Chapter 161

Shen Yue looked at L·A, with an incredulous expression on his face. He did not understand why Shen Yue, who looked like he knew nothing, could see through his tricks.

From the previous few rounds, whether it was in terms of skills or habits, Shen Yue was a complete newcomer who had never been in contact with gambling before.

What on earth was going on here? Could it be that Shen Yue had been pretending all this while?

How could he pretend so well? This was Academy Award level acting.

While L·A and his men were still immersed in the shock of Shen Yue's sudden turnaround, only Si Chengyou was not surprised at all, calmly praising Shen Yue in the astonished eyes of everyone: "Well done."

Only then did L·A realize what was going on. He looked at Si Chengyou, seeming to breathe a sigh of relief: "Boss Si, so you were the one messing around. I knew a pure newcomer like him could not possibly see through my tricks."

L·A was still confident in himself. He believed there was no way Shen Yue could reach his level. Losing to someone like Shen Yue, he was unwilling to accept that.

Therefore, when Si Chengyou spoke, he subconsciously pinned his hopes on Si Chengyou. Si Chengyou was someone he admired. No matter what, losing to Si Chengyou would make him feel slightly better.

However, Si Chengyou did not cooperate with him. After hearing L·A's words, he smiled harmlessly, as if speaking to an old friend, and said to L·A: "You guessed wrong. I didn't do anything."

The gentle voice carried words that made L·A feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. He looked at Shen Yue in disbelief and asked, "What did you just do?"

Shen Yue matter-of-factly replied, "I did everything to you that you did to me just now."

L·A immediately clapped his palms together and affirmed, "So you also arranged someone on my side to peek at the cards? Damn, who dared to betray me? Was it you, huh?!"

Without hesitation, L·A kicked the little brother standing to his left rear, "I knew you being here meant you were up to no good. Did you tell them my cards?!"

The beaten little brother was confused. Feeling the power of his boss's heavy fists pounding on his chest, he kept professing his loyalty, "No, boss! I don't even know her! And I've been by your side all day, how could I have colluded with anyone!"

L·A stopped his attack. After a little thought, that was reasonable too. So he looked at the little brother on the other side and asked, "If it wasn't him, then was it you?!"

"You wronged me, boss. Since you woke up this morning, I was the one who wiped your eye boogers. When would I have had the chance to collude with anyone to set you up?!"

Upon hearing that, L·A felt that made sense too. So he was puzzled.

At this time, Shen Yue also heard something from L·A's words. She turned to Danni La and asked, "Did you tell him my cards just now?" Danni La's expression did not change at all as she frankly admitted, "Yes."

Shen Yue oh-ed, but did not ask why.

At this point, L·A finally realized what was going on. Just as he was about to say something, meeting Si Chengyou's gaze, he silently swallowed his words back down and replaced them with, "Since you didn't set me up on this side, then what exactly did you learn from me."

Shen Yue did not answer immediately. If she answered L·A now, the initiative would be in L·A's hands. But if she did not answer, the initiative would be hers.

"You said just now that if you lost, you would agree to a request from me."

L·A did not get the truth he wanted. Feeling a little irritable, he rubbed his hair and growled, "What do you want? You'd better think carefully before answering. If I can't do it, I won't give you a second chance to choose."

Shen Yue did not hesitate at all, as if she had already made up her mind, "I want you to teach me what the human mind is."

L·A had been in this prison for many years. He went from an ordinary inmate to the person in power at Building 8, and was even able to safely step down at his peak to become a small leader in Building 8. A person like this must be scheming.

But coincidentally, everyone who knew L·A felt that he was just a silly big guy with decent gambling skills, and was especially funny with his daily craze for Cell 14.

L·A's weakness was too obvious, which unconsciously lowered people's guard, making them unaware of what this fool-looking person hiding under that skin actually looked like inside.

But Shen Yue noticed.

From the first moment L·A appeared before her, she saw that he was not actually used to physical contact with people. When his minions got close to him, he would subconsciously avoid touching them. Although the postures looked intimate when they touched L·A, in fact it was L·A restraining his instinct to flee.

Including when L·A chased Cell 14, there were too many abnormalities between them.

Ordinary people would not feel these abnormalities, but Shen Yue, who had memorized every one of Cell 14's habits, could not ignore them.

It was from the interaction between L·A and Cell 14 that Shen Yue became wary of L·A and began to record all his actions and habits.

Finally, Shen Yue realized how formidable this person was. His words could bewitch people's hearts, and his actions caused people to lower their guard.

If she could learn this, wouldn't she be able to find the truth about Martha from the mess of true and false information?

Or give up on the truth, approach everyone with a harmless posture, and send them straight to hell.

Upon hearing Shen Yue's answer, L·A was only shocked for a moment before his expression returned to normal.

He had wanted to lean back and make the pose of a big shot with both hands resting on the back of his chair, but remembering the earlier incident of the chair falling back, he gave up.

After lightly coughing once, L·A said to Shen Yue, "That's easy. What the hell is human mind? I understand it best - one left atrium, one right atrium, the blood that flows is red, and tastes great when boiled!"

"You know that's not what I meant."

L·A was interrupted, so he put away his pretense of madness and stupidity, and asked, "Your condition is almost the same as taking you on as my disciple. I don't teach people casually unless I'm particularly interested. Tell me first how you won against me just now, and I'll decide whether or not to take you on."

Shen Yue repeated again, "Just like what you taught me."

"So what the fuck did I teach you?!" "The way you held your cards was very strange, different from how Si Chengyou and Cell 14 held theirs. I tried imitating it and found that I could hide an extra card in the deck.

Then I noticed that every time before you let Si Chengyou draw a card, you would change the way you held the cards again. I imitated that as well, and realized that this allowed me to control which card was drawn. No matter which card the person drawing originally wanted, it could be silently replaced immediately."

"Wait, you learned all that just by watching?!"

Si Chengyou, who was on the side, interjected at this time, "She has always been very observant and good at imitating."

In plain words: Dead memorization is strong, newcomer Shen Yue is who you look for!

L·A was still a little unconvinced. "Even if you can control the cards, without anyone telling you the cards in other people's hands, how would you know which one to control?"

Shen Yue said softly, "You can calculate it."

Martha often played number games with her. After playing a lot, she also learned some tricks.

After thinking about it briefly, L·A still felt interested in Shen Yue. So he immediately agreed to take her on as a disciple (not really) and swaggered off to eat.

"Alright! That's it! Starting today, you are my disciple! My disciple, see you at two pm later. Don't stand me up!" In fact, L·A still wanted to know about Danni La's actions, after all, that woman had helped him cheat under Si Chengyou's arrangement. But Si Chengyou seemed to be on the same side as Shen Yue.

Sigh, so troublesome.

These kinds of schemes with backstabbing were the most interesting. If not for the meddling of Si Chengyou, he would have eagerly eaten it all up until the sky turned dark. Che, annoying!

Really want to eat melon, but don't dare.

While walking on the road, the more L·A thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and the more unwilling he felt. Finally, he kicked the little brother next to him, "Hey! Go find out the follow up from those people just now and tell me about it later!"

On the other side, Shen Yue and the others were also preparing to go to the cafeteria to eat.

Ever since Cell 14 heard that Danni La had leaked cards to L·A, her expression had not been good. Si Chengyou still had the same appearance. But when Cell 14 stared daggers at Danni La, he still took the opportunity to ask Shen Yue, "Do you think L·A is formidable?"

Shen Yue nodded, "Yes, formidable, but not as formidable as you."

Si Chengyou had originally planned to beat around the bush for a bit longer to ask Shen Yue about her opinion of him, but his words were shoved right back down his throat.

Shen Yue looked at Si Chengyou. Her eyes were calm without a ripple, yet she suddenly spoke words that were enough to make one's heart race like a drum.

"I don't quite understand the human nature you teach, but I can understand L.A.'s teaching on human nature very well. I think that if I understand L.A.'s teaching first, I may be able to understand yours as well."

Si Chengyou did not speak, but just smiled faintly.

"Si Chengyou, after I understand the human nature taught by L.A., will you teach me your understanding of human nature?"

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There will be four chapters tomorrow, spare me today.