Chapter 130: Volume 1 Chapter 130 Tenant (18)

The surrounding sounds seemed to have stilled, and a faint dangerous aura emerged.

Shi's father suddenly burst out laughing, his laughter echoing throughout the room.

Jiang Zhi knew her life was temporarily safe; at least for now, Shi's father wouldn't kill her.

After Shi's father finished laughing, he looked at her with interest, and after a moment his deep voice said:

"Fine! As long as you can kill him, I'll let you go."

When he finished speaking, he raised an eyebrow, lifted his hand, and gestured to his subordinate behind him.

"I'm not an idiot either; if I just let you go like this, you'll turn around and inform on my son, and I'd really be losing more than gaining."

Having navigated the underworld and the legitimate world for so many years, Shi's father could have become someone like him; without a bit of scheming, he would have been swallowed whole.

The words 'old and crafty' and 'sinister and deceitful' describe him perfectly.

A subordinate who had come in from outside held a cup of water, approached her, pinched her jaw, and forced her to drink.

The bitter taste in her throat filled her with fear.

Jiang Zhi lay on the ground, coughing violently, her face turning pale, her stomach churning incessantly.

Shi's father leaned on his cane and said casually:

"Don't worry, this medicine won't kill you right away, but if there's no antidote by tomorrow morning, you'll still die."

So this medicine can only keep her alive until dawn tomorrow.

"If you can complete the task tonight, I'll give you the antidote."

Shi's father gave a sinister chuckle, stood up, and ordered: "Dress her up and send her to Shi Xuan's side."

Jiang Zhi felt extremely unwell and could only let them do as they pleased.

Finally she changed into a deep-blue mermaid-style gown, finished her makeup, and was shoved into a car.

Scenery flashed past outside the car until it stopped at the nightclub entrance; her stomach cramped painfully, but it gradually eased somewhat along the way.

Shi's father wasn't lying—that cup of water was poison, and she would never see tomorrow's light.

Jiang Zhi, however, wasn't worried at all; as long as she survived tonight, she could leave this Punishment Instance.

No deadly poison would do her any good.

Stepping out of the car, with Shi's father's eyes watching her from behind, she still needed to act.

Jiang Zhi endured the pain, straightened her body, and walked toward the nightclub in her high heels.

A waiter joked with me as he walked toward me, then respectfully said, "Miss Jiang, please follow me."

Although this nightclub is run by Shi's father, it also has several major shareholders; the underground casino it operates is controlled by the country's largest corporation, and the reason Shi's father is often driven to desperation by Shi Xuan is that Shi Xuan designed this revenge plot long ago.

Shi Xuan spent five years infiltrating the casino; now his share exceeds Shi's father's. If left to develop, Shi's father would die an unnatural death within half a year, and everything he painstakingly built would come to nothing.

This is Shi Xuan's goal.

Only on the day his mother died did he truly begin his revenge.

Shi's father could never believe that his own son would want him dead in such a way.

This waiter was naturally also sent by Shi's father; Jiang Zhi followed him into the elevator, descended to basement level -100, and when the doors opened she saw a splendid sight.

The floor was covered with expensive European-style carpets, the walls made of crystal, extravagantly luxurious, with clearly demarcated zones; deep-red gambling tables stood below, and the higher up, the more chips were required.

Crystal chandeliers hung from the dome, refracting seven-colored light onto everyone's faces, revealing greed, anger, despair, malice…

"Go in, Miss Jiang; the young master is inside."

After saying that, the waiter left her sight.

Jiang Zhi's fingers, resting on her abdomen, slowly tightened; she stayed still for a few minutes before withdrawing her hand.

She lifted her foot onto the soft carpet, and as she moved, her skirt shimmered, truly resembling a fish tail, beautiful and captivating.

Many people nearby were drawn to her, their gazes sweeping over her face like they were evaluating merchandise.

Jiang Zhi ignored their gazes, looked around, and searched for Shi Xuan's figure.

Tonight the underground casino held a grand disk gambling game, with thirteen parties seated at one table, and the winner would be determined by whoever had the most chips in the end.

The main hall was in full swing.

Most people had gone to the outskirts to watch the gambling.

Each round started with a base stake of ten billion.

The final round even reached a hundred billion, an amount many dared not even imagine.

Jiang Zhi approached and looked up at the huge screen hanging in midair.

Among the thirteen participants at the gambling table, several were well-known business tycoons, famous and ranked in the top ten of the wealth list.

She saw Shi Xuan seated in the last position at the gambling table.

At this moment his attire was completely different from usual: a tailored black suit, his usually slightly long black hair cut short, hanging at the tips of his ears, his forehead hair parted in the middle, revealing a pair of deep, narrow eyes.

The corners of his thin lips curled slightly, giving an inscrutable air.

Jiang Zhi had never seen him like this before; he was both unfamiliar and strangely familiar.

If 777 were here, she would surely ask why the villain Yun Jin had followed her into this Punishment World.

But in this world there is only herself; everything must wait until she leaves to ask 777.

"Who is that boy? He's so young, yet he's also at the gambling table—does he really have that much money to wager?"

"Just look and you'll know he's a newcomer; he's our casino's biggest shareholder, the gambling game has never lost, and those old bosses all treat him like a god."

"That's too exaggerated."

"You'll see soon whether I'm exaggerating or not."

Jiang Zhi listened to the few people beside her whispering, and a flicker of surprise crossed her eyes.

Even she could be deceived.

She had always thought Shi Xuan was just a cute little trash-picker.

But she never expected it to be a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Jiang Zhi felt relieved that she was about to leave soon, and didn't have to farm Shi Xuan's Hatred Value.

"Jiang Zhi?? Really you!!"

A voice suddenly came from behind; Jiang Zhi turned around and saw fellow floor tenant Li Dachao staring at her in shock.

Obviously no one expected that a tenant who had just moved in and never left her apartment would actually come to the Underground Casino.

The Underground Casino isn't open to just anyone; it requires an invitation. And Li Dachao himself, due to a job change, went from nightclub security to becoming a bouncer at the Underground Casino, which is how he could get in.

Jiang Zhi wasn't surprised to see him; noticing several gazes falling on them from nearby, she immediately quickened her pace, leading the man away from the spectator platform.

Only when they reached a deserted walkway did she say: "I came with Shi Xuan."

Li Dachao believed it as soon as he heard it.

Although he goes back every morning, he also knows what's going on on the same floor.

Who would have thought that among the floor tenants, the poorest one who picks up trash every day, Shi Xuan, would be a hidden big shot?

He knew Shi Xuan was familiar with the girl in front of him and would bring her here, so it wasn't strange.