A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 451 A once-in-a-century event
"Coins?" Misaka Mikoto looked at the coins in her hand. "But these are just game coins."

"Of course I know that. If it were real currency, wouldn't it really become gambling?" Sha Danshan said with a smile. "Senior Liuli would definitely not allow such a thing to happen, right?"

"Yes!" Shenyuan Xiaolu Liuli Xuanchao nodded seriously, "I'm so glad you remember this."

Now that he was already sitting at the gambling table, even though he was the discipline committee member, Shenyuan Xiaolu Liuli Xuanchao cooperated well in fulfilling his duty of dealing the cards.

The game begins...

Blackjack, also known as "Blackjack", is a classic card game in casinos. The rules are very simple. Even if you have never played it before, you can play it as long as you know basic number calculations.

After all, it is essentially a "mathematical game", so it can appear openly in the amusement hall of the school garden.

But when you actually play it, you will find that there is a reason why it has become a classic gambling project.

On the surface it is just an arithmetic game of blackjack, but when two or more players compete together, mathematical calculations become a less important secondary factor.

It's mainly a psychological warfare game...

Unfortunately, Misaka Mikoto is not good at this.

Before long, half of the "ammunition reserves" she carried with her - a total of twenty game coins - had been lost to Sha Danshan.

If the stakes of this game really were to join the Sap Faction, I'm afraid Misaka Mikoto would have become their subordinate by now!
Of course, the situation was not completely one-sided. After Misaka Mikoto reacted and understood the true meaning of the game, she was able to fight back and forth with Sadaman.

——After removing psychological interference factors, this game becomes a pure computing power competition between two super brains.

The computational complexity of the game of Blackjack is not enough to make the difference between level 4 and level 5 apparent.

In addition, Shadanshan was indeed more familiar with this kind of game, so in the second half, the winning rate of both sides was very close to fifty to fifty.

However, the gap that was created at the beginning was difficult to narrow, and Sha Danshan always had about ten coins in his hand.

Finally, when "that" coin finally fell into his hands, Sha Danshan took the initiative to stop the game.

"Well, there's no point in playing any further, so let's just disband." Sha Danshan checked the time. "If we go back now, we'll be in time for our first class."

As she spoke, she naturally collected the game coins in front of her: "These are considered my spoils of war."

Misaka Mikoto raised an eyebrow and couldn't help but stand up: "Wait!"

Although it was worthless game coins, Misaka Mikoto, whose desire to win was aroused, could not tolerate losing to the opponent.

"Don't run, let's continue..." Misaka Mikoto doesn't care about money, but she cares about winning or losing.

Snapped!
The dealer, Ruri Kan'sho, was almost lying on the table. He leaned over and struck Misaka Mikoto on the forehead with a knife.

"You are the one, calm down!" Then he turned to look at Sha Danshan, "Sha-san, you go back first, I will persuade Misaka-san."

"Well, I'll take my leave then." Picking up her panda doll, Sha Danshan left with a smile. Covering her head, Misaka Mikoto had indeed calmed down. However, she still felt a pang of worry about losing ten coins so early in the morning.

"So you shouldn't have agreed to play this gambling game in the first place!" Shenyuan Xiaoji Liulixuanchao sighed and rubbed Misaka Mikoto's head vigorously. "Really, little Mikoto is too easily provoked."

"No way..." Misaka Mikoto argued somewhat dissatisfiedly.

"Oh, if I hadn't arrived in time today, you really would have lost everything!" Shenyuan Xiaolu Liuli Xuanchao shook her head and said, "It's obvious that Miss Sha changed the bet at the last minute because she saw me."

Thinking carefully about the whole incident, Misaka Mikoto had to admit that what Ruri-senpai said was right.

"Don't be fooled by Sha-san's soft appearance, she's surprisingly cunning," commented Shenyuan Xiaolu Liulixuanchao. "Don't be fooled by appearances, Misaki-chan. You know, no one who becomes the leader of a faction is a simple character."

The images of Shokuhou Misaki's starry eyes and a smiling expression that was very similar to Sadaman's just now suddenly popped up in her mind, and Misaka Mikoto deeply agreed.

"Yes, Senior Liuli is right!"

"Although they're not bad people, it's better to be more careful when dealing with them." Shenyuan Xiaolu Liuli Xuanchao reminded again, "Okay, hurry back to class. It's not good to skip classes in the first grade."

"We have to go back quickly!" Misaka Mikoto exclaimed, noticing the time, "Ruri-senpai, let's go too!"

"Of course... wait a minute!" Shenyuan Xiaolu Liuli Xuanchao suddenly stopped, fished out his phone from his bag, and then exclaimed, "Wow, this is a once-in-a-century event..."

"What's wrong?" Misaka Mikoto also came over, "Is it about the Discipline Committee?"

"Yes," Shenyuan Xiaolu Liuli Xuanchao did not hide it. "There was an emergency. Headquarters summoned all the idle discipline committee members of the Seventh School District to go on duty and maintain traffic order."

"Was there a serious traffic accident?" asked Misaka Mikoto.

Misaka Mikoto also learned a lot about the discipline committee members from Gufa Miwei and Lin Wuming. Generally, the discipline committee members will only be called to the streets to help maintain order when there is a serious traffic accident or a traffic system failure.

"No, that's not the case." Shenyuan Xiaolu Liuli Xuanchao shook his head. "It's because of the large-scale demonstrations and rallies that paralyzed the transportation system."

"Parade? Are there any activities recently?" Misaka Mikoto asked puzzledly.

"It's not an activity, it's a strike and march." Shenyuan Xiaolu Liuli Xuanchao uttered this somewhat unfamiliar word.

"Strike?" Misaka Mikoto was even more confused and couldn't help but complain, "Does the word strike have anything to do with our Academy City? It's more like a student strike... Could it be that the teachers are on strike?"

More than 80% of the residents of Academy City are students. Apart from teachers and researchers, there are almost no other large-scale professions in this city.

"Yes," said Shenyuan Xiaoji Liuli Xuanchao, "but he doesn't usually interact with us ordinary students and citizens, so we don't feel it. In fact, this city's secondary industry is quite developed. There are nearly 100,000 blue-collar workers working in Academy City."

And those marching on the streets at this time were the workers of Academy City.

(End of this chapter)