In the real world, ten out of nine windfalls like this would have been scams, but here, no one questioned the system's promises-so people began staking huge amounts of points on Li Xian's failure, and the corresponding odds for "success" kept climbing.
The odds rose visibly from 2.6 to 2.7, then to 2.8, 2.9... before finally settling around 3.4.
When Lin Shiming saw that number, he finally moved his fingertip over the "Place bet" option.
Cheng Xin noticed his movement immediately. He turned toward Lin Shiming's screen as if by chance, then his eyes widened.
"You... which one are you betting on?!"
He stared hard at the other man's Light Screen, convinced his eyes were playing tricks on him. Only when the words [Bet placed successfully] appeared did he finally believe it-
Lin Shiming had staked his points on Li Xian's "failure."
Since the system limited the maximum amount for each bet, Lin Shiming did not stop at one. He staked a second batch of points.
Li Xian was about to close his Light Screen when he suddenly noticed the odds fluctuating rather strangely.
The odds for his victory had held at 3.4 for almost half a minute, which meant most people had already placed their bets. Normally, there should not have been any major changes after that.
But just now-that number had instantly risen by 0.2.
Then something even more baffling happened.
As if there were some kind of error, the odds began jumping back and forth between 3.60 and 3.61.
This repeated roughly three times before the number began plummeting-from 3.6 all the way down to 2.4.
That meant someone was staking a huge number of points on his victory.
Li Xian's current situation was practically a dead end, and there was only one person who could have