A few minutes later, Anya sat uneasily at the square table, facing Ganouen opposite her with a sad face, and begged: "Can you please let me go?"
"It's just a game, why are you acting like an execution ground?" Ganouen was a little confused by Anya's reaction.
"Is your game serious?" Anya looked at the dozens of long squares on the table suspiciously.
These squares are made by pasting white animal bones and solid wood blocks together. The surface is polished extremely smooth. The size and shape of each long square are indistinguishable, and the workmanship is very fine.
The white side is engraved with various patterns.
It’s another game that I’ve never seen before. Could this thing be part of Ganon’s training method?
These game props themselves do not have any dangerous atmosphere...
"Of course it's serious, it's just that you have to take off your clothes if you lose." Isbell suddenly took the lead and answered, showing a wicked smile at Anya.
"Let me go!" Anya shouted immediately.
The reason why she didn't get up and run away was because she couldn't directly disobey Ganon's request.
"No need to take it off, everyone here has seen your body anyway."
Ganon said lightly while dealing with the cards. When Isabel and the others played a prank on Anya that day, in order to ensure that Isabel didn't go too far, he used [Watcher] to monitor the entire process.
"Don't mention this, okay!?" Anya blushed, "You really didn't do anything to me that day, right?"
Ganouen did not answer the question, but placed the cards in front of him flatly and showed them to the three of them: "I have wanted to try this for a long time, but I just couldn't get the people together. Although three people can actually do it. But as expected, the game is only complete if four people play together.”
"What kind of game is this?"
Zhenna picked up a rectangular block and looked at it with great interest. In her eyes, Ganouen was really a genius in designing games.
The games Ganon taught them before were all very interesting. Ganon also casually taught the game "Dragon Quest" to Cohen and the others who managed the farm. It is said that this game has become popular in a village in the west of Duxia.
"I call this 'Mahjong'. It's a little complicated, but also very interesting. Let me explain it first..."
Ganouen briefly explained the basic rules of Mahjong.
He used to like all kinds of chess and card games. He had long wanted to try a complete "quintessence of Chinese culture" in this world, so he specifically ordered Shitou to spend a lot of time to hand-make this deck of cards.
In order to make it easier for people in this world to understand, he made slight adjustments to the mahjong tiles. He adjusted the ten thousand characters to the numbers of this world, replaced the southeast, northwest and direction symbols of this world, and replaced the white hair with shields and scepters. and sword.
After the first explanation, Anya immediately understood the basic rules. Zhenna and Isabel were still a little confused, so Ganon explained it in detail again.
"Next, let's get familiar with each other while playing. Let's keep things simple for the first time. We won't count the numbers for now, and there are no special rules. If you tie the cards, you win." Ganon said and began to shuffle the cards.
It sounds like it's just an ordinary game... Anya thought to herself as she shuffled the cards.
No, don’t let your guard down just because it’s a game. Be careful that this red dragon has strange plans!
Anya stared at Ganouen warily.
"Don't worry, I won't use [Watcher] to peek at your cards. This is the principle of playing the game." Ganon said seriously, thinking that Anya was worried about cheating.
"It's just a game, I don't care about the outcome. Don't make any other plans!" Anya said seriously.
Half an hour...
"Eat!!" Anya quickly grabbed the card that Isabel had just played, tipped down the straight, and pushed it to the side with a graceful movement.
"Why did you steal my card again?" Isabel muttered dissatisfied.
"What do I call snatching? You are the one who feeds yourself diligently." Anya smiled proudly at Isbell.
In this way, you can listen to the cards, and the game is over!
Anya confidently played a card.
"Well, this should be considered a reconciliation." Zhenna pushed down her cards with some uncertainty.
"Oh, it's all the same." Ganon glanced at Zhenna's cards.
All three of them picked up the game very quickly, and they will probably be able to teach some more formal rules later.
"Why is this..." Anya's expression became visibly lost.
"Have you been fooled? Didn't you realize that the card I gave you was my plan? It was just to make you relax your vigilance!" Isbell laughed at Anya.
"Bah, how can you have that kind of brain?" Anya rolled her eyes at Isbell, "I don't even know how many cannons you fired!"
"Not as much as you anyway!" Isabel argued.
"I have one more card than you!!" Anya and Isabel started to argue.
"Aren't you very devoted to the game?" Ganon looked at Anya and commented.
Anya, who said she didn't mind winning or losing before the bowl, suddenly became embarrassed.
Damn it, why did I get sick while playing?
She had to admit that this chess game was one of the most cleverly designed games she had ever seen. Once she became familiar with the gameplay, it was easy to get involved.
But what aroused her most was the competitive spirit she had with Isabel.
Their argument in the morning had not come to a conclusion yet, but now they were sitting together playing a game like this, and they naturally became more competitive.
"If you're not convinced, why don't we just compete and bet on something?" Isbel directly issued a challenge to Anya.
"I will not participate in your bet." Zhenna immediately declared.
"I won't get involved." The two were so quarreling, and Ganon didn't want to join in their dispute.
Anya thought about it carefully and realized that this game was indeed an ordinary game. In the previous rounds, Ganon had no obvious advantage. It seemed that there was really no cheating.
She was confident that her ability to count cards was definitely better than this elf who didn't look very smart. The rest was up to luck, which was not unfair.
Moreover, the other party took the initiative to challenge her, and she always felt at a disadvantage if she didn't accept the challenge.
But she still asked cautiously: "What are you betting on?"
"Well..." Israel obviously hadn't thought about the bet yet. She thought hard and said, "If I win, you can change your name here."
"Why do you want me to change my name?" Anya was a little dumbfounded.
"You are not worthy of having the same name as the heroine of that book. Every time I read the book, it will remind me of you, and it will also affect my sense of immersion in reading the book!" Isabel said plausibly.
"Do you think I want to have the same name as the heroine of that crappy book? It's not because of that bastard Angst's bad taste!" Anya said angrily.
"Anyway, if you lose, you will have to use another name here from now on. I will choose the name." Isabel insisted.
"Then what if you lose?" Anya glared at Isabel.
Isabel thought for a while: "Then I will change my name to Anya?"
"Fuck you!" Anya glared at her, "If you lose, your treatment from now on will belong to me! You let me live in the dungeon and eat in the dungeon. I ask that I can order my own three meals in the future, and that I can be free inside and outside the territory. Activity!"
She said and looked at Ganouen: "This should be okay, right?"
To be honest, she has always been a little unbalanced towards Isabel, who also signed the [Prisoner Contract] but enjoyed higher treatment.
"You can't go outside the territory without permission, but if you want to order your own food after winning, you can. It lasts for one month."
This level of small gambling was harmless and would help increase their interest in the game, so Ganon let them go.
"I don't care if I live in a dungeon, as long as Ganon comes to see me every day." Isabel didn't care about this bet at all.
"That's it, we will switch opponents and play two rounds of eight games. One point will be added to the draw, one point will be deducted for firing the cannon. In other cases, the points will remain the same. You and I will compete!" Anya pointed at Isabel and said .
In this kind of bet, Ganouen and Zhenna should not be biased in favor of Isbell.
"Okay!" Isabel responded.
Then, after five rounds, Isabel, who had drawn her cards, showed a proud smile to Anya.
Damn it, I was actually lagging behind... Anya felt something was wrong.
Originally, the scores of both sides were equal, but she took a slight risk in this game, and unexpectedly fired a cannon for Isabel, and the two sides immediately opened up a two-point gap.
There were only three games left, and if she didn't draw consecutive cards or match the card that Isbell played, she would probably lose.
When she saw that the cards she drew were not very good, Anya felt that she might have to use her brain.
Among the discarded cards in the middle card pool, there happens to be a card that you want but cannot touch at the time...
Let me show you how powerful an assassin is!
Anya glanced at Isabel, then reached over the card pool and touched the cards as if nothing had happened.
When she took the card back, she passed her hand over the top of the house card, and with two dexterous movements of her fingers at a speed that was difficult to detect with the naked eye, she exchanged the card she touched with the house card. I am confident that my clever tricks can deceive anyone.
But then Ganon stopped her: "Don't move, you just cheated and changed the cards, didn't you?"
Anya's movements were forced to stop, and she was shocked. Just as she was about to deny it, she heard Ganouen order: "Tell the truth."
"I..." Anya was forced to admit under the constraints of the contract, "I cheated!"
It’s over!
Her head started buzzing.
The sharp gazes of the other three people focused on her, and cold sweat broke out on her face.
"Just because I don't use [Watcher] to peek, doesn't mean I won't use it to supervise." Ganon stared at Anya, "It's cheating... How should we deal with this?"
"Ganoen, she is competing with me, how about leaving the punishment to me?" Isbell suddenly suggested.
"That's fine, but what are you going to do?" Ganouen asked smoothly, "Let her change her name, or force her to take off her clothes?"
Anya felt a chill running down her spine.
"Forget it, I have a new idea." Israel showed a "kind" smile, "I want her to read all my collections carefully and write two hundred words to retell the contents of each book. "
"No!!" Anya's eyes widened in horror. She clearly realized that those cults must not be touched. "I would rather get naked here than look at those things!!"
"It's not up to you now." Isabel patted her shoulder with a smile, "Wait, I'll get it now!"
"I'd better avoid it first." Zhenna also immediately left the card table.
Anya was trapped at the card table by Ganouen's order. She stared at Ganouen in horror and asked: "So is this all your plan!?"
At this moment, she couldn't help but suspect that this was Ganon's deliberate failure to issue an order in advance to prohibit cheating. After fishing and enforcing the law, he arranged a training plan to punish her by reading those books.
"What are you talking about? Isn't this entirely your fault?" Ganon asked calmly.
Then, Isbell's hand reached out with a book, and the unsightly cover occupied Anya's field of vision, making Anya scream again.
"Let's start with the most classic red dragon..." Isabel smiled and opened her collection for her.
On this day, Anya saw the door to a new world opening in front of her.
(End of chapter)
