This gamble that will be played in Vienna is so mysterious that Jiu'er can't find any clues.

Li Shaoyang didn't care about it at first, but it didn't seem a little strange until the third day, generally this kind of gambling game will invite a lot of players, and as many players as possible, all kinds of information will come out, but this time there was no news at all.

Li Shaoyang thought about it and landed on the Borderlands.

These days, David is directly in charge of the business of the Borderlands, so he hasn't logged in to his main account for a long time, and hundreds of messages flashed up as soon as he came up, all of which were ordinary trading posts.

Li Shaoyang checked the stored funds in this account, and David kept more than five million available funds in this account according to his instructions, so he quickly posted an anonymous purchase post. Ask for any information about the mystery gamble and offer a $1,000,000 bounty.

But after waiting for several hours, there was no reply to the purchase post that was displayed on the homepage.

When Li Shaoyang was depressed, the Great Administrator of the Borderlands contacted him.

"Dear Night Raven, it's been a long time, but as partners, we've been keeping an eye on you." The other party was very welcoming.

This is a matter of course, Li Shaoyang's military food and arms business has increased the revenue of Borderland by more than ten times, if it weren't for Li Shaoyang's background as a Chinese agent, I'm afraid Borderland would have recruited him as a partner a long time ago.

"Do you know anything about that mysterious gamble?" Li Shaoyang asked.

The other party hesitated for a moment: "As a partner, we can provide a little information for free, but the Borderlands also gets very little information, we only know the time, place and invited players, but we don't know the dealer behind it." ”

Li Shaoyang said: "I need this information, especially the players who are invited. ”

A piece of information quickly came from the Borderlands, and after decryption, a large list of fifty people appeared in front of Li Shaoyang, with a brief introduction behind each name.

Fifty have complex origins, come from a variety of countries, and the rankings look interesting.

Li Shaoyang was surprised to see that the second-ranked player turned out to be Wang Fengyue, and then the 49th-ranked player was Su Zixing. Huaguo was the only one of them who was invited.

The rest of the people, some are masters of the gambling world, some are celebrities, there are Arab princes, there are also European upstarts, some geniuses in the IT world of the United States, and even mathematicians and hackers. It looks dazzling.

Li Shaoyang found that these players had one thing in common: they were either proficient in gambling or had superior intelligence.

He asked Borderlands, "Will each of these invited players be able to come up with $20 million in bets?" ”

He was suspicious of this, for example, the mathematician at the Oxford Institute, who was not a Middle Eastern tycoon.

"As far as we know, all players are screened and each player is able to come up with enough chips, like Professor Adams, who is nominally a poor mathematician, but whose wife is the daughter of an Indian media mogul......"

Li Shaoyang snorted, so it was: "Then what's the point of this gamble?" Is it purely for fun? ”

Borderland replied: "In the past, most of this mysterious gambling was for money laundering, or for bribery, and occasionally there were some big scams. But this time it was completely different, and we found that the organizers had the deepest pockets to vouch for them with Swiss banks, as well as the ancient Italian accounting, which showed in the first place that it was not a scam. Judging from the players they invited, it was not to bribe a big person, and as for money laundering, we found out the details of this Swiss bank and ruled out this possibility. ”

Even Borderlands doesn't know what this gamble is for, let alone the identity of the organizers......

Li Shaoyang groaned and walked outside Zhou Mulan's room, and after knocking on the door and entering, he told the story of this mysterious gambling game, and finally asked, "I need to know, is this gambling game set up by your temple of gods?" ”

Zhou Mulan got up and walked to the bedroom, and quickly walked out: "I confirmed with Lord Nuwa, it has nothing to do with us, and one of our members has also received an invitation." ”

Li Shaoyang was really surprised, he didn't even know about the Temple of the Gods.

It seems that I can only find a way to blend in.

Li Shaoyang thought about it and contacted Wang Fengyue, and asked directly: "Did you receive an invitation to a mysterious gamble?" ”

Wang Fengyue sighed: "You're not spying on me, you even know this." ”

Li Shaoyang smiled on the phone: "The news I got from other channels, is the invitation still there?" ”

Wang Fengyue immediately said: "Wait a minute, I seem to have thrown it into the garbage basket." ”

Li Shaoyang was sweating, he knew that Wang Fengyue was not interested in this kind of thing.

Wang Fengyue quickly replied: "I found it, Wang Shan said that this gamble is very strange, he originally wanted to investigate, but after checking, this gamble and the mysterious person behind it are not aimed at our Huaguo, since it has nothing to do with us, I didn't take it seriously, what, are you interested?" ”

Li Shaoyang paused: "There is a very troublesome question, I have to pretend to be your identity." ”

Wang Fengyue laughed: "I rarely show up in front of people, and the mysterious organizer must not have seen me, but in order to prevent accidents, I will give you a token, which is enough to prove your identity." ”

……

After Li Shaoyang put down his mobile phone, he was very curious, what is Wang Fengyue's token, and what token can prove his identity? Is it a jade pendant token that you carry with you, or something strange.

But the next morning, he received a gambling invitation letter and tokens from Wang Fengyue.

When he opened it, Li Shaoyang couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and what appeared in front of him was an ID card, Wang Fengyue's ID card.

Sure enough, I still thought too much......

The invitation to the mystery gamble is an ancient parchment envelope containing a black-gold bank card with a chip and an elegant letter written in four languages.

The letter first introduced the black gold card, which players need to transfer their gambling funds to and redeem the corresponding chips when they arrive at the scene, and this card has a variety of other functions.

The game will officially start on January 13 local time and last for seven days, with one game per day.

The rules are simple, the money is lost and leaves, the winner continues, the dealer does not take a commission, the alcohol accommodation is free, and it is not allowed to bring companions.

The letter stated that the game location would provide "flawless" service, and that each player would be assigned a trained companion of the opposite sex......

At the end of the letter, it was written the location: Vienna State Opera!

……

Li Shaoyang arranged the affairs of Gusu City and immediately took a flight from the magic capital to Vienna.

He flew more than 20 hours on a Swiss flight via Zurich. It was a very long journey, and Li Shaoyang was extremely looking forward to the private jet he ordered at this time.

It's a pity that there were too many modifications added to the private jet when it was ordered, so it could only be shipped out of the warehouse in April this year. When I can actually fly, I guess it's June.

Entering Vienna International Airport, you can see the silver rotunda below, as well as three passenger buildings, of which Building A is erected like a chimney and looks like a large silver pen in the early morning fog.

Schwechat Airport used to be a military airport, after the end of World War II, it was handed over to the British for a period of time, and began to expand in the seventies, because of the impact of the 911 incident in the United States, this airport later added complicated security measures, so Li Shaoyang has been staying at the airport for more than half an hour, before finally walking out.

Contrary to what I imagined, the city of music looked gray, with a cold, damp smell rushing in, and my body felt sticky and colder.

The people here are not the enthusiasm of a tourist city, but the pace is hurried, and there are not many people on the road at this point, all bowing their heads and talking about something, most of them speaking in German.

Li Shaoyang looked at the time and could only call a taxi.

Most of the taxis here are Mercedes-Benz, and the driver glanced at him and immediately said enthusiastically: "You are from Dongying?" "He spoke English in a weird tone.

Li Shaoyang frowned: "I am from China." ”

"Oh, I'm sorry." The driver was embarrassed: "Are you here to watch a concert?" I heard that many people were not satisfied with this year's New Year's concert, but today I heard that there was a wonderful performance at the Grand Theater. ”

Li Shaoyang didn't bother to pay attention to him, and threw down a tip of two hundred euros after coming to the Grand Theater, according to the prompt of the letter, he took the black and gold card as a voucher, smoothly entered the theater through a small door, and after getting the seat number, he came to the private room on the fourth floor, and stood lightly in front of the fence outside the private room, and the performance in the circular theater began immediately.

At this moment, the black and gold card in his hand began to flicker, and a string of Chinese characters appeared.

"VIP No. 2, please open the package under the seat in the private room and wait for the next instructions!"

Seeing this news, Li Shaoyang took out a package hidden in advance under the seat, and opened it to be a pair of delicate headphones, and after he put it on, a standard English voice immediately came: "VIP No. 2 has come, so all our players have gathered." ”

The voice continued: "As you may have guessed, this is not a gambling game, and for some special reason, we need to do some preparation in this theater. ”

Li Shaoyang became curious, what could be prepared here.

The mysterious voice was very calm, and said at this time: "You can choose your favorite companion here, and the companion you choose will lead you into the game and accompany you in the subsequent games, now please look at the stage." ”

A melodious symphony sounded on the stage, and now Tchaikovsky's famous three-act tragic opera "The Queen of Spades" is performing, and behind the soprano are dozens of young and beautiful dancers, whose dance costumes are the images of playing cards.

The mysterious voice began to prompt: "These are the companions we have carefully selected for you, because there are 10 players who are ladies, so we have also specially selected 10 young male companions, now according to the VIP order, you can start choosing, VIP No. 1, please ......"

According to the ranking order, the higher the priority, the more priority will be given. Wang Fengyue, who Li Shaoyang pretended, was the No. 2 guest. And the No. 1 VIP player, Li Shaoyang remembered that it was a prince from the Arab world, and soon the prince's voice came to his ears: "Ace of hearts, my lucky card." ”

Li Shaoyang couldn't help but look at the dancer below, behind him was a red heart A shape, it was a blonde girl with a delicate figure, and she was really a stunner.

"Now let's start the selection of VIP No. 2."

After hearing this prompt, Li Shaoyang glanced at the dancers below and said softly: "King of spades!" ”