But no matter how much I smiled, Chen Xi secretly lamented that it was not easy for people nowadays.
In order to make a living, many people have to give up their so-called face and work hard. Just like the uncle in front of me, maybe he was a big boss once, and he might have to go out to sell his skills in order to support his family.
It seems that he had the same feeling. Saori decided to help others to the end and stuffed two thousand cherry blossom coins into the box.
"Cosmic-level Shining Self-Defense Force! When I flashed, my sunglasses were about to crack!" The uncle suddenly reached out to imitate the posture of being attacked by the strong light, and his tone was shocked.
"Did you two go to steal the stars with Ultraman on their backs? Just now, the aunts on the street were covering their mouths and laughing. "Oh, young people nowadays are like taking pictures of falling in love. Like an idol drama, the boy's eyes were gentle when he picked up food for girls, and the girl smiled sweeter than the Tiramisu in Akihabara Maid Cafe! No, this wave was the complete defeat of single dogs... …” The uncle suddenly collapsed with his heart.
"Your existence is a dimensionality reduction blow to the convenience store Christmas cake!" The uncle gestured a big circle with his hands, and his expression gradually lost control.
"Even if two chocolate villains are put on the cake, you have your own '24-hour fresh dog food specialty machine' that you walk on! But because you have sat the bar in the izakaya for honeymoon The suite, even the quarrels are like NHK morning drama. "Ah idiot, I'm not angry." Take it! This is the last ripple of uncle - next time, please give more mosaics to passers-by!" Uncle from his pocket Take out a handful of candy and stuff it in.
"The combination of the two is like Mount Fuji hitting Sakurajima Volcano - the eruption is the invincible pink magma in Kyushu! Miss, your smile is more sweet than the standard! Matsusaka beef's frost drop pattern will change overnight when you see it. Make dessert! The width of the gentleman's shoulder is perfectly replicated with the arch of Tokyo Station - all the uneasiness can be stopped by the station! The camera of Sky Tower is aimed at here! The 2012 "National Heart-Speed Coordinates" is locked in advance! You two walk side by side If the subway line map is printed, all the workers in Tokyo will have to change their routes to and from get off work! The mall owner just now did not want to check the goods, but wanted to secretly take photos of you as wealth-seeking photos at the cashier counter..."
Half an hour later, in a small restaurant. "That uncle just now was so interesting. I felt a little embarrassed to praise him." Saori covered her mouth and kept giggling.
"It's the first time I've seen someone make a living by relying on this. This business cannot be imitated, it's all up to technical support..." Chen Xi took a sip of lemon tea.
At this time, he noticed that the two diners sitting next to him were talking in Mandarin.
"Oh, I lost again."
"It doesn't matter, I'll just win back later."
"I almost won the big prize every time, but It's only a little bit different every time."
"I will be paid tomorrow, and I have bullets to fight again, so I'm not afraid!"
"I always make a big move after winning money, and lose again later, which makes me lose my confidence."
" > "I heard that there will be activities on Christmas and New Year, and there will be discounts when redeeming."
"Ah? Really? Then I need to prepare well."
Both of them are Uncle Nian's clothes are very cheap and he doesn't care much about his appearance. His beard seems to have not been shaved for a few days, and he looks a little decadent.
The uncle hurriedly finished the meal and left in a hurry, not knowing what he was going to do.
But from the words, Chen Xi almost guessed something.
He turned his head and looked at his girlfriend next to him and asked, "Are those two going to gamble?"
Saroi just heard the conversation between them and immediately replied, "I guess I'm guessing They should be players in the marble room. "
"Mallroom?"
Chen Xi immediately understood.
He still knows about this marble room. It is a unique entertainment industry in the island country, which has both gambling nature and cultural phenomena. It is almost the slot machine hall of the island country. But what the slot machine wins is money, while what the marble house produces is marbles, and marbles can be exchanged for various prizes.
In the past, many shopping malls in China also had a game hall called "Poca Cat". They went in the marble room mode, but they replaced the marbles with game rolls.
The core operation model of marble houses wanders between the legal gap.
Surface rules, players purchase steel balls and trigger the reward mechanism of the game console by ejecting steel balls into specific holes. After winning the prize, you can get more steel balls or lottery tickets and can be redeemed for non-cash prizes, such as daily necessities and electronic products.
However, in order to attract players, the Marble House actually has a gray chain for cash redemption.
Players bring the prize to a third-party redemption house that cooperates with the Marble House for cash. The redemption office is generally registered as another industry (such as a miscellaneous recycling store) to complete legal circumvention.
In fact, the existence of this marble room is to drill for legal loopholes. The marble room is registered as a "game console entertainment venue", and steel balls are defined as toys rather than currency. The island country's law allows the value of the prize not to exceed 20 times the purchase amount of the steel ball, and the actual cash value of the redemption house is about 60%-70% of the original price.
In fact, the police in the island country are very aware of this situation, but the third-party redemption office is operated independently. The police must also investigate and punish evidence of conspiracy between the marble house and the exchange office before they can convict, and the law enforcement cost is extremely high.
In fact, even if the boss of the marble house was found, it doesn't matter. It is said that the fine was more than 100 million cherry blossom coins after being investigated, but it only accounts for 2-3% of the annual profit of the marble house. Think about it, this How much money does the industry make.
From a political perspective, the marble house industry pays more than 300 billion cherry blossom coins every year to fund local government infrastructure, which means that the marble house industry has a protective umbrella. Even the island countries have admitted that some local bus routes rely on the passenger flow of shops around the marble house to maintain operation.
The marble room is another social place for the elderly and low-income groups. About 46% of men over 60 go to it at least once a month. 80% of the taxes in some villages and towns in many counties come from the marble real estate industry chain.
In many movies, images of island gangs often appear, such as the Yamaguchi Group. In reality, the island gangs no longer fight and kill, but organizational maintenance requires money, so the marble house has become one of the sources of income for the island gangs. Previous news also reported that Yamaguchi's team used marble rooms to launder money, and they were also responsible for the maintenance and supply of marble rooms, which means that they had to pay about 20% of the income of marble rooms. "I heard that many people go to play the money that they are going to lose money. The less money they are in the island country, the more they will go to the marble house. Every time they work hard to get their salary, they will immediately put the money into the game. Thinking of making money with small profits…” Saori has never been to the marble house, but the people in the islands will know a little bit. "Oh, it sounds quite interesting, I don't know how to play it." Chen Xi touched his chin.
"I don't know either." Saori shook her head.
Half an hour later, in front of a marble room. "Ahhhh! It's just a little bit." An island youth sat on the ground in annoyance and hammered the ground. Chen Xi began to think that this guy was a lunatic.
But the passersby seemed to have become accustomed to it, and just glanced at the other party and continued on the way. In just ten minutes, Chen Xi and Saori saw two such people crying at the door.
However, the security guards didn't even care about it, as if they would automatically leave after they vented.
The two walked into the marble room, which was planned in an orderly manner, and the huge site was divided into areas.
Once upon time, there were a few bunny girls who distributed various drinks and snacks there.
At first glance, the decorations here look quite like video game cities in domestic shopping malls.
Chen Xi glanced at the machine roughly. There were at least several hundred units. It seemed that the investment was quite large when opening a marble room.
After reading the game instructions and the operations of several players, he quickly understood how he played it.
The core gameplay of Pachinko combines mechanical catapulting skills and probability game.
The equipment has a marble disc, the vertical glass plate is covered with nails and obstacles, and the top is a launch track. The target holes are scattered in different areas of the disk, usually including the usual mouth (small prize, triggering the drop of steel balls) but become mouth (the grand prize entrance, triggering the increase in probability) jackpot (Jackpot, enters bonus mode).
After redeem the steel ball, adjust the ejection force through the knob to fire the steel ball. The steel ball rebounds from top to bottom on the market, falling into a hole randomly determines the outcome.
However, Chen Xi is a regular customer in the casino. After observing for a while, he quickly analyzed the marble machine using the casino management method.
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The store owner will probably regularly fine-tune the nail angle to change the distribution of the steel ball trajectory, which is essentially adjusting the overall winning rate. When there is no winning consecutively, some models will implicitly increase the winning rate, similar to the release period of slot machines.
The marble machines here are roughly divided into three types, traditional marble machines, marble slot machines, and special system models, which are basically manufactured by Sanxin and Sanyo. The animation culture of the island country has been deeply rooted, and there are linked products on the streets and alleys, and even the marble machine is based on animation.
The comics Chen Xi has read are quite old, and he doesn't know anything else, so he chose a "Bei Dou Shenquan" marble machine he once saw.
Populate the exchanged five thousand steel balls into the funnel on the side of the machine. With the rustling sound of metal particles sliding, the BGM of the Beidou Shenquan theme suddenly exploded. Kenjiro's holographic image in the middle of the disk suddenly fisted, and the electronic sound of "You are dead" trembled with his eardrums in the roar.
Turn the launch knob at will, and the steel balls crash into the dense cluster of nails at a loose angle. The beads drew lazy arcs on the plate, as unorganized as cherry blossoms blown away by a typhoon. Five minutes later, when the last steel ball slipped into the recycling port, the counter showed that there were only 1,200 left. "The arrangement of these nails is strange." He stared at a slight spiral trajectory between the nail array, and his index finger unconsciously tapped the glass plate a few times.
After studying for a while, the new steel ball had just been injected into the track, and three rotating iron rails suddenly rose deep in the disk. It was the mechanism that triggered the special mode of the "Century Boxer Challenge".
Chen Xi tightened his wrist and pressed the firing force on scale 7, and the steel ball shot into the spiral nail array like a meteor. The beads were refracted continuously between the gaps in the iron railings. When they approached the prize entrance, they hit a hidden "ghost nail", and the ballistics instantly twisted and fell into the recycling area. Saori held his hands tightly on his chest and prayed for him.
I lost twice in a row. Chen Xi looked at the two players next to me, and after analyzing for a while, he threw the balls into the steel balls again.
When he was in the third time, when the steel ball group poured into the track, he suddenly found a glimmer of light flashing in the nail array in the lower right corner of the disk. According to the instructions, it is the refresh prompt for the Big Dipper icon. At the moment Kenjiro's phantom poses in the "Iwayama Slash" starting style, he quickly pushes the knob to the limit. The steel balls roared with the tearing nail group, smashing seven Beidou seal totems along the way. The moment the last steel ball stuck into the crimson prize, the entire disk suddenly cracked and turned into a special effect screen of the Beidou Seven Prison Slash!
The red light on the machine swept the audience, and tens of thousands of steel balls poured wildly from the jet port on the top of the machine. The sound of the metal torrent hitting the iron plate was like Godzilla landing in Tokyo Bay, and players from several adjacent machines stood up in shock. "Wow!" Saori's scream was drowned in the electronic sound effect of "Beidou Hundred Rift Fist".
The collection tank in front of Chen Xi was being filled at a speed of 800 pieces per second. When the counter number soared to five digits, three clerks wearing boxing gloves suddenly rushed out behind the counter and raised " The savior came” LED cards danced the victory dance around him, and they were still muttering congratulations.
The crowd held up their mobile phones to form a circular wall. The waiter in the bunny dress brought Kenjiro's figure in proportion. The store manager pressed the console button, and the golden curtain with congratulations was hung on the ceiling.
Chen Xi's series of operations shocked the players around him, and only the strange way of celebrating the second-year-old that appeared in the island country's TV series shocked Chen Xi again.
Damn it, do you want to have such a big battle!
"Dear, we won the grand prize!" Saori threw herself into his arms excitedly at this time. "What? The big prize?" I thought I had just won a medium prize, but after Saori reminded him, he realized that he seemed to have really won the big prize.
I won the jackpot when I first played with a marble machine. I guess no one would believe it if I said it.
At this time, the players in the entire marble room stared at him with envious and jealous eyes.
These guys squat here to play every day, and they will directly win the prize as soon as they come over. It would be strange if they don’t make people jealous!
Chen Xi came this time to see the way to win the prize. He wanted to see if he could cooperate with the marble room and bring the trendy electrical appliances made by Xunjie to the island country, but he didn't expect the result To his surprise.
After being taken to the counter by the manager, Chen Xi was a little amused and crying after looking at the prize redemption list.
He originally thought that he would win a big prize, at least he would have a prize of about one million Chinese coins.
As a result, he only won less than 100,000 Chinese currency because the manager told him that the recycling price of a third-party store was 60%, which means that if he wanted to exchange it for cash, it would be equivalent to losing 40% directly.
I guess someone will win this prize every day...
He looked at the list of redeemed prizes, which were divided into daily necessities, home appliances, food and beverages, vouchers and commercial cooperation vouchers.
There are all kinds of daily necessities, ranging from tissues to laundry detergent.
The small appliances caught his attention. He originally thought they were all big brands, but after a closer look, they were all customized OEMs that he did not recognize, with downgraded performance but imitating high-end products.
There are quite a lot of vouchers, but they are all big brands, such as hotels, shopping malls, 7-11 convenience stores, and even Amazon denomination electronic codes.
The manager saw that it was his first time to play, and secretly told him that if he didn't ask a third party to exchange money directly, then it would be the most cost-effective to exchange the Amazon denomination electronic code, because the black market purchase price is about 70 of the coupon's denomination value. %above.
The guests here have all kinds of identities. Some people are willing to exchange items for washing rice, so that they can easily fool them when checking the accounts. (This chapter ends)