Chapter 332 Open the door

Plop, a copper coin fell into the cup.

Meilin shifted her gaze from the gambler's wine glass and looked at the Chinese woman sitting opposite her. She bit her red lips lightly, tears in the corners of her eyes, her shoulders trembling slightly with fear, even her breathing was shaking, her tearful expression was so pitiful that Meilin was slightly stunned.

She had seen such expressions in other places. It was at the bungee jumping facility at a bridge attraction. When those tourists who were experiencing bungee jumping for the first time were pulled up by the safety ropes, they had such a look of fear on their faces. The expression on the face of the woman in front of her was no different from those of the extreme sports novices who were scared half to death. The micro-expressions of her facial features and her subconscious body movements all showed that she was in extreme fear at the moment, and her fragile mental state could collapse at any time. She was indeed a very timid woman.

But, even a rabbit will bite when it is angry, right?
Meilin shifted her gaze away from Ning Zhe and looked sideways at the gambler. There were already two copper coins at the bottom of the wine glass in front of the gambler, but his round was not over yet. His pale and stiff fingers picked up a copper coin from the table and moved it just above the wine glass.

The gambler's movements are stiff, slow and precise. Every opening and closing of the joints and every extension and contraction of the muscle bundles are extremely stable, without even the slightest tremor. It is like a fully automatic robotic arm on an assembly line, performing predetermined operations according to a written program, with errors measured in 'silicones'.

Meilin felt that she couldn't do such a thing, after all, humans are not machines.

But the ghost is.

A copper coin fell gently into the wine glass, and sank to the bottom of the glass in the blink of an eye. A string of small golden bubbles emerged from the golden wine. The height of the wine rising from the mouth of the glass rose in response, and the surface tension of the liquid pulled the horizontal plane into an arc, like a balloon that was blown to the limit and would burst in the next second.

"It's reached the limit." Pétain, who was sitting on Ning Zhe's left, had his eyes flickering, staring at the glass of gin in front of the gambler that was about to overflow.

The situation in the gambler's cup has reached its limit. The fragile balance may break at any time. There is no need to put down the fourth coin. At this time, as long as the table shakes slightly, or the ground shakes slightly, the arc-shaped water surface that has risen to the limit will be shattered.

Yes, just for a moment, just for a moment...

Under the table, Pétain's legs moved unnaturally and his toes moved to the side of the table legs.

"Just for a moment, just for a moment." Pétain said to himself.

The moment this thought came to his mind, suddenly, a terrifying chill rose from the depths of his heart. The emotion called fear turned into cold sweat that drilled out of his pores and soaked his back. Pétain raised his head and saw the gambler's pale face.

"If you cheat in front of a gambler, you will die." Ning Zhe said to himself.

Xia Yubing told him in her notebook what happened to the man named Allen who had tried to cheat before.

Ning Zhe hunched his shoulders and wiped his tears pitifully. He glanced at Pétain out of the corner of his eye, but seeing that he was so frightened that he dared not move, he retracted his gaze.

Meilin looked at Ningzhe, then at Pétain, and bit her lip thoughtfully.

At this moment, the gambler raised his hand again, and his pale and stiff index finger stretched out as straight as a pencil, pointing directly at Pétain, who was sitting in his seat in a daze and had not yet recovered from his shock. "He's next."

Then the gambler raised his other hand and pointed at Pétain.

"He'll be the next one... The gambler is quite vindictive." Ning Zhe wiped away the tears from his eyes with the back of his hand, secretly sizing up the gambler's stiff face, thinking, "It seems that the gambler's hatred for Pétain is higher than mine?"

Yes, he had designated the gambler to insert coins twice, which was just targeting him within the rules. However, Pétain was planning to shake the table, trying to cheat and make the gambler lose, which completely violated the principle of fairness and the rules of the game.

"In other words, cheating by breaking the rules will attract more hatred from gamblers than skirting the rules." Ning Zhe secretly noted this point. Then it was Pétain's turn to throw two coins into the wine glass.

After taking a few deep breaths to calm himself, Pétain picked up a coin and carefully prepared to hold it above the rim of the cup. Mary, who was sitting opposite the table, watched his movements nervously with a serious expression.

The water balance in the gambler's cup has reached its limit and can no longer hold a single coin. Next, as long as Pétain can safely pass his turn and designate the next coin-inserter as the gambler, the gambler will definitely be the loser, and the three people present will be able to escape from the ghost's entanglement.

But... is it that simple? Ning Zhe narrowed his eyes and sorted out the currently known information in his mind:

1. Wandering gamblers will randomly drag people into gambling games and force them to play gambling games with them. The game content and the number of players depend on the specific situation.
2. All game types that have appeared so far must have the concept of "win or lose" and "bet"
3. Players who cheat in gambling will be directly judged as losers, their bets will be confiscated and they will be expelled. Players who try to cheat but have not yet cheated will attract the hatred of gamblers.
4. Gamblers are extremely competitive or greedy. They will keep gambling until they become the winner and take all the bets of other players.
5. The gambler holds the almanac

That was the bet it won from He Nianjun.

"From the previous game of drawing ghost cards with Xia Yubing and the others, and the Russian roulette with Sally Sally and the others, the gambling ghost is now extremely lucky. It is basically certain that it has already looked at the almanac for today and used the 'good' and 'bad' things on it to improve its luck."

Ning Zhe glanced at Pétain, who was concentrating on the copper coin in his hand, and sorted out the current situation:
"Today is a good day to offer sacrifices, pray for blessings, open the eyes of the gods, remove the evil spirits, and get rid of the fire. There are five things to do today. I have done all five of them without violating any taboos. Therefore, my luck today is as good as it can be. I now have great luck that goes against the will of heaven."

What about the gambler? How many of these five things has the gambler achieved? Is his luck better or worse than mine at this moment?
The answer to the question now lies in Pétain's hands.

"The cup is full of wine. If you put two copper coins in, the wine may overflow or not. Either situation is possible. It just depends on whether Pétain's hand trembles when he takes the money, and some luck."

Ning Zhe lowered his eyes and took a deep breath, but suddenly, his expression froze.

A dark figure suddenly appeared at the door of this room. The door opened.

(End of this chapter)

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