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Chapter 455 "Big Gamble" Ending: The Peak Rich Man!
The elevator carried Jiang Qian, leaving the devastated hub floor behind and staggering upwards...

Concrete walls and the vague skeleton of a building flashed past the damaged elevator door, and finally, it stopped after a rapid jolt.

At this time, the floor displayed is the 11th floor, also known as: Peak Casino.

这让姜潜产生了几个瞬间的闪回：从1层的赌场淘金，到2层的阵营对赌，到2~7层的客房迷宫、9~10层的安全屋监禁，再回到揭示真相的8层枢纽，直至这位于顶点的11层。

From simply gambling chips and winning or losing, to gambling on wits, trust, and lives...

The "Big Gamble" copy allows every passerby to witness the complexity of human nature and the fickleness of human hearts.

At the same time, it also reveals to everyone the real "chips": the confidence to plan, the wisdom to see the truth, the power to unite people's hearts, and the determination to perform steadily.

So, what is the bet on in this final round leading to victory?

Jiang Qian collected his thoughts.

Whatever was about to come, he was ready.

As the elevator doors opened to both sides, the dazzling light from the spotlights quickly filled Jiang Qian's field of vision on the pitch-black floor.

In the center of his field of vision was a low-key, luxurious, angular black marble table. His only rival, Bai Xiaoxi, was already sitting leisurely on one side of the long table, looking at him calmly.

"We meet again~"

Bai Xiaoxi greeted him with a smile: "Is it possible that you won't hate me for being the 'executioner'?"

Jiang Qian knew that the other party was referring to the triple-related dream of killing someone with a borrowed knife.

"I can't thank you enough." Jiang Qian walked out of the elevator calmly and went to the other side of the long table.

At this moment, the sound of chips falling aroused his vigilance.

In fact, Jiang Qian noticed it when he just came in: the entire structure of the Peak Casino is simple and spacious. The only eye-catching thing is a spherical glass tank suspended vertically above the long black marble table. The glass tank is round and clear, and various chips are stacked inside it.

At a rough glance, there are about 3 to 4 million people.

When he stepped out of the elevator, another wave of chips came out from the pipe connected to the glass tank! They fell on the previously stacked chips, almost filling the entire spherical glass tank...

Jiang Qian stopped beside the long table, looked up at the chips in the glass jar, and quickly estimated the overall "value".

"That's the total amount of chips between you and me." Bai Xiaoxi raised an eyebrow and directly answered Jiang Qian's doubts.

7 million chips.

Jiang Qian subconsciously opened the prop locker, and sure enough, the chips stored in the locker had disappeared.

At the same time, the copy reminder sounded right beside his ear:

[Congratulations to the two distinguished guests, who have overcome all difficulties and brought "7 million chips" to the last gambling game in the City of Desire. ]

[You two are the most powerful gamblers since the birth of "Hao Du"! You deserve the highest etiquette here, you are the glory of "Hao Du"! ]

The lights in the field all turned and refocused on the two people.

At the same time, the gimmicks and rules of the peak gambling game also flashed on the dark long table:
[The ultimate goal of the Peak Gambling Game is to select the true "rich man" between the two. ]

[There is only one rule: choose the only one of you who deserves the title of "Haojie", write his ID on the voting paper, and put it in the counting box. The result of the bet will be determined by the voting result! ]

As the rules were being stated, paper and pen appeared next to Jiang Qian and Bai Xiaoxi respectively, and a pure black box miraculously rose up in the center of the stone table.

Jiang Qian glanced down and saw a watermark with the words "Qianlong Wuyong" on the voting paper next to him.

[Voting cannot be done at the same time, the order of voting is determined by negotiation. If both parties vote for the same candidate, then the one who gets the vote will win directly, be awarded the title of "Big Gamble" first kill, and win all the rewards that can be redeemed by 7 million chips! ]

[If both parties vote for each other, they will both win at the same time, and jointly win the title of "High Gambler" first kill, and the rewards that can be redeemed by 7 million chips will be distributed according to the chip contribution ratio! ]

[But it should be noted that if both parties vote separately, the ticket type will be considered invalid and the bet will fail. ]

[You two have 10 minutes to think about it. Please make your choice based on your free will. During this period, neither party may interfere with the other party's decision-making through "coercive means". If there is any violation, the other party will be eliminated immediately and the other party will win. After 10 minutes, if either party fails to complete the voting, the bet will be considered invalid. ]

[In addition, when one party completes the voting, the chips will be lost at a rate of 1000 million per minute, so please make your decision carefully.]

【I hope you two will stick to your gambling ways. 】

……

After the rules were read, Jiang Qian and Bai Xiaoxi on both sides of the long table fell into silence.

The examiners and family leaders who were at the observation site were also sighing with admiration!
"The ultimate bet? Isn't this simple?"

"This is going to be difficult..."

……

The two comments came from the giant gate god of the bear clan and Kun of the blue sea!

After saying that, the two looked at each other through the holographic projection, and both saw "helplessness" on each other's faces...

"How difficult is this? Isn't it easy to win together by voting against each other?" Ju Men Shen couldn't help but say.

He didn't believe that the two end-game players, both of whom were official lawful license holders, would have any other choice.

However, Blue Sea Kun just shook his head and sighed, "It's difficult, it's difficult!"

"It may not be so easy to let these two win according to the rules!" Mu Yunchong on the opposite side felt the same way.

The great hero simply pretended to be deaf and dumb and stopped expressing his opinion, because he knew best what kind of "sassy operations" his own intelligence officer would come up with!
The rules seem simple enough. Two people need to make a single choice between themselves and the other person to make him/her win. Therefore, there are only four types of tickets:

Jiang Qian received two votes, Bai Xiaoxi received two votes, both received one vote (mutual voting), both received one vote (self-voting)

Except for the final "self-vote" by both parties, the first three types of votes can ensure that any party wins, that is, to ensure that the first kill of the "Big Gamble" copy is won by an official member of the Order, so that the benefits remain within the family.

But the difficulty lies in which type of ticket is feasible to win?

Let Jiang Qian win alone? Bai Xiaoxi would definitely disagree; similarly, if Bai Xiaoxi wins alone, Jiang Qian will not accept it either!
The only compromise is for both parties to vote for each other.

So how to ensure that both parties are sincere and honest in their operations is more delicate...

Once one of the parties plays tricks in the actual operation and changes his mind and votes for me at the last minute, resulting in me winning alone, the other party will have to suffer a huge loss!
This result at least ensures that there is a winner in the bet, at least the first kill falls into the hands of the lawful officials.

But if both parties do not trust each other, or if both parties are smart enough to choose to "go back on their words", resulting in each of them voting on their own... then everything will be a complete loss, with nothing gained!

To make matters worse: voting cannot be done simultaneously!

The distinction between "invest first" and "invest later" brings severe challenges to the prospects of cooperation between the two sides.

The supreme leaders of the families observing the scene, except for special cases, are all people in high positions and are very familiar with the game between people.

When they see such a gambling game and such rules, they don’t actually care who wins. The only thing they worry about is a defeat in which “everything is lost”!

Because if they lose everything this time, it means that the victory may fall into the hands of the Demon Cave camp again.

Then, all the work done by the intelligence department so far will be ineffective, and all the efforts of the lawful cardholders who have paved the way for Jiang Qian and Bai Xiaoxi will be in vain.

"It is important to keep the first kill of "Big Gamble", but don't act on impulse!"

"It's difficult! They are both smart people who are capable of 'secret operations'. It's not easy to make them give up the chance to win so close..."

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High-end gambling dungeon, top casino.

As the rules were explained, the 10-minute countdown quietly began.

Under the gazes of the crowd outside the arena, Bai Xiaoxi was the first to break the silence: "Anyway, I must admit that you are the most talented lawful elite I have ever met."

Seeing that Jiang Qian lowered his head and had no intention of talking, Bai Xiaoxi continued:

"I have watched you grow up step by step with my own eyes. From the first time you amazed everyone, I realized that a rare person has appeared in the official law of order. Facts have proved that you are indeed not an ordinary person. Even in the most harsh environment, you can handle it easily and grow freely."

"To be honest, I agreed to participate in the Special Operations Department's invitation just to witness your growth with my own eyes. It is my honor to compete with you in the top gambling game. The overseas missions that will be carried out with you in the future are also the work I look forward to."

Bai Xiaoxi's eyes are sincere and her words are moving.

Her subtle compliments cleverly lifted up Jiang Qian, but in fact they were paving the way for her future goals.

Acknowledge the other party's strength, downplay the grudges from the previous conflict at the hub level, and maximize benefits in an emotional way.

According to the script she designed, Qianlong Wuyong would probably take this opportunity to express his frustration about having to kill his partner, but this would never affect his rational decision-making: because according to her observation, Qianlong Wuyong's emotions have remained stable since he entered the venue, which means that killing his teammate has almost no effect on him.

Therefore, in order to balance the interests, the two men each made concessions and tried to "vote for each other" to complete the mediation before the end of the negotiation time.

This is a win-win strategy! Bai Xiaoxi believes that Qianlong Wuyong has no reason not to cooperate.

The key lies in the order of voting: whoever votes first is more likely to be put in a passive position. Once the later voter defects, the first voter can only watch helplessly.

In this regard, Bai Xiaoxi came up with a solution: after both parties have written their IDs, they exchange voting papers and then quickly complete the voting. This will minimize defection.

Of course, this wasn't all she had planned.

Bai Xiaoxi's ambition is to "win alone"! Therefore, the above plan is only to persuade Qianlong Wuyong to cooperate with the mutual investment.

In actual practice, she would make sure that she put the ballot paper written by Qianlong Wuyong for herself into the ballot box first, and then before the other party voted, she would be the first to put her own prepared ballot into the box to end the gambling!

In order to implement the plan smoothly, the first thing she had to do was to ease the confrontation and let the other party relax their vigilance.

So far, she seems to have things under control.

But Jiang Qian slowly raised his head as he spoke, his deep eyes focused on Bai Xiaoxi. At the same time, the pen was turning leisurely between his fingers...

That calm look even made Bai Xiaoxi mistakenly believe that he was about to reciprocate with the same high evaluation. The two sides worked together to build the "stepping stone" and jointly achieve a smooth landing from confrontation to cooperation.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Qian said an obvious rejection: "I will vote for myself."

"……what?"

Because the expression was so straightforward, Bai Xiaoxi even suspected for a moment that she had heard it wrong.

"You heard me right, I will vote for myself." Jiang Qian repeated.

There is absolutely no intention of negotiation. This is a statement, it is affirmative!
Bai Xiaoxi almost couldn't do it anymore.

She still hadn't figured out why Jiang Qian dared to say this, so she frowned and repeated, "You mean, you want to win alone?"

"Correct!"

Jiang Qian said.

Not only did he say that, he also grabbed the spinning pen and quickly wrote his ID name on the voting paper, then showed the voting paper to Bai Xiaoxi on the opposite side:
Written in bold letters on the voting paper were four words: Hidden Dragon, Do Not Use It!
"I will only vote for myself. Since Mr. Bai likes me so much, please condescend to vote for me as well. I will get the first kill, and I can give you half of the clearance prize."

This is the third time Jiang Qian emphasized his plan.

After saying that, he picked up the voting paper, stood up and walked towards the ballot box! "Wait!"

Bai Xiaoxi didn't seem to expect Jiang Qian to be so tough, and was caught off guard: "Isn't it good for you and I to vote for each other? You made the decision on your own, without... considering my opinion?"

However, Jiang Qian completely ignored her protests: "No discussion. I will only vote for myself."

As he spoke, he had already arrived at the ballot box and carefully folded the written ballot paper to ensure that it could pass through the narrow opening of the ballot box.

"Hey, kid... How about I vote for myself too?" Bai Xiaoxi couldn't help but fight back, "Then no one will win!"

Jiang Qian stopped what he was doing, as if he had heard an interesting joke, and looked up and said, "Okay, let's destroy them together."

Destroy together?!

Bai Xiaoxi couldn't believe her ears!

Is this idiot in front of me really a hidden dragon that should not be used?

Did he forget that if he lost this bet, the "Big Gamble" copy might fall back into the hands of the Demon Cave?
if that is the case……

Bai Xiaoxi didn't dare to think about it anymore.

As the intelligence officer of the headquarters, she knew too well the value of winning this copy, and could imagine the anger they would face from the top if anything went wrong!
But wouldn’t these hidden dragons not think of this?

"No! That's not right. This is not like you. You are not an impulsive person..." Bai Xiaoxi chose his words carefully, his palms sweating in anxiety.

What she wanted was to "win alone"! Indeed, she had some "devious ideas" to snatch the victory in a surprising way, so that the super genius could see the methods of the predecessors...

But she never expected that the other party would be even more ruthless than her!
Destroy together?

Instantly, the crazy mode of Qianlong Wuyong desperately chasing her appeared in her mind! Suddenly, she froze...

Maybe Qianlong Wuyong is not an impulsive guy, but he has just merged with a new identity card not long ago, and his animal nature is in an unstable and abnormal state... Bai Xiaoxi has witnessed his offensive behavior towards Xiaolongnu with her own eyes, so she is even more confused!

"Isn't it me?" Jiang Qian raised the corner of his mouth.

Bai Xiaoxi was stunned, and in just a moment, she used her synesthesia to recognize the growing "anger" and strong "desire to kill" in Jiang Qian!
The rising anger seemed to have been suppressed for a long time, and it took this opportunity to burst out, rising to a level that made Bai Xiaoxi shudder.

The desire to kill is more straightforward, and another way it can be presented is through destruction.

"Let's destroy it together..."

Jiang Qian's smiling words were still ringing in his ears, and Bai Xiaoxi couldn't help but shiver.

The intertwined and surging state of these two emotions is extremely similar to the emotional fluctuations Tong felt when he was being chased by the opponent at the hub level.

Did I misjudge... When Bai Xiaoxi had this thought, she immediately took the final measure:

"Listen, we have come to this last step, and we are only one step away from victory! I don't think you want anything to go wrong, right? What good will it do you to let those rabble in the Demon Cave take advantage of you? Listen to me, the hidden dragon should not be used, how about we vote for each other?"

As he spoke, Bai Xiaoxi lowered his head and scribbled the four words "Qianlong Wuyong" and showed them to Jiang Qian!
"We'll vote for each other. I've already written your name! If you're worried, we can exchange voting papers. There won't be any tricks, and we'll both win!"

Jiang Qian tilted his head and thought for a while, then suddenly said, "Okay."

Bai Xiaoxi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

And at this moment, Jiang Qian raised his hand and put the voting paper into the black ballot box!

The prompt sounded in the ears of both of them at the same time:

【Voting successful! 】

Bai Xiaoxi stood there in a daze as if he had been electrocuted.

In contrast, Jiang Qian had an almost insane sneer on his face: "I won't vote for you because I don't want you to win."

……

"Nonsense!"

The second person who heard a roar and slammed the table at the scene of observation was actually Jin Yichen, the supreme leader of the Feather Clan.

He condemned Jiang Qian with conviction, as if he was eager to prove some crime: "You could have won together, but you insisted on taking the credit for the first kill alone and taking risks. Is this gambling with the official victory of the Order? How can the Task Force tolerate such a daring lunatic?!"

These words were directed at Jiang Qian, but they also expressed the resentment that Jin Yichen had suppressed for a long time.

He has been waiting for "this opportunity", waiting for the much-anticipated Qianlong Wuyong to go on a business trip or make a mistake, waiting for him to expose unforgivable weaknesses or flaws, and then kill him with one strike.

Now, Jin Yichen knows that the time has come.

Qianlong Wuyong, a special combat force specially cultivated by the lawful officials, unexpectedly revealed his extremely selfish side in important decisions related to the actual interests of the officials!
This one crime is enough to pull Qianlong Wuyong down from the position of "no one else but him".

But what is strange is that after Jin Yichen said this, no other supreme being at the scene agreed with him.

Even the great hero of the Dark Night Clan just clenched his fists and sighed: "Alas! Bai Xiaoxi was finally controlled by him..."

Got it figured out?

Jin Yichen was a little confused.

His mind didn't react immediately, but looking at the reactions of the great hero and other family supreme leaders, they seemed to be lamenting that Qianlong Wuyong had the upper hand in this game?

But what is the significance of this advantage?
If Bai Xiaoxi of the Dark Night Clan surrenders to me in anger, both sides will suffer losses. Wouldn’t that mean I lose everything?

Thinking of this, Jin Yichen suddenly realized that the core of this bet was actually "who can't bear the loss of failure"!
……

Bai Xiaoxi couldn't help but scream out!

But it was too late...

The vote has taken place and there is no way out for either man.

Bai Xiaoxi just stared at Jiang Qian and slumped in the chair behind him...

At the same time, a "small hole" suddenly opened at the bottom of the glass jar suspended above the long table, and tiny chips fell onto the long table along the small hole like "quicksand", slowly piling up and gathering into a large amount.

This is part of the rules: once a party has completed voting, the chips will be lost at a rate of 1000 million per minute.

"It's really unreasonable..."

Bai Xiaoxi raised her sweaty face, stared at Jiang Qian coldly, and said through gritted teeth: "Do you know that your rash decision just now will cause this gambling game and even the entire "Big Gamble" dungeon to fail?"

"Whatever, I don't care." Jiang Qian's attitude was unusually calm. "I even eliminated my girlfriend and good friends. What's the point of a mere copy?"

"But this is the copy that headquarters instructed us to seize!"

Jiang Qian's words completely angered Bai Xiaoxi. This was the first time she showed such a strong emotional reaction in front of Jiang Qian and the other Supreme Beings:

"Do you know how much valuable intelligence this instance involves? The unexpected involvement of the Demon Cave Organization, the coveted mysterious first kill award, these are opportunities that are hard to come by... If this failure is caused by your forced surrender, do you know what consequences you will bear?!"

"I will accept any consequences."

Jiang Qian was not tempted at all, and calmly returned to his seat, then changed the subject:
"However, I am a small character like me, I am afraid that I am not capable of bearing such a loss. Mr. Bai, I am sorry that you, as a senior intelligence officer of the headquarters, have to suffer with me..."

"You?!" Bai Xiaoxi's blood pressure suddenly soared.

Jiang Qian's meaning couldn't be clearer: I don't mind being crazy, but as an important official at the headquarters, don't you have a clear mind? Are you going to disregard the interests of the lawful authorities just to vent your anger?

Bai Xiaoxi really wanted to turn against him.

For more than ten seconds, she couldn't help imagining that she had "cancelled" the bet with her own hands, but rationality prevailed in the end.

When she thought about the possible consequences of acting impulsively, she became so angry that her teeth itched.

But Jiang Qian seemed to be able to see through her thoughts, and even smiled and comforted her:

"Don't be angry. Haven't I told you the only way to win? Vote for me, the first kill will be mine, and the rewards will be shared equally. No disaster will happen, and we will both gain something."

"..."

Between the two of them, the only sound was the crackling of chips falling.

The chips in the hanging ball are being lost at a rate of 1000 million per minute...

"Teacher Bai?" Jiang Qian urged in a low voice, "The decision of the success or failure of this bet is in your hands."

However, even at this moment, there was no trace of anxiety in his tone. Instead, it sounded more like curiosity, curious about what choice his opponent, who was forced into a desperate situation by him, would make in the end.

"You will regret it, don't use your hidden dragon."

Bai Xiaoxi finally said.

It took her a long time to stand up from her seat again. Under the gaze of Jiang Qian and all the bigwigs outside the venue, she walked towards the ballot box holding the ballot paper she had scribbled on at the beginning.

Every step seemed to exhaust all her strength.

Indeed, she had already paid too much in this actual combat assessment, even doing things like betraying her teammates, but she didn't expect that in the end, it would be all in vain...

Bai Xiaoxi stood in front of the voting box. Before putting the ballot into the box, she looked at Jiang Qian again.

Jiang Qian smiled slightly: "I will fulfill my promise and give you half of the reward for clearing the dungeon."

Bai Xiaoxi was not grateful: "No matter what you do, you can't recover what you lost here."

"Oh? So serious?" Jiang Qian actually understood what the other party meant:
The reason why he was able to "win" in this game was because he took advantage of Bai Xiaoxi's identity weakness and her character of having to give up personal gains and losses for the sake of the overall situation. But this also precisely highlights his greed and selfishness, and even disregards the collective interests in order to satisfy his own selfish interests.

"Also, I take back my initial evaluation of you."

Bai Xiaoxi said meaningfully, and placed the ballot paper at the entrance of the ballot box: "Hidden Dragon, don't use it, you are nothing more than this."

【Voting successful! 】

[Calculating results...]

[Calculation completed, the peak gambling game is determined to be valid - the first kill of the "High Gambling" copy "Hao Jie" has been born. 】

【First kill of the rich man: Bai Xiaoxi. 】

[First kill Haojie: Do not use the hidden dragon. ]

【Note: The valid tickets are sorted by the time of recording, and the ranking is in no particular order. 】

[Special Assessment: Congratulations to player Qianlong Wuyong for winning the title of "MVP Player" in this "High Gamble"! ]

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【Do you want to proceed to settlement? 】

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