New Year 2027, Luobao
After Alfonso entered the casino lobby, he went straight to the high-limit betting area.
He scanned the four open gambling tables, found a table with neither too many nor too many gamblers, and sat on the side with fewer people.
He changed his chips for two thousand euros and glanced sideways at the table's limit cards, which ranged from 1 to 500 euros.
Loborg Casino has the temperament of an old European orthodox aristocrat. Whether it is the elegance highlighted in the luxurious decoration or the insistence on the 10 euro entrance fee, it seems to silently indicate that it is a desert similar to the nouveau riche in the eyes of old Europe. The difference between the city and the archway city.
This difference is also reflected in gambling equipment and even the cultivation of gamblers' habits.
The most classic gambling is not rolling dice, let alone playing poker, but roulette, like betting on life with a revolver.
The biggest difference between Loborg and other regional casinos is that there is a very high proportion of roulette gaming tables.
Roulette itself is also different from the ugly upstart casinos. In addition to 1 to 36 plus a green "0" that the banker takes all, the roulette in many casinos in other areas also unscrupulously "invented" "00" ".
The original 37 numbers are increased to 38, which greatly reduces the gambler's winning rate.
The Lobau Casino always maintains only one "0", which is very popular among gamblers.
The gaming table where Alfonso is sitting is roulette. The minimum bet is 1 euro, which refers to the specific number that pays 35 to 1. If the bet is on red and black, big and small, etc., the minimum bet is 5 euros.
Alfonso seemed to be interested in betting 5 euros each time in the red zone, winning and losing, and time passed unconsciously.
The woman in red with long brown hair stepped on high heels and walked gracefully towards a gaming table next to Alfonso.
The woman in red turned her back to Alfonso and watched the action at the gaming table. Maybe there were too many people at that table and there were no empty seats.
The woman turned around, walked to the seat next to Alfonso, and asked:
"Sir, can I sit here?"
Alfonso behaved as a normal man would when seeing a beautiful woman, and he asked her to sit down politely.
As a professional agent, Alfonso knew that in public places, the more flamboyant or even yelling people were, the less likely they would be suspected by potential opponents.
Alfonso thought and started to perform. After all, as the CEO of a large company, wouldn’t it be strange that he didn’t have fun in the casino when he went to Fort Lauderdale?
Alfonso raised the stakes to €10, but still only bet on the red and black side bets.
The woman bet one or two euros on two or three numbers each time, but none of them won. The woman asked Alfonso in frustration:
"Sir, why don't you put down the number? It's 35 to 1!"
Alfonso smiled mysteriously and said: "I'm waiting for the opportunity!"
A short and fat gambler at the gambling table opposite held a large number of chips, turned around and sat on the seat opposite Alfonso's table, and muttered in English with a strong Xiongguo accent:
"How's the luck on this table?" Xiongguo gambler said as he bet chips ranging from 100 to 300 euros on multiple numbers.
"10, black wins!" The female roulette player loudly announced the winner and placed the small wooden seal on the male's 200 euro chip.
bingo! The woman screamed loudly and shouted: "7000 euros! 7000 won!".
The Xiongguo people were overjoyed, and divided the winning and original chips into seventeen or eighteen parts, each worth 500 euros, and put them on numbers that looked like choices but were actually lucky.
Multiple overhead cameras panned unnoticeably to Alfonso's gaming table, where an older roulette player came over to replace his colleague.
He picked up the small white ball, glanced at the gambling table and the distribution of chips, and said professionally: "Please place your bet." Then, he slid the white ball along the groove of the roulette wheel, and the white ball quickly spun counterclockwise.
Alfonso's body seemed to bounce, and he skillfully divided all the chips into four parts. He placed 500 euros on 15, 26, and 32 respectively, and pushed the remaining 455 euros to 3.
"Please stop betting!" After the voice, the ball began to slow down, getting slower and slower, fell into the number plate, jumped twice, and stopped in a number grid.
"26, black wins!", the roulette player swept all the missing chips, including the male, into the chip pool under the table hole, and skillfully pushed the 18,000 euro chip to Alfonso.
The beauty in red was stunned, yelling, jumping up and shouting, she stretched out her arms to hug Alfonso, who looked equally excited.
The woman in red patted Alfonso on the back and said: "Dear sir, you are the best gambler I have ever seen. I understand, what you just bet is the four numbers on both sides of '0'! "
"Yeah, I'm just waiting for this opportunity. Well, this technique can only be used once. I should go back and rest. Goodbye! The lady who brought me luck."
Under the envious eyes of everyone, Alfonso changed money and left the casino hall.
He first went back to the room to take a shower and change all his clothes. Then he put on a waterproof fishing windbreaker.
Alfonso walked onto the trestle of the artificial dock, boarded a small boat, and transferred to a yacht in the distance.
The lights in the yacht cabin were very dim. Shamron II did not get up and asked Alfonso who had just entered:
"You have already sent me the air sample report, and we also know how bad the environment in the Jade Khanate cave is. Why do you still want to request an emergency meeting?"
"I want to ask you face to face why the traffic officer is Madan, and why he was detained by the Yuhan people!" Alfonso replied.
Shamron II sighed and said: "Hey, you and Loew are both good students of mine. When I was your instructor, I taught you that you should give replacement names to your subordinates, even to your superiors. Reports also have to conceal the real names of downlines, which is what Loew did! I didn’t know until something happened to Madan.”
"Fortunately, the Yuhan people detained Madan because he was smuggling caviar. I hope it's okay." Alfonso comforted the boss in turn and continued:
"There is another important situation that requires your judgment. I don't know if we are lucky or is it a trap set by Yuhan? The couple who cooperated with Madan said they would invest in the construction of a water-retaining agent factory with high water absorption."
Shamron II asked suspiciously: "Water retaining agent? So what?"
"The production of water-retaining agents requires air environment control equipment. The other party not only mentioned this issue, but also said that it must be prepared without oxygen." Alfonso continued:
"You know, the so-called anaerobic preparation requires a sealed factory and is completely isolated from the outside air."
Alfonso looked at Shamron II, leaving his boss time to think. Shamron was so smart. He pondered for a moment and said:
"A completely enclosed space requires air environment control equipment. Do you suspect that under the name of a water-retaining agent factory, they are actually purchasing cave environmental equipment for the Jade Khanate?"
"Yes, I think the cave environment of the Yuhan people can no longer hold up, and they are eager to buy equipment. They contacted Ma Dan, probably to recruit me, an expert in environmental control equipment from country F. They probably don't know my true identity. We in Chichi are their mortal enemies," Alfonso said.
"Well, I think they don't know your identity either. Write me the names of the couple and I'll check."
Alfonso wrote in Shamron II's notebook: Bashir, Camilla.
"Anything else to say?" Shamron asked.
"Maybe I'm thinking too far. If they really buy equipment for the cave from my company, I have come up with a wonderful technical solution to blow up the entire cave without them noticing it easily." Alfonso Just as he was talking enthusiastically, he was interrupted by Shamron, who said:
"Don't be too anxious. Let's find out their identity and intentions first. If there is any situation, we can contact them at any time."
Twenty minutes ago, the woman in red was sitting next to the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel room, watching Alfonso walking onto the trestle of the dock with one eye through a high-power monocular.
The woman in red said to the microphone attached to her chest: "Damn it, he has changed his clothes and the powder bug is no longer useful. Let's start the second plan."
A small battery-powered unmanned submarine quietly sailed into the bottom of the yacht and clearly transmitted the conversation between the two men in Chihiro to the country of Earthsea 300 kilometers away.
There is a listening station for the Overseas Intelligence Service of China.
