white star stealing star

White Rock Lane, Dead Rock Township.

There is only a dead end blocked by a high wall. On the left are the steps leading to the abandoned dog fighting ring. Directly opposite the steps, a gambling house called Broken Dice opens in a backlit position.

The stone pavement in front of the door here is wet. Two folded door panels are leaning against the corner that is dirty and smelly with yellow and brown unknown objects. In the corner of the steps, a tricycle with wooden silver handles has been idle for many years. All the parts and tires inside were removed by thieves, leaving only an empty car shell, with a lot of wild weeds growing out of it. Next to the tricycle, a bloated drunk man wearing a top but naked lower body passed out. In the haystack, two gamblers in shabby clothes were surrounding the drunkard, making a nasty bet.

"Come, look at me." One of the gamblers unzipped his pants, narrowed his eyes, and aimed at the drunk man's face stained by vomit, and the warm liquid poured out from his lower body.

It was obvious that the water column was only strong for a second at first and then turned into a dripping faucet.

"Here I go, look at your weak and weak egg, look at me, this time it's the nostrils." Seeing that he was not aiming right, the other person quickly pushed him away with his body, eager to show it off himself.

Behind these two ridiculous people, there was an endless stream of people from the gambling house.

Whether they are men or women, most of them look like unemployed vagrants who are poor and living in a difficult life. Even from the eagerness and enthusiasm of entering the casino in an attempt to make a small gain, to the neurotic feeling of regret when leaving, they are exactly the same.

The casino continued to receive gamblers like this until it got dark, and from outside the alley, from far to near, two strange people walked in.

One of them wore a cowboy hat that concealed his identity, with the brim of the hat held low. The other wore a cloak, and his identity and face were also unclear.

The two people spoke in very low voices. If you listen carefully, you can tell that the man in the cowboy hat is trying his best to persuade his companion, "If you must find Riley, we will wait outside. He will definitely come out." "

"It's very dangerous for you to rush in like this. I don't know how many thugs there are in the casino."

"I know you are good at fighting, but you certainly can't fight so many people."

His companion didn't stop at all, but suddenly stopped and asked him jokingly, "Do you want to bet?"

"My gambling luck has always been very good." After saying this, she didn't care about the other party's answer, but went straight into the gate of the Broken Dice Casino.

Nick stamped his feet. Knowing that Bai Xing had just entered, he began to pace around anxiously twice, and finally leaned against a relatively clean wall.

He decided to only give her ten...15 minutes. If she didn't come out, he would leave directly and go his own way.

But why didn't he just leave?

No, the reward she promised has not been given yet.

She said that as long as she could catch Riley, she would pay the price he had blackmailed... no, the price he had negotiated with the two students.

That's thirty-seven thousand.

I worked hard and took risks to help her with the work for so long, so I couldn't just run away empty-handed.

Nick was thinking wildly, and from time to time he craned his neck to look at the entrance of the casino.

The two gamblers who played with drunken people finally got tired of playing. One of them touched the pitiful few Perdo coins in his pocket. This is the local traditional currency of their planet and the star currency universal among the stars. It is the ratio of 1 to 0.0027.

The amount of these Perdo coins has long stopped being issued and used. In the inflationary Star of Perple, he may not even be able to buy a crouton. Is it difficult for him to carry it with him as an amulet?Nick thought to himself after reading it from the side.

After all, the man couldn't come up with anything that could be used as gambling money to compensate the winner. In the end, after being punched a few times by the people around him, the two of them walked out of the alley arm in arm like good friends.

Nick anxiously watched the light brain time, and the two choices of going or not going were constantly fighting in his mind.

He did receive news that Riley seemed to have been detained at the police station, but was soon released. People who had seen him said that he was uncharacteristically wearing a hat, as if to cover himself. Wounds on the head.

That is to say, he was too tight-lipped, or he might have been given a silence order by the police station, so no matter who asked him where the Dirty Hands Oliver and Bill, who had been conjoined with him, had gone, and why he went to the police station, he had no idea. Said, and spent the whole day hiding in the Broken Dice Casino.

It is said that the boss here is the helper who delivers news to Baibang Firm.

Dirty Hands Oliver and the others would always deceive people in various ways, get on the gambling table, and cooperate with the dealers of the casinos, which is commonly known as pig-killing.

All the handover of work contracts and the review of contractors are also handed over by them, just like a private immigration office.Nick would not dare to quarrel with someone who broke the dice.

He shouldn't have gone into the city with Shirahoshi in the first place. Even if he had to wait for her, couldn't he just wait at the parking place outside the city?
Nick was filled with regret.

But at this point, he could only be patient, hoping that Bai Xing would not cause big trouble, while nervously counting the minutes.

10 minutes passed quickly.

White Star did not appear.

15 minutes.

There was still no movement at the entrance of the casino.

Maybe it was too soundproof, Nick had been to a casino, and there was quite a lot of noise inside.

It's been 15 minutes, it's time for him to leave.

Just when Nick was hesitating, suddenly, several panicked gamblers ran out from the gate of the casino.

Nick had never seen such vivid and lively fear and panic on the faces of these numb gamblers. They were afraid that they would get into trouble if they ran too slowly. They passed by Nick and ignored all Nick's anxious inquiries.

Nick hammered the wall hard. Did Bai Xing get into a fight with the people from the casino?

The thugs in the gambling house are all strong and strong men. A little girl of Bai Xing's stature, couldn't she be pinned down in two strokes?

She said she was impulsive, but she still refused to listen. Now, do you know what the consequences will be if you control the trouble in a place like a gambling house?

Time passed by, and Nick's entanglements and hesitations were finally overturned by him. He turned around and strode out of the alley, still muttering "I don't care if you die or not, we have no friendship." , you asked for it, and speaking of which, you even beat me up, I'm worried that your brain is really damaged."

But after taking a few steps, his footsteps stopped hard and he could no longer move forward.

Finally, he turned around with his back stiff, his chest rose and fell vigorously twice, as if he had pumped himself up enough, and started to return the way he came.

"I'm so unlucky." He said to himself sadly. "Making this money is harder than eating shit."

Just after he took a few steps back, he suddenly smelled a strong burning smell.

Looking from the alley to the gate of the gambling house, the gambling house suddenly became brighter several times as if countless lights were turned on. The bright yellow and dancing light reflected this dark and dirty corner like daylight. The naked man not far from the door was also exposed in a very eye-catching way.

No, that's not turning on the lights. Nick followed a few steps closer.

on fire? !
Nick almost shouted out, but the sound that was about to break his voice was suppressed in his throat, because he saw a familiar figure walking out of the flickering firelight.

The figure accidentally saw the eye-catching scene at the door, and was so startled that she took a step back. Her averted eyes moved to Nick, and she even questioned him in confusion.

"I thought you were gone, but I thought you were narrow-minded." She walked over, with a distinct smell of blood on her body.

"You, you set the fire?" Nick backed away repeatedly, as if he had seen something terrifying.

"Ah." Bai Xing said lightly, passing over the previous 15 minutes of Nick's anxiety. "I asked them to hand over Riley, but they refused, so I took action."

"I didn't set the fire. Those guys had high-temperature shooting guns. It was their own poor shooting skills that set the tablecloth on fire."

"Don't worry, your houses here are all built with stone. You know better than me that they are designed to prevent high temperature fires. The fire will not leave this gambling house and spread to other places."

Seeing that Nick was still looking at her with disbelieving eyes, she hugged him with both hands. There was an obvious bulge in the cloak around her waist. It was obviously a high-temperature shooting gun that she had just taken away. "If you don't worry, call the fire alarm."