Free Web NovelThe gamble planned by Lu Yibei and Jiang Li together was like a rampaging excavator, fiercely scooping through the "leek field" of Dream Come True Entertainment City, taking away a large amount of chips.
By the third day of the gamble, the chips in their hands had accumulated to a terrifying level.
5.87 billion chips.
Under normal circumstances, once a gambler's chips reach a certain amount, they will choose to challenge the Big Boss, or spend the chips at the exchange to realize some dreams that do not require challenging the Big Boss.
Throughout history, no gambler has ever held so many chips in their hands.
Facing this situation, the spirits of the gold-clothed Rabbit Girls responsible for managing various affairs in the Entertainment City and the dark lights responsible for catching cheats were under invisible pressure every moment, almost on the verge of collapse.
The gamblers in the Entertainment City were like madmen, pouncing on the gamble like wolves and tigers. The Rabbit Girls initially paid attention to the outcome of each round, but later their only concern was the safety of the Entertainment City.
Incidents of losing everything and causing riots are simply too common in this Entertainment City.
Usually, the Rabbit Girls and the black-clothed guards can handle riots properly, but in these three days, there were simply too many guests who lost all their chips.
The dark lights, on the other hand, were more concerned about whether Lu Yibei and Jiang Li cheated. However, they racked their brains but couldn't find any evidence of Jiang Li and Lu Yibei cheating.
The only possible clue was their eye contact. After frame-by-frame analysis of the video footage by several dark lights skilled in cryptography, they found that they could not decipher the information contained in the two people's eyes at all.
The final conclusion was that eye contact was just a medium, and there was a high-level connection between Jiang Li and Lu Yibei that they temporarily couldn't sever, so they were forced to give up.
And what the staff of the Entertainment City were most worried about was that the chips circulating in the Entertainment City were almost running out...
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The clear lake was like a priceless sapphire, embedded in the pale and barren sand dunes.
In the lake, apart from the golden-red sturgeon and the snow-white koi, there were almost no large fish left. They were intertwined like Yin-Yang fish, occupying almost all the central area of the lake, possessing a strange harmonious beauty, but this beauty contained a hidden fatal threat. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
The few remaining large fish also retreated to the edge of the lake along with the schools of fish like fry, fearing any contact with them.
Only the grass carp that kept emerging from the depths of the lake were still constantly rushing towards the two behemoths, like moths to a flame, regardless of their own safety.
Thus, their volume kept expanding, expanding, as if to break the shackles of this bay of lake water, bursting through it, and heading towards a more distant shore.
However, they were fish after all. If the lake overflowed, they would soon die on the barren sand dunes.
Those pair of golden eyes watched the swimming fish in the lake through the eerie mask, muttering, "Heh, what a wonderful scene!"
As he spoke, he spread his arms towards the sky, as if to embrace the heavens and the earth. The Spiritual Energy fluctuations all over his body rose step by step, until they reached the highest and most vigorous state. His dark robe was like a pair of wings covering the sky, casting a shadow on the lake surface.
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Third day, 11:17 AM, twelve hours and thirty-seven minutes remaining until Jiang Li's lifespan runs out.
Now, almost all the guests in the Entertainment City holding over five million chips have participated in the gamble organized by Lu Yibei. A very small portion remaining are rational individuals or those who have seen through the trick, and they will not participate in the gamble again in a short time.
Thus, after the seven hundred and twenty-fourth game ended, the gamble entered a period of vacuum.
After waiting for a long time, just as the Rabbit Girl on standby in the room was about to go and invite the next "victim," Lu Yibei stopped her.
...
Huh? What's going on?
Did the big villain suddenly find her conscience?
Seeing the Rabbit Girl with a bewildered face open her mouth to say something, Lu Yibei made a shushing gesture towards her, then turned and pointed to Jiang Li, who was lie on the gambling table and had fallen into a deep sleep at some point.
"Shush! She's asleep. Could you please pause the gamble for now?" Lu Yibei whispered.
After speaking, she walked towards Jiang Li under the Rabbit Girl's ambiguous gaze.
The Rabbit Girls had seen and remembered the intimate interactions between Lu Yibei and Jiang Li these past few days. When they had nothing to do, they would fantasize about a series of yuri-themed plots. Whenever they rested, they would talk about them, and each one couldn't help but squirm like a Baobao.
Two beautiful girls, and beautiful girls who temporarily have a Master-servant relationship on the surface, who wouldn't like plots involving them doing... things?
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Under high mental pressure, both humans and urban legend like to find some fun to relax.
Just as the Rabbit Girl was ready to ship this couple, Lu Yibei wrapped her arms around Jiang Li's waist, bent her knees slightly, lowered her center of gravity, and with a light exclamation of "Heave-ho, off you go!", she swung Jiang Li onto her shoulder.
The silver-white long hair drew a graceful arc in the air, the tips brushing past the Rabbit Girl's nose with a swish, and then the dull thud of a forehead hitting the gambling table, "thump," reached her fluffy ears.
Hearing the unusual sound, Lu Yibei glanced around, and after confirming there was nothing out of the ordinary, she turned back to the Rabbit Girl, "I'll take her to rest for a while first, you..."
Noticing the strange look in the Rabbit Girl's eyes, she paused for a moment, tilted her head, and asked, "Is there a problem?"
The Rabbit Girl hesitated several times, but finally shook her head expressionlessly.
"If there's no problem, then I'll leave this place to you for now. I'm leaving first," Lu Yibei nodded and said. As she spoke, she swaggered out of the private room, as if she was just carrying a bag of cement on her shoulder.
Rabbit Girl, "..."
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After settling Jiang Li onto the large bed in VIP Lounge 002, Lu Yibei tiptoed to cover her with the quilt, carefully tucking in the corners.
After leaving the bedroom, Lu Yibei raised an eyebrow at A Hua, who was waiting outside the door, "Your Miss is entrusted to your care. I have something important to do."
Remembering the red mark on Jiang Li's forehead when Lu Yibei carried her out of the private room, A Hua glared fiercely at Lu Yibei, "I know without you telling me. At least I wouldn't hit her head on the table."
"Uh..." Lu Yibei was momentarily speechless, shrugged her shoulders, and jogged out of the lounge.
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Walking out of the lounge, through the quiet corridor.
As soon as she stepped into the area of the third upper-level hall, accompanied by the sounds of shouting from the gambling tables entering her ears, Lu Yibei felt a wave of dizziness.
Here they come again? Those terrifying and eerie illusions... Lu Yibei thought helplessly and melancholically.
It wasn't the first time she had experienced hallucinations.
She didn't know if it was because of the recent overuse of her prediction ability, which made her eyes extremely tired, but since the second day of the gamble, she had started seeing hallucinations.
Just like when her eyes had just recovered their sight and she left the hospital.
At first, she just saw the marble floor beneath her feet suddenly crack open, revealing a bottomless abyss beneath the ground.
Following that, the gold that seemed to exist forever also began to fade, and the brilliant gems also cracked inch by inch, turning into dust.
Later, as she walked down the corridor of the hall, the lights would suddenly and quietly go out, and the oil paintings hanging on both sides of the corridor would also turn into a chaotic darkness along with the background.
The originally painted voluptuous women with half-exposed breasts seemed to have come to life, clinging to the frames, reaching out their limbs, waving, scratching, pulling, as if to drag people into another world.
A world where the living should not enter.
Or, in the instant the lights turned on, all the Rabbit Girls turned into walking corpses with rotting flesh, moving through the hall, and once they encountered a guest, they would pounce fiercely, craving flesh and sucking blood, like a zombie siege.
In short, from the second day until now, the frequency of Lu Yibei seeing hallucinations has been gradually increasing, and the scenes she sees each time are becoming more and more terrifying.
And now, this situation seems to be even more serious.
The noisy sounds in the hall converged in Lu Yibei's mind, gradually becoming distorted and bizarre. Every minute and every second, she could hear the wailing, screaming, and roaring sounds hidden beneath the various noises.
A burning sensation came intermittently from her eyes, and the golden, resplendent hall quickly lost its color.
Following that, streaks of yellowish hallucinations, like movie clips, began to play out in various corners of the hall.
She saw a young man standing on the rooftop of a tall building, his hands trembling as he held his phone in a gambling addiction support group, leaving a suicide note, and then resolutely taking the last step of his life off the rooftop.
She saw a mother who had lost everything, had to abandon her child still in swaddling clothes, entered a place of debauchery, sold herself and alcohol, drank herself into a stupor, only to wake up to a death notice belonging to her child.
She saw urban legend revealing their ferocity, constantly creating slaughter, their hands covered in blood, and then, carrying the filthy and turbid source spirits, they boarded the giant train.
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Selfishness, greed, deceit, hypocrisy, affectation, cowardice, betrayal, indifference, decadence, stinginess, irritability, vanity, paranoia, depression.
All sorts of negative emotions filled her mind.
At this moment, it was as if a crack had been torn open in front of her in the gates of hell.
Through the crack, she glimpsed all the evil of the world's gamblers.
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In a trance, Lu Yibei felt something rustling and wriggling in her pants pocket. She subconsciously reached in and pulled out a mass of putrid flesh crawling with maggots.
In her horror, she let go, and a soft sound came from her ear.
"Ding—!"
The crisp and pleasant sound, like a midnight bell, rendered all the "magic" ineffective, and the illusion before Lu Yibei's eyes instantly vanished.
In silence, she gazed at the scale-like emerald lying quietly on the marble floor.
Looking at this exquisite gem, it was as if she saw the mountains of skeletons piled beneath this extremely luxurious Entertainment City.
After a long time, Lu Yibei, who had struggled intensely between money and her life, swallowed her saliva and, without picking up the emerald, quickly walked towards the Entertainment City's exchange counter.
It's getting worse!
It seems after this job is done, I'll have to rest properly before continuing with the next step of the plan.
After fixing a flaw, my Spiritual Energy increased. I finally haven't seen those ghostly illusions lately. If this continues, I'll "fall ill" again.
Lu Yibei thought, rubbing her dry and itchy eyes.
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A moment later, Lu Yibei met the golden-clad Rabbit Girl, whose posture was as perfect as a statue, as agreed, at the exchange counter on the third floor of the Entertainment City.
Seeing Lu Yibei walk up, she curtsied slightly and smiled, "Hello, Miss. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"I'd like to exchange some things."
"Alright, please wait a moment." The Rabbit Girl said, then bent down to retrieve a tablet from under the counter and handed it to Lu Yibei with both hands.
Taking the tablet, Lu Yibei clicked on the special items without thinking, found 【Lifespan】, pointed to that column, and said to the Rabbit Girl, "Excuse me, I'd like to exchange for this."
The Rabbit Girl's eyes were ambiguous, and a meaningful smile appeared on her face as she asked, "Excuse me, are you still exchanging this for Miss A Li?"
Yes, she was also one of the large army secretly shipping couples.
Is she trying to eat me? Noticing the strange look in the Rabbit Girl's eyes, Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, secretly took a step back, and nodded, "Yes, I'm exchanging it for her."
"Okay then, hehe!" The Rabbit Girl chuckled lightly, covered her mouth, gave Lu Yibei an "I understand" look, and quickly calculated the chips needed to exchange lifespan for Jiang Li.
"Hello, exchanging ten years of lifespan for Miss A Li here requires 1.43 billion chips. Is that acceptable to you?"
It increased again? But Jiang Li only has less than half a day of lifespan left now, so according to their calculation method, this is reasonable. Lu Yibei muttered inwardly, nodding at the Rabbit Girl.
"Exchange it!"
"Alright, then I will..."
"Wait a moment!"
Just as the Rabbit Girl was about to exchange lifespan for Jiang Li, Lu Yibei suddenly remembered something and interrupted, "I remember you saying that the longer the lifespan, the less valuable it is to exchange, right?"
"It's not exactly worthless, uh... that's roughly the meaning." The Rabbit Girl said blankly.
"Then help me calculate how many chips are needed to exchange for twenty years."
After the Rabbit Girl leaned over and rubbed the crystal ball for a while, she replied, "It requires 1.64 billion."
"What about forty years?"
"1.77 billion..."
Lu Yibei thought for a moment and asked, "What about a hundred years?"
"Uh, 2.03 billion."
"Alright! Give her a full hundred years." Lu Yibei decided.
"This... are you sure? Won't it be..." The Rabbit Girl said blankly, a strange light flickering in her eyes as she spoke.
Is this Miss A Li's domineering Master? So envious! the Rabbit Girl thought.
Do you think I'm an idiot for spending so many chips at once to exchange lifespan for someone else? Lu Yibei glanced at the Rabbit Girl and frowned, "Stop talking nonsense, don't worry about it, I'm happy to!"
"Alright, I'll process it for you..."
"Wait a moment!" Lu Yibei interrupted the Rabbit Girl again.
Is she going to add more? The Rabbit Girl looked at Lu Yibei doubtfully, hesitating to speak.
"Do you have emeralds here?" Lu Yibei asked.
"Uh, yes." The Rabbit Girl said blankly.
Lu Yibei thought for a moment and said seriously, "Exchange the biggest one for me!"
Yes, she still couldn't forget the emerald scale she had dropped earlier due to fright.
Rabbit Girl, "..." Why does she want to exchange for strange things every time she comes?
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After completing the exchange, Lu Yibei returned to the front of VIP Lounge 002.
She stood on the corridor outside the VIP lounge, waiting for Jiang Li to wake up while observing the situation inside the hall through the floor-to-ceiling window.
Three hours later, she made a surprising discovery.
The frequency and severity of the illusions appearing before her eyes had decreased!
According to the frequency right after the gambling session ended in the morning, an illusion would appear roughly every hour, but now three hours had passed and only one illusion had appeared, and its severity had also decreased significantly.
Why is this happening?
Lu Yibei thought, carefully reviewing the changes in the past three hours that might have caused the change in the frequency of illusions, and her expression became serious.
Currently, the more obvious changes are stopping the use of precognitive ability, her eyes getting rest, spending a large amount of chips, and having an emerald rough stone the size of a soccer ball.
First, excluding the influence of the emerald, there are only two options left: her eyes getting rest and using up chips.
If it's the former, that's fine, but if it's the latter...
Things will be troublesome; I'm afraid I'll have to change the original plan. Lu Yibei thought.
Her original plan was to collect more chips through methods that reached more guests on the middle and lower three floors.
Eventually, she would pocket most of the chips circulating within the Entertainment City, causing guests to be unable to exchange chips normally from the Entertainment City, thereby giving her substantial control over the Entertainment City and achieving the goal of closing it down.
But if having too many chips causes severe side effects, this method probably won't work.
Just as Lu Yibei was thinking, a door opening sound suddenly came from behind her. Turning around, she saw Jiang Li walking out of the lounge.
"Yo, you're awake? Are you still getting used to this new body? Do you feel boundless vitality, boundless youth, all sorts of boundlessness, as if you've suddenly gone back from menopause to puberty, and can't help but want to fall into a thunderous romance?"
Listening to Lu Yibei's trash talk, Jiang Li looked her up and down for a moment and frowned.
At this moment, Lu Yibei was still wearing that red and white color-blocked windbreaker, but a pocket had formed from the Coat on her abdomen, stuffed with a round emerald rough stone, like a wild Chansey.
"That's ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) quite shocking." Jiang Li nodded, then changed the subject, "I heard from A Hua that you went to exchange lifespan for me?"
"Yeah, I exchanged for a hundred years!"
Jiang Li was stunned for a moment, "Why did you exchange for so much?"
"Because it's a good deal!" Lu Yibei shrugged, "This kind of thing is like encountering a big supermarket promotion where buying one gets 20% off and buying three gets 40% off. You might as well buy it."
"I'm even thinking of going back and exchanging another hundred or eighty years for you now!"
And also to test if the illusions I'm seeing are caused by having too many chips... Lu Yibei thought.
Why does this guy try to get a bargain even on this kind of thing? Jiang Li rolled her eyes at Lu Yibei and said indifferently, "What's the point of living so long if everyone around you dies?"
"They won't all die off, don't you still have me?" Lu Yibei patted her chest and said, "urban legend should be able to live for a long time, right? How about we see who dies first?"
"..." Jiang Li silently watched Lu Yibei. After a long time, she nodded slightly and replied, "Okay."
