Chapter 234 Death Game (4)
Heita Inuyama walked out of the game hall together at Qian Xiaoyi's signal, and met Suzuki who was playing on his mobile phone outside the door. Qian Xiaoyi asked: "Is there any news? "
Inuyama Heita said: "Yes, there is. It is said that there is a strange game arcade at night, but no one seems to be very clear about the specific content. The description is very vague, and no one knows how to enter. Methods and names.”
Qian Xiaoyi also said: “It’s the same with me. This is strange. Obviously the ghost realm of urban legends requires a lot of group cognition to condense. Is it just a rumor? Didn’t the news spread to this one? Let’s go eat something first, and then we’ll go to other restaurants.”
The three of them found a random fast food restaurant, ate something simple, and then continued to go. Fighting at a nearby arcade.
They played like this until it got dark and Qian Xiaoyi was almost vomiting, but they still didn't ask for any useful information.
"So... the news about that program turned out to be false?" Heita Inuyama rubbed his sore wrist and complained: "I don't want to see the game console anymore."
Qian Xiaoyi sighed: "It seems that this may be the case. We were deceived by that program. If we can't even maintain public awareness, it will be even more impossible to form a ghost realm."
Just when he was about to go back, Suzuki suddenly looked in a certain direction and said: "Maybe... we are looking in the wrong direction? Could the game arcade in that show be of another type?"
"What?" Qian Xiaoyi followed Suzuki's gaze and saw that diagonally across the street, there was an arcade specializing in "Pachinko".
Pachinko, also commonly known as small steel balls, its gameplay is very simple, that is, buy beads and pour them into the launch pad, and then the player controls the launch intensity. The small steel balls will be launched to the top, and then continue to fall, because of the path of the lower road. It's covered in steel spikes, so it's impossible to predict which direction it will fall.
The bottom of the pinball machine is a series of holes. When the small steel balls fall into the corresponding holes, various special effects and rewards will be triggered. Generally speaking, it is similar to the routines of slot machines and fruit machines. Too many of them are actually gambling machines.
In Japan, gambling is illegal, so the small steel balls won from Pachinko cannot be exchanged for cash, but must be exchanged for "prizes" at the front desk. Near the store, there will be a store that specializes in "acquiring" these prizes. At this time, players can exchange the prizes into money.
This unnecessary move is undoubtedly a cover-up, but it is this move that exploits a loophole in the law. Moreover, behind most pachinko shops are various mafia groups and loan shark companies, and the chain of interests is intricate. That is why pachinko parlors, which are obviously gambling establishments, appear openly on the streets.
Similarly, there are other industries, such as horse racing and custom industries, which are basically all based on this trick. Many things are said to be illegal, but as long as they are covered with a fig leaf, the government will basically not care about it. , after all, these are a lot of taxes.
Qian Xiaoyi was stunned when he noticed the pachinko shop. Although there are many pachinko shops that directly indicate on the signboard outside the shop that they are dedicated to playing pachinko, there are also some other machines placed around the periphery to disguise it. It is a game arcade. In that case, it is indeed a game arcade in a sense.
"Could it be that we started in the wrong direction?" Qian Xiaoyi patted his head: "My fault, I didn't realize that there is such a store, okay, I'll go in and ask, you guys Wait outside.”
Generally, this kind of store stipulates that minors are not allowed to enter, so Qian Xiaoyi went alone.
After walking into the store, I immediately heard all kinds of exaggerated winning special effects sounds, stimulating the players' desire. This store has a complete range of pachinko, and there are many machines with different themes. Qian Xiaoyi It was an eye-opener. After all, it was the first time for him to see a Pachinko machine that played Ultraman fighting little monsters while playing small steel balls.
Different machines have different playing prices, ranging from the lowest 4 yen for a small steel ball to 100 yen for a shot.
Qian Xiaoyi exchanged 1,000 yen for the cheapest small steel balls from the front desk. He held a plastic basket with small steel balls and walked around the store curiously. There are middle-aged and elderly people everywhere in the store who are concentrating on playing small steel balls, but there are not many young people.
Finding an empty seat and sitting on it, Qian Xiaoyi began to pretend to play, and chatted with the old men around him. But unfortunately, in the eyes of these guys, The Pachinko machine in front of him was completely indifferent, which made Qian Xiaoyi feel helpless.
Everyone around them held down the launch button and fired small steel balls continuously. Qian Xiaoyi was the only exception, firing slowly one by one. This thing is like a gold-swallowing cave. Qian Xiaoyi couldn't bear to put money in it. Playing like they did, it only took a few minutes to get hundreds of small steel balls.
From time to time, exaggerated sound effects and excited shouts from a certain player would erupt in the store. At first, Qian Xiaoyi would look at it twice, but soon he lost interest. For gambling, set a Probability makes people lucky and stimulates other people's nerves so that they can make more money.
Just when Qian Xiaoyi was still trying to get close to the old man next to him, two figures passed behind him, holding a large basin of small steel balls in their hands and walking towards the exchange office.
"I won! It's true!"
"I can't believe this is true! Ash, our fortunes are in luck!"
"Yes, Ah Shu, let’s go to that restaurant and have a drink tonight!”
The two gangsters happily walked out of the store with the “scenery items” they had redeemed, planning to go out after redeeming the prizes. one time.
On the roadside outside, Inuyama Heita and Suzuki were waiting for Qian Xiaoyi to come out of the store. Two gangsters walked past him. Inuyama Heita didn't pay attention at first, but when they got closer, Takeru reminded him in his ear. He said: "Inuyama-san, look at those two people."
Heita Inuyama turned his head and took a look, only to find that the two gangsters seemed to have traces of twisted black energy spreading on their bodies, and dark clouds were covering their heads, fearing that Disaster is coming.
"It's not good for these two people. They seem to be entangled by something. They should be plagued by bad luck now." Ajian said: "But looking at them, they seem to be very happy. Ah~Huh? Inuyama, what's your expression?"
Inuyama Heita looked at the leaving figures of the two people and said, "I seem to... know them?"
Before Takeru could ask questions, Inuyama Heita immediately said to Suzuki: "Suzuki-kun, those two people have a problem. I will follow them first, and you call Brother Oto out."
After saying that, he immediately followed.
He was really impressed by those two people, and they were deeply impressed.
——Aren't they the same scoundrels from the Lucky Mutual Aid Association who were ordered by Matsui to go to the place where he worked to blackmail him? !
(End of this chapter)