The Modern Immortal

Golden Fortune Club

The someone that suddenly appeared at Daemon’s side was Eric.

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

Eric’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, Eric’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 Golden Fortune Club to vent his feelings.

But Eric 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.

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

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, Daemon 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 Daemon’s financial state, he naturally has many game coins to play but he still started with a low amount. 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.

Daemon had spent a full hour observing 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, Daemon 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, Daemon subconsciously felt relieved.

Even though there was a little deviation in Daemon’s calculation, and this slot machine’s symbols’ prizes in the pool were twisted, 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, Daemon didn’t hesitate to insert his game coins in the slot machine, and then immediately pressed the spin button.

Because of Daemon’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 Daemon carelessly throwing his game coins and failing, Eric couldn’t help but burst into a loud laughter.

Daemon was too lazy to look at Eric 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 Daemon had inserted the game coins for two consecutive times without any response from the machine, someone from the crowd loudly reminded him.

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

“Daemon, 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 Daemon’s reaction from his eyes, Eric couldn’t help but mutter.

Daemon ignored Eric, and continued inserting the coins on the coin’s slot.

This time, Daemon 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, Daemon’s fingers then grabbed the “spin” button above.

The most exciting feat from the slot machine was the 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 Daemon inserted 2 game coins in front was exactly due to it being the most appropriate time to get the biggest bet.

“Are you brain or something, looks like your brain indeed has a problem, and not light it seems. Let’s go play there, looking at this i***t only gives me a headache.” Upon seeing Daemon repeatedly ignore him, he was unable to vent his anger, so Eric turned around and left after muttering to himself.

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

Eric 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, Eric clearly knew that this was the sound of winning the prize money, and also the heavy winning one.

Subconsciously, Daemon’s action of filling coins for 2 consecutive times flashed through Eric’s mind.

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

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

Because the sounds exuding from this slot machine were 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.

His mouth was slightly twitching when he saw a lot of game coins everywhere on the floor, and then immediately laughed loudly, “Ah, congratulations to you, little brother, this machine hasn't been given prize money for a month yet. But you actually have run into good luck, it is estimated that it hit up to tens of thousands, yes?”

Facing the boss’s cordial smile, Daemon was quite unable to give any response first, since the boss didn’t reveal any painful expression at this time. Or maybe he was simply pushing the excuse that the slot machine was having a problem, and then denied him of winning a lot of game coins?

Daemon immediately understood the reason in the next moment.

The boss was all smiling after Daemon had said something, after which he immediately turned around to everyone in the Game Hall, “Everyone, you all can see that our slot machines in the Golden Fortune Club are 100% okay, small investment and huge returns. It’s simply investing a dime to earn a million. Except for robbery, never will you find any job that could make money like this compared to this one!”

Upon hearing the Game Hall’s boss’s words, Daemon sneered in his heart endlessly.

According to Daemon’s observation, the Game Hall’s slot machines were obviously tapped and machinated by the boss, not only did it have low winning odds, but the prize money was also much lower.

The reason why the slot machine being used by Daemon gave this abnormal result was because too many people had played this slot machine today, which was already beyond the boss’s control.

Under the boss’s misleading enticement, the Game Hall instantly boiled.

People who originally intended to watch the fun also ran to the counter to buy game coins, while people who previously only intended to buy a few game coins to test the water were now also increasing their purchase amount without hesitation. As for the veteran-addicted hardcore players, they waved stacks of paper money and ran to the counter.

For a moment, a smile blossomed on the Game Hall’s boss’s face.

“It’s only 20,000 game coins, damn, this Game Hall’s boss is really stingy.” After Daemon clearly estimated the game coins in his hands, he couldn’t help but pout his mouth, and then went to the counter to convert those coins into money.

However, Daemon didn’t completely convert all game coins into money, but left 100 pieces of game coins and continued to play in the Game Hall.

“Yo Buddy, you don’t have any game coins, then I’ll give you some, and anyways, thanks for your kind reminder before.” When he accidentally passed a slot machine, Daemon saw someone who was sighing in a vexed tone and was about to leave the slot machine. And since Daemon was in a buoyant mood he threw 20 game coins to him.

The reason why Daemon still vividly remembered this man was because this youth was bald-shaved, and second, because this bald youth was the only one that kindly reminded him amongst so many onlookers at that time.

“Ha… Ah, it’s you, thank you buddy. If I win then you can have half of the money.” This bald youth obviously had never expected that he would get such a surprising joy. When he saw Daemon clearly, he just brazenly took the game coins and turned around to play again with full spirit.

This bald youth obviously had been drowned in a deep addiction, because he almost put the biggest bet for each gambling stake.

Saving only 6 coins, he fully threw all of his game coins given by Daemon into the slot machine.

The bald youth was thinking that this time, he was really in vain and only wasted all of his money to the Game Hall’s boss, when suddenly, clear and loud clicking sounds exuded from the slot machine as game coins spit out from it at the next moment.

“This… This… Hahaha, I made it!” Looking at the game coins on the floor, the bald youth loudly cheered and then rushed up.

Although the game coins won by this bald youth at this time were not as many as Daemon’s, it was around 4,000 game coins. Not only was he able to win back all the money he had lost, but he also had a slight surplus, of which naturally made him excited.

Of course, the thing that made this bald youth most happy was that he finally won a game from the Game Hall, rather than usually making him lose and become a bottomless pit. The anger and vexed feeling in his heart finally got vented.

“Buddy, these game coins are yours, we’ll play again later.” The bald youth casually grabbed some of the game coins, and then put the rest of the game coins into Daemon’s hands.

Daemon wanted to refuse, but found that the bald youth had already gone in a flash. He couldn’t even find his shadow. He reluctantly received and took the rest of the game coins, then went to the counter to convert a large number of game coins to paper money.

Eric was behind Daemon with a foolish expression in his eyes.

Eric usually refrained from drowning himself in the Golden Fortune Club. But almost all of his pocket money was spent in the Game Hall, and although Eric sometimes won some game coins, he soon lost it once more.

But in just a few minutes, Eric had been watching Daemon’s track, as he not only won nearly 20,000 game coins, but also received gifts of several thousands of game coins, which made Eric jealous.