So, how could these people possibly be even slightly afraid of what Zhao Ting had just said?!
As Zhao Ting watched them laugh more wildly, his expression grew increasingly fearful.
Immediately, he realized the words he had just spoken had no deterrent effect on them whatsoever.
Maybe, it might even add to their anger towards him. Thinking of this, Zhao Ting wisely chose to keep his mouth shut.
"Fine."
After a brief moment of laughter, Xingyue was no longer interested in arguing with him. She straightforwardly gave Zhao Ting a final ultimatum, saying, "Mr. Zhao, I'll ask you one last time: are you gambling or not?"
If it weren't for the need to later edit a video from the surveillance in this room to show a seemingly legitimate reason why Zhao Ting 'normally' owed a huge gambling debt in their casino, to deal with potential troubles, Xingyue wouldn't have had the patience to waste any more time and words on him!
And time wasted!
If Zhao Ting cooperated obediently next, that would be the best outcome. But if he remained stubborn and refused to cooperate...
Well then, Xingyue believed they would need to resort to some 'special measures' against Zhao Ting!
Upon hearing Xingyue's words, Zhao Ting's face, already full of fear and panic, showed a hesitant and contemplative expression.
After a few seconds of consideration, Zhao Ting tentatively asked, "If I finish this round of gambling, will you let me go?"
Upon hearing Zhao Ting's question, Xingyue raised an eyebrow slightly, not giving a clear answer to his question. She simply said in a light tone, "As long as everything goes smoothly."
"Everything goes smoothly?"
"What if it doesn't?"
"What do you want to do?!"
The moment after Xingyue finished speaking, Zhao Ting immediately followed up with another question.
But after he asked, Xingyue showed no intention of answering further. Still wearing a fake smile, she stared at Zhao Ting and said teasingly, "Mr. Zhao, please understand your situation now, OK?"
"You have no right to discuss these matters with me!"
"As for what we will do next... Once you finish this round of gambling, you'll find out, won't you?"
With that said, Xingyue didn't say anything more, waiting for him to make a choice.
As Zhao Ting's face turned even more unpleasant upon hearing her words, feeling the malevolent gazes behind him, he broke into a cold sweat all over.
But Xingyue was right; he really had no choice now!
Either sit down obediently and continue, or face the weapons in the hands of these people.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhao Ting sighed and pulled back the chair to his original position, sitting back at the gambling table.
Immediately, he stared at Xingyue across the table and gritted his teeth, "Let's continue!"
Although Zhao Ting, playing the role of himself, already knew he was in a precarious situation, he had no choice but to sit back at the gambling table and continue this gamble.
Zhao Ting knew that even if he did as instructed next, these people might not let him go in the end.
But at least for now, they wouldn't do anything harmful. After all, these fraud and abduction elements also wanted to extort him for as much money as possible!
As for resisting them further...
Even if this was all an act at the moment, Zhao Ting didn't show any signs of that idea.
After all, Zhao Ting wasn't stupid. With the enemy holding guns in their hands and him being just a mortal, he was as fragile as an ant compared to their cold firearms!
If he insisted on leaving forcibly, wouldn't that just be seeking death?!
At this moment, even though Zhao Ting obediently sat back in his chair, the men behind him holding guns showed no signs of lowering their weapons, continuing to aim firmly at him.
Clearly, they were wary of whether their target might make any drastic moves.
With no other options, Zhao Ting could only steel himself and reach for his cards on the table.
Seeing Zhao Ting start to move, the female dealer in charge of overseeing the game progress looked at Xingyue first, indicating for her to speak.
And just like the last round, Xingyue chose to fold her hand this time as well.
"Fold."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Ting immediately opened his two cards and glanced at them.
One was the Ace of Clubs and the Six of Hearts.
Seeing this hand of cards, his expression changed slightly.
Just as Zhao Ting was considering a quick decision to end this gambling round, Xingyue, sitting across the gambling table, seemed to see through his thoughts. She spoke first, "Be serious, Mr. Zhao. Otherwise, I'll think you're disrespecting me, and I won't be happy!"
Once again, it was such a threatening remark.
Moreover, as Xingyue finished speaking, the men behind Zhao Ting, holding firearms, also cooperated by making some movements.
Zhao Ting's thoughts were immediately scared away, and he could only hurriedly speak up, "I-I'll also go!"
After shouting these words, he finally noticed Xingyue at the opposite gambling table, with a satisfied expression on her face.
Immediately after, Lu Ting reached out again and drew a card from the top of that stack, placing it in the community card area.
Sure enough,
This card, without any surprise, was still an Ace of spades!
Seeing this, Lu Ting immediately looked up sharply at Xingyue across the table, his expression and the look in his eyes both dark and unclear.
At this moment, with these two cards in his hand, along with the community cards, he could form a Three Aces with a pair of 6s, a full house.
And this hand was currently the biggest hand seen on the gambling table.
If he had received these cards earlier, Zhao Ting would surely be overjoyed.
After all, the probability of getting this hand in Texas Hold'em is quite high.
But now, having such a hand, Lu Ting felt like these cards were hot potatoes!
Things had developed to this point, at this moment, if he were to get such a hand again, it could only mean one thing.
That is, Xingyue's two hole cards, combined with the community cards, would definitely form a stronger hand than his own!
And the female dealer in charge of controlling the progress of the game, at this moment, first looked at Xingyue and said, "It's your turn."
Upon hearing this, Xingyue first glanced at Zhao Ting across the gambling table, who looked very panicked and uneasy, and after smiling briefly, she made a move that shocked Zhao Ting!
She decisively pushed all her chips in front of her and said, "ALL IN!"
Previously, after exchanging five million dollar chips, Xingyue won another ten million dollar chips from Lu Ting, so now she had a total of sixty million dollar chips!
A full sixty million dollar chips, she didn't even blink her eyes as she pushed them all in for the bet.
At this moment, Lu Ting's expression on his face was completely stunned.
Immediately after, the female dealer turned to Lu Ting again and reminded him, "Mr. Zhao, it's your turn."
After a half-second reaction time, Lu Ting pushed out ten million dollar chips.
By now, it was clear that the game was going to be won by the opponent. Even someone like Zhao Ting, a young master from Chinese, should consider stopping in time to minimize his losses.
And the reason he pushed out ten million dollar chips was because he was afraid that a few million wouldn't be enough to catch their attention.
But who would have expected that even after Lu Ting had put out ten million dollar chips, Xingyue sitting across the gambling table was still very dissatisfied.
At this point, even before Lu Ting could react, one of the many people behind him, holding guns, suddenly stepped forward in strides and directly pushed all the remaining chips in front of Lu Ting at once!
Lu Ting: "???"
Seeing this, Lu Ting couldn't help but be stunned for half a second.
Damn.
Can it still be operated like this?!
He really didn't expect these guys to have such a "sly operation"!
Immediately after, Lu Ting, who was still acting, subconsciously turned his head sharply, his eyes bewildered and questioning, looking at the person standing beside him.
His eyes seemed to silently ask him, "Is this your money? Why are you coming to raise the bet?"
But these greedy people didn't care about that at all. Just as Lu Ting's chips were pushed out, the female dealer there immediately announced, "Mr. Zhao, raise, forty million dollar!"
After adding Lu Ting's forcibly raised chips, the prize pool on the gambling table had now reached 110 million dollar!
After the round of raises ended, the female dealer continued to stare at Lu Ting and said, "Mr. Zhao, please show your cards."
Upon hearing this, Lu Ting looked at Xingyue sitting in front of him at the gambling table, then revealed his hand.
"Three Aces, a pair of 6s, full house."
After reporting Lu Ting's hand, the female dealer turned to Xingyue.
Before she could speak, Xingyue smiled and showed her cards.
I saw the two hole cards she showed were surprisingly the 5 of spades and the 7 of spades!
"5 and 7 of spades, straight flush, 4 to 8, highest hand."
Lu Ting's eyes stared tightly at the two cards laid out by the female dealer on the community card, forming a straight flush of 4 to 8 with the 5 and 7 of spades, and he couldn't help but sneer.
Damn it.
You dare to make fake cards!
Even though Lu Ting hadn't played Texas Hold'em before, he knew the probability of such a straight flush hand is extremely low, not even once in hundreds, or even thousands of hands.
The result was encountered by him here.
And at this time, Xingyue, who was not surprised by such a result, stood up from her chair, hands on the table, looking at Lu Ting with a posture full of pressure, and said, "Sorry, Mr. Zhao, it seems that today the Goddess of Luck favors me even more!"
The Goddess of Luck favors you?
How did this straight flush hand come about, don't you know?
After hearing Xingyue's grand words, although Lu Ting couldn't help but sneer coldly in his heart, he immediately showed the performance he should have.
After all, acting must be done in full!
Swish————
Lu Ting stood up from his chair with a sudden move, but because the movement was too big, the chair under him couldn't bear the weight and fell over.
At the same time, he also shouted loudly at Xingyue, emotionally excited, "Is this all arranged by you! Just want my chips, right? Take them all!"
"Now that the game is over and the chips are all yours, can I go?!"
Seeing Zhao Ting's furious but frightened expression, Xingyue found it interesting, but some accounts still had to be settled with him.
"Mr. Zhao is indeed a young master from a wealthy family, losing fifty million dollar without even frowning."
Xingyue's ambiguous words immediately made Lu Ting's eyes change slightly, and he had a premonition that what she was about to say next might be the key point of this whole rigged game.
Sure enough,
The next second, Lu Ting heard her tone change and said, "But Mr. Zhao, you still can't leave now."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Ting, who had just knitted his brows tightly, frowned even tighter at the moment, and immediately asked back, "Why?"
"Because Mr. Zhao, you just owed us Cangsheng Casino a gambling debt!"
Lu Ting: ????
When did this happen? How come the person involved didn't know?
"Impossible!"
Lu Ting immediately retorted, saying, "Bring your POS machine over. I'll transfer fifty million dollar to you right now. Besides that, I don't remember having any other gambling debts!"
"There are!"
With Xingyue's firm words, the person who had been standing close to Lu Ting, aiming a gun at him, suddenly pulled out a piece of paper from inside his jacket and placed it in front of Lu Ting.
Lowering his head to look at it.
Goodness!
This was an agreement for a loan of fifty million dollar from Cangsheng Casino!
And in the borrower's position, the two characters Zhao Ting appeared prominently.
"This agreement signed in black and white, Mr. Zhao, do you want to default?"
Upon hearing Xingyue's question, Lu Ting, whose face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, suddenly raised his head with a "swish" and looked at Xingyue sitting across the gambling table, his eyes showing anger as if to spew fire.
Immediately, Lu Ting, speaking in the tone of Zhao Ting, said, "You dare to set up such a scheme to defraud my money?!"
The agreement signed by Zhao Ting's hand was indeed signed by Lu Ting himself before, but it was for the previous agreement, not the current one.
(End of the Chapter)