Nova Rangers vs Solis Rovers

Human civilization has corrupted to a certain degree on planet Nova Solis that nothing can make it slightly better now.Money became so tight for everyone and the unemployment rate was outrageous. It was not because that people don't want to have a decent job but because that apart from building things up there isn't much "real jobs" to be done here. In such a treacherous time,the industries were narrowed down to so few of what made a crucial part of the new settlers' guileful scheme and moronic regime. From time to time, the proles were kept in shadow from what's really going on out there.But It was never, from the the beginning, a certain political machination, but the mere stagnant evolution of human nature. After all, in whatever period of time throughout human history,just as Flash Raymond once said on television, "Morons never died out!"

It was 10:30 in the evening,but the sun is still glowing relentlessly in mid air.Somewhere on Cocktail road, Nova territory, the potter and his young apprentice, Da Lin, are tangled up in most colorful and noisy borough, driving at turtle's pace. This rather small triangular area has quite a name " Luftmense" that once heard, it render its zealous pilgrims afloat, while vesting unknown and possibly dangerous power in them. For the new comers, a mere whiff of the air in this borough would simply send them over the top for hours.

"What type of creatures we are living among with, ruddy morons, loquacious robots, and the mean capitalists, and no matter where you go, you shall see those poorly designed billboards with a smiling young chick on it, either promoting sex or gambling,to make things more confusing, they all have a logo of some sort of A.I. technology corporation written on them!" blabbered Guang on the wheel

"Well Shifu it seems like the wholesome pastime had long deserted us, i remember when i was young, i had a good chunk of time staying at me bedroom, having all the joy with meself" Lin smiling, looked quite satisfied

"What exact joy you were having then!" asked Guang with a disgust on his face

"you know,those kids stuff, the Codo Soldats, the Lyran puzzles, the Andromeda masks, and most of all, a lot of imagination! " said Lin merrily

"all right, i thought it was something else" shrugged him

As the two were chatting on that shabby caravan, a breast sagging dark skin middle-age prostitute approached them at the window, wearing some outmoded night attire

" you two gentlemen like to have some fun?you know, we can work something out right on your van!" she asked in hoarse voice and winked at the back seat where she spotted another man lying there

"Sod off!you hideous crone, the breath in your mouth can smoke even the skankiest skunk to its certain demise!I can't fathom out a worse manner in all the world to lure a man to prostituting, and you look terrible!" wailed Guang

"but you know i can look much prettier if only you took this pill" she held out a pinkish pill from her underwear, squinting at Guang trippingly.

"how much? I think i might take that!"

"it's 75 rubee plus my time, and one treat for each,gents, once for each!" she articulated

"No,no,no, i think you take me wrong, i mean just the pill alone, how much is it?" Guang wore such a serious look on his face all the sudden

"it not for sale!" she flew into a tantrum

"let's call it 10 rubee, what say ya, ugly?" Guang stuck that 10 note into her brassier

"All right, deal, you foekken Chinese man!"

"good bye, poxy whore, may you have a pox!"

With A shrieking "pah!" on his face plus a loud "bang!" kicked on his door, they sent the woman away.

" i don't get it Shi Fu, why you want a pill like that, it will do you no good but make you ugly" asked Lin

"why? Where doesn't it come from?" Guang was perfectly baffled

"Well, that woman just said she will look prettier if you took that pill, that means the pill should make you uglier then she will be slightly prettier if she compare the two again "Lin said

"...oh my bog, i wish there would be a certain kind of pill called "brain cell booster" and then i shall spare no efforts to feed you dozens of them a day to just improve your bog forsaken apprehension and devil bewildering logic" lamented Guang heavily.

As the caravan stopped by a plaza, where a town of people gathered before a massive screen, a sleepy voice from the back seat sent sudden a goosebumps to Lin's arms.

"Where are we?" a prawn looking creature stretched out his legs and arms, which are very long indeed.

"who is he?" Lin asked, looking pretty scared

"i guess that Mr sexy voice is our new head security guard, O' Yang, well i have to admit, your voice resembles that of a porn star, and you are in fact much taller than i thought, how tall are you exactly? 6'3? 6'4?"

"I don't know, never have my body properly stretched, played too much video games in virtual reality, i guess.You know these VRs are like total shit and in fact they are nowise different, i'd rather play hours of those oldie goodies in there, but unfortunately my back turned out like that for i couldn't remember how it used to be" he spoke in a rather deep and inviting voice ,and then poked his long neck through the gap between the front seats.

"You must have a cruel and paltry life, pathetic man, well!guess what, we are now... in town!" said Guang as he goggled at a hullabaloo on the plaza,where a squalid-like grinning Robot with hundreds of tentacles came into his sight, above which was the holographical live broadcast of the ballgame between Nova Rangers and Solis Rovers. Everything was well-livened up.

The crowd,no matter young or old, complete or crippled, were all running their hands over these tentacles with their eyes shuttered,as if they were exchanging DNA with this gigantic squalid. And more were waiting on the back,some were strutting and shouting,with their chests thrust out so far while others were pushing and kicking each other barbarically.

"What kind of show these people are putting on? Hope it's not that kinda frantic obscene orgy in the act of what you called?.... a virtual reality? i can't believe they have plunged that deep into depravity!" Guang shook his head and sullenly he said

"hoo! it's not like that, in fact this what they called "Saturday night live bet" O' Yang sneered

"So you are a batman yourself,right?" asked Lin

"For bog sake Da Lin, it's betman-not bat man" moaned Guang

"Not in this reality, but i have made quite a fortune in VR, sports betting and video games,my two best toys, one that made me filthy rich, the other that allows to kill my foekken time! " answered O'Yang with a little anger in his voice

"so tell me, O'Yang, how do you think of that game? do you think we can win a fortune tonight?" asked Guang, his two blazing eyes are already interspersed with sparkles of good hopes.

"i don't know yet,gotta get closer to see the trick anyway" said O'Yang calmly.

"i suppose you don't necessarily have to, we have a little something right here" said Guang while looking into his eyes, smiling mildly,then he pressed a button on the wheel, an adjustable hologram went whoosh onto the front window.

"oh! o...kay! I think that will do, never thought this shit has that shit!" said O'Yang,knocking 3 times on the dash board,wonderfully surprised.

"Now here we are reaching the third quarter, Rover's leading by 3-0, this is Ryan Oberon and our special guest, Feliciano Goodluk, broadcasting to you at the Frolic Arena, tell me Felix, how do you think of the odd for The Rangers to swing this situation"

"Well, i think the chance to turn this around for the home team is still looking good, apparently Mountain King is feeling good today both on offense side and defense side, just need a bit of luck to pull it through i guess, and Jim Rotten, oh, i love this guy, a typical 4th quarter player with a big heart, Bog knows what he can pull off at the ending time. I think the most important thing for the Rangers at the moment is to guarantee a solid defense, at early stage of the third quarter... to make it more physical for their opponents ....and leave the offense to Jim Rotten......that's how......"

"Quite a sharp view by Mackintosh, i can't agree more with you, now let's take our back to the game!"

The live broadcast went on in their caravan.....

"It seems like the home team has to forfeit, down by 3, fat chance!" commented Guang while squinting at O'Yang occasionally

"So that's the grand final, interesting! but hard to predict, i need more infos" said O'Yang seriously

He then jumped off the caravan and wove himself into the crowd, a few minutes later, he came back at dog-trot, gasping heavily and said " it's gonna be 3-1, trust me, it's definitely gonna be a 3-1, buy in when the odds is still high" he's smiling at them

"3-1, you better be sure, they scored 3 goals before half time, and that commentator said something nice about the home team, how comes a 3-1" Guang has a roomful of doubts in his head now

"Guang,you gotta..... trust me on this, everyone out there knows about the two teams better than you and me, but.... you know,that's exactly how we survive, that bloody lair on TV must be..... playing some sort of double trick" said O' Yang, he is still heaving.

"what's a double trick, is that some kind of trick that supposed to be played by 2 player" asked Lin

"No....no a double trick is half true and half not true" O'Yang glugged the large coke on Lin's hand straight from the bottom

" let me put it to you like this, Guang....Okay,look,50 percent of the people out there are betting on the Rangers to win,because they are playing some sort of double reverse, and the other half are also doing the same thing, that's why they bet on the home team to lose more. In fact both sides are just betting on each other, you know it's always like that. This what a a double trick is all about, in the end, none of situations will happen, everyone end up a loser,and then.... if you pick out those greedy and maddy in the first place, that leaves us only one possibility ,a 3-1 game, that's the final whistle!" O'Yang was give a lesson to them

"Crikey!Someone walk me through his gobbledygook?!" Guang was incredibly puzzled, scratching his head.

"i seem to fathom out what he means,Shi Fu" said Lin quite confidently

"So fill me in Da Lin, at this moment i'd rather listen to a Egypt talking than some baloney from a deranged druid's "said Guang.

"Well, i guess he refers to something like the "doctrine of the mean", you know that ancient Chinese philosophy book. Not too much, not too little, just the exact amount will steer us clean off the devil"

"thank you!Da Lin that's exactly what i am saying!" exclaimed O'Yang

"well done Da Lin! Under your innocent boyish facade dwells a wise man that i haven't discovered until now, so tell me, O'Yang, how much money should i bet on it, 1 thousand, 3 thousand, or maybe.... 5 thousand?" ask Guang nodding uncertainly

"if i were you, i would just go all-in, that's gambling, you gotta be brave enough to be the final winner! " said him quite passionately

"all-in!i don't want to dampen your good spirit,but O'Yang, so far you sound like some elusive harbinger to me"

"what?!" snapped O'Yang

"wait, wait, hold your horse, i am gonna tell you, listen, however, however, something deep inside kept telling me that i should trust you on this tonight, now i just want a clear and brief conclusion of how confident you are about this bet" Guang said solemnly and looked right into his eyes

"okay, in that case, 90 percent is the worst, i am 90 percent confident! and i am not kidding you, you gonna hurry up sir, the odd is dropping now!" said O'YANG affirmatively

Guang took a glance at the screen where the score remained at 0-3