“Hiss~ It really was two blank shots. Does this human actually have some skill?”
“Tch, she just got lucky for once. She’s probably shaking like a leaf on the inside!”
Bai Tang paid no attention to the cold remarks from the other bizarre creatures in the tavern. Her expression remained perfectly calm.
“Heh. Looks like Mr. Werewolf’s expectations fell flat?”
After firing two blanks and using up her chance to adjust the cylinder in the first round, the girl placed the revolver back on the table.
“How could that be?” The werewolf tightened his fist. “If it ended in the first round, that would be too boring.”
A ruthless glint flashed through his eerie green wolf eyes.
“I only hope Miss Bai Tang’s luck stays this good.”
At that moment, the tavern owner raised his withered, thick hand to signal the watching crowd to be quiet. His low, hoarse voice — like a death knell — rang out slowly.
“Quiet. It is now the third player’s turn to shoot.”
Following the clockwise order, the third person was the starving ghost sitting to Bai Tang’s left — the one the werewolf had forcibly dragged into the game.
If they designated the current position of the single live round in the cylinder as “1,” then Bai Tang had shifted the cylinder forward one notch before her shot, expending the blanks in positions “2” and “3.”
That meant, without spinning the cylinder, the next three shots — positions “4” through “6” — would all be safe blanks.
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, the starving ghost raised the revolver with trembling hands.
“I… I…”
The starving ghost gripped the gun tightly, unable to decide whether to spin the cylinder before firing. The fear of death threatened to drown him completely.
Clearly, even among bizarre creatures, cowards existed. Not everyone was as cunning and game-savvy as the werewolf.
“Hurry up already~ You’re making me wait forever,” the scarecrow, who went after the starving ghost, said impatiently. Its eyes rolled under the black blindfold as it suddenly suggested in a sinister tone:
“Why don’t you ask the Miss Bai Tang sitting right next to you?”
Bai Tang’s heart sank. Had her earlier actions been too obvious and raised their suspicions?
Although the game rules did not explicitly state the punishment for cheating, if they discovered she could tell in advance whether the next shot was live, it would undoubtedly enrage all the bizarre creatures.
She would most likely be torn to pieces on the spot.
Following the principle that the more you say, the more mistakes you make — and since they were enemies with no obligation to help — Bai Tang chose to remain completely silent.
After struggling for a while, the starving ghost still chose to spin the cylinder before firing.
“Reset the odds… reset the odds…”
The starving ghost raised his shaking hand, pressed the dark barrel of the revolver against his temple, and slowly pulled the trigger.
Bang—!
A deafening gunshot suddenly exploded beside Bai Tang’s ear, making her eardrums ring painfully. Immediately after came the sound of a heavy body collapsing to the floor without support.
It was a live round!
Under the black blindfold, Bai Tang’s pupils contracted slightly.
It was the normal reaction to witnessing a life suddenly disappear right before her eyes. Moreover, being in the same dangerous situation herself, humans instinctively projected the scene onto their own possible fate.
The starving ghost was completely dead. Brain matter and dark blood flowed across the round table, dripping onto the floor drop by drop.
He didn’t even get the chance to fire a second shot. The entire tavern was now filled with a thick, pungent smell of blood.
Bai Tang fought back the urge to vomit.
“He spun the cylinder and still died? Was his luck really that bad?”
Another spectator couldn’t help but sigh.
“Hehe~ Actually, that guy made the wrong choice from the very beginning. He shouldn’t have spun the cylinder,” the werewolf, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke. His words pointed straight at Bai Tang. “Isn’t that right, Miss Bai Tang?”
The moment the werewolf finished speaking, a large number of gazes turned toward Bai Tang.
Even though her eyes were covered and she could see nothing but darkness, she could still clearly feel the eyes landing on her.
It was an obvious probe.
If the werewolf said the starving ghost shouldn’t have spun the cylinder because he knew the live round’s position, then asking Bai Tang now was very likely a test to see if she also knew where the live round was.
From the sounds of it, the game was not going to continue immediately. Bai Tang knew she had to say something.
“That’s correct. He shouldn’t have spun the cylinder,” Bai Tang said calmly.
“Why? Doesn’t spinning the cylinder reset the probability of hitting the live round?” a confused bizarre creature immediately asked.
“Could it be that Miss Bai Tang already knew the position of the live round in the cylinder?”
Seeing someone else backing him up, the werewolf quickly followed with suspicion.
“Could it be that Miss Bai Tang cheated? Getting caught cheating would lead to a very miserable death, you know~”
Bai Tang was speechless. This was probably what people called “a thief crying thief.”
Even with her eyes covered and unable to see anything, the girl could perfectly imagine the werewolf’s grinning face, eager to devour her whole.
To that, Bai Tang only wanted to say: Hard pass. Sis is not a woman you can get.
“Are you all idiots?”
The girl’s fair, slender knuckles tapped on the table, as if she were facing a group of people with intellectual disabilities.
“It has nothing to do with whether you know the live round’s position. Isn’t this the most obvious conclusion?”
Probably never expecting to one day be called idiots by a mere human, the bizarre creatures were stunned for a good while. None of them reacted immediately.
They were forced to accept Bai Tang’s explanation.
“Even after two blank shots have already been fired, without spinning the cylinder the probability of hitting the live round is still 1/4. If you spin the cylinder and reset the odds, thanks to the extra-shot penalty, the probability becomes 2/6.”
“Although the difference between 25% and 33% isn’t huge, there is still a gap.”
At this point, Bai Tang paused and tapped her temple with her index finger.
“Next time don’t ask me such simple questions. I don’t want to answer them.”
The air fell into complete silence.
Too arrogant! Way too arrogant!
Wasn’t she just indirectly calling them idiots? No — she was straight-up calling them idiots!
She was scolding them so blatantly. Did they have no dignity at all?
They had never seen such an arrogant human before. Did she not realize where she was? This was the Goat Tavern!
“Ahem, actually I already thought of that. I was just testing you, human!”
“Yeah, exactly! We just wanted to see if a mere human was qualified to sit at the gambling table.”
“Hahaha… why take it so seriously? We’re just joking around!”
The bizarre creatures broke out in cold sweat, looking left and right awkwardly. Their toes could have dug out an entire luxury villa complex from embarrassment, yet none of them were willing to admit they had been outsmarted by a mere human girl.
Listening to their clumsy excuses, Bai Tang couldn’t help but let out a soft laugh.
Suddenly, she felt that this world wasn’t quite as terrifying as she had previously imagined.
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