minister, both of your cards are invalid, and it won’t trigger the duel field.”

The female high school student was still a little hesitant. Zhao Wenbin said, “Don’t be afraid. It’s almost impossible for the opponent to play a trump card to restrain you. Like us, they don’t want to take such a big risk in the first round.”

As if moved by Zhao Wenbin, the high school girl looked at the kind smile on Zhao Wenbin’s face, and finally made up her mind and walked to the minister’s grid.

Tang Mo looked at them, put his hands in his pockets, and walked to the grid on the other side without thinking.

The three looked at him in surprise.

Zhao Wenbin: “Mr. Mo, what do you mean?”

“It’s nothing, just try it out. If the four of us choose differently, the black tower will decide what cards we play. If it decides that there is a problem with the cards, I will stand with you again.” Tang Mo stood in the queen’s grid , looked calm.

Both the female high school student and the middle-aged man were a little dissatisfied with him, but they didn’t say anything when they saw Tang Mo’s calm expression.

Three minutes are up soon, and the child’s voice reminded—

“Ding dong! The card has been selected.”

The huge card slowly fell down in front of Zhao Wenbin and the three of them, with its back facing up, and pressed it to the ground. The moment the card fell to the ground, the silver light connecting the four people’s eyebrows gradually disappeared.

“Do you follow the principle of the minority obeying the majority…” Tang Mo thought.

Having already decided what card to choose, Pinocchio, who was lying on the white wall and humming, stepped on the foot, jumped up from the wall, and stood on the top of the wall. He looked at Tang Mo’s side, then turned to look at the other side. Pinocchio laughed sinisterly, and he patted the wall: “My good brother, it seems that these honest children have made a choice, you can rest for a while.”

The white wall made a roaring sound and slowly rose upward.

Tang Mo saw the situation on the opposite side, and the moment he saw it clearly, he shrank his eyes and looked at the man in black who was standing directly opposite him.

Seeing Tang Mo, the other party raised his lips slightly and smiled at him.

Neither of the two said a word, just stared at each other silently.

Tang Mo felt a strong sense of unease in his heart. He clenched the match tattoo on his wrist and stared at the tall and straight man in black.

The high school girl exclaimed in a low voice, “How come they stand like us.”

Yes, among the four people on the opposite side, three stood in the same grid, and only the man in black stood alone in the grid, directly opposite Tang Mo.

Could it be that this man in black, like Tang Mo, wanted to try the black tower to determine the rules of card selection?

Pinocchio jumped off the wall and clapped his hands happily. The crisp clapping of hands echoed in the white world, and with his voice, the two fallen silver and iron cards were clinging to the ground, moving little by little to the blank area in the center of the two teams. Soon, the cards were tightly attached to each other, still in a state where the fronts were attached to the ground and the contents of the cards could not be seen.

In the blink of an eye, Pinocchio ran to the card on Tang Mo’s side. He leaned down and touched the card with his hand: “Oh, it’s a very good card.”

Tang Mo didn’t react at all to his words.

The rules of the Black Tower have stated that Pinocchio does not know the content of the cards played by the two teams. This Pinocchio is pure nonsense.

Pinocchio ran to the opposite card again and touched it with his hand. He looked serious: “Well, this is also a very good card.”

It was the first time the card was officially played. Except for Pinocchio, neither of the two teams had the time to make jokes. They stared at each other. Tang Mo glanced at the three players standing opposite each other. When he turned his eyes, he found that the man in black was still looking at him.

Tang Mo felt something wrong in his heart. He even thought of that possibility, but he subconsciously avoided the answer.

With four people on the opposite side, how could it be possible… to play the trump card?

Those three people actually came up with the trump card unanimously?

This is impossible.

Seeing that the eight players ignored him, Pinocchio pouted and sat down on the card opposite.

“Then let’s start playing cards. You people who are not fun, must not have heard the most famous Pinocchio honest card song in our underground kingdom!”

“biu—”

Pinocchio quickly changed his words: “Okay, okay, this song is not famous at all, but it’s good… yes yes, it’s not good at all! Damn you don’t make me longer, I want Start singing!”

“A king goes hunting, and the queen looks in the mirror every day.”

“The minister ran after the king, and the knight wanted to see the princess…”

Pinocchio beat the beat with his hands and feet, closed his eyes, and immersed himself in his off-key singing. “Where’s the lovely slave? Oh, he’s in the cauldron in the underground kitchen!”

“Ding dong! In the first round, the player plays the card.”

A dazzling white light flickered from the two cards. Pinocchio seemed to have burned his ass with something. He immediately stood up from the card, walked to the side, and hummed the ugly song he composed himself with a smile. Song, looking at two glowing cards.

I saw this white light getting more and more dazzling, filling the entire white space. The rays of light made everyone unable to close their eyes. Tang Mo tried his best to open his eyes to see the situation, but the strong rays of light made him narrow his eyes uncontrollably. Then, he heard a crisp cracking sound.

Almost instantly, his body trembled and he understood what the sound was.

“Crack-”

The light disappeared suddenly, and under everyone’s attention, cracks appeared on the silver-iron card on Tang Mo’s side. These cracks start from the center, spread rapidly outwards, and finally cover the entire card like cobwebs. finally……

“Crack-”

The card turned into white light and disappeared into the air.

Pinocchio covered his mouth not surprised at all, and deliberately said in a very surprised tone: “Damn, you dishonest children, what the hell are you doing!” He said angry words on his mouth, but his face was full of All smiles, looking at the eight players on both sides with anticipation.

Tang Mo’s eyes were all focused on the place where the card disappeared.

The high school girl’s eyes widened in disbelief, she muttered “impossible” and stepped back. At this moment, a silver light shot out from the place where the card disappeared, and directly connected to the eyebrows of the high school girl. Tang Mo hurriedly looked at another card that wasn’t broken.

I saw a silver light shot from the center of the card, flew to the right, and connected to the man in black between the eyebrows.

Tang Mo groaned in his heart and stared at this person.

The man in black walked calmly into the blank area, and after he walked in, the silver light between his eyebrows disappeared. He raised his head, looked at the pale-faced female high school student opposite, and finally turned to look at Tang Mo. He smiled slightly: “So, the dueling field effect is triggered.”