Qi Xia licked his dry lips and picked up a chess piece from his hand. Lin Qin's pupils instantly widened after seeing it. That was a white piece.
"Qi Xia... I can only tell lies... You absolutely must not believe me..."
Lin Qin shouted loudly in her heart, hoping a miracle would happen and allow Qi Xia to hear her. She was very afraid right now, afraid that Qi Xia's trust in her would cause him to lose his life.
"Absolutely do not believe me..."
Lin Qin chanted in her heart over and over again. She only saw Qi Xia ponder for a moment without asking a question, and instead he brought out the black piece. Lin Qin furrowed her brows tightly.
She knew that whether it was a black piece or a white piece, she could only give the opposite answer. She saw Qi Xia slowly raise the black piece, bring it close to Lin Qin's eyes, and say, "Lin Qin, tell me..." Lin Qin reached out to cover her mouth.
Her whole person was about to break down. She simply did not want to tell Qi Xia that this was a white piece, but if she did not tell a lie, the mechanism on the glasses would trigger.
Qi Xia seemed to have sensed something and said faintly, "Do not be nervous, Lin Qin, keep your brain working, everything is not over yet." After hearing this, Lin Qin nodded in despair.
After making sure her emotions had become relatively stable, Qi Xia opened his mouth and asked: "Lin Qin, tell me, what color would Old Lu say this chess piece is?"
"Eh?"
Lin Qin and Old Lu blanked out at the same time, and Human Pig also rolled his eyeballs a bit.
"Listen well to my question, Lin Qin, I will ask it again."
Qi Xia repeated, "What color would Old Lu say this chess piece is?"
Old Lu...?
Lin Qin turned her head to look at Old Lu, her mind spinning rapidly. The touch of her own glasses was ice-cold, which meant she certainly had to tell lies. And Human Pig had not lied at all up until now, showing that the rules are absolute, so Old Lu would tell the truth.
Since that was the case, Old Lu would say this chess piece is black. Just as Lin Qin was about to blurt out the word black, she suddenly thought of something. She was the one telling lies, so she could not tell Qi Xia the answer black.
Even if Old Lu said black, she had to say white. If it was like this, wouldn't everything return to the starting point?! The crucial point of this game did not lie with Old Lu at all, but rather here with herself.
Lin Qin bit her lips and ultimately still struggled to speak the word: "White." At this moment she felt as if she was someone strangling the throat of the truth. Any truth, as long as it passed through her mouth, would ultimately turn into a lie.
Old Lu covered his forehead in frustration, feeling that everything was over.
"White is it..."
Qi Xia turned his head, seeming to look at the chess piece in his hand, and then the corners of his mouth lifted. He said, "So that is how it is." Human Pig pondered for a moment and thought to himself, "What are you going to do?
Qi Xia, the person you trust the most told you the chess piece in your hand is white. What choice will you make?" He only saw Qi Xia slowly place the black piece in his hand to the side, and then he picked up the other white piece.
He handed the white piece forward, passing it into Human Pig's hand.
"Oh? You have made your choice?"
Human Pig asked. This time, Human Pig had learned from his previous mistakes and deliberately made his tone sound as flat as possible. This way, Qi Xia could not possibly judge the color of the chess piece in his hand through his words.
"Yes, I have made my choice."
Qi Xia nodded and said, "But it is not the one in your hand. That white piece is yours."
"What?"
Qi Xia ignored Human Pig. Instead, he gripped the black piece in front of him in his hand and said, "This black piece in my hand is life, and that white piece in your hand is death. The game is over."
Under the dumbfounded gazes of everyone, Qi Xia slowly took off his blindfold. Everything was exactly the same as he had expected. For him, the only thing that felt uncomfortable right now was that having worn the blindfold for so long made him a bit sensitive to the lights.
"You..."
Human Pig trembled all over with agitation.
"What kind of joke are you playing..."
Qi Xia opened his eyes, looked at Human Pig, and said, "I am already playing a life-gambling game with you, how could this be a joke?" After saying that, he pointed at Lin Qin and Old Lu.
"Let them go. Accept your loss when you gamble."
Human Pig widened his eyes and stared blankly for a long time. Finally, he let out a frustrated sigh, took out a remote control from the drawer, and pressed it absentmindedly. Old Lu and Lin Qin only heard a click, and the mechanism on their glasses was deactivated.
The two of them hurriedly took off these deadly things and tossed them aside casually.
"Qi Xia! You kid are really fucking capable!!!"
Old Lu roared with excitement. He walked up and slapped his palm onto Qi Xia's back.
"Have you won the lottery before?! What kind of luck is this?!"
"Luck, is it..."
Qi Xia shook his head.
"In this life-gambling game, I did not rely on any luck at all. It is just that Human Pig underestimated his enemy."
Human Pig silently turned his head upon hearing this and said, "I underestimated my enemy...?"
"That is right."
Qi Xia adjusted his clothes and slowly stood up.
"I told you a long time ago that smart people do not rely on luck, but you did not take it to heart."
"So you are saying..."
Human Pig also stood up in disbelief, "Everything just now... was all planned by you?"
"Yes."
Qi Xia nodded.
"My stratagem was very simple. As long as you picked one black piece and one white piece for me, then I would win, and I would win one hundred percent of the time. There is no possibility of any accidents."
Human Pig widened his eyes, his pupils continuously expanding. This was the first time since he became the Pig that he had lost so thoroughly.
"In order to make you smoothly pick one black and one white for me, I even specifically told you that only after you finish picking, will it be easier for me to pick."
Qi Xia reached out his hand, picked up two black pieces and two white pieces from the table, and held them separately in his hands, as if simulating Human Pig's psychological activities at that time.
"You must have struggled internally for a while, right? In the end, you found that no matter how you chose, giving me one black and one white was the safest bet."
An unbelievable voice came from inside Human Pig's mask.
"You even calculated this..."
"Should I say you were too cautious, or too careless?"
Qi Xia weighed the two white pieces in his hand.
"If you had trusted your first instinct and directly given me two white pieces, I would already be dead right now."
Human Pig spoke no more, only staring at Qi Xia with resentment. Qi Xia added, "When I held two chess pieces of different colors, as long as I asked a question like I just did, I would know the color of the chess piece in my hand one hundred percent of the time."
Hearing this, Lin Qin hurriedly thought it over for a moment. A moment later, her mouth opened wide. The question Qi Xia asked just now was simply too ingenious.
He asked what color would the other person say this is. No matter whether the person being asked would tell the truth or tell lies, as long as Qi Xia was holding a black piece, the other party would uniformly say the answer white.
When he asked Lin Qin, Lin Qin knew Old Lu's answer would be black, but due to her trait of telling lies, she changed it to white. When he asked Old Lu, Old Lu would directly state Lin Qin's answer, which was white.
Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the answer Qi Xia received was not white, but black, he would also immediately know that the other piece in his hand was the correct answer.