The Black Card Chapter 164 - Mean And Shameless Black Card

Chapter 164 - Mean and Shameless Black Card

Translator: Lav

Editor: Seliniaki llikia

On Monday, s.h.i.+ Lei woke up early. He couldn’t stop thinking about the ten thousand yuan he’d “invested.”   

First, he checked the results for the football lottery he’d partic.i.p.ated in. As expected, although it was only a two yuan bet, it won more than ninety thousand yuan, according to the ratio. s.h.i.+ Lei calculated it briefly and discovered that once the twenty percent personal income tax was taken out, the prize was exactly seventy-six thousand and two yuan. They even gave him back the two yuan used for the bet, and s.h.i.+ Lei could only sigh to praise how great the Black Card was.   

Because it didn’t exceed one hundred thousand yuan, after the prize money was checked to be correct, the lottery center taxed it and transferred it to s.h.i.+ Lei’s bank account. He checked, verifying that the money was indeed already there. 

“The football lottery center is quite productive,” s.h.i.+ Lei smiled. He bound the bank card and chose to withdraw all the funds in the account. 

A few moments later, he received a message regarding transfer. 

Next, he decided to check the profits for the ten thousand yuan on the foreign website. 

Without knowing why, the hand that held the mouse was trembling slightly.  

Four hundred and ten thousand yuan. And this type of website didn’t tax, so his net profit exceeded four hundred thousand yuan with merely a combined string. 

After this amount of money was within his grasp, s.h.i.+ Lei would own more than four hundred thousand yuan of personal wealth. Adding the seventy-six thousand and two yuan prize from the lottery, s.h.i.+ Lei would have almost five hundred thousand yuan of personal a.s.sets! 

“Hahaha, here I come!” s.h.i.+ Lei growled in a low voice as he opened the folder for starred websites. He found the website he’d marked the day before and clicked! 

The navigation bar gradually elongated, and the only thing he needed to do was enter the account number and pa.s.sword…

…… 

Huh? The internet connection didn’t seem to be very good, and the page still wasn’t displayed after a long time…

s.h.i.+ Lei waited a while, but was eventually met by a 404 error, notifying him that the page was not found. 

What the h.e.l.l?!

s.h.i.+ Lei suddenly felt that something was wrong. His trembling hands shook even more. 

Please, don’t let anything go wrong―! s.h.i.+ Lei thought silently and clicked “refresh.”

When the navigation bar reached the end, the page displayed “404 error: Page not found” again!

Hey, hey, hey! Please don’t be like this! What does this mean?!

s.h.i.+ Lei panicked as he continuously clicked and refreshed the page. 

But it was the same thing every time. Only the cold words of the 404 error greeted him. 

Perhaps there was something wrong with his wifi? s.h.i.+ Lei entered another website, and yet it opened successfully. 

He refreshed the page for lottery again only to find that it was still 404. 

s.h.i.+ Lei’s heart froze all of a sudden, but he quickly thought of another possibility. Was the website blocked because it was a foreign website? Going along this train of thought, he downloaded a VPN, using a skill a student like him had to possess. 

Confirming that his VPN was working, s.h.i.+ Lei opened the website again, but it was still 404. 

“Maybe this website had some sort of technical difficulty…” s.h.i.+ Lei comforted himself and opted to refresh it later. After all, any website could have potential technical difficulties. Or perhaps their server had crashed. 

Time crawled by slowly, and after only ten minutes, s.h.i.+ Lei felt as if a century had pa.s.sed. 

He refreshed the page again—404!

Half an hour later, he refreshed the page—404!

An hour later…

Three hours later…

It was already dark…

That d.a.m.ned foreign betting website was still 404!

s.h.i.+ Lei already realized that his ten thousand yuan was mostly likely gone with the huang he(1). Factory manager Huang, give me back my hard-earned money! You can’t just run away with your mistress like this!!!!

s.h.i.+ Lei had refreshed the website for the whole day without eating, and he was feeling dizzy. Finally, he fell asleep on the table during the second half of the night. 

s.h.i.+ Lei woke up suddenly in the morning and his first reaction was to refresh the page. However, the 404 error was like an evil person’s mocking expression, mercilessly scorning his dreams. 

s.h.i.+ Lei was panicking when he saw a QQ(2) news article pop up on the bottom right corner of his screen. He was about to close it when he suddenly saw the words “solved a case,” “destroyed,” and “foreign betting.” s.h.i.+ Lei’s heart skipped a beat and he couldn’t resist the urge to click open the article. 

The news opened in a search engine and s.h.i.+ Lei quickly scanned through it. His vision dimmed and he fell back into his chair as he lost all the energy in his limbs. 

The name of the destroyed website was clearly stated in the news. s.h.i.+ Lei finally understood why his website was displaying a 404 error all this time. 

It was said that the police cleverly tracked down a gambling website whose server was set overseas. In reality, it was controlled by a gambling company in the country. After an ingenious and courageous investigation, the police eventually arrested the members of the company and shut down the server. They seized more than a thousand million yuan. This company only had three members, and yet they’d managed to create something as big as this. The three people were a man, his wife, and his wife’s brother. 

s.h.i.+ Lei knew that his ten thousand yuan, no, his four hundred and ten thousand yuan, was definitely gone. But it was such a coincidence. Why couldn’t you destroy it two or three days later? s.h.i.+ Lei believed that since the website was that big, they couldn’t possibly end just because of his prize of four hundred and ten thousand yuan. If the police hadn’t been so extraordinary, s.h.i.+ Lei should’ve be able to receive his prize. But because of how intelligent the police were, s.h.i.+ Lei’s money was gone!

Luckily, the news didn’t mention that they would investigate the origins of these funds, and the police wouldn’t investigate the people who made the bets. 

But they didn’t say that they would return his bets either! 

 s.h.i.+ Lei felt like weeping, but he had no tears! 

This was his luck! s.h.i.+ Lei definitely had extraordinary luck! First, he drew the reward twice and picked the same prize. Then, he finally found a way to “invest,” but lost his funds due to the police destroying the gambling company. Gambling company your a.s.s! It was only three people, and a family to boot! How did you guys even make such a big betting website? And if you were already that rich and moved your server overseas, why didn’t you guys go overseas yourselves? Why would you stay here? Argh, I will cry if I continue! 

s.h.i.+ Lei now understood. No wonder he was allowed to put his bet in through WeChat. He had been rather happy and thought that it saved him a lot of trouble. Otherwise, he was worried about having to bind his bank account to it. 

s.h.i.+ Lei even began to suspect that everything was done by the Black Card. It was warning s.h.i.+ Lei in this way to stop thinking about using the information it gave him to “invest.” The only outcome would be to lose everything! Although s.h.i.+ Lei’s vision was blurry from starvation, he decided to ask the Scepter about this. 

He went to the self-service bank downstairs and inserted the Black Card. After the Scepter appeared, s.h.i.+ Lei glowered at it furiously. 

“I only made you lose ten thousand yuan. This doesn’t even count as a warning! If you dare to do things the easy way, not only will you lose money, but punishments will be given accordingly!” The Scepter’s words effectively dampened s.h.i.+ Lei’s anger. 

Huang he: a type of bird and a direct quote from a poem. “Manager Huang” refers to the bird, since huang is the first character of the bird’s name

QQ: Chinese social media app with multiple functions