Chapter 327
"Heads!"
"Waaaah!!"
When the side I chose was right again, the cheers grew louder.
"Tails!"
"No way...!"
When the side I chose came out again, I could see the people from the gambling house getting flustered.
To be honest, I'm the most surprised.
No matter how lucky I am, I've already guessed correctly seven times in a row.
I know very well that this is a truly ridiculous probability.
And that it's about time to stop.
"Hey, mister! You keep getting it right, so instead of betting five at a time, why don't you bet big? You've gotten it right seven times in a row, but you've only earned thirty-five nyang, haven't you?"
"Don't say that! It's because he only bet five at a time that luck followed him. If you get greedy, all that luck will run away. Instead of encouraging someone who's doing well, you should just quietly follow along."
The people around me are very excited and are only watching to see what my next choice will be.
If it were an ordinary person, in a situation like this, they would either be very burdened or very excited.
But I guess I'm not an ordinary person at times like this.
Because every time I beat the ridiculous odds, I felt like I was getting calmer.
"Where will you bet this time?"
The gambler asked me my intention. I, after thinking for a moment, said, "I'll bet on heads this time. And I'll bet all the money I have. Including the money I've won so far, it's a total of one hundred and twenty nyang."
"Ooh!"
"Finally, a big one! I'll bet on heads too!"
"Me too, on heads!"
The people around me, without exception, followed me and bet on heads.
The gambler couldn't seem to hide his nervous expression.
If I get it right this time too, the gambling house will have to bear a considerable loss.
Of course, since I heard that gold coins come and go in the Tiger Room, in a way, it might not be seen as such a big loss.
But, at least here, wouldn't it be rare for someone to earn this much and win this much?
"Then... I'll toss the coin."
Is it because the amount is quite large? Until now, I didn't even think about whether he tossed it or not, but now, I found myself concentrating on his toss without realizing it.
The coin he tossed fell to the ground.
"Waaaah! This is crazy. Heads! It's heads!"
"To think it really came out heads! I've never seen such a lucky person in my life!"
"I've always come and only lost, but to think there's a day when I win like this after meeting a noble person!"
The people around me are making more of a fuss than I am.
People were so happy that they were even shouting and cheering.
The gambler, with a flustered expression, looked around here and there and finally admitted his defeat.
"I lost... is there a secret?"
I shrugged my shoulders.
Because there was no particular secret, I just bet as my heart led me.
But there is one thing I'm suspicious of.
Because I think it's ridiculous to get it right eight times in a row with just pure luck.
"Perhaps a high-ranking person is helping me, don't you think?"
At my words, the gambler, thinking that I had said this because I didn't want to tell him, just laughed and said nothing.
But, I was being sincere.
However, it meant that the high-ranking person was not a god or a spiritually high-ranking person, but a person with a high rank in the martial world.
'Old man Maeng Gwang-gae definitely helped me.'
Since it's a situation where I can't spread my energy and observe my surroundings, I don't know exactly where old man Maeng Gwang-gae is, but Maeng Gwang-gae must have performed the Formless Heaven Creation and helped me.
Because otherwise, there is no way to explain this situation of getting it right eight times in a row.
'Although he definitely said that today's task was to lose all this money... well. I guess the plan has changed.'
I decided to think so.
Although Maeng Gwang-gae looks like that... no, to be precise, since he washes himself well and wears neat clothes, he looks quite good, but anyway, even though he usually goes around like a beggar, it's hard to meet a person as outstanding as him in planning and carrying out a mission.
So even if he changed the plan without telling me, I thought there must be a reason.
"How about... one more time?"
I grinned and nodded my head.
"Yes. I'm going to go all the way to the end."
"Waaaah! What a great guts. If it were me, my legs would be trembling so much that I wouldn't be able to do it."
"Going all the way to the end? Good. I'll follow you all the way to the end today too!"
At my words, the people around me let out another cheer.
At that time, the gambler, who had been looking around with a troubled expression, suddenly brightened up.
At the same time, as if the cheers of the people had stopped, the people suddenly split to the sides, and from between them, a man came walking towards me.
'A considerable master.'
Even at a glance, his temples were bulging, and his well-trained body gave off the air of a master.
He, after coming right up to my nose, bowed his head politely to me and opened his mouth.
"Hello. My name is Hwang-jo. I heard that a god of gambling has appeared in the Rabbit Room, and my master sent me with the intention of asking if you would like to be escorted to a higher place. If you don't mind, I would like to guide you to a higher room. Would that be alright?"
Although he had a very polite attitude, I felt like I could feel the true intention hidden in his words.
'When I'm being nice, don't stir up the water here and move to a higher room, right?'
If not, there is no reason for him to come with such a strong energy.
A master of that level would have no problem concealing his energy, but he is deliberately spreading his energy and putting pressure on me.
If I hadn't learned martial arts, I would have had no choice but to nod my head at the incomprehensible sense of pressure, and if I had learned martial arts, I would naturally feel that person's internal energy, so it can be said to be a very good method when threatening a person.
However, there is only one case where that method does not work, and that is right now, when I am much stronger than that man.
From the perspective of a strong person, the man's act of exuding a sense of pressure by letting his energy flow is not scary, but rather looks ridiculous.
So I also got up from my seat and, pretending to be polite, said to him, "I am very grateful for your suggestion, but I don't have the ability to go up to a higher room yet, and I don't have enough funds. I'm having a really fun time here, so you don't have to worry about me."
"Ah... I see."
Although he glared at me with a cold tone, I received his gaze with composure.
The people around me began to stir.
Judging from the atmosphere, it seems that until now, when that person named Hwang-jo came and led them to a higher room, most people would all say 'I understand' and follow him to the higher room.
But since I have refused so bluntly like this, it's understandable that they are surprised.
In fact, there is one more reason why I refused his offer.
'I haven't heard what to do from old man Maeng Gwang-gae. If it were a big deal like moving rooms, he would have surely told me what to do through some method.'
For now, I trust old man Maeng Gwang-gae's judgment more than my own.
To be honest, I'm proud of being smart, and if I were asked to make a plan somewhere, I'm confident that I would do it well.
But in any field, there is an expert.
In this field, old man Maeng Gwang-gae is more of an expert than I am.
And to be honest, I can do the role of a vanguard who stands at the very front and fights against the enemies better than the role of a staff officer who makes plans, and it also suits my personality.
"I never thought... you would refuse."
"Just because you go to a higher place doesn't mean it's good."
"The upper limit you can bet in the Rabbit Room is one hundred and fifty nyang. But if you go up to the Fox Room, it goes up to five hundred nyang. If you go up to the Deer Room, it's a thousand nyang. And the Tiger Room is unlimited. Are you thinking of kicking away the opportunity to earn more money? If you go over now, I will do my best to let you go up to the Deer Room right away."
As his words fell, the people around him began to stir once again.
"The Deer Room. Did I hear that right?"
"That's a place you can't go up to no matter how much money you have!"
"Isn't it a place where only a select few can enter, and if you go in, you mostly come out with a lot of money?"
"I came here with the goal of the Deer Room, but I haven't been able to leave the Rabbit Cage for six months."
It seems that being sent to the Deer Room is an incredibly groundbreaking offer.
But to be honest, I don't really understand why those people are cheering like that.
If you go to a higher room and win a lot of money, doesn't the probability of losing a lot also increase?
Of course, you can also win a lot more money, but the people who run the gambling house are not fools, and it's my thought that they wouldn't let anyone earn money easily.
"But for now, I'll play here. Thank you for your concern. And now, I want to stop talking and continue playing, so could you please move aside a little?"
"...... I understand. Please do so."
At my firm refusal, Hwang-jo finally left.
The man who had given me advice at first hurriedly approached me and said, "No, you're really showing that you're new here. Did you refuse knowing what it means to be able to go up to the Deer Room?"
"Since I'm new, I don't know, right? But I didn't come here to win money, I came here to play. Even if I have a hundred nyang, if I only bet five nyang at a time, I can play twenty times, but if I bet all a hundred nyang and lose, I can only play once, right? No matter how I think about it, it seems like a loss."
"Heh... on a day when your luck is as good as today, you should definitely go up to a higher room."
"Then should I stop here and go up? Are you not going to bet where I bet?"
"Ahem. That's not it. Where are you thinking of betting this time? No, rather, why don't you move to that dice over there? If you roll the dice and guess the odd or even number of eyes that come out, you get double like here. If you guess the number correctly, you get five times as much."
"Was there something like that? Then let's move over there. I want to test how far my luck goes today."
"Good. Let's go!"
I followed the man who was walking in front.
From a little distance away, I saw Hwang-jo glaring at me and then turning back and going somewhere, but I pretended not to know.
***
"So. You're saying you won't go to a higher room?"
"That's right."
"Haha! What an interesting bastard. Do you have any idea where he's from?"
"Yes. I haven't identified him yet."
Hwang-jo, who had been talking to Unhwi a little while ago, was talking to a woman in a room deep inside the gambling house.
Judging from their tone and atmosphere, it seemed that she was probably a higher-up than Hwang-jo.
"What is he doing now?"
"He has moved from coins to dice. He's not winning 100% of the time there, but... it seems to be at least 70%. He even guesses the number of eyes sometimes."
"Is that so? Huu..."
She, after thinking about something for a moment, said, "Watch him all day today. Don't worry about how much he wins. And if he shows up again tomorrow... tell him I want to see him."
"I understand."
Hwang-jo bowed his head deeply and left the room.
"Where did that bastard come from?"
The woman. The Green Snake, frowned so much that wrinkles formed on her beautiful brow.
As if it weren't enough that the bastard she had brought as a junior brother had suddenly left, now there was a troublesome customer.
Her head was complicated.
(End of Chapter)