novelraw Chapter 178: Simple and Crude
Chapter 178: Simple and Crude
The man in black stood frozen for several seconds, the muscles on his face twitching violently.
The next second.
He let out a beast-like roar: "Bullshit! That's all bullshit! I've been gambling for over ten years! You're saying I can't manage my facial expressions!?
Who the hell would believe such nonsense? This is clearly a setup you arranged! 235 beating a triple? Go fuck yourself! This is definitely a rigged game!"
The jeweler didn't even bother to lift his eyelids: "If you can't handle losing, just say so. Why make these excuses?"
"I can't handle losing?"
The man in black laughed hysterically: "I bet my entire fortune! Sports car! House! Even borrowed 10 million from the casino's loan sharks! And now you're telling me this is just luck?"
The gamblers seeing this all stepped back, afraid of getting caught in the crossfire.
"Security! Where's security?"
The dealer quickly pressed the emergency call button.The man in black lunged at the jeweler, his claws cutting through the air with a whooshing sound: "Give me back my things!"
Just as his claws were about to touch the jeweler.
A figure silently appeared beside the gambling table.
It was a middle-aged man wearing a black uniform.
He didn't even use spiritual energy, just casually raised his hand to block.
"Bang!"
The man in black's claws struck the security chief's arm solidly, but didn't even leave a white mark.
"Causing trouble at Black Gold?"
The security chief spoke calmly, slowly releasing the pressure of a Stream Realm expert: "Have you thought through the consequences?"
The man in black was forced back two steps by this pressure, but quickly lunged forward again with a ferocious expression: "So what if you're Stream Realm? You're all in on this scam! Even if I die today, I'll get justice!"
The security chief shook his head, still not using spiritual energy.
Just a simple sidestep.
His right hand shot out like lightning, seizing the man in black's mutated wrist.
"Crack!"
The crisp sound of breaking bones echoed throughout the entire casino.
The man in black let out a piercing scream, his mutated arm bending at an unnatural angle.
The security chief casually flung him, slamming him heavily to the ground: "Drag him out, handle it according to regulations."
Two security guards immediately stepped forward and injected the struggling man in black with a sedative.
"You... scammed me..."
The man in black lifted his head with difficulty: "Scammed me!"
Before his words finished.
He was completely dragged out of the casino.
The security chief scanned the room, his tone calm: "Black Gold Casino is fair and just, there are absolutely no rigged games. Today's matter ends here, everyone please continue."
The gamblers fell silent like cicadas in winter.
But soon returned to their previous clamor, as if nothing had happened.
The jeweler sneered contemptuously: "Trying to cause trouble at Black Gold Casino, hehe... someone that old and still so stupid."
Seeing this, Su Zhan immediately took his chips to the front desk to cash out.
Only 15,000 left.
And this was with him being frugal.
He didn't know whether the man in black had actually been scammed in that gambling game.
But this wasn't important to him at all.
What was important... was that he needed to find that man in black right now.
So he immediately left the casino.
Following the direction the security personnel had left.
He arrived at the back door of Black Gold Casino.
This was a remote corner.
The lighting was dim.
Su Zhan stood silently in the shadows.
Watching two casino security guards throw the man in black to the ground like trash.
"Listen, Aberrant."
One security guard kicked the man curled up into a ball with his boot: "You still owe the casino 10 million principal, with 10% daily interest. Today is the first day, tomorrow at this time it'll be 11 million."
The other security guard crouched down and patted the man in black's pale face: "Don't even think about running. Black City isn't that big, we have plenty of ways to find you.
Oh, and don't think about escaping Black City either. Our casino has already marked you, hehe... if you don't pay back in three days...
Your organs... well, Aberrant organs aren't worth much, but we have plenty of ways to make you repay your debt."
The first security guard added mockingly: "You don't want to be sent to the underground mines as a slave, do you? That place... I doubt your frail body would last three months."
After they finished speaking.
They spat on the man in black and disappeared around the alley corner.
The man in black lay motionless, curled up on the sewage-filled ground, his arms spread out weakly.
Su Zhan could clearly see his shoulders trembling slightly.
Ten percent daily interest.
Ten million today, eleven million tomorrow, twelve point one million the day after tomorrow...
Compound interest, endless torment.
The man in black let out a suppressed whimper like an injured beast, his fist smashing hard against the ground.
The ground instantly cracked.
Su Zhan felt no sympathy in his eyes.
This kind of gambling addict didn't deserve sympathy.
Spiritual energy gathered throughout his body.
Ready to act!
Hum!
An invisible yet incredibly heavy force suddenly descended, instantly solidifying the space around the Aberrant!
The man in black was horrified to discover that his fist moving toward the ground had become extremely slow.
At the same time.
A black shadow descended from the darkness above his head!
Swish! Swish!
Two icy blade lights crossed and slashed down!
"Argh—!"
Intense pain took a moment to register in his nearly stagnant brain.
The man in black only felt his shoulders suddenly lighten.
The pair of arms that had just mutated and swollen with anger now hung limply, severed at the shoulders!
Only then did dark red blood gush out.
The two severed arms fell to the ground.
The feeling of space-time stagnation suddenly disappeared.
"Ahhhhh—!"
The man in black erupted in piercing screams, the tremendous pain and blood loss causing him to instantly collapse to the ground.
He looked up in terror.
He saw a figure wearing a garish fluorescent jacket standing coldly before him, two long knives in hand still dripping with his blood.
Immense fear instantly enveloped him!
Thinking the casino had gone back on its word, he immediately begged hoarsely despite the intense pain:
"Wait! Stop! You... your casino people said you'd give me three days! Three days! Only a few minutes have passed! Why?! Why attack me!?
Black Gold Casino... Black City's largest casino... how can you break your credibility?! Ten million! I'll pay it back! I'll definitely pay it back! Don't kill me! Give me time! I can be a slave! Don't kill me!!!"
He curled up, his armless body continuously twitching.
Su Zhan wasn't the casino's debt collector.
As for why he suddenly attacked and severed the other's arms...
It was simple. Last time he saw Qin Bai using the Heart-Interrogation Needle to prevent Aberrants from self-destructing, he noticed several needles were placed in the arms.
He didn't have that level of skill to block the other's acupoints.
But he had a simple and brutal method.
That was to chop off the other's arms.
This way, wouldn't it achieve the same effect as the Heart-Interrogation Needle?
At this point, someone might say, you didn't even verify his identity before attacking? What if you got it wrong?
Su Zhan's response.
Given Aberrants' powerful life force, losing arms is something that can be recovered from.
And... come on buddy, I'm not some righteous hero, why would I reason with you?