Silence.....
"What- what do you- you mean about what you just said, sir?!"
Li Yu felt as if he had heard wrongly, even Huizhong who was still busy calculating and jotting things he needed to buy in his mind was stunned silence.
[Own a 10% stake in this huge casino, how is that possible to be true??]
"Yes, you heard me right, what do you think of owning a 10% stake in this casino?"
Blacky asked again clearly.
Li Yu was stunned silence again when he realized that what he thought he heard was what he heard.
[What the hell is going on now?!]
Li Yu suddenly burst into loud laughter which made both Huizhong and Blacky thought he had gone crazy.
"HAHAHA!!!! Please quit playing pranks on me, okay?!" Li Yu said amidst his laughter.
When Blacky heard Li Yu's words, he suddenly had an understanding of why Li Yu was laughing that hard. [He thought I was playing pranks on him, me, play pranks on someone?!]
Blacky also burst into loud laughter, and together with Li Yu, they both began to laugh like people who are possessed, leaving Huizhong alone to be stunned.
[What the hell is going on with the two of them now, have they both gone crazy?!] Huizhong thought in concern.
All of a sudden, the busy laughing Blacky suddenly stopped his laughter and switched his expression to a cool one.
This fast change stunned Li Yu into silence again and caused Huizhong's expression to look funny.
Seeing this, Blacky smirked slightly and asked; "you think I would go out of my way to prank you?!"
Li Yu's stunned expression intensified when he heard such a question.
"Then, is your question real sir? how is that even possible for it to be real? What or who am I to you that would make me receive such a high and massive gift?!" Li Yu bombarded Blacky with a load of questions.
[Is this the mentality of poor people?!] Blacky asked in his mind, almost becoming angry now.
"Answer my question first, will you? Then I will answer all yours." Blacky said in frustration.
Li Yu kept quiet for a few seconds while thinking numerous thoughts and possibilities in his mind.
After some seconds, he finally came to a resolution, [At least, answering this question will not kill me,] he thought in silence.
"I will definitely be excited if I could own a 10% stake in this casino," Li Yu answered in one word as if expressing an impossible wish.
Blacky finally smiled a bit.
[I'm so smart, ] he thought.
When Blacky left the sports betting compartment earlier, he rushed to his office to call his boss and told him everything that occurred.
Blacky's boss was so excited when he heard Blacky's explanation. He would have rushed back immediately if he was not in a faraway place from the casino.
What he told Blacky after calming down was; "Blacky, I think that boy would definitely be our savior on this case.
Whether we keep our properties and even get more or we lose everything is up to you now.
What I was trying to tell you is that if we were to lose this bet because you are unable to get that boy to help us will certainly be your greatest sin in life.
I don't care whatever approach you use, I don't care even if you give the boy a 40% stake in that casino, the only thing I care for now is that you get the boy's approval.
One more thing, please, and please do not try forcing the boy, else it would do more bad than good."
Blacky who has never heard his boss speak like this before was so stunned.
But when he thought of the things at risk, his expression finally turned back to normal.
Still, 40% out of his casino, is impossible.
So back present.
Blacky smiled slightly at Li Yu.
"If I could remember clearly, your question earlier was, 'how is it possible, right?"
Blacky asked Li Yu jokingly.
"Yes sir, how is that possible."
"Oh my, it is definitely possible."
"Please can you enlighten me, sir?"
Li Yu began to feel that this does not look like a prank anymore, it has begun to look real.
He began to fear that he was only dreaming.
"I will tell you a short story."
Blacky gathered his thoughts together before starting.
"My boss's boss, I won't tell you his name yet cause it might get you in trouble.
Many years ago, I don't know if you've heard about it, but many years ago, there was a huge ordeal in this state that almost caused its destruction. Things were so bad then that everybody, both rich and poor, civilians and military, young and old began to fear for their lives.
Why?!
Hmmm...
It was because all the gangs in this state were fighting each other for Dominion then.
Each gang used to invade the territory of other gangs then and would cause massive destruction.
The government could do nothing to stop this ordeal then, as every time these gangs perceived that the military was around then, they would immediately disperse with nobody knowing where they went.
All these gangs have various people in government positions then, so the fight was both in the light and the darkness.
If you were matured then or you have been born, you would have known how serious this was back in the day, at least tens of thousands of innocent died then.
Instead of this ordeal dying down, it continues to intensify and escalate every day, with massive destructions and death tolls everywhere.
So one day, my boss's boss who was outside the country heard the news, mind you, my boss's boss was also part of the gangs but had retired then, in fact, he was a leader of one of the gangs in his time.
So when he heard that his state had plunged into a great war and was going into massive destruction, he called off his retirement.
My boss's boss returned to the state and called upon all his men when he was still active.
Mind you, most of the leaders of these gangs that were causing destructions and war were my boss's boss men In his time.
So my boss rallied these men together, well, those that came and turned them into an alliance.
He talked senses into their heads and developed a system that would allow everybody to enjoy dominion if they pass.
After these men had accepted the ideals, my boss's boss arranged for all these men to split themselves and enter the enemy's camp, that is camps of those that would not listen to my boss's boss.
In just one night, all the enemies' leaders were taken out with most of their men destroyed and those that were not destroyed apprehended.
It was only after this that everything began to calm down.
But this is not the end.
Mind you, everything had not fully calmed down. All the men my boss's boss was able to turn into an alliance were still, at the end of the day, after their benefits, and my boss's boss noticed this.
My boss's boss brought out an oath form which nobody knows from whence he got.
He made everybody swear using this form.
Although nobody believed in this, they all still swore with this form due to the fear they had for him.
They all swore that they would follow the system my boss's boss laid out, or else they would die of lightning if they were to contradict it.
Everybody took this oath as a joke with no ounce of trust in it.
Immediately my boss's boss returned to his retirement and left the country, things began to boil again and everybody began to plan amongst themselves, trying not to follow the system my boss's boss laid out and wanting to take power by force again.
Yet, nobody would attack first, not because of the oath, but because they are all scared that they might be ganged up against if they were to have the upper hand or if they lose.
This balance was maintained for a long time.
One fateful day, one of these gang leaders received help from god knows whom or where. He got a lot of trained men and powerful ammunition.
This particular leader immediately felt courageous, he felt that he is now capable enough of taking everyone out of the way once and for all. He felt that nobody would be his match anymore.
When the other gangs heard this news, they rallied up again and allied to fight against and resist this particular leader who was too overly harmed.
One day, when this particular leader reached the location where these leaders and their men turned into their alliance, a funny thing happened.
As this particular leader raised his gun and was about to shoot it, the clear sky suddenly became dark and from within this darkened sky, a powerful energy began to fluctuate and come together, then, like a film trick, Boom, suddenly, a lightning bolt shot down from the sky and like work of a god, it vaporized this particular man into ashes.
Everybody, there was stunned for a long time, with fear taking over.
Gang fights had stopped ever since that day in this state.
The gang leaders began to practice the system my boss's boss laid out which was that dominion can only be taken over by competing with each other and not by force.
Every time a particular leader felt that he has what other leaders those not have, he would call a competition between themselves and the leader in power.
If he wins, he will take over power and if he loses, he would leave the one in power alone.
But the thing is every time a particular leader wins, they would turn into a beast, ravaging the entire state and turning themselves into a god.
They and their men would do drugs, they would kill, harm, rape, and do a lot of bad things.
It was only when my boss took over power that all this stopped.
The underground began to do legal work, things began to become easier for everybody.
Apart from a few issues here and there, hardly would you ever receive news that an underground team member was involved in any war or destruction.
Sigh…
But all this might change now as the worst of all these leaders now has something that he might use to take over this power from my boss, and if that were to happen, all the peace we are feeling now would likely stop."
Blacky finally closed his mouth, he looked at the engrossed faces of Huizhong and Li Yu, then he stood from his seat and went to take water from the water dispenser at the corner of the office, to quench his thirst.
Blacky was not surprised by how engrossed Li Yu and the fatty were. He was more stunned than the two of them when he first heard the story that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.
The story felt like fiction, but he knew too well that it was definitely not.