Train Survival: I Can Evolve Everything!
Chapter 368: Betting, Making Money"It's fine, you'll succeed sooner or later."
Zhao Lin chuckled, standing directly in front of Ye Qiyan, though her gaze kept drifting toward Lisette.
"Brother Qiyan, I didn't get a chance to ask last time... who is this big sister?"
"She's a maid, of course. What do you think, jealous?"
Zhao Lin blinked, her expression turning slightly complicated.
Right now, among the roughly two thousand remaining Train Conductors from their batch in this Sector, the vast majority were living in dire straits.
Only a very small portion, like her, Shangguan Yingxue, and Zhao An, could be said to have gained some measure of security and confidence.
But...
Looking at the black-haired young man before her, and recalling everything that had happened before...
However, Zhao Lin quickly shook her head, casting the emotions in her heart aside.
["No, what am I thinking nonsense about? Trying to surpass Brother Qiyan is something only fools like Li Xiaosheng and Zhao An, who know nothing, would even consider..."]
["Not being able to catch up is only natural. Besides, I'm already lucky enough. I've gained power called a Card Sequence and joined the Imperial Sequence Organization... At least... I'm a bit closer than others, right?"]
Seeing Zhao Lin standing there in a daze, Ye Qiyan was somewhat puzzled.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Ah, n-n-nothing, nothing at all! Oh right, Brother Qiyan! That, I..."
Zhao Lin bit her lip, took a deep breath, glanced around, stood on tiptoe, leaned close to Ye Qiyan's ear, and whispered in a very small voice:
"I, I joined, that..."
"I know."
"Huh?"
"Haven't you looked at the member list in the Public Chat Room? I mean, the organization's chat room."
"No... I haven't really looked..."
Zhao Lin's face flushed red all the way to her ears.
She had wanted to tell Ye Qiyan about this as a surprise.
She never expected that he already knew long ago.
"Gambit, right?"
"You know about that too..."
Ye Qiyan gave a mysterious smile.
"I know a lot of things. You have a lot to learn. Oh right, I almost forgot to ask you, how's your luck right now?"
"It's good luck."
Zhao Lin said with absolute certainty.
"Actually, I can now initially control the alternation between good luck and misfortune a little bit."
"For example, if this stop is good luck, I can reduce the luck of the stop after the next one, which in turn weakens the misfortune at the next stop a bit. It's like, well... an interest-free loan."
Good luck is fine.
That's exactly what we need.
"Let's go, let's go, I'll take you to make some money."
And so, when Zhao Lin, understanding nothing, placed random bets in the arena and ended up winning a full seven hundred thousand, which converted to over seven hundred Train Coins worth of Garden Coins...
The arena manager completely lost his composure.
"How can someone keep winning bets?! Are you kidding me?!"
You have to understand, the bets in this arena weren't simply about victory or defeat, but all sorts of extremely bizarre and specific outcomes.
For example, how many bones the loser would break on the winner, with random choices from zero to a hundred.
Such extremely low-probability events were precisely what Zhao Lin kept hitting.
If it weren't for the upper-level constraints of the Hanging Gardens limiting single bets in this arena to no more than 1000 Garden Coins, with Zhao Lin's luck betting the maximum, she might have made the arena's bookmakers lose their shirts.
Later on, even the people in the arena started placing bets following Zhao Ling's choices.
In a short time, they had already lost who knows how many Train Coins.
And as the mastermind behind all this...
Ye Qiyan was currently calmly converting the Garden Coins he had earned into Train Coins through the exchange house and packing them into his backpack.
"Brother Qiyan... I, we... won't get beaten up, will we...?"
Making money this way...
Zhao Lin had actually thought about it before.
After all, with her time at the Luck Station, earning any amount shouldn't be too much.
But she didn't dare.
Before entering the Wasteland, she often saw TV shows and stories about people who won big at gambling but couldn't take the money away, ending up with their legs broken.
If Ye Qiyan weren't here, occasionally placing one or two small bets to earn a little pocket money would be one thing, but now...
She looked fearfully at the large, aggressive-looking group of men and women outside the exchange house and instinctively took a few steps back.
"Brother Qiyan... people..."
Putting the last Train Coin into his possession.
He calmly slung his backpack over his shoulder and looked placidly at the approaching group.
"Can I help you?"
The leader was a man who had changed his race to Dwarf.
He was holding a large hammer, leading a group of burly men blocking the entrance in great anger.
"Bastard! How dare you cheat in my place! Hand over the money! Otherwise, I'll make sure you never set foot in the Wasteland again!"
The surrounding people were all waiting for the show to begin.
Some had indeed notified the Judgement Department to intervene, but until they arrived...
No one would interfere.
And so.
The corner of Ye Qiyan's mouth turned up, and he snapped his fingers lightly.
An Armament Space opened behind the group.
The pure white mech, carrying Divine Core Shields, emerged from within.
With one impact, the people blocking the entrance were instantly sent flying into the air.
"Don't damage the Exchange House. We'd have to pay for it."
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"What happened here?"
When the Judgement Department squad arrived and saw the scene before them—someone sitting on a pure white mech and a group of men and women lying motionless below...
The arena manager hurriedly ran out from the crowd, tears and snot streaming as he threw himself before the squad leader.
"Sir, Sir, you must uphold justice for us! These two, relying on being high-level Train Conductors, openly cheated in the arena! They won over a thousand Train Coins from us in a row!"
"We, we!"
"Oh? It's you."
The squad leader ignored the manager, stepping around him and walking straight up to Ye Qiyan, who was standing beside the Scoundrel, to greet him.
Gong Feiyu.
A member of the Judgement Department.
They had met during Ye Qiyan's last visit to the Hanging Gardens.
"So, what exactly happened here? Even though we know each other, if you did something wrong, you'll still face punishment."
Ye Qiyan put his hands in his jacket pockets.
He opened his mouth slightly and spoke in a tone that made one very much want to believe him:
"I didn't cheat. I was just placing normal bets with a friend. If we're really talking about cheating, it should be them."
The manager's mind froze, his brain involuntarily flooding with memories of him and his underlings secretly rigging the matches in the past.
But once such a thing was admitted, it would be a point of no return; he would have no place left in the Hanging Gardens.
"N-no, not me, I!"
"See, he said it himself. 'No, no, it's me, me~' Miss Gong, hurry up and take him away. There are still quite a few Train Conductors in this arena. If we let this kind of person cause more trouble, it will affect the arena's business."
Within the arena.
No one disbelieved.
Even the manager himself.
Believed this "fact."
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