Chapter 284: There is a God of Wealth in the casino, meeting an old friend in a foreign land
"Buy it and leave it! Buy it and leave it!"
"Open! Ding Ban! Mao Liu! Get the money, get the money!"
"Bump! Hey, grandpa, I'm lucky today!"
The smell of sweat, harsh sounds of betting, and shouts of curses hit their faces as Zhou Shi and Zeng Xiao walked from a furniture shop into this secret underground casino.
"There is a casino in the capital, why do you gamble secretly here?" Zhou Shi asked.
"The gambling tax in the capital is May Day, so black casinos are banned frequently. This place was newly opened half a month ago, and it may not be open for two months before it needs to be moved." Zeng Xiao replied loudly, so that Zhou Shi, who was close at hand, could hear it.
Underground casino... Bad memories welled up in Zhou Shi's heart.
Zeng Xiao led him through groups of gamblers, suddenly tugged on his hand and pointed it in one direction.
Zhou Shi took a sneak peek and saw three incense sticks flickering on and off in a dark corner, enshrining a small statue of the God of Wealth.
"That is……"
In the center of the casino, in front of the largest gambling table, they saw Li Yi.
"Open it!"
The dealer turns the dice, three sixes and one one.
"Eighteen great successes!"
The gamblers, who were holding chips in their hands and with red eyes, started to curse when they saw it.
"There are thousands!"
"Damn it, what kind of dice are you talking about? Isn't it a secret?"
"No more playing!"
In the commotion, a figure slipped through the gamblers. When they came to their senses, they found that their hands were empty.
"Hey, you can't afford to lose, so why not play? Go home and feed yourself!"
Li Yi nodded at the chips in his hand, laughing and cursing at the same time.
"You boy!"
Two gamblers who were eager to lose came up and tried to grab him, but the tall and powerful Zeng Xiao blocked him. As soon as his feet were free, he fell back to the gambling table.
"Guys, guys, this is not right." Several people wearing the same cloth with a dice tattooed on their faces crowded in. One of them lifted the two people off the ground and dusted them off their clothes. "
If you can afford to play, you must also be able to afford to lose. There are so many people watching, so don’t embarrass yourself."
After these people with dice tattoos appeared, no one among the gamblers who gathered around to watch the excitement dared to take another look, and they quickly turned back to focus on their own gambling.
"Let's go and talk somewhere else." Zeng Xiao pulled Li Yi, who was lighting the chips, to the edge of the casino.
"Don't pull me, don't pull me. Did you see? What I won in the past two days is not what I can earn in a year of playing." Li Yi said proudly.
"Stop talking nonsense, have you found anything?"
"You and Qiu Congyun look more and more like each other, you're so serious. Can I forget about business? That statue of the God of Wealth was erected when the casino opened half a month ago. The casino owner attaches great importance to that thing and no one is allowed to touch it.
So to this day, no one has discovered that the statue has no eyes."
"Half a month ago..." Zeng Xiao muttered the date.
"It's about the same time that the eighteenth eyeless god statue was brought to the Kowloon Hall. The difference is only a few days." Zhou Shi continued, "Maybe it was because the eyeless god statue was discovered and a new one was made?"
"possible."
"Why? Isn't it good to make more at one time?"
Zhou Shi secretly felt helpless. Li Yi was really stubborn and didn't think deeply about it at all.
"Perhaps the perpetrator wanted to act in secret, or perhaps the secret method of creating evil ghosts has very strict conditions. Every time it is used, it takes great risks and takes a lot of time to prepare." Zeng Xiao said, turning his gaze to Zhou
Shi, he knew that Zhou Shi had a deep understanding of the eyeless statue.
"If you really want to act in secret, you should avoid the limelight after the first eyeless statue is discovered, instead of making eighteen...nineteen statues in succession." Zhou Shi thought for a moment, and then said slowly, "This
It is true that the secret technique cannot be cast at will, but that is because the caster has to bear great risks. But I think there is another possibility."
"What?"
"The caster is experimenting, hoping to create a ghost with a certain ability."
"Oh?" Zeng Xiao rolled his eyes and understood immediately, "So it turns out that it is precisely because the last experiment did not produce a ghost that satisfied him that he continued to commit crimes!"
"Eighteen times without success, this guy is really bad." Li Yi smacked his lips.
"This also shows that the other party's intentions are not trivial, and I'm afraid it is the work of another demon." Zeng Xiao was worried, "Fortunately, he discovered it in time, and the statue of the God of Wealth has not yet created a ghost."
"Listen to Mr. Zeng, are we going to follow the example this time?" Zhou Shi asked.
"Yes, there are records of people coming and going in this underground casino. As long as we follow this investigation, we may be able to find the demon who arranged this eyeless statue, or we can directly investigate the origin of this statue of the God of Wealth."
"Then do we have a line with the owner of this casino?"
"We don't have it yet. We have a lot of background to open a casino in the market, so the three of us must work together to be safe," Zeng Xiao said.
"Then let's..." Zhou Shi was about to speak, but suddenly his pupils shrank and his eyes were locked on one person.
"Wait a minute." He said this and forced his way through the gamblers. He accidentally knocked over a table of Pai Gow and crushed the dice that fell on the ground.
There were shouts and curses behind him, but Zhou Shi turned a deaf ear and grabbed the shocked Sangmen Huan.
"What a coincidence, Brother Sang."
One moment, Sangmen Huan's face was scanning the casino with a fierce look, and the next moment there were many wrinkles of doubt. The next moment, his eyes and mouth were opened to the maximum at the same time, and he was about to run away.
And Zhou Shi's hands were so powerful, with just a slight burst of secret energy, he was stopped in place.
"I didn't expect that Brother Sang would take up a position here, and I haven't greeted him for a long time." Zhou Shi said with a smile.
Sangmen Huan looked over his shoulder, looking for help, towards several casino thugs with dice tattoos. But when he saw a hint of viciousness flashing through Zhou Shi's eyes and a stinging pain on his shoulder, he immediately looked away, not daring to make a mistake.
.
"It seems that I made a mistake." Zhou Shi still smiled, "Do you remember me?"
Seeing that he couldn't escape, and that Zhou Shi's two companions were approaching, Sangmen Huan could only tremble in his throat and said: "I remember you are Master Zhu's... no, no, no, the shopkeeper of Fengde Building."
"My enemy, my name is Zhou Shi."
Zeng Xiao and Li Yi saw Zhou Shi running out of the distance and holding down a lean man. They were about to follow him to take a look, but were stopped by Zhou Shi's gesture.
"It's such a blessing to meet an old friend in a foreign country. It just so happens that I have some things that I would like to ask you, is it convenient?"
Sangmenhuan's right shoulder, which was held by Zhou Shi, was getting lower and lower, like a crooked tree swaying in the strong wind.
"Convenient, convenient..."
"That's good, let's go this way."
Zhou Shi didn't let go, so he led him deep into the casino to avoid the thugs.
The thugs also noticed something unusual, but when they saw the smiling Zhou Shi and the obedient Sangmen Huan, they were confused about the situation and couldn't take action.