What will happen when the 10 of spades, hearts and clubs meet the 9 of hearts, diamonds and the 4 of clubs? Will it be a case of thunder and lightning, or will it be a case of dry wood meeting fire
Except for the two players, all the spectators felt that everything they saw was like a dream. Was this life-and-death battle between the old and new gambling gods going to end like this? Could a 10 of spades determine fate
Others may be surprised, whisper, or think that fate is too dramatic, but Lin Xiaoxi cannot. She still has to continue her work, even though she only has the last two cards left.
Lin Xiaoxi almost trembled as she handed the cards to Gao Fei and Zheng Yubai. Her mission was accomplished. She secretly let out a long sigh and looked at Zheng Yubai.
Zheng Yubai took the covered card from the table, touched it in his hand, and then showed it easily. It was a J of Spades.
Gao Fei looked at Zheng Yubai's cards and couldn't help but smile. He had a trick up his sleeve. No matter what cards Zheng Yubai got, it would be useless. He flipped over the cards in his hand and saw a red 6. He flicked the cards leisurely and showed them.
Judging from the current cards, Zheng Yubai has come from behind and although he only has a J of Spades, it is already the biggest card.
In fact, the outcome is now decided, at least the two players already know who will win, but looking at their expressions, they are very calm, and do not look like death is approaching at all.
"Please open your cards, both of you." At this critical moment, Baldwin couldn't help but stand up. He loosened his bow tie and spoke in a trembling voice.
Gao Fei laughed: "Although my cards are small, I'll still show them." As he said this, he turned over his bottom card, and an Ace of Hearts appeared in front of everyone.
"Only the Ace of Hearts..." Everyone exclaimed in amazement.
Zheng Yubai's chances of winning were actually very high. Apart from the Ace of Spades, as long as he could match any pair, he could easily beat Gao Fei's lonely Ace of Hearts. But Zheng Yubai was slow to open his cards, as if he was going through some torture.
"Mr. Zheng, please open your cards," said Baldwin.
Gao Fei had a smug smile on his face. When he called out "Stud", he had already issued the order. From that moment on, everything Zheng Yubai saw was an illusion. In the illusion, he would mistakenly think that his cards were good, so he followed Gao Fei and bet everything without hesitation. In fact, at the moment of issuing the order, Gao Fei already knew that Zheng Yubai's bottom card was only an 8 of hearts. This meant that Zheng Yubai's highest card was only a J of spades, and he was doomed to lose.
"Please open your cards." Seeing that Zheng Yubai didn't move, Lin Xiaoxi had to say something. If Zheng Yubai didn't move, she would have to help him open his cards.
This poor guy might have been scared silly... It's a pity that he can't learn his unique skill of touching the cards. Lin Xiaoxi felt a little sorry for Zheng Yubai's card skills.
Zheng Yubai finally moved. He slowly raised his hands, untied the scarf covering his eyes, and opened his eyes.
Gao Fei seemed to feel four pairs of eyes staring at him. He shook his head, thinking that this must be an illusion caused by being too happy. Zheng Yubai was the only one in front of him, and he was soon no longer a person, but a corpse.
"Mr. Zheng, please open your cards," Baldwin said again. He observed Gao Fei's expression and saw the confident smile on his face. The balance that had been in a state of uncertainty had already tilted in his favor. He was just waiting for the outcome to be decided, and he immediately supported Gao Fei to ascend the throne of the God of Gamblers again.
Zheng Yubai sighed softly: "Gao Fei, there is a saying that evil will be punished. There is also a saying that you can survive if it is caused by God, but you cannot survive if it is caused by yourself. I originally only wanted to take one of your hands, but you insisted on losing your life."
Gao Fei laughed: "Boy, you are still dreaming. Hurry up and open your cards, and then choose a way to die without pain. I will watch you die with my own eyes and see you off."
Zheng Yubai shook his head and reached out to touch the bottom card. The card seemed to come alive, bounced up, and then fell on the table. A thousand eyes in the entire club stared at it, and saw a big black heart on the card.
Ace of Spades!
Zheng Yubai's hole card was the Ace of Spades, and many people who had already determined that he would lose were stunned. Baldwin rubbed his eyes, confirmed the cards of both parties, and was also surprised. Gao Fei had been in the gambling world for many years, but he didn't expect that he would lose to an Ace of Spades.
"This... How is this possible?" Gao Feiteng stood up, his whole body trembling. He raised his finger and pointed at Zheng Yubai and asked, "Your hole card is clearly the 8 of Hearts!"
Everyone in the audience looked at him in confusion, as if asking: How do you know what his trump card is
Gao Fei obviously realized that he had said the wrong thing, but he had clearly planted an instruction in Zheng Yubai's mind, and the information fed back was clearly the eight of hearts. His superpowers would never lie.
Zheng Yubai looked at Gao Fei who was full of doubts and said, "Don't doubt it, I was indeed tricked by you."
“Then why…” Gao Fei still didn’t understand. There was no way to crack his superpowers.
"In this world, the devil is one foot high, and the way is ten feet higher. There is always a way to restrain your evil skills." Zheng Yubai smiled faintly. His eyes were cast behind Gao Fei. In the first row of the audience behind Gao Fei, Yang Feiyun was curled up, sweating all over, as if he had just come out of a sauna.
Just before Zheng Yubai was about to go all-in with Gao Fei, Ding Rulong and Yang Feiyun quietly walked in and sat behind Gao Fei. Although Zheng Yubai didn't see it, when Gao Fei used his superpowers and activated the instructions buried in his brain, Yang Feiyun's soul-washing ability was also activated.
The ability of soul-stealing specifically restrains various superpowers. Although soul-washing is powerful, it can't do anything about it. As soon as Yang Feiyun activated his superpower, he immediately cancelled the command in Zheng Yubai's brain and fed back an error message to Gao Fei.
In the subsequent situation, Zheng Yubai had been judging the situation very clearly. On the contrary, Gao Fei, because he trusted his superpowers too much, took a wrong premise and went down a path of no return.
Poor Gao Fei still didn't know why he lost, and didn't understand why the bottom card, which was clearly the 8 of Hearts, turned into the Ace of Spades. The slow-motion footage on the monitor also showed that Zheng Yubai had no chance of cheating from beginning to end. This was a fair and just game, and the result was unquestionable.
"How is it possible... How is it possible?" Gao Fei muttered to himself, absolutely not believing that he would lose.
On a winter night sixteen years ago, Gao Fei, a novice who was not very good at gambling, cheated for the first time in his life in a simple casino in order to earn money for a trip to Macau. As a result, he was caught on the spot and several burly men put him into a sack and threw him into the river.
The river water in winter was bone-chilling, and Gao Fei thought he would die, but he was saved by Xu Ruoyu and Yao Qian who passed by. After that, the three of them became sworn brothers, and after surviving from the gates of hell, Gao Fei discovered that he had a magical superpower.
Since then, Gao Fei has been honing his gambling skills while slowly becoming familiar with his superpowers. He has never met an opponent in the casino. It was not until the God of Gamblers Contest twelve years ago that he first became known as the God of Gamblers and became a rising star in the gambling world.
Over the past decade, being invincible has become Gao Fei's habit. The secret existence of superpowers allows him to always stand high and look down on his opponents, which also makes him domineering. But he never thought that as the saying goes, success and failure are all due to Xiao He. His life's honor and wealth all came from superpowers, but now they are also destroyed by superpowers.
Everyone present was a witness, they had witnessed Gao Fei's failure from beginning to end. Now, they had to witness the final end of the gambling god.
Baldwin looked at a member of the International Gambling Federation beside him and gave him a look. The man understood and carefully opened a black suitcase in front of him. He took out a brown wooden box from it. He walked to Gao Fei's side with the wooden box in his hand, gently placed it on the gambling table in front of him, and then retreated the same way.
Without opening the box, Gao Fei knew what was inside. There was a syringe and a bottle of poison. As long as the poison was injected into the body, the person would die painlessly in ten seconds. Even if any high-tech means were used to check, the conclusion would be just an ordinary myocardial infarction. The rapid advancement of technology has made death in the gambling world much more comfortable.
Gao Fei looked around the audience gloomily, but he saw that those who used to regard him as a god had no expression on their faces, but there was a strange luster in their eyes. He knew that was the most despicable manifestation of human nature. When a delicate vase was broken, in addition to the heartache, people often had a sense of pleasure in their subconscious. Now Gao Fei was the vase that was about to be broken. Although the onlookers could not show their excitement obviously, they must have been looking forward to this moment in their hearts.
The surroundings here were controlled by the security guards of the hotel and the gambling association. The life and death agreement signed before the gambling game was an absolutely effective guarantee in the gambling world. No matter who lost between Gao Fei and Zheng Yubai, there was no way they could walk out alive today. If Gao Fei tried to break the contract, what awaited him was not a painless injection death, but the cold muzzle of the gambling association security guards.
The authority and rules of a circle must be proven by the blood of some people. Gao Fei's life and the destruction of the circle's rules have become the two ends of the seesaw. Everyone present except him is on the other side, and he is alone on this side. This is the simplest and most direct portrayal of the winners and losers, without any mercy.
With shaking hands, Gao Fei opened the wooden box. He had experienced life-and-death gambles more than once, and had seen many opponents injected with deadly poison in front of him, and then died peacefully. Every time he did that, he felt a sense of accomplishment. At this moment, he put the needle into the syringe with shaking hands and began to draw the poison from the vial. He suddenly thought of those opponents who died in his hands. What were they thinking when they did that? Were they filled with fear and unwillingness like himself now
Zheng Yubai has been watching Gao Fei's actions. He actually has no deep hatred for the man in front of him, but fate has made him shoulder Xu Jin's grudges and forge a tangle with Gao Fei that can only be untied by death. Everything is finally going to dissipate. When the needle pierces Gao Fei's skin, all the past grudges will disappear.
Finally sucking the poison into the syringe, Gao Fei sighed and said to Zheng Yubai: "The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. It has been a truth since ancient times. I am very unwilling to lose to you." It has only been five or six minutes since the result of the gambling came out, but Gao Fei seems to have aged twenty years. The domineering and gracefulness just now are completely gone, and even his voice is much drier.
Zheng Yubai stared at his eyes that had completely lost their luster and said, "You reap what you sow. If you make a mistake, you must make amends. But you keep making the same mistake over and over again. It is true that you can survive the evil that is sent by heaven, but you cannot survive the evil that is sent by yourself."
Gao Fei sneered: "Do you think you can teach me a lesson just because you win? Boy, I tell you, you are still not good enough."
Zheng Yubai didn't want to confront a dying man anymore, so he chose to remain silent. Gao Fei probably realized that no matter what he said, it would soon fade away. In another year, no, maybe in a few weeks or even a few days, his name would be like countless gambling gods in the past, buried in the thick dust of history, and no one would be willing to mention it anymore.
"What's the point of saying all this..." Gao Fei suddenly smiled, as if he had seen through the past and the future. He rolled up the sleeve of his left arm, revealing his forearm, then raised the needle, hesitated for a moment, and finally gently inserted it.
Everyone held their breath and watched Gao Fei push the tube of poison into his body. After doing all this, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength, threw the needle into the wooden box, and then returned his sleeves to their original position.
Zheng Yubai saw that the light in Gao Fei's eyes was getting dimmer and dimmer. He took a few quick breaths, as if he wanted to open his mouth to say something, but his vitality was no longer able to support his movements. His body leaned back decadently, with his head leaning back on the back of the chair. His heartbeat and breathing gradually weakened and stopped, and he walked towards the endless darkness without waking up.
Seeing Gao Fei slumped in the chair, the onlookers sighed. Although they had been looking forward to this scene, they still felt a little sad when it really happened.
Two members of the International Gambling Federation and a medical staff member walked over to Gao Fei and did some tests to confirm that he was dead. One of the members said to Zheng Yubai, "Mr. Zheng, do you want to be checked?"
"No need." Zheng Yubai shook his head. He was sure that Gao Fei had no chance of survival. Those who lost in this gambling game could not escape the clutches of this circle. Everyone would only suppress and kill them desperately to maintain the interests and stability of the circle, and would never lend a helping hand.
"Thank you all for watching and witnessing today. I declare that this gambling game is over." Someone carried Gao Fei's body onto a stretcher and went to set up the scene of the so-called sudden death from myocardial infarction. Baldwin saw that the matter was over, so he announced loudly.
"Please wait a moment." Zheng Yubai stood up, "I have something else to announce."
"Please speak." Baldwin has only now begun to accept the new God of Gamblers who successfully defeated the previous God of Gamblers Gao Fei.
"I declare that I give up the title of God of Gamblers." Zheng Yubai's words were very simple, but no less than a blockbuster bomb. Everyone present was dumbfounded, especially the originally cheerful Du Bisheng, whose mouth was opened so wide that a largest light bulb could be stuffed in.
"You bastard, do you want to die?" Du Bisheng gnashed his teeth in hatred. God of Gamblers, that is an honor that countless people can't even dream of, how can you bear to give it up
Baldwin obviously didn't expect Zheng Yubai to say this, and didn't know what to say for a moment, but he saw Zheng Yubai had already taken out the God of Gamblers Ring from his pocket and placed it on the gambling table and said: "If my withdrawal has caused trouble to everyone, then I apologize first. I entered this circle inadvertently and caused a lot of trouble to everyone. I'm really sorry." As he said that, he bowed to everyone present.
After bowing, Zheng Yubai said, "From today on, I will quit the gambling world. Everything that happens in the gambling world will have nothing to do with me. I hope everyone can understand my choice."
Everyone was in an uproar and started discussing with each other, wondering why he retired at the height of his career. Giving up the title of God of Gamblers would mean a loss of tens of millions of dollars every year, and this choice was not something that most people could make.
Baldwin wanted to persuade him to change his mind, but then he thought that if Zheng Yubai withdrew, a new God of Gamblers would have to be chosen again, and each God of Gamblers competition could generate tens of millions of dollars in revenue for the International Gambling Federation. Thinking of the easy money, the words that were about to come to his lips changed.
"Since Mr. Zheng insists, we can only respect your choice." Baldwin made a very sad expression, "I just hope that you can often return to the gambling world to guide the younger generation in the future."
Zheng Yubai nodded slightly as a reply, then strode towards Yang Feiyun with a proud stride. In full view of everyone, he helped Yang Feiyun, who was still weak, up and walked out the door.
"Wait for me." Du Bisheng shouted and hurriedly followed.
Ding Rulong hesitated for a moment and followed him out. He had made up his mind that even if Zheng Yubai was no longer the God of Gamblers, he was definitely a good choice for a son-in-law.
In the lounge, Xu Jin was still worried. She had lost five games in a row to Xu Ruoyu.
"It was really fun today. Ever since you learned how to play chess, I have rarely been able to beat you." Xu Ruoyu said with a bit of pride.
Xu Jin glanced at his father dimly: "Dad, do you think the gambling game is over?"
Xu Ruoyu didn't seem to care at all. He was packing up the chessboard and said, "Don't worry. If it's over, Yu Bai will come to you immediately."
"Can he... really win?" Xu Jin was still worried. After all, Gao Fei was a long-established gambling god, and although Zheng Yubai was a new gambling god, how he won was probably only God knew.
Xu Ruoyu finally put on a serious face: "Jin'er, there are some things I must remind you. No matter what the result is, living well is the most important thing." As a father, he understood his daughter's thoughts and temper very well. Although he firmly believed that Zheng Yubai could win, there was always a chance of a disaster. Isn't there a lack of examples of God playing tricks on people? So he still gave his daughter a reminder first to be prepared.
Xu Jin said at a loss: "If he loses, what's the point of me living."
Xu Ruoyu sighed. He knew that his daughter had grown up and that many things were no longer in his hands as a father. Now his only hope was that Zheng Yubai could really win the bet and return to Xu Jin safely. Otherwise, even he could not predict the consequences.
Just as they were worried, there was a knock on the door of the lounge. The father and daughter looked for the door that was related to their future destiny, and a thin layer of sweat oozed out of their palms.
"Who... is it?" Xu Jin asked in a trembling voice. Whether the second half of her life would be happy or sad would be decided in a few seconds. She was so nervous that she could hardly speak normally.
"It's me." Zheng Yubai's voice rang out. It was simply the most beautiful voice Xu Jin had ever heard in her life. The tears that she had been holding back could no longer be controlled and flowed down in an instant, covering her beautiful face.
Regardless of whether it would be ugly to have her face smudged with tears and her light makeup smudged, Xu Jin rushed to the door as fast as she could in her life and opened it with trembling hands. What she saw was indeed Zheng Yubai, who had been lingering in her heart and making her uneasy for the past few hours.
Just when Xu Jin was about to throw himself into Zheng Yubai's arms, have a good cry and ask him for compensation for the torment he had endured during the long wait, he saw that Zheng Yubai was holding on to someone.
"What is this?" Xu Jin was stunned and quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
"He is exhausted. He needs to replenish sugar and water quickly." Zheng Yubai helped Yang Feiyun in and gently placed him on a chair. "Go get me some sugar water, please?"
"Okay." Anyway, seeing Zheng Yubai was safe and sound, the heavy stone weighing on Xu Jin's heart was thrown away, making her feel relaxed. As long as she knew that he was fine in her heart, she was willing to do anything.
Xu Ruoyu looked at Zheng Yubai with a smile and said, "You really did not disappoint me."
Zheng Yubai scratched his head: "The method that uncle taught me is indeed useful, but unfortunately I was still hit by Gao Fei's soul-stealing. If it weren't for Yang Feiyun's help, I'm afraid I would have died."
As he was talking, Ding Rulong poked his head in at the door and walked in, saying, "Hey... Xiao Zheng, is there anything I can help you with? What happened to Feiyun?"
Of course, Zheng Yubai would not tell anyone about the alien, and he said Yang Feiyun was ill. As a big businessman, Ding Rulong was very good at observing people's expressions, so he knew Zheng Yubai was just trying to be perfunctory. But he still put on a smile and was determined to get close to this promising young man.
The two chatted for a while, and Xu Jin hurried in with a glass of water: "The sugar water is here."
After feeding the sugar water into Yang Feiyun's mouth and massaging several acupuncture points on his body, Yang Feiyun slowly opened his eyes and woke up. Seeing Zheng Yubai in front of him, he smiled and said with difficulty: "You kid... owe me a favor." (To be continued)