Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 150: Chapter 150: The Secret of the Casino

"Every time it’s sixes? Do you think this is some back-alley dice game?"

Little Mustache was unconvinced, for he himself was endowed with the luck of "The sixth time is the charm."

Moreover, this person had already lost to him once.

Surely this person didn’t possess the "Next time for sure" kind of luck? The Sequence list didn’t include such a Sequence.

But the verification of this matter came quickly as Bai Wu’s gaze locked onto the dice shaker machine.

Others could not see the process inside, but Bai Wu could. With the enhancement of his double vision, his dynamic visual acuity had reached a somewhat abnormal level.

His thoughts were already lightning-fast, capable of processing a vast amount of information in an extremely short time, and his control over his body had reached nearly machine-like precision—

"Stop."

The machine stopped in time, and during the process in which Bai Wu called out, Little Mustache could even hear the sound of dice rolling.

They were playing high or low, not guessing numbers, so Bai Wu couldn’t possibly be certain of which numbers he had rolled.

"I’ll ask the question first; you won’t answer now, but you will later—how did you come to this casino?"

As expected, Little Mustache paid no heed to Bai Wu, considering him somewhat neurotic.

But when the dice shaker was uncovered, he was stunned.

"This is sorcery... really, three sixes? How is that possible?"

Little Mustache’s eyes widened in disbelief, suspecting he had seen incorrectly.

"Consider my question if you don’t want to lose too badly."

Faced with Bai Wu’s eighteen points, Little Mustache could at best only tie, but the probability was too low. In the first round’s first turn, he lost to Bai Wu by a vast margin of ten points.

In astonishment, the second round began quickly.

Bai Wu rolled three sixes again.

Little Mustache lost once more, his expression now as if he had seen a ghost.

The third round.

Three sixes.

The fourth round.

Three sixes.

The fifth round—still three sixes.

After losing five rounds in a row, he finally tied with Bai Wu in the sixth round.

Both rolled three sixes.

Bai Wu said with a smile,

"See, it’s not unsolvable."

"You... are you with the casino? You must be with the casino. Otherwise, how could you roll three sixes every time?"

"Through the question I asked earlier, you should have figured out how to converse with me. Just a friendly reminder, there are ten rounds in total, and you still have nine more rounds to lose."

Bai Wu was like a true god of gambling personified.

What Little Mustache didn’t understand was how Bai Wu, without ever touching the machine, could ensure that his roll would always result in three sixes.

The game continued, and as Bai Wu kept hitting three sixes with sniper-like precision time after time, Little Mustache finally lost his temper.

If he continued to lose, his chips would quickly run out. He knew the rules of this casino and didn’t want to leave something behind here.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Bai Wu said,

"If you don’t want to continue losing chips, you know what to do."

"The Harbinger brought me, it was the Harbinger who brought me here!"

"A harbinger? Tell me more about that."

"He has a strange roulette that can take people to some special areas, and it’s a legend among us nobility."

Little Mustache no longer cared about secrets, as chips were the most important thing at the moment.

"If we seek thrills, he can provide them, not just in casinos but also in many special areas outside the tower, including... the Daughter Country!"

As Little Mustache mentioned the Daughter Country, he obviously hoped that as a man, Bai Wu would be interested, and then divulge some interesting intelligence for a safe departure. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

Bai Wu didn’t know what the Daughter Country was.

"Why did the spokesperson seek you out?"

"His targets are random, all from the active nobility circle, I was just lucky. Of course, you can also pay a price to find him and have him take you to a special area. It’s an open secret within the noble class – if you seek excitement, go find the harbinger."

Little Mustache wasn’t lying.

Bai Wu deduced that the harbinger probably used the Traction Disc. However, the Traction Discs left by Cain seemed only to go to certain areas one by one.

The Traction Disc, according to the memo from Prayle’s Eye, there were seven in total.

He had one, and Cain should also still have one. The whereabouts of the remaining five were unknown, but it seemed the harbinger had one of them.

But whom did this harbinger serve?

"Do you know anything else about this harbinger?"

"No more. He’s very mysterious, and there’s no information about him in the data network. The way he contacts us is always face-to-face. But we don’t know who he is because he’s always dressed from head to toe."

"Voice disguised?"

"Yes, you can’t tell the age or even the gender. The only thing we know is that as long as we frequently attend the gatherings, the harbinger might find us."

"What gatherings?"

"The monthly gatherings organized by Mingyu Estate."

Bai Wu furrowed his brow.

The Mingyu Estate was not an unfamiliar place to him. It was the private manor of Captain Ming Che of the Third Squadron of the Garrison Corps.

Most people in the Garrison Corps were quite detestable, carrying the airs of nobility.

But Bai Wu didn’t dislike Ming Che. Suddenly learning that this mysterious harbinger, which might be related to the casino and even to Black Gold Island, was active in Mingyu Estate, Bai Wu felt the amount of information suddenly become enormous.

At this moment, many thoughts flashed through his heart—

"Prayle’s Eye had given Ming Che a notable characteristic, a fondness for married women, which means all his other traits aren’t as distinctive as this one. In my interactions with Ming Che, I found him to be good at business and quite eloquent, with extensive connections. Yet, I never felt anything amiss about him."

"Perhaps it’s not Ming Che... but someone else?"

Bai Wu then asked:

"What exactly is the Daughter Country?"

Little Mustache showed a knowing expression and said:

"A place every man wants to go to, where the girls are very open and all beautiful. My goodness, I can’t imagine how the owner could gather so many stunning beauties. That place is luxurious, reputed to be a palace from the Pre-Tower Era. I paid a hefty sum, and it took a proactive request to earn the privilege to experience it once."

Now Little Mustache seemed to be showing off:

"Besides the Daughter Country, there’s also Food City, another place the harbinger can escort you to. There you can find food said to be countless times more delicious than nutrition meals. I haven’t been there, as I’m not very interested, but according to those who have gone, it’s even more comfortable than the Daughter Country, which I don’t quite agree with."

Bai Wu felt a certain disdain: A bunch of fools who have never seen Ximen Chuixue draw his sword.

Only those who have truly tasted gourmet food, and who have experienced the comparison with nutrition meals, will understand that women are just trotters, whereas gourmet food, including but not limited to trotters.

He pondered for a while; how this harbinger went about his business seemed rather like a one-stop entertainment service?

First Food City’s drinks and dining, then the Daughter Country’s foot washes and massages, followed by a cozy gambling session in the casino?

"Did the harbinger invite you to the game because you are good at gambling?"

"This... It’s like playing the lute to a cow."

Little Mustache relied on the "Sixth Time’s the Charm" and had some reputation within the noble circles’ casinos, which was why he was invited by the Harbinger to the Deep Sea Royal Casino to give it a try.

Bai Wu speculated that the actual purpose of the casino owner may have been to seize Little Mustache’s "Sixth Time’s the Charm."

"It’s indeed like playing the lute to a cow, compared to me, your gambling skills aren’t worth mentioning. I will leave you with enough chips to ensure you can return home safely. Don’t gamble with others anymore, or you might lose something important."

After saying this, Bai Wu continued the gambling game with Little Mustache.

But in the following rounds... He and Little Mustache had wins and losses, ultimately ending in a tie.

Being able to win against an opponent and still come out even, Little Mustache now regarded Bai Wu as a gambling god.

"Great god... can you tell me your name?"

Although Bai Wu was dressed in the attire of the Investigation Corps, Little Mustache was sure that Bai Wu was not someone whose status could be inferred by the normal social hierarchy.

Bai Wu thought for a moment and then said:

"My name is Chen Daozai."

After leaving behind a legendary name in the gambling world, Bai Wu did not rush to find new gambling games.

He took the chips and called over the old, weak, sick, and disabled from the Vanguard Group, and once again arrived at the entrance of the casino lobby.

"I’m here to take back my possessions. These are all chips."

A total of twenty-nine minutes had passed, and Bai Wu was holding more than one hundred forty-four chips.

Seahorse looked at Bai Wu incredulously:

"Guest, how did you do it? Does the Eye of Insight have some functions I am unaware of?"

"Sequence 1025: Beauty is Justice. The righteous me, invincible everywhere."

Bai Wu didn’t waste any more words with Seahorse.

Before long, the old, weak, sick, and disabled group turned back into the vigorous Seventh Vanguard Group.

Lin Wurou was finally able to speak, and the first thing he did after getting his mouth back was like suddenly opening three thousand comments:

"Darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, darn! I was suffocating!"

"What the hell is this place! Why would they take away my mouth!"

"I missed talking so much. Ah, this is the first time I’ve felt that speaking is such a beautiful thing."

"Let me think, who should I curse out for a bit?"

"I was thinking just now, if I didn’t curse you guys out, would you feel lonely? You definitely would, right?"

"Speaking of which, if I had no mouth, how would I eat? Through my nostrils?"

"Can ears connect to the esophagus? Doesn’t seem like it. The Evil Fallen I dissected before did have such creatures though."

"..."

"Hm!"

Lin Wurou suddenly made a noise from his throat, and his barrage of words came to an abrupt halt.

"Too noisy, I just returned it."

Bai Wu held a chip in his hand, which he had just gotten back from canceling the trade with Seahorse.

Yin Shuang said, "Well done, it was annoying to death."

Lin Wurou looked at Shang Xiaoyi pleadingly, Shang Xiaoyi got a glare from Yin Shuang and waved his hand, saying:

"I listen to Brother Wang."

Wang Shi said, "I listen to the captain."

Wu Jiu: "Bai Wu decides."

So, Lin Wurou’s mouth was temporarily left in the care of the casino.

Inside, Lin Wurou had already drafted thousands of words’ worth of vehement criticism, but right now, she could only let out indistinct hums and murmurs.

Bai Wu said,

"I still have some chips left, can I extend my trade?"

"Of course, honored guest, the sanctity of trade, to us, is as binding as a vow."

"So the ones executing all of this are the merchants? I mean, the octopus from Black Gold Island. Ultimately, does the octopus have the final say?"

"Please show some respect for the Island Master, guest."

Bai Wu roughly understood.

He renewed the Eye of Insight for twenty-four hours.

According to the agreement, they could leave safely after twenty-four hours, and in fact, they could leave now, but there were many secrets within the casino that Bai Wu had yet to explore.

Bai Wu discovered that many Sequences could be purchased in the casino, but all of these Sequences were expensive and time-sensitive.

One could also spend chips to buy items that others had lost.

But this purchase was subject to certain restrictions. Just like Wu Jiu’s Extreme Shadow, Bai Wu’s Taotie.

The casino would reserve these personal items for two hours, and if after two hours they could not redeem their items, those items would become goods for sale.

Unlike the casino’s own goods, the items plundered from guests could be sold permanently. Just that the price was slightly higher.

But these items were also only reserved for one day, after which they would become the casino’s items, and the casino had the right to forbid their sale and instead rent out these items.

Including Sequences, entries, power, lifespan, and even memory.

After Bai Wu figured out these rules, he realized that the casino was surely making a guaranteed profit...

It also meant that there were extremely powerful rules here, perhaps due to the fragments or maybe because of that Legendary Tier Entry—Disassemble Everything.

Everything on a person could be turned into chips.

Bai Wu browsed through the current list of inventory that could be permanently sold in the casino, and after distributing enough chips to everyone, he temporarily couldn’t afford these items.

However, if he continued to gamble, he would definitely be able to afford them.

Most were entries of Evil Fallen, as well as some of the Evil Fallen’s memories. If ordinary people acquired these memories, they might one day remember them outside the tower and turn into Evil Fallen themselves.

The goods from humans were relatively homogeneous but in high supply.

Bai Wu noticed... the lifespan that the casino was openly selling at the moment—amounted to forty-nine thousand six hundred years.

Buying these lifespans meant true immortality.

Yin Shuang was also browsing through the inventory, and there were few humans with Sequences, so there weren’t many for sale. The casino’s Sequences were all rentals, which was not cost-effective.

Yin Shuang’s face was deathly pale, as if she had recalled some unpleasant memories:

"This place... could it be...?"

"Shh!"

Bai Wu gestured for silence.

He knew what Yin Shuang wanted to say; combining what he had seen earlier, the working staff who were actually nine years old but appeared extremely aged, along with Little Mustache’s mention of the Harbinger—

It was likely that the High Tower was deeply connected with the casino.

Perhaps for centuries... the casino has been providing the High Tower with numerous things, and correspondingly, the High Tower gave the casino some form of currency.

This currency—were the children working off debts in the casino.

After leaving Seahorse, Bai Wu said to everyone:

"Observe slowly, enjoy the game, and leave the rest to me."

As Justice, Bai Wu might have been late, but now that he was here, he would definitely investigate everything thoroughly.

(Don’t take the gambling content too seriously, some parts you can just chalk up to luck, as that one Chapter was meant for thrills. This Chapter’s a bit late because... I’m not feeling too well.)