There was a short silence, but it felt like an entire day had passed.
Elisa's fingers only trembled slightly.
Apart from her, no one else knew about Huai Shi's whisper and the stormy waves that those words set off in her heart.
She quickly calmed down.
"It's not good to pry into people's privacy, Miss Huai Shi. Should I scold you?" She leaned closer and said in a low voice, "Although it's not some unbearable past, where did you find out about it? I shouldn't have revealed anything. "
As she spoke, she raised her green eyes and stared into Huai Shi's eyes.
Darkness seemed to surge in his pupils, reflecting Miss Huai Shi's face, not allowing any lies to appear.
This was the gaze and questioning from the archeological team, from a professional abyss explorer.
"If I said Tomorrow News, you definitely wouldn't believe me."
Huai Shi sighed. "If I tried to find out your true identity from Tomorrow News, I would only be led to some strange organization at the border by those clues, right? It wasn't until just now that I realized that it was just a smoke bomb that you deliberately released. "
After all, the bartender was a strong enemy. Even someone as stingy as Huai Shi could only grit his teeth and buy information about his opponent from Tomorrow News.
B-level news.
10,000 USD for 1,000 words. It only supported one-time reading, but there were not many words.
Elisa Francisco.
Female, age 31. Where was she from? What had she done before? After obtaining the Culinary Demon's aptitude at the age of 26, she had carried out more than four abyss explorations until now …
It added up to less than 200 words, and she was still charging for 1,000 words. And the content was empty and boring, without any meaning at all.
Other than that, there was only a blurry profile photo full of suspicious points.
There was nothing else …
Huai Shi shouldn't have been able to see anything.
Unfortunately, she forgot to put away her pistol when she was showing off her new bag …
Huai Shi was too close to the workbench. He was so close that he could clearly see the characteristics of the pistol and the yellow and black climbing logo on the handle.
That was the logo of the extreme sports club.
It was a club created by Lucian that was only limited to the internal members of the Astronomical Society. In other words, it was an unpopular extreme team that only the official members of the archaeological team were interested in.
The number of members was too small. At most, there were no more than fifty people. Huai Shi had been persuaded by Lucian many times, so he was very clear about this.
Even though it looked like a club, it was actually a super-elite hellish exploration and mutual aid organization led by the president, Lucian.
The purpose of the extreme sports club was to climb deeper into hell. It was more like a platform for most of the elites in the archeological team to communicate.
In order to properly utilize the power, connections, and information he had in Hell, and at the same time, provide help to others as much as possible.
It could be said that there were many strong players there, and there was no lack of loners. In other words, they were fierce men who did not rely on the help of other teammates and headed to hell alone!
More importantly …
"All the members of the Extreme Club should be working members of the Astronomical Association's archaeological team."
Huai Shi answered calmly. In turn, he looked at Eliza and asked in a low voice, "It's against the rules for registered members of the archaeological team to do private work, right?"
"…"
Eliza's expression twitched, and her eyes drifted, "Just don't say it! Since you can know this, you must have something to do with the club … Do me a favor and don't expose me. How about I let you have one round? "
"Two rounds!"
Huai Shi raised two fingers without hesitation.
Eliza shook her head decisively, "Two rounds is too much. One round is still possible to turn the tables. Two rounds … You will lose anyway. You might as well expose me."
"Then forget it."
Huai Shi shook his head indifferently.
"Huh?" Eliza was stunned.
"I said, forget it." Huai Shi explained, "Anyway, I didn't intend to use this to coerce you, but because of this, I'm very curious …"
He intimately enjoyed the wonderful atmosphere of being close to the blonde sister. He raised his head and looked behind Eliza at the middle-aged man with a pale face in the audience seat.
"Why did you find an employer like Li Ji Bujing?"
"He has a lot of money."
Eliza widened her eyes, raised her hand, and patted the cabinet next to her, "In order to buy this thing, I owe a large loan. I need a generous customer to pay for me.
But I'm now on a mandatory holiday, so I can't go to Hell to eat. I can only live in the present world … "
That's it?
Huai Shi was stunned.
With money, you can really do whatever you want.
At least most of the time.
"Let me get the ugly words out of the way first. Even if you know so much, the money he gave is too much. I won't go easy on you no matter what …" She paused for a moment and said seriously, "But since we're both girls, I can let you lose with dignity. No matter when, it's completely okay to admit defeat."
"What a coincidence, I want to say that too." Huai Shi smiled.
"Then, the chat should be over … Let's start?"
"Let's start."
Huai Shi slowly straightened up and distanced himself from the blonde sister, "How do we compete?"
"Didn't you bring wine? If you are really arrogant enough to compete with the bartender, then use the most traditional turn-based system. Each round, both sides will offer 1 cup. The person who falls first will admit defeat, and the one who stands can win. " Eliza said, "If there is a disagreement in the archaeological team, they usually come to me to solve it like this. Isn't it fair?"
"I don't care."
Huai Shi shrugged and then asked the last question, "Then, who comes first and who drinks first?"
"The way to solve this problem is more fair."
Eliza showed a mysterious smile. With a twist of her wrist and a flick of her five fingers, an ancient gold coin with a faint curse jumped out like magic.
It was flipping between her five fingers. The face of the skeleton on the front and the engraved complex spells on the back were constantly overlapping and changing.
It was obviously a relic from the border.
This was the solution given by Eliza, the simplest way.
Guess the coin.
"Word or flower?"
Huai Shi lowered his head and looked at the gold coin flipping in her hand. He raised his eyebrows slightly, "Spend it. I like the shape of the skull."
So, Eliza smiled, raised her thumb, and flicked it. In an instant, the gold coin rose into the air.
It rose up in the dead silence.
The golden brilliance rotated and reflected in the air, flashing between the eyes of the 2. The coin rose to the highest point and rolled down.
In Huai Shi's eyes, Eliza's sly smile was reflected.
At that moment, the big sister's palm suddenly raised up and fished out the coin in mid-air. No, it should be, patted down … In a fleeting moment, she seized a glimmer of opportunity to finalize the outcome.
Word on word.
She won.
If she really did win the gold coin ….
Indeed, the heavy and cold gold coin had already landed in her palm, but her palm was unable to press down and finalize this result.
Instead, she felt the soft and slender fingers with a trace of coldness in her palm.
Her palm was pressed against hers.
Eliza's pupils shrank in shock, and she finally saw Miss Huai Zhi's movements clearly. At that moment, she didn't try to destroy her movements. Instead, she gently and quickly stuck in front of her palm.
Just under the overlapping fingers and palms of the 2, the gold coin stood upright in mid-air. It was tilting subtly with the changes in their muscles.
It changed from pure luck to pure wrestling, but it seemed to become more fair.
This was also something that made Eliza even more stunned.
The other party's reflexes, speed, skills, and experience could actually catch up with her, an experienced archaeologist, and even faintly surpass her.
The palms of the 2 collided and were in a stalemate in mid-air.
It was like a competition of internal force in traditional martial arts novels.
The huge force flowed between the flexible fulcrum formed by the wrist, palm, and fingers, forming a fragile balance. Every time their palms moved slightly, there was a sharp friction sound in the air.
It was like the sound of invisible glass being rubbed.
It made one's teeth ache.
Then, there was the sound of the balance collapsing.
It came from Miss Huai Zhi's palm.
She used the drummer's skills without hesitation. The force of her fingers at zero distance was enough to compete with the terrifying force of Chuumo Sumo, not to mention overpowering the bartender's strength …
First, the index finger pressed forward by one centimeter, then the ring finger, the thumb, and the little finger …
The balance of the arm-wrestling began to drift.
Huai Shi had the upper hand.
The flower was above and the word was below.
He pressed Eliza's palm down inch by inch.
Until Eliza sighed and suddenly retracted her hand, no longer wrestling with Huai Shi.
Pa!
The dust settled.
"Huh?" Huai Shi frowned, "You should still have the strength to fight back. Are you giving up just like that?"
"Fingers are the bartender's life, not a tool used to wrestle with others … Accuracy and sensitivity are the most important things. It would be ridiculous to hurt your fingers before the competition. "
Eliza moved her five fingers, and her smile became more and more sly, "Besides, I may not lose."
At that moment, Huai Shi's palm felt a strange touch.
It was as if the surface of the gold coin pressed on the table was changing rapidly. The relief of the skull was disappearing quickly, and it was replaced by the incantation on the back.
When he raised his hand, he saw the final result.
There was a flower on the word.
It was Eliza who won.
Huai Shi suddenly smiled bitterly. He didn't expect that the outcome had been decided before the coin toss.
From the beginning, she had made up her mind to cheat.
"So shameless?" He chuckled in a low voice.
"This is the proof of going all out."
Eliza raised her finger, dug out the gold coin embedded in the table, and tossed it in the air, "In order to win from you, I have taken out all the despicable means of the gambler. Shouldn't you be happy?"
"That's really an honor." Huai Shi shrugged.
Eliza had returned to her workbench. After taking off her coat and hanging it on the hook of the wine cabinet, the iconic white shirt and black vest inside were revealed.
Her blonde hair was tied up behind her head, looking very capable.
The bartender was preparing for work.
The duel was about to begin.
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