Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

Ziwu calmly stated the rules.

The game was inspired by his personal experience as a former "seasonal officer" in the military.

Due to Fu Jiangguo's special calendar, their 24 hours will be delayed or advanced by about one second every quarter.

This error does not disappear automatically, but accumulates with the changing of the seasons, so theoretically, their schedules may even deviate by a minute every 15 years.

This was unacceptable to an army that strictly controls time, so he got his position.

He needs to manually correct the time discrepancy between the current quarter and the previous quarter each quarter to prevent the army from getting confused about the seasons.

The life value of "one minute" is usually the maximum error allowed for a seasonal official. If it exceeds one minute, it means that the seasonal official has not been effective for a full fifteen years.

Then the "seasonal official" would be dragged away and beheaded.

Qi Duo listened to the rules quietly, nodded to indicate that she had no objections, and calculating time was a piece of cake for her.

She could count for 3700 years without making a mistake!

Ziwu took out a coin, handed it to Qiduo, and said:

"If it's a word, I'll start and you'll start; if it's a flower, I'll start and you'll start. If you disagree, you can reverse the order."

At this point, he seemed to remember something and added:

"I forgot to mention, my name is Ziwu, and I'm a wanted criminal. People used to call us the 'Four Thieves of Fujiang'."

'Just as I thought...'

Qiduo was not surprised at all, and glanced at the middle-aged man in front of her with a detached look.

She then took the coin, checked it to make sure it was okay, and tossed it into the air casually.

pat!

Qiduo opened the back of her hand, and on the coin, a delicate jasmine flower was facing upwards, representing that the meridian would begin first.

"Then I'll start the first round..."

'1……2……'

The two of them started timing in their minds at the same time.

At the same time, Qiduo was multitasking and said:

Do you know who we are?

Disrupting someone's thinking with words is also a strategy.

"They must be professional hunters. We've killed quite a few before, all of them overconfident bounty hunters."

Zi Wu said casually, "These hunters have an undeniable arrogance that makes them unforgettable at first glance."

He had once considered becoming a hunter for fun, but ended up spending seven years in the army. Then, at Druha's suggestion, he joined the outlaws.

In the following years, they raided the treasure vaults of several small countries.

Although they succeeded only a few times, they still managed to get away with it by stepping on the tails of those government officials, and were immediately designated as the highest-level Class A criminal gang by governments around the world.

Then bounty hunters, assassins, and mercenaries began hunting them down day after day for ten years.

"May I ask your name? You must be a lady. Although I can't see your face clearly, I can tell from your eyes."

Ziwu even had the energy to ask Qiduo's name in return.

Qi Duo narrowed her eyes and said:

"My name is Sea, and the timer is now stopped."

As Qiduo stopped the timer, [Baku] silently looked at Ziwu, waiting for him to announce the time.

"It should be... 173 seconds."

Ziwu feigned hesitation and uttered a number.

Upon hearing this, Qi Duo nodded silently in her heart; the number was exactly the same as the one she had counted.

Sure enough, [Baku] nodded silently and set their clocks back one second each.

Then the roles of the night watchman and the gong gong banger were switched, and Qiduo began the timekeeping.

"What is the relationship between Miss Sea and this Mr. Dia? Is it worth risking your life to save him?"

Ziwu fiddled with the chips in his hand and asked casually.

"That's not Dia at all. If I'm not mistaken, it should be a short guy with a tiger's head, right?"

Qiduo didn't follow the other party's rhythm at all and exposed their lies without any mercy.

Ziwu chuckled softly, but said nothing.

Because of Kido's earlier guess—

Completely correct.

Chapter 209 The Inevitable Victory Method of Midnight × Dia's Intrusion

He chuckled lightly upon seeing Ziwu, but did not respond to her question.

Qiduo was already certain that her guess was correct.

Ziwu prepared two gambling games.

The first opponent I faced was Kang Jae.

The result was unsurprising: Kang Jae, who wasn't good at using his brain, lost to Zi Wu.

What puzzled Qi Duo was how the other party managed to get Kang Zai to obediently sit at the gambling table.

Although that illiterate tiger is ignorant and incompetent, he couldn't be so stupid as to use his weaknesses to fight against the opponent's strengths.

He had reasons to take the gamble.

Kido could only think of this possibility, because she herself was like that.

Because she couldn't be sure if the chip in the other party's hand was Dia's soul, she had to join the game.

Seeing that Qi Duo seemed to be deep in thought, Zi Wu decisively said:

"Timer stopped!"

【Baku】silently turned to Kido, like a lifeless robot.

Qiduo raised her head and said a number without hesitation:

"573 seconds."

A duration of nearly ten minutes is already a time when most people are prone to making mistakes.

No one can guarantee that their sense of time will remain unchanged forever, let alone when they have to deal with the verbal interference from others.

But Qiduo is different; even when she's multitasking, she can still accurately count the time.

The reason is that after Patt City ended, she secretly underwent special training in time perception.

As for why this special training is necessary, that's none of your business.

Anyway, nowadays, Kito can give the exact time at almost any moment.

Her senses instinctively made her remember every single second precisely.

So she can't lose this game no matter what!

However, all of the above is based on the premise that the game itself is not problematic...

A barely perceptible hint of amusement flashed in Zi Wu's eyes.

It is common knowledge that gamblers are destined to lose; there are no such things as perpetually winning gamblers.

However, by developing the ability of "winner takes all, victor reigns supreme," Ziwu naturally has the confidence to win every bet.

Such confidence, in other words, is... cheating!

"Answer... wrong!"

The cold voice of the tapir rang out, and the air froze instantly.

Qi Duo frowned instantly, turning to stare at the Nen beast, puzzled:

'Impossible, my sense of time can't be wrong. Rounding down, it should be 573 seconds, or about 573.5 seconds to the decimal point.'

Is this Nen beast lying?

Seemingly sensing what Qiduo was thinking, Ziwu said unhurriedly:

“The tapir will never lie.”

"Then you're lying."

Kido said calmly:

"Use the clock to determine the time, and tell your mind beast to get out of the way."

If this request is refused, she will simply abandon the bet.

As for whether there will be any negative consequences from simply giving up the bet...

"You should also know that there are no gambling games in the world that require mandatory participation."

Qi Duo's words hit the nail on the head, causing Zi Wu to fall silent.

Whether it's a contract-based ability or a gambling-based ability, in order to ensure the enforceability of the outcome, it's often impossible to strongly restrict the start.

In layman's terms, for a gambling-related ability to have the coercive power to collect a price, it cannot have the coercive power to make people participate, and vice versa.

For example, in a casino, if a gambler loses money, the casino will forcibly take that money back, but the casino can never force you to gamble.

Therefore, most similar abilities require an environmental factor outside of the ability itself, forcing others to participate in the gamble.

For example, your partner's life is in the other party's hands, or you will be killed if you don't play.

After a moment's thought, Zi Wu waved his hand, and the beast [Mo] grabbed two clocks from the table and took a step back.

He then got up and took a quartz clock from the cabinet behind him, placing it in front of Qiduo.