Chapter 2304 Gotham Music Festival (36)

Chapter 2297 Gotham Music Festival (36)

The second round of the game began.

But before the game began, the doors on both sides of the room opened, and another group of masked people walked out of the room and came to the corresponding table according to the patterns on their masks.

Schiller found a strong man standing opposite him. In his blurred vision, he counted the 9 tentacles on the opponent's octopus mask, which meant that he was Schiller's opponent.

The invitation letter given to the challenged will state who challenged them, but the invitation letter Schiller received did not have a specific name, only one word - "sea".

Now the sea stood in front of him, and Schiller could only use his arms to support his body balance as much as possible, and almost didn't look at him.

When the second round of the game began, the round table was removed again, and the oval table used by the two gambling parties floated up. Schiller and Octopus No. 9 stood at both ends of the table.

Suddenly, the staff took a strange machine and placed it in the center of each table. The upper part of the machine was a transparent sphere, and the lower part was a metal base. There were two hoses on the metal base facing the two people. The hoses were connected to a pump. There was a thin tube in front of the pump, and there was a needle in front of the thin tube.

The transparent spherical part was very large and looked like a highly transparent glass material, but there were many hoses arranged in a spiral on the wall of the sphere, with 9 outlets on the top and 9 outlets on the bottom.

There was a smaller spherical frame in the center of the sphere, which was made of metal. There were many metal balls of different sizes hanging in the frame. There were many of them, like stars, and each one was engraved with a rune.

Everyone talked about it, not knowing what this strange machine was used for, and the staff began to explain.

"The name of this gambling game is Blood Lotto. Professional medical staff will insert the blood collection needle into the arms of both parties later. Please don't worry. We have special methods to ensure the hygiene and safety of the entire process. No one will die from improper injections."

"The blood collection needle is in place, and both parties enter the field with chips. The lowest is one, and the highest is all-in. The first move is decided by tossing a coin."

"After the start, the participants use the remote control to decide the number of milliliters of blood to be drawn. The minimum is 100 milliliters, and there is no upper limit. The blood will flow into the pump in front through the needle tube, and the blood outlet is determined at the same time. The upper 9 outlets are numbered 1 to 9, and the lower 9 outlets are numbered 1 to 9. The runes are numbered from 1 to 9. "

"After the decision is made, the other party who has not drawn blood will adjust the target position by turning the metal ball through the joystick. After completion, the person who has drawn blood will pump and shoot. The first target hit by the blood flow will be considered a hit, and the rune will be recorded. "

"During the 20-minute game, there is no limit to the number of valid runes hit, but 7 runes need to be picked out in the end, and the order will be arranged and combined. The winning number will be announced after 20 minutes. The one with the same number of runes as the winning number wins and gets all the gold coins on the table and all the blood lost in the game. "

After the rules were explained, the whole audience was in an uproar.

Didn't they play poker before? Why are they gambling with their lives now? The minimum is 100 ml at a time, and the lottery requires 7 runes, which means a minimum of 700 ml of blood.

This amount is not fatal, but losing 700 ml of blood at a time is also dangerous, especially for the elderly and children.

More importantly, after drawing blood, you decide the exit and the other party adjusts the target. Then the other party will definitely adjust the target to be very difficult to hit. If you miss it once, the amount of blood required will become 800 ml.

Although this is less than the limit of human blood loss, it is not a one-time deal. You will die after playing this game. If you win, you can get your blood back, but what if you lose?

This game may not be the end. At that time, the winner will get the gold coins and blood back, and the state is just right, while the loser will lose 1000 ml of blood. I am afraid it will be difficult to stand. How can you gamble?

Everyone is complaining that it is too harsh. Isn’t it a bit too big to jump from an ordinary poker game to this game?

They finally realized that the legend of the Atlantis was true. This is a ship for gambling, and the risks and rewards are proportional.

Of course, some people will start to feel fear. They don't want to play anymore and want to quit, but unfortunately, no matter whether they are the challenger or the challenged, once the gambling begins, there is no turning back. Even those who take the initiative to board the ship will regret it too late.

"Is this what you want?" Christopher looked at Tupac across from him and said, "Fight to the death in this way?"

"You don't understand anything." Tupac turned his head aside and said, "This is a good thing."

"You are really crazy." Christopher finally couldn't stand it anymore. He hammered the table hard and said, "Listen to what you are talking about? You put the two of us in a deadly situation!"

"On the contrary, I got us out of a deadly situation."

Christopher stared at Tupac in silence, his eyes were very focused, and he had to let Tupac give him an explanation.

Tupac lowered his head and said, "Recently, rap on the East and West Coasts has developed very well. Dr. Dre is discovering new people, and there is also a Gotham kid on the East Coast. Do you think this situation will continue?"

Christopher frowned.

"No, of course not." Tupac lowered his head and said to himself, "Don't you understand? Rap has given black people too much say, and they won't allow this to continue."

Tupac's Adam's apple moved and he said, "They do it all the time, all of them, they do it to my parents, they do it to me, they do it to all of us."

"What on earth are you talking about?" Christopher asked.

Tupac's hands gripped the edge of the table and he said, "I had no choice but to come to this boat because someone was trying to kill me."

"Who?" Christopher asked.

"It's not important. What's important is that they will make everyone think that you killed me because of the conflict between the two of us."

"Then they will also send people to kill you, disguised as revenge for my fans, and both of us will die."

"So I have no other choice but to hide on the boat myself, and then find a way to pull you out. This way at least one of us can survive."

"What's going on? Tupac." Christopher leaned forward, stared closely at his former friend and asked, "Tell me what's going on!"

Tupac took a deep breath, appearing very nervous and anxious, and said: "You should know that I am preparing for a new album. The song preparation started a few months ago, and I have been writing lyrics."

"I...I paid attention to Mexico. Do you know where my name came from?"

"how come?"

"My original name was not Tupac. My parents changed my name to me. It is a transliteration of a Spanish name. It comes from Tupac Amaru II, a pioneer of the Latin American national liberation movement. His greatest achievement in life was to lead Latin America. The indigenous people bravely resisted the Spanish colonizers.”

"Speaking of my parents, you may not know that they were both members of the Black Panther Party and devoted their lives to the struggle for national independence and liberation. But that doesn't matter. That's a thing of the past."

"They dismantled us and now these movements are close to disappearing and I continue to speak out."

"Just a month after the studio incident where we had a conflict, I was accused of shooting a white police officer three times with a gun that I had actually helped a black man during a riot at the university."

"You will think that this is all a coincidence, a series of things that happened continuously in my life. I thought so at the time. I felt that I was unlucky and that I had been unlucky that year."

"But soon I discovered that there were more and more incidents against me. People were always watching me and appeared on every occasion I appeared. I couldn't avoid them, I couldn't go around them, and I couldn't hide from them. It didn't sound right. "It felt like a madman having a hysterical attack, but I knew I wasn't, and I knew someone was watching me."

"I thought I was crazy, I even went to the doctor and they told me I had anxiety and panic attacks and told me to take it easy and I thought that was it until a few months ago... someone got into my house."

"What did they do?" Christopher immediately became nervous.

"They didn't do anything," Tupac said with a shrug. "But they took a little something, nothing valuable, just lyrics I wrote a few months ago."

"What did you write?" Christopher began to understand a little bit.

"Tupac, the hero of Mexico and Peru, and his famous saying, 'It's time to end our differences and unite as brothers.'"

Christopher's Adam's apple moved, and he lowered his eyes and said, "...You know best what they don't want to hear, and you wrote it all."

"I've been writing this," Tupac said, looking at Christopher. "That's why they're watching me, and they must be watching you the same way, because we're all writing and they don't want to hear it. , they don’t want anyone to listen, they don’t dare to let anyone listen.”

"They are used to playing old tricks." Tupac stared at the table and said: "It's not new, but it's very useful. They artificially create conflicts, split them into two factions, and then disguise their assassinations as belonging to the two factions. They don’t know how many united people have been divided by vendetta, and their struggle has been silenced.”

Christopher's Adam's apple trembled uncontrollably, and he said: "I don't know, I don't feel it, I don't feel it..."

"They're not staring at you in that street way." Tupac stretched out his hand and made a quotation mark gesture and said: "Don't forget who they are, they own a whole country, and they won't follow you like little gangsters. , If I were a poor black man who grew up on the streets, I might not be able to notice it, but I’m not.”

“My biological parents, my stepfather, my godfather, and my aunt were all high-level members of the Black Panther Party, and I saw with my own eyes what that group of people did to them, so I was always keenly aware. "

"When I discovered that the scratch paper I had written the lyrics on was missing, I knew my death was coming."

Tupac finally showed an excited expression. He slammed the table down angrily and said, "What I can't stand the most is that they chose you. We are the only two black singers on the east and west coasts who have the most say. , they want to kill two birds with one stone and kill us all, and I will never let them succeed."

Tupac gritted his teeth and showed a fierce expression on his face that Christopher had never seen before. He said: "I know the rumors about this ship are true. The elders I know have had their wishes come true here."

"Then I challenge you. There must be a winner among the two of us. There must be one person who can realize his wish. As long as he makes a wish to escape pursuit forever and die without persecution, we can at least retain a channel to speak out."

Christopher closed his eyes.

"So now, what do you think?" Tupac asked him.

"What's that?" Christopher opened his eyes and asked seriously.

"What?"

"The man with the same name as you, what did he say?"

Tupac was startled.

"It's time to put aside our differences and unite as brothers."

"……it's time."

sleepy, yawn