Chapter 334 Piyani
Chapter 334 Piyani
The gambler pointed at the golden-haired doll lying on Pétain's shoulder, spread out his palm and raised it upwards, motioning him to hand it over.
The corner of Pétain's mouth twitched, and he looked across the table and exchanged glances with Mary.
"So you want Piani?" Petain said, taking the little girl-like doll off his shoulders and putting it into the gambler's hands: "Okay, she's yours."
The name of this spirit-calling doll is "Piani"? Ning Zhe frowned slightly and glanced at the direction of the gambler. The dead face covered with corpse spots was still pale, but the gambler's expressionless face had a humanized emotion fluctuation for the first time.
The emotion that appeared on the gambler's face at this moment was called: anger.
The gambler seemed a little angry.
Ning Zhe thought for a moment and understood why the gambler was angry - the soul-calling doll is a unique item of the European noble family "Dyke". The Dyke family controls the source ghost that gives the soul-calling doll its power, so they can continuously produce this special item. Every respected member of the Dyke family will carry at least one soul-calling doll for self-defense when walking outside. This is the iconic prop of the Dyke family and also a symbol of status.
The rules of the summoning dolls are related to the names. Each doll has its own unique name. Knowing her name means having control over the doll.
"The moment Petain said the doll's name was 'Piani', the ownership of Pianie was divided equally among all the people in the room who heard it."
Even if the gambler now used Piyani's name to order her to kill everyone present, they could use the part of control they held to hedge against the gambler's orders.
"But the question now is, why does Pétain have a spirit-calling doll?" Ning Zhe was a little confused.
Pétain's full name is 'Pétain Silke Astaire', not Dyke, and there is no such person in Van Dyke's memory. Why would a person who does not belong to the Dyke family possess the unique empowerment item of the Dyke family?
No, now is not the time to dwell on these details. Ning Zhe wiped the tears from his eyes, carefully raised his head and looked at Meilin, looking for help.
From the very beginning, Meilin had an inexplicable hostility and vigilance towards Ning Zhe, a Chinese woman of unknown origin, and now, her hostility has become stronger and more specific.
"This woman is lying."
Meilin stared at Ning Zhe, who looked so pitiful and tearful, and was extremely alert in her heart: "She is not an innocent passerby who happened to be involved in a strange incident while looking for her husband. She is here for the gambler! She is a granter!"
Even...it's possible that he is an ascender.
Ning Zhe took out a handkerchief from his bag and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes. He noticed the vigilant look on Meilin's face, and became more certain of his guess.
"So far, in all gambling games that gamblers have led others to play, there must be the concepts of 'winning and losing' and 'betting'."
"The rules and gameplay of the game depend on the specific situation. If you have a revolver, you can play Russian roulette. If you have playing cards, you can play the ghost card game. If you only have wine and cups, you can also play coin-operated games."
"And the setting of 'bets' follows another unspoken rule that is commonly accepted - fairness."
"When the gambler played Russian roulette with Sally Sally and others, the stake was one life, and the loser was shot to death." "When playing the ghost card with Xia Yubing and the God of Wealth, the stake was one life-buying coin. Allen, who broke the rules, died because the gambler confiscated his stake - one life can be exchanged for one copper coin."
Gamblers hate cheaters. Their games are based on the principle of fairness. Under this premise, the stakes in each round of gambling have two things in common:
1. Every player can afford the bet
2. Each player pays an equal amount of bet value
The stakes that Pétain paid after losing the bet were the spirit-calling doll, or in other words, the item for granting status.
"The stakes for this round of the game are '1 Qualified Item', which means..."
Meilin clenched her hands silently, and looked at Ning Zhe with an even more vigilant look in her eyes: "Every player who participates in the gambling must be able to pay the bet. This is the rule of the gambler. In other words, this woman is now carrying at least one item that is of equal value to the necromancer doll in the eyes of the gambler!"
Ning Zhe didn't care about the hostility in Meilin's eyes because he was in a good mood. Just now, a mystery that had been bothering him was solved. He finally understood how the gambler won the almanac from He Nianjun.
"At that time, the gambling ghost dragged He Nianjun into the gambling game and forced her to play a game with him with 'one ghost' as the bet. He Nianjun's bet was the Huangli, that is, the snake god Zhaoyou, and the gambling ghost's bet, if nothing unexpected happened, was itself - the gambling ghost."
He Nianjun lost the bet, so Zhao was lost to the gambler. If the result at that time was that she won the bet, there would probably not be so many things later, and the ownership of the gambler would directly belong to the Snake God.
It's a pity no.
Ning Zhe wiped away her tears, folded the handkerchief gracefully and put it back into her bag. The gambler grabbed the golden-haired doll named "Piani", slowly sat back in his seat, and gently placed her in the middle of the table.
Then, the gambler bent down, took out another crystal glass, placed it on the table, and pushed it forward, stopping accurately on the empty seat next to Meilin.
After doing all this, the gambler raised his head slightly and looked at the man who suddenly appeared in the room. His cold expression seemed to say, "Please."
"Come and sit down here." Meilin patted the sofa beside her: "If you don't want to die here."
The man opened his mouth, his face full of panic, and he kept repeating "Xia Dan", "dirty bitch", and other incomprehensible words. He walked around the table and came to Meilin, and sat down carefully.
"What on earth are you doing here?" The man turned pale and said with a sad face, "Why is the corpse moving? What on earth is..."
"Shh-"
Meilin put her index finger in front of her lips as a gesture of silence and whispered, "This is a devil's game. You have no say over when it starts and ends. Cooperate if you don't want to die."
"Okay... God, I have never encountered anything crazier than this..." The man made the sign of the cross on his chest with trembling hands. The gambler walked behind him with a bottle of wine and filled his glass with wine.
Meilin breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this:
"This man should be just an ordinary person. He is not an upgrader and does not have any items for granting the upgrade. The stakes of the next round of the game should not be as high as before..."
(End of this chapter)