Chapter 604 – Style and Culture Are Not Separate
“Place your bets, place your bets, one for one in the first battle between the righteous and the devil!”
The sixty-four teams’ draw results had just come out, and the first battle team had just been decided, and it spread throughout the entire Spring and Autumn City at an extremely fast speed, and then quickly conveyed to the Spirit State, and the whole territory was abuzz with excitement.
There were several casinos opened by the Zong Heng Dao or some families in the local area of Spirit State, and they didn’t even need to be shouted at, but at this moment, there was already a sea of people who were betting on the first battle. The form of betting is very primitive, because this is a positive and negative demonic victory is obviously 50/50, the dealer does not open odds, directly a table is divided into three parts, the left on behalf of the righteousness, the right on behalf of the devil’s door, the center on behalf of the overdue draw. Buy which will throw the money which side, lose will all be cradled to the other side to go, of which the banker draw half percent.
It was very simple, but people were as enthusiastic as fire, and the table was piled up into a silver mountain in no time.
Who did not expect the first game of the group tournament is the top of the orthodox devil big clash, in the eyes of the vast majority of the world, this is simply the preliminary round that is the final, full of explosive points.
And outside of this original betting game, the Rouge Square marketplace spread a brand new way of betting.
All the storefronts in Rouge Square were selling lottery tickets.
“Macau’s first online casino is online ……”
“Beautiful lotteries dealing cards online ……”
“Eh eh eh, what is this you guys are shouting?”
“I don’t know, the Chief Manager casually said it when he inspected the lottery spot, we took note of it ……”
“I see you guys like this, when you Xue chief put a fart you also want to find a piece of yellow paper wrapped up, right?”
“What do you care?”
People flirted verbally, in fact, no matter what they shouted, it did not prevent people from seeing many types of lottery tickets at a glance.
There were ordinary tickets that only bought which side won or drew, with different denominations. There were also a lot of special ones, such as the form of winning, whether it was defeating all the other side’s personnel or obtaining all the tokens, each of which could be bought in detail, and this kind of had higher odds, with a one-point-five percent payout for a winning ticket.
Can also buy in how much time to win, also pays one point five.
The most detailed is in what form and within how much time to win, pay two.
After the game, you can come here with your ticket and redeem it if it matches the stubs. It is customary for the bookmaker to take a half percent commission.
Lottery tickets are also printed with a warning slogan: “Small gambling is good for the heart, big gambling hurts the body, be careful.”
Professional and meticulous, many veterans who had opened casinos all their lives were stupefied, how long ago was this prepared?
Outside the Spring and Autumn City race track, Xue Mu also brought Xu Duo to watch the lottery ticket sales. Xu Duoduo quietly looked at the surging tide of people buying tickets for a long time before saying, “Not afraid of imitations?”
“It’s instantly redeemed at the end of the match, and it’s not that easy to imitate. Unless you Vertical and Horizontal Dao experts come out.”
Of course the Vertical and Horizontal Dao experts wouldn’t step in, because this matter was clearly a means for Xue Mu to pull them on board, something that belonged to them as well.
Xu Duo cautiously asked, “With both odds, aren’t you afraid of losing your blood? This is still a team of comparable strength, if there’s a big gap, the odds are skewed so badly that the commission draw simply can’t fill it.”
“Can bet in so detailed can be a few people, a hundred people choose to pressure fine at least ninety people lose, how is also earn, or big profit.”
“That’s not necessarily the case, the gap in strength is too great, betting on even the finest can be won by many people.”
Xue Mu sighed, “Actually, the first game is the battle between the righteous and the devil, although the enthusiasm detonated, but not my intention. I was also planning to have you guys touch some small, unheralded team, and then I could make the people who bet heavily on you understand that betting on the top clans of the righteous devils can also result in a loss. Even if you only bet on the winners and losers, and you can occasionally win once or twice, you will still lose in the long run.”
After a pause, he added very cautiously, “Gambling is a sure way to lose.”
Xu Duoduo was thoughtful. Right now, he also didn’t believe that the top clans of orthodox magic could really lose to a small team, but the Devil’s Sect’s awareness made him think of underhanded operations in the first place. In the underground black boxing of their Zong Heng Dao, there were many similar operations, where a certain strong person was favored by countless people and was finally defeated, a routine that Zong Heng Dao had played very well.
If you let him operate, it is difficult to talk about this kind of shady business, the positive and evil sides will not give him face, but Xue Mu operation is difficult to say …….
As a result, Xue Mu’s voice continued to come: ”This kind of betting thing, although it was originally all over the world, not a name that I made up, but in the end, it’s not a good thing, and I, Star Moon Sect, don’t want to take the lead in being a banker. Right now just do a template to Xu Patriarch reference, in the future or handed over to the vertical and horizontal road operation, my Star and Moon Sect only draw the dividends due. I hope that Patriarch Xu will have some control in the future as well, and not go too dark, and stop at the right amount.”
Xu Duo was ecstatic, a blind man could also see how much profit this contained, this Xue Mu only wanted to maintain the Star Moon Sect’s trend of whitewashing, and actually really gave up the benefits of this pawnshop to Zong Heng Dao!
Following that, there was some apprehension, “It might be difficult to manipulate the outcome of the match with me, Zong Heng Dao, picking the head.”
“Why do you have to manipulate the outcome of the match?” Xue Mu asked rhetorically.
In fact, he really did have the certainty of manipulating the outcome, but he didn’t want to trigger a bad trend of fake whistles and blackballs, ruining the nascent group tournament. The words that came out of his mouth turned serious: “Honestly speaking, I can’t manipulate this kind of match either. How could the righteous team listen to me and deliberately let go of the water to admit defeat, if there is that day, I guess I’ve unified the world.”
“Well ……”
Xue Mu added: “Patriarch Xu, don’t look at one game and one place to gain or lose, from the overall situation and in the long run, regardless of whether you manipulate the results or not, as the highest banker is definitely in a win-or-lose situation, and there’s really no need to engage in a fake match.”
“Long term? The whole picture?”
“Don’t you think that this is something that could be made into a world league? In the future, teams from all over the states can have their own state tournaments, and only the strongest few teams from each state will be qualified to gather in Spring and Autumn City once a year. This isn’t just a martial arts tournament, it’s also entertainment for all.”
Xu Duo’s small eyes grew wider and wider.
He subconsciously turned his head to look at the scene of reporters running everywhere, stopping the contestants for interviews ……
Yes, this is not just a martial arts tournament ……
Truly extrapolating on what Xue Mu said, this was clearly a national entertainment frenzy.
Xue Mu leisurely said, “The Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Sports Bureau used to be called the Cultural and Sports Bureau. …… Do you think the two are far away from each other? ……”
Xu Duoduo couldn’t understand or was too lazy to understand, his mind was full of Xue Mu’s blueprint and he was deducing this future change.
He could not even count the things derived from it for a while, but what he could imagine was that the Star and Moon Sect could be made into a long-term unending spring and autumn periodical, and this betting method would operate endlessly, spreading to every corner of the world.
What Great Zhou Chamber of Commerce, to hell with it!
Xu Duoduo blurted out, “Father!”
Curry Night “whoosh” inserted into the middle of the two, big eyes extremely vigilant staring at Xu Duo: “Dead fat guy what do you want to do?”
“Ahem…… “Xu Duo awkwardly wiped his sweat and clumsily changed the topic, “The alliance master’s vision is very desirable, but first of all, it has to be based on the premise that this competition is really attractive, right? ”
Xue Mu smiled faintly, “Then let us watch the match?”
“Allied Lord please.” Xu Duoduo bent his waist, attentive beyond measure.
On the field, the righteous and devilish teams had already entered separately and were being inspected.
The inspection was for carry-on items, the match did not allow one to bring one’s own powerful weapons armor ornaments and medicines, everything started from the lowest level blacksmith store white plate paraphernalia and went to be upgraded in the arena.
The inspector was actually a Dao-entry level elder of the Star Moon Sect, discreet as such.
Xu Duo watched as his own contestant was shaken out by the old woman’s seven touches to reveal several concealed fine needles, covering his head in extreme disgrace.
On the contrary, in the direction of the righteousness entrance, the righteousness disciples were full of confidence, not even considering that kind of cheating, and entered their base with their heads held high.
Half a cup of tea later, the Demon Sect’s children drilled in in a sorry state.
Both sides stood on their respective hillocks, separated by ten miles, invisible to each other, and facing each other from afar. And outside of the arena, two huge screens were illuminated in the form of the Wu Gui Temple’s Sumeru Realm, displaying the expressions of both sides in perfect detail in front of all the spectators.
The battle was about to start!