Chapter 269 Human Skin Poker
For most people.

Zhou Xingsen's life is a standard happy life.

He has a decent job, his parents are healthy, his wife Tong Yu is beautiful and virtuous, his son Zhou Xiaobao is sensible and cute, and he himself has no bad habits.

But Zhou Xingsen didn't feel happy.

He felt that such a life was too ordinary and boring, and he could see the end at a glance. He wanted to try something more exciting, something he had been trying to stay away from on his way to success.

For example... gambling!
Since so many people are addicted to it, gambling must be wonderful.

But he didn't want to give up his current life, so he just thought about it. If nothing unexpected happened, he would never step out of line in his life.

Fortunately, that was the accident.

After escaping death from the blessed land, Zhou Xingsen obtained the blessing of 'willing to gamble and accept defeat'. The power of the blessing means literally that in a fair gamble involving Zhou Xingsen, the loser must pay the bet.

If this blessing falls into Wu Xian's hands, he can make great use of it.

But Zhou Xingsen took this blessing as a revelation from the blessed land encouraging him to gamble. His life was already precarious anyway, so why should he continue to live the same rigid life as before?
parents?

Work?

Wife and children?

Zhou Xingsen threw all of this behind him and started gambling like crazy.

Until this stage.

Zhou Xingsen is not a troublemaker at all. At most, his wife wants to divorce him.

There are countless people whose life trajectories have been changed by the blessed land. One more or one less won’t make much difference. Even Wu Xian has given up, hasn’t he?

But the second blessed land he experienced completely changed him.

He used the blessing of accepting defeat to help the team defeat a powerful gambler in the blessed land. After leaving the blessed land, he successfully gained Taoism and brought out a jar for raising little ghosts.

After returning home.

Zhou Xingsen gambled as usual, but soon found it not exciting enough.

Because his blessing only made people unable to default on their debts, but could not improve their gambling skills, so he still lost seven out of ten times. Then he remembered the "gambler" he met in the blessed land!
That gambler can use evil magic to win every time he gambles... Can he do it too?
So he learned the gambler's methods.

After some twists and turns, a deck of human skin poker was made, which was offered in the little ghost jar, worshipped in the shrine, and wrapped in red cloth...

From then on, Zhou Xingsen always won every bet.

But as he went astray, the gods no longer favored him, and the blessings disappeared. Instead, he was replaced by an evil physique that could transform the ghosts of those who lost the gambling into "gamblers' accomplices".

Anyone who gambles his life with him and loses will become a gambler's lackey. Before seeing the sunlight for the first time, the gambler's lackey still has self-awareness, but once seeing the sunlight, he will be enslaved forever.

And Zhou Xingsen himself is becoming less and less human.

A strange power was bewitching him. The human skin poker was both in the shrine and in his skin, and the sound came from under his skin.

His personality became increasingly bizarre.

Things that were once avoided are now sought after, and both the mind and the body are transforming into inhuman things.

His idea at that time was to trick Tong Yuai into Fudi and kill her. He even felt that this was kindness to Tong Yuai, which was better than letting her become a gambler.

Until last night.

His son’s crying made Zhou Xingsen come to his senses.

He realized that he was gradually turning into a monster, so he increased the frequency of gambling, hoping to use the blood of the losers to satisfy the human skin poker and slow down his transformation...

In fact, his so-called sudden repentance was just an illusion. After choosing to feed the ghost with his body, his fate was only to sink deeper and deeper. How could there be a prodigal son returning home?

So he lost...

"Ah...ah..."

Zhou Xingsen groaned in pain. Under his skin, the poker cards were slowly squirming.

Wu Xian stepped back cautiously, holding a playing card in his hand. This playing card had three True Fire Curses imprinted on it. If he really had to fight Zhou Xingsen in close combat, this playing card was the only thing he could rely on.

"what……"

Finally, Zhou Xingsen's strange changes stopped.

The temperature in the room dropped by who knows how many degrees. Zhou Xingsen no longer seemed to have a trace of life in him. A puff of black smoke blew out of his mouth and he stared at Wu Xian greedily. He had completely turned into a ghost.

"Let's have another bet. This time I'll use my gambling equipment. You decide what to play. The stakes are our lives!"

As Zhou Xingsen spoke, his skin fell off piece by piece, forming a deck of flesh-colored human skin poker cards.

Wu Xian was surprised to find that the further he walked back, the closer he was to the gambling table. If he tried to do the opposite, he would actually move forward. No matter what he chose, he would get closer and closer to the gambling table.

Wu Xian was shocked.

Could it be that after Zhou Xingsen transformed into a ghost, his gambling invitations became regular?

If this is the case, then Wu Xian can only continue to rely on Lao Chen's help...

Old Chen...

Wu Xian was shocked again, because he realized that Lao Chen had disappeared since he didn't know when.

"Young man...are you looking for me?"

An old voice came faintly from the ground.

Wu Xian looked down and saw an elongated, flat and distorted face!

No wonder Wu Xian was getting closer to the gambling table no matter how he walked just now. It turned out that Lao Chen was sticking to the ground, moving like a conveyor belt, which prevented Wu Xian from leaving the room.

"It seems that ninety ghost notes are still too little. You can't be too stingy when asking someone to do you a favor."

After all, Lao Chen is Zhou Xingsen's accomplice in gambling. The trick of pushing the millstone can only make him change his mind for a period of time. Lao Chen's roots are still with Zhou Xingsen. With Zhou Xingsen's complete depravity, it is very normal for the control to change.

In addition, Lao Chen's betrayal made Wu Xian feel relieved.

Although it is scary that the ghost turns into the floor and makes it impossible to escape, it shows that Zhou Xingsen’s gambling invitation is not regular, which makes Zhou Xingsen’s status plummet.

But this discovery was not of much help to Wu Xian at that time.

This is how people gamble with evil spirits.

People can use their intelligence to defeat ghosts once or twice, but they cannot win all the time. If they lose once, they will fall into an irretrievable situation.

Just as Wu Xian was thinking about whether to use the True Fire Curse, he suddenly saw a hideous face flash across the window opposite.

So he hesitated for two seconds and sat down opposite Zhou Xingsen.

Zhou Xingsen asked with a grim smile: "Have you decided what to play this time? Are you going to play poker tower again? I won't lose to you this time."

Wu Xian thought about it, then smiled and said to Zhou Xingsen: "Let's just play it without looking back."

Zhou Xingsen was stunned for a moment: "Not turning back?"

"Yes, the rules are simple. Whoever looks back first loses."

Although Zhou Xingsen was suspicious, he still agreed to Wu Xian's request. With three gamblers around, he had a hundred ways to win this simple bet, a full hundred ways!

He looked at Wu Xian seriously and said.

"Then now, let's begin!"

The moment the gambling begins.

Wow!

The window behind Zhou Xingsen was broken.

(End of this chapter)