Chapter 13 (1/2)

Chapter 13

Chapter 13: Luck

The Professor asked Cui Ming, “Can you raise your odds of drawing a stratagem card?”

“When I was distraught I almost couldn’t draw a stratagem card. But when I focus – if in my heart I very much want a certain card – the probability of drawing that card will greatly increase. If I use Fortune Teller twice in a row, the shorter the time interval between the two uses, the greater the probability of drawing a waste card.”

The Professor thought for a while, before saying, “Strategy Types are inexplicable. Today I even met a pure gambling Strategy Type. The world is really big.”

North Luna asked, “Professor, how is he?”

The Professor looked at North Luna, and pondered for a long time, “North Luna, this is your own decision. Picking him as your teammates is a gamble. With good luck he’ll be a very big help. With bad luck he will become c.u.mbersome, or even a hindrance. Although he can increase the chance of drawing a special card, there is bound to be a limit, because he is young, he has no experience, so he needs time to improve.”

North Luna looked at Cui Ming, she was quite hesitant. Cui Ming smiled, “Luck is one kind of strength. Let’s play a game, I have a J, a Q, and a K, I’ll place them facedown and whoever can pick out the K is the winner.”

Cui Ming put three poker cards on the table, and then his hands and fingers quickly shuffled the three cards. In North Luna and The Professor’s eyes, his shuffling was too slow. The Professor shook his head, pointed to the cards and said, “This is a J, this is a Q, and this is a K.”

“Please choose one.”

The Professor flopped up the card he thought was a K, but it was a Q. North Luna flipped over the card she thought was a Q, but it was a J. Cui Ming flipped over the last card, and it was the K. Cui Ming smiled and said, “I’m very lucky.”

“He’s cheating,” The Professor told North Luna.

“Second round,” Cui Mind said without a care.

“Cheating is also a special ability,” Cui Ming said and continued on with the shuffle, after finis.h.i.+ng he gestured, “Please.”

The Professor said, “When you shuffle, the order is JQK, but I think you are cheating, so the J card I saw, will not be a J.”

Flipping the card to see… ‘f*ck, it’s really is a J‘ he thought when he saw the face.

Cui Ming smiled. “Old man, this trick is not about being positive, or negative, but about judging the actual situation. It utilizes psychological a.n.a.lysis and judgement of character in order to make sure you jump into the trap.

Deception is more complicated than cultivation. Aura cultivators only need to understand their own mind, frauds need to understand not only their own mind but also that of his opponent. The Art of War said that ‘If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles’.”

EDN : Quote from Sun Tzu’s Art of War, Chapter 3 : Strategic Attack (知彼知己，百戰不殆；不知彼而知己，一勝一負；不知彼，不知己，每戰必殆)

North Luna glared at the two poker cards, she placed her fingers on the first card and looked at Cui Ming. Cui Ming’s expression was very calm. North Luna’s finger moved to the second card and Cui Ming’s eyelid moved, so North Luna flipped over the second, which was the Q. She’s naive; she believes that observing Cui Ming’s expression to determine which card is the K could help. She did not expect Cui Ming to intentionally show flaws, so she chose the Q.

Cui Ming then proceeded to shuffle the cards, “The third round, this time I have a  50%

chance of losing to Boss, but Professor, you won’t be able to get the K. It will definitely end up in either my hand or boss’,” It seemed to be a casual remark, but in fact, Cui Ming had implied that the Professor would not pay attention to the K, and instead focus on the Q. So this time, he reduced Q’s moving speed, allowing The Professor to clearly follow the card.