The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 469 Death Game Part 3 ()

Terao Yu pushed open the door and found that it was not as smoky and foul as he had imagined. The room was not big, with only a table and four chairs in the middle. An old-fashioned chandelier was swaying slightly on the ceiling. The mahjong tiles on it had been arranged. Three people with different faces were sitting on chairs, looking towards the door, with an expression of "We are short of one, we are waiting for you". The whole room was frighteningly quiet.

"I miss it so much..." Terao Yu looked at the scene in front of him, and past memories slowly emerged in his mind.

By the way, he is a frequent visitor to various underground casinos and black card games.

But don't get me wrong, he is not a regular in the conventional sense. Although he goes to those places, he never participates in gambling, but just watches from the side.

As a sorcerer who idolizes the "Cursed Witch", Terao Yu does not use curses to torture others or the undead in order to stimulate the power of the curse in his body, but he also has his own training method, which is to go to a place full of curses and feel the curses.

The place he chose was undoubtedly one of those dirty and dark illegal underground casinos. He had watched countless people lose their lives in an instant, and then madly curse everything. The sense of drop from heaven to hell in an instant created a huge resentment and curse power. Whenever he saw this scene, he could feel that his understanding of the curse had deepened.

——That is not some kind of spell or secret technique. The essence of the curse is simply the vicious resentment that has existed since the moment humans were born.

In the casino, his favorite game to watch is naturally mahjong.

Unlike other games in casinos, the game of mahjong involves intense competition in strategy, skills, psychology, brainpower and other aspects beyond luck. Four masters are scheming against each other at the table, using all kinds of extreme playing methods. You never know who the winner will be until the last moment, and it is thrilling just by watching from the side.

The more these people rack their brains and scheme against each other, the more despair and disappointment they feel when they lose, and the more strength Terao Yu can absorb from the side.

After arriving in Tokyo, he had watched many card games and had long understood the basic rules, but had never played the game himself. Unexpectedly, this time, it would finally be his turn to sit at the card table.

However, Terao Yu did not regard the card game in front of him as normal gambling.

He walked to the table, pulled out a chair and sat on it, and put the point sticks used as chips into the drawer. The three people finally changed from their expressionless faces to normal.

"Ah... finally one more person is here, and we're all complete." He said to the man at home. The guy was wearing a small vest and a neat shirt, a tie, and his head was neatly combed back. He looked like a dealer in a casino.

The person on the left is an office worker with heavy dark circles under his eyes. He stares at the card table with bloodshot eyes and says nothing. Terao Yu has seen a lot of people like this. Basically, they are the kind of useless people whose lives have been ruined by gambling. They would like to mortgage everything they have just to make a comeback, but in the end, they have no choice but to fall into the abyss.

On the right was a yellow-haired thug with a cigarette in his mouth. He was tapping the table impatiently and looking around with a dishonest look.

Although he didn't know the true identities of these guys, Terao Yu knew that they were all dead!
To be precise, they are the souls trapped here! Terao Yu could imagine what these people had experienced before they died. Their consciousness remained at the moment before the gambling game ended. Their minds were filled with the desire to win, and they could not think of anything else. Now, they have become accomplices of this game hall, helping the game hall to harm the next gambler who strayed into it.

"Can we start?" asked the man who looked like a dealer.

Terao Yu nodded: "Let's get started."

The man who looked like a dealer said, "Then, you, the last one to come, will roll the dice." Terao Iku picked up the two dice in the middle of the table, weighed them, and then threw them out. The dice rolled in the middle of the table and finally stopped, determining the position for picking up the cards.

None of the four were novices, so they started playing right away, arranged their own cards, and turned over their favorite cards.

Looking at his own cards silently, the next two pieces of advice given by the mysterious forum netizen "Don't Eat Seafood" appeared in Terao Yu's mind again.

[Fourth piece of advice: Don’t forget that this is not an ordinary gambling game. As you stay in the game hall for longer, people inside may forget where they are and only care about winning or losing. You must remember what you are here for. If you forget this, you will become like those fallen souls inside, lose all your chips, and be trapped inside forever, just like being in hell, never knowing how long it will take, and never being able to be reborn.]

[Fifth piece of advice: When you decide to participate in the gambling game, try to cheat in a way that is not detected by others. Of course, I am talking about magic or other professional means, not just gambling skills, otherwise you may lose everything. As bait, they may let you win or lose a few games to arouse your interest. But once you are addicted, they will use all kinds of shameless tricks that are not concealed at all. It is better to quit when you are ahead. If you cheat too obviously or win too much, I can't guarantee what they will do.]

Terao Yu played a useless North Wind and placed it in front of himself, intending to test a few games first to see the situation.

There are many restrictions on winning in the rules of Japanese Mahjong, which emphasizes defense more than offense, so the first few rounds were quite dull due to Terao Iku's cautious play. He did not use any cheating methods, so except for a cannon and a Duan Yaojiu (the smallest hand in Japanese Mahjong) that was won by others, he basically had no losses.

On the contrary, the other three were fighting back and forth. For a moment, Terao Yu suddenly felt a little dazed, as if he had come to an ordinary place instead of a supernatural place.

At this time, a new round began. Terao Yu opened his eyes slightly as he touched the cards. When he finished the cards, three white cards, three fortune cards, and a red center suddenly appeared in his hand! The other cards were not far apart, so it was not difficult to put them together.

If he draws a pair of red hearts, he can form a "Big Three" hand pattern. Even in Japanese Mahjong, this kind of hand pattern is extremely difficult to come across. Once he wins, he will make a lot of money!

"Sure enough, is it coming?" Terao Yu remained calm and thought: "Just when I was a little dazed, the sweet bait arrived..."

According to the tip of "Don't Eat Seafood", there is no luck in the gambling here. If the player feels that he is lucky, there is only one possibility - that is the illusion deliberately given to you by the game hall. If you fall for this trick, the only thing waiting for the player is to lose everything.

"But... cards like this have appeared. If I don't take action, I'll be a complete failure." Terao Yu thought to himself with an itchy feeling.

He quietly cut his finger with his little finger, and a trace of blood flowed like a little snake onto a red fifty thousand in his hand. It was a ruby ​​card. If this kind of card was included in the final winning hand, the points would be doubled again.

"Fifty thousand." Then he played the card.

"Eat." The yellow-haired gangster's eyes lit up and he put the card into his pocket.

Seeing this scene, Terao Yu's mouth corners curled up slightly.

(End of this chapter)