Chapter 314 – Blue Flame (1/2)

This group of young Slave Masters conducted betting in a unique way – the losers cannot take back what they staked, while the winners can recover what they themselves bet as well as the “trophy” – that was the losers’ bets.

However, the winners aren’t allowed to choose their “trophies” at will.

Shao Xuan followed Su Gu and arrived at the location where the bet had been placed. There were rows of wooden boxes, of the same size, and the stakes were inside these boxes. The order in which winners were sent to collect the trophy of their choosing depended on the value of the item they staked themselves – the winner with highest stake value is sent in first.

With all the wooden boxes being closed and having the same size, the winners can hardly predict what they would get, as lots of young Slave Masters would put something less valuable in their bets.

They didn’t come to Beast Battle City to make money, all they wanted was simply excitement and fun.

“I can’t wait to know what I will get, anyway, I hope it will be something more valuable than mine.” said Su Gu, while looking at his ranking – the seventeenth – neither forward nor backward.

After taking back his bet, Su Gu stared at the people ahead of him. Although they were not very interested in money, they would still feel elated if they could obtain a more valuable item and show off.

As Su Gu had been away from Beast Battle City for so many years, he had little reputation in the circle of the young Slave Masters; besides, he was not from the three big cities, so his “presence” was much lower. This time, if he could pick the best out of the losers’ stakes, he might probably gain considerable repute.

The young Slave Master Yan Hui came from Rock Hill City, he had just won the beast fight and was in a good mood. He was sitting on one side, smiling and nodding at the men who came to pick their trophy. If the value of the object in the chosen box was not high, he would say something to comfort them.

Young Slave Master Di Sheng, the loser in the fight, sat on the other side with a cold face and looked quite irritated.

All these boxes were placed by the two of them personally, so others didn’t know what was contained in each box.

Shao Xuan saw a small Slave Master, who was in his early teens, picking a box with another smaller box inside it. And after opening the smaller box, something that looked like sand emerged. In fact, they were eggs of a kind of shrimp that lived in the desert around Red Star City.

This kind of shrimp lived a short life, it hatched and grew only when there was enough rain. When there was less rain and the spring dries up, it would lay sand-like eggs and die.

Those shrimp eggs were the stake offered by a Slave Master of Red Star City. Others might not have been happy if they got a trophy like that, but for a 10-year-old kid, it was quite a satisfactory trophy.

Su Gu didn’t pay much attention there because he was a little bit nervous.

“Shao Xuan, what do you think I’ll pick out?” asked Su Gu.

“How would I know? But what kind of trophy do you want?” asked Shao Xuan.

“The best, of course!” said Su Gu, with a nervousness mixed excitement.

Shao Xuan took a look at those boxes and said, “I don’t know what is best.”

“If you were in my position, which one would you choose?” Su Gu asked.

“The third in the first row.” Shao Xuan replied.

Su Gu looked at the boxes over there and found that the people ahead of him often chose from the second row, rather than the first row which was nearer to them. Maybe everyone subconsciously thought that things far away were better.

“Why?” Su Gu was curious.

“Out of intuition.” Actually, Shao Xuan observed those boxes with his special vision and though he couldn’t see what was inside clearly, he saw that the box he pointed out emitted the brightest light.

Shao Xuan didn’t explain much, and Su Gu also had no time to ask further – someone called him over there.

“Su Gu of Fallen Leaves City!”

“I’m here!” Su Gu walked towards those boxes quickly.

Su Gu was not known to these young Slave Masters who belonged to the two out of the three big cities, and Fallen Leaves City was not very powerful in the vast desert, so they didn’t care much about his identity. The (in)famous story of the Fallen Leaves Lord was well known among many people and was a topic of chat after dinner. As for the rest of Fallen Leaves City, nobody cared.