Lonely lamp, round table, war.
Cards, scarlet, and a smile covered by shadows under the light.
At this moment, in the lounge of the stone marrow restaurant, Huai Shi looked down blankly at the cards in his hand that were dyed in four strange colors. He heard a voice coming from beside him.
"It's your turn, Huai Shi."
Following these words, around the round table, faces covered in scarlet lifted up and looked in his direction.
Smiling.
It was as if he had cast down a death sentence.
Huai Shi closed his eyes and swallowed his saliva in despair.
After a short hustle and bustle.
Happiness was gone.
.
The original plan was so perfect.
Huai Shi tried his best to think, and from the countless paths leading to despair, he came to the only correct solution — everyone ate hot pot together, sang songs, and spent a good night together.
But the night was indeed beautiful.
And happy.
Everyone drank heartily under the sumptuous hospitality and enjoyed the banquet. It was relaxed and happy, as if there was no haze in the whole world.
Unfortunately … there was no banquet in the world that lasted forever.
No matter how good the meal was, it would run out eventually.
What's more, under the fierce drinking competition of the seniors, many people had already left halfway through the banquet.
As they politely bid their farewells one by one, the bustling stone marrow hall gradually returned to its original silence.
It was as if the hidden reef paid for its sleep after the tide receded.
When Forest Hut ignored the teacher's pleading gaze and ran away with his girlfriend, Yuan Yuan also politely took Anna and left. Therefore, in the cozy and comfortable lounge, there were only the guests who stayed here for the night … the guests.
The night was getting darker.
Huai Shi also felt his bones gradually becoming cold.
Under the gaze of others.
"It's very late." Huai Shi coughed dryly, "It's time to rest …"
"Yes, it's not good to sleep late. It hurts the skin." Luo Xian held her chin and nodded in agreement, "But it's also very interesting to stay up late occasionally."
He didn't show any fatigue.
He was full of energy.
He obviously drank so much, but he didn't show any signs of drunkenness.
Maybe it was some unknown orchard stunt Huai Shi didn't know — Alcohol Inattention or something like that …
"I still have a part of the observation report to write. Please do not mind me." Ai Qing bowed her head and continued to write on the tablet. Her movements were smooth and calm.
Didn't she finish it all in the afternoon?!
Huai Shi's heart twitched. It's only a total of 800 words. With your efficiency, you can't finish it more than ten minutes!
Fang Shu came in with a smile with a coffee pot and gently placed it beside her. Then, as if he didn't notice his young master's pleading eyes for help, he left without any sense of existence.
"The game at night, the game is very interesting."
Lily hugged the controller, her eyes drifting. "I want to play for a while more."
That's a lie!
At the border of the Dark Net, where all information and programs gathered, as the current maintainer, as a human being born as a soul, Lily was a creator created by combining the essence and strengths of the three hosts, DM, KP, and ST. She had seen countless modules and rules, so it was impossible for her to be so addicted to the story of killing in the Wild West.
In this short silence, Huai Shi, who was sitting on pins and needles, heard the ticking of the second hand.
If it weren't for the fact that his good friend had already gone to wash up, he might have already wanted to run away … Yes, run away! There's so much work in the Ivory Tower. Huai Shi, how can you bear to let the Vice President work overtime alone!
Work!
Work makes me happy!
Celestial genealogy hasn't been revitalized yet, and the utopia hasn't been rebuilt yet. How can you sleep!
Just as he made up his mind to stay up in the office tonight, he heard brisk and clear footsteps approaching from outside the lounge. His heart suddenly sank.
Then, it was accompanied by the slight sound of the door being pushed open.
Fu Yi, who was still shrouded in water vapor, had already poked her head in. Her freshly dried hair scattered on her shoulders, looking exceptionally beautiful. She glanced around the room and revealed a surprised smile that made Huai Shi's heart sink to the bottom.
"Ah, what a coincidence. Is everyone still awake?"
Like magic, she took out a pack of cards from her pocket and suggested excitedly, "Why don't we play UNO together?"
Before Huai Shi jumped up to object, Luo Xian nodded as if she was tempted.
"Hmm?" She exclaimed, "Is it a card game? It seems very interesting! "
"I … I know how to play!" Lily raised her hand in surprise.
Huai Shi swallowed his saliva and subconsciously looked at Ai Qing, hoping that the cold, serious, and inhumane Her Excellency Inspector would reject such a child's trick and even criticize it.
However, when Ai Qing finished writing a paragraph in her hand and slowly raised her head, she seemed to be interested. "I haven't played for a long time after college. I really miss it."
She thought for a moment and nodded. "Count me in."
"Cough cough! Cough cough! Cough cough cough cough cough cough! "
Huai Shi coughed crazily and tried hard to put on a serious and solemn attitude to refuse clearly.
"Look at this room. Who isn't a pillar of the Discovery Realm? Who isn't a confidant of the Astronomical Society?" "You're addicted to games, and the outside world is about to start killing and burning. If you play cards here, the Endless Sea might start holding a league!" "My Disaster Sword's heart is about to break!" "Think about the old crooked tree outside the chalcedony hall …"
But before he could say any high-sounding words, he saw Fu Yi casually stroke her hair. Then, another box popped out from her chest pocket.
He could vaguely see the title on it.
[Truth Speaks Out …]
Bang!
"It's UNO!"
Huai Shi slammed the table as if he had been electrocuted, and his eyes widened. "I like UNO! I'm the one who is known as the UNO Prince of the Ivory Tower! "
After two hours, he looked at the cards piled up like a mountain in his hand.
Tears were about to flow down his cheeks.
"It's your turn to play, Huai Shi. Hurry up," Luo Xian urged from the opposite side.
Huai Shi glanced at his next player, the calm Ai Qing. His fingers tentatively grabbed a yellow card, hesitated for a moment, and then grabbed a red card. Finally, his trembling hand handed over a blue card.
"Is … Is this card okay?"
Ai Qing glanced at it calmly and threw out a blue card.
Next, Luo Xian.
Luo Xian's smile became more and more cheerful, and she threw out a [+ 4] card that made Huai Shi's vision go dark!
The nightmarish roulette wheel began again!
As a card game, the rules of UNO were very simple. There were only a few sentences. The cards were divided into four colors, and each had a different number. You just had to play a card of the same color or the same number as the previous player. If you can't play, you have to draw a card. The first person to draw a card would be the winner.
However, there were also cards that could change color. If the next player couldn't keep up, the [+ 2] and [+ 4] cards could let the next player draw more cards. There were even cards that could reverse the order of playing cards, and so on.
Sometimes, after two rounds, the [+ 4] cards could be added to the [+ 20] cards until an unlucky person couldn't keep up, and he tearfully emptied his deck.
It could only be said that it was an excellent game that tested friendship and family.
Especially when Luo Xian's suggestion wasn't exciting enough, she could add more. The final loser's face must be drawn with a marker pen. After that … the situation became more tense and terrifying!
The most direct result was that Huai Shi's face was completely covered with all kinds of strange graffiti with a red marker pen. It even extended to his neck and arms.
His face was scarlet like blood.
His tears also became particularly mournful.
It couldn't be helped. The previous player was Ai Qing, and the next player was Lili. On the other side, Fu Yi was crazily throwing out all kinds of prop cards, and Luo Xian's fighting spirit was like a tide, crazily adding cards …
No matter who encountered such a situation, they would cry out loud.
Why did it become like this?
For the first time, he had a lifelong friend. For the second time, he had a lifelong friend. For the third time, he had a lifelong friend. For the fourth time, he had a lifelong friend. For the fourth time, he also had a lifelong friend. Four happy things overlapped.
And these four types of happiness brought him even more happiness. What should have been a happy time like a dream … But, why did it become like this …
Now, except for Huai Shi, everyone seemed to be very happy.
It was good that they were happy.
He silently held back his tears, took the [+ 14] card, and silently drew more than half of his deck again. The extra cards in his hand piled up like a mountain.
"UNO." After Ai Qing threw out a red card, she announced that she only had one card left.
From the beginning until now, she had never lost a game in six rounds of the game. Every time, it was either the first or the second person who played all their cards.
This kind of simple math problem, coupled with President Ai's superhuman intuition and analytical ability, a trivial victory was just a piece of cake.
On the other hand, Luo Xian's face had been smeared several times.
Senior Sister's way of playing cards was the same as her fighting style, fierce and straightforward, full of pressure, often making people breathless. When she held a large stack of cards in her hand, after two rounds, she would be able to completely wipe them out. And when she took advantage of the situation, she would crazily throw out prop cards and crazily add cards. She could be called the creator of table bombs. Unfortunately, even though his combat awareness was extremely sharp and his talent was astonishing, he would always fail at unexpected places. Sometimes, he would be beaten from the brink of victory to the bottom of the valley by unexpected cards.
Besides Huai Shi, the one who lost the most miserably … was Lili.
Logically speaking, as an experienced host, playing this kind of game should be easy. It would be ridiculous for a creative lead to lose in a game like this.
However, she was sitting next to Huai Shi …
Sometimes, even if she had a good hand, when she saw the mountain of cards in Huai Shi's hand, she would hesitate and not have the heart to play. Often, when Huai Shi was in a disadvantageous situation, her expression would become firm and serious. It was as if [Don't be afraid, Mr. Huai Shi, I will protect you!] It was written on her face …
Unfortunately, other people would not be merciful. In the end, she would often be dragged down by Huai Shi.
And even if she lost so many times, the girl still stubbornly tried to protect her best friend. She lost again and again, which made Huai Shi so moved that he could not help but cry.
When he looked at Fu Yi across the table, who was completely happy, he really wanted to cry.
From the beginning of the game until now, she did not seem to have any outstanding performance. It was very normal to draw cards, very normal to play cards, and very normal to play all her cards.
He definitely wasn't the first, nor would he be the second. More often than not, it would be the third, or the fourth. After narrowly escaping the final punishment, Huai Shi and the others were left to begin the final battle.
And she calmly clapped and cheered at the side.
She was like a phantom hiding in the blind spot of everyone's attention. She was not a threat and did not have much destructive power. Most of the time, when everyone was focusing on Ai Qing who only had one card left, they would often ignore that the cards in her hand were gradually decreasing …
Even if they deliberately targeted her, after two or three rounds, their attention would be diverted to the others.
What the hell was the Silencer?!
No, perhaps, even the real Silencer did not have such a terrifying passive ability.
After all, there was not a single normal person at the table. The Inspector who had the Astronomy Society's protection array, the Princess of the Demonic Dragon who had mastered countless Supreme-tier, and the Creator who specialized in manipulating things. Any power that manipulated the mind or modified consciousness would be detected in the first moment. There was no room for any tricks.
If one thought about it in a more terrifying way, perhaps from the beginning, the atmosphere and the direction of the game were all under her control? The experience of the atmosphere, the observation of micro-expressions, and even the profiling of the style and the cold reading of the detection …
Was this someone else's child?
Huai Shi was so envious that he could die.
But it seemed that even if it was her, there would be times when she would fail.
Just as the sky was about to brighten, in the fatigue of a night's battle, she seemed to be in a slight trance and lost the chance to escape. Instead, she received a + 16 card.
In the end, Huai Shi made a dangerous comeback and fell to the last place.
"Oh, I miscalculated."
Looking at the last five cards in her hand, Fu Yi regretfully threw them into the pile of cards and sighed in annoyance. "I should have been more ruthless and let out the reversal card."
"A loss is a loss!"
Huai Shi grabbed the marker pen and snorted coldly. He laughed more happily than anyone else. "Hurry up and give me your face. I'll give you a buff!"
"You started to take revenge after seizing a chance. Do you have to be so narrow-minded?"
Fu Yi shook her head, as if she had long been aware of Huai Shi's narrow-mindedness. She lifted her hair and leaned forward. "But, in any case, we're old classmates. Can you give me a chance and at least let me choose a pattern?"
"Hehe." Huai Shi sneered. "Okay, you can choose. Whether it's' Along the River During the Qingming Festival 'or' The Last Supper ', I'll draw them all for you!"
"No need to be so troublesome. Anyway, you can't draw them. I'll just take the simplest one — "
Fu Yi leaned closer, looked into his eyes, and suddenly said, "Just draw a heart."
She smiled and added, "The red kind."
At that moment, silence spread.
Under their gazes, Huai Shi's marker froze in mid-air and trembled.
Under the calm appearance, the tears in her heart had gathered into an ocean.
Goodbye, world. Goodbye, everything.
The end of life.
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