"one two three!"
The gambling monster counted one, two, three while keeping its eyes fixed on Xia Tianqiong's eyes, subtly influencing his consciousness through trickery, causing Xia Tianqiong to choose paper in the next round, while it itself chose scissors.
As soon as the word "three" faded, the man and the charlatan attacked simultaneously.
One is scissors, but the other is not paper, but rock.
"That's impossible!"
The gambler was utterly astonished, as if he had seen a ghost. "How could you play rock? I clearly told you to play paper!"
"Because it wasn't me who did it," Xia Tianqiong said smugly.
As soon as he finished speaking, a human head suddenly popped out from his shoulder. "It was me who controlled my master's body and took the stone for him. Hehe, brother, welcome to the team!"
The delivery guy greeted me with a sly, cheeky tone, as if I were seeing myself being ripped off in the past.
"ah!"
When Song Shiqiao saw this, she screamed and ran out of the room.
She suspected that the young man was also one of the so-called supernatural beings, and that staying with him might be dangerous.
Suddenly, the gambler seemed to realize something and pointed at Xia Tianqiong in disbelief, "Do you know my tricks?"
Xia Tianqiong nodded, "That's right, I know your trickery can affect people's consciousness, so in the last round, I let the strange thing inside my body take action for me."
It's connected to my mind; if you tell me to play paper, it knows you're going to play scissors, so it controls its body to play a fist. It's that simple.
"That's impossible!"
The gambler roared, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace, "This is my first time in the human world, how could you possibly know my tricks?"
Xia Tianqiong beckoned with his finger, "There's no point in saying all this now. A bet is a bet. Here's your 386 years of lifespan!"
"My true form can only convert this much lifespan in total. I'll give it all to you and then I'll dissipate."
The gambling freak never thought he would lose, otherwise he wouldn't have bet everything on it.
If it doesn't pay the bet, it will break the rules and be killed by the power of the rules.
Xia Tianqiong crossed his arms, looking confident of victory. "If you don't want to die, sign a contract with me!"
The power of contracts is greater than the power of rules; only by signing a contract can the rules be broken.
The gambler hesitated slightly, then said, "Alright, it's my fate. Then I'll sign an equal contract with you."
Xia Tianqiong suddenly sneered, "You've got it wrong. You're about to die. I signed a contract with you to save you. If we're going to sign a contract, it should be a human-master contract!"
"You despicable human, you've been plotting against me from the very beginning."
"That's right. Does that mean you're allowed to harm others, but others aren't allowed to harm you?"
As the human and the ghost converse, the power of the rules has already entangled the gambling ghost in the mirror, beginning to tear at its body and punish it for violating the rules.
"I can increase human lifespan, which is something all of you humans care about very much, so you absolutely cannot bear to let me die!"
Despite the tearing force of the rules, the gambler remained resolute, declaring, "I will never sign a humiliating human-master contract with you; otherwise, I would rather vanish completely."
Xia Tianqiong frowned; the other party had indeed guessed correctly.
Having a gambling-themed monster by your side can continuously increase your lifespan and maintain your youth—this is almost everyone's wish!
Therefore, no matter what, we cannot let the gambler die.
Just as he was about to agree, the delivery ghost on his shoulder spoke again, "Brother, don't struggle. The master even knows the legendary forbidden techniques, he won't care about your life or death."
Do you know that this gold in front of you was transformed from the power of one of our own kind, killed?
The deliveryman's words were clearly meant to deceive.
Xia Tianqiong's heart stirred, and she took out a paper ingot that had not yet been transformed from her pocket and held it in front of the mirror.
The gambling monster was torn apart by the power of the rules, and a large amount of Netherworld power was scattered out. At this moment, it was attracted and all of it flowed into the Yuanbao.
"This is truly a legendary forbidden technique!"
The gambling ghost's eyes widened, filled with tiny stars.
No gambler is immune to the lure of money, and gambling swindlers are no exception.
The delivery guy continued to deceive, "Brother, it's not like you're the only one who can increase human lifespan. With your master's wealth, increasing lifespan is easy for him, isn't it?"
Listen to my advice: the human-master contract isn't so bad. If you insist on continuing, the master will really watch you dissipate, convert all your Netherworld power into Netherworld currency, and then feed it to me.
"Look at me, I also signed a master-servant contract, isn't it great? They even gave me over a hundred taels of gold just now!"
Xia Tianqiong maintained a cold and aloof expression, but inwardly she was praising the takeout delivery service like crazy.
This guy did a good job; I didn't expect him to have such persuasive skills.
The gold ingot in his hand grew larger and larger, while the image of the gambling monster in the mirror gradually faded.
"Alright, I'm willing to sign the Human Lord Contract!"
In the end, after much hesitation, the gambler chose to give in.
Having such an owner is not bad; at least it won't lack ghost money in the future, which is very attractive to it.
Xia Tianqiong glanced at the takeout ghost on her shoulder and fed it a gold ingot the size of a fist.
He even communicated with it telepathically, saying, "Well done, you'll have ghost money to eat every day from now on."
The delivery guy swallowed the gold in one gulp and replied with a smile, "Thank you, Master. It was your charm that allowed me to sign it. I only played a tiny, insignificant role."
Ha, what a sycophant!
Xia Tianqiong found it amusing and then smoothly signed a human-master contract with the gambling ghost.
The "Life-or-Death Ghost" belongs to the "Mirror Ghost" clan and is a rather special kind of eeriness.
It has no physical form, nor even a specific appearance, and can transform into any person or object it has ever seen.
Its most unique feature is that it cannot reside inside a human body; it can only reside in objects such as mirrors.
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