A Certain Marvel Super Player

In the lobby on the first floor.

Accompanied by the music that symbolized Christmas Eve, the captain of the Poseidon, a dark-skinned captain, delivered a speech with an impassioned voice that he had rehearsed countless times.

Then, with the music playing and Wu Wu Er's speech, the music started, the stage began to give way to the actors, and the well-prepared waiters began to serve the exquisite meals one after another.

Locke and Gwen didn't sit in the children's seat.

wrong.

have children.

Sixteen years old, if put in certain contexts in the East, he is indeed just a child.

The four of them were sitting at a table with Jennifer and Robert.

Cindy lowered her voice: "Locke, have you really won almost a million?"

She didn't go up just now. She and Kahn found a changing room and quickly decided a game. There was no other way. This guy was obviously very energetic. He had such a good-looking girlfriend at home, and he even went to the swimming pool to see the young lady. He had to give him something. Look at the color.

Locke shook his head: "No."

Cindy looked at Gwen and blinked.

Locke smiled at his next sentence: "One hundred thousand is my own bargaining chip, so I only won nine hundred thousand."

Cindy: "..."

Is this human language?

Listen.

Only won 900,000.

Good guy.

We get on the boat and spend money, but you come on the boat to make money?

Kahn's eyes were shining.

Locke glanced at Cindy: "Are you envious?"

Cindy nodded.

Locke shrugged and said, "Don't be envious. Basically, people who are envious of this thing have jumped into the sea."

Cindy: "..."

Betting on dogs and gambling on dogs. At first, they all think that gambling is a quick money-making thing. Then, they fall into it and are completely swallowed up by the sea of ​​gambling. They are pitiful, but not worthy of sympathy.

Locke was not interested in gambling.

Except when he is short of money, he goes to Las Vegas to play a few games to earn pocket money, and then withdraws when he gets it.

Because he is self-aware.

Again.

He can't even give up his addiction to alcohol, let alone other addictions that are more likely to be addictive than alcohol?

Of course.

Locke is not addicted to playing cards, because when he plays cards, onlookers may find it exciting, but he finds it a bit boring.

Because he knows luck.

stable.

Maybe these five points of luck would not allow him to pick up a treasure while wrestling on the road, but in this kind of game where there are winners and losers, not having these five points of luck would not make him a loser.

so……

How exciting is it to play after knowing the result?

As for professional gambler Dylan?

He was playing card counting. When the card counting skill was activated, his brain was working rapidly. How could he have time to secrete stimulating fluid to anesthetize his brain?

During the meal, they were talking and laughing.

George's call came.

After Gwen got through, she spoke a few words to Helen first, and after chatting about the interesting things on the ship, her eyes lit up, and she said to George who transferred the call over there: "Dad, you don't know that I also touched someone on the ship. Who's here, Uncle Ramsey?"

George over there was suddenly a little surprised.

Gwen covered the phone and looked at Robert over there: "Uncle Ramsey, my dad wants to talk to you."

Robert wiped his hands, smiled, took the phone, called George, and then walked out of the restaurant.

Gwen looked at Robert walking out and blinked, then looked at Locke next to him: "I hope Uncle Ramsey won't betray you."

Locke smiled: "No."

Robert also lost money, and there was a high chance that he would not tell George about this embarrassing incident related to him.

In fact.

Robert did not say anything.

but……

After hanging up the phone, George touched his chin, looked at his wife, smiled and said, "Are we wrong about Locke?"

Helen blinked while sipping a bottle of red wine worth three hundred dollars that George had just bought.

"What?"

"Locke drinks."

"Then what?"

Helen laughed: "How is it possible at the age of sixteen to not drink secretly? Aren't we also secretly drinking at the age of sixteen?"

George shook his head: "I'm not."

Helen looked at George with a half-smile.

George's face was expressionless: "I'm fourteen years old, and I drank vodka!"

Helen couldn't help but smile: "Awesome, Mr. Stacey."

George also laughed loudly: "But that's not the point I want to say. The point is, how did Robert know that Locke smoked and drank."

Helen shrugged and said, "There's nothing strange about this. I saw it. Last month for your birthday, Locke gave you a box of cigars, and you said you wanted to get up."

George shook his head: "No, no, Locke should be on the gambling table."

Helen asked curiously: "Is this what Robert said?"

George said: "No, this is what I deduced as a professional police detective."

Helen: "..."

Robert liked card games. This was something George knew. He and Robert were able to talk because Robert often liked to organize card games.

And just now Robert said that he was playing cards in the afternoon, so the only scene where he saw Locke smoking and drinking could only be at the gaming table.

After hearing her husband's reasoning, Helen blinked: "Locke lost?"

George was slightly startled: "Is this the point?"

Shouldn't the point be, has Locke's character in their hearts collapsed?

Helen shrugged and said: "It's just the occasional restlessness in adolescence. Besides, boys have to learn to smoke or drink. Frankly speaking, if Locke doesn't have any bad habits at all, and doesn't smoke or drink, I will be even more worried. Worried about Gwen and his problems.”

I have to say that Helen's perspective on issues has always been so novel.

George opened his mouth, and then, defeated: "I should have won."

"Why?"

"If Robert wins money and Locke loses money, I'm afraid he will already start teasing me on the phone."

"……Too."

Helen thought about the true appearance behind Robert's unsmiling expression, and smiled. Then she looked at George: "Then, what are you worried about? Wouldn't it be better if you win money?"

Said.

Helen smiled and said: "Besides, Locke is inherently more mature and self-controlled than the average person of his age."

George thought for a moment and nodded.

Helen didn't know that yesterday, on the first day on board the ship, Locke threw this self-control ability out of the window.

but……

George and Helen were not the only ones talking about Locke.

There are also Tony Stark and Happy who just lost about 400,000 to Locke each.

But Tony Stark ate in a private room.

There were only three people in the private room.

Tony and Happy and Pepper.

As for the female companion Tony brought?

Already at noon today, Tony was packing him back to New York in a helicopter.

"Rock Broughton!"

Tony looked at the information displayed on the tablet in his hand, noticed Locke's age column, and laughed: "Sixteen years old, interesting."

Happy said from the side: "It's really interesting, losing to a sixteen-year-old kid."

Tony glanced at Happy.

It is simply impossible for an ordinary bodyguard to want to have dinner with his boss, especially with him.

But Happy is different.

Not every fat man named Happy can be related to the Stark family.

Tony looked away and handed the tablet to Pepper: "Is there one person missing from the New Year's Eve card game?"

Pepper nodded: "There is someone from the Texas Oil Group on the ship..."

Tony interrupted directly: "This is Locke."

Pepper blinked.

Tony chuckled: "The loser has no right to know the winner's name, hehe, give him the invitation letter."

Pepper frowned and said, "Tony, he doesn't have much money."

Tony looked at Pepper and the beard on his chin moved: "Wouldn't it be better? I beat him and then give him the money back."

Pepper: "..."

loser?

I was born to be a winner.

Tony thought back to what Locke had just said at the gambling game. He didn't know why, even though it was only the first time they met and they were only sixteen years old, Tony already had the urge to be with a handsome man who was not inferior to him. A knife was used on the face.

the next day.

"Xia Mi?"

Tony walked to the door, looked at Pepper Potts who appeared at the door, raised his eyebrows, took the invitation, opened it, looked up at Pepper: "New Year's Eve gambling?"

Good guy.

See you soon.

Locke always thought that this matter of getting slapped in the face would only live in jokes or novels and movies.

But he didn't expect that it would happen before his eyes.

Do you think losing 400,000 yuan to him is not satisfying enough, so you plan to find an opportunity to give him some money?

Gwen also came over to take a look at the contents of the invitation and blinked.

Tony Stark's personal poker game.

"Is this a top card game?"

After Locke agreed to go to the appointment, after closing the door, Gwen asked curiously: "Even if you go to the card game and have some restraint, you can increase your connections."

The connections in the Federation are very strong, even more powerful than those in the Eastern Kingdom.

Recommendation letters from college are an excellent example of this.

If your scores are not high enough, but as long as your letters of recommendation are of sufficient weight, you may be admitted under exceptional circumstances.

Elsewhere, it's even more useful.

Work.

Even if you start your own company, you can get twice the result with half the effort if you have a huge network of contacts.

Even if they are not top-level connections, small connections can still be very useful.

Put it this way.

Even if Gwen drinks alcohol, drives drunk, and gets caught, it will be fine.

Because Gwen has a card.

NYPD dependent card.

As long as you are stopped by the patrol police, do not provoke the patrol police, park aside in a polite manner, and then show the family card, you can pass through the border safely.

The human society of the Federation is much more complicated than the human society of the Eastern Kingdom.

Locke shook the invitation in his hand, threw it on the sofa, hugged Gwen, and said with a smile: "Why do you think so much? There are still a few days left. I'll tell you whether I can go then."

Gwen: "..."