Chapter 269 Human Skin Poker
For the vast majority of people.
Zhou Xingsen’s life is a standard happy life.
He has a decent job, his parents are healthy, his wife Tong Yuai is beautiful and virtuous, his son Zhou Xiaobao is sensible and cute, and he himself does not have any bad habits.
But Zhou Xingsen doesn’t feel happy.
He felt that this kind of life was too ordinary and boring, and he could see it all at a glance. He wanted to try something more exciting, something he had been trying to stay away from on the road to success.
For example... gambling!
Since so many people are addicted to it, the taste of gambling must be wonderful.
?But he didn’t want to throw away his current life, so he just thought about it. If there were no accidents, he would never go too far in his life.
Happily, it was that accident.
After escaping from the blessed land, Zhou Xingsen received the blessing of "willing to accept defeat when gambling". The ability to bless is literal. If Zhou Xingsen participates in a fair gambling game, the loser must pay the bet.
If this blessing falls into Wu Xian''s hands, he can use it to his advantage.
?But Zhou Xingsen regarded this blessing as a revelation to encourage him to gamble. Anyway, his life was already precarious, so why should he continue to live a rigid life as before?
parents?
Work?
?Wife and children?
?Zhou Xingsen put all this behind him and started playing bad gambling like crazy.
Until this stage.
?Zhou Xingsen is not a disaster. At most, his wife wants to divorce him.
??There are many dependents whose life trajectories have been changed by the blessed land. One more than him is not much, one less than him is not much. Isn''t even Wu Xian ruined?
But the second blessed land he experienced completely changed him.
??He used his willingness to admit defeat in gambling to grant blessings, and helped the team defeat a powerful gambler in the blessed land. After leaving the blessed land, he successfully obtained Taoism and brought out a jar for raising imps.
After returning home.
?Zhou Xingsen continued gambling as usual, but soon felt that the excitement was not enough.
Because his blessing only made people unable to default on their debts and did not increase his gambling skills, he still lost seven out of ten bets. Then he thought of the ''gambler'' he met in the blessed land!
?The gambler can use magic to win every bet...can he do the same?
So he learned the gambler''s method.
??After some twists and turns, a pair of human skin playing cards were made, offered in a small ghost jar, offered sacrifices in a shrine, and wrapped in red cloth...
From then on, Zhou Xingsen always won every bet.
??But as he went astray, the gods no longer favored him, and the blessings disappeared, replaced by an evil physique that could turn the ghosts of gambling losers into ''gamblers''.
Those who bet with him and lose will become gamblers. Gamblers still have self-awareness before seeing the sun for the first time, but once they see the sun, they will be enslaved by him forever.
?And Zhou Xingsen himself became less and less human.
The strange power was bewitching him in the dark. The human skin poker was both in the shrine and in his skin, and the voice came from under his skin.
?His character is getting weirder and weirder.
Things that were avoided in the past are now flocked to, and everything from the spirit to the body is transforming into inhuman things.
??Deceiving Tong Yuai to be killed in a blessed place was his idea at this time. He even felt that this was a kindness to Tong Yuai, and it was better than letting her turn into a gambler.
Until last night.
Zhou Xingsen suddenly woke up to his son''s cry.
He realized that he was gradually turning into a monster, so he accelerated the frequency of gambling and wanted to use the blood of losers to satisfy his human skin poker and slow down the speed of his transformation...
?In fact, the so-called repentance is just his illusion. After choosing to feed ghosts with one''s body, the end will only be deeper and deeper. How can there be such a thing as a prodigal son turning back?
So he lost…
“Ah…ah…”
?Zhou Xingsen groaned in pain, and the cards were slowly squirming under his skin.
?Wu Xian stepped back slowly and cautiously, holding a poker in his hand. This poker card has three true fire spells imprinted on it. If he really wants to fight Zhou Xingsen hand-to-hand, he can only rely on this poker card.
"ha…"
Finally, Zhou Xingsen''s strange changes stopped.
??The temperature in the room dropped by an unknown number of degrees, and Zhou Xingsen no longer felt alive. He blew out a puff of black smoke from his mouth and stared at Wu Xian greedily. He had completely melted away.
“Let’s play another round of gambling. This time I will use my gambling equipment. You decide what you want to play. The bet is your life and mine!”
Following Zhou Xingsen’s words, pieces of his skin fell off, forming a pair of flesh-colored human skin playing cards.
?Wu Xian was surprised to find that the further he walked back, the closer he got to the gambling table. If he wanted to go in the opposite direction, he would really move forward. No matter what he chose, he would get closer and closer to the gambling table.
?Wu Xian was shocked.
?? Could it be that Zhou Xingsen’s gambling invitation was regular after he was transformed into a ghost?
If this is the case, then Wu Xian can only continue to rely on Lao Chen’s help...
Old Chen…
?Wu Xian was startled again, because he discovered that Lao Chen had disappeared from some unknown time.
“Young boy...are you looking for me?”
An old voice came faintly from the ground.
?Wu Xian looked down and saw an elongated, flat and twisted face!
?No wonder Wu Xian was always approaching the gambling table no matter how he walked. It turned out that the old Chen was stuck on the ground, squirming like a conveyor belt, which made Wu Xian unable to stay away from the room.
"It seems that ninety dollars is still too little. Please don''t be too stingy when entrusting people with work."
Lao Chen is Zhou Xingsen''s gambler after all, and he can only make him change his mind for a period of time. Lao Chen''s roots are still with Zhou Xingsen. With Zhou Xingsen''s complete depravity, it is normal for the control to change.
In addition, Lao Chen''s rebellion made Wu Xian relieved.
?The ghost turned into the floor and people couldn''t escape. Although it was scary, it showed that Zhou Xingsen''s gambling invitation was not regular, which made Zhou Xingsen''s performance plummet.
But this discovery was not of much help to Wu Xian at this time.
This is how people gamble with evil spirits.
People can defeat ghosts once or twice with their ingenuity, but they cannot win all the time. If they lose once, they will fall into a situation that will never be recovered.
?While Wu Xian was thinking about whether to use the real fire spell to make a wave, he suddenly saw a ferocious face flashing across the window opposite.
?So he hesitated for two seconds and sat across from Zhou Xingsen.
?Zhou Xingsen asked with a grim smile: "Have you decided what to play this time? Are you still going to play poker tower? I won''t lose to you this time."
?Wu Xian thought for a while, smiled and said to Zhou Xingsen, "Just play it and never look back."
?Zhou Xingsen was stunned for a moment: "Don''t look back?"
“Yes, the rule is very simple, whoever looks back first loses.”
??Although Zhou Xingsen was suspicious, he still agreed to Wu Xian''s request. With three gamblers here, he had a hundred ways to win in this simple bet, a full hundred ways!
He looked at Wu Xian solemnly and said.
“Then now, let’s get started!”
At the moment when the gambling game begins.
Hurrah!
The window behind Zhou Xingsen was broken.
(End of this chapter)