In the glorious gambling hall of the Golden Theater, all the gamblers stood up from their seats and cheered for the great victory of the sage.

The applause and shouts boiled like a cauldron boiling in a blazing cauldron, as if it could shake the huge crystal chandelier on the ceiling, and the crazy faces became more and more distorted in the light.

The natural antagonism between the gamblers and the casino in terms of interests was completely vented at this moment, and everyone celebrated with their crowns, excited about Vio's victory over the casino, as if they had won the money themselves.

In stark contrast to the gamblers is the reaction of the casino staff -

The waiters, the bartenders, the dealers, and the banker, who had lost his bet, had faces that were more ugly than the dead gray bark of the dead wood spirits. They could understand what Vio's victory meant - there was no casino in the world that could accept a loss of 10 billion dollars in one night, and after this crazy night, the Royal United was already doomed.

The casino manager looked pleadingly at the lingonberries sitting still in the auditorium, as if asking for the other's opinion, and asked with his eyes whether he should pay the bet for the robber-like old man.

The latter, however, maintained his usual passivity since the plasma group boarded the ship, and like Sure Hon, who would only be beaten and not attacked, Lingonberry sat quietly in the midst of the frenzied crowd, neither panicked nor angry, and still did not take any action, as if he was still waiting for an opportunity.

After noticing the manager's gaze, the Evil Heavenly King only nodded indifferently - this meant paying as usual.

When the manager received the lingonberry's eye command, instead of being relieved, he became even more nervous.

In a few moments, the waitress in a bunny girl uniform held a huge plate containing all the chips that Vio had won in this round.

It was more than 500 master chips with a dazzling amethyst sheen, neatly stacked on the same scale as the various chips that Vio had put out at the table, but they were equal in value, and could be exchanged for more than half a billion dollars in cash if the casino's hard commission fees were not taken into account.

The bunny girl carefully placed her chips on the table in front of Vio. At this moment, the total value of the chips in Vio's hands has reached the level of 10 billion—almost equal to all the wealth carried on the Royal United!

And the cost of the old man was only the white chip he borrowed from the gambler on the first floor.

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"It's really unpleasant to watch, where is this-for-tat gambling game, it's clearly a cheating that seizes the game loophole and does whatever you want."

In the seat next to Lingonberry, Nazi propped her chin and looked disinterested, as if she was annoyed that she had wasted a night.

She wasn't a gambler in the abyss, she wasn't interested in the so-called card counting formula, and she couldn't have any empathy for the old man in the casino center, and in the eyes of the gym leader, Vio's duel with the casino was not as interesting as the battle between two beginner trainers.

The gamble lasted all night, and Vio's old fellow was cautious in his bets, betting exactly according to the ratio calculated by probability, until he was finally sure that he would put all the bets down in one go - which led to a long and boring game of 21 points, and if it weren't for the bilberry chatting with her boredly, the actress would have gone to the deck to tease other people's Pokémon with her superpowers.

"There are some misunderstandings in your thinking."

Lingonberry said unhurriedly, calmly watching Vio bask in the carnival of the gamblers.

"Cheating and tricks are actually the most fun part of the casino. If the existence of both was completely ruled out by forceful means, the casinos would be reduced to scythe-harvesting farmland, the dealers would become merchants, the guests would be slaves, and the thrill of dancing between victory and defeat would be gone – the way the casinos on land were all the same, and that was the real reason I founded the Royal Alliance. ”

"Did you create a casino for the pleasure of gambling duels? It sounds a bit similar to the nature of the Pokémon Gym. Natsu asked rhetorically, yawning.

"Winning or losing in the casino is not as obvious as in the elf battle, but there is a little similarity between the two."

Lingonberry looked at the old man in the center of the casino, and said meaningfully-

"That is, the duel between the two sides is not over until the moment when the final contestant loses the ability to fight - until then, any ups and downs of the game are just a pastime for the spectators."

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On stage, Vio did not continue to play at 21 – a clear sign of his self-indulgent benevolence as a casino legend.

At this moment, according to the casino's custom, the old man who won the full house had to take a portion of the chips to order the most exclusive round of champagne for all the guests present. As the sage of the plasma group, it is naturally impossible for Vio to let go of such an opportunity to win people's hearts.

"If the people are safe, they will be beneficial, and the people will cherish them."

The old man said so inscrutablely, and generously set aside a fraction of the chips to cover all the expenses of the other guests except gambling until they disembarked—most of the people who could board the Royal Union were celebrities and wealthy people like Nazi, and it was naturally very cost-effective to do so smoothly.

After all, even Vio's first chip when he joined the casino was borrowed from a guest who had never known him, so it was a reciprocated favor.

After the old man announced the gift, the jubilation at the scene can be imagined. It's just that the carnival doesn't last forever.

After rehydrating himself with sparkling golden champagne, Vio did not rush to exchange his chips for cash, but walked straight to the smiling lingberry sitting in the audience.

"Lingonberry, I think you know why I'm here today, right?"

The old man, who had been ignoring the existence of lingonberries, finally faced up to the existence of the casino owner, and for the first time opened his mouth to the traitors of the alliance who had defected to the plasma group.

"Specifically, the date I boarded the cruise ship was yesterday, and now it's more than zero o'clock for several hours." In the face of the sage whose status is higher than himself in the plasma group, there is no meaning of respect in the bilberry's frivolous tone.

"You know why I'm here, right?" Vio asked again, his tone aggravated.

"It's punishment." Bilberry said disapprovingly, playing with the pen in his hand, "This casino has received many guests from the Order, many of whom ended up bankrupt, and you have come here to teach me a long lesson." ”

"It's easy to say." The old man's eyebrows twitched, "As a high-level person in charge of the Plasma Mission's finances, I have no doubt that more than seventy percent of the 10 billion chips I won just now came from this gambling ship's embezzlement of the Order's funds. ”

"We're just hosting guests normally, and we don't care where they get the money to redeem the chips, it's the privacy of the guests."

"There are some guests you shouldn't have." Vio was visibly annoyed.

"You should restrict the members of the Plasma Regiment from entering and leaving the casino, this is a unanimous decision within the Order - we cannot sit idly by and watch the Order's noble ideals be corrupted by money and lust, and now that you have joined the Plasma Order, you should understand this."

"I understand. In the last round of rectification, the Royal United had removed the privileges of free entry and exit of the Plasma Order, and since then, we have not received any guests from the Order until you, Mr. Vio, have led your men aboard. Lingonberry shrugged his shoulders, a look of inexplicability that he felt the other party had on his face.

"You're talking nonsense!" Vio couldn't help but retort sharply, and an urge suddenly surged in his heart to take 10 billion yuan and play a few more 21 points.

"The cadre who presided over the rectification has long since become your accomplice because of gambling debts! Thanks to him, the Order is still full of tickets for the gambling ship, and those who have been seduced by the casino can enter and leave the casino freely again as long as they change into civilian clothes, and the internal funds of the Plasma Regiment are still flowing into the ship - and you want to continue to play stupid? ”

"We don't know about it, the casino's reception voucher follows the principle of anonymity, and as long as the verification is valid, we can't prevent any guests from boarding the ship."

"You can use those monitors at the door to keep members of the Order out of the way." Vio immediately pointed out.

"Monitors are only designed to identify if someone like you has entered the casino and do not record the identity of the guests – the principle of this casino is that the customer comes first, and we must protect the privacy of our guests from any form of infringement."

Lingonberry still has a poker face, like those bureaucrats in the league who are dead and vegetarian, and they are shameless and prevaricating according to the script.

Seeing this, the old man did not dwell on this, but patted a pocket on his robe. Then, a geometric snowflake made of ice appeared in the air with the red light released by the Poké Ball.

Without the master's orders, the Pokémon made of ice crystals began to make its own moves, and five walls of light appeared out of thin air around the two of them and above their heads.

"Lingonberry King, now we can talk openly and honestly, right?"

Within the psychedelic wall of light, Vio changed his name for the lingonberry, which seems to be the reason why he chose to use Pokémon to create a soundproof space-

"Your Majesty's reason for joining the Plasma Regiment is full of doubts, at the beginning, more than half of the Seven Sages thought that you were an undercover alliance agent who broke into the Order, and I was one of the doubters."

"But since you started the Royal Circle, the sages have become much less suspicious of you, which is too ironic - your methods of enriching yourself are too dirty, and your deception of cadres is too despicable, but it may explain your defection to the Plasma Regiment. Until now, the sages who had believed that you must be an undercover agent of the Alliance have changed their attitudes, and have begun to think that you are a centrist who will waver for the sake of sky-high wealth. They are beginning to think that you, who are busy harvesting the money bags of the Order's cadres in the casino, have achieved your intended goal, and are unlikely to be able to reveal secret information about the Order to the United Alliance as an undercover agent. ”

"It's worthy of the sage gathered by Mr. Quits, and it's really accurate." Lingonberry responded with a smile.

"But I don't think so." Vio was serious, "In my opinion, you are an Alliance spy through and through, and your target has never been money, but the destruction of the Order!" ”

He didn't wait for Lingonberry to quibble, then continued—

"You know that the Plasma Regiment can't tell an outsider like you secret information, so you've decided to crack down on the Order's hidden secrets in another way. People may lie, evidence may be forged, but the flow of wealth is irrefutable. Just as I can use the cards drawn to figure out how a gamble works, you can use a casino as a place to gather economic intelligence to speculate on the next move of the plasma cluster - it's much easier to collect secrets than to pretend to be a defector and go through the hassle of blending into the top. ”

"You're looking too highly of me......"

"Don't be in a hurry to deny it, Lingonberry King." The old man interrupted Lingonberry again, "Old people like me have a common shortcoming, and that is hopeless stubbornness. This personality has been exacerbated by the experience of navigating casinos at a young age, and now that I recognize you and your casino, there is only one thing left for me to do. ”

"Sleep and put those unfounded speculations behind you?" The casino owner asked with a mocking humor.

"Defeat you and your ship once and for all."

Thirty years ago, the casino legend said, and the eyes that were rarely opened revealed a majestic light.

"At the time of the reception, the casino had changed the rules of the blackjack table, and the house multiplier would be lowered by two points until the player's base win rate was less than 50%. In addition, after every two rounds of the cards, a dealer will manually shuffle the cards, and keep an eye out for the guests standing at the table to count the cards, and the casino manager will invite them into the bar and politely give them a cheap cocktail, and when they return to the table, the points will be meaningless. ”

Lingonberry unveiled the new rules for 21 o'clock on the Royal United to the old man, and the same words were introduced to the guests at the ship's numerous gaming tables.

"Mr. Vio, you do make a lot of money from the casinos, but that number is not enough to shake the ship - your legendary victory may lead to more fools who want to get rich overnight."

"Did you only cut the odds by two percentage points? You don't think you're going to stop me, do you? Vio chuckled conceitedly, "Or are you going to rely on those little tricks of the human dealer to keep me out of the door to victory?" ”

"I think we're all tired of games without risk."

Lingonberry suddenly raised his voice and said to the purple-robed old man in front of him-

"After all, the game of 21 is still too petty, and if a man ignores your existence, arrogantly plays his cleverness in front of you, and turns poker, a gentleman's sport, into an ugly calculation, it is difficult not to be prejudiced against him. It's time to try some games for the grown-ups, right? ”

"What do you mean?" Vio hadn't been treated like a child for decades, and his squinted eyes were getting deeper and deeper, trying to see the secret behind the deliberate provocation of Lingonberry.

"Tenth Floor Casino, Double Dragon Poker." Lingonberry pointed to the sky and said lightly, "This whole ship, bet all your chips." ”