Chapter 40
Si Chen had a total of 16,000 worth of heart yuan banknotes; the money that Xiao Zhao painstakingly saved up for medical expenses.
One game token was 800 and 16,000 heart yuan can only be exchanged for 20 tokens. And he had the gall to say that this was already discounted! It just goes to show how rotten the conscience of an unscrupulous merchant.
There also seemed to be something strange mixed in with the redemption list.
Si Chen glanced at it and ignored it.
No serious person would exchange that kind of thing. Jinjiang publishing would never allow it to be published!
He stuffed the paper money into the exchange window of the game machine.
The machine made the sound of coins colliding and then spit out 20 round game tokens into the bottom box.
The tokens were white, with a metallic luster. It felt a little like gummy candies when pinched.
In the hall, there were a total of 10 claw machines.
Points were marked on each claw machine; with a minimum 5 points per doll to a maximum of 100 points per doll.
Si Chen looked at the 5-point doll machine. Inside were palm-sized rag dolls, some in patient uniforms and some in the uniforms of the rehabilitation center’s staff workers.
The dolls were housed in the glass box, motionless. Their glass bead eyes looked straight at Si Chen.
The dolls worth 10 point had obvious animal features or had body parts replaced by mechanical prosthetics. They looked more aggressive.
The higher the exchange points, the weirder the dolls looked. The expressions on their face became colder and colder, more and more vicious.
Si Chen looked into the last claw machine. There seemed to have been a fight in this case. The glass was splattered with blood.
A doll, half the height of a human, was lying cramped inside, looking lazy. It looked like a very fat snake, a swim ring around its belly. Its mouth, able to stretch 270-degree wide, was constantly chewing.
Seeing Si Chen approaching, the broad-headed snake unfurled its fins on both sides and waved them towards him.
After becoming an Evolutionary, Si Chen read a lot of materials related to High-dimensional Creatures.
If he wasn’t mistaken, this broad-headed snake should be an imitation Winged Serpent God, a creature known for its viciousness.
Pixel Bear said that you could get points by catching dolls.
Being that they were in a supernatural world, these “dolls” obviously weren’t as simple as they seemed.
Si Chen had 20 game tokens in his pocket. He took out one and was going to use it to try catching a 5-point doll.
He put the game token into the coin slot. The lights on the claw machine lit up and the accompanying jingle was “Good Luck“.
Joyful music diluted the fear of the unknown.
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The dolls in the glass case came to life.
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In his early days, in order to catch the most dolls with the least amount of money, Si Chen had studied its theory for a long time and finally summed up his own set of empirical formulas.
The specific theory involves the two major fields of physics and mathematics. In short, after some calculation, Si Chen pressed the joystick.
The jaws caught the patient doll with perfect precision.
The patient doll didn’t have much expression but its excitement could be seen through its body movements.
It hugged the claw tightly and after a few seconds of pause, the claw slowly moved up, ready to take the doll out of the case.
Just when it started to move, the worker dolls became extremely manic. They stretched out their hands and grabbed tightly onto the patient doll’s lower body, their needlework eyes turning red.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah—-!!!”
The patient doll let out a wail so loud and painful that it made Si Chen’s eardrums ache.
The patient doll wasn’t willing to let go. It clung desperately to the steel claw. Its lower body was stretching longer and longer because of the other dolls.
Finally, the cloth tore and the doll’s lower body was forcibly ripped off. The white cotton stuffing turned red like blood.
The claw had lifted the doll into the air.
Felt organs fell from the doll’s torn body. Liver, kidney, intestines…all fell onto the pile of dolls.
The doll wailed in pain but fortunately, it successfully slid down the pipe to the extraction port.
Si Chen took out the patient doll, its hospital gown already stained red with blood.
Si Chen squeezed it but the doll made no sound.
It didn’t do anything special when taken out of the box.
However, in the long and narrow aisle leading to the operating room, there was the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.
Si Chen has a good nose.
The smell of blood wafted from the dark corridor and there was the slight rustling sound of cloth rubbing against the floor.
Someone was crawling laboriously across on the ground.
Si Chen waited quietly and a minute later, a man covered in blood crawled out of it.
He was wearing a hospital gown and was missing his lower body. He crawled with difficulty, dragging long trails of blood all across the floor.
The man raised his head, revealing a hideous and terrifying face.
This was a zombie.
It growled and crawled towards Si Chen. His mouth gaped in unabashed desire to eat.
Si Chen shot it immediately.
The bullet pierced the zombie’s forehead and exploded in its skull. Pink brain matter flowed out.
The doll in Si Chen’s hand exploded at the same time and the cotton wool overflowed from between his fingers.
The zombie that had come out of the corridor to the operating room died. But the doll in Si Chen’s hand came alive.
It scratched its head and murmured, “Where’s my head…?”
Its head had exploded. The patient doll had no eyes and all it could see was black.
Xiao Zhou raised his trident, a fierce look in his eyes.
Si Chen observed for a while and found that the doll showed no signs of aggression. It did nothing other than look for its head all over the floor.
Like Xiao Zhou, this too was now a doll who’d ‘surrendered’.
The game console updated Si Chen’s personal information.
[Player Si Chen]
Points: 5.
Number of dolls: 2.
After this simple experiment, Si Chen understood how these claw machines worked. Take out a doll from the machine and a corresponding monster will appear outside the operating room; after killing the monster, you’ll get an ally doll.
Si Chen still had 19 coins. From a conservative point of view, he had just enough tokens to get twenty 5-point dolls.
But that was assuming that he wouldn’t miss even a single time.
Si Chen decided to start with the 5-point dolls. If he fails, he’ll go and catch some 10-point dolls. It’s impossible he’d fail every time.
The upper limit of points he set for himself was 30. There was no way Si Chen was going to try for those dolls that looked as though they could easily kill.
Si Chen put in a new token and happily picked up a new doll.
This time, it was a staff doll that came out.
A minute later, a fat doctor came out of the alley. His face was blue and purple, his tongue was so long that it brushed against the ground. And, he was missing two arms.
The zombie doll in Si Chen’s pocket rushed out, screaming and wrestling with the man several times its size.
A few minutes later, there was a staff doll at Si Chen’s feet.
After catching 15 dolls in a row, Si Chen had accumulated 75 points.
He murmured, “It doesn’t seem too difficult…”
But Si Chen didn’t dare continue grabbing the 5-point dolls. The more he played, the greater the probability of missing. If he misses his 20th catch and turns up just five points short, it would be a deathly shame.
Si Chen’s feet were already littered with dolls.
He moved to the 10-point claw machine.
Unbeknownst to him, in the hospital head’s office, Dr. Xiong was on the phone. “You promised me that he couldn’t get enough points.”
The voice on the phone replied, “I’m sorry, there seems to be something wrong with the claw machines.”
Dr. Xiong was outraged, “I have worked for the House of the Mind for more than a hundred years. Though I’ve made no achievements, I’ve worked hard and done my job. You can’t do this to me!”
“That’s the rule.”
The doctor’s voice was exasperated, without the elegance and tone of hospitality at the beginning of the instance. “The rule is to send me to die? You all know that I can’t get out of this office!”
He should have been the most powerful High-dimensional Creature in this Space Fold.
However, John Doe dragged him to die with him in the fire that year. After their deaths, their souls remained locked in battle day and night. The ghost doctor’s strength continued to weaken.
Some time ago, he had managed to defeat his lifelong enemy. But because of that, he became extremely weak and was in desperate need for nourishment. Only then did he sign up for this low-dimensional world.
Because Dr. Xiong did not have enough energy, only a Level A Space Fold was created.
In fact, in his heyday, Dr. Xiong would have made at least a Level 3A.
But, who could have predicted that he’d meet Si Chen as soon as he arrived here? — Si Chen, who doesn’t play his cards according to common practice.
The toy city on the third floor was his last line of defense and also the shelter promised by the “House of the Mind”.
The person on the other end of the phone paused. “I’m sorry. But we really… can’t do anything. Maybe you can pray for dawn to come quickly.”
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“We’re five points away.”
After grabbing two more 10-point dolls, Si Chen could feel his temples starting to ache.
This was a side effect caused by his intense mental calculations that consumed too much energy.
Si Chen had 3 game tokens left.
He took a deep breath and rubbed his temples. He mechanically inserted another token into the claw machine.
Before Si Chen could make a move, the dolls in the case suddenly jumped up like jumping spiders.
A crack appeared on the tempered glass from the impact.
Si Chen felt like he was faced with a great enemy. He was afraid that the glass would break and all these dolls pretending to be ghosts would jump out and attack him together.
Fortunately, that didn’t happen.
By the time the rioting had stopped, a new doll was hanging from the claw.
Sitting on Si Chen’s shoulder, Xiao Zhou said, pausing after each word, “Is, there, such, a, good, thing?”
Unlike the other dolls with missing arms and legs, the newly caught cotton doll had a complete body. It had one black and one white eye and a smiling face.
It was wearing a white dress.
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can we know a little more about white dress now!!
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White Dress!
Thank you for the chapter.
White Dress finally appears!! I can’t wait to see how he interacts with Si Chen. Thanks for the chapter!
Ohhh coming!!!
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Why everyone remember White Dress? And why am I not?
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