The title of Cyber Gambler was obtained by Snow when he was level 50. The reason he used it until now was because of the additional ability of the title, Evil Strong Luck, which was a causality skill.
This ability allowed the user to change the probability of certain events in front of their eyes, turning some events with a very low probability into a 100% fact.
A simple example would be roulette.
There was a saying — in roulette, it was impossible to get the same number twice in a row.
Of course, this saying was not accurate. In roulette, it was not that it was "impossible" to get the same number twice in a row, but it was "almost impossible" to get the same number twice in a row.
Putting aside human factors such as cheating, that kind of probability actually existed. Perhaps it would happen once in a thousand times, or ten thousand times, or even a hundred thousand times.
No matter what the actual probability was, if one used Evil Strong Luck to spin … twice.
As long as it was possible in theory, this ability could interfere and control it. Then … how much was this "theory" worth?
Using a coin toss as an example, before the coin was tossed, there was still plenty of room for this "theory". When the coin was tossed, this room would start to shrink rapidly, and when the coin landed on the back of a person's hand, the "theory" would completely disappear.
The area that Evil Strong Luck could interfere with was in the space where the "theory" still existed. Once this space disappeared, it was beyond the interference range because it was no longer "controlling an uncertain probability" but "rewriting a reality that had already happened."
Now, before Not a Scaredy Cat could hit him, Snow had interfered with this matter and changed the probability of Not a Scaredy Cat's attack "missing" from zero zero zero … one percent to one hundred percent. Only then was he able to escape this calamity.
Of course, he had to pay a price for doing so.
Since it was Evil Strong Luck, it had to be accompanied by an extremely dangerous price. Any interference would bring about a corresponding "misfortune backlash." The degree of misfortune was related to the original probability of the event being interfered with. The lower the original probability, the stronger the misfortune backlash, and the faster it would come.
For an event like "deciding heads and tails of a coin", one would only have to bear a misfortune with a 50% probability difference. After materialization, one would fall while walking or choke while eating. However, for an event like "drawing the Ace of Spades from a brand new deck of cards", one would have to bear a misfortune with a 98.149% probability difference. After materialization, one would have to bear a misfortune with a 98.149% probability difference. After materialization, one would have to bear the misfortune of rolling down the stairs or being hit on the head by a falling object.
Similarly, there was a price to pay for letting Not a Scaredy Cat brush past him. He had to make up for the difference of 99.9999%. With a probability difference of 9%, the misfortune that materialized would be fatal.
In a sense, it would have been better if he had been directly killed by the Not a Scaredy Cat because the misfortune triggered by such an extreme probability would have been very ridiculous. He might have been struck by lightning or choked to death by his own saliva within ten seconds, and that was something unimaginably unlucky.
However, Snow happened to have a way to escape this kind of misfortune, and that was the [Devil's Dice].
The special effect of this sorcery weapon was very interesting. "As long as you roll three sixes, you can cancel out the negative effect of a skill (regardless of whether it is cast by another player or yourself)."
The 'throw' here was not really a toss. After all, this was a game world, so there was no need to go through so much trouble. The player only needed to hold the item in their hand to activate the special effect, and then the system would give them a random number.
At this point, some people probably understood what was going on.
That's right, the number of the [Devil's Dice] could be interfered with with [Evil Strong Luck].
Therefore, there was this operation. Snow used [Evil Strong Luck] on himself to get three sixes on the [Devil's Dice]. Then, he used [Evil Strong Luck] on the Not a Scaredy Cat to make it miss its skill. Then, he used the special effect of the [Devil's Dice] to cancel out the misfortune that came from using [Evil Strong Luck] on the Not a Scaredy Cat.
This way, the cost of 'making the Not a Scaredy Cat miss its skill' would be converted into the cost of 'making three sixes on the three dice.'
Even though there was a 99.538% chance of success, compared to the former, it was much better. At least, there would not be the sudden death of misfortune. For Snow, that was enough.
All he needed was two minutes.
And half of those two minutes had already passed.
After a short hesitation, the Not a Scaredy Cat said in a low voice, "Don't panic. Kill him again!"
At the same time, she was filled with energy. She swung her spear again and chased after Snow, who had not gotten up, for the second wave of attacks.
This time, Snow could not use the same trick to resist. Even though [Evil Strong Luck] did not have a cooldown, the [Devil's Dice] did. If he did not use the [Devil's Dice] to cancel out the negative effect, he would not be able to escape death even if he activated [Evil Strong Luck].
But in the end, he still activated it.
If he did not, he would be killed instantly. If he activated it, he would be killed by misfortune in a few seconds. This was a bitter choice, but the choice was clear.
Duang~
Two seconds later, the Not a Scaredy Cat's attack missed again, and it landed on the sand.
The strange noise was actually the noise created when the attack was affected by the law of causality. After her weapon missed its target, it lost its original nature, so the power it produced was no different from a normal girl using a stick to hit the ground.
"Tsk …" When the second attack missed, Not a Scaredy Cat was not that surprised anymore. She understood that her opponent must have used some kind of method to interfere with her attack, but there was too little information on Snow, so she had no idea what he had done.
Whoosh!
Just as Not a Scaredy Cat's attack missed, Bu Tiange came from the side. The boomerang in his hand cut through the wind, and he aimed at Snow's head and swung it down.
"Sigh … So be it." At that moment, Snow really gave up.
He was a frivolous, cold, and even cold-blooded person. Even if he lost his composure occasionally, it would only happen when he was dealing with his Brother Jue. For someone like Snow, if you expected him to break through some kind of limit or go all out to counterattack in this kind of situation, that was not 'almost impossible' but 'definitely impossible'.
Hiss!
The next second, amidst the sandstorm, there was the sound of wind brushing against the willow.
The wind was like a blade, and the body was like a willow.
When the blood sprayed out and splattered on the sand, the expression on Bu Tiange's face was rather wooden.
He looked at his body that was sliced diagonally from his left shoulder to his right rib. He was cut into two halves … Even when the two halves of his body collapsed and disappeared into light, he had no idea what had happened.
"What …" Not a Scaredy Cat, who saw this, was scared.
A chill crawled through her body, and the word 'fear' coursed through her veins like adrenaline.
But before she could feel that fear, her body was cut in half just like Bu Tiange … The only difference was that she was cut in half horizontally.
Just as the audience looked at this incomprehensible situation with shock and confusion, another change happened!
There was a flash of lightning deep inside the clouds, and with a boom, a bolt of lightning struck Snow, who was lying on the ground, and turned him into ash.
Now … even the casters did not know what to say.
In just five seconds, all three players on the battlefield had died. Two of them had their bodies mysteriously torn apart, and one had been struck to death by lightning. No one knew what to say.
At that moment, the only thing that could be confirmed was that the score had changed to 2: 0. In other words, the system had confirmed that Hell Frontline had won this battle.
…
"What … happened?"
At the same time, inside Regulation's meeting room, Understanding Death moved his gaze away from the screen with confusion and turned to look at Phantom Dawn.
Not only him, the other members in the meeting room and the workers who were there to watch the game (Since Regulation did not have a bye this time, the data analysis team from the studio had come to watch the livestream with the members) all turned to Phantom Dawn with an inquiring look.
"Hmm …" At that moment, Phantom Dawn's face was also serious. After a few seconds, he replied, "I only saw a small part of it …" He paused. "There was something that moved very fast … hmm … perhaps it was a person. If it was a person, then it should be Wang Tanzhi …" He bit on his nails and thought for two seconds. "In any case … there was something like this. When Bu Tiange was about to kill Snow … it ran over from afar and killed Bu Tiange in passing … Then it continued to run forward and left the range that the screen could capture. One second later, it turned back from the direction that it had left and killed Bu Tiange in passing.
"Hey, hey …" Lying Drunk put on his half-smile. "What do you mean by 'in passing'? If it was really Wang Tanzhi, then let's call it a surprise attack. "
"No … it's not like that," Phantom Dawn said. "Charging at the target accurately, killing it, and then turning to another target is called a 'surprise attack'; reaching out to cut the target open when passing by, that is called 'in passing' …"
"Huh?" Lying Drunk used a modal particle to show that he did not understand.
"It's hard to say for now. After all, the camera has been focused on the three of them. We'll have to wait for the video to be released and see what happened from Wang Tanzhi's perspective. But … if, and I mean if … that 'thing' earlier was really Wang Tanzhi, then … in the future, he will become an existence that will be difficult to deal with even for us." For once, Phantom Dawn used a serious tone to say, "The 'power' that he showed in this match, if he uses it in a 2v2 match, even if I am there, I will still lose …"
Once that was said, the people in the meeting room could not sit still anymore.
"What is going on?" Ye Zhi, who sat next to Phantom Dawn, asked with a frown, "What is his power?"
"Like I said, I only saw a small part of it …" Phantom Dawn narrowed his eyes. "And … what I saw was not a moving Wang Tanzhi … or anything else. What I saw was the trace that this thing left behind when it moved …"
"This' trace '… I did not see it," Brother Chan interrupted. He raised his eyes to look at the people around him. "Other than Phantom Dawn, did anyone else see it?"
"Of course, none of you saw it," Phantom Dawn said. "Because the thing moved so fast, the various media in the physical world did not even have the time to react to its movement before it passed by. However, from the perspective of pure data, one can still see a trace of it. It looks like a very, very thin thread. If one did not look closely, one would not have noticed it."
"So … you mean …" Understanding Death tried to wrap his head around this. "What happened earlier might have been … Wang Tanzhi used a speed that no one could see, and while he was moving, he 'casually' … killed the two from Jiang Hu?"
"Yes, it is like you are sitting on a speeding train, and a sharp blade poked out from the window to slash at a person standing next to the train tracks," Phantom Dawn replied.
"Then …" Brother Chan continued. "Can I speculate this way … before the barrier disappeared, Wang Tanzhi abandoned his teammates and ran away on his own because he was preparing to activate this power?"
"That is what I think as well," Phantom Dawn said. "But whether it is true or not, we will have to watch the recording to confirm."
"Hmm …" Brother Chan thought about it and took a swig of the wine. "This skill … you really cannot deal with it?" He paused for half a second before adding, "Even if it is extreme speed, it might still be possible to deal with it, right? For example, using a space-time ability or a quick Quick Recover … "
"There is no such thing as a quick Quick Recover." Phantom Dawn interrupted Brother Chan. "I told you … the various mediums in the physical world do not have the time to react to what happened to him. When the system gave us the Quick Recover status and activated some kind of special effect on us, we might have been cut in half like the two from Jiang Hu."
"Wait a minute." Hearing this, Sashimi suddenly thought of something, and he quickly added, "If what you said is true, then the two people from Pugilistic World shouldn't have died … Their bodies shouldn't have been able to 'react to the fact that they were chopped up', right?"
"Finally, there is someone who can understand what I am talking about," Phantom Dawn replied. "You are not wrong. The result of that kind of attack should be … 'the molecules that made up them did not realize that they had been cut in half, so there was no change.'
"Therefore, I suspect that Wang Tanzhi had already returned to this battlefield many times before the two deaths that we 'saw' happened. Unfortunately, at the time, my attention was also focused on the battle between Snow and the rest, so I did not notice the presence of the 'traces' around us.
"And in the process of going back and forth, Wang Tanzhi must have realized that he could not hurt his opponent, so he tried all kinds of methods and finally … found a solution."
At this point, Phantom Dawn paused for a second and said darkly, "To put it simply, he used some kind of method to make himself … 'slow down' when he attacked, and that allowed him to complete the kill."
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