Chapter 532: Pachinko Sage Lu Mingfei (5000 words)
The train stopped at the platform and passengers lined up to get off.

It was noon, and the terminal station, JR Shin-Osaka Station, was packed with people, half of whom were white. A group of people swiped their Suica cards to leave the station.

There was a train map of Osaka above the commuter ticket vending machine outside the station. The girls looked up and discussed which bus to take to Universal Studios Osaka. Lu Mingfei also took out the Osaka city travel guide that Lu Mingze had given him before and unfolded the map in front of him.

The era without mobile phone map navigation was so primitive.

Yaji saw Lu Mingfei unfolding the map and asked curiously, “Hey, Junior Brother, did you buy the Osaka City Travel Guide? When did you buy it?”

“I bought it when I left the airport yesterday.” Lu Mingfei lied.

“Oh.”

Aki nodded, without any doubt, and stretched out her finger to lightly tap a certain place on the map: “Then what is this place marked with a red pen?”

Lu Mingfei did not hide it and answered quietly: “It’s a pachinko shop.”

Of course, this also includes places like gigolo clubs and bubble bath parlors.

Lu Mingze acted like a human for once, and helped Lu Mingfei mark all the shady places run by the “Ghost Crowd” on the map with small red crosses. There were pachinko parlors and naturally there were also some brothels.

Pachinko parlors can be found everywhere, but the erotic industry is mostly located away from the city center, concentrated in remote areas such as Umeda and Tobita Shinchi.

Aki was confused. Pachinko parlor? Isn’t that a legal casino? Could it be that this junior brother with thick eyebrows and big eyes also has such a bad habit?
No, no, Junior Brother doesn’t seem like that. He probably just heard from somewhere that Pachinko is a Japanese specialty, so he just wants to experience it!

Aki said hesitantly: “Brother Lu, are you planning to go to that kind of place? Although pachinko is a Japanese specialty, it is not necessary to experience it. It is actually gambling…”

“Gambling?” Lu Mingfei scratched the back of his head and said, “I know. I’ve read Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s manga “Gambling Apocalypse.”

A trace of astonishment appeared in Aki’s eyes: “Then why are you still going?”

Lu Mingfei did not answer Yaji’s question directly, but lowered his voice and changed the subject: “Senior Sister, can you do me a favor?”

“What’s the deal?”

Lu Mingfei said, “If I don’t find a reason to get Miaomiao and the others away, they will definitely follow me. Miaomiao and the others are not yet adults, so it’s not safe for them to go to a place like this. I want you to help me make up a lie.”

What’s more, the Ghost Clan is also a gangster society, and what Lu Mingfei is going to do today is to destroy the place, which is more or less dangerous, and no one knows what unexpected situations will arise.

Yaji thought, you know they are all minors and can’t enter such places! Then, Junior Brother Lu, do you remember that you are also a minor?
Just looking at Lu Mingfei with his hands clasped in front of his chest, looking at her pleadingly, Yaji didn’t know why she couldn’t refuse, and finally sighed:

“…Okay. Let me make a promise to you, Junior Brother Lu. This is just the first time. It won’t happen again!”

So, when Liu Miaomiao, Su Xiaoqiang and Chen Wenwen came over and asked Lu Mingfei if he wanted to go to Universal Studios Osaka with them, Lu Mingfei immediately refused with an apologetic look on his face, saying that he and Senior Sister Aki had some important things to deal with in Osaka today.

Yaji said yes while observing Lu Mingfei’s expression, wondering why she hadn’t noticed before that the seemingly honest junior brother was actually a little scum who could lie without changing his expression or heart. No wonder he could coax Junior Sister Su and the others into submission.

The final result was that the troops were divided into two teams. Liu Miaomiao, Su Xiaoqiang and Chen Wenwen went to Universal Studios Osaka according to the original plan, and the rest of the people followed Lu Mingfei’s team.

However, Aki was somewhat puzzled in her heart: Isn’t Junior Sister Xia Mi also a minor? Why doesn’t Junior Brother Lu worry that it’s unsafe for her to go to the pachinko parlor?

……

Nihonbashi, downtown Osaka.

To be precise, the so-called Nihonbashi is not a bridge, but a street. In many anime, Akihabara is portrayed as a must-visit place for otakus. The Nihonbashi shopping street in Osaka is known as the West Akihabara.

Although it is not as big as Akihabara, there are still a lot of 2D stores on the entire street.

Tourists took photos with the giant Kirby doll in front of the animate store, and a promotional truck with a Gundam car cover was driving back and forth on the street playing the theme song of the anime. Pretty girls in maid outfits were smiling and handing out café flyers to passers-by on the street. The spring breeze blew the maids’ skirts, and pairs of thighs in white or black stockings stood out in the wind.

There are naturally pachinko parlors in such places. In Japan, pachinko parlors are almost everywhere. The pachinko parlors in Nihonbashi are well integrated with the “two-dimensional” elements. The most popular anime is printed on the pachinko machines, and after hitting the marbles, you can hear the special bonus dubbing of the character’s voice actor.

“Ze” is a pachinko parlor full of anime elements, and even its name is taken from the pachinko parlor “Numa” in the comic “Gambling Break Record”. In fact, “Ze” has only been open for less than half a year, but it is already the largest pachinko parlor in the Nihonbashi area.

“Ze” has two layers in total.

The first floor is open to everyone, from gray-haired seniors to blond-haired foreign tourists who just want to experience the pachinko machine. The price of marbles is also the standard 4 balls per ball, and there is also a cap on the winning amount.

The second floor is open only to trusted regular customers or extremely vicious gamblers. To enter the second floor, you need a corresponding membership card. Each steel ball on the second floor costs 4000 yuan, which is a thousand times the price stipulated by Japanese law. There is no upper limit on the winning amount. It is a “one-shot table” that is prohibited from operating. The store even directly provides a service to exchange steel balls for cash. It is an out-and-out underground casino.

Such underground casinos often have deep underworld backgrounds, which is not surprising, because almost all casinos in Japan have underworld backgrounds, but not all underground casinos have female bosses as beautiful as Miss Sakurai.

Among the guests who could go up to the second floor, there were many rising political stars like Yuta Koyama and sons of chaebol groups like Itsuki Iwasaki. Each of them had fantasized about having a night of love with Miss Sakurai, but no one had ever really entered Miss Sakurai’s bed.

But they were not discouraged. Some things are boring if they are too easy to get. On the contrary, the harder it is to get something, the more people will flock to it. If someone can get Miss Sakurai’s favor before everyone else, he will have the capital to brag in the social circle.

The third person in the ghost group, Ryoma, Sakurai Kogure. She is the female boss behind “Ze”.

Sakurai Kogure was wearing a tight black suit and skirt, with her hair in a high bun, which made her look slim and graceful, with bright eyes. As usual, she was sitting in the monitoring room on the third floor of “Ze”, and she was looking at the entire monitoring wall.

There are surveillance cameras on each pachinko machine on the first and second floors to prevent customers from cheating. However, there are only a few customers who dare to cheat in “Ze”, because everyone can guess what the bulging things on the waists of the casino security guards in suits are.

As expected, no guests dared to offend the majesty of “Ze” today, but a picture on the surveillance screen attracted Sakurai Kogure’s attention.

The female assistant, Kousaka Niina, reported in a low voice: “Manager Sakurai, the guest in No. 187 is still winning. He has been winning for almost an hour, right?”

Sakurai Kogure frowned and said softly, “I can see it.”

“Yes.” Kousaka Jinna bowed, and after a moment she couldn’t help but ask, “But…wasn’t that guest really cheating?”

It’s no wonder she had doubts. After all, the pachinko machine fires automatically, and the player just uses a knob to control the firing force. Hitting the steel ball into the lottery hole will trigger the lottery animation, which usually randomly shakes three numbers. If the numbers are equal, it means winning.

Each pachinko machine is also set up with a fixed program. Once a winning jackpot is triggered, the elastic force of the knob will change slightly the next time it is fired. This is to prevent people with good hand feel from firing the steel balls with similar force, reducing the probability of winning the next time.

She had also worked in a pachinko parlor for many years and had never seen anyone win 37 times in a row on a pachinko machine without losing once.

Sakurai Kogure said calmly: “I don’t know. At least I can’t tell. Maybe it’s just luck. There are always some people in this world who are luckier than others.”

……

Small steel balls poured out of the pachinko machine, and the clattering sound filled the space. Xia Mi bent down, took out the full box of marbles, and smiled at Lu Mingfei: “Brother, we won again!”

This is a pachinko machine with the theme of “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya”. The person who chose this pachinko machine was of course Xia Mi. After winning the prize, Haruhi Suzumiya’s voice proudly praised Lu Mingfei for his good luck.
This was his 38th shot, and he won the round again. The boxes of steel balls filled up the pachinko machine in front of him, and there was no more space, so he had to put them on the pachinko machine next to him.

“You are so lucky, little brother.” Someone in the crowd behind Lu Mingfei praised him in Japanese. At first, no one noticed Lu Mingfei’s situation. The occasional envious glances were also envious of the fact that Lu Mingfei had three beautiful girls standing beside him.

But gradually someone noticed something was wrong. Every time he turned around, Lu Mingfei was winning, and the marbles in front of him gradually piled up into a small mountain. He was invincible, a victory like a wild dance!

As a result, more and more people gathered around Lu Mingfei, wanting to see when this miracle would end.

Yaji also felt that Lu Mingfei’s luck seemed to be a bit too good.

Originally, she thought that Lu Mingfei wanted to go to the pachinko parlor purely out of a sudden whim, but from what it now seemed, Lu Mingfei seemed to have come prepared with some purpose.

Although she didn’t know how Lu Mingfei had triggered the lottery animation 38 times in a row, she could only think that the Word Spirit might have a similar effect, but Lu Mingfei’s pupils were clearly black, and his eyes were clean and clear, and it was impossible to tell that he had activated his bloodline.

However, for Lu Mingfei, some words can be used even without activating them. He “showed his hand”, and today he was the king of the casino, invincible, and the goddess of luck would only stand on his side.

“Continue to vote?” Ling asked coldly.

The place to take marbles is on the left side of the machine, and the place to put marbles is on the right side of the machine. So Xia Mi stood on the left side of Lu Mingfei, while she stood on the right side of Lu Mingfei holding another box full of marbles and was responsible for throwing marbles to Lu Mingfei. They were like two beautiful croupiers who were specifically serving Lu Mingfei.

“Go on.” Lu Mingfei nodded without hesitation.

There was another clattering sound, and Ling once again threw half a box of steel balls into the pachinko machine. Lu Mingfei put his right hand on the knob, and everyone held their breath and watched his movements.

Twist——

The marbles were fired with a whoosh. After hitting the obstacles, they spun and fell into the lottery hole. The lottery numbers on the screen began to scroll. A few seconds later, the winning screen lit up again!
Thirty-ninth time.

The crowd behind him cried out in surprise: “Another hit!”

But before the exclamation could be heard for long, the pachinko machine of “Suzumiya Haruhi” immediately issued a “beep beep” alarm. Everyone was stunned for a moment. It was not an alarm that cheating was discovered, but the inventory of marbles in the pachinko machine had run out.

Lu Mingfei blew up this pachinko machine!

Based on the recycling price of a steel ball 3 door, how much money did he make!
“Brother, it seems you blew up this pachinko machine.” Xia Mi said, “Should we exchange these marbles for money, or…?”

Lu Mingfei shook his head and picked up the marble box in front of him: “Let’s switch to another pachinko machine and continue.”

Lu Mingfei moved, and the wall of people around him moved with him. They found a neighboring pachinko machine and continued to sit down. Ling poured a full box of steel balls into the bead basket of the pachinko machine in one breath.

In the next dozen or so rounds, Lu Mingfei madly hit marbles into the lottery hole as if he was possessed by the God of Gamblers, and soon achieved the unprecedented “fifty consecutive hits” in this pachinko parlor.

Lu Mingfei barely restrained his strength and turned the knob casually, but he was able to accurately hit the marble into the lottery hole every time and the lottery was 100% successful. This was almost against the law of probability!
It’s like the legendary Pachinko Master, you can win whatever you play!
As the number of steel ball chips increases, the number of winning steel balls will naturally increase as well.

One, two, three… He couldn’t count how many pachinko machines Lu Mingfei had blown up.

At this time, the crowd looked at Lu Mingfei not with envy or shock… but with some fear.

Many people even whispered whether Lu Mingfei had mastered some latest high-tech cheating technology that could control the pachinko machines. Otherwise, how could he have remained undefeated in nearly a hundred games and blown up so many pachinko machines in a row?
I heard that “Ze” has a deep background in the underworld. Is this Chinese man really not afraid of the local underworld?
However, Lu Mingfei seemed to ignore the gazes of the people around him and just changed to a new pachinko machine.

Zero asked expressionlessly, “Continue?”

Lu Mingfei nodded: “Continue.”

When Ling picked up the basket of marbles and was about to pour them in, the crowd that had been talking suddenly fell silent.

Lu Mingfei subconsciously turned around, and saw that the wall of people surrounding him seemed to be split open by a knife, automatically making way for them.

A pretty girl in a short skirt uniform walked through the crowd towards him, her red high heels clicking on the porcelain floor. The nameplate on her chest indicated that she was a staff member of this pachinko parlor.

Some people in the crowd have recognized the girl’s identity. She is Kousaka Niina, the female assistant of Sakurai Kogure, the behind-the-scenes boss of “Ze”. Normally, her workplace should be on the second floor of “Ze”!

Miss Kousaka would come down from the second floor… Could it be because this casino finally discovered how this Chinese boy cheated?

They were wondering how “Ze” would deal with Lu Mingfei?

According to the casino rules, cheating means his hands will be cut off? Or because of his foreign identity, he is only required to pay a high price in compensation?
Kousaka Jinna stopped about two meters away from Lu Mingfei, and in front of everyone’s surprised gazes, she gave Lu Mingfei a standard bow.

Kousaka Jinna smiled: “I am Kousaka Jinna, the assistant manager of ‘Ze’. What is your name?”

“…Just call me Sakura.”

Lu Mingfei said his nickname with some shame, mainly because he didn’t expect the casino staff to find him so quickly. He couldn’t think of a fake name for a while, so he could only report the nickname he used when he was in the “gang”.

“Mr. Sakura?”

Kousaka Jinna nodded and observed Lu Mingfei, thinking that he was indeed a beautiful boy who would fade as easily as cherry blossoms.

“We are glad that you can visit our store, Mr. Sakura. We should feel honored by your presence. But you have already won all the balls from two slot machines in our store, and there are too many people watching you. Our store has little profit, so this has affected our business.”

Kousaka Jinna said apologetically: “Roughly speaking, you should have won about 4 steel balls. I took the initiative to recycle your steel balls at the standard price of 80 balls per ball, a total of balls. After rounding up, we are willing to pay you a check for million balls. There are many interesting attractions nearby. After receiving the check, you can visit these attractions. If you don’t mind, I can also act as a temporary tour guide for you for a day. Is that okay with you?”

The people watching around were stunned after hearing what Kousaka Jinna said… It turned out that the reason why Miss Kousaka came to the first floor from the second floor was not because she caught Lu Mingfei cheating… but because she planned to buy out Lu Mingfei at a high price and let him leave “Ze”.

You should know that although the price of steel balls purchased by customers is 4 balls per ball, the price of recycling in pachinko parlors is generally only 2.5 balls to 3 balls per ball. Miss Kosaka bought Lu Mingfei’s 20 steel balls with a check of one million, which is almost twice the recycling price of the market price.

“Do you think it’s okay?” Kousaka Jinna continued to ask.

What shocked everyone was that when they saw Lu Mingfei, they just shook their heads.

“I’m actually not interested in money.” Lu Mingfei said in Japanese.

Kousaka Jinna heard the hidden meaning in Lu Mingfei’s words. The phrase “not interested in money” means that he is interested in other things.

Besides money…is it lust?
Kousaka Jinna frowned in her heart, but she still looked apologetic on the surface: “Then is there anything else you want? As long as it is within a reasonable range, we will try our best to meet your requirements.”

“I’ve played all the pachinko machines on the first floor. They’re not that interesting.”

Lu Mingfei said calmly, “I heard that ‘Ze’ has a second floor. I wonder if the check for one million can be exchanged for a ticket to the second floor?”

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(End of this chapter)