Chapter 10 Mask Buddha gold inlaid with jade
"Then there is a fee for going up to the top floor?" I stared at Guan Yu and asked
"Hmm," Guan Yu nodded very calmly, but he didn't say the specific amount, but in a few words, I could guess that the price of the fee must be high.
He glanced at me and said calmly, "Don't worry too much, that little money is not as good as a tenth of what you helped me win." ”
With a ding, the elevator doors opened. Guan Yu made a gesture of stretching out his hand, smiled at me and said, "Go in, I hope you can find the answer you want." ”
"Thank you, Brother Guan!" After getting out of the elevator door, I bowed ninety degrees to Guan Yu in the elevator.
I don't think we'll ever cross paths again in this life. Guan Yu is a righteous and thin person, but he is also a flawed person. Such people are easy to get along with, but they are also not easy to get along with.
They distinguish between favor and deception very clearly, and are even willing to use their lives to repay righteousness and favors owed. But deception is deception. They are people who do not have a little sand in their eyes. Even if they treat each other sincerely when they return favors, but afterwards, they will still raise their proud heads and walk away indifferently.
Yes, he is such a contradictory combination, full of blood and sincerity, but arrogant and cold, he can die without hesitation, but he is stingy and resentful.
As I stepped into the golden penthouse hall, I was even more sure I wasn't in the wrong place. I'm even sure the masked beast is hiding in this gambling room. Because, the smell of fish and wolves is getting stronger and stronger. Of course, this is only for me, who is sensitive, and no one else can smell it.
The fifth floor and the second floor are separated by several floors, but the smell of masked beasts remains in both places at the same time. In this way, it is very likely that the masked beast is a person, walking back and forth between the second and first floors.
But...... Judging from the battle that night, the masked beast's intelligence was not very mature. At most, it is just an enlightenment, and it is impossible to reach the point where it can speak such a rebellious way.
I can't figure it out, I can only see walking. I believe that as long as the fox will always show his tail, as long as he wants to continue to harm people, then I will definitely catch him.
Or could the masked beast be a circulating commodity? Gold and silver jewelry, for example, circulate between two floors, looking for a target.
As Guan Yu described, the dark hall on the top floor is a hodgepodge, and it is also a high-end hodgepodge. The gambling hall is very splendidly decorated, and the dealers who send cards are all tall and beautiful women, and they have definitely gone through a lot of selection. The bets on the table are not limited to chips and money, in addition to gold and silver, even antiques.
Moreover, this gambling hall has its own unique operation model. If there is an item other than banknotes on the table, a professional expert will come out to evaluate it. In addition to paying the casino a tenth of the commission, the winner also has to pay a hefty appraisal fee.
In addition to this, the gambling hall also covers killing. You can gamble your life at the table. The winner can hand over the tail to the casino and ask the people in the casino to harvest the loser's life. It's just that the processing fee starts at seven figures, and ordinary people can't afford to pay it at all.
Of course, the people who can come to this place to play are not ordinary people. Even in the ten minutes I saw, I saw all sorts of people in the hall. In addition to the nouveau riche who wear gold and silver, there are also mercenaries who smell of blood. Foreigners of unknown origin, including local blackboard bosses and bosses.
What caught my eye was a golden Texas Hold'em poker table. As I walked past the table, my heart shuddered inexplicably, and the sudden feeling of coldness in my whole body made me stop.
As I gazed toward the chips on the table, one trinket caught my eye. There were gold bars and necklaces on the table, but in the pile of jewelry, there was a Buddha statue with a green body.
To be precise, this is a piece of gold inlaid with jade. In the past, gold inlay jade was a craft used to set broken jade bracelets. But now, gold inlaid jade has also become a kind of ornament. The outer body is jade, and the inner body is a golden statue. Small in size, but great in value.
In the pile of jewelry, there is a Buddha statue with his hands covering his face. This is Thailand's masked Buddha, which is supposed to be a solemn and sacred Buddha statue, but at the moment it exudes a strange chill.
There were only two people at the table, one was a young man in a white suit with a proud face. His opponent was a middle-aged nouveau riche in his forties. The pair of mouths were very big, sometimes laughing unscrupulously, sometimes smiling lewdly and stuffing the yuan into the waitress's chest. Although he wears gold and silver and dresses gorgeously, the temperament of the hillbilly is undoubtedly revealed with his every move.
The final winner was the middle-aged nouveau riche with a big mouth, who won the opponent's three kings with a straight. After the victory, he was even more unstoppable, rubbed the buttocks of the waitress beside him fiercely, threw a wad of money on the table at will, and walked away with the jewelry on the table.
He approached the VIP room in the dark hall with his jewelry, and half an hour later, he came out empty-handed. Presumably, the jewelry has been exchanged for money, or deposited in the casino's account, or converted into an equivalent amount and transferred to his account.
However, I saw that he was still wearing the masked Buddha he had just won around his neck. He seemed to like this piece of gold and jade, and he couldn't put it down.
I followed him out of the casino, and escorted by the casino bodyguards, he turned into a leisure club. I stopped outside the clubhouse and didn't follow up.
The so-called leisure clubs, I have seen a lot in Dongguan and Shenzhen. Under the slogan of massage and oil foot bath. In fact, any star-rated hotel club, as long as you go up to the spa floor, almost all have special services.
Star-rated hotels are usually accompanied by a hidden yellow industry. The middle-aged nouveau riche walked into this club, and he didn't have to think about it to know that he was comfortable after winning the money.
So, instead of following him up, I waited for him to come out on the opposite side of the clubhouse.
Sitting in the store with nothing to do, drinking many cups of drinks. It wasn't until it was dark that the nouveau riche had not been seen walking out of the door of the clubhouse. I was so angry that I wanted to go up and find out this middle-aged nouveau riche, snatch his jade pendant, and see what was going on.
I knew I couldn't, though. At least, I'm not sure I'll be able to subdue the two bodyguards around him.
These two bodyguards are people in the ranks, and even the posture of walking is very different from ordinary people.
When ordinary people walk, they either swing their hands or look left and right. People who have succeeded in their careers generally walk slowly. However, as long as you look carefully, you will find such a characteristic. Today's crowd is usually high and low shoulders, and the pace of walking will never have a specific rhythm, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Whether it is an ordinary person or a person with a career, it will not maintain the same rhythm.
Unless, it is a specially trained person. Your shoulders will always be balanced, and your walking stride will be quite steady. And as long as you pay attention. You will find that there is a specific pattern to the steps they take, each step they take. How many steps are taken in a minute and a second, I dare not say that the law is the same, but they must be almost the same. It's not something that is done on purpose, it's a habit that has been developed over time.
The two bodyguards hired by the middle-aged nouveau riche from the casino, presumably veterans or something, had thick calluses on their hands. The pace has a certain rhythm, and when you walk, your feet move, but your shoulders don't move at all, and you are two masters.
So, I can only wait, wait until the middle-aged nouveau riche comes out, until the two bodyguards send him home and leave, and then I have a chance to do it.
Finally, at eight o'clock in the evening, the middle-aged nouveau riche came out with two bodyguards. I hurriedly put down my drink and quietly followed under the cover of the crowd.
Suddenly, one of the bodyguards whispered something in the ear of the middle-aged nouveau riche. The middle-aged nouveau riche glanced at my position abruptly, and I was so frightened that I quickly hid behind the pillar and hid.
Then, the middle-aged nouveau riche quickened his pace and turned into a small alley next to it.
"Isn't it going to be discovered?" I hesitated, but quickened my pace to follow.
However, when I entered the dark alley, I found that they were missing. As I quickened my pace and looked around the corner of the alley, suddenly, a dark figure sprang out from the corner and kicked me in the lower abdomen with its knee.
After receiving a kick, my internal organs were in turmoil in pain, and I almost vomited bile. When I was able to stabilize my body, I finally saw the appearance of the black shadow clearly.
He was one of the bodyguards who was standing next to the middle-aged nouveau riche just now.
"Sure enough, it was discovered!" A wry smile passed through my heart, and before I could make a move, the bodyguard squatted down and rushed towards me, like a cow. While his hands were locked around my waist, he slammed me into the ground with a fierce force.
"...... Israeli Martial Arts! At the same time, this thought passed through my mind. I put my hands on the ground by the gods, and thanks to this blessed soul, I was able to save my neck.
Israeli martial arts are currently recognized as one of the most ruthless fighting techniques in the world. This black-clothed bodyguard just made such an action, the purpose is to seriously injure my neck and brain, when you are locked by him, he will immediately hold you to a green onion, once your head hits the ground, he will press you to the ground again, and the card rubs, hurting your head and breaking your neck by the impact.
Although I was able to prop my hands on the ground in time, I took most of my strength off my shoulders and hugged my neck. But the pain of the impact of my head on the floor made me dizzy for a while, and even after he let go of me, I still rolled on the ground with my head in my hands, and I felt nothing but pain and dizziness.
It wasn't until the black-clothed bodyguard put me down that the middle-aged outburst bit the gold-inlaid jade of the Buddha, crossed his hands on his waist, and walked out of the back alley.