Atomic cowboy, in the little-known basement surveillance hall, a thin old man in a dark suit is accompanied by seven or eight bodyguards, carefully staring at a scene that is constantly being played back on a surveillance screen. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The footage is a spectacular 21-point gamble, dealt and banked by the same person, an employee of Atomic Cowboy, and her opponent is a charismatic young man who looks like an Oriental.

In fact, it is rare for the casino to play 21 points and bet against the customer, because that is not fair to the customer, and the real master can completely do tricks when cutting cards. It's definitely not okay to be as magical as in the movie, but it's not difficult to play a little trick on Laipi.

But this time, the casino party changed two dealers in a row and was killed by that man.

A good game simply becomes someone's personal show.

In reality, there is no gambling god, and no one will have such luck that the flip of a coin will always appear on the side they want.

Everything is abnormal, there is a reason!

"Stop here, switch the monitoring angle, zoom in, I want to see his face. ”

The old voice sounded slowly, with an unhurried and calm bearing, which made people feel that the person who spoke was as powerful as a mountain!

The operator farther away immediately crackled and tapped on the electronic terminal, and the picture on the monitor in front of the old man also changed, as if it had been changed to a different camera angle.

Everyone looked closely, completely ignoring the real-time monitoring of the other monitors around them, and all of them focused their attention on the old man's attention, as if his every move was revealing some kind of irresistible magic and authority.

His expression... It's so calm!"

"His eyes..."

The crowd soon noticed something strange about the man.

The old man's eyes were blazing, and the resolution of the surveillance screen was not high, but he seemed to have been at the scene, looking into the man's eyes, and saw that the hole cards that had been quickly shuffled were reflected in them, and they were completely memorized!

"It can't be!"

There was a sudden exclamation from his side, and the fuss was made by a sturdy white bodyguard. This person has a very distinctive appearance, brown eyes and curly hair, like a human bear, and is likely to have ancient Germanic blood!

"Whew!"

A sharp sound of breaking the air immediately appeared, and Hanger felt a shock in his heart, subconsciously tilted his head, and suddenly felt a trace of coolness rubbing against his cheeks!

"It's—"

Hangel, who had been in the NRC Ranger training camp, had wide eyes, and looked back at a bright silver steel needle that fell to the ground more than ten meters away.

"Nothing is impossible, you can't do it, it doesn't mean that others can't do it, there are so many people with extraordinary talents in this world. ”

The old man said lightly, and Hanger wiped the blood from his cheeks, and his eyes narrowed slightly as he stared at his patron, not hiding his dissatisfaction.

Fang Cai, if he hadn't flashed fast enough, he would have become a corpse on the ground at this moment!

"Mr. Garrett, it's true that I'm your hired bodyguard, but not your subordinate or slave. ”

The killing intent was faintly revealed, and even the air froze slightly.

Hanger was so confident in his skills that even if he took off the Ranger's custom armor, even if he was empty-handed, it would be easy to cull someone who thought he was gifted, let alone an old man with no flesh or two.

This Nordic man's favorite phrase of the Orientals is "Within ten steps, everyone is the enemy country!"

The old man was still calm when he heard this, and he didn't seem to be angry. The other bodyguards, on the other hand, kept a straight face from beginning to end, without any emotional fluctuations.

Hanger glanced around vigilantly because of the conflict with his employer, and he was thinking about where to retreat if the old guy refused to apologize to him.

Unexpectedly, this subconscious move made him feel a chill in his vest.

Only then did he realize that the bodyguards around him did not react to his hostility at all, whether it was open to his colleague or loyalty, there must be some changes in action or demeanor!

In fact, since entering the underground vault, they have kept a straight face, and they have not made even the slightest movement.

They were so quiet, their footsteps and breathing were almost none, and they were so mechanical and indifferent!

The colleagues who had been teasing and laughing with him in the morning, the employer who had been acquainted with him for more than half a month and had been polite to him before, suddenly realized that he had never known them before!

"Do you know, Mr. Hangel, that a loyal dog is always more popular than a lonely wolf. ”

The old man still spoke in a calm tone, and Hangel was startled, and before he could react, he was stunned to find that his vision was beginning to blur.

There was a sharp pain in his brain, as if something was about to swell from it!

"It's in... When..."

Bang!!!

In the dimly lit underground hall, in front of the silver-white flickering surveillance screen, a white bodyguard in a black suit suddenly looked like a firework that had been lit, and the entire cranial cavity exploded in a blowout!

The old man dusted off the shredded meat that had fallen on his sleeve, and then turned his face to the surveillance screen, his eyes gloomy.

"Finding someone to clean up this place, it seems that the NRC's way of training rangers is not a big deal, or maybe they still have a hand in some of the 'outsiders' who joined later. ”

"In any case, the Rangers who have lost their custom equipment are really vulnerable. With this skill, it is better to train a few more kinetic armored warriors. ”

"Hopefully, you'll surprise me a little—"

"Daron Pupton?"

"Little Hannibal, I've grown up too~"

A shallow sigh, like a ghostly song, echoed in the quiet basement.

Liberty City, North District, less than 200 meters from the New Vegas Immigrant Visa Office, on a street corner.

As soon as the sneaky Mo Mo and Cass showed half their heads, they were stunned to see several pairs of eyes staring at them with a smile.

The two of them suddenly walked out from behind the wall in embarrassment, and this person was lost home.

The fat man raised his hand, and just wanted to say hello to Mo Mo, Ling Qi had already put away the bright smile on his face, and asked coldly:

"Who are you, what are your intentions with me!"

Mo Mo was stunned by his words, and except for Tang Xiao, who showed an expression that was really like this, the other two were also stunned.

Traversers always think that they are different from the natives, which is a kind of psychological superiority from top to bottom.

Therefore, not to mention mutual support and help between traversers, compared with ordinary people, there will always be some special feelings.

For example, Mo Mo's unauthorized departure from the team made several other newcomers very sorry.

No matter how he disapproved of her and rejected her on the surface, he did not leave her a chance to "reform herself" in his heart.

Even Cheng Shao, I believe that if he is willing to return to the team, other newcomers may not be willing to accept it.

But Ling Qi was-

"Don't you know each other?"

Cass asked Mo Mo in surprise, the girl's eyes were slightly red, her nose was wrinkled, and she stubbornly refused to answer.

This made Cass realize that there must have been some conflict and misunderstanding between her friend and the person in front of her.

Before she could think about whether to mediate on her behalf or turn around and pull Mo Mo away, Ling Qi had already sneered after hearing her words:

"Know?hehe~ The person I know about the Deathclaw Knight, which one is not a heroic boss, how can I know her?"

Ling Qi's words directly ignited a certain girlish anger, and Cass was also silent for a while, not knowing what to say at all.

Ling Qi glanced at the two of them, chuckled, and walked towards the immigration with the three puzzled natives and trembling newcomers.

Ten minutes later, when everyone walked out of the New Vegas immigration office with a magnetic card in hand and a happy face, even Boone, who had a black face, seemed to have regained his calm.

They were surprised to find that the two women who had been mercilessly ridiculed and ridiculed by Ling Qi were still waiting for them outside.

Ling Qi didn't look at the two of them, and walked directly in the other direction with everyone, Mo Mo stomped his feet when he saw this, chased them directly, and stopped them, while Cass vigilantly held the shotgun behind his back, although she also knew that this behavior was just self-comforting.

"What are you doing? I'm in a hurry, and if it's night, you've become a corpse. ”

Ling Qi said, stretching out his hand in front of his forehead, frowning and looking at the sun, as if there was really something urgent.

Mo Mo bit his lower lip with his teeth, and said lightly after a while:

"I want to borrow 2,000 caps from you, and you have any conditions before you agree to lend them to me. ”

"I can, I can exchange it for future mission rewards. ”

Mo Mo originally thought that this attitude was sincere enough, after all, the feeling that Ling Qi gave her before was not much evil except for being colder.

Unexpectedly, after Ling Qi withdrew his gaze looking at the sky, he seemed to have not seen her sincerity at all, and ignored her conditions.

"It's time to go, let's go back to Atomic Cowboy to get some things, and we'll go into the casino today, and we and Benny will have to settle their accounts." ”

Ling Qi turned back to the newcomers and natives and said a word, and strode past Mo Mo.

The girl stayed there, and when she passed by, only Liu Yun looked at her with pity.

"Why?!"

Mo Mo in the cold wind on the street screamed desolate to the group of people who were getting farther and farther away.

Ling Qi glanced back at her, with seven points of mockery and three points of scrutiny in his eyes.

She instantly understood what he meant, that any transaction had to be of equal value, and that the empty check she had written was worthless to him.

"From the moment you decided to leave, I didn't think you would live to get your reward. ”

This is Ling Qi's conceit, he always thinks that without his protection, even if the newcomers don't try to complete the task and blindly survive, they will survive until they return, and they will die for life.

Mo Mo wiped the tears that had not yet flowed out of his eyes, gritted his teeth and swore that he would not let someone look flat.

She didn't understand what he meant—

Even if you can leave alive and even get a huge reward unexpectedly, what can you do?

Your destiny has been in my hands since you entered this squad!

Wouldn't it be as ridiculous and pathetic to trade with me as a woman with silver shock!

The reason why this man didn't keep his teammates in captivity as pigs, dogs, and slaves was not because he couldn't bear it, let alone because he wanted to build an invincible team, just to squeeze more surplus value, and that's it!

His heart, that cold heart, has never changed!

Back at Atomic Cowboy, they casually dealt with the enthusiastic bodyguard Hansen, and they didn't go to the legendary presidential suite, and just saluted and left from the VIP room.

The group walked in such a hurry that it completely disrupted the arrangement of some people.

"Uh, Mr. Daron, you're leaving?"

Hansen asked stupidly as he watched as everyone came down from the stairs carrying boxes.

"Yes, this place is not as comfortable as I imagined, so let's go to New Vegas as soon as possible. ”

Ling Qi replied casually, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and threw it to the security guard.

Tobacco has not been extinct since it was discovered, but it is true that it is rare in the wasteland, and there are always more addicts to drugs than nicotine on the planet on the radiation plane.

This bag of rare goods, or Ling Qi returned to the room just now and found that someone had specially tied flowers on the table, which should be a gift from the store.

In the past 28 years, Ling Qi has been bent on striving for fame and fortune, and in order to socialize, smoking and drinking are naturally not taboo. But if he has any addictions, it is completely none. Not to mention his current will attribute of more than 20 points, even his willpower in the past is estimated to be able to resist drug addiction.

True careerists will never indulge in beauty and enjoyment, those things, there is something gratifying, and there is nothing to be happy about.

"But, but you still have the balance left, you haven't settled yet! Atomic Cowboy is a one-on-one service, and your bill will have to wait for Director Hannibal..."

Hansen tried to keep the high roller and at least ask for a little more favor. The commission he took from the stack of bills in the morning was not enough to treat his daughter.

Ling Qi didn't pay attention to the begging eyes at all, he waved his hand and said impatiently:

"I'll give you all those, and this—"

A bright silver key fell into Hansen's hands, and the bearded security guard was in tears.

You're all gone, where will I get the money you left behind, and if it's not enough?

And the key to this presidential suite, I don't dare to go up and live if I have a few guts. Not to mention this hot thing, I'm afraid that even the pack of cigarettes will be confiscated later...

Ling Qi was in no mood to pay attention to the selfishness of the little people, so he took his teammates and natives and left.

Half an hour later, silver hit the second floor, the deepest infirmary, and a certain man lying half-dead on the hospital bed was almost frightened by a roar at the head of the bed!

"Everything !!is gone??? you Tema repeat it??? that man entered the casino a few minutes ago???"

Vivien grabbed a black-clad boy by the collar, and her expression was even more terrifying than that of a devil.

Not only her, but all the forces in Freecity that had just become interested in this Deathclaw Knight were shocked and stunned almost at the same time as they learned that he had entered the casino!

"Eh~ Boss, this is not good, aren't you just like the silver shock to launch a provocation, which will take us away... I'm a supporter of your approach, but—"

Li Qiang whispered to the root of his tongue in Ling Qi's ear, this must not be heard by Boone, that man was still angry at Ling Qi's own way before, if he knew that a certain unscrupulous fat man instigated someone to cause trouble, he would have to break him.

The crowd had already walked the streets of the casino, and the sight of manicured palm trees and fountains in the shape of animals on the roadside made Veronica, who had never seen these before, cheer like a child.

"There's nothing wrong with that, I never have to worry about what other people think. ”

Ling Qi said lightly, and took a cup of water from the tray held by a self-service robot on the side of the road to drink.

This place is really good, the road is clean, there are not many pedestrians, and there are flowers and plants around it, except for the mechanical guards patrolling back and forth are more scenic, there is basically nothing to find fault with.

Li Qiang shrugged his shoulders and followed Ling Qi to run to a self-service robot and take a large burger from the tray.

Only Kara looked at the plates of free food that "floated" by her side, and kept swallowing.

She found that there were basically no too dirty and casual people who could enter the casino, all of them were well-dressed and serious, including some guys in gang uniforms, who were also in a hurry and did not squint.

For the pallets held by the roadside service robots, few people will stop to patronize. At most, Ling Qi took a glass of water to drink, and then elegantly threw the cup into the trash.

As for Li Qiang's mouth full of oil like this, and Veronica with a skewer of grilled chicken wings in one hand...

Carla swore that she would never lose this man even if she starved to death.

To say that Boone is usually a more considerate man, at least for Kara. But today he was a little abnormal, probably because he saw some familiar figures, which made him unsettled, and he even ignored his wife's rumbling belly.

In the end, it was Ling Qi who led everyone into a restaurant after asking an old woman who was a little dressed in elegant clothes for the way to the Haojia casino.

Of course, there can be no only casinos in the casino area, except for a few large-scale casinos that integrate various services and are similar to atomic cowboys, but the grade is n levels higher, some small and medium-sized casinos, restaurants, and hotels are not uncommon in the casino city.

In addition to the fact that there are no places for residents to stay, New Vegas is indeed a qualified urban core.

As for why there is no special accommodation area, it is not difficult to understand, after all, every inch of land is at a premium.

Centered on a few high-rise buildings with ten or twenty floors, the total area enclosed by high walls is probably less than eight square kilometers, which is the size of three or four streets.

Those who live in the casino all day long are only lucky people or high-class people and gang leaders who have a fixed industry in the local area.

The rest of the staff, the restaurant waiters, and the like, would be living outside in Liberty City—not in the direction they came from, of course, but in the south of Liberty City.

A Liberty City is actually divided into several regions, the most prosperous of which is the south. It's a pity that Ling Qi and they entered the city from the wrong place, so they didn't feel the positive impact of the casino city on the periphery.

The northeast area of Liberty City can only be regarded as the back door of the casino, although there are atomic cowboys, silver impact and other "famous stores" to support the scene, the environment is indeed relatively bad, and there are gang fights and melee all year round.

The south side is the real main entrance of the casino city, with it as the center, and even a commercial and residential area with a decent environment has been formed.

Mr. House occasionally sends some mechanical guards to patrol, so although it is not a casino city, it is not something that wanderers can move in with a random house, and the security is good.

Most of the houses are owned by the owners and have title certificates issued by the city of New Vegas.

The only lodging in the area that is open to the public is an underground fortress converted from an abandoned shelter, which is also one of Mr. House's properties, and the comfort is not comparable to that of atomic cowboys.

Boone didn't take the crowd in that direction, and he had that in mind.