New Century Kitchen Warrior

Chapter 174 Negotiation Failure, Shelter Basement
The world's attention is on Loya.

Lei Ye really couldn't help but be curious about why this person appeared here. It was as if the world line would always converge, and she would always find any save file that was a little longer.

Hearing her shouting her name, she must be here to find her. Combining with the previous save data, Luoya should be here to ask her for money.

Lei Ye went downstairs silently and watched her from a distance as she hesitantly sat down at the gambling table.

"Do you know each other? I just heard her calling your name."

Grady's office was also able to observe the situation downstairs at any time. She was a little concerned when she heard Luoya calling Lei Ye's name. When she saw Lei Ye tiptoeing downstairs, she followed him and quietly stood behind Lei Ye.

The two of them watched Loya together. While Lei Ye was observing Loya, he was also looking at Greti.

Loya and Grady are about the same height.

Just no milk.

In addition, in terms of appearance alone, Luoya might even be slightly better, but her temperament is too different. She looks like a pure loser sitting there. Lei Ye looked at the two of them separately because he was curious about how two people with similar figures and looks could look so different.

"I do know her," Lei Ye hesitated for a moment and answered honestly, "She is actually my ex-girlfriend."

Lei Ye was not going to deny the past. Denial would mean that he still cared about it, so the three words "ex-girlfriend" came out fluently.

He recalled the Loya in his memory. When they first met, Loya had just walked out of the forest and didn't have that loser vibe yet.

At this moment she casually put one foot on the stool and slapped out a large gold coin to exchange for chips.

Lei Ye grimaced when he saw this, because the money Luo Ya spent was all the hard-earned money he had earned in the past.

Oh, it’s our big casino, so it’s okay.

"Ex-girlfriend?" Grady muttered, then raised her eyebrows and smiled, "How can I describe your vision?"

Lei Ye was silent, feeling as awkward as if his blind date was discussing his ex with him, but Grady didn't look embarrassed, instead she looked a little happy.

"Forget it, it's good. At least it means that you liked someone before, so you may like someone else in the future, right? Some people are stupid and let you go. Even now, they are still just gradually remembering the good things about you. Otherwise, they would not come to you, but they are still arrogant. Some people are not strong enough, so they have to leave you. But I am different. I am smart enough to tell who is the rare lover in this world, and I am strong enough to protect my lover and myself. This is the meaning of my hard work to make money. There is a long way to go, and I think I will win."

Lei Ye knew what she meant by winning, she meant winning herself.

However, Lei Ye did not feel flattered by being sought after.

He gently pushed away Grady's hand, "Ma'am, please respect yourself."

"You're showing off your self-respect again," Greti put his hand on Leiye's shoulder with disdain, "Is it so difficult to admit your desires? I've told you I'm not stupid, I can see that you have feelings for me, and I can see that you want to have fun, as long as you say yes we can do it, oh, what a hassle."

She waved her hands, stared down at her new high-heeled leather boots, and kicked the ground twice casually. "Forget it, forget it. It's good to be ambiguous like this now. I'm really happy these past two days. Let's keep it like this for now. Anyway, the two of us still have a long time to live, so we can take it slow~"

Grady was relaxed and happy, and Loya was also relaxed and happy.

The chips in her hand kept piling up. Judging from the number, she had already multiplied the big gold coin in her hand five times in these few rounds.

Luoya, who held the pile of chips in her arms, smiled from ear to ear. This was the first time in all these years that she had "earned" so much money on her own.

"She's pretty lucky," Lei Ye sighed. "I thought about it, if nothing else, this woman is really lucky."

He originally came to laugh at Luoya's joke, but what he saw was Luoya making a lot of money, which made him feel inexplicably unhappy.

"Is it that good?" Grady raised her eyebrows slightly.

"I guess so. Anyway, I've known her for so long and I've never seen her in bad luck. Later I read in a book that elves who leave the Great Forest too early usually die or become slaves in the outside world very soon. Those who can survive well are all lucky elves."

"How old is she?"

"Twenty-four years old."

"Twenty-four years old?!" Gretty was shocked when she heard that. Although this age is considered an adult, in the eyes of the long-lived species, she is no different from a child. No wonder she seems a little mentally retarded.

She glanced at Lei Ye, and for the first time there was a hint of disgust in her eyes.

Lolita control is really disgusting.

It must be because of those paper figures.

He lacks training, so I need to spend some time to let him know the benefits of a petite big sister!
But now Grady agrees that Loya is lucky. Generally speaking, elves need to be at least two hundred years old before they can leave the big forest. Only in this way can they receive a comprehensive education and become mature enough, and become strong after sufficient practice, so that they can be at ease in the human world. Young elves like Loya obviously couldn't stand the loneliness of learning all kinds of boring things, so they sneaked out of the big forest.

To explain it from Lei Ye's perspective, it is equivalent to a young girl dropping out of vocational high school and running away to another city to avoid being caught by her parents.

And elves can almost always be sold at sky-high prices in the slave market.

Therefore, elves outside almost always have to deal with the sudden capture of slave traders. Young and ignorant elves like Loya are the best targets. However, she had just arrived in the human world and came to Hillius, where the security was relatively good, and met Lei Ye.

Meeting Lei Ye was probably her greatest luck. She didn't even know the dangers she was facing, because even though Lei Ye didn't know how young she was at that time, he still made a cradle for her.

However, the elves should have grown much faster in the human world, but Loya was drowning in the cradle and rarely went out to take a look at this beautiful and dangerous world.

"Luck is good, but luck is never the most important thing. What's important is whether you can hold on to it," Grady glanced at Lei Ye, "I dismantled the magic props on the gambling table. You thought I would lose a lot of money because of this, right?"

Lei Ye nodded.

"But that's not the case. I only see more craziness. Take her for example. She has played a few rounds so far, and you and I are watching. Her winning rate is about 80%, right?"

Lei Ye nodded again.

"So now I agree with what you said. She is indeed lucky enough. Then the next question is, her capital is a large gold coin. How much money do you think she can win?"

Lei Ye didn't answer. He and Grady both knew the answer to this question.

"It seems that you also know that since she won't leave, she will only use that 20% defeat as her end point. She can win many times, but I only need to beat her once."

Just as she finished her words, Luoya happened to lose all her chips in a round of all-in-one betting.

She seemed as if her soul had been taken away, and she sat there slumped, her body heaving violently.

After a moment, she propped herself up and tremblingly took out another large gold coin from the storage bag.

Lei Ye and Greti sighed at the same time, turned around and walked towards the stairs at the same time. There was no need to watch any more from here. They would know after seeing whether she would lose herself to the big casino. They would talk about it then.

Now, let's get down to business.

"You said before, what is the best thing you can get from drawing cards?" Lei Ye said as he walked.

"Ancient mythical beasts, but since they have never been drawn out, I don't know what they look like. However, I have found records about those mythical beasts in ancient texts. In fact, they are powerful monsters unique to the old century. Because they are extinct, their existence can only be verified through their skeletons. There is no more detailed information." Grady replied.

After hearing this, Lei Ye understood. It was like the difference between a lion and a saber-toothed tiger, or an elephant and a mammoth.

"Let me ask you, do you just want to win once and then be satisfied, without thinking about collecting all of them?"

This question is critical.

It would be fine if she just wanted to draw one, but if she wanted to collect all the varieties, then Grady could only be said to be the embodiment of greed, and Lei Ye had no basis to negotiate with her.

Thankfully Grady nodded.

“Yes, if I have an ancient mythical beast, my ability will be at its limit. In fact, it doesn’t cost that many gold coins to summon a monster. Remember the griffin I rented before? A monster like that only costs a few big silver coins to rent for a day. The real big money is here in the lottery, and I can’t bear to spend too much money.” Okay, okay, a thing that costs less than ten thousand yuan is rented out for one million, right? You’re really something.

Now is not the time to worry about this. Lei Ye took a deep breath and concentrated his energy into his dantian, hoping that his next words would be more convincing.

"If I tell you that I can help you draw a magic card, would you be willing to stop doing this?"

Lei Ye had thought of many reasons and was ready to tell her, but Lei Ye realized that it was meaningless to talk about reason with a person who had lived alone for more than two hundred years, so the bargaining chip he came to negotiate with Grady was interests.

Sure enough, Grady paused.

He looked at Lei Ye with suspicion.

".You don't seem like a liar, but I don't know where you got the confidence to say that. Explain it to me."

Grady adopted a business tone.

This is good. I am not worried about her bargaining, but I am worried that she is not interested.

"Remember what I told you before?"

"What is it?" Grady frowned. "We've talked about so many things. Be more specific."

"That's the one, the one from the flashback."

Lei Ye remembered that he had talked about this with Gretty a long time ago, about the existence of the rollback skill.

They even discussed with each other how to prevent the failure of the rollback skill if it existed. The Black Magic Flow Armor was created for this purpose, and Lei Ye is still wearing it.

However, because Buyadi was still there at the time, everything was just various discussions based on possibilities and feasibility. However, Lei Ye remembered that he seemed to have said at the time that he was the one with this skill, so Grady would not have forgotten about it.

Lei Ye hesitated for a moment and did not tell the various stories that happened because of this skill. These stories were all things he wanted to tell to another person. He just introduced the effects of his skill in detail.

He didn't notice that Grady's expression changed drastically, as if she realized something.

"Then there's the linkage effect with your skills. Just like you said just now, you only need to win once. Then, no matter how low the probability of winning the first prize is, it will become inevitable even if you rewind infinitely. You are guaranteed to win."

"I know. You don't need to explain it to me," Grady whispered. "I understood it right away after you said it. When these two skills are combined, the problem of probability can be ignored."

Lei Ye nodded with satisfaction. It was refreshing to talk to smart people.

But he also sensed something strange in Grady's deep voice.

Not in tone, but in logic.

"According to what you said, there will be a save point. When is this save point?"

"It was not long ago when I suddenly ran to the Scorched Earth to look for you."

"I remember now. You asked me to do you a favor and help you rescue Buyadi. She wasn't captured by any knight, but was killed, right?"

"Correct."

Although it was announced to the public that Buyadi would continue to play in Hillius for a while, the real reason was already explained to Greti by Lei Ye at the very beginning, so there was nothing to hide from Greti.

Grady's little face slowly twisted.

He stared at Lei Ye with a strange look and whispered to himself.

"It's actually true, how can it be true?"

Lei Ye had anticipated all kinds of reactions from Greti, but he had never expected this reaction.

For some reason, Lei Ye suddenly had a creepy feeling. Grady withdrew her gaze and slowly walked into her office, but Lei Ye subconsciously did not dare to follow.

What is she questioning? What is real or fake?

Grady sat in her chair, crossed her legs and swung her high-heeled leather boots. The expression on her face was sometimes discouraged and aggrieved, and sometimes a little fierce, and she was muttering something.

Finally, she suddenly raised her head and asked in a strong voice.

"What about me? After you go back to the past, you will definitely use the lottery to trick me into doing you a favor, right? You are telling me this now just to confirm whether I will give up the casino for this matter. Then...what about our time together these days? Will it still happen?"

It’s amazing that he guessed what I was going to do right away.

But about the latter question.

"Graydy."

Lei Ye also became serious, suppressed the ominous premonition in his heart, strode forward, and looked directly into the other person's eyes.

"I'm honest with you. I do have a crush on you, but just like your crush on me, that's admiration, not love. I don't accept being together just because the conditions are right and the bodies are compatible. That's desire. I want love."

This was just an opening statement to set the tone, and Lei Ye had a long speech that he had been preparing for two days.

But the words were not spoken.

"You love your mother—"

Grady suddenly jumped up without any warning!

Gretty had never been so wild before. In an instant, Gretty became a different person. Her elegance and queen temperament were completely gone. She pounced on Lei Ye like a wild small carnivore, knocked him down, and strangled him by the neck.

Lei Ye did not dodge, because Greti looked fragile and actually was fragile. When she attacked, she seemed fierce but was actually weak.

So the Grady that Lei Ye saw was not a different person, but she suddenly could not maintain her disguise. When she was struggling to survive as a child, she must have looked like a desperate little beast, baring her teeth at those who bullied her.

But Lei Ye forgot one thing.

The current Grady is no longer the desperate little beast.

Lei Ye looked at Greti who was riding on him, and watched her take a deep breath and gradually regain her composure, but her eyes were still fierce.

There was a strange touch on his head, and the alarm bells in Lei Ye's heart rang wildly, but it was too late. The long legs of the human-faced demon spider floating from behind pierced into his head, but did not absorb the brain juice, but injected something.

"No, you." Lei Ye wanted to say more, but after saying only three words, his consciousness quickly fell.

In a trance, Lei Ye suddenly thought of the logical weirdness he had just felt.

Yes
The moment Lei Ye learned about Gretty's skills, he immediately thought of the combination of the two skills, and was even proud of his own brilliant idea.

And Grady is so smart. If she really believes in the existence of the rollback skill, and she is so eager for money and power, how could she not actively ask for cooperation?

The moment before falling into complete coma.

He seemed to hear someone whispering evil words, the voice was totally ungraceful, like the granddaughter of a vegetable vendor deep in the city, standing with her hands on her hips and spitting at a competitor at the stall next door.

"Bah, a dead man wants to steal things from me, you're dreaming! Go back? Go back!"

(End of this chapter)