Chapter 208 Speed Pass
Casino? Isn't this a commercial city? Building a casino on the rooftop of a commercial city is too weird.
The top floor of a shopping mall is usually home to a cinema or revolving restaurant—a place where you don't have to hesitate once you choose it. Casinos, on the other hand, are eager to reduce customers' hesitation and, by laying a track through it, consider the ground floor the most suitable.
Confused, Chen Xiao'ai led her companions to the elevator at the center of the spiral staircase. Ling pressed the button for the top floor. They climbed slowly within the glass box, the golden parabola of the staircase rising and falling like ocean waves.
The casino that Chen Xiao'er imagined needed to create a high-end atmosphere and visually capture the attention of gamblers.
They should be built into a tall and wide main building like a palace, rather than hidden in a corner like a pinball machine.
So this casino either has a special license and is the only one in a large area, or it has other side jobs, which is why it needs to be kept secret.
Buzz——
The staircase narrows as it ascends, like the spiral of a pyramid converging into a sharp corner. As it ascends, the elevator gradually passes through a "gap" of less than 10 square meters.
Just when Chen Xiao'er thought that the top floor was right above her, the view suddenly opened up.
After being compressed to the limit, the space suddenly bounced back, and the winding spiral steps continued to expand outward, like two inverted pyramids spliced together like an hourglass.
Chen Xiao'er looked at the buttons on the elevator and found that the buttons for floors 1 to 12 were bright, while the buttons for floors 13 to 24 were dark. The 33rd floor that Ling pressed was right above the 24th floor, and there were no options for floors 25 to 32 at all.
More than half of the floors could not be selected because—she raised her head and looked around.
The lower half of the building houses numerous offices of various functions nestled between the shops, but the majority of the upper half is reserved for a large, colorful facility.
【casino】
She did see quite a few gambling machines.
Game machines such as pinball machines are placed in the outermost ring, but the people sitting there for entertainment do not look like tourists who come here to join in the fun, but a group of well-dressed men and women.
They were typing on the machines with serious expressions, and if you didn't know better you would think they were sitting in an office writing a report.
At the tables in the back, there were only dealers and waiters carrying drinks and chips walking around in the corridor. No guests were seen playing at the tables.
Were the guests all ushered into the VIP room behind the curtains, where the hall's turnover was completely unconcerned? Or did they happen to meet someone who had the entire place to themselves today...
Chen Xiao'er frowned nervously: "Oh, Sister Lan, please come here quickly, this place is too weird!"
bite--
The transparent elevator glass opened gracefully, and Chen Xiao'er walked out with sweaty hands.
Fortunately, Ling and Xinnaya were on either side of her. She felt suffocated and short of breath when facing this luxurious casino where even the staff wore exquisite dresses and famous watches.
Snap, snap.
The masked dealer shuffled the cards like a magician. The cards fluttered in her (?) hands like flying white doves, and were shuffled into rectangular blocks in the next second.
It seems to be trendy at upscale establishments in Red Star to have staff wear masks.
When Chen Xiao'er saw the half-covered mask, she thought of the train conductor. She couldn't help but turn her head to look at the dealer who was shuffling the cards.
Click.
The poker in the dealer's hand fell down, and the cards scatter all over the table with a crackling sound.
Chen Xiao'er looked away embarrassedly: I accidentally disturbed him while he was working, but I didn't expect that such a skilled professional dealer would drop the cards.
She turned her eyes quietly, and out of the corner of her eye she could see Ling's cool and confident face, as well as Xinnaya's arrogant and domineering expression. With two such "bodyguards", there was really nothing to be afraid of.
Chen Xiao'e exhaled softly, calming herself and continuing to lead her companions forward. They walked deeper and deeper on the mirror-smooth floor and color-blocked carpet.
The number of gambling equipment is gradually decreasing, but the number of staff wearing half masks is increasing.
They silently made way, slightly turning their heads. No one came to stop them, but they could vaguely hear some low-frequency whispers.
Chen Xiao'er felt a chill run down her spine, and as she walked, even her sense of time blurred. The road beneath their feet seemed to stretch endlessly, far beyond the apparent distance.
Rustle, rustle.
Ling and Xinnaya lifted a layer of bead curtain or gauze curtain from time to time. They finally passed through the hall where the staff were most concentrated and began to explore the more private rooms.
When Chen Xiao'er was about to lose her sense of direction, a scarlet curtain hung down, stretching across the front of them.
It's finally here.
Chen Xiao'er had an inexplicable intuition that the place behind the curtain might be the room at the end of the corridor, which was the destination of their trip.
So she grabbed the curtain first and gently pulled it to the right.
Crash--
The curtain was much lighter than I had imagined. At first glance, it looked like a thick velvet carpet, but when I waved it away, I found that it was lighter than silk. It would slide far away if I threw it casually.
The pearls adorning the curtains tinkled and swayed. A pale beauty reclined on a couch, breathing softly from her lips: "This is not the place for you, young lady. Please leave."
"Miss, please leave now. I can pretend nothing happened."
As soon as she (?) finished speaking, five or six masked thugs appeared from behind the screens and curtains, glaring at the "intruders" and clenching their fists.
Why do we act like we're trying to challenge someone? Chen Xiao'er waved her hands repeatedly: "You misunderstood. Actually, we're here..."
Before she could finish her words, two shadows passed by.
Bang! Ping pong!
Zero grabbed the bodyguard on his left and threw her out with an over-the-shoulder throw, sending her crashing into another person like a bowling ball.
Xinnaya kicked over the screen, then stepped on the screen and did a spinning kick to knock down the bodyguard on the right. She picked up the cup on the coffee table and poured water into it while laughing.
Crash.
The beauty used her folding fan to block the tea, and a thin layer of red suddenly appeared on her pale cheeks.
"Ahem, ahem, how rude. Aren't you afraid of death?"
"You're the one who's scared, aren't you?" Xinnaya put one foot on the couch and playfully grabbed the man's collar. "Don't be so rude. Do whatever Chen Xiao'er tells you to do, or I'll kill you!"
"Wait a minute." Why did you tell me my name?
Chen Xiao'er's face was filled with bitterness. This had truly turned into a case of kicking someone out. I'm not some gangster, so what's the difference between your behavior and courting death?
I wonder if the school will help cover the cost... She was about to say something to smooth things over when her expression changed.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
Countless footsteps sounded from all directions, getting closer and closer.
......
Beep-beep-beep!
The monitoring center sounded an alarm [A high-energy entity exceeding 1000 Pa is rapidly approaching Apostle 0!]
Click.
The alarm was manually shut off the next second, and the observers watched the screen intently.
The center of the screen is still the situation near Chen Xiao'er. She is leading the apostles to confront the devil hunters and the core guardians in the abnormal area.
However, another picture appeared in the upper right corner of the screen.
A gigantic train was seen breaking through the air, rapidly approaching along the pale track. It was surrounded by gray-white flames, occasionally emitting sparks.
Boom, boom, snap, snap, snap.
The sound of wheels gnashing against rails echoed in the space. Its image was visible to the naked eye, but it seemed to be rapidly leaping into another dimension.
Boom boom. It's over there.
Snap. There it is.
"What about the pale giant? Did the pale giant suspected to be [Lan] merge with the train?"
No one answered for the moment, as the figure appeared a few seconds later.
It is no longer a giant with a blurry face and flashing white light, but a woman whose face cannot be directly observed, but everyone can "see" that she is smiling.
Lan sat at the front of the car, her long burgundy hair fluttering in the wind.
Boom, crack, crack, crack.
The train's spatial position is about to overlap with the abnormal area, but there is no sign of slowing down.
It dived vertically with all the passengers on board, and the violent inertia and energy were like a fist made of steel, smashing hard into the core area!
Snap.
A crisp cracking sound was heard in the void, and the barrier shattered into pieces like a candy ball and was swallowed up by the train carriages.
"The train—the train is going by!"
The exclamation quickly turned into a calm statement: "Lan jumped out of the car. She, her target is the core."
The girl at the front of the car jumped down, and the incandescent light rose and burned, falling into the sticky energy layer like a meteor.
Plop.
Lan grasped an invisible object in the surging energy. The invisible object gradually solidified in her palm and compressed into a point of cold light.
......
Chen Xiao'er stood behind Ling and Xinnaya, looking around like a squirrel, fearing that a bodyguard would swoop out and grab her and take her hostage.
Boom, boom, boom, click.
The footsteps stopped neatly outside the room, as if surrounding the entire place.
Chen Xiao'er's wandering gaze returned to the beauty of unknown gender.
She was wearing an antique robe with a modern-style skirt that looked like layers of blooming lotus petals.
There's no indication of any preference just by looking at her figure, but her delicate and three-dimensional face leans more towards - definitely more towards a woman than the conductor "Mr."
As Chen Xiao'er nodded secretly, the temperament of the beauty in her sight suddenly changed.
Click.
The classical beauty held the couch with one hand, her face gloomy: "Looks like I have to teach you a lesson, puff——"
Halfway through her words, a cloud of blood sprayed out of her mouth, and her face instantly turned pale. "You, you..."
The beauty stretched out a finger and pointed, and Chen Xiao'er was so scared that she quickly hid towards Ling: "It wasn't me." I didn't even touch you with my finger, don't go too far.
"I did it."
Before the person appeared, a cheerful voice arrived first. A bony hand lifted the beaded curtain, and Sister Lan, wearing her flamboyant sunglasses, came in through the curtain.
She put one hand in her pocket and twirled a small medicine bottle with the other: "Do you want it?"
This sentence was said to the classical beauty, who bit her lip and uttered a word from between her teeth: "Yes!"
A beauty is still beautiful even when angry. The look she gave Sister Lan was truly coquettish. She snatched the medicine bottle and poured it into her mouth, her complexion instantly brightening considerably.
Ugh, that look in her eyes is like she wants to eat Sister Lan! I really need a voice actor to say "Damn it~" here.
Chen Xiao'er stood by and rubbed her arms desperately to get rid of the goose bumps.
"Love." Lan placed one hand on the beauty's shoulder, his eyes fixed on Chen Xiao'er. "Don't worry about the Chen family's affairs. I will take care of everything."
A smile slowly curled up the corners of her lips: "After all, this is my property."
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