Free Web NovelChapter 153: Chapter 153: Turning the Tide in a Desperate Situation.
Casino First Floor.
Under Bai Wu’s guidance, Wu Jiu, Wang Shi, and Shang Xiaoyi won the team event "The truth is held in the hands of the few."
Although Wang Shi and Shang Xiaoyi lost in the end, Wu Jiu, who clinched victory, divvied up the chips, and overall, the trio came out ahead.
Yin Shuang also won quite a bit, only Lin Wurou lost.
Of course, Lin Wurou still managed to seek help with his pitiful eyes and, utilizing the extra chips, redeemed his blabbering mouth.
"Ah! That feels so much better!"
"Praise the heavens! The greatest ability of mankind is speech! If a person lost..."
"Shut up," said Yin Shuang coldly.
Lin Wurou fell silent.
He dared not annoy anyone again, but he decided that once he returned to High Tower, he would definitely give everyone a piece of his mind.
"Speaking of which, where did Bai Wu go?" Wang Shi asked.
"To the second floor. I just asked some casino staff. When you win a certain amount of chips, you’re forced to go up to the second floor, where they say you can take part in some even more interesting gambling games," Yin Shuang said with a note of unease in her voice.
Lin Wurou furrowed his brow: "Why do I feel like this is the casino’s way of being a sore loser? No matter how many chips you have, it should be a choice to go to the second floor, not being forced. Could it be... Bai Wu’s been duped?"
The rest of the group grew worried.
Despite Bai Wu being very powerful, there was something eerily mysterious about this casino. Before this, they had never considered that somewhere outside the tower could separate various things from their bodies.
The mystery of this place had exceeded their awareness.
"If Bai Wu is in danger, we’ll initiate Plan B," Wu Jiu said. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
"Hold on, captain, when did we have a Plan B? What is Plan B?" Lin Wurou was confused.
Wu Jiu’s explanation was brief. The so-called Plan B consisted of just three words—
"Fight our way out."
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Casino Second Floor.
The room where the gambling game took place was decorated like a Saudi palace, and Bai Wu observed the chessboard on the table in front of him.
He noted that the chessboard was quite advanced—more feature-rich than many board games in his previous life.
As he moved a chess piece, the board would record the number; similar to Go notation. Moreover, when the opponent’s pieces entered his pieces’ strike range, they would automatically reveal themselves.
This wasn’t some kind of Spirit Possession object but rather an electronic device, akin to the gaming console in Jing Si’s Heart, and belonged to specific scene props.
The round table was huge, with three powers spaced three meters apart.
The God of Wealth looked like an overweight cat and, just like the One-Eyed Wolf, stood on two feet.
Both Evil Fallen, though one canine and one feline, were mutations from humans.
[Its nickname is Pirate, but other than its one-eyed eye patch, there’s nothing pirate-like about it. And what’s more, it stopped wearing the eye patch! I can’t stand an Evil Fallen who doesn’t care for its own nickname and persona like this!
Level 8 Mutation. Rare Mutation Entries: Chaotic Wolf Eye. Blood Scythe Claw.]
[Judging by its appearance, you might think the God of Wealth is a Fortune Cat, but unfortunately, it isn’t. In life, its investments always failed, its stock purchases invariably hit a limit down, its wages were robbed on payday, its wallet mischievously slid out of pockets, and whenever it finally saved a sum of money, family members would inevitably come to borrow, never to repay! After the apocalypse arrived, its obsession turned it into a Fortune Cat, but its boss didn’t know its pre-apocalyptic record, otherwise it surely wouldn’t have entrusted it with the casino business~
Level 9 Mutation—As the confidant of a great merchant, it doesn’t own a single Mutation Entry of its own, but its master lent it the Legendary Tier Entry "Disassemble Everything." In theory, it could use any Mutation Entry in the casino.]
Disassemble Everything.
This was the third Legendary Tier Entry that Bai Wu had come across.
If reincarnation could be described in computer programming terms, it would be an infinite loop instruction; once trapped in it, there’s almost no possibility of escape.
And the second Legendary Tier Entry, Beauty Mark’s "Infinite Proliferation," is a spreading virus. It constantly divides, and the individuals it produces are just as powerful as the original. Then those individuals can merge to create an even stronger original.
For Disassemble Everything, it seems to be an encoder that can revert various data back to a unified thing—chips.
It is because of Disassemble Everything that the casino can maintain operations.
All the things on the gamblers are unstable and can be stripped away at any time; the only thing that can restrict the casino is an oath.
An oath seems to be another kind of binding power, and Bai Wu has yet to find the source of this force.
Now he’s certain about one thing—whether he’s facing level eight or level nine, they are all minor characters.
Even if ten Fortune Cats who are also level nine Evil Fallen came at once, they wouldn’t be a match for Hong Yin.
The God of Wealth and this One-Eyed Wolf are merely the Little Octopus’s lackeys. He might encounter many such lackeys in the future.
Black Gold Island, that’s the truly terrifying place.
"The rules have been made clear to you, guest? Our bet is huge. If you win, you can directly take away forty percent of the casino’s chips, hohohoho, that’s a considerable fortune. It could grant you an almost eternal lifespan, as well as immense power," said the voice.
"Understood, it’s quite simple," Bai Wu replied without asking what would happen if he lost.
The greater the risk, the higher the reward, and vice versa.
At this moment, the Eye of Prayle listed many scenarios in his mind, but soon Bai Wu’s thoughts drifted ten thousand miles away.
[The Fortune Cat is about to read your thoughts.]
"How should cat meat be cooked to taste good? How should cat meat be cooked to taste delicious? Red-cooked? Deep-fried? Steamed? Stir-fried?"
The God of Wealth was stunned.
What’s with this guy? At such a critical moment, why is he thinking about how to eat cat meat?
[It’s about to be baffled by your random thoughts for 0.9 seconds. Start your layout, bro!]
In fact, these remarks did not pop up on the spot, but rather, when the God of Wealth asked Bai Wu if he understood the rules, the dialogue boxes had already appeared.
Bai Wu’s brain was not only predicting the moves of the God of Wealth and the One-Eyed Wolf; he was also predicting his own moves.
And he had activated it several seconds in advance. Currently, Bai Wu was processing a vast amount of information:
[This One-Eyed Wolf has no wolf integrity and is preparing to use Chaotic Wolf Eye on you, but don’t worry. Under a contract, I am the king among eyes!]
[Troubles never come singly. Let me tell you a secret, the Disassemble Everything corresponds to another Legendary Tier Entry called Reconstruction, which is in the hands of another Evil Fallen with a nickname. On Black Gold Island, two little guys are in charge—one unraveling, one reconstructing~ The Siren’s Song in thirty-four seconds will be a reconstructed inferior version. Its effect is passable; the main issue is that it’s unpleasant to hear.]
[In eleven seconds, it will X-ray your chessboard. Perhaps you can use Wave Band Interference to put this device into a garbled state.]
[An illusion is about to appear before you. I’ll spoil it a bit, it’s not good-looking. Ever since it became a cat, its fantasy object also turned into a cat. Cat movies have no appeal to you, thumbs down!]
[I’m so tired. I’ve endured a weight that shouldn’t be mine at this age. After the Siren’s Song starts, you can act like a fool: Ba, ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba... But I suggest you don’t do that.]
[I am unquestionably the MVP of this game, but there’s always a perennial second place, right~ Eye of Insight? It doesn’t deserve it; this little fairy is just a burden. Make good use of your Wave Band Interference, which can let you control the roll of the dice!]
"It seems I might have overestimated this kid. Does this kid believe he can easily handle this game with his ability?" pondered the voice.
When Bai Wu had already arranged multi-step plans for several seconds into the future, the God of Wealth was still reacting to Bai Wu’s thoughts on how to eat cat meat.
Not long after, the One-Eyed Wolf put Bai Wu into a state of confusion, and Bai Wu immediately acted as though he was going to lose his balance.
This scene made the One-Eyed Wolf believe he had victory in his grasp, but the God of Wealth, being cautious, used a perfect-tier entry again, penetrating Bai Wu’s consciousness to read his thoughts.
Bai Wu’s current thoughts were very real:
"Who am I? Where am I? Wait, I remember now, I am playing chess! Damn it, they are playing dirty! But these idiots could never anticipate that my first chess piece would land here."
A smile formed on the corner of the God of Wealth’s mouth.
Fool, your thoughts have already been seen through by me! How could a dragon riding on a face lose*4!
The situation seemed to be completely overpowering Bai Wu.
Under Bai Wu’s various guidances, One-Eyed Wolf and God of Wealth were closing in step by step, at least in their view, Bai Wu was on the verge of a big collapse.
Although there seemed to be some problems with the machines, Mutation Entry’s true eyes saw that there was always a small area of garbled code on Bai Wu’s chessboard.
But it didn’t matter, how many forces could be hidden in such a small area of garbled code?
My comrades and I have more than four hundred warriors! Four hundred warriors, can you defeat me in a second?
The chess game continued.
Even though God of Wealth believed it was a winning game, it still launched the Siren’s Song to be cautious.
Bai Wu sometimes struggled, sometimes looked blank, hopping back and forth between being hypnotized and lucid.
It seemed like he was vigorously resisting the Siren’s Song.
"So that’s how it is...no wonder Chaotic Wolf Eye could only cause him brief confusion, he has managed to last so long under such ability...but his brain must be in chaos, right? Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho, you’re bound to lose this game, arrogant human."
Acting, anticipation, calculation extrapolation, turning the tables, secret maneuvering...
The complexity of this chess game made Bai Wu feel more engaged than all the previous wagers; he had used almost all available abilities, except for his fighting skills!
"Winning against the odds is impossible, but there is a way to turn the game around, which is to steal the tower. As long as I can take the last hit to destroy the tower under their noses, I can achieve a massive turnaround."
"So the most crucial point comes down to an element of luck! I must calculate an early situation that seems favorable to them, and use Wave Band Interference to make the machine’s dice rolls look as random as possible."
[Click! Where is the self-discipline of an actor? The next round of scrutiny is coming up; you better get into character quickly.]
Bai Wu rubbed his head, causing the images in his mind to fragment.
Under the bound state of Prayle’s Eye, his control over his body was almost as precise as a programmer compiling code.
As expected, God of Wealth was once again fooled by Bai Wu’s exquisite acting.
God of Wealth felt that Bai Wu might be on the third floor, but it! It was on the fifth floor!
The chess game carried on.
Bai Wu showed an incredible willpower, the Siren’s Song couldn’t fully hypnotize him, and Chaotic Wolf Eye could only temporarily disrupt him.
But it didn’t matter, they could see Bai Wu’s layout, although only ninety percent of it.
They were also able to grasp Bai Wu’s thoughts and even lead him to make incorrect decisions.
At the same time, they had nearly three times Bai Wu’s forces.
Even the goddess of luck was on their side; the dice often rolled higher numbers for them than for Bai Wu.
How could the flying dragon that’s being ridden on the face lose*5!
The understanding that God of Wealth and One-Eyed Wolf had of the chess game was beyond Bai Wu’s expectations; a cat and a dog managed to push him to use Plan D, making him can’t help but want to stroke the cat and pat the dog’s head.
Under his various hints, the opponents had started to believe that he had only a few forces left, but the battlefield was vast, and the remaining broken soldiers could only waste time—this was also Bai Wu’s insinuation.
When God of Wealth read Bai Wu’s thoughts, Bai Wu pretended to employ guerrilla tactics, stalling for time.
God of Wealth almost laughed out loud, barely able to resist mocking Bai Wu on the spot.
Indeed, if Bai Wu had only a few pieces left, the board was so huge, making good use of special terrain could prolong the game.
But another way to win was to destroy the central High Tower on the map.
"Stupid humans, while you’re showing off your moves here, I’ve already taken the middle High Tower!"
Thus, under Bai Wu’s suggestion, they started to heavily surround the High Tower.
They were not stupid after all, even if they didn’t believe Bai Wu could steal the tower, they blocked all roads around the High Tower, leaving almost no hope for Bai Wu!
And that previously unexplorable electronic area displayed as garbled code, God of Wealth had already used pieces to probe it, and although not all areas were explored, it was certain that Bai Wu couldn’t have more than ten soldiers there if he had laid an ambush.
Indeed, Bai Wu had only placed a single soldier there.
He named that soldier Wu Jiu.
The chess game continued, with High Tower being constantly ravaged.
Bai Wu seemed to be disoriented, walking into an ambush, and the enemy archers had already left his guerrilla soldiers in a hopeless situation.
God of Wealth and One-Eyed Wolf clearly saw the dawn of victory.
Yet inexplicably, both Evil Fallen felt a sense of déjà vu.
As if they had experienced this scenario somewhere before.
But it didn’t matter, with High Tower surrounded on all sides, they didn’t see anything worthy of further scrutiny.
Bai Wu’s condition was getting worse.
His soldiers were few, and the High Tower was just one turn away from being breached.
God of Wealth could hardly hide his smile; how many self-proclaimed gambling Evil Fallen or humans had fallen in this gamble?
However, the fact that Bai Wu had held on until now was quite impressive.
The chess game finally reached Bai Wu’s last turn, and it was also the last turn of the game.
One last strike and High Tower would be destroyed.
And the closest chess piece Bai Wu had to High Tower was still over thirty steps away...
All was lost, the dust had settled.
But just at this moment, Bai Wu’s eyes suddenly became clear, all the confusion and weakness caused by chaos, hypnosis, and mental invasion were swept away.
"I’ve had a lot of fun, but it’s time for this game to end."
God of Wealth and One-Eyed Wolf were suddenly stunned; how come this kid... his demeanor had changed?
It was as if a bent and rusted blade had suddenly turned into a sharp sword that could cut through anything.
This momentum made God of Wealth’s heartbeat slow for a beat!
It suddenly remembered something, then stared at the garbled code area twenty-one steps away from the tower.
The garbled code dissipated.
Twenty-one steps away, the chess piece named Wu Jiu by Bai Wu appeared in God of Wealth’s line of sight!
This chess game was different from that of forty-five years ago, but the shock it brought to God of Wealth was the same.
The swordsman’s lethality was the same as that of a mage, capable of killing in one stroke, only able to move one square at a time. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
Bai Wu could only move twelve steps, it was absolutely impossible to sneak attack the tower!
But at this moment, Bai Wu’s dice roll showed a six!
The Goddess of Luck seemed to have suddenly stood by Bai Wu’s side!
God of Wealth noticed that the area where Wu Jiu was located could move three spaces in one go.
In that instant, God of Wealth seemed to envision such a scene—
A mighty swordsman, coming from a distant shore, plunging deep into enemy ranks like a god descending!
In the end, he charged into the heart of the enemy and cut down the fruit of victory!
"I’ve won."
(Reporting, 4219 characters for anti-theft, 4529 for the main text. Don’t worry, the extra characters are like a bonus. The charges will be made for 4200 characters.)
