At this moment, Don was playing pachinko in a video game store, starting with a thousand yen from a good-looking thug on the side of the road, and now, dozens of boxes of small steel balls were stacked behind Donn.

Everyone in the video game store had stopped playing their games and gathered around the bespectacled young man he had met for the first time.

His technique is not very skilled, and there is no magic in his technique, but the small steel ball in his hand will always have extraordinary luck, and every time he collides, he will accumulate a little improvement, and after dozens of times, this has accumulated to an extremely terrifying number.

"Good...... It's amazing! Where did this come from? ”

"That's not a good way to describe it, is it? This guy is a man of good luck at all, you see, his technique is very ordinary, but this little steel ball seems to never fall! ”

Not only the players who were talking about it, but even the clerks, managers, and bosses of the video game stores had already gathered around Don, and they were all pale, and the boss was even pale.

Just looking at the number of these small steel balls behind Donne, at least one million yuan will be taken out. Although the million-dollar amount is large, the shopkeeper can afford it, but to the shopkeeper's horror, Done's luck has always been so good, and he doesn't seem to have any intention of stopping.

Even if the boss invites Don out of his store with a black face today, what about Don En coming every day in the future?

"Wow! Finally stopped! ”

"Is this a miss?"

Don finally ended the game "very unlucky", and a row of "9" numbers appeared on the screen, and the shopkeeper who watched it blacked out. The machine frantically spat out small steel balls, spit for a few minutes, but suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong, what's the situation?"

"Hey, it's not that this store can't afford to lose, so I don't want to play!"

"Boss, there's something wrong with your machine!"

The boss blackened his face and pointed to the manager's nose and whispered, "What's wrong!" ”

Now the pachinko shops in Japan G are all operating legally, although the law has no way to ban them, but it also puts a tight spell on these shops, which can be regarded as a balance of power between the two.

Therefore, the general video game store will never dare to do anything with the machine, because the storefront, which is originally a gray industry, if it is caught by others in violation of the law, the result will definitely be that the Japanese government will rush to bring people to collect the stolen goods.

So, as soon as he saw that there was something wrong with Donn's machine, the boss immediately became nervous, this can't be the bold boy under his hand who made his own decisions and manipulated the machine, right?

"Boss, no!"

How could the manager not understand what his boss meant, and hurriedly whispered: "No one does anything, but ...... The little balls are gone! ”

The boss was dumbfounded.

Pachinko shops are divided into two kinds, one is to reward small steel balls placed next to the player, although this mode consumes a lot of small steel balls, but it will give players a greater sense of harvest and win the player's love. The other is in the form of scoring, which will not give you a physical small steel ball, but will give you points.

This store is obviously the first type, in fact, they have prepared a lot of small steel balls, a full thirty boxes of spare, under normal circumstances, even if the video game store is full, it is impossible to use these small steel balls. After all, in terms of probability, Pachinko must be a machine that makes the boss money.

However, the odds, in front of Don, who was quietly cheating, completely became a joke.

The boss's face darkened, and he understood that something had to be done, otherwise his store might really be in crisis.

"This gentleman, the small steel balls in the small shop have been temporarily exhausted, and the clerk needs to replenish them. If you don't mind, can you let the contemptible treat you to a cup of tea, your skills are what I have seen in my life, I want to make friends with you. ”

Tang En raised his head and looked at the boss lightly, his face expressionless.

"What is this for, can't you afford to lose?"

"Haha, I finally can't sit still, I know this guy, it's the owner of this shop?"

"This black shop has finally met a master, Lao Tzu lost a few thousand yuan today, it must be because the machine in this store is manipulating, and no one pays attention to me when I go to report it!"

Tang En didn't speak, while watching the lively players couldn't stand it at first, Tang En was still expressionless, and the cold sweat on the boss's face came down.

Although the pachinko shop is profitable, the competition is also fierce, and he has no big background as the boss, so he attaches great importance to word of mouth, and once the reputation of the store is broken, then he may not be able to gain a foothold in this industry in the future.

Just when the boss was anxious to add fuel to the fire, Tang En relieved him and said, "Okay, just give me a glass of water." ”

The boss was overjoyed, nodded and led Don into the reception room. The two of them exchanged a few polite words, and the boss saw that Tang En didn't like to talk, so he went straight to the point.

"Sir, here's a check for 3 million yen, and you've earned a total of 1,370,000 yen in my shop today, and I'm here for 3,000,000 yen, more than double what you've earned."

Tang En's eyes didn't squint, but he asked rhetorically, "What do you mean?" ”

Seeing that Tang En was unmoved, the shopkeeper was ruthless, took out a stack of 10,000 yuan bills, and said, "There is still 1 million yen in cash here, plus this check for 3 million yuan." I'm not going to talk nonsense, as long as my husband leaves my shop immediately today, and promises not to come to my shop to play pachinko in the future, then the money is yours. ”

Hearing this, Tang En couldn't help but glance at the boss, he came here to make money, to take out some small things, originally he thought that he would make a fuss, so that these shop owners would really bleed, but he didn't expect this boss to be really courageous.

Don didn't speak, the shopkeeper's face became darker and darker, this was already all the liquidity he could use for the time being, if Don En was not satisfied, he could only pay out of his own pocket.

But at this moment, Don nodded and said, "Yes, originally I just came to try this kind of game, but I wasn't really interested." ”

A tear fell from the corner of the shopkeeper's eye, and he said in his heart: "Fortunately, you are not interested, if you are interested in this, I am afraid that you alone will ruin the entire industry." A man who does not rely on skill and relies solely on luck to outperform the odds is simply the natural enemy of this industry! ”

"However, I see that you can redeem prizes in your store, and I am interested in something."

"No problem, just choose! Honda, come and take Mr. to pick up a few souvenirs! ”

As soon as he saw that he could send away the plague god, the shopkeeper immediately jumped up, not to mention a few souvenirs, even if Tang En asked for an extra million, he would have to recruit it correctly, unless he wanted to smash his shop sign.

Ten minutes later, Donn shook off the fanatical players who worshipped him as a great god and walked to a secluded corner. He has no interest in deliberately taking advantage of others, making money is for the convenience of life, and he chose a fox mask as a gift, and the rest is the necessities of this operation.

A large bag of small steel balls.

Although he was very puzzled about Tang En's desire for Xiao Gangzhu, he could only suppress his doubts in his heart, and if he could send Tang En away for a minute earlier, it would be easier to do it earlier.

Anyway, it's just some small steel balls, and they don't have any lethality, can they still be used as cannonballs?

However, he didn't know that these small steel balls, this bag of hundreds of small steel balls, were the cannonballs in Don's hand.

Seeing that there was no one around, Don put on a mask and flew high into the night sky in an instant, until he flew a few hundred meters and even the lights dimmed, and then flew towards the headquarters of ARGUS.

Unlike SAO's high-profile profile, SAO's development company, ARGUS, can be said to be unusually low-key, as a game development and research company, ARGUS is a company that can't even find the company's location.

Although there is an ARGUS address on the Internet, after Tang En confirmed, it is just an office, and the real scientific research force and SAO's server are in a remote suburb.

IT WAS ONLY AFTER TANG HACKED INTO THE PRIVATE MAILBOXES OF SEVERAL RESEARCHERS THAT HE FOUND ARGUS'S REAL ADDRESS FROM A JOB POST.

This anomaly aroused Don's alarm. Generally speaking, a scientific research organization with such a degree of secrecy must be inseparable from the state and the regime.

If you think about it, this scenario is also very likely, and even inevitable.

No matter how talented Akihiko Ashwaga is, his research needs to be supported by someone behind him, and he almost single-handedly developed the quantum computer and endowed it with computational logic.

However, now, Akihiko Kayaba is still alive and well, and he can even study with peace of mind in a situation that is not completely confidential, and there must be personnel around him to protect him.

The mysterious character who only shows his face once at the end of the novel, Seijiro Kikuoka, a government official who was a lieutenant colonel of the former Japanese Self-Defense Forces, all this seems to be not difficult to explain.

The backer behind Akihiko Kayaba is the Japanese government, and the purpose of the government's support for Akihiko Chewba is mostly because it is optimistic about the value behind the fully submersible technology developed by Akihiko Chewba, and maybe there is also the purpose of revitalizing the Japanese G with this thing.

However, Akihiko Kayaba pitted everyone and used the support of the entire Japanese government to fulfill his so-called childhood dream.

Of course, Akihiko Kayaba's contribution cannot be erased, after all, he raised the scientific level of the whole world and ushered in a new era of science.

"Is this it?"

Donn looked at the complex of buildings deep in the mountains, in the middle of the dense forest. The entire complex is surrounded by five-metre-high concrete walls, and all the buildings inside look the same, and there are no signs, so I don't even know what the purpose of each building is without someone to guide you.

Looking closely, Don didn't see the direct garrison of the Self-Defense Forces, but this is not difficult to understand, after all, at this time, the Japanese G is still under the control of the United States. The U.S. G will definitely not allow the Japanese G-to have technology beyond their strength, so the biggest secret object of these buildings is mostly the U.S. G.

If the Self-Defense Forces are directly dispatched, isn't that a clear sign that there are military secrets here?