Chapter 5 The longest-running slot machine

Link could swear that he never imagined that in a day, or rather, just a dozen hours, his total value on the street would exceed 150,000. Most of these street beatings were contributed by the Southern Dynasties. It's just that he can't be happy at all. Because that means that his luck has reached more than minus 15,000. With that kind of luck, he was even careful to breathe. He wondered if his breath would cause an earthquake and kill everyone around him.

He sat on the sofa and waited for more than ten minutes, and only then did he feel relieved when he found that nothing unfortunate had happened. Only then did he take a closer look at the changes in the "Vice Decay God" dialog box.

He discovers that in addition to the number change, there is another skill that has been lit up: the millennium of scourge.

He clicked on this newly developed 'skill'.

The scourge is left for thousands of years

Skill activation conditions: more than 40 characters can be used, and more than 100,000 can be used to hit the street.

Skill use requirements: Activation requires a fixed character of 30 points, and a fixed character of 10 points per hour, activation costs 50,000 street fighting values, and after the second hour, each hour consumes 100 available street fighting points and a fixed 50 available street fighting points. It can be stopped at any time or used continuously. If the available character or street fighting is insufficient, the skill will be automatically stopped.

Skill effect: My luck value is taken as an absolute value.

Link suddenly felt that the air was very sweet: it turned out that the world had not abandoned him. The lucky value is taken as an absolute value, which is a properly positive number. This is a lucky value of 15,000, is it equivalent to the goddess of luck at any time under his crotch?

Well, although that's pretty obscene. But if he doesn't want to die, he has to use this skill. Pleasantly surprised, he mentally calculated that once he used this skill, he would need to lose 3,000 points a day. After deducting the wear and tear when activating, his current available street value can be used for more than twenty days at most, and the character can only be used for one day at most.

Calming down, he found that there was a problem here: once he was forced to deactivate due to the lack of available character and available street fighting, his fixed street fighting value would make him unlucky. Therefore, he feels that the most urgent thing to solve now is how to obtain additional character value.

He still didn't have a clue about this. If he doesn't solve this problem, after he activates this skill, he will have to accept even more unlucky days tomorrow.

Of course, that's for later, if he doesn't use this skill today, maybe the next second he'll hang up because of air jams. Now he can only watch one step at a time, get by and get by.

So, he opened the skill without hesitation. One moment of certainty, his luck value suddenly became a positive 10,000 yuan. This luck, I hope I won't be hit by diamonds on the road. He was distracted for a moment before smacking his mouth. He turned on his computer and went directly to the MGM official website to type in "Lion's-Share".

He quickly found what he was looking for. After a cursory look at the information, he quickly washed up and went downstairs to McDonald's for a bite to eat. By the way, I drank two glasses of water with a Coke glass. In Las Vegas, the climate is very dry, and drinking plenty of water is the only way to keep your body hydrated.

He took a taxi to the MGM Hotel. The blue MGM building, the golden lobby. Once you enter the gate, you will find the slot casino on the right side of the hotel lobby.

Hundreds of slot machines are lined with red carpets inside the casino.

There are no windows, no timekeeping tools, non-stop heavy metal disco music, dim lights, and the smell of space emitted by the slot machines. All of this makes people in a state of constant excitement and completely unaware of the passage of time.

There is also a Mercedes Jeep in the slot casino, and that's the prize. The slot machine's top screen shows the respective jackpot amount, tempting gamblers to keep betting until they lose the last coin in their pocket.

None of these slots are Link's target, though. His goal was the Lion's-Share, a separate anti-placement of the old-fashioned slot machine in the middle of the casino.

Lion's-Share, which literally means lion's share, also means "largest share". At MGM Resort, that represents one of the longest running slot machines in Las Vegas. That's its name.

It is a progressive slot machine. The slot has been in operation for twenty-five years and has never hit a jackpot from the time it started operating until the last time he went to play. He remembers the last time he tried his luck, the slot machine had accumulated more than $2.5 million in prize money.

Nevada's Gambling Law states that jackpots must be won by gamblers, so this old-fashioned slot machine is still open.

The last time he went to play was eight months ago, and now the information he has found shows that Lion's-Share is still open for business. And the accumulation has reached nearly 2.58 million US dollars.

He felt that his luck was bursting right now. Even if the parameters of that slot machine were adjusted, he might not be able to win the jackpot.

However, he is certainly not the only one who wants to get a huge prize. In front of this slot, which is said to be the highest jackpot in the United States, a middle-aged man is sitting. Next to the middle-aged man was a McDonald's family chicken thigh carton the size of a cardboard box, perhaps the same carton was full of coins before. But now the coins inside can no longer cover the bottom of the paper barrel.

Behind him, several people were standing. From time to time, these people made a voice of regret.

This slot machine is not only difficult to come up with huge prizes, but even small prizes are rare. The middle-aged man didn't know how long he had been sitting there playing, but he stuffed the last coins in the carton into the slot machine one by one, each time with a maximum bet of three dollars.

As a result, after all the coins thrown in by the middle-aged man were eaten, the slot machine did not vomit a cent. The middle-aged man shook the carton and hammered the machine hard. It seems that he has lost a lot.

Almost immediately, two broad-waisted casino security guards behaved very professionally while holding the middle-aged man and dragging him out. Other gamblers were attracted by the excitement here. But just watching the joke, it seems that they are not used to it, and they don't care that maybe one day they will be dragged out and thrown on the road outside the hotel like this middle-aged man.

However, it is conceivable that the middle-aged man must have lost all his pockets, including the last coin in his bank card, to lose his temper like that.

In Las Vegas, homeless people who have lost their money abound. But they never gave up on their dream of getting rich. They may still be begging on the streets during the day, and at night they will show up in front of the slot machine in the lucky socks, lucky panties, lucky shoes, whatever could have been the factor that made him win, and dream of making a fortune. Then he lost his last coin and continued to beg on the street during the day the next day.

And Lion's-Share's high prize money is like a half-naked beauty scratching her head at a colorist, luring many people to try their luck. The year before last, a couple of men and women gambled for a long time with 10,000 US dollars. And the final takeaway for them was to understand one thing: what it was like to lose $10,000 to the Tiger Chance!

After the middle-aged man who couldn't afford to lose was dragged away, the few onlookers just now also dispersed. He then exchanged a hundred-denomination bill for a coin. He sat down in front of Lion's-Share with a bucket of coins and shoved them in one by one — old-fashioned slot machines that don't accept paper money betting.

He fiddled around and stuffed all the coins into the machine before he began to gamble. He started by betting a dollar and then started. The screen jumped for a while, and the dollar was gone. Then he bet nine times in a row on the dollar, and the slot machine still didn't spit out a single coin.

Previously, he had fed at least $2,000 to the slot machines in four months. He used to study the principles of slot machines, and even bought a box of video tapes called "How to Win Slot Machines". But after he saw the tape, he hadn't been to the casino to play with these money-eating machines. Because that's how the tape tells you how to win slots: you play $0.5 once, you play $1 when you win, and then you win $2 once...... And so on! From that moment on, he found himself a fool for months.

The rebate mechanism of slot machines is set up for a long time. The rebate percentage for these slots in Las Vegas is usually set at 98%. That may seem like a very high percentage, but that doesn't mean that the longer you play, the better your chances of rebates. Rather, even if it runs continuously for a hundred years, it will theoretically only spit out 98% of the money it eats at most. And that's just a theoretical proportion.

It has been found that when you play on a slot machine in a row, the lower the odds of winning. This Lion's-Share is already a star slot machine and hardly a moment is idle, so its chances of winning the jackpot are lower. So, even if he was swallowed ten coins in a row, he didn't care at all.

Next, he started betting on two dollars at a time. He played alone in front of the slot machine, and no one noticed. After all, this slot machine is watched almost 24 hours a day, trying to get its hands on that huge prize. Seeing someone playing, I have long been numb.

At one time, nothing. The second time, it was eaten. Third, fourth...... He made another 10 bets in a row and still got nothing.

Still, he didn't care at all. He just took a hundred yuan out and tried it to see if luck could bring him good luck.

He nonchalantly clicked the eleventh two, and then the screen jumped.

When the screen stops beating and the lights around the slot machines suddenly light up, the exhilarating music of the casino's disco can't be hidden. This kind of music that slot players are most looking forward to makes the players around them suddenly turn their heads to look. Their eyes flashed with envy and jealousy. Coins crackling and bouncing out underneath Lion's-Share. Perhaps this sound is the one that accelerates the adrenaline secretion the most.

Link was indeed refreshed by the numbers displayed on the slot. Although he didn't win the big prize, the 3,000 American knife probably spit out all the American knives he had eaten by other slot machines before.

Immediately, a casino staff member in a suit walked over and shouted, "Sir, congratulations." This is the highest prize that Lion's-Share has won in half a year. Your luck is enviable. ”

Link smiled and nodded, "Hopefully my luck continues." "His luck has started to decline. However, it is a drop of 150 points, which is nothing compared to 10,000 points of luck. But he only had one day.

"Hopefully you can get Lion's-Share retired as soon as possible, I think it's already tired. The casino staff said with a smile. "Need we help you redeem these bonuses?"

"Please help me find something to put it up. "Of course, the prize money he received can't be all coins. If he wants to redeem, he can let the machine spit out a prize ticket, which can go to a special counter to claim the prize, or directly to other slot machines to recharge.

But three thousand dollars is not his real goal!