Tokyo: Rabbit Police and Her Evil Partner

Chapter 349 Confrontation of Life and Death
Fushimi Shika picked up a metal card and looked at it carefully. There was only the number "25" engraved on it, and no other patterns or carvings.

Before the arbitrator announced the official start of the game, he seized every minute and every second to start thinking.

As Ye Xingqi said just now, reasoning out the rules to determine the winner is also part of the gambling game. However, reasoning games are his weak point, and Yuan Yuzi is better at this game than him...

The water level was still rising rapidly. Fushimi Shika glanced out of the glass cabin and then looked away. He naturally could not rely on others for such a life-threatening gamble.

Since "inferring the winning and losing conditions is also a part of gambling", it means that the "winning and losing conditions" can be inferred. You only need to collect enough inference elements to reasonably infer the rules of the card game.

However, no matter how you reason, only after the results of the competition come out can you prove whether your speculation is correct - in theory, there are only five chances to trial and error, but in reality there are only one or two. The sooner you deduce the rules for determining victory or defeat, the greater your chances of winning.

Various possibilities emerged in Fushimi Shika's mind.

"During the water injection period, a few additional rules are required." The arbitrator took out another card and read it carefully: "There are some points that need attention in this gambling game."

"First, opened compressed air tanks cannot be used as chips."

"Second, the party with the lower number will bet at the beginning, and then the betting will be carried out in turns, with the upper limit being half of all the chips on the field. For example, the first round of bets is 2 chips, so half of the upper limit of the first round of betting is 1 chip."

"Third, the betting time limit is 30 seconds."

"Fourth, if certain conditions are triggered, the "natural disaster" phase will be triggered, and the loser of that round will lose the same amount of air as the chips lost."

"Fifth, gambling prohibits violence and other acts that hinder the gambling process."

"Sixth, it is forbidden to refuse to pay chips."

"If a participant violates the above rules, he/she will be immediately deemed the loser, and the opponent will be given the key to unlock the shackles."

"Well, now..."

The arbitrator turned around and saw that the water level in the glass cabin had already reached the necks of the two men. He put away the last card and announced loudly to the camera lens: "Begin the game!"

Fushimi Shika lowered his head. He had a respirator wrapped around his waist, which he stretched out and held in his mouth. He immediately lowered his head and began to think about the problem of oxygen storage.

80L of compressed air can allow an adult to breathe for about 5 minutes. 25 chips per person means 125 minutes of breathing time...

However, at this moment, outside the glass cabin, everyone leaned forward with surprise on their faces, and the arbitrator started counting down: "Ten!"

"Nine!"

"Eight!"

……

Fushimi Shika raised his head and saw under Kitsune's skirt.

The rules of the game clearly stated that if the buttocks left the seat for ten seconds, the player would be deemed the loser. Therefore, Kitsune took advantage of the gap when the water level was not full, floated her face out of the water, and breathed in the air - if she returned to her seat in the ninth second, she could buy nine seconds of breathing time!
From the moment the arbitrator announced the start of the game, even if no bets were placed, the game of life and death had already begun!

Although not much, Kitsune did store more oxygen than him.

While everyone's attention was drawn to Kitsune Princess, Fushimi Shika was not idle either. He used a little trick to deal with Satake Gen.

Nine seconds passed in the blink of an eye, and Fox Princess fell back into her seat.

Amid the surging bubbles, the two looked at each other in the water. Fushimi Shika suddenly realized where he had seen those eyes before.

He saw this kind of look almost every day; but without exception, he never looked at it seriously... because the owner of those eyes was standing in the mirror.

The way she looks at people is exactly the same as how she looks at herself.

Fox Princess seemed to be aware of this, her eyelids slightly curved, as if she was smiling. They couldn't speak underwater, but they could communicate silently through their eyes.

The first round of poker officially begins.

The two people each breathe in an air chip and use an air chip as the base bet, leaving 23 chips each.

到了出牌阶段，伏见鹿低头观看手牌，他拿到的五张牌分别是：「25」、「45」、「26」、「36」和「39」。

If the criterion for determining victory or defeat is not the size of the bet, he cannot see the significance of these numbers for the time being.

Unless there is a clear violation, the arbitrator will not interfere with the game. His only job is to explain. At this moment, the arbitrator said to the camera: "Here, I can give you a little tip. The order in which the participants play their cards will directly affect the outcome of the next round of competition... You can also try to deduce the complete rules together."

Logically speaking, if you are soaking in water and separated by glass, you should not be able to hear people talking outside.

However, Fushimi Shika can read lips.

This is a skill that comes with level 7 psychological counseling. He can even judge the other party's psychological state through body language. - "The order of playing cards will affect the outcome of the next round of competition"

After he got this key information, he immediately withdrew his gaze and looked at Fox Princess, but he did not expect that the latter had also turned her face away.

Their eyes met, and an idea popped up in their minds at the same time:
"He/she can also lip-read!"

……

Fushimi Shika became inexplicably excited. He noticed that Kitsune had not been holding the respirator until this moment - she had been holding her breath. When it came to the card-playing stage, she played the first card without even thinking about it.

It was not until Fushimi Shika placed a card on the table that Kitsune held the respirator in her mouth and breathed slowly and evenly.

Yes, thinking also increases oxygen consumption.

This is different from competitive diving, they need to use their brains to gamble, which means that even thinking underwater requires paying a part of the "chips"!
Fushimi Kakashi could see that his opponent didn't want to waste oxygen thinking about unsolvable problems. The result of the first round of competition had not yet come out, so it was futile to think about it at the beginning. After all, there was no way to verify whether his speculation was correct. Useless thinking would only waste oxygen. It would be better to choose the first card based on intuition.

It can be seen that Fox Princess is very particular about oxygen.

After both sides finished playing their cards, they turned over the cards in tacit understanding.

The camera focused again, and everyone looked intently, only to see that Kitsune played "15" and Onikiri played "25".

This is the first round of life and death battle.

According to the rules, the fox girl with the smaller number made the first bet. Without any hesitation, she picked up an air chip with her slender white fingers and gently placed it in the middle of the wooden table.

……

Outside the glass cabin, Yuan Yuzi nervously grasped the retractable belt: "I actually placed a bet..."

Fujiwara Yu stood aside, trying to understand the rules of the game: "Isn't it normal to bet? Isn't the rule of the game that you take turns betting?"

Yuan Yuzi didn't care about her identity, nor did she care about Section Chief Fujiwara's face. Her brain was also thinking rapidly, and she said almost subconsciously:
"Idiot! It's best to just place an ante in the first round and let the arbitrators directly announce the results! We don't know the rules of the competition yet, so the best solution is to just test the ante, right?"

She became angrier and angrier as she spoke, even twisting the rope into a knot: "This is really abominable! Why would we place a bet?"

Fujiwara Hō was very upset after being humiliated. He tried to save face and couldn't help but say, "Then why don't you just not follow me?"

"If you don't follow, you'll just lose your stake in vain, right?" Yuan Yuzi didn't even bother to call him an idiot.

Fujiwara Yoshi was choked for a moment. He turned his head to look at the glass cabin, and sure enough, Fushimi-kun followed up with an air chip.

However, what no one expected was that after reaching the upper limit of the first round of betting, Fushimi Shika actually reached out without hesitation and added two air chips at once!
Fox Princess opened her eyes wide, her pupils were dilating, not because of fear, but because of excitement!
As everyone stared in shock, she leaned forward and shoved with both hands, calling and raising with six air chips!

The onlookers cried out in surprise, and Fujiwara pointed at the cabin and said loudly: "Isn't this a foul? It's clearly exceeded the refueling limit!"

The arbitrator explained at the right time that Fox Princess's six air chips consisted of two parts: one part was the two chips for the call, which made the number of chips on the table eight, and the second part was half of the upper limit amount, which was also four chips, making a total of six air chips.

……

Only the two people who are betting against each other can truly feel the pleasure brought by this contest of intelligence and courage.

Fushimi Shika bit his respirator tightly. He stared at Kitsune, not missing any details. The other party laughed silently in the water - did this guy rely on luck, or had he cracked the rules? !

I thought the first round was a safe test round, but I didn’t expect it to be a gamble with nearly 16 chips! !
He had to admit that he had underestimated this guy.

I thought the so-called chief designer was just a boastful clown, or maybe an inexperienced newcomer like Yuan Yuzi who was addicted to intellectual games... Now it seems that she is good at life and death games and is indeed a qualified hunter.

When Fushimi Shika came to his senses, the first can of air chips was empty. He replaced it with a second chip, inserted it into the groove on his waist, and threw the empty chip on the ground.

It was just the beginning and he was already at a disadvantage.

In poker, there is indeed a way to scare off opponents by bluffing. For example, in the most common game of poker, players will bluff by continuously raising the bet, causing opponents to misjudge that they have big cards and give up calling, allowing players to turn the tables with small cards.

The onlookers also weighed the pros and cons. Moriki Yalan felt that four chips were too high. If it were her, she would not follow the bet. Yuan Yuzi and Fujiwara Yu were also afraid to take such a risk, especially when the opponent seemed to have cracked the rules. If they followed the bet rashly, they would probably suffer heavy losses...

However, Kitsune is the hunter, not the prey.

Fushimi Shika felt his blood boiling for the first time in a long time. Even slaughtering those cult members could not bring him this long-lost burning feeling.

His pupils also dilated, his face grinned uncontrollably, and he pushed the chips to the center of the wooden table.

Call, four air chips!!

(End of this chapter)