Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

Chapter 184: Chapter 136: Trial Rule_2

Chu Xiu laid out his cards, and the masked man chuckled softly, spreading out his own cards as well.

K+3+6, nineteen points.

At this point, Chu Xiu really couldn’t tell if the opponent was cheating.

As he lowered his head in thought, the masked man already began selecting his firearm, sneering, ”Notary, fetch me the gun under the floor.”

The tall and thin notary stepped forward, groping around on the ground for a while, then opened a hidden compartment and pulled out a massive gun, polished till it shone, with a barrel large enough to fit a small baby’s fist.

Calling it a gun was an understatement; it was more like a cannon.

”Do you like my treasure?” The masked man grinned cruelly, ”I specially modified this Elephant Hunting Gun to fire 50mm caliber hollow-point bullets, capable of blasting the head of a fifty-ton elephant to smithereens with one shot!”

”Bang!”

He slammed the oversized gun onto the table, pointing it at Chu Xiu, snarling, ”Beg me for mercy now, and I might consider using another gun.”

Facing the masked man’s threat, Chu Xiu remained calmly composed, knowing that this was the backup plan the masked man had prepared.

If his cheating method was exposed, it wouldn’t matter; as long as he won two out of five rounds, he could use this specially modified firearm to blow his opponent away.

With the Bet Chain removing equipment, lowering attributes, and suppressing skills, facing this massive gun, almost anyone below S-Class would be dead for sure.

However, for Chu Xiu...

”Go ahead, shoot.” He said calmly.

”Hmph!”

The masked man, seeing Chu Xiu’s lack of recognition of his precarious situation, stopped wasting words and decisively pulled the trigger!

”Boom!”

The gun barrel spewed fierce flames, like a fiery serpent in the glaring light, from which a huge bullet was fired!

And almost simultaneously, black energy suddenly ignited fiercely from Chu Xiu’s body, enveloping his entire form!

Then, with a dull thud, the crushed massive bullet rolled to the ground with a loud clattering sound.

When the black energy dispersed, there was a large hole in Chu Xiu’s chest clothing, but the spot where the bullet had hit was merely bruised.

The look of excitement on the masked man’s face froze, then turned into complete disbelief.

”Impossible!” he shrieked.

But Chu Xiu simply said calmly, ”Shall we continue?”

”You...” The masked man finally realized that this Awakened before him was vastly different from any other Awakened he had encountered! But by this point, he had no escape.

”Deal the cards! I don’t believe you can withstand even the coastal defense cannon!” he gritted his teeth fiercely.

In the past, a few Awakened could withstand the Elephant Hunting Gun, but those who survived under the bombardment of two cannons were practically nonexistent!

”Are you so sure you can win?” Chu Xiu smiled.

However, seeing through his probing intent, the masked man merely sneered, ”You’ll know once the cards are revealed.”

Soon, the last round of the gamble began.

Chu Xiu looked at the cards in his hand, a 2 and a 3.

He continued to ask for another card, getting a Q.

Now his card points reached fifteen, and continuing would likely cause about a seven in thirteen chance of busting!

After hesitating for a moment, Chu Xiu gritted his teeth and asked for one more card!

After all, losing meant even the cannon couldn’t harm him.

And seemingly, at this moment, all the gambling luck he had accumulated in his earlier life finally came into play, as he managed to draw a five!

Chu Xiu laughed, placing the cards facedown on the table.

And at that moment, the masked man also completed his draw.

”Reveal the cards.” He sneered.

Chu Xiu was about to unveil, but suddenly realized something and said warily, ”Why is it always me who reveals the cards first? You first this time.”

”Then one card per person,” the masked man said.

”No, ”Even though Chu Xiu didn’t know his plan, he sensed something from the opponent’s reaction, ”Either hand the cards to the notary for unveiling.”

The masked man was silent for a while, and after a long time said, ”Alright then.”

Saying this, he took the cards with his other hand, placing them facedown on the table, but Chu Xiu noticed that at the moment of handover, the masked man’s fingers under the cards twitched extremely fast!

Without any hesitation, the Celestial Demon Hand shot out rapidly from his back, grabbing the masked man’s wrist!

”Hold it! You just swapped the cards!” Chu Xiu shouted loudly.

He hadn’t seen how the masked man swapped the cards, but he was a hundred percent sure that the opponent had made a similar move!

In his past life, Chu Xiu had watched a video where an anti-gambling expert demonstrated a card cheating technique; he could push the original card into his sleeve in a very short time, fetch the hidden card, and complete the swap, utilizing visual blind spots, to the point that even in front of a high-speed camera slowed down a thousand times, it was flawless!

However, the masked man who got caught didn’t panic, only chuckled softly, ”Are you sure I swapped the cards?”

”Don’t forget if you fail to accuse cheating accurately, you’ll automatically be deemed the loser.”

The masked man’s words made Chu Xiu pause slightly, then he frowned deeply.

He hadn’t expected the masked man to have this trick up his sleeve as well.

If he had just faked a move without actually changing the cards, then it would be Chu Xiu who lost!

Thinking like this, would the masked man really be so foolish to swap cards right before his eyes? With Chu Xiu’s perception ability so strong he could even detect slight differences in the back of the cards, how could he not notice such a small move?

At that moment, Chu Xiu realized the masked man had been giving him a lot of psychological suggestions before, like expressing confidence in winning this round, making Chu Xiu believe more firmly that he would cheat, thus paying more attention to his every move.

It was very much like a seasoned Hunter slowly setting his own trap.