In the second round, the right to play cards rotates counter-clockwise.
This time it was the curly-haired girl's turn to play first. She had good luck and drew an Ace of Spades and a Red Heart Ace.
However, the girl's playing style was somewhat hard to describe.
She first played the Ace of Spades, followed by the Red Heart Ace – there's not much to say about that; using high cards to test the waters is a good strategy, and since the Ace is the highest, she'll always have the lead in her hands.
If it were Xiao Lou instead, they would continue releasing Hearts.
Just now, when she played her hearts, her teammate played a red heart 2, so they should have had other hearts in their hand. Meanwhile, the next player, Yu Hanjiang, played a heart queen, so he obviously didn't have any extra hearts left.
However, she did not carefully observe the game or deduce the other players' hands.
She had three spades and three hearts in her hand, including the high-ranking spade Queen and the low-ranking hearts 3, 4, and 5. The countdown 3, 2, 1 flashed on the screen. The girl was a little nervous. She gritted her teeth and played the spade Queen, thinking that if her opponent didn't have a high-ranking card, she might be able to maintain control of the game.
However, Yu Hanjiang immediately offered spade k.
The girl was stunned!
She's already released Ace of Spades, and Spade K is currently the biggest.
Yu Hanjiang successfully regained the right to play and continued to play Spade J in the next round.
A, K, and Q have all appeared, and his J is the highest.
In the next round, Yu Hanjiang continued with spade 10...
He played all his spades in one go, and then immediately threwout a Diamond Ace.
The couple each played a diamond 8 and a diamond 9, while Xiao Lou played a diamond 2.
Yu Hanjiang continued with Diamonds J, the next player played Diamonds Q, and when it was Xiao Lou's turn, Xiao Lou immediately played Diamonds K, firmly securing the lead in his own hands.
In the next round, he continued to play diamonds 10, and Captain Yu, whose diamonds had lower point values, could follow suit and play passively.
The two worked together and quickly finished playing the diamonds.
Upon discovering that Yu Hanjiang had only one card left in his hand, Xiao Lou smiled slightly and played a plum blossom.
— Captain Yu indeed had a plum blossom in his hand.
Because when the girl played the Red Heart Ace at the start, he immediately played the Heart Queen, clearly indicating he didn't have any extra hearts in hand. Immediately afterwards, he played all his spades, and then, in coordination with Xiao Lou, played out a large number of diamonds … the only remaining cards could be plum blossoms.
Xiao Lou tacitly helped Yu Hanjiang get rid of his last card.
Guardian said expressionlessly, "Number 3 has finished playing his hand. The red team wins. Now count the remaining cards of the blue team."
The couple's expressions grew increasingly grim. The girl hadn't played well this round. Her starting hand was good, but when faced with a choice between two options, she made the wrong choice again, giving Yu Hanjiang the opportunity to regain the right to play and go all out with his spade.
With only 3 seconds left to play a card, there was simply no time to think. Her mind clearly wasn't as quick as Xiao Lou's.
This time, the two players had 6 cards left in their hands, and they lost 30,000 gold coins to Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang.
At this point, the couple only had 20,000 chips left.
Guardian said, "In the third round, number 3 goes first."
In the third round, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang didn't have a very good hand; they didn't draw a single Ace. However, after the couple quickly played all four suits of Aces, their King became their highest-ranking card.
The two players cooperate to try to play the suits that the other player might have.
They played one card after another until the fourth man finished his hand. Xiao Lou had only one card left, and Yu Hanjiang had two. They lost, but only had to pay the other party 15,000 chips.
Guardian: "In the fourth round, number 4 plays."
Xiao Lou had a strong hand, while player number 4 didn't have a strong hand and coincidentally, their suits were the opposite of his girlfriend's.
His girlfriend had Diamond Ace and Plum Blossom Ace in her hand, and he started with Spade.
As a result, Xiao Lou beat him with an Ace of Spades, regaining the lead. Xiao Lou quickly played all his spades, then cooperated with Yu Hanjiang to play plum blossoms, followed by hearts and diamonds...
Finally, Captain Yu guessed his hand and randomly picked a diamond.
In the third piece, he sold the last diamond.
The two won again!
The couple was on the verge of tears.
In four games, the couple only won one. Moreover, in that winning game, their opponents only had three cards left and had to pay them 15,000 coins. Surprisingly, the two men won three games, taking all of their 100,000 chips. In the final game, they had so many cards that they didn't have enough chips left to pay out!
The expressionless young man said calmly, "Since you two have lost all your chips, please each take out your card holder and let the other draw a card as compensation."
The two: "......"
The LCD screens in front of the four seats had been lowered, and Xiao Lou noticed that the couple was looking at him with somewhat resentful eyes.
Xiao Lou smiled sheepishly, thinking to herself, "I didn't expect you two as a couple to have such poor chemistry!"
Are these two a fake couple?!
Yu Hanjiang looked at Xiao Lou, nodded to him, and his gaze was unusually gentle.
At first, when he discovered that his opponents were a couple, he thought that at most, he and Professor Xiao would only manage a tie against the couple and retain their 100,000 chips. Even if they lost tens of thousands, it wouldn't matter, as long as they didn't get their cards drawn.
Unexpectedly, during the card game, Professor Xiao and Professor Xiao had a telepathic connection – when Professor Xiao had diamonds left, Professor Xiao would play diamonds at just the right time; and when Professor Xiao played plum blossom and was worried that his opponent would take back the right to play, Professor Xiao would directly use plum blossom A to beat his opponent.
You play your small cards, I'll use my big cards to control the game.
I have only one card left in my hand, and you use the same suit to let me play it all...
Xiao Lou's mental arithmetic ability is amazing. In just 3 seconds, he can remember all the cards that have been played on the table and deduce the approximate suits of his opponents' and teammates' hands.
The two controlled the cards for most of the time, and their teamwork was far superior to that of couples who played cards haphazardly. As a result, they not only won 100,000 gold coins from each other, but also managed to draw their card holders because the other side didn't have enough chips.
The curly-haired man sighed helplessly and said, "My girlfriend rarely plays cards."
The girl lowered her head awkwardly: "I'm sorry, 3 seconds is too short, I was too slow to react."
The boy waved his hand dismissively: "It's fine, we have enough cards anyway, and none of them are any good. Let them draw whatever they want." After saying that, the man took out his card holder and turned to ask the Guardian: "Are both of our card holders going to be drawn?"
Guardian said, "Number 1 draws number 2, number 3 draws number 4, you can rearrange your card holders."
It seemed there was no way to avoid it. The girl took out the card holder with a conflicted expression. The two of them bent down and began to quickly organize the card holder, taking out all the cards, shuffling them, and then putting them back.
After tidying up, they placed the card holder on the table.
Xiao Lou thought for a moment and said, "The third one."
Guardian played his third card —
[Toolboard: Power Bank ]
Rarity: B
Description: A lottery will be held when you achieve a B rating in the escape room, with a certain probability of winning.
You are my power bank; with you by my side, my heart is full of motivation.
How can you go out without a power bank?
All electrical appliance cards, when connected to a power bank, can immediately reset all of their skills.
Xiao Lou: "......"
He was already used to the various strange descriptions of Card World.
Unfortunately, neither of them has an electronics card at the moment. Perhaps they can wait until they get an electronics card to use this power bank card?
Just then, Yu Hanjiang reached for the curly-haired man's card holder and accidentally pulled out an electronics card—
[Tool Brand: Hair Dryer ]
Rarity: B
Description: There is a certain probability of obtaining this when you achieve a B rating in the escape room.
A hair dryer is for drying hair, but in this world, its wind power is too strong. Please don't use it to dry your hair—it will blow objects weighing up to 200kg to a distance of 50 meters. Using it to dry your hair will make you bald.
Cooling time: 60 minutes.
Xiao Lou: "......"
They had seen this card before; a male Challenger in the Spade 3 secret room had been holding a hair dryer and had blown several zombies into a large pit.
Unexpectedly, the two of them were so in sync when they drew cards. Xiao Lou drew a power bank card, and Yu Hanjiang immediately drew an appliance card.
The couple, their faces turning sour, couldn't help but complain, "We shuffled the cards specifically, and you guys still managed to draw a power bank and a hair dryer combo! Do you have some kind of supernatural ability?"
Xiao Lou smiled apologetically, thinking to himself, "If you don't want us to draw it, the most reasonable thing you can do is put both cards in the same card holder, so we can only draw one."
Fortunately, B-grade tool cards are easy to obtain, and although the cards they take will sting couples, it's still acceptable.
The girl quickly composed herself and said, "Losing two B cards is better than being eliminated and sent to the Nightmare Secret Room."
The boy nodded: "That's true. Let's go to the Diamond Secret Room first, maybe we can draw a better card."
After they reached an agreement, the two turned and left.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang exchanged a glance, surprised that the Plum Blossom Secret Chamber was actually quite simple this time.
The loser only loses two cards randomly, unlike in Plum Blossom 2 where they are eliminated immediately.
Because Spade 3 was so brutal, Plum Blossom 3 was unusually merciful.
Xiao Lou asked with a smile
"Are we getting a break this time?"
Plum Blossom A asked in bewilderment, "Such a simple game, it only takes a few minutes to finish, and you still want to rest?"
— Spade and Plum Blossom are so inconsiderate of Challenger; they still spend the most time resting in the heart room.
Xiao Lou rubbed his temples, looking troubled. "Our next level is Red Heart 4. "
The boy nodded, drew the card Red Heart 4, and waved casually at them: "Go ahead, good luck to you two."
Red Heart 4 is also a C-level secret chamber. Although the difficulty of C-level secret chambers is similar, Xiao Lou always felt that, given the personalities of these four Guardians, the fourth level would not be easy for the Challengers to pass.
Heart 3 is a series of school murders, so what will Red Heart 4 be?
Author's Note:
Regarding card drawing: Rewards for escape rooms are calculated on a team basis. For later, higher-difficulty escape rooms, team rewards are given directly upon completion. The more difficult the escape room, the more reward cards are awarded, rather than each person drawing cards individually. Since the main character group is large, drawing cards per person would result in seven or eight cards per escape room, which would be too much to handle later.