Chapter 332

Did the door open?

Reasonably speaking, it should have opened. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe is now using Feng Yushu's identity. Te Rang's rules clearly 'saw' a male figure suddenly appear at the door. It was a well-proportioned adult male. The cold white light cast his shadow on the door. As the door was pulled open, the shadow on the door slid onto the ground, like a pitch-black arrow pointing from outside the door into the room.

But at the same time the door opened, the door closed.

The shadow on the ground appeared in Te Rang's perception for less than a second before disappearing. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe hurriedly raised his head to look at the door. The door was still tightly closed, and there was no one in the light outside the door. The deep corridor was empty.

"Just now that was..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe frowned slightly.

He was sure he had indeed seen it. He saw a man standing outside the door using his hand to pull open the door. Even though that scene only appeared for a very short moment, he had indeed seen it.

Human eyes may make mistakes, human brains may produce hallucinations, but ghosts won't. Ghosts are rules, and rules are absolute. If there is, there is; if there is no, there is no. Te Rang saw it, so it was really seen.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe doesn't believe in people, he only believes in ghosts.

"I can be sure that what happened just now was absolutely not an illusion. Just now, a man was indeed standing outside the door using his hand to pull open the door. His shadow shifted to the ground because of the opening of the door, and then disappeared instantly. The door also returned to the tightly closed state it was in before being pushed open by the Gambler."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought in his heart, silently examining Miss Mei Lin across the table. She was nervously watching Bedan put coins into the wine cup, her expression unchanged.

"Miss Mei Lin is a careful person. She couldn't have failed to notice when the door opened, but from her current performance, she indeed didn't notice."

... Did she not notice, or in Miss Mei Lin's perspective, the door didn't open at all?

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought about it. He didn't actually see the man who opened the door. He didn't even know what the man looked like. He just perceived the shadow of the other party suddenly appearing and disappearing through Te Rang's rules. That was an extremely short moment that human reactions couldn't capture. If it weren't for Te Rang, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe would be like Miss Mei Lin now, knowing nothing, thinking nothing had happened.

"And... the process of that person suddenly appearing and suddenly disappearing is actually a bit familiar."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe recalled everything he experienced today. This kind of drama of people disappearing and appearing out of thin air in front of him had been staged many times, and he was a bit desensitized.

Could this also be related to the Gambler's rules?

The subtle sound of water recalled Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's ethereal thoughts. A copper coin fell into the cup. Bedan successfully put in the first copper coin. The result of the next coin-putting would directly decide the first loser of this round of the game.

Bedan took a deep breath. The golden wine reflected his nervous face. Everyone's eyes were focused on him. The room was silent, making Bedan's pressure increase sharply. A drop of cold sweat slid down his temples to his cheeks.

*Drip-drop*—

A drop of sweat fell into the cup, stirring up ripples. The crisp sound broke the dead-water-like silence. Bedan held his breath, his eyes wide open, and a heart was pounding in his chest. For a time, there was only his rapid heartbeat and the cautious breathing of several people in the air.

"Fortunately, fortunately, it didn't overflow..."

Bedan closed his eyes, breathed deeply to adjust his emotions, held his right wrist with his left hand, picked up a copper coin with his right hand, and moved it slowly and stably above the wine cup.

"It's okay, it's okay Bedan, it's just a drop of sweat. The Gambler put 3 copper coins in, and you are only the 2nd coin. Even if there is an extra drop of sweat in the cup, what does it matter? The volume of a drop of sweat is far less than a copper coin..."

Just as Bedan was muttering to himself to soothe himself, suddenly, a voice with fear, trembling slightly, came faintly from behind him:

"What... are you doing?"

*Plop*!

Bedan, whose nerves were tense and whose spirit was highly nervous, was startled by this sudden sound. His wrist shook, his tiger's mouth loosened, and the copper coin slipped from his fingertips and fell into the cup with a *ding-dong*. The wine body shattered, and the golden wine slid along the cup wall.

"It's over..."

Bedan's eyes widened, his mouth opened subconsciously but didn't make half a sound. An expression called despair climbed onto his cheeks. Bedan bit his pale lips and turned his head stiffly to look behind him, and a face with a puzzled expression came into view.

"Uh... hello?" The owner of the face smiled awkwardly and said tentatively: "Just, just now there was no one in the room. How did you appear here? It seems like teleportation. You... seem to be playing some game?"

As he said, he looked at the 4 cups of golden wine on the table.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe covered his mouth with both hands in surprise, his beautiful eyes full of astonishment. In fact, he was indeed very surprised. Although he didn't know the man who suddenly appeared in the room, his shadow made Te Rang feel familiar.

"It's the person at the door just now." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought secretly: "Did he 'come over'? Or did we 'go over'?"

According to this man's statement 'there was no one in the room just now', he couldn't see the people and ghosts playing gambling in this room. Correspondingly, the three people and one ghost on this side couldn't observe him either. They were clearly in the same room, but they seemed to be separated into two unrelated parallel worlds.

But just now, for some unknown reason, the two worlds became one, and they could observe each other.

Doubts in his heart came one after another. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't act rashly. He reached out and touched his chest, the soft touch filled his palm, and then the *thump-thump* heartbeat.

"My heart is still on the right side." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe let go, confirming one thing: "I didn't 'go over', he 'came over'."

A gust of cold wind blew, and the stench of rotting corpses covered the wine aroma of the golden wine. It was the Gambler standing up. The man who appeared suddenly noticed the hideous evil ghost sitting at the table. The puzzled expression on his face was instantly replaced by fear, and his mouth opened slightly: "Devil... devil..."

The Gambler didn't say a word, only a pale arm that was unnaturally long stretched out from the tattered clothes, reaching toward Bedan, whose face was ashen.

"The Gambler is asking for Bedan's stake." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe understood, and was also a bit surprised: "The stake for this gambling game is not human life?"

It's not life, then what is it?

Bedan was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted. He hurriedly took off the mechanical watch on his wrist, the platinum rose brooch on his chest, the fountain pen in his pocket, the blue sapphire forget-me-not ring on his middle finger, a stack of Euro cash, several bank cards...

In a while, Bedan took off all the valuable items on his body and lined them up on the table, letting the Gambler choose. Even if it took them all, it was fine. Nothing is more precious than life.

But the Gambler's cold gaze swept over the items on the table, unmoved. It raised its head, its pale dead face expressionless, and the palm that had already stretched out raised again.

"You, what exactly do you want?" Bedan asked cautiously.

The Gambler still didn't speak, just pointed silently at Bedan's shoulder.

The next moment, a cute cloth doll with soft golden curly hair and sapphire buttons for eyes appeared on his shoulder.

"Soul-summoning doll?"

(End of chapter)