107: Chapter 107 The Malfunctioning Fishing Machine

After confirming that it could be exchanged, Chen Sheng fell into a dilemma once again.

Which machine was the malfunctioning fishing machine?

After hesitating for a long while, Chen Sheng resigned himself to his fate and silently recited in his mind: "System, mark the item corresponding to the current intelligence for me."

【Ding! This marking will deduct one piece of future intelligence. Do you confirm the marking?】

"Whew~" Chen Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.

As expected, if you block the path first and then barely open a gap, people will not only not be annoyed, but might even feel a sense of gratitude.

Chen Sheng was in exactly this state right now.

He originally thought it would cost three pieces of future intelligence, but it only cost one, giving him the inexplicable illusion that he had profited.

"Confirm marking!"

As the words fell, a blinking red dot appeared before Chen Sheng's eyes. Following its direction, he saw that the machine about to malfunction was on his left.

However, someone happened to be playing on it right now.

Chen Sheng walked behind this person and quietly watched the man play the fishing game.

Perhaps Chen Sheng's gaze was too intense, or perhaps the man was just having bad luck. After standing there for about twenty minutes, the man cursed and called over a waiter, "Help me cash out; deposit the points directly into my account."

"Alright, please wait a moment."

The waiter efficiently cleared the points on the machine and transferred the remaining points into the man's account.

Once the account balance was updated, the man stood up, glanced at Chen Sheng, and left the fishing machine directly.

He kept muttering incessantly the whole way.

Seeing the man leave, Chen Sheng hurriedly sat in front of the marked fishing machine and had the waiter load one thousand points, costing a total of one thousand yuan.

That's right! The points on the fishing machine were linked to money; one point was one yuan.

After the points were loaded, Chen Sheng slowly manipulated the joystick to adjust the fishing direction, passing the time by firing shots intermittently.

Soon the time reached 14:25, and the pre-set alarm on his phone went off. Chen Sheng immediately perked up.

At this moment, the original one thousand points were reduced to only a little over four hundred.

Chen Sheng continued to press the firing button intermittently. The hit rate was still "pleasing"; he could only hit a regular fish about once every five shots.

High-point fish like manta rays, sharks, and golden fish required more than ten shells, and even then, it wasn't guaranteed that he would hit the target.

Bang bang bang~

Suddenly, the shells he fired were no longer just "scratching"; it was as if every shell was divinely assisted. Every shell fired turned a fish into gold coins.

"It's starting!" Chen Sheng instantly increased the frequency of bullet firing.

Bang bang bang~

5 gold coins, 10 gold coins, 20 gold coins, 50 gold coins, 100 gold coins.

"Awesome!" Chen Sheng couldn't help wanting to roar, but he suppressed it; making a fortune in silence was the way to go.

But watching the points instantly reach 500, and then jump to one thousand in the blink of an eye, Chen Sheng's mouth stretched all the way to the back of his head.

Soon the points broke through from one thousand to two thousand, and when he looked again, it had already risen to three thousand, followed by four thousand, five thousand, seven thousand.

Until the score rose to seven thousand, triggering the machine's protection device. The large fish worth more than 50 on the screen began to decrease. When the score rose to ten thousand, the traces of large fish were almost invisible on the entire screen.

However, as the saying goes, even a mosquito's leg is meat. Although only small creatures like butterflyfish and clownfish remained on the screen, Chen Sheng's hand tapping the firing button didn't slow down; he even increased the speed.

Ten thousand one hundred, ten thousand four hundred, eleven thousand, thirteen thousand...

Finally, when the points rose to fourteen thousand six hundred and fifty-seven, the fired shells returned to normal. Chen Sheng let out a long sigh of relief, "Whew~ that was thrilling."

In the past, when he was dating An Xiaonuan, he had brought her to the arcade, and the experience was basically no different from not coming at all.

Spending fifty or one hundred yuan, only to end up with a nameless doll that cost three or five yuan at a street stall outside.

Unlike now, in less than ten minutes, the four hundred-plus points skyrocketed to fourteen thousand.

Chen Sheng hurriedly called out to a nearby employee: "Waiter, please help me cash out."

"Alright, please wait a moment." The waiter walked over as nonchalantly as usual, but when his gaze landed on the score in the top left corner of the screen, a classic national swear word slipped out, "F*ck!"

The waiter's eyes widened, and he pointed at the screen in disbelief: "Th-th-this... y-y-you... this..."

After the initial shock, the waiter hurriedly spoke into his headset: "Manager, Manager, please come over to the fishing area."

He shouted it three times in a row, and by the third time, the manager had already rushed over, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

"Manager, look here." The waiter pointed at the screen.

The manager leaned in to look, and his eyes also widened instantly, "Th-th-this..."

The two exchanged glances. The manager swallowed hard, gave the waiter a look, and whispered: "Go quickly and call someone from the engineering department."

After the waiter left, the manager squeezed out a smile and said to Chen Sheng: "Sir, your data is a bit abnormal. Please wait a moment; we need to check it."

The manager might as well have written "cheating" on his face.

Chen Sheng shrugged indifferently, "Whatever, but please hurry. I have an appointment to discuss business with someone at three o'clock."

Anyway, he didn't "cheat," so they couldn't blame him.

As for whether they could detect the machine malfunction?

What did a machine malfunction have to do with him?

He just had good luck.

However, to avoid being bullied by the establishment, Chen Sheng deftly took out his phone and turned on the recording function. After doing all this, he smiled and said to the manager: "You don't mind if I take a video, do you?"

Manager: "..."

The manager's cheek twitched involuntarily, "I don't mind!"

Then he added in his heart: "It's not like you'd actually turn it off if I did mind!"

Soon the waiter returned with a man carrying a toolbox. The manager whispered a few instructions to the man, who hurriedly took out various tools from the toolbox and started tinkering with the fishing machine.

At this moment, many people on the scene were attracted by the commotion, surrounding Chen Sheng and the others, pointing and whispering discussions.

Looking at this scene, the manager's expression was quite rich, but the layer of sweat on his forehead revealed his anxiety at this moment.

If this matter wasn't handled well, the impact on the game center was definitely something he couldn't afford to bear.

At this moment, his mood was complicated.

He both hoped the engineering department would find something and hoped they wouldn't.

If the engineering department really found cheating behavior, how did this person cheat, what means were used, and did it mean that the machines in the game center all had security risks... No, it should be said that they were all unsafe.

But if they couldn't find anything, for one person to have tens of thousands of points on a fishing machine, the issues involved were equally serious.

Even just paying the player over ten thousand yuan was enough for him to be held accountable by his superiors.

Time slipped away bit by bit amidst the manager's internal struggle, the onlookers' discussions, and Chen Sheng's calm waiting. Finally, the sweating engineering department employee quickly ran to the manager's side and reported in a low voice: "There are no signs of human intervention on the machine, but I just ran the data with an instrument and found that at around 28 or 29 minutes, the machine might have had an inertia malfunction..."

The manager impatiently interrupted the engineering department employee's long-winded explanation, "Give me the conclusion directly."

"Uh~" The engineering department employee organized his words, "This person was probably just lucky; he happened to encounter a machine inertia malfunction."

"Luck?" The manager's voice involuntarily rose an octave, then was instantly suppressed. He whispered: "In other words, there's no problem with this person?"

Facing the manager's burning gaze, the engineering department employee swallowed involuntarily, subconsciously glanced in Chen Sheng's direction, and finally fixed his gaze on the phone in Chen Sheng's hand.

The engineering department employee withdrew his gaze, met the manager's eyes again, and after hesitating for a moment, nodded with difficulty, "There is indeed no problem."

The manager took a deep breath, squeezed a smile onto his face again, and walked to Chen Sheng's side, "Sir, the matter has been investigated. Do you think we could go somewhere else to talk?"

"No problem!" Chen Sheng didn't want to use the power of the crowd to force the manager to pay up. After all, it's best to leave a margin for others in life; what if he obtained some intelligence about this game center again in the future?

This wasn't without precedent; having received intelligence about "Ai Shang Digital" for three consecutive days previously was the best example.