As the hunt for the cheater reached a dead end and my cigarettes ran out, I turned to ask Han Jinlun for one.
Suddenly, I realized Han Jinlun was gone!
After scanning the surroundings, I finally spotted him again amidst the crowded onlookers.
Upon seeing the expression on Han Jinlun's face and the gambler sitting upright in front of him, my brow furrowed instantly.
This horny idiot had positioned himself behind the only female gambler at the table and was openly ogling her chest!
As the sole female gambler at this table, a crowd of onlookers stood behind her.
Judging by her upper body proportions, I estimated her height to be around 1.7 meters. Beneath her delicate features lay a pair of exaggeratedly large breasts.
Although the female gambler's eyes were also large and expressive, I suspected that her immense popularity was due to the two snowy peaks on her chest, rather than her eyes.
Sporting a head of shoulder-length, wavy, wine-red hair, the female gambler seemed to particularly enjoy playing with her locks while playing cards.
Originally, if it weren't for Han Jinlun, I wouldn't have paid much attention to this female gambler.
Because she had been consistently losing, she was the first person I had ruled out as a suspect at this table.
However, with Han Jinlun's distraction, I suddenly realized that this female gambler was acting a bit strangely.
It seemed the frequency with which she played with her hair… was a little too high!
To put it bluntly, this female gambler fiddled with her hair almost every round.
Upon capturing this image, a passage from Uncle Tuo's words immediately surfaced in my mind.
"Never underestimate gamblers who you've already dismissed as not being cheaters, yet are still sitting at the same table as you."
"Especially if there are female gamblers among them, you must keep a close eye on them!"
"Because their presence might be to help the real cheater divert and shift attention."
With that thought, I immediately focused all my attention on this female gambler, beginning to observe and study her in secret.
Of course, what I was observing and studying wasn't her snowy peaks, but everything else besides them!
Her every move, every smile, every word and deed…
About twenty minutes later.
Withdrawing my covert gaze and seeing that Zhang Liang still had no intention of leaving, and was steadily accumulating chips with his win-lose rhythm, I pushed a 2000-chip towards Zhang Liang and slowly stood up, chuckling, "I'm sorry, Brother Liang. I really can't keep going."
"Two thousand yuan isn't much, but it's enough for you, Brother Liang, to have a good meal tonight… and enjoy yourself."
"Meeting is fate. Brother Liang, we'll meet again if fate allows!"
Hearing this, Zhang Liang slightly raised his head and smiled, "Heh heh, thank you, brother!"
"I won't say much empty talk, I've accepted your sentiment! Let's play together again if there's a chance."
After beckoning the reluctant Han Jinlun to leave, I found a secluded corner, set up the pinhole camera, and aimed it at the gambling table we had just left.
If nothing unexpected happened, the mission to catch the cheater would soon see a breakthrough…
In the early morning, on the third day of our arrival in Longxi, after leaving the casino and agreeing on a meeting time with Han Jinlun before parting ways, I quickly took a taxi back to the hotel.
As soon as I entered the room, without even taking a shower, I immediately pulled up the recording to watch.
Not long after, I discovered the real problem…
No wonder I had felt so confused before; it turned out to be a pair of well-prepared male and female con artists!!!
If it weren't for Han Jinlun, I might still have been in the dark until now.
All along, the problem was the busty female gambler, not Zhang Liang.
What's more, these two weren't cheaters at all, but rather gamblers, as I had mentioned before!
However, these two gamblers were quite clever, not only deceiving me but also the dealer and the pit boss.
Let me have a cigarette and then I'll explain the whole story…
I had mentioned earlier that gamblers were a peculiar existence within the "Lan Dao" (Blue Path) of the cheater's world.
They were peculiar because, although gamblers were solely focused on getting rich, they didn't formally apprentice or learn the trade. Instead, they took crooked paths.
Zhang Liang and the busty woman were like this.
On the surface, Zhang Liang was winning money and the busty woman was losing. If analyzed logically, Zhang Liang would be the one suspected.
But in reality, it was the opposite.
Although Zhang Liang was winning money, the one actually controlling the outcome of the game was the busty woman!
And her method of controlling the outcome was very simple; it wasn't any cheating technique, but a single-person operation analysis device that could be purchased through special channels.
Single-person operation analysis devices were the most common cheating tools in casinos from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.
They consisted of a host unit, a camera, invisible wireless earbuds, and processed playing cards.
If I'm not mistaken, the busty woman was using the latest generation of automatic sensing analysis devices for playing cards.
There was no need to custom-process the playing cards; after setting up the game, she could directly operate and analyze the cards by aiming at them.
The automatic sensing analysis device for playing cards could effectively assist gamblers by allowing them to clearly know whether their cards were high or low.
Due to its strong practicality and high success rate, it was favored by many gamblers.
In addition, the scanning effect of the camera on the automatic sensing analysis device for playing cards was also characterized by high, precise, and accurate performance.
By concealing a micro-host on their person and wearing invisible earbuds, they could operate the entire process.
They could easily control the entire card game without needing to place anything on the table, making it very simple and convenient.
Every time the dealer dealt the cards, the busty woman would deliberately play with her hair.
The reason the busty woman played with her hair in every round was actually to transmit signals to Zhang Liang, telling him whether his cards were high or low.
Of course, this method of transmitting signals was only understood by them; outsiders could not discern any trick.
Throughout the entire card game, the busty woman was the one who held absolute dominance!
As for Zhang Liang, his task was very simple.
To share and divert attention for the busty woman.
If it weren't for the busty woman's chest being truly eye-catching, all attention would have been diverted to him!
Undoubtedly, Zhang Liang succeeded in this.
With his exceptional self-control and execution, Zhang Liang not only played according to the signals transmitted by the busty woman but also used the chip-control tactics commonly employed by cheaters to lead me into a dead end!
This precise control over wins and losses led me to stubbornly believe he was a cheater.
No wonder he dared to sit there calmly and continue gambling even after winning two hundred thousand yuan, because he was neither a cheater nor in possession of stolen goods!
Now, after uncovering the advanced scam of this male and female duo, the only remaining problem before me was.
Catching the thief with the stolen goods!
Without a complete set of stolen goods to prove that this male and female duo were cheating, although it wouldn't affect the casino's actions, it would affect my reward.
Speaking of which, where exactly did the busty woman hide the camera of the automatic sensing analysis device for playing cards?