Chapter 335

"Wait..."

Seeing that Lan Shiwen was about to leave without saying a word, and still having things to ask, Xia Yubing hurriedly chased after him.

Her legs were long, and she chased out of the room in three steps and two steps. However, in the blink of an eye, Lan Shiwen's figure walked out of the room door, and disappeared without a trace.

Xia Yubing leaned on the door frame and looked out. There was only a maid carrying a tray walking toward this side in the empty corridor, and the attractive sweet smell drifted into her nostrils.

"Freshly baked egg tarts, would you like a few?" The maid walked to the door and said with a smile.

Xia Yubing picked up an egg tart from the tray and asked: "Did you see anyone else go out from this door? Just now."

The maid shook her head: "No, the only person who opened this door and came out from inside is you."

"Is that so..." Xia Yubing took a bite of the egg tart, and the warm and sweet taste filled her mouth. It seems that Lan Shiwen disappeared the moment he opened the door. He left in such a hurry.

She clearly wanted to ask him what was going on with the figure that appeared in the wine cabinet before, but Lan Shiwen seemed to have guessed what she wanted to ask and didn't give Xia Yubing a chance to speak, so he slipped away directly.

... Did he guess it? Or did he know it in advance?

Can't figure it out, don't think about it anymore.

Xia Yubing felt that she didn't seem very smart, but it's okay, as long as Ning Zhe is smart.

Carrying the egg tarts from the maid's hand, Xia Yubing closed the door and returned to the room, preparing to write down the experience just now in her notebook. Fersolus's corpse was still leaning against the sofa, and the white and fat 'Ta Sui' worm was still curled up in his cranial cavity, motionless.

——

Under the cold white light, a copper coin fell into the wine cup, and the golden wine body shattered, and the wine liquid flowed along the cup wall.

Bedan and Miss Mei Lin were both astonished, opening their eyes wide and staring at the wine cup in front of Ning Zhe, which only had 1 copper coin inside.

Judging from previous experience, when throwing the 1st copper coin, you only need to be careful and steady, and it is almost impossible to overturn. The essence of golden wine is an ethanol solution, and its surface tension is not so easy to be destroyed.

However, when it was Ning Zhe's turn to put in coins, he just picked up a copper coin and threw it casually, not caring about the crisp sound of metal and glass colliding in his hand and the splashing water. He actively lost this gambling game and became a loser.

"I lost." Ning Zhe raised his hand to surrender. He took out a copper coin from his bosom and pinched it between his fingers, his cold gaze looking straight at the Gambler: "Come on, confiscate my stake."

What's going on... Miss Mei Lin bit her lower lip lightly, looking at Ning Zhe with confusion. Why did this person take the initiative to lose? Is there any reason? What exactly does she want to do?

Miss Mei Lin's confusion didn't bother her for long, because everything that happened next was beyond her expectation.

Ning Zhe held an ancient copper coin, square-holed and round-edged, between his fingers. The front was 'Everything goes as you wish', and the back was 'Peace and joy'. This was not a gambling tool distributed by the Gambler at the beginning of the game, but a life-buying money he carried with him. The value of one copper coin is one human life.

However, looking at the copper coin Ning Zhe held between his fingers, the Gambler was unmoved.

It didn't reach out to take Ning Zhe's money. Its withered legs sat on the sofa motionless, without any intention of standing up to take the stake.

"Because the stake for this round of the game is not a human life." Ning Zhe loosened his fingers and held the copper coin rolling into his palm firmly. His eyes were calm, as if he had known all this, but at the same time, Miss Mei Lin and Bedan were in a stormy sea in their hearts. "The stake for this round of the game... is not a human life?" Miss Mei Lin was shocked.

"How is it possible!" Bedan stood up abruptly, his eyes fixed on the man sitting opposite him.

Every ghost has its own characteristics: Taiyi is formless, Plague God is immortal, Wealth Wu Tong sits and raises prices, Taiyi is the only one... and the Gambler's characteristic is named 'Greed'.

The Gambler's personality is extremely greedy. Insatiable, it will constantly force others to gamble with it until it wins all the stakes of all players and takes everything from others, leaving only itself as the winner.

Infinite greed is constrained by rules named 'fairness', making every player sitting at the gambling table need to take out stakes of equal value to other players within their own ability.

It is necessary to avoid the situation of insolvency leading to the inability to pay the stake, and to satisfy the Gambler's insatiable greed, and to satisfy the 'fairness' principle of gambling. Therefore, the stake setting for each round of the game is based on the highest payment ability of the person with the lowest total assets among all players present.

And the most precious stake a mortal can take out is their own life.

In the case of mortals participating in the gambling game, the value of the stake will not exceed one human life, which is one copper coin. Any higher would exceed the mortal's payment ability, and the Gambler will not allow the situation of being unable to pay the stake to occur.

The Gambler only accepts small wins, medium wins, and big wins. It absolutely does not accept losing money.

Bedan and Miss Mei Lin's gazes fell on one person at the same time—the man who accidentally entered the gambling game.

"The Gambler's casino is set up in a special space independent of the real world. This is to avoid interference from outsiders and violate the principle of fairness... This space is somewhat similar to the Vanessa Fortress in the surface and inner world in nature, and a bit like Tu Yu's ability to block the world and cause time-space melting. In short, it is not reality."

"But for some unknown reason, in this opera house, the 'boundary' between reality and non-reality is confused. People in the theater frequently shuttle between the two worlds, sometimes with feet on the ground, sometimes in the illusion, and often flash in a short time, even I am confused for a while..."

Ning Zhe's gaze also fell on the man.

This person appeared in the room suddenly under almost no warning. His facial expressions and subconscious horror and astonishment showed no traces of acting. No matter from which angle you look at it, this person is an unlucky mortal who shuttled through the surface and inner worlds without knowing it and accidentally entered the Gambler's game field.

Miss Mei Lin really wanted to think so... but the copper coin between Ning Zhe's fingers had already proved that the facts were not so.

"In the case of mortals participating in the gambling game, the value of the stake will not exceed the mortal's highest payment ability, which is one piece of life-buying money."

Ning Zhe slowly stuffed a copper coin into his pocket and glanced at the Gambler next to him. It was asking him for the stake.

Ning Zhe exhaled a breath with fragrance lightly, and looked at the man with an ambiguous look: "But now, the Gambler has already looked down on the stake of 1 copper coin in my hand."

This means that this so-called 'mortal' carries at least one item worth more than a human life. His highest payment ability has exceeded 'one copper coin'.

Can such a mortal still be called a mortal?

(End of chapter)