Forces of Temptation

The windows of "Douzhuan" are one-way glass.

From the outside to the inside, the only impression of "Douzhuan" is the bright and indelible lights, like glass candy wrappers illuminated by sunlight for a long time, as if there is infinite hope contained inside.

Because only a corner of the bustling scene can be glimpsed, from the outside, no one can see those players who cried and begged for another chance after a tragic loss, but were dragged to a small black room to die.

Looking from the inside to the outside, one can only see that the outside world is an iron-gray night, cold and gloomy, and bleak.

It seems that only "Douzhuan" is the only place with light source in the world, and this only place of hope with lights is in constant tug-of-war with the endless darkness.

Few people like darkness, especially in "Gravity" where we don't know which one will come first, tomorrow or death.

Under psychological hints, most players who enter the casino will be greedy for the light here and refuse to leave.

People on the outside are full of yearning, but people on the inside are reluctant to give up the light.

As a result, more and more people are like moths chasing light, tempted by novelty, curiosity and excitement, lingering and forgetting to return, until their wings are burnt quietly.

However, just as "Cubic Ark" speculated, the Douzan casino at this time is empty.

Although the gamblers tend to be popular, they still cherish their lives.

Players who were still addicted to the melodious music of Pai Gow mahjong and slot machines, after hearing that Qu Jinsha was involved in the final championship and runner-up battle in the team competition, immediately realized that this place was no longer a safe place, and most of their minds suddenly became sober. Nuo Di went away separately.

In the empty casino, there were only a few NPCs hired from the system, and three or four players who were hired by Qu Jinsha.

They were in a state of high tension, forming a semicircle around Qu Jinsha not too far away, neither daring to get too far away nor too close.

The two players of "Rumeng" were dressed in black suits, and stood on both sides of Qu Jinsha like door gods, waiting in full force, as if they knew Nanzhou and the others would come early in the morning.

On the other hand, the main victim, Qu Jinsha, was holding a bowl of scallion oil noodles and munching, and he didn't seem to be under any psychological pressure.

Sensing the arrival of these three new guests, Qu Jinsha put down his bowl, raised his head kindly and said, "Here you are?"

Nan Zhou blinked curiously with such a cordial attitude towards an old friend.

... Humans are indeed complex and interesting creatures.

Jiang Fang also took the initiative to walk forward, as if the fact that he had cheated points from Qu Jinsha before did not exist at all: "Are you eating?"

"Dinner." Qu Jinsha greeted, "You want to eat too?"

Jiang Fang: "No. I ate before I came here."

"It's a loss." Qu Jinsha shrugged, "This is my craft, and it's pretty decent."

Jiang Fang laughed: "Eating so vegetarian, don't you want to add some meat?"

"I am already a meat ginseng (hostage) myself, it's time to reduce it."

Qu Jinsha rolled up the noodles soaked in scallion oil with his chopsticks, and smirked, "Add some stewed mushrooms (dismissal), and you can add some meat."

"...He was kidnapped." Jiang Fang communicated with Nanzhou through a telepathic communicator, "Now he is not the manager of the casino."

Nan Zhou gave an "oh" with great interest.

Jiang Fang pursed his lips and smiled.

He knew what Nan Zhou was curious about.

He bent his knuckles, gently hooked Nan Zhou's fingers, and shook them half coquettishly: "I will teach you how to say these words later."

After Nan Zhou nodded his head, Jiang Fang turned his attention to the empty casino again, and continued to talk: "Today, there are not many customers."

Qu Jinsha's mouth was stuffed with noodles, and he moved his tongue reluctantly, "Well", said: "It's good. The machines are all empty, just pick whatever you want."

Jiang Fang folded his arms and said with a smile, "Do you want to play another game?"

Before Qu Jinsha could speak, Dai Xuelin, a member of "Rumeng", put his hand on his shoulder.

...not allowed.

As a Gaowei person, he doesn't know much about gambling.

Human history and culture are vast and all-encompassing.

But gambling has always been a strange and partial knowledge.

Most of the official research is within the legal, sociological, and psychological systems. There are few papers that study casino slang, unspoken rules, and the tricks and tricks of scammers.

Those are the darkness that can't be put on the table at all.

Therefore, it is difficult for Gaowei people to estimate the specific level of Jiang Fang.

——Jiang Fang has only been to "Douzhuan" once, and that time he focused on psychological warfare instead of winning with card skills, so he didn't see any cleverness. The official lack of specific reference data on his gambling ability.

Even his gambling ability, on the personal ability bar, is divided into the three items of stealing, labor, and forging.

However, after the collection of big data, Jiang Fang had worked in casinos for a long time, so "Rumeng" had to be 100% vigilant about it.

Qu Jinsha looked up helplessly, and smiled apologetically at Jiang Fang.

"...Oh?" Jiang Fang asked a question, "Boss Qu, this is to drive away customers."

It was Qu Jinsha who asked the question, but his eyes were looking straight at the other two members of "Rumeng".

Standing beside Dai Xuelin is Dai Xuebin.

The two are set up as brothers, with similar appearances. The rigid etiquette and sense of alienation also seem to be born out of the same mother's womb: "Sorry, the equipment is overhauled today, and no outsiders are accepted."

Jiang Fang smiled and said, "Then why did you charge us an entrance fee just now?"

He turned to Qu Jinsha: "Boss Qu, the casino is open to welcome guests, and it's doing all-round business. Is there such a rule that you only take money and don't play?"

Qu Jinsha smiled and said nothing, just pointed at the two "Rumeng" with the end of his chopsticks, indicating that he did not make the decision, and let them make up their minds.

Both of them frowned at the same time, looking as if they were thinking seriously.

But after Yuan Mingqing's introduction, Nan Zhou knew exactly what kind of goods they were.

"Like a dream" is a very beautiful name.

However, they are one of the rumored two vase sets.

As the name suggests, if you are beautiful, you are beautiful, but you have relatively low autonomy in the game.

The advantage is that you are completely obedient, but the disadvantage is that you don't use your brain at all.

Nan Zhou had his own reasons for paying extra attention to them.

When these two "persons" do not speak or reveal their emotions, they are both standard cold and reticent, very much like Nan Zhou.

But their growth process and that of Nanzhou are exactly the opposite, and the two are a complete mirror image.

Nan Zhou is a virtual character, and the author endowed him with the ability to learn knowledge quickly in the settings.

This is similar to high-dimensional knowledge injection.

However, his growth direction is completely different from that of Gaowei people.

In the beginning, he was a blank slate like any child who grew up in an ordinary environment.

All he has is a language environment where only fixed conversations can take place, and some rudimentary books.

He first practiced and explored by himself in a bad living environment, and established a vague understanding of the world, and then gradually constructed his own spiritual world and personality through reading.

However, high-dimensional people first master enough knowledge in one brain, and then use this as a basis to slowly practice and cultivate their own personality.

Some people stop at the beginning of practice, thinking that their knowledge is sufficient, so they are basically children's personality, only indulge in pleasure, and don't care about the result, as long as they enjoy and experience the happiness in the process of life.

— This is the stupid little couple.

Some people have cultivated their own personality, can use knowledge to a certain extent, and have a certain ability to digest new knowledge from outside.After all, it is not an easy task to grasp and use their psychological weaknesses when playing the role of people from another dimension.

——This is the Tang and Song Dynasties and the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is also the reason why they were promoted by the system.

Some people gave up thinking after a short practice.Because those rational knowledge that human beings have to pursue for a lifetime, they don't need to do anything, and they can get it as soon as they open their eyes after they fall to the ground.

But because the initial knowledge is too easy to obtain, and everyone starts from the same high point, there are not many breakthroughs. If you want to surpass the class and achieve something, you have to work thousands of times more than normal human beings.

They simply lie flat without doing anything or thinking, and they can get good results.

Over time, they got used to following all instructions and regarded themselves as highly intelligent robots.

——This is "like a dream".

For example, the information provided by Yuan, Ming and Qing, hidden under the cold appearance of "Rumeng", is actually a complete vase, relying on game strategy and guidance to clear the game, it is just a high-end + open version of "Zhaohui".

That doesn't mean their confrontation will be easy.

——This means that what they have to fight against is not "Rumeng" at all, but many high-dimensional people who watch the battle in real time.

Thinking of this, Nan Zhou raised his head and looked at the roof of Huacai Wandering Casino.

At this moment, the brains of brothers "Rumeng" Shuangdai are directly connected to the broadcast room.

Countless cameras are like a swarm of bees, closely watching the few people in the confrontation.

Nan Zhou's indifferent gaze happened to meet one of the cameras.

An employee shivered suddenly: "Hey, did he find us?"

In the next second, Nan Zhou withdrew his gaze, leaving Gaowei full of suspicion.

"It should be... right?"

The team leader gave an order: "Concentrate on your work and don't get distracted."

The task their team received was to analyze all the effective information in the screen so that it could be passed on to the next command group, so as to provide one-on-one one-line guidance to "Rumeng".

In contrast, their upline team can be said to be battered.

What they are responsible for analyzing is the trend of the current real-time broadcast barrage.

Just as Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang expected, because of the disintegration of "Adam" and the defection of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the biggest trouble for the Gaowei people at present is not only the "Li Ark", but also those who have invested real money and want to watch a A fair fight of life and death, but was told that everything could be a spectator.

Although they cut off all communications related to the "Cubic Ark" just now, and the Gaowei people failed to see the whole process of Yuan, Ming and Qing's self-destruction, his identity has been clearly revealed.

——He is a high-dimensional person who should not have appeared in this game.

And it is very likely that it is the royal family who has been booked as the champion.

Thus, the vigorous crusade against the program group kicked off.

Already, some great masters have begun to look through the massive screen recordings in the past to find out whether there are other royal families in the game.

The sudden appearance of "Rumeng" is everyone's main suspect.

the reason is simple.

The timing of their threat to Qu Jinsha was too accurate, and this group was a well-known good-looking group before, unlike the ambition to compete for the first place, now they suddenly ran to the Douzhuan casino, inexplicably and always Qu Jinsha, who went it alone, formed a team, so what if he didn't open God's perspective?

In order to calm the public opinion, the program team issued an emergency statement overnight, guaranteeing that the program team did not place high-dimensional people in. It is very likely that Yuan Mingqing entered through the back door privately, and "Rumeng" is definitely a human player, just the same as "Adam" The party of keeping a low profile.

They have already calculated the score ratio, and they have already reached a private cooperation with Qu Jinsha.

They originally planned to raise their points again, and then they would become a blockbuster, but they didn't expect Nan Zhou's points to increase suddenly, forcing them to play this hidden trump card.

The program group's holding the respect still has some effect.

Some of the audience believed it, while others said, fuck off, you liar.

It's just that this explanation is not unreasonable, and everyone can't come up with conclusive evidence for a while.

As a result, there was a natural commotion on the barrage.

"Why don't you gamble? What are you waiting for?"

"Why do you want to gamble? You see, 'Cubic Ark' paid an entrance fee of 800 points, and the score has already dropped behind 'Rumeng'."

"Be smarter, the casino won't pay venue fees for these three days? It's impossible for Qu Jinsha's casino to have people coming today. After the settlement at 24 o'clock, isn't 'Rumeng' still lagging behind?"

"Just kidding, would other players be willing for a non-human like Nan Zhou to win the championship? They will definitely come to the casino to help 'Rumeng'!"

"Just kidding, with Nanzhou in the casino, who would dare to come in?"

"What? Do you have to gamble when you enter a casino? Maybe 'Rumeng' is not good at casinos?"

"Well said, according to the program group, they have long planned to win the first place, and they have teamed up with Qu Jinsha. Don't they know nothing about casinos? Then, what good cooperation does Qu Jinsha have with them? He likes to give away trash?"

"That's right, cooperating with the casino owner and not relying on gambling to decide the outcome?"

The barrage group was about to go crazy: "Are they allowed to gamble?"

Seeing them jumping up and down in a hurry, the information team couldn't help gloating.

Even the leader of the information team who kept saying "don't get distracted" smiled and asked, "Do you need help?"

The barrage team was so busy that they didn't even have time to look back at them.

Because the higher-ups couldn't make a decision for a long time, the Shuangdai brothers could only stalemate.

It was Qu Jinsha who laughed, and came out to smooth things over skillfully: "Today's equipment maintenance, the notice has not been posted in advance, it is my negligence. How about it, you stay here for one night first, it is free, it is considered I apologize to Lao Qu. If it is open tomorrow, I will save the first game for you. How about it?"

These words are watertight, and I can't pick any thorns if I want to pick them.

"Rumeng" both nodded their heads after receiving the affirmative reply from above.

Qu Jinsha put down the empty bowl, stood up, and was about to send them off, when Dai Xuelin stopped him in advance: "Boss Qu, let me take them there."

During this time, they have figured out the internal structure of "Dou Zhuan".

They also knew that Qu Jinsha should not be allowed to spend time alone with them or exchange information.

Qu Jinsha, who was under control, was quite calm: "No problem."

He turned his head away, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and spat out a string of weird characters to Jiang Fang: "Zeiwai (goodbye), lousanggu (beware of ghosts)."

Jiang Fang was startled.

Immediately, he broke into a smile and nodded slightly: "reireiniba (thank you). zeiwai (goodbye)."

The Gaowei people in the information group who were gloating just now were all dumbfounded: "..."

... what did they say?

Immediately they hit the information base and searched what kind of language it was.

But after searching the language inventory on the earth, they were shocked to find that it was difficult for all languages ​​to match this weird pronunciation.

So how did they succeed in communicating?

The above also found this weirdness, and sent them a urging message: "What are they talking about?"

The information group fell into a round of mindless and tense deciphering.

After searching for N rounds in the vast sea of ​​language information, and sending the urging information to the seventh time, the leader of the information team finally responded tremblingly: "...it seems to be a language called Wenzhou dialect."

The above has lost patience: "Specific content?"

The leader of the information team was about to cry: "... I don't understand."