The cards were displayed on a touchscreen. There was no way to spot anything unusual about them.
Even after choosing, they would not know which race they had drawn. They could only confirm it once they entered their rooms.
And for now, the doors to their rooms would only open when someone entered or left. Otherwise, the rooms were soundproof.
Magician was curious whether Huang Ji had spotted a pattern.
"I was guessing too," Huang Ji explained.
"From the start, the organizers never wanted us to have all four races. They called this place Four Races Paradise, split us into four groups at the beginning, and gave us a detailed introduction to all four races.
"All of that was meant to mislead us into thinking our four rooms would neatly cover the four races: God, Human, Beast, and Insect."
"You mean we might start without one of the races at all," Old Wang said, "while another race could have two groups, or even three or four!"
"Surely we couldn't start with four Gods?" Magician said. "Get lucky and win immediately?"
Huang Ji shook his head. "Of course we couldn't start with four Gods. We only had eight cards to choose from.
"Choosing four out of eight means the organizers prepared just two cards for each race. At most, we could have two groups of the same race.
"That means we could be missing at most two races."
"Why do that?" Old Wang asked. "Why wouldn't they want us to have all four?"
Huang Ji smiled. "So that after someone evolves... they might have no teammate!"
"Ah!" Old Wang suddenly understood.
Yes. If the races were distributed unevenly, the death rate would be high from the start.
Having all four races might seem dangerous because it would form a food chain,