game hall.
After Bai Liu led his men in, he went straight to find Charles - Mu Ke had already explained the whole story to him, but Bai Liu felt it necessary to meet in person this extraordinary president of the Fifth Guild.
Inside the Gamblers Guild.
Charles, who was sitting across from the desk, raised his eyebrows in surprise, raised his hand to stop the servant from pouring tea for Bai Liu, and repeated what Bai Liu had just said to him with interest: "Do you want to participate in the league this year?"
"Isn't that what you intended, President Charles?" Bai Liubolan asked back without surprise.
"Of course not." Charles denied without hesitation, "Although I chose you as my [Slot Horse], generally speaking, [Slot Horses] still have a one-year breeding period before they can be put on the field."
Charles scanned Bai Liu from head to toe with a slightly critical look, then waved his hands with regret: "Bai Liu, you are not in the peak state of a [gambling horse] right now. It is more appropriate to keep a low profile. I don't mind keeping you for another year. To be exact, your other audiences won't mind keeping you for another year either."
"Raise them?" Bai Liu raised an eyebrow. "So this is the purpose of the charging and likes collection mechanism, right? All of this is to accumulate power for this big gamble, the [League]?"
Charles nodded appreciatively: "Yes, you are very smart, Liu."
He stood up with his stick and walked around Bai Liu. "All players in the game exist to earn more points. In the eyes of our [Gambler Guild], there are two ways to earn more points in the game. One is called [Gambler], and the other is called [Horse Betting]."
"[Horse racing] is about being bet on. You rely on the game for training, and you earn points by being betted by us and participating in league matches. This is a very simple way to earn money through labor, but in this game, there is a more exciting investment method with higher risks and returns—"
Charles hooked his lips, turned his fingers, and a strange chip flashed out of nowhere between his index and middle fingers. He leaned over and put it in Bai Liu's arms.
"——We call this method [Gambler]."
"As [gamblers], we have chosen you as our [bookie horses], invested in you, nurtured you, promoted you, and made you famous. When the annual league comes, we will put all our money on you—"
Charles looked down at Bai Liu sitting on the chair with a deep gaze: "If you win, we can double our investment. If you lose, we will lose everything. This is the relationship between [gamblers] and [horse betting]."
Bai Liu tilted his head back slightly to distance himself from Charles. He lowered his eyes to look at the chip in his hand - a gold-rimmed dark green chip with a value of 6.
He remembered that real casinos didn't have chips of this value, so this should be something unique to the game.
"Essentially, for you [gamblers], the win in this league gambling is the money bet by both players. Such a high-risk game will not reach such a popularity rate of full participation. The odds are too high." Bai Liu asked lightly, "——So someone is betting on the banker, right?"
"Yes," Charles replied.
The smile on his face became more meaningful. "The banker is the system. During the league betting, the system will put a basic fund into each team's betting pool. This basic fund is the sum of the charging points of each person on both teams—"
Charles held up five fingers: "--five times."
"In other words, the higher the total charge points of the enemy and our team, the higher the base fund in the gambling pool of both teams." Bai Liu fell into deep thought, "In other words, if our team beats a strong team, the probability of the players who bet on us to double their bets will be higher."
"And this base fund does not include the points from subsequent additional bets. In the end, the points in the loser's betting pool are distributed to the winners according to the betting ratio."
Charles gave a simple example: "For example, you are playing a league match with the King's Guild now. The King's Guild team has 10 million charging points, and your team has 1 million charging points. Then the basic bet in both of your betting pools is 55 million."
"Based on this, the King's Guild bet 50 million points, and you only bet 100,000 points. The fund in their gambling pool is 150 million, while your gambling pool is only 55.1 million."
"If the King's Guild wins against you, the players who bet on the King's Guild can distribute the points in your gambling pool according to the proportion of their bets."
"For example, I am a player who bets for the King's Guild. I bet 25 million out of the total 50 million, which is 50%. So I can get 50% of the 55.1 million in your gambling pool, which is 27.55 million. The profit rate is 110%."
"A very high profit margin." Bai Liu commented objectively.
Charles turned his eyes back and stared at Bai Liu's face without moving: "Yes, this is indeed a good deal, but it is not a gamble."
Bai Liu raised his eyes to look at Charles. Charles raised his hand and touched his smiling lower lip, and continued: "From another perspective, what if you won the King's Guild in this game, and the 100,000 points you bet in the gambling pool were all paid by me alone?"
"Then I can win 105 million with 100,000, which is a profit rate of 105 times."
Charles opened his hands and looked at Bai Liu with a smile: "Baby, this is gambling."
"—Welcome to the Gamblers Club."
"According to this statement, the greater the risk our team experiences, the more attention it gets, the greater the negative controversy, the lower the winning rate, and the higher the profit rate." Bai Liu lifted his eyelids and looked at Charles, "Then isn't it just right for us to participate in the competition this year?"
Charles paused, then looked at Bai Liu with a little surprise and smiled: "It seems that I have met a gambler who is even crazier than me."
He sat back in his chair, turned around, and tapped the ground twice with his walking stick. Then he said excitedly, "I like your suggestion. You are the most popular person right now, so I don't have to worry about keeping the discussion going for a year until the next league."
Charles looked directly at Bai Liu and said, "You are now the center of attention. If you lose miserably in this league, you will be worthless in the future. Are you sure you want to participate this year? Of course, if you are sure, I will prepare all the support and logistics for you in the league."
Bai Liu: "I'm sure."
Charles held Bai Liu's hand frivolously, lowered his head and kissed her in the air: "As you wish, my prince charming."
Bai Liu: “…”
His investors are a little bit disgusting.
But it doesn't matter, he is an adult and is fully capable of enduring this for the money.
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After Bai Liu walked out of the Gamblers Club Guild, he directly killed his own Scavengers Guild.
Charles reminded him that if he wanted to participate in the league, he had to be well prepared for business operations - such as the appearance of the players, the compatibility of the guild name and the team, and even the guild icon, all of which required close attention.
After Bai Liu arrived at the guild, he consulted the members and simply changed the name of the guild to Wandering Circus.
Then the big news came out that they would be participating in the league this year.
A lot of crying.
But Bai Liu did not force them to submit items in order to participate in the league like other guilds did, or to participate in high-risk games to find high-level items, or even force them to recharge and expand the team's battery - Charles was fully responsible for all of this. Although this guy has a bit of a bad taste, the resources are really good.
The members of the company team have been selected.
Obviously, it was a big event for a guild to participate in the league. According to common sense, it should be an act that required the whole guild to devote their strength. However, Bai Liu handled everything by himself and simply notified them.
The members were a little worried at first, but when they saw Bai Liu lifting the heavy task with ease and thought of the twists and turns he had gone through, they miraculously calmed down.
But if it was President Bai, it seems that he could win...
At this moment, they gained a new understanding of this magical guild.
It seemed that they really didn't have to pay anything for the guild, because even for top-level events like the guild's participation in the league, their president never made them worry, and all they had to do was to grow in this community with peace of mind.
"Is there anything we can do for you, President Bai?" someone asked cautiously, "It's the cheering season now, do you need us to help you with anything?"
——It is really strange that the members do nothing about such a big thing as the guild participating in the league!
"Of course we need support. Please help me spread the news that I will participate in the league." Bai Liu smiled, "Then you can say bad things about me, saying that I will never win, and expose the various shortcomings of our team. It would be better to say that you don't support me participating in the league at all, but I insisted on participating. This is about the content of the support. Thank you all."
Members: “…”
Members: “????”
What kind of new way of cheering is this? !
Wang Shun, who was standing by, started to feel confused when he heard that Bai Liu insisted on participating in the league this year. When he heard Bai Liu's strange way of cheering, the old man who had participated in several leagues with the King's Guild was dumbfounded.
He had never seen such support!
"...No, Bai Liu, what are you going to do?!" Wang Shun followed Bai Liu with his eyes wide open, jogging all the way, "Why are you letting them badmouth you?! The support rate of the players will directly affect whether you can get the golden medal of immunity from death..."
"It's probably impossible to get it before the game." Bai Liu made a decisive decision, "Wait until the official game to consolidate the support rate with performance and then get the golden ticket of immunity. Negative operations before the league game are more cost-effective for me."
Wang Shun's eyes were full of stars: "What kind of value for money?"
Bai Liu smiled, his eyes sparkling slightly. "I was going to raise the odds and bet on the Wandering Circus, but then I realized that there's a gambling table hidden in this game. It's really interesting."
Wang Shun: “!!!!”
Wang Shun rubbed his forehead with a headache: "Have you talked to Charles?"
He knew that putting these two troublemakers together would lead to something like this!