Chapter 5: The Gambling Stone (I)
The vast majority of places in the jade trading market of the Later Tang Empire are full of people, but only one place is very quiet, naturally, this is the gambling stone trading market, the reason is very simple, a knife is poor, a knife rich remarks are known all over the world, then customers must be afraid of being disturbed when choosing gambling stones, businessmen are harmonious and make money, what customers need, they will provide, so, other places are not clear, at least, in the gambling stone market of the Later Tang Dynasty national trading market, there is no shouting, There can only be a normal whispered discussion, naturally, this kind of place is also especially to Yi Xi's mouth, and he can finally get a chance to breathe after his brain was about to explode by the endless noise.
This is Yi Xi's first time to come to the gambling stone market, but the furnishings here are similar to what he thought, several stalls are placed on large and small stones of different colors, but under Yi Xi's perception, most of the so-called gambling stones are either pure broken stones without a trace of spirituality, or only a small amount of spirituality, even if he doesn't understand jade, he doesn't understand jade, and he also knows that such stones are just a pile of garbage.
However, he didn't rush forward to look for a spiritual gambling stone, he has always been cautious and will not show any flaws in this kind of place, as the saying goes, the basket is tied up, all in the mouth, even if there is only one ten-thousandth of the danger, Yi Xi is not willing to take that risk, in his opinion, even if he dies, it is much happier than being found as a mutant and then pulled to the laboratory for dissection, although he doesn't know that he has actually been targeted.
"Could it be that Arthur Pandri, who followed Yi Xi all the way, finally noticed that something was wrong, because only when this man's eyes were on the gambling stones on the ground, the Gaia energy fluctuations on his body, which belonged to mutants, would suddenly amplify, "This guy can see the inside of the gambling stones?" This discovery couldn't help but make Arthur Pendri's whole body become excited, and even instinctively licked her pink lips slightly, the reason is very simple, if her guess is true, then she really went out to meet a noble person and picked up a baby!
In fact, since the state apparatus in various parts of the world has faced up to mutants and people with ancient inheritance, a set of plans that can ensure the stability of the world has been released, and human beings are jealous and afraid of these people with stronger abilities, but they are also envious of this kind of power, and they want to manipulate it, and they don't want it to disappear like this, so after many, many years of development, in terms of dealing with mutants, and research, the most powerful countries in the world have a lot of information in their hands. There is even a very scientific division of the ability level of mutants, of course, the level here is not the so-called combat power, but the harm to social stability, after all, combat power can only reflect its own value in combat abilities at most.
Once some types of supernatural people have no restrictions, the harm to the stability of this world is absolutely huge, such as mutants who can penetrate matter, it is not too easy for them to crush a country's economic system, they just need to slowly empty all the bank savings from the ground at night, but the devastation directly brought by their strength is actually not high, and for example, like Arthur Pendrey's ability to deduce Yi Xi, It is an ability that can penetrate the surface of the gambling stone that the most advanced instruments in the world world have not been able to penetrate so far, and even if it penetrates, it cannot feedback any information, and the type of ability can be attributed to the spirit ray system, once such an ability is maturely mastered by the user, the destructive power brought by it may be greater, because for this kind of person, there is no secret in the world world.
Of course, Arthur Pendry didn't want to arrest Yi Xi to the UK, to be exact, not that she didn't want to, but that she couldn't, because the purpose of her coming to the Later Tang Dynasty this time was a family trial, and the King Arthur family used its own connections to establish a foreign exchange student experience system with several empires such as the Later Tang Dynasty, so that many of their descendants could be tested in a relatively fair place like a foreign country, and she had to show enough ability to be eligible to inherit the sword in the stone.
The Later Tang Empire is not a fool, since she dares to let Arthur Pendry come here, she has the ability to control her, such as installing some monitoring devices on her body, if Arthur Pendry does not cooperate, or interferes with and destroys the monitoring device, then she will be unceremoniously sent out of the Later Tang Dynasty, so it can also be said that after she found Yi Xi, it means that the people in the mutant management office of the Later Tang Empire also discovered him and wanted to take him away, which was impossible.
But even so, Arthur Pendry is still very happy, because according to the internationally recognized classification of the danger level of the alien, the danger level of the seemingly weak man in front of her is at least B level, or even higher, at least, if he can see through the gambling stone, as long as he is willing, he can accumulate huge or even massive wealth in a few moments, she has been in the Later Tang Dynasty for three years, she knows very well that the people of the Later Tang Empire have a special feeling for such things as jade, There are really people who are willing to spend millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions to buy this kind of broken stone, so as long as she can successfully control Yi Xi and transfer it to the Mutant Management Office of the Later Tang Empire, she will be able to add a lot of points to herself in this experience, after all, the B-level danger level is already very high within the scope of the World Lu Realm.
"Call the control center, I'm Arthur Pendri, the exchange investigator," gently pressed the small ear lip under the temple, Arthur Pendria whispered, obviously, the device that integrates control and communication is installed in her cochlea, this closest place to the brain, once it explodes, even if Arthur Pendre himself is an anomaly, his head will explode like a watermelon!
"Good afternoon, Miss Pendri," a sweet female voice came from the microcommunicator, "is there any new progress on the mission?" ”
"No, I'm still investigating the matter of the Huanxi Zen Cult, but this morning I found a mutant who seems to have just awakened, and it is surmised to be a B danger level, and he is ready to control it peacefully according to the rules."
"Roger," came a tapping keyboard and some kind of mechanical sound from the other end of the communicator, 'Satellite recognition, image reception, satellite locking, confirmed to be a mutant, ability unknown, fluctuation level F, hands-on allowed.' ’
"I've seen you, Miss Panderi, real-time monitoring of the area has been activated, you can do it when the time is right, and I will report this later."
"It's good."
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"Huh?" Suddenly, Yi Xi, who was looking at the gambling stone intently, raised his head suddenly, because he felt as if someone was looking at him from the top of his head, this feeling was very uncomfortable, but after raising his head, all he saw was the blue sky, and after looking around, he still found something, Yi Xi could only shake his head slightly, obviously, he attributed this feeling to being too suspicious, and besides, this time in the gambling stone trading market, it was also the most frequent use of his ability in his life. It's understandable that there are some false feelings.
"Really sensitive guys," the moment Yi Xi looked up, Arthur Pendry and Cui Difen lowered their heads, and they looked no different from ordinary tourists wearing sunhats, "He can detect the fluctuations of the monitoring satellite launch." ”
"I'm afraid that the Hou Tang Dragon Clan is going to become strong again," Cui Difen, as a loyal servant of the Arthur family, said with a little sour after glancing at Yi Xi, who continued to walk forward, "Miss, you said that you want to make this kind of trial in the Lu clan, so that the people of our family can work hard, but in the end, it will cheapen other forces!" ”
"You," Arthur Pendrey, who stood up with his visor, gently rubbed Cui Difen's head, "Too young, too simple, the descendant of the Arthur family, if he only stays in Britain forever, then his vision, his heart will only be so big," she said, she took Cui Difen's hand and continued to fall far behind Yi Xi, "Don't you think it's a great thing to have a good friendship with some people in the magical organizations of the countries of the world?" For example, if we handle it properly, the most trusted person in his heart will always be us, not someone else, the self-isolation mentality of the ability, Cui Difen, haven't you had it before? You have to know that in today's world, it is difficult to break out a large-scale war, so the more alliances, the better it is! ”
After slowly wandering around the gambling stone market for most of the circle, Yi Xi stopped in front of a large shop called Jade Shen Yun that specializes in selling gambling stones, and after selecting countless waste stones and stones with low spirituality that are not worth Yi Xi's shot, he finally found a few gambling stones with very high spirituality here, and from afar, Yi Xi could feel the vicissitudes of life.
After crawling in the endless darkness for thousands of years, he suddenly saw the light, and after several human handovers, he finally arrived here, and even, in the process, the voices made by those human beings, Yi Xi could hear them, but they were all intermittent Burmese and Later Tang Chinese, and I think it was also the reason why these jade stones were wrapped by the outer layer of stones.
"Hello, sir, what do you want to see?" There were still quite a lot of people in the shop, but the well-trained waiter still came to Yi Xi for the first time.
"Gambling stones, I've always heard that it's magical," Yi Xi smiled slightly, "Just come here and go around." ”
"Then you take your time, this side is a small piece of rough stone, the price is relatively cheap, if you just want to experience it, you can take a look here, the right side is all large pieces, the price is relatively high, if you are just interested, I don't recommend you to touch them, after all, we are just ordinary people, right."
"Ha, thank you for your concern," Yi Xi said as he pointed to the boulder in the center of the cylindrical hall that looked like half a house, "Is that the treasure of your town store?" ”
"Yes," the waiter glanced at Yi Xi's point, turned his head and said with a smile, "The boss shipped it back from Myanmar a few years ago, and it cost more than 30 million. ”
"Wow!" Yi Xi cooperated and made a look of surprise, "Didn't your boss cut it?" ”
"Why, what our boss is doing is gambling on stones."
"Really?" Yi Xi squinted at the boulder, and secretly laughed a few times in his heart, because he tried several times, but the boulder did not have any reaction, which was enough to prove that this big guy worth 38.88 million was just a broken stone
"You can also help cut it here," Yi Xi, who was squatting next to the small piece of rough stone and picking out the stone, casually grabbed a piece of yellow and white stone with no trace of green on the surface and asked.
"Yes, fifty dollars a knife, but if you spend more than 10,000 yuan here, the price of cutting stones can be discounted, and sir, I personally do not recommend you to choose such wool stones, their skin is very thick, even those experienced buyers will not buy this kind of thing easily, because this is really a gamble of luck."
"Ha, it's okay, anyway, I'm just playing, and the end of the world is coming, if you have money, don't spend it quickly, but there is nowhere to spend it, who knows if the government can shoot down that meteorite."
Yi Xi's words were not loud, but the people around him could still hear them very clearly in the relatively quiet gambling stone trading shop, and the people around him couldn't help laughing, especially some people who often played gambling stones, because they were in contact with this thing all year round, and there were many people like Yi Xi who came to Yanjing to play and planned to buy a stone to try their luck, but most of them lost thousands of dollars and returned in frustration, in their opinion, this quite humorous young man was destined to return in defeat.
"Excuse me, do you cut it inside, or do you cut it here?" As he spoke, the waiter pointed to the cutter placed at the door.
"Is there any difference?"
"Some customers want to protect their privacy, so there is another one in the warehouse at the back of the store, but it's a bit far, more than a hundred meters away."
"Then here," Yi Xi shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently, obviously, with Yi Xi's character, he is definitely not a person who likes to show off, and the only reason why he chose to cut this stone outside that is destined to sell for a good price is that this is only part of Yi Xi's plan! And as soon as he entered the store, he had already thought of Lu's plan!