Chapter 326 Extreme Day
The palms of the God of Wealth were stiff, and his fingers were as thin and dry as withered bamboo joints. At the ends of his fingertips grew irregularly shaped and broken nails, as if they had been gnawed by mice or insects.

The God of Wealth said nothing, but just stretched out his hand.

Xia Yubing’s heart was pounding, but her breathing was as heavy and slow as the concrete outdoors in winter. She knew that once the God of Wealth stretched out his hand, it would either take her money or her life.

But she doesn’t have 16 yuan, nor does she have 16 lives.

An emotion called despair rose up from her heart belatedly, drowning out the fear of powerlessness. Normally, the observation of the Four-Faced Buddha ‘Taiyi’ would forcibly lock Xia Yubing’s state to the moment she just left Zanju Town, but this was not a normal situation.

What was about to take her life at this moment was not the conventional swords, guns and cannons, but the forced buying and selling of the God of Wealth Wutong. His existence made all struggles so pale.

The rules are absolute, the rules are fair, the rules are absolutely fair and cannot be violated.

Suddenly, Xia Yubing felt a little dazed, and her vision became blurred. The whole world seemed to be covered with a layer of ambiguous chaos. In a trance, she seemed to see the palm of the God of Wealth getting closer and closer, and a melodious piano sounded in her ears.

“Ning Zhe…”

This was Xia Yubing’s last thought before his consciousness fell into complete darkness.

The flower didn’t know the day and night were short, but it didn’t expect that a thousand years had passed in the world. When I opened my eyes again, a half-full white moon had climbed up to the sparkling sea outside the breakwater, casting a crisp silver frost.

“Ah!” Xia Yubing sat up suddenly, cold sweat pouring down his body, and his eyes were blurred and blank.

After a few seconds, Xia Yubing’s eyes gradually adapted to the bright light environment around her. She looked around in a daze, and found that she was in a gorgeously decorated room. The gambler, the god of wealth, and the dead Ix and Sally Sally were nowhere to be seen. A soft blanket covered her body, as if everything she had experienced before was just a dream.

“Ah, you’re awake?”

The maid who was standing opposite came to the bedside upon hearing the noise, brought a cup of warm milk to Xia Yubing, and asked softly, “How do you feel? Are you feeling unwell?”

“You…me?” Xia Yubing took the glass of milk, a little stunned. She recognized the maid’s face. She had eaten her fried lamb chops on Van Dyke’s airship before. This person was a servant of the Dyke family. Her name seemed to be Joe Mary?
After taking a sip of warm milk, Xia Yubing calmed down a little and asked, “Where am I? I remember I was with Mr. Dyke not long ago, why am I here now?”

The maid named Qiao Mary looked at the glass and said, “Mr. Dyke brought you back, Ms. Xia. You have been sleeping for almost 10 hours. We are now on the St. Abilene airship. Mr. Dyke asked me to look after you here.”

“Yes, that’s right…” Xia Yubing’s whole body suddenly relaxed, and a strong sense of security instantly filled his chest.

It seemed that Ning Zhe had brought herself out of the opera house. Although she didn’t know what method he used to help her escape from the God of Wealth’s forced buying and selling, Xia Yubing believed that Ning Zhe could do it. It seemed that there was nothing in the world that he couldn’t do.

Recalling the experience in the opera house, Xia Yubing still felt a lingering fear. The faint piano music he heard before losing consciousness still lingered in his ears, making him drowsy.

“Where is Mr. Dyke now?” Xia Yubing asked again.

The maid, Qiao Mary, shook her head. “I’m sorry, I don’t know either, Ms. Xia. Mr. Dyke left you in my care and left the airship. He ordered the Saint Ebilon to take off and sail west immediately, but he did not board the airship. Instead, he returned to Vivian Harbor. We haven’t been able to contact him yet.” “Is that so…” Xia Yubing, who had just relaxed a little, became nervous again, muttering to herself, “Isn’t the strange incident in the opera house over yet?”

Ning Zhe went to find that gambler?
Thinking of this, the strange scene that Xia Yubing had experienced before reappeared in his mind. It was after the gambling game of drawing ghost cards ended. The God of Wealth, who had handed over the bet and successfully escaped, stretched out his hand to the gambling ghost and asked him to pay for his life. Later, it turned out that the gambling ghost had money to buy his life. He took out four copper coins from his ragged clothes and handed them to the God of Wealth, sending this evil star away.

“This isn’t the first time the gambler has bought his life.” Xia Yubing unconsciously clenched her hands holding the milk. She suddenly realized, “Four copper coins is the price for the third time to buy his life. This is the third time the gambler has bought his life from the God of Wealth!”

The gambler had seen the God of Wealth before, and had bought his life from him at least twice!

Ning Zhe must be told about this.

Xia Yubing tilted her head back and drank the milk in the glass. She threw back the blanket and hurriedly got out of bed. She found her notebook barefoot from her windbreaker hanging on the coat rack. After asking Qiao Marie to leave, she turned to the page where they had last talked. Sure enough, there was a new message on it. The dark and delicate handwriting was Ning Zhe’s:

【When you wake up, go clean the room. 】

[It’s not just a matter of sweeping the floor. You need to use water, mop the floor, wipe the windows, and it’s best to fold the clothes again.]

[Don’t ask the maid to help you, you have to do it yourself. ]

“Ah, this…” Xia Yubing was a little confused: “Ning Zhe asked me to clean the room? And I have to use water to clean it?”

Although I didn’t know what it meant, since it was his request, I just had to do it. Xia Yubing walked out of the room holding the notebook and wrote on the paper:

[After the gambling with the gambler, the God of Wealth forced everyone present to trade]

[The gambler is also a trading partner. He used 4 copper coins to buy a life from the God of Wealth.]

[The gambler must have seen the God of Wealth before, and has bought his life from him at least twice]

I wonder if this information can help him?
After closing the notebook, Xia Yubing got dressed, walked out of the room, and asked Qiao Mary for a bucket, a mop, and a rag for cleaning the windows. Without knowing what was going on, she began to clean the room, which was not that dirty.

The sea surface sparkled under the bright moon. Looking down from the airship, the breakwater that surrounded half of Vivian Harbor had become a curved white snake in the distance, wriggling slightly.

Inside the breakwater, the quiet city was lit up with bright lights, dotted with stars, dazzling and glittering, making the ground beneath our feet seem like the sky. As time passed, the lights in the port gradually became sparse and dim, and the colors of the night slowly occupied more and more positions, until the whole city was completely reduced to darkness, as if this ancient port had fallen asleep peacefully.

The next moment, all the lights suddenly lit up at the same time, illuminating the port as if it were daytime.

(End of this chapter)