Chapter 828 — Young Master Jun's Designs
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"All right." Gu Mengyao had come here with the idea of seeing something new and broadening her horizons; whether she played well or not did not matter.
Wei Zhao did not play either. He simply followed behind Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu. Though he had never played most of these games, the majority tested reaction speed, and that was no challenge for him.
"It's crowded over there. Shall we go take a look?" Shen Yushu had spotted a corner of the arcade drawing a huge crowd, with people intermittently letting out cheers and groans.
When Wei Zhao, Gu Mengyao, and Shen Yushu walked over, they saw that it was a row of gambling machines—a bewildering variety, but all of them serving one purpose: gambling in some form or another.
This sort of thing was already illegal, but the profits were so enormous that it had become the main source of income for many arcades—which was why Zou Ruoguang could hardly be blamed for operating in defiance of the rules.
Although there were winners here too, most people won little and lost plenty. Only a handful had come out slightly ahead; the great majority walked away dejected.
"Sister Yaoyao, this looks like fun, doesn't it? Want to give it a try?" Shen Yushu thought this was far more entertaining than those monster-bashing games.
"Xiaoshu, this looks like gambling. You can't play." Gu Mengyao, however, saw it clearly and grasped the nature of this kind of game machine at a glance.
"It's just a bit of fun, a little taste of it. It's not like I'll get hooked," Shen Yushu said, curiosity getting the better of her.
"Let her try it." Wei Zhao was fairly confident in Gu Mengyao's and Shen Yushu's self-control. Neither girl had any bad habits, and neither was the type to obsess over anything. Wei Zhao figured Shen Yushu was just taken with it for the moment; after a few rounds, she would find it dull.
After all, they weren't short of money, and they didn't care much for it either, so the thrill of winning and losing was hard for them to appreciate.
"Oh, even Brother Arrowhead says it's fine..." Shen Yushu looked pitifully at Gu Mengyao.
"Then these are the last few tokens. Once you've lost them, no more playing." Gu Mengyao hesitated for a moment before handing the remaining tokens to Shen Yushu.
Shen Yushu took the tokens and happily ran off to play the gambling machines.
Winning with only a few tokens was obviously unrealistic. The result was much as Wei Zhao had expected: Shen Yushu fed four or five tokens into the machine and they vanished without a trace. Only one token remained.
"Ahhh, that's it? All gone already?" Shen Yushu stared at the last token in her hand, instantly peeved. "At least let me win once?"
Wei Zhao shrugged. He knew a great many things, but he couldn't control a gambling machine. Electronic devices like this always had a control terminal somewhere, and there was no way Wei Zhao could locate it in a short time to tamper with the data. RO