The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the temperature dropped sharply, and the heavy snow for several days turned the entire Jiangzhou City into a world covered in silver.

The school was on winter vacation, and the students had already gone home. Xiao Lou was sent by the department to attend an academic exchange meeting, which lasted until the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. After a day off, he packed his luggage and flew back to his hometown to spend the New Year with his grandparents.

When he was young, his parents were too busy with work, and Xiao Lou once lived in the countryside with his grandparents for a period of time. At that time, he was too young, and his memory of childhood was already blurred.But he will go back to his hometown every Spring Festival, because the New Year reunion is a tradition of the Xiao family, and his father and uncle will bring their wives and children home for New Year's Eve dinner and watch the year together.

It was the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve when Xiao Lou arrived home. As soon as he entered the room, his cousin Xiao Xinyue greeted him and said with a smile, "Brother, why did you arrive so late? Grandma was still talking about you just now!" She leaned over , whispered in Xiao Lou's ear, "Why are you still not married?"

Xiao Lou: "..."

When you go home during the holidays, you will be urged to marry by your elders.

Xiao Lou is indeed an "older unmarried youth" now, and at the age of 27, he is still a single dog.

He went to school early and was admitted to the medical school at the age of 17. After graduating from graduate school, he stayed on as a teacher at the school and was rated as an associate professor at a young age.Xiao Lou has a gentle personality, a tall stature, and a very handsome appearance. It stands to reason that with his conditions, he should be very popular in the blind date market...

It's a pity that he studied forensic medicine.

When people hear the word "forensic", people will naturally think of corpses. Who likes to be with men who dissect corpses every day?

In fact, Xiao Lou is not a forensic doctor in the criminal investigation system, and does not need to go to the murder scene to identify the cause of death of the deceased.

After graduation, under the recommendation of his tutor, he stayed in the medical university to teach. He usually spends most of his time teaching the students of the forensic department.The cases sent to the identification center are usually injury identification of car accidents and fights, and occasionally genetic identification, poison identification, etc. He has not seen a corpse for a long time.

***

After coming to the living room, Xiao Lou greeted the elders politely, and distributed the gifts he brought to everyone.Grandma really looked at him with a smile and asked, "Xiaolou, when will you bring grandma a daughter-in-law back?"

While pinching the old man's shoulders, Xiao Lou said warmly, "Grandma, I'm too busy with work now, and I want to wait until I'm 30 to think about getting married."

Xiao Xinyue booed from the side: "Brother, if you had studied clinical medicine and went to a hospital to become a doctor, there would definitely be a lot of girls queuing up to chase you because of your good looks. But now, when they heard that you are a forensic doctor, most of the girls were rejected. You scared away, hahaha."

Xiao Lou looked up at his younger sister, and said with a half-smile: "This is a professional prejudice. Forensic doctors don't dissect living people, so it's not as perverted as in horror movies. Besides, I haven't touched a corpse for a long time."

Hearing the word "corpse", Xiao Xinyue's scalp felt numb, and she immediately turned and ran away.

Just as the restaurant was about to serve dinner, Xiao Lou helped his grandma to sit down, changed the subject and asked Xiao Xinyue, "Have you decided which school to enroll in next year?"

The youngest cousin, Xiao Xinyue, is 18 years old and will face the college entrance examination next semester.When Xiao Lou asked such a question, the topic of the elders became what majors should girls enroll in to find a job in the future. Xiao Xinyue actively joined the discussion, and no one mentioned Xiao Lou's marriage anymore, which made Xiao Lou slightly relieved.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, the elders started playing mahjong, while Xiao Lou took his cousins ​​to the next room to play.

Xiao Xinyue took out a brand new deck of playing cards and said, "Let's play Dou Di Zhu, the three of us. How about a drink for the loser?"

Cousin Xiao Wei rolled up his sleeves, eager to try: "Come on, I'm good at fighting landlords!"

Xiao Lou is not interested in playing poker, but every year when he comes back to his hometown during the Spring Festival, his elders will have a table of mahjong, and playing poker with younger siblings is too boring, so he has to accompany them as the eldest brother.

Fighting the Landlord is one of the most common games in poker.The rules are very simple. The "landlord" can replenish a few cards in his hand to improve his combat effectiveness, and the other two "peasants" need to join forces to play two against one. The two sides are divided into two camps. Whoever finishes his hand first wins.

Xiao Lou was very lucky in the first place, and directly touched a king bomb.

Seeing the big and small kings in his hands, he said without hesitation, "Call the landlord."

Xiao Xinyue and Xiao Wei had no choice but to beat him together.

As a result, Xiao Lou's cards in this round were too good. In addition to the big straights of 9, 10, J, Q, and K, there were also several pairs, four 5s, and a pair of kings. survive.

The younger siblings looked at him in bewilderment, playing all the cards in one go.

Xiao Lou smiled slightly: "I won, you can drink Coke."

Xiao Xinyue and Xiao Wei had no choice but to drink Coke with a bitter face.

Next, no matter whether Xiao Xinyue is called the landlord or Xiao Wei sits in the manor, he will be beaten to pieces every time by the elder brother--Xiao Lou's card luck tonight is so good that people can't comment. I almost vomited my drink.

The three of them played cards until twelve o'clock in the morning.

The deafening sound of firecrackers sounded outside, and the younger siblings excitedly ran to the yard to set off fireworks. Xiao Lou was wearing a coat and was about to go out when his cell phone suddenly lit up, and a message popped up on the screen: "Happy New Year .”

Sender: Yu Hanjiang.

Seeing the familiar snow scene portrait, Xiao Lou raised the corners of his lips and quickly replied, "You too, Happy New Year."

Yu Hanjiang asked: "When will you go back to school?"

Xiao Loudao: "Go back after the seventh day of the Lunar New Year."

Yu Hanjiang said: "Thank you for your help last time, I will treat you to dinner when I come back."

Xiao Loudao: "Team Yu is polite, please contact me when you come back."

There was a "bang" sound outside the window, and fireworks of various colors bloomed one after another, decorating the night sky as bright as day.

Standing in front of the window, Xiao Lou looked at the conversation record on his mobile phone, and the scene of seeing Yu Hanjiang for the first time came to mind.

It was a rainy day, and a girl from the Medical University fell to her death, which alarmed the criminal police in Jiangzhou City.Xiao Lou was not familiar with the girl, but the last class the girl attended happened to be his class. As a person involved in the case, Xiao Lou was invited by the police to take notes.

Walking into the criminal police brigade, he saw the man at first sight - the man was wearing a dark blue police uniform, standing upright by the window, he was tall, with slender legs, and his handsome profile was like the most exquisite statue .

As if aware of the gaze from the side, the man turned to look at Xiao Lou, walked over and nodded to him, and said, "Hello, I am Yu Hanjiang, the leader of the serious crime team of the Criminal Police Brigade, please come and cooperate with the investigation."

Xiao Lou nodded politely at him: "Hello, Captain Yu, I will definitely cooperate with all my strength."

Yu Hanjiang led Xiao Lou into the inquiry room, made a "please sit down" gesture, and said indifferently: "Name, age, occupation, these are the necessary procedures for taking notes, please answer truthfully."

During the process of taking notes, the man's voice was deep and powerful, his expression was extremely serious, and his eyes were as sharp as a sword, giving people a strong sense of oppression. Being stared at by him, he was almost out of breath.

Even if Xiao Lou had no direct relationship with this matter, he didn't want to look him in the eyes.

——Those eyes are deep and cold, like the surface of a frozen lake in the cold winter months, sending chills down the spine.

The speed of solving the case was much faster than Xiao Lou imagined, and it was determined to be murder.The police caught the murderer the next day. It was the girl's roommate who pushed her downstairs, and the incident caused a sensation on the Internet.

At that time, Xiao Lou had a great improvement in the efficiency of Jiangzhou Criminal Police Brigade in solving cases.

He inquired about Yu Hanjiang through a forensic classmate he knew. It was said that Yu Hanjiang's background was a mystery, but he was suddenly airborne at a young age to serve as the team leader of the serious crime team of the criminal police team.The serious crime team is an action team set up in Jiangzhou City to specialize in the detection of major criminal cases such as murder and rape. Since Yu Hanjiang took office, he has solved many outstanding cases and greatly improved the efficiency of case handling.

This man is selfless, ruthless, and ruthless, making criminals frightened by the news. Just a ruthless look in his eyes can make the guilty tremble with fear.It is said that he is very good at interrogating prisoners, no matter how stubborn the suspect is, he will confess his guilt obediently under his interrogation.In just two years, Yu Hanjiang's name has become a legend in Jiangzhou's police circle.

After hearing about his deeds, Xiao Lou admired this man very much, and felt that Yu Hanjiang was young and promising.

I thought we wouldn't have much contact with him, but within a few days, Yu Hanjiang suddenly found the office of the Forensic Medicine Center and asked Xiao Lou to help him identify an extremely rare poison.Xiao Lou specialized in forensic toxicology during his postgraduate studies. He published several valuable papers and was well-known in the forensic field. When Yu Hanjiang approached him, the two exchanged WeChat messages and phone calls.

Xiao Lou assisted the police in solving this vicious poisoning case, and Yu Hanjiang's "thank you for your help" refers to this help.The two met four times back and forth, all because of work, and the friendship was not deep.Therefore, Xiao Lou was also very surprised when Captain Yu, who had always been indifferent, offered to invite him to dinner.

Standing by the window, Xiao Lou, lost in memory, did not notice that the poker cards on the table suddenly had a layer of blood-red luster at this moment, and the luster gradually formed a vortex, and the space around the cards also distorted accordingly. , as if to suck everything around into the card.

***

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Lou said goodbye to his family and flew back to Jiangzhou City.Thinking of the WeChat conversation on the night of the New Year's Eve, Xiao Lou simply sent a message to Yu Hanjiang: "Captain Yu, I'm back. When do you have time, let's have dinner together?"

There was no response to the message.

He thought that the other party might be busy, so he sat on the sofa in the living room and read the news while waiting for a reply.

Seeing that it was past dinner time, Yu Hanjiang still didn't reply to the message.

After all, Team Yu has a special status, and if he didn't reply to the news, it might be because he encountered some difficult case and was investigating and collecting evidence on the spot.Xiao Lou tactfully didn't bother the other party anymore, and went downstairs to eat a bowl of noodles by himself.

After eating noodles, he wanted to go to the supermarket to buy some daily necessities, but when he was crossing the road, he suddenly saw a bus rushing towards him at the corner——

Xiao Lou's eyes widened, his heart almost stopped beating!

He quickly ran away, but the speed of the bus was too fast, as soon as he took a step, his body was slammed into the air!

There was a sudden dizziness in front of his eyes, and Xiao Lou quickly lost consciousness completely.

***

When he woke up again, he was surrounded by a vast expanse of white mist.In the hazy mist, a cold mechanized voice clearly reached my ears: "Xiao Lou, congratulations on being selected by the card world, you now face two choices——

A: Die peacefully, forget everything, your soul will die completely, and you will never be sick again.

B: Retain the memory until the card world is reborn, and accept new challenges.However, the rules of survival in the card world are very cruel. Perhaps it is better to simply die here than to live here. "

Xiao Lou was a little puzzled.

Is this voice hallucination?And gave him two strange options?

Since he didn't respond, the cold mechanical voice spoke again: "I'll give you 10 seconds to think about it. During the countdown of memory erasure, 10, 9, 8..."

Xiao Lou said decisively: "I choose B."

Regardless of whether the voice was a hallucination or not, he could only choose the latter among the two options.

He was only 27 years old, a great age, and he didn't want to erase his memory and completely disappear.Just give him another chance, no matter how difficult and dangerous the new world is... At least he's still alive, isn't he?

To live is to have hope.

Xiao Lou quickly calmed himself down and asked, "Who are you?"

The other party said coldly: "I am a highly intelligent system elf in the card world. You can't see me, but I can see you."

The feeling of being watched made Xiao Lou frown. He took a deep breath and continued to ask: "What exactly is the 'card world' you mentioned?"

The next moment, countless cards suddenly appeared in front of him.

It was the poker card he used when playing Doudizhu with his younger siblings on the night of the Spring Festival. The back had a familiar blue rhombus pattern, the most common one in canteens.5 of Hearts, 8 of Diamonds, 10 of Clubs, J of Spades... Playing cards of various suits strung together into a long chain, swaying quickly in front of him, like a movie film played at four times speed.

In the white mist, the card chains were quickly arranged horizontally and vertically. The four suits were mixed together without any rules at all. The densely packed poker cards formed a huge side in 10 seconds at a speed visible to the naked eye. wall of cards.

System: "Player Xiao Lou, welcome to the card world."

The author has something to say: 1. The team's infinite flow novel is mainly about adventure, puzzle solving, and breaking through levels. Various cards will be used in breaking through levels.This article is inspired by the combination of the escape room game and the poker game. All the secret room plots are fictional by the author and have no realistic prototype.

2. Straightforward and ruthless Gong × Gentle and calm, high IQ analysis Emperor Shou, join forces to challenge various secret rooms.