The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 240 Death Game (10)

Inuyama Heita said in admiration: "How amazing! Can magic even do something like this?"

"It's just a trick, no different from paper money." Qian Xiaoyi waved his hand: "The perception above is false. It's like I made a fake identity and then used this fake identity to make fake money and spend it. So before the other party finds out, I have to use as much as possible. Let's go and play with small steel balls."

They left the arcade room and found a pachinko machine nearby. Qian Xiaoyi said to Inuyama Heita, "It looks like this one has the highest bonus multiplier. Come and play."

"Eh? Me?!" Inuyama Heita pointed at himself and said, "Why not join in? And I don't know how to play either?"

"Any idiot can play this thing." Qian Xiaoyi rolled his eyes. "All you have to do is keep pressing the button to fire the little steel balls. As for why I don't play it... Because I want to start making counterfeit money."

He pressed Inuyama Heita down on his seat, then took an empty plastic basket from the empty seat beside him, made a hand seal according to the method, chanted an incantation and shook the basket. Small steel balls kept falling from the gaps between his hands and piled up in the plastic basket, filling it up.

Bang, Qian Xiaoyi placed the basket of small steel balls at Inuyama Heita's feet and said, "Hurry up and finish these. I will continue making them."

After saying that, he took out another basket and continued to produce small steel balls to fill the container.

Inuyama Heita reluctantly picked up the plastic basket and poured the small steel balls into the grooves of the pinball machine. After watching the small steel balls fill the entire groove like flowing water, he pressed the launch button.

The small steel balls are launched one by one, and after reaching the top of the pinball disk, they begin to fall down, hitting the steel nails on the disk surface, making a crisp impact sound. This type of pachinko machine generally relies on the player's pressure on the launch button to determine the position where the small steel balls are ejected and fall.

But don’t think there is any gaming trick involved. This design is just to give players a kind of psychological comfort, making them feel that they can win the prize if they take different or the same effort next time.

Unfortunately, the designers of the game machines are not stupid enough to leave obvious loopholes for players to exploit. In order to prevent players from actually winning the prize, various traps are hidden in the machine, such as visual errors, elasticity of steel nails, magnetic mechanisms, slopes... It can be said that as long as the store wants, no matter how much money the player puts in, 10,000, 20,000... even hundreds of millions, trillions!, it is completely impossible for even a small steel ball to enter the final prize hole!

Therefore, in order to prevent a lack of customers, the store often sets a few "simple mode" machines among a bunch of machines, occasionally letting a few lucky people win prizes to stimulate other players. Or they set a limit for each machine, and as long as a certain amount of money is accumulated, it will spit out a small part.

So the old players all know that the button force has basically no effect, that is to fool the newcomers, all they have to do is to hold the button down and pray that their machine is a "lucky machine" or a machine that is about to reach the upper limit of the amount.

Veterans even have their own "special seats", and as long as the machine is not shipped, they can wait in front of the machine until the end of time. Inuyama Heita also gradually felt the fun brought by Pachinko, and he finally understood why those people were addicted to this kind of thing.

The machine he was playing with was very ingeniously designed. Watching those small steel balls continuously falling, he couldn't help but feel nervous every time they passed by the winning hole, and his breathing gradually became heavy. Finally, a small steel ball hit a hole accurately, and then there was tense music and exaggerated and dazzling sound effects!

This means he has won! The small steel ball fell into the hole of [Double Reward]! In the next period of time, several more reward holes will be added to the marble disk. As long as the small steel ball can hit the winning holes again, the original reward can be increased! The lowest reward hole can reward 100 small steel balls, and the highest level reward is directly rewarded with 1000 rounds!
This bonus time can also trigger a bigger bonus, or extend the bonus time, by changing the order in which the marbles fall into the holes. Just hearing the sound effect is enough to get your blood pumping. One bonus time can give out hundreds to thousands of small steel marbles!
Inuyama Heita stared at the board, his hand pressing the button trembling slightly. After the small steel ball fell into the winning hole, more small steel balls were rewarded into the groove. Just listening to the clattering sound was enough to make people unable to stop!

Not to mention that there is a slot machine mechanism above the pinball wheel. As long as you throw the ball into the corresponding hole, you can spin the slot machine and enter the ultimate reward time for a big gamble!
Inuyama Heita gradually became addicted to it. Although he kept winning the prizes, the small steel balls in the grooves fell into the launching port at a faster speed, and then were launched one by one and fell into the recovery hole.

Gradually, without anyone noticing, the number of small steel balls in the groove decreased rapidly, until Inuyama Heita heard the "pop" sound of the launch button and no more small steel balls were launched. Only then did he realize that the small steel balls in the groove were empty.

He didn't breathe a sigh of relief, but quickly picked up the plastic basket on the ground, poured the small steel balls inside into the groove, and then continued to shoot! If you ask why, it's because it's bonus time now! This time is decreasing little by little, and it must not be wasted!
Just as Inuyama Heita was concentrating on playing pachinko, Qian Xiaoyi was silently observing his condition behind him. Qian Xiaoyi saw that the aura of Inuyama Heita was loosening and was being sucked into the machine in front of him little by little.

"Even if they use fake soul chips, they still pollute the players' cognition?" Qian Xiaoyi pondered, "Fortunately, they are fake coins, and there is not much connection between Heitaro and the machine, otherwise he would not last long. The real trap is actually the process of playing. When the aura of the player is completely disintegrated, he will completely fall into the abyss and become a slave to these things... Heitaro is still not trained enough. He was actually polluted by such a trap."

When the reward time was over, Inuyama Heita took a breath. When he wanted to continue playing, he was patted on the shoulder.

"Brother Yi." Inuyama Heita woke up from his dream, turned around, and looked at Qian Xiaoyi with sweat on his forehead. The desire to continue playing and the fear in his heart kept interweaving. He knew that if he continued to indulge in this kind of thing, the consequences would be disastrous, but he couldn't control himself! The sound of winning the prize and the sound of the small steel balls clattering out of the reward mouth were like heavenly music, surrounding his ears and he couldn't forget it.

"Haven't you had enough fun yet?" Qian Xiaoyi said with a smile, "It doesn't matter, keep playing. Play with all these small steel balls. You can't leave until you've used them all up."

Inuyama Heita turned around and saw a hill taller than a person. It was a pile of plastic baskets filled with small steel balls. It stood like a huge pyramid, full of oppression.

"All...all used up?!" Looking up at the small mountain of steel balls, Inuyama Heita's mouth twitched.

——He suddenly didn’t want to play anymore.

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