Chapter 265: Blessed Gambler

Wu Xian was startled.

He subconsciously felt that Tong Yuai was pretending.

And from this, he guessed that this woman might also be a hidden player like Auntie He, and her words and deeds in the Fudi might also be fake, which was why she could pit the Great Ghost Luo Wang so miserably.

But when Wu Xian looked Tong Yuai up and down, he suddenly understood. His eyes were first pitying, then gratified, and finally felt a bit of a pity.

Before leaving the Fudi.

Tong Yuai's cheeks were dirty, she had bandages wrapped in many places on her body, her red dress was stained with blood, and a large part of her black silk stockings was torn.

But now she was spotless, exactly the same as when she first entered the Fudi!

Even if Tong Yuai was good at hiding, she couldn't take a bath in the Fudi and come out wearing the same clothes, right? So there was only one possibility that she didn't recognize Wu Xian! That was that the mediocre her didn't get the recognition of the Immortal Gods to become a Lotus Juanren, so that Fudi trip was a one-time thing, and her memory was erased after the Fudi ended.

From Wu Xian's perspective, this was undoubtedly a bad thing, so Wu Xian was pitying at first.

But he immediately realized that this ending was what ordinary people dreamed of. Compared to rotting and smelling in the Fudi and being covered in maggots, living in the real world was better.

The pity was.

The loot Tong Yuai took away was wasted.

These thoughts just passed through Wu Xian's mind. At this time, Tong Yuai was still staring at Wu Xian. Her eye sockets were red and swollen, and her mind had almost been broken.

The "kindness" of the Immortal Gods couldn't solve her current predicament.

Her child was still being held hostage by her husband. Although she had waited in the underground passage until the time as promised, whether the other party would let her go was another matter.

Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling...

Tong Yuai's phone rang. She grabbed the phone like a straw and said quickly.

"Zhou Xingsen, I have waited in the underground passage until the time as you requested. Hurry up and return Zhou Xiaobao to me!"

"Damn it!"

A curse came from the other side of the phone.

"How about this, you come to me within an hour, and we will have a gambling game. If you win, I will return Zhou Xiaobao to you and divorce you. If you lose..."

After speaking, the other side hung up the phone.

Tong Yuai's emotions went out of control on the spot: "Zhou Xingsen, you bastard, you went back on your word..."

But the other party could no longer hear her words.

Wu Xian touched his chin on the side.

"Tsk, trouble..."

He intended to help, but the other party didn't even recognize him. How could he help? First gain her trust? But things in the Fudi couldn't be said, and Zhou Xingsen had a one-hour time limit. Tong Yuai wouldn't patiently listen to him tell stories either.

So...

In the underground passage at night, there was only dim light.

Wu Xian roughly pushed Tong Yuai against the wall, his expression ferocious and terrifying.

"I heard the phone call just now. Where is Zhou Xingsen? That bastard ran away after owing me a huge sum of money. I have to kill him!"

Tong Yuai's expression was desperate.

No wonder this person greeted her enthusiastically just now; it turned out he was a debt collector! But she immediately realized that in the current situation, a debt collector who also had a grudge against Zhou Xingsen was the only helper she could find.

So Tong Yuai grabbed Wu Xian's sleeve: "I can take you to find him, but you have to help me save the child!"

A black Citroën was parked downstairs in an old residential area.

Just after getting off the car.

They saw a group of people gathered nearby. Crying sounds of women came from the crowd, and there was a faint smell of blood.

Wu Xian squeezed in. He saw a corpse lying on the ground, the blood around it was radial, and the head of the corpse was folded over. Judging from the clothes and limbs, this should be a middle-aged manual worker who jumped from the roof and landed head-first.

"Sigh, a good person, why did he get addicted to gambling."

"I heard he lost everything he could lose at home and owed a huge gambling debt, so he had no choice but to jump off the building and commit suicide..."

"Where did he lose it?"

"Where else could it be? The one that moved into Building 4 a few days ago... I don't know what's going on, people go there to gamble every day, and people often lose everything and come down crying. Just now, Old Chen from Building 3 also went up."

"Oh my, then I must keep an eye on my Old Zhao."

Wu Xian listened for a while and learned the whole story from the aunts who were watching.

He asked Tong Yuai: "Is Zhou Xingsen in Building 4?"

Tong Yuai hesitated and nodded: "Could it be him? But Zhou Xingsen always lost when gambling!"

"Maybe... it's different now than before."

Wu Xian narrowed his eyes.

On the way, he had a basic understanding of Zhou Xingsen from Tong Yuai's mouth.

Zhou Xingsen had always liked playing cards, but he had only played for fun. Until more than a month ago, he suddenly changed his personality and started playing "big" with others, and soon squandered the originally substantial family fortune.

But at this time, Zhou Xingsen was still a normal person.

Until a few days ago, he changed his personality, not only moved out of the house, but also kidnapped his own child yesterday...

Therefore, Wu Xian speculated.

Zhou Xingsen should only have two Fudi experiences.

The first Fudi made him realize that he might not live long, so he began to indulge himself, ignoring his family and only caring about his own enjoyment, stepping into the abyss of gambling.

The second Fudi made his already collapsing mind further degenerate, but he should have obtained some kind of blessing or item related to gambling, which was why he was killing everywhere in this dilapidated residential area.

Facing such a Lotus Juanren.

Wu Xian considered himself able to handle it easily.

He just needed to go upstairs, beat Zhou Xingsen up, grab Tong Yuai's child back, and threaten Zhou Xingsen not to harass them, and the matter would be settled.

The two came to Unit 2, Building 4.

This residential area was an old building without an elevator, and the two walked up the stairs to the fourth floor.

Just then, an old man came down from upstairs. This old man had only half his hair left, wearing a white vest, beach shorts, and flip-flops. His face was ugly, lost, and he kept muttering in his mouth.

"How could I have misread it?"

"I clearly saw it was a straight, how did it suddenly change when flipping the cards..."

Wu Xian stopped. He wanted to ask Old Chen what was going on with the gambling game upstairs, but the words were taken back to his mouth.

Old Chen passed by him.

Wu Xian suddenly realized that this matter might not be as easy to settle as he imagined.

Tong Yuai grabbed Wu Xian's arm.

"What's wrong? Hurry up, an hour is almost up..."

"Don't you feel that it's a bit cold in the corridor?"

Tong Yuai was stunned. She did feel a bit cold, but mere cold was insignificant compared to her child.

Then she found that Wu Xian had been staring at Old Chen, so she looked in the direction of Wu Xian's gaze and saw Old Chen passing through the platform between the two floors, and the sunset light shone on Old Chen...

Old Chen... had no shadow! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 266 =====