Chapter 427: Funds doubled, poker players with different identities

 Monaco is a country where there is never a shortage of luxury cars and sports cars on the streets. Bugatti, Ferrari LaFerrari, Pagani, 765LT, F50, Porsche 918, etc. can be seen everywhere.

Compared with these cars, the Lamborghini driven by Luo An and Caroline this time is really not conspicuous.

However, fortunately, the color of the Lamborghini driven by Luo An this time was red, and the bright color still attracted the attention of many people.

 At three o'clock in the afternoon, a lot of people had already gathered at the Monte Carlo Casino. When the red Lamborghini parked at the entrance of the casino, it was not particularly eye-catching.

But the handsome Luo An got out of the driver's seat, stretched out his hand and pulled out Caroline, who was wearing a precious dark red dress. Her face was disguised but also very delicate, and she had a proud figure with a curved front and back, revealing a large piece of snow-white back. Suddenly, a bunch of people stopped and stared.

Especially when they saw the long scar on Caroline's shoulder, everyone gasped. Some men looked pity, some women looked admiration, and of course many people frowned and looked away.

Caroline's originally rather arrogant character helped a lot at this time. She didn't care at all about those people who despised her scarred eyes, as if those people were trash, and had no interest in them at all. When Luo An threw the car keys to The doorman, she took Luo An straight into the casino.

Roan pretended to be Caroline's subordinate this time, so he was one step behind Caroline along the way, perfectly playing the role of a bodyguard.

Not in a hurry to participate in the gambling, the two of them walked up to the bar on the second floor. Caroline sat and Luo An stood beside her.

 Feeling that many people here were turning their attention to the scar on her back, Caroline chuckled, handed Luo An a glass of wine, and whispered:

 “It seems your plan was very successful.”

Luo An took the wine glass and thanked him, smiled and replied in a low voice:

“Because you are beautiful, and humans don’t like cracks in beautiful things, right?”

"hehe…"

Caroline chuckled, took a sip of wine, glanced at the card tables downstairs and upstairs, and asked:

 “What are you going to do next?”

This time the two entered the casino with a total of 2.4 million US dollars.

500,000 US dollars of which came from Caroline, and the other money was money from overseas accounts that Luo An obtained from the murder of Team Leader No. 2 and several other cases.

But every bet that Bonykov-Robert participated in was on the third floor of the casino, with a minimum of $5 million and no upper limit.

So Luo An needs to get 2.6 million in a short period of time before he can go to the third floor and participate in the gambling game where Burnekov-Robert is.

Caroline knows very well that gambling is a game of probability where the banker is sure to win. Although she had seen Luo An playing cards from a distance in Las Vegas, she really didn't know where Luo An got his confidence.

Luo An grinned, picked up the wine glass, drank it down in one gulp, and put the glass back on the bar:

“You are right, gambling is indeed not a good thing. No one can win all the time, and even gambling on dogs will not end well.”

Facing Caroline's question, Luo An said a few words casually, but did not answer. He just gave her a look, then took the chips and walked straight to the "FiveCardStud" gambling table not far away.

 Scientific name FiveCardStud, five-card stud, is a type of poker game in which the outcome is determined by the arrangement and combination of five cards.

 At the beginning of the game, each player will be dealt a hole card (this card can only be revealed at the end).

 After the second card is dealt, the player with the better card decides the bet amount, and others have the right to choose to "follow", "raise", "give up" or "clear the pot".

 After the five cards have been dealt, each player turns over all the hole cards to compare their sizes, and the biggest one is the winner.

Luo An himself doesn’t like gambling. When he was young in his previous life, the old killer once played cards with him. At that time, the two of them were not comparing money, but who lost and who got whipped.

In the first few times, Luo An lost and won, but he mainly won. Later, Luo An, who was convinced that he was a sure winner, increased the bet and increased the number of whips to fifty. As a result, the old killer came out with a thousand, and Luo An lost completely. , his skin was torn apart by fifty whips.

Since then, Luo An knew that gambling was not about cards, but about people outside the game, so he never touched cards again.

If he hadn’t had the “emotional perception” in his mind, which allowed him to sense the different emotional fluctuations of others when they got different cards, Luo An would probably never have walked into a casino to participate in the game.

Even with "emotional perception", Luo An is very careful. He first guesses, then tests, and then verifies. He takes every step very cautiously. He chooses to give up if he feels something is wrong and never takes risks. So Caroline stood nearby holding a wine glass and stopped to watch, feeling as if her heart was on a roller coaster.

Luo An lost four out of five games at first, then gradually changed to three losses and two wins out of five games, and then one loss and four wins out of five games. Caroline's breathing was short, her heartbeat was racing, and her face was rosier than when she first came. A lot.

Three hours later, at 6:30 pm, under the envious and jealous eyes of everyone, Luo An successfully changed his chips from 2.4 million to 6.7 million, then confessed and left, with Carlo Lin went to the restaurant to have dinner together.

 In the booth, Caroline held Luo An's hand tightly and asked with a look of disbelief:

 “How? How did you do it?”

 “Get a hold of your emotions, Caroline.”

Luo An stared into Caroline’s eyes and said in a deep voice:

 “Don’t forget the goal of our trip, okay?”

ˆ “…OK.”

Looking at the stern look in Luo An's eyes, Caroline's breath was stagnant due to the surge of adrenaline and dopamine. She quickly changed her eyes and let go of Luo An's hand.

　　Sitting on the other side, she took a few deep breaths. After her mood gradually calmed down, her face stiffened slightly when she felt some discomfort. She apologized to Luo An in a low voice, then got up and went to the bathroom.

After a while, Caroline returned to the box, and the dishes were all served. Luo An reached out to ask her to eat first, and then discuss what to do next, but Caroline grabbed Luo An's arm:

 “Luo An, something new has happened.”

Luo An was slightly startled:

"What's the meaning?"

 “I saw a familiar person.”

Caroline looked very unhappy and said that she had just come out of the bathroom and saw Mrs. Hanover and a few people walking into the restaurant talking and laughing.

 “Mrs. Hanover?”

Roan frowned slightly when he heard this, and Caroline asked nervously:

“Could she be with Burnekov-Robert?”

Luo An pondered for a while and slowly shook his head:

 “It’s unlikely.”

Caroline was about to say something when she heard this, but Luo An pushed her down on the chair and said with a smile:

"No matter what, let's finish the meal first. This meal costs nearly 20,000 US dollars."

Hearing this, Caroline's eyes widened instantly, she rolled her eyes at Luo An, and quickly lowered her head to taste the food.

 Half an hour later, with Luo An's comfort, Caroline returned to the proud woman again, and she and Luo An walked to a large room on the third floor of the casino.

In the center of the room, which is decorated in a low-key and restrained style, there is a large gaming table. In the middle of the left side of the gaming table, there is a dealer wearing a black women's suit and white gloves with an expressionless face. He looks like he is in his thirties. .

 In the remaining directions of the gambling table, five men and women playing cards were seated.

The target of Roan and Caroline's trip, Robert Bernekov was sitting on the far left side of the card table, and Mrs. Hanover was also sitting in the center on the right side of the card table, with a large pile of chips in front of her.

Unlike Caroline, Roan’s eyes were not on Mrs. Hanover, nor on Burnekov-Robert, but on the other three players on the card table.

 What Luo An asked Mona to do before was to investigate the people who often appeared at this card table.

 Among the three people, there is a blond man in a suit, a white woman in a blue skirt, and an African face wearing a gold Rolex.

The African face was selectively ignored by Luo An. The other man and woman, according to Mona's investigation, the man is from the United Kingdom and is suspected to be MI6, and the woman is from the Commonwealth and is suspected to be CIA.

Soon, the man with the African face lost a lot and stopped playing. He turned around and left the room. Luo An did not hesitate, walked up to the card table with the chips, and took his seat.

Seeing Robert Bernekov, Mrs. Hanover, a woman suspected of CIA, and a man suspected of MI6 at the card table, all turned their attention to him. Luo An chuckled, picked up the wine glass, raised it to them, and asked with a smile. road:

"you do not mind?"

 (End of this chapter)