Arc 2: Luxury Cruise
Chapter 26
The man who rushed out while gripping his arm collapsed stiffly onto the ground with a dull sound. His throat emitted gurgling sounds as his body twitched. Two men stepped out from the crowd, picked him up with one on each side and dragged him away. Soon afterwards, those people came back out again and quickly changed the blood-stained carpet into a clean one.
Once that was done, those men in black suits bowed to the other gamblers to express their apology before leaving.
From beginning to end, they didn"t provide them with any explanations.
Xu Ziyue carefully took in the NPC"s expressions. They could roughly be divided into two types.
One type was just watching on indifferently. Like the NPC who witnessed the pool incident, they probably felt that this kind of thing was normal and didn"t display any signs of fear or terror. The other type of NPCs appeared to know the reason but still displayed some fear.
In the latter case, although they were less panicked compared to normal people, they at least still retained normal thought processes……..
Xu Ziyue found it a bit strange. There were two types of NPCs on board which can be roughly divided into normal people and abnormal people. With the knowledge Austin bestowed to him about the sea monsters, he couldn"t help but think that there was more to it.
"Let"s go." Austin looked up at Xu Ziyue next to him.
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Xu Ziyue shook his head. He then bent down and said: "I saw a few companions who got on the ship with me. I want to ask them what happened." He looked over in the direction the player was dragged to and added, "The man who lost his arm was one too."
Austin nodded understandingly. He got ready to wait for Xu Ziyue.
"I"ll be back soon." Having said that, Xu Ziyue jogged over to where the remaining five players were.
The five players there were discussing about the missing-limbed player from earlier. They appeared to be rather frightened. Seeing Xu Ziyue come over, they were originally on-guard, but they relaxed when they realised that he was also a player.
Xu Ziyue walked over and asked: "I didn"t see you guys earlier. What happened?"
The five of them didn"t actually want to talk to Xu Ziyue because they didn"t know if Xu Ziyue had been parasitised yet. However, even if they didn"t say anything, there were quite a few onlookers so Xu Ziyue could still get information from the nearby NPCs.
"He went overboard earlier and didn"t have enough chips so he could only bet his arm."
Xu Ziyue was puzzled: "Wouldn"t it be fine just betting a small amount each time? Why wouldn"t there be enough chips?"
A player with pale lips glanced at Xu Ziyue, "You"ll know when you exchange for chips later. One chip here is equivalent to 10,000 and the system only gave us 100,000 which is just enough. We went to the duty-free shop yesterday on the ninth floor and could only get a stamp after buying something."
"That is to say, we now don"t have enough for ten chips. But, as long as we are lucky and win a round or two, we would be able to acc.u.mulate ten attempts to get the stamp. His luck however wasn"t on his side………"
The corner of that player"s lips twitched. His expression was bleak, "Then he went to the place where the chips were exchanged to check his accounts……..Although he managed to get ten attempts, he didn"t have anything to repay the debt."
Xu Ziyue looked at the others. Some were still holding onto chips. He couldn"t help but be a little angry, "Then if one of you win and lend him one, wouldn"t that be fine?!"
"You"re just telling us to lend him!" That player refuted even more angrily, "Why don"t you lend it?! We don"t even know if we have enough for ourselves and we still haven"t reached ten attempts!"
Xu Ziyue looked at him and was speechless for a long time. After a while, he succ.u.mbed under the angry stares from the five players and could only bow his head and apologise sincerely, "I"m sorry, I didn"t know about your situation."
One of the players snorted and turned their head away in disdain.
Xu Ziyue scratched his head anxiously and asked: "How many attempts do you have left? You didn"t win once?"
They looked at each other before the one at the front replied: "We have each played eight times. There are two left, but we only have one chip. That person just now…….tried going all out. If he won, we would all have enough."
Xu Ziyue fell in thought. They had started with six people. If each had nine chips, then there was a total of fifty-four chips……..If they worked together, even if they had the worst luck and didn"t win a single time, only one would be in trouble. But the current predicament was that none of them wanted to sacrifice themselves so they felt that as long as they were lucky and won one round, there shouldn"t be a problem. However, one was now injured. With him losing so much blood, it was still a question whether he would be able to live. As for the remaining five chips……….Based on their current predicament, everyone must now win or they would likely end up like that player just now.
Xu Ziyue knew that he was thinking too optimistically. Afterall, they all wanted to live so his idealised plan would unlikely take place. It would also be unfair to the person being sacrificed.
But…….
"None of you won a single round? Isn"t that strange?" Although Xu Ziyue had more losses than wins, he still won about three or four times.
A player smiled bleakly, "Did you think that this experience activity would be easy? How can there be such an easy to clear instance? If you just used your brain a little, you would know that this is something we need to clear in the game……It will definitely have traps hidden in every one of them. That way, it will meet the main theme of the game don"t you think?"
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Xu Ziyue"s heart fell. He swallowed his saliva. Then that incident at the pool was probably also because of this………
"You still haven"t gone to the duty-free shops, right? If you finish losing that 100,000 here, you won"t be able to get a stamp there." That player touched the chip in his hand. His eyes were blood-shot, "Death is inevitable. The only question is when it will happen."
Xu Ziyue looked at the chip in his hand and froze, "The smallest chip here is 10,000?"
The player nodded.
"The chips with the smallest amount all look the same?"
The player nodded again.
Xu Ziyue"s heart pounded in his ears.
Those chips he used earlier……..They seemed to be different to the ones they have.
"We"re going to try one last time." The player glanced at Xu Ziyue. His lips hooked up into a small smile as he looked at Xu Ziyue as if he would soon follow their fate, "You"re not going to exchange for chips?"
"Wait………" Xu Ziyue stopped them.
He temporarily suppressed his pa.s.sionate feelings towards Austin.
"I"ll go and get my money and give you a chip each. If you win…..You can pay me back but if you lose……don"t worry about it."
The eyes of the five players widened. They looked at Xu Ziyue incredulously.
Xu Ziyue thought a bit more. He raised his hand and messed up his hair, "But I still owe someone money so I"ll have to ask that person if I can be in their debt a little longer."
……….Hopefully he can repay with his body.
Xu Ziyue"s thoughts couldn"t help but cross the line.
The author has something to say:
Yue Yue: Repaying with my body okay?
Austin: Great benefit!
Mo Mo: No!!!
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KK has something to say:
Even in a situation like this XZY can"t stay serious ?♀️