Chapter 123: Chapter 123: Central Roulette, you really think you wouldn’t get called?

After realizing all this, Xie Antong slightly furrowed her brows. If that’s the case, it seemed like she couldn’t think of a good solution either.

And even if “Sin” really had the power to break the rules and forcefully kill Li Wei, it didn’t seem to make much of a difference.

Because aside from possibly being punished by the Game, it would only make everyone even more terrified of him, and there’d be no way to make any bets.

That would turn into a deadlock—unless he could find some loophole in the existing setup of the casino.

Or was he really just counting on luck? Could a Hell Mode Game truly be decided purely by luck?

There was no time to overthink it. Besides, after last time, her impression of “Sin” wasn’t great either.

After keeping an eye on “Li Wei,” she went back to her star-earning plan in full force.

And now, Li Wei wasn’t even playing any of the games. He had quite a few Stars on him—five, to be exact!

But he didn’t seem the least bit anxious, wandering around the field chatting with people.

“What?” The person he approached looked wary, staring at the Tiandihui member in front of them.

“The built-in games here are pointless. Winning or losing is all up to luck. And this is Hell Mode—you don’t seriously think just playing the games here is gonna get you out, do you?”

Leaning against the wall, Li Wei looked completely at ease, like he had the rules of this Game memorized.

“......”

Everyone he approached was at a loss for words. They all knew how Hell Mode worked, and judging by the identity guessing from the first game, one slip-up without seeing the truth could get you wrecked.

“So what?”

“So the whole point of this game is to make us turn on each other—gamble, kill. The loser is damned forever, the winner gets everything.”

“Did you forget what the Strongest Player said? If you stick around, he’s not gonna go easy.”

“In this Game, everyone’s your competition. Kill or be killed.”

The moment he mentioned the Strongest Player, people always flinched. They weren’t like Li Wei—none of them wanted to mess with that guy.

Li Wei continued:

“That’s why the key to this game is alliance. Look over there—those two are clearly teamed up.” He pointed to Jiu Tian and Yan Hong in the distance.

“I think we should try forming a private alliance. I’ll set up a bigger game in a bit, and we can work together behind the scenes to profit off others.”

“But...” The person Li Wei approached clearly hesitated.

But Li Wei was calm and persuasive. He wasn’t in any rush. Even if they didn’t bite, he’d just wander around the area and look for the next one.

He cast a wide net and had a sharp eye for people.

He mostly picked those with only one or zero Stars—people in despair. Or he went for the ones with over three Stars, who thought highly of themselves but were still cautious and afraid to lose.

Basically, he targeted both the top and bottom ends.

Most of the middle group—those who started with two Stars and were too afraid to quit, or those with three trying to win big—had little interest in high-stakes betting.

They were like little stars scattered across the place, gambling on luck—like that guy in green at the start, who kept pinning his hopes on the slot machine.

They were the main users of the casino’s game machines.

And the one playing with this group... was Lu Ce!

Don’t get it twisted—it wasn’t a gamble, just playing on one of the machines.

Lu Ce was on his own at the moment. All eight Fake Humans had scattered, roaming freely.

His previous bet was on “Unwavering Love,” but that didn’t mean he had turned them into private property.

In other words, they were still Fakes—Fake Humans with Stars who could participate in the Game.

“Sin” didn’t need them to protect anything anyway.

Right now, Lu Ce was in front of the largest machine in the center of the hall.

It was one of those really common casino games, just an upgraded version. Basically, a massive roulette wheel with hundreds of grooves.

Each groove had its own complex multiplier formula. When the wheel spun, a small ball would drop and bounce between the grooves.

Where it landed would determine the result.

At the moment, there were six or seven people standing in front of the roulette wheel, Lu Ce included. But the others were all trying to keep their distance from him.

Click!

The spring inside Lu Ce’s arm brace snapped out in an instant, piercing through his arm!

【Chosen of Agony, Pain Points +3!】

The Chosen of Agony activated again. Normally it would be a wonderful sound, but Lu Ce wasn’t thrilled this time.

Because the blood oozing out made him super uncomfortable, and the side effect of his OCD kicked in hard. He kept wiping and wiping.

“Ugh, what a hassle. Can’t you make this thing a little more leak-proof?”

He muttered irritably while glancing at the Slime in the distance.

Seeing Lu Ce fail and get a nail through the arm gave the other players a strange sense of satisfaction—even if they didn’t dare show it on the surface.

There’s nothing people love more than watching a god fall from grace.

And it gave them confidence—if the casino’s machines were fair, then even the Strongest Player couldn’t cheat.

So before the next round began, five or six players were nervously fidgeting, mentally praying to win big.

Lu Ce casually picked another groove.

Then, he looked over at a chubby guy nearby—someone who had tried (and failed) to hide a smirk earlier when Lu Ce got hurt.

Lu Ce grinned, looked right at him, and casually pointed at a groove. He said:

“Next time, the ball’s gonna land here. Bet on this one.”

Fatty: ?

He gave “Sin” a confused look, then quickly lowered his head and muttered something incoherent, placing his bets on two other grooves. He didn’t follow Lu Ce’s advice.

Like hell he would—did Lu Ce forget he just got nailed in the hand?

Plus, if Lu Ce wasn’t betting on that groove himself, why the hell should he?

When Fatty didn’t follow his tip, the smile behind the Lust Mask grew wider and wider.

The wheel started spinning, the ball dropped, and bounced around, making a rhythmic “ding-ding-ding” sound that hit everyone right in the nerves.

Everyone who placed a bet stared at the roulette wheel, faces all twisted in anxiety, hearts pounding.

Gradually, the wheel slowed down. The ball bounced a few more times, and finally landed in a groove.

—The exact groove Lu Ce had told Fatty to bet on!

Fatty: ?!