The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 326 - 325 Insurance
Chapter 326: Chapter 325: Insurance
Chapter 326 -325: Insurance
[Nightmare Gambling Game]
This gambling game, actively initiated by Catherine, was joined by Yi Chen for two reasons, both overt and covert.
On the surface,
Yi Chen had learned that meat tainted with the nightmare substance had already flooded the market and was consumed by a large number of gentlemen, with at least 50% of Zion’s populace suffering from “thought implantation.”
If Catherine were to be pushed into a corner, she would need but a snap of her fingers, and Zion would plunge into chaos overnight, the whole city echoing with sinister laughter as gentlemen who failed to transcend their limits would cause mayhem with smiles on their faces.
To preserve Zion and the brains and lives of every citizen,
Yi Chen had but one option—to engage Catherine in the game,
Should he win, according to the “Soul Contract” the two had signed, Catherine would withdraw the thoughts from everyone’s brains, clear all nightmare influences from Zion, and completely evacuate.
But there was a very important problem.
Even though Yi Chen owned a unique “Black Insane Brain,” he might not be much inferior to Catherine in implanting thoughts, even surpassing her in some respects.
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However, the main venue of the game was the nightmare, Catherine’s domain.
To win on someone else’s territory against an entity whose power was unknown and possibly far exceeded Yi Chen’s was highly unlikely.
Furthermore, if Catherine were to be cunning and deceitful, using peculiar nightmare rules and means, the probability of winning might even be reduced to [0].
If he could not win the game, there would be no discussion about saving the populace; Yi Chen himself would become a slave to the nightmare.
Therefore,
this involves another covert reason for choosing to participate in the game,
a reason that could ensure Yi Chen had a high probability of winning, a safeguard that Catherine was completely unaware of.
This protection was “Yuri’s Maid.”
Before joining the nightmare game, Yi Chen had specifically gone to the Prophet House to borrow Yuri’s maid for education and training.
Ultimately, he completed the education of all the maids.
Of course, that was just training; in the end, he dispelled the education for the vast majority of the maids, retaining only the teacher-student relationship with seven special maids.
The education didn’t affect their servitude to Prophet Yuri; they still carried out their respective monitoring tasks every day.
Only now, these seven maids were endowed with a ‘self,’ starting to think and analyze independently, seeking knowledge and potentially even experiencing ‘mechanical upgrades’ that transcended their original design, in addition to their unchanging daily work.
They would also call Yi Chen “teacher” when they saw him.
Among these seven maids, Miss Irina, the most outstanding, special, and intelligent, was the key of the keys.
She happened to be responsible for monitoring killing intent in the lower street district and, having obtained a stall permit from the organization, would be found pushing her maid pancake cart around the area daily.
After Yi Chen and Catherine’s meeting in a restaurant in the lower streets, where they agreed on the terms of the nightmare game, Yi Chen happened to be spotted by Irina as he left the restaurant.
As teacher and student, it was natural for them to recognize each other immediately.
Yi Chen should have greeted Irina nearby, but he pretended not to see her and quickly left.
Irina’s professional sharpness and self-analysis allowed her to detect the anomaly,
She continued to pretend nothing was amiss as she ran her stall, and after the normal wrap-up, she reported the specifics to Yuri, who also took the matter very seriously.
After spending several days with Yi Chen, including meat sense and slaughter training, as well as discussion on the design of the brand new maid,
Yuri had come to a certain, even ‘rather deep,’ understanding of Yi Chen.
Yuri quickly learned from Principal Desline that Yi Chen had personally forfeited participation in the “Dream Entrance Project,” and in his eyes, a man like Yi Chen, who dared to risk it all, would never give up on dreaming at such a juncture.
Combining Yi Chen’s unusual movements in the lower streets, Prophet Yuri decisively gave an order.
“Let seven special maids spread throughout the city and, with the help of the ‘teacher-student relationship’, try to locate Yi Chen’s position as much as possible, follow him secretly, and must not expose their whereabouts.”
These seven maids were Yuri’s most elite secret agents, who understood the dark zones of Zion better than anyone, making them perfectly suited for this task.
Soon, a maid discovered that Yi Chen, who had returned from outside the city the day before, quickly appeared in the lower streets, and his movements were highly suspicious.
As if guided by some instruction or lure,
after turning into more than a dozen narrow streets, he simply disappeared right under the maids’ watchful eyes, completely lost from their tracking.
But with the ‘teacher-student relationship’, they could barely sense Yi Chen’s presence, and after deducing the layout of the lower streets, they finally concluded that Yi Chen had turned into a “disappearing street.”
The ‘entrance’ to this street could be found only under specific conditions, and they had some guesses about what those conditions were.
Possibly by turning into several correct alleys during a fixed time period, one might be able to find where the entrance is.
They did not rush in recklessly but reported the situation back once again.
Upon learning of this, Prophet Yuri immediately dropped what he was doing and, without notifying anyone, disguised himself as a high-ranking paraplegic elder and went to the site in person.
Meanwhile, as Prophet Yuri and the maids searched for the ‘disappearing street’,
Marko and Martin, who had escaped from the nightmare game and were prepared to privately eliminate the nightmare risks, walked out of a resident’s home in the lower streets and bumped right into Irina selling pancakes.
According to the secret code given by the tomato sauce on the pancakes,
Marko and Martin met with Yuri in a small house, and the two Prophets instantly stood united on the same front,
silently searching together for the ‘disappearing street’ as well as ‘William’s trail’… Using the clues Prophet Yuri already had at hand, Marko used a brand new divination method learned from the nightmare game to find the [Entrance].
Soon, an apartment building long abandoned appeared before the two.
All of these things happened without Yi Chen’s knowledge, and he hadn’t done anything,
simply because of the maid pivot point, the ‘safety measure’ naturally formed,
and Catherine, who had been in contact with Yi Chen all along, was completely unaware of it too.
By now,
Marko and Martin, hidden beneath their cloaks, were already pushing Mr. Yuri’s wheelchair, standing by the bedside of a secret bedroom.
In front of them, lying on the large bed, were Yi Chen and Catherine.
The two were connected by an infusion tube between their arms, ensuring they shared the dream and the nightmare substance.
Neither Marko nor Yuri rushed to take action; they were well aware of what Yi Chen was doing.
As Yuri’s palm, filled with killing intent, lightly touched the gentleman’s clothes on Yi Chen, a pre-set ‘measure’ was swiftly activated.
Upon detecting Yuri’s aura, the clothes revealed an inner lining with a piece of paper tucked inside it.
≮In the realm of sleep, no need for killing, just apply a little pressure.≯
As Yuri placed his hand blade on Catherine’s neck, a threat that reached deep into her soul was instantly transmitted to the consciousness that was in the midst of the dream.
[Nightmare Town – Park]
Faced with Catherine’s angry stare,
Yi Chen responded very calmly:
“I haven’t done anything, you know, always fulfilling our contract and game promises. It’s just that you, Catherine, have underestimated the tracking abilities of gentlemen. Your so-called Dream Entrance is not absolutely secret and safe.
“Give up and end the game early, and you might have a chance to survive if you’re decisive. If you live, we might still meet at the Circus in the future.”
