??30: Chapter 30: Gambling with Life (Please Favorite, Vote, and Follow)
30: Chapter 30: Gambling with Life (Please Favorite, Vote, and Follow)
Ludo looked at He Ao’s expression and subconsciously felt sothing was amiss, but he couldn’t pinpoint what it was.
He glanced at his other unrevealed hole card; now it was his last card in hand.
The cybernetic eye quickly determined the face of this card, [Diamonds 2].
At the mont, his two cards, Diamonds 10 and Diamonds 2, totaled 12 points, while He Ao’s were Clubs 9 and Spades 2, totaling 11 points, clearly putting him at an advantage.
Twelve to eleven, the advantage is mine.
The more he looked at He Ao, the more he felt this kid might possess that mysterious confidence often seen in rookies who’ve just entered a casino, believing themselves to be favored by Heaven, able to turn 20 bucks into 37 million at the gambling table.
Most tis, he would order the dealer to give these rookies so money, cultivating their habits, what the casino calls ‘beginner’s luck’.
But it’s all engineered.
And in this ga, there would be no ‘beginner’s luck’.
After dealing the two hole cards, it was ti for the hit phase, and as always, He Ao went first.
Ludo adjusted his sitting posture, placing his line of sight at the perfect angle to see the pattern on the top card of the deck.
In this way, he would see every card dealt next, thus deciding whether to take an extra card or not.
“Hit?”
Selena looked at He Ao.
He Ao nodded slightly.
Selena flipped over the card from the top and placed it in front of He Ao.
This card was [Spades 6], putting He Ao at seventeen points with his three cards.
Selena then turned to Ludo.
“Hit!”
Ludo also nodded, and he received a [Clubs 3], bringing his total to fifteen points with his three cards.
His face darkened sowhat.
Imdiately after, both players took two more rounds of cards.
He Ao received a [Hearts 2] and [Diamonds A], with the Ace counting as one point, bringing his total to twenty points.
Ludo received a [Spades 3] and [Clubs A], making his total nineteen points.
Both He Ao and Ludo had not looked at their hole cards yet, but of course, Ludo now ‘knew’ both players’ hole cards.
In the fourth round, He Ao declined to take another card, with his face-up points now at eighteen, the hole card being [Spades 2].
Ludo, on the other hand, looked at the top card of the deck, a [Clubs 2].
His face-up points were seventeen, with the hole card being [Diamonds 2].
With the addition of [Clubs 2], his total would be twenty-one, the highest possible in this ga.
When cheating, Ludo virtually played this ga with open cards; he knew every card and could see both players’ hole cards clearly.
With the right moves, he was in an invincible position.
With confidence, he decided to take an extra card.
Selena turned over the top card, [Clubs 2].
“Ga’s over, rookie.”
Ludo looked at He Ao, slowly leaning back in his chair with confidence, his fingertips resting on his hole card.
His confidence made everyone around him tense.
Selena also looked at He Ao nervously; Ludo’s face-up points had reached nineteen, higher than He Ao’s eighteen.
If Ludo’s hole card was indeed a 2, the victory was almost certain.
However, losing this round would not be the end, as there were still two more rounds to go; it was an acceptable outco.
“Hold on”
Under Selena’s watchful gaze, He Ao slowly raised his hand.
He turned to Viktor, “Mr.
Viktor, we’re in a hurry.
Let’s make it one ga to decide the outco.
If I win, you let us go in to find soone, and if I lose, we’ll leave on our own.”
Viktor looked at He Ao with interest, but he didn’t make a decision; instead, he turned to Ludo, “Ludo, what do you think?”
“Officer Ande cos and goes as he pleases,” Ludo tapped his fingertips on the bottom card, lightly rapping it, “says to change the rules and changes them.
According to the casino’s rules, shouldn’t there be an addition to the stakes?
After all, you won and we have to risk disrupting our normal business.
If you lose, there’s no consequence.
Isn’t that a bit unfair?”
“What kind of stake do you want
to add?”
He Ao looked at him with interest.
“How about adding one of Officer Ande’s hands?” Ludo squinted his eyes, smiling at He Ao.
He wouldn’t pass up any chance for revenge; one hand was just an appetizer.
Once this was over, he would find so thugs, break He Ao’s arms and legs, and throw him into the filthy sewer, letting He Ao slowly watch himself degenerate and stink with the bites of maggots and rats, dying in agony.
As he thought of this image, he couldn’t hide his excitent, looking at He Ao with an uncontrollable thrill in his voice,
“If you lose this round, Officer Ande can leave freely after leaving behind one hand.”
Then I’ll secretly have soone kill you.
“A hand is such a boring bet,” He Ao laughed and stood up.
Looking at Ludo’s expression, he knew this psycho was probably fantasizing about how he would torture him.
He was familiar with such wanted criminals; in the main world, they were worth a lot of money.
He then drew a steel dagger from his combat suit’s waist, twirled it through his fingers and threw it forward.
The dagger embedded itself precisely in the center of the gambling table.
“Why don’t we go big?
In addition to our previous agreent, whoever loses will use this knife to take their own life.”
“Ande!”
Selena looked at Ande, sowhat angry.
Originally, it was just a minor gambling ga, but to escalate it to staking lives was too much.
“It’s okay,” He Ao shook his head, signaling Selena not to worry, then he turned to a startled Ludo, “Mr.
Ludo seems afraid to bet?”
He Ao turned his head towards Selena, “See, I told you.
He’s scared.”
“I bet!” Ludo suddenly stood up, slamming his fist on the table, then looked at He Ao with a ferocious expression, “I dare.
The question is, do you?!”
Now, with all his points totaled, he had twenty-one points, which was almost a sure win.
Even if He Ao also ended up with twenty-one points, it would be a draw.
There was no way he could lose.
Why wouldn’t he take He Ao’s life if it was handed to him on a silver platter?
“What would I be afraid of,” He Ao looked at Viktor, “Mr.
Viktor can bear witness.”
“Of course!”
Viktor moved closer with a smile.
With the stakes set, the crowd imdiately beca lively.
Everyone craned their necks trying to glimpse the outco of the ga.
He Ao was the first to slowly flip over his bottom card.
“Spade Two,” he said calmly, raising his head to look at Ludo, “I have a total of twenty points.”
“Confident yet blind rookie,” when Ludo saw He Ao reveal his card, he chuckled arrogantly and with chest puffed, looked at He Ao, flipping over his own bottom card, “The ga is over.
Sorry, I have twenty-one points.”
The scene plunged into sudden silence.
Wait, this isn’t the reaction it should be!!
Ludo realized sothing was wrong,
He bowed his head to look at his bottom card, which was a
[Diamond Queen]
All his points totaled up to twenty-nine points, which exceeded twenty-one points, resetting his score to zero.
“It seems Mr.
Ludo isn’t good at math,” He Ao said with a shrug, stepping to the center of the table and pulling the dagger out of the spot where it was stuck, ‘bang—’ placing it in front of Ludo, causing Ludo to take a half step back in fright.
“I wouldn’t recomnd that Mr.
Ludo take his own life, after all, inciting soone to commit suicide is a cri,” he left the dagger in front of Ludo, then looked at Viktor, “Can we go in now?”
Ludo watched in horror as the dagger lay before him.
He dumbly flipped the [Diamond Queen] over, only seeing the pattern on the back; yet the analysis from his artificial eye was still showing it as a [Diamond Two].
“No, no,” images flashed back in his mind, and he suddenly rembered that shot He Ao had fired with the toy gun.
The plastic bullet had hit the back of that card.
In a panic, he stared at He Ao, “Was it then?!
How did you do that?”
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