10 Easy Money

The fat man at the side sneered as he thought Long Yu wanted to leave.

"Hah! As expected of a crippled newbie, withdrawing after just one win. What a coward." He said out loud.

Long Yu did not even glance at that loser as he sat at a blackjack table that had no players.

The reason he wanted to play alone was because it makes it easier for him to use the x-ray ability. Playing with other players requires him to read multiple cards on the deck beforehand, not to mention counting their hand values.

It might also mess up his chance of him winning as he could not predict the amount of 'hits' that other players wanted.

"Dealer, please start the game," Long Yu said politely.

The dealer of the table nodded and proceeded to shuffle the deck. Once it was done and the deck was placed onto the table, Long Yu immediately activated the x-ray ability.

He quickly read the figures on the first few cards and counted the possible hand values between him and the dealer.

Predicting that he would win this game, Long Yu placed the maximum bet that was allowed in this casino, $5000.

The dealer was a bit shocked when he saw Long Yu splitting half of his chips and sliding it towards him.

'Only a professional gambler or a madman would place such a high stake. Unfortunately, this young man seems to be the latter,' he thought to himself.

A few moments later, a total of $10,000 worth of chips could be seen sliding back to Long Yu's side of the blackjack table.

Seeing this, Long Yu could not help but grin. With the casino's 1 to 1 payout, earning money with the x-ray ability was way too easy.

...

Two and a half hours later.

A young man could be seen sitting at a blackjack table, with many spectators standing around him.

On the table in front of him was multiple high stacks of golden coloured chips. What was important was that, written on each golden chip were $1000!

Long Yu glanced at the x-ray activation timer on the top right of his vision.

[Activation duration left: 7 minutes 05 seconds.

It seems he would have to call it a night. Long Yu deactivated the x-ray ability and felt the small wave of dizziness as usual.

It wasn't as much of a discomfort as before since he had gotten used to it. During his gambling session, he paced himself and only activated the ability when he needed to.

It was effective as it not only conserved activation time, but also helped mitigate the dizziness.

Long Yu collected his chips and left the blackjack table that he was sitting at. The crowd of spectators that were surrounding him moved and gave way, as he carried the tray of chips with him.

As he was walking towards the 'exchangechips' counter, he took a glance at the activation timer again.

'Oh well, what the heck. I guess I'll finish it up since I can buy another pair, once I exchange these chips for money,' he thought to himself.

Long Yu had actually wanted to test the x-ray ability in an environment with people. Using the ability in an enclosed room and in public was two different things.

While he was playing blackjack, he could only focus on the cards in order to reduce the usage of brainpower.

Besides, he felt a little playful since he had just won more than 300,000 yuan worth of chips. This was more than two times the amount he earned from 10 days of scavenging.

Having made up his mind, he activated the ability and his vision changed instantly. This time, he did not restrict the region of the ability but widened it to the limits of his sight instead.

He paused his movement and looked around him. He could see a lot of interesting as well as unpleasant things.

Layers of mechanism could be seen inside the slot machines. Furthermore, he also saw a similar type of mechanism hidden under the Russian roulette tables.

Long Yu had a hunch that these mechanisms was what kept players from winning. But since he had no intention of playing those games, he turned his attention to somewhere else instead.

A frown appeared on his face as his x-ray ability swept the people around him. He saw many men and women in their underwear walking around.

Long Yu quickly blocked the x-ray vision from affecting the women since he wanted to be a gentleman.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be a bad idea, as the x-ray effect on the men accidentally strengthened at the same time.

Long Yu had to stop himself from throwing up when he saw the various little snakes dangling below the men's messy forests.

He was even more traumatised when he saw that some men, who were gambling, were so agitated that their snakes were standing up.

'"That was too scary. I must be more careful next time," he murmured as he deactivated the x-ray ability at once.

Long Yu picked up the pace as he walked towards counter, as if trying to escape the unpleasant experience.

...…

Xiao Lan was shocked as she looked at the young man walking towards her. Her sight however, was currently focused on the tray in his hands.

She felt like she was dreaming. To think that the innocent looking young man that she felt worried for, turned out to have such godly gambling skills.

One must know that winning hundreds of thousands in a casino with just 10,000 yuan, especially in only a few hours, is an impossible feat even for professional gamblers.

"Hi miss, can I please trouble you to exchange these chips for cash?"

Xiao Lan awoke from her daze when she heard Long Yu, who just arrived in front of her.

"Ah, of course! Please wait for a moment sir," she quickly composed herself and said.

Xiao Lan counted the chips professionally before adding up the sum with a calculator.

365,000 yuan.

Although she had already roughly deduced the amount just by looking at the number of chips, she was still shocked to see the figure.

Upon confirming the figure, Xiao Lan unlocked the cash box to collect the needed amount of cash. To her dismay, she found that they were coincidentally short 450 yuan.