Lu Yang had specifically instructed Yang Li that Wei Haihong was a friend of Boss Chen and had a very powerful background, so he absolutely could not be careless or offend him. He should play the game however he wanted and not care about the rules.
According to Lü Yang's imagination, Wei Haihong was probably the child or relative of a high-ranking official in the country, part of the "crown prince clique." But judging from Wei Haihong's expression, it didn't seem like it, and he couldn't figure it out. The "crown prince clique" he had met before were all extravagant spenders, surrounded by beautiful women, and extremely arrogant. In addition, he couldn't understand Zhou Xuan at all; it seemed like he had never experienced any of this before. Which of today's crown princes is so innocent? So it didn't seem like it!
The singer was a woman, and she was singing Chen Rui's "I Won't Be a Woman in My Next Life" with great emotion. Her singing was quite beautiful, and her delicate voice was very alluring.
Seeing that Zhou Xuan was listening intently, Lü Yang chuckled softly and said, "Mr. Zhou, there will be some 'alternative' dancing here after one o'clock!"
"What's so unconventional?" Zhou Xuan asked, tilting his head.
Wei Haihong shook his head and laughed, "Have you ever seen a woman completely naked?"
Zhou Xuan immediately understood, and his face turned bright red. He certainly liked this kind of thing, but with Lü Yang and Wei Haihong present, he still couldn't save face.
Seeing that Zhou Xuan looked young, Wei Haihong stopped talking about it and listened to music while drinking his beverage. The singers changed several times.
Lu Yang then slowly introduced the Neptune to Zhou Xuan: "Mr. Zhou, this may be your first time visiting the Neptune, right?"
Zhou Xuan nodded and said, "Yes, I've never been here before, and I've never played here."
"There are actually quite a few cruise ships operating on the high seas in Hong Kong and Macau. For example, the 'Golden Princess', 'Neptune', 'Golden Lake', 'Jimei', 'Aoma No. 1', 'Aoma No. 2', 'Blue Diamond', 'Blue Pearl', 'Dragon II', and so on, are nine ships engaged in high seas gambling!"
Lu Yang introduced in detail, "But the best and most famous one has to be our Neptune. It has nine decks, is 156.26 meters long, 21.8 meters wide, and 37.8 meters high, with a displacement of 16,000 tons. It can accommodate 500 guests at the same time. The ship has cabins, a nightclub, a restaurant, a sauna, etc. It can be said that it has everything that guests want to do!"
Zhou Xuan praised, "Miss Lü, you remember it very well."
Lu Yang brushed a stray strand of hair behind his ear and smiled, "This is also part of our business, so we have to write it down."
Around ten o'clock, Lü Yang stood up and said, "Brother Hong, Mr. Zhou, we're already in international waters. Let's go to the casino on the sixth floor."
In the karaoke room, Zhou Xuan didn't think the Neptune was very lively, but when he got to the casino on the sixth floor, he was shocked!
The hall was enormous, with many gambling tables, and it was teeming with people.
Lu Yang said, "We have 'Baccarat,' 'Big Two,' 'Blackjack,' 'Double Dice,' and 'Mahjong' here. Which one would you like to play?"
Zhou Xuan didn't understand. Apart from blackjack, he had never played any of these games. He had seen them in movies, but none of them were easy to understand.
Wei Haihong looked around and said, "It's a bit crowded. Let's go to a less crowded place."
There are relatively few people playing blackjack and dice; the most popular games are baccarat and sic bo. Wei Haihong said to Achang, "Achang, take my VIP card and exchange it for two million chips."
Before Ah Chang left, Lu Yang brought over a plate of chips. When he got closer, he said, "Brother Hong, President Chen instructed that if you want to play, I'll give you two million chips first, and you can get more if you need more."
Wei Haihong chuckled and said, "What's the point of giving Chen Laosan two million if he's so stingy?"
Lu Yang smiled awkwardly, feeling somewhat embarrassed. What could she say when someone told her boss to his face that he was stingy?
Wei Haihong said this without any hesitation, took the chips, pulled them out, and said to Zhou Xuan, "Brother, let's split it in half and see who loses all first!"
Zhou Xuan chuckled. Everyone who comes to a casino talks about good luck and never says anything related to the word "lose." But he was different. He started by saying, "Let's see who loses all first."
These words made Lü Yang cover his mouth and chuckle.
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Volume One: The First Signs of Growth, Chapter Twenty-Four: Neptune (Part Three)
Zhou Xuan looked at the small, round, red and yellow chips on the plate. These were only worth two million? But Wei Haihong was offering a million chips at once; Zhou Xuan dared not accept them. The most he ever gambled at home was a few hundred yuan at most. This was a sum of millions—he simply couldn't and wouldn't dare accept it. (WENxueMI.com)
After thinking for a moment, Zhou Xuan took a light blue chip marked with the number 1000 from the plate and said, "Brother Hong, I don't want the million no matter what, I'll just take this one worth 1000."
Wei Haihong frowned and said, "Brother, you're making me lose face. I was thinking Chen Laosan was stingy, but you only took a penny, a thousand yuan. What's the point of playing then? I invited you here to have some fun!"
Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Brother Hong, I'm not trying to embarrass you, but I've never played a game with more than a hundred yuan. This thousand yuan is the most I've ever gambled. As for gambling, I just want to play around and not get addicted to it!"
Wei Haihong paused for a moment, then laughed and said, "You're quite the talker. Well then, gambling is bad, but do as you please!"
Seeing Zhou Xuan's obvious petty and unsophisticated manner, Lü Yang stopped paying attention to him and thought to himself that he should serve Mr. Wei better. He had met him a few times before, and Mr. Chen always treated him like an ancestor. As for his own Mr. Chen, he had heard that he was a figure in the circle in northern China. He figured that Mr. Wei was probably similar to Mr. Chen.
Achang stayed close to Wei Haihong, while Lü Yang carried a plate and followed Wei Haihong.
Wei Haihong said to Zhou Xuan, "Brother, go wherever you want to have fun, have a good time, and just let me know if you need any chips!"
Zhou Xuan, clutching the thousand-dollar chip, chuckled and walked to the side. Wei Haihong, who preferred roulette, took two ten-thousand-dollar chips from Lü Yang's plate without a second thought and tossed them in.
Zhou Xuan went to the baccarat table to watch. He had noticed that the more people there were, the less people were betting. After watching a few rounds, he understood some of it. The simplest and easiest to understand was betting on the banker or the player. The area above the red line was the banker's, and the area below the red line was the player's. There were other ways to play, but Zhou Xuan didn't quite understand them.
After watching four or five more rounds, Zhou Xuan was sweating bullets even with a thousand-yuan chip but didn't dare to place his bet. It was purely a matter of luck, unlike the gambling games in movies, which required no skill. But it was suitable for the general public to play. The more people there were, the more exciting it was!
Zhou Xuan shook his head and switched to another table. This table was for a different game: dice gambling. Zhou Xuan liked this one immediately because it was the easiest to understand!
The dealer held a dice cup that looked like a black pen holder, containing three crystal dice. He turned it upside down, shook it a few times, and then placed it on the table, spreading his hand to indicate to the players that they should place their bets.
Zhou Xuan saw that the table was surrounded by gamblers placing bets. The table was marked with odds for big/small and odd/even, with different odds for each. However, the odds for big/small and odd/even were 1 to 1. Other smaller games had higher odds and were easier to understand, such as three ones, three twos, up to three sixes in the small squares. These odds were written directly in the middle of the squares.
Zhou Xuan could see clearly that three identical tiles were called a leopard, which is often seen in movies. The odds marked in the square were 48, which should be 48 times the payout for betting one.
The players were placing bets with great enthusiasm, and Zhou Xuan was almost tempted by the atmosphere. He barely managed to hold back from throwing his chips away, as it was a gamble. If he was unlucky, he could lose his thousand yuan.
Unlike other players who have fifty or one hundred chips, I only have one thousand chips and I'm too embarrassed to go to the counter to exchange them for smaller chips.
Zhou Xuan watched for a while and saw that the edge of the table was covered with countless hands. He had an idea and wondered if he could touch the dice in the dice cup by placing his left hand on the table.
With this thought in mind, he couldn't help but feel restless. He pretended to be like the other players, placing his left hand on the edge of the platform and slowly channeling his icy energy through it.
As the distance increased, Zhou Xuan immediately saw the words "Aluminum Alloy Platform, 2009" in his mind. This was the platform. He closed his eyes slightly, took a deep breath, and then released the ice energy. As the ice energy passed through the aluminum alloy platform, Zhou Xuan strangely felt the shape of the platform and could even clearly see the molecular density inside the aluminum alloy in his mind.
Zhou Xuan was overjoyed. It turned out that his ice energy had other abilities. He just hadn't tried to explore them in other directions or used his brain to think about them. So, as soon as he released it, the ice energy would automatically report the name and year of the object and transmit it to his brain. But if he tried to use his brain to think about and examine the shape and internal structure of the object, he could see it.