Chapter 5 A Streak of Good Luck

Wow!

In the digital store, the dozen or so onlookers instantly erupted.

“It’s really a laptop computer. The grand prize!”

“Holy crap! This luck is just too heaven-defying!”

“This is the best-configured God of War series computer, it costs fifteen thousand.”

“Brother, your luck is really second to none, winning two big prizes in a row.”

…

The crowd was full of envy.

Chen Feng, however, was dumbfounded at this moment. He originally didn’t believe he would continue to be so lucky, but reality was just that, he was having a continuous streak of good luck.

What on earth was going on?

At this moment, Chen Feng’s mind was full of question marks.

“Brother, hurry up and claim your prize!” someone kindly reminded him from the side.

Only then did Chen Feng wake up as if from a dream. He nodded to the lady boss whose smile was stiff, “Thank you, lady boss.”

The lady boss was extremely depressed. This was a high-configuration computer worth fifteen thousand, and she was really reluctant to give it away.

But with so many people on the scene, she definitely couldn’t go back on her word, nor could she try to fool him with a lower-end laptop. The model of the computer was clearly written on the announcement board.

The lady boss reluctantly went to get the brand-new laptop and placed it on the counter.

More than a dozen people crowded around to look, and even some people outside heard the commotion and came over to join the fun.

The lady boss endured the pain in her heart, turned on the computer in front of everyone, and then gave a detailed introduction of the laptop’s performance, while of course also taking the opportunity to advertise her store.

At the same time, she also announced that their store would continue to offer another one of these laptops tomorrow to replace it, and if someone was lucky, they could also win it.

With such a promotion, everyone present believed it. After all, someone had already won a Fruit phone before, and now someone had won the grand prize laptop. This couldn’t be faked.

Previously, some people had suspected that there was no grand prize laptop in these red envelopes, but now Chen Feng had won it.

Moreover, Chen Feng clearly didn’t look like a shill. The lady boss’s reluctant expression just now couldn’t be faked; otherwise, her acting skills could win an Oscar.

Therefore, many people on the scene planned to come back tomorrow to try their luck again.

However, they would obviously be ripped off. Because the lady boss, after painful reflection, had already decided not to even write the slip for the laptop tomorrow, so how could it possibly be won by anyone.

This time, if it weren’t for the sake of being prepared for any eventuality, she certainly wouldn’t have put up the grand prize red envelope, let alone hung it up directly.

Chen Feng, however, didn’t care about the lady boss’s thoughts. He cooperatively stood there and listened to her long speech. Finally, she issued him a receipt, and amidst the envious gazes of the crowd, Chen Feng walked away with the laptop.

Walking out of the digital store, Chen Feng couldn’t help but marvel at his good luck again.

This was simply too dreamlike!
These past two days had brought him more good things than he had encountered in the past twenty-plus years.

No one would believe it if he told them.

Of course, this streak of good luck was a bit late for him now. Because he could die at any moment.

The doctor hadn’t told him specifically how long he had left to live, but Chen Feng had searched online. Late-stage brain tumors generally meant only two or three months.

So, for a person with only two or three months to live to have a streak of good luck, unless it could extend his life, everything else was rather meaningless.

However, now that he was not short of money, Chen Feng certainly wanted to enjoy himself.

He first took the laptop back to his rental house, then went out again and drove to the nearest video arcade.

When he was in middle school, he loved video games, but later, as he grew older, he had no opportunity or time to play. But deep down, he had always had the wish to come to an arcade and have a good time.

Now that he was about to die, this wish certainly had to be fulfilled.

He first exchanged 100 game tokens, put them in a plastic basket, and went to play the claw machine first.

Clawing dolls is a popular game that many people love to play, but basically, very few people can successfully grab a doll.

This actually has little to do with skill and more to do with luck.

Basically, the claw machines in these arcades have been tampered with, making it difficult for people to easily grab dolls with skill.

Otherwise, the arcade would only lose money, not make it.

Of course, sometimes in order to attract customers, the merchants might deliberately lower the difficulty, allowing people to easily grab dolls, but this kind of thing is rare and unpredictable.

Chen Feng’s purpose was just to play, not to grab dolls. So, he randomly found a claw machine, inserted two tokens, and started playing randomly.

The first round, as expected, he didn’t catch anything. The second round, he continued, still nothing. The third round, Chen Feng randomly pressed the buttons, and as a result, he caught one, a rather cute teddy bear.

Looking at the doll that fell out, Chen Feng was stunned again, thinking to himself, this can’t be my good luck again, can it? Even playing this gets a luck bonus?
So, Chen Feng continued. The fourth round, nothing. The fifth round, he got another one, this time a monkey; the sixth round, it was a rooster…

In a total of ten rounds, Chen Feng actually caught five dolls.

And this was clearly not a matter of Chen Feng’s skill, but a matter of luck. He remembered the last time he played a claw machine was more than two years ago. At that time, he was dating Shen Lin, and they saw a claw machine when they went to a shopping mall and played a few rounds together.

Other than that, his memory of playing claw machines traced back to his high school days.

“Uncle, you’re so amazing. Can you teach me?”

While Chen Feng was in a daze, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl next to him suddenly spoke, looking at him with admiration and envy.

Besides this girl, quite a few people had gathered around him at this point, mostly young people in their teens and twenties.

They all had looks of admiration.

It was just that Chen Feng was too amazing, especially towards the end, he caught one with every try.

“Uh, well, I don’t really have anything to teach. It’s just good luck.”

“You’re lying,” the little girl said with some dissatisfaction. “I come here to play often, how come I’ve never caught more than a few? And you caught so many in one go. You’re deliberately hiding your secrets.”

This little brat! Chen Feng grumbled inwardly. Are all young girls these days so impolite?

“I’m really not lying to you. I’m done playing. Do you want these dolls? You can have them all.”

Chen Feng couldn’t be bothered to argue with this little girl and directly gave her the 5 dolls he had caught.

“Ah! Really? Thank you, uncle! You’re the most handsome, uncle!”

The little girl was overjoyed and bent down to take the dolls without any politeness. It was hard to hold all 5 at once, so she could only hug them tightly in her arms.

By this time, Chen Feng had already left and strolled over to a coin pusher machine.

This thing was basically a gambling machine. Looking at the coins on the edge, it seemed like they could be pushed down at any moment, but in reality, that was not the case at all.

Many people had been tricked by this thing, and many even became addicted, losing their fortunes.

Chen Feng wanted to test his good luck again, to see how heaven-defying it could be. So he casually inserted coins into this “gold-swallowing beast,” continuously inserting more than a dozen without any result.

Chen Feng was not surprised by this and continued to insert coins, putting in another dozen or so.

Just as Chen Feng was thinking that his good luck buff might have disappeared, he suddenly heard a clattering sound. The pile of game coins that was originally stacked high suddenly collapsed and poured down directly.

(End of Chapter)