Many dealers in the gambling house only looked like humans on the outside, but their souls were bizarre and varied.
Chen Shi saw that the dealer at the next gambling table had a rooster's head and a human body, dressed in a turquoise robe embroidered with red and yellow peonies. Behind the rooster-headed dealer's head were the long plumes of a rooster, drooping from his back and almost dragging on the ground.
He walked toward another gambling table. The dealer at this table was shaped like a moth, with gray, hairy antennae growing in a fan shape on its small, fuzzy head. It wore a gray-black Daoist robe with a golden collar and the patterns of the Five Poisons embroidered in red thread.
Two pairs of white wings grew from its back, seeming human yet not human.
Will the rooster demon lose control, governed by its instincts, and eat the moth demon? Such a thought suddenly popped into Chen Shi's mind.
There was yet another gambling table where the dealer had a snake's head and a human body, wearing a flamboyant, festive robe.
Most of the dealers in the gambling house were like this.
The gamblers gathered around the tables, however, seemed entirely oblivious to these strange manifestations of the dealers. They placed their bets one after another, and the atmosphere was extremely lively.
Moving to and fro through Happy Forest, besides the gamblers, were a number of scantily clad girls. They dressed very revealingly, as if they could not afford clothes, with mere strands of gauze covering their modesty. Sometimes they participated in betting to liven up the atmosphere, and sometimes they just watched others place bets, helping to shout and cheer as if they could boost the gamblers' luck.
Whenever the gamblers won, some would toss them a