Ding dong.
Li Dapao, seeing the 10,000 yuan credited to his account, a smile appeared on his face: "Time to go gambling again!"
He walked towards the exit of the residential complex.
Li Dapao continued his walk while on the phone with Lei Jin.
"You've received the deposit. I'll come tomorrow to inspect the goods. You know me, if you try to scam me, I'll never let you go," Lei Jin's voice boomed.
"Don't worry, I, Li Dapao, keep my word," Li Dapao said proudly. "But you'd better have the rest of the money ready when the time comes!"
"This money is pocket change for me," Lei Jin replied dismissively.
In fact, if Li Dapao hadn't been castrated nine years ago, leading to a mental breakdown and an inability to escape the clutches of gambling, his wealth would rival Lei Jin's.
At this moment, Li Dapao was completely unaware that about ten meters away, a figure was silently following him.
"Truly a scumbag!" a murderous glint flickered in Yang Feilong's eyes.
His initial thought was to spare Li Dapao if he still possessed a shred of humanity. However, after overhearing Li Dapao's phone call, he changed his mind.
Such a scumbag might only find his true end in death!
Hanging up the phone, the next moment, Li Dapao felt his vision go black, then quickly return to normal. This caused Li Dapao's brows to furrow, and he touched his cheek.
"Huh? My face is healed? My hand injury seems to be healed too?" Li Dapao blinked, his face filled with excitement. "Could it be that I've awakened some kind of superpower described in novels that allows injuries to recover?"
"If that's the case, then my body might have hope of recovery too?" Li Dapao touched himself below the waist, a look of disappointment on his face, as he had been thinking too much.
"Perhaps the superpower has just awakened; there might be a chance in the future."
"Then I can rise again and become someone important!" Li Dapao's eyes sparkled.
"But for now, I'll go to the Lei Feng Casino and have a few fun rounds!"
Addicted to gambling, the only place he could find to release his emotions was the casino.
"Lei Feng Casino?" Yang Feilong raised an eyebrow.
Soon.
Full of confidence, Li Dapao left the residential complex, hailed a taxi at the roadside, and gave an address: "No. 13 Dongfeng Road."
In a secluded corner, a figure watched Li Dapao, beaming with excitement, get into the taxi, a cold smile playing on his lips.
"No. 13 Dongfeng Road?" Yang Feilong searched on his phone and found a Lei Feng Billiards Club there: "It seems this place is a front for something else."
Yang Feilong's eyes flickered, his mind racing with thoughts.
"Dying in a casino is your best end!" a cruel glint flashed in Yang Feilong's eyes.
Killing was not his desire, but Li Dapao, using his controllable mental illness to commit wicked deeds and escape the law, couldn't be sent to prison now. However, to save those good people he might harm, it was better to send him on his way!
Soon, Yang Feilong arrived at a tobacco and liquor store and bought a bottle of high-proof baijiu.
He bought the baijiu not as an excuse, but because of his physical condition and the great expenditure of energy today, he needed this strong spirit to replenish himself. Sending Li Dapao on his way was merely a convenience; he had thought the man had already left.
Originally, Yang Feilong hadn't intended to let him go, but since he had left, he had neither the time nor the energy to search for him. However, upon hearing that he had treated Luo Yujiao like merchandise to be sold, it had ignited Yang Feilong's rage and murderous intent, so Yang Feilong decided to send him on his way!
...
Lan Hai City.
Lei Feng Billiards Club.
On the surface, it was a high-end billiards club, but in reality, the basement was a casino. With the government cracking down on gambling dens, they had to be as hidden as possible. However, being too secretive made it difficult to attract customers. By using the guise of a billiards club, the Lei Feng Casino had a considerable clientele.
Of course, one needed an introduction from someone they knew to get in.
"Well, isn't this Boss Li?"
"Boss Li is here to gamble again."
"How much is Boss Li planning to win this time?"
Many people recognized Li Dapao. After all, he was a frequent visitor to the casino.
In fact, Li Dapao was a regular at many casinos. He used to frequent them in his hometown, but after gambling away his family fortune, he moved to Lan Hai City, because he could still get money from his daughter.
In more than half a year, he had extorted seventy to eighty thousand yuan from his daughter.
This time, because he could no longer get any money from his daughter and had even been beaten, he thought of selling his wife.
Of course, he knew it was illegal, but both he and that Lei Jin were confident they could force Luo Yujiao to comply, as they knew what she feared most.
Li Dapao walked into the casino with a smile, and the compliments he heard made him feel elated.
He loved hearing people flatter him the most because it made him feel like a celebrity.
After his "thing" became unusable, he constantly sought thrills, and gambling was the activity that allowed him to feel the joy of life the most.
Li Dapao's favorite game was "Zha Jin Hua" (Exploding Flowers), because it tested one's courage, and he believed he had plenty of it. Moreover, he often won at this game; the joy of winning money was something ordinary people couldn't experience.
He exchanged all the ten thousand yuan in his phone for chips.
In the past, he would exchange only half, saving the rest for gambling the next day, as he knew his daughter couldn't earn that much money every day!
But thinking that another 290,000 yuan would be deposited tomorrow, he had no reservations.
"Boss Li's luck is really good today!"
"You've already won twenty to thirty thousand today, haven't you?"
"Roughly, maybe more than twenty to thirty thousand!"
Li Dapao's face flushed with excitement. He felt his luck was turning. He had won many times before, but never as smoothly as this, winning continuously with few losses, and his losses were only the minimum bet.
Whenever he had good cards, he would win big, always having a slightly better hand than others.
In a blink of an eye, the chips around him had surpassed one hundred thousand!
"Could it be that my decision to sell my wife has moved the heavens, and they've given me a cheat code?" Li Dapao thought gleefully. "I've already won a hundred thousand?"
Suddenly, he glanced at his next hand of cards.
His heart skipped a beat: "Three Kings! It's the legendary top-tier hand!"
"Let's see if I can win even bigger this hand!"
In Zha Jin Hua, the highest hand is a "baozi" (leopard), meaning three cards of the same rank. Among baozis, three Aces are the highest, followed by three Kings.
There were eight people at the table.
Generally, after looking at their cards, some people, lacking confidence in their hands, would fold.
Li Dapao had won the previous round, and he was the dealer. Without changing his expression, he folded the smallest possible bet, adding one hundred yuan to the pot.
"Two hundred." The second player tossed in two hundred, indicating a raise of one hundred, meaning the players behind him had to contribute at least 200 yuan to the pot.
The remaining six players also matched the two hundred.
This delighted Li Dapao: "This is the first time no one folded their cards in the first round! Looks like I'm going to win a massive amount this time!"
He then added another five hundred.
"Boss Li, your good luck has run out," the second player said with a smile, directly tossing in one thousand yuan, raising the bet again.
To everyone's astonishment, no one folded. They all matched the one thousand, and the pot now exceeded ten thousand yuan, a sum that was clearly going to increase further.