Section 283 Journey 12
Lu Wu was indeed anxious.
He was pulled over by Ren Jianqiang...... The reason why he came here was because the master told him to be calm. Things have already happened, and it's useless to be irritated now. Instead of this, it is better to maintain a calm and optimistic mood and let yourself have more energy to face the future.
Of course, the master also stands in an irrelevant detached attitude. Although the master has a good impression of the earth and thinks that this world is good (there may be a little bit of Lu Wu's factor), in the final analysis, he is not a creature of this world. Everything here, survival or destruction, for him, if it can't be said that it is not painful, at least there is no pain on the skin. And even if it falls to the final point, that is, as the master once predicted, there are 30,000 earthlings left, from the standpoint of the master, I don't think this is a very terrifying or even unacceptable thing.
Humans have multiplied from a very small number to the present. According to the results of archaeology, modern human beings, with such a population of tens of billions of people, are actually so many ancestors who have multiplied all the way to the current scale. 30,000 people, and be able to preserve the technological achievements of the development of civilization...... Although the master didn't say it, Lu Wu could detect it, which was a completely acceptable result for the master. Even because everything is under control, the future of humanity (if at all) may be even more brilliant, and it is not impossible to take the opportunity to go to the stars and colonize the galaxy.
However, Lu Wu is an earthling...... He can't look at all this with a rational eye like a master.
It's like the ICU door of a hospital. It is extremely difficult for irrelevant people to understand the mood of the patient's family like ants on a hot pot.
So it took him a few times before he realized that he was facing a veteran.
Not the average veteran, but a ...... How to say it, the strong one who can control the situation. The goal of the former is only to win more and lose less, simple and clear, if it is advantageous, it will be advanced, and if it is unfavorable, it will be abandoned. The latter, on the other hand, is to control the degree of winning and losing. Just like fishing, you won't use too much force to let the fish get out of the hook, and you won't be pulled away by the fish because of your lack of strength.
In fact, this kind of thing is very difficult to detect. In other words, it is difficult for people who are addicted to gambling to detect the winners and losers. It's not about people's abilities, it's about location. Only those who do not care about the victory or defeat itself, and allow themselves to detach themselves from gambling, can detect such signs.
This is not at all like that kind of normal gambling! Under normal circumstances, two people face each other, and what they want is to win each other's money as soon as possible, not this kind of soft knife cutting meat and boiling frogs in warm water!
Lu Wu peeked at Ren Jian beside him, who obviously didn't notice this secret and ingenious method at all, and was just sweating for Lu Wu. He looked at Ye Nan next to Ren Jian again...... The two of them may have been too nervous, but they have unconsciously been very close.
He turned his head to look at the leprosy foreigner in front of him. The latter was proud of his successes.
Is there fraud in it?
Lu Wu left the gaming table under the pretext of going to the bathroom, and took out his headset and stuffed it into his ears halfway.
"Master?" he called softly.
The master's reaction was sluggish, and it took a short while to answer. "Partner, what's wrong? I've noticed something serious!"
"Is there a trap in the casino?" Lu Wu asked. "Let's say a camera or something. ”
It's all too easy for a casino to set a trap against gamblers. Of course, genuine casinos cherish their feathers and are absolutely unwilling to easily set foot in the field of cheating. A little money doesn't seem worth it to win. But who can tell?
"Nope. The master replied almost immediately. "There were no problems, the camera was positioned very well, and with a little attention, you were able to block your cards with your body. That card is also normal...... Partner, that opponent of yours is competing with you with real skills, and there is no cheating. ”
A professional predator who came to the casino to "kill pigs"? Then, he met Ren Jian, a "fat pig". Then, he talked about himself again? Lu Wu absolutely believes in the master, and this is the only explanation after thinking about it.
But...... Maybe it's a natural wariness of past experiences, or maybe it's some kind of innate intuition that can sense something ...... Incongruous taste is included.
In fact, it is very simple to win, just ask the master to tell him the opponent's cards, then everything seems to be fine. However, Lu Wu felt that since the other party relied on his true skills, it would be too much for you to choose to cheat.
If it is the former Lu Wu, it is naturally the most important thing to be money, and winning money is the last word. Even if you rely on Amber's supernatural abilities to cheat, even if you risk being attacked by the thugs in the casino, you have to find a way to get money. But now Lu Wu is qualified to pay less attention to money.
He doesn't even know how much money he has now, just enough to spend. He is not a master, and his time and energy are limited, so he has no time to get involved in the operation of specific companies. Speaking of which, he is actually more similar to Thomas in this regard. However, Thomas is not interested, and Lu Wu has no time.
When Lu Wu returned to the gaming table, he even forgot about the headset. But even if the other party noticed, he didn't care. How to say here is also a regular casino, its own structural layout can avoid the kind of "third party looks at each other's cards outside the field, and then secretly tells their peers" thing. Even if someone wants to see it, the gambler himself can hide the cards well as long as he is careful to ensure that others can't see them.
A gambler with a little experience, or rather, a gambler who has not gotten so carried away that even the most basic vigilance has been lost, will not make such a mistake.
A new round of hands has begun. It should be noted that Lu Wu did not change many chips this time. He had other things on his mind, but he didn't really have much on gambling. So after a few defeats, the losing chips are already more than halfway over.
At this time, I can't tell if it was luck or something else, but he touched a good hand.
It is not the type that directly makes the opponent give up admitting defeat when you see it (the kind of good hand will not win a lot of money), but it has a certain amount of confusion, as long as you use the method correctly, you can hit the enemy hard and win a large amount of good cards.
The Tuberculosis Ghost also had a good hand, which obviously gave him confidence in victory. After a few raises on both sides, he decisively pressed a large amount of chips - much more than Lu Wu's hand. Obviously, he was planning to defeat Lu Wu in one fell swoop.
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In the monitored room, Kruger watched the content on the video.
Although there is only an image and no sound, everyone knows what is happening. But when Lu Wu swiped the card, it was a coincidence that there was a blind spot in the satellite communication on the cruise ship.
As we all know, cruise ships transmit and receive information through satellite communications covering the whole world. However, satellites also have their limitations, one of which is that the flow of information provided by satellites is very limited. Not to mention the slow speed, when the cruise ship travels to some specific locations, there may also be communication interruptions due to blind spots.
To put it simply, the connection with the outside world has failed. Of course, the connection to the banking system was interrupted, so any card was wasted.
Of course, this is the small thing: keep going for a while, get out of this blind spot and everything will be back to normal. But the problem is that even experienced crew members can hardly tell when the problem of this blind spot will be restored.
This kind of accident is really frustrating. So, the foreman of the casino came over to apologize to the guests, and at the same time made the same suggestion as Ren Jian just now: because there are high-level people who can testify that Lu Wu's property can pay this level of money. So Lu Wu can borrow temporarily from the casino. Of course, the interest rate of this kind of borrowing is not high (as mentioned earlier, this is relative), the only problem is that you can't borrow out of thin air, you can only use the way of mortgaging part of your assets.
Then the other party took out the special mortgage loan contract written in Arabic. As mentioned earlier, according to the survey, this is definitely a very niche foreign language for foreign language learning in China, and few people who understand it do not say it, and the university where Lu Wu graduated does not have this course at all (this can be known by a little investigation). From the past experience of the two people, it is certain that they do not understand the real content of this mortgage loan contract. In fact, even if the two of them had unexpected abilities and interests, and after graduation they taught themselves Arabic, it would be useless to be able to understand the contract. Because this contract is very formal on the surface.
In fact, its content is basically the same as that described by the casino staff, and the reason why it is basic is because the contract is not a loan from the casino with shares as collateral, but a loan from a foreign bank. That is, it is a mortgage loan contract with the bank.
And the scale of the loan is not as small as they think, but a considerable amount of money - even more than the capital they invested in the establishment of a foreign trade company in the past.
So even if Lu Wu or Ren Jian read it, they felt that it was not a big deal. Is there any difference between borrowing from a bank and borrowing from a casino? Speaking of which, in fact, the casino does not have the function of "borrowing" at all. With so many shares pledged, it is only reasonable to borrow a large sum of money.
Of course, as for interest or something, it's actually a small thing. After all, as long as there is a little formal financial institution, the interest is limited - and as we all know, the interest is always closely related to the time of borrowing. That is, as long as the time is short enough, the interest is always limited. In fact, even if you borrow an astronomical amount, let's say trillions, as long as you borrow for a short enough time, a few minutes, a few hours, or something, even people who are relatively not particularly wealthy can actually afford it.
The real problem is ...... The time of borrowing is one month. If you don't pay back the money after one month, they have the right to auction off your collateral. Of course, this practice also seems to be taken for granted and irreproachable. But to make matters worse, this is a small foreign-owned bank that has never operated in China. Moreover, its name is misleading, making people instinctively think that it is an American company. But it actually has nothing to do with the United States. Moreover, there are a lot of twists and turns, all kinds of artificial obstacles, in short, you borrow money and don't want to pay it back, you can only wait for the collateral to be auctioned!