Under the glow of Pleasure's own energy light, those hourglass fragments were currently shining with dazzling brilliance.

Did He shatter it Himself? But hadn't the Arbitrator already said before that this thing's material couldn't be directly crushed by Divine Power.

Xie Antong stared blankly at the scene before her. Seeing the Arbitrator beside her show no reaction to this, her mind went completely blank for a short moment.

The surrounding spectator stands had long erupted into an uproar. Ever since Pleasure indicated His cards weren't fully played, everyone had already been astonished by His shamelessness.

"What does this mean? Does this really belong to the rules? The cards were clearly all played out, yet He can still supplement them!"

"I thought this game was especially fair before, but in this situation... I can only say the Chips wagered this round aren't too many, so the problem isn't huge."

"But why did Pleasure shatter one of His own Chips? Does this count as consuming Himself?!"

"One Chip is very important at the final critical moment, right?"

The All-Seeing Eye sent back all the various sounds from the entire venue, transmitting them into Xie Antong's brain.

But at this moment, she didn't need to analyze this information at all to know very clearly that what people were thinking must be wrong!

A bolt of lightning suddenly flashed in her heart. She looked at the other side somewhat incredulously, then also looked at the hourglass before her.

If it wasn't shattered by Him, then that meant... the other side's previous thinking directly consumed the sand of one hourglass!?

But wasn't it said before that due to Life level reasons, no matter how Pleasure thinks, the Chips extracted from Death's Life wouldn't have any changes?

[Hehe, little girl, don't be too surprised. I said, being able to make me reach this step is your ability and honor.]

[Time's up, I'll throw out a few cards first...]

Saying this, He stretched out His own hand, placed it on the table and casually flicked a few times, picking several cards from those before Him and flicking them out.

They still weren't turned over, and He didn't even look at which ones He flicked.

But Xie Antong remembered the order of these cards extremely clearly. With each card flying out, her heart grew heavier by several degrees.

"13"

"14"

"15..."

"6!"

When the three biggest cards came out, she still held a sliver of hope in her heart, thinking perhaps the other side wanted to consume all His own high cards.

According to previous inferences about the correspondence between prime numbers, her own high cards were equally important, preserving more possibilities.

But upon seeing that "6" being flicked out, the hope in her heart instantly extinguished. She lowered her head in pain.

This could no longer possibly be coincidence.

"6, 7, 13, 14, 15..."

The number formed by these five cards was 55...

He consumed her most crucial "7," consumed all His own high cards, and moreover, this combined "55" just happened to defeat the "Dog" she had just played!

Regardless of how He knew what cards were before her, it was very clear this wasn't the most important issue at all.

She had already lost this round, but what was lost was definitely not just those insignificant six Chips...

[Don't you always say I play games using the optimal solution? You were right.]

[Are you satisfied with this card-playing order of mine? For me, does it count as the optimal solution?]

Pleasure's mouth curled into a smile, gently tapping the table as He looked at the severely shaken Xie Antong across from Him.

[In such a short time, you've already deduced this bizarre game's rules and forced me to this point. You've really done well. In this aspect, I think that guy inside the black box might not be better than you.]

[Hehe, so it's that the sum result of the numbers and the animal's sequence number cannot be coprime...]

Xie Antong: !!!

She abruptly looked up, staring fixedly at this beautiful, absurd deity across from her with whom she had long formed a Fate Connection.

So it was!

He actually already knew the game's rules. When did He... deduce it while consuming that hourglass?

At this moment, the Arbitrator showed no surprise about this, merely coming before the table, flipping over all the cards before both sides, and transcribing the card faces.

Light flashed above Xie Antong's head, and a hyena with a gaping maw and exposed fangs appeared there.

And the numbers represented by those five cards formed an extremely sturdy shield.

The outcome was already predetermined. The wild dog ultimately couldn't break through that shield, dissipating in the sky and finally returning to nothingness.

"For this game, the victor is, Pleasure!"

The Arbitrator, like an emotionless announcement machine, swept all the hourglasses on the scene over to Pleasure's front.

Before Him now were eighteen Chips, while before Xie Antong, there were still twenty-two intact Chips.

On the surface, Xie Antong still held an advantage, but this advantage had become completely meaningless under this sudden turn of events.

The table once again rose into the air, rotated one full circle before landing, stirring up a wave of divine light.

"Both sides' cards are exchanged and reset. The game continues!"

After saying this, the Arbitrator retreated several steps again, as if everything was already unrelated to Him.

[Are you thinking about when I also learned this game's rules?]

[Hehe, it's not our first time meeting. After interacting for so long, have you forgotten what your own identity is?]

My identity?

Pleasure's words directly made Xie Antong freeze, not understanding what He meant.

"Identity?"

[You are my... Apostle!]

[In your world, the first true Spokesperson for the God is you! We two are old acquaintances.]

[How could I not know what you, this Apostle, know? Hehehe...]

"What, can you read my mind?" Xie Antong was instantly greatly shocked. If Apostles had such a weakness, then there was no point playing.

[Hehe, you could say so. Of course, the specific situation here is quite complex. I won't waste so much breath explaining it to you.]

[This game is Thought and Life, not Thinking and Life...]

[This is one twenty-fifth of that "Death" guy's Life! Did you think it would shatter so easily?]

Saying this, Pleasure casually threw the hourglass fragments in His hand onto the Gambling Table.

Afterwards, the smile on His face gradually widened as He uttered an exceptionally bewitching voice.

[In fact, I think you seem to have a misconception, always thinking about teaming up with that lunatic to desperately fight or something...]

[But this is the biggest misunderstanding, because, the two of us should be on the same side!!]

[To show sincerity, how about you feel your strength now?]