Chapter 829 — He's Got Designs

Gu Mengyao was born to wealth, and she had often heard of uncles and elders of her parents' generation going to Macao to gamble, most of them coming home dejected after losing their money, so she had understood from a very young age that gambling was for the most part a scam.

Shen Yushu fed her last game token into the slot machine with some reluctance, but the result was tragic as ever, as the machine swallowed that token whole as well.

Watching tokens pour out of other people's machines, Shen Yushu flew into a rage and kicked the gambling machine in front of her.

"Bang!"

The gambling machine did not budge an inch, while Shen Yushu's ankle throbbed with pain and she fumed, "What a piece of junk! It's a total rip-off! They call me Shu with her explosive luck and invincible fortune, so how come I haven't won even once?"

"All right, Xiaoshu, I told you these things are all rigged and you wouldn't believe me." Gu Mengyao laughed, "Nine out of ten gamblers lose. Stay away from this stuff from now on."

"Oh..." Though in her heart Shen Yushu already agreed with Gu Mengyao, she was clearly still unwilling to let it go, "Brother Shield, help me beat it up!"

"Huh?" Hearing Shen Yushu's words, Wei Zhao gave the slot machine a strange look, pointed at himself, then pointed at the machine, and asked, "It?"

"Mm-hm!" Shen Yushu nodded.

"Heh..." Her words gave Wei Zhao an idea. He walked over and kicked the machine right at its token outlet.

The circuitry inside this gambling machine was very simple to begin with, and the whole cabinet was quite light, so Wei Zhao's kick made it hop off the floor, and the token outlet broke under his foot, sending game tokens clattering out in a sudden flood...

Compared to that, Shen Yushu's earlier kick was nothing at all.

"With a thing like this, this is the only way to win money..." Wei Zhao said, pointing at the gambling machine still spilling tokens. The thing was illegal to begin with, so he felt not the slightest guilt about smashing it.

"Oh, it finally paid out! Brother Shield is the best!" Shen Yushu did not care about the few tokens she had lost before, she had just felt indignant, as if a swindler had made a fool of her. Now that Wei Zhao had avenged her, she naturally cried out with delight.

Wei Zhao's kick stunned the players nearby. No one had ever heard of anyone daring to do such a thing in the arcade. Wasn't that asking for death? Did he take the thugs who watched over the place for nothing?

But once these people saw clearly that it was Wei Zhao, they all fell silent. They had seen Zou Ruoguang's attitude toward Wei Zhao earlier, and now they all acted as if it were none of their business, and no one tried to stop Wei Zhao.

Hearing the crash, the manager of the arcade hurried over and witnessed the scene, but he did not disturb Wei Zhao. Instead he ran into the pool hall across the way to find Zou Ruoguang and told him what had happened here.

After listening, Zou Ruoguang thought it was nothing, and said with relief instead, "All right, I know. It's only a smashed slot machine. It's lucky he didn't smash up the whole entertainment center."

Hearing Zou Ruoguang's words, the arcade manager nodded hastily and ran back, thankful in his heart that he had not meddled. It looked as if Zou Ruoguang had no intention of stopping Wei Zhao at all.

As for the tokens scattered on the floor, Shen Yushu did not care much about them. She felt satisfied just to have vented her anger, and it did not matter whether the tokens on the floor could be exchanged for cash at the counter. Besides, she was tired of the games here and did not plan to keep playing, so the tokens were no use to her anyway.

"Sister Yaoyao, let's go play in the pool hall across the way? What do you think?" Shen Yushu had given up on the amusements on the arcade side, because she really could not find anything fun there.

"The pool hall? Xiaoshu, do you know how to play pool?" Gu Mengyao asked, puzzled.

"No, but I've seen it on TV. The players all look so cool. It should be fun, right?" Shen Yushu just wanted to have a look.

"All right." Gu Mengyao nodded and did not object.

In the early days pool rooms were poor in both setting and equipment, and most of those who went were petty thugs and layabouts. But with the spread of world pool tournaments, pool had gradually gained acceptance and become one of the pastimes of successful people.

Of course, the pool hall in the entertainment center still drew a mixed crowd. There were petty thugs who came to play here, as well as some rich young masters, while truly successful people were fewer, since they had their own private clubs and had no need to come to a public entertainment center like this.

Wei Zhao came with Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu to the pool room across from the arcade. Wei Zhao had caused such a commotion before, yet Zou Ruoguang had done nothing to him and had even treated him with great respect, and the petty thugs who hung out here had seen it all. So those who harbored improper designs on Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu could only put their ideas away, and no one dared provoke the two girls again for fear of needless trouble. It would not be worth ending up beaten red all over like Hong Mao.

There was one exception, however. He had not put away his designs on Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, and his interest had only grown stronger! This man was Zhen Yingjun, and the more he looked at Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, the more he felt the two of them were top-notch!

Such top quality was a matter of luck and could not be sought after. For a huge school to produce even one was already rare, and now he had run into two at once, which gave Zhen Yingjun a feeling of tremendous luck! He felt Heaven was looking out for him, delivering two little beauties to him in one stroke!

Moreover, with his shrewd and experienced eye, Zhen Yingjun could tell that Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were very likely still untouched by any man. Girls like that were the finest of the fine, and Zhen Yingjun felt that if he did not make his move, he would be letting down Heaven's arrangement.

Zou Ruoguang also noticed the infatuated look in Zhen Yingjun's eyes and could not help frowning. To tell the truth, he did not want to offend Wei Zhao, knowing Wei Zhao was a man he could not afford to provoke. Yet this Zhen Yingjun was equally beyond his provoking, for he had heard the Zhen family wielded great power around the East Sea, commanding a notorious underworld gang called the Firearms Team, every man carrying a pistol. These were true triad figures, far beyond the reach of a street-level thug like Zou Ruoguang.

"Young Master Jun, are you really set on them?" Zou Ruoguang asked carefully.