Chapter 364: Pretty Girls Don't Have Bad Luck

Miss Luo Quan and the others arrived relatively early, and there were no gamblers in the casino. Seifert was holding a pile of chips with nowhere to bet.

Pachinko didn't have this trouble; one person could play it.

There were several types of Pachinko, some relying on manual marble shooting, and others where the machine shot them itself.

The machine type in the casino belonged to the former. One could insert marbles from the outside and press a button to launch them. After the marbles were launched into the prize pool, they fell among dense obstacle pegs. There were many grooves at the bottom of the machine, each with numbers like 0, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50. Where the launched marble landed represented the reward you received for this round of launching.

The area occupied by the grooves was inversely proportional to the size of the reward number. 0 occupied the largest proportion, which meant that the launched marble was most likely to fall into it, which was a "thank you for your patronage."

And in the center of the bottom of the machine, there was a groove that occupied an area no larger than a fingernail. It had no number, but had an extremely conspicuous "Prize."

If you were lucky and shot into this, you won a prize and could add an extra special lottery opportunity.

However, if you thought you could get a large number of marble rewards from this, you were too naive. This was just a lottery for a lottery.

After obtaining the first round of lottery opportunities, an electronic screen in the center of the screen would show a three-part roulette wheel with various fruits. Only after obtaining two of the same patterns could you proceed to the next round of lottery. To put it bluntly, this link was not much different from a slot machine.

If you only drew three different patterns, it was equivalent to "thank you for your patronage," and there was no reward.

However, if you were lucky and drew three of the same patterns, then congratulations, the subsequent reward amount would be multiplied by ten times directly. If you were even luckier and drew three gold ingots, the subsequent reward would be multiplied by one hundred times directly!

And after passing through this round of slot machines, you reached the second to last step—extracting the multiplier of the reward.

Various numbers would be repeatedly arranged on a square frame, with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 10. If the previous slot machine link was a gold ingot big three, then the maximum multiplier you could draw was a full 1000 times!

And the last step was to start comparing hand speed. After the countdown started, every time you pressed the launch button on the marble machine, you could get the return of the multiplier you drew. The best case was to launch one and get 100!

It sounded like this thing was like a Russian nesting doll, one link after another. If you were slightly unlucky in one step, you might end up with nothing.

But it was such a thing that sounded no different from cheating money, yet it was one of the most popular game machines in Japan, and the revenue it generated accounted for about 4% of Japan's annual tax revenue. At its peak, it could even rival Japan's automotive industry!

When studying in Japan, Miss Luo Quan had heard of the great name of Pachinko. When watching anime, she could occasionally see scenes of the protagonist playing Pachinko, so she held a trace of curiosity about this thing.

However, this thing could only be played by adults over 21. She had seen it many times in Japan, but had never touched it once.

Today, she was finally able to operate it. Speaking of which, she was quite excited.

Like most Pachinko marble machines on the market, the one in front of her was quite flashy in both styling and content on the electronic screen. The speakers also worked hard to play the shouts of female voices, the screen constantly changed patterns, and it released sound and light pollution without any scruples.

This was just one machine. In Japan's Pachinko marble shops, dozens or hundreds of machines often called out and flashed together. One could imagine how bad such an environment was.

However, there was scientific evidence that such a noisy environment would greatly stimulate the guests' senses, promote the secretion of adrenaline, and easily cause guests to lose their minds, constantly putting marbles and banknotes into the machine.

By the time they came to their senses, they might have already lost tens of thousands of yen.

To avoid this situation, Miss Luo Quan set a limit for herself from the beginning, only exchanging 50 dollars of marbles. If she was unlucky and lost them all, she would decide whether to continue after calming down.

Because there were no other gamblers for the time being, the three brothers exchanged chips and all sat next to Miss Luo Quan, watching how she played this child's game machine.

Miss Luo Quan put all the hundred or so marbles into the launch slot and pressed the button.

With a crisp "bang," the marbles flew out, rushed out of the oval pipe, and began to jump between the obstacle pegs.

Marbles could be launched continuously, but Miss Luo Quan, as a novice, played relatively cautiously. She launched one and waited for the marble to land before pressing the second launch.

Like most novices, the marbles Miss Luo Quan launched fell into the 0 groove after colliding. The passionate music immediately turned into a disappointed wail, as if the machine was also sad for Miss Luo Quan's bad luck.

Then, Miss Luo Quan pressed the second launch, 0.

Third launch, 0.

Fourth launch, 0.

Fifth launch, 0.

Sixth launch, Prize!

"Wuhu!" Miss Luo Quan cheered. She won a prize. It seemed her luck was not bad.

"Won a prize so quickly! Why is there no movement?" The three brothers gathered around. According to their understanding, after winning a prize, this marble machine should spray marbles wildly from the exit.

"This is just the first round, there are two more rounds." Miss Luo Quan successfully entered the slot machine link, but this was just a beginning.

Pressing the button, the three-part roulette wheel started to rotate, and the screen behind also played a burning anime scene. Miss Luo Quan looked closely, and it was actually the fragment of Kaneki awakening in "Tokyo Ghoul."

This was quite well done, but unfortunately, after the slot machine stopped, three different patterns appeared, and everything had to start from scratch.

Next, Miss Luo Quan began an infinite repetition: launch—0, launch—0, occasionally bouncing to 5 or 10, getting some consolation prizes.

There were also two cases of falling onto "Prize," but neither could pass the second round.

Unknowingly, there was only one marble left in Miss Luo Quan's launch pool. The hundred or so marbles exchanged for 20 US dollars were all shot out in less than five minutes.

In Japan, there were 3.5 million severe Pachinko addicts who would go to play Pachinko whenever they had money, and play for several hours at a time.

If she lost at this rate, she would probably lose thousands of US dollars every time she played Pachinko!

"Money-swallowing monster..." Miss Luo Quan shook her head and sighed. She had already played, and she was ready to launch this last marble and stop.

"That's it?" The three brothers were watching on the side and hadn't figured out the complete rules, and Miss Luo Quan only had one marble left here.

Seifert mocked: "It seems your luck isn't that great either."

Miss Luo Quan rolled her eyes at him: "There was only 20 dollars of capital in total, how much do you expect to win?"

As she spoke, she pressed the launch.

Seeing that this marble was bouncing straight toward the 0 direction, Miss Luo Quan stood up directly, intending to leave.

Who knew that this marble actually bounced on the last obstacle peg and rolled into the prize groove.

"Yeah, there's still a chance to draw 'thank you for your patronage'." Miss Luo Quan mocked herself and sat back to continue the second round of lottery.

"The one who is wrong is not me, it's the whole world!" The scene of Kaneki awakening appeared again, and the animation was accompanied by Miss Luo Quan's own singing. The roulette wheel also rotated, and the scene was once very chaotic.

"Lucky!!!" The machine made an excited female voice, and the three patterns of the slot machine actually all turned into gold ingots.

"One hundred times! One hundred times!" Miss Luo Quan suddenly got into the spirit, and it seemed everything was getting better.

Third round, extract the reward multiplier.

Miss Luo Quan quickly pressed the start button, and the cursor rolled in Miss Luo Quan's excited gaze.

At this time, Miss Luo Quan stared at the cursor on the screen with eyes even more focused than when recording songs.

She finally knew why this thing could have such great magic. Although she had already achieved financial freedom, this feeling of using small to gain big and getting rich overnight was something many entertainment methods couldn't compare to.

How many people were addicted to such fantasies, to the point of finally going bankrupt and having their families broken before they thought of regretting it.

Fortunately, she was not short of money after all. She thought that even if it really jumped to 1000 times, how much money could it exchange for? It couldn't compare to the money she earned by singing a song casually, so she quickly calmed down.

Maybe the Pachinko marble machine knew Miss Luo Quan's thoughts. After a roll, the cursor actually jumped to ten times.

This was the jackpot of this machine. Fireworks of celebration exploded directly on the machine screen, and Miss Luo Quan also jumped up excitedly, looking at the three brothers beside her: "Quick, quick, quick, whoever has fast hand speed, press it for me!"

The three brothers were also at a loss for a moment, looking at each other. How would they know who had fast hand speed?

"Quick, the countdown has already started." Miss Luo Quan looked anxiously at the countdown on the screen. Once the time was up, she would have to start launching marbles to collect the reward!

"Gao Liang, come. Gao Liang has been a single dog for so many years, he must be the fastest among us!" Seifert pushed Gao Liang out.

"Go to hell!" Gao Liang was both angry and amused, but under his sister's anxious urging, he still put his hand on the button.

"Once the countdown is over, press the button desperately. Press as fast as you can." Miss Luo Quan finished the precautions, and the countdown just happened to end.

"Peng peng peng!" Gao Liang's fingers flew rapidly, and one marble after another was launched at a very high frequency. The numbers in the center of the screen also seemed to be riding a rocket upward.

Although it was only a short ten seconds, after pressing, Gao Liang's entire right arm was incomparably sore.

"My God, I can't feel my right hand." Gao Liang shook his arm, panting.

"48 times in ten seconds, not bad, Gao Liang!" Miss Luo Quan looked at the numbers on the screen with surprise and said with great satisfaction, "Come, I'll rub it for you."

Miss Luo Quan's massage service wasn't something just anyone could enjoy. Seifert and Fred were very envious watching from the side.

Seifert was full of regret: "Damn, if I had known, I would have done it myself."

"These are the fruits of my labor." Gao Liang raised his finger and shook it. Sure enough, having a skill was quite important.

After rewarding her brother, Miss Luo Quan turned her head to look at Pachinko. This time she won the jackpot of 1000 times multiplier. Gao Liang pressed 48 times, which meant she could get 48,000 marbles.

There certainly weren't that many marbles in the machine, but one could ask the shop for gift cards of equal value according to the number.

In Japan, gambling is illegal, and marbles won from Pachinko are not allowed to be exchanged for yen.

However, there are policies above and countermeasures below.

The shop would prepare some special gift cards, and guests who won marbles could exchange them for these gift cards.

And near the Pachinko shop, one could always find some small shops in the corners where one could exchange gift cards for yen.

Although it was troublesome, this successfully drilled a loophole in Japanese law, which was also the key to Pachinko being able to maintain until now.

Of course, there was no need for so much in the casino on the ship. Marbles could be directly exchanged for chips or cash. 48,000 marbles were equivalent to nearly 10,000 US dollars!

Miss Luo Quan wanted to play for a while longer, so she exchanged for 20 blue chips with a face value of 500.

"See that? In less than ten minutes, it multiplied 500 times!" Miss Luo Quan showed off the chips in her hand triumphantly, her face full of a sense of achievement.

And Seifert still said the same thing: "With just this many chips, what can you do?"

"Cut!" As the winner, Miss Luo Quan indicated she wouldn't argue with the loser.

After playing Pachinko, Miss Luo Quan didn't touch this machine again.

Occasionally satisfying the craving was fine, but playing for too long, she was afraid her hearing would be damaged. The noise of this machine was truly too loud, and not everyone could endure it.

After sitting idly in the casino for a while, the casino doors opened, and batch after batch of guests who left the dance floor entered here.

Although dancing was their hobby of pretending to be elegant, compared to fighting in the casino, it had no competitiveness at all. Whether it was middle-aged people or young people in their early twenties, they all walked into the casino in groups of three or five.

Among them, there was also Miss Luo Quan's old man.

"Daughter?!" Eric was very surprised to see that Miss Luo Quan had arrived even earlier than him, "This place is not suitable for a girl like you to stay."

A chubby middle-aged man laughed: "Don't be so pedantic, Eric. My niece is also an adult, so she can try some new things."

"Besides, there are all acquaintances here, so can she lose?"

"Uncle Eric, Miss Luo Quan's gambling luck was good today. Just now she played the marble machine and won the jackpot directly, winning 10,000 US dollars with 20 US dollars!" Seifert directly told Miss Luo Quan's "highlight moment."

However, the people around also laughed after hearing it. 20 US dollars, marble machine, how did it sound so childish.

But a girl who had just become an adult could indeed only play this big. However, the gambling capital multiplied 500 times, which sounded very awesome, but the initial capital was only 20 US dollars, so even if it multiplied 5,000 times, there was nothing worth being surprised about.

Sure enough, it was a child, a group of adults thought so.

Eric didn't dwell on it either: "Then... you guys take Miss Luo Quan to play with Augusta and the others. I have to accompany friends to play a few rounds here. If you have anything, come find me."

"By the way, where is Mom?" Miss Luo Quan asked.

"She went to the bathroom and will come over later." Eric said, sitting down at the table with a group of friends. The beautiful dealers and waitresses wearing bunny girl outfits that Miss Luo Quan had been looking forward to finally appeared. ===== CHAPTER 365 =====