29: Section 29

“Oh, there really aren't many young people nowadays who are so grounded and responsible!”

“Little girl, you must listen to your boyfriend. You can't touch gambling! Playing the lottery occasionally is fine, but make sure not to get addicted, understand?”

The owner nearby, listening to Lin Bai's earnest advice to Li Yaoyao, seemed to empathize deeply.

She gave Lin Bai a highly approving thumbs-up and even threw in an extra marinated egg.

“Thank you~ Auntie is right. You don't need to think hard to know that in this sort of thing, ninety percent of the wins are rigged, and only the remaining ten percent is luck.”

Hearing what the proprietress said, Lin Bai added a supplementary comment in full agreement.

As for the food, he certainly wasn't going to be polite.

After all, Party A hadn't paid him these past few days, and he was nearly starving.

However, he was probably the only person in history special enough to be starving while living in a luxurious villa.

As for Li Yaoyao beside him, she knew that given the proprietress's warm and hospitable nature, if she refuted anything, the other party would definitely launch into a long lecture.

She simply lowered her head and quietly ate the food in her bowl.

Whether it was the comment about being his girlfriend or the warning not to indulge in gambling, she had given up struggling against it.

No, she couldn't give up!

This was a crucial mission assigned to her by the organization.

After paying the bill, Li Yaoyao couldn't help but remind him, “Lin Bai, remember the draw is tonight! Don't miss it!”

“...”

Lin Bai looked at Li Yaoyao with a heartbroken expression, as if she were a hopeless case.

But he was secretly thinking to himself.

Alas, he hadn't expected her family situation to be this miserable.

Could it be that she had completely given up hope for life and only thought about turning things around by buying lottery tickets every day?

Wait!

She had come to his door several times asking for cardboard boxes.

Was her family so poor that they had to rely on recycling cardboard boxes just to subsidize their income?

Thinking of this, Lin Bai pursed his lips and seriously told Li Yaoyao, “Don't worry! From now on, I'll save all the cardboard boxes at my place for you!”

Hmm, we're all poor kids; every little bit of help counts!

“...”

Li Yaoyao looked utterly bewildered.

She had only asked him to remember to check the lottery results.

How on earth did he connect that to cardboard boxes?

That was just an excuse she randomly came up with before to approach him.

However, hearing him say that, Li Yaoyao felt much more relieved.

Since Lin Bai said so, once he wins the money after the draw, he definitely won't be shopping online any less!

Returning to the dormitory area, Li Yaoyao's staff dorm was not on the mountain.

After the two wished each other good night, Lin Bai casually walked back along the road.

“Ding-dong, Wealth-Attainment Pay deposit: Three hundred yuan!”

Suddenly, Lin Bai's phone rang. Hearing the notification tone, a trace of excitement finally appeared in his heart.

“They finally bothered to pay me. It wasn't easy!”

Lin Bai pulled out his phone, intending to check his account balance.

However, as he took out his phone, the lottery ticket happened to be pulled out along with it.

This was halfway up the mountain. The lightweight lottery ticket was caught by a gentle gust of wind, floated to the side, and then continuously drifted down towards the foot of the mountain.

“...”

“Forget it. It's impossible to win anyway. I'm too lazy to go down and look for it.”

Lin Bai muttered, and then looking at the money he had genuinely earned through work in his account, he felt even more disdainful of those illusory lottery tickets.

In fact.

When he returned home and checked the time for the draw.

Lin Bai deliberately took out his phone, ready to send Li Yaoyao a message after the results were announced, reminding her once more that people should be down-to-earth.

“As a friend, I still need to remind her.”

“She can't always pin her hopes on things like this.”

“Wait, I remember the numbers she bought were these ones.”

While recalling the numbers on Li Yaoyao's lottery ticket, Lin Bai refreshed the official lottery website on his computer.

Soon.

One number after another was announced.

“See? This stuff is all a scam.”

“Compared to the numbers she bought, forget winning, there isn't even a single matching number.”

“Sigh, I hope she can learn a good less—”

“...”

While speaking, Lin Bai suddenly froze.

He had initially intended to compare the winning numbers with Li Yaoyao's purchase so he could advise her that the whole thing was impractical.

But as he kept looking, he suddenly felt that the published numbers seemed vaguely familiar?

“Wait a minute!”

“Li Yaoyao's numbers are all wrong.”

“But, my numbers...”

“Seem to have all won???”

...PS: Brothers, as everyone knows, data is extremely important during a new book's free period—it's even the key to whether a book can continue!

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Chapter 37: I Won... But I Already Threw Away the Ticket!

Chapter 37: I Won... But I Already Threw Away the Ticket!

Did I really win everything!?

Lin Bai quickly made a phone call to verify, clearly stating the numbers on his ticket, word for word.

“It really is those numbers!?”

“Okay, okay.”

“The prize money is...”

“One? One hundred and thirty million???”

“I'm the only person in the entire country who won this prize, and the entire First Prize jackpot goes to me???”

Lin Bai was shocked. After hanging up the phone, he subconsciously reached for his back pocket.

But when he felt around, there was nothing.

Holy cow!

The ticket flew away!

Lin Bai remembered that earlier, when he received the three hundred yuan transfer from Party A, the lottery ticket had dropped down to the foot of the mountain.

At the time, he thought the lottery ticket wasn't as important as three hundred yuan, so he ignored it.

Now... he truly picked up a sesame seed and dropped a watermelon—a golden watermelon at that!

Losing 130 million for 300 yuan, he felt like slapping himself across the face!

Thinking of this, Lin Bai immediately ran out.

Meanwhile.

Li Yaoyao, who saw this scene via surveillance, became excited for Lin Bai.

She immediately picked up the satellite phone in her hand and dialed.

Beep—

“Reporting, Director Chen! This mission has been successfully completed!”

After all, Li Yaoyao was mainly responsible for monitoring Lin Bai's situation while he was at home, so naturally, she didn't know about the accident that occurred on the less than hundred-meter stretch of road on the way back.

Director Chen of the National Security Bureau finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and quickly asked, “Are you certain?”

“One hundred percent certain. I personally watched Lin Bai buy the lottery ticket and then take it home!”

“And I just noticed via surveillance that Lin Bai was indeed checking the draw information.”

“He was so excited when he saw he won that he went out for a night run~”

After confirming repeatedly, Director Chen finally felt at ease, organized the mission report for this time, and submitted it to the Special Decision Group.

The next day.

Inside the Special Decision Group's conference room, all members were finally gathered again, and real-time surveillance of Lin Bai's house was simultaneously activated.

After all, every single one of them had many matters to handle and follow up on.