Chapter 57: Gambling Genius Silver Hair (2)

“Haa. I feel alive again after drinking some caffeine.”

Rubbing his stiff neck, Zeronix walked into the office with a fresh cup of coffee in hand.

The glow of the monitors looked the same as always.

But unlike usual, Frost’s back looked deeply unsettled.

“Hm? Something happen?”

Zeronix casually asked as he took a sip of coffee.

Frost slowly turned around.

His pupils were trembling like there had just been an earthquake.

“H-Hyung.”

Even his voice trembled like a frightened goat.

“Just now… Silverhair… she…”

Frost couldn’t continue. Like someone about to reveal a truth too heavy to carry.

“Silverhair? What did she do this time?”

Zeronix asked calmly as he sipped his hot coffee.

There weren’t any major events going on where Silverhair could shine right now.

All the big raids and events were already over.

There was the “Foundation of the Final Battle” event still ongoing, but that was just about collecting money.

At the moment, there wasn’t much to do except gather gold.

“Silverhair made some money. At, uh… the casino.”

“Oh yeah?”

Zeronix chuckled.

Probably a few hundred thousand gold at most. Maybe a million if she got lucky?

The odds were rigged against players from the start. No one was supposed to make big money.

Frost gulped and continued with a trembling voice.

“The… the amount is…”

“How much did she make for you to freak out like this? Don’t tell me she hit the target already?”

‘She couldn’t have really made the full 45 million, could she?’

Zeronix joked as he asked.

“1.5 billion…”

PFFFFT—!!!

“Kh—?! Gah, cough!”

Zeronix spewed his hot coffee all over Frost’s face like a fountain.

The surprise splash drenched Frost’s white shirt and face with dark coffee droplets,

but Frost didn’t even flinch.

He didn’t have the mental space to care.

“What? What, what did you say?! Did I hear that wrong? 1.5 billion?!”

Zeronix coughed violently as he asked again.

The paper cup slipped from his hand and hit the floor, spilling coffee everywhere, but he couldn’t care less.

Even if you added up all the gold floating around the entire Pixelwars server, it probably wouldn’t total that much.

And one player made that? In just a few dozen minutes?

“Yes… 1.5 billion gold…”

Frost nodded blankly.

He didn’t even think to wipe the coffee from his face.

Zeronix wanted to faint on the spot.

But his years of streaming experience kicked in. He gave urgent instructions.

“Shut down the underground casino! Put up an emergency maintenance notice and take the server down—no, wait, don’t take the whole server down, just disable the casino function for now!”

“Y-Yes, sir!”

Frost frantically began typing on the keyboard.

“Also! What were you doing while she was making that kind of money?! You should’ve stopped her!”

Sure, technically there was nothing wrong with making money at the casino,

but wasn’t 1.5 billion way beyond abnormal?

Why did he just sit there doing nothing while that ridiculous amount was piling up?

“If you saw anything weird going on, you should’ve pulled an emergency shutdown!”

Frost protested, looking wronged.

“I-I was watching the whole time! She was losing a bit at first, so I figured she’d blow it all eventually.”

Frost’s voice grew smaller.

“But then she suddenly got in the zone and started winning nonstop… By the time she was up 50 million, I figured she’d go buy the power core.”

“And?”

“Who would’ve guessed she’d dump all of it onto the 30x slot… I didn’t think she’d actually do something like that…”

It happened in a flash.

Right after she won 50 million gold, she immediately went all-in on the 30x slot.

And won.

There was no realistic way to stop it.

She went all-in with 50 million on a 30x multiplier?

And she actually pulled it off?

Even Zeronix was speechless.

It was straight-up insanity.

Thud.

Zeronix’s legs gave out and he collapsed into his chair.

1.5 billion gold.

The impact that kind of money would have on the server’s economy was unimaginable.

They had created the event to drain gold from circulation.

Instead, they had unleashed more gold than they could ever hope to manage.

‘No, wait.’

A more fundamental question flashed through Zeronix’s mind.

‘How… in the world?’

The underground casino.

He had personally reviewed and approved it. He remembered the probability settings exactly.

It was subtly skewed in the casino’s favor.

Specifically, by 2%.

According to the law of large numbers, players were guaranteed to lose in the long run.

Sure, a lucky player might win big here and there, but that was always temporary.

Eventually, the house would win everything back.

But Silverhair… had defied that system.

The issue wasn’t just that she hit a lucky 30x.

She had started with 500,000 gold and multiplied it to 50 million.

That process alone was a violation of probability.

In a game where the machine had the edge, how could someone pull off such an unnatural win rate?

Was there something going on? A hidden bug? A system exploit?

No—if anything like that existed, Frost would’ve flagged it.

Then does that mean… it was just pure gambling skill?

Or some kind of supernatural luck?

Zeronix felt lost. His mind was a blank white canvas.

The server he thought he built and controlled.

Now danced in chaos, thanks to a silver-haired girl who laughed in the face of logic and probability.

He didn’t just feel awe anymore—he felt fear.

“You shut the casino down, right?”

“Yes, hyung.”

“Then it’s time to use our brains… How the hell are we supposed to deal with that 1.5 billion…”

Zeronix sighed deeply.

He had no idea what to do, but one thing was clear—they had to do something. That’s what it meant to be part of the admin team.

Frost also let out a long sigh and clutched his head.

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“I… don’t really like gambling.”

After raking in 1.5 billion,

Yoo Seo-yeon mumbled quietly.

Raidel, standing next to her, looked at her like she had just said something incomprehensible.

“That’s… not exactly something someone who just won 1.5 billion gold should say?!”

Hadn’t she just pulled off a miracle gambling run?

And now she says she doesn’t like it?

“Well… it wasn’t all luck.”

“Huh? Gambling’s not about luck?”

“When the wheel spins… I kept hearing this sound… and feeling these tiny little vibrations…”

Yoo Seo-yeon’s gaze turned toward the roulette wheel she had been staring at earlier.

“I could kind of… predict the result. At least toward the more likely outcomes.”

She paused, searching for the right words.

“Especially with the 30x slot—the payout is so huge that right before it stops, the sound is slightly different. Just barely.”

Her explanation was so casual.

But Raidel’s jaw was dropping.

She predicted the result using sound and vibration?

Was that even possible?

“The differences are incredibly subtle, so I kept messing up at first. But as I focused more and more… it got clearer. I just pushed my senses to the limit…”

As Yoo Seo-yeon calmly explained, a chill ran down Raidel’s spine.

‘Come to think of it…!’

Something had been strange.

When Yoo Seo-yeon first entered the casino, she just kept losing.

Like some clueless newbie.

Even Raidel had thought, ‘Yup, no one beats the odds.’

But then, starting with that 500k all-in—

Her win rate shot through the roof.

Back-to-back 5x hits, minor losses, major gains—

It was like she was defying probability.

And now she says it wasn’t luck, but data, patterns, and sensory reading?

‘Is that even humanly possible?’

One story suddenly came to Raidel’s mind.

A viewer had submitted it back when she was doing café visit content.

“The Sniping Dealer of the Casino”— A legendary dealer who could land the roulette ball near the number they wanted, even on a fast-spinning wheel.

Urban myth-level stuff.

Not perfect aim, but they could increase the chance of hitting specific zones.

Some said it wasn’t just a myth. That there was some truth to it.

A level of control where even probability bowed to sensory mastery.

Raidel looked at Yoo Seo-yeon again.

If… that silver-haired girl had the same ability as those sniping dealers—

No, maybe something beyond that?

If the dealer placed the ball,

Then Yoo Seo-yeon was the one reading the micro-signals from the machine.

Maybe… it wasn’t impossible.

“Come to think of it, I’ve heard stories of people who can drop the roulette ball exactly where they want. Like an urban legend from overseas.”

“Eh, I’m not at that level.”

Yoo Seo-yeon waved her hand dismissively.

“Besides, this isn’t a real casino—it’s just a streamer event facility, right?”

Her pale cheeks flushed slightly as she added:

“I doubt they set up thorough cheat prevention. You can tell just by the sound differences.”

With that, Raidel—and even Argon, who’d been listening blankly—both lunged at the roulette.

“Mmmph.”

Argon scrunched his brows, trying to look super serious.

Whirrr… Clunk… Click… Whirrr…

But all they could hear were ordinary machine noises.

They couldn’t detect any distinct differences between the slots.

“…I can’t tell at all.”

“Me neither… Just sounds loud to me.”

Eventually, both gave up and shook their heads.

And then it happened.

Whirrr—CLACK!

The spinning roulette wheel suddenly stopped with an unnatural noise.

And at the same time, a system message filled the entire underground space:

【[Emergency Notice] Due to internal system maintenance, the underground casino facility will be temporarily suspended. We apologize for the inconvenience.】

Ding! With that sound effect, the roulette machine’s lights shut off instantly.

The machine that had just spit out 1.5 billion gold now sat there like a cold hunk of scrap metal.

The devs had stepped in.

The reason was obvious.

“…Ah.”

Argon smacked his lips with a hollow look.

If only he’d just copied Silverhair’s bets, he could’ve duplicated his gold too.

“Well, I wasn’t planning to win any more anyway.”

Yoo Seo-yeon shrugged.

1.5 billion gold was already enough to rock the server economy.

She had no intention of squeezing more from it.

“Then shall we get going?”

The whole reason they came here was to get the funds for the ancient power cores.

Now it was time to complete that quest.