Chapter 64
Seeing the administrator fall into silence, one of the dealers spoke up, "Administrator, should we stop the game immediately and notify An Su? This is a promising candidate; the headquarters will be very interested..."
"No need."
The woman shook her head and walked directly toward the door, passing by the two dealers and heading outside.
The two dealers, however, slowly bowed their heads in the direction the woman had left, making a strange symbol over their chests with their hands.
Descending to the second floor, the woman entered the VIP viewing room. The windowsill of this room opened directly into the manor, featuring a small protruding platform for observing the gambling games below.
At that moment, a glass chamber smeared with blood and brain matter slowly rose before her. The woman looked down and saw a head rolling down the steps, accompanied by a body and a trickle of blood.
On the right side of the high platform, a beautiful girl with long gray-blue hair sat calmly, facing a pile of over a dozen stacked corpses.
The hall seemed to have fallen into a deathly silence; even the banner symbolizing high stakes hung limply, and no one dared to step forward.
The woman in the black chip mask fixed her gaze on the girl below, a smile gradually spreading across her face beneath the mask.
Indeed, a promising candidate...
Although she was now with the two who had disrupted her plans, it didn’t change the fact that she was just an ordinary person.
An ordinary person meant easy to manipulate.
The woman pressed a switch beside her, and the oil lamps around her lit up, drawing the attention of the dealers and the girl on the high platform.
"Oh! Our administrator, Ms. Jidi, has also arrived on the scene! Let’s hear what good news Ms. Jidi has brought us!"
The dealer energetically hyped up the crowd, directing everyone’s gaze toward the second-floor VIP viewing platform.
Once nearly everyone was looking her way, Jidi slightly adjusted her black glove on her right hand with her left, then placed both hands on the stone railing in front of her.
"Ladies and gentlemen!"
Jidi's voice, resonant and passionate beneath the black mask, rang out to the crowd below, "Today! The death roulette record in our Boleun District has been broken once again!"
"This is a historic moment worth commemorating! As the administrator of this place, I have decided!"
Jidi raised her hand, pointing toward the long banner, and declared, "On top of the existing chips, I will add an additional £2,000!"
Seconds later, a new banner was dropped.
"Girl"—£10,900!!!
"In addition to the new chips, I will also introduce a new rule!"
Jidi slammed her hand on the railing, exclaiming, "Challenger, if you can defeat the defender!"
"You can directly inherit all her consecutive wins and receive all the winnings! And wipe out all debt records!"
"The time to turn the tables is now!"
"As long as you win! You will create history! Gain direct access to the management of Dédun Manor! Change your life!"
As Jidi's words echoed, the gamblers below erupted into excited roars, as if the fear from moments ago had been shattered by her speech, leaving only the impulse to win.
Jidi suddenly pushed off the railing and leaped down from the VIP platform.
The gamblers, breathing heavily, parted to make way, and Jidi stepped through the crowd, making her way toward the high platform.
Thud—
Her boots squelched in the thick blood, leaving trails as she walked along this blood-soaked path straight to the gambling table.
"Congratulations on breaking the record, miss."
Jidi smiled at the girl, then raised her hand and gently clapped.
Two dealers hurried up the blood-stained steps, carrying trays, and placed them before the girl.
Jidi unveiled the coverings of the trays, revealing a potion in each—one swirling like a thundercloud in a small bottle, the other resembling a pool of pitch-black oil, something seemingly moving within.
These were the potions of the "Gambler" and the "Harbinger of Misfortune."
Jidi placed both potions in front of Xia'er, speaking softly, "Come, let’s create miracles together."
"You can drink that 'Gambler' potion at any time."
"Next, I will take on the role of dealer."
At this moment, Xia'er looked at the potions before her, a slight wariness rising within her.
This administrator... gave Xia'er a very dangerous feeling.
Ever since she appeared, she had been stirring the emotions of the entire room.
It was as if her voice held some peculiar magic, compelling others to believe in her without question.
When she mentioned that Xia'er could drink the potion, Xia'er truly felt a wave of thirst, as if her body instinctively urged her to drink the "Gambler" potion.
With the previous dealer gone, Jidi, wearing the black chip mask, stood in the dealer's position.
The cleaned glass chamber slowly descended again, enveloping the two of them.
Under Jidi's added stakes and emotional manipulation, more gamblers who had already lost everything began to climb the blood-stained stairs, gathering outside the glass chamber.
Moreover, due to Jidi's arrival, many who had been gambling elsewhere stopped and surged toward this hall, the crowd growing so large it nearly burst the space at the seams.
The fervent gamblers below and the new dealer, Jidi, filled Xia'er with a sense of foreboding.
This feeling compelled her to want to end this death roulette immediately, but she held back.
Knowing the tiger is there, yet still walking toward it. The more dangers she simulated, the safer she would be in reality.
"Aren't you afraid?"
A voice suddenly echoed in Xia'er's mind.
She looked up in shock toward Jidi, certain that this voice came from the woman in the black chip mask before her.
"You have great talent... child."
Jidi slowly raised her hand, gently caressing her masked face.
"Let me see your limits..."
This extraordinary ability to project voices into her mind... Xia'er had only encountered it once before.
The "Ascetic" path.
Previously, when facing Xiu, the Radiant Bishop Xiu had directly transmitted his voice into Xia'er's mind, blocking out all other noise.
Could it be that this Jidi was not from the "Gambler" path?
Aivina had clearly told her that the internal members of Dédun Manor were either from the "Adventurer" path or the "Gambler" path...
"Defender girl, you have the first move,"
Jidi raised her revolver, smiling as she asked, "How many live rounds do you plan to load?"
"One."
Xia'er took a deep breath and replied.
No matter what the other party was thinking, Xia'er had to grit her teeth and continue the game.
"A bold choice."
After loading the bullet, Jidi spun the chamber and handed the revolver back to Xia'er.
Xia'er took the gun, feeling the weight of it more than before, her right hand slightly numb from previous shots.
At the moment she grasped the revolver, she saw smoke curling from the barrel.
It... fired?
In one second, the gun would automatically fire a blank?
Xia'er tried to quickly turn the gun toward herself, but she suddenly realized her body was no longer under her control.
Click—
Xia'er hadn’t even placed her finger on the trigger, yet it was pulled without her consent.
"Oh! The 'Girl' has fired a blank!!!"
Jidi stepped over the gambling table and moved forward, shouting to the excited, roaring gamblers below, "She! Finally made a wrong bet!"
Xia'er's mind went blank as she looked down at her shadow, a phantom white figure crawling over it, nearly merging with her.
Since she had entered the simulation without any extraordinary abilities, Xia'er could only barely see this shadow, completely unable to mount any effective resistance.
At this moment, Jidi had already walked to Xia'er's side, taking the revolver from her hand and moving to face the gambler opposite.
"Your turn, brave challenger."
Jidi handed the gun to him.
"Ha... haha..."
The gambler stared incredulously at the revolver being offered to him, suddenly reaching out to snatch it, bursting into laughter.
"Hahahahaha!!! Luck has come to me!"
He cackled madly, flipping the revolver around and aiming it at his forehead, pulling the trigger without a moment's hesitation!
"Bang—!"
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