In fact, Tony would still lose if the bet went on, but Luke hid the amount on his credit card and agreed to a million dollars to end the bet. It was too obvious that this was a trap.
As long as Luke won once, Tony would lose 1.4 million dollars even if it wasn't Blackjack, and the bet would be over.
The winner of the bet would be decided in one round.
How did Luke get the six hundred thousand dollars on his credit card? Naturally, it was the rest of the mortgage. The villa that Takagi had given him was in a good location, and had only been built recently.
Luke had loaned eight hundred thousand dollars, and spent a hundred thousand on patent applications and miscellaneous legal matters, leaving him with six hundred thousand dollars.
Without that money, it wouldn't be convenient for Luke to win millions of dollars here, which would be too conspicuous, and might put him on the blacklist of many hotels in Las Vegas.
For example, a group of MIT students who used their skills and brains to win a large sum of money from the big hotels were all blacklisted. They were not welcome in any of the entertainment halls, and they were not provided with entertainment services. This decision was also upheld by the court.
Selina's mouth was wide open. A long while later, she finally said, "… That doesn't make sense. Why are you still richer than me?"
Luke rolled his eyes. "The villa that Takagi gave me, including the furniture and appliances, is worth 1.2 million dollars! You have to pay taxes on the million, and you'll only pocket six hundred thousand dollars in the end. "
Selina was frustrated. "Ah, I forgot about that."
Luke thought for a moment and said in a low voice, "Don't spend your winnings recklessly. Keep some for yourself, and invest the rest in me."
Selina nodded, but found it odd. "Why would I invest in you?"
Luke said, "I'm running a high-tech internet company. I'm trying to make a fortune from Google. You can invest some of the shares and wait for your share. "
Selina nodded. "How much do you want? You can have it all. "
Luke shook his head. "Two or three hundred thousand dollars will do. We'll talk about it later."
Bobby didn't have to pay a single cent, but he still received 1% of the shares. So, it wouldn't be too much for Selina to pay two or three hundred thousand dollars for a 5% share, right?
Tony had spent a fortune to get Luke and Selina to the LAPD just for a little trick, so there was nothing wrong with Luke giving Selina some "pocket money."
Tony's personality was vile, but he had a good way of doing things. Otherwise, why would so many transmigrators want to suck up to him first?
There was no other reason! Rich, willful! He bought two boxes of strawberries by the roadside and paid for them with his watch. He was more generous than a pure businessman.
Why didn't anyone cozy up to Obadiah? Of course, it was not because of his face.
Unless the transmigrator was a woman, the slightly uglier Obadiah would be so disliked.
The real reason was that Obadiah was too shrewd to give flattering transmigrators a lot of money when he was in a good mood.
So, Luke had to be a rich and capricious man.
Even if he couldn't set off dozens of sets of Iron Man armor worth hundreds of millions of dollars like fireworks like Tony, he could solve some of Selina's practical problems with money, so why not?
Selina neither cared nor cared about money.
She could haggle over the prices of goods in the supermarket, but she didn't feel anything when Luke said that he was going to take away her hundreds of thousands of yuan.
In fact, she really didn't spend much.
It wasn't easy for a female detective who was busy working cases every day to spend a lot of money.
She definitely couldn't touch alcohol or herbs, and she could only make simple clothes and makeup. She didn't spend much time at home, so she didn't need to buy furniture or sundries.
She only liked to eat, and Luke paid for her meals.
She was no longer short of money. Luke paid for her daily expenses with his dirty cash, and her salary hadn't touched much in the past few months.
Luke took the opportunity to approach the corner where Tony and the woman had been, but he was stopped by two security guards, and couldn't get in.
This time, he examined it more carefully, and was finally sure that the woman had really left through the sky, but not necessarily by flying.
As far as the scent was concerned, it was more like she had jumped and glided away, except that the parabola was a little exaggerated.
I wonder what Tony and the woman were talking about here. He pondered.
After wandering around for a moment, Luke sat down and looked at the list of Tony's abilities in the system, only to find that they hadn't changed much.
He harassed the system for a while, but there was no response at all.
Luke wasn't disappointed. He closed his eyes and thought for a moment before he smiled.
The system was indeed as low-key as ever.
Tony's abilities, which couldn't be seen in the list, had actually been refreshed.
Luke had made some speculations about this a long time ago.
For example, the system's rules for defeating superheroes or villains who didn't have certain abilities.
Now, Tony's abilities gave him the answer.
While Luke was thinking about the production and modification of certain equipment, something suddenly popped up in his head.
To be more precise, it was like some knowledge had suddenly been added to the database and could be used at will.
There wasn't much knowledge in this area, and it was only about 5% more than the knowledge in Tony's previous four abilities. They were all cutting-edge knowledge that continued to expand on the previous foundations.
The value of this knowledge was immeasurable.
On the other hand, Luke calculated how often he should refresh Tony's abilities in the future.
There was no need to be too diligent, because it would be too troublesome. If Tony's abilities didn't grow much, there wouldn't be much point in refreshing them.
Even now, Tony's knowledge had only increased by 5% in the past three months. Luke felt that he would be able to refresh Tony's abilities once or twice in 2008.
Thinking that, Selina had had enough fun. She got up and left the pool with Selina.
After cleaning up in their room, they didn't go to the entertainment hall again. Instead, they went to watch the free show provided by the Aurora Hotel.
The show wasn't bad. Even though Luke had seen a lot of shows online in his previous life, he was still amazed by this kind of extravagant show.
There was singing and dancing, acrobatics, magic, talk shows, and everything else. Also, they were all famous American performers. They weren't first-rate, but there were quite a few second- or third-rate performers.
Those second- or third-rate performers shouldn't be underestimated. They would be second- or third-rate performers all over the world, and they were even more famous than the top stars in most countries.
Originally, this performance should have ended in such a perfect manner.
But something unexpected happened during a certain midair singing and dancing performance.
Above the performance stage, countless snow-white ribbons fluttered in the wind. More than ten graceful and beautiful female dancers were like flying fairies. With the help of the ribbons, they danced in the air in all kinds of stunning and bold poses.
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