Still, he was a professional, after all. After going back and forth over the machines for quite some time, he discovered that the lines to every other slot machine were live and communicating normally; only Shen Yushu's machine had gone dead. Alarmed, he hurriedly called the casino owner, Brother Gambling, over the walkie-talkie.

"Brother Gambling, we've got trouble—one of the slot machines has gone haywire!" the surveillance man said urgently.

"What is it? What's gone wrong?" Brother Gambling had only just left the No. 1 private room of the Celestial Suite, badly shaken and still unable to collect himself. Hearing that a slot machine had malfunctioned, he did not think it amounted to much. "If something's broken, get someone to fix it—it's just a slot machine!"

"That's not it, Brother Gambling, it's like this—someone's cracked the pattern of the slot machine..." the surveillance man explained hastily, then laid out Shen Yushu's situation for him. When he finished, his face crumpled. "And now that machine has suddenly lost communication. I can't alter the outcome of her bets, and it's already spat out over ten million in chips. At this rate, we're going to lose our shirts!"

"What! Why didn't you say so earlier? Damn it, I'm coming over with men right now!" At the words "spat out over ten million in chips," cold sweat broke out all over Brother Gambling. He hastily summoned several security men and headed for the surveillance room.

From the surveillance footage, Brother Gambling could also see Shen Yushu still raking in money. His brow knitted at once.

Brother Gambling had run casinos for years, and he could tell at a glance that Shen Yushu was not cheating. She simply possessed a formidable intellect and had worked out the slot machine's results through some ingenious calculation. But such people were also the hardest to deal with in a casino, because you could never catch them with any evidence of cheating.

Usually, when someone like that turned up, the casino's measure was to interfere with the slot machine's results by hand and make the sharpster back off. If it was a head-to-head gamble, the casino would bring in a gambling consultant to sit in and take them on personally.

Zhu Qishou had come to wreck the place in just that way, back then. He had not only beaten the casino's gambling consultant but also walked off with twenty million of Brother Gambling's money. True, afterward he had asked for only ten million, but it still left Brother Gambling seething and humiliated beyond measure.

After all, Zhu Qishou was Gangcheng's famed King of Gamblers, and he had a Mystic-rank adept as his bodyguard. Brother Gambling had not dared to play rough; the man had already shown him great face by taking only ten million. Of course, that was also because Zhu Qishou was an insider who knew to leave a little room in his dealings.

This time, Brother Gambling had brought in Piao Huotai to challenge Zhu Qishou, hoping to wash away his old shame. He had never imagined that before Piao Huotai could even fight, the man would already be dead.

"Let's all go take a look!" Brother Gambling stared at the screen, at the two young, pretty gambling adepts who looked like schoolgirls, and felt a little muddled. Where had these two come from? If they were kings of gamblers, why had he never heard of them?

No matter what, though, he could not let her keep winning. Any further and he would be bankrupt! Earlier, because his daughter had been kidnapped, he had been extorted out of twenty million. Now Shen Yushu had visibly won close to twenty million, and he felt he had nothing left to live for.

With several security men in tow, Brother Gambling headed straight for the slot machine section on the first floor where Shen Yushu was.

"Yes! Won again! My chips are past twenty million!" Shen Yushu cried in delight.

"Ahem... Xiaoshu, we may be in trouble!" Gu Mengyao frowned. Watching the security guards bearing down on them with such menace, she warned Shen Yushu under her breath.

Still, Gu Mengyao was not overly worried. At worst, they could just leave the chips behind and take back their original stake. A casino sought money, and with so many customers about, they could not resort to force.

"Oh?" Shen Yushu stopped placing her next bet and turned to look around. Her brow furrowed as well.

"Miss, allow me to introduce myself—I'm the owner of this casino. On the street, they call me Brother Gambling!" Brother Gambling spoke up directly. "The slot machine in front of you has developed a bit of a fault, which has caused a system error and made it keep spitting out chips. But none of that counts!"

Shen Yushu hesitated. She was normally brash and afraid of nothing—but that was because Wei Zhao was at her side. Now that Wei Zhao was absent, she was not foolish enough to start a conflict with so many casino guards... Yet her eyes suddenly lit up, and she answered with tremendous swagger, "Brother Gambling? You mean you can't afford to pay, so you've deliberately cooked up an excuse and claimed the machine is broken?"

"Miss, if that's how you insist on understanding it, there's nothing I can do." Brother Gambling shrugged and said coolly, "But to make up for your losses, I've had a red envelope of one million prepared for each of you. Take them, and the two of you may leave this place."

"Two million? Who do you think you're fobbing off, a beggar? I won twenty million!" Shen Yushu refused to let it go.

"Xiaoshu!" Gu Mengyao tugged at her, meaning for her to quit while she was ahead.

"Relax, Sister Yaoyao—Arrowhead's here!" Shen Yushu whispered into Gu Mengyao's ear.

"Oh..." Gu Mengyao smiled wryly. No wonder Xiaoshu had such nerve—her backup had arrived... Wei Zhao had been worried about Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, and this was hardly the ideal place to heal and restore his true qi. So after hastily repairing the damage to his organs and meridians, he had risen to his feet. As for the true qi he had lost and his other injuries, Wei Zhao intended to recover from them slowly once they were back.

"Boss, are you all right?" Wu Chengtian had been keeping an eye on Wei Zhao. Seeing him stand, he asked at once.

"Boss!" Pi Zhishan and Pi Zhihai were watching Wei Zhao anxiously as well.

"Heh, no major problems now." Wei Zhao nodded, flexing his body. "Let's go. Thank you for arriving in time and holding Piao Huotai down."

"This man is Piao Huotai?" Wu Chengtian glanced at the corpse on the ground.

"You know Piao Huotai?" Wei Zhao was a little surprised.

"The King of Gamblers of Southeast Asia, isn't he? I heard he'd recently come to Donghai City. Never thought we'd beat him to death." Wu Chengtian said offhandedly. "By the way, boss, that owner fellow came by earlier..."

After all, the powers over in Southeast Asia were too far away for Wu Chengtian to worry about. In any case, they could not possibly come in force to make trouble, and even if Piao Huotai's sect was displeased, for the time being there was nothing they could do.

"Mm." Wei Zhao nodded. "I heard what Brother Gambling said while I was healing, so there's no need to repeat it. Let me first check on Chen Xi, and then we'll leave together!"

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