The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 495: Gambling (4)

"Heitaro, I'll leave it to you from now on~" As the crowd moved, Qian Xiaoyi whispered something in Inuyama Heita's ear and patted him on the shoulder.

Inuyama Heita turned his head and found that Qian Xiaoyi had disappeared. He didn't know where he had gone, so he could only sigh.

While everyone was paying attention to the gambling game, Zhang Chunfa, who was the main person in the game hall, was extremely leisurely. He wandered aimlessly in the dilapidated and deserted corridor, thinking about nothing and enjoying the nostalgic atmosphere to his heart's content, without any worries.

Just then, a wisp of smoke floated in front of him.

Looking at the misty but continuous smoke, Zhang Chunfa sighed. He knew that some things could not be avoided, so he followed the smoke obediently and walked towards its source.

After walking through the maze-like corridor, he came to the central patio. Qian Xiaoyi was sitting on the roof of the shack, just like Zhang Chunfa's first dream, waiting for him with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Has it already started over there?" Zhang Chunfa asked, "You seem to have arrived earlier than agreed."

"Well, I wanted to stay and watch, but I'm not familiar with the game they play, and I can't understand it, so I came here early." Qian Xiaoyi said: "Everyone's attention is over there now, it's a good time for us to act, are you ready?"

"If I say I'm not ready, will we not act?" Zhang Chunfa gave a bitter smile and said, "Let's go. This time, it's life or death, there must be a result... But I hate the feeling of turning into a monster. It feels awkward to walk."

Qian Xiaoyi said: "That's because you haven't completely merged with the monster. This is a good thing. If you completely regard yourself as that thing, then you should be careful."

He jumped down and led the way towards their destination with Zhang Chunfa.

"Good thing?" Zhang Chunfa followed and said, "But this is not good for what we are going to do now. It makes me so nervous. Can you remind me again, what are we going to do?"

Qian Xiaoyi walked in the corridor with a compass in his hand, saying, "What we need to do now is to take back your control over this monster's lair, because you are the main body of this game hall, not them."

"I get angry when I talk about this!" Zhang Chunfa complained, "They took all the benefits, but I have to take the blame. Now we have to take all the benefits back, right?"

"It's authority." Qian Xiaoyi emphasized: "This nest has been carefully designed by someone, and all the power that originally led to you has been cut off. What we need to do is to destroy that thing, so that you can regain control of this place, destroy their plan, and prevent them from escaping."

Zhang Chunfa said, "Then I can't let those two idiots go and die. I understand that, but what about after that? Are you sure that the [Hundred Ghosts] behind them won't attack me?"

"That's right." Qian Xiaoyi thought for a moment and said, "In their eyes, your nest is probably just a tool, a tool to absorb money and souls. I guess they don't care who holds this tool, as long as they can continue to hand over the benefits. After all, they can even abandon the higher-level cadres in the organization, not to mention the people below them."

"The superior cadre... is that the one who came to the mountain to become a success?" Zhang Chunfa also knew about the big incident a while ago, and couldn't help asking, "Do we really want to go against such a big organization?"

Qian Xiaoyi asked with a smile: "Are you scared?"

"I just can't believe it. After all, I have only been hanging around on the streets since I was a child, and I rarely interact with those big shots." Zhang Chunfa smiled, and then showed a ferocious expression: "... But if they treat me like a pig or a dog and don't care about my life or death, I can bite them."

"Good, very energetic, that's it." Qian Xiaoyi suddenly stopped at a dead end. The place was full of garbage and sewage, and it smelled of dead rats and excrement, but Qian Xiaoyi seemed not to notice anything.

He stepped over the dirty stuff, and the splashed sewage didn't leave any marks on his body. He walked to the wall of the dead end and said, "This should be the nearest entrance from your nightmare to the world in the game hall. It's up to you from now on. If I force my way through, it will probably alert the people outside."

"Okay." Zhang Chunfa walked forward without saying a word and put his hand on the wall.

He closed his eyes, as if feeling something. When he opened his eyes again, he had turned into a large ghost. Then, he opened his mouth and gnawed a big hole in the wall, revealing the bright light inside.

"Puh!" Zhang Chunfa spat out the contents in his mouth and said, "I don't know how to open it, so this is the only way. I hope it won't alert anyone outside."

"It's okay, well done." Qian Xiaoyi said, "This is the right thing to do. Your power originally comes from the same source as the arcade. They shouldn't be able to detect it. Let's go in."

He was the first to walk into the hole in the wall, and Zhang Chunfa kept squeezing in, and finally squeezed in using his hands and feet.

"What the hell is this place!" Zhang Chunfa was stunned by what he saw.

The place where they were still looked like a casino, but the lights divided the place into small scenes, and each scene told a story of despair.

In one scene, mahjong tiles were scattered all over the floor, and several strong men were stuffing tiles into the protagonist's mouth, muttering, "Do you like to cheat? Do you like to hide the tiles?"

The man's hands and feet continued to struggle, but his strength became weaker and weaker. They did not stop until the man was choked to death.

Then the next second, that person sat on the card table again, his head covered in sweat, nervously touching the cards, as if he had completely forgotten what happened before, and was secretly putting a card into his sleeve...

In another scene, a tattooed gangster was looking at the pachinko machine in front of him nervously. The small steel balls in the plastic frame in his hand were almost gone. Until he lost the last bead and kept banging his head against the machine, he didn't realize that two people had been standing behind him for a long time.

Next, he was dragged away, still screaming, "I was wrong! I shouldn't have stolen the group's money to gamble! Please forgive me! It was all a trap! They lied to me and said I could definitely win, so I... Please, please let me go! Aa ...

He was dragged into a car, and with a muffled thud, the scene went black... Then he appeared in front of the pachinko machine again, repeating his previous behavior.

Different but similar stories are playing out elsewhere.

"Please, don't! I have children at home waiting for me to go back!"

"You guys are cheating! I was going to win, let me go! I'm going to call the police! Police, police!"

"It's over... it's over..."

"I will pay you back! Please lend me some more! I will definitely win it back! Please, lend me the money!"

Zhang Chunfa saw countless similar scenes. The screams and pleas kept washing over his ears. He even saw a few familiar faces among them, which made him tremble.

"What is this place..." Zhang Chunfa asked with some fear.

"Didn't I tell you? This is the other world of the arcade." Qian Xiaoyi said calmly, "These dead souls suffered tragic experiences in their lifetime, and they will be tortured here day after day to squeeze out the last bit of their value. Their fear, greed, desire, resentment and other cognitions are used to provide power and strength for this nest."

"I...what have I done...I thought I was just collecting a debt. It's only natural to pay back a debt...but this..." Zhang Chunfa knelt on the ground. He is a Hong Kong native and some of his beliefs are engraved on him like a brand, so after seeing this scene, he was a little scared.

(End of this chapter)