Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 210: The Legend of Ghost (I)
In the mountains outside Osaka, a forest villa rises from the ground. In front of the house is a mountain stream and an exquisite bridge. Beautiful girls in kimonos greet and see off guests by the bridge. Soon, a new car will slowly drive into the parking lot behind the house. Judging from the luxury models of the cars, the passengers in the cars are either rich or noble.
There were men in suits wandering around in front and behind the house, with sunglasses blocking their eyes. There was a conspicuous gun strap hanging on their waist, revealing the handle of the gun. It was a heavy tactical pistol made in Israel, using large-caliber bullets that could even penetrate police bulletproof vests.
There are so many security forces because this is a very important place with staggering wealth, and it is called the Paradise Hall.
Paradise is a word with many meanings, both positive and negative. In Buddhism, it refers to the place where happiness is, and is often referred to as the Western Paradise. The name of Paradise Hall also has this meaning. Just as its literal meaning suggests, it is a place of extreme enjoyment. The person who named it wanted to make Paradise Hall a place worthy of its name from the beginning.
As a large casino that has just opened, the Paradise can accommodate very few guests, but it has its advantages. For example, in Japan, like many countries, there are legal restrictions on gambling. It does not allow casinos to exist, but it does not prohibit legal gambling. If gambling is involved in the form of games, it does not violate the law.
Usually, you will win some specific prizes when you participate in gambling machines, and there will be people near the organizer who will recycle these prizes at normal prices, so you can exchange the things in your hands for money, perfectly bypassing the law.
The Jileguan is such an existence wandering in the gray area. All forms of gambling here are carried out with game machines. In addition, the guests have basically heard that the owner of the Jileguan has a background in the underworld, so they are more assured of the armed bodyguards and the safety of the Jileguan. After all, the underworld also needs money to operate, and the Japanese underworld is particularly concerned about things like rules. Therefore, gamblers boldly bring more funds and drive their own luxury cars to gamble here, and there are many famous entrepreneurs and even politicians among them.
The sound pouring out of the pachinko machines filled the entire lobby. The marbles used in this type of game machine are very noisy, but in the casino, some girls are deliberately invited to play pachinko to liven up the atmosphere. The beautiful resident girls, like the dealers, all wear extremely revealing uniforms, from sailor suits to maids to leather queens, and you can always find the one you like.
Half of the Paradise Hall is filled with pachinko machines, and the other half is filled with various other gambling machines. The deep red marble floor is polished to a mirror-like finish. The tree-branch chandeliers hanging from the ceiling are not completely fixed, but are intentionally left with a range that allows them to sway. This way, when those exciting cheers sound, the hot atmosphere can even cause the chandeliers to sway and jingle, as if the whole world will cheer for the winner.
Sakurai Kogure sat at the pachinko machine, holding a dark Bloody Mary in one hand. She put the game coins in her hand into the pachinko machine to buy new marbles. If the marbles landed on the place with reward multipliers, the machine would spit out the corresponding game coins to her.
This kind of game coin is the prize used to circumvent the law in Paradise Hall. The game coin in Sakurai Kogure's hand is silver, which means that one coin is equivalent to 10,000 yen. The other large machines over there can accommodate up to a dozen people competing on the same stage at the same time, and they also use more valuable gold game coins, one of which is equivalent to 1 million yen.
The striker of the pachinko machine ejects the steel ball, and the silver ball moves along the track into a rolling area filled with countless striker columns. These columns will block the movement of the ball, causing it to change its trajectory and hit other striker columns again until it falls into the bonus multiplier area at the bottom due to the influence of gravity. According to the number, the player will receive a digital multiple of the game token feedback.
Sakurai Kogure has always had good luck. This time the ball fell into the five-mile mark, and the machine immediately spit out fifty silver game coins. This is because Sakurai Kogure bet on ten times before starting, which is equivalent to betting all the chances of ten steel balls on one time. Some people just like to play bigger this way, so Pachinko will also use this method to meet the needs of customers. The maximum is one hundred times a single time, which is one million yen per shot.
"So lucky?" The girl next to Sakurai Kogure leaned over and glanced at the screen in front of her. Compared to Sakurai Kogure's good luck, the girl's record can be said to be extremely bad. Before sitting down, she grabbed dozens of game coins to play. She was not as arrogant as Sakurai Kogure, who liked to gamble one by one. As a result, there was only one game coin left in the tray in front of her, which was considered a complete loss.
"I only know how to play this kind of game console," Sakurai Kogure said calmly, raising his glass to clink with the girl, and a crisp sound rang out between the two of them, "For me, I can cheat on this kind of machine however I want."
Sakurai Kogure took a sip and looked at the new marble that was shot out. In fact, she didn't look at the machine at all when she was playing the game just now, but kept looking at the hall. Now when she turned her attention to the machine, the marble seemed to be controlled by some mysterious force. When it hit a pillar, it didn't lift up and slide down slightly, but miraculously drew a perfect arc, avoiding all obstacles, and then rushed into the prize area with the highest multiplier of 10 times.
More game coins were spit out by the machine. If it were the other girls, they would cheer because the casino would provide the girls with a lot of game coins to play pachinko. The game coins they won could be exchanged for money. But there was no joy on Sakurai Kogure's face. She was the manager of the Paradise Hall just like the girls around her. Naturally, she would not be tempted by a mere game. Here, they had the final say.
"Look." Sakurai Kogure said, "It's not interesting. Unlike you, although you are not good at playing pachinko, you are very good at playing big."
Being praised by Sakurai Kogure , the girl next to her showed a mysterious smile. Her face was indeed pretty. Although she used some deliberate and heavy eye makeup to embellish it, she did not make people feel sexy. Instead, there was an illusion of a young girl deliberately imitating the youthful sexiness. Coupled with the eye-catching and slim red dress, she looked like an expert who had perfectly grasped the wonderful balance between purity and sexiness.
She is a colleague of Sakurai Kogure, and is one of the managers of Gokurakukan together with Sakurai Kogure. Here, Sakurai Kogure's flower name is Chaomu, and her flower name is Xiyue.
"You may not believe it, but I'm actually a cheater, so there's nothing to be proud of." Xiyue said in a low voice. If outsiders heard such words, the reputation of Paradise Hall would be greatly reduced.
"I really don't believe it." Sakurai Kogure stared at Xiyue's eyes, trying to see something from them, but Xiyue never revealed a flaw. Whenever he saw her, there was such a bright light in her eyes, as if she would never get tired, and she could always see through her opponent's psychology.
As a new rookie in the casino, regular customers all know that Ji Le Guan has two signature items, the famous beautiful sisters Chao Mu and Xi Yue, Chao Mu is the older sister and Xi Yue is the younger sister.
Chaomu represents the goddess of luck in the Paradise. Every night of debauchery and singing, Sakurai Kogure will sit in the lobby of the Paradise, waiting for the strongest winner of the night to appear. The winner must win consecutive games in the casino and pile up the wealth in front of him to an incredible height. When he does this, Sakurai Kogure, who has been watching, will gently kneel beside him and whisper the words that every gambler who comes here wants to hear.
"Can I invite you to the VIP room? I'm Chaomu, the manager here. You can just call me Xiaomu."
This is a special recognition. The one who can enter the VIP room of Paradise Hall is not the tyrannical rich man, but the supreme winner. The winner will give all the money he wins tonight to Paradise Hall, and Paradise Hall will fulfill any wish for him.
Yes, anyone who pays for something that can be achieved with the money they pay will get what they want. Spend a night with a popular movie star, destroy the family of your competitor, or make a woman fall in love with you... No matter how immoral, dirty, illegal or even bloody the wish is, Paradise will do what it says, no one will pursue it, and all risks will be borne by Paradise.
This is a place where you can do whatever you want and where there is no law. In Paradise, the winner and the money in his hand have the final say.
Another signature character, Xiyue, represents the means of Jileguan. From the day Xiyue appeared in Jileguan, her self-introduction was like this.
"I am Xiyue, the gambling god here. I am always waiting for challenges from guests. If you can't get favor from Chaomu, why not try to gamble with me? If you can win, you will get the same treatment, even if you can take me away."
There is a wish in Paradise that no one dares to ask for, and that is to spend a night with Sakurai Kogure, which is worth a thousand gold. Such a tyrannical and illegal casino, with two beautiful girls as the owners, makes people wonder what their identities are. If you dare to ask Sakurai Kogure for a dirty or even dirty wish, the consequence may be that you will disappear from this world.
But Xiyue is different. She is as beautiful as Sakurai Kogure, even more beautiful. More importantly, she played her card openly and said that if you beat her, not only can you fulfill a wish, you can even get her as well.
The underworld is a place that values rules and traditions. It is not like the guys in the movies who tear up the contract after getting benefits and say that they never said such things. If the Paradise Hall is such a rubbish, it would not have been so well-known in such a short time. So Xiyue kept her word, which attracted many famous gamblers. Everyone was eager to bring enough money to challenge the proprietress of the Paradise Hall who claimed to be the God of Gamblers.
Unfortunately, Xiyue is really invincible in gambling, and no one has ever been able to beat her at the gambling table in the Paradise Hall. In order to show the fairness of Xiyue's duel, whenever someone wants to challenge Xiyue, the largest gambling table in the center of the lobby will be cleared, and several high-speed cameras will surround it and film from different angles. After the challenge, if any challenger still suspects Xiyue of cheating, he can ask for any videotape to go back and look for evidence.
When many unconvinced master gamblers were defeated by Xiyue and tried to find ways to cheat to no avail, Xiyue's name as the God of Gamblers gradually became established in the Paradise Hall. Her gambling requirement was 10 million yen per game, which was a very high number.
But in the eyes of the gamblers of Paradise, this price is just right. A girl who is so beautiful that any man has to take a second look, and a super gambler who is invincible at the gambling table, these two identities combined are enough to make Xiyue the real queen of the Japanese gambling world. Playing a game with the Queen for 10 million yen is too cheap. If you can win, no matter what wish you make, or marrying Xiyue as your wife, it will be much more cost-effective than this number.
The guests sitting in this casino are all worth tens of billions of yen. The purpose of spending huge amounts of money at the gambling table is definitely not to win a few dollars to buy drinks. Their companies are making huge profits for them every minute. What they want is the thrill of winning battles one after another, that is, the invincible and sharp look of Xiyue who looks around the whole place, sneers and asks who else dares to come.
It's not that there are people who have completely lost their wealthy fortunes, but there are always people who continue to step onto this battlefield. Gamblers are such creatures who pursue fame and fortune. Beauty and money perfectly constitute what they want most. Xiyue uses this to control people's hearts, and together with Sakurai Kogure, the two names Xiyue and Chaomu together constitute two special landscapes of Paradise Hall, which can bring huge income to Paradise Hall every day.
As nominal managers, Sakurai Kogure and Shiozuki can take large amounts of money from the treasury of Paradise Hall without being asked. As the owners of the casino, they deserve to enjoy the money they earn.
But the two girls are people who have no desire for money. The account figures of Paradise are getting higher and higher, just like the Tower of Babel in the Bible, which seems to be touching the sky, but these two people have never taken a penny from Paradise, as if they opened this casino just for their own happiness. Xiyue likes to let those self-righteous gamblers kneel at her feet, while Sakurai Kogure prefers to see what kind of dirty desires are hidden deep in the hearts of those sanctimonious faces.
The name of Paradise seems to be the best interpretation of such a casino.
