Chapter 269: Human Skin Poker

For the vast majority of people.

Zhou Xingsen's life was a standard happy life.

He had a decent job, healthy parents, a beautiful and virtuous wife Tong Yuai, and a sensible and cute son Zhou Xiaobao. He didn't have any bad habits.

But Zhou Xingsen didn't feel he was happy.

He felt that such a life was too ordinary, boring, and could be seen to the end at a glance. He wanted to try something more exciting, something he had been trying to stay away from on the road to success.

For example... gambling! Since so many people were addicted to it and couldn't extricate themselves, the taste of gambling must be wonderful.

But he didn't want to lose his current life, so he just thought about it. If there were no accidents, he would never cross the line in his life.

But the Fudi was that accident.

After escaping death from the Fudi, Zhou Xingsen obtained the blessing "Willing to Admit Defeat." The ability of the blessing was exactly what it meant literally: in a fair gambling game participated in by Zhou Xingsen, the loser must pay the bet.

If this blessing fell into Wu Xian's hands, he could play it out with tricks.

But Zhou Xingsen took this blessing as a revelation from the Fudi encouraging him to gamble. Anyway, his life was already precarious, so why live as rigidly as before? Parents?

Work?

Wife and children?

Zhou Xingsen threw all these behind his head and began to gamble wildly.

Until this stage.

Zhou Xingsen was not yet a disaster, at most his wife wanted to divorce him.

There were many Lotus Juanren whose life trajectories were changed by the Fudi. One more of him was not much, and one less was not much. Didn't even Wu Xian give up?

But the second Fudi he experienced completely changed him.

He used the "Willing to Admit Defeat" blessing to help the team defeat a powerful gambling ghost in the Fudi, and after leaving the Fudi, he successfully obtained Dao practice and brought out a jar for raising small ghosts.

After returning home.

Zhou Xingsen gambled as usual and soon felt it wasn't exciting enough.

Because his blessing only made people unable to default on debts, but didn't increase his gambling skills, so he still lost seven or eight out of ten times, so he remembered the "gambling ghost" he met in the Fudi! That gambling ghost could win every bet with evil arts... could he too? So he learned the gambling ghost's method.

After some twists and turns, he manufactured a deck of human skin poker, worshipped it in the small ghost jar, worshipped it with a shrine, and wrapped it with red cloth...

From then on, Zhou Xingsen won every bet.

But as he walked on the evil path, the Immortal Gods no longer blessed him, the blessing disappeared, and it was replaced by an evil constitution that could turn the ghosts of those who lost into "Gambling Ghosts."

Those who gambled with him and lost would turn into Gambling Ghosts. Gambling Ghosts would still have self-awareness before seeing the sun for the first time, but once they saw the sun, they would be enslaved by him forever.

And Zhou Xingsen himself became less and less like a human.

Mysterious power bewitched him in the dark. The human skin poker was both in the shrine and in his skin, and the voice came from under his skin.

His personality became more and more strange.

Things he avoided before, he now flocked to. Both his spirit and body were transforming toward non-human things.

Tricking Tong Yuai into the Fudi to kill her was his idea during this period. He even felt that this was a kindness to Tong Yuai, better than letting her turn into a Gambling Ghost.

Until last night.

The crying of his son made Zhou Xingsen wake up.

He realized that he was gradually turning into a monster, so he accelerated the frequency of gambling, wanting to use the blood of those who lost to satisfy the human skin poker and delay the speed of his turning into a malevolent entity...

Actually, the so-called repentance was just his illusion. After choosing to feed ghosts with his body, the only outcome was sinking deeper and deeper, and there was no such thing as turning back.

So he lost...

"Ah... ah..."

Zhou Xingsen groaned in pain. Under his skin, poker cards wriggled slowly.

Wu Xian retreated cautiously, holding a poker card in his hand. This poker card was imprinted with three True Fire Incantations. If he really had to fight Zhou Xingsen, he could only rely on this poker card.

"Ha..."

Finally, Zhou Xingsen's strange changes stopped.

The temperature in the room dropped by an unknown number of degrees, and the feeling Zhou Xingsen gave was no longer a shred of life. He spat out a mouthful of black smoke and stared greedily at Wu Xian. He had completely turned into a malevolent entity.

"Let's gamble again. This time, use my gambling tools. You decide what to play, and the bet is your life and mine!"

Accompanied by Zhou Xingsen's words, his skin peeled off piece by piece, forming a flesh-colored human skin poker.

And Wu Xian was surprised to find that the more he walked back, the closer he got to the gambling table. If he wanted to go against the trend, he would actually move forward. No matter how he chose, he was getting closer and closer to the gambling table.

Wu Xian was shocked.

Could it be that Zhou Xingsen's gambling invitation after turning into a malevolent entity was rule-based?

If so, then Wu Xian could only continue to rely on Old Chen's help...

Old Chen...

Wu Xian was shocked again, because he only then realized that at some point, Old Chen had disappeared.

"Young man... are you looking for me?"

The old voice came faintly from the ground.

Wu Xian looked down and saw a flattened, distorted face that had been stretched!

No wonder Wu Xian was getting closer to the gambling table no matter how he walked just now. It turned out that Old Chen was sticking to the ground, wriggling like a conveyor belt, which made it impossible for Wu Xian to stay away from the room.

"It seems that ninety underworld money is still too little. Asking people to work can't be too stingy."

Old Chen was Zhou Xingsen's Gambling Ghost after all. The Ghost Pushing Mill Technique could only make him change his mind for a period of time. Old Chen's foundation was still with Zhou Xingsen. As Zhou Xingsen completely degenerated, it was very normal for the control to change.

In addition, Old Chen's rebellion made Wu Xian breathe a sigh of relief.

Although a ghost turning into a floor and making people unable to escape was terrifying, it showed that Zhou Xingsen's gambling invitation was not rule-based, which made Zhou Xingsen's force level drop straight down.

But this discovery didn't help Wu Xian much at this time.

Gambling between humans and malevolent entities was like this.

Humans could use their intelligence to win against ghosts once or twice, but they couldn't win forever. As long as they lost once, they would fall into an abyss.

Just when Wu Xian was thinking about whether to use the True Fire Incantation to rush, he suddenly saw a ferocious human face flash across the window opposite.

So he hesitated for two seconds and sat opposite Zhou Xingsen.

Zhou Xingsen asked with a grin: "Have you thought about what to play this time? Are you still playing building a poker tower? I won't lose to you this time."

Wu Xian thought for a while and said to Zhou Xingsen with a smile: "Let's play 'Don't Look Back'."

Zhou Xingsen was stunned: "Don't Look Back?"

"That's right, the rules are very simple. Whoever looks back first loses."

Although Zhou Xingsen was suspicious in his heart, he still agreed to Wu Xian's request. With three Gambling Ghosts, he had a hundred ways to win such a simple gambling game, a full hundred ways!

He looked at Wu Xian solemnly and said.

"Then now, start!"

At the moment the gambling game started.

Clatter!

The window behind Zhou Xingsen shattered.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 270 =====