Free Web NovelLegend has it that the descendants of Noah once built a tall tower, wanting to touch the divine light, but ultimately brought about a catastrophe.
After the bold guess surfaced in her mind, when Lu Yibei looked at the white spiral staircase that could be seen almost anywhere on the upper three floors of the Entertainment City, she suddenly felt it had a bit of the taste of the Tower of Babel.
Guests who come here ascend the stairs with anticipation, seeking a way to fulfill their wishes, unaware that their wishes have long been secretly priced by the Big Boss.
By the time they leave the Dream Come True Journey, misfortune will descend, which is consistent with the records in the Night Watch archives.
Lu Yibei originally thought that those who had their wishes fulfilled and left here satisfied chose to commit suicide because they had gone mad, but now it seems they likely succumbed to the erosion of the world's malice, ultimately leading to their demise.
If these chips could be destroyed, would it be...?
Wait, maybe this won't work!
Although, I don't know why the Lanruo Inn Brothel and the Dan Sha Gu Shi Pharmacy use these chips as their main circulating currency.
However, both of those places have the presence of the Extinction-Bringer of Old Days behind them; it's impossible for them not to know what these chips are. In this situation, they still use these chips, so there must be a deeper reason.
If I rashly destroy these chips, it might incur their wrath. I can't even handle one boss, let alone two more. I'm afraid I'll be finished here ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) this time.
While Lu Yibei was contemplating, Liu Banxian, who had changed into clean clothes, walked out of the bathhouse, stopped beside her, and cupped his hands.
"Girl, the next giant train is leaving in an hour. I should be going too. You take care of yourself in this damned place. As long as the green mountains remain..."
"Wait a minute!" Facing Liu Banxian's farewell, Lu Yibei suddenly remembered something important and interrupted, "Banxian, don't be in a hurry to leave. There's something important I want to ask you!"
After Liu Banxian leaves this time, she doesn't know if he will return to Peony Street. If he doesn't, she doesn't know when they will meet again.
Therefore, there was one question Lu Yibei had to ask. She was afraid that if she didn't ask, she wouldn't have the chance.
Liu Banxian sized up Lu Yibei, looking at her reluctant, hopeful eyes, and said with a troubled expression, "Girl, you're not trying to keep me, are you?"
"You know what kind of damned place this is. I wouldn't dare stay any longer!"
"If there's anything else I can do for you, I can only tell your fortune."
"No, no!" Lu Yibei waved her hand, hesitated for a moment, then leaned closer to Liu Banxian and whispered, "Your skill in resisting blows... is it taught to outsiders?"
Discovering the Big Boss's secret, being ambushed by the black-clothed guards, tied up and tortured, and still managing to escape alive – this is not something an ordinary person can do.
If I can learn this life-saving divine skill and max out my defense, won't I be invincible?! Lu Yibei thought excitedly.
Liu Banxian, "???"
Is this girl's brain fried?
Where do I have any skill in resisting blows?
How about... I let her go to the overpass to tell fortunes and get beaten up by people?
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Lu Yibei followed Liu Banxian, pestering him all the way from the Dream Come True Entertainment City to the train station. She used threats, bribes, scams, and even acted cute, but couldn't get anything useful out of him.
Accompanied by the whistling sound of the giant train leaving the platform, she left the train station dejectedly.
Outside the train station, a streetcar had just left, and the streetcar stop leading to the Dream Come True Entertainment City was empty.
Standing by the signpost, Lu Yibei looked out at the magnificent tall building in the distance, shrugged, and started walking forward.
The distance from the train station to the Entertainment City was not too far, so she decided to walk back, using the time to sort out the jumbled thoughts in her mind.
It was evening, but there was no sunlight to be seen in the city. Dark clouds were piled up in layers in the sky, and a fine drizzle seemed to be falling incessantly. Cold wind carried a damp atmosphere through the city, causing strange-colored mold to grow on the gray walls of the buildings, looking like mischievous graffiti.
In many places on the streets, dirty water flowed everywhere, and garbage was strewn about. Filthy vagrants hid in corners, secretly observing something.
Merchants set up stalls on the dirty ground selling food, and mosquitoes and flies hovered around them, seemingly wanting a share.
A street artist who was playing a guitar on the street one moment might pull out a gun from under his guitar the next and rob passersby.
And on the streets of this city, what could be seen more often were the countless large and small, completely unregulated gambling dens.
The streets of this city were relatively wide, but there was clearly no order to speak of. Violent crime and vicious scams were everywhere. For safety's sake, Lu Yibei had released her Spiritual Energy fluctuations early, avoiding the fate of being hit on the back of the head.
Although, if some guy who didn't know any better jumped out to ambush her, what he would likely face was the upgraded Alchemy Dirty Bomb she had ready in her hand...
Walking through the city, Lu Yibei kept thinking.
She always felt that her previous guess might be somewhat inaccurate.
Directly condensing the world's malice into a physical entity and stripping it away, isn't that a bit too exaggerated?
According to Black Peony, the world's malice is something ethereal and profound. If the Big Boss could really capture and strip it from himself, then he wouldn't need to be holed up here. Even in the outside world, he could transfer misfortune to others in this way.
Since he is hiding here, it means he cannot directly strip the world's malice and forcibly transfer it to others.
Could it be that these chips are not the key to the problem? Lu Yibei thought.
According to the Night Watch archives, those who left the Dream Come True Entertainment City only encountered misfortune after their wishes were fulfilled. At that time, they should no longer have had any chips on them.
On the other hand, many guests also left the Dream Come True Journey without spending all their chips, but they did not encounter misfortune during the time they were away.
Could it be...
Lu Yibei was thinking, and just as she felt she was about to grasp the key, a soft call suddenly sounded in her ear, interrupting her thoughts.
"Hey, you! Want to gamble with me?"
The voice of the call was somewhat childish, coming from not far ahead. Following the sound, a girl who was even shorter and more frail than Lu Yibei stood in the middle of the road.
Her small face was dirty, but it could not hide the delicate features of her eyebrows. She was wearing a tattered cloak of an indistinguishable color, and from under the cloak, a pair of small calf hooves with mottled fur were exposed, tapping restlessly on the ground, making a "Da Da!" sound.
Her Spiritual Energy fluctuations were too weak, slightly weaker than a D-level urban legend, so much so that Lu Yibei didn't notice her entering her spiritual perception range.
Lu Yibei looked at the girl, tilted her head, and couldn't help but inwardly mutter a complaint.
Is this a cow-headed person, or a cow girl?
The girl noticed that Lu Yibei was really looking over, a hint of panic flashed in her eyes, and a blush appeared on her sallow face. She quickly used the paper card in her hand to cover her face.
Seeing that Lu Yibei didn't look like someone from the street, she had originally just wanted to try her luck, but she didn't expect the other party to actually respond, and her heart was in a panic.
"Uh... Older sister, do, do you want to gamble with me?"
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Lu Yibei examined the paper card in the girl's hand, slightly furrowing her brow.
On it, the words "Flower Card Guessing, Bet Small Win Big! 1 chip per time." were written crookedly.
She even learned Pinyin? Is she from Z Country? Lu Yibei thought, looking at the girl with interest and saying, "Flower Card Guessing? How do you play this?"
She hadn't tried the street gambling here yet, so playing a few rounds seemed like a good idea.
Maybe she could discover something new from it? Lu Yibei mused.
Looking at the urban legend with terrifying Spiritual Energy fluctuations in front of her, the girl swallowed and stammered out an explanation.
"It... it's like this: I have a deck of flower cards with pictures of flowers, birds, insects, fish, spring, summer, autumn, and winter. I, I'll deal three cards, and you guess. Guessing the four seasons pays double, peony pays triple, guessing the peacock is, is..."
"Ah, right, five times!"
Lu Yibei, "..."
Little sister, your business seems a bit rusty, doesn't it?
With this, you dare to come out and set up a street gambling stall? Isn't there some trick involved?
Whatever, I'll win a few rounds first. I won't go easy on her just because she looks cute!
Lu Yibei thought, raising her eyebrows at the girl, "Then let's begin!"
As she spoke, she took out a handful of chips from her jacket pocket, which were left over from when she played the slot machine.
Although there were only two or three hundred chips, it was completely enough to participate in the girl's gambling game.
The girl tremblingly approached Lu Yibei, took out a deck of yellowed paper cards from her tattered cloak, spread the paper card on the ground, squatted next to it, shuffled it a few times in a proper manner, and then dealt three cards.
Seeing this, Lu Yibei squatted down, placed a selected chip on the paper card, and then reached out to turn over one of the paper cards.
On the paper card, a peacock with its tail fanned out was clearly depicted.
Staring at the paper card, the girl remained motionless as if in a trance, only coming back to her senses when Lu Yibei reminded her.
"I seem to have won? Shouldn't you give me five chips?"
"..." The girl's face was extremely unsightly as she took out five chips from her cloak and handed them over. Her small hands clutched the chip with reluctance, and Lu Yibei had to use a lot of effort to "snatch" it from her hand.
"Then let's continue!"
Saying that, Lu Yibei turned around and placed the chip with a denomination of five on the paper card.
The girl bit her lip until it turned white, forced herself to shuffle the cards, and dealt three cards in front of Lu Yibei.
The next moment, Lu Yibei picked out a spring-themed paper card from them.
Winning chips from the girl was simply too easy. Aside from some simple shuffling tricks, she didn't use any special abilities at all. Lu Yibei only needed to predict slightly to know which of the three cards was the winning card.
However, the girl not only didn't notice anything unusual, but she even got a bit carried away. After paying the chips, she shuffled and dealt the cards again, saying to Lu Yibei with red eyes, "Again!"
"No, I don't want to continue." Lu Yibei said, picking up the chips on the ground, weighing them in her hand, and putting them in her pocket. She turned around to leave.
She hadn't found anything different from the Entertainment City in the street gambling. Continuing this kind of gambling was meaningless.
The girl looked at Lu Yibei's retreating back and called out softly with a crying voice, "Wait a minute! Older sister, please, just one more round?!"
However, her call attracted the cold mockery of the other street gambling stall owners who had been watching from not far away.
"Orange, I think you should stop shouting. She's clearly more skilled than you by more than just one level. Even if your half-dead Old Dad came, he would still lose!"
"Exactly, exactly. Look at who she is. If you keep pestering her, be careful you don't lose your life."
"I think, you might as well try your luck in the Entertainment City. There's a better chance of fulfilling your wish there."
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Wish?
Lu Yibei, who hadn't gone far, heard this word and paused. After a few seconds of contemplation, she turned back and returned to the girl.
Seeing Lu Yibei return, the girl quickly said, "Older sister, have you changed your mind? Do, do you want to gamble with me again?"
"Yes." Lu Yibei nodded, "But before we gamble, I have to ask you a question. What wish are you trying to fulfill by setting up this game?"
"I..." The girl opened her mouth, lowered her head, and softly mumbled, "To help my dad with his illness, to let my brother have enough to eat... and... to get a new dress." fгeewebnovёl.com
"Then why don't you try the Entertainment City?" Lu Yibei pressed, "They can do the same thing there, right?"
Besides, the probability of winning against a gambling machine is higher than setting up a street gambling stall here. Lu Yibei mused.
"No, no!" The girl widened her eyes and quickly waved her hands, "My dad got sick after exchanging things in there, and he said he wished he had taken the chips out and spent them."
"If I went, I might also suffer."
He got sick after exchanging... It would have been better if he had taken the chips out and spent them...
Lu Yibei pondered these two sentences, and it was as if a flash of lightning suddenly streaked through her mind, giving her a sense of sudden enlightenment.
So that's how it is!
These chips are likely just a medium.
The chips are not the key, the exchange is the key!
Lu Yibei thought, took out two chips with a denomination of ten and placed them in front of the girl, then turned to look in the direction of the Dream Come True Entertainment City, "Come on, let's start?"
"This..." The girl looked at the twenty chips in front of her, her face turning pale.
Twenty whole chips. If she lost, selling herself probably wouldn't be enough to compensate.
But...
At this point, there was nothing she could do.
The girl thought, tremblingly shuffled the cards, and dealt three cards in front of Lu Yibei.
Lu Yibei looked at the girl expressionlessly, her fingertip lingered on the card she predicted to be the peacock for a moment, then moved to the side and turned over the card with the cricket printed on it...
(A day of extreme writer's block...)
