Qi Xu was taken aback, originally thinking that Xie Shaoning was deliberately throwing the game.
Unexpectedly, the kid was seriously analyzing it. He downed the poison in one gulp. "I was careless. I observed your expression just now and thought you were trying to trick me. I didn't expect you to actually have two fives. Not bad, this is a high-level game."
Xie Shaoning's serious demeanor made Qi Xu a bit dazed. Opening at two fives, did he really analyze anything?
Next round.
Xie Shaoning called, "One two."
Qi Xu followed, "Five fives."
With two bottles of poison left, Qi Xu decided to throw him a bone, allowing Xie Shaoning's image to appear a bit more glorious and mighty in front of all the players on the server, so he could also benefit a little in the final... segment.
But unexpectedly, when he should have opened, he didn't. Instead, he called again, "Six twos."
Qi Xu decisively shouted, "Open."
He had absolutely no desire to keep pretending. If he didn't open on this, it would be an insult to his own intelligence.
After opening, it turned out that Xie Shaoning only had three twos. With just that, he dared to directly call six. Why didn't I follow your call of two in the first round and called five instead? Can't you understand that at all?
"Impressive, truly worthy of being the top player on the server."
Qi Xu inexplicably got goosebumps. Pretending not to know Comrade Little Xie, he simply stood up and went to watch the other two tables.
This time, the first to finish was actually Qi Xu's group.
Instant Noodle Hair Flower Fairy eliminated herself through her own overthinking, Qi Xu screwed over HandsomeBoyMe188 in two rounds, and as for Comrade Little Xie, it wasn't even worth mentioning. Counting him as a victory felt somewhat unnecessary to Qi Xu.
At the other two tables, there was still a player who hadn't been eliminated, making it a standard blitzkrieg.
Qi Xu walked directly to Master Huixin's side and noticed that he only had one bottle of poison left.
However, his elimination was only a matter of time, simply because the player before him was Wang Buyu.
It was only now that Qi Xu realized that Wang Buyu... truly couldn't speak, so when she called numbers, she did it entirely with hand gestures.
Sensing that more and more people were watching, Wang Buyu became increasingly nervous, breathing rapidly, her fingers tightly intertwined.
When it was her turn to call, she gestured eight fours.
Master Huixin had no fours in his hand. After a whole round, he realized that only Wang Buyu had called fours.
So he directly chose to challenge.
After opening the cards, it was revealed that Wang Buyu didn't have any fours either. Just when he thought he had guessed right, he discovered that the other two players each had four fours...
Master Huixin silently chanted Amitabha, drank the last bottle of poison, and became the first to be eliminated.
However, he also roughly guessed Wang Buyu's abilities and skills; otherwise, it would be completely illogical.
Wang Buyu's small face turned deathly pale. How long had the Deity Gathering just started? Her background had already been completely figured out. Indeed, crowded places were just too dangerous.
After Master Huixin was eliminated, the player after Wang Buyu became Shadowkill.
Sent away in a similar round, Cheese Milk Cap actively cooperated with Wang Buyu, calling a number she didn't have at all. Wang Buyu followed with Shadowkill's most abundant number, "six."
Shadowkill pushed the quantity, only to be challenged by Cheese Milk Cap, who completely saw through it. Eliminated in one round, Shadowkill was left with absolutely no temper. Between the two of them, one could see through others' cards, and the other had such a quick mind.
It was exactly like playing with open cards. In the end, only Wang Buyu and Cheese Milk Cap 80% Sugar were left.
Cheese Milk Cap 80% Sugar wanted to just drink the poison directly, but helplessly had to go through the motions. Unexpectedly, Wang Buyu directly gestured, "Six fours."
Cheese Milk Cap was stunned. She didn't have a single four. Wasn't this pure throwing?
She decisively chose to "open." Throwing a round or not didn't matter. If Qiuqiu determined it was cheating, this girl would be in deep trouble. Anyway, she still had two bottles of poison.
Sure enough, Wang Buyu lost. She only had four fours, her first loss in two major game rounds.
When they started again, the back-and-forth probing between the two was relatively slow to heat up, but the final outcome...
Wang Buyu clearly wanted to repeat her old trick, but Cheese Milk Cap 80% Sugar wasn't willing and didn't want to directly open the cards, instead saying in her heart, "Be careful of being punished by Qiuqiu."
Wang Buyu's face instantly turned red down to the base of her neck. She lowered her head to calm her emotions for a while before opening the cards and winning this round.
Just then, the card table also determined its final winners.
[Round 2 Game Rankings (Rankings based on game completion time)
First Place: Invincible Black Whirlwind, Endless Longevity, Wang Buyu
Second Place: Happyending, Wolf Warrior 005, Cheese Milk Cap 80% Sugar
Third Place: HandsomeBoyMe188, Ember Kiss Starlight Moon, Shadowkill
Fourth Place: Instant Noodle Hair Flower Fairy, Subway Line 5, Master Huixin]
To be honest, the rankings in the second round weren't much different from the first. There was no epic comeback scene of the fourth place successfully counterattacking to become first.
Even the three people who ranked first in both rounds were as steady as Mount Tai; not a single person changed.
[The first half of the Deity Gathering has successfully concluded! Everyone's wonderful performances have been synchronized to the light screen panels of every player on the national server. I believe everyone has gained many supporters.
Next, I have prepared a carefully curated dinner for everyone. The dishes balance flavor and nutrition, hoping to replenish your energy and soothe your fatigue. Please feel free to chat during the meal and continue to enjoy this relaxing time together. Have a pleasant meal!]
Qi Xu raised an eyebrow slightly. After so many years, he couldn't quite remember clearly if there was this dining segment in the Deity Gathering during the previous round of games.
But what was certain was that he had never heard Qiuqiu speak so politely, so this dining segment definitely had a problem. He needed to observe carefully to find out exactly where the problem lay.
Soon, the dilapidated tables and chairs around them all disappeared, and the tavern-like environment also changed...
A super large circular walnut tabletop suddenly appeared in the middle of the crowd. Looking around, floor-to-ceiling glass windows came into view, and the dry landscape courtyard outside seamlessly connected with the indoor space.
It was beautiful, but it also looked like... a rough composition by a fake AI. The glass was embedded into the branches of the trees, the corners of the dining table were completely connected to the floor as if they grew out of it, and there was the warm yellow light strip on the ceiling...
He couldn't even be sure if it was a light strip, because he only knew that it glowed there, but completely couldn't see the shadow of any lights.
The delicacies on the table clearly looked, smelled, and tasted great, and the plating was exceptionally exquisite, but for some reason, Qi Xu had absolutely no appetite looking at them.
Many details revealed strangeness, yet the light screen broadcast no longer made any sound...
Everyone looked at each other, and finally, they all focused their gazes on Qi Xu.
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