Chapter 406 - 256: This Is Really Getting Mystical!

Cheating is simply not possible.

In the early days of card games, there might have been the possibility of hacks leading to cheating because back then, the whole deck was sent locally for "random distribution".

Since it was local, cheating was easy, just like FPS games being calculated locally, making it easy to tamper with data.

But now, the server sends data of one’s own cards to each client without sending data of others’ cards.

During gameplay, there’s a comparison between the server-side and client-side "card values", commonly known as "data verification". If the verification fails, the request is bounced back.

Chen Ba understood this process well, so he knew that Ice Cola likely wasn’t cheating, just purely lucky.

But this is too coincidental.

Right after the trigram in "Mountain Village Memories" turned inaccurate, from great luck to great misfortune, he swept across the card games...

It’s hard not to let one’s imagination run wild.

Ice Cola also understood what the audience wanted to say, so he switched back to "Mountain Village Memories" and did another divination.

"What is he doing?"

"The time hasn’t changed, right? Isn’t the trigram still the same great luck at this time?"

Lu was puzzled. In "Mountain Village Memories", the trigram doesn’t change within a certain time unless the timing changes.

But the timing in the game hadn’t changed, Ice Cola just switched screens to play three rounds of Dou Dizhu, what’s the use of doing divination again now?

The trigram wouldn’t change... What the hell!

Under Lu’s surprised gaze, the trigram Ice Cola divined changed from great luck to great misfortune!

"I don’t get it..."

Lu was completely confused, unable to understand what Ice Cola was trying to convey, or had he discovered something incredible?

Stop being the riddle master!

First great luck, then great misfortune, one moment "Mountain Village Memories," the next Dou Dizhu, what on earth are you doing?

"Don’t worry, keep watching!"

Chen Ba seemed to vaguely guess something, stopping Lu’s complaints, and looked intensely at the computer screen.

In the absence of a timing change, Ice Cola’s divination resulted in a new trigram, changing from great luck to great misfortune.

Then he directly quit the game and started another round of Dou Dizhu...

Obviously, he lost this time!

The beans he just won were all given away in charity as the gambling god, not by purposefully losing, but through normal gameplay.

"Isn’t it amazing?"

"Just like you, I find it amazing, how can the fortune or misfortune trigrams from ’Mountain Village Memories’ relate to Dou Dizhu?"

"Alright, let’s do another experiment! This time no Dou Dizhu, we’ll directly start Star Iron, pull on the UP pool..."

"As usual, before we draw from this pool, let’s open ’Mountain Village Memories’ and divine for ourselves!"

"Don’t talk about unchanged timing and unchanging trigrams, just watch my actions. I said the trigram will change, and it will!"

Ice Cola must have discovered something, as he said the trigram would change, and it really did, from great misfortune to small misfortune...

UP pool ten draws!

No surprises, except for a guaranteed four-star character, no five-star appeared.

"Do another divination!"

"Great, it changed to a small fortune! Let’s do another ten draws, a small fortune should result in something, right? Come on, give me something!"

With a flash of gold, there was a hit, but unfortunately, it wasn’t the featured UP five-star character.

First Dou Dizhu, then the card draw pool.

Through Ice Cola’s multiple demonstrations, not only did Lu understand, but the live chat also got it.

"Mountain Village Memories" is supernatural!

This game originally came with a divination function predicting future fortunes and misfortunes, which was already surprising. Who would’ve thought this divination system could predict card luck and gacha luck?

"This..."

Lu looked at the silent Ba, amazed, "Ba, how did you do it?"

"Not that miraculous!"

Although the video didn’t show much, Chen Ba, being the one most familiar with this divination system, had a theory.

It’s not as exaggerated as Lu thought.

The issue shown in Ice Cola’s video likely resulted from an error in the divination system, obtaining data from other games and calculating the trigram results based on it.

For instance, in the game of Dou Dizhu, Ice Cola probably lost quite a few times, so it’s predicted that after losing so many times, he would eventually win.

So the trigram showed great luck, a trio of victories!

As the saying goes, after winning streaks come losing streaks, Ice Cola won three in a row and bagged so many beans, no matter how well he played it was time to lose.

So the trigram showed great misfortune, the charity gambling god!

The Star Iron gacha follows the same logic, even more vividly than Dou Dizhu, because this game has a "pity" mechanism for draws.

Chen Ba didn’t know how many draws Ice Cola had previously padded, but suspected it was quite a lot...

The trigram initially showed small misfortune, then changed to small fortune, indicating a "rise in fortune" process due to the change in trigrams.

It sounds mystical, but anyone with common sense knows that with a pity system, Ice Cola’s continued drawing was destined to yield results sooner or later.

What rise in fortune?

Clearly, the many draws increased the effective pity probability and yield rate.

If small fortune draws didn’t yield results, then most likely the next trigram would change to "great fortune", ensuring stability, as it’s close to reaching the pity threshold where results are guaranteed!