The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 242 Death Game (12)

“Hit! Hit! Hit! It’s going to hit!”

Ashu and Ash were so excited watching the marbles bouncing between the steel nails. In order to increase their chances of winning, they put their own marbles together and used them on a machine.

Originally, I just wanted to try my luck with a hundred of them, and then return the small steel balls no matter what. This way, if I'm lucky, I can get rich, and if I'm unlucky, I won't lose my life.

As a result, after throwing out the 100 bets, they actually won. Not only did they get their money back, but they also made a small fortune. However, this mediocre luck was just above their bottom line. They won too little, which was the same as not winning at all. So the two of them discussed it and encouraged each other to try two more times to try their luck.

Except for themselves, everyone can guess what will happen next, because the more they lose, the higher their sunk costs are. And the higher the sunk costs are, the more reluctant they are to let go, and then they lose more, and this vicious cycle continues. Until now, they have lost everything and are ready to make a desperate bet to make up for their losses.

Amid the lively music and lights of the bonus time, they watched in despair as the last small steel ball missed the winning hole and was about to fall into the dark recycling port. Just like their lives, there was no hope in sight.

In the end, without any reversal, the small steel ball still fell into the recycling port, the game ended, and life ended with it.

"It's over... Everything is over." Ah Shu sat on the stool in despair, lowered his head and muttered: "We are doomed... I should have not taken this gamble earlier."

"Ashu..."

Ah Shu sighed and said, "I know what you are going to say. That's right. People like us will never stop. One day we will die somewhere..."

"No, Shu, that..."

"Yes, yes, I am a scumbag, it's all my fault." Ashu said, "But life is already like this anyway, there is no future for us, even the Yakuza look down on us, there is nothing else to do except gambling, so we might as well take a big gamble."

"No!" Ah Shi grabbed his collar and pointed at the pachinko machine and said, "There's a noise! ​​The machine is making a strange noise!"

Ashu looked up and saw that the machine seemed to be shaking, and then spit out a shiny little steel ball into the groove.

"Is the machine broken?" Ashu and Ashi hurried over and looked at the machine eagerly, looking at each other.

"What does this mean? Does it mean that we still have hope of survival?" Ashu reached out for the small steel ball, hesitating whether to take one last gamble or just slip away.

"That's mine!" Ah Shi's hand was faster, he reached out and grabbed the small steel ball, but the next second, he found that he could not take the small steel ball away no matter what, it was as if it was grown on it.

When the two people were about to have an argument, they saw the pachinko machine in front of them suddenly deformed and twisted, opened a pair of big eyes, and the machine split in the middle, opening a mouth full of fangs, and the small steel ball grew on the tongue in the mouth.

Before the two could even scream, the monster transformed from the pachinko machine opened its mouth wide and swallowed the two people whole. It licked its tongue with satisfaction, and then changed back to its original shape.

A few seconds later, the machine began to tremble again, but this time it was not just this machine. Other machines also began to tremble. As the amplitude of the trembling of these machines became larger and larger, they opened their mouths towards the sky one by one and sprayed out countless small steel balls, bringing down a heavy rain of small steel balls!
"What the hell is going on?!" Qian Xiaoyi saw this scene as he ran out of the game hall with Ajian. Inuyama Heita was sitting on the ground in shock, while the machines around him were spraying small steel balls. "Brother Yi, I succeeded!" Inuyama Heita covered his head with both hands and shouted excitedly to Qian Xiaoyi.

"Something's wrong..." Qian Xiaoyi frowned and said, "So many together? That shouldn't be the case?"

He thought that only the one played by Inuyama Heita would vomit things, and not that the entire machine would be affected.

Ken noticed something and shouted, "Inuyama, get out of there!"

Inuyama Heita didn't understand what was going on, so he looked back and saw that the machines were spraying small steel balls, and all of them had their hideous mouths exposed, revealing their true colors. The entire ghostland began to change, becoming more smelly and filthy, and the originally magnificent game hall suddenly became dark.

"What are these? Evil spirits?" Ajian asked, looking at the monsters.

Qian Xiaoyi said in disbelief: "No, it's not an evil spirit, this thing... is a monster!"

"Monster...monster?! Why is there a monster here?" Inuyama Heita hurriedly stood up and came to Qian Xiaoyi.

"How should I know? I haven't seen them!" Qian Xiaoyi never dreamed that these things would be hidden under this ghost area.

He had only heard of monsters in his master's stories, and this was the first time he had seen a real thing. After entering the modern era, such creatures were basically no longer seen in the country. Even his master had only encountered them a few times, and they were only encountered a few times in the Ignorance Mountain Area many years ago. This was much rarer than evil spirits.

But this is a big city. Qian Xiaoyi originally thought that this was just a strange ghost area, but a big fish was blown out, and not just one, but a group of monsters!
However, now is not the time to explore what these monsters are and how they appeared. They have to get out quickly. By the time these monsters react, Qian Xiaoyi won't be sure he can escape unscathed. Fighting in someone else's territory is not a wise choice.

"Follow me! The exit is this way." Qian Xiaoyi took out a compass, his brain working rapidly, calculating the location of the exit, and then ran towards that direction.

"I jump!" Ajian leaped forward and used standard water-entry movements to dive into the jade pendant in Inuyama Heita's pocket. Inuyama Heita then spread his legs and followed Qian Xiaoyi, while protecting his head with both hands and enduring the torrential rain of small steel balls.

During the escape, human-shaped phantoms kept coming out of the monsters' mouths and floating towards the sky. Ah Jian couldn't help but ask from the jade pendant: "Inuyama, what on earth did you use to make them all vomit?"

Inuyama Heita also looked puzzled: "I don't know either."

Qian Xiaoyi stared at the compass and said casually, "They are part of this ghost area. Maybe it has something to do with the rules of urban legends... Wait, don't go. The direction has changed."

He stopped walking. The compass showed that the location of the exit had changed. Qian Xiaoyi was familiar with this situation. This was what would happen if he entered someone else's territory. So Qian Xiaoyi reached into his pocket...

(End of this chapter)