In the twilight, the small colored lights on the pink claw machine are flickering, and a little girl with a shofar braid is holding her grandma's hand and looking up.
Lin Zhaoxi tossed the coin into the air to catch it, and walked to the claw machine.
"Sister, I can't catch this." The little girl said aggrievedly.
"We go for a walk every day, and we see a lot of young people trying to get a lot of coins, but they can't catch them." The old woman also said, "She just wanted to catch them, and today she wasted another 10 yuan."
Lin Zhaoxi originally just wanted to try to play, but she was suddenly overwhelmed with enthusiasm.
She squatted in front of the little girl: "I think I can grab it."
"Can't catch it?"
"Then I'll buy one."
little girl:"… "
Lin Zhaoxi took out her mobile phone and immediately began to search for the legendary cheats on catching dolls. There are many related posts and guides, she found the most detailed one from beginning to end.
Pei Zhi came with two glasses of Coke, Lin Zhaoxi took one and showed him the strategy: "Which one do you think is easier to catch?".
Pei Zhi swipe her mobile web page very fast, he looked up at the claw machine again: "You are on the left and the fifth one is counting."
"That Stitch?"
"Well, but..."
"But what?"
"Let's try it first."
After reading the guide and Pei Zhi's blessing, Lin Zhaoxi was full of confidence.
She put the Coke down, took a deep breath, and put the coin into the machine. The buttons on the machine flashed a burst of multicolored light. She held her breath and concentrated on controlling the rocker arm and pressing the direction keys according to the method mentioned in the guide.
The claws opened and fell quickly, grabbing Stitch's blue body directly and passing through the armpit. It is said that this is already the best grabbing position.
but…
The grip was lifted up quickly, and the strength of the small claws was almost as light as touching Stitch. A second later, the grip was back in place, and Stitch didn't move at all.
Lin Zhaoxi was shocked, this is too loose.
"I just said, it's impossible." The little girl shouted beside her legs.
Lin Zhaoxi picked up the Coke and took a big gulp to suppress her shock, then looked at Pei Zhi: "What was your 'but' just now?"
"Whether the doll can be caught or not should have little to do with technology, but mainly a matter of probability."
Pei Zhi put it mildly.
"Eh... gambling... machine?"
"The claw machine should be some kind of deformation of the gambling machine."
Pei Zhi took out his mobile phone and showed her what he had just found. Lin Zhaoxi leaned over, and Pei Zhi swiped the phone screen at an appropriate speed.
"Gripping power is divided into 'strong', 'weak' and 'none'. Stores can set the probability of grabbing, from 1/5 to 1/20, and the highest can be up to 1/200." Lin Zhaoxi paused, "So gripping power is the odds mechanism?"
"Um."
The boy also looked down slightly, so his breath was very close to her ear.
"It turned out to be a matter of luck." Lin Zhaoxi stepped back.
"So you can't catch it?" the little girl interrupted.
Lin Zhaoxi looked at Pei Zhi helplessly.
Pei Zhi put away his phone, turned around and walked to the cashier again. When he came back, he was holding a game coin in his hand.
Silver coins glistened.
"You bought two more drinks?" Lin Zhaoxi asked.
"Direct exchange, two yuan each." Pei Zhi replied.
The little girl looked straight: "Brother, you are so stingy, other boys buy a stack for their girlfriends to catch dolls."
"If it exceeds this price, it is more cost-effective to go directly to Taobao to buy."
Pei Zhi said while handing over the Coke in his hand, and Lin Zhaoxi took it.
The little girl was in a daze, and Lin Zhaoxi was also in a daze.
"Could you help me take a look at the side and choose the one you like." Pei Zhi said to her.
Lin Zhaoxi walked over, sure enough, the side view is better. Colorful plush toys are reflected on the glass, and the boy looks focused.
Holding two glasses of Coke, Lin Zhaoxi barely stretched out her index finger, poked the glass, and pointed to a fat gray penguin near the outside.
Pei Zhi nodded, and put the coin into the machine, and the small colored lights on the glass also flashed a dazzling light. But he didn't use any tricks, he didn't shake the joystick or press the keys desperately, he just let the claws just slightly move into the corresponding position.
Lin Zhaoxi leaned closer to the glass: "A little bit behind the clip to the left, that fat penguin."
"good."
The grabbing clip falls down, perfectly catches the penguin's center of gravity, and lifts it up. The mechanical claw moved to the top of the drop hole at a gentle speed, the grip was released, and the fat penguin fell down naturally.
The little girl was dumbfounded, and Lin Zhaoxi was even more dazed as she held two glasses of Coke.
Is it that simple
Pei Zhi bent down, took out the fat gray and white penguin from the exit, first took his own cup of Coke in her hand, and then handed the plush toy to her.
The shop is equipped with typical ktv lights, a series of lavender light strips, and the surrounding lights are dim and ambiguous.
Lin Zhaoxi's heart beat faster, but when she saw Gray Penguin's smiling eyes, what came to her mind was the picture of Pei Zhi directly opening Gao Qiuka when she was in elementary school. The "thank you" that she wanted to say turned into : "You are really... Ouhuang."
"Then let's go." Pei Zhi said.
Lin Zhaoxi held the Coke in one hand and the doll in the other, and just walked back to the box with him.
When they were seated, their table was so quiet that a needle could be heard.
Lin Zhaoxi took a sip of Coke. Somehow, she no longer felt nervous and embarrassed when she left. Knowing that Pei Zhi was allergic to alcohol, it didn't seem to be a problem.
—
The ktv event at the hot pot bar is obviously a night event, but Mr. Xie is old. After eating all the beef shabu-shabu, he was the first to say that he would go back and devote himself to academics.
Among the students, some like to play, and some are not very sociable. When he left, a small half of them also said that they wanted to go together.
It was after 8:00 p.m., some girls were going back to the school dormitory, and some were doing off-campus internships. The boys naturally wanted to show their gentlemanly demeanor and escort the girls back.
"It's only after 8 o'clock. It's very safe. Let's take a taxi by ourselves. What can we deliver?" The girls said.
"Then can we rub your car?" The boy said with a cheeky smile.
"Yes, aa."
Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi stood at the periphery of the crowd, and in her backpack was the little penguin that Pei Zhigang had caught.
The boys and girls said one by one, and decided to carpool separately according to where they want to go.
"How do you go back?" Pei Zhi asked her.
Just as Lin Zhaoxi was about to answer, she heard someone ask her, "Lin Zhaoxi, are you going back to school?"
"I'm going home. My home is in Jiangxia District, Jingling New Village."
The students gathered together began to discuss again, where is Jingling New Village in Jiangxia District, and whose car should she take.
"I wanted to take the bus, but now I seem to want to carpool together." She answered Pei Zhi in a low voice.
Pei Zhi nodded, and asked the other people's locations simply as he did when he asked her, and then started to circle people: "You can take a taxi together, ask the driver to take Zhongping Road, and let him down near the Second Courtyard."
"You take a taxi back to school together."
"You are all doing internships near the Science and Technology City. Take Zhonghuan to get off at Zhongshan Road, and see her off first, and then the two of you."
…
…
Pei Zhi seemed to have a detailed map of the whole city in his mind, and he simply planned who should go together, who should get off first and who should get off later. The students on the side of the road were stupefied, Lin Zhaoxi calmed down and expressed his composure.
Finally, Pei Zhi ordered two classmates, a boy and a girl, and said to her, "Let's go together."
—
In a taxi.
No one dared to let Pei Zhi squeeze into the back seat, so he was respectfully sent to the co-pilot.
Outside the car window, the night view of the city floated by. Lin Zhaoxi sat in the middle of the back seat with her schoolbag in her arms. The boys and girls around her are not good at speaking, including the taxi driver, they drive silently, and the surroundings are as quiet as possible.
Lin Zhaoxi originally wanted to chat with Pei Zhi to ease the atmosphere, but Pei Zhi kept looking down at his phone, occasionally telling the driver how to go.
So until the boy got off the car, Lin Zhaoxi had nothing to say, and then the girl got off the car, and the topic she had just thought of was interrupted again. In the end, only she and Pei Zhi were left in the car.
She was finally able to sit more comfortably, but there was a familiar barbecue stand outside, and the taxi had also driven to her door.
Suddenly, a WeChat voice prompt sounded in the car.
Lin Zhaoxi subconsciously flipped through her phone, and found that it wasn't her phone. The driver's expression was calm. On the co-pilot, Pei Zhi picked up the phone, pressed the answer button, and put it to his ear.
I don't know who is on the other end of the phone, Pei Zhi listened for a while, and replied very gently: "Come to Jingling New Village."
"In Jiangxia District."
"Have dinner and carpool home."
The boys answered in turn.
The person on the other end of the phone didn't know what they were shouting again. Pei Zhi listened patiently for a while, then raised his head slightly to look in the rearview mirror, and said, "Lin Zhaoxi."
The boy's eyes were clear, and Lin Zhaoxi's heart skipped a beat when he suddenly heard his name.
The driver stepped on the brakes, she leaned forward slightly, looked out the window, and she was already there.
While Pei Zhi was still on the phone, Lin Zhaoxi said in a low voice, "I'm going first, tell me the fare later, we'll aa."
After speaking, she opened the car door, and the night and the smell of barbecue came in.
"Wait." Pei Zhi suddenly stopped her.
"Ah, what's the matter?"
Pei Zhi pressed the microphone with one hand and looked back at her: "Do you have time later?"