Chapter 365: Off-field victory, difficult task

Gambler Qian Lao San pointed at Su Ming and shouted angrily: “Humph! The way you play doesn’t count at all.”

“Gambling games must be played according to the rules agreed upon in advance. You can’t make up the cards and add rules later. This is not fair at all.”

Su Ming smiled: “If I say it counts, then it counts.”

“You have already lost eight fingers to me. According to the rules, you have to obey me from now on.”

Qian Lao San showed a disdainful smile on his face: “Hahaha! How is it possible? How can you beat me with such an unreasonable method? You still want me to listen to you? You are just dreaming.”

However, the smile on his face soon came to an abrupt end, and the eight fingers on his hand automatically fell off and flew onto the table in front of Su Ming.

Su Ming: “Unfortunately, if I say the rules count, then they count. But here, only what I say counts.”

Qian Lao San looked at his bare hands and frowned, “No, how could this happen? Why would a rule that was not explained in advance take effect?”

He didn’t lose immediately because there were many hands behind him, and each hand had several fingers.

This is also one of the reasons why he feels that he cannot lose.

His capital is so huge that it is almost impossible for him to lose it all.

The only thing that made him unsure now was why the other party could manipulate the rules to such an extent.

Qian Laosan: “How did you do it?”

Su Ming took out a seal and a gold ring from his pocket.

This seal is a very small square seal with the four characters “圆规方则” (circular compass and square rule) engraved on it. This gold ring is also elegant and looks very valuable.

These are two props he collected when he completed other taboos in the ancient town.

They are the rule seal and the golden ring, representing power and wealth respectively. Together with the power he himself represents, the three together can influence the rules of the game dominated by Qian Lao San.

There is a certain relationship of mutual promotion and mutual restraint between the taboos in the ancient town.

If you can follow the strategies in the correct order, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Faced with this square seal and the gold ring, Qian Laosan’s face turned pale and he felt a mountain of pressure.

He shouted unwillingly: “No! This is my bet! You can’t use these things to affect my bet!!”

Su Ming shrugged: “Sorry, I chose a way other than gambling to win the game.”

“Now, I declare that you lose. According to the agreement of the bet, you have to listen to me from now on.”

After saying that, he threw the eight severed fingers of Qian Laosan on the table back to him, and they automatically reattached to his hands.

An extremely painful expression appeared on Qian Laosan’s face, as if he was desperately fighting against some force.

Su Ming could feel that the other party was trying to retaliate against him through the rule seal and the golden ring.

However, he was firmly suppressed by his own strength and had no way of making any big waves.

A few minutes later, Qian Laosan followed Su Ming like a punctured ball, looking listless.

Qian Lao San said weakly: “What exactly do you want me to do for you? Let me remind you first, I am a loser. I can’t do anything except gambling.”

Su Ming: “What I want you to do is very simple, that is, go find that old locust tree and make a bet with him.”

Qian Lao San’s expression suddenly changed: “No! Impossible! I can’t do it at all. He will definitely kill me directly!!”

Su Ming: “Don’t underestimate yourself, believe in yourself, you can do it. You have so many hands behind you, so many fingers that you can’t even count them, are you afraid of a tree?” Qian Lao San’s face turned green: “Every leaf of that old locust tree can be counted as a finger, do you think I can beat him?”

“Besides, he is so strong that he can overturn the gambling table just like you.”

Where on earth did this madman come from? He actually wanted to attack the old locust tree! That was the most terrifying taboo in the town!
For someone who can do such a thing, it seems quite reasonable for him to lose to the other party.

Qian Laosan really didn’t want to get involved in a fight between gods of this level, lest he be completely turned into ashes if he wasn’t careful.

Su Ming: “You can do this whether you want to or not. I am not discussing this with you, I am informing you.”

After he finished speaking, he stuffed the four-square seal and the gold ring into Qian Lao San’s hand: “Take them well, and your bet will be more secure.”

“As long as you can hold on to the old locust tree for three hours, you will survive.”

Qian Laosan tightly grasped the four-sided seal and the golden ring, feeling more powerful than ever before.

If it were any other time, he would have been extremely happy and would have gone looking for trouble with those taboos that he couldn’t afford to mess with.

However, when he thought about what he was going to do next, he felt like he was going to fail.

I was able to hold down the old locust tree for three hours. How could I, Qian Laosan, be qualified to take on such a difficult task!
Looking at Su Ming coming down from upstairs, and Qian Laosan following behind him.

The tea drinkers all found it very novel.

Just now, the apprentice came down from the teahouse and explained the above situation to the tea drinkers, telling them that the outsider had started gambling with the gambler using playing cards.

This aroused great interest among the tea drinkers, and many of them wanted to go over and watch the fight up close to see whether the alien who looked like a human would win or whether the host gambler was more skilled.

Unfortunately, in the end, this idea remained at the stage of talking, and no one dared to put it into action and actually go to the scene to watch the gambling game.

Judging from the current situation, it was the outsider who won and directly turned the gambler into his own follower.

It’s been less than half an hour since I went up there. I didn’t expect the winner to be decided so quickly. It’s really too fast!

Seeing Su Ming about to leave the teahouse, the teahouse owner breathed a sigh of relief.

There was no noise coming from above. It seemed that the literary fight between the two sides did not pose a threat to his teahouse. This was really great news for him.

A big smile appeared on his face, and he bowed to Su Ming: “Dear guest, take care! Welcome to come again next time!”

Su Ming: “I won’t come again. In two days, you can leave this ancient town and go outside to have a look.”

After he left, the tea drinkers were still thinking about this sentence.

“Can we leave too?”

“Is this true? Those who left the town before have no news. We don’t know whether they are dead or alive.”

“Dead, definitely all dead. I saw with my own eyes that several members of a family who left the town were all hanged on that old locust tree.”

“It would be great if I could really leave. I’ve wanted to leave this damn place for a long time.”

“You’ve never been out, so how do you know that it’s better outside than here?”

“Anyway, if he can really leave, it will give us another option. I hope he can really succeed and accomplish this.”

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(End of this chapter)