Zhou Lin

Four o'clock in the morning, in the captain's room of the Clover.

The captain, who looked to be in his fifties and had a big beard, was standing in front of the window with his hands behind his hands, looking at the almost dark sea in the distance.

"Is your work done?" Suddenly, he broke the silence and said to himself.

"It's done." With this response, the small white man who had been in contact with Jimenez before came out of the shadow behind the "Captain" and said, "'People who should be evacuated' have already left in small boats. The helicopters and lifeboats on the ship are also out of service, of course... they should be left there to avoid making people suspicious."

"Where are the guys following us on the sea?" the captain asked again.

"Huh..." the little man said, "Is it necessary to control them? Once the operation starts, we can just overturn their entire boat."

"Well..." The captain groaned and took off his hat, "Then it's almost time for me to get ready."

As he spoke, the hair on his head, the facial features on his face, as well as his skin, flesh, and facial bones... all began to squirm violently in a strange way, and gradually reorganized into the appearance of another person.

And that person turned out to be Arai Ryunosuke.

"By the way... no matter how many times I've seen your 'transformation', I still feel a little nauseous." The little man just looked at the other person and said without hesitation.

Hearing this, the man with a changed face glanced at him sideways: "You know, I have thought about it more than once... turning into a beautiful woman, pretending to meet you by chance, following you home, and then showing you a monkey face. You were so anxious that when you pressed me down, you suddenly turned into an ugly monster beyond your imagination... If everything goes well, you will probably have to deal with psychiatrists and men's hospitals frequently in the rest of your life and lower body. "

"Okay... I'm afraid of you, okay? I have a bad mouth and I apologize." The little man immediately gave in. He waved his hand and continued, "No matter whether your original gender is male or female, I I don’t think I’m your cup of tea. If you want to do that kind of prank... just go find Huazhong, I really want to see if he can still put on that poker face when the stunning beauty is delivered to his door."

"Don't mess with me." When the face-changing person spoke, he had completed various detailed changes in his face, and then began to change his figure; with a squirming movement of his torso, the buttons of the captain's uniform on his upper body were broken. He opened, "Huazhong is a man among men... If you do that kind of thing to him, he will probably ignore my gender and appearance at the time and carry out the matter to the end. If I am fucked, I will definitely be fucked to death." Tell him it was your idea, and then he'll come over and fuck you to death...twice."

"They're all 'fucked', why can there be two..." The little man wanted to complain, but as soon as the words left his mouth, he stopped, "...Ah, forget it, I don't want to ask, you don't want to ask either Don't tell me." After that, he turned around and walked out of the cabin, "I'm going to prepare the host's speech. You should also practice your lines."

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The words were divided into two parts. Just as an undercurrent was quietly gaining momentum on the ship, the "card fight" between Sakaki and Hopkins had also entered the final stage.

Because of a triple-full in the third game of the South, Ryunosuke's point stick jumped over Hopkins to become the first place, and won the consecutive banker.

But... Sakaki is still ranked fourth, and the point stick has bottomed out. According to the rules, if one of the four people loses all his sticks, then the half banker will end early and enter the settlement stage.

Therefore, the next game is very important for Sakaki.

Even if he doesn't click the cannon, as long as someone other than him touches it, his point stick will still be used up; and according to the current situation on the table, if the settlement stage is entered immediately, Hopkins and Eric Even if he loses, he won't lose too much. When converted into point cards... there are only about a dozen cards.

This... is obviously not the result Sakaki wants to see.

South three games, two home games.

Ryunosuke's luck has eased, and although his cards are good, they are quite satisfactory; Eric's hand is better than at the beginning of the last round, and Hopkins... got a very bad starting hand. Shipai.

The calm sneer of the gambling king of Xing County has completely disappeared from his face.

Thinking from his point of view, Sakaki must have made a mistake in the last game, but he didn't see any clues; if Sakaki ignored his threats in this game and did what he did just now, then Long Isn't Zhisuke going to win another big hand?

Of course, even so, Hopkins still has a way out; because he can be sure... he will never fire a cannon for Ryuzosuke, and Eric will also not fire it under his coded instructions; In this way, Ryuunosuke has to rely on his own hand to get the winning cards, and once he touches his own, Sakaki will have to pay some sticks, thus ending the half banker early.

In other words, as long as they don't let Ryunosuke take advantage of this game, even if Ryunosuke can still win, they won't be able to continue the series. This half-bank will end here - the loss will not be too big.

However, Hopkins did not know at this moment that this idea of ​​"there is still a way out" would be the beginning of some kind of change.

In the ninth round, Hopkins played three ropes and drew cards.

The king of gambling is the king of gambling after all. Even if his starting hand was terrible, he still reorganized the situation within ten rounds.

Unfortunately, Eric didn't have a card in his hand that could give him a Hu card at this time, so they had to wait a while; however, seeing that Ryuunosuke still looked far away from hearing the card, they felt that they could afford to wait. .

"Play three ropes..." Sakaki looked at the cards played by Hopkins and said with a smile, "Ha... In this case, I thought you would throw out the eight cakes..." He paused, "Are you afraid that if the eight cakes are fired, others will get the treasure?"

"Avoid unnecessary risks, what's the problem?" Hopkins answered coldly.

"The problem is... your playing style is too weak." Sakaki said, "If you really have the confidence to 'never fire a gun', this place should be a eight-cake, right? And look at the table, Ryuuzhi and I It’s obvious that Jie hasn’t drawn the card yet, why didn’t you do Riichi? With your hand...after you choose to play the three-string draw card, is there any room for detours in changing cards?”

"Hmph...I don't need someone at the bottom of the rankings to teach me how to play mahjong." Hopkins's response actually showed that he couldn't find any basis for refuting the card theory, so he could only talk about other things. .

"Even if you beg me, I won't teach you." Sakaki said while playing the cards, "Your pretentious playing style can neither bring pressure to the opponent nor attract luck... Look at you too Once you're old, it's too late to give guidance."

While they were talking, another two rounds passed. Neither Hopkins nor Eric drew any valid cards, and Sakaki...

"Brother dealer, OPEN is recognized here, right?" He suddenly raised his head and asked the man in the black suit next to him a question.

"Approval counts as a second win." The answer in the black suit was concise and to the point.

"Okay." After receiving the confirmation, Sakaki threw away his last stick and said, "Ritsei." Then he directly laid down his cards and said, "Clear card."

"This kid..." Hopkins broke out in a cold sweat. He looked at the opponent's spread out hand and said to himself, "You know you can't get away from us, so you might as well just show your cards and wait for yourself to draw them. Anyway, you lose more than you lose." It's all a matter of course to him, and he's not afraid that he'll be able to fire a gun; and...he deliberately listened to the same cards as me, and told Eric clearly that if he wanted to give me something, he would Cut off by him...

"In addition, his provocation to me just now must be false. His real intention is to hint to Arai through the conversation with me - what cards I heard. And Arai, who has been reminded, will not play any more dangerous cards. .”

Thinking of this, Hopkins let out a cold snort: "Hmph... you smart guy, even if your momentum and calculations are very strong... so what? As long as I touch myself before you, or Ari... Even if Ke successfully draws the card, you still have to lose. Using a low-probability way to fight against my flexible and reasonable cooperative play is simply a desperate attempt by an amateur."

While Hopkins was thinking, he went over for another round.

On the next round, Sakaki, who touched the card, didn't even look at it. He turned the card over and slapped it on the table: "I touched it by myself. The upright card is straight and one shot. The three colors of Men Qing Ping and Hu are in sync. It's double full."

"Wo... de... Fuck?" Hopkins cursed, took off his sunglasses and leaned forward to stare at the table, as if he couldn't believe his eyes.

"I told you, your luck has run out." Sakaki lit up another cigarette and said calmly, "Using a method of worrying about gains and losses, talking about the so-called probability...how can you not lose?" He dusted off the cigarette ashes, "You have to understand... You have both talent and courage, and you have made complete calculations and preparations, but in the end, you will still lose... This is mahjong, this is gambling."

"Gu..." Hopkins was speechless, as huge pressure towered in front of him like a mountain.

At this moment, Sakaki's figure became blurry in his eyes, and gradually turned into a chaotic shadow, reaching out to push him into an unfamiliar realm, an abyss that he had been avoiding.

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South Bureau 4.

Due to Sakaki's bad cards, Ryunosuke moved to the bank, but in the last round, Sakaki himself took the bank.

Taking the invention card Riichi as a turning point, Sakaki began to counterattack.

At this time, fate seemed to have been guided into Sakaki's hands and firmly held by him; his fighting style was like being possessed by ghosts and gods, and his various actions that were unpredictable and could not be explained by common sense had overwhelmed his opponent in terms of momentum. .

So, consecutive wins, consecutive bankers, and... began to get points directly from Hopkins and Eric.

Perhaps Hopkins could promise not to fire a bullet at someone of Ryunosuke's level, but in front of Sakaki, he might not be able to do it.

Finally, after four consecutive bets, a pair of big cards that had never been seen in a century and surpassed common sense... came into Sakaki's hands.

At this time, Hopkins and Eric's point sticks were almost squeezed. At this point in time, Sakaki once again revealed his cards and Ritei's card - Four Dark Knights.

This second invention of cards, Ritsu, completely destroyed the opponent's will and luck; although they no longer had to worry about firing, Hopkins and Eric were defeated and could not draw any valid cards for several consecutive rounds. Every time Sakaki touched a card, the two of them were frightened, as if they were scared to death.

In the end, Sakaki decided to draw the wrong card.

This half banker ended with Hopkins and Eric both running out of points and sticks. Ryunosuke took the second place with more than 10,000 points left on hand, and gained nearly 90% of the points on the table. The awesome Sakaki... is number one.

Because it is two against two, this result makes the settlement work very simple. Sakaki and Ryunosuke got all the starting point sticks, which is 100,000 points, plus the bonus points for first and second place, a total of 170,000 points; while Hopkins and Eric got zero points. , since both are zero, there is no "third place". The two are considered tied for fourth, and the final reward is also zero.

According to the ratio of 1000:1, Eric must hand over 170 point cards to Ryunosuke, and this... has exceeded the total number of point cards he has.

"This guest, regarding the insufficient points..." After the settlement, Black Suit saw that Eric still had more than twenty point cards to give out, so he wanted to ask Ryunosuke for his opinion.

Ryuzosuke immediately interrupted "finely": "Forget it, forget it, we are all old classmates, I won't go around making irresponsible remarks just because you can't give it; just treat this little thing... It's you who owe me a favor, please pay me back when you have the chance."

He just said these words loudly in front of Eric. This kind of taunting pleasure that makes the enemy unable to retaliate after being completely defeated is really indescribable.

And Eric can only endure it...

The world of gambling is like this. The winner is the king and the loser is the loser. If you can be tolerated, it is considered polite.

In short, this mahjong game not only made all Eric's efforts tonight in vain, but also caused him to be humiliated; his anger must be vented on Hopkins.

When he walked out of the mahjong cabin, Eric turned back and glared at the ashen-faced gambling king of Xing County, and spat: "Why are you still following me?"

Seeing that he had said the word "get out" so implicitly, Hopkins wisely did not follow him and went to a deserted place to enjoy the breeze.

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It’s 4:30 in the morning, very close to sunrise.

Ryuunosuke, who had already secured the victory, was walking towards the banquet hall with Sakaki and Hanazuka - he planned to drink a few glasses of champagne in advance to celebrate and take a rest by the way.

"Don't we have to wait for Axiu?" Sakaki was still asking Ryunosuke when they were walking halfway, "I saw him going out alone when we reached the south field before. Why hasn't he come back yet?"

"He said he had to go to the bathroom." Hua Zhong answered indifferently.

"Haha... I probably have a bad stomach." Ryuzosuke said, "Or maybe I met a beautiful girl on the road and went on a date."

Ryunosuke is in a good mood now. He can hardly speak without thinking, and jokes come out of his mouth.

"Hmm...Okay." Although Sakaki didn't agree with Ryunosuke's casual speculation, he didn't think that Axiu had encountered any crisis; after all, Axiu was just an entourage, and he was neither a gambling partner nor a gambling partner. As a full-time bodyguard, there is no reason for others to attack him. "If he can't find us soon, he will probably come to the banquet hall by himself."

So the three of them continued to move towards the middle of the cruise ship.

Unexpectedly, just as they were walking through a deserted corridor, suddenly... Before Sakaki could react at all, he received a blow on the back of his neck. After a second, his eyes went black and he lost consciousness. perception.