Free Web NovelAs soon as she entered the third floor of the Entertainment City, Lu Yibei strictly adhered to the policy of "observe first, participate later; winning means not losing," holding her dear White Little Flower as she looked around.
After more than ten minutes of research, speculation, thinking, and analysis, Lu Yibei finally confirmed that she had been tricked by A Hua.
In this magnificent hall, dozens of gambling tables were scattered around, with life-threatening gambling games taking place at every moment!
This was the conclusion she reached after observing a Texas Hold'em game.
A total of three people were sitting at that gambling table.
One was a young man, wearing a loose T-shirt and jeans, looking sallow and thin, giving the impression of being somewhat malnourished.
One was a mature woman wearing a black suit and a pencil skirt, with hair as red as fire, and a pair of heterochromatic eyes hidden behind metal-rimmed glasses.
The last was a tall Black man wearing loose sportswear, his long black hair carefully braided into numerous strands, with bone fragments of various shapes attached to the ends of the braids.
All three were Psychic, and the faint Spiritual Energy fluctuations emanating from them were not weak... After a simple observation of the three, Lu Yibei and A Hua retreated to the side and quietly began to observe.
The first to make a move was the young man. Just before the Rabbit Girl dealer started dealing cards, he suddenly clasped his hands together, raised his head, and let out a long cry ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) in a language Lu Yibei couldn't understand.
Sounded like someone from Thailand? Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, her willow-like eyebrows slightly raised. Immediately after, a burning sensation came from her eyes, her vision blurred, and the light before her dimmed.
After the chaotic light and shadows dispersed like mist, when she looked at the young man again, Lu Yibei's pupils slightly contracted.
She saw an illusion of a skeletal Buddha statue rise from the young man's Spirit Mark, and the Spiritual Energy fluctuations emanating from the young man instantly changed from one surge to two.
The skeletal Buddha statue extended dozens of arms, then its large mouth filled with sharp teeth opened and closed, and a wisp of pale aura drifted out from the top of the young man's head, converging into the Buddha statue's body.
As the pale aura flowed into the skeletal Buddha statue's body, scarlet flames suddenly flickered in the deep black eye sockets of the massive head, and faintly, a strange Spiritual Energy fluctuation pulsed, spreading in all directions.
Lu Yibei, "..." Good heavens! So he was a life-sacrificing player?
This kind of Spirit Mark used by the young man, she had seen related records of it in the si ye shu. It was a type of Spirit Mark that had been eliminated during the development process of Spirit Marks.
Unlike the Spirit Marks drawn by most Psychic using the core of a urban legend entity, this type of Spirit Mark was usually drawn directly using a living urban legend entity.
Rather than calling it Spirit Mark drawing, it was more like forcibly binding a person and a urban legend entity together through the Spirit Mark, forming a symbiotic relationship.
The advantage of this method was that it could preserve the special abilities possessed by the urban legend entity to the greatest extent, while the disadvantage was that the risk of the Spirit Mark losing control was much higher than with normal Spirit Marks.
After the dealer finished dealing the cards, the young man looked at his hand. Lu Yibei noticed a subtle smile flash across his listless face. It was clear he had gotten the cards he wanted.
"Oh dear, it's just a card game, no need to risk your life!" Seemingly noticing the young man's action, the mature woman at the table muttered sarcastically.
As she spoke, she unbuttoned her top and slightly opened her collar. The next moment, the Spiritual Energy fluctuations suddenly intensified, and several eerie auras came from inside her top.
Using the extraordinary eyesight she gained when her eyes entered a special state, Lu Yibei vaguely saw many palm-sized, faintly glowing golden pendants hanging inside her top.
However, before she could clearly see the specific shapes of those pendants, she saw several black shadows swiftly fly out from inside the mature woman's top and land on the skeletal Buddha statue conjured by the young man's Spirit Mark. Upon closer inspection, they were clearly five bloody, not yet fully formed infants.
The five infants of different colors landed on the skeletal Buddha statue without a moment's pause, opening their mouths to bite. A series of grating friction sounds echoed, like countless blades scraping back and forth on a smooth blackboard, yet the skeletal Buddha statue showed no sign of damage.
Lu Yibei slightly furrowed her brow and used her spiritual sense to carefully investigate again. Only then was she startled to realize that the skeletal Buddha statue's Spiritual Energy fluctuations had actually weakened slightly under the biting of the tiny mouths, while the five infants' Spiritual Energy fluctuations became increasingly stronger.
Plunder.
In an instant, this term flashed through Lu Yibei's mind. She narrowed her eyes slightly and began to ponder inwardly.
It was very likely that they were not only plundering Spiritual Energy fluctuations but also possibly plundering the luck the young man had exchanged for by sacrificing his lifespan.
This method was somewhat similar to the Five Ghosts Transporting Wealth that had appeared in the Great Serpent God's knowledge...
"Bang—!"
As Lu Yibei was thinking, a dull thud of a hand slapping the table interrupted the Five Ghosts Transporting Wealth and also interrupted her train of thought.
Looking in the direction the sound came from, before she could even get a clear look, Lu Yibei felt a wave of fear emanate from the Black man.
That fear was not the oppressive feeling brought by powerful Spiritual Energy fluctuations, but a fear originating from human instinct, a fear of wild beasts, darkness, and all dangerous things in nature.
The Black man scanned back and forth between the young man and the woman, his gaze unfriendly, a cruel smile hanging on the corner of his mouth.
The long, thin braids hanging down his back swayed gently without wind, the bone fragments at the ends colliding, producing a crisp sound like wind chimes, carrying a hint of ancient melody.
However, Lu Yibei heard a terrifying sound in the lingering echoes of the intoxicating crisp sounds.
It was as if hundreds of male lions were roaring, or as if a strong typhoon was howling, interspersed with deafening thunderclaps and the roar of surging floods.
The sounds of those disasters that had once claimed countless human ancestors' lives were already imprinted in human genes. Most people could not withstand that oppression and majesty, and soon the woman and the young man turned pale, with dense beads of sweat forming on their foreheads.
Just then, a phantom figure appeared behind the Black man, almost merging with his body. As if guiding his movements, it extended its arms forward and pushed all the chips in front of him out.
"All in!"
After the Black man pushed all his chips onto the table, the Rabbit Girl dealer kindly asked the two gamblers at the table, "This Mr. has gone all in. Do the two of you want to call?"
The woman and the young man lowered their eyes, not daring to look at the Black man at all.
"Fold!"
"Fold!"
After responding, the two dejectedly got up and left their seats.
Withdrawing her gaze from the card table, Lu Yibei looked at A Hua expressionlessly, "A Hua, I'll ask again, are you sure playing cards here is not life-threatening?"
Life-sacrificers, ghost-raisers, and one who used some unknown method, likely a shamanic summoning technique, were all gathered at one table.
Besides these three Psychic, she saw people possessed by spirits, people using gu worms to alter card faces, and various other methods emerging endlessly.
This wasn't playing cards at all, it was clearly a battle of techniques! All of them were divine games. Lu Yibei thought.
Facing Lu Yibei's question, A Hua seemed completely unaware of what had just happened at the card table, saying blankly, "Of course not!"
"Otherwise, how could my Miss have played so many times and nothing happened?"
"..."
It's quite difficult for your Miss to win a large amount of chips... Lu Yibei hesitated to speak.
She originally wanted to question A Hua about why she lied to her.
But then she thought again that if A Hua could see what methods those gamblers were using, the hidden lights of the Entertainment City could probably also know easily.
The reason she could detect it was probably entirely due to the passive ability her eyes triggered from time to time.
It's probably best for me not to participate in the gambling here. If I were to fight these demons and monsters, I'd still have a chance of winning, but if I were to gamble money with them, I'd probably lose even my underwear.
However...
Lu Yibei looked at the Black man who was counting chips at the gambling table, slightly narrowing her eyes.
I wonder if there's a reward for reporting cheating in this Entertainment City?
Just as Lu Yibei was secretly sizing up the Black man, calculating how to make a profit from him, a tall figure hurried past her.
Was that the hidden light Liu Banxian mentioned just now?
Where was he going in such a hurry?
Could it be that he discovered a certain guest was cheating?
Thinking this, Lu Yibei's gaze slightly focused, and she followed Nan Hao's steps, walking towards a corner of the third-floor hall.
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Within the scope of Dream Come True Entertainment City, extortion would not lead to arrest.
However, just like cheating isn't considered cheating if you're not caught, the premise for not being arrested for extortion is that the other party won't report it to the Entertainment City.
This was the information Lu Yibei obtained after confirming with A Hua.
As for how to choose the target for extortion so as not to be counterattacked by the other party, Lu Yibei already had a definite answer in her heart.
She had to thank Liu Banxian for telling her the information that Nan Hao was likely a hidden light.
Whoever the Entertainment City's hidden lights wanted to catch, she would extort them!
Someone who was already suspected of cheating by the Entertainment City was highly unlikely to go and report to the Entertainment City saying, "Someone suspects me of cheating and is trying to extort me."
Thus, after having a target, Lu Yibei followed the two men targeted by Nan Hao all the way, and finally seized an opportunity to sit down at the same card table with them.
The game played at this card table was Blackjack. This was the only game Lu Yibei learned in a short time because the rules were very simple: the total value of the cards in hand just needed not to exceed twenty-one.
If one felt their hand value was too low, they could continue to ask for cards, but once the hand value exceeded twenty-one after taking a card, they would bust and automatically lose.
Overall, this was a game with a greater element of luck and entertainment.
When Lu Yibei came and sat down at the card table, there were already four people seated. The setup was almost the same as before: two hidden lights and two suspected cheaters.
As soon as she sat down, the four people all looked at her. The two hidden lights had a hint of pity in their eyes, while the two suspected cheaters had a hint of joy, as if she had replaced the poor passerby who had just lost to the point of doubting life.
Lu Yibei didn't pay much attention to their strange looks. Anyway, she wasn't really there to gamble money with them. She just wanted to exert a little psychological pressure on them during the game.
Most importantly, she wanted to fully understand the methods used by the two suspected cheaters, which would be convenient for extortion later.
To appear like a passerby, as soon as Lu Yibei sat down, she exchanged pleasantries with the dark lamp beside her, "How was it? Win or lose?"
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The young man called Le Er was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "It, it's okay! I won a little, that Mr. has been losing."
But that's exactly why it's dangerous! Every time you win a little, once you get carried away and follow the bet, you will definitely suffer a big loss... Le Er thought to himself.
The middle-aged man with messy eyebrows glanced at the silent Le Er out of the corner of his eye and rolled his eyes.
"Whoa! Good heavens, then I've come at the right time!" Lu Yibei said in surprise, turning her head and raising her eyebrows at the Rabbit Girl dealer, "Miss, deal the cards!?"
"Okay, what about the other guests?" The Rabbit Girl bowed slightly. After consulting the opinions of the other players at the table, she smiled and began dealing the cards.
After dealing the cards, everyone looked at their cards in silence. When Lu Yibei finished looking at her hand, the corners of her eyebrows twitched uncontrollably.
A 2 and a 3, totaling five points, which is almost the smallest possible hand in this game.
Lu Yibei, "..."
Is it my bad luck, or have those two suspected cheats already made their move?
If they have already made their move, why haven't I detected any Spiritual Energy fluctuations?
Or are they the kind of experts who can cheat without using Psychic abilities?
Thinking to herself, she placed the two poker cards on the table, looked at the Rabbit Girl dealer, and said expressionlessly, "Please deal me another card."
While waiting for the Rabbit Girl dealer to deal the card, Lu Yibei subtly observed the expressions of the two suspected cheats, only to find that they were looking grim and frowning, as if they had encountered some trouble.
Just then, a strange and difficult-to-detect Spiritual Energy fluctuation flashed within the range of her spiritual perception, and her eyes felt a warmth.
Following this, she saw a very thin strand of light golden thread float out from the middle-aged man's fingertips, landing on her finger and wrapping tightly around it.
The next moment, a poker card landed in front of her.
What the hell is this? Lu Yibei muttered to herself, secretly activating her innate ability to detonate the golden thread. She picked up the poker card and glanced at it, her eyebrows slightly raised.
Good heavens, a 7? Is my luck turning around?
Next, as long as I get a card no more than ten, I'll have a full house and win everything, right?
However, there's no such thing as luck turning around. As long as there's a probability of busting, there's a risk. So, to prevent losing more chips...
"Fold!"
With a score of twelve, there is a high probability of forming a winning hand by drawing almost any card. In this situation, it is rare for someone not to choose to follow the bet.
When Lu Yibei said she wouldn't follow, the other four people at the table were almost simultaneously stunned and looked at her with surprise.
Even A Hua couldn't help but whisper in Lu Yibei's ear, "You should try to follow the bet, your hand is very easy to win."
Lu Yibei pouted, "Shallow!"
A Hua, "..."
Looking back at the two suspected cheats, a cold light flashed in their eyes.
Lu Yibei, "..."
How strange, I lost money to them, why are they still unhappy?
Aren't they masochists!
A moment later, the cards were revealed and the points compared. A dark lamp's hand had nineteen points and won the first round. Lu Yibei only lost two hundred chips because she withdrew early.
In the second round, Lu Yibei folded again with thirteen points in hand, and another dark lamp won the hand with eighteen points.
The third round, the fourth round...
For eight or nine consecutive rounds, Lu Yibei chose to fold every time she had twelve or thirteen points, which had a very low probability of busting and was easy to get a big hand. Her behavior was inexplicable.
A Hua initially kindly reminded Lu Yibei to follow the bet, but later fell silent. She knew Lu Yibei's purpose, but seeing her lose money like this always made her feel a little heartache. She was worried that she would say something inappropriate as soon as she opened her mouth, so it was better not to speak.
Gradually, the middle-aged man's face became more and more gloomy, and finally the young man who was with him couldn't help but slap the table, pointing at Lu Yibei and mocking, "Are you sick? You fold every time you have such a good hand, are you still playing? Are you here to give away money?" free𝑤ebnovel.com
"I'm happy to, none of your business!" Lu Yibei rolled her eyes indifferently, "Who says you have to follow the bet just because you have a good hand? It's not a guaranteed win, there's a small chance of losing, so why can't I fold! If I fold early, I can lose less!"
What's more, there are two of you suspected cheats at this table! Isn't it a matter of minutes to make me bust? I won't fall for it! Lu Yibei thought.
"I think you're the one who's sick, it's not your money you're losing, why are you so nervous?"
"Are you picking on me because I'm a Little Girl? Let me tell you, that's sexism!"
"..." A Hua glanced at Lu Yibei out of the corner of her eye, wanting to speak but hesitating.
"I..." The young man opened his mouth, wanting to say something more, but at this moment the middle-aged man glared at him fiercely, and he obediently sat back in his original seat.
Seeing the young man sit back in his seat, Lu Yibei rolled her eyes, then secretly pondered.
In the past eight or nine rounds, it was almost always those two dark lamps who were winning. What's going on?
Could it be that these two guys realized they were being watched and were preparing to stop?
That doesn't make sense either, they've clearly been up to something all along.
While thinking, Lu Yibei looked at the hands of the two dark lamps and frowned slightly.
At this moment, their hands were already densely wrapped with more than a dozen light golden threads that ordinary people could not detect.
Lu Yibei's hands should have had them too, but every time the threads wrapped around her fingers, she would detonate them using her innate ability immediately.
These unknown things are a disaster sooner or later!
Soon, the tenth round began.
The moment the cards were dealt, Lu Yibei's ears suddenly heard a rustling sound.
Following the sound, she saw that the light golden threads wrapped around the hands of the two dark lamps suddenly seemed to come alive, waving and wriggling, flying up and heading towards the young man.
Thus, a series of intense follow-up bets began.
"20000, please give me another card," the middle-aged man said calmly, directly placing 2 chips.
Although the bet was several times higher than before, he showed no emotional fluctuation, as if this round was exactly the same as the previous nine rounds.
"Follow! Deal the card!" the young man said.
"Follow!" a dark lamp said, "Deal the card!"
Another dark lamp seemed to sense that something was wrong. He glanced at his companion and then at the hand in his hand. After hesitating for a long time, he finally gritted his teeth and followed the bet, saying, "Deal the card!"
After the Rabbit Girl dealer dealt cards to the four people, it was Lu Yibei's turn to speak. She looked at the hand in her hand and frowned.
A pair of fives, 10 points, a hand that will definitely not bust, a hand that, with good luck, could even get the maximum points.
However, thinking of the light golden threads that flew towards the young man earlier, she dispelled the idea of taking a gamble.
"Tsk, a pair of fives, I won't follow!"
The dark lamp sitting next to Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment and looked at Lu Yibei in confusion, whispering, "Miss, can I ask you why you folded such a good hand?"
Lu Yibei pondered for a moment, pointed to her head and said, "Intuition, do you understand a woman's intuition? My intuition tells me that as long as I follow the bet, I will definitely lose."
"I won all the way up from the lower three floors, relying on intuition, you understand?"
As she spoke, Lu Yibei's peripheral vision drifted towards the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man also seemed to sense something, his gaze meeting hers.
Hearing this, the dark lamp frowned, pondered for a moment, gradually calmed down, and covered his cards on the table with the back of his hand, saying in a deep voice, "I won't follow."
His hand was nineteen points. According to his years of experience as a dark lamp, the probability of winning was at least ninety percent, but...
It was only ninety percent.
The moment he folded, a series of soft sounds like ropes snapping came. Lu Yibei followed the sound and saw that the light golden threads wrapped around the young man's hand had broken off by more than half.
Looking at the middle-aged man again, there was already a hint of fierceness in his eyes.
Although there was no scene of killing intent rising as in legends, Lu Yibei could already feel that he had the impulse to act, but was trying his best to restrain it.
Seeing his companion fold, the other dark lamp also immediately came back to his senses, and seemed a little unwilling, so he placed two chips on the table, "20000, reveal the cards!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the soft sound of the light golden threads breaking entered Lu Yibei's ears again. Following the sound, the threads on the young man's hand had all broken, and his face was as gloomy as if someone had stolen his pentakill and then mocked him with an emoticon in person.
"Then, please show your bottom cards, guests."
At the prompt of the Rabbit Girl dealer, the four people revealed their bottom cards: nineteen points, eighteen points, nineteen points, and... twenty-one points.
The one holding the maximum hand of twenty-one points was the young man.
"Hmph! Bad luck, change tables!"
After receiving his chips from the Rabbit Girl, the young man snorted coldly, hugged his chips, and walked towards another table.
The middle-aged man immediately stood up and his gaze swept over Lu Yibei before leaving.
Lu Yibei narrowed her eyes and watched the two of them leave. After waiting for a moment, she got up, pulled A Hua, and followed them.
Trying to run? Not so easy, I already understand your methods, the real show has just begun! Lu Yibei thought.
