Chapter 257: Before the Slot Machine
Cuckoo's words made Xia Ran feel a little uncomfortable, but as a person who had experienced a Xiangliu Street struggle since he was a child, it was not a big thing to die a man.
Eventually, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I just don't think there's any need for him to die..."
Cuckoo thought for a moment and said, "If he were a little smarter, there would be no need to die. But there are many things in this world that are not necessarily determined by the so-called big necessity. With that, the cuckoo cocked his slender legs.
"Stockings are a woman's second skin, and a lot of men go crazy about it. However, the lifespan of stockings is very short, and sometimes they are discarded after just one party. One moment it's a coveted object with beautiful light, and the next it's a dirty trash in a trash can. ”
"It's the same with stockings, they play an important role in certain situations, and when they lose their usefulness, they become just useless garbage. ”
Xia Ran looked at the cuckoo, and then turned his gaze to the cuckoo's slender legs and said to the cuckoo, "Where are your stockings?"
Cuckoo smiled: "I'm very confident in my legs, don't you think it's beautiful?"
Xia Ran nodded and said, "It's really beautiful." ”
Then he looked up at the cuckoo, who understood what Xia Ran meant, and said with a slight smile: "In the eyes of some people, I am just a pair of beautiful stockings. ”
The two fell silent, and Natsuran looked out the window on the street, and then muttered, "I don't know how many nights like this will be in the future." ”
"Every night is the same, and there will be as many nights as this today in the future, until the day when humanity ends," said the cuckoo. ”
"But we were lucky tonight, at least we didn't get killed tonight. Come to think of it, at this moment, you really shouldn't drink coffee, but drink. The cuckoo's interest seemed to be quite high, and he was not uneasy about what he was going to face next, but was leisurely enjoying the moment.
Xia Ran turned his gaze to the cuckoo and said, "How long are we going to sit here?"
"You can sit as long as you want, but I suggest sitting until 10 a.m., so that we can say goodbye in the new morning light and start our day." ”
Xia Ran said: "Facing new challenges. ”
The cuckoo said: "Not afraid of the sky, not afraid of tomorrow." ”
Xia Ran pondered for a moment and then said, "That's right, you should have a drink." ”
"Hehe, cheers. ”
...
Flowing streets, Tanaka's fingers are constantly tapping on the keyboard, making a "click", "click" sound, now Tanaka is not in a working state, but the whole person seems to be in a state of emptiness in a daze, but his mind is running rapidly.
"Haven't slept yet?"
Simon Wilson's voice rang out in the doorway, wearing a simple dark gray dressing gown, a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a somewhat tired expression.
Tanaka was stunned by Simon Wilson's voice, then turned to look at him.
Simon Wilson walked into the room, sat down on a chair and said, "Did you find any clues?"
Tanaka shook his head silently, Simon Wilson noticed that Tanaka's expression was different, and he leaned forward slightly and said to Tanaka, "Did something happen?"
Facing Simon Wilson, Tanaka really couldn't hide anything, and after a moment of hesitation, he said to Simon Wilson: "Something has indeed happened..."
Simon Wilson said, "Can you tell me?"
"Of course... Of course..."Tanaka nodded, and then he couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "But this thing sounds very absurd and complicated. ”
Simon Wilson smiled and said, "Don't worry, kid, what we have now is time." I'm going to get some drinks now, and we'll talk while we drink, and see how it looks now, and by the time dawn you'll have a rough idea of what happened. ”
...
The sun rises and the morning sun shines.
Countless people lost sleep again this night, Natsuran and Cuckoo ushered in the sunrise in the café, Tanaka and Simon Harrison sighed in the shelter on Drift Street, Luke, Zhilan, Zhong Xiulun and others returned to the secret base in Nine to report to Mi Luoyang, and the military sent a large number of people to conduct an in-depth investigation on the "Sword of Breaking the Net" found.
Of course, these are only superficial phenomena, and there are countless other hidden forces surging in the darkness.
And everything is at this moment ushering in the light of a new day.
...
The sun shines on the window, illuminating the room through the curtains.
At this moment, Mr. Hua had already gotten up, washed up in the simple bathroom, and then tidied up his clothes.
Although he was not dressed in the usual gentlemanly attire, even the usual casual clothes were meticulously organized.
Looking at himself in the mirror, Mr. Hua nodded with a slight satisfaction, but then he frowned slightly. He sighed lightly, and then deliberately ruffled the clothes on his body, making himself look even more scruffy. Although this kind of dress made him very unhappy, it was a matter of the current environment.
It is very out of place for a gentleman with oily hair and a flour face to appear on the streets of Flowing Street.
At this time, Mr. Hua was also in the middle of the street.
After finishing all the dressing, Mr. Hua walked straight out of the door, out of the dilapidated apartment building, and walked down the street in the current morning light.
Although Mr. Hua seems to be alone at the moment, there are people who will protect him in secret, so even if he is in the street, Mr. Hua does not feel any discomfort.
He walked the streets of Drift Street, admiring the perfect blend of avant-garde and shabby environment, looking like a tourist.
Despite this, Mr. Hua is not a leisurely tourist after all, and he has a strong sense of purpose himself.
After about forty minutes of action, the sun had completely risen in the east, and the bright daylight illuminated the entire city of the 27th arrondissement. And Mr. Hua also reached his destination.
Not far in front of us was a very dilapidated store, and on the ground around the store lay a few people who were sleeping soundly, and Mr. Hua could smell the pungent smell of alcohol from them without getting close, apparently thrown out after being drunk.
Mr. Hua went straight up the not-so-high steps of the store, and mottled blood stains could be faintly seen on the steps, and no one knew whose blood stains belonged to them, and no one had anything to do with them.
When Mr. Hua opened the door of the store, a thick smoky air came over the store, and it was as if the tar and nicotine in the air were combined in everything, and a solid substance was about to solidify in the air.
Mr. Hua frowned slightly, then regained his composure.
Walking through the door, the first thing that caught his eye was a very dilapidated wooden board house at the door, but Mr. Hua noticed that under the dilapidated wooden board was a high-strength fiber steel plate, thinking that even if he used a laser gun to scan violently, he could not break through this place for a while.
There was a dark circular hole in the house, and no one knew what was behind it, and even if a spotted python appeared from there, it would not be surprising.
Mr. Hua walked to the circular cavity, put his hand with the bracelet into it, and soon there was a beep from the hole, Mr. Hua withdrew his arm, and at the moment when his hand was withdrawn from the hole, a rumbling sound was heard, and the wall of the first floor of the board house twisted, and a door was opened.
When the door was opened, there was a loud noise like a wave, and Mr. Hua was not surprised by this, but walked straight inside.
Mr. Hua entered a secluded private casino, and a series of simple actions just now were just exchanging chips.
When you enter the casino, the scene is completely different.
The exquisite and ornate decoration seems to take you back in time to the gorgeous Europe of centuries ago, and the strong exotic atmosphere is blowing in the face.
The huge design pattern, the gorgeous decoration style, everything makes people feel a sense of luxury from the bottom of their hearts. However, in such a beautiful environment, there are the craziest bad gamblers.
Mr. Hua was not in a high-end casino, but in the lowest casinos, where the people were dressed in clothes that looked shabby even on the streets, and the smell of rot was the same as the smell of the inferior liquor they usually drank.
The faces of these gamblers show nothing but madness, weariness, despair and reluctance.
There is no such thing as an elegant gambling program in a casino, but a modern gambling tool that is all about it. A series of gambling games such as flop, fishing, horse racing, dog betting, and fire hunting.
Although the times have advanced countless times compared to centuries ago, and the performance and experience of machines have also evolved countless times, no matter how these gambling games change and package, their basic gameplay will always be the same.
And seeing that these gamblers were still unable to extricate themselves from the traps set by their predecessors countless years ago, Mr. Hua couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart.
However, Mr. Hua is not a saint, he knows that these people are incurable, and the only thing that can put an end to their madness is death.
At this time, a very sexy girl in a revealing dress walked up to Mr. Hua and smiled slightly: "Do you need my help?"
"Leave. Mr. Hua said lightly.
"Okay, have a great time here. The girl did not show any dissatisfaction, but walked away without a smile, and was scratched twice on the chest by several gamblers as she walked, but she still had that perfectly clean smile on her face.
Mr. Hua knew that it was not a greeting girl at all, it was just a robot to help novices get started, and in this crazy world, only robots could cope with such work.
Mr. Hua began to walk around the casino, his eyes searching, as if looking for the machine he liked.
After about ten minutes, Mr. Hua sat down in front of a retro-style slot machine, placed the bracelet in front of the slot machine and swiped it, and then the slot machine emitted the sound of ticking electronic music, and the picture on the screen in front of him began to come alive.
Mr. Hua played the game with the joystick, as if he was also a robot, he dragged the joystick very frequently, and the expression on his face did not change from beginning to end, as if the victory or loss of the machine in front of him had nothing to do with him.
In this way, nearly half an hour passed in a blink of an eye, and although Mr. Hua had gained something, he still lost more and won less on the whole.
"You're going to offend Lady Luck if you're the way you are, so why can you expect to win if she's not by your side?"
A voice suddenly sounded behind Mr. Hua, Mr. Hua's body stiffened slightly when he heard this, and then he relaxed, and said with a light smile: "I believe in Athena more than the goddess of luck, in fact, she is also worshipped by the people who invented these gambling tools." ”
The person behind him smiled: "What age is it, and it seems very dead to still talk about Athena." With that, he was already sitting in front of another slot machine next to Mr. Hua.
"I played this thing when I was in the East Island, and I had a lot of luck at that time, and I often won. It's just that the coins that come out of it don't do anything to me, and I wish it had spit out some chocolate. ”
Mr. Hua stopped what he was doing at this time, and his eyes looked solemnly at the person on the side, this person was not someone else, it was Hugo who had plunged the whole world into chaos and countless people were looking for him!
At this time, Hugo appeared in a casino in the middle of the street, and no one could have imagined that he would appear here.
But Mr. Hua obviously knew, otherwise he wouldn't have appeared here at this time.
Mr. Hua looked at Hugo's side face, and for a while he only felt that Hugo had lost a lot of weight at this time.
"You've lost weight. Mr. Hua said.
Hugo smiled slightly: "Fortunately, I have had a good rest in the last few days, and my friends here take good care of me." But the gentleman came from the metropolitan area, and the car was tired all the way. ”
Mr. Hua shook his head and said, "It's out of the way." ”
Hugo pulls the slot machine's joystick, and the screen in front of him begins to change reality.
"I also played a few games to relive the feeling of the past. After that I asked my husband to have a few glasses of dry martini, not to look at the world of gamblers, but the dry martini served here tastes really good, and you can smoke the purest cigar here if you want, compared to the water clams used in the urban area are like sucking juice spray. ”
Mr. Hua shook his head and said, "It's better to smoke or something, I'm not used to it." ”
Hugo smiled: "It seems that you still follow the doctor's thoughts, and you are very resistant to such harmful things. ”
Mr. Hua shook his head and said, "I have also done a lot of things that are not good for my health, and I don't resist this, I don't smoke just because I don't like it, that's all." It's better to taste the dry martini as you said. ”