The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 497: Gambling (6)

"The project I chose is arcade, an arcade for fighting games," said Heita Inuyama.

As soon as he finished speaking, a buzz of discussion arose.

"Arcade? Like those video games?"

"Doesn't this kid look underage?"

"It's called an arcade, but it's actually all slot machines and pachinko, right? Are there any such things?"

"Hey! Kid! Go back quickly and stop making trouble here. Leave gambling to adults. There are no games for children here."

Listening to the doubts from the crowd above, Inuyama Heita swallowed his saliva. Although he was a little nervous, he was sure that there was indeed such a machine here! He had seen it when he first came here with Qian Xiaoyi! The urban legend of that arcade was also within the stitching range of the [Golden God] game hall!
A look of surprise appeared on Chigui's face. He tilted his head and used his little finger to pick his ear. After thinking for a while, he said, "I really have the kind of thing you mentioned. You actually found such an unpopular project. You are really amazing~"

The red ghost's words stunned the onlookers. They didn't expect that such a thing really existed. Maybe it would really work. After all, young people are better at playing video games. Their reaction speed and execution ability are still at their peak. It can be said that they are in their prime.

"So, where is your machine?" the red ghost asked, "I didn't see you preparing it."

Xingchang Rang shook his head privately and said, "How can we prepare something like that? Not to mention that it's hard to bring such a large machine in, even if we really go to the trouble to bring it in, it's hard to start the electronic equipment here~ But if it's Mr. Qian, you must have made other preparations, right?"

Inuyama Heita shook his head and said, "I'm not prepared."

"So what you mean is..." The red ghost smiled.

"Just use your machine." said Inuyama Heita.

"Hahaha~ That's not impossible." The red ghost clapped his hands with laughter, and a fighting arcade machine fell from the sky, smashing the original low table in the center of the arena into pieces, and stood in front of everyone.

The red ghost smiled and said, "But~ the rules of the machines here may be a little different. Is this okay?"

The arcade machine that fell from the sky looked extremely strange. It looked like it was burnt. Except for the control panel and the screen which were intact, everything else was burnt black. Its shape was also twisted and weird. It was obvious that it was not a proper arcade machine. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed to have problems.

"What kind of machine is this? I've never seen anything like this!" Ken shouted in Inuyama Heita's ear, "Inuyama, don't be fooled. This is a trap! They have a normal-looking type that I've seen before!"

Inuyama Heita whispered, "But they can say they didn't have it, and we can't prove it. Who told us not to be prepared?"

Then, he went forward and fiddled with the machine, trying the feel of it, and asked, "Can you operate it, Mr. Jian?"

At the moment he held the joystick, Ajian said domineeringly: "As long as you can prevent the other party from cheating, no matter what fighting game it is, I can do it!"

"I'll try my best." Inuyama Heita raised his head and nodded to the red ghost: "There's no problem on my side."

Chigui clapped his hands happily and said, "Great! That's great! You are really promising at a young age~ You actually agreed to it! Then I will also send out my players! The second striker battle is about to begin~"

In the darkness, a pale boy came out with dark circles under his eyes. He looked over the machine and looked at Inuyama Heita. "It's that guy!" Ken shouted, "I was defeated by this guy last time! After that, I practiced hard for so long, just for this moment! Let's go, Inuyama! I must beat him this time!"

Although Ajian usually looks like a fat otaku who is timid when encountering things, once it involves areas he is familiar with, he will immediately become a different person, arrogant and confident.

Many people noticed that Inuyama Heita's temperament suddenly changed, but they were not particularly surprised. It was just possession, the specialty of psychics, nothing big. Maybe there would be something interesting in this scene.

The two sides sat on both sides of the arcade, ready to start the battle. First, the character selection interface appeared...

"What's going on? Why hasn't the person been chosen appeared? Haven't the coins been put in yet?" Ajian controlled Inuyama Heita's body and was a little anxious.

"Oh, I forgot to mention it." Chigui said at this time: "This machine is a little special. It is said that a long time ago, this machine caused a fire and burned people to death. The resentment of the dead attached to the machine, cursing every player who came to play...

Forget it, I won’t mention those unimportant things. You just need to know that if you want to play this machine, you must pay a soul as a chip, and then you can choose a person... Oh, it seems that your opponent has already chosen one. "

The figure of an opponent appeared on the arcade screen. It was a pixelated monster with a ghost-like mouth. It was staring at Inuyama Heita outside the screen with a fierce look and drooling.

The red ghost asked: "How about it, do you have other people's souls as bargaining chips? If not, then you can only use your own soul as a bargaining chip and go in as a character... Or, you can take the initiative to admit defeat? Hahahaha~"

"Soul chips?" Inuyama Heita frowned, then he reached into his pocket and took out a game coin. For some reason, there was a drunken uncle's face engraved on the coin.

Inuyama Heita nervously put the game coin into the coin slot...

【Here Comes a New Challenger!】

A line of large characters appeared on the screen! Then a pixelated head of a drunk uncle appeared. Inuyama Heita breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he had succeeded.

"Tsk~" the red ghost said unhappily, "I didn't expect you to actually have it. You passed the test. I didn't expect you to be much worse than you look. However, don't even think about winning with the soul of this drunkard who came from nowhere."

Inuyama Heita ignored the provocative words of the red devil, but secretly asked Ajian: "Is it possible? Mr. Ajian?"

"Well..." Looking at the drunken office worker on the screen, Jian suddenly became less confident: "I think this is a bit difficult."

Inuyama Heita encouraged, "You can do it, Mr. Ken! Mr. Sato and I will cheer you on! Aren't you a master at arcade games?"

"I feel so uncertain!" Jian complained bitterly: "Can Mr. Sato really beat the monster on the other side? He looks like an office worker. No matter how powerful I am, I can't challenge a mythical beast with a green caterpillar, right? And that monster looks super fierce! It can restrain office workers, right?"

Inuyama Heita said: "I will help too! Come on!"

"Tsk...I understand. I will try my best." Ajian said.

After both sides confirmed their roles on the screen, the pixel avatars of [Sato VS Oniichi] flashed by, and the second round of the second striker battle was finally about to begin!

(End of this chapter)