Chapter 3 (1/2)

Not Teht some coolness to Hai-Zhu City

“What? Xia Lei was discharged?” Ma Xiao-An was so surprised hisopen as he stood at the Nurses’ Station in the hospital

“His eye is fine and the hospital is short of beds, so we let hied,” said the nurse

“His… His eye’s fine?” Surprise upon surprise was sprung upon Ma Xiao-An

“What’s with you?,” grumbled the nurse as she then said impatiently, “If you have any questions you can ask him directly I’m busy here, so don’t interrupt my work”

“I’m sorry” Ma Xiao-An turned to leave He fished his mobile phone out and made a call to Xia Lei but Xia Lei had his phone switched off

Ma Xiao-An stopped at the lift doors, ?”

The lift doors opened suddenly and Chen Chuan-Hu stepped out with soht of Chen Chuan-Hu, Ma Xiao-An nervously turned to leave but he was surrounded by the youths Chen Chuan-Hu had brought with hi?” Ma Xiao-An’s voice was shaky

“Doing?” Chen Chuan-Hu sether to cheat me of my money I just called to ask the doctor about him and he told me Xia Lei’s eye had no probleed He ruinedmachine and my transformer He even cheated me of 10,000 in hospital fees What do you think I’ll do?”

“This is… is a ” Ma Xiao-An bravely ventured

“Misunderstanding? fuck you!” Chen Chuan-Hu said angrily, “Beat this guy up first, then take him and look for the other bastard, Xia Lei He couldn’t have gone very far!”

The youths converged, punching and kicking Ma Xiao-An They were round However, they did not lessen their assault The youths surrounded Ma Xiao-An and kicked at hiressively

Ma Xiao-An held his head in his arht, “Lei, run away quickly… Don’t stay at ho At the tih the doors and into the hall of Hotel Lisboa’s Casino in Macau

Hai-Zhu City and Macau were separated by just a body of water and it was easy to get to Macau Even if you did not have docually on a boat Xia Lei had gone to Macau via one of these boats He had also switched hisHai-Zhu City as he did not want anyone to know he had gone to Macau

Co to Macau’s casinos was the quickest and most direct way to ed 8,000 for chips and headed to the blackjack tables

A wo at the table and she had excellent curves on her waist and bottom She was cool, beautiful and sexy but too aloof for people to approach easily Xia Lei did not dare to look at her too ered his X-ray vision and waste his chance to earn lanced at Xia Lei, but only for a second Xia Lei was quite handsome but he was dressed too plainly to warrant a second look

When Xia Lei walked over, she had just finished playing one round with the dealer The dealer had 19 while she had 17 The dealer won

“What bad luck! I didn’t win even once I’ru She looked quite dissatisfied

Xia Lei sat at the table and placed his 8,000 yuan chips carefully on the table

“Would you like to play, sir?” The female dealer smiled

Xia Lei nodded

“Please place your bet” The female dealer maintained her s his bet but stared hard at the card shuffler in front of the feh the card shuffling machine and he saw the first card The back of the card wavered between opaque and transparent as the nuht The first card was an ace of spades

“Sir?”, prompted the dealer, “Please place your bet”

Xia Lei s how much to bet”

The female dealer looked at his pathetic pile of chips and the corners of her mouth turned down in despise To her, Xia Lei looked like a young worker from the mainland, here to try his luck These sort of people always took a long ti because the money they bet was their life and blood and if they lost, they would have nothing

While the dealer was quietly looking down on Xia Lei, he was using his ability to look at four cards in the card shuffling machine First was an ace of spades, nine of hearts second, king of spades third and ace of hearts fourth According to the sequence of dealing cards, he would get a blackjack and receive triple the payout!

Xia Lei looked away fro machine and pushed all his chips forward “8,000 All in”

The creases in the corners of the dealer’s rew deeper She dealt the cards to Xia Lei, all the while envisioning hi the table in defeat

Xia Lei knehat his cards were going to be but he still pretended to be a gambler He covered the hidden card with the upturned card and slowly inched the upturned card ahile chanting to himself, “Ace of spades, ace of spades…”

The wo dress looked at Xia Lei with a trace of aze

“Ha-ha! Blackjack!” Xia Lei revealed his hidden card excitedly

The female dealer looked at her cards and saw that she had 20 points She looked as if she had sed a fly

8,000 had become 24,000 - this money came easily However, if he lacked the X-ray vision ability and had not seen the cards in advance, Xia Lei would never have dared to go all-in froo