Courting Death

Li Rui's expression was extremely ugly now. That son of a bitch Gu Yuanshan must have used some dirty trick. He had a rough guess: probably some banned drug or stimulant that made the body lose its sense of pain and greatly enhanced its physical capabilities. The reason the fighter had suddenly collapsed without warning had to be that his time was up and the drug had worn off.

In contrast to Li Rui, Gu Yuanshan's face blossomed into a smile. He was about to win ten billion. This brat was still too green. He had run an underground fighting arena for over twenty years; how could he possibly not have a backup plan?

He had spent ten years and one billion yuan developing this highly concentrated stimulant. Exclusive to his arena, it was also his trump card, meant for precisely a situation like today's.

"Brat, you're still too green. You only have four men left who can fight now. It takes ten of your men to wear down one of my fighters, and I still have two fighters left. How are you going to handle that? I have to thank you for delivering ten billion to me! Ha, ha, ha!" Gu Yuanshan laughed smugly.

"Fuck, I'm done playing. This isn't any fun at all." Li Rui did not respond to the arrogant Gu Yuanshan. Instead, he cursed, slapped the table, and said, "Li Yi, go outside and bring the others in."

"Yes, boss."

Lü Yifan, who had watched the entire fight from the side, asked with a deeply worried expression, "Old Li, what's going on?"

"Old Lü, I'm not going to lose."

When Gu Yuanshan heard Li Yi once again order his men to bring people in, his wildly laughing expression froze instantly, and a bad feeling rose from the bottom of his heart.

A short while later, Li Yi arrived at Li Rui's side first. Then a dense crowd of muscular men, each two meters tall, streamed over to Li Rui, loudly calling out their greetings to the boss.

"Holy fuck, fuck, fuck... This..." Lü Yifan pointed at the gathering of at least a hundred burly men, his mouth hanging open, already too stunned to speak.

Lü Yifan was not the only one shocked speechless by the arrival of more than a hundred burly men. Every spectator present went from cheering excitedly to utter silence, without so much as a crow's cry or a sparrow's chirp.

Seeing these hundred-plus muscular men, Gu Yuanshan also rose to his feet in shock. "You, you..." He was already trembling all over with anger.

How was he supposed to keep playing? Even if both remaining fighters were injected with the specially formulated, highly concentrated stimulant, so what? This many men could bury them under sheer numbers. What the hell was there left to fight?

Watching Gu Yuanshan point a trembling finger at him, Li Rui burst out laughing. "Hahaha! Still want to fight? I have another 150 brothers here. If you want to fight, we're ready whenever you are."

Gu Yuanshan stared fixedly at Li Rui without saying a word. After staring for a while, he turned and left with his people.

Only then did the spectators erupt in cheers. The challenge to the arena had succeeded. Although Li Rui had cheated entirely through the system and won through superior numbers, a win was a win. Besides, Gu Yuanshan had cheated too.

Li Rui picked up the two bank cards on the table and laughed. "Ten billion earned in less than half a day. Making money really is easy." As he spoke, he also mentally instructed the system to transfer the money from Gu Yuanshan's bank card into his own China Merchants Bank account.

The reason he had come to wager ten billion with Gu Yuanshan was that Zhao Yi and the others had learned through their investigation that Gu Yuanshan had roughly ten billion in cash. As long as he turned Gu Yuanshan into a penniless pauper, what did it matter how many men he had? Who would listen to him without money?

"Big brother, from now on, you're my big brother. You even brought Gu Yuanshan completely to heel. You're fucking incredible!" Lü Yifan gave Li Rui a thumbs-up, filled with admiration.

Even a mighty dragon did not suppress the local snake, yet Li Rui, this mighty dragon, had not only suppressed it but forced it into submission. He really was a ruthless character.

"Old Lü, I have to thank you for bringing me here today. Come on, it's still not too late. Take me to that fun club you mentioned and let me broaden my horizons."

"Sure, don't worry. I, Lü Yifan, will absolutely get everything arranged for you today." With that, they slung their arms around each other's shoulders and filed out with the 174 advanced bodyguards.

The sight of 174 burly men, each two meters tall, walking through the mall frightened the shoppers into keeping several hundred meters away. To avoid causing panic, Li Rui had 150 bodyguards take vehicles back to the security company on their own and twenty return to the Sun Grand Hotel. He then drove after Lü Yifan toward the upscale club he had mentioned.

The following day, Li Rui woke up at the Sun Grand Hotel again. Patting his face, he sighed. Life as a rich man was wonderful. Yesterday, he had gone with Lü Yifan to a high-end club and truly witnessed what it meant to live like the rich.

There were beautiful women of every kind inside: mature beauties, lolis, queens, stockings, high heels-the sight left his eyes dazzled.

In the end, unable to hold out against Lü Yifan, Li Rui had thoroughly indulged himself. He called in four beautiful masseuses for a massage, and it felt absolutely amazing. That was why he felt several pounds lighter when he got up today.

As for why nothing happened of the sort everyone loved to see-sigh, there was no helping it. Who told Li Rui to be a man of principle?

Rolling out of bed, he put on his slippers and stood before the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows. Watching the endless streams of vehicles and people on the road, Li Rui murmured reflectively, "Going to work and coming home every day, doing dull, tedious work like robots-who exactly are they living such lives for?"

But then he thought that, without the system, he probably would not even measure up to these ordinary people who toiled and rushed about to make a living. He was merely luckier than they were.

"Li Yi, tell the hotel to send breakfast." The hunger in his stomach interrupted Li Rui's reflections.

"Yes, boss."

Ten minutes later, a knock sounded at the door, and a young woman in her twenties, wearing a maid outfit with her hair tied in a ponytail, pushed a dining cart inside.

"Hello, sir. The breakfast the hotel prepared for you has arrived. Would you like to eat now?"

"Yes," Li Rui replied softly as he walked to the dining table.

The girl in the maid outfit then placed four plates from the cart onto the dining table. Each exquisite plate had a gleaming golden cover over it.

As the covers were lifted, four dishes of precious ingredients that Li Rui had never eaten before were revealed: bird's nest, abalone, and shark fin; sea cucumber congee; French foie gras; and sturgeon caviar. They were all the finest ingredients.

These ingredients alone cost over ten thousand yuan, and their taste was naturally top-notch. Li Rui reflected that, ever since obtaining the system, he had been busy with family matters and had not properly sampled all kinds of fine food. When he had the chance, he would definitely have to try them.

After waving the girl in the maid outfit out of the room, Li Rui leisurely began eating his luxury breakfast worth over ten thousand yuan.

Just as Li Rui was savoring the delicious food, his phone suddenly rang. He checked it and saw that Zhao Yi was calling.

"Hello, boss. Our surveillance picked up today that Gu Yuanshan is preparing to contact one of his death warriors to assassinate you. You need to be careful, boss."

Hearing Qian Yi's words, Li Rui was startled. In a society ruled by law, he actually dared resort to assassination. He had originally thought that winning all his money would turn him into a toothless tiger, with no one willing to listen to him anymore. He really had underestimated these underground rats. He even had death warriors?

Assassinate me? Since you insist on courting death, you can't blame me. "System, buy me an advanced assassin."

"Ding. Fifty million deducted from your financial account. Balance: 78.05 billion. The assassin has been deployed within a one-kilometer radius."

"What? Fifty million? An advanced assassin actually costs five times as much as an advanced bodyguard!" The price made Li Rui cry out in shock.