$ Chapter 144 Akutsu Shinichiro (Please Vote and Collect!!!)
When the last ray of dawn disappeared from the sky, the street lights on the streets of Shinjuku turned on, and the shops also turned on their colorful neon lights and began their night business.
To say that the store with the highest daily profit in Shinjuku is not a red light street or a large shopping mall, but
Located in front of the station, it is a two-story arcade with brightly lit walls.
Although it is called a game arcade, minors are strictly prohibited from entering.
The machines in the arcade are not games like King of Fighters;
Mahjong tables, horse racing machines, pachinko.
The so-called mahjong table is actually a machine for playing mahjong, but the players have to play against the computer.
Horse betting machines originated from popular entertainment projects: horse racing.
In order to facilitate people who cannot go to the racetrack, horse betting machines have emerged.
But the most popular thing in the game hall is not the mahjong table or the horse racing machine, but
Pachinko.
Commonly known as hitting small steel balls.
This is a very simple form of gambling. The gaming machine is a rectangular machine, similar to the King of Fighters machine.
There are many small holes on it, and there are various "iron" obstacles around the small holes.
Players sit in front of the machine, control the launch force by operating the handle, and try to shoot the steel balls into the small holes.
It's like the well-known three-dimensional pinball game, except that three-dimensional pinball requires steel balls not to fall into the hole, which is exactly the opposite of Pachinko's victory requirement.
After the steel ball enters the hole, three numbers will be shaken out on the screen of the machine. If the numbers are the same, you will win. After winning, the machine will open additional winning holes.
Taking advantage of this moment, the player needs to continuously shoot the steel balls at hand into the hole. Every time a steel ball is shot, the machine will reward you with more than a dozen steel balls.
The gameplay is very simple and approachable.
In the 1990s, Pachinko's popularity in Japan can be described as being at its peak.
Of course, gambling is strictly prohibited in Japan, and money can buy small steel balls. However, the small steel balls you get after winning Pachinko cannot be exchanged for cash at the bar, and can only be used to redeem rewards.
until
Akutsu Shinichiro came up with a way.
He put the flakes of 18k gold into a plastic box as a reward.
The winners exchange small steel balls for the plastic box, take out the gold inside, and go to a nearby exchange place to successfully exchange it for Japanese dollars, thus forming a transfer of gambling funds.
only.
The price of replacement at the exchange center will be lower than normal purchase.
and
The exchange shop was also opened by Akutsu Shinichiro.
In this game, he is the banker and takes both sides.
As soon as this initiative came out, it received extremely enthusiastic support from players.
Akutsu Shinichiro also took advantage of this to reach Wakatou's position in just a few years.
This is "entertainment" for adults only.
Today is the day that Akutsu Shinichiro visits the Shinjuku Station game arcade.
Just after nightfall, he came to the game hall.
"Brother Akutsu!"
Akutsu Shinichiro was wearing a black suit, with a thin figure and cold eyes. There was a scar on his pale face, which stretched from the left cheekbone to the chin, making him look full of sinisterness.
This is a scar from his early days as a gangster, and he considers it an honor.
"Um."
A hoarse voice came out of his mouth. Akutsu Shinichiro looked at the hot store and asked:
"How's the flow in the store today?"
"Report to brother!"
The gatekeeper was very excited:
"Because of the upset at the racetrack, our business is extremely hot today!"
"It's just evening, and the turnover in the store has reached 10 million yuan!"
[Note: Pachinko’s reward rate is usually 20%, and the winning rate is 1/300. Under normal circumstances, you can win the prize by spending 15,000 yuan. Sometimes it is normal not to win 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. People open stores to make money. It's not charity, so don't gamble. 】
"Ten million, haha."
Akutsu Shinichiro shook his head and smiled encouragingly:
"Not bad, keep going."
"I will give you a year-end bonus at the end of the year."
The younger brother suddenly looked excited:
"yes!"
"I will go through life and death for my eldest brother!"
Although the game arcade is making a lot of money every day, in the eyes of Akutsu Shinichiro...
These are small changes.
On the surface, this is a two-story game arcade with 300 machines and a booming business.
But actually
The real money is made underground in the arcade.
There is entertainment for the rich.
Akutsu Shinichiro's method of winning people's hearts is money.
Having worked his way up from the bottom, he firmly believed:
Money is people's friend. Money can make people push. If it can't be pushed, then double the money.
Don't believe it
You put 300 kilograms of gold bars worth 10 million US dollars on the street, and whoever can lift them and run them for 100 meters will be given a try?
He can guarantee that even a weak scholar with no physical strength can turn into a Super Saiyan at that moment. Let alone a hundred meters, most people can even race against an airplane holding a gold bar and break through their own bodies. limit.
Akutsu Shinichiro, relying on this method, successfully bought a large number of loyal younger brothers.
Especially in today's economic downturn, many people are trying to save their lives for him.
Surrounded by a group of younger brothers, Akutsu Shinichiro walked into the small door in the game hall and followed the stone path to the underground casino.
Looking at Akutsu Shinichiro's disappearing back, a red dot suddenly went out outside the game hall.
The cold wind blew and his coat fluttered. Sakaki approached the game hall carrying a long box on his back.
The younger brother who had just been talking to Akutsu Shinichiro lowered his head vaguely after seeing Sakaki Makoto.
The moment he passed by, he whispered:
"Machine 99, Pachinko."
Sakaki Cheng walked into the store as if he hadn't heard.
At this time, the boy suddenly held his stomach and said to his companion:
"Ouch yo"
"It can't be done, it can't be done."
"My stomach hurts so much that I can't bear it."
The companion sneered:
"You have to eat three large bowls of eel rice at noon, okay, I'll keep an eye on it for you."
"Go quickly."
The younger brother held his buttocks between his legs and limped around the corner, slowly straightening his back.
He took out his cell phone and dialed a number:
"Brother Ishikawa and Brother Sakaki have already entered."
"Here's a small steel ball."
In front of the crowded exchange counter, Sakaki slowly discharged four large coins.
"How many?"
At the exchange desk, a female employee in uniform picked her ears and felt that she must have heard wrongly.
But the four 1-yuan coins made of aluminum were shiny and dazzling.
"A small steel ball."
Sakaki Cheng repeated it calmly.
The originally noisy game hall suddenly became quiet at this moment.
Everyone stared, as if they had seen a ghost.
You know, pachinko can take 7 or 80 pills in one minute.
What do you do when you buy a small steel ball?
Planning on playing standing up?
"What, not selling?"
Sakaki raised his eyebrows.
When you open a store and do business, there is no reason to refuse customers.
So, under everyone's extremely contemptuous gaze, Sakaki held a green box larger than his face, listened to the lonely sliding sound of the small steel ball, and walked to the No. 99 machine majestically.
There is already a person sitting on machine number 99.
When he saw Sakaki, he immediately stood up, put his hands in his pockets, lowered the brim of his hat, and walked out of the store silently.
Sakaki sat down at machine No. 99 and put in the only small steel ball.
Boom!
That small steel ball was like a meteorite falling from the distant starry sky.
It hit the machine hard.