Chapter 31 Let's play a game. Which life do you want? ...
"This dress is beautiful! I'll buy it!"
"Wow, this toy car can actually fly in the sky, so cool, give me one, no, give me a set!"
"Are these all breads? How long is their shelf life... Okay, I'll take all of them. Thank you, Manager."
“I want this too!”
…
Chu Xiuyan walked all the way from the entrance of the commercial street to the end, blushing. Behind her was a cart full of gifts, ranging from clothes to bowls and chopsticks sets and even fruit seeds.
There were 49 people in the village, including him. Their hands were sore from picking out the gifts.
Chu Xiuyan sighed: [It feels like I only spent half of a bag of blood crystals. The alien beasts are really good. When they are alive, they can be used as sandbags. When they die, they can be used as power banks and buy gifts. ]
System: […The devil is speaking? ]
Coming out of the last shop on the commercial street, Chu Xiuyan looked at the full cart in front of him and began to think about how to transport these gifts back.
Well, he could certainly use the gray mist to bring them back, but only an hour had passed. Would he have to carry these gifts with him for the next two hours?
Just when I was feeling worried, a group of people suddenly gathered around me, about five or six people, wearing tight and straight suits, looking respectable.
The leader was a man with a slicked-back hair. He walked to the front of Chu Xiuyan, while the others quietly blocked the road behind them, vaguely surrounding Chu Xiuyan in the middle.
The boy looked around, as if he didn't react, and asked blankly: "What's wrong?"
The man with the slicked-back hair looked good, and his smile was warm and polite. He was the type that people would easily like. He used his eyes to signal the subordinates behind him, and then said kindly:
"My dear brother, I am sorry to bother you. My name is Zhang Deye, and I am one of the persons in charge of Yuexing City. Recently, we have launched a new promotion. As long as you spend a certain amount of money on your business, you can enter Yuexing City for free and enjoy the basic entertainment facilities...Excuse me, little brother, do you want to go and take a look? Oh, by the way, this commercial street belongs to Yuexing City."
Zhang Deye seemed to be enthusiastic and said, "Since there are many guests participating in the event, each person only has one free opportunity. During this period, guests can enjoy high-end hotels, food buffets, various board games, movies and other facilities without spending a penny. Brother, do you want to go and take a look?"
Chu Xiuyan blinked? "But I'm underage, I can't go to that kind of place, right?"
Zhang Deye explained repeatedly: "No, no, our Yuexing City is different from the red-light district. All facilities are legal. There is no forced consumption. If you don't like it, you can leave. You just need to enter the door... OK, I'll tell you the truth. It's the end of the month and I have to do some sales as the person in charge. Little brother, do me a favor. You want to give the things in this cart to someone? I'll pack it for you and deliver it to you beautifully, how about that?"
Chu Xiuyan looked embarrassed.
At this time, a man in a suit behind quietly pressed down the cart and tried to pull it away with force, with a smile on his face: "This cart is very heavy, let me help you..."
His smile suddenly froze.
No matter how hard he tried, the cart in his hand didn't move at all, as if it was nailed to the spot.
Chu Xiuyan, who was holding the cart with one hand, slowly turned his head and looked at him, with doubt in his eyes: "You are not as strong as me..."
The man in a suit tried to use a cart and gifts to coerce the boy into agreeing to go to Moonstar City: "..."
Zhang Deye: “…”
a shame? !
He glared at the subordinate, then apologized to Chu Xiuyan with embarrassment.
"It's okay. Although strange things can't appear in boys' comics, I can fight? Mosaic."
Chu Xiuyan said eagerly: "At worst, I can put a cult label on it."
System: [? No! How many times have I told you not to say anything that would break the dimension?!]
…
Moon Star City, from the outside, looks like a big egg, or a broken one, with a very tall building in the middle, lit with colorful lights in the dark night.
Chu Xiuyan and the system muttered: [I feel like a country boy entering a bustling city and seeing a large entertainment mall...hiss...]
He followed Zhang Deye directly into the tallest building, a bright lobby, a tile floor so clean that there was hardly a speck of dust, surveillance cameras on the ceiling...obviously modern equipment.
It seemed like a moment? I was back to the hotel in my original world.
Chu Xiuyan fell into deep thought.
After he bound the system, he landed directly on the ground full of ruins. The first thing he saw was collapsed buildings and lush forests.
Apart from the primitive society, the only thing I came into contact with was the Huangshi settlement, which had a very rural atmosphere.
I always thought that this should be the style of paintings from the 1980s and 1990s, but!
I never expected that the big base here would be so high-tech!
[Wasteland punk! Cyberpunk! I told you there was one! You lied to me! Ah Kamisama, please add some wasteland punk elements to this world! ]
System: [You are so noisy. ]
Zhang Deye noticed the surprise and shock in the boy's eyes and cursed him inwardly as a bumpkin, but he still had a warm and friendly smile on his face and took the elevator to the second floor with the boy.
The second floor was filled with various tabletop ball games. There weren't too many people inside and the environment was rather quiet. Chu Xiuyan wasn't too interested, so he went back upstairs.
The third floor was the gun club. Chu Xiuyan looked around and heard that it was not included in the free items? He shook his head and continued to go upstairs.
He touched the two large bags of blood crystals hanging on his waist, one of which was already flattened in half.
[I have to support my family, so I can’t spend money recklessly.]
Chu Xiuyan reminded himself.
System: [When you spend money recklessly, I can electrocute you. ]
【That’s not necessary. 】
The fourth floor is a casino.
Zhang Deye held back for a long time, and finally showed a cheerful expression, "There are many free experience projects on the fourth floor. We will provide chips for the experience process. One chip is equivalent to one hundred crystal coins. We will provide ten chips for each game project. It's like a simple dice roll here. At present, the guests basically choose the big one. Do you want to try it?"
He handed over ten chips.
The gambling table was surrounded by excited gamblers, their eyes were bloodshot, their faces were abnormally pale, and their spirits were abnormally excited.
Chu Xiuyan grabbed the ten chips, looked around, and suddenly let go?, throwing all the ten chips to "Xiao".
Zhang Deye gave the dealer a hint?
The dealer calmly withdrew his gaze and began to shake the dice. The gamblers around him all stared at his movements.
Next? One second later, a dice landed on the table, and it was "3".
Small.
"Ahhhh I won! I finally won!!"
"It's over, all my money is gone--"
"Damn it! Which bastard chose the big one? I'm going to kill him!!"
Voices of excitement or wailing rang out around the gambling table, and brilliant lights flashed, illuminating the various crazy expressions of those people.
Chu Xiuyan: [Sure enough, I still prefer simpler battles. ]
System: […Wait, are you using your brain? ]
Chu Xiuyan's complex emotions that had just risen were instantly suppressed by the system, and he walked away angrily.
Zhang Deye didn't understand why the young man would be angry after winning, so he asked his subordinates to take the chips won by the other party, and then hurriedly followed him and said with a smile: "Mr. Chu, you had good luck in gambling just now. You actually won so many chips. What else do you want to experience next?"
"All is fine. You can recommend one."
Zhang Deye took the boy to experience various gambling games, with some losses and some wins. When he won, he made hundreds of millions of crystal coins, but the number of losses was relatively small. However, in the last one, he lost all the chips in his hand.
After experiencing almost all the projects, Chu Xiuyan stopped and noticed that there were many closed doors on the wall in front of him. "What's over there?"
"It's a private room dedicated to one-on-one service." Zhang Deye said tactfully, "It's not included in the experience program, and the admission price is a bit high..."
Chu Xiuyan threw the half-flattened blood crystal bag to Zhang Deye, "Exchange them all for chips, want one?"
Zhang Deye took the blood crystal bag and instantly smiled. The stone in his heart fell completely, but a trace of contempt flashed in his eyes.
Sure enough, even if he looks indifferent, after experiencing many times of easily making a lot of money and then suddenly losing it, wouldn't he also get carried away?
Zhang Deye asked the staff to open a private room. Then, he seemed to have received some news and left in a hurry to deal with it.
Different from the atmosphere in the lobby, the box was unexpectedly bright and clean. The huge floor-to-ceiling windows allowed a clear view of the base. There were sporadic lights on the ground and stars in the sky. For a moment, it was hard to tell which side was the sky.
The system was a little worried: [Host? Are you really crazy? I will shock you back.]
Chu Xiuyan lowered his eyes: [System, what nonsense are you talking about? , Is the blood crystal important to me? ]
He grabbed a handful of blood crystals from the bag on his waist and scattered them into the sky. He watched them fall down, and his dark eyes reflected a scarlet background.
Amid the crackling sounds, blood crystals fell to the ground one after another, and he stepped over the blood crystals on the ground and walked to the French window to look down at the scenery below.
[It's really strange. The psychics and gun warriors are still on the outer circle on guard against the attack of the alien beasts, exhausted physically and mentally. Ordinary people can still force themselves to smile and insist on opening the shop to make money in such an uneasy environment. I see their faith, but here, I only see a pile of mud. ]
system:【……】
System: [Why are you suddenly trying to be cool? ]
Although it said so, it still honestly took crazy photos to record as comic material.
Chu Xiuyan came back to his senses, and seemed to have realized his previous state. He took a breath and said, "How could I say such a cool thing?! The scene just now must be drawn into the comics!"
[Definitely!] After a pause, the system asked again: [So you were just moved by the scene and expressed your feelings naturally? I always feel that your brain is not that sensitive.]
Chu Xiuyan pinched his lower jaw. He thought for a long time and said in frustration: [I forgot.]
System: […I’m used to it.]
There was a knock on the door of the private room, and a very beautiful female dealer walked in. She just smiled charmingly and was about to speak, but Chu Xiuyan interrupted her.
"I don't want you, let Zhang Deye come."
The beautiful dealer's expression did not change at all. "Okay, please wait a moment."
He seemed calm, but he sprained his ankle slightly when he turned around, and left much faster.
Not long after, Zhang Deye arrived.
He felt that he had guessed Chu Xiuyan's thoughts? After all, the other party looked very young. "Is she a little shy in front of a stranger? Haha, do you need me to call a few more to play with you?"
Chu Xiuyan sat on one side of the gambling table, holding his head up and looking at him: "What are you playing?"
"Texas Hold'em." Zhang Deye's smile deepened, and he began to shuffle the cards in his hand. The cards danced between his fingers as if alive. In order to make the atmosphere less awkward, he began to talk about the topic: "Our industry has been operating since the great prosperity before the disaster. No matter how difficult the times are, we have never stopped bringing joy to desperate people. So please believe in our professional ethics - entertainment until death."
He looked at Chu Xiuyan meaningfully, then began to deal the cards and explained the rules in detail.
Chu Xiuyan listened to him perfunctorily, and unskillfully folded the cards in his hand, forming an ugly fan shape.
Seeing this, Zhang Deye was even more convinced that the other party was just a newcomer, and once this kind of newcomer came into contact with gambling, he would fall deeper.
With strong strength and simple personality, he is able to constantly hunt exotic beasts to obtain blood crystals. Even if there is a force behind him, so what? Can he be stronger than the Moon Star City, which has the Ruins City Council as its backing?
Thinking of this, Zhang Deye couldn't help but feel happy and started playing cards with the opponent.
The first time, the boy played badly. He won even if he didn't cheat. He noticed that the other party was unhappy, so he went to comfort him. The second time was better.
The second time, the boy played even worse. Zhang Deye pretended to make a mistake and lost this time. He cursed himself helplessly. He noticed that the boy's expression looked better.
In the third hand, the boy simply played randomly. Zhang Deye asked him with a twisted smile if he understood the rules, and he replied that he did.
Zhang Deye: You know nothing!
He didn't expect that he would explain the rules of gambling to a newcomer in such detail again, and even secretly hinted at some cheating methods that only casinos knew.
Chu Xiuyan suddenly understood: "Oh, so that's how it works!"
Zhang Deye: ...So you were really playing cards randomly before!
He took a deep breath, suppressed his rising anger, and continued to play cards with the other party.
The fourth hand, as usual, the boy had a bad hand, but he frowned and played the cards properly, obviously understanding the rules. Zhang Deye cheated and made him lose this hand.
In the fifth round, Zhang Deye won.
In the sixth round, the boy won.
…
After several rounds of playing, with Zhang Deye's crazy cheating making his losses reasonable, the two of them successfully played a normal game in which both sides seemed to have won and lost.
Zhang Deye looked at the young man who exchanged the remaining bag of blood crystals for chips and put them into the gambling game. He breathed a sigh of relief, tugged at his tie, and said with a smile: "Excuse me, sir, it seems that you have no chips left... Did you have a good time today?"
The black-haired boy opposite lowered his head, seeming a little bit unbelievable. This reaction was too normal. It would be better to say that this boy was one of the gamblers Zhang Deye had seen who had very stable emotions.
Just as he stood up and prepared to put the bag of blood crystals into his pocket, the young man across the gambling table suddenly asked, "Are you using this method to deal with other people as well?"
Zhang Deye was stunned for a moment, then his eyes changed slightly: "...I don't quite understand what you mean, guest."
The black-haired boy raised his head, and what shocked Zhang Deye was that he could still maintain a cold and calm look!
He quietly stepped back, trying to leave the box.
However, the next second, the boy disappeared from his sight, and then there was a huge force behind him, and severe pain came from his head. When he reacted, he found that he had been pressed on the gambling table.
Behind me? A voice without any emotion was heard.
"Are there many people like me who were tricked by you into entering the casino and then could never leave?"
Zhang Deye felt as if his head was being clamped tightly by an iron clamp. His hand? Quietly pressed? the alarm of the security team in his pocket, and then? He struggled and sneered: "Who are you fighting for? We never? Forced the guests to sit at the gambling table. They were too greedy, unable to resist the temptation, and willingly fell into the abyss... Ugh!"
There was a crisp bone-breaking sound, and Zhang Deye's face instantly turned pale.
"In that case..."
The boy behind him suddenly let go of his hand. Zhang Deye held onto the gambling table and looked angrily behind him. However, he saw that the boy who had always had a cold and indifferent expression suddenly showed a brilliant smile.
Like a child who saw some interesting toys, he said innocently yet cruelly:
"How about I play a game with you?"
He grabbed a handful of chips from the gambling table, exactly five, and handed them to Zhang Deye, his smile still as bright as the sun without a trace of haze.
"Let's see whether you chew these five into pieces and swallow them first, or I kill you first."
Zhang Deye's pupils shrank, and he suddenly grabbed a handful of chips on the table and threw them at Chu Xiuyan, then rushed to the door of the box, but was grabbed by the hand by the boy who suddenly attacked his side and threw him against the wall.
"Ahem..." Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, Zhang Deye's eyes were full of anger and fear, "Do you know that Yuexing City comes from the Ruined City and belongs to the Parliament Group? As long as you are still in the Ruined City territory, you will always be wanted!"
Chu Xiuyan walked over, stepped on Zhang Deye's stomach, crushed him hard, and casually threw the five chips in his face, saying with a smile: "Before I am wanted, you will be killed by me first."
"When you say entertainment to death, it sounds like gambling, and the chips are your life. So, Zhang Deye... you have five minutes before the security team comes to rescue you? Play this game with me."
"You want to choose this life," the young man tilted his head, pointed at the chips scattered on the ground, and leaned down again, pressing his palm on Zhang Deye's left chest, his smile deepened, and said: "Or do you want this life?"
His heart was beating violently. Fear, collapse, despair, countless emotions squeezed Zhang Deye's brain into a blank.
He looked at the boy's still innocent smiling face, moved his lips, and uttered a few barely audible words.
"……monster."
…
"Mr. Zhang?! Are you okay? What happened?..."
The security team arrived late, and when they kicked open the door of the box, everyone held their breath.
The box was in a mess. The scattered chips were splattered with blood, the French window was shattered into glass shards, and the poker cards were flying in the air. Some even floated out of the window and gradually disappeared into the night.
Zhang Deye, the person in charge of Yuexing City Casino, was leaning against the wall, his body covered in blood, his legs twisted abnormally, and blood constantly flowing from his mouth.
But he was still alive, his eyes were bloodshot, and he shouted madly in a hoarse but sharp voice: "Kill him! I'm going to kill that bastard——"
at the same time.
Chu Xiuyan, who had already left Yuexing City, walked on the dark commercial street, flipping a poker in his hand, which jumped flexibly between his fingers, as if it were alive.
He was humming a tuneless song casually, and behind him was a cube-shaped iron box that was more than two meters wide and high. Inside were gifts for the villagers, which had to be well protected.
Then? He began to calculate the time until the S-class psychic team arrived at the A3 base?.
Timeout has occurred.
But there was no sound from the base.
The S-class psychic team did not arrive at the base in time.
He had to stay here and continue waiting.
The system suddenly spoke: [Why didn't you kill Zhang Deye? ]
[He just wanted my money at first, so I didn't plan to kill him now. But after he issues a warrant, I can happily... no, I have to hunt them down.]
Chu Xiuyan's eyebrows? Wanwan: [System, let me remind you of one thing. I live in a very peaceful and stable era. Killing is very far away from me. I don't like killing. ]
System: […But your actions so far are completely contrary to what you are saying now.]
Chu Xiuyan thought about it? He showed a cute and obedient expression, and even softened his voice? Come on, [System kiss, have you forgotten that I have a dual personality? ]
The system was shaken: […Is this true? ]
Chu Xiuyan was instantly overjoyed: [No way, did you really believe the system? Of course this is fake, hahahaha! ]
The system wanted to curse again, but Chu Xiuyan suddenly noticed a violent noise coming from the front.
When I walked over curiously, I found that there were dozens of people gathered in front of a shop, and they seemed to be having some kind of wrench competition.
Hey, he is good at this game!
Chu Xiuyan rolled up his sleeves and squeezed in excitedly.
The system is detecting the host's contamination value.
【39%】.
It’s not full value, but within the sensible safety zone.
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