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Chapter 174: Meeting old friends

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The one who stopped Wu Neng was none other than Zheng Yubai. He knew Wu Neng's personality and temper. If he really took action, the six Maori security guards would probably have to stay in bed for a year or two.

"Is he your friend?" a Maori man who looked like a security chief asked Zheng Yubai.

"Yes." Zheng Yubai knew a little English, so he had no problem communicating simply. At least he could understand the other party's question.

"Your friend damaged our machine and broke the rules here. We have the right to ask him to compensate and apologize." The head of the security guard said. He has worked in the casino for many years, but this is the first time he has encountered a customer like Wu Neng who can damage the slot machine.

Zheng Yubai looked around, trying to find Howard to help explain, but he was nowhere to be found. Thinking that less trouble is worse than more trouble, Zheng Yubai said, "We will compensate you."

"Very good. Then please follow me to the manager's office." said the security chief, and he signaled his men to lead Zheng Yubai.

Wu Neng came to Zheng Yubai's side and said a little embarrassedly: "Brother Yubai, I'm causing you trouble again."

Zheng Yubai was so depressed that he almost wanted to howl to the sky, thinking that it would be strange if you didn't cause me trouble.

Following the Maori security guards, we came to the manager's office, which was a luxuriously decorated office. What was strange was that the whole room was in pink tones, which made people feel that the owner here should be a dreamy girl.

"Please wait a moment, the manager will be here soon." The head of the security guard said. He kept glancing at Wu Neng, full of curiosity about this thin Asian man. After seeing the damaged slot machine just now, he was very surprised at what kind of power could cause such great damage to the slot machine. What kind of energy is hidden in the body of this thin Asian man? Does everyone have kung fu like Bruce Lee in the movie

Zheng Yubai naturally didn't know what the security chief was thinking. Seeing Wu Neng's guilty face, he couldn't criticize him anymore, so he comforted him. Wu Neng saw that Zheng Yubai's expression had eased a lot, and he put the matter behind him in a moment. He was really a guy who only cared about digging holes and not burying them.

The two waited for a while, and then the door opened and someone walked in. The head of security hurriedly stood up and said, "Manager, these are the two people who just damaged the slot machines in the casino."

The manager looked over, and Zheng Yubai also looked over. They were both stunned and asked in unison: "Why is it you?"

During the gambling game between Zheng Yubai and Gao Fei, the beautiful croupier Lin Xiaoxi, who had extremely charming eyes, left a deep impression on Zheng Yubai. After the gambling game, Lin Xiaoxi also called Zheng Yubai several times, saying that she wanted to learn the card-drawing technique from him. Zheng Yubai felt a little scared when he thought of Lin Xiaoxi's seductive eyes. He felt that this woman was dangerous, so he used various excuses to evade her. Later, Lin Xiaoxi stopped calling him, but he didn't expect that a few months later, the two of them would meet again in the casino of the Sky Tower in New Zealand, across the ocean.

After sending the security chief away, Lin Xiaoxi sat down with a smile on her face, and asked with eyes full of spring water: "Why are you here?"

Wu Neng, who was sitting next to Zheng Yubai, shuddered and said in a trembling voice: "Brother Yubai, this woman is very evil."

Lin Xiaoxi raised her eyebrows: "How can you talk like that?" Zheng Yubai felt his heart pounding with every frown and smile of hers. Knowing that something was wrong, he quickly calmed down and stabilized his emotions.

"Monster... Witch..." Wu Neng was fearless, but when facing Shanglin Xiaoxi, he felt as if his whole body was broken and he didn't have any strength.

"I am a witch, and you are monsters. We are not ordinary people. It is not easy to meet each other in this vast crowd. We should help each other. But you come here to destroy other people's place, which is too disrespectful." Lin Xiaoxi said with a smile, her beautiful eyes shining with the brilliance of an elf.

"Are you an alien?" Zheng Yubai finally came to his senses after hearing her words.

"Of course, otherwise how could a gentleman like you who doesn't look sideways have your heartbeat speed up?" Lin Xiaoxi covered her mouth and chuckled, "Are you panicking and feeling like you've learned bad things?"

Zheng Yubai's face turned red as Lin Xiaoxi hit the nail on the head. Wu Neng beside him breathed a sigh of relief: "So you are also a different person. I was wondering why I had no strength at all. Master said that women are tigers, and it really is true."

"Let's get back to the point." Lin Xiaoxi put away her smile, "What are you doing in New Zealand? You even came to the casino. Did you say you'd quit gambling that day just to fool people?" When it came to serious matters, Lin Xiaoxi's eyes were like lightning, which shocked Zheng Yubai. He knew that Lin Xiaoxi's superpowers should be of the same type as Gao Fei's, using the power of the eyes to work.

Gao Fei's soul-stealing ability probably controls people's thoughts and makes them hallucinate. Lin Xiaoxi's superpower seems to affect people's emotions. Zheng Yubai has not figured out the specific effect. Just being pierced by Lin Xiaoxi's lightning-like eyes, Zheng Yubai had an urge to tell the truth. Fortunately, he was determined and regained his peace of mind after a little concentration.

"If you want to hear the truth, stop abusing your superpowers." Zheng Yubai whispered.

Lin Xiaoxi chuckled: "You look very honest, but you are actually very dishonest. In that life-or-death gambling game, you used a lot of tricks. To deal with someone like you, I don't need super powers, and I will be fooled by you."

Zheng Yubai scratched his head. When it came to eloquence, he was no match for Lin Xiaoxi.

"Okay, I don't need it." Lin Xiaoxi chuckled, closed her eyes, and opened them again after a moment. Sure enough, there was no longer that confusing feeling of those pools of spring water.

"This is what happened..." Zheng Yubai felt the pressure was relieved, so he started talking. But of course he would not reveal the real purpose of coming here, but just said that he was asked by a friend to do something.

Lin Xiaoxi blinked her eyes and stared at Zheng Yubai. Although she didn't use any superpowers, she still made Zheng Yubai feel uneasy. This woman was born with a kind of power that made people nervous. I don't know if it was because she was too beautiful or because she had some kind of ability to shock people. Zheng Yubai suddenly realized that lying in front of her was a very clumsy choice.

"Is that all?" Lin Xiaoxi asked slowly after listening to Zheng Yubai's words.

Zheng Yubai rarely lies, unless it is a "white lie" or when he has to. With his level of ability, facing a listener like Lin Xiaoxi who has an aura of presence and absence, he is just like a third-rate actor performing a farce in front of a professional judge. When he heard Lin Xiaoxi ask this, he knew that he could not hide it from the other party at all, so he could only scratch his head and said, "Other things are private, and it is difficult to disclose."

"Then I won't ask." Lin Xiaoxi took a document from the desk, "You damaged a slot machine, you have to compensate the casino 35,000 yuan. And the loss caused to the casino business is 15,000 yuan, a total of 50,000 yuan."

"So expensive? Are you trying to rob me?" Wu Neng almost slammed the table and jumped up, but when he thought of Lin Xiaoxi's eyes, he held back. In this world, there really is such a thing as something that can defeat something else.

"This is just the rule. Although the rule is only for outsiders to see, friends have another account to settle. But since you don't consider me a friend, why should I be so sentimental?" Lin Xiaoxi smiled cunningly.

Zheng Yubai had no way to deal with this beautiful woman in front of him. In fact, he and Lin Xiaoxi had only met once at a gambling game and talked on the phone a few times. He also knew why Lin Xiaoxi did this now, it was nothing more than coveting his ability to touch the cards. However, if he was blackmailed by her, he really couldn't pay such a large sum of money.

A tiger in dire straits is bullied by a dog. Even though the other dog is a pretty little bitch, it still hurts to be bitten. Zheng Yubai raised the white flag helplessly and said, "Of course we are friends. Can you make some compromise on this matter?"

"No problem. If you agree to one condition, you won't have to pay a penny. No matter what you want to do in New Zealand, even if you want to assassinate the Prime Minister, I can find someone to help you." Lin Xiaoxi seemed to be waiting for Zheng Yubai to say this and immediately continued.

Zheng Yubai felt as if he had fallen into a trap that Lin Xiaoxi had set long ago. He asked, "What are the conditions? Is it the skill of drawing cards?"

"We'll talk about the technique of drawing cards later. I'm in trouble now and you have to solve it." Lin Xiaoxi's smile was three parts cunning and seven parts of complacency like a sheep falling into the tiger's mouth.

In the No. 1 VIP room of the casino, a poker game was in full swing. Although the temperature in the VIP room was always kept at a comfortable 26 degrees Celsius under the control of the central air conditioner, the dealer's face was sweating. As a member of the casino, he knew that the boss had lost more than 10 million yuan. And those masters who were obviously here to challenge the casino did not seem to have any intention of stopping.

"I won't follow." White dropped the cards in his hand and wiped the sweat off his face with a handkerchief. Facing the attack from the Australian gambling king Coville and the New Zealand gambling king Dupont, he only lost 10 million that night, so he should be thankful that God has blessed him.

"Today is such a bumper day." Coville picked up two chips and handed them to the waitress who was filling his water glass, and touched the waitress's plump breasts.

Du Peng chuckled and said, "Boss White is really generous." Looking at the golden chips in front of him, he couldn't hide his pride.

White could only smile along. Although he was worth hundreds of millions and owned several casinos in Australia and New Zealand, he seemed to be doing very well on the surface. In fact, opening a casino was not only subject to national policy constraints, but was also often used as an ATM by professional gamblers.

The two gambling kings in front of him clearly treated him as an ATM, and judging by their greedy looks, ten million would probably not be enough to satisfy their appetite.

White felt particularly distressed about the money that was flowing out like water. He didn't want to be exploited by the gambling kings, but he had no choice. If he angered them, who would support him when those professional or semi-professional gamblers came to win money? Thinking of the promise made by Lin Xiaoxi, the most beautiful woman in the gambling world, who was hired at a high price, that she would definitely help him solve these two cancers, White had a glimmer of hope in his heart.

I hope my money is not wasted... White gritted his teeth and continued to bet, hoping that the appetite of the two gambling kings would not be a bottomless pit.

He lost another hand, hundreds of thousands of dollars went down the drain, and not even a sound was heard. White heard Cowell urging him to continue, and just as he was feeling the pain, the door behind him opened.

Lin Xiaoxi walked in with a smile on her face and greeted everyone, "Hello, everyone is here. Coville, Dupont, are you having fun?"

"Very happy." Coville and Du Peng almost drooled when they saw Lin Xiaoxi. The most beautiful woman in the gambling world still has no boyfriend, and no one knows who will be honored to be her lover. They adjusted their neckties at the same time, hoping to make themselves look more pleasing to the eye.

"Boss, you must have had a heavy loss again today." Lin Xiaoxi asked White with a smile.

White shrugged helplessly: "You saw it too."

"The two gambling kings really have a good appetite." Lin Xiaoxi looked at the piles of golden chips in front of Coville and Dupont, and immediately estimated that White had lost at least 10 million.

The reason why Lin Xiaoxi accepted White's invitation to be the manager of Sky Tower was, on the one hand, the remuneration was very generous, and on the other hand, he hoped to change the unhealthy trends in the gambling world.

There are more than 20,000 professional gamblers registered with the International Gambling Federation. Once on the list, they can no longer gamble in ordinary casinos, but must participate in formal competitions. When there are no competitions, these professional gamblers usually work as security guards for casinos in various places to deal with those semi-professional gamblers.

Coville and Dupont were originally invited by White as the masters of the casino, hoping that they could deter those who wanted to cheat money from the Sky Tower and the semi-professional gamblers from all over the world who made money by gambling. But what White did not expect was that although he did keep the cheaters and semi-professional gamblers out, Coville and Dupont's appetite was bigger than those people. They parasitized the Sky Tower Casino like vampires, and used it as an ATM when they were short of money.

It's not just White, in fact, many casino owners in other places have had the same experience as him. Lin Xiaoxi knew about this a long time ago, but it was not until she came to the Sky Tower to participate in the management that she really discovered the trick.

Originally, Lin Xiaoxi was going to personally solve the problem, but something that happened just now made her change her mind. She had a very shrewd plan in mind: if it was something that offended people, she might as well let that silly goose do it.

"Xiaoxi, why don't you come and play a few games with us." Covel looked at Lin Xiaoxi's slim figure greedily, almost drooling.

Lin Xiaoxi saw his wretched appearance, but just smiled and said, "Okay, but I have a friend here, and he's a big money sponsor. Why not let him play a few games with you two?"

"Oh, a big moneybag?" Coville and Dupont's eyes lit up. "Great, we're happy to serve you."

White was still wondering what Lin Xiaoxi was up to, but when she winked at him, he immediately understood. He stood up and said, "In that case, let your friend Xiaoxi take over my game."

"Yubai, come in." Lin Xiaoxi said with a smile.

The door behind them opened, and Zheng Yubai and Wu Neng walked in together. Coville and Du Peng stared at Zheng Yubai with wide eyes, unable to believe it.

"God of Gamblers..." The two gambling kings also participated in the original God of Gamblers competition, but unfortunately they were eliminated in the preliminaries. However, they are still very familiar with Zheng Yubai, the most legendary God of Gamblers who came from behind. Especially after his announcement of retirement after the life-and-death bet with Gao Fei, Zheng Yubai was shrouded in a mysterious aura. As two people with a little status in the gambling world, of course it is impossible for them not to recognize Zheng Yubai.

"Hello, both of you." Zheng Yubai said with a smile according to the script that Lin Xiaoxi tailored for him.

"Didn't you quit the gambling world?" Even if Cowell had two guts, he wouldn't dare to compete with this legendary figure. Gao Fei's amazing skills dominated the gambling world for more than a decade, but he also lost to Zheng Yubai. As long as Cowell's mind was clear, he would never do anything that would be a futile effort.

"I have indeed quit, so this time I am just here to play at the invitation of a friend." Zheng Yubai said with a smile, "This shouldn't violate any rules, right?"

"Of course not..." Coville and Dupont murmured.

"In that case, let's get started?" Lin Xiaoxi said with a smile, "If you don't mind, I'll be the dealer?"

"Thank you so much for your help." Zheng Yubai said. He sat down steadily on the chair where White had just sat, as if it was prepared for him.

Coville and Dupont looked at each other. They thought it was a good day, but unexpectedly, a storm arose out of nowhere. It might not be so easy to get out of it unscathed.

Two hours later, Coville and Du Peng stared blankly at the pile of chips in front of Zheng Yubai, and they even wanted to die. At this moment, they already knew that Zheng Yubai was the person hired by Lin Xiaoxi to deal with them. Not only did he return all the 10 million he had just won, but each of them also coughed up several million of their private money. The most important thing was that after this disastrous defeat, they would never have the face to come here to calm down again.

White was a little nervous at first, after all, he didn't know who Zheng Yubai was, but as the game progressed, his frown finally relaxed. In the end, White, who hadn't been proud for a long time, finally straightened his back and felt that the money he spent on hiring Lin Xiaoxi was not wasted. Especially when he saw the dejected looks of Coville and Dupont, he felt relieved.

Lin Xiaoxi walked up to Coville and Du Peng with a sweet smile and whispered a few words in their ears. The eyes of the two men flickered. After hesitating for a while, each of them took several million chips from the table, bowed to White and Zheng Yubai, and left in embarrassment.

"After this loss, they won't treat this place as an ATM again." Lin Xiaoxi returned to White and said, "If they still don't know what's good for them, I won't let them get away with it next time."

"Xiaoxi, you did a great job." White said excitedly, "I really didn't make a mistake about you."

Lin Xiaoxi smiled slightly: "Boss, you should thank him." She was naturally talking about Zheng Yubai.

Zheng Yubai, who was used as a gun by Lin Xiaoxi, scratched his head and stood up from the chair: "What about compensation?"

"Of course it's canceled. I still have this right as a manager." Lin Xiaoxi said happily after his conspiracy was accomplished.

Half an hour later, in a light music bar in the middle of the Sky Tower, as the melodious music played, Lin Xiaoxi raised his glass and said, "It turns out that it's just this simple thing. It's very simple."

"Oh? Do you have any information?" Zheng Yubai told Lin Xiaoxi the purpose of coming to New Zealand. Seeing her expression that it was a piece of cake, and then looking at Howard who seemed a little depressed because he didn't get any information, he couldn't help but doubt the ability of the woman in front of him.

"The owner of the Sheraton Hotel is a VIP guest of the Sky Tower Casino. Other people may not know which room Ding Rulong is in, but he, as the boss, must know." Lin Xiaoxi said nonchalantly.

"No man can keep a secret in front of me. Do you believe it?" With a hint of provocation, Lin Xiaoxi asked Zheng Yubai quietly.

"Of course I believe it." Zheng Yubai, who had witnessed the power of Lin Xiaoxi's charming eyes, nodded repeatedly. To him, the magic in those eyes was quite attractive, let alone an ordinary man.

"I'll invite him to the casino tomorrow and let you know as soon as I have any news." Lin Xiaoxi said, "Just consider it as a reward for this time."

"How can I be so embarrassed..." Zheng Yubai was about to be polite, but he heard Lin Xiaoxi say again: "As for the technique of drawing cards, please consider whether you want to teach me."

Zheng Yubai stared in amazement as Lin Xiaoxi drank the whole drink and walked away. He became more and more confused about this beautiful woman with such a strong personality.

"You actually know her. This woman is not simple." As soon as Lin Xiaoxi left, Howard said enviously, "It is said that she just arrived in Auckland and no less than ten dignitaries want to date her. Everyone says that her eyes are the most charming, as if they can speak, and a blink of her eyes can hook people's hearts away."

Zheng Yubai glanced at Howard and thought that if you knew her abilities, you probably wouldn't be so envious.

After drinking for a while and admiring the scenery, it was already one in the morning. The three of them came down from the Sky Tower, picked up the car in the parking lot, and planned to return home.

It was already midnight, but as soon as the car got on the highway, Zheng Yubai noticed a long string of car lights on the road in the distance.

Howard whistled: "Looks like there's a show tonight."

"What show?" Wu Neng asked curiously. He loved watching all kinds of excitement the most.

"See that long string of car lights? That's a sign that the bikers are going to race. They usually race in the early morning when there are fewer cars, and the stakes are high." Howard said, "I've participated in it twice, and it's very exciting."

"Let's go over and take a look." Wu Neng became excited by what Howard said.

"Forget it, let's not..." Zheng Yubai was about to say that it was better to have less trouble than more when he heard a sharp whistle. A car sped past their car, and the roar of the engine could probably be heard clearly from several kilometers away.

After the car passed them, an arm stretched out from the car window and raised a middle finger to them, and a loud voice rang out: "FXXK ASIAN!"

"A bunch of racist bastards." Howard cursed angrily.

Zheng Yubai had only seen examples of racial discrimination in history books before, but he did not expect to experience it personally today. A feeling of anger burned in his chest.

"Follow him. I want to let him know that there is a price to pay for discriminating against others." Zheng Yubai's cold words added a little extra excitement to Auckland that night. (To be continued)