Looking for the lost ship girl

"Speaking of which, how do casinos make money?"

"How do casinos make money? Alaska, you ask me, why do you think of asking this... First of all, there are actuaries. No matter how you calculate it, in terms of probability, the banker wins more. However, with a large amount of turnover, in the big casino With the support of data, you must be making money. In addition, the casino will also take 5% of the water, which is a lot of money. Besides gambling, the things sold in the casino are very expensive, several times or even ten times the value outside. , a cocktail costs this amount, but it’s only a small amount of money.”

Guam asked: "I've seen a movie...are there really gambling saints in casinos?"

"I have never met anyone who only wins but never loses. I have heard of some people who lost all their money, then borrowed loan sharks, and finally jumped from the boat into the sea. The jumping into the sea must have caused quite a big fuss. Those rich people, except for those who are rich, , sometimes just like ordinary people.”

"How much do you get paid as a dealer?"

Alas, like Guam, was invited to join the cruise ship's escort, and the salary of the escort was known early on. Princeton is different. While working as a guard, she is also a croupier at the cruise ship casino. No one knows her salary as a croupier.

"The salary is average, mainly based on tips."

Alaska, carrying the guitar case on his back, remembered the rumors he had heard before, and said mysteriously: "Did someone ask you to sleep with me?"

"What, if you play in a bar, will you do a striptease? Of course not... In fact, many people have hinted to me that there is a lot of money if you sleep with me, and there are also croupiers in casinos who do this kind of thing."

"You can see through those extraordinary people."

Princeton said: "Even if you know that he is cheating, but you don't know how to cheat, you can't just talk nonsense."

"How long have you been working as a dealer on a cruise ship?"

"It's been almost a year."

"Didn't you want to be a homeless street magician before?"

"Washington invited me to be an escort. Didn't she also invite you and you agreed?"

"The main reason why we do it is because we can play in the bar on the cruise ship, where there are so many instruments."

The three people were talking and walking together on the streets of Fujiang City.

Alaska has long pink hair, Guam has long blue hair, and Princeton has blond hair that is slightly curly and hangs down to her shoulders. Their hair colors are different and they look a bit independent. However, even so, the hair color is not that dazzling, completely different from those inferior colors dyed with dyes. Even for passers-by who are used to seeing black hair, they don’t think it looks out of place. On the contrary, they feel that the hair color should be like this, giving people a natural feeling.

They did not take the city tram. Instead, they walked casually on the street, crossing the streets and alleys, talking while walking. Along the way, I looked at dozens of tall buildings, beautiful glass curtain walls, and huge billboards. While talking, I walked through the exhibition booths, chattering about how much the handicrafts on the booths cost, and then bought some snacks on the roadside, including octopus balls and grilled chicken wings.

"I just saw that hat studded with silver jewelry. It's very expensive, but it's very beautiful."

"I heard that the prices of these things at the exhibition are all randomly marked, and no one will buy them anyway."

Passing by a high-rise building with a commercial plaza next to it, Guam looked at a long queue in front of a store and asked, "What are they selling there?"

"It's something to eat, I'm not sure, it seems like sesame cakes."

Although he wanted to taste it, there was a long queue in front of him. After thinking about it, Princeton said, "Aren't you tired of carrying the guitar case and keyboard on your back?"

Alaska hugged Princeton's neck, reached behind his back and patted his guitar case, saying, "This is the only one I can't leave."

At noon, the cruise ship docked, and it took more than half an hour to pack up and get out of the cruise ship. From Beigang to South Station, one goes to the south and one to the north. It seems very far, but it is actually different from the train station. The pier is definitely on the seaside. Although it is said to be one in the south and the other in the north, it is very quick to walk along the seaside streets and only need to pass through a small half of the city.

When we found the community called Xiaozhu and the attacker's candy store, the weather was still hot.

Standing under a large locust tree, Alaska put her long hair in front of her body and said, "I really want to cut my hair short, but I feel like I have no personality at all... This is where the raiders live."

"Yeah, this is where most ship girls like to live. I've stayed here several times and it's very quiet. Even in a big city, you can still hear the chirping of birds and a large group of sparrows here in the morning. Standing on the wire. In the spring, swallows come to build their nests. Anyway, it’s a very nice place... Look ahead. It’s just ahead. Less than fifty meters away, that’s the Raider’s Candy Shop. I’ll take you with me. Come here, she will be happy."

Princeton said this, imagining the smiling face of the attacker. However, when they found the candy store where the attacker was, they only saw a closed shop.

Guam said: "No one is here."

"Go out. She occasionally goes out to perform tasks. Otherwise, if she just relies on her to open a candy store, it will definitely close down due to poor management. Bumblebee and Northampton come here often. Bumblebee comes here, and she eats the Raiders. Those who live in Raiders... are just wondering why I didn’t see the sign saying the business was temporarily closed.”

"Is it really still open? I see there is absolutely nothing inside."

Alaska stood by the window of the candy store. The door was closed and the window was also closed, but the curtains didn't seem to be closed. She looked through the gap in the curtains and could see that the counters inside had been emptied. If it is just closed, there should at least be some products inside. But all the products on the shelves and counters were empty, and it didn't look like it had been stolen or looted. The trays were even put together properly.

Princeton also ran to the window. The inside of the candy store was indeed like what Alaska said. After a long time, she made a meaningless sound: "It's true."

"Princeton, you can change it into a key."

"Magic is just a cover-up. If you can change a key, you need magic."

Three beautiful girls stood at the door, with many people around to see them. Although there are many ship girls living in this community called Xiaozhu, most of them are ordinary people of all kinds. There is a canteen opposite the candy store. The owner of the canteen was standing under a tree watching people playing chess. When he saw a few people from Princeton, he walked over.

"It's closed. This store is not open."

"closed?"

"That day, several people moved everything in the store to a boat. I asked her about it, and she said she was going home, and then left. It has been closed for many days now."

"Do you know where you went?"

"have no idea."

Shaking his head like this, the owner of the canteen continued to go back to watch people playing chess. Alaska said: "Why did the Raider move?"

"have no idea."

Doubts appeared in my mind, and I didn't have any ideas after thinking about it.

Alaska said: "It's just like when everyone in the garrison parted ways. Lexington, Saratoga, Tennessee, Essex... everyone left without leaving any contact. This was the case in the past. , the Raiders are still like this now, in the final analysis we are only connected because of the admiral and the garrison."

Guam said: "Sister, you are saying these profound things again."

I was a little disappointed not to find the attacker, but things were already like this, there was nothing we could do. Several people subconsciously avoid things related to the past because they are all sad things.

Not long after, I was walking on the way to the center of Fujiang City. I thought of my friends and sisters from the past, and how we were all separated from each other. I still felt a little melancholy.

Alaska broke the silence and said, "Where do you think the Raiders went?"

"Go home? But where do we have a home?"

Home has a broad meaning. For a ship girl who already has an admiral, the place where the admiral is is home, and the place where people can feel at ease is home.

"Maybe someone asked them to leave... By the way, do you know where Colorado is?"

"Not sure, before..." Alaska said, suddenly stopped, and said: "Shhh - the car behind seems to be following us."

Several people turned around and saw a black car slowly following them.

When they stopped and waited on the side of the road to see what was going on, the black car parked next to them.

"How do I get to Binjiang Road?"

Princeton has spent a lot of time in Fujiang City and is quite familiar with the entire city. If the other party wanted to go to Binjiang Road, he would go in the opposite direction. She said, "Go back, turn left, then keep walking until you see the street sign and then turn."

The man in his thirties wearing sunglasses showed a somewhat embarrassed expression and said, "We're going completely wrong. It looks very troublesome to reverse here... Can you help me look behind me? I'm going to reverse."

This street can only carry two cars at most. It's a bit troublesome to back up. It's normal to ask someone to help you to avoid hitting the wall when backing up.

The man's expression was sincere, and only he knew what he was thinking. Beautiful women are walking on the street, cowards and nerds. They have wild thoughts in their minds but dare not take another step. Even if they take a glance, they quickly turn their heads for fear of being noticed. For those who are now rich, who are eloquent and have some conditions at home, they have already gone up to strike up a conversation.

Alaska could see what the man was thinking at a glance. She patted the hood of the black car and said, "It's not that troublesome..."

"The road here is quite narrow and my rearview mirror is not good..."

"It's not that I won't help you. Well, just sit in the car...just turn the front of the car around."

"That's right."

"Guam, you go to the back."

Hearing the pink-haired beauty's words, the man showed some confusion. Then he saw the pink-haired beauty and the blue-haired beauty. They walked to the front and rear of the car one after another. Then there was a shaking, and he saw his car flying up, and the two beauties lifted his car and turned around.

After turning around like this, he saw the pink-haired beauty clapped her hands, and then heard a slightly bored voice: "You're welcome."

Two weak-looking women carried their car and turned around. The man seemed a little confused for a moment. In short, it was a very magical experience. He drove away like this, and vaguely heard a voice saying, "I want to come over and strike up a conversation...", and his face suddenly turned red with embarrassment.

After solving the so-called tracking matter, the three people continued walking.

"Who is he? He doesn't know how to strike up a conversation."

"Awesome skills."

"When we were moving his car, I saw his stupid expression. It was so funny."

Smiling like this dispelled the slightly sad atmosphere just now because the Raiders had moved. Then they walked around the city center and didn't buy anything in the end.

When we returned to the cruise ship in the evening, we separated. Alaska and Guam returned to their rooms, and Princeton's room was in a different place from them.

Princeton performed magic tricks along the way, waving his hand and playing cards appeared in his hand. Then he waved his hand again, and the playing cards disappeared again. The skillful movements are enough to make people startle. Unfortunately, there are no ordinary people in the place where the shipgirls live, and they are in a separate area of ​​the cruise ship.

Before Princeton could reach his room, he was suddenly stopped by a voice.

"rabbit."

Princeton turned around and saw a woman in her thirties. She was average in appearance but had a very good temperament.

That was the supervisor of their escort team, named Wei Lian. I heard that he was an admiral in the past, but he stopped being an admiral later, and then he simply became a guard here. If you say he is a guard, to be more precise, you should say he is a manager. Many of the ship girls in those escorts were her ship girls, but of course she was not. Although I don’t know why I didn’t become an admiral and switched to doing this, but everyone has their own difficulties.

"We went out to play for a long time. How was it? Where did you go?"

"I looked for my former companions, but I couldn't find them."

The two people walked side by side in the corridor of the cruise ship. Wei Lian said in surprise: "Looking for companions...the Raiders you mentioned before? You, Alaska, Guam, and the previous Northampton and Hornet. It is said that Washington is also , there are your companions in Fujiang City, your previous garrison was powerful enough."

Princeton nodded, the garrison was very powerful, everyone was very nice, but the admiral was a bit bad...

So what is the admiral who is said to be very bad doing?

He was telling people a story and held the cute little pink-haired girl in his arms tightly.

"Hmm, ahem, if you want to hear Sister Meow's story, that's fine too. But you can't tell it to others, I'll just tell you, my little house..."

"Hood can't stand it, beg for mercy. Bismarck shouted: Hey! You are a broken man! If you just fight me to the end, the Sa family will spare you! Now you are begging for mercy from me, the Sa family will not spare you! Another shot, on the ammunition depot It was like a fireworks show, with the fort exploding, the mast breaking, and fireworks going out. When Bismarck looked at it, he saw Hood standing on the ground, with only the air coming out of his mouth and no air coming in, unable to move. Bismarck Bismarck said hypocritically: You cheated to death, Sajia will beat her again! But the skin gradually changed. Bismarck thought: I only hope to beat this guy, I don't want to kill her with three rounds of fire. Sajia will be sued, go There was no one in the gendarmerie to deliver food, so it was better to leave as soon as possible. He walked away, turned around and pointed at Hu De's corpse and said: You are cheating your death, Sajia and you will take your time and take care of it! One scolded and the other strode away..."