At the door, most of the bodyguards stayed at the door and only four of them followed us.
We went downstairs in an elevator.
We got to the fourth floor underground.
The elevator door opened and Ming and Sean came out.
I got out of the elevator, too.
In front of me was a very large room, which seemed to be a leisure room. There were billiards table, water bar, dart board, football on the table and so on.
There were three very big black sofas in the middle of the room.
There was also a coffee table in the middle.
There were fruit plates on the tea table.
There was an old pistol next to it.
I recalled carefully that this pistol seemed to be called revolver!
When I saw the revolver, I immediately realized what was going to happen next!
I ran straight over and opened my hands and blocked them and shook my head. “No, don’t bet on this!”
At this moment, I had understood what Ward said!
They bet on themselves!
Only Russian roulette could use revolvers!
There was only one bullet in the revolver. After loading, aim the pistol at the gamblers and take turns shooting. The man who was shot lost naturally.
This bet was too cruel and terrible!
Russian roulette was the cruelest if the ways of gambling in the world were classified.
No way!
No way!
But two bodyguards came straight to me and grabbed my hands and took me to one side!
“Let go of me!”
I was a woman. I couldn’t break free of these bodyguards!
I struggled and shouted, “let me go! No! Please!”
Ming looked at Sean. “Sean, just bet on that. If you don’t want to, it’s time to go now.”
It seemed Sean didn’t know that before!
“Go!” I was scared!
But Sean was not afraid at this time. He looked at me and said, “if I go, I will lose. I might as well try my luck.”
“OK.” Ming nodded. “In that case, I don’t need to say the rules for Russian roulette.”
“Of course.”
The two men stood face to face and were not afraid.
But I was scared and I shouted, “no, please, please don’t bet on this. Or you take me as your bet! I will marry whoever wins!”
When I finished, Ming turned to look at me, and his face was still smiling, “yes, the result of this bet is the same.”
“No!”
The result of this bet was that I had no other choice!
One of them would die!
Ming looked at me and said sadly, “Becky, are you afraid that it’s him, not me, who is dying?”
“No! Please do not die!”
At this time, my tears were out of my eyes uncontrollably.
My heart was broken. I really didn’t know it would be like this!
If I knew, I would never go back to York.
I wouldn’t meet Sean.
I would stay in Sceaux all my life.
Sean looked at me and frowned. After a while he said, “don’t cry. It will soon be over.”
“No!”
Why would one person die?
At this time, Ward went to the coffee table and took out a tissue. He carefully wiped the revolver in front of him and looked up and asked, “what are your last words? You’d better say it in advance. One second after you get shot, you die and you don’t have a chance to say that.”
Would they die in a second?
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