Chapter 26 (1/2)

The casino enveloped by the red light was silent. Everyone raised their heads and stared blankly at the soul-stirring red number on the screen.

One should not think that 50 million Hiro coins were a small value. To the vast majority of the ordinary citizens in the imperial capital, their annual expenditure was only 10 Hiro coins.

50 million Hiro coins were already one-fiftieth of the annual financial expenditure of the Hiro Empire. If placed anywhere else, it would be an astronomical amount of wealth.

“50 million? Who is gambling this?”

“This person’s guts are too big. He actually dared to take out 50 million to bet on this. Is he crazy?”

“He is definitely a madman. Definitely a madman!”

Most of the gamblers in the casino stared at the string of numbers on the light screen in the center of the gambling table and let out a series of shouts.

They tried their best to use words to slander the gambler who had spent so much money. Although they didn’t know each other, such bold actions had stimulated the jealousy in their hearts.

Those who were able to enter this casino and participate in this grand gamble were all the rare wealthy people in the imperial capital.

Usually, these people were subservient and elegant, pretending to be upper-class.

Everywhere they went, they would spend gold like dirt. Every move they made was an act of squander.

But today, they were ruthlessly slapped in the face by an unknown gambler who took out an astronomical amount of money.

This was indeed because of money, but it was not all because of money.

50 million Hiro coins was an amount some of the gamblers present could also take out.

But none of them had the courage, the confidence, to use this 50 million to participate in a gamble.

What made them even more afraid was that the gambler who bet 50 million, had the number 100 behind it.

That meant Hughes had to beat 100 people in the fourth round to win the bet.

Otherwise, the 50 million he spent would go down the drain.

How was this gambling?

It was a blatant display of wealth, a slap in the face.

Gambling was a game with a long history.

Most people played the game to make money; only a very small number of people played the game for excitement.

They enjoyed the feeling of spending money like water in a gambling game, getting rich one second and going bankrupt the next.

They enjoyed even more the looks of envy and resentment from the people around them as they threw their money around.

In the imperial capital, the former usually gathered in the low-end casinos, while the latter mainly concentrated in Las Vegas.

Now that the moment of glory was taken away by others, the gamblers who took pride in showing off their wealth naturally wouldn’t allow this.

Unlike the previous gamblers who placed their bets in a hurry, the wealthy gamblers in this type of casino preferred to place their bets after most people had placed their bets.

In their original plans, Las Vegas tonight would be the stage that belonged solely to their small circle.

But now, the red 50 million on the central screen of the gambling platform had torn their glory into pieces.

They were unsatisfied, very unsatisfied!

But even if they were unsatisfied, what could they do?

They had the money, but they didn’t dare nor have the confidence to gamble with that high roller.

At this moment, a gambler in their upper-class circle suddenly said something in a low voice.

“We can’t just let it go today. We have to think of a way to teach this blind guy a lesson.”