Chapter 317 Plum Blossom 7
Chapter 317 Plum Blossom 7
The girl's moans were particularly clear in the empty hall. Taking advantage of this moment of distraction, Xia Yubing pounced on Sally Sally and knocked her to the ground. They both lay down under the seats in the audience.
The male attendant came to his senses and held the gun in both hands, trying to find the lost target again, but he heard Ix behind him growling in pain: "Don't worry about them, help me leave, something is wrong here, it takes time for that woman to reload the bullet, Allen, let's go!"
"Yes, Mr. Ickes."
The male attendant named 'Alan' immediately gave up the search for Xia Yubing and Sally Sally, knelt on one knee in front of Ix, took off his tie and used it as a rope around the base of his right leg, tying it tightly, temporarily stopping the bleeding from the gunshot wound on his leg.
After stopping the bleeding, follower Allen held the gun in one hand and helped his employer up with the other, and the two of them limped back.
What neither of them noticed was that just a few steps after they turned and walked away, a new corpse appeared in the audience, with warm blood dripping down.
At the same time, Xia Yubing and Sally Sally, sheltered by rows of seats, also left the auditorium from another direction, crouching and coming to a bright corridor with lavender silk curtains. This is the staff passage where the theater waiters bring tea and water to the stands on the second floor. From here, walk a few steps up and you can see Stand No. 1 where Ning Zhe and Xia Yubing were at the beginning.
The curtain of stand 1 was still drawn. Xia Yubing looked around but could not find any sign that Ning Zhe had been here. Sally Sally had just recovered from the shock and asked, "Ms. Xia, what are you looking for?"
"Looking for my husband..." Xia Yubing just opened her mouth and then realized that she had said something wrong, so she didn't continue.
She carefully walked to the guardrail and quickly stuck her head out to look out, only to see that the audience seats below were empty, with nothing in them.
"Ok?"
Did you see it wrong?
Xia Yubing stuck her head out to take another look, making sure she was not mistaken. The auditorium was indeed empty. There was no one, not even a dead person. The corpses that had appeared on the seats before were now nowhere to be seen. An ominous premonition arose in her heart.
Before she could think about it, the stench of a rotting corpse wafted from behind her. Xia Yubing's body stiffened and she swallowed slowly, looking back slowly. She saw the frightened Sally Sally standing there without daring to move. The girl's thin body was shaking constantly, and her pale face was full of fear.
Next to the oval glass table in the center of the stands, there was a tall, thin male corpse with ragged clothes, gray skin, and corpse spots all over his body. He had been standing here at some point in his life, with a tattered sack on his head, and his face could not be seen clearly.
Along with it, there was also a skinny old corpse without a head on its shoulders that appeared in the room. Its whole body was skin and bones, except for its round belly, like a pregnant woman in her tenth month of pregnancy. Its hands were as dry as eagle claws. It held its own head in its left hand and a small cloth bag embroidered with a pattern of birds paying homage to the phoenix in its right hand.
"Wealth, God of Wealth..." Xia Yubing murmured.
While the two were stunned, two more figures walked in from the door, supporting each other and coming to the table. They were Ix, the noble man whose thigh was injured by Xia Yubing before, and his follower Allen.
Why are they here too? Xia Yubing subconsciously hid her hands behind her waist, holding the revolver that had been reloaded with bullets.
Ix's face changed, and just as he was about to speak, the ragged gambler came up to him.
Ix's eyes widened, and he let the foul breath hit his face, not daring to move. He supported his followers, and Allen also stood there in a daze.
Xia Yubing stared nervously at the strange scene happening in the room: the gambler stood in front of Ix without saying a word, reached into his trouser pocket, and took out... a deck of blood-stained playing cards.
The gambler sat down on the sofa next to the oval table with a playing card in his hand. He opened the card box and took all the cards in his hand. Swish - swish - the only sound of him shuffling the cards was in the silent room. Xia Yubing glanced back and saw that the audience seats were still empty, not even a dead person.
At the same time, the God of Wealth bent his legs, placed his head and cloth bag in his hands on his legs, and sat quietly opposite the gambler.
"Sure enough... the God of Wealth was also dragged into the gambling game by this gambling ghost." Xia Yubing's heart trembled, and she recalled what Ning Zhe said before he left. She had to force herself to calm down, holding Sally Sally's hand, and the two sat on the sofa together. If the person chosen by the gambling ghost as the gambling object does not follow the rules to gamble with it, something terrible will happen.
"This woman really knows some inside information." Ix gritted his teeth secretly, exchanged a glance with his follower Allen, and the master and the servant took their seats one after another.
The gambler's shuffling continues.
There are 6 people sitting around the oval table, in clockwise order, they are:
Gambler, Allen, Ikes, God of Wealth, Sally Sally, Xia Yubing.
After the last person took his seat, the gambler shuffled the cards.
The tall, thin male corpse in tattered clothes stood up from the sofa, holding a poker card. He began to deal cards to everyone one by one in a clockwise order, starting with himself.
A standard deck of poker has 54 cards, and there are 6 people sitting here, and each person is dealt 9 cards.
After the cards were dealt, the gambler sat back on the sofa and picked up the nine cards in front of him with one hand. After a quick look, he pinched them with one hand and opened them into a beautiful fan shape in full view of everyone, with the suit side facing himself, as if to avoid being seen by others.
There are many different rules for playing poker. Xia Yubing didn't know which game she was going to play, so she imitated the gambler and picked up her nine cards. After a quick check, she spread them out in a fan shape with the suit side facing herself.
The 9 cards Xia Yubing got were:
Ace of Hearts, 4 of Hearts, 7 of Hearts, 8 of Clubs, 10 of Diamonds, J of Hearts, Q of Spades, K of Hearts
And a king.
Is this a good hand? Or a bad hand? It depends on the rules of the game.
At this time, Ix and Allen, who were sitting across the table, had already looked at their cards. They both imitated gamblers and spread the cards into a fan shape, with the suit side facing themselves.
Only the God of Wealth, who was sitting on the same sofa with Xia Yubing and Sally Sally, remained motionless, letting the nine playing cards turn upside down in front of him without even looking at them.
Xia Yubing looked at the God of Wealth cautiously, feeling a little puzzled. Why didn't the God of Wealth ask him for money when they met this time?
At this time, the gambler on the opposite side of the table moved. He held the cards in his left hand and stretched out his right hand covered with corpse spots towards Allen who was sitting on his left.
To be precise, it was the card fan that was stretched out to Allen's hand.
The four living people in the room didn't dare to blink, and stared at the gambler nervously as he pinched one of the cards in Allen's hand with his fingers and pulled it out of the card fan.
'7 of Clubs'.
The gambler took the seven of clubs drawn from Allen's hand, compared it with his own card fan, and then drew a card from it.
'7 of Spades'.
The gambler threw two black '7' cards into the middle of the table with a bang, and the already silent atmosphere in the room suddenly became even more silent.
(End of this chapter)