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Chapter 336: The Toymaker's Game with the Doctor, the Doctor Loses

In a corridor that seemed to have no end, Li Qingyue kept trying to turn the doorknobs, but he tried hundreds of doors, and they were all locked.

"Damn, Toymaker, can't you afford to play with me?" Li Qingyue couldn't help but curse. He was sure that the Toymaker knew that the card in Li Qingyue's hand could be used against him, so the Toymaker simply trapped Li Qingyue but would not attack him.

Li Qingyue had no choice but to find a place to sit down and wait for the Doctor and Donna to come find him.

I don’t know how much time had passed, but when Li Qingyue was about to fall asleep, the two doors suddenly opened, and Doctor and Donna ran out at the same time, and then they hugged each other tightly.

It can be seen that what they just experienced was somewhat unforgettable for them.

But just as the two were hugging, Li Qingyue suddenly discovered that the environment here had changed. They appeared in a black space, and the only light in this space was a stage not far away. On the stage, the toy maker seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

As a feeling of loss came over them, the three of them sat on their chairs, and were then pulled to the front of the stage by a force.

"The show has just begun, the world premiere!"

As the three finally came to the front of the stage, the toymaker said with an exaggerated expression: "Dona Noble, this is carefully prepared for you. Let me tell you what happened after the Doctor left you. He met our friend Amy Pond."

As the toymaker spoke, he controlled a red-haired woman puppet with ropes. She was obviously the person the Eleventh Doctor met when he was just reborn, Amy Pond, who was also the Doctor's mother-in-law.

"He loved Amy Pond. Yes, he just liked red hair. They traveled back and forth in time and space together, but Amy Pond was touched by the Weeping Angel, and she died!" At this point, the toymaker took out a pair of scissors and cut all the ropes. Watching the puppet fall to the ground, the Doctor's body trembled, but he soon returned to normal.

"She died of natural causes in the past!"

"Okay, never mind. Next she met Clara, but she was killed by a bird." The toymaker indifferently took out another puppet, this time it was Clara.

"She lived well until the last second of her life." The Doctor continued to refute.

"Okay, that's okay. Then the Doctor met Bill. Not Stupid Bill, but Miss Bill. But she was killed by the Wizard, and our dear Doctor had to kill his best friend the Wizard in order to save the earth. Wow..."

Li Qingyue was a little surprised because he didn't expect Bill to die in the end. After all, he had helped Bill escape from being made into a Cyberman before, but in the end, the Doctor took in the Master and laid the groundwork (Chapter 283, the Doctor trapped the Master in the TARDIS, which led to a series of events that happened later.)

"The navigator saved Bill and took him on a tour of the universe!"

"Well, that's okay! Then the Tide came, oh, Donna Noble, poor Doctor, the Tide killed everything."

Seeing the planet puppets falling one by one, the already furious Doctor could no longer bear it and shouted directly at the toymaker: "I challenge you to a game!"

After hearing these words, the toymaker's expression immediately became serious. He pushed himself up with his hands and jumped directly off the stage. Then he conjured up a table and a chair, and the two of them sat down.

Meanwhile a deck of cards appeared in the toymaker's hand, and he kept shuffling the cards.

"I accept your challenge."

"You have no choice."

"I am very happy to come to this universe, and I have played all over the universe, Doctor. I played with supernovas, turned the galaxy into a spinning top, made a bet with God, turned the moon into a jack-in-the-box, and made your history into a jigsaw puzzle. Do you like it? When the wizard was dying, he played one last game with me to save his life, but after he lost, I sealed him forever in my golden tooth."

Having said this, the toymaker opened his mouth slightly, revealing his gold teeth, which flashed at this time.

"But there is only one opponent I dare not face, the one who waits."

"Who is he?" The Doctor couldn't help but ask.

"I saw it, I hid, and then I ran away."

"What do you mean?" the Doctor continued.

"That's someone else's game, what are we going to play?" the toymaker asked as he placed the shuffled cards on the table.

The Doctor did not answer, but asked another question: "Tell me, why do those humans in the future think they are right?"

"So they can win, I made everyone's opinion count, that's the game in the 21st century, they were shouting, typing, and canceling each other out, so I fixed everything and now everyone wins."

“Everyone loses, too.”

"The game that never ends, now please tell me the game you want to challenge."

"The simplest game, let's cut the cards." The Doctor said as he chose the game he wanted to challenge.

"The biggest one-sided victory."

"Aec Max"

“You choose”

"I'll go first"

While the two were talking, Donna suddenly interrupted and said, "But he can cheat!"

As a result, Li Qingyue, the Doctor, and the Toymaker all looked at Donna and said, "No!"

"That's the only thing he won't do, he will never cheat," Li Qingyue explained.

"But those are his cards, he has a lot of tricks, of course he will cheat," Donna said as a matter of course.

"The only rules the toymaker follows are the rules of the game. His existence is based on the rules of the game. I win or I lose, that's all." The Doctor added.

"Then let's get started."

Li Qingyue and Donna looked at the Doctor closely, only to see the Doctor slowly reach out his hand to touch the poker, then pick up a small stack and turn it over. What came into view was an 8 of clubs, which was neither big nor small.

The Doctor looked at the Toymaker, who raised an eyebrow and smiled, "My turn."

He just flipped his hand and a red K of hearts appeared on the table. Li Qingyue and Donna gasped. Li Qingyue even flipped his hand and a temporary recruitment card appeared in his hand.

"I am the King! Now my little Doctor, let me see what my reward is?"

But the Doctor did not panic. Instead, he looked at the poker cards on the table and said slowly: "1... to 1. Many years ago, I won the game, and today you won, so we are tied. You also know the sacred rules that two players must abide by."

The smile on the toymaker's face faded, and he said reluctantly, "Best of three."

"Two wins in three games."

"Then we'll see you in 2023."

After the toymaker finished speaking through gritted teeth, he pulled a red cloth to cover it. When the red cloth fell to the ground, the toymaker also disappeared. The Doctor quickly said, "Donna!"

But Donna had already developed a good habit, and she turned around and started running away without even the Doctor shouting at her.

Li Qingyue shook his head helplessly and took them out of the toy store one in each hand.

The three people standing outside watched as the toy store folded up little by little until it finally became a box, which Donna picked up.

"He just said see you in 2023?"

"Yes, go back now."

Then the three of them got on the TARDIS and quickly returned to 2023.

(PS: Why did the Doctor say 1:1? Because when he was the first Doctor, he had already met the Celestial Toymaker. At that time, the first Doctor defeated the Toymaker, but he did not get his reward and left directly. Therefore, the game was not over. So when this Doctor lost, the Doctor heard the reward from the Toymaker and remembered that he did not receive the reward the first time. Therefore, the game between the first Doctor and the Toymaker had never ended. For this reason, the Doctor said 1:1. In order to really determine the winner, they still need to play a third game, that is, best of three. These explanations are not recorded in the text, which has more than two thousand words)