The elevator inside the yacht sounded a pleasant arrival sound, and the silver elevator door opened. What came out was Willie Weir, who had put on a new and decent suit, and Shao Nanyin, who gently held his arm.
Behind the elevator door is the casino hall on the fourth floor of the superyacht. Four or five gambling tables with different styles due to different gameplays separate the splendid space. The background music is soothing, the sound of the chips is crisp, and there is a well-dressed bartender behind the bar.
Stirring the ice cubes in the glass, the grain-yellow liquor rippling in the woman's hand reflected the guests in rich clothes walking in the hall.
Among countless private casinos, the fourth floor of the 'Anthem' is undoubtedly the best in terms of gameplay and style. People who are truly addicted to gambling are willing to invest their few good luck in tonight's game.
On the yacht, there were even many people who came here because they wanted to have a good time before boarding this big ship.
As the host of the party said, anyone can find what they want on this boat. If you feel disappointed, you can leave at any time. The host provides a low-key speedboat docking service that will not attract anyone's attention.
Wei Lai and Shao Nanyin walked out of the elevator. A metal security door stood outside the elevator. Wei Lai took out his cell phone from his suit pocket and handed it to the big black security guard next to the security door. Shao Nanyin did the same and passed the security check smoothly.
Door.
The casino behind the security gate is not very noisy. The only thing that can be heard the most is the dealer's instructions. The rest is just the washing of chips and the white noise of footsteps.
Every guest at the gaming table is well-dressed, wearing a suit with an exquisite black tie and a white shirt that is meticulously ironed. They move their hands and look around, with cautious and tentative expressions on each other's faces.
"Did you notice anything different here?" Wei Lai turned his head to Shao Nanyin's ear and asked.
"It's very quiet, so you can deliberately lower your voice and come close to my ear?" Shao Nanyin raised his head slightly and said to the rogue gentleman on his side.
"I didn't mean it." Wei Lai chuckled and stood back up, "I just don't want to disturb the players. Everyone is playing very seriously."
"So the theme of this floor is 'serious'?" Shao Nanyin turned his head and saw the gold-plated stop sign next to the elevator, with the words 'SALON_PRIVE_' embossed on it.
The theme of the third floor of the 'Anthem' is 'Depth Charge'. She has already watched it, including the 'Garden Dance' on the second floor and 'True Lies' on the first floor. Each floor has its own party theme.
Each theme corresponds to a huge reward for playing the game.
"Seriously? This is just a necessary element. The private casino on the fourth floor, which is here, is the biggest and most serious place to play tonight. No one will not be serious." Wei said, asking everyone in the casino
An older British gentleman in a tuxedo who was making his rounds waved.
The old British gentleman came to Wei Lai and naturally recognized who he was. He nodded politely to Shao Nanyin beside him, and then waited quietly for Wei Lai to take out a check from the inner pocket of his suit and hand it to him, carefully collecting it.
After placing the check, he nodded to Wei Lai and turned around to leave quickly.
"What are you doing? Changing chips?"
"Admission ticket."
"This ticket doesn't seem cheap." Shao Nanyin saw that the number on the check was not small.
"2,000,000€. Anyone who wants to participate in this party on this floor needs proof of assets and a basic stake of two million euros. Once the stake is injected into the gambling pool, it will not be refunded. If the deposited stake is used up,
It is also possible to purchase chips equal to €5,000,000 by electronic transfer to the manager of the casino lobby, but the purchase is also non-refundable,” Wei said.
"You won't refund it yet?" Shao Nanyin became a little interested.
"This is also the theme of this layer, the 'chip vortex'. You can think of it as whether it is a two million euro bet or a subsequent five million euro bet. When you exchange them for chips, they
It is no longer your money, but your admission ticket, your qualification to stay on this level."
"Then what's the benefit of staying on this floor?"
"When a tornado blows on the surface of the pond, all the fish and water will be sucked into the sky. The fish that lands first will fall to death on the dry land. Only the lucky 'Nemo' who falls last can safely enter the water and monopolize it.
The whole pond." Wei Lai took Shao Nanyin to the bar on the side of the casino and sat down, and asked the bartender for two cups of Gordon's Tonic.
"The winner takes all." Shao Nanyin understood Weilai's metaphor.
"If you lose all the chips with a basic stake of two million euros, you can only choose to continue to buy chips with a maximum limit of five million euros to increase your bets, or you will be asked by the security to leave the fourth floor and join the parties on the other three floors." Weilai pointed.
He tapped the marble bar counter gently and glanced at the dull and quiet casino hall.
"Why set a gambling limit?" Shao Nanyin asked interestingly.
"Hey, this is a party, not a boat gambling. The purpose of the party is to have fun, not to go bankrupt, right?" Wei Lai said with a smile, "The upper limit of seven million euros is to limit this
The nature of the first floor is set as an exciting 'game' rather than an exciting 'excessive gambling'. At the same time, this can be regarded as a threshold to dissuade some guests who are not able to afford this 'game'."
"How can I become the winner of the game?" Shao Nanyin asked.
"There is and will only be one winner in the game 'Chips Whirlpool'. Either he wins in the end and collects all the chips with a total value of approximately 140,000,000€, or he loses all his chips, or he gives up in the middle of the game and walks away with nothing -
-Of course I don’t think there is such a person.
“The bets invested by each customer will be deposited into an account managed by an agent at the Swiss Bank of Basel. The winner will get the account number and password of the account. Of course, the agent can also ask the agent to transfer all funds by wire transfer to any address in the world you designate.
In one account.”
Wei Lai took the Gordon Tonic served by the bartender, "Hey, look over there, someone is out."
Shao Nanyin looked in the direction where Wei Lai raised his glass and saw that the sturdy black security guard who could walk on his arm and was standing by the security gate was already standing behind the chubby old white man on a gaming table.
Being tightly wrapped in a plaid suit was as interesting as a thick spotted pig, not to mention that his face was as pink as pig skin because of the poker game. He turned around and left his female companion beside him, cursing and walking towards the elevator.
Wei Lai looked at the back of the old white man and said jokingly: "The chief of the Chicago Police Department, a loyal fan of blackjack. Now it doesn't look like he has the ability to continue raising bets, so he can only leave miserably."
"Unlimited Blackjack, No-Limit Stud, and No-Limit Texas Hold'em are all popular games tonight, but the more popular it is, the greater the win or loss. Two million euros in chips are not many. Players like him who like All in are very interested.
It's easy to lose.
"After all, it's not just the rich who are participating in the card game tonight. For the sake of the game, there are also many experienced gamblers sitting in the hall, bringing all their wealth to play for a big prize.
"...Huh, and I also heard that his admission funds were borrowed from blood gang loan sharks. In recent years, the government has tightened their control. Chicago P.D. cannot be as unscrupulous as before on the gangs in the South District.
I’m bleeding, and I don’t know if I’ll be in trouble after I get off the ship tonight.”
"Does the master also want to participate in the winning or losing of this game?" Shao Nanyin saw a waiter delivering a stack of brand-new chips on a tray to the marble countertop next to Wei Lai. They were green, red, and pink, which represented one thousand.
, round chips of five thousand and ten thousand, and blue and dark red chip-shaped chips representing one hundred thousand and five hundred thousand.
"I'm not going to participate in the gambling game, because the final champion of this game will receive a mysterious grand prize. If I, as the host of the party, took the mysterious grand prize, it would be a lot less interesting." Wei Lai said mysteriously.
"What mysterious grand prize?" Shao Nanyin asked curiously.
"Do you know where the fifth floor of this ship is?" Wei Lai asked softly.
"have no idea."
"That's where the mysterious prize is placed. Only the final winner of the yacht game on each floor will have the opportunity to be invited by the party host to the fifth floor as a guest."
"Oh? Can't you take me there quietly?" Shao Nanyin showed a subtle smile.
"Sorry... maybe not. Rules are rules. These are the rules of the game that were set before the party started... Hey, don't look at me like that! I also want to take you to the fifth floor, so this doesn't matter.
Did I give you a chance?" Wei Lai slid the tray with chips on the marble counter to Shao Nanyin's side.
"You believe me so much?" Shao Nanyin asked intriguingly as he looked at the tray close to his elbow, gently picked up one or two chips with his left hand, then let them slide down and smash them into the pile of chips.
"Have I ever said that when you boarded the ship tonight, I felt the goddess of luck standing beside me?" Wei Lai gently held up Shao Nanyin's hand and kissed her hand, "I didn't realize it until later.
Yes, you are my goddess of luck, now please bring your good luck to sweep the entire gambling hall."
Shao Nanyin did not answer for a while, but looked sideways at the stack of exquisite chips worth a million euros on the tray.
When Wei Lai saw this, he immediately comforted him: "It's okay, it's just a small amount of money, just have fun, there's no need to feel any pressure."
"Pressure?" Shao Nanyin smiled, turned to look at the playboy and asked, "Do you know... what I do for a living?"
Wei Lai tilted his head to express confusion.
Shao Nanyin stood up, glanced back at Wei Lai, smiled brightly, and walked towards the casino. Wei Lai was relieved when he saw that she didn't go to the elevator, and immediately shouted, "You haven't brought your chips yet."
Unexpectedly, Shao Nanyin didn't even look back. The skirts of his dress swayed under his legs, which were straight and white. He flipped the slender fingers on his empty white right hand and pinched a small green chip out of thin air. He shook it up and down and tilted his head and face.
He looked over his shoulder like he was teasing a child, and winked at Wei Lai with his left eye: "Playboy, I accept your great favor. I only need a small petal of the flower core."
Wei Lai watched blankly as Shao Nanyin walked into the casino. After a while, he smiled to himself, picked up the cup of Gordon's soup that Shao Nanyin didn't drink on the table, drank it in one gulp, and muttered to himself.
He said as if: "No kidding, if it were other circumstances, I might really fall in love with her!"
Putting down the empty wine glass, Wei Lai lowered his head for a moment, exhaled the alcohol, and then complained: "Okay, I was just joking."
Finally, when he wanted to get up and follow the figure, he paused for a moment, raised his head, and finally there was a sharpness in his originally unfocused eyes: "Really... There are already special 'new guests' on the ship.