Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch - Chapter 770

Chapter 770: Chapter 730: Are you promoting anti-gambling propaganda here?

Mavis seemed to have spaced out for about ten seconds, but in reality, she had quickly completed setting up a “Blind Date Corner” for the destined couples… No, for the meant-to-be couples.

“Mavis did it!” Mavis’s face was saying ‘praise me, praise me.’

“Mavis is amazing!” Lincoln immediately praised her and rubbed her pink head.

“Hehe.” Mavis was immediately satisfied and continued to watch the game with Lincoln.

Princess Camille Victoria looked at the two of them as they casually solved the problem and was a bit stunned.

Although Lincoln’s solution sounded outrageous, it did solve the problem.

And how long did they take?

Did it take two minutes from Mavis noticing the problem, Lincoln suggesting a solution, and Mavis making the changes?

That’s too fast!

While still stunned, she suddenly heard enthusiastic applause near her ear.

—The last game of the last day of Tower Climbing Battle had ended.

Camille Victoria hurriedly looked and saw that Cody had indeed defeated Elvis and another opponent, and won the last spot in the [Gambling King Fight].

The applause on site was thunderous, ribbons flying, and the live broadcast room was a scene of jubilation.

However, this was just a small match, and the celebration wouldn’t last long.

Before the applause had completely died down, Zara, who was playing the role of the host, had already taken the stage and started interviewing the successfully qualified Cody—

“Hi Cody, first of all, congratulations on winning the match and successfully getting the last ticket to [Gambling King Fight]. Can you share your thoughts at this moment with everyone?”

A very typical question.

But Cody’s answer was not so typical:

“Before talking about my thoughts, I want to show everyone something.” There was no joy of promotion on his face; instead, it was filled with seriousness.

Zara keenly sensed that the atmosphere seemed a little off, but since they were live streaming, she could only follow the topic and ask: “Oh? What is it? I think everyone must be curious.”

Cody obviously took a deep breath, then raised his right hand with his palm facing outward.

Everyone, both on site and in the live broadcast room, looked at his hand, including Zara who was also curiously leaning slightly to the side to look at his right hand.

The next moment, under everyone’s gaze, that hand quickly lowered and raised, and a playing card appeared in his hand.

It was a [Diamond 7].

‘What’s this for? A magic trick?’ Zara was confused for a moment.

Next, Cody bent his fingers, took the card out of his palm, but the moment he raised it, the [Diamond 7] turned into a [Spades Ace].

Camille Victoria had already sensed the problem and opened her mouth slightly.

But Cody’s performance hadn’t ended yet. He waved the card, and it immediately turned into a [Hearts King]. He waved it again; it turned into a [Clubs Queen], waved it again, changed it again, waved it again, changed it again…

It looked like a magic trick, as a playing card was continuously transformed, almost cycling through a whole deck!

When Cody finally stopped, the card had turned back to the original [Diamond 7].

Downstage, the previous referee’s face was as dark as water, his forehead veins bulging like he had eaten an unprocessed large intestine, and from his expression, he couldn’t wait to tear Cody apart.

In the audience, the air also seemed to solidify for a moment before the audience members began whispering to each other, the murmurs growing louder and louder until Cody’s performance ended, when there was an uproar!

Because everyone realized one problem:

This wasn’t a stage for performing magic tricks; this was a card game!

He had just won the game and immediately began to perform “producing an entire deck of cards out of thin air”?

Wasn’t this a blatant way of telling everyone—you’ve all been played, I was cheating earlier!

“Fucking hell!” Lincoln couldn’t help but curse.

In front of the Princess and Mavis, he always maintained his quality, and his swear words were always held in his stomach.

But this time, he just couldn’t help it.

Not because he was angry, but purely because it was so unexpected.

He was watching the [Card King] match live for the first time, and the player had performed such a stunt!

It’s like being ridden and still outputting!

“Yes, I cheated in the previous competition,” Cody said.

“You see, everyone thought I would definitely lose before.”

“But with just a little trick…” He shook his hand again and directly rubbed out a hand of cards, “I won.”

“No one discovered it before I voluntarily showed it.”

“Now I’m telling everyone this, not to show off in front of everyone, but to make everyone realize: it’s okay to play cards for fun, but don’t gamble with money, no matter how good your skills are, you will always lose when you gamble!”

Cody flicked his wrist, gathered the cards in his hand into a stack, and with a shake of his hand, the stack of cards disappeared.

Finally, he looked at the host and said, “Now, you can announce that my results are invalid.”

“Huh?” Host Zara has not responded yet.

The competition was over, and she originally planned to come up and ask a few casual questions, smile, and get off work.

Who would have thought that she would suddenly run into such a thing?

This was too sudden!

“The rules of the competition,” Cody reminded again.

‘The rules of the competition? What rules?’ Zara was confused, who would pay attention to how cheating in a competition was dealt with?!

As if sensing Zara’s bewilderment, Cody took the initiative to introduce her, “The cheater in the competition, on-the-spot results are invalid, and the competition qualification is canceled.”

But Zara didn’t say so, she didn’t have the authority, and subconsciously looked at Lincoln’s position.

Lincoln reluctantly stood up, walked up to the stage, and took the microphone from Zara.

He looked at Cody and the first thing he said was a complaint:

“Are you promoting anti-gambling here?”

Cody looked at Lincoln and was a little nervous.

After all, the whole thing he had done was clearly a trouble-making behavior that did not give Lincoln face.

Fortunately, Lincoln was not too angry because although Cody cheated, he did not profit himself, and he “confessed” on the spot after finishing the whole thing, without any delay.

As for them not discovering the cheating behavior, it was indeed a bit embarrassing, but in Lincoln’s view, it was not a big problem, and the netizens would just laugh it off.

Cloud Dream never cared about showing a clumsy and harmless side, but was very scrupulous about appearing too dominant.

“Going to be eliminated anyway, might as well make a big effort before leaving, right?” Lincoln asked.

Cody nodded awkwardly.

He really hated gambling dogs, but he wouldn’t sacrifice such an important opportunity just to promote anti-gambling.

It’s just that his ability really ended here, and it was not very likely to advance – the points system in the Tower Climbing Battle greatly reduced the luck factor, and operations, calculations, and observation of words and colors were all important. Cody really couldn’t win.

So when the referee of [Tower Climbing Battle] changed from virtual NPC to a real person, the idea of ​​cheating and making it fun was born.

After carefully studying the rules, he confirmed that cheating would only result in the cancellation of scores and qualifications, with no fines, no other punishments, and even normal live streaming dividends, so he decided to do this.

Lincoln looked at the suit on Cody again and asked, “Armament Box?”

Cody nodded again, smiling even more awkwardly.

Actually, it is not just the Armament Box, but also [Palm Extreme Sports], as well as poker magic and cheating techniques.

It’s still quite complicated.

Before the Armament Box was launched, Cody had learned the cheating techniques, and the Armament Box just greatly reduced the difficulty of cheating under the judges’ eyelids.

At first, poker could not be put into the weapon box, and he tried and experimented for a long time before he discovered that only by completing an “ending” with poker would poker be recognized as a weapon so that it could be put into the weapon box.

Before tonight’s game, this has always been his unique secret.

But after such a revelation tonight, it should not be kept hidden.

Without much ado, Lincoln announced to the audience: “Competitor Cody, due to cheating in the competition, his qualifications for the competition will now be canceled, and his scores will be deemed invalid.”

“The second-highest score in the competition – congratulations to contestant Elvis for automatically filling in and becoming the last contestant to advance to the Gambling King Fight.”

“Let’s congratulations to Elvis!”