Chapter 2379 — Finding the Reason
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Only Piao Huotai was to be pitied. In truth he had done nothing wrong; his only fault lay in his stubborn refusal to see reason, in his unwillingness to let go. Had he given up on Chen Xi, he would never have been cut down in an instant by Old Master Pi and the other four! Yet it was also because his strength and his luck had failed him—without the help of Old Master Pi and the others, Wei Zhao truly could not have kept him here today!
The more he thought about it, the narrower the escape had been. Naturally, Wei Zhao could not simply let the matter rest! The hidden Zhao family, was it? Very well—he would remember this debt. Zhao Qibing, Old Master Zhao—when the time came, he would send Zhao Qilei back to settle accounts with them all!
On the ground floor of the casino, Shen Yushu was playing with boundless enthusiasm.
"Oh, I really am a genius Shu—I won again!" Shen Yushu stared at the pattern combination on the screen, shrieking as she pumped her fist and bounced up and down.
"Xiao Shu, doesn't that count as cheating?" Gu Mengyao was rather worried. After all, Shen Yushu had worked out the pattern of this slot machine, and now she was winning basically every round. In just this short while, Xiao Shu's winnings had already exceeded five million chips. At this rate, wouldn't the casino lose a fortune? Would someone come to make trouble?
"Cheating? We're not rigging the games—we just found the pattern. How could that count as cheating?" Shen Yushu shook her head. "It's fine. A casino this big can afford to lose a little money, can't it? If they can't afford it, their reputation will be ruined anyway!"
"That's true, I suppose..." Gu Mengyao glanced at the customers coming and going and nodded. If someone really did step forward to stop her and Xiao Shu from winning, the casino's reputation would be ruined! Donghai City had no shortage of rich people—plenty of big bosses could well afford their losses!
But they might be willing to lose money—they would absolutely not allow anyone to accuse them of rigging the games whenever someone won! Willing to lose, but not to let others win? Then who would ever come to play again?
Of course, under normal circumstances it was impossible for a casino to do something so self-destructive. But as for Xiao Shu's continuous winning, it was not as though no one had noticed.
In the casino's surveillance room, the monitors had long since spotted the situation. When they switched the feed to Shen Yushu, they discovered that she was not cheating—rigging a slot machine like this was no easy feat in any case—but she had likely mastered some kind of calculation pattern.
Still, the casino was not without countermeasures. These slot machines were all networked; all it took was a little manipulation in the surveillance room, forcing the machine's program to run outside its normal calculation method. Artificial interference with the final result was a very simple matter.
So after the surveillance staff tampered with the slot machine Shen Yushu was playing, she began to lose—and lose continuously, without winning a single round!
Because whatever she bet on, the surveillance staff would artificially interfere with the outcome, producing a result that did not match her wager.
"Huh? Why isn't it working anymore?" Shen Yushu stared at the slot machine before her in some puzzlement, discovering that her calculation method had failed. By rights that should have been impossible—she had worked it out from the machine's results over many, many rounds!
"All right, Xiao Shu, that's about enough. Nobody can keep winning forever—just enjoy playing." Though Gu Mengyao did not know why Shen Yushu's method had stopped working, she had little interest in gambling.
"No way—something must be wrong with this machine. Let me try another one!" With that, Shen Yushu carried her large box of chips over to an empty machine nearby and began placing bets anew.