Survivorship Bias

Chapter 38: exchange area

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"The emperor and the guards are the first to deal out all the cards in their hands, and the royal team wins."

With the voice of the dealer, all the poker cards on the gaming table disappeared.

"The game is over, all players please leave the gaming table immediately, double the overdue compensation chips, and hand them over to the casino."

It happened that at this time, Wu You and Nan Shan came over and stood not far from the gambling table. Wu You originally wanted to call An Wujiu, but when he spoke, he was interrupted by a scream.

The croupier spoke calmly, but the end of the game was far less peaceful. After the cards on the table disappeared, An Wujiu saw with his own eyes that a member of the yellow team who was watching the game suddenly lost a leg and fell to the ground with a bang. On the ground, blood kept pouring out from the cut section of the wound, and the dark red liquid trickled down to the tip of his shoe.

An Wujiu originally thought that he would stand on the sidelines and be insensitive, but when he saw Maguire furious at the teammate who sacrificed for him and scolded him for blocking his way, he still felt sick to his stomach.

This is completely different from my previous self.

In the past, he couldn't feel anything. Everyone around us is not human, and can be divided into two types: those who need to be eliminated, and those who can be used.

Seeing the guy with the broken leg crying and hugging Maguire, calling him "captain" and begging him to "help", An Wujiu's expression remained indifferent.

But he thought of that rainy night in the red-light district, and of what Gabriel had said.

Entrusted by others, of course it must be completed.

The chip leaderboard on the big screen changed again, and Shen Ti's ranking in the solo leaderboard soared, and the first battle made him from the bottom to the top fifteen.

In the overall standings, the teams of Maguire and Zhou Yijue both fell back one after another. The red team led by An Wujiu has surpassed the second-placed team by nearly 5,000 in chip value, a huge difference.

The bloody smell in this gorgeous hall became thicker and thicker, covering every survivor like an invisible thick fog.

An Wujiu watched the violent prey leave angrily with cold eyes, and turned his face away, only Zhou Yijue was still standing alone by the gaming table, staring at him.

His pair of phoenix eyes, which were always half-closed, had no smile at all at the moment, and just swept him and Amy coldly.

"When did you unite?"

An Wujiu immediately made an expression that he didn't know what happened, his face was clean, pure and innocent.

"What did you say? I, I'm not allied with her."

Watching this beautiful face turn into a pure white paper again, Zhou Yijue only had vigilance and suspicion in his eyes.

"Do you think I'll believe it?"

Shen Ti stood two steps away from An Wujiu, staring at his profile.

"You don't believe me?" An Wujiu pursed his lips, opened his mouth, and walked towards him, "I... I have a strange disease, my personality will change a lot, good and bad, at the gambling table I was already sick when I went to school, and I would become very…”

"How can I describe it..." While speaking, he had already come in front of Zhou Yijue, his eyes were clear and sincere, his pupils were like black lakes, shaking slightly, I felt pity.

Zhou Yijue didn't speak, but frowned.

Unexpectedly, An Wujiu raised his eyebrows suddenly, and the innocent expression instantly disappeared from his face, leaving only a mocking smile and evil spirit.

"As it is now."

really.

Although Zhou Yijue was on guard in his heart, An Wujiu's sudden change still brought more or less shocks to him.

An Wujiu put his hands in his pockets, casually leaned over, and leaned against Zhou Yijue's side face, with a smile in his voice.

"When you ask this, do you admit that you have colluded with the croupier?"

Zhou Yijue was unmoved, and smiled, "Didn't you already guess it?"

"I guessed it." An Wujiu turned his eyes sideways and looked at Zhou Yijue, "Unfortunately, you guessed wrong."

"Amy has nothing to do with me at all. She is just a chess piece that is not under your control. Just like Maguire, you can cheat the emperor card with a little trick."

"Why did you want to break our alliance?" Zhou Yijue narrowed his eyes slightly, "This was agreed a long time ago."

An Wujiu straightened up, staring at those eyes that he was not used to, "Do you really think I will cooperate with you?"

"A guy who is habitually calculating and betraying others is not worth letting me put down my stance and form an alliance with him."

"What do you mean?" Zhou Yijue stared at him.

"What do you mean?" An Wujiu chuckled, sighed as if he was very tired, and said to him, "You don't really think that I didn't know you were looking for Maguire before you were looking for me, did you?" .”

He sneered, "Why didn't the little girl of our team disappear sooner or later, and she was kidnapped when you sent someone to pass the message? Do you think I'm a fool?"

The closer they got, the more oppressive the evil spirit on An Wujiu's body became, his black eyes were like a bottomless abyss.

"Why not expose it directly?" Zhou Yijue looked directly at him.

An Wujiu seemed to hear some joke, he couldn't stop laughing, "What else could it be?"

His smile stopped on his face, "Of course it's for fun."

After finishing speaking, An Wujiu bumped away from Zhou Yijue's shoulder and ran in the opposite direction.

Looking at An Wujiu's silhouette, Nan Shan couldn't help saying, "Mr. An...you really look like a big villain."

Wu You agreed, "You're right."

"But he in another state..." Nanshan continued, "more upright than anyone else."

Wu You nodded again, "You are quite right."

Shen Ti did not follow An Wujiu directly this time, but stood where he was, staring at Zhou Yijue's slightly lowered face.

This guy is even stranger than he imagined.

After being humiliated by An Wujiu, there was no hatred, no anger on his face, and even a weird smile appeared on his face.

Especially when he looked up, the excitement in those eyes couldn't be hidden.

Shen Ti walked over and patted him on the shoulder, feeling extremely relieved.

Unexpectedly, he did one thing but said another.

"Stop staring at him."

"One of my hobbies is picking out people's eyes." He smiled and pointed to his own eyes, "This is what I took off the face of an Italian. Does it look good?"

This time, Zhou Yijue finally had waves on his face.

Nanshan said to Wu You again: "Shen Ti seems to be much kinder."

Wu You sneered twice, "You're right, there are a lot of nuclei."

An Wujiu planned to go to the exchange area alone.

He is a person with a strong sixth sense. Walking in the lively hall, the screams overlapped with the shouts of gamblers, but he suddenly felt something was wrong.

So An Wujiu stopped and looked around.

He found that the guys from the yellow team who had been following him before had disappeared.

Feeling confused, three or two people passed by, chatting about the rewards for the warm-up match.

"The winner of the warm-up match shouldn't be the captain. He already has more chips than us, and he still uses us as chips."

"Yeah, they alone are five hundred more than us. I heard from the dealer NPC that the bonus for the warm-up match is five hundred."

"Five hundred is already very high..."

An Wujiu suddenly stopped.

A reward of five hundred chips.

He turned his head and looked behind him.

As expected, Shen Ti was walking towards him, teasing with a smile, "Do you have eyes behind your back?"

An Wujiu didn't smile, his face was still ugly, he stared at Shen Ti until Shen Ti came to the position beside him.

"What's wrong?" Shen Ti raised his hand and placed it on An Wujiu's head.

An Wujiu raised his hand and opened it, "What's your problem?"

"Why is your own chip value zero?"

"So it's really zero." Shen Ti was not surprised when he heard that, he smiled and hugged An Wujiu's shoulder, "I said I didn't know, do you believe me?"

An Wujiu is not a person to be fooled easily, but his intuition tells him that perhaps Shen Ti is really missing part of his memory just like himself.

Compared with him, his own value seemed to be too high, higher than the level of an ordinary person.

"You can't remember any bad things that happened to you?" An Wujiu looked at him questioningly.

"It's not just a bad thing, I don't remember any good things happened to me." Shen Ti said, suddenly wanted to change his words, "That's not right."

"Being matched with you in the altar is the only good thing."

An Wujiu was stunned.

His Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

Heartbeat accelerated again.

"Come on." He used a sneer to cover up his gaffe, "A good thing is that I almost died at my hands?"

Shen Ti didn't think the words were harsh, but continued, "Actually, it's not bad, anyway, there is always death." He raised his hand on An Wujiu's shoulder, and touched An Wujiu's side face.

"It's more meaningful to die in your hands."

The cool texture of the leather gloves touched An Wujiu's warm face, causing a light and thin layer of electricity to pass through his back.

The eardrums were slightly swollen, An Wujiu listened to what he said, but didn't want to discuss this kind of thing with him.

As if saying this kind of thing will come true.

"If you want to die, go outside and die." He turned his head away from Shen Ti's restless hand.

These words sound a bit arrogant, Shen Ti smiled, "Where there is an outside, there is an inside, where is the inside?"

An Wujiu smiled, "Of course it's the inside you want, as much inside as you want, are you satisfied?"

Shen Ti was taken aback after hearing this, "I didn't think about that kind of thing."

"How do you know what I'm talking about?" An Wujiu raised his eyebrows, pushed Shen Ti's hand away from him, "Let's go."

Shen Ti sighed, put his hands in his pockets, and followed An Wujiu forward.

After walking two steps, he saw that the number above An Wujiu's head had changed, so he raised his head and looked at his own.

His previous five hundred has now become four thousand five.

Coincidentally, the rest of the people finished the game, found them, and were walking this way.

"Wait." Shen Ti took An Wujiu's hand, "We seem to have made a mistake."

An Wujiu turned his head and saw Shen Ti's gaze fell on the chips above his head, and suddenly realized something.

They were drawn in by Zhou Yijue's words.

The yellow hair sent by that guy found them, and kept mentioning that the reward chips after the game were free chips. With these rewards, they no longer had to bet with the flesh and blood of their teammates.

But this is actually a lie, even if they win the bet, these chips will only be added to them.

If you want to start a new gamble, you can only gamble with people.

An Wugui's face was gloomy.

"Go to the redemption area to have a look. Since it can be converted into points, maybe the points can also be converted into chips."

As soon as he turned around, An Wujiu saw the teammates he was "leading".

To be honest, he finds it troublesome, his overflowing goodwill will always bring more burden, but since this is already the case, it is better to make good use of everyone's strengths and let everyone grow wildly in this casino.

"No fault." Zhong Yirou happily pointed to the top of his head, "I won two thousand!"

An Wujiu smiled, "It's quite powerful."

As soon as he heard him say this, Zhong Yirou let out a long "ah", "Have you changed again?"

Brother Chen looked at An Wujiu.

Is this what he said earlier... another state

Just as he was about to speak, a man who lost both arms suddenly passed by him, walked towards the wall of the hall next to him, and leaned against it.

The man's blood stained the beige relief wall of the hall. He took out a lot of bandages and medicinal powder, but he didn't have a hand to heal his wounds.

Zhong Yirou walked over, knelt down and bandaged the man's wound.

An Wujiu looked at it coldly, then turned his face away, "Everyone go bet as much as you want, I have already released the authority of the captain, you can use whoever you want as a bargaining chip."

He said such words in front of the bloody "lesson from the past", which made Brother Chen shudder.

"but-"

The corner of An Wujiu's mouth twitched slightly, "If you end up not very sure and cause other members of the group to be injured, then the injured person will participate in other games, and the person who caused him to be injured will be the bet."

"A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye." An Wujiu said with a smile, "It's fair."

After speaking, he was about to leave, when suddenly a small hand grabbed the hem of his clothes.

"Brother." Noah looked up, with a calm face that didn't belong to her grade, "I want to gamble too."

"No." Yang Erci resolutely rejected her idea, "Children are uncontrollable."

Fujido Sakura walked up to Noah and squatted down, "Noah, you should follow my sister, don't worry, I will definitely not lose you this time."

Brother Chen and Nanshan also felt that something was wrong.

"Noah's grade is too young, she is indeed qualified to participate in the gambling game, but the risk of her betting chips will be relatively high." Nanshan said it very realistically and rationally.

Brother Chen still has shadows about what happened before, "It's too dangerous. It's better for Noah to stay with us. If everyone hadn't taken the opportunity to save her, we still don't know what would have happened."

Everyone expressed their opposition to her proposal, but An Wujiu and Shen Ti listened quietly to everyone's discussion.

No one spoke, An Wujiu turned to look at Shen Ti, "What do you think?"

Shen Ti yawned lazily.

"none of my business."

An Wujiu finally looked at Noah, her light brown eyes were very transparent, I don't know if it was an illusion, An Wujiu actually read the eyes that were contrary to her age.

"Brother, I want to participate." She grabbed An Wujiu's clothes, not intending to let go, "I know what danger is."

She is no longer as silent as before, and her speech is actually clearer than the logic of many adults.

An Wujiu had expected a long time ago that this little girl was not simple, otherwise she would not be a survivor in the altar game.

"If I stay with my brothers and sisters, it will only drag them down. As long as I am around, they will spare at least one person to take care of me. But one person may not be able to beat a team, so the safest The place is the most dangerous place."

She raised her small face and put forward her thoughts to An Wujiu, "I've seen that people on the gambling table can't be there. As long as I enter the gambling game, no one can take me away. As for the chips... I You can bet on yourself."

After Noah finished speaking, everyone was stunned.

An Wujiu laughed, he bent down, put his hands on his knees, and looked at Noah.

"Very well, you've convinced me. Go gamble, it's best to win me some money back."

"As for the chips..." An Wujiu lifted his chin towards Shen Ti who was beside him, "I'll just use your elder brother Shen Ti as the chip."

Nan Shan couldn't help laughing, being arranged so clearly, he thought Shen Ti would definitely have an opinion.

But Shen Ti's mind is different from others, his first reaction was: "Call Shen Ti brother again."

Wu You drooped her face, not surprised at all.

An Wujiu ignored him, and told Noah on his own, "Bet him all."

Zhong Yirou walked over after bandaging the man, seeing that everyone was planning to find a free gambling table.

"You didn't take the money?" An Wujiu teased.

"I'm not as greedy as you think." Zhong Yirou glared at him charmingly, "Healers are parents, so I'll do charity too."

"But..." she said again, "The man told me one thing just now, and it was considered a reward."

Fujido Sakura immediately asked: "What's the matter?"

Zhong Yirou frowned slightly, "He just said, it's best not to go to the exchange area."

After hearing what she said, An Wujiu looked at the back of the man who stood up and walked away alone. On his head was the belt of the orange team.

"Go to the gaming table first."

An Wujiu sent them away, but in the end, he and Shen Ti stayed where they were.

Shen Ti asked: "Still going?"

"En." An Wujiu turned around and walked towards the stairwell, he knew Shen Ti would follow, so he didn't stop him.

There were a few injured people sitting on the stairs. They rested here, but even if they didn't appear in the hall, as long as they survived in this instance, they couldn't avoid the fate of being used as chips.

The stairs were covered with greasy blood, his vision was dim, An Wujiu was walking down, when he suddenly felt that he stepped on something.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a person, but his limbs were severed, his body was covered in blood, and he could no longer recognize the human form.

Even if he stepped on it accidentally, the other party didn't respond.

I'm afraid it's not dead.

The back of the tie on his head was not completely soaked in blood, An Wujiu bent down and pulled that half.

It turned out to be yellow.

It's someone in Maguire's team.

He straightened up, continued to descend without looking directly, and came to the first floor with Shen Ti, followed the instructions of the sign, and came to a door.

There is a picture of Genesis drawn on this huge door, when An Wujiu stood in front of the door, the door opened automatically.

The light inside is a bit dazzling, but it's not lights, but countless bright gold coins.

The gold coins are stored in a huge glass container, and inside the container is a huge device that looks a bit retro, like a long-gone Jinshan game machine.

It's just that now, the machine is still, and the countless gold coins are not pushed or dropped from top to bottom, but just lie quietly in the coin pool. The gold coins in the pool are more than two meters high, very dazzling.

Shen Ti whistled.

"It's a bit of a gamble."