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Just as the driver said, the door of the teahouse used as a smoke bomb had been closed and a closing sign was hung.
"The side door... is it from behind here?"
As Wang Gang spoke, he led the two of them along the alley beside the teahouse and around to the back, where they found a hidden entrance.
Without hesitation, the three of them walked into the teahouse through the small door one after another.
After entering the small door and walking through a narrow alley-like path that was not very wide, they finally saw a living person at the end.
This place looks like the kitchen of a teahouse. Several workers are squatting in the corner washing dishes and preparing ingredients for the next day.
The three of them looked at each other and thought they had come to the wrong place.
Until a woman in uniform who looked like an overseer came up to us and said, "Sorry, we're closed."
After Wang Gang confirmed that he had not gone to the wrong place, he tentatively said, "Well, we have an appointment. Here is my ID."
As he spoke, he handed the woman a copper plate the size of a cigarette box.
The woman didn't even look at it twice. She just took it and twisted it lightly with her hand, and then she showed a look of enlightenment.
"this way please."
After she finished speaking, she didn't know what mechanism she activated, but she saw the huge oil pan on the stove in the back kitchen suddenly sank, revealing a hole half a person's height hidden behind the stove.
"Wow, who could have thought of this?" Jiang Lu was sure that even if they knew the entrance was in the kitchen, the law enforcement agency might not be able to find it even if they conducted a comprehensive search.
The woman bowed slightly: "I'm sorry, things are tense recently, I hope you can understand."
"It's okay." Wang Gang waved his hand: "Safety is important."
"Then please come in. Someone will receive you inside."
Wang Gang nodded, exchanged glances with the two, and then went in first.
Jiang Lu was the last one because he didn't want to be a man before and after.
After entering the small hole, a damp and stuffy smell hit me in the face. Perhaps it was because of the oil pan, or perhaps it was because the passage behind the small hole sloped downward and connected to the underground, so there might be no ventilation underneath.
But as I said, it is very narrow at first, but then it becomes passable, and after walking a few hundred steps, it suddenly becomes clear.
After Wang Gang and Xue Yong walked out from in front of Jiang Lu, Jiang Lu discovered that this was a completely uncarved natural cave.
Something in the dome was scattering soft light, illuminating the cave which was estimated to be three to four hundred square meters.
There are irregular stalactites everywhere, and on the few flat grounds, there are numbered gambling stones.
Before Jiang Lu and his group, many people had already arrived here, and it was as lively as a temple fair.
Jiang Lu noticed that in addition to the small hole they came in from behind, there were many similar cave entrances around the cave. He immediately guessed that perhaps there were entrances not only in Yixuan Pavilion, but also in other places.
If you think about it carefully, there is no problem. Since you can escape safely at any time if something goes wrong, there certainly cannot be only one exit.
But in this case, are the underground casinos in many places actually the same in the end?
Jiang Lu couldn't understand this.
This is a casino that is boycotted by the law enforcement agency. Doesn't having so many domain names mean that it is invisibly making the target bigger?
Or you can just correspond each domain name to a casino, and point them all to the same place. Then if one domain name has a problem, won’t the entire website be ruined?
Before Jiang Lu could think about the intention of the mysterious organization, a plump woman in a cheongsam came over with a tray and twisted her waist. "Ladies and gentlemen, please put your tickets on the tray to exchange for the identity cards you will need for the bidding later."
"I still have to bid?" Wang Gang was a little surprised, but still put the bronze medal into the tray.
"Yes."
The plump woman handed Wang Gang the numbered ID card and explained:
"If there are no competitors, you just need to pay the marked price for the stone you like. But if other people like the same stone, they will need to bid. But don't worry, we will use the auction format, and all transactions in the venue will be protected by us and are absolutely safe."
"So now we can choose our rocks freely, right?"
"Of course, please help yourself." The plump woman smiled: "If you have any special needs, or if you plan to leave, please come to me again."
"Okay." Wang Gang nodded. Just as he was about to look at the stone, he heard Jiang Lu suddenly shouted in a serious tone: "Wait a minute!"
"what happened?"
Xue Yong and Wang Gang looked at Jiang Lu, and the plump woman also looked at him curiously.
At this time, Jiang Lu's face was solemn, as if he had encountered some serious problem.
After taking a deep breath, Jiang Lu said, "I have a special need. I need you to be by my side while I look at the stone."
"Uh...is it convenient to ask why?" the plump woman asked curiously.
"Because my luck has been bad recently, I need someone to help me change my luck. You look very pregnant, maybe you can help me change my luck."
The plump woman nodded, not quite understanding: "You are praising me, right?"
"Yeah, so it's okay?"
"You are VIPs, and we will naturally try our best to meet your requests." The plump woman smiled, handed the tray to a passing woman wearing the same uniform as her, and asked, "So what do I need to do?"
"You don't need to do anything, just stay by my side." Jiang Lu replied.
Xue Yong, who was standing by, was confused. He exchanged glances with Wang Gang and whispered, "Is this also part of Brother Jiang's secret to gambling on stones?"
"It's possible." Wang Gang guessed, "Could it be that he wants to build closer relationships, bribe the insiders here, and use the inside information to determine which stones are waste materials used to fill the gaps?"
"It's possible." Xue Yong thought it made sense.
"But this won't work." Wang Gang smiled helplessly, "There may have been loopholes like this in the past gambling on stones, but as far as I know, the owner behind this casino is absolutely fair. All the stones are randomly arranged, and the staff assigned to serve will never have any unnecessary interactions with the guests, otherwise the punishment will be very severe."
"That's quite principled." Xue Yong was a little surprised: "Then let's remind Brother Jiang so that he doesn't waste his energy."
Wang Gang said "hmm" and called out to Jiang Lu, who had already started looking at the stone: "Brother Jiang!"
"Ah? What's wrong?" Jiang Lu turned around after hearing the voice.
"You don't... huh?" Wang Gang was halfway through his sentence when he froze in his place, staring blankly at Jiang Lu: "What are you doing..."
Xue Yong looked at him carefully and called him a master.
Jiang Lu was seen weighing the stone with one hand, while his other hand had already grasped the plump woman's shoulders and reached inside her clothes through her collar, looking like he was trying to grab something.
The plump woman, no longer as graceful and elegant as before, now lowered her head, tightly grasping the collar of her high-slit cheongsam with both hands, as if she was enduring a lot of pain.
"As I just said, this is how I change my luck." Jiang Lu explained nonchalantly, "As the saying goes, it takes ten years to sharpen a sword, and now I'm going to unsheathe it to test its sharpness! I'm sharpening the sword now, and when it's almost sharpened, it'll be time to unsheathe it and kill everyone."
"But she seems to be in great pain..." Wang Gang carefully pointed at the plump woman.
The latter shuddered a bit, then raised her head. Even though her eyes were full of lust and her cheeks were flushed, she still abided by her duties: "As long as the guest is satisfied, these slight discomforts, oh... no, it's nothing."
"You just sharpened the blade, right?" Wang Gang pursed his lips and looked at Jiang Lu meaningfully.
"What blade? I don't understand what you are saying." Jiang Lu pretended to be stupid.
Xue Yong exclaimed to himself: "Elegant, it's really elegant!"
Jiang Lu smiled when he heard this and said generously: "Auntie Hong, please arrange two for my friend as well."
"As expected of you, Brother Jiang. You even know my name so quickly!" Xue Yong was amazed.
Wang Gang waved his hands awkwardly: "Ah, I don't want it..."
Xue Yong hesitated for a moment and also rejected Jiang Lu's kindness.
If nothing else, they want to save face.
No matter how much they like it, they would never do such a thing in public.
"Really? What a pity." Jiang Lu said regretfully, and then asked the two to look at the stones.
Aunt Hong did not show any dissatisfaction from beginning to end. She just stood beside Jiang Lu with a blank mind and let her do whatever she wanted.
And because Xue Yong's heartfelt admiration just now caused quite a stir, many people now noticed them.
Different people have different opinions about what Jiang Lu did.
Some admired: "Good boy, you have the style and demeanor that I had in my old days!"
There were also those who were disdainful: "Who among you present is not a prominent figure? Doing such a vulgar thing in such an occasion is simply a disgrace to us."
There were also those who were waiting to see the joke: "Haha, you are so brave, don't you know whose place this is? Maybe there will be blood today."
Some people also watched coldly: "It's boring."
Some even laughed at him: "Senior sister, it's so soft there, how can you use it to sharpen the sword? Hehe, you are such an idiot."
The cold woman looked at the girl squatting beside her and warned with a cold face: "Don't listen to what you shouldn't listen to, or I'll beat you up!"
"Oh..." The girl was scolded for no reason. She dropped the stone she was playing with in frustration, clapped her hands, and stood up: "But sister, why did we come to this kind of place? Didn't you say that we are here to share the worries of the ancestors?"
The cold woman looked around and whispered, "The matter of the ancestor cannot be solved in a few moves. Since we heard that there are evil people doing evil here, as the ninth generation disciples of Kunlun Mountain, we certainly have an obligation to help."
"After all, I still don't know what the matter of the ancestors is..."
"Have you forgotten what you said when you insisted on following me?"
"I know. I won't ask..." The girl squatted back aggrievedly, and listlessly picked up two stones to play with them.
"Don't break it. I can't afford to buy your sister. If I do, I'll hold you hostage here to pay off my debts."
"Know it!"
Just at this moment, the girl, who was lowering her head and looking a little impatient, suddenly smelled a faint fragrance.
When she turned her head to the side, she saw a large palm extending in front of her eyes. At the same time, a frivolous and boastful voice came into her ears.
"I told you, changing your luck is really useful."
Jiang Lu walked past the girl, took a stone in front of her and looked at it carefully.
The girl looked up at Jiang Lu and couldn't help but snorted: "Humph, a man with such fragrant hands is not only a fool, but also a sissy."
Only the cold woman saw where Jiang Lu took out his hand from, and immediately pulled the girl up with a dark face: "You will die if you don't speak, right?"
Jiang Lu also noticed the two of them and immediately raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Little girl, don't talk nonsense, can't men's hands smell good? Change places, I will have reason to sue you for gender discrimination."
Chapter 294 Request for a Duel!
Hearing Jiang Lu's slightly warning joke, the cold woman didn't take it seriously at all: "My junior sister is not discriminating against your gender, she is only discriminating against your character."
No matter how strict she was to her junior sister in private, she would always protect her to the end in front of outsiders.