Three rounds of coin guessing hadn’t solved Jiang Shu’s problem; instead, they made him realize sothing.
This Red Clo was no less difficult to deal with.
Compared to Black Kler, Red Clo’s thinking was a bit more unorthodox, and even Jiang Shu had been fooled by his performance.
"What’s the ga rule? Tell about it," Red Clo fiddled with the coin, apparently trying to replicate Jiang Shu’s earlier coin rolling technique, but didn’t succeed even once.
Fortunately, he’d been catching the falling coin with his left hand underneath each ti, and wasn’t continuously spilling and picking up coins like a ntally challenged child.
"Hide the coin first," Jiang Shu said, watching Red Clo’s constant dropping of coins, he frowned slightly and spoke rapidly.
What puzzled Jiang Shu was that Red Clo actually obediently "Oh"ed, then put his hands behind his back and started hiding the coin.
"First, I need to know, what are the rules for overti?" Jiang Shu didn’t directly state the rules he wanted to add; instead, he first asked Clo.
Clo answered without hesitation, "At the end of each round, whoever is leading in points is the winner."
He didn’t want to go through another three rounds, as the longer it dragged on, the easier it was for Jiang Shu to see through all his ntal tricks, and he didn’t have a stable way to score, so continuing would be disadvantageous to him.
"Alright, the added rule is you can’t use magic props, but you can ask questions, and..." Jiang Shu said, his speech starting quickly and then slowing down slightly.
By now, Red Clo had also completed his coin hiding, and he extended his clenched fists.
Jiang Shu quickly pointed to his left hand and continued at a fast pace: "Now we are both lying, is it in this hand? Quick, quick."
Red Clo hesitated for a mont then imdiately answered, "No."
Then Jiang Shu pointed to his right hand and asked, "Now we are both saying ’no,’ is it in this hand? Quick!"
"No," Red Clo responded instinctively.
"Good, it’s in this right hand," Jiang Shu pointed at the right hand again and provided the affirmative answer.
"Huh?" Red Clo was also slightly stunned, he seed not to have figured out what had just happened, but before he could think it through, Jiang Shu interrupted his thought process again.
"Quick, is it the right hand or not?" Jiang Shu kept urging Clo, not giving him the chance to think deeply.
Clo still looked a bit confused, but he opened his hands nevertheless.
The coin was indeed hidden in his right hand.
In the fourth round, Jiang Shu repeated his trick; he transferred the extra coin in the sa way to between his fingers, a place invisible from Clo’s perspective.
Jiang Shu didn’t need to stand in the opponent’s position to know this, as he had perfected his concealnt technique during his past extensive mirror training.
And so, unsurprisingly, Clo guessed wrong this round.
With the round ended, Jiang Shu also won the ga with a score of 2:1.
The tension in the hall imdiately dissipated, and the hostages all breathed a sigh of relief; though the process had its twists, it ended without danger.
Jiang Shu let out a long sigh.
His thod of coin guessing had succeeded again. Perhaps it was hard to describe the intricacy of the whole process just by words, but in actuality, the process of guessing the coin was not only intricately cunning but also despicably clever.
Or perhaps, it was simply unfathomable.
The trick started when he spoke about adding new rules; first off, he needed to confirm how many rounds the ga would actually go, as this thod could only be used once or twice before becoming noticeable.
A sharp and quick respondent like Red Clo could only be tricked with this ploy once.
He briefly confused Red Clo with the new rules he casually ntioned, then he linked the "new rules" with his "questions" using "and also..."
"And also" is a very cunning word; because of this word, Red Clo subconsciously found it hard to determine whether "Now we’re both lying, is it in this hand?" was a question or a new rule.
So he just answered instinctively, and by that ti, Red Clo certainly hadn’t figured it out.
With the left hand negative, naturally the right hand was affirmative.
By this point, Jiang Shu already had the answer for this round, but he had to prevent Red Clo from understanding this fact within a short ti, as it would aid in concealing his subsequent coin hiding and the possibility of guessing correctly again.
Thus, what ca next from Jiang Shu was critical.
Due to the existence of echoic mory, Red Clo would soon recall the recent statent; therefore, Jiang Shu had to quickly dispel the information in Red Clo’s mind about "lying."
This resulted in the phrase "Now we all say ’no’," which modified Red Clo’s mory—he would only rember that Jiang Shu asked him to say "no" both tis, not once lying and once not.
It might be difficult to grasp the principle of this magic with words alone, much like the perplexing left-left-right and right-right-left, but that was the fact. Jiang Shu had also used it to bamboozle so of his magician friends, and without exception, it was successful each ti.
The outco was that these knowledgeable magician friends all thought he had used so sophisticated magic prop and were puzzled for a long period of ti.
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