Volume 2 Hello, Xia Mi Chapter 166: Nibelung Hunting (V)
"Ga!" After hesitating for a long time, Garrincha decided to take a gamble.
There were nine people in total participating in this gambling game, four on Garrincha's side and four on Esther's side, plus the banker Queen Kamaitachi. Therefore, the gambling game used nine decks of playing cards, and any card would have 36 cards. The discarded cards at the end of each round of the game would be revealed and put aside until the nine decks were used up, and then they would be stacked up and cleaned by the Queen Kamaitachi.
Because there is one dealer against nine players, the rules are slightly modified. Blackjack with an A plus a 10 is still the largest hand, and the dealer wins in the case of a bust. Only the person with the highest points will win in each round of the game, which means that even if there is a winner, if there are multiple winners at the same time, the chips on the table will be divided equally.
Now that this round has not yet ended, as long as you remember the cards that have been discarded before, you can calculate what cards are left, although the number is still terrifying.
Garrincha's score is 16, and he needs to make sure he doesn't bust. In the best case, he can get another 5 to make it 21 points, or any score below 5 can increase his chances of winning. Although this card makes him much less likely to win than bust, he has no chance if he doesn't continue to add.
He quickly recalled the cards he had used before in his mind. He had been calculating silently since he sat down at the gambling table, but the workload was too heavy to calculate the cards and remember the cards he had used. It was even harder than remembering how much money he had. All the numbers he wrote down were incorrect. He could only roughly calculate and estimate based on the data. The probability of not going bust was 14%.
Garrincha flipped out a 7 from the deck. He felt dizzy when he saw the number and pushed away the dark gold coin in front of him because he didn't have many chips left. In this gambling game, anyone who lost all the chips in front of him would be killed by the kamaitachi. He had already lost four of his men and brought a total of sixteen people into Nibelungen. His combat effectiveness had now been reduced by a quarter.
All the players who had not yet busted opened their cards at the same time. Esther threw the hidden cards in her hand on the table triumphantly. She had two A's, plus the open 9, which made a perfect 21 points. In this game, A is the strongest card. It can be used as both 1 and 11, and is also a necessary component of Blackjack. The winning rate of getting two A's at the beginning is 4/13, which is terribly high in gambling games.
Every loser had to pay Esther 50 dark gold chips. Esther had already won two rounds in a row, and the dark gold chips in front of her had piled up into a small mountain. She chose to exchange with the Kamaitachi dealer, who threw her a cigarette paper shell.
In this simple gambling game, values are completely reversed. The most valuable item is the bottle cap of Arctic Ocean soda, which is worth ten compasses. One compass is exchanged for ten cigarette paper shells, one cigarette paper shell is exchanged for ten silver chips, and one silver chip is worth ten dark gold chips.
It seems that in the eyes of the game's designers, gold and silver are the least valuable things. Just as alchemists call Nibelungen the paradise of alchemy, people who master alchemy can easily use the elements here to refine metals. Things like Arctic bottle caps, compasses, and cigarette paper shells cannot be created in Nibelungen and must be found in the outside world, so they are extremely precious.
A new round began, and the goddess of luck seemed to finally favor Garrincha. He got an open Ace of Hearts at the beginning, and a hidden K of Spades. JQK can all be counted as 10 points in this game. A+10 is the best hand for Black Jack, and it will be even bigger with spades. In other words, Garrincha was invincible in this round of the game, and he could finally hold his head high.
I can't keep losing. I came here to slay dragons, not to play cards with an endlessly slayable monster. Garrincha took this perfect opportunity to look at the two younger brothers beside him, and used his eyes to hint them to deliberately increase the stakes in this round, so as to lose more chips to Garrincha, so that he would have a chance to continue in the game.
If they did so, the two brothers would die, but they would not refuse Garrincha's proposal. The half-bloods that Garrincha brought were all carefully selected and trained by him. He selected children with dragon blood in the territory he occupied, no matter how rare, and bought out the child's life after paying a sum of money to their poor parents, and took him away. He brainwashed them from childhood, and Garrincha's words were orders that could not be disobeyed by them.
For those half-bloods whose bloodline is too shallow, or those who are just ordinary people, Garrincha will inject them with serum extracted from the remains of the third generation dragon race. This is almost the most old-fashioned way to forcibly improve bloodline, and it is also the fastest way to take effect. Half-bloods injected with this serum are destined to become deadpools, but before they completely fall, Garrincha will continue to use them until they go berserk, and then Garrincha will kill these deadpools, extract new serum from them, and inject them into the newcomers.
This kind of method can only breed hybrids that are almost equal to Cassell's C-level, and occasionally B-level ones appear. In terms of combat effectiveness, they are not that high. However, what Garrincha needs is these people to master the power of words. As long as there are enough people, the huge number of words that bless each other can also give top masters a headache, just like the hyenas on the African grasslands can attack African buffaloes that are more than ten times their own weight. They are bloody consumables.
Esther's old butler stood behind her, watching the gambling game with an expressionless face. No one in their group was better at gambling than Esther, so they could only choose to trust Esther.
The reason for believing her was also ridiculous. This girl didn't use her brain much when playing cards, but she seemed to be born with good luck. She once won four games in Alaska with one dollar and swept the whole place. Every time she won a round, she put all her chips into the next round and took away more than 10 million from the casino. If the housekeeper hadn't stopped her, she might have continued to win, but if she won another round, the number would be extremely scary. At that time, it would not be a matter of whether she could leave or not. The people in the casino would definitely chase after Esther and ask her to check for cheating. The housekeeper would never allow the casino's dirty hands to touch Esther's body.
He remained calm, but was almost ecstatic in his heart. Esther was holding an Ace of Spades, and the open card on the field was a Jack of Spades, which was the strongest hand with a chance of winning. Once all the chips were collected in this round, Garrincha would have two fewer people, while he had lost a total of two people so far, which was still acceptable.
"I'll raise the stakes with you guys." Esther pushed out hundreds of dark gold chips at a time. This time, she was unusually calm. Not only did she want to eat up all the people on Garrincha's side, she also wanted to wipe out the sickle-weasel queen.
Seeing their eldest daughter like this, the half-bloods of the Arnolds family immediately understood and chose to fold their cards. In this way, they only had to pay half of the chips they originally lost in this round, and they could last longer at the table without losing everything so quickly.
The nine heads of the Kamaitachi dealer were divided into two groups, one group went to count the chips on Esther's side, and the other group went to count those on Garrincha's side. After counting, all nine heads were put back, and he added another card and chose to follow the chips.
Everyone opened their cards again. Garrincha had the Ace of Hearts and the King of Spades, the dealer Kamaitachi had the Ace of Diamonds and the Queen of Diamonds, and Esther had the Ace of Spades and the Jack of Spades. This round saw the appearance of three rare blackjacks, but as the name of this hand suggests, the Ace of Spades is supreme, not to mention that Esther had two spades in her hand, which was already the strongest hand in the game.
Garrincha's head buzzed. He thought that the goddess of luck had finally favored him, but he didn't expect that she would still choose to stand on Esther's side. She first gave him a little hope, and then extinguished it all with her own hands.
Esther made faces at Garrincha with one hand and happily swept all the chips on the table in front of her with the other hand. She was very naive, but definitely not stupid. She was acting when she pretended not to hide her expression. When it came to the final blow, she would control her expression like a seasoned gambler. When she was at home, those little sisters would also be so deceitful when playing cards. She learned it from them!
Garrincha kicked over the gambling table, and the mixed races behind him rushed forward, shooting at the other side with pistols that had long been released from safety. They were thugs who walked out of the rain forest, and they never had to abide by the rules of the game! If they can win, they will sit down and play a few games with you honestly, but if they can't, they will overturn the table, and no one will want to play anymore!
"My cards! My chips!" The sickle-weasel queen didn't care about the chaos around her. She just felt sorry for the bottle caps and compasses that were kicked everywhere. She was busy running around and picking them up with her nine heads and holding them in her mouth. It was obvious that she really cared about those junk from the human world.
A tall fat man flashed behind Esther and stood in front of his own people. Only titles like the Big Meat Demon King could describe his current appearance, comparable to a sumo wrestler. This was not natural but the power of the bronze throne. Most sumo wrestlers have fat on their bodies, but this guy has amazing muscles all over his body. The bullets hitting his skin even made a clear sound like a steel plate.
The Irish half-breeds were not unprepared. They knew very well who they were facing. It would be strange if Garrincha would sit down and lose the bet. No matter whether it was the Queen of the Weasels or something else in front of him, what he was best at was to wipe out all those who could breathe and then find a way out for himself.
Relying on the iron guards of the bronze throne, they quickly gathered into a fixed formation. Esther was protected in the center of the team. A subordinate beside him took off the black box he was carrying, assembled an L96A1 sniper rifle and handed it to Esther.
Many people who first met this Irish girl would think that she was the kind of naive literary girl who would walk and stop alone, trekking on the blue glass-like ice mirror lake in County Wicklow with a camera and a scarf, secretly prying open the ice to try to catch a fish or something, thus ignoring her background.
The Arnolds family was an English noble family as early as the 18th century. It was not until 1801, when the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland were unified, that the Arnolds family went to Ireland as an administrator appointed by Great Britain. In 1845, when Ireland was starving due to the potato famine, the Arnolds family in this land still accepted gifts from England, and no one died. Therefore, they still have close relations with a considerable number of descendants of the old British aristocracy and hold important positions in the Irish army, which to some extent means that the British mixed-race forces control the Irish mixed-race forces.
Esther was born in such an environment, so she would become a qualified military girl. She started playing with guns at the age of five. Her forte was long-range precision shooting, and the L96A1 was her favorite rifle. The Arnolds family trained her as an ace killer because her words were too suitable for dealing with mixed-bloods. As long as the enemy in front was held back by the guards, Esther would teach them what it meant to kill with one bullet.
The bright silver bullets with intricate patterns on the surface were loaded into the magazine. Esther checked them briefly to confirm that they were in good condition. The bullets were filled with mercury, which was fatal to the dragon bloodline. It was supposed to be used against the dragon king who was about to be found, but now it would bloom on Garrincha's people.
She was actually unwilling to do this. The Word Spirit Blood Tie allowed Esther to vaguely feel the red line between them. As long as she followed it, she would definitely see the target. The sickle-weasel dealer did not lie. The line between the bloodlines extended from the tunnel. Using these weapons now would undoubtedly weaken their own combat effectiveness. No one knew what kind of power the Dragon King was hiding.
But Garrincha obviously won't sit down and listen obediently. If you talk to him about cooperation, he will nod and then take out a gun from his back to make a hole in your head. This kind of person cannot be trusted, let alone trusted. If he takes advantage of the situation when slaying the dragon, the consequences will be more serious. It is better to settle the new and old scores now and solve the problem in advance to prevent others from grabbing the dragon bone.
Esther's butler walked out from behind the protection of the bronze throne, standing in the hail of bullets. At first glance, he looked a bit like Grandpa KFC. But Grandpa KFC now lowered his head and stood there quietly, with dazzling lightning flowing all over his body. His pupils were no longer the red gold color when the Word Spirit was released, and the blazing white of the lightning overwhelmed the gold. People seemed to hear the sound of thunder. Maybe the city outside was still raging with heavy rain at this moment, but in Nibelungen, they should not have heard the movement outside.
The net of bullets rushed towards the old man. When they were less than half a meter away, they lost their kinetic energy and fell to the ground with crackling sounds. The lightning wrapped around the metal shells of the bullets, destroying all the penetrating power they were given. The space around him was also highly ionized due to the extremely strong ions. The dust was shining due to the ionization, and the faintly flashing thin arcs pierced the air.
The word spirit Indra was first discovered in India, so it was named after the god in Hinduism. The ancient epic poem said that this was the sun incarnated as thunder, rising slowly in the midday sky, taking away the light of the sun god, like the return of the myth.
But this word spirit is a heroic epic myth. Even a half-blood would be turned into a charred corpse if struck by lightning, but the holder of Indra can deliberately draw lightning from nature to enhance his instantaneous power. If he leaves Nibelungen and fights in the city now, then Garrincha will see what it means to draw lightning to attack. The roaring lightning will turn into a sharp sword in the old man's hand and split him into ash and carbon in an instant.
