Chapter 646: Chapter 559: She’s Raising the Stakes!

Tao Lin’s expression became calm:

"Let’s go again."

Xu Xiaoyou looked at her:

"How much do you plan to bet?"

Tao Lin pointed at Xu Xiaoyou and tapped twice.

"All of yours."

"I want to bet all of yours."

"If you lose, all of yours belongs to me."

"Manager Tao, this..."

The assistant manager stepped forward, eager to speak, but was interrupted by the girl’s cold gaze.

"What if I win, what can you offer me?" Xu Xiaoyou spread her hands.

"I consider myself quite valuable, your wealth isn’t enough to purchase all of me."

"Soul." Tao Lin said.

"I bet my soul with you."

"If you win, my soul is yours, forever at your service."

Xu Xiaoyou squinted slightly.

Her ability can convert all things of value that belong to her into points.

But how should one measure a person’s value?

Freedom, wealth, status, character, so many stakes piled together, how high is the value exactly, no one can determine a clear boundary.

She’s never tried before, to have a person’s soul completely belong to her.

Does that mean, that person’s soul would turn into a stake, at her disposal?

Tao Lin didn’t know what was going on with her.

That heart fallen into the abyss whispered desires in her ear.

On a whim, she spoke of the soul trade.

It seemed she had said this a long time ago.

She began to hope, hoping the opposite would give her the opportunity to take all of her possession.

She began to fear, fear the other party agreed, her soul truly belonging to the other.

"Alright, I accept." Xu Xiaoyou said.

"Such a heartfelt bet, I like it."

Tao Lin sat down impassively.

The male manager also sighed under her threatening gaze and sat down.

This time, no one bet their stakes.

Under countless watchful eyes, cards were dealt, flashing in the golden light and shadows.

"If I were you, I definitely wouldn’t agree to her request."

The Empress’ Armament guild base, a girl wearing a luxurious red dress stood in front of a screen, a slightly ascending tone coming from behind.

Tao Shier turned her head, seeing Chen San approach, now he had changed his attire, his identity transitioning from ’Glasses Guy’ of Light Chasing Garden to the chief strategist of Empress’ Armament.

"Young and ignorant, momentarily overwhelmed," Tao Shier sighed, "Am I not working for her to pay back my debt from then?"

Tao Shier sighed.

"What was I thinking at that time, clearly having endless wealth, yet wanting to make a deal with someone with nothing."

"A person can lose countless times, but must win at the most important time."

"A person can win countless times, but mustn’t lose at the most important time."

Tao Shier’s eyes drooped slightly: "My luck has never been good, yet I always manage to grasp the mast and climb when it’s most important, reaching the end of fortune, all of this still feels like a glass illusion, dream-like."

"Because of that, I once feared wealth would slip through my fingers one day, desperately wanting to find a treasure that could still comfort me then."

"But it’s different now, I have nothing, none of mine belongs to myself anymore, no longer panicked."

"Selling your soul to someone else, that feeling is quite peculiar." Tao Shier turned her head and said,

"At least I’m not the one worrying over wealth, it’s her, after all everything of mine is hers, just thinks she’s spending her money."

Chen San remained silent.

"What about you, how does it feel having your black history uncovered, exposed in front of everyone?"

"Besides us, no one knows that’s my black history, so it’s no big deal." Chen San said calmly.

"Do you think she’ll win this time?" Tao Shier said.

"Fifty-six percent." Chen San analyzed seriously,

"Assassin’s Creed really prepared well this time, it’s not easy to beat them, in the previous team battle, Lu Shuhang was isolated, his Assassin God is the biggest threat in my view, yet didn’t get to play at all."

"Evergreen Ivy and Assassin’s Creed clashed many times, whenever he planned to go all out, Lu Shuhang would directly surrender, still we haven’t completely figured them out."

"Then how did you calculate fifty-six percent?" Tao Shier complained.

Chen San’s face remained calm: "Half by intuition, the other half by calculation."

Tao Shier gave up on debating data with this guy, the other always could pull out a bunch of inexplicable data from thin air trying to convince her.

More puzzling was, she knew the other’s data had no basis, yet the calculation results could always be infinitely close to being right.

Classic process all wrong, result all right.

Tao Shier watched the screen, her eyes drooping slightly, biting her thumb.

"Tsk, really don’t want to watch my own embarrassing appearance again."

...

On the card table, three community cards appeared one after another.

Under Angelina’s threat and request, the initial four hole cards were required to be shuffled randomly, and she was the first to pick, to prevent direct manipulation of the initial cards.

Xu Xiaoyou didn’t flip her hole cards, nor did she glance at the community cards.

"Not taking a look at your cards?" the male manager frowned and asked.

"Someone asked me this question not long ago." Xu Xiaoyou said.

"Whether or not I look, it’s the same, I’ve placed all my stakes onto this poker table."

"Since there’s no option to fold, leaving the outcome to fate, might as well let fate decide."

"Out of sight, out of mind."

Xu Xiaoyou reclined back, took a book and covered her face, holding it with both hands on her belly, then closed her eyes amidst the crowd’s astonished gazes.

"What is she up to again?"

In the surveillance room, the dogman boss scratched his head trying to figure out what act the girl was performing this time.

The other party clearly understood they were cheating, yet still agreed to the third round of betting?

Could it be, the other party still had unpredictable means like last time?

Does the other have absolute confidence in victory?

Absolutely impossible!

This time, Tao Lin’s two hole cards are a 4 of clubs and a 7 of diamonds, a pair of mixed cards, but the male manager’s cards are a 10 and an Ace of spades, considered top starting hole cards.

Just need to deal a Queen, Jack, and King of spades from the community cards to form the largest hand, a Royal Flush. No matter how skilled Xu Xiaoyou is, she absolutely cannot win this round.

Tao Lin set a trap in this bet.

Betting on whether Xu Xiaoyou could win, not whether she could win herself.

Even if the male manager won this bet, the person who ultimately won would still be her.

No surprises.

The remaining two community cards are dealt.

In order are the Queen of spades, King of spades.

Together with the Jack of spades on the board form the three necessary cards for the Royal Flush hand.

"Fold." Tao Lin said with a smile, calm face concealing a storm.

The watching gamblers turned into silent shadows, the heartbeat of four echoed on the card table.

The male manager smiled with a hint of shadow.

Won.

He calmly placed the two hole cards on the table, facing down.

"Reveal the hole cards?"

Just as he held back internal emotions, planning to announce victory after revealing all hole cards, the silver-haired girl’s voice exploded like thunder in his ear.

Angelina suddenly slammed the table and stood up, her strong aura pressing towards the male manager:

"Hold on, I’ll raise the stakes!"