Volume 7: Doing Business with the World Chapter 212: Battle Ball Day (Part 2)
In his previous life, Xiao Yun had seen all kinds of gamblers lingering on the fringe.
Those who are addicted to mahjong, bridge, underground/online gambling, horse racing tickets, etc., and lose so much money that they don’t even have money for the next meal; those who look glamorous outside, but actually steal the coffin money of their parents who live in a shack to gamble, and are blocked at their doorstep by people to collect debts; those who are in debt and can’t pay it back at all, and have to run away to become a "Sanhe God" or simply disappear without a trace and die...
Even in the seemingly most "harmless" game of mahjong, many decent that they have to sell their buttocks to pay off their gambling debts... Of course, decent women usually have relatively regular clients, and most of them will glorify the relationship into a lover relationship.
Having seen so many idiots fall into gambling traps, if Xiao Yun could still jump in, even if he was hit by ten Long Aotian's superimposed intelligence-reducing halos, it would not be possible...
When he was in college, he saw many male classmates who were addicted to online gambling and could not extricate themselves. Like those idiots who were greedy for fame and wealth and bought cars, watches and dogs while still in school, they owed a lot of online loans and ruined their lives (males are actually more greedy for fame and wealth, of course, in general, they would beautify it into male dignity and face. Among college students over 20, the number of males with a debt of more than 50,000 is more than ten times that of females). Xiao Yun specially took some time to study online gambling, odds, and probability.
The conclusion is that nine out of ten real-life gambling dealers cheat, while online gambling dealers cheat every time.
The odds in gambling are 10,000 times worse than the probability of drawing cards in pay-to-win mobile games.
Some friends who have played pay-to-win mobile games may disagree... but the facts are the facts.
Why? Because in order to increase player retention, the planners of krypton gold mobile games will set a minimum function in the card draw pool, that is, a certain number of consecutive draws will definitely win a red card...
So, although Xiao Yun's words sounded like he was pretending, they were actually completely sincere. The main theme of the fighting lottery tickets printed by the event group was indeed the spirit of entertainment and participation. High-odds tickets and 1:1 odds win-lose tickets each accounted for half, and there were also restrictions on ticket sales time, ticket denominations, and the number of tickets that could be purchased by a single person, so that no idiot would invest their entire fortune in gambling or even borrow money...
As for the fact that the odds tickets sold more than the win-loss tickets, that was a common mentality of luck among intelligent creatures (the so-called gambling nature is simply a mentality of luck), and they had no idea about their luck, and it had nothing to do with Xiao Yun...
Prince Maurice bought a 100-gold-coin ticket for the red team's victory, and although it was only a small amount of money, it undoubtedly aroused the prince's interest in the upcoming indiscriminate multiplayer fighting competition.
When the break was over, Edward, one of the knight brothers, jumped into the arena and trotted to the center of the 50X50 meter fighting arena, Prince Maurice turned his attention to leave.
Master Eddie, who was trying his best to strike up a conversation and influence the other party: "..."
The battle field was rectangular, and the spectator seats at both ends were more than sixty meters away from the fighting arena. With such a long distance and tens of thousands of spectators, it would be unbearable to just shout. However, this problem was not difficult to solve... After Edward stood still, he took out a palm-sized loudspeaker shell (provided by Earl Winston of the Sea Clan) from his waist and put it to his mouth.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the indiscriminate multiplayer fighting competition is about to begin. Let us welcome the blue team contestant, the Snow Wolf warrior Xiaohua!"
There was no music, sound effects or stage lighting to set the mood, and Edward's introduction was so clumsy that it was not even as good as that of an elementary school sports meet. But this did not prevent the audience from being aroused after he finished speaking - at the easternmost part of the northern VIP area, on the stairs for the contestants to appear, a strong orc who had been standing there motionless suddenly ran down, took a run-up and jumped!
The huge and agile body flew horizontally for ten meters in the air. When it was about to land, the strong orc pointed the spear in his hand at the ground. The special alloy spear body with a certain elasticity was pressed into an arc surface, which bounced the strong orc back for another ten meters!
With a "bang", Edward felt the ground beneath his feet shook slightly, and the strong body of the muscular tower of Xiaohua, who had made a showy appearance, stood firmly beside him.
The whole audience was silent for a moment, and then suddenly there was a burst of amazing cheers - mainly from the audience who bought blue lottery tickets.
"So strong! The muscles in his legs and upper body are so strong!" A human warrior with a face full of flesh in the audience seats to the south exclaimed in amazement.
In the general audience, in addition to ordinary people, middle-class families, and businessmen, there were also adventurers who came from the central city of Valentine to watch the excitement. Xiaohua showed off this skill, and ordinary people could only watch the excitement, while the professional-level strongmen could more directly see the terrifying explosive power contained in the amazing muscles of the Snow Wolf warriors.
"Not only that, after landing, he only bent his knees slightly to offset the impact. He didn't need to roll forward to resolve the momentum. His lower body was so stable that it was terrifying." A dark elf ranger, a friend of the human warrior, frowned and said, "The landing point was right next to the knight. If this was calculated... then this Snow Wolf's control of force is even more terrifying than his physical ability!"
On the east side of the VIP area, in the Snow Wolf Warriors' lounge.
Standing in front of the observation window and watching the field, Yu shook his head slowly, seemingly dissatisfied: "The landing point was a little off, and it almost hit Edward. Xiaohua's hand is still not steady enough."
"Please welcome the red team contestants, 'Viper' Korf, 'Black Flame' Sarati... seven walkers!"
Many viewers turned their eyes to the stairs on the west side of the VIP area, but the strange thing was... no one came out from that direction?
"What's going on?"
"Where are the people?"
The big-bellied rich businessman holding ten red-side high-odds tickets in his hand stood up in confusion. After waiting for a while and still not seeing anyone, he opened his voice and yelled at the host Edward in the field: "Hey! Did you really invite Black Flame Sarati? Where is Black Flame?!"
"That is, where is 'Viper' Korf?!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, both players have come on the field. Please enjoy the wonderful game they have brought to us!" Edward seemed to be unable to hear the doubts coming from the audience seats and quickly ran out of the competition area. "You are allowed to use any method to attack, defeat the opponent or drive the opponent out of the field to win! Game - Start!!"
"Hey! Where's Sarati, you bastard--" A Valentine citizen with a slightly bad temper jumped up from his seat and yelled, but he only finished half of the curse when the rest of the words were stuck in his neck.
But the Snow Wolf warrior who was standing alone in the field suddenly pounced forward, touched the ground with one hand and rolled forward, and behind him, a blurry figure suddenly appeared... and a dark sword light as fast as lightning!
"--Serpent's Fang!" In the audience seats to the south, the dark elf ranger roared out of control.
The blurry figure missed the target and swayed like ripples on the water before disappearing again.
At this moment, Xiaohua, the Snow Wolf warrior who had just stood up, suddenly turned the spear in her right hand diagonally, slid the spear handle flexibly over her left armpit, and stabbed it out!
Behind the left side of the Snow Wolf warrior who was originally empty, a traveler who appeared out of nowhere was stabbed in the abdomen by the handle of a spear. He appeared in a panic and staggered back!
Xiaohua didn't care about the victory. She switched the spear from her right hand to her left hand, swung her arm backwards, and drew a semicircle in the air. Another walker appeared from stealth, and was hit in the side by her big palm, sending him flying!
The two walkers who appeared quickly retreated, and their figures disappeared like green smoke. Xiaohua was the only one left on the competition field!
“……!!” The entire audience was stunned.
The big-bellied rich businessman who had just pointed at and cursed the irresponsible host only now showed a complete expression of horror.
The stadium filled with tens of thousands of people was silent for two seconds, and then there was a deafening roar of exclamations, cheers, or meaningless roars to vent emotions...
"Oh my god, I thought no one showed up! The walkers are amazing, they are right there but I can't see anything!"
"How can I fight if I can't even see?!"
“How terrible!”
“That’s amazing!”
The ordinary audience were either surprised or excited and talked about it, but the professional-level experts among the ordinary audience were very calm...
Although they usually mingled with ordinary people when they stopped in Valentine to buy and sell equipment and materials, there was indeed a huge gap between the professional level and the ordinary strong people - the amazing stealth and concealment of ordinary people were just the basic skills of the walker system, not to mention the thieves and assassins who wielded daggers, hunters and rangers also had similar skills.
"The Snow Wolf warrior sensed Korf's 'Serpent Fang' a second before it was launched." The dark elf ranger in the audience seats to the south shook his head and said, "I don't know if he was too eager to achieve success or underestimated the enemy... If he used a secondary attack, the success rate should be higher."
His companion, the human warrior, said in amazement: "Is the walker who attacked the left side Isaac's companion Alex? He came too close, he must have suffered a lot from that blow."
Isaac's team of adventurers had been staying in Valentine for a few years, so naturally someone knew Alex.
"A three-man siege won't work, so let's attack together in the next round." said the Dark Elf Ranger .
On the field, behind the right side of Xiaohua who was standing alone, a fast-moving afterimage suddenly appeared, wrapped in a deep knife light and attacked the right side of Xiaohua's back!
However, Xiaohua did not lunge forward to evade like she did before. Instead, she pulled her right foot back half a circle, turned sideways on the spot, and chopped downward with her empty right hand!
Seeing that the afterimage was about to take his arm under Xiaohua's knife, the traveler reacted quickly, changed lanes midway, and made a big turn to escape the opponent's attack range, disappearing into the air like green smoke.
Just as Xiaohua was about to chop the air with her knife, two ghostly figures appeared on both sides behind her at the same time, each shining a cold light at her!
Xiaohua dodged without even turning his head, and rolled on the ground, swinging the spear in his hand into a dazzling array of spear flowers, forcing back two more walkers who had emerged from ambush and were besieging him.
“——Ahh!” After a round of attack and defense, the audience had no time to exclaim.
In the audience seats directly south, the dark elf ranger and the human warrior exchanged doubtful glances, then quickly turned their eyes back to the field.
The seven travelers seemed to be quite afraid of the Snow Wolf warrior's terrifying muscle strength and explosive power, and did not dare to confront him head-on. Instead, they adopted guerrilla tactics of attacking in turns, launching a wave of fierce successive offensives every few seconds or tens of seconds. The seven people took turns to appear and attack alternately, which was dazzling and so nervous that people dared not blink.
Facing this kind of intensive attack like a violent storm alone, an ordinary person would have been covered in wounds long ago - but this Snow Wolf warrior relied on his beast-like instinct (no mistake) to evade the attacks at every turn and even counterattack!
In the audience, the professional warriors who were originally just watching the fun gradually became serious.
Like the dark elf ranger and human warrior, the professional warriors also realized that the seemingly deadly attacks of both sides were actually held back.
But no matter how much they held back, this was indeed a real fight with high-frequency alternating offense and defense - the coordination of the seven walkers was impeccable!
The attack angles he chooses each time are quite tricky. If someone else were on the field, not to mention being seriously injured, it would be unlikely for him to be unscathed!
"If I were besieged by Sarati and the other six people, I would definitely not last more than a minute." The human warrior frowned, "This Snow Wolf warrior... is too strong!"
The Dark Elf Ranger said nothing, staring at Xiaohua who was being entangled by seven ghostly figures that appeared and disappeared on the field.
As a ranger, the dark elf had good eyesight, so he could see two tiny holes in Xiaohua's clothes on the side of her abdomen after being besieged and fought for nearly ten minutes.
These two gaps were caused by "Viper" Korf and "Black Flame" Sarati. Among the walkers stationed in Valentine, these two are indeed recognized as difficult characters.
"Why is there no blood...? The Snow Wolf Tribe cannot become magic warriors, and they cannot have magic shields--" The extremely puzzled Dark Elf Ranger tilted his head slightly. Getting injured was just a common occurrence for those professional warriors. He really didn't think that the seven colleagues would "hold back" to the extent that they dared not hurt each other.
After a moment, the dark elf ranger's body trembled and his mouth opened wide.
The Snow Wolf Tribe disappeared from the sight of all other tribes for more than two hundred years.
This period of time was nothing to the long-lived elves, but it was indeed a period of time long enough for some of their memories to begin to blur.
For example, this dark elf ranger finally remembered at this moment... the Snow Wolf Tribe is not afraid of piercing damage! !
The Snow Wolf Clan is a fighting race whose individual combat power is second only to the Tiger Clan. In wolf form, they have the same amazing size as the tiger form of the Tiger Clan, which makes their human form particularly strong (high muscle density) - only blunt or heavy weapons can cause damage to them, and the walker's knife and bow and arrow are nothing to them!
Why were the bear tribe able to defeat and drive out the tiger tribe and the snow wolf tribe? In addition to the demigod fighting power, it was also because the traditional weapons of the bear tribe were heavy blunt weapons...
The Dark Elf Ranger had a frown on his face. Using your warriors to practice against the walkers, isn't that bullying?
On the field, after a stalemate of fifteen minutes, Xiaohua finally managed to catch a slippery walker and threw him out of the field with amazing arm strength...
After fighting for a few more minutes, Xiaohua seized the opportunity again and used her spear to knock a walker who attacked too hastily out of the field - uh, the guy who was beaten so hard that he almost cried out in pain was Alex.
When the thirty minutes were almost up, Xiaohua sent out two more walkers, and the remaining three simply admitted defeat...
"Ah ...
The audience who happened to have bought this ticket was screaming with excitement...
After the one-hour intermission, the ticket sales team of two people appeared again in various areas of the auditorium to settle the prize money for the winning audience on the spot and sell lottery tickets for the next game - including Knight Robbins, the owner of the Knight Territory, a total of twelve knights VS Snow Wolf warrior Yu!
Among these twelve knights, there are four third-level knights who are well-known in Valentine and even the Kingdom of Kronin - they were also invited by the three big bosses of the event group, Xiao Yun, Viscount Pope and Lola, who worked together to mobilize their connections!
One of them is directly the chief family knight of Philip's family...the kind with a fiefdom and an official title.
So the audience who had just witnessed the fighting power of the Snow Wolf Warriors became confused - there were twelve knights, and four of them were at the third level. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed that the Snow Wolf Warrior Yu had no chance of winning!
But the Snow Wolf warriors are indeed very powerful!
Even the Dark Elf Ranger, who thought he had seen through the "conspiracy" of the Knights' Tournament Group and was ready to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune, couldn't help but twitch his lips... The Knights used swords and blunt weapons, so they were not at a disadvantage like the Walkers, but who knows how much more powerful the Warrior Yu, who was scheduled to appear in the second game, was than the previous Xiaohua? !
"I should have bought the one just now, teacher!"
The young man said with a look of resentment: "Last time it was seven against one, this time it was twelve against one. No matter how you look at it, the tickets in the last game were easier to choose... Our two silver coins can obviously become four..."
The middle-aged man stared at his stupid apprentice silently for a few seconds, then looked away and sighed heavily.
I really want to replace this idiot apprentice... If I can't replace Carlisle, then Robbins will do!
In the VIP area.
Prince Maurice, who had lost a hundred gold coins, paid again to buy a ticket for the Red Team to win without any casualties. After the maid holding the tray carefully withdrew, His Royal Highness looked at the Countess and said with a smile: "The family knights of the Philip family will also go to the battle. Given your master's relationship with the Snow Werewolf, he won't receive any strange orders, right?"
Laura smiled slightly: "Elro is the most important and reliable family knight of the Philip family. I am reluctant to give any orders that will hurt him."
"Oh?" Prince Maurice raised his eyebrows and narrowed his eyes dangerously.
Laura's expression remained unchanged, and she even smiled in a more aristocratic manner.
At the age of thirteen, she shouldered the honor of Philip's family and took over the chaotic Bolton County. A few months ago, she ordered the imprisonment of local nobles in Bolton County, which was no different from "extermination of the whole family". If Laura, who was determined to thoroughly reorganize Bolton County, could be frightened by this prince who grew up in a greenhouse, then all the suffering she had suffered in the past two years would be in vain.
"The warriors of the Snow Wolf tribe are very strong. Facing such a powerful enemy, hesitation will lead to defeat, and hesitation will lead to injury." Laura said calmly, "As a master, I cannot foolishly let my knight fall into such danger."
The Duke's son, who was sitting on the other side of His Royal Highness, cast a look of surprise and admiration at Laura.
Master Eddie at the end looked at His Royal Highness the Prince nervously.
Prince Maurice had a blank expression on his face, and his cold gaze lingered on Laura.
Laura was unmoved, and even picked up the teacup steadily and took a sip like a lady.
Prince Maurice glanced at the teacup, which did not even produce a ripple, and suddenly laughed.
"As expected of you, the First Countess of Kroning." His Royal Highness smiled gently, "If you had a sister who was five years older than you, I would definitely propose to her."
Laura covered her mouth and chuckled: "That will disappoint Your Highness, I only have many cousins."
"It's really unfortunate."
Master Eddie kept his eyes on the playing field, but he unconsciously clenched his hands on the armrests.
He couldn't quite control the jealousy that welled up from the bottom of his heart.
With a father as stupid as Marcus who was played around by him, Master Eddie really never took Lola Philip seriously - what was the point of the gimmick of the First Countess of Kroning? After the death of old Philip, the Philip family lost even the most basic right to speak and had no say in parliament!
But Prince Maurice, the third in line to the throne who even he was afraid of and had to treat with caution, was actually... willing to respect the daughter of this loser Markarth!
Watching indifferently the participating knights who walked into the competition venue like clowns, Master Eddie suddenly thought of something and his pupils shrank slightly.
He realized he had overlooked one thing.
Laura Phillips, like Isaac Robbins and Carlisle Harvey Ferdinand, is a disciple of the orc sage.
Needless to say, Prince Carlisle, the six southern countries have already vaguely respected this man who is only a few years older than themselves and has not yet worn a crown.
Isaac Robbins, in just half a year, had made Prince Maurice dissatisfied with the young nobles of his country with his shining brilliance.
Standing alongside them is Lola Phillips - is she really just a simple little girl?
Realizing his negligence, Master Eddie's temples were covered with a drop of cold sweat...
At this time, the battlefield where tens of thousands of people gathered made a noise that shook the ground slightly.
The reason was that Yu, a Snow Wolf warrior who walked onto the field in a normal way, also held a special spear and looked ordinary except for his physique, fought against the twelve knights at the beginning, and with the first spear he knocked Isaac away...
Isaac, who was holding a shield in front of him, was suddenly knocked away along with his shield. The weight of him, his armor, shield and weapon, which weighed nearly 300 kilograms, flew more than ten meters in the air and landed on the ground with a bang, splashing countless dust. He symbolically stretched out his hand to struggle, and then fell to the ground.
“Ahhhhhhh——!!” The audience who continued to buy red tickets in defiance of the evil held their heads in their hands and howled in pain.
The workers under the Knights' command screamed even louder. If it weren't for the staff maintaining order, they would have rushed to the stadium to check on the beloved Knight Robins...
Edward, who was the host and fortunately didn't have to play in the game, asked the competition team to carry Isaac away with a cold sweat...
“As expected, hesitation will lead to defeat.” Prince Maurice sighed as another hundred gold coins flew away.
