Taking a deep breath, Wandong went up to a shelf full of the raw stones. He picked dozens out of them all at once in a seemingly absent-minded manner. Some of the picks came actually miles away. "This one, this one, this one, and that one…Wu Yang, fetch them for me!"
Leng Yuecui went startled by Wandong's levity. Then she muttered, "So this is the way you select stones? Don't you take a careful scrutiny of them first?"
Wandong got bewildered as well, "Why?"
"You…" Leng Yuecui almost bit her tongue out of anger. "Yes, Wandong is right about it. However careful you scan the raw stones with your eyes, you are, by no means, able to single the valid ones out. Even the professionals are incapable of that, though they have been studying the raw stones for years. Undoubtedly, we're incapable as well."
"But…But you can take it a little bit more seriously. Yaoting, we're actually betting on our own life. Could you please be serious?"Leng Yuecui felt dreadfully hopeless. She almost burst out weeping.
"I'm serious. Okay? I can only live once as you do. Could you please hurry up and transport the raw stones quickly? You know it takes a while for us to fetch one hundred cubes of the raw stones."
Wandong seemed to obstinately stick to a wrong course. He went on pointing at random raw stones with vengeance.
Leng Yuecui felt rather ill at ease. "Am I supposed to go to the dogs with him today?"
However, as far as Wu Qiujun and Duan Lengyan were concerned, they were rather pleased with Wandong's reaction.
As a matter of fact, they once held suspicions about Wandong — they thought Wandong was going to play tricks again. However, Wandong's arbitrary sampling dispelled their doubts right away. According to Wandong's approach, there must be a few valid stones among the ones he picked.
"Heh. He is not betting on valid raw stones. Fairly speaking, he thinks that we don't have the balls to kill him. Otherwise, he wouldn't be swollen with arrogance!"
"Martial master, you hit the nail on the head!" Duan Lengyan nodded in agreement. Actually, there was no other way to put it.
"He made a wrong decision. As soon as the bet ends, I'm gonna put him away myself. No one can change my mind today." Wu Qiujun clenched his fists, his teeth gritted.
Duan Lengyan felt pleased on picturing Wandong's death. Then she pointed at a couple of random raw stones and sneered, "Childe Xu, how do you like these ones?"
Wandong accepted the stones without a backward glance, "Good! Wu Yang, fetch them for me."
"Oh no! Big brother, could you please take a look at them first?"
As careless as Wu Yang was, he couldn't bear Wandong's free rein any longer. "Yaoting was literally messing about."
"Why should I? Can't you see how hapless Duan Lengyan is? You think she could get valid raw stones? As a matter of fact, I wished if only she could do it for me. Then she could save us the trouble!"
Wu Yang cast a glare at Wu Yang. Then he fetched the raw stones Duan Lengyan recommended. He counted the stones and singled one stone out, "They're enough now. This is a spare one. Now it's yours. You might lose everything this time till you are naked. In that case, you can, by all means, make this stone your travel expense and head back home."