I Can See Probability - Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Accuracy of Lottery Tickets

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“Young man, wake up!”

“Young man, wake up.”

A sanitation worker who was passing by noticed Chen Jing who had fainted on the ground. He kindly helped him to the side and pinched his Ren Zhong acupoint.

When Chen Jing had fainted from electrocution just now, he had also been lucky enough to fall onto his back. This had allowed him to escape from the puddle. But if he had fallen forward, then his life would have probably ended prematurely.

After being pinched in the middle of his body, Chen Jing slowly woke up.

“You’re awake. It’s good that you’re fine. It’s good that you’re fine.” The sanitation worker smiled kindly.

Chen Jing took a cold breath. He only felt that his entire body was aching and his head was also very swollen and painful.

“That black-hearted internet café actually didn’t care about this matter. It’s really the way of the world. Young man, how do you feel?”

“I… I don’t seem to be doing too badly. Thank you, old man.” Chen Jing rubbed his temples.

“Alright, as long as you’re fine. If there’s anything, you must settle it with them. Call the police and tell them.”

“Alright.”

“Then I’ll go back to work first. You can rest for a while.”

“Alright, thank you, old man.”

Once the sanitation worker left, Chen Jing also rubbed his temples and slowly stood up.

Looking at the internet café, he saw that the air-conditioning unit had already been dismantled.

The owner of the internet café must have noticed that he had fainted previously. He probably did not care about him since he was not in mortal danger. Instead, he swiftly removed the air-conditioning unit.

In this way, if Chen Jing wanted to settle the score with them later, he would not have any evidence.

‘This internet café owner is really black-hearted,” Chen Jing thought to himself.

However, as soon as this thought appeared, a red dot suddenly appeared in his line of sight. Furthermore, a few words appeared — [Accuracy 80%].

“Eh? What is this?” Chen Jing rubbed his eyes.

He thought that his eyes were playing tricks on him. After blinking his eyes and looking over again, he saw that these words were still in his line of sight. It appeared for a full five seconds before it disappeared.

“Accuracy rate? What’s that?”

Chen Jing stretched his limbs and looked at the puddle on the road. He saw that the puddle had actually been filled up. If he were to call the police at this moment, he probably would not be able to explain it clearly.

“It was so close. I was almost electrocuted to death,” he muttered to himself.

But when he said this, the red font appeared in his line of sight again — [Accuracy 90%.]

“This…” Chen Jing was stunned.

He rubbed his eyes again and realized that the red font was not a blur. It actually appeared in his line of sight.

The first time, he guessed that the internet café owner was black-hearted. Then, [Accuracy 80%] appeared in his line of sight.

The second time, he guessed that if he was not so lucky, he would have been electrocuted to death. Then, [Accuracy 90%] appeared in his line of sight.

“This… could it be that I have a special ability?”

“The internet café owner’s black heart rate is 80%. The chance of me being electrocuted to death just now is 90%. F*ck… could it really be so?”

“Accuracy rate? The accuracy rate at which I can see everything?”

With this guess in mind, Chen Jing suddenly looked at an industrial and commercial bank across the fork in the road with a try-and-try attitude. He muttered, “This bank was built last August.”

As soon as he said this, a few red words appeared in his line of sight as he had expected — [Accuracy 100%].

He suppressed his excitement and turned his gaze to see a lingerie shop called [Honey Lure]. He said, “The owner of this lingerie shop is surnamed Wu.”

Buzz–

The red words appeared again in his line of sight — [Accuracy 100%].

After these two attempts, Chen Jing suddenly took a few deep breaths. Holding onto the wall beside him, every muscle in his body seemed to be excited from extreme excitement.

Turning his head again, he saw a shop with red lights and banners.

— China Welfare Lottery! Ticket Purchase Center!

Chen Jing’s eyes jumped, and his heart also jumped violently.

‘I can see the accuracy!’

‘My family still owes 100,000 yuan!’

‘Then I…’

Swallowing hard, Chen Jing took out a crumpled 5 yuan from his pocket.

“Boss, I want to place a bet.”

“Fill it in yourself.” The shop owner was a woman, with big red waves on her head. She was quite young.

Chen Jing picked up the [Double-Colored Ball] number filling card that he was relatively familiar with and looked at the red ball and basketball numbers.

His gaze just casually swept through them once, and the accuracy of the numbers immediately appeared in his line of sight.

Red Ball Number 3, [Accuracy 100%]!

Red Ball Number 9, [Accuracy 100%]!

Red Ball Number 14, [Accuracy 100%]!

…

Chen Jing filled in the 100% accuracy numbers in one breath. Then, he practically held his breath as he handed the filling card to the pretty shop owner.

“I… Place two bets,” Chen Jing added nervously.

If he could really win the lottery, then one bet would be five million, and two bets would be ten million.

The pretty shop owner looked at him again. After she entered the numbers, she printed out a lottery ticket: “Four yuan.”

Chen Jing handed over five yuan and received back one yuan.

Then, he nervously held the lottery ticket and carefully stuffed it into his pocket. He pressed it with his hand and jogged all the way home.

Today was Thursday. At 9:15 pm, there would be a live broadcast of the lottery.

7 pm.

Chen Yiyuan was back.

Just as Chen Jing had expected, it was easy to add flowers to the icing on the cake, but difficult to send coal in the snow. One could imagine the probability of borrowing money at a time like this. Even if one could borrow money, it would basically be a small amount.

The 100,000 yuan that was owed would not be allowed to be paid in installments.

Chen Jing did not say anything either. He maintained his expectant mood and finally waited for the live broadcast of the lottery at 9:15.

The duration of this live broadcast was very short. There were only about ten minutes between the beginning and the end.

After the winning numbers of the red ball and basket ball were all revealed, a beautiful woman with long legs hosted the event. She smiled and said to the camera, “The winning numbers of the red ball this time are Number 3, Number 9, Number 14, Number 16, Number 19, and Number 20. The basket ball numbers are Number 7. Congratulations to the winner of this award…”

Chen Jing excitedly looked at the numbers announced on the computer screen. He also compared them to the numbers on the warm lottery ticket that he was holding.

3, 9, 14, 16, 19, 20, and 7.

That’s right. Everything was right. Everything was accurate. Everything was really accurate. 100% accuracy. Everything was correct.

“Ah~~!”

Unable to hold back his excitement, Chen Jing raised his voice and shouted loudly in the room.

“It’s so late at night. What are you shouting for?” his mother said reproachfully as she knocked on the door.

Chen Jing jumped up from the bed and wanted to tell his parents the good news.

But on second thought, with his parents’ honest and simple personalities, winning such a big prize might not be a good thing if it was leaked out.

“Mom, let me tell you something. I just told a classmate that I have a good relationship with. My classmate said that he is willing to lend money to our family. You and Dad don’t have to worry,” Chen Jing said as he pushed open the door..