The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 239 Death Game (9)

After getting the chips, the three of them walked inside through the passage formed by the pachinko machines. Among those shadows, there were some people with dull eyes. They were mechanically pressing the launch button of the small steel balls, watching lifelessly as the small steel balls bounced behind the glass one by one and finally fell into the recycling port, looking like zombies.

"These people..." Inuyama Heita said, "They don't look right."

Qian Xiaoyi took a look and said, "The remnant souls are the obsessions left by the gamblers. All they can see are these machines with small steel balls. Apart from that, they have lost the ability to think. Later, this cognition was absorbed here and formed a part of this ghost area."

Inuyama Heita was puzzled and asked, "Is pachinko really that fun? If so, wouldn't it be better to just buy one and bring it home?"

He grew up reading news reports about people who ended up breaking up their families because of playing marbles, so he has always avoided this kind of thing.

Qian Xiaoyi shook his head: "It's not that easy. If you play at home, you can't gamble. Gambling destroys a person's values. When you can get a lot of money by 'getting something for nothing' and 'taking shortcuts', and double your capital with just a few clicks, then the humble wages you earn through hard work are insignificant.

The ups and downs of gambling will infinitely raise a person's threshold for money, making them gradually insensitive to money. Only by gambling more and more can their spirits be stimulated. Gradually, they will become numb to everything around them, and then lose everything in the repeated gambles they want to make up for their losses. "

Inuyama Heita shuddered at the thought of that scene. He looked at those gorgeous machines in horror. In his eyes, these things had now turned into monsters that only ate people without spitting out bones, and were baring their fangs and claws and making complacent noises.

As we continued walking, the machines along the way seemed to be arranged neatly, but in fact, it was like a maze. After walking for a while, we felt dizzy and had no idea where to go.

"Are we lost?" Ah Jian complained, "These things all look the same. Brother Yi, which way does the compass say we should go?"

Qian Xiaoyi pouted and said, "Ha~ My compass is not the one Captain Jack used in the Caribbean Pirates. It can point you to where you want to go. It can only be used to determine the direction and track. I can quickly lead you out of this damn place from the direction of the life gate, but the problem is that we are not going out now~"

"What should we do then?" Ajian asked.

Qian Xiaoyi thought for a moment and said, "We were brought in by Ashu and Shi. These pachinko machines are the embodiment of the desires of those two hooligans, so the scene we came in is what they wanted to see. If you want to play, you have to bring out your own desires and be sensed by this ghost realm."

"Is that so? I understand." Ah Jian nodded, his eyes became firm, but a few seconds later his true colors were revealed, and he said in frustration: "No, there is no beautiful girl play room...ah, it hurts, I oppose violence!"

Qian Xiaoyi punched Ajian on the head and said, "It's the desire to gamble, the desire to win! What are you thinking about!"

"I'll just give it a try..." Ah Jian took a deep breath, his eyes became resolute again. He seemed to have understood something, and suddenly raised his head, pointed in a direction, and said, "It's right there, let's go!"

The three of them began to speed up, jogging along the passage, and finally came to the end of the hall. There was a glass sliding door here, which was very inconsistent with the style of the gorgeous hall. It looked a bit old, just like some old-fashioned arcade halls. Through the glass door, you can vaguely see the flashing arcade screen inside, which makes people feel a trance-like sense of nostalgia.

"Come in." Qian Xiaoyi said.

The three of them opened the sliding door and walked in. The light inside was very soft, even a little dim, but it was just right for people to concentrate and keep their eyes on the screen.

"There is actually such a place..." Qian Xiaoyi pondered, "So this ghost area is not just made up of gamblers' cognition, but also something else? It's really strange."

Ajian couldn't wait to find his favorite machine, sat down, and started playing coin-operated games.

And the moment he put the coin in, the words "You have a new challenger!" popped up.

A dark figure appeared on the other side of the double-sided arcade machine. His figure gradually became clearer. He held the joystick in his hand, stared at the screen intently, and muttered, "I want to win... I want to win..." "It appeared!" Inuyama Heita said in surprise, "It's a ghost!"

"Maybe it was those game players who died suddenly?" Qian Xiaoyi guessed, "I heard this in the news from the arcade room before."

Ah Jian said confidently: "Humph! It doesn't matter who it is! Come on, all of you!"

He chose his favorite character and started fighting.

Then just two minutes later, he lost.

"Ahhhh! Why is this happening! Is it too strong?" Ajian screamed. His body became slightly transparent and something was absorbed from his body into the machine.

Qian Xiaoyi asked, "Is he a professional player? The guy who is rumored to be playing in the world championships?"

Even if it is just a game, there is a huge gap between professional players and non-professional players. Ajian's current level can be said to be top-notch among amateur players, but professional players are different. They treat this skill as a living and spend a lot of time practicing every day in order to participate in various competitions and win prizes. They are not on the same level as amateur players who are just playing for fun.

"I don't accept it!" Ah Jian said with a ferocious expression, "No one has ever dared to humiliate me like this! Only I can humiliate others! Come again!"

Ah Jian, who was born strong in the game, was about to throw another coin, but was stopped by Qian Xiaoyi in time. He said helplessly: "Fool, don't be so impulsive, don't forget where you are, if you keep losing like this, you will lose everything! You are a ghost, if you lose everything, even I can't save you!"

Ah Jian was stunned, then frightened, and immediately admitted: "Then I won't play here, it's too scary!"

"Don't be anxious. I didn't say you can't play. Give me the game coins." Qian Xiaoyi said.

"for you."

Qian Xiaoyi took the game coin in his hand and looked at it for a while, then nodded and said, "Ajian, stretch out your hands and hold it."

"Ah? Oh." Ajian didn't understand and stretched out his hands as if to catch something.

Qian Xiaoyi closed his eyes tightly, muttered something, and made a magic gesture with his hands, shaking them above Ajian's hands. The next second, golden game coins flowed out from the gaps between Qian Xiaoyi's fingers and fell into Ajian's hands like rain, piling up and making a crisp sound.

"So many! So many game coins!" Ajian shouted exaggeratedly, unable to contain himself with excitement. It felt like when he went to his hometown during the summer vacation as a child, and the manager of the nearby game store was his relative, and he was given a handful of game coins to play with as he pleased. It was so cool.

When Ajian was about to fall, Qian Xiaoyi stopped and said with a smile: "That's enough. I'm curious about what the consequences will be if I win these machines."

Ajian sat back excitedly and continued to challenge the other party.

Qian Xiaoyi turned to Inuyama Heita and said, "It's just a little cheating trick. I imitated the cognition of that soul chip and copied a bunch of fakes. Now it seems that it can fool people, so now... let's go and try it."

As he spoke, he showed his palm. A small steel ball was quietly placed in his palm, sparkling under the light.

(End of this chapter)