Age of Empires From Scratch - Chapter 554

[Chapter 551 David is the Gambler]

When Sophia and Cheng Le’er were chatting, David looked at Cheng Xiaoxi, who was beside him with an awkward expression on her face. She had been acting awkward since she listened to the live broadcast.

If she just didn’t dare to look at David, it wouldn’t be a big deal, but she still showed some curiosity from time to time. David immediately understood: “Did Sophia tell you about our situation?”

“Yes, she told me everything.” Because there was a topic to talk about, the awkward atmosphere was greatly relieved: “Are you really… from another world?”

“If you find it difficult to understand, you can also think of us as coming from other planets.”

“Aliens?”

“Yeah, isn’t that much easier to understand?” Aliens seem too magical, but aliens are much more intuitive.

“Like Superman?”

“Almost.”

After asking a few questions, Cheng Xiaoxi began to be interested in the Winter City mentioned by David and Sophia, so she asked David if she could travel to Winter City?

“Of course, but it will take some time.”

“It doesn’t matter. Anyway, I have to go to work after I go back this time.” Cheng Xiaoxi’s work is not as free as David and Cheng Le’er. This time, she used up all her accumulated vacation time in one go, and she also changed shifts with her colleagues to go out to sea for so long.

The atmosphere gradually became normal, and then Sofia and Cheng Le’er came out.

Cheng Le’er learned some private things from Sofia and ate a golden apple. Although she was still entangled in some things, her whole spirit was much better than when she was stuck in her heart in the morning.

The state of several people seemed to have returned to the state when they first boarded the ship, and everyone could enjoy this sea trip again.

“We are out to play, don’t stay in the room and chat all the time.” Sofia pulled Cheng Le’er who wanted to sit down and suggested that everyone go out to play.

Cheng Le’er felt that this was indeed the truth. Isn’t it for eating, drinking and having fun to board the Fuguiwan cruise ship? Why do you always stay in the room! It’s

not like she was injured and couldn’t move.

“Sophia is right, let’s go to the theater to watch a show!”

“What’s on today?”

“Let me check the program.”

Each room has a program list for theater performances. After Cheng Le’er looked at the program list, he found that it was just the break time.

“Then let’s go to the casino to play for a while, then have dinner, and finally watch the show.”

The casino is always open, even at night, and when Sophia said this, he remembered the charity poker game that Long Jiu mentioned.

“By the way, Le’er, do you know what the charity poker game held on the ship is about?”

“Not very clear, David, do you want to participate?”

“Let’s go and see.”

In fact, Fuguiwan specifically promoted this competition before arriving in Hong Kong.

According to the statement, all the chips in this competition will be used for charity in the end, which means that even the final winner will not win a dime, and at most he can get a certificate of appreciation or something like that.

When they arrived at the casino and learned more details from the staff, they realized that this charity poker tournament was not open to anyone. The minimum entry requirement was US$3 million, or HK$25 million.

Without enough chips, there was no chance to play at the table.

However, in addition to the final battle, there were also some “preliminary competitions”. If you could stand out from the preliminary competitions, you could also be invited to the final battle stage.

“Preliminary competitions?”

“The final battle will be held before arriving in Japan. As for the preliminary competitions, they will be held until the final battle.” When the staff introduced it, they also pointed to the area where the most people gathered.

There were several tables there, all playing stud poker.

David had seen many people there before, and thought that this way of playing was simply more popular. It turned out that there was a preliminary competition for the charity poker tournament!

“How do you break through?”

“It’s simple, win three million dollars, or become the final winner.” When David asked, a handsome but somewhat evil man with a ponytail suddenly came over: “Hello, I’m the organizer of this competition, my name is Haishan.”

“Nice to meet you, I’m David.” After shaking hands with the other party, David pretended that he didn’t know the other party’s true identity and acted very calmly: “Are there any restrictions for participating in the preliminary competition?”

“You need to exchange chips with US dollars.”

Needing to use US dollars does not mean that you must carry US dollars with you. After all, the round-trip route of this ship is between Japan and Hong Kong, so you can exchange chips with Hong Kong dollars or Japanese yen, but you just need to convert them into US dollars according to the exchange rate.

“If you win three million, you can directly sign up for the charity poker competition, or when the deadline comes, you will be the only winner.” In addition to using US dollars as chips, the preliminary competition does not limit the entry amount.

You can also go up to play with one US dollar, so no one is sure whether anyone can win three million here. This second condition is aimed at this situation.

“I see.”

“Good luck to you.” Haishan was very polite and reserved: “If you have any questions, you can always come to me. I’m usually here.”

David nodded and thanked Haishan. He watched the man walk to another well-dressed man to chat, and couldn’t help but sigh secretly, “Cutting leeks is not an easy job!” David,

who has watched God of Gamblers, of course knows that this Haishan is the villain in the plot, the godson of the gambling devil Chen Jincheng.

It was this guy who pretended to be a gambler and set up a charity gambling ship. Michael Chen Xiaodao, as well as the brothers and sisters Long Wu and Long Jiu, came for this guy.

David thought that this guy would hide in the dark and do things secretly, but he didn’t expect that he would wander around openly.

He thought about it and understood that the ship had already left the port and went out to sea. In this case, with the communication technology of this era, even if Chen Xiaodao jumped out and said that Haishan was a fake gambler, it would be difficult to prove to so many people on the ship that what he said was true.

“In the end, we can’t avoid a showdown at the gambling table!”

You are so bad at it, naturally you can’t be a gambler. Even if you are Chen Xiaodao, the genuine gambler, you won’t have the face to continue using this name if you lose.

The winner takes all and the winner is the king. Sometimes the solution to things is so simple, crude and unreasonable.

“Who is that person?”

“The villain.”

“Oh!”

Sophia understood, but Cheng Le’er and Cheng Xiaoxi were confused, not understanding what information was revealed in the conversation between the two.

Cheng Xiaoxi was still fine, Cheng Le’er felt that she still knew too little about David, and it seemed that she would have to hang out with Sophia more often in the next period of time.

After talking about such private things, Cheng Le’er felt that there was nothing she couldn’t talk about with Sophia, and there were some things she hadn’t talked about with her best friend Cheng Xiaoxi.

Following David to the competition area of the poker competition, David found a table and sat down casually, and exchanged chips worth one thousand US dollars.

He was not as poor as Chen Xiaodao who had to borrow money from Haishan, and he didn’t carry as much as three million US dollars with him, but it was still easy to exchange only one thousand US dollars.

The few women who followed him didn’t care, just thinking that David wanted to play on a whim.

“David, I suddenly thought that there was a problem with this competition!”

“What’s the problem?”

“If someone keeps changing chips, can’t they stay until the end?”

“There will be a deadline for chip exchange on the last day, right?” David didn’t care about this kind of thing. If he kept changing chips, what would happen even if he stayed until the end?

There were too few chips, and at the gambling table of the finals, he was at most a fun-loving person.

People with a lot of money can just take the three million dollars to participate in the competition. Why waste time and energy in the peripheral field?

“Oh.” Sophia also figured out the key point at this time, but she didn’t care about this kind of thing at all. She watched David play cards with great interest. He

had seen the game of Stud Poker countless times in movies, but David had not played it many times in reality, and he only played it casually online. He had

hardly touched it in the real world, so it felt quite fresh.

In addition, David’s biggest feeling was that his luck was not very good.

He quickly lost half of his chips. When he was considering whether to continue to make efforts and lose all, he went to dinner, and a familiar face sat next to him.

“What a coincidence, we meet again.”

“Yes, what a coincidence.” David looked at Chen Xiaodao, who called himself Michael, and then looked at Long Jiu who was following him.

Long Wu was not there, probably because he was busy investigating the situation on the ship: for example, how many men did Haishan bring with him? How many weapons did he have? Only after figuring out the enemy situation could we carry out subsequent actions.

Chen Xiaodao didn’t need to worry about so much. He came here to earn the capital for participating in the charity poker tournament. No matter what, there would be a showdown on the gambling table. Chen Xiaodao understood this, so he stayed in the casino for the past two days.

After accumulating some capital, Chen Xiaodao decided to harvest a circle on the poker table of the quasi-tournament. After all, the chips outside were all Hong Kong dollars, and the chips here were US dollars.

When he had harvested almost all the chips here, he would go back to play outside.

It was only three million US dollars, and he would be able to collect them quickly.

With absolute confidence, Chen Xiaodao began his performance.

David thought it was not bad to watch the excitement from a close distance, but Chen Xiaodao suddenly said: “It seems that your luck is not very good! Why don’t you change the ladies behind you to play, maybe it will change your luck?”

“…”

What does this mean? Poaching and teasing my people in front of me?

If it were normal, David might have laughed it off, but today he kept losing after sitting down, so it was inevitable that he was a little upset.

Isn’t it just playing poker? If I’m unlucky, can’t I use other tricks?

“I feel like my luck has returned.”

After looking at his own cards and seeing through the cards of the remaining players on the table, David picked up his cards and gently rubbed them with his hands.

From now on, David is the gambling saint!

(End of this chapter)