Chapter 262: Chapter 225: Cheating with a Superpower

"Yes, during our grand opening, besides Game Coins being 70% off their original price, if you spend over one thousand yuan, you also get a chance at the prize draw..."

"Okay, thank you."

Lin Li walked toward the area in the arcade for exchanging Game Coins. In a slightly more modern arcade like this one, exchanging Game Coins was all done by yourself at a change machine.

It wasn’t like a few years ago, where you still had to go to the cashier’s counter and have them make the exchange for you.

CLINK CLANK...

He scanned the QR code on the change machine and spent 30 yuan, getting a total of 100 Game Coins.

Lin Li put all the exchanged Game Coins into a small plastic basket. Then, cradling the basket full of coins, he searched the arcade for a game he wanted to play.

Games like the fishing machines, driving games, and shooting games were basically all taken, with no open spots.

After wandering around the arcade for a while, Lin Li saw that a shooting game not far from him had freed up.

Just as he was about to walk over to the game machine, he suddenly sensed a Spiritual Energy Wave appear a few meters away.

’First Rank Initial Stage?!!!’

’A Cultivator is using Spiritual Energy? It’s just a game, not a fight. Why use Spiritual Energy for this?’

’It couldn’t be for *that*, could it...!!!’

When Lin Li first sensed the sudden Spiritual Energy Wave, he was a little puzzled.

Then, he recalled some reports he’d seen on the news yesterday. They said some Cultivators were using their awakened Superpowers in arcades to carry out illegal schemes.

According to the news anchor’s detailed account, the Superpower Administration Bureau had recently cracked a case.

A Cultivator had been using their Superpower to cheat while playing a coin pusher at an arcade, ultimately winning a huge number of Game Coins.

Afterward, this criminal resold the ill-gotten Game Coins to other customers at a low price, causing a huge loss for the arcade owner.

Although Lin Li could sense a Cultivator using Spiritual Energy now, he couldn’t be certain if the person was using a Superpower to cheat. After all, he had to see it to believe it.

So, he walked toward the source of the Spiritual Energy Wave, wanting to see for himself.

...

A man in his thirties, about 1.7 meters tall with a medium build, was wearing a baseball cap and had a full beard.

He was holding a plastic basket with about ten Game Coins in it, standing in front of a coin pusher and silently watching the constantly moving machine.

Occasionally, the bearded man would reach into his plastic basket, take out a single Game Coin, and drop it into the machine.

CLINK CLANK.

The Game Coin dropped by the bearded man made a clinking sound, but it caused no ripples, and he didn’t win a single coin back.

Not many people were playing the coin pushers, because this type of game required a big investment and you were very likely to lose everything.

Plus, the bearded man would always observe for a long time before taking a single Game Coin from his basket and dropping it in, so no curious onlookers were standing by to watch him play.

He glanced left and right out of the corner of his eye and saw that no one was looking his way.

After dawdling for a long time, the bearded man reached out with his right hand and took an exquisitely crafted and very small Game Coin from his plastic basket.

Suddenly, a faint golden Spiritual Light flashed in the palm of his right hand, which was holding the Game Coin.

Immediately after, a faint golden gleam of Spiritual Light flickered across the surface of the exquisite Game Coin pinched in his fingers.

CLINK CLANK.

The bearded man dropped the Game Coin, now shimmering with a faint golden Spiritual Light, into the coin pusher.

Then, a surprising scene unfolded. After a series of clinking sounds, the Game Coin that had flickered with golden Spiritual Light actually landed upright in the pile of coins inside the machine.

’Move left... yes... stop right there... fall!’

The bearded man stared at the upright Game Coin in the machine, muttering to himself.

As he spoke, the upright coin moved according to his will and fell exactly where he wanted it to.

Anyone who saw this would know that the bearded man was using some kind of Superpower to manipulate the Game Coin and cheat.

Copying his previous move, the bearded man, taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to him, quickly took out all of his few remaining Game Coins from the plastic basket.

Faint golden Spiritual Light flashed across the surface of each coin.

He then dropped these Superpower-infused Game Coins into the pusher one by one.

Coin after coin landed exactly where the bearded man willed them to.

With each precisely placed coin, a chain reaction began.

The coins in the machine, which had seemed immovable for ages, began to slowly shift toward the payout chute.

When the bearded man dropped his very last Game Coin into the machine...

...a crisp, loud RATTLE came from the coin pusher.

It hit the jackpot.

A tall, pillar-like stack of Game Coins inside the pusher was disturbed by the bearded man’s final coin. After teetering a few times, it came crashing down.