At that moment, a cold smile appeared on Phil King’s lips.
“Chris, I have four Aces and a King,” he said.
“Unless your hole card is an Ace, I’ve already won this round.”
Phil King looked at Chris with schadenfreude. The gambling ship was his, and he had arranged with the dealer beforehand to let him win the last game.
So, in Phil King’s view, Chris’s defeat was certain.
“Is that so?”
Chris replied with a faint smile.
“Well then, let me reveal my final card.”
Just as Chris was about to show his card, numerous speedboats appeared on the high seas around the gambling ship.
These boats were filled with fully armed pirates. One of the pirate leaders held a satellite phone.
“Boss, we agreed that all the money on this gambling ship would be ours!”
“Don’t worry, I’ll take care of that Chris for you.”
“All these Primuses and whatnot, they’re all trash before me, the King of Pirates!”
After hanging up, the pirate leader turned to his crew and announced, “Listen up, everyone, there’s at least a hundred billion dollars on that gambling ship! If we pull this off, all that money is ours.”
“Long live!”
“Long live!”
“Long live!”
Hearing this, all the pirates cheered.
At that moment,
“Ha ha ha!”
Chris laughed loudly.
“Sorry, Mr. King, my hole card is indeed an Ace!”
Seeing Chris’s card, Phil King’s face turned ashen.
Bang!
He then punched the table hard.
“Chris, you’re just lucky!”
Phil King gritted his teeth.
“But let me warn you, it won’t be easy to leave this ship. Today, this ship will be your grave.”
With that, Phil King and his men left.
Watching Phil King’s retreating figure, Chris narrowed his eyes.
He knew well that this game was a trap set by Phil King.
Now that Chris had foiled his scheme, Phil King would not let things go easily, but what would he do next?
As Phil King stepped out of the hall, his phone suddenly rang.
“Jack, have you arrived?”
“Good, then I leave this in your hands!”
“Remember, the money here is yours, but the Dragon Emblem fragment is mine. Don’t touch it!”
With that, he ended the call.
A sinister smile crept across Phil King’s lips as he muttered to himself, “Chris, oh Chris, no matter how strong you are, on this gambling ship in international waters, you’re trapped. Today, you must die here!”
He then ordered his subordinates, “Pass down my command-take control of the entire ship, no one leaves!”
“Yes!”
His subordinate nodded and quickly left.
“Oh no! Oh no! There are so many ships outside!”
“God, they’re all pirates!”
“How can there be so many pirates? What is going on?”
…
Seeing the skull flags on those speedboats, everyone on board was immediately thrown into panic, for only pirates flew such flags.
On the open sea, aside from fearing storms, people feared pirates the most.
In fact, pirates were even more dreaded than storms, for their appearance spelled doom!
Chris truly thought Phil King had lost his mind. Everyone on this gambling ship was among the top billionaires in the world. If something happened to these tycoons, even if Phil King became the new King of Gambling, he would hardly be able to withstand the fallout.
“Bodyguards! Where are the bodyguards?”
The billionaires began to panic, shouting for their protectors. Soon, bodyguards were pulling out their firearms. There were thousands of bodyguards on the ship, which made sense since there were nearly a thousand billionaires on board. It was normal for each to have one or two bodyguards, and some of the super-rich even had up to a hundred.
“Where’s the King family? This ship is managed by the King family, let’s hurry and find Phil King!”
At this moment, someone realized what should be done. The ship belonged to the King family; it was their responsibility to stop these bodyguards. Then, gunshots rang out. One by one, the bodyguards fell like cut wheat, landing in pools of blood.
“It’s bad! The King family has conspired with pirates, and their security has attacked our bodyguards.” Everyone was stunned, unable to grasp the situation. They hadn’t expected the King family to collude with pirates.
Seeing this, Chris frowned. Phil King, in his bid to deal with him, had really gone all out, attempting to trap all the billionaires on board in one fell swoop. Considering there were thousands of billionaires from different regions on the ship, their mishap would shake the world.
Even the King family wouldn’t be able to bear the wrath of the families behind these billionaires. Esther, looking terrified, clung tightly to Chris. At that moment, thousands of speedboats surrounded the gambling ship. Armed pirates then boarded.
Gunshots erupted again. The billionaires’ bodyguards were no match for the King family’s security and the pirates. In just half an hour, thousands of bodyguards were annihilated. The entire ship was stained red with blood, filled with the stench of gore. Soon, thousands of pirates, along with King family security, took control of the billionaires on board.
Panic ensued among everyone.
They hadn’t anticipated that all their bodyguards would be killed. Some tried to resist but were quickly shot down. Seeing body after body fall, the remaining people dared not resist any longer.
“Jack, you can take half of the money on this gambling ship,” Phil King indifferently told a one-eyed man. Jack, known as the King of Pirates, was infamous in the pirate world. There were three famous pirate groups in the world: the Malacca Strait pirates, the Somali pirates, and the Caribbean pirates. Jack was the leader of the Caribbean pirates, commanding all pirates in the region.
Jack angrily replied, “Phil King, wasn’t it agreed that after this, all the money on the ship would be mine? Why the sudden change of heart?”
Phil King chuckled, “Jack, what was agreed was then, this is now. Do you know how much money is on this ship? At least a hundred billion dollars, can you swallow all that by yourself? Besides, this ship belongs to my King family. If something goes wrong, my family will face immense pressure. Don’t we deserve half of the money?”