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Chapter 4 The Liar's Paradox and the Logic of Language(1/2)

"Why do you feel like you are forced to instill educational ideas in a university language logic class?" I murmured. Xu Feng smiled and patted my shoulder.

"Haha, you are worthy of being Azhen. No matter what occasion, your words can always make people feel disgusted. This is your biggest characteristic."

"Hey, no matter how you hear this, it doesn't look like a complimentary sentence." I glanced at Xu Feng and said.

"Why isn't it? This shows that you have a heart that has already seen through everything under the seemingly ordinary outside. You say that you are an ordinary person, but in fact you are the person who least wants an ordinary life." Xu Feng hugged his head with both hands, as if he was very honest.

"Hey, don't say that I'm afraid of the world's chaos." I fought back. "I just have a pretty good mentality. You can also say that I'm very nervous and can easily accept any strange things."

"Is that true, then, what do you have any insights about this God game held by Miyako?" Xu Feng glanced at me slantedly and asked.

"I can't say the clever insights, but if you insist on saying it, it's easy to remind people of a childish game organized by a middle school director who has watched too many novels, TV series, such as survival games, and has no original spirit. The rules of the game that he thinks he is smart but has loopholes, and the players who are so frustrated that they don't know where to tell the story. They are so simple that they just use their cerebral to just draw out the title of the book. In short, the guy who can come up with such scripts, whether it's a god or a human, must be so bored that he spends his life all day, his mind is filled with the bloody plots of some middle school anime and TV series, and he has no sense of existence in reality that needs to do something earth-shaking to make some fun for himself."

"If the truth of this game is the old-fashioned ending of 'to make high box office and high popularity in order to shoot boring reality movies', I just want to say that this is either the director's mind without market considerations or the audience's value is seriously distorted. For such a despicable plot, I can only say three words: 'Wishes to die violently'."

Telling out the remarks that are stored in your chest is indeed the best way to vent your emotions. The key is that there is an audience next to you who only pretends to be confident and smirk no matter what I say. This is the best occasion to vent.

Sure enough, after listening to my words, Xu Feng first stalemate for a second, and then laughed so hard that he couldn't stop.

"I really admire you more and more, my friend. You can always say such insightful words." Xu Feng said with a smile. "So, Azhen, do you think we are going through movies and a scene now?"

"I won't conclude this, but I think there is a smart supporting actor in a team, a second female player with a irritable personality that causes the team to split, a gentle and jassic girl, a few supporting actors with a sunny personality, and an ordinary captain who knows nothing. This is a routine script routine that has not changed much since the Aristotle era. If all this was really a script written by Miyako, she probably had either never studied Aristotle's three-act structure. Or hadn't seen Joseph Campbell's "The Thousand Faces Hero". If she had seen it, she would probably not have come up with such a boring and old-fashioned game. She definitely didn't know that the author of "The Thousand Faces Hero" had long proposed that all novels, movies, animations, and dramas that must have fallen into the twelve-step plot circle of "Hero Journey Theory" that must have fallen into, and her script is still not new."

"Haha, so that's it. I really want to read the book "The Hero of Thousand Faces" you said when I have time. If what Ah Zhen said is true, Miyako would really be hurt by you." Xu Feng smiled happily, patted my back, and said, "Okay, the smog in Beijing is serious enough, and the outdoor air is really turbid enough. Ah Zhen, let's take a break early."

"Okay... wait." I frowned and called Xu Feng again, "Hu Zixin... You really plan to keep making her like that. Although I thought she was hateful at first, I think she is really a little pitiful now."

"Don't worry, she just doesn't want to accept the fact that God's game is the fact that she is as clear as you, Azhen. After waiting for a while, she will naturally understand that this world is not her original world at all. She is lonely in this world. When she figures it out, she will naturally take the initiative to stand on our side." Xu Feng left this sentence with his back to me, and then his figure disappeared behind the hotel's automatic door.

If I slept well that night, it would be a lie. In fact, many worries and the air in Beijing that tested the limits of human evolution made me not sleep well all night, and my throat was not very comfortable when I woke up the next morning.

I wanted to inquire about Xu Feng's whereabouts, but early in the morning I found out that he was not in the room. From Haizi, I learned that Xu Feng had already gone to Hu Zixin's company and it was said that he had begun to implement his plan.

However, the phone instructions Xu Feng gave me were to be on standby in the hotel, which made me really useless.

What even more tests my curiosity was that for the next whole week, Xu Feng went out early and returned late, went in and out at Hu Zixin's company, and went back and forth until the night of the second Monday, Xu Feng gathered us together and talked about his achievements.

"I have gained quite well this week. Through phone games and scandal transactions, I have already learned about the private scandals of more than 3,000 celebrities, the scandals of two hundred politicians and the scandals of two hundred people in the media system. The first step of my plan is to penetrate intelligence into the political class through scandals in the entertainment industry.

If I want to describe my expression after hearing Xu Feng’s report, I think it should be more suitable for surprise.

"Hey, you're not already at the point where you're going out and there are a large group of enemies sharpening their knives in groups, right?" I squeezed my sweat and said.

"Don't worry, although there is this trend, it is not that serious. My confidentiality work is still relatively strict." Xu Feng smiled sarcastically, "Through the game, I have made those stars keep their secrets."

Next, Xu Feng explained in detail the good things he had done this week. How to put it, it is similar to the most common black-hearted media blackmail extortion in movies.

Taking Wang Feng as the entry point, Xu Feng first got the details of the scandal of fifteen stars. Then on the first day, Xu Feng asked Hu Zixin's company to expose the scandal of a star named Bi to the news as a victim of killing the chicken to warn the monkey. Then Xu Feng called the stars or their agents through Hu Zixin's company's star phone list, and threatened to expose the details of the scandal of the victim star to reveal the details of the scandal of other stars he knew, so that Xu Feng can guarantee not to disclose his scandal. If the other party refuses or does not believe it, then Xu Feng will tell the other party that the star named Bi was also exposed by him a few days ago. If the other party does not obey, he will follow in the footsteps of the other party. Then Xu Feng will ensure that he will keep his mouth shut through the game.

In addition, according to Xu Feng himself, Xu Feng also played a coin-swapping gambling game with some celebrities through videophones or webcams, saying that as long as the other party can throw a coin fifty times, fifty times out of the face he chose, Xu Feng would not expose the scandal of the other party, nor would he harass the other party or blackmail other celebrities, if the other party loses, he must disclose the scandal and bear a certain "confidentiality fee".

"People have a self-protection mentality. Instead of suffering from their own and their own companies, it is better to sell out scandals of other celebrities. Out of this self-interest, no matter how many, celebrities will be willing to disclose scandals of celebrities that are not very related to them. Cooperate with the forced power of the game, using this layer of nested interpersonal relationships, you can obtain a large amount of intelligence information."

Xu Feng said with a smile while drinking the coffee at hand leisurely.

"You are very leisurely, but do you know how many contracts our company has terminated in the past week? How many people have complained about it? Our company's lawsuits are all scheduled for next year. Do you know? Beast!!" While Xu Feng was drinking coffee leisurely, the person who was crying on the side was naturally Hu Zixin.

But Xu Feng seemed to have not heard it, looked at us and said with a smile:

"The second thing is that just yesterday, as Hu Zixin's agent, I bought 100 sports lottery tickets and won five million prizes. Hu Zixin can go to receive the prize tomorrow."

Hearing Xu Feng's words, Hu Zixin, who was furious, suddenly showed joy.

But soon Hu Zixin's face turned back to bronze green:

"Due to the losses of our company, do you think this mere five million is useless?!"

"Since I can win five million, of course I can win one hundred million, one billion, or even one hundred billion." Xu Feng's mouth curled up with a signature confident smile. This sentence blocked Hu Zixin's mouth like a Texas burger. Then Xu Feng turned his face and looked at me and said, "Azhen, starting tomorrow, I want to be your agent and go to Beijing casino to participate in gambling."

"Hey, you haven't talked about this before. At least we should discuss it first?" I frowned and looked at Xu Feng.

"It doesn't matter, you don't need to do anything, you just be your agent in name, and the money I win in gambling will be transferred to your account." Xu Feng said with a smile.

"This is not the point... You don't want to focus all your enemies on me, right?"

"Don't worry, my friend, I won't do this. Ah Zhen, you don't need to take any risks. Just watch me play games as a bystander." Xu Feng said with a smile, "Even if you don't come to watch, just let others know that I am your agent. I will only transfer the money to your account unilaterally, and you will not have any legal responsibility."

Xu Feng patted my shoulder and gave me a thumbs up, but I always felt uneasy as if I was the supreme pirate ship.

"At least, let's talk about what you plan to do?" I stared at Xu Feng and looked tightly.

"That's it..." Xu Feng blinked, "I want to get the title of God of Gambling."

That's why I stepped into the gate of the Beijing casino the next day, and my eyes were hurt by the classic European crystal chandeliers in the circular hall.

According to the information Haizi found, the most common thing in this world is the casino. As long as you have a little capital, you can set foot in any casino. The form of gambling can be any game, as long as it is a rule agreed by both parties, but there will be more gaming facilities in the casino.

Of course, depending on the size of the bet, the status and level of the gambler.

Because of Wang Feng's recommendation, Xu Feng easily received the reception from the guests in the casino. It was definitely not a pleasure to be noticed by a crowd, but Xu Feng was calm and ignored it. When outsiders saw that he really had a star attitude. However, this was not practical.

The casino receptionist politely introduced the types of games in the casino to us:

"Welcome, it's really surprising to see Mr. Wang and some of you. There are 13,000 games here. If we talk about the participants, it is mainly divided into Renren Games and Human Machine Games. If we talk about the information level of the game, it is divided into complete information games and incomplete information games. Games such as chess, Rubik's Cubes, Roulettes, Dumpling Slot Machines, Sudoku, etc. are complete information games, while card games and color betting are incomplete information games. Of course, there are also games in the form of sports competitions. I wonder what type of games do you want to participate in?"

Accompanied by Wang Feng with a dark face, Xu Feng quickly made a decision:

"Chess."

"Chess game? Mr. Xu, aren't you planning to play something more exciting?" The waiter was shocked when he heard Xu Feng's decision.

"It's okay, he's good at this," Wang Feng, who was beside him, smiled with a slight face, "Just let him play happily. It's better to choose the person with the highest chess level here to play with him, and it doesn't matter if he wins him to lose everything."

This was obviously full of resentment, but Xu Feng didn't care, but accepted it happily and said to the receptionist:

"Just as he said, I am good at playing chess and arrange some people of some level for me."

"Yes, we have the champions of the previous Tianyuan Battle and Celebrity Battle in the Go world, and there are also first-class international chess players. Of course, if Mr. Xu knows how to play chess or four-country military chess, he can also arrange candidates..."

"Go." After coming to the casino, Xu Feng's speech suddenly became very concise and straightforward, and the two-word sentences seemed to have become his representative speech.

"Okay, since we are Mr. Wang's friend, let's arrange the staff now... By the way, I don't know how much gambling coins you are willing to buy, and how much are you willing to bet in the first game?" the receptionist asked with a smile.

"Five million." Xu Feng said lightly.

I felt a slippery under my feet. I hurriedly pulled Xu Feng's sleeve and said in his ear:

"Hey, that's too much. I'll put all the money on you in the first game. Is it okay? Are you really good at playing Go?"

Xu Feng smiled and patted my shoulder and said:

"Don't worry, Azhen, I have complete confidence in this complete information game that relies solely on brain power, and I can tell you that I will not lose money from entering this casino."

Hello, where did this kind of inexplicable self-confidence come from? Can it be sold by pound? I looked at Xu Feng with the most surprising thing I could show, without saying anything. At this point, I am already a second-hand ship in the storm in the Pacific Ocean. Although I am the captain, the helm power is not in my hands. The ship is running towards the gate of hell is no longer under my control.

However, Xu Feng himself did say that the only memory in his mind was about various games. Now I can only pray that Xu Feng was the closed-door apprentice of the God of Gambling God Fa Ge or Wu Qingyuan was reincarnated before he lost his memory.

It is worthy of being the number one casino in the capital. Its efficiency is really not a big deal. In a blink of an eye, the master who claimed to be a former Go champion has already appeared on stage. His shiny forehead is shining under the European chandeliers in the casino.

I also watched Xu Feng sit in the challenge seat, and I was really a little passerby when he was shaking hands with the international master casually. The dialogue is roughly as follows:

"Happy, Mr. Xu, I heard that you are Wang Feng's friend, so I came to fight with me? You are so young and promising." The other party asked with a smile.

"I'm just very passionate about chess skills. I want to fight with masters, so I'll ask the master for advice." Xu Feng and answered angrily.

The other party smiled kindly:

"All the advice is to give me advice, but this is a casino after all, so you still have to get a lottery ticket. I heard that you have made a bet of five million? This is not a small amount. If you lose, don't regret it. Since Mr. Xu, you bet five million, then I naturally can't fight. I will also take out the lottery ticket of five million."

"In addition to the lottery," Xu Feng smiled, "I also hope that if I beat you, Master, you can promise me an additional condition."

"Oh, what are the conditions?"

"The condition is that I hope you can help me introduce at least five of you in the chess and casinos to get to know each other, and the latter is not limited in number."

Hearing Xu Feng's conditions, the master laughed and said cheerfully:

"It's easy to say, if you can really play me, I'll recommend a few friends to accompany you to play chess three times."

I know Xu Feng must be making some plans again. What this guy is best at is making connections with people like pedals, one by one, and every time this guy can always use individuals as a breakthrough to expand his network of contacts.

In this way, the game of Go started soon. To be honest, I only got to know Go’s level. If I want to say that if I look up to the mountains, I can only see the level of the small hill.

But what surprised me was that the onlookers were really surprised. Perhaps the star effect and the master effect had some kind of chemical reaction. At least a hundred people in the chess hall were attracted by this gambling. When Xu Feng sat in front of the chessboard and I stood beside him like a wooden stake, I could only smile bitterly. This is not to say that I am a gentleman, because I really don’t understand.

"Each person's time limit is 10 seconds, start."

The person in charge of the casino sentenced the beginning of the chess competition, and I could only pretend to be profound and actually held back the sweat and watched.

Miyako is here. If you really want to play with us, at least you should get some more interesting games and don’t let us fall into this place.

The first move was Xu Feng. Speaking of which, I had never seen him move before, but seeing that his gestures did not look like an outsider, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, I noticed that some viewers had already started betting on the results of the chess match. What surprised me was that the odds were actually one to one, and the difference was not very big. I don’t know which great god dared to bet on Xu Feng, a young boy who suddenly appeared.

Xu Feng was really focused when playing chess. This was the first time I saw him concentrating and thinking seriously to this situation. Seeing him sitting cross-legged, frowning his eyebrows and staring at the hesitant look, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, especially when I saw the master opposite him with leisurely looks, I was even more shocked. The chess pieces fell on the chessboard, but they were like hail falling on my head.

However, after ten minutes, the situation changed because I found that Xu Feng was really capable. At least on the chessboard, Xu Feng had already begun to gain the upper hand. I don’t know where he learned the chess skills. However, I heard that most of the experts in Go were very young, so I felt relieved.

"Your chess looks very quiet at first glance." After almost half an hour, the other party finally made an unexplained evaluation of Xu Feng's chess skills, "It gives people a sense of calmness that is vast oceans and rivers, but when you rob, you are not ruthless, with a sharp sense of showing your sharpness and sharp swords out of the sheath. Good level and good chess skills, this game... I lost. Xu Feng, I remember this name. I think, with your level, even if you face other big figures in the Go world today, you can not give in. I wonder which master you have learned from?"

Sorry, although you are an international master, you can't get beaten when you encounter a brain monster like Xu Feng. Although I kept this sentence in my heart and didn't say it out, I still sighed for the master secretly.

"I'm giving up." Although the chess game was over, Xu Feng did not rush to get up, but smiled and pulled me over, then patted me on the shoulder, and said, "This is my master. My chess skills come from him, and his chess skills are far above me."
To be continued...
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