Chapter 61

The space inside "Man Dai Jin" was not large, perhaps about the same as the White Tit Tavern.

But by comparison, the actual feeling of the latter was significantly more spacious.

As for the reason, it was naturally because of the various card tables in the lobby of the Man Dai Jin tavern that almost filled all the empty spaces.

Excited cheers and desperate wails were mixed in the air filled with the strong smell of alcohol.

Xia Nan cautiously protected his pockets, struggling to walk through the gamblers in the lobby.

The halfling beside him had long since disappeared from his sight—

The other party's height, which only reached his waist, was almost instantly swallowed by the crowd in this scene.

Xia Nan was not worried about the halfling's safety.

The tavern was only this big; whatever people came in and out, and whatever movement occurred, could be seen clearly.

And the other party was an adventurer just like him, with guaranteed strength.

To some extent, the halfling's racial characteristics might make the other party more capable here than himself.

"Slap!"

On the card table beside him, a card with a unique pattern, printed with two winter wolves, was thrown onto the table.

Almost at the same time, the gamblers crowded to the side, staring at the card table with red eyes, let out noisy sounds of excitement or regret.

Xia Nan frowned and glanced at it, soon withdrawing his gaze.

In this world, there were also things like playing cards.

It was just that the patterns and numbers on the cards were completely different from his previous life.

And the various rules of play also changed significantly according to the region.

He didn't know the specifics, and if he sat at the table rashly, he was afraid he would lose even his underwear.

He was just following the halfling to take a look; the vast majority of his assets were in the bank in River Valley Town, and most of the money he carried with him was also left in the hotel.

He only had 7 silver and 3 copper coins brought into the tavern.

The sound of dice spinning and colliding at high speed in the cup reached his ears, and he looked in the direction of the sound.

He saw a dealer wearing a bartender uniform, shaking the dice cup in his hand violently.

He moved his feet.

Compared to card games with many ways to play and complex rules, dice games were much simpler.

Although there were still many extended rules, and the physical laws of the two worlds must be different, the most basic mathematical theorems were the same.

Odd or even numbers, a fast and simple way to play, were undoubtedly the most popular in a tavern of the level of Man Dai Jin.

But just as he approached the card table, and hadn't even had time to squeeze through the crowd in front of him.

In his line of sight, Alton, who had disappeared since entering the tavern, was already sitting beside the card table.

Beside his hand, there was a full pile of coins.

Xia Nan was surprised by the other party's speed and was just about to say hello.

When he saw the halfling, under the gaze of a crowd of gamblers, push all the coins forward violently.

"All in!"

Huh!?

"Tick-tock, tick-tock."

Clear and cold rain threads fell like lines, and ponds of various sizes had already accumulated on the uneven road surface.

Xia Nan stood in front of the tavern door, looked up at the dark clouds colliding and merging violently in the sky, with no signs of weakening or fading.

"It's going to rain heavily."

Beside him, the halfling Alton tossed the lucky coin in his hand and said with a smile.

Xia Nan didn't reply, just looked at the other party with a strange expression.

Recalling the scene he had seen two hours ago in his mind.

Strange, too strange.

The halfling at the card table was still the optimistic, cheerful, and grinning image in his impression.

But his hand movements were fiercer than the most fanatical gambler.

Every round, it was all in.

And the result actually matched the other party's identity as a believer of the Xing Yun Nv Shen.

Either he won, or it was a draw; he didn't lose a single round.

In the end, not only Xia Nan, but even those gamblers around who didn't know the halfling at all before were stunned.

Xia Nan had originally wanted to join in, but no matter how he looked at it, something was wrong.

So he leaned over and asked a couple of questions.

After receiving Alton's shaking head in response, he decisively put away his thoughts and just watched from the side.

During the two hours he entered the tavern, Xia Nan almost watched with his own eyes as the pile of coins beside the halfling grew higher and higher.

Even the expression of the dealer in front of the table gradually changed.

He even faintly heard some disputes and riots coming from the room behind the tavern.

If it weren't for the two sharp swords behind his back, he was afraid someone would have come over to negotiate long ago.

Xia Nan had already made a contingency plan in his heart.

Until half a minute ago.

Alton pushed the mountain-like pile of coins beside him toward the table again.

He thought the other party would guess the result like clairvoyance as before and win everything.

But the halfling lost for the first time.

And because it was an all-in, everything he had won before, including his own principal, was burned to ashes after this round.

On his whole body, only the lucky coin he was tossing in his hand at this moment remained.

But regarding this, there was not the slightest look of disappointment on Alton's face.

Grinning and laughing, as if what he had just lost was just a pile of stones seen everywhere on the roadside.

Remembering when the two of them left just now, a middle-aged man who looked like a tavern manager even took the initiative to come over and talk, inviting the halfling to go in and talk in detail, but was lightly and politely declined.

Xia Nan looked at Alton beside him, who was squatting on the roadside, in a pleasant mood, studying the puddle on the ground with curiosity.

He pressed his right hand lightly on the pocket at his waist, feeling the hard touch of the 7 silver and 3 copper coins inside.

Suddenly feeling his mouth dry.

Licking his lips, he said:

"Just now... were you doing it on purpose?"

"Where?"

"Just the last round."

"Yes, and no." The halfling's fingertips poked the water surface lightly, and the puddle, which was already full of ripples under the ravages of the drizzle, set off a wave of ripples.

"What do you mean?"

"Luck is conserved."

Alton stood up suddenly, his left hand reaching out from under the eaves.

The drizzle fell, and water splashes splattered.

A crystal-clear water droplet fell on the halfling's fingertip, and was divided into two petals under the action of gravity, sliding down from left and right.

"Just like everyone knows, the Lady of Smiles, who symbolizes 'good luck,' has a sister whose domain is completely opposite."

"Luck and misfortune are the same thing."

His hand stained with water droplets gently pinched the brass-colored coin.

Tossing it up again.

"You can't keep winning, and you won't lose every round."

The rain was fine and dense, dotting the surface of the spinning copper coin.

The tiny raindrops that splattered along with it refracted the dim and gloomy light in the air.

Faintly, Xia Nan seemed to see.

The long-haired woman engraved on the front of the copper coin, under the reflection of the faint light, had her face clear for an instant.

Suddenly enlightened.

For Alton, his behavior in the tavern might just be a casual act driven by interest.

But on the other hand, this series of operations by the halfling also invisibly conformed to the doctrine of the Xing Yun Nv Shen, "Tymora."

It was not a gamble.

It was a ritual.

(End of Chapter)