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Chapter 213 The Plan to Destroy a Nation, The Gambler, Past Events (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
After saying goodbye to the other members at the Bryggen dock, Anlens and Xia Pingzhou walked along a brightly lit, winding street. Red and white buses drove past them, pigeons perched on the church spires in the distance, and the pedestrians were like a flowing melody.

Xia Pingzhou asked, "Has the commander revealed the specific details of this operation on August 1st?"

"To rob the treasures of the Whale Garden," Anrons said bluntly.

"A miniature garden inside a whale?" Xia Pingzhou was taken aback. "Isn't that the country of the Strange Tales Envoy, the one inside the whale's belly? You mean... we're going to be enemies with a country?"

"That's right, that's our goal."

"A country should have at least a few thousand guards. Even if they can't kill us, they can wear us down."

“Indeed, according to intelligence, the Royal Court Army of the Whale Garden has a total of one thousand people, each of whom is at least equivalent to a Kui-level ability user.” Anlens shrugged. “In addition, there is the Royal Court Team, which has many Calamity-level powerhouses.”

"How are we supposed to fight this?" Xia Pingzhou asked suspiciously. "Wouldn't we be sending ourselves to our deaths if we went in? Putting aside the royal court's troops, just a thousand soldiers would be enough to give us a hard time. Although we have Carrot Head's abilities, he can open a door and escape at any time."

Anlens smiled and said, "We have several collaborators on this mission. According to the leader, as long as we can help the Third Prince Caesar obtain the 'White King's Scepter,' both the Royal Court Army and the Royal Court Team will be disarmed in an instant and become lambs to the slaughter. As a group with mostly superhumans and exorcists, the Brigade will not be affected by the White King's Scepter."

"What is the White King's Scepter?" Xia Pingzhou asked, feigning ignorance.

"The supreme treasure of the Whale Garden is the White King's Scepter, which only the king of each generation is worthy of possessing and using. Before it, all fragments of wonders below the generation level, or even those at the generation level, will lose their power. For wonder envoys, this is equivalent to cutting off their lifeline."

"So... there's a prince in the miniature garden who has become a rebel, and we're supposed to help him obtain the scepter?"

"That's about right." Anlens smiled and put his arm around Xia Pingzhou's shoulder. "Let's go, the nightlife is about to begin."

He pulled Xia Pingzhou into the alleyway of the street, walked into the staircase leading underground, and entered a brightly lit casino.

The moment they pushed open the door, a lively hustle and bustle rushed out. A woman wearing a red miniskirt and white leather shoes came into view, carrying a tray of champagne as she passed in front of them, giving them a flirtatious wink.

The gambler at the table, a cigarette dangling from his lips, frowned and stared intently at the chips on the table, like a general inspecting supplies during a battle.

Xia Pingzhou looked around: "What are you planning to do? Blow this whole place up with the slot machines?"

Anlens curled the corners of his lips. "Let me show you, this pure and good boy, the world."

He casually exchanged some banknotes for chips, then put his arm around Xia Pingzhou's shoulder and sat down at a nearby gambling table. The other three people at the table all turned to look at him.

The people sitting at this long table were all notorious gamblers in the area, and judging from their mocking and laughing eyes, they clearly thought Anron was a newcomer who didn't recognize their faces.

Xia Pingzhou pulled up a chair and sat down beside him, silently watching Anlens perform.

"Speaking of which, when did you start gambling?" he asked.

Anron lowered his eyes, checking his cards as he whispered, "Uh... I grew up in London and ended up in a criminal gang that trafficked children and sent them to London casinos to work with the staff as tools for cheating."

"How miserable."

"Actually, it was alright. I learned a lot of gambling techniques there and gained a lot of experience through observation and exposure. Two years later, I successfully escaped from the casino and broke away from that criminal group. When I came back, I wore a human face mask and adopted a new identity. I won against everyone in the casino, exposed all their cheating tricks in public, and finally, just when they were about to shoot me, I used a slot machine to blow the place to ashes."

“That’s ruthless…” Xia Pingzhou said, “but well done.”

“After that, I became a wanted criminal. Every time I went to a different casino, I had to change my face and adopt a new identity. I spent three years challenging all the famous gamblers in Britain, making them lose willingly. Some even committed suicide in front of me,” Anron said. “By then, I had long heard of the name of Japan’s number one gambler, ‘Crow.’ He was very famous in the gambling world. It was rumored that he had not lost for several years. So I traveled all the way to Tokyo, Japan, to have a life-or-death gamble with ‘Crow.’”

"Crows, is that the principle behind lacquer?" Xia Pingzhou wondered.

As Anrons finished speaking, the atmosphere at the card table had become extremely heated. The other three guests, who had been calm and composed just moments before, were now blushing, their necks burning red.

They stared at Anrons' right hand, and the last card on the table, like vicious dogs, their eyes gleaming with hatred.

Anlens looked up and met their gaze, his eyes sweeping over their faces one by one. Then, he curled the corners of his mouth in a playful smile and casually flipped over the last card on the table.

"This is impossible!"

"He definitely cheated!"

"Let me examine this kid properly!"

Anlens sat upright at the table, his hands clasped together, a smile on his face, and said to Xia Pingzhou without turning his head:

"In the end, as you can see... I lost. It wasn't until that moment that I realized that Japan's number one gambler, 'Crow,' was actually the leader of the White Crow Brigade—Shiori Urushi. This was a game of cards where life was at stake. So just as I picked up my revolver, intending to pull the trigger on my head and end my life, the leader took pity on me and asked if I wanted to join them."

"But by then I had already pulled the trigger. When I came to my senses, I realized that the pistol I was carrying was empty. I don't know when the bullets were removed. I opened my eyes and looked over, and saw a crow flying in the air, with bullets falling from its black beak."

"The leader's eyes were very calm at that time. I remained silent for a long time before finally choosing to join the guild."

A gambler's right hand came flying at him, seemingly trying to grab Anlens's suit and bow tie, but Xia Pingzhou reached out and grabbed his arm, pulled him over, bent his body slightly, and gave him a smooth over-the-shoulder throw, then used his elbow to pin him to the ground.

Although Xia Pingzhou's physical fitness was average, it was more than enough to deal with ordinary people.

"Let's go, looks like we've found our fun here tonight," Anlens smiled.

Xia Pingzhou released the gambler's right arm, stood up, and walked expressionlessly beside Anlens, like a cold-faced bodyguard. The surrounding crowd quickly made way for them, and the two soon left the brightly lit casino.

The dark iron gate closed, shutting out the noise behind them. They walked out of the silent alley and back onto the long street winding around the mountain, where soothing jazz music drifted from the café.

"Have the other team members arrived yet?" Xia Pingzhou asked. "Only Tong Zizhu, Hacker, and I have arrived. The other team members won't arrive for another two days," Anlens said, shrugging.

"It feels quite relaxed... Even though a battle of the century is supposed to happen on August 1st, everyone who was supposed to be late is still late."

Are you scared?

"It's alright..." Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly. "I just wanted to say that this operation was really big. Compared to that, the auction seemed like a small-scale operation. But we were also quite unlucky that time, running into the monsters of the Lake Hunt."

“There’s not much difference between robbers and gamblers.” Anlens shrugged. “The greater the risk, the greater the reward. Every operation is a gamble, which is why I’m happy to stay with the White Raven Brigade. On the one hand, I want to find an opportunity to continue to compete with the leader in gambling skills, and on the other hand, I enjoy the atmosphere here.”

Xia Pingzhou thought for a moment: "Actually, you could have played in the casino a little longer. Why didn't you let them check you? With your skills, even if you cheated, you wouldn't have been caught by a bunch of Muggles."

"You know why?"

"Don't want to waste time with them?"

"No... because if I don't return you, Miss will get angry at me."

As Anlens spoke, he glanced down at his watch. He and Ayase Origami had agreed that Xia Pingzhou would only be borrowed for two hours, and the time was almost up. The agreement was in black and white, and his signature was still on the cat-borrowing agreement.

“That’s true,” Xia Pingzhou said.

“Let’s go.” Anlens smiled. “Miss and Tong Zizhu are still at the Bryggen Wharf. The hacker arranged accommodation for us near the wharf. We should stay at a hotel tonight. We can also see the sea view. The rooftop there is perfect for chatting while enjoying the sea breeze. If you don’t drink alcohol, you can have orange juice.”

"Oh."

Xia Pingzhou nodded and extended his hand to him expressionlessly.

"What do you mean?"

"Bodyguard fee? I didn't come here for nothing."

Anlens paused for a moment, then shrugged helplessly: "Okay, okay, I'll have the hacker transfer it to you later."

As he spoke, he put his arm around Xia Pingzhou's shoulder and they walked back. Before long, the two arrived at the Bryggen Wharf. Xia Pingzhou glanced at the address sent by the hacker on his phone, walked to a nearby hotel, got a room key from the receptionist, and found the room empty when he opened it.

He took a shower and went to sleep. Nothing happened that night, and he ignored Anrons when he knocked on the door to ask him to drink.

The next morning, Xia Pingzhou opened his eyes on time as if he were a robot following a set program.

I drew back the curtains and peeked at the view of the fjord city. The sea at Bryggen pier shimmered in the morning sun, and birds perched on the pointed roofs of the wooden fish houses.

"Green Tea Shark".

Suddenly, he heard a call that didn't belong here, so he scanned the several perspectives in his mind and synchronized his consciousness to the third machine.

The little shark opened its eyes from inside the crystal ball and saw Li Qingping already holding the crystal ball, waiting in a corner of the dormitory. Caesar was changing clothes in front of the clothes rack.

When it raises its head, it can see Li Qingping's chin.

"What bad luck! I just woke up and all I saw was a pig's chin," the little shark muttered.

Li Qingping yawned, too lazy to pay attention to it.

“Abaguru… It’s just in time that you’ve woken up. My mother wants to see me,” Caesar said. “I don’t want to avoid it.”

“Then let’s go and meet that wicked woman,” Yagubaru said.

Caesar straightened his collar and turned to look at Li Qingping: "Speaking of which, Li Qingping, Agubaru told me the other day that there are many words similar to 'idiot' in Chinese... So what word do you think would be suitable to describe the Empress Dowager?"

“Let me think…” Li Qingping tilted his head, thought for a while with a blank expression, “‘Bitch’, I guess.”

"Bitch?"

Li Qingping nodded: "Words of praise are very suitable for Her Majesty the Empress."

“I see…” Caesar said, stepping out of the dormitory first. “Let’s go see Mother.”

Yagubalu was taken aback, then pointed at Li Qingping with his fin and shouted, "You're not allowed to teach elementary school students to talk badly! Even corrupting elementary school students has to have manners! Li Qingping, you've committed a heinous crime!"

"You've already taught the Third Prince how to curse me in Chinese, so that's not considered bad talk?" Li Qingping asked.

“Is cursing you considered bad talk?” Agubaru said. “It’s the truth.”

"Green Tea Shark".

"Miscellaneous fish and red dragon."

　Asking for a monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)