Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 214 Please place your bet

Many times Duan Mingyuan couldn't help but feel that the planet he lived on was like an old house. If he lifted up a wooden board and looked down, he would find piles of cockroaches.

Recently, he seems to have become the caretaker of this old house. He had just sent away a group of outsiders who wanted to blow up the house, and now he has encountered the problem of insect infestation.

After finishing his lunch, Zheng Liu also wanted to stand in the cold wind and sigh like Duan Mingyuan. The latter looked like a philosopher from behind, but after brainstorming, he only wanted to understand one question.

——He is nothing.

Naturally, I can't feel anything.

Before meeting Duan Mingyuan today, he naively thought that Siyang City was a city with simple folk customs, and everything they did was to uphold the justice of this city.

But now, someone is trying to buy the life of a public official, while others are just watching.

He didn't receive any calls or text messages from the police station for the entire afternoon. It seemed that the Chamber of Commerce had already communicated with the police station and should just pretend that Zheng Liu had never existed. There were plenty of young police officers around who could fill the vacancy at any time.

The three waited in an open space near the green belt until late at night, until a white van stopped by the roadside.

When the car door opened, the person inside waved to them.

After getting on the bus, they were blindfolded. In their words, this was for safety reasons.

Zheng Liu didn't like this feeling. Facing a group of strangers in an unfamiliar place with their vision blocked, he always felt that the other party was going to stab them in the next second.

If Duan Mingyuan had not been there, he might have fought to the death when several people took out the blindfolds.

"Is this true for everyone, or just us?"

Duan Mingyuan started chatting with the people in the car.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not targeting you. This is a process that every junior member has to go through. After all, neither the Chamber of Commerce nor you want to get into unnecessary trouble... And take this, wear it when you go in. Most people in the Chamber of Commerce don't want anyone to know their exact identities."

The mask of the ball was handed to three people. Judging from the process, the Chamber of Commerce did not seem to have any intention of silencing them immediately.

"Has the Chamber of Commerce ever told you about us?"

"I don't know. I'm not interested."

The man said coldly, "Pick someone up and send them to the designated location, and the job is done."

Duan Mingyuan felt very sorry that no one in the car was good at communicating.

The car immediately became quiet. The only sound that could be heard along the way was the van's movement. When the line of sight was blocked, the concept of time became vague. I didn't know how long it had passed before the van stopped.

The people in the car helped them move forward.

Zheng Liu was cautious and kept chatting with Xing to make sure they were not separated and taken somewhere else.

When the blindfolds of the three people were taken off, what came into view was a palace-like magnificent building. The decoration style reminded Duan Mingyuan of the palace in the court.

This was a place similar to a locker room. Apart from the three people, there was only a girl wearing a bunny girl uniform and with a graceful figure. She held an unknown instrument in her hand and scanned the three people.

When the instrument scanned Duan Mingyuan, the formal smile on her face froze. After some operation, the instrument finally made a "beep beep" error sound.

"What's wrong?"

Duan Mingyuan asked.

"Uh, I'm sorry, sir. This has never happened before. I need to communicate with the lobby manager. Before that, you may not be able to use the services provided by the exchange." After saying that, the bunny girl turned to Zheng Liu and Xing and handed the device printed out from the instrument to them.

The device is only the size of a brooch and looks like a blooming lotus, with a countdown displayed on the small electronic screen.

7 hour, 03 minutes and 17 seconds.

"This is……?"

"These are the chips of the two guests in the exchange."

The bunny girl kindly introduced the rules of the exchange to the two of them. "The Chamber of Commerce believes that for all lives in this world, only two things are relatively fair. The first is life, and the second is time. Therefore, based on the principle of fair trading, when guests come to the exchange, all their material possessions are no longer counted. Here, only life and time are the only bargaining chips."

Zheng Liu and Xing fell silent at the same time.

This bunny girl has a smiling face, but she tells horror stories out of the blue.

"You mean we only have 7 hours and 03 minutes to live?"

"Seven hours and two minutes, to be exact."

The bunny girl smiled and comforted them, "Don't be too depressed, everything is possible in the exchange. I have seen many people who only have one hour of chips left and survived. Seven hours is enough for you to do a lot of things. In the exchange, guests have two ways to increase their chips. One is through fair trading channels of the Chamber of Commerce, and the other is to bet in the casino of the exchange. No matter which one, there is a possibility of a comeback."

At the bunny girl's reminder, the three put on masks.

However, due to a malfunction of the measuring instrument, Duan Mingyuan's chips could not be displayed, so he could neither trade with others in the underground exchange nor participate in any gambling.

As soon as the two left the locker room, they were attracted by a heart-wrenching roar.

"No, absolutely not. There is definitely something wrong with this casino. You must have adjusted the odds. There must be cheating!"

The one who was roaring was a man who was only a few years older than Duan Mingyuan. He stood in front of the card table, his body shaking uncontrollably.

The bunny girl said that to the left of the locker room was the exchange's casino, where many people like Zheng Liu and Xing gathered who wanted to survive the gambling game.

But this emotionally broken man seems to have set an example for everyone who wants to change their fate.

He waved his hands towards the air and said, "Let me place another bet. I will definitely win this time. Don't come over. Oh, I have a wife and a daughter. They have a lot of chips. As long as I let me--"

As the man roared, the countdown on his brooch reached zero.

The sound stopped abruptly, and his body lost its support and fell forward.

The man is dead.

His life energy was drained by some invisible thing, turning his body into an empty shell.

However, the gamblers surrounding the card table turned a deaf ear to the man's last cries. They stared at the card table intently without keeping their eyes on him for even a second until the man fell to the ground and could no longer make any sound.

Only the exchange's security personnel came over, and they seemed to be accustomed to this.

Two security guards bent down, lifted the man's arms, dragged him into the storage room, and then returned to their posts as if nothing had happened.

It was as if the dead man had never existed.

Thanks to Yuezed for the reward of 100 Qidian coins!
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