Chapter 24 (1/2)

Chapter 24: The Good Luck That Makes People Jealous

Translator: GravityTales  Editor: GravityTales

The someone that suddenly appeared at Tang Xiu’s side was Su Xiangfei.

In order to pressure the third year students to study more, the Star City First High School purposefully increased the difficulties for the last Monthly Tests’ questions, so the average results for the Star City First High School’s students in this Monthly Test were far from ideal.

Su Xiangfei’s results were also only average. When the last Monthly Test’s results came out, it almost made him cry without tears. Only until he found that the class’s average results were also low did he feel relieved.

But, despite this fact, after having seen his own marks, Su Xiangfei’s mood plummeted into an unprecedented abyss. He endured to stay and study with great difficulty until the end of the first studying session, and then he immediately pulled the other 2 students to come to the Health and Prosper Club to vent his feelings.

But Su Xiangfei had never thought that he would encounter a familiar face in this Game Hall, much less that this familiar person was the most improbable person that was likely to appear in this place.

Tang Xiu only glanced once at Su Xiangfei before he retracted his sight again, because the person that lined up in front of Tang Xiu had spent all of his money and it was his turn to play this slot machine. Tang Xiu didn’t want to delay his money-making project only because of Su Xiangfei.

All slot machines’ programs had been pre-set beforehand and only produced random prizes, so it was difficult to find a way to win steadily. However, through careful observations and calculations, Tang Xiu found that there were still some ways to increase the odds of winning, or at least to win a certain prize.

In most cases, when the slot machine had been used for a certain amount of time, it would be out of a symbol pattern, and there was a great chance to twist around the prize symbols from the symbol pool.

For Tang Xiu’s financial state, he naturally couldn’t have many game coins to play. However, this didn’t prevent him from winning the prize.

One thing that must be known was that many people in the Game Hall were lining up only to have fun with the slot machine, not to mention that those people obviously only played to vent their feelings or came here to test their luck. They neither read the symbol table nor studied the symbol’s occurrence odds and rate of return.

Tang Xiu had spent a full hour to observe the symbol table, while also thoroughly analyzing the game coins’ accumulative rate from hundreds of slot machines in the Game Hall inside his mind. After he silently observed and calculated the number of queues in front of the slot machine, as well as the numbers of game coins they had, Tang Xiu decisively chose to line up in front of this slot machine.

When the person in the line in front of him had spent his game coins, Tang Xiu subconsciously felt relieved.

Even though there was a little deviation in Tang Xiu’s calculation, and this slot machine’s symbols’ prizes in the pool were twisted, but it would be unrelated to him. Because he only needed to insert 5 game coins to play and win the prize from this slot machine.

For fear that someone would cut the line, the moment the person in front of him had just left, Tang Xiu didn’t hesitate to insert his game coins in the slot machine, and then immediately pressed the spin button.

Because of Tang Xiu’s action, the three patterns in the slot machine’s glass frame quickly spun, and if specific patterns (such as three identical patterns) would appear, then the prize money that it gave would be higher.

After a few seconds, the pattern stopped spinning, but the slot machine didn’t ring anything.

“Hahaha, you country bumpkin, why did you move that fast? You have never played a slot machine it seems. Playing with slot machines is not dependent on the movement, but on luck!” Seeing Tang Xiu carelessly throwing his game coins and failing, Su Xiangfei couldn’t help but burst into a loud laughter.

Tang Xiu was too lazy to look at Su Xiangfei as he inserted the game coins and then pressed the spin button again.

After a few seconds, the pattern stopped spinning again, but the slot machine still didn’t ring.

“Hey Buddy, this machine seems to have gone bad, it only swallows money but won’t spit any. I have been seeing it for half an hour and not even once have I seen it give out any game coins. I say, you don’t need to waste your game coins on this slot machine.” Having seen that Tang Xiu had inserted the game coins for two consecutive times without any response from the machine, someone from the crowd loudly reminded him.

Tang Xiu glanced at that youth gratefully and then continued to dig the game coins from his trousers.

“Tang Xiu, bah, your mind indeed has a problem. He said that this machine has a problem, but you still throw your money on this machine. You don’t have any other place for you to spend, do you?” Clearly looking at Tang Xiu’s reaction from his eyes, Su Xiangfei couldn’t help but mutter.

Tang Xiu ignored Su Xiangfei, and continued inserting the coins on the coin’s slot.

This time, Tang Xiu didn’t immediately press the “spin” button, but pressed the “raise”, and then inserted another coin into the machine again.

Having repeated this action twice, Tang Xiu’s fingers then grabbed the “spin” button above.

The most exciting feat from the slot machine was the prize accumulation (jackpot). Not every slot machine had a jackpot. Generally, if you play the English version of the casino game machine, you could see “progressive slot” that was a cumulative prize pool. But if you wanted to win the pot, it would need 3 chips for each bet.

Once it hit the marked symbol on the prize pool, then all game coins in the slot machine would be spat out.

The reason why Tang Xiu inserted 2 game coins in front was exactly due to it being the most appropriate time to get the biggest bet.

“You brain indeed has a problem, and not light it seems. Let’s go play there, looking at this idiot only gives me a heart attack.” Upon seeing Tang Xiu repeatedly ignore him, he was unable to vent his anger, so Su Xiangfei turned around and left after muttering to himself.

In the next moment, Su Xiangfei’s body was felt like it was struck by paralyzing technique, as he stood motionless.

Su Xiangfei had almost turned his body when, in a split second after, crisp and clear tinkling sounds passed into his ears.

Having often come to the Game Hall to play, Su Xiangfei clearly knew that this was the sound of winning the prize money, and also the heavy winning one.

Subconsciously, Tang Xiu’s action of filling coins for 2 consecutive times flashed through Su Xiangfei’s mind.

“The jackpot, he actually hit the jackpot!” An absurd thought boiled from Su Xiangfei’s mind, making him subconsciously yell out loudly.

When the slot machine issued sharp and crisp tinkling sounds, not only was Su Xiangfei stunned, but the crowd who was standing around the slot machine to watch was also shocked.

Because the sounds exuding from this slot machine was a bit too long.

The sounds coming from this slot machine really caused a big stir. Not only did it attract the people who played games nearby, but also attracted the Game Hall’s boss.

“What happened, what happened, who broke my machine?” A short and plump, full of fat middle-aged man, shouted and squeezed in front of the slot machine.