2052, Thirty Years Of Sleep

"gamble?"

Xiaojing's eyes widened, she covered her mouth with one hand and said in surprise: "Why do you want to gamble? As the old saying goes, nine times out of ten you will lose, and no one who is addicted to gambling will end well."

"You really won't be fired if you say that?" Yan Long was speechless.

After all, the majority of Taohuayuan's source of funds is the casino on the first floor. As an employee, it is not uncommon for employees to advise customers not to gamble.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, only you and I can know the conversation here." Xiaojing wrinkled her nose and said with a cute smile.

"Pretending to be cute is more effective for men who are older than you." Yan Taki said expressionlessly.

Even though he choked her so much, Xiao Jing still smiled broadly: "I'm so sorry."

Yan Taki slowly raised his right hand, looked at his palm and whispered softly: "The gambling I'm talking about is not about gambling on the gambling table."

"Do you want to participate in the gladiatorial battle?" Xiaojing's eyebrows twitched and her tone was slightly high.

In her opinion, none of the awakened ones in the glass domes were extremely vicious and experienced in combat. It was absolutely impossible for a 15-year-old boy like this, whose body was not fully developed, to come out intact after being thrown in.

"You don't have to worry about this. I just want to know what the odds are if I participate in the gladiatorial battle." Yan Taki looked directly into the woman's eyes, with undoubted firmness in his words.

He has no boss, nor is he impulsive. In fact, he had made a decision before coming to Peach Blossom Spring. If the money was not enough, he would participate in a few gladiatorial games.

Filming is not allowed in Taohuayuan, but they have a dedicated internal operations department responsible for recording and editing every exciting fight and publishing it on Jieke.

The interior scenes of the casino and the faces of the audience will be edited out, leaving only a simple battle scene between two awakened beings.

At the same time, the operations department will also supervise the comment area intensively. Any user who openly or covertly reveals that these battles took place in Taohuayuan will have their comments deleted and blocked immediately. In other words, in the eyes of most uninformed netizens, the scene in the video is just a simple underground fighting arena.

This video account called "Spade Underground Fighting Arena" now has more than 5 million fans. However, the real people it serves are the very few wealthy people or businessmen in Menxia City who already know about the existence of Peach Blossom Spring.

These potential gamblers can learn about the abilities and combat characteristics of each gladiator through past videos. Only in this way will they feel more confident and bold when betting.

Yan Taki has watched almost every video under this account in the past half a month. He is very convinced that his own powers are enough to defeat 80% of the gladiators here.

The battle between awakened people and the battle between ordinary people are completely different concepts.

Ordinary fighting requires a person to undergo a lot of training and refine one's own fighting skills over many years before one can become the only figure standing in the spotlight.

However, the battle between the awakened ones can be put simply in two words: talent.

If your ability is strong, you can flatten and sweep the opponent. If your ability is weak, no matter how hard you roll and crawl, you can't change the fate of being treated as a clown by the onlookers.

Most of the awakened people in Peach Blossom Spring use their own powers at C level and below, and the way they use them is extremely crude. They are very different from Yan Long, a top student with B-level powers who has been trained by a top coach in a regular school.

In the comment area under the video account "Spade Underground Arena", the most common sentence pattern is "If I had his power, I would balabalabala... In short, I would have won earlier". of.

The comments with better answers often have a particularly high number of likes, which means that the vast majority of people think their claims are feasible.

It is also because of these comments that the gladiators in Taohuayuan, in addition to musing on their own on weekdays, like to board Jieke to see the "expert opinions" under the videos of their own battles. There are actually several people who follow the comments in the comments. Won several gladiatorial battles.

Yan Taki felt that if his battle video was posted online, he was confident that the keyboard analysis masters would be speechless.

His powers were awakened two years ago. When he was still in the third year of junior high school, he immediately decided to work in the Special Branch Bureau in the future and directly applied to join the special class established by the school.

Although the ability to control the mass of objects seems simple, it is very difficult to master.

In the early days, he was injured several times due to his inability to accurately control changes in the mass of objects instantaneously. There was even one time when he was practicing his superpowers with his schoolbag in the classroom, and accidentally slipped and dislocated his entire arm.

Yan Long's [Quality Control] is now considered to be extremely proficient, and he can very skillfully ensure that the weapon in his hand weighs more than a thousand kilograms when he swings it out, and is as light as a feather when he takes it back.

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"The odds are usually not disclosed until the opponent is determined, but if it is a newcomer participating in the battle for the first time, the odds will usually be around 1:4."

Xiaojing first answered his question, and then said with some worry: "I still don't recommend you to try wrestling, because I'm afraid that you won't make enough money to pay back..."

"Please help me arrange a match nearby, thank you." Yan Long's expression was very serious.

Xiaojing pursed her lips with a complex expression, stretched out her hand and clicked on the screen in front of her to bring up a schedule. After reading it, she said softly: "Arena No. 6 is not fully booked tonight. It will be around ten o'clock in the evening." There will be a place.”

"Where's the opponent?" Yan Long asked with a frown.

"The next person to sign up tonight will be your opponent." Xiaojing sighed.

"Okay, thank you." Yan Long glanced at his phone, which showed that it was now 7:34 pm, then looked up to the other side and asked, "Can my business progress be saved? I can continue when I have enough money tonight. ."

"I will not move on to the next business until this business is over. I will be with you from now on." Xiaojing's face has now returned to that professional smile.

"Sorry to trouble you." Yan Long responded coldly.

...

At 9:40 pm, at Yan Long's request, Xiaojing took him to a warehouse on the side of the casino hall, where a variety of cold weapons were densely packed.

Although one of the rules of the gladiatorial arena is that weapons are not allowed, as long as you can prove that your own special abilities cannot be used without items, you can still get approval to use cold weapons.

The ability [Quality Control] is obviously within the scope of this special approval.

Yantaki barely picked for long before he took a sturdy-looking wooden stick from the shelf, then tied a cloth bag full of coins around his waist and that was it.

The reason why he didn't choose a sword was that he didn't want to kill anyone. Even a powered mecha would be split in half if it was struck with a sword weighing nearly a ton, let alone a human body.

The reason for not choosing those metal rods that can weigh dozens of kilograms is because the [Quality Control] ability makes it easier and more flexible to control objects with lighter mass.

For example, it takes Yantaki about 2 seconds to increase or decrease the weight of a 100-pound object by 50 times. However, he can increase or decrease the weight of a 1-jin object by 50 times almost at will and can do it in an instant.

And just this 50-pound object hitting a person is enough to easily break bones and tendons.

Choosing only one wooden stick does not mean that it is too big, but that it is enough.