In June, the hot weather began to fall on the North American continent, students began to take vacations, some units had high temperature vacations, and major professional sports events in the United States began to enter a long offseason, and people began to have a lot of time to consume, so the peak season for tourism arrived.

One of the most famous man-made attractions in the United States, the Hoover Dam, on the border between Nevada and Arizona, is a giant arch dam that began in 1931 and was completed in 1936 to irrigate and protect hundreds of thousands of hectares of land in Arizona. Moreover, because the dam was built with a large number of workers, workers who had nothing to do after work began to gamble for fun, and some small casinos began to sprang up, and finally grew into the bizarre gambling city of Las Vegas. It can be said that the Hoover Dam is the mother of Las Vegas, which not only facilitated the formation of Las Vegas, but also provided water and abundant electricity for the city.

When the night begins to fall in the Nevada desert, Las Vegas, 60 kilometers away from the Hoover Dam, begins a colorful nightlife, and summer is the peak season for the entire casino, and guests from all over the United States and even the world will flock to this casino city to let their desires and money be fully squandered here.

The majestic Hoover Dam begins to fall into disarray, and visitors who have seen this great structure 70 years ago during the day drive back to their Las Vegas hotels, where a good night awaits them. The dam, which was shrouded in darkness, became rugged and silent under the illumination of the starry ornamental lights.

The Colorado River, which had been turbulent and calm, was gently calmed by the dam, and a high-end Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan spiraled up the Colorado Mountains as the road first built to build the dam winds its way through the main body of the dam. With most of the cars gone, this lonely sedan was very special, and when it arrived at the parking lot, it was left and right with only a few cars with it, and the rest of the space was empty.

"It's so late, what are you doing here?" A parking lot manager walked up to the car with a flashlight and shouted to the people in the car, although the Hoover Dam is also open for tours at night, but the night in Nevada is very cold, and the typical inland climate makes it cool down quickly.

At this time, two tall men in black suits, one black and one white, got out of the car, they looked grim, and one of the black men glanced at the administrator, and the administrator could see at a glance that the two people were casino security personnel at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, and they had badges with the word "MGM" pinned to their chests.

Then a person got out of the car, wearing an ordinary coat, a pair of trousers, some unkempt black hair, and his face was not clear in the night, but he looked like an ordinary person from his clothes.

Without asking a word more, the administrator turned off the flashlight with a snap and trotted back to his security room. He knew that the security at MGM Grand was not to be messed with, and that those who tried to make trouble in the casino or make a thousand dollars would be punished, and some would even disappear forever, some of them falling to their deaths at the Hoover Dam or drowning in the Black Gorge.

I don't know how this guy offended the casino in the hotel, whether it was a bad deal, or a debt that he didn't admit to it, or some other moth, this guy looked like a Puerto Rican who could cause trouble. Either way, tonight there will be another body near the Hoover Dam that has accidentally fallen to its death...... The administrator thought to himself, he had seen a lot of things like this in his twenty years of working here. You must know that 117 workers lost their lives during the construction of the dam, which is a veritable dam of death.

Led by two big men, the guy who came out followed behind and walked slowly along the road to the dam in the dark night. The Hoover Dam is a typical arch dam, with an arc-shaped dam body embedded in a hard and solid andesite and breccia mountain like a tile, relying on a perfect mechanical structure to block the 19.6 billion cubic meters of Colorado River water.

The three of them slowly walked up to the dam body, with the calm waters of the Colorado River on one side and a huge drop of 221 meters on the other. The night shrouds the dazzling high drop, while the Colorado River sparkles in the moonlight.

When he got to the middle, the man who followed behind pulled out a cigar from his pocket, while the big white man in front put his hand in the inner pocket of his jacket, and if the administrator saw it, he would definitely think, this guy is finished, they are going to pull out a gun and get rid of him here!

But no, the white man took out a lighter from his pocket, and he wanted to light a cigar for the person behind him.

"No, don't use a lighter, it will smell of kerosene. Match ...... Don't tell me you didn't bring matches. The person behind him said to the two big men in a cold voice, it seemed that he was not afraid of these two guys at all, and it didn't look like he had been coerced to come here at all.

"Yes! Brought, I bringed! The big black man on the side immediately said, and took out a long stick match from his pocket, and the big white man also stepped forward, helped the black man cover the flame from the match with his hand, approached the cigar smoke, and slowly lit it.

A little red star lit in the night, and the wind on the dam was very cold, and even with their coats on, the two big men felt the wind pouring into their necks, but they stood motionless in the wind, without the slightest intention of leaving, nor did they speak, as if they did not want to disturb the smoker's thinking.

The cigar burned for a short time, and the man turned to the two of them and asked, "Do you like to watch professional sports?" ”

The two men looked at each other and nodded, but neither of them spoke, as if they were afraid of the smoker.

"What do you like to watch? Basketball? Baseball? It's rugby, ice hockey. The smoker continued.

"I love watching football, and I'm a Pittsburgh Steelers fan." The black man said.

"I love baseball...... I'm an Atlanta Braves fan. Basketball is okay too, I like the Philadelphia 76ers. The white man said.

"You're an Atlanta?" The smoker asked again.

"No, I'm from Philadelphia, I worked in Atlanta, and I ended up here on an errand." The white man said with a wry smile, just a few words, but it revealed the bitterness of a man running around and working hard to survive.

"Do you know the 76ers' big trade in '82?" It seems that this big white man who likes basketball is more interested in the smoker.

"Know a little...... Even though I was only 10 years old that year, my dad was an avid 76ers fan, and the whole of Philadelphia was crazy about the 76ers that year, just because of the arrival of Moses Malone, although it was only that year, he made the 76ers, he made Philadelphia. To this day, my dad still has a piece of cloth from the Malone jersey he grabbed during the team's championship parade. ”

They were talking about the 1983 Philadelphia 76ers signing, who snatched regular season MVP Moses Malone from the Rockets through post-signing trade compensation, and went on to record a franchise-best 65-17 record in franchise history in the 1983 season, and then won the championship in the playoffs with a staggering 12-1 record, making it a storied season.

After saying this, the three of them fell silent again, the smoker fell into deep thought again, the cigar was burning little by little, and the wind on the dam was getting stronger and stronger, and the two security personnel were a little unbearable. Finally the black man asked, "Mr. Leon...... Excuse me, can we go back? It's a little too cold in here. ”

That man who has been smoking cigars is Fox Leon, who spent his last free time in Las Vegas in the offseason with a week to go before the draft.

However, when he went to the MGM casino to try it out, he was soon discovered by the casino's security personnel, and then the general manager of the casino personally went out to implore Leon's men to show mercy and present him with a $50,000 MGM Gold Card. Leon didn't embarrass the casino either, but just asked to go to the nearby Hoover Dam to have a look. At this time, even if Leon wanted to go skiing in Alaska, the casino would do its best to satisfy him, let alone just a trip to the Hoover Dam sixty kilometers away.

Soon two security personnel were asked to escort Leon to the Hoover Dam, and he had to protect himself all the way. As a result, the two of them didn't expect that this famous basketball coach named Fox Leon, the big gambler of the casino, would stand on the dam and smoke for an hour, not knowing what he was thinking.

Listening to the black man's words, Leon turned his head and said, "Go back, no matter what, I'm going to gamble." (To be continued.) )