Chapter 2381 — Unmasking the Madman

Wei Zhao lifted Chen Xi straight into his arms and nodded to Old Master Pi and the others, signaling that they could all leave together.

Wei Zhao was carrying a girl, his shirt front soaked in blood, with five people trailing behind him like a personal guard. The combination was bizarre, yet every security guard they passed lowered his head, not daring to look directly at Wei Zhao and his group.

This was likely thanks to Brother Gambling's advance warning. Brother Gambling naturally did not dare offend these people; any one of them could have torn his casino down to its foundations. So he had ordered his security men early on to do nothing rash.

When they reached the ground-floor casino, Wei Zhao spotted Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu surrounded by Brother Gambling and a crowd of security men, and his brows shot up.

Wei Zhao had not expected Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu to run into trouble. After all, he had come here to wreck the place—surely no one should have connected him with Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu. Had Brother Gambling watched the earlier footage? But that made no sense either: if Brother Gambling knew how formidable they were, would he still dare make things difficult for the people who had come with him?

Yet once Wei Zhao drew closer and caught the exchange between Shen Yushu and Brother Gambling, he understood at once: Shen Yushu had won money, and Brother Gambling did not want to pay out! This made Wei Zhao silently conclude that Brother Gambling was asking for a beating—and also left him astonished. Just how much had Shen Yushu won, to make Brother Gambling show up in person?

"Miss, I, Brother Gambling, run a casino, and naturally I have the capital to run one. We welcome guests to come and win money here, but do you really think that with over twenty million in chips in front of you, you could win that much playing a slot machine normally?" Brother Gambling knew Shen Yushu had discovered the pattern, but he did not say so; instead he pinned it on a machine malfunction. "Look at the other guests—has anyone ever won over twenty million on these slot machines?"

The moment Brother Gambling said this, the guests who had been somewhat suspicious of his conduct now began to "understand" a little. Indeed, anyone who had played slot machines knew that winning a little money was possible—but winning big, especially over twenty million in one go? Was that possible?

A slot machine malfunction, on the other hand, was entirely plausible! So this time no one questioned Brother Gambling's words. On the contrary, they thought him quite generous: by rights, when a machine malfunctioned, all the chips won from it should be voided, yet Brother Gambling was even offering two million in compensation—that was decent of him!

"Whether it can be won, you know in your heart." Shen Yushu ignored Brother Gambling and waved toward someone not far away. "Arrow Brand Bro, someone's got Little Shu and Sister Yao surrounded over here—come save us quick!"

Wei Zhao smiled wryly and rubbed his nose, but he still walked forward through the crowd's stares. Only, when Brother Gambling saw Wei Zhao approaching, it was as if he had been struck by high-voltage current—he froze on the spot like a wooden statue!

Two things had shaken him. First, hadn't Wei Zhao died? How was he alive again? Second, behind Wei Zhao followed Old Master Pi and a whole group of people, trailing him like his underlings—which only made Wei Zhao stand out more. And that made Brother Gambling all the more terrified!

Because the man Shen Yushu had called was Wei Zhao, the very man who had just killed Park Huotai and Old Sixth Park, and who even had a Heaven-rank expert as a follower—a strength so absurd it defied belief. Him... he could never afford to offend him even if he beat himself to death!

Brother Gambling was on the verge of tears. Which mattered more, money or his life? Had he known this girl belonged to that monster before him, he would never have come down to make a nuisance of himself! Seeing that Wei Zhao dared kill even the men sheltering the Zhao family and Park Huotai, it was obviously no difficult task for him to finish off Brother Gambling!

"Is the machine broken?" Wei Zhao walked over, glanced at Brother Gambling, and asked mildly, "Old Master Pi, why don't you help him fix it?"

"Uh... it's not broken... no need to fix it..." When Brother Gambling saw Old Master Pi step forward and walk toward him, he was so frightened he nearly lost control of his bladder. A Heaven-rank expert! Have a Heaven-rank expert fix his machine? He might as well fix Brother Gambling!

If he still could not hear the displeasure in Wei Zhao's words, then all his years in this business had been wasted!

"If it's not broken, what are you doing here?" Wei Zhao asked in return.

"I... uh... right, I saw this young lady win a great deal of money, and I was afraid someone might do her harm, rob her, so I brought some security men to protect her! That's all it was!" Brother Gambling said hastily, seizing on the idea.

"Is that so?" Wei Zhao naturally knew Brother Gambling was talking nonsense.

"Of course, miss, you can keep playing..." Brother Gambling's heart was bleeding. Keep playing, and he would go bankrupt!

"Forget it, it's no fun. Arrow Brand Bro, you look hurt—is it serious?" Seeing Wei Zhao covered in blood, Shen Yushu naturally had no interest in playing any longer.

"I'm fine. If you're done playing, let's go home." Wei Zhao did not want to linger in the casino either; he wanted to get back and tend his wounds and recover his stamina and true qi as quickly as possible, so he had no wish to waste time here.

"Oh, okay." Shen Yushu could also tell Wei Zhao was badly hurt, so she gave up the idea of continuing and said to Brother Gambling, "Cash out the chips and transfer the money."

"This..." Brother Gambling could only smile bitterly. "Miss, our casino doesn't have that much liquid capital right now. Could you possibly give me a few days' grace?"

Brother Gambling had shed his earlier arrogance and turned cautious, which filled the onlookers with utter contempt. By now they all understood that Brother Gambling had been bullying the weak and fearing the strong; presumably he had been frightened by these people and no longer dared argue, and could only cash out the chips—except... did he still seem to want to welch on the debt?

"No money? A casino as big as yours, and you don't even have twenty million in liquid capital?" Shen Yushu naturally did not believe it.

"This... to be honest with you, my daughter was kidnapped earlier, and the kidnappers just extorted twenty million from me. Right now, for the moment, I truly can't scrape together that much. Could you grant me a month's grace? Just one month..." Brother Gambling said rather helplessly, thinking to himself how unlucky he had been lately: first his daughter kidnapped by some unknown force, and now he had offended a whole pack of cultivators, including a Heaven-rank expert!

"Fine. Whatever money you have now, transfer it to me first." Wei Zhao actually believed Brother Gambling, because he had just seen someone being kidnapped, and Qiu Lingshan was working that very case, so he did not press him.

"I have five or six million right now," Brother Gambling said gratefully.

"Transfer that for now. The rest, give me when you have it," Wei Zhao said.

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