Xie Antong needed to maintain a balance now, using her own mind with careful calculation.
On one hand, she still had to play the game in the way she excelled at. She had no way of avoiding deductions about the rules like her opponent did.
But she also could not let her thoughts run wild as she had before, gradually teasing apart countless possibilities.
The direction of her thoughts now had to strike true in a single blow! There was no room for taking the wrong path.
So, before she had enough information, it was best to stop at the right point and not keep thinking any further.
Now, both she and Joy clearly knew that the spectators in the stands were also part of the game. To some extent, they were a double-edged sword.
Thus, both of their cards remained face-down on the table, neither of them picking them up again. All relevant information came from those first few seconds when they had lifted them.
This also indirectly showed that the game really was fairly designed. Joy had not realized at first that they needed to guard against the audience seeing the cards. Perhaps that was related to how they had always looked down on humanity...
Yet during that brief moment earlier, the stands had given eight different answers for Joy's five cards!
At this distance, it was perfectly normal for people to see something wrong. One person had said there was a cat, and they had most likely mistaken the tiger.
Based on the majority of the answers, Xie Antong determined that her opponent's five cards came from the Chinese zodiac.
And there were currently at most six possibilities: ox, tiger, dragon, horse, dog, and pig.
She did not know which one had been misread, or which one