"Three, five, six, fourteen points, A Li wins."
When the Rabbit Girl dealer announced the winner of the gamble, the middle-aged man sitting opposite Jiang Li, dressed in a tracksuit with his hair tied in a Taoist bun, slumped dejectedly onto the carved solid wood chair, staring blankly at the dice in the dice cup.
He had chosen the location, the size of the bets, and the content of the gamble. He had gambled three rounds on dice, which was his specialty, but he still lost.
After three rounds, he, like Jiang Li, had correctly guessed whether the total was big or small. The only difference was that in the second round, he failed to guess the exact number of points on the dice, while Jiang Li guessed correctly in all three rounds, giving her a slight edge.
Although the difficulty of winning was much lower compared to beating the Big Boss, the legendary A Li was indeed not that easy to defeat!
Thinking this, the man regained his composure, stood up, and cupped his hands towards Jiang Li, saying, "My skill is inferior, I have lost!"
With that, he left his chips and departed the private room with a flourish.
Jiang Li remained in the private room, waiting for the Rabbit Girl to count the chips. After the number was reported to her, she realized that Lu Yibei, who had been observing in the room, was gone. She then quickly got up and left the private room.
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The sounds of argunts, cheers, and various gambling tools colliding filled the opulent space adorned with gold and jewels. The mirror-like marble walls vaguely reflected the clutter and lively atmosphere of the casino.
Beautiful Rabbit Girls, dressed in alluring and revealing outfits, walked through the lobby on the upper three floors of the Entertainnt City. Countless gamblers, so ecstatic, so contorted, so in pain, were imrsed within, like a grand painting spread out before one's eyes.
This place was like a labyrinth filled with all the desires of the human world, with fatal temptations awaiting at every step.
Lu Yibei stood on the corridor, leaning on the railing with her hands, looking down at a corner of the lobby.
"..."
Perhaps it was just a feeling, but Lu Yibei vaguely felt that after these past day or two, the guests in the Entertainnt City seed to be more irritable and impulsive than before.
It was as if so mysterious force was influencing their emotions, making them more aggressive than when she first arrived.
But why was this happening?
Could it be because...
Lu Yibei thought, then raised her head to look at the white spiral staircase that led directly to Wu Hui Land.
Without asking anyone, as if guided by so unseen force, Jiang Li quickly found Lu Yibei, her efficiency surprising even herself.
When she found Lu Yibei, Lu Yibei was standing on the corridor, staring blankly at the entrance to Wu Hui Land. And on that face, which usually showed no discernible emotion, a hint of fatigue was actually visible.
"Are you very tired? Do you want to rest for a bit?"
Hearing Jiang Li's voice behind her, Lu Yibei was startled and turned ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) around, saying, "Is it over? Was my judgnt correct?"
As she spoke, she unconsciously rubbed her sore and dry eyes.
Over the past day or so, Lu Yibei had been using her precognitive abilities intensely while also communicating with Jiang Li through eye contact. Her eyes had long been operating under overload.
"That's right, as formidable as ever," Jiang Li said. Noticing Lu Yibei's small action, she added, "However, I think you should still rest for a while."
Lu Yibei pouted, "Now is not the ti to rest. You only have one day left, don't you? So, just treat like a spirited horse or a strong bull, and whip with your little leather whip to your heart's content."
Jiang Li crossed her arms over her chest, looking at Lu Yibei sideways, and calmly teased, "Speaking of which, did I lose out in the previous gamble? Since you're willing to work like a horse or a bull anyway, even if I won the gamble, it seems I didn't really gain anything."
"It's different," Lu Yibei waved her hand. "If you win, I'm whipped while enduring humiliation. If you lose, I'm whipped willingly. One is exploitation and oppression, the other is pain and happiness."
"Lu... Wang Bu Liu Xing..."
"Hey, hey! Shouldn't you be calling Master?!" Lu Yibei interrupted.
"After all, your current persona is that of a forr gambling king who gambled too much, accidentally lost herself, and beca a laborer. Please pay a little attention to appearances, okay? If soone hears you, you'll be in trouble."
"..." Jiang Li was silent for a mont, then bowed slightly and said through gritted teeth, "Yes, Master."
"Good, little Li'er, so when does our next gamble start?" Lu Yibei said with satisfaction.
Jiang Li rolled her eyes, straightened up again, and looked at Lu Yibei expressionlessly, "About ten minutes!"
"Very good," Lu Yibei nodded. "That's enough ti for to go to the Arbitration Room."
"What are you going there for? Planning to modify the gambling rules?" Jiang Li asked.
The so-called Arbitration Room was a place in the Entertainnt City that provided services for guests who wanted to organize large-scale gambles. Their main job was to organize gambles on behalf of guests, collect service fees, and ensure the fairness of the gambles.
"Secret," Lu Yibei winked at Jiang Li. "You'll know later."
With that, she jogged away.
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Three minutes later.
Dream Co True Entertainnt City, Arbitration Room on the upper three floors, a simple independent office.
The gold-clad Rabbit Girl sitting behind the desk continuously stirred the coffee in front of her, a hint of anxiety visible between her brows.
Just now, she had received a notification that the Miss Wang Bu Liu Xing, who had been causing quite a stir in the Entertainnt City recently, was coming again, and she would be responsible for receiving her.
The previous two tis Wang Bu Liu Xing appeared, she had brought them a large order that they wanted to refuse but found difficult to do so.
She wondered what kind of trick she would pull this ti.
"Creak—!"
The soft sound of the door being pushed open ca. The Rabbit Girl's hand stirring the coffee trembled slightly. She looked up and saw Lu Yibei, her brows tightly furrowed.
"Please, please sit," the Rabbit Girl made a gesture to invite Lu Yibei, guided her to sit opposite, and then asked with a smile, "Hello, Miss Wang, how may I help you?"
Lu Yibei looked at the Rabbit Girl expressionlessly, one hand gripping the fabric over her chest tightly, and said with deep anguish, "My heart is aching right now, very, very much. I originally thought your Entertainnt City was very fair and just, but I didn't expect you to turn a blind eye to fraudulent behavior!"
"Uh..." The Rabbit Girl was stunned for a mont and said weakly, "I'm, I'm sorry, what do you an?"
"There are so things I didn't want to say, but as a urban legend who loves fairness and justice, I cannot tolerate even a speck of sand in my eye," Lu Yibei said. "Today I discovered that so people are organizing fraudulent gambles. Do you think I should report them?"
"Of, of course you should!" the Rabbit Girl said blankly. "But you need to provide sufficient evidence."
"Okay, no problem, please wait a mont," Lu Yibei said seriously. Although her expression didn't change as she spoke, the deep anguish in her eyes instantly vanished, replaced by a hint of sternness and ruthlessness.
"This is the promotional flyer for the gamble organized by the Xin Gang... This is proof that their gamble is still ongoing... And this is their chip ranking that I just obtained from your colleague..."
Lu Yibei pulled out docunt after docunt and photo after photo, leaving the Rabbit Girl staring in a daze.
Although I've already squeezed out their qualifications, I can't feel at ease until I completely eradicate them! Lu Yibei muttered inwardly.
From ancient tis, there has been a saying in the martial world - cutting off soone's path to wealth is like killing their parents, this hatred is irreconcilable.
Now Lu Yibei had cut off the Xin Gang's path to wealth. The reason they hadn't retaliated yet was entirely because Jiang Li hadn't perford the bell-ringing ceremony, and they hadn't yet noticed the change in their chip ranking.
If they were to notice and figure things out, it would surely lead to fierce retaliation.
To avoid retaliation from the Xin Gang, Lu Yibei chose to strike first.
After killing a monster, how could she not finish it off?
"After comparison, the chip ranking of the gamble organizers is fourth, which does not qualify them to challenge the Big Boss. However, their promotion claims that winning the gamble allows the winner to challenge the Big Boss on their behalf, which is inconsistent with the actual situation. This now constitutes fraud, and you will handle it, right?"
Rabbit Girl, "..."
This Miss Wang Bu Liu Xing, she looks so cute, but why is she so scary?
Could it be that all lolis in this world are truly black on the inside?
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Upper three floors lobby corridor.
After Lu Yibei left, Jiang Li stood on the corridor and observed the movents in the lobby for a mont, finding it sowhat uninteresting. She retracted her gaze and was about to return to the private room to prepare for the next gamble.
Just then, a commotion attracted her attention.
Following the sound, in the center of the lobby, a group of muscular n wearing black leather jackets and sporting mohawks had just been subdued by the Entertainnt City's black-clad guards and were being dragged out of the lobby, impaled all over by pillars of light ford by containnt Spells.
"Let go, let go! Our Void is a VIP here, you can't... Sob, sob, sob!"
A Psychic yelled at the top of his lungs, but before he could finish, his mouth was sealed by a Spell.
Just monts ago, when he and his companions were pinned down on the gambling table by the black-clad guards, who declared that their organization was running fraudulent gambles, they imdiately revealed their ferocious nature.
Violence was the thod they commonly used in the cities around the Entertainnt City.
However, this was not their territory. Before their violence could be put into action, the Entertainnt City's cold expulsion descended upon them.
“It’s the Xin Gang people...” Jiang Li frowned, then looked up in the direction of the arbitration room, a sense of understanding growing in her heart.
It seems that Lu Yibei reported them, right?
That indeed sounds like sothing she would do. Jiang Li thought.
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That night, the city lights began to glow.
Liu Banxian, wearing a dragon robe-style pajama set, stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at the scattered lights in the city shrouded in gray mist. He gently swirled the 1982 baijiu in his highball glass, a thousand words in his heart condensing into a single one, “Aweso!”
Not long ago, when he divined that he would have a noble helper, he thought it would only slightly improve his living conditions. He never expected it to reach this point.
It gave him a surge of ambition, a desire to reclaim lost ground and undertake a great endeavor.
This was the second ti he had so many chips on hand; the last ti was five years ago.
However...
At that ti, in order to seize an opportunity to challenge the Big Boss, he lost all his chips to his opponent in a gamble.
“There’s no hope for that matter anymore, right?” Murmuring to himself, Liu Banxian lowered his eyebrows, sighed silently, then raised his glass and drank it down. He turned and walked towards the bedroom.
Entering the bedroom, he didn’t turn on the light but walked directly to the bed. With a “whoosh,” he pulled back the quilt, and the pitch-black room was instantly illuminated by the faint glow emanating from the golden chips.
After drinking his fill by following Lu Yibei, he imdiately exchanged all his chips for golden chips with a face value of ten thousand and piled them up in his room.
Exaggerated? Yes, very exaggerated!
However, when a person loses hope, only through such an exaggerated thod can they imrse themselves in desire and forget their troubles, isn’t that right?
Liu Banxian thought, then did a back jump and leaped into the pile of chips.
“Clatter—!”
Along with the soft sound of the chips scattering, a painful groan imdiately echoed in the room.
“Hiss—! Pain, pain, pain, my old back!”
So, in this experience of pain and pleasure, Liu Banxian twitched and writhed like an old maggot for a while, then lay on the pile of “money” and fell into a deep sleep.
...
As his consciousness gradually settled and his breathing beca steady, Liu Banxian felt as if he had truly fallen asleep.
But imrsed in his dream, the pain that those hard, cold chips inflicted on his old back still lingered in his mind and body.
Countless fragnted dream sequences were so clear. In a trance, he felt as if his body was pierced by sothing and nailed to the barren ground. The scorching sun in the sky seed about to fall, radiating astonishing heat that roasted his body until his skin cracked and bled.
Scalding molten iron poured down from the Void, drilling into his body along the hideous scars. Pain solidified into a tangible form in this way, and his consciousness endured the tornt every mont.
Finally, in his daze, he heard countless solemn and majestic voices ringing in his ears. He couldn’t make out what they were saying, but he could clearly feel the severe reprimand in their words.
Then...
He opened his dry, cracked lips and laboriously spoke a sentence.
He said, “I admit my sin, but...”
“Boom—!”
A loud noise drowned out his subsequent words. Dazzling lightning streaked across the sky, striking his broken body like a divine whip.
It was as if it was telling him in this extre way that “sin is sin, no need to argue, there is no redemption.”
Thus, charred flesh and blood turned into sparkling gold coins, raining down upon the earth like a downpour.
On the earth, people erged from the shadow of that huge body like ants, bathed in the rain of gold coins, and fell into madness.
And he, looking at those figures, smiled at the corner of his mouth.
...
“Clatter—!”
Liu Banxian flailed his limbs and struggled to wake up from the pile of chips, his chest heaving violently. Only after seeing where he was did he calm down a little.
“Ding—!”
After sitting in a daze for a mont, accompanied by the soft sound of a chip rolling, Liu Banxian suddenly jumped up and scrambled to a corner of the room, eyes wide and face filled with terror, staring at the pile of chips in the room, sweating profusely.
It was as if overnight, these chips had transford from a treasure that relieved worries into the most terrifying devils in the world.
Dreams, for many people, might just be a little extra charm that cos with sleeping, forgotten soon after waking up.
However, for “divine” operators like Liu Banxian, who are skilled in Feng Shui, geomancy, and divination, dreams are a premonition, a powerful tool for seeking good fortune and avoiding disaster.
Therefore, after briefly recalling that dream and doing a simple calculation, Liu Banxian suddenly realized the danger of these chips.
He unraveled a conclusion from the obscure and profound calculation results.
There is a high probability that these chips are the flesh and blood of the “guilty person” from his dream.
As he thought, Liu Banxian suddenly rembered sothing and abruptly looked up in the direction of the Wu Hui Land, which was currently out of sight, a realization dawning in his heart.
“So that’s it, so that’s it... This is too black-hearted! This is a conspiracy!”
After cursing fiercely, he suddenly felt a bit fortunate that he hadn’t fulfilled his wish at the Dream Co True Entertainnt City.
Because, fulfilling your wish here requires paying a price...
Liu Banxian looked at the chips on the ground and frowned, “Damn it, I can’t keep these chips anymore, I have to deal with them imdiately!”
“I’ll go to the exchange office right now, exchange them all for gold, gems, or whatever, and then leave this godforsaken place imdiately...”
“No, no, wait, wait, I can’t leave yet, I have to tell that girl this secret!”
Liu Banxian muttered to himself, tightened the belt of his bathrobe, and rushed out of the room.
However, as soon as he pushed open the door, he felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. Soone had struck the back of his neck hard. Even with his “battle-hardened” body, he couldn’t withstand such force; his spine felt as if it were about to be shattered.
Imdiately after, his vision went black, and he fell to the ground.
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anwhile, the bell-ringing ceremony was taking place.
On the stage in the hall of the upper three floors, Jiang Li gazed down, expressionlessly stating sothing. She was wearing the cheongsam dress that Lu Yibei had worn yesterday, which fit her exceptionally well.
“...Everyone, the above is the new plan launched by my Master. I hope everyone will seize the opportunity to participate.”
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After listening to Jiang Li’s explanation, the guests in the casino looked at each other.
“Good heavens, where is this strong leek sll coming from? Did you eat leek boxes this morning?” A certain Psychic asked the urban legend next to him in a sarcastic tone.
“No, I ate durian black garlic pan-fried buns,” the urban legend said.
A certain Psychic, “???”
Durian black garlic... What kind of dark cuisine is that!
Would anyone actually eat this stuff?
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Jiang Li walked off the stage, her vision suddenly blurred, and her face turned pale. She leaned against the wall to steady herself before continuing towards the backstage.
As soon as she pushed open the door to the dressing room, she slled a strange odor. Following the sll, she saw Lu Yibei with a pan-fried bun in her mouth.
“What are you eating? This sll...”
Lu Yibei grabbed a pan-fried bun and shook it at Jiang Li, “Durian black garlic pan-fried buns, a specialty breakfast from the Entertainnt City. Want one?”
“No need, I can’t eat that.” Jiang Li lightly covered her delicate nose with a look of disgust and took a step back, saying seriously, “Let’s talk about sothing important. I told those gamblers what you said, but they seem to have noticed sothing is wrong. Will it...”
“No, no! Don’t worry!” Lu Yibei waved her hand, “This is an open sche. If this would affect inco, those pay-to-win mobile ga companies would have gone bankrupt long ago.”
“Besides, guests with over ten million chips have almost all participated in the gamble. If we don’t do this, how can we continue to harvest the leeks below ten million?”
“Aren’t you the descendant of a capitalist? You should know this better than !”
Jiang Li, “...”
Are you harvesting leeks?
Are you trying to dig up the leek roots?
Forget it, I hope this thod works...
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