sincerity of lies

Meng Lingshan was sailing on the sea with Chen Jiashu and A Bin, Chen Jiashu's bodyguard who never left.

This submarine semi-submersible cruise ship departed from the port of Vietnam and stopped at several places on the way. There were more and more people on board.

The blue sea water swayed outside the glass of the pedestal, and the ceiling lights were silently turned on.The bright light shone down, adding a layer of stiffness to the masks of everyone sitting here.

Everyone sitting here is wearing a mask that can cover half of their face. The mask covers the upper half of their face, and only the part below the nose is exposed.

Meng Lingshan glanced into the cabin calmly from the corner of his eye.

The scenery in the sea is actually pretty good. From time to time, various unnamed sea fish are attracted by the boat and hit the glass in a daze.But the middle-aged men in the cabin are wearing high-end clothes and famous watches. I don’t know whether they have no interest in the ocean or are tired of the scenery because of frequent travel.Most of them either closed their eyes and rested their minds, or looked down at their phones.

Perhaps because they were all wearing masks, they had no desire to talk at all.

There were only two people in the corner, who looked like he and Chen Jiashu were in a group, talking in low voices.

But the voice was too low, the two sides were separated by a whole cabin, Meng Lingshan couldn't hear what they were saying.

Meng Lingshan withdrew his corner of the eye, and glanced at the crew members who were sitting at the door of the cabin, just a short distance away from them.

The crew wore well-formed sailor uniforms. Although they were in the cabin, they also wore hats. They had rough bronze skin that looked like they were living at sea, with a stiff smile carved on their faces but invisible to their eyes. They looked a bit like a robot. .

His eyes then fell on Chen Jiashu on the left.

Chen Jiashu was resting his eyes with his eyes closed, but one hand seemed to be resting on his waist.

The effect of the kidney transplant was indeed good, but in the end there was another stab wound to his body. Chen Jiashu's originally black and shiny hair could be seen faintly with a couple of white hairs. Make him look like a dead man.

On Chen Jiashu's right is Abin.

Abin didn't pay attention to his surroundings and was focusing on his mobile phone, but there was basically no signal in the sea. He didn't look very patiently, but he insisted on watching.Because next—everyone's mobile phones will be confiscated when the boat journey reaches the end.

Because, what they are going to see is Mr. Liu.

After lurking by Chen Jiashu's side for so long, after all the hardships, he finally got the chance to meet Mr. Liu.

Mr. Liu who must have been involved in Ji Yu's death.

Perhaps it was Mr. Liu who was the real culprit behind the death of Ji Yu and the death of Ji Xun's parents.

Meng Lingshan retracted his peripheral vision.

He no longer observed anyone in the cabin, only staring outside the glass.

As time goes by, the color of the sea water becomes darker, as if the blue ink dripping into the glass is covering the glass like a film, and the originally beautiful sea fish are painted with a layer of lead ash, leaving only ghostly shadows , coming and going suddenly.

I'm walking towards the person I've been spying on.

Meng Lingshan heard his own tense heartbeat.

thump -- thump -- thump --

Immediately...immediately...finally...see you.

thump-thump-

I kept my eyes on him secretly.

thump—

Are his eyes, Mr. Liu's eyes, secretly looking at me, at us... everyone here?

Suddenly, a protruding, flat eye, piercing dark blue, stuck to the glass of the boat.

Boom!

Meng Lingshan's cheek muscles twitched.

He looked intently, and saw clearly that the eye outside the glass was just a fish eye, and the eye mask of the fish eye was a layer of translucent gray. He looked at him in a deadpan way, and swam with the boat until the boat stopped suddenly. It also disappeared into the darkness without warning.

At this time, the crew member at the cabin door seemed to have been pressed the key, and shouted:

"We have arrived!"

The cabin door opened, and under the leadership of the crew, everyone walked out of the bottom of the sightseeing boat and came to the deck.The sky was already pitch black, thick clouds rolled in the sky, the moon and the stars were all covered, and only fragmentary pieces of light leaked out from the gaps in the clouds.

It is this bit of light that illuminates the giant beast in front of the sightseeing boat... A long tunnel stretching out like a snake letter and kissing device connects the sightseeing boat, a sea monster that is darker than pitch black, dormant on the sea surface like giant ships.

The people on the deck had already entered the connecting channel of the two ships under the leadership of the crew. Meng Lingshan followed Chen Jiashu and was also among the crowd. They walked on the gangway covered with red carpets, and the sound of the waves was caught in the sea breeze. The gap in the passage squeezed in, and the whip hit the back of the human body, urging the people in the passage to move forward quickly.

The corridor was not long, and soon, they entered the interior of the cruise ship.

First there was a corridor full of oil paintings and animal heads, then they came to two gates, and when they opened the gates, finally, Meng Lingshan saw everything:

This is a huge, resplendent palace.

The palace is brightly lit, thick red velvet tassel curtains hang down from the eight-meter-high sky, gracefully and heavily covering every window here, the crystal chandelier hanging in the center of the ceiling shines brightly, under the crystal chandelier, is A black high platform.

Next to the high platform is the buffet area, where goblets are gathered into a tower shape, and champagne flows down from the top of the tower like a waterfall.All kinds of delicious delicacies, surrounded by the champagne tower, can be called a gluttonous feast.

Looking outside, there are sofas and round tables.

The VIPs either sat in the salon and smoked, or watched and cheered at the round tables. On the round tables, there were baccarat, dice, blackjack, and American roulette. Cheers, sighs.

On the boat, all the people on the same boat as Meng Lingshan were men.

Here, the number of women suddenly increased.

Basically, next to every man wearing a half mask, there will be a young woman standing.The young women, dressed in courtly attire that fit the style of the hall, snuggled up to the man in the mask like a bird, and there was nothing wrong with them, except for the piece of cloth covering their eyes.

But for some reason, every woman standing in the hall had a silk cloth covering her eyes.

Is the silk cloth transparent?

Don't they feel that they have difficulty in moving under the silk cloth?

"Is this your first time, sir?"

The waiter leading the way was smiling and talking to Chen Jiashu.

Chen Jiashu nodded slightly.

"Chenchen." The waiter turned around and called someone.

A woman came in response. Next to the woman was another waiter in black. The waiter held her hand and handed her over to Chen Jiashu.

She was as young as any woman in the hall, dressed in luxurious clothes, with silk ribbons around her eyes.

"No need." Chen Jiashu refused.

"Please don't rush to say no," said the waiter. "Every boss who comes here will have a woman like this. You have everything in her."

all.

Does it mean that every boss is assigned a lady?

Meng Lingshan thought to himself, suddenly, there was a sound of "Dang Dang" in the hall, and the big grandfather clock against the wall struck ten times, which proved that it was exactly ten o'clock in the evening.

The sound attracted everyone's attention.

Meng Lingshan found that a gambling table was slowly raised on the huge black high platform in the lobby that he saw when he came in.

The croupier wearing white gloves came to the stage and bowed to the people in the hall. Then, on the stairs on the left and right of the platform, a masked man leading a female companion came up.

The one on the left is fat and the one on the right is tall.

They sat down in their respective positions, and the crowd suddenly became agitated, like the wind blowing the waves, one wave higher than the other, and everything indicated that something exciting was about to happen.

At this time, the large LED screen behind the high platform lights up, and it shows:

Gambling method: Sic Bo

Then, the screen switched to the gaming table, and the five people around the table were photographed together.

The white-gloved croupier shook the dice cup, and then both sides placed bets, the tall one betting big, the fat one betting small.There are colorful chips on the tables on both sides, but the strange thing is that the chips are not piled up in front of the men, but in front of the women who are seated with them.

Sic Bo bets big or small, this is a probability event, both sides win or lose.

Since the gambling started on the high platform, all the surrounding gambling tables stopped, and all the gamblers who were originally scattered around the high platform gathered around the high platform to watch the game.

Not long after the game started, both sides still had more chips, but the spectators were still impatient, and there were clamoring and urging voices everywhere:

"It's a big bet!"

"If you're a man, don't dawdle, hurry up!"

"Believe in yourself, luck is by your side today!"

The voices rising and falling in the hall were like clusters of flames, igniting the minds of the two gamblers on the high platform.

The tall man couldn't hold his breath, and took the lead. With a wave of his arm, he pushed all the chips piled in front of the woman to the center of the table:

"Stud, one stroke will determine life and death!"

The woman next to the tall one seemed very nervous and accidentally knocked over the cup in hand.

But the sound of the glass breaking was almost inaudible in the lively hall.

The fat man hesitated, and looked at the woman next to him frequently, and the hands of the woman next to him also tightly grasped his arm, which aroused the dissatisfaction of other people in the hall. Everyone yelled at the fat man, "You bastard", and the croupier was also very polite. Reminder: "Sir, you have to gamble when you are on the black table."

Meng Lingshan immediately understood that the rule on this high platform is that both parties who go up must bet to the end, or lose all chips, or win all chips.

How much are their chips worth?

The fat man was fidgeting, and finally he gritted his teeth, pulled his arm out of the woman's hand, and pushed all the chips on the table to the center of the table.

They still bet on size.

The croupier shakes the dice cup.

Tall people choose big, fat people choose small.

The five-second countdown, the dice cup was opened, three dice, one six, one four, one two, the total number was twelve, and the number of points was large.

Fatty lost.

Suddenly, loud shouts erupted in the hall.

Calls came from all directions, and seemed to burst from everyone in the hall.

The large Led screen displayed everything clearly. Meng Lingshan saw that after the croupier showed the results, he pressed the button on the table, and a semicircular glass cover suddenly rose behind the lady's seat next to the fat man; at the same time, Several straps secure the woman to the chair.

A shrill scream burst out from the mouth of the blindfolded woman.

But such screams still couldn't break through the high-pitched noise created by all the distinguished guests in the hall.

Amidst the noise, the croupier pulled out a silver pistol from under the gaming table and handed it to the tall man respectfully.

The tall, thick hand grasped the pistol.

The silver gun looked so exquisite and charming in his palm, the fine flashes of the crystal lamp seemed to be projected on the gun, it was so gorgeous on the screen.

A flush appeared on the face of the tall man, and the flush converged on the lower half of his exposed face. He held a gun and gestured towards the bound woman beside the fat man; on the other hand, the fat man opposite had a pale face. , stood up in a daze, dodged and dodged, and stayed away from the woman beside him...

What will the next scene be?

A cold air rushed to my mind from the foot of Meng Ling Mountain.

He stared straight ahead.

Is it... is it...

"boom!"

The tall man squeezed the trigger with a smirk, and the gun went off, with a sound like fireworks and an effect like fireworks.

The bullet hit the female that the fat man brought.

Injected from the chest, pierced the back, spurting out a pool of blood, splashing a fan on the glass cover behind him.

The blindfolded woman didn't die immediately, her body was twitching on the chair, more and more blood was spreading from her back, and there was a ho-ho gasp from her mouth, like any dying creature's whine.

For a few minutes, no one moved.

Until the flowing blood took away the last bit of life of the woman.

Blood soaked the seat, and she was completely motionless.

At the scene, there was a sigh among all the onlookers.

Then, there was a burst of cheers, a burst of laughter, and a burst of beast-like neighing!

The atmosphere in the hall has been pushed to the climax by blood and death, the victor is full of ambition, and the loser is downcast!

"Everything is everything. Including her body and her life. She is your bargaining chip, a necessary condition for participating in the gambling game; she is also your substitute, giving her life for you in the black table gambling game."

Suddenly, an old voice came from the side.

Meng Lingshan shuddered, turned around suddenly, and saw a thin old man standing beside him.

The old man was in his 60s, and he was the only one in the hall who didn't wear a mask except for the women who waited on him.His gray hair is mixed with yellow, which seems to be the result of half faded melanin. He wears a pair of single-sided gold-rimmed lenses on his face. The eye outside the lens is piercing, but the other eye is covered by the lens. , but shrouded in a layer of gray, as dim as the fish Meng Lingshan saw when he came.

He stretched out his hand to Chen Jiashu, kindly.

"My surname is Liu."

He is Mr. Liu!