CONTROL
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After entering the casino, Phoenix casually opened Lu Jia's passport, which she had just received from the security guard.
However, his gaze paused slightly on the personal information page. Lu Jia's smile in the passport was very bright, and her delicate features were frozen at the most perfect moment.
After watching for a moment, he quickly closed his passport and handed it back to Lu Jia.
Passports were very important to Lu Jia. At this moment, she glared at him unhappily and carefully put the passport into the interlayer of her bag.
At the same time, Phoenix looked around at the different casino facilities and said," Follow me."
Lu Jia was already very tired. Yesterday, Lu Jia encountered a breakdown and drove for several hours. She had to follow him to the casino at night. Now, she only wanted to sleep. She had walked all the way with a breath of fairy air.
Hearing his words, she could not help but close her eyes tiredly and pinched herself hard to stay awake.
When people are unlucky, they will break their teeth when drinking cold water.
Phoenix pulled Lu Jia and exchanged the hundred dollars for round plastic chips. Then, they walked through half of the casino and came straight to a fan-shaped gambling table where a dealer stood.
Lu Jia had always been clueless about these things. The reason she came to Las Vegas was because it was a well-known tourist attraction in the western United States, and she wanted to try her luck.
Phoenix seemed to join a gambling table casually. He put down the smallest chip that represented 10 dollars and signaled the dealer to deal the cards.
After a long time, Lu Jia could tell that they were playing blackjack. Lu Jia had seen a movie called " Decisive Blackjack ", which told the story of a group of high-IQ teams winning 6 million US dollars in the casino by counting cards.
Thinking of this, she seemed to have thought of something. She suddenly straightened up and looked nervously at Mr. Phoenix, who was sitting in the middle of the gambling table.
…Could it be that he wanted to make a fortune from the casino with the hundred dollars in Lu Jia's hands?
How is that possible?
Lu Jia remembered that after watching this movie, she even went to search for the prototype story. It was said that the casinos had changed their strategy now, and such a thing could not happen again.
However, just as Lu Jia was thinking, the outcome of this round had already been announced on the gambling table.
- Phoenix won.
It was just luck, right? After all, it was normal to lose and win.
However, what surprised Lu Jia was that although Phoenix also lost, most of them won. Originally, there were only a few chips in front of him, but unconsciously, they had accumulated into a stack.
Almost two hours had passed without anyone noticing. Even the other players on the table had changed several times, but Phoenix was still sitting there.
At this moment, Lu Jia's drowsiness had long dissipated. She looked at Phoenix without blinking, and a little admiration arose in her heart. Even the dealer at the gambling table had an ugly expression.
Phoenix's face remained calm. Her slender fingers gently tapped on the table, signaling for the game to continue.
However, the casino wasn't large. Phoenix didn't win many chips, but it was enough to trigger the restrictions here.
At some point, two tall and fierce security guards suddenly appeared behind Phoenix. They were two times stronger than him.
Seeing the security guard arrive, the dealer could not help but reveal a cold smile."Sir, we prohibit professionals from playing blackjack here. If you insist on continuing, I can only restrict your bets."
Lu Jia was shocked by the sudden change. The admiration on her face immediately disappeared. For a moment, her face was pale and her heart was beating like a drum.
She had always followed the rules since she was young. She was a good girl in the eyes of her parents and teachers. For the first time in her life, she became someone else's accomplice. Even now, she was targeted by two burly security guards who looked like they could kill someone with one punch.
Phoenix raised his eyebrows, seemingly unsurprised by this. He nodded understandably, as if he had expected this.
He finally stood up slowly. Under the surveillance of the two security guards, he picked up the stack of chips he had won from the table and pulled Lu Jia towards the exchange point.
Lu Jia followed Phoenix stiffly. She could feel two burning gazes behind her neck.
But even so, Phoenix hadn't spent these two hours in vain. Only after he exchanged chips did Lu Jia realize that he had earned nearly 20,000 US dollars with a hundred US dollars!
Lu Jia felt that there was something wrong with her cognition. She knew Phoenix earned a lot, but she didn't expect it to be so much. She just followed Phoenix out of the casino area of the hotel in a daze and waited in front of the empty elevator.
" My face should have been recognized by the casino's Face Recognition system and recorded in the database. If I'm not lucky, the FBI will find my whereabouts within 48 hours, so…"
Phoenix lowered her voice and turned to look at Lu Jia.
Lu Jia suddenly had a very bad premonition.
"…So what?"
"We have to get out of here quickly."
……？!
Lu Jia looked at him incredulously and bellowed at him in a low voice." Do you know what time it is? It's three o'clock in the morning! I didn't even sleep, and now you want me to leave with you?"
"If you want to leave, go by yourself. Anyway, I'm not the one being targeted by the police."
Phoenix turned around and suddenly reached out to Lu Jia, touching her cheek affectionately.
"What are you doing?"
Lu Jia subconsciously stepped back, vigilantly feeling his slightly rough thumb slowly moving on her cheek." The handsome man trick is useless to me!"
"Have you thought about it?"
"There are surveillance cameras here. They can see our every move."
" So when they find you, they will use all means to interrogate you. Water torture, sleep deprivation…and more. I don't think you want to know."
Lu Jia's blood froze, her face turned pale, and her entire body trembled.
The next second, she realized something and slapped Phoenix's hand away. Only then did she realize why this man would do these ambiguous actions to her from the beginning!
He did it on purpose!
Lu Jia wanted to slap him in the face, but Phoenix held her raised hand tightly in the next second.
She didn't react for a moment. She felt as if her waist was being hugged by another hand. Then, her body flew into the air and she completely lost her balance.
"Ah-!"
"Let go of me!"
Lu Jia exclaimed. Everything in her field of vision flipped 180 degrees, her straight black hair drooped down, and her abdomen was suddenly hit by something hard.
Phoenix directly carried her waist on his shoulders!
The elevator opened at this moment. Phoenix carried Lu Jia, who was struggling, into the elevator and pressed the button on the hotel floor where they were staying.
The elevator door slowly closed, and Phoenix's vision of the camera outside was cut off.
*
Ten minutes later, Phoenix arrived at the parking garage in the night and colorful neon lights, carrying Lujia, who was unconscious, and her luggage that she had not yet opened.
He first carefully placed Lu Jia in the back seat of the car, which was not spacious, and then put her luggage in the trunk.
The lights came on, Phoenix sat in the driver's seat and started the car.
He hadn't slept in more than twenty-four hours, except for a brief nap during the half-hour he hitchhiked to Las Vegas, where he stayed alert and didn't fall into deep sleep.
At this moment, he had already driven out of the bustling Las Vegas and was driving on the highway according to Lu Jia's original travel plan. The deserted highway was pitch black on both sides, and only the headlights reflected the white lane that kept retreating.
After driving dozens of kilometers in the night, Phoenix finally found a temporary residence and slowly parked the car beside a somewhat dilapidated motel.
A man was sitting at the front desk drowsy. Phoenix knocked on the table gently before finally waking him up.
"A twin room."
The man narrowed his eyes sleepily and sized Phoenix up. He threw the room card on the table impatiently." 80 dollars."
After checking in, Phoenix returned to the parking lot outside the door. She first carried her luggage upstairs, then went downstairs and carefully picked up Lu Jia, who was still asleep in the car.
Phoenix appeared at 4 a.m. to book a room and repeatedly went upstairs and downstairs. It was too strange, causing the receptionist to take a few more glances.
At first glance, she saw him carrying a sleeping Asian woman upstairs.
However, it was already so late. This was normal. He should be hugging his girlfriend, who was already asleep.
After getting a reasonable guess, the little brother immediately threw this matter to the back of his mind and continued to sleep.
It's still dark, and I can sleep for a long time.
The author says:
The scumbag man was very scumbag in the early stages, but this was all to escape. I swear, he would definitely be cruelly abused later!
I've been really busy during this period of time, and I may not have written enough detail in some places, so I may make a minor adjustment to the first seven chapters tomorrow.
Mwah!
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