Chapter 52

Fight the Landlord couldn’t be played.

We couldn’t have three people playing each round while one person watched, could we?

However, Dream Game City seemed to have “heard” the first half of Zhou Chenhao’s words.

The dice and dice cups of the four people melted like candles, turning into liquid, and then re-formed into poker cards.

Now, each person had a deck of poker cards in front of them, but they still didn’t know what game to play.

Zhou Chenhao rubbed his chin, thought for a moment, and then proposed another one, “Then how about we play Old Maid?”

The other three: “…”

Xiao 6 was laughing so hard its code was trembling, “Why are the games the male lead proposes always so ridiculously out of place? They don’t fit in here at all. It feels like we’ve gone from a King of Gamblers competition to a class reunion in an instant. Fight the Landlord, Old Maid, is the next one going to be Go Fish? Hahahaha hic.”

“I don’t mind, any game is fine.” Gong Ting narrowed his eyes and said with a pointed meaning, “But Old Maid takes a long time to play one round, doesn’t it?”

In Old Maid, each person had to draw a card from the next player’s hand and match it with a card in their own hand to make a pair before they could discard it. They also had to observe the other players’ expressions to judge whether the card they wanted to draw would be beneficial to them. This process was repeated until only one person was left with a single card, determining the loser.

Although they had played many rounds of dice just now, each round had actually only taken one or two minutes.

Before Zhou Chenhao could react, Ling Feng, who was next to him, thought of it first.

Xia Xiaoxi was currently locked in a dark, secret room by Gong Ting, with nothing to eat or drink. The longer they took, the longer Xia Xiaoxi would be trapped.

Ling Feng said, “Change it.”

After he said that, Zhou Chenhao also realized.

They needed to win Gong Ting’s game coins as quickly as possible to rescue Xia Xiaoxi.

While they were talking, Bai Xuechao picked up the poker cards on the table in front of him, set aside the two jokers on top, and began to play with fancy shuffles and cuts as if he were bored.

He understood clearly that on the surface, Gong Ting was reminding Zhou Chenhao and the others, but in reality, it was for himself.

Gong Ting also wanted to win Zhou Chenhao’s game coins as quickly as possible.

The sound of the poker cards being interlaced and stacked was extremely distinct, and the other three all turned their gazes towards Bai Xuechao.

Bai Xuechao noticed their gazes, smiled, but the cutting motion in his hands didn’t stop, “What, am I disturbing you?”

The poker cards spun and fanned out in his hand like a flower, then were quickly gathered and cut into four even stacks, constantly flipping in his hands, before merging back into two stacks. Then, his left hand rubbed a poker card, sending it flying across in front of him to land in his right hand. The movements were as smooth as flowing water, with numerous and dazzling flourishes.

“No.” Zhou Chenhao replied, continuing the previous topic. He asked Ling Feng, “Change to what?”

Ling Feng lowered his eyes and thought for a moment. The poker games he knew of all took a long time per round, and the slightly shorter ones were difficult.

After thinking it over, he thought of a game that should be suitable, “Blackjack.”

“Blackjack?” Zhou Chenhao scratched his head and didn’t hesitate, “I’m fine with it, but how do you play that?”

Ling Feng: “…”

You don’t even know how to play, yet you agreed so quickly?

Bai Xuechao was still endlessly playing with fancy card cuts, the flourishes in his hands becoming more and more numerous. The poker cards in his hands were cut into several stacks, fanned out, flipped, and repositioned, performing a classic Pandora’s Box cut.

He raised his blood-red eyes and looked at Gong Ting.

Gong Ting was also looking at him, or more accurately, at the movements of his hands, as if he were on guard against something.

Bai Xuechao snorted inwardly, but his expression remained unchanged, merely smiling, “Since someone is a novice, how about City Lord Gong explains the rules?”

Stop staring at me, though staring is useless anyway.

After all, he had already hidden two Ace cards up his sleeve, right under Gong Ting’s nose, using the fancy card cuts as a cover.

They were hidden in the cuff of his jacket.

“Alright.” Gong Ting withdrew his gaze from Bai Xuechao and turned to Zhou Chenhao, beginning to explain the rules of Blackjack, “It’s the same as before, we’ll take turns being the dealer.”

Gong Ting said, “To put it simply, the dealer deals two face-up cards to each player, and one face-up and one face-down card to themselves.”

Face-up cards meant the face of the card was visible, showing the suit and number, while face-down cards were, conversely, face down.

Gong Ting continued, “After the cards are dealt, each player chooses to hit or stand. When the first player stands, the second player can start to hit. During the hitting process, if the sum of the points exceeds 21, it’s a bust. After all players have stood, the dealer must turn over their face-down card and start hitting, and can only stand when the point total is not less than 17.”

“We’re competing to see who can get closest to or equal to 21 without busting. As for the other rules, we’ll talk about them as we go.”

Seeing that Gong Ting seemed to intend to stop there, Ling Feng spoke up to add, “For point calculation, J, Q, K, and 10 all count as 10 points. The Ace card can count as either 1 or 11, which the player decides for themselves. The others are all counted according to the number on the card.”

Zhou Chenhao nodded, “Okay, I got it.”

Bai Xuechao gathered the cards in his hand and placed them on the table, pushing them towards Zhou Chenhao, “Then let’s begin. Blackjack doesn’t use jokers, I’ve already taken them out.”

Ling Feng and Gong Ting also took out the jokers from their decks and pushed them to Zhou Chenhao.

Zhou Chenhao picked out the jokers from his own deck, took the four decks of poker cards, and started to shuffle.

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