Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

Chapter 203: Chapter 142: Heavy-Hitting Strike

Lin Ji wasn’t wild with gambling.

At least he believed he wasn’t.

He calculated clearly that even if he lost the gamble, he could exchange the lost six hundred tokens for Equipment and Artifacts and then use these things to exchange forty tokens with Song Lichuan.

He trusted that with Song Lichuan’s character, he wouldn’t take advantage during a crisis.

So this was almost a win-win gamble; the difference was only whether he won more or less.

Of course, he subconsciously knew that this was just an excuse, an excuse for him to make a risky decision.

It’s just that Lin Ji, already wild with gambling, once he found a suitable excuse, would immediately believe it wholeheartedly and no longer think or question, instead placing all his hopes on those two exquisite poker cards.

”Come on, let me see my luck!”

”Flip the cards!”

Lin Ji glared wide-eyed, shouting as he pushed the cards in front of him forward.

However, corresponding to his hoarse shouting was the Baron who remained motionless and calm.

He merely calmly placed his cards face down on the table and chuckled lightly, ”Your hand is three Jacks, right?”

The moment the words fell, Lin Ji was stunned directly.

Immediately he shouted in disbelief, ”You cheated?”

”Need to cheat?” The Baron scoffed lightly, ”You start with a lot of momentum, either a single large card AK or a pair, but after the deal, your confidence is noticeably weaker, yet you stubbornly raise, from my observation, your hand is most likely a pair not a single large card, and when the fourth card dealt, your confidence surged again, thus three Jacks is the set.”

The Baron’s explanation sounded far-fetched at first, seemingly just unreliable guesses, but only he knew directly that Lin Ji’s every subtle reaction in previous gambles was completely understood and grasped.

To others, it might seem like elusive odds, but to someone like him who had immersed in gambling art for over a century, this was a precise fact.

As he said, he opened his hand cards directly.

A club eight and a diamond nine.

Deadly.

”You...”

Lin Ji slumped back in his chair, face pale, lips moving, unable to accept this result.

After a long time, he reluctantly shouted, ”You, you must have cheated! Such a low probability, how, how is it possible!”

However, faced with Lin Ji’s questioning, the Baron simply looked at him full of disdain.

He seemed to finally shed his disguise, the always maintained gentle smile now replaced by a gambler’s cunning and deceit.

”I just found in the repeated matches the one round you’d take the bait.”

The Baron lightly tapped the gambling table, his face with a confident smile.

”And you don’t really think you’re very lucky, do you?”

”Your thoughts are as naïve as a child, in the fifth round, I already grasped your behavior patterns, deliberately losing to you just to gradually dismantle your psychological defenses, creating a trap leading to the final ending.”

”I must say, you are even more foolish than I thought.”

The Baron’s words made Lin Ji’s face flush instantly, he stared hard at the Baron, fists clenching with cracking sounds, like an enraged beast, seeming ready to erupt at any moment.

But at this moment the Bet Chain on his hand flashed, Lin Ji glanced at it with dread, finally regaining some rationality, and said viciously, ”Fine, I admit defeat this round!”

Then he stood up, ”Exchange my tokens for equipment.”

”Humph, what good is your gambling skill? Still going to give me so much equipment?”

He had already decided which Equipment to choose, though losing the gamble made him very unwilling, his heart brimming with rage, but on second thought, to gain so much Equipment this trip was already an unexpected joy, why ask for more?

However, Song Lichuan beside Lin Ji was frowning because he realized there was a fatal flaw in the Baron’s words!

If the Baron’s gambling skills were high enough to see through Lin Ji’s every psychological activity directly, wouldn’t he just use this skill to win all the money from Lin Ji? Why bother setting a trap to win all of Lin Ji’s assets in one game?

Is he suffering from some compulsive disorder?

Could it be that it’s just to strike Lin Ji, to enjoy seeing him still lose completely after betting it all, does this make him feel accomplished?

Wait... bet it all?

Song Lichuan suddenly realized something, his eyes widened abruptly!

And almost at the same time, the Baron’s mocking voice sounded, ”Tokens? I’m afraid you won’t have the fortune to enjoy them.”

”I forgot to tell you one thing, under the Gambling God’s Rules, everything can be used as a stake.”

”That is to say, the All-in gamble is not just your chips, but all your possessions on your body, even your Life, your Soul are all bet on!”

As his words fell, in Lin Ji’s horrified gaze, countless blood-red threads suddenly poured from the Bet Chain on his wrist!These threads climbed onto his body, and the skin in contact with the threads visibly wilted, and his face contorted, as if something ethereal was being stripped from his body!

Lin Ji’s face showed extreme fear, like a beast trapped in a hopeless situation, he leapt up to flee, but the Baron-level Bet Chain exploded with crushing Power, instantly locking down all his Equipment and Artifacts! And firmly restraining him in place!