It was almost exactly as I had anticipated. Even with a signal jammer, the gamblers' communication devices would most likely be confiscated directly.
Upon hearing this, I didn't waste any more words. I decisively took out my phone, turned it off in front of them, and handed it over.
Following that, the staff member walked over to Xianyu and Cheng Minglang, who were accompanying me, and collected their phones as well.
Seeing this, my eyelids twitched fiercely!
This wasn't a scenario of beating a dog when it's down behind closed doors; this was a setup, specifically designed to prey on us clueless "fat pigs"!
I had to admit, this place was truly damn shady!
Honestly, I was intensely curious about who had the audacity to bypass Ying Baolin and set up such a mobile hotel-style casino in the Wenzhou area!
Liu Xiang was definitely not the mastermind. If he had the brains for it, there was no reason for him to be holed up in the countryside running a casino.
Moreover, before following him into this modified large room, I had seen a slightly ajar door not too far away with its light on.
If my guess was correct, there should be another independent setup inside, a clear "two dragons playing with a pearl" formation.
However, this pearl was not that kind of pig.
After confiscating the communication devices, the next step was the verification of gambling funds.
I remembered Uncle Tuo telling me that hotel-style casinos never searched their patrons.
On the contrary, they would welcome any unsuspecting cheaters to cause trouble!
In a fully enclosed casino like this, with no exit once inside, if someone was caught cheating, their fate would be to be at the mercy of the casino staff.
I wasn't sure if the casino would cheat, but the only certainty was that if they caught someone cheating, that person would be a ready-made example for them to establish their authority.
After the fund verification, the twenty-three thousand yuan I had won yesterday was all converted into chips.
At this point, the gambling match was about to ignite!
...
After introducing me to the other four people at the gambling table, just as Liu Xiang was about to have the dealer start the game...
His phone suddenly rang in his pocket.
Seeing this, my gaze slightly sharpened, and I thought to myself: This guy has a signal jammer on him!
If the game progressed to the end, and it turned out as I had anticipated...
Liu Xiang would be the best breakthrough!
With this thought, under the guise of lighting a cigarette, I turned and gave Cheng Minglang a subtle glance.
With our long-standing tacit understanding, he instantly got the message.
While waiting for the sixth gambler, I noticed that the other four gamblers who had arrived before me were not interacting with each other at all.
This wasn't an act; they were genuinely strangers to each other.
Seeing this, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
I was already at a disadvantage, and if I were to face a "four-on-one" or "five-on-one" situation, I'd have to pray for Stephen Chow's spirit to possess me so I could use superpowers to defeat them!
In less than five minutes, Liu Xiang led a woman to our table.
The moment I saw this woman, I was immediately captivated.
The woman appeared to be in her early thirties, dressed in a sexy, low-cut V-neck long dress. Not only was her cleavage bountiful, but her fair, jade-like back was also bared, drawing the eye.
Her two slender, long legs were encased in black silk stockings, exceptionally stimulating the nerves of the male gamblers.
To borrow a phrase from the "human pile driver" Han Jinlun, a woman with such a figure didn't need to be looked at for her face; her entire body was a treasure!
When I said I was attracted just now, it wasn't due to the woman's tall stature and revealing attire, nor her full, round breasts that could hold two phones, but rather... her hands!
A thief's eyes, a cheater's hands.
Out of professional habit, my first glance at anyone is always directed at their hands.
From the moment this woman arrived with Liu Xiang, my gaze was locked onto her hands.
I could guarantee that this woman was a cheater!
Furthermore, she was likely connected to Liu Xiang and this establishment.
Because she came alone!
Late at night, dressed so revealingly to gamble in a casino crowded with men, and being a cheater at that – if she wasn't a butcher sent by the casino to slaughter pigs, then it would be truly ghostly!
Before the gambling match officially began, based on everything I had heard and seen, I had already deduced how the gamblers Liu Xiang had lured to the new venue lost their money.
They truly treated people like "pigs" to be slaughtered!
After the woman took her seat, Liu Xiang signaled the dealer to announce the gameplay and rules.
The card game most suitable for cheaters, played with multiple decks... Blackjack!
And it was a rotating dealer format!
In addition to the rules, the dealer also emphasized the conditions for leaving.
According to the dealer, gamblers could only leave under one of two circumstances:
First, they lost all their money and left.
Second, they waited until the normal closing time.
Without even thinking, I knew that after losing all their money, the "money lenders" at the venue would come over to ask if you wanted to borrow money.
When desperate from losing, seven or eight out of ten gamblers would borrow money to try and win it back.
I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said that, up to this point, this establishment was the strongest money-burning den I had ever seen, capable of maximizing the speed at which a gambler lost their fortune after entering just once, and there was no other like it!!!
Considering the presence of a cheater at the same table and all the factors from my on-site investigation, after a brief deliberation, I made a decision.
Before the end of the session, I must control the amount won to a delicate balance.
I couldn't aim to win the most money in the shortest time, as I had initially planned.
Otherwise, if the woman at the table became suspicious, after the session... I would absolutely not be able to leave!
...
Time flowed like water, passing by silently.
Unknowingly, it was already midnight.
Before all the fat pigs were slaughtered, the service in this place was quite attentive.
Free mineral water, drinks, sunflower seeds, fruits, cigarettes, beer, foreign liquor, etc., everything was available.
Since the gambling started at ten o'clock, except for when I myself and that alluring lady were dealing, I would subtly play a few tricks whenever the other four people were dealing.
Although I didn't win much, it was all at a straightforward one-to-one ratio, earning me a small profit of forty to fifty thousand.
As for that lady, it was different. She cheated whenever she got the chance, regardless of who was dealing!
She had dealt at least eight or nine Blackjacks herself!
With the advantage of time, location, and people, the alluring lady, much like the boss Liu Xiang, played a game of annihilation with these gamblers.
In just over two hours, one gambler with a face full of pockmarks had his chips almost depleted.
If this person chose to borrow high-interest loans to continue gambling after losing all his chips, then he would not be far from falling into an endless abyss...
Half an hour later.
Having lost all his chips and his temper, the pockmarked gambler took a fierce drag of his cigarette, cursed, stood up, and directly shouted at the dealer, "Call the money lender over for me!"