90: Chapter 90 The lottery is a very complex and unpredictable thing!

At this moment, Shen Jie was no longer that frantic gambler; he looked like a prisoner sentenced to death, radiating an aura of death from head to toe.

The audience in the livestream saw this scene, and the barrage of comments slowed down slightly.

Although everyone had been calling him a gambling addict, seeing a grown man break down like this in front of the camera still made people feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Su Yun watched Shen Jie's appearance and suddenly spoke up.

His voice was not loud, but it carried a chill that directly cut through the noise of the livestream.

"Do you know why I couldn't calculate it?"

Shen Jie remained with his head in his hands, showing no reaction; he clearly wasn't listening anymore.

Su Yun didn't care whether he was listening or not and continued on his own.

"When it comes to lotteries, the drawing looks random."

"But in reality, the waters run very deep."

"Magnetic interference, physical weight distribution, even the vibration frequency of the machine—even the slightest human tampering can make the results worlds apart."

"It's like trying to predict where a leaf will fall, but if someone is standing next to you with a hairdryer blowing on it the whole time, even if you dug Newton up from his grave, he wouldn't be able to calculate it accurately."

"Therefore, the variables in this thing outweigh the constants."

"Since it isn't destined by heaven, the secrets of heaven naturally won't be revealed."

As soon as Su Yun said this, the atmosphere in the livestream changed immediately.

The viewers who had just been scolding Su Yun for failing were now all stunned.

"Holy crap! Master Su really dares to say anything!"

"Is this something that can be said on a livestream? Is he implying the lottery is rigged?"

"Master Su is awesome! He's tearing the fig leaf off the lottery center!"

"No wonder I haven't won in ten years; it turns out there's a hairdryer involved!"

"Protect our Master Su! This is too dangerous!"

"Where are the super moderators? Why haven't they come out to ban the stream yet? He actually dares to broadcast this?"

Su Yun certainly knew that these words were a bit sensitive, but he didn't care.

Anyway, the system had hinted at it, so what was wrong with him telling the truth?

Besides, he hadn't named anyone specifically as the one causing trouble; whoever got anxious about it was the one with a guilty conscience.

Su Yun refocused his gaze on Shen Jie.

At this moment, Shen Jie was still slumped in his chair like a pile of mud, staring blankly at the ceiling.

He didn't care at all about Su Yun's explanation regarding the lottery.

All he cared about was the result.

The result was: no money.

No money meant death.

Su Yun looked at him and tapped his fingers on the table twice, making a crisp sound.

"Shen Jie."

This call, carrying a trace of spiritual energy, went straight into Shen Jie's ears.

Shen Jie shuddered, slowly turned his head, and looked at the screen with hollow eyes.

Su Yun stared into his eyes; those deep pupils seemed capable of seeing through all disguises.

"You're so desperate for this money—it's not to pay off gambling debts, is it?"

Shen Jie was stunned for a moment, then let out a bitter laugh.

"If it's not gambling debt, then what is it?"

"Aren't the lottery tickets in this room proof enough?"

"I am just a degenerate gambler; I'm crazy for money, and I want to get rich overnight..."

"This is a bottomless pit; no matter how much you pour into it, it's never full..."

As he spoke, tears began to stream down, mixing with the grime on his face to leave two muddy tracks.

"If it can't be filled, someone is going to die..."

The viewers in the livestream heard this and started flooding the chat again.

"See? He admitted it himself."

"This kind of person really isn't worth sympathizing with; what was he doing before?"

"Taking out high-interest loans to buy lottery tickets? Serves him right!"

"A bottomless pit? Gambling is a bottomless pit to begin with; no amount of money is enough to fill it."

Su Yun looked at those malicious comments and sneered.

"A bottomless pit?"

"It is indeed a bottomless pit."

Su Yun's voice suddenly rose a few notches, like a hammer, slamming heavily into Shen Jie's heart.

"However, this bottomless pit of yours is not in a casino, nor is it at a lottery station."

Shen Jie jerked his head up, a flash of panic and shock in his eyes.

Su Yun leaned forward slightly, and through the screen, said in an extremely certain tone.

"That bottomless pit of yours."

"It's at the City People's Hospital, in the inpatient department, on the eighth floor."

"The ICU, the intensive care unit."

"Am I right, Shen Jie?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire livestream instantly went quiet.

The keyboard warriors who had just been flooding the chat with insults had their fingers frozen in mid-air.

"ICU?"

"Intensive care unit?"

These words were like a basin of ice water poured over everyone's heads.

On the screen.

Shen Jie was frozen there as if struck by lightning.

His lips trembled violently, his eyes wide open, staring fixedly at Su Yun.

The ballpoint pen that had fallen to the floor earlier was nudged by his heel and rolled under the table.

"How... how do you know?"

Shen Jie's voice shook violently, carrying the fear of having his secret seen through, along with an irrepressible breakdown.

Su Yun didn't answer his question but continued speaking.

"The cigarette butts in this room aren't here because you were thinking about lottery numbers."

"They're here because you were worried."

"The trend charts you have pasted on the wall aren't for getting rich, either."

"You are trying to find a lifeline within that pile of messy numbers."

"You want to save your daughter's life."

"But you also know that this is just a dream."

"Yet, besides dreaming, you have no other way."

"The house is sold, the car is sold, and you've borrowed from every relative and friend."

"Now, even those online loans won't approve any credit for you anymore."

"Besides pinning your last hope on these few scraps of waste paper, what else can you do?"

Su Yun's words pierced the heart with every syllable.

Every word was like a knife, peeling away the hard shell of disguise in Shen Jie's heart.

Exposing his most bloody, most helpless side to millions of people.

Shen Jie's body began to tremble violently.

He opened his mouth wide, wanting to retort, wanting to roar, but his throat felt as if it were blocked by a wad of cotton, unable to make any sound.

Finally.

This middle-aged man, who looked disheveled and somewhat insane.

In this dim rental room.

Facing the mobile phone camera.

He covered his face with both hands and let out a heart-wrenching wail.

"Ah!!!"

In that wail, there was no longer the madness and greed from when he was begging for lottery numbers earlier.

There was only endless despair and the mournful cry of a father at his wit's end.

The barrage in the livestream stopped completely.

Those viewers who had just been calling him a "gambling addict" and "scum" now felt a burning sensation on their faces.

So, this was the "bottomless pit" he was talking about.

That ICU that swallowed countless sums of money every day without even making a sound.

That place where, once the money stopped, it would immediately take the life of a loved one.

Su Yun looked at the weeping Shen Jie, a trace of pity flashing in his eyes.

When he had used the system to check Shen Jie's information earlier, he had also been shocked by the content.

[Name: Shen Jie]

[Age: 42]

[Occupation: Former Senior Algorithm Engineer at a State-Owned Enterprise]

[Recent Fortune: From great misfortune to great fortune (originally destined for the destruction of his family, but will gain immense wealth and a chance at life due to the Host's guidance)]

[Past: Once a top technical expert in the industry; three years ago, the core algorithm architecture he casually wrote down at a technical exchange meeting was regarded as a lifeline by Shengshi Technology. One year ago, his only daughter contracted a rare disease and was admitted to the ICU. To pay for treatment, he exhausted his family's savings and incurred high-interest debts, and his wife fell into severe depression. Shen Jie quit his job to take care of his family, and in his desperation, tried to get rich overnight through the lottery...]

[Future: Three days later, his daughter will pass away due to the cessation of treatment caused by unpaid fees; in despair, Shen Jie will commit suicide by burning charcoal in the rental room...]

[Sin Value: 0]

[Detailed Crimes: None.]

He was not a gambling addict.

He was just a father trying to save his daughter's life.

Even if that method looked so stupid, so ridiculous.