Chapter 22: The Peak Showdown

There is a huge hole in the ground in Shariya, Russia, which is unfathomable, rugged and narrow, and the expedition members of many countries have not managed to go to the end. Scientists implanted a chip in the brain of a bat and controlled it to fly into a cave, where diamonds were found, which wiped two villages off the map and a city was born.

During the Gulf War, the US military also created "robot snakes" and "smart mice" to reconnoiter the enemy's situation and search for intelligence.

The Robotics Research Center of Shandong University of Science and Technology has created a magical pigeon, an ordinary domestic pigeon with microelectrodes on its head, which can accurately complete the flight tasks of taking off, circling, and landing after flying around the laboratory for a week according to the computer instructions issued by the researchers.

On May 12, 2001, a gecko climbed onto the roof of the Old Gun Casino.

That is, from that day on, a strange guest came to the casino of the old gun, and his strange thing was that he had never lost for ten days in a row, and the stakes were amazingly large. There are people who win every day in the casino, but those who win ten days in a row must be thousands. Bao Yuan carefully observed, but did not find any problems, by looking at the surveillance video in the casino, Bao Yuan found that this person also had two accomplices, the three of them knew each other, but pretended to be strangers, each played their own game, and never spoke. They win a lot of money every time they come, and the casino loses a lot of money.

These three people are: Zhou Xingxing, Painting Dragon, and Han Bingyu.

The swords, guns and artillery are very powerful, because they are worried about startling the grass, the command did not notify the Northeast police, but only sent Zhou Xingxing, Hualong and Han Bingyu to investigate secretly. The command secretly froze the bank accounts of the three Knife and Gun brothers, because they had a lot of liquidity, and in order to prevent them from fleeing with money, Zhou Xingxing, Han Bingyu, and Hualong went to Lao Gun's casino, and their task was to win money.

There's only one way to win money in a casino: a thousand!

Command, together with several scientists, created a robotic gecko. Scientists implant a chip in the gecko's brain, remotely control it to crawl, stop, and go into hibernation. The gecko has a wireless pinhole probe installed in its mouth, which emits far-infrared rays, which can scan ordinary poker cards and know what the hole cards of each poker card are. You can also scan the balls on the roulette wheel and accurately determine the landing point of the balls through computer speed measurement.

Geckos climb onto the roof of the casino, fire laser scans, feed the information back to the command center computer for analysis, and send the code to the ice through a neon bell tower outside the casino window, so that they can win and not lose. Piers and stations often have large bell towers, and in order to make it clear at night, there are lights around the dial of the bell tower.

The old gun's casino is near the pier, and the clock tower can be seen from the casino window.

Roulette is one of the most iconic games in casinos. The roulette wheel has a total of 38 columns, divided into two circles, the inner circle, each column has a number, which is 1 to 36, and 0 and 00; The outer ring is arranged alternately in red and black, usually half red and half black. In big casinos, you can still place bets after the ball is played until the dealer calls it to stop. Gamblers are free to choose the number position where he thinks the ball will stay, bet on odd or even or specific numbers, and the casino loses money at a certain odds after the bet is won. After the dealer hits the ball, the gecko on the roof of the casino fires a laser that is invisible to the naked eye, which is fed back to the command center, and the speed measurement is analyzed by the computer to know where the ball will fall, and then the neon sign of the bell tower is controlled, hinting at the cold ice in the casino, painting the dragon and Zhou Xingxing, and the whole process is only a few seconds. If the ball will fall on 6, the clock tower dial at 6 o'clock position of the light will be on, the ice in the casino will meet them to bet on the number 6, bet on 10,000 yuan of chips, the ball will stop on 6, the casino will lose money according to 35 times the odds, that is, won 350,000.

On May 22, 2001, the old gun lit a cigarette. In the smoke, he took a deep breath, not knowing that his life was about to burn.

The old gun asked: "How much have you lost in the past few days?" ”

Bao Yuan cautiously said a number.

The cigarette in the old gunman's hand fell to the ground, and the corners of his mouth twitched twice: "This can't work, you have to find a way." ”

Bao Yuan said: "I don't see that they are out of thousands. ”

The old gun said: "Waste, you are raised for nothing." ”

Bao Yuan said: "The reputation of the casino is very important, if you drive them away, other gamblers will not come to play." ”

"Chase away?" The old gun's nose snorted, "It's not that easy, they won me so much money." ”

Bao Yuan said: "Maybe they are masters of calculating probability, and there are occasionally such people in big casinos." ”

The old gun said, "Aren't you also a master?" You go and gamble with them and win our money back. ”

Bao Yuan said: "I don't gamble, I promised the master before." ”

The old gun said earnestly: "Baoyuan, you haven't been home for a few years?" ”

Bao Yuan thought for a while and sighed: "It's been four years." ”

The old gun said: "I'll tell you good news, Da Yeo went to pick up your son, as well as your mother and daughter-in-law." ”

Bao Yuan said, "Ah, really? ”

The old gun said, "You will be able to see them in the evening." ”

Bao Yuan stopped talking, the last time he saw his son was four years ago, when he was only 3 years old, he remembered that his son was holding a can bottle with red and green cherries soaked in it. The son is very well-behaved and reluctant to eat, so he feeds his mother one first, and then his father eats one. Thinking of this, his nose was sour and his eyes were red.

The old gun said: "You are not gambling for yourself, you are for your son, for your mother, you don't want our casino to close, right?" ”

Bao Yuan said: "Okay, I'll bet!" ”

Han Bingyu, Hualong, and Zhou Xingxing were invited into the VIP room by the foreman of the casino, and the old gun shook hands with Han Bingyu, and the foreman introduced: "This is our boss." ”

The old gun said: "The three of you have won a lot." ”

Han Bingyu said: "Good luck these days. ”

The old gun pointed at Bao Yuan and said, "This is a big boss, rich, and he gambles happily, do you want to play with him?" ”

He said, "I still have something to do." ”

Zhou Xingxing also said: "Another day." ”

The old gun said: "You all play all night, today is very abnormal, come to the casino to win money." ”

Han Bingyu said, "Okay. ”

Han Bingyu, Hualong, and Zhou Xingxing pretended to be real gamblers, and there was still a trace of doubt in their eyes, they understood that they were targeted by the casino, and it would be difficult to get out if they didn't lose all their money. Bao Yuan sat at the table, his face expressionless, he thought about his son, his wife and his mother, what he missed was actually no longer there - he didn't know that his family had been in a car accident.

After discussion, Bao Yuan, Han Bingyu, Painted Dragon, and Zhou Xingxing decided to play stud.

Bao Yuan shuffle, shuffle the technique is the senior thousands of will be the "perfect shuffle", the perfect shuffle can be said to be the highest level of shuffle, a deck of cards at intervals shuffle, a press a, each time there is a fixed order, as long as you remember the card order, you can know what cards are issued next.

Bao Yuan shuffled five times with the perfect shuffle, this is also the most chaotic card order, although very messy, but Bao Yuan remembers the order, so he knows what each hole card sent out, a few rounds down, the dragon first lost all the chips, Zhou Xingxing gradually lost all the money, cold ice met quietly, carefully bet money.

Bao Yuan was surprised to find that Han Bingyu also knew the hole cards - when Bao Yuan touched a good card, Han Bingyu chose to give up, and when he touched a stinky card, Han Bingyu would bet.

The gecko is in the lobby of the casino, and the VIP room where Han Bingyu is located has no windows, and he can't see the bell tower outside the window, how does he know the opponent's hole cards?

One word: look!

When Bao Yuan was looking at the cards, Han Bing met the eyes of Bao Yuan.

The changes in the pupils of the eyes are beyond human control, and the dilation and contraction of the pupils truly reflect the complex and changeable mental activities. If a person feels excited, happy, and loved, the pupils will dilate to four times larger than usual; On the contrary, when you feel frustrated, negative, or annoying, your pupils will shrink and become smaller.

Han Bingyu was a special soldier, and when he practiced sniping, he could stare at a sheep dung egg for an afternoon, and he learned the opponent's hole cards by observing the changes in the pupils of Bao Yuan's eyes.

In the last hand, Han Bingyu lost. The front was just acting, deliberately confusing the other party, if he lost all the money at once, it would definitely arouse Baoyuan's suspicions. Han Bingyu understands that if he doesn't lose all his money, it will be difficult to get out of the casino.

Han Bingyu shook his head and sighed, spread his hands and said, "Unlucky, I lost everything, let's play again next time." ”

Hualong and Zhou Xingxing stood up and said to the old gun that they would come to play tomorrow.

At this time, the door of the VIP room opened, and Cannon and Eryi walked in with double-barreled shotguns, and the two of them blocked the door.

The old gun asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The cannon pointed a gun at the dragon and said, "Brother, they are the police." ”

Zhou Xingxing shouted: "You guys are too much, you won't let you go if you lose money, and you're talking nonsense." ”

A young man with a pale face appeared at the door, also with a gun in his hand.

He's Goofy!

The predecessor of this criminal group was a circus that performed as a charlatan, and after the circus was disbanded, its members formed an underworld criminal syndicate. According to the undercover investigation of Zhou Xingxing and Hualong, the police successively knocked out the backbone of the criminal group: Shanya and Sanwenqian. After Gao Fei escaped from Hwaseong, he traveled to the Northeast, where he recognized Zhou Xingxing and Hualong on the surveillance TV in the casino, and immediately told Paozi.

Gao Fei said to Zhou Xingxing and Hualong: "What a coincidence, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

The old gun angrily snatched the gun of the second inch, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at Han Bingyu: "This is also a policeman?" ”

"I don't know him. ”

Han Bingyu said, "Me too." ”

The original intention of painting the dragon was to exonerate Han Bingyu, but Han Bingyu didn't want to leave his companions behind. At the same time, Drawing Dragon kicked over the table, and a brisk stride rushed up and strangled Bao Yuan's neck, he held Bao Yuan in front of his body as a hostage, and Painted Dragon said, "You have to find a cushion to carry when you are dying." ”

The old gun laughed and said, "He's just a dog I raised, shoot him." ”

"Wait," said Han Bingyu, "we surrender!" ”

The painting dragon let go of Bao Yuan, and the second yellant kicked him in the crotch, and the painting dragon bent down in pain.

The hands of Hualong, Han Bingyu, and Zhou Xingxing were tied behind their backs and escorted to the basement.

The three of them sat on a bench, and the basement was also a kitchen, with a lot of miscellaneous items.

Goofy took out a sweet potato and placed it at the muzzle of his gun.

Gao Fei asked, "Do you know that sweet potatoes can be dried?" ”

Han Bingyu replied: "Silence so that no gunshots can be heard outside." ”

Goofy said, "Smart. ”

The old gun said, "Who sent you, what are you doing here, and what do you know?" ”

Han Bingyu said, "Shoot." ”

Drawing the dragon with an expression of looking at death as if he were at home.

Zhou Xingxing closed his eyes.

The old gun said, "It's not that easy. ”

There was an electric stove next to the wall, and the hearth was burning red, so Eryizi took off Zhou Xingxing's shoes and forced him to stand on the red-hot electric stove. Zhou Xingxing's face was afraid, and Han Bingyu said, "I'll take his place." He kicked off his shoes and stood on the stove, and immediately a burning smell rose from the basement. There was something wrong with his pain nerves, and he was numb to the pain, and despite the stinging sound under his feet, he didn't even frown.

The cannon let Han Bing come down and praised: "It's a man!" ”

"What's the cow, your mother." The old gun fired a shot at Han Bingyu, and the moment he pulled the trigger, Han Bingyu moved his body slightly, avoiding his chest, and the bullet pierced his arm. Dodging bullets is an advanced skill that can only be mastered by special forces.

The three of them were tortured and tortured in every possible way, and several sticks were broken, and the three of them were lying on the ground dying. The cannon and the second roar were tired, and the old gun threw the pistol to Bao Yuan and asked him to watch it well.

Bao Yuan held the gun, sat on a chair, and lowered his head.

After a while, the sky was overcast.

The old gun came out of the lounge and said to Bao Yuan: "Bao Yuan, the big yeller has had a car accident. ”

Bao Yuan looked up in shock.

The old gun said, "Your son, your mother, and your wife are all dead." ”

Bao Yuan's scalp exploded, the gun in his hand fell, the old gun picked up the pistol, and asked Bao Yuan to go to the traffic police team to take a look.

Zhou Xingxing, Hualong, and Han Bingyu were lying motionless on the ground, and the old gun walked over to check if they were dead.

The painting dragon, who was still dying just now, suddenly kicked out two kicks, one kicking off the gun in the old gunman's hand and the other kicking the old gun's knee.

The pistol landed right next to Han Bingyu, who clamped the gun with his two feet, lay on the ground, quickly adjusted his posture, he pulled the trigger with his big toe, and the bullet hit the old gun in the abdomen.

Han Bingyu, Hualong, and Zhou Xingxing stood up, but before they had time to untie the rope, their hands were tied behind their backs, and they left the basement and ran towards the dock together. At this moment, the sky was already dawning, and the gunfire was very loud, and the cannon, Eryizi, and Gao Fei chased after them when they heard the gunshots.

Han Bingyu, Hualong, and Zhou Xingxing fled to a steamer near the dock.

"Hurry up and get out of the boat, we're the police, we're being hunted down." Zhou Xingxing said to the panicked boat boss that the boat boss was drinking with a guy, and he stood up and looked behind him to see that several people were chasing after him on the dock.

The captain of the boat said: "The ship is being repaired, and it can't be driven, so you should hide first." ”

"Where to hide?" Zhou Xingxing asked.

The captain of the boat said, "Hide it in a sack, and I'll say it's cargo." ”

Zhou Xingxing didn't have time to think about it, they didn't even have time to untie the rope tied to their hands. The captain of the boat glanced at the guys, stuffed Zhou Xingxing, Hualong and Han Bingyu into sacks, tied them with ropes, and covered them with a canvas.

The boat boss smiled.

As we said earlier, the three brothers are also engaged in smuggling, and this ship is used by the cannon for smuggling, and the boss of the boat is also a subordinate of the gun.

The captain of the boat said to the cannons who came over: "Three cannons, those people are on my boat." ”

Cannon threw the gun to the boat boss and said to Eryizi and Goofy, "Kill them, I'll go back and see my brother." ”

Goofy and Eryizi rushed into the cabin, and the boat boss untied the canvas and said, "Here." ”

Zhou Xingxing and the others understood that they were on a thief ship, and the dragon scolded in the sack, and the boat boss smashed the sack a few times with a crowbar, and the dragon and Zhou Xingxing fainted, and Han Bing was shot in the arm, because of excessive blood loss, his consciousness was also in a blurred state.

The captain of the boat said, "Throw them into the sea and drown them." ”

"The corpse will float to shore," Goofy said. ”

The second yeller said: "One shot to kill, it's too cheap for them." ”

Goofy said, "Yes, they are all people who are not afraid of death. ”

The second yellant said, "What should I do then?" ”

The boat boss said, "I have a great idea. ”

The boat started, and the motors roared.

I don't know how long it took for the ice to be groggy, and finally, the ship stopped. He felt himself lifted up and hit the ground hard, and then he heard two more heavy objects falling to the ground.

The three of them were thrown onto an uninhabited desert island.

Three sacks lay on the beach.

The deserted island was small in size, far from the coastline, with no fresh water, no food, not even trees, only a few large bare rocks exposed in the sand. The desert island is surrounded by reefs, and few ships pass by.

Painting the dragon was the first to wake up, biting through the sack with his teeth, he first got Zhou Xingxing out of the sack, and then helped each other untie the rope tied to his wrist, and Han Bingyu fell unconscious.

Zhou Xingxing: "Why are we here?" ”

Drawing Dragon: "I'm weird too. ”

Zhou Xingxing: "How is Lao Han?" ”

Drawing Dragon: "It seems to have passed out." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "I understand. ”

Drawing Dragon: "What? ”

Zhou Xingxing: "What is more terrible than death?" ”

Draw Dragon: "You just say it." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Wait for death." ”

Drawing Dragon: "They want us to wait for death?" ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Die of hunger, death of thirst." ”

"In a few days, we'll be so hungry that we will eat shit." ”

Zhou Xingxing: "It's a pity that there is not even shit on this island." ”

Drawing Dragon: "If you're hungry, you'll eat people, right?" ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Maybe, maybe we will eat Lao Han first." ”

Drawing Dragon: "And then?" ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Then you kill me, eat my flesh, and drink my blood." ”

Drawing Dragon: "In the end, I starved to death on this desert island?" ”

Zhou Xingxing: "Yes, they just thought, let's kill each other here and wait for death slowly." ”

On 23 May 2001, a man stood in front of a fruit stand.

The boss asked, "What do you want to buy, oranges, apples, pears, or bananas?" ”

He shook his head.

The boss continued to ask, "What fruit do you want to buy?" ”

He pulled out all the money in his pocket and said, "I'll buy that fruit knife." ”

He is Baoyuan.

Bao Yuan walked towards a field, the wheat sprouts were green, and the fruit knife in his hand was shining in the sun.

Lying on his back in the green wheat field, he began to recall the past as clearly as the blue sky.

He used to have a motor tricycle, and once it was raining heavily, he and his wife drove the motor tricycle and laughed in the rain. They go to the market every day to sell fish, and the fish that can't be sold are stored in cold storage. He still remembers the cold store, with icicles hanging on the roof, and icicles standing on the ground, and the icicles on the ground were caused by the icicles on the roof, dripping and freezing rapidly. My wife said, I'm cold. Bao Yuan hugged her. After the birth of his son, he cried all night, and he and his mother took turns holding the child at night, and his mother often yawned when she sold fish during the day. As the son grew older, he threw his fist at the fish, and the fish scattered. One winter, he and his son built a snowman in the yard, and then the father and son laughed and beat the snowman.

My wife is not pretty, but she looks beautiful when she stands behind the moon and the ice flowers, pomegranates or oleanders on the glass, and there are some of these pictures in the frames on the walls of his house.

My son has freckles on his face, is mischievous, and is gluttonous, and often spends a dime on soda or lollipops.

His mother loves boiled chicken heads, pork liver, and sheep lungs, which are the cheapest.

Later, Bao Yuan became obsessed with gambling.

His mother, his wife, his son, they all became people who ate cabbage all day long.

Now that they were all gone, the door of the house was closed and silent, and there was nothing to mention. Only the wind blew through the windows, the gray and dilapidated walls, the mosquito nets, the little fans hanging from the mosquito nets, and they were all gone. Bao Yuan closed his eyes, he saw his son, he saw his wife, and he saw his mother. Some people and things do need to close your eyes to see. In the depths of time and space, there is a bend, similar to the corner of an alley, where you only need to close your eyes to make a final look at the past years.

Bao Yuan muttered to himself, "I'm here." ”

He slit his own wrist with a fruit knife.

Bright red blood splattered on the green wheat seedlings.

Three days later, the police found Bao Yuan's body, and when they were cleaning up the relics, they found him carrying a letter. The ink on the paper was different, sometimes dark, sometimes very light, it can be seen that the letter was written with different pens on different days, and some of the handwriting that was wet and leaked proved that the person who wrote the letter had cried, and the police never understood why the letter was not sent.

Here's an excerpt:

Mom, Ling, Peng Peng, I'm working outside now, I'm doing well, this is an auto repair shop, I'll go back when I earn money. Don't worry about me, I don't gamble anymore, I'm sorry for you, I don't know how you've been doing in the past few years. We're not going to be poor anymore. Mom, I'll buy you roast chicken, I know you love chicken skin. Ling, you must wait for me, I miss home and you very much. I also carry the keys to the house, which I hang on my waist every day, and I look at them when I have nothing to do. Now this key is on the table, this one is to open the door, this one is to open the door, this one is the key to the drawer, and the other one, Ling, is the key to your bike. I still remember the bike, I took you back to your hometown to fish, you remember, from the road all the way to the river. I fished, you sat next to you and sang, the fish were so scared that you couldn't take the bait, I still remember you singing "Heart Rain": why do you always think deeply of you in those rainy days...... As soon as I heard this song, I wanted to cry sadly, and I remember all this, and I really wanted to go home.

Peng Peng, Dad misses you, Dad wants to hug you, how long has it been since I hugged you? You miss your dad too, right, I know you think, I miss you very much, Peng Peng, writing here, I'm crying, dad is sorry for you. Peng Peng, if you see Dad's letter, you can shout Dad, I can hear you. Dad is not a bad person, you have to go to school well in the future, and you must be admitted to college. It's your birthday in a few days, what should Dad give you, Dad really wants to go home on your birthday, knock on our door, and carry a convenience bag in your hand, which is full of things you like. When the time comes, don't forget to open the door for Dad, Dad will pick you up, lift you up, and say loudly, Dad is back, never leave you again.

……

After Zhou Xingxing, Hualong, and Han Bing were missing, the headquarters of the major case immediately took action, and an arrest brigade composed of armed police and special police arrested nearly 100 members of the knife, fire, and artillery criminal syndicate within a week, and seized a large amount of stolen money and goods. Xiaodao was arrested, the pornographic place he opened was banned and closed, Gao Fei, Lao Gun, Paozi, and Eryizi were on the run, and Ma Youzhai was arrested at home.

Ma Youzhai was wearing a robe, and a policeman handcuffed him, and he folded his hands and said, "Amitabha! ”

Ma Youzhai seemed to have been waiting for this day to come, his robe was covered with a layer of morning light, and he didn't know if it was day or night. This blind man who sleeps upside down, even at night, still feels the sun shining outside.

The police interrogated everyone involved in the case, hoping to learn the whereabouts of Zhou Xingxing, Hualong, and Han Bingyu.

A month later, a boat guy turned himself in, and he confessed a major clue to the police. At that time, Bai Jingyu, the commander-in-chief of the major case command, was lying on the mat, he was sweating, and when he heard the news, he immediately sat up, and when his sweaty skin was separated from the straw mat, he made a tearing sound. He rushed into the pre-trial room, and without caring for his image, he grabbed the boat man by the collar and asked:

"Where are they?"

"On a desert island."

"To live to see people, to die to see corpses." Bai Jingyu gave an order to find them.

Under the command of the boat guy, the coast guard immediately dispatched a patrol helicopter to reach the desert island as fast as possible, but the island was deserted and no bodies were found, only the waves washed the beach. The search and rescue personnel looked at each other, and with the last glimmer of hope, they searched the nearby sea for an hour and found nothing.