WTYTIAAN Chapter 82

Yan Yunqing casually placed a bet with his lonely three chips on a large roulette wheel. He was unlucky, losing both bets. Instead, a greasy, stubble-faced, slovenly uncle at the same table won all the bets.

The uncle excitedly jumped up, gathering all the bets into his arms, “Mine, mine, all mine!”

The gamblers around him, their eyes already bloodshot, looked at the uncle with envy and fervor.

Yan Yunqing had only one white chip left. His chips were too insignificant on this table. No one paid attention to him in the first two bets, after all, he was just a poor ghost who could only take out a thousand gold coins.

The entry threshold for the beginner’s field was 100,000 gold coins. According to the current purchasing power of gold coins, it could be said that the people in this beginner’s field were all rich. After all, no one would dare to take out 100,000 gold coins as an entry fee unless their family property was at least one million gold coins.

With only one white chip left, Yan Yunqing was not in a hurry to use it.

Yan Yunqing silently observed for a while. It seemed that there was no possibility of cheating in this lucky roulette. The small ball rolled down the center and spun rapidly on it with the speed of the roulette, gradually stopping in one of the grids.

If only one person bet on this grid, then all the bets from other grids would belong to this person. If more than one person bet on this grid, then they would share a portion of the other bets proportionally.

If the amount bet exceeded the bets in other grids, then the house would pay the lucky guest twice the amount he bet as a reward for his luck.

A third of the grids on the roulette belonged to the house, that is, the casino. If the small ball fell into these grids, then the casino would win these bets.

Of course, the house had to place the minimum bet on these grids every round.

Yan Yunqing tested it and found that this lucky roulette was an alchemy item with only one characteristic: [Magic Restriction]. No skills could control the landing point of the small ball, which, to some extent, achieved fairness.

However, Yan Yunqing didn’t believe that there would be truly fair casinos, but from a gambler’s perspective, it was impossible to see what tricks the casino was playing.

Yan Yunqing thought for a moment, and after the next round began, he bet on a grid that no one had chosen.

The uncle who had won all the bets before seemed to be getting carried away, and directly bet most of it on the grid he had chosen. Because of his previous good luck, the gamblers behind him almost without saying a word followed him and bet on that small grid.

“You! You’re not allowed to bet on the same grid as me!” the slovenly uncle shouted angrily, but it was useless, because the rules of the lucky roulette allowed multiple people to bet on the same grid.

“I don’t want to bet on the same grid as these people, I want to withdraw from this round of roulette!”

“The number of bets on this grid has reached the limit.” The ‘Mannell’ standing next to him and hosting this gambling game said with a smile, “The bets have already been placed, they cannot be changed, and you cannot withdraw.”

As soon as she finished speaking, two black-robed men stepped forward and stared at the slovenly uncle vigilantly, as if as soon as he said another word, he would be dragged down as a troublemaker.

Seeing this, the slovenly uncle didn’t dare to say anything, but his red, bloodshot eyes swept fiercely over the people who followed him to bet, his eyes were resentful and sinister, and everyone who touched his eyes couldn’t help but shiver.

The gamblers who originally wanted to follow this person’s bet, after hearing the house say that the number of bets was full, and seeing that the slovenly uncle looked too fierce, avoided his grid and chose other grids to bet on.

And the grid that Yan Yunqing chose still only had him.

Because in the previous dozen rounds, the small ball had never entered this grid once. Rather than gambling on their own good luck, these gamblers were more willing to believe in the grids that had already proven to be lucky.

All bets were on the table. The house asked three times in a row, and no one else placed any bets, so she announced the start of the new round of lucky roulette.

As the small ball rolled down with a gurgling sound, it quickly rushed around the roulette, gurgling—

Every time it passed a grid, the small ball would be bounced up a small arc by the baffle, and as the speed of the roulette decreased, the small ball also slowed down.

Gurgling…

The small ball rolled down from in front of Yan Yunqing again, gradually slowing down, and finally, with a click, fell into a grid.

23——

Yan Yunqing looked at the grid he bet on, 24, only one number off?

And he remembered that 23 should be…

The beautiful dealer raised a smile, “It seems that I won this time.”

Saying that, she wanted to take all the chips on the table, but was stopped by the slovenly uncle, “No, impossible, why isn’t it 12? I clearly calculated it, this round should be twelve!”

The dealer frowned, and this slovenly uncle was already a little crazy: “You cheated! You must have cheated! Give me back my money!”

“This gentleman…”

However, the slovenly uncle didn’t listen to the dealer at all. His eyes were only on the large sum of chips he had lost. The people who bet on that grid with him also turned their bloodshot eyes towards the dealer’s direction, as if as long as the slovenly uncle said a few more words to prove that the dealer cheated, then they would attack in groups and snatch back the chips that belonged to them.

Realizing that the situation was heading in a serious direction, the dealer immediately turned cold, skillfully pulled out the arm that was tightly held by the slovenly uncle, raised her hand and waved, and the black-robed men standing next to him immediately rushed up and pressed the slovenly uncle directly to the ground.

“Take him down, just say this person is making trouble.” The dealer still had a smile on her face, but the words she uttered were so cold that they could freeze a person.

The black-robed men didn’t hesitate at all, they directly went up and dislocated the slovenly uncle’s arm. Immediately, the slovenly uncle let out a scream, and then his hands twisted at a strange angle and drooped limply.

The slovenly uncle’s sanity returned a little, and he looked terrified, “No, no! I was wrong, I shouldn’t have made trouble—don’t—”

However, it was useless. He had already been dragged down by the two black-robed men. His feet dragged on the ground, his face was gone, but he was still shouting in terror, “Don’t—I was wrong!”

This was the second time Yan Yunqing had seen the scene of black-robed men dragging people down. The first time was when he had just come in and saw a gambler who had lost all his assets being dragged down. According to the rabbit-eared girl, the gambler had bet himself to the casino, so he was dragged away.

The second time was now. The slovenly uncle was taken away by the black-robed men because he made a move to attack the dealer. The reason was making trouble.

So in Mandipell, there were two bottom lines that could not be crossed. One was to mortgage oneself to gamble, and the other was not to make trouble, especially not to attack the people of Mandipell.

But Yan Yunqing had previously received a system prompt that members of the children’s group in Mandipell had been under sustained attack for a period of time, and obviously no black-robed men had stopped them, so the scope of the second rule could be narrowed down a bit.

Do not attack the dealer.

Yan Yunqing took a step back, his eyes swept across every gambling table, and found that several black-robed men were standing next to each gambling table. Obviously, their role was to come forward to deal with things when someone made trouble.

In other words, the status of the ‘dealer’ in Mandipell was higher than that of ‘Mannell’ and ‘Perl’.

Why? Was it because the ‘dealer’ was closely related to the interests of the casino, so this unspoken rule was set up?

Yan Yunqing frowned. He didn’t have any more information, and the deduction was stuck.

As expected, he still had to wait for Xiao Ai to come over. He had to have an internal member to provide him with more information.

All three chips were used up, and Yan Yunqing had no intention of continuing to exchange for chips. He waited for a long time, but Xiao Ai didn’t appear. It was estimated that there was an accident. Yan Yunqing was preparing to meet with Xiao Ai first.

While Yan Yunqing was betting on the lucky roulette, Rocco was constantly looking around. According to the fox-eared boy, Xiao Ai should be rushing over soon, but this delay had caused his uneasiness.

Yan Yunqing was still calm. The system didn’t prompt him that the NPC was under attack, so it was impossible for Xiao Ai to be in danger. At most, there was some small trouble that delayed her from coming over.

…Oh, no, from Xiao Ai’s perspective, he, the guest who suddenly bought her time for a day, was probably the little trouble?

Ah, wouldn’t it be because of this that Xiao Ai was delaying the time to come over?

Yan Yunqing hesitated.

*

Things were as Yan Yunqing thought. When he bought Xiao Ai’s time, Xiao Ai was in Jenny’s room, applying medicine to the bruised and battered Jenny.

Jenny was lying on the bed, her face pale and without a trace of blood, the whole person was drowsy, and her back, exposed outside the quilt, was full of whip marks.

Mia looked worried, “Jenny’s injuries are too serious. If she doesn’t get treatment in time, she will definitely have scars.”

The oldest Xiao Ai sighed. She used a soft cotton cloth to dab on the medicinal liquid and gently applied it to Jenny’s wound. Every time she applied it, she could feel the muscles under her hand trembling slightly.

This was more than just leaving scars, Jenny was likely to have a fever because of such serious injuries and die directly from illness.

They had to take Jenny to receive treatment.

But Mandipell would not allow it, because Jenny had violated Mandipell’s rules this time, so she was beaten like this. It was originally to give Jenny a lesson, how could they let Jenny get treatment?

She was able to secretly bring some wound medicine over for Jenny to use because these wound medicines were what she was reluctant to use when she was injured, and she saved them little by little.

Mandipell did not need a ‘Perl’ who was disobedient and would resist.

Xiao Ai was also very flustered in her heart, but she couldn’t show any wrong emotions on her face. Nana was not here, she was the oldest of these children. If even she started to panic, what would the younger children do?

She had to calmly think of a way to break the situation.

Xiao Ai cheered herself up in her heart, applying medicine to Jenny while quickly thinking. If Jenny could not receive treatment, then they had to get more medicine now.

Should she find an opportunity to leave Mandipell and find Nika and the others to help, or should other children take a little injury on their own initiative and use this to obtain some medicine bestowed by Mandipell?

Difficult to choose.

According to Xiao Ai’s idea, she was unwilling to let other children be injured on their own initiative, because being injured meant that the subsequent work was likely to go wrong, and if it went wrong, they would still be punished by Mandipell.

At that time, it would only make their injuries more serious. Perhaps Jenny’s injuries had not yet healed, and other children had also had problems one after another. This was a vicious cycle.

But going out to find Nika and the others…

Xiao Ai and the others had not been in contact with Nika and the others for a while. Last time, when Nana was taken away, they secretly sneaked out to find Jeff, wanting to ask Jeff to find a way to rescue Nana.

However, Nana was not rescued, and Jeff was injured, and so tragically.

At that time, Xiao Ai was very guilty. Compared with the children living in Mandipell, the children outside lived in more difficult circumstances.

They couldn’t eat enough, they didn’t have enough clothes, and they didn’t even have money to treat their illnesses.

As a result, they also caused their companions outside to be injured because of them…especially Jeff, whom they had always respected very much.

Now Jeff must also need a lot of money for treatment. She rashly went out to ask Nika to find a way to get more wound medicine, and Nika probably had no way.

What’s more, since Mandipell found out about them sneaking out to find Jeff to help, all the children related to Nana were forbidden to go out, and it was extremely difficult to sneak out again.

If they were discovered again…

Xiao Ai’s face turned pale, and she had already imagined very bad consequences.

Just then, the bracelet she was wearing on her wrist vibrated. Xiao Ai was stunned, clicked on the bracelet to see the message displayed on it, her hand shook, and the bottle of medicine she was holding in her hand almost fell to the ground.

“Xiao Ai?” Mia looked at Xiao Ai, whose face suddenly turned pale and even a little frightened, in confusion, “What’s wrong with you? What happened?”

Since Nana was taken away, Xiao Ai had been their backbone, but the expression Xiao Ai showed at this moment made Mia feel afraid.

Xiao Ai moved her lips, she slowly put down the bottle of medicine, tried hard to maintain her composure, but her voice trembled slightly: “It’s okay…”

“It’s okay, I’ll leave for a while, you help me apply medicine to Jenny.”