chapter 17- the jester's wager

　　Yi Chen and Fata Deo stood on the highest deck, indifferently looking at the countless crowds that had come to celebrate the maiden voyage of the 'Duke of Windsor'. Fata Deo's trembling hand carefully held a cigar, pointing and saying, "These people, they are, really, really boring, it's just a ship going out to sea, where is there anything to see?"

　　Yi Duan smiled and said, "It's human nature, they are able to participate in any important events, and later have some bragging capital to show how different they are from the people around them, probably thinking that this will enhance their status a little bit, right?"

　　Fata Deo smiled and said, facing the red sun in the east, "Well, we'll soon be out of dear old Mrs. B's waters, so how about we go down and have a little fun? Hee hee, the boss won't allow us to gamble more than a million dollars at a time, but under a million is still okay, so, uh, let's have a little fun?"

　　Yi Chen smiled, "I'm also a bit interested in it, just so I can get some pocket money." Easy Dust was forcing Kane and the others to play mahjong with himself every time, but there was no flavor to it, this time, he just happened to have a good time. Among his several cronies, Phyllis was not interested in playing with money at all; Phil, Gore, and Kane were all sensible people who would not use money recklessly; Jester had no concept of money at all, and basically muddled through if he was able to feed and clothe himself anyway; as for Chekov, he was a miser, and you wouldn't want him to leak a single penny to gamble.

　　The whistle sounded long, countless colorful confetti flying in the sky, a ribbon linked between the people on the bed as well as the hands on the pier, and then raw was pulled off, half-broken ribbons fell into the water, and immediately lost its original bright colors, turning into gray and obscure colors. Large masses of salutes exploded in the air, subsequently leaving behind a cloud of white smoke, the destruction and spoilage of nature by mankind was exposed incomparably clearly at this moment.

　　Yi Dust looked at the dozen or so private yachts following the 'Duke of Windsor' as it swam around nearby, and couldn't help but raise his hand and aim his palm at those yachts. 法塔迪奥在旁边凑趣:"啊哈,易先生,如果您是超人,您现在就可以把这些游艇砸鸡蛋一样的砸碎了...呼呼呼,哦,超能力啊." 法塔迪奥和易尘一起嘿嘿嘿嘿的笑起来,法塔迪奥自觉自己说了一个很幽默的段子,易尘则是恶毒地想:"假如老子真的把这些游艇鸡蛋一样砸碎了,嘿嘿,嘿嘿...你小子还不吓得屁滚尿流的? "

　　A flock of gulls followed the cruise ship with great sophistication, and from time to time one of them rose and fell on the white trails at the end of the cruise ship, its small claws seeming to bring up a little bit of scaly light. The Jester standing beside them stuck out his bright red tongue, licked it around his thin lips, and slurped, "Do cruise ships provide air rifles? Would love to shoot them down."

　　Phyllis quit and complained to him, "Jester, these birds are so cute, how can you beat them?"

　　Jester shrugged his shoulders and looked at Phyllie with a soft-hearted little girl I don't care to talk to you look. Hate Philie is a kick over, almost like in the old home, waving his hand to make hundreds of icicles to smash Jester.

　　Yi Dust dissatisfiedly muttered a few words, "Sven, Sven ... here are all elegant gentleman ladies, damn, don t give the old man a disgrace." The two people who were preparing for a big fight looked at each other, grunted a few words, and ignored each other. Jester followed Fata Deo s two assistants to the swimming pool, to see if they can get a little fishy thing to eat, Yi dust wrapped his arms around Phyllis, and Fata Deo sat into a circle of sun loungers, drinking juice, began to ramble and gossip.

　　A young man wearing a sky blue uniform with a few circles of gold trim embroidered on the cuffs and a handsome face walked over and said softly to Fata Deo, "Sir, you reserved a private room, didn't you? We'll be leaving the waters of B soon, so you can prepare, there are three guests from New York who want to play a few games with you."

　　Fattadio casually stuffed a bill to him, waved his hand to indicate that he left, excitedly shivering his hands and said, "Aha, A country ghosts, fuck, winning anyone's money is not as addictive as winning their money ah ...C country Yi, you, you have to help me to testify that when I see the boss in the future, I didn't gamble too much, I want to make these New Yorkers lose clean pants."

　　Easy Dust laughed out loud, "Fattadio, dear Fattadio, do you have a grudge against the A's?"

　　Fatadio said indifferently, "The whole of R has a grudge against them. If it weren't for them, how could our mighty nation suddenly disintegrate?"

　　Yi dust into the bone three points said: "However, if the Soviet Union does not break up, you can now have such a large amount of money? Your boss is able to have first in this kind of scenery of the power? Oh ... dear, everything has to be viewed in two different ways, you hate the A people let your country into the darkness, but the A people's demeanor let you rise to heaven. That's a strange logical quirk, isn't it?"

　　Fattadio froze for half a day, thought hard for a long time, nodded his head and said, "I admit that what you said is true, if there is no A country people messing up, I am afraid that I am still in Siberia as a high school teacher ... However, I still hate the A country people, so, I want to win all the money on them. " It looked like Fatadio was very confident in his gambling skills.

　　Yi Duan said in disbelief, ''It's better to conquer them at the poker table than to destroy them physically. Some people like to say that conquering one's opponent mentally is the most wonderful thing, but I think that the only thing that is safest is to completely destroy them physically. It is possible for a psychopath to stab you, but a man whose body is in pieces is not likely to do any harm to himself in any way, isn't it?"

　　Fata Deo froze again, showing his teeth, he said sullenly, "C Guoyi, I can't speak to you, your words are always full of dark philosophies ... But we can't destroy each other on a cruise ship, so we'll just have to let them go to the Olympics in their underpants in Beijing's ... if it's in Siberia." Fattadio's face was sinister, and his hands made a big circle: "If it was in Siberia, I'd have let them go digging for uranium, and I'd have treated these A-listers well."

　　Easy Dust smiled up and whispered, "Uh-huh, is the hatred between nations and ethnic groups that strong? Truly, unthinkable."

　　Fattadio froze for the third time today and groaned, "C-easy, it occurs to me, you're from C?"

　　Easy Dust's face clouded up a bit as he nodded and said, "Yes."

　　Fata Deo cocked his head and looked at Yi Duan halfway, Yi Duan was a bit strange to survey his own clothes, there didn't seem to be anything out of place ah?

　　Yi Duan glared fiercely at Fatadio, "What exactly are you looking at? Is there anything wrong with me?"

　　Fata'dio nodded repeatedly, "Yes, it's very wrong. What I heard, is that I heard that you are working with the J-countrymen? Strange, which C-nationals I've come across aren't ruthless to the bone against the J-nationals? Strange, strange, are you really working with the Yakuza?"

　　Yi Dust nodded, leaned his body towards the chair and said, ''Yes, your information channels are very good, but ... do the J countrymen and the C countrymen, do they also have any hatred in? Hm? A kind of hatred that makes all C country people hate J country? Strange, I didn't know about this stuff before."

　　Fata Deo almost about to faint, originally a little nervous he, inside the throat issued a 'cackle cackle cackle' miserable howl, fortunately next to a crew member to see the wrong, swooped over to give him a hard hammer a few times back, Fata Deo only gasped. Yi dust a little depressed still gave that crew a few large bills, looked at Fata Dio said:" dear, you can be sure to pay attention, is my words make you so ... difficult ... to believe? "

　　Fattadio grunted miserably and shook his head back and forth, "Dear C easy, you should look up the recent history books of C. God, God, I can't imagine ..."

　　Seemingly out of consideration for Yi Duan's self-esteem, Fata Deo skipped the topic, shook his head and said, "Huh? We should be in the open sea, right? All those private yachts have gone back, well, we can go down."

　　The handsome young man from earlier had already come this way, and the crew members along the way greeted him very respectfully, "Good day Mr. Second Mate." Yi Chen snapped his fingers and said, "Well, sitting in the second mate's seat at such a young age, it looks like this kid has a promising future."

　　Fattadio sneaks in, "Second Vice? No, he's a pimp, someone who's well known in certain fields. If you're interested in one of the ship's female crewmembers, he's the right man to call, and he can even arrange for some special noble lady to be with you ... Oh, God, I didn't mean anything else." He held up his hands and pleaded with Phyllis.

　　Yi Chen didn't bother to pay attention to the acid-eating Fili and the Fata Deo who kept confessing, pondering in his heart, "Damn, the recent history of Country C? I'm familiar with the history of the seven ancient warring states ... Recent history? That's about five hundred years or so, right? I really need to read something about Country C sometime, otherwise I don't look like a Country C person in any way."

　　Inside the brilliantly decorated VIP room, beside a very large gambling table, three middle-aged men wearing fancy short-sleeved dresses and a pair of gray or white beach pants underneath, with three blonde beauties in their arms who were not sure whether they were their wives, their lovers, or their cross-dressers, were sipping champagne and flicking a few bills in their hands.

　　Fata Deo walked in shivering, a smile on his face that made him feel extremely uncomfortable, and his trembling hands reached out and clasped the hand of the New Yorker closest to the door, saying excitedly, "You're from Country A? That's great, come on, come on, A-country people are all hoity-toity, haha, green American money, it's so beautiful."

　　Yi Chuan smiled as he looked at Fata Deo's damp and grim hands causing that A man to furrow his brows and draw back his hand a bit unhappily. The middle aged man with Elvis Presley like long sideburns sitting in the middle seat pointed at Fata Deo: ''Mr. Fata Deo? Well ... that's good, that's good, my name is Bill, they call me Boar Bill, well cut the crap, we're all here to have fun."

　　Fata Deo smiled and sat down in the chair opposite Bill, looking up and asking Yidan, "C-nation easy? Won't you come and have a hand? Come to think of it, these A friends are broads with tons of American money."

　　Yi Dust smiled and nodded, "Play what? I'm not much of a poker player, but ... I can play a few games with you, I'm still better at dice and roulette." Yi Duan smiled and sat down, and Fili leaned against his side.

　　Jester, as well as Fattadio's two accompanying aides, were approached by the crew, carrying two small leather cases containing a total of two million dollars in cash.

　　Bill's two bodyguards standing in the corner also brought up a small suitcase, but this suitcase was much bigger than Fata Dio's as well as Yi Chen's suitcase. Fata Dio grinned cheekily and lifted a bottle of red wine from the wine cart next to him, poured a glass for Yi Duan, and then he himself took a hard swig into the mouth of the bottle, as if he had changed into a different person, and yelled out, "Oh, honey, open the cards."

　　The dealer arranged by the cruise ship was a beautiful woman, very shrewd and capable looking, her hands were divided and she said with a smile, "Gentlemen, in order to avoid trouble as well as disputes in the future, you can now check the gambling table as well as the nearby facilities. Our cruise ship guarantees that everything is under the most perfect surveillance, and it is hard to cheat with us. However, we do not guarantee that certain extraordinary means may be used here, so I can only guarantee my absolute fairness. Is that okay?"

　　Fatadio didn't care and said, "I've never been afraid of people cheating, so whatever." Yi Duan smiled, pulled out the jade pendant of his own and gently turned it a few times in the palm of his hand, nodding his head. Bill, who cared even less, shooed the woman in his arms away and signaled to start splitting the cards.

　　Easy Dust's luck stinks, a lot, and he's not very good at blackjack, so even though he was able to see Bill's and their cards directly, Easy Dust, who isn't very good at counting cards, still lost his ass.

　　But then, Fata Deo is smooth sailing, his hand is good, technology as well as psychological warfare is first-class, in easy dust after half of the suitcase empty, Bill their suitcase all empty ...

　　Fata Deo rubbed his hands proudly, his nose in front of the big pile of US currency in front of himself, inhaled hard, and said intoxicatedly, "The ink of the US currency is really good quality, especially the US currency flowing out of the hands of the people of A. Oh God, it's so wonderful, this flavor, it's so wonderful." Yi Duan and Phyllis almost laughed out loud, while Jester was chilled to the bone, as if he had seen Chekov's slug again.

　　Bill's face was hard to see, especially when Fata Deo returned Yi Duan's five hundred and twenty thousand dollars to Yi Duan, he angrily slapped the table and yelled, "You two are in cahoots?"

　　Fattadio's eyes rolled up and he stood up as if he were a quivering rattlesnake and said viciously, "What do you mean? Are you not convinced after losing money? We are friends, of course we are in the same gang. Aren't you three boars also together?"

　　The two bodyguards behind Bill as well as the other two companions aggressively took a few steps forward, Yi Chuan quickly picked up a poker from the tabletop and flicked it with two fingers, white light flashed and a bloodstain appeared on Bill's nose. Bill froze for a moment, Yi Chuan gently shook the jade pendant on his finger and said with a fierce smile, "Dear Mr. Wild Boar, if your subordinate is still this nonchalant, this jade pendant of mine, will hit you in the eye, do you think it's the left eye or the right eye?"

　　The female dealer quickly separated the fist-pumping Jester as well as Fattadio's two assistants, and said amiably, "Gentlemen, this is the 'Duke of Windsor' cruise liner, and you don't want the scandal of a mutual brawl to spread halfway across Europe tomorrow, do you? Please restrain yourselves, gentlemen, our cruise ship does not want something unpleasant to happen."

　　The second mate led a few senior crew members in and said with a smile, "Dear friends, the luncheon is about to begin, don't you want to enjoy the escargot cooked by the top French chef?" The crew smiled and stopped between the two sides that were about to clash.

　　Bill angrily led the men out, and when he reached the door, he suddenly turned back and shouted, "Evening, there is a boxing match tonight, we will place another bet, and I will single you ... Fata Deo, you remember, I will single you for the bet. Mr. Second Mate, I hope you'll set me up." The second mate smiled and nodded in agreement.

　　Fata Deo laughed, and Yi Duan laughed as well. Fata Deo casually threw a dozen or so stacks of banknotes to the dealer as well as the second mate, and then tilted his head, his trembling hand held on the second mate's shoulder, revealing a smiling face that made the second mate a little bit creepy, and his face came to less than ten centimeters in front of the second mate, and he asked him softly: ''My dear, the wild boar Bill ... is Doing what? Is it so arrogant?"

　　The second mate laughed, "Mr. Fattadio, we can't divulge any information that's private with our guests." The female dealer already had the sense to walk out with a few other crew members, closing the door of the room with her hand, and the camera lenses in the four corners of the room, also suddenly dropped 180 degrees in unison, focusing on the wall.

　　Fata'dio smiles and says, "Well, no, go ahead, tell me, I'd love to know!" Casually, he grabs a bundle of bills on top of the table and stuffs them into the second mate's pocket.

　　The second mate insisted, "Sir, oh don't do that, we have principles, we can't divulge anything to do with our guests ..."

　　Easy Dust interrupted with an interjection, "My dear Mr. Second Mate, principles and even chastity come at a price, and I've always believed in that ... Oh, give me all the information I need about Bill, and you ... can take my suitcase inside of half the dollars."

　　Without any coyness, the second deputy directly smiled and started to escape the banknotes inside the suitcase and placed them on the table, waiting until there were still fifty stacks inside the suitcase, he closed the lid and lifted it in his own hands. Easy Dust raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Is that all right? Give us the information we want to know, right?"

　　Mr. Second Mate, without any nonsense, smiled and whispered, "His apparent profile is that of a manager of a stock exchange in New York, but he is known to some of our crew as a senior cadre member of a ... well, Italian originated family in New York, country A, a very bad man to be messed with. Gentlemen, as God is my witness, I didn't say anything about that."

　　Easy Dust smiled up, "Oh, a member of the Mafia's A-Nation clan? You can go now dear, we won't spill the beans on you."

　　The second deputy opened the door and walked out, suddenly turned back and smiled, "I agree with what this gentleman from country C said, everything has a price ... even more noble young ladies, their chastity also has a price, I very much agree with this point of view, it is simply to cover all the truths of the human world ah. " He smiled and walked out with his suitcase.

　　Fata'dio let out a low curse, "Damn, that bitch."

　　Easy Dust laughed, "He's a pimp, isn't he? What's the difference between that and a whore? What do you have to say about tonight's fight ... Fata Deo?"

　　Fata Deo said helplessly, "Fuck, if I had known something like this, I would have brought the boss's personal bodyguard over, what with the black market boxing, he's an expert too. Unfortunately, unfortunately, shit, this boxing thing, but it's different from gambling on cards, there's no way to control it by yourself."

　　Easy Dust laughed and looked at Jester, who was grimacing and bouncing like a monkey next to him, and smiled at Fata Dio, "Couldn't we send someone to compete?"

　　Fata Deo nodded repeatedly, ''That's good, we can send fighters to fight with their chosen fighters, of course, it would have to be requested in advance. However, usually such fighters are trained like hell, where can we find such people now? Is it ... Dear C Guo Yi, is it possible that you have a solution?"

　　Easily Dust smiled, pointed to Jester and said, "Jester's a good fighter and he'll be happy to win us a ton of $$$ ..."

　　The Jester smiled contentedly and punched through the three-inch thick teak gambling table to the shocked eyes of Fata Dio and his two assistants.

　　Yi Chen gently applauded, "Mr. Jester, tonight, you will be the main character, I hope not to let me down oh? I will put a twenty million dollar bill on you, if you lose, jump into the sea and swim to Shanghai yourself ... Of course, don't go too far." The last sentence was an admonition to Jester to never use powers beyond normal human imagination, and Jester nodded in agreement.