Curtains? A budget hotel?
The keywords in Yu Fei's words instantly brought a train of thought to my mind.
If I remembered correctly, Uncle Tuo had mentioned to me once that there was a type of casino that cheaters feared the most.
Hotel casinos!
They could also be called: the crematorium for cheaters!
The reason such casinos were set up in budget hotels was to strike and then relocate.
Moreover, most of the gamblers inside were directly brought in from other venues, which was why they had to remain in the shadows.
This was no longer about malicious competition; it was outright poaching from others' established businesses!
To cut off someone's financial path was like killing their parents.
Anyone who could open a casino, no matter how unsuccessful, would at least know some influential people. If they were treated this way by a competitor, who could stand it?
Therefore, hotel casinos maintained complete confidentiality for their gamblers and provided them with private car transportation.
However, for every bad, there was a good.
Although the entry method was peculiar and unconventional, these casinos were very friendly to gamblers, basically never playing dirty tricks against them. Read novels.
Speaking of gamblers, let's return to the cheaters.
To ensure the fairness and impartiality of the games, hotel casinos were notoriously violent and bloody in their treatment of cheaters, a reputation that was well-known in the industry.
In outside venues, the consequences of a cheater being caught were usually one of two things.
Either a heavy monetary compensation or three fingers.
A choice between the two.
But in hotel casinos, it was entirely different.
No negotiation, hands were chopped off directly!
And it was an entire hand that was chopped off!!!
Whichever hand was used for cheating was chopped off!
For an ordinary person, losing a hand would have its impact on life magnified infinitely, let alone a cheater who relied on their hands for a living?
...
After I revealed all the information I had about hotel casinos in my mind, I saw the expressions of Cheng Minglang and others, especially the Xianyu brothers, change immediately.
I knew that one of these brothers was scared, and the other was experiencing post-fear.
Without a doubt, the one experiencing post-fear was Yu Fei.
He indeed had reason to feel that way. kan shu wu. xi
Because anyone who dared to open a hotel casino must have a significant background!
No matter how huge the profits, this was an action that could completely offend competitors. Ordinary people with status would absolutely not dare to do this.
Such people were either backed by heaven, or... they were outrageously bold!
Liu Xiang, a rough character who only dealt with casinos in rural areas, being able to connect with such a person clearly did not fit the theory of fixed social circles.
This was something Yu Fei had failed to mention earlier.
Although theoretically, this had no direct connection to Yu Fei owing a huge gambling debt.
As long as he continued to gamble in Liu Xiang's venues, even if he wasn't tricked into that hotel casino, since the other party was targeting Xianyu, they would find a way to make him accumulate debt no matter where he was.
But...
To know oneself and the enemy is to win a hundred battles!
It put me in a very passive position that Yu Fei only thought to mention this after Liu Xiang had already extended an invitation.
Because this indicated that it might not be Liu Xiang who was interested in Xianyu, but the mysterious boss who partnered with him to open the hotel casino who was interested in Xianyu!
Therefore, with Liu Xiang giving us only one day to consider, the information Yu Fei had previously let slip was of no use to me at all.
Even if Xianyu was the know-it-all of Wenzhou, it was an almost impossible task to find out who the mysterious boss cooperating with Liu Xiang was within a day!
Currently, there were only two paths before me.
One, accept the invitation and cross the river in the dark.
The risks involved were extremely high, and I could not foresee what would ultimately happen.
Two, refuse or ignore Liu Xiang's invitation.
Tomorrow, I would still take the Xianyu brothers to gamble at the casino from last night.
Seeing my pensive expression, Xianyu, for the first time in front of me, showed a look of nervousness and asked me, "Brother Xiang, should we... still go?"
After a moment of thought, I turned to Yu Fei and asked, "Among the gamblers you know, are there any who, like you, lost too much in the old venues and were then invited by Liu Xiang to gamble at his new venue?"
Hearing my question, Yu Fei frowned first, and after a good while, he replied, "There was one! But... that person didn't seem to agree!"
"What did Liu Xiang do to him afterward?" I quickly pressed.
"This, I'm not too sure about!"
As if afraid this answer would displease me, Yu Fei added, "Because, after that person refused Liu Xiang's invitation, I don't think I ever saw him again!"
Yu Fei's words made my brow furrow instantly furrow.
It seemed I had underestimated that Liu Xiang.
This guy not only took but never gave back, and he devoured people without spitting out the bones!
Anyone who has been in the gambling circle knows that gamblers who owe a mountain of debt, as long as you haven't broken their legs or held a knife to their throat to force them to repay,
As long as they have a little money on hand, their first choice is to run to a casino and gamble again.
They are not afraid of losing miserably, but they are afraid of being stopped from gambling!
Clearly, any gambler targeted by Liu Xiang could not refuse his invitation.
Once they refused, it wasn't simply that they wouldn't be allowed into his casinos.
Other casinos shared information about which gamblers owed huge debts, and they were all aware of it.
Without any prior communication, gamblers who owed huge debts in a certain venue would almost be blacklisted by other casinos simultaneously.
Liu Xiang was exploiting this factor, using the hotel casinos to force those targeted by him to walk directly into a dead end!
If they gambled, they could only go to his designated venues, to seize that infinitesimally slim chance of turning their fortunes around.
If they didn't gamble, by the time their debts reached a terrifying amount and their friends and family were completely helpless, Liu Xiang would directly come and take whatever he wanted.
I don't know how long passed...
"The wronged have their heads, and the debtors have their masters! Your brother was trapped in Liu Xiang's venue, there's no reason to take the blame elsewhere!"
"Gamble! Let's play a big hand!!!"
I made up my mind and accepted Liu Xiang's invitation.
There were still over thirty hours until ten o'clock tomorrow night. If I couldn't investigate Liu Xiang, I could at least secure some insurance for myself.
So, I began to arrange for everyone, including Xu Peiyu, to make their necessary preparations in advance.
The next evening, around eight-thirty.
I called the mobile number on Liu Xiang's business card and told him I was interested in seeing his new venue.
On the phone, Liu Xiang didn't say much, only asking me to take a taxi to Wuyue Plaza in the city to wait.
Before hanging up, Liu Xiang also added that I could only bring a maximum of two people to the new venue.
To be safe, I swapped the lineup from yesterday's visit to the underground casino, replacing Yu Fei with Cheng Minglang.