Ace of the Dragon Division - Chapter 269
Chapter 269: Why Does This Scene Feel So Familiar
Xu Cheng took Lin Lei and Bei Shan into a VIP room inside the casino and waited.
In the back, Beiye Zhangnan suddenly said to the manager of the casino, “You are not tempted by that 1.5 billion euros?”
The manager that was just about to head out paused for a moment. “What do you want to say?”
Beiye Zhangnan lit a cigar. “I know the casino has many means to make sure the gamblers lose money.”
The manager shook his head. “Listen, such things do exist but they are very rare. We are a legally operating casino, one of the biggest in the world. What you just said doesn’t exist in our establishment.”
Beiye Zhangnan said, “I didn’t say you should do that. I just thought, why would you deliberately lose 1.05 billion to him? Isn’t the casino interested in that money too?”
Manager: “450 million in commissions is already high enough for me, so following the proper money laundering process, the casino just needs to lose to him the 1.05 billion he needs.”
Beiye Zhangnan: “What about you, are you interested in that money? Bro, listen to me. You don’t have to let the dealer deliberately lose all that much money to him. As for the money we win from him, how about we split it?”
The manager narrowed his eyes. “What do you mean by this? Mr. Beiye, you should know that this is a forbidden topic. If word gets out, I will probably meet the end of my career in this field.”
Beiye waved his hand. “I know, I know, don’t get nervous, just listen to me. You can follow the normal protocol, but just let me use one of your gambling masters. On top of that, I also want you to save me a seat at his table.”
The manager immediately got what he meant. “You want to snipe him?”
Beiye Zhangnan: “That’s right. I can’t offend Mr. Haber, so I definitely wouldn’t pay one cent less for the money I’m supposed to launder for him. However, I didn’t promise that I wouldn’t let other people snipe him through gambling. So, I will just let the money leave from one pocket and come back through another.”
Then, Beiye directly walked to the casino manager and said in a low voice, “You just need to arrange it for me, and you will get 20 million right away.”
The manager seemed to be struggling. After awhile, he gritted his teeth and replied, “I don’t want 20 million, I want 20%… 20% of the money you are able to win from him!”
Beiye lifted the corner of his mouth. “Fine, then please send me the best gambling master in the house. As for money, I have it, I don’t need your casino to lend any to me.”
The manager nodded.
Inside the casino VIP room, Xu Cheng and the other two waited. Lin Lei asked, “Brother-in-Law, since you have unsettled grudges with that guy, do you think he will give you the money very easily?”
“I don’t know,” Xu Cheng replied, “But I also couldn’t care less.”
Bei Shan mumbled, “How come you make enemies no matter where you go?”
Xu Cheng bitterly laughed. “This might be the fate of the protagonist.”
The waiter standing beside him couldn’t help but roll his eyes. Xu Cheng also was quite speechless after seeing that. Why couldn’t he just let me boast for a moment.
Just then, it was getting a bit noisy outside, sounding like someone wanted to come in. Outside the door, the security stopped someone and said, “Mr. Stephen, this room is closed for a private event today, and the starting bid is pretty high, so it might not be suitable for you.”
“Oh? Oh big? It’s not suitable for me? Too bad, I insist on going in to play, and I will beat you up if you still stand in my way,” Mr. Stephen shouted at the security guard.
The security guard was in a difficult spot. “Mr. Stephen, feel free to check out the other rooms. This one is indeed reserved by a gentleman, and he wants to play by himself.”
“Who’s this generous?” Stephen poked his head in and glanced at Xu Cheng. “Hey, is it really fun to play by yourself? Is it even exciting if you just play the dealer by yourself? If you are going to play, why not have someone accompany you? How big are you playing?”
Xu Cheng turned to look at him and faintly smiled. “Just a couple billion.”
Stephen snorted. “You are joking right? Even I’ve never played this big yet.”
Security: “Then stop wasting time here, go and check out some other rooms.”
Stephen immediately said, “But I just want to try it. I don’t think I will lose. Come on, man, can I join you?”
He looked at Xu Cheng and asked, but he was feeling extremely anxious inside.
Not just him, Beiye Zhangnan and the manager who were watching through the surveillance were also nervously waiting for Xu Cheng’s reply. If Xu Cheng declined, then they really would have no way to snipe him anymore.
After staring at Stephen for a long time, Xu Cheng suddenly laughed. “You are right, it’s indeed boring gambling by yourself, but do you have the money?”
“Of course.” Stephen had been waiting for these words. He walked in arrogantly and directly pulled out a top-tier Cuban cigar from his suit to put up a show that he was loaded.
The two people watching behind the surveillance finally let out a sigh of relief.
Beiye directly slapped his leg and said, “Alright, I think we can pop a champagne bottle to celebrate now.”
The manager went to a cabinet and pulled out a treasured bottle of champagne.
Stephen took out a cigar and passed it to Xu Cheng. “Want one?”
Xu Cheng shook his head and he pulled out a very normal cigarette and said, “I’m already used to smoking this. Although it’s pretty cheap, but you can’t get them in M Nation. So, smoking my home country’s cigarette in a foreign country, it feels like home.”
As he said that, he lit it, took a puff, and blew it out.
Stephen awkwardly nodded and turned around. At that moment, Xu Cheng glanced at his palm, and his eagle-like eyes noticed that the guy had calluses in his palm.
It looked like the guy was not just an ordinary guest, because only those that frequently played poker would have hands like that.
Xu Cheng deliberately teased him a little, “Mr. Stephen, do you know how to perform fancy poker tricks?”
Stephen looked over in shock. “Why did you ask?”
Xu Cheng laughed and said, “I saw calluses in your hands, you are a pretty experienced gambler, right?”
Stephen’s face faintly changed, and he immediately turned away and also curled up his fist to hide his palm. Then, after a second or two, he laughed and tried to ease up the atmosphere a bit. “I just like to play golf, and that’s where the calluses came from. How about we play one together some day?”
Xu Cheng didn’t want to expose him. He just smiled and replied, “Sounds good.”
Inside a room in the back, Beiye Zhangnan and the manager were just sipping on the champagne, and they both almost choked upon hearing that, thinking that Xu Cheng saw through something.
“How much did you bring?” Xu Cheng asked Stephen.
Stephen snapped his fingers, and from outside the door, his man pushed in a cart carrying all the chips.
“Sir, your 200 million dollars.”
“Enough?” Stephen looked at Xu Cheng as he said, pointing at the chips.
“Maybe not,” Xu Cheng replied.
“No worries, just win this first and then we can see.” Stephen grinned.
Xu Cheng mumbled to himself, “Why does this scene seem so familiar.”
He remembered back when he had Shen Yao snipe the underground money house and kind of wanted to laugh.
Xu Cheng whispered a few words to Lin Lei, and Lin Lei nodded and went to get chips.
On the casino side, they used a legitimate big film company to transfer 1.5 billion over. That way, the money would be clean. But in fact, this film company was just an asset under the casino, and it would receive 1.5 billion in return in black money. Then, the casino just needed to distribute 1.05 billion to the client, and then make a revenue of 450 million without having to report taxes. As for the finance of that film company, this is where the casino, underground money house, and theatre lines cooperate to fake the box office data. The theatre lines would say that several films had super high box office, where in fact, it was pumped up by black money. Then, those 1.5 billion of black money would be converted to tickets and then back to clean cash, which could be reported as revenue, and the high revenue would in turn boost stock prices. It was basically multiple birds with one stone.
