CH 20

Chapter 20: Stone Gamble – Part 1

The Stone Gambling Association responded very quickly and immediately dispatched the branch managers stationed on Kipola to Gambling Stone Street to conduct a pre-match review.

Wang Xun is the president of the Stone Gambling Association Kipola branch. The vice president Qian Sen came with him. Once the pre-match review is passed, Wang Xun and Qian Sen will act as the judge and arbiters of the stone gambling battle to ensure fairness.

The two wore clothes made of black special materials, and there was a dark green jade-like badge on their chests, representing their identities.

“Who is the challenger?”

“It’s me! Yuan HongTao.” The middle-aged man strode out and reported his name and ID.

“Who is the challenged?”

Lin Luo also reported his name and ID.

Wang Xun looked at this young man and was a little surprised. He looked like he was still underage. He couldn’t believe that he was really an expert in gambling.

“Are you sure you want to accept his challenge?” At Yuan HongTao’s age and experience, challenging a fledgling newcomer in stone gambling is really more like bullying. What’s more, it’s even the kind of harsh bet where if Lin Luo loses his future on the road of jadeite gambling will end before it even begins.

“I’m sure.” Lin Luo showed a small smile.

Wang Xun sighed, and according to the wishes of the two, went through the registration procedures for the stone betting on the light brain.

“Then both parties are invited to choose the jadeite for the competition.”

“He already has his jadeite.” Yuan HongTao said with a sneer. “Now I only need to choose my two.”

After hearing this, Wang Xun frowned slightly. He thought that Lin Luo had prepared the jadeite for the challenge in advance. This would be a bit unfair to Yuan HongTao, who is currently choosing jadeite.

“Can you take out the jadeite and show it to us?” Qian Sen also felt wrong, and decided to check Lin Luo’s jadeite first.

Xing Mo took the remaining two scraps from the space button.

“This, this is your challenge jadeite?!” When the two looked at it, they were suddenly shocked. Isn’t this too trivial?

After Lin Luo briefly described what had happened before, the two realized that this turned out to be a stone gambling battle from scraps.

This kind of stone gambling is very rare, and the two immediately contacted the headquarters of the stone gambling association with their light brains to inform them of the situation here.

The headquarters did not expect that this would be that type of battle, but since both sides agreed the stone gambling was in compliance with the regulations, so the headquarters approved the holding of this stone gambling battle.

Next, it was Yuan HongTao’s stone selection time. Everyone came to Xing Mo’s shop and asked Yuan HongTao to look for his competition jadeite in the scraps.

Unfortunately, the look of these scraps was not very good. In the end, Yuan HongTao could only choose two large pieces of jadeite that seemed to have a green yellow sand matrix.

Now that the jadeite for both sides has been selected, they can start the stone gambling battle immediately. They happen to be on the spacious Stone Cutters’ Plaza at the center of Gambling Stone Street, and there are several cutting machines that can allow people to cut at the same time.

The news that Yuan HongTao and Lin Luo were going to wage a stone gambling battle had spread quickly, so when the group came to Stone Cutters’ Plaza it was already crowded with people, and there were still many people on their way.

Lin Luo and Yuan HongTao came to the center of Stone Cutters’ Plaza, and each chose a cutting and sanding machine.

Wang Xun opened the light brain’s Holographic recording mode, and then said loudly, “Today, on behalf of the Stone Gambling Association, I hereby witness the stone gambling match between Yuan HongTao and Lin Luo, two stone gambling experts. The bet is 200,000 credits, and the loser will quit professional stone gambling. I will ask you again now whether you accept the above conditions.”

“I accept!”

“Okay, I announce that the stone gambling match has begun!”

In order to ensure the fairness and justice of stone gambling challenges, every stone gambling challenge is broadcast live in holographic mode on the website of the Stone Gambling Association.

It’s just that there are at least a dozen stone gambling games in the entire empire every day. Stone gambling games by little-known stone gambling experts like Yuan HongTao and Lin Luo do not usually attract people’s attention.

However, this is a stone gambling game with scraps. People rarely see such a stone gambling game. So after Wang Xun announced the start of the stone gambling game, the number of people on the StarNet site began to rise sharply, and it didn’t take long for it to exceed 100 million while still rising.

After seeing the battle jadeite used by the two sides, the barrage on the live page was flying all over the sky. People felt that this kind of garbage jadeite was not necessary to watch, and it was a waste of their time.

However these things that happened on StarNet did not affect Lin Luo and Yuan HongTao, they had already begun to cut the stones.

The first thing Lin Luo wanted to cut was the sixth piece of scrap he bought. This piece of jadeite was made of white salt sand skin, weighing about 3 kilograms [1], and showing an irregular shape, which looked a bit like a triangle.

The outer matrix of this jadeite is fine and smooth, just like packed salt grains, which often represents the transparency of the jade inside it. But the problem is that there is a layer of black tinea scabs on its surface. The type of tinea scabs shown easily enters the jadeite and affects the jade quality.

And on the edge of the black tinea scabs, there is also a kind of scattered cracks. This type of cracking is usually called chicken claws and is usually considered to have a great impact on jade.

Combining these elements, there is almost a 90% chance that this piece of jadeite will be a loss.

However, Lin Luo had already used his special ability to confirm that the inside of this piece of jadeite was absolutely green. The development time of the chicken feet might not have been long, and it has not been able to affect the jade inside. In addition, that layer of black tinea scabs is actually a prickly spot.

Black tinea scabs is very similar to prickly spots. The former is harmful to the quality of jade, while the latter may indicate the existence of green in the quality of jade.

Lin Luo still chose to use a sanding wheel to polish the stone first, and opened a window at the spot where the prickly spot was. As expected, a faint green appeared.

“Green! It’s green!”

Someone screamed excitedly, but it did not arouse everyone’s attention. After all, it is normal for the skin to be green under black tinea scabs, and the exposed green looks very pale. It is estimated that the quality of jade is not much better.

Lin Luo continued to rub the stone, this time he aimed at the direction of the chicken feet.

After rubbing away the position of the chicken feet, a small piece of jade was exposed.

“Ahhh! It’s broken!”

“Such trash jadeite, what can you do but get rid of it?”

“That’s right! Don’t give show me this kind of jadeite for nothing!”

Whether it is the crowd watching around, or the audience watching the live broadcast of the gambling on the star network, they all expressed their dissatisfaction with Lin Luo.

But Lin Luo knew that the impact of this crack on the internal jade quality would end here, and continued to grind the stone without hassle.

Of course, the speed of grinding stones is not as fast as cutting stones, and the result is not as flashy as cutting stones. People gradually became impatient and gathered to Yuan HongTao’s side.

It’s just that some people stayed. They were all the people who had watched Lin Luo in Shi Quan’s shop before. They had witnessed Lin Luo’s three big wins. They had high expectations for this ordinary-looking teenager.

The yellow sand matrix stone that Yuan HongTao was working on had a relatively large size, so he started to cut it directly with the chrome knife. After three consecutive cuts, he had only cut a quarter of the jadeite that was about 20 kilograms [2]. White mist appeared on the remaining quarter of the cut surface.

“It has gone up in value!” In the eyes of other people, the white mist is a good sign, and there is a 80% chance it can be green.

Yuan HongTao immediately sped up the movements of his hands, ground away the white mist with the grinding wheel, and could see the jade under the mist layer. It is a gray-green bean jade. If you put it up against the usual low-grade jade it’s naturally not very good, but this is from the scraps, which makes it already a small win.

He believed that Lin Luo’s scrap would go bust, so even if it was just a gray-green bean seed, he should win.

Just when Yuan HongTao’s face was full of joy and he was about to take out the remaining jade, he heard a scream of changed tone from Lin Luo’s side.

“Blue hibiscus jade! It’s a blue hibiscus jade [3]!!”

As the name suggests, blue-green or blue-gray jadeite are distributed in irregular patterns. Although the energy structure of such jadeite is slightly disordered, the elemental energy contained in it is quite rich. Those experienced intermediate and high-level energy engineers can use mental power to sort out the energy structure and extract a large amount of elemental energy from it, which also makes the value of this piece of jade sharply increased.

“Impossible! This is impossible! It must be just skin color!” Yuan HongTao’s eyes were almost red. How could that kind of trash jadeite produce blue hibiscus jade?!

But no matter how he refuses to believe it, the fact remains the truth.

Lin Luo took out 1.5 kilograms of blue-green jadeite from this piece of jadeite weighing less than 3 kilograms.

Yuan HongTao’s gray-green bean jade is only a little over 1 kilogram.

In this first game, it is clear who wins and who loses.

===========Author’s Notes===========

The author has something to say: two hours of awkward talk on blind dates, an awkward meal… I feel embarrassed…

Today, I’m going out with Ma Ma to buy some New Year goods. There is no second watch today, so I don’t have to wait.

===========Little Theater===========

[Little Theater on Moshang]

Xing Xiaomo: The daughter-in-law did not go home, the baby came out to catch the daughter-in-law.

In charge: Boy, you have the ability to play in the gym, and have the ability to fight!

Lin Xiaoluo: The baby is so wronged, but the baby should still make your appointment.

Xing Xiaomo: Huh? Someone bullied my daughter-in-law?

Lin Xiaoluo: Xing Xiaomo, he said I smashed his place! This is wrong! Although I’m here to do things, I didn’t mess up his place. Wasn’t his place still the same, it’s broken. You said, how good will I make him in this gambling battle? But if he hates him so much, I’d better go all out.

Xing Xiaomo: It’s good for the wife to open the Sen, and the others are not important.

Who cares: Hey! Do you still have me in your eyes? !

===========Translator’s Corner===========

[1] 3 kilo = 6.6 lbs = 5 catties

[2] 20 kilo = 44.1 lbs = 33.3 catties

[3] probably looks like this: