No. 13 respectfully invited Jiang Qi to step into the screen in front of her.
Jiang Qi did as she was told.
When she just touched that screen, the screen fluctuated with her fingertips like rippling water waves, spreading towards both sides, and Jiang Qi crossed the screen without any hindrance.
The interior decoration of the room behind the screen looks exactly the same as the hall outside, but Jiang Qi faintly senses a strange sense of isolation from it. Her fingers touched Cornett's head intentionally or unintentionally, and she understood.
It seems that the screen has the ability similar to the teleportation array. Although it looks the same as before, it is actually in another space.
Jiang Qi doesn't know much about space magic, but she can still perceive this kind of fuzzy change in space—like a piece of blank paper, when a dark ink spot appears on it . When you are, you will instinctively feel that strange sense of disobedience.
"Please sit down." The mysterious city lord, whose body was completely hidden in the robe, could not distinguish gender, age, race and everything else, invited Jiang Qi with a smile, "Since the establishment of the city that never sleeps, you are still the most distinguished guest I have ever received."
Jiang Qi sat down opposite the luxurious square table. Immediately, high-quality drinks, fruits, and snacks appeared out of thin air and appeared in front of her. A group of bunny boys came in one after another through a door that opened somewhere, or stood or knelt beside her. Serve by the side, and strive to give the distinguished guests the most comfortable and perfect experience.
The lord of the city that never sleeps on the opposite side is watching Jiang Qi—even though the hood hides his face tightly, she can still feel some kind of unanalyzable and undetectable, weird feeling coming from him.
"I don't know what the distinguished guest wants to bet with me?"
There was a slight smile in his voice.
"I have received many, many guests. They either want to get huge wealth from me, or want to exchange rare treasures from me, or are eager to get information about someone or something from me clues."
"This is not a problem. The Nightless City has always been able to satisfy every guest who comes here. ——As long as they can pay enough."
The city lord said this, and his eyes slowly fell on Jiang Qi's hand.
There were a lot of bright chips piled up there, and since the girl took a seat at the table, they have popped out of Jiang Qi's hand with grunts.
The size and color of these chips are different, representing different amounts of money. They are piled up in such a materialized form, even though the amount that each chip can represent is terrifying enough, they are still piled up into a hill by Jiang Qi's hands, like a silent gesture to prove the girl's wealth.
The city lord folded his hands and put them on his chest. When he looked at Jiang Qi, his eyes were heavy, but his voice was still full of a slight smile.
"I don't really understand it." He said, "You already have such wealth. In this world, there may be nothing you can't get—my little city that never sleeps, and my humble scum, What is it worth for you to end the game yourself and sit on top of this game?"
The girl stared at him with those ice-colored eyes, and did not speak for the time being, as if she was looking at something seriously. This untimely silence reminded the city owner of the icebergs under the sea, clearly not saying anything, just existing and standing here quietly, but it was already a great terror in itself.
After doing this for a long time, it was so long that with the patience and self-restraint of the city lord, he began to feel that the atmosphere was a bit awkward and frozen, and he heard the girl opposite him speak, her voice was like jade beads splashing on a plate.
"I thought that when we stepped into this casino, you already knew our purpose." Jiang Qi said, "I want to get the way to the upper floor from you."
The city lord clap his hands and laugh.
"Why do you want to go to the next level?" He smiled and sighed, "Isn't it good to stay in the city that never sleeps? Even the rest area may not be able to compare with the prosperity of my city that never sleeps. Even if you look at the whole world, it is very difficult to find a place as suitable for living as the city that never sleeps."
"Even... under the leadership of the Lord Demon King, they may not be able to do this, right?"
In Cornett's eyes, this simply meant poaching their corners in front of him. The silvery white snake flicked its tail angrily, this overly violent movement attracted the attention of the city lord opposite.
"This familiar of yours doesn't look extraordinary." He was annoyed by his occupational disease, and looked at Cornett and evaluated rationally, "Although judging from the appearance, it is only in its infancy, but it already has extraordinary strength. You don't even need to do anything deliberately, as long as you continue to grow normally at the current level, you can think of it as a very powerful help."
Jiang Qi's eyes are subtle.
Of course, this is one of the demon kings. Even though it is only a separate part, it is already a very remarkable existence.
However, does Knit only have a young age... Jiang Qi thought about Knit's youthful appearance, which was too out of place compared to other demon kings, and felt that this seemed too
It's a very natural thing.
"I don't have a reason to stay in the city that never sleeps, but I have a reason to go up." She replied to the city lord in front of her, "Can the game between us start sooner?"
"Okay okay , what an impatient guest." The lord of the city that never sleeps sighed, and then laughed again, "but, you should know that everything in this world is equal. If it is other things in the city that never sleeps, It can still be obtained by gambling with ordinary money chips, but the passage leading to the upper floor has to pay a different price."
Jiang Qi did not immediately answer his words.
The girl sneakily pulled out the system, and tried to apply an exploration magic to the Lord of the Nightless City in front of him. The exact level cannot be ascertained, but at least it is an elite monster of [Silver] level...that is, level 70 and above. Jiang Qi turned off the system.
OK, that's fine. Just follow the normal process.
She has always been very flexible.
"What do you want from me?" she asked.
The city lord of the city that never sleeps on the opposite side laughed, as if smelling blood in the sea, so he followed the shark with a flick of his tail, showing ferocious teeth, and gleaming malice that he didn't intend to conceal at all.
He raised his hand and touched the air in front of him, and a square with four squares appeared in front of Jiang Qi. The colors of the four squares are different, and they are arranged in the order of extremely light red, yellow, blue and green.
"Since we are going to the upper floor, we should naturally use something more exciting and valuable." The laughter of the nightless city lord became more and more deceitful.
"These four grids represent your past time, future lifespan, power, and blessings and gifts from fate."
If you want me to hand over the passage to the upper floor, the guest you have to pay such a bargaining chip to be able to count. "
He flicked his fingers lightly, and the four squares of different colors also turned under his fingers like : "How? Even so, do you still insist on betting with me?" ?"
Jiang Qi looked at him and immediately laughed.
Why not?"
"Okay! Be courageous!" The nightless city lord slapped the table, "Since you are so decisive, naturally I won't be indecisive, otherwise, I will be at a disadvantage. "
He clapped his hands lightly, and Jiang Qi saw that behind him, the space began to twist silently, as if being grasped by a hand that had been invisible all along, twisting forcefully in a certain direction.
A dark hole was quietly there appearing silently, followed by a familiar staircase that Jiang Qi had seen several times, all the way to the upper floor.
It's just that the entrance of this passage is now surrounded by some kind of psychedelic energy That...Obviously, only after she wins the nightless city lord in front of her in the game, that passage will be opened for her.
With a wave of the nightless city lord, all the dice in Jiang Qi's hand disappeared, replaced by the four grids were disassembled and fell to her hand.
In the center of the gem square table, there appeared a scale made of pure gold and a turntable. The turntable was evenly divided into 100 parts, red. The black gem liquid was poured into it and evenly staggered.
"Our game is very simple. "The nightless city lord smiled and said, "You take out your chips, and I will take out mine. Every time after the chips are issued, you can choose the color you want on the cock, and then the croupier will turn the cock. "
"The final pointer points to the color selected by whoever chooses, then it means who has won this round. "
"Before the game starts, we all put the chips we want to pay in this game on the scale. The scale will give an appropriate magnification according to the weight of the two sides. "
He smiled and said: "As witnessed by the law of the Storm Prison, all this will be done in the most fair way." In front of the Nightless City Lord, there are also four colored grids, which are black, white, gray and gold.
Among those, there must be a passage behind the nightless city lord. And what Jiang Qi needs to do is to win it over, and then walk up with her teammates—that's all.
Jiang Qi stared at the four grids turned into chips at her hand, stretched out her hand to randomly pick up one, and played with it in her hand.
......very light.
It was so light that Jiang Qi even wondered if she could really shift the balance of the scale if she put this chip on that scale.
The nightless city lord had already taken out the gray one from his own chips, cut a part out of it and put it on, the scale tilted violently. He then turned his gaze to Jiang Qi, as if waiting for the girl to make a decision. "It's just the beginning, why don't you give it a try first?" City Lord Nightless said to Jiang Qi like this, there seemed to be hints of laughter in his voice.
He covered his head lightly with his hands.
"Your gamble is seeking other people's power, fate and luck, past and future." Jiang Qi stared at him, as if she could see through the layers of cover on his face, and see the person below him. The real face of the city lord is ordinary, "I'm curious, not everyone can succeed in winning with you. What should they do after losing everything to you?" "This... is the secret.
" The Nightless City Lord avoided answering, but said, "Dear guest, have you made up your mind? Do you want to start now?" "Let's start." she said.
And if there is even one of the seventy-one people who are still taking pictures and group photos outside, discussing enthusiastically, and wandering around, if there is even one person who looks at their team channel, they will find that they were still there before, [Jiang Qi]'s name has been quietly changed to another name.
【Andrina】
The name is bloody, and it has very unique and dazzling special effects. In the past, names would be introduced in this way, since the server of "Arcadia" opened, there were only six people in total.
——These are the six Demon Lords.
Big big...
Just as Jiang Qi secretly guessed in her heart, the weight of the chips is actually the proportion of the four items mentioned by the city lord who never sleeps.
Because after she quietly switched her identity card to [Anderina], the chip in her hand instantly became heavy, to the point where she couldn't even pick it up.
This is no surprise.
Because the existence of [Jiang Qi] is superficial. ——This is not a derogatory and disdainful sarcasm, but a simple description.
A girl's life is just a beginning, like a clear and shallow brook that can be seen to the end, and has not yet had time to accumulate width and depth.
In contrast, [Anderina] is an unfathomable deep sea, a bottomless abyss. Anyone who wants to spy on the abyss will only be swallowed by the abyss, and the only thing that can be seen is a little bit of waves rising from the sinking abyss.
Through the boundless darkness, watching [Anderina] is like watching a distant unknown. You don't know what you're looking at, what you'll see, and how you'll be treated.
That is the existence that even the six kings who are already at the top of this world will carefully lower their heads to avoid their sharp edge, and they are the well-deserved masters of this world.
——At the same time, it is also the most suitable existence to play against this mysterious and unpredictable city lord who never sleeps.
The girl's fingertips pressed the heavy and somewhat excessive chip boredly, and after rubbing the chip with her fingertips for a while, she took the paper knife placed aside and cut a very, very small piece from the red chip. Come down.
It can't even be called "a piece" anymore, but it should be said to be a thin point like a hair, as if just exhaling lightly upwards, it doesn't take much force, it is enough to cover it. It was completely blown away.
The girl put this chip on the empty plate left for her on the other side of the scale.
Almost when the chips had just been placed on the table, before they had even had time to fully stabilize, the whole thing fell to Jiang Qi's side. If it weren't for the natural limitations brought about by the design structure of the scale, it would have been possible to drop the entire balance frame into a straight line.
The weight of the chips given by both sides, which is more important, is obviously clear at a glance.
It was probably the first time that the nightless city lord had seen such a battle. It seemed that he hadn't expected things to develop like this at all, so his movements were a little slow for a while.
Opposite him, on the other side of the square table, was the one whom he despised before, who seemed to be placed in a display case made of crystal and colored glass to be carefully cared for and treasured instead of walking outside like this .The girl who looked like a work of art was looking up at him.
The girl's gaze was clear and indifferent, and City Lord Evernight couldn't see any emotion in it; but perhaps because the original color of those eyes was too cold, he actually felt agitated because he was bathed in the girl's gaze. He shuddered, as if his whole body was wrapped in some kind of cold, shuddering sense of danger and the overflowing light killing intent, wishing he could act out a run away on the spot.
...Of course, this may not be an illusion.
Because Cornit had already climbed up Jiang Qi's wrist, protruding half of his body from the girl's shoulder, staring at him intently. The scarlet snake letter sticks out from time to time, looking like it can attack at any time.
Jiang Qi glanced at the scales, then smiled.
"Is the city lord planning to increase his chips?" she asked, "This is the first time I have come to the city that never sleeps, and it is also the first time I have played such a game. Although the rules do not prohibit such a situation from happening, I would like to come to you It shouldn't take advantage of me, a novice, and you want me to make a big deal?"
Just like Jiang Qi once watched the game between the Nightless City Lord and other guests before, the game they are playing now is also the same. It is also open to other guests who are willing to watch the game.
From the beginning to the end, all the things that can be given are pressed on the gambling table to become the "final game" of chips, so the number of people watching this game is still soaring at a terrifying speed.
After all, Jiang Qi was too anxious.
In fact, if they can bear some patience, stay longer in the city that never sleeps, and gather some information, then they will find that the city that never sleeps is definitely not as brilliant as it appears on the surface beautiful.
On the contrary, the brighter the light, the darker the shadows will be. The ones who built the ever-burning lights of the Nightless City are those existences that you would never see in this city when you were not in despair—those who first lost all the wealth they brought in the Nightless City, and then were not reconciled. He exchanged his past, present and future for chips until he had nothing in the end. He became a gambler who would work hard for the city that never sleeps forever. He was a red-eyed gambler who had lost even himself.
Oh, of course, players generally don't encounter this kind of thing... because the city that never sleeps is never open to players.
The 39th floor of Stormwind Prison is a very special floor, which is divided into the surface and the interior. It is not to say that all NPCs can enter the inner city that never sleeps when climbing the tower to challenge, but what is certain is that any player can only reach the surface layer, and then go to the 40th floor through there.
It's hard to say that it wasn't because of rubbing against Jiang Qi that he mixed in.
The nightless city lord knew that if he couldn't come up now—at least he had to have the same bargaining chip as the girl, otherwise, his round would look dull and lose the consistent image of [Nightless City].
Those guests who are watching this scene will definitely lower their evaluation of him and the city that never sleeps because of this, and even affect the income of the city that never sleeps. The Nightless City Lord would naturally not allow such a thing to happen.
Therefore, even though he is actually smashing his teeth and swallowing blood, the nightless city lord still wants to maintain the calmness in his voice and not moving in all directions.
"It's me who underestimated the guests. If that's the case,
how can I disappoint people here?"
As he said this, he was cruel and put the rest of the gray chip on the scale.
The Nightless City Lord also became ruthless, vowing to use this method to save himself a little bit of face - in the Nightless City Lord's mind, this should be enough, because so far, he has never failed in just the first game. Come up with such a battle.
However, an embarrassing situation happened.
The whole gray chip had already been placed on the tray of the scale, but the one on Jiang Qi's side was still dead, and it was directly pressed on the table.
Apparently, one quarter of the chips of the nightless city lord does not seem to be able to reach an equation with the one chipped off by the girl.
Jiang Qi gave a "puchi" laugh.
"It doesn't seem to be enough?" The girl crossed her hands, dragged her chin with the back of her hand, and slightly curved her eyes, "City Lord, you won't let me suffer as a newcomer, right?" Night City Lord gritted his teeth , but still have to put on a calm look: "Of course not... However, you are far more noble than I thought, but the bargaining chip I took out made you laugh "
Perhaps in order to save some of his own face, Nightless City Lord directly grabbed two silver and white chips this time and put them on Tiantian's scale.
This time, the balance of the scales has finally changed. The angle that had already been pulled to the limit that the scale could reach was flattened, but it only turned a small scale before stopping again.
Facing Jiang Qi's half-smile look, City Lord Evernight gritted his teeth and put his last black chip on it.
That black chip may indeed represent a lot, because this time, the scale moved a lot. When it finally stopped, although Jiang Qi's side was still low and Nightless City Lord's side was high, at least it was not too much. Great disparity.
That is to say, I can see the past a little bit from the face, and I won't be as unbearable as I was at the beginning.
However, if one considers that the tray on one side is filled to the brim, while on the other side there is only a chip not much thicker than a hair, this scene undoubtedly becomes even more absurd.
And when he completed the act of piling all his chips on the scales, the Nightless City Lord realized what he had done under the agitation of his spirit.
He looked at the empty table in front of him in disbelief, and then at the neat chips lying in the tray, the face hidden under the hood, the complexion changed several times, almost distorted.
But he had to pretend to be calm, and nodded slightly to Jiang Qi. The demeanor must be in place, and there must be absolutely no expressions or movements that degrade the image of oneself.
"You are the guest, so you can choose first." He said with a smile, "Which color do you plan to bet on?"
Jiang Qi twisted her fingers, looking bored and unconcerned about it The look on it: "Well... then red.
" It matches the color of my chips very well. "
"Then I am black."
The nightless city lord nodded, and greeted the croupier next to him. The croupier stepped forward and turned the cock.
All of a sudden, black, gold, and red, three colors were mixed together because of the rapid rotation of the turntable. Together, together with the lighting from the ceiling in the hall, it was unavoidably too dazzling.
The turntable finally stopped slowly, and the pointer landed on a black grid.
He breathed a sigh of relief, and his tone sounded a lot more relaxed when talking to Jiang Qi: "I promise, it seems that fate has favored me this round. "
"It doesn't matter. "The girl hooked her lips and smiled at him, "Let's continue. "
She slowly took the small knife next to her, cut off a few more strands from the red chip in front of her, and placed it on the scale again. The City Lord Ever Night trembled. In order to make the gap between the two sides of the scale not appear so big, he can only put my fourth sister's chips - including the one I won from Jiang Qi just now - on the scale again, and it seems to be slightly even.
"This time choose black. "Jiang Qi said casually.
The nightless city lord responded, only then did he realize that his hands were trembling slightly all the time. And Jiang Qi just took out what he had-so many that were not even eye-catching. It's a small difference that you can't get in. Every bet made by the city lord who never sleeps is to put everything he has on it.
In the past, he was so poor that he didn't care about the cost, and he didn't even leave half of the way out for himself, are the opponents of the Nightless City Lord. He only needs to watch the behavior of his opponents with ease, watching them gradually collapse bit by bit, until finally, with a kind of desperate crying and mourning, he has to give up all of his are offered to him.
It is precisely because of this that the Nightless City Lord clearly possesses the strength of [Silver] and the qualification to go to a higher level, but he has to stay in this mere 39th floor all the time In the middle—he was aiming for this wonderful moment.
His servants are constantly increasing, and the luck, power, and even time he has won from others are also constantly accumulating, and they have piled up like a mountain.
Every time he sees these, the nightless city lord will show a satisfied smile.
It's just today.
In front of that girl with moon-blue hair who looks like crystal, everything seems to be out of control, and she starts to rush towards another direction that she never expected.
"Go on," go on.
"Continue.
Luck seems to be particularly favored by the nightless city lord today. Although it is dangerous every time, he can always choose the correct color. However, no matter how many times
he wins, the girl on the other side of the table always maintains such an uneasy look. It looks salty. Her bargaining chip is so rich, so rich that the bit she took out is not worth mentioning compared to what she has as a whole, but it is all that the city lord who never sleeps." Continue. "
After the results of another turntable came out, Jiang Qi raised her eyes and looked at the Nightless City Lord across the table. With her bright red lips opening and closing, she uttered two words that were almost becoming the Nightmare City Lord's nightmare. The Nightless City
Lord There was a meaningless roar that almost collapsed.
"What do you want to do? Why do you torture me like this?!" He growled in a low voice like a trapped animal, "This way playing me again and again, is it really so interesting?!
This is simply not something that humans can bear, and it is a repeated torture and torture of the soul.
"I'm willing to give up." The nightless city lord murmured, "I don't need the outcome of the game, I'm willing to unconditionally give you the passage to the upper floor, I just ask you to let me go—" "
Huh? "However, the girl just raised her eyes, and for the first time a smile appeared in those ice-colored eyes, "What are you talking about?" , to be able to step into the passage behind you." "Come on." Jiang Qi said, "Go on, this time I want to choose red, it's a beautiful color, isn't it?
" , but in the end he could only raise his hand tremblingly, and put all the chips in front of him on the tray of the scale,
"Turn..." He said to the croupier, his eyes were very, very big, and the whites of his eyes were covered with blood, " Turn!" The wheel disc of fate turned again.
At first, it turned very fast, and I couldn't see anything clearly; as time passed, the kinetic energy gradually weakened, and the rotation speed of the turntable became slower and slower.
Until finally stopped.
The pointer landed on the red grid.
The entire casino erupted with cheerful music, celebrating the end of the game and the winner. All the bargaining chips—whether they were exported from Jiang Qi or originally belonged to the nightless city lord, all flew towards Jiang Qi and fell into her palm obediently.
Jiang Qi took out the silver chip at that moment from it and threw it out. The passage that was originally blocked by an invisible barrier appeared in front of her without any hindrance, waiting for the final winner to step in.
Jiang Qi first sent a message to her teammates, telling them that she had obtained the right to enter the passage, and everyone came to gather; while waiting, her eyes fell on the sleepless city that was huddled in a sluggish mass, as if its soul had been emptied Lord, immediately walked towards the other party.
"Look." The girl came to the Nightless City Lord, stretched out her hand and patted his cheek.
There was an indistinct smile in her voice, but to the Nightless City Lord, she felt terribly terrifying: "Although you have won me so many times, as long as I win like this once - you will be lost forever. "
You shouldn't propose to use these as bargaining chips. If you just use money, maybe it's a better idea."
Jiang Qi's storage bracelet is indeed full of treasures, but those are just a devil after all. Part of the accumulation, and the search of another demon king in a short period of time. Although it looks very confusing at first glance, but after a real calculation, it is obvious that the background of the city that never sleeps, which has been located in the Storm Prison for thousands of years, is deeper.
But Nightless City Lord is too greedy, he wants more.
Then...the past that cannot be traced back to the end, the future that is long enough to be called eternal, the co-lord who is above the many kings in this world. In front of her, even fate must bow its noble head.
The nightless city lord chose the wrong challenge object in the wrong field. The moment he sat down at the gaming table, the final outcome was already doomed.
"Why is this happening?!"
Jiang Qi stretched out her hand and tore off the robe and hood of the nightless city lord - the one wrapped under the clothes was actually just a young man. White hair, slender figure, and face are exactly the same as No. 13 who received Jiang Qi and the others before, and No. 28 who met on the road.
On the side of his neck was tattooed a very inconspicuous line of small numbers.
"002."
This is the secret of the city that never sleeps. The owner of the city is not eternal. There are fifty-two identical employees in the entire city that never sleeps, and they come from the same ontology. They don't have names, they only have cold digital codes to distinguish them.
And whoever defrauded the most power, time and destiny from the guests who came to the city that never sleeps will be the city lord.
"Who are you?" No. 2 stretched out his hand and grabbed Jiang Qi's wrist firmly. Those silver eyes stared at Jiang Qi firmly, as if he wanted to get an answer from her no matter what, "Why?" You'll have so many—!
"He has obviously worked very hard to win a lot. It is a huge power that can be felt even if he has not really held it in his hands. However, this kind of power is not even all that the girl holds in her hands, let alone she still has it. Possesses the past, future, and destiny that are equivalent to all authority.
Why is there such a thing? It is almost as if the whole world exists around her.
"I am just a challenger to climb the tower . "No. 2's hand was thrown away, he heard the girl say, "For me now, that's all. "
She seemed to have lost all interest in No. 2, and turned to greet her companion. No. 2 stared blankly at her gradually disappearing back, but only felt a pain in her wrist, and then her eyes were blurred.
In consciousness Finally, he saw a small silver snake standing up in front of him, those eyes were cold and vicious like the most precious sapphires, and the pattern of the clock dial jumped out on it.
It's just a discarded experimental product.] The little snake "hissed" in a low voice.
【Also wanting to touch the authority of the mother god... Really presumptuous and ridiculous.】
【She is the mother of all demons, the peak of the deep abyss, and will eventually ascend to the sky, and she should be the only existence of the supreme supreme in this world. 】
【Our respectable and lovely mother. 】
【Under the blood moon, only your throne will last forever. 】