Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 1683 A Place Where Time Cannot Be Felt
These women, who can only stand on the streets on the outskirts of the city, belong to the fifth class. Some of them are people who owe high-interest loans from casinos, while others are people who do it to attract drugs and smoke tobacco.

These people don't even have a proper place to live in Las Vegas. They live in groups in the sewers, going out to solicit customers during the day and then crawling into the sewers to spend the night after finding something to eat.

Once these people reach this stage, their lifespan is essentially on a countdown.

Even if they didn't suffer any accidents while being chased by loan sharks, or even if they didn't kill themselves, they would most likely drown in the end.

Drown?

Yes, despite being located in a desert region, Las Vegas experiences a prolonged and severe rainstorm every two to five years.

Once the rainy season arrives, the sewers, which normally only have one layer of water, will overflow.

If it were during the day, these people would still have a chance to escape, but if it were at night, it would basically be a nine-out-of-ten chance of death, and even if they died, they wouldn't qualify for the death toll to count.

Women in a slightly higher tier are classified as the fourth class. They mostly work in the evenings, and their workplaces are located on busy streets in the city.

Most of these people are controlled by Las Vegas criminal organizations.

The two types of people mentioned above are either not pretty or have a bad personality, or they are too old, or they have certain physical conditions that do not meet the requirements for entering the hotel.

The third group of people work in hotels that combine various functions, where they take on various jobs such as doormen, guides, and waitresses.

The staff in these positions can all meet any request from guests, provided the money is right.

The second-class women were dancers in various hotels and entertainment venues.

The money they earn from performing conventional dances is barely enough to make ends meet in expensive Las Vegas.

Therefore, these dancers mostly perform striptease, pole dancing, and other dances that showcase the body and are full of seduction and sexiness.

Moreover, female college students make up more than 90% of these dancers.

Every night, they listen to deafening music, step on the changing neon lights, and pose provocatively on the stage, making all sorts of suggestive and seductive dance moves.

You can easily earn hundreds or even thousands of pretty coins in tips in one night.

Of course, when those customers give tips, they inevitably try to get something for nothing.
Moreover, they wear very little clothing when they dance, and especially towards the end, the guests come up with all sorts of creative ways to tip them.

In addition, if a customer takes a liking to them after the performance, they can go out with them, not only getting free food and drinks but also earning an extra income.

The driver said that among these dancers, those who don't have much ambition will reform themselves after making a lot of money, get married, and stay at home to have children.

Those proud and ambitious dancers, after earning money, wanted to become full-time actresses, models, and other seemingly more promising professions.

All dreams are good, but very few of them can actually achieve them.

The main reason is that, in the eyes of the Las Vegas underworld, these people are a piece of fat meat that can generate endless profits.

The underworld will try every means to lure and control them; gambling, coercion, emotional manipulation, alcoholism, drug use, drug addiction, loan sharking—there's something for everyone. If these people's willpower falters even slightly, they'll fall into the hands of the underworld and become tools for making money.

When they can no longer dance, they are assigned to stand on the streets. When they are no longer of any value, the desert outside the city is vast, and they can be thrown into it without even being buried.

As for those in the first class, the driver had only heard of them.

All he knew was that these people were guests of the hotel (casino) specifically for entertaining their big clients and for holding conferences there.

It is said that these people not only enjoy high treatment from the hotel owner, but if they please the VIPs attending the conference, they may also have the opportunity to obtain insider information about making money that outsiders do not know.

As the driver spoke with envy, the taxi left the city and entered the city center.

Every time they passed a hotel (casino), the driver would tell Han Li its name, as well as some details about its contents and origins.

Horseshoe Hotel, Monroe Casino, Freemont Hotel, Westwood Casino, Sundance Hotel, Stardust Casino, Sally Casino, Vieira Hotel, Vanguard Club, Oasis Casino, Moro Co Hotel, Mint Hotel, Circus Hotel, Caesars Palace Hotel, Four Queens Hotel, Nuggets Casino, Mega Mine Hotel, and so on.

Of course, there are also opera houses, cafes, luxury stores, boutiques, banks, and shops that offer a few rounds of slot machines.

Han Li took a taxi and drove along the Las Vegas Strip. Although Las Vegas in this era was prosperous and lively, it did not have the grandeur of later generations.

Han Li finally chose a hotel called Ranch, which was designed in the style of a Spanish monastery, and the driver said that the staff inside wore nun's clothes.

This reminded Han Li of the time he stayed overnight at a monastery in England, where he had experienced the nuns' uniforms.

But Han Li had never seen a Spanish nun's uniform before. Now that he had come across this themed hotel, of course he had to go in and experience it.

Moreover, the facilities in these Las Vegas hotels are all quite similar, including casinos, leisure, entertainment, accommodation, and shops, so it doesn't matter which one you stay at initially.

As Han Li followed the crowd into the hotel, he immediately sensed that it was different from the one in Haojiang.

However, Han Li doesn't like gambling, and he didn't come here to gamble. The layout, decoration, and environment here have no effect on him.

Following the crowd, led by a waiter dressed in a minimalist nun's uniform, Han Li first exchanged 10,000 beautiful coins for chips, and then wandered around the hotel.

Try inserting a couple of coins into the slot machine, spin the wheel for a bit of fun, bet on the dice for a couple of rounds, or play a deck of cards with various options.

In short, Han Li, like other tourists visiting the casino for the first time, wanted to try everything he saw.

The hotel is huge, with so many things to do and all kinds of facilities. The staff are also very attentive; you can just tell them what you want. Plus, food and drinks are completely free.

Han Li played until after 7 p.m., even though he had strong willpower and wasn't particularly interested in gambling.

If this were an ordinary person, as long as they had money, they wouldn't feel the passage of time even after staying here for two or three days.

After grabbing a bite to eat at a random place, Han Li checked into the hotel and experienced the warmth and hospitality of the staff dressed in nuns' uniforms.
(End of this chapter)