As Cifer finished speaking, a hint of embarrassment appeared on his face, and his expression twisted.
Nolan couldn't help but cover his mouth and chuckle, while the people in the casino looked at each other in bewilderment.
The casino manager's forehead veins bulged, and sweat dripped continuously from his head.
He didn't want to agree, but he couldn't find any reason to refuse, and he dared not find any reason to refuse.
If he dares to say "no," he believes the other party will dare to draw their sword and cut off his head, this good man.
"Someone, go and calculate how much he owes in his lifetime. Then, all of you, show me your best skills and don't let Mr. Ulquiorra down!"
Since things have come to this point, we can only make preparations for both possibilities while maintaining appearances.
He instructed his men to be fully focused and use all their skills to win this gamble, while also making people realize how much they owed in their lives.
To be honest, the person in question may not know how much they owe in their lifetime because they don't care, but how could the casino not know?
I was just thinking about whether I could stall for time and see if there was any way to prevent the other side from winning.
But everything went as expected. In just a short time, including the initial investment, the chips on the Cifer table had reached nearly 700 million Belly.
"Mr. Ulquiorra, I've calculated it! It's 138.6 million Belly!"
The person in charge had to rush forward and tell the man the amount of debt he had accumulated in his lifetime, hoping to get him to stop gambling.
700 million is no small sum. Adding the money he just paid to the other gamblers, the casino's losses are already close to 1 billion!
If he continues to gamble like this, not only will the entire casino lose all its cash, but its cash flow will also be disrupted, and his savings of many years may vanish in an instant!
The person in charge was heartbroken. 1 billion! How long would it take to earn that back? That's equivalent to the lifetimes of many small casinos!
Knowing you can't beat the other party, when you guess that they have their eye on you for life, you should decisively throw them away, at least you can cut your losses in time!
"You owe quite a lot! Planning to work here for the rest of your life?"
When the other party backed down, Cifer also stopped gambling and reached for a die, throwing it at Yisheng.
"My life seems to have nothing to do with pirates."
He casually caught the dice, his tone devoid of friendliness.
He had already discerned the recruiting intent in the other party's words, but he had no intention of submitting.
"Uncle Security Officer, since you're still so aloof and so disgusted with pirates, why can't you continue to protect the people of the Qing Kingdom?"
Seeing his unfriendly words to Captain Cifer, Nolan finally couldn't hold back and questioned him.
"Oh, right, I forgot to tell you, I am Captain Cifer's companion. Before we went to sea, I was a resident of the Rona Town in the former Qing Kingdom."
When Yi Sheng wanted to say something, Nolan added this sentence, which stunned him, and even made his hand holding the dice tremble slightly.
"You are so powerful, yet you still allow the people of Basena to trample on the Qing Kingdom, and you have disappeared without a trace. Is this your arrogance?!"
Nolan became slightly agitated and rushed forward to grab Yisheng's collar, but the latter did not resist at all.
"I apologize for what happened in the Qing Kingdom, but I really don't know how I can still have the face to stay there."
His powerful Observation Haki allowed him to sense Nolan's emotions at that moment. Words can lie, but genuine feelings cannot.
He saw Nolan's feelings at that moment, and at the same time believed that she was from Rona Town. A wave of shame washed over him.
He finally spoke of the situation in the Qing Kingdom at that time, something he had never wanted to mention before.
A little over a year ago, he was Security Officer in the Qing Kingdom. At that time, although Qing Kingdom had occasional friction with its neighbor, Basena, the other side was generally afraid of him.
But he was only one person in his life, and he couldn't take care of the whole country. When war actually broke out, only the place where he was would be protected.
So, more than half a year ago, in order to stop the war, the King of the Qing Kingdom ceded Basena, believing at the time that this was the way to minimize the losses of civilians.
A prolonged war will only waste resources and manpower.
However, the good times didn't last long. Just six months later, Basena Kingdom broke off relations and war broke out again.
He rushed to the front lines with all his might, determined to protect the people of the Qing Kingdom.
Just one month after the war began, Yisheng received news that unsettled him.
The residents of Rona Town were forcibly evicted and left homeless on the high seas.
He didn't want to believe it, but after some investigation, he discovered that he was the only one who had been kept in the dark all along.
He had always taken it for granted that the residents of Rona Town would receive the land and houses they deserved as compensation.
He was confused, and he was angry.
Taking advantage of the fact that he had just defeated the enemy, he returned to the capital like a madman to find the royal family. He wanted an explanation, and this was not what he had imagined.
But the royal family simply stated that everything was for the purpose of ending the war.
Along the way, he saw many people living in the open, as the war had left many civilians homeless.
But when he arrived at the palace, he was met with extreme extravagance, which challenged his last line of defense: he was just a Security Officer.
He was furious and wanted to leave, to return to the front lines to continue resisting Basena's attack, but at that moment, he learned news that was even more devastating.
The King of the Qing Kingdom chose to surrender.
Because of the years of war, they lived in fear, and the amount of money the people could hand over was much less.
Surrendering and submitting to Basena would at least mean no longer living in fear, and would also grant one a title and good treatment.
He could hardly believe what he was seeing, but it just so happened that he wasn't on the front lines, and that his orders arrived just as he was rushing there overnight.
While he was still standing in the palace in a daze, Basena's army had already begun to invade Qing Kingdom, and everything was already beyond redemption.
For the first time in his life, he was blinded by rage and went on a killing spree, slaughtering the entire royal family in the palace.
He then left Qing Kingdom.
Basena's army has begun to move in from all directions, and if they continue to stay, the war will only continue, and the people of the Qing Kingdom will only continue to live in misery.
He hated this cruel and twisted world, and he hated himself for not being able to change it.
At the same time, he also hated that he had eyes that could see the world clearly.
It made me see the incompetence of those in high positions, and how they could treat the lives of the people as objects to be played with for the sake of a tiny bit of profit.
But it also allowed me to see the helplessness of ordinary people, the sorrow of the weak, and their groveling for survival.
"So... Security Officer, your eyes are...?"
Nolan had long suspected that the events in the Qing Kingdom had nothing to do with his life, and he just wanted to hear him tell the truth himself.
Little did I expect that I would be so deeply hurt by that incident.
"It was my own fault that I went blind. There are just too many despicable people in this world that are unbearable to look at."
"Being unable to see is truly a blessing!"