24 Claw Machine

"Cheng Nuo! You didn't let me down!" Xiaoxiao's eyes were beaming with joy as she hugged the teddy bear tightly.

"Hahaha, you're welcome!" Cheng Nuo smiled and waved his hand.

Now he finally understood why couples loved to play claw machines. Having his ego flattered by a girl was something every guy would dream about day and night.

Xiaoxiao bounced about in front of Cheng Nuo and urged him to catch a toy for Mu Leng too.

Cheng Nuo replied without hesitation, "Sure. No problem."

"Hmph. I don't need him to give me anything," Mu Leng mumbled so softly that no one else could hear what she was saying.

Cheng Nuo inserted a game coin to activate the claw. His brain immediately started to process a large number of statistics.

"Distance: 56.21 cm, claw strength: 18.24 newtons, mass of toy: 0.44 kg…"

"Direction: 31.96 degrees SW, angle: 35.81 degrees, move 6.57 cm to the left and 18.22 cm forward…"

Cheng Nuo followed exactly the same method as before and caught another toy almost effortlessly.

"This one's for you, Sister Leng."

It was a silly-looking husky with huge, round eyes. Mu Leng was speechless.

After some hesitation, she accepted the toy.

"Forget it. I can't embarrass him in front of Xiaoxiao!"

Although she was not fond of Cheng Nuo, Mu Leng didn't want to hurt his ego in Xiaoxiao's presence.

"Cheng Nuo, Cheng Nuo! I want this! Can you help me get it?" Xiaoxiao asked in a cute voice, pulling Cheng Nuo's sleeve.

Her confidence in Cheng Nuo's claw machine skills had increased greatly after his two successful attempts in a row.

Xiaoxiao was pointing at a Spongebob plushie. The toy was squeezed between other toys, making it hard to reach.

Nevertheless, to Cheng Nuo, any request from a girl, especially a cute, young girl like Xiaoxiao, was hard to turn down.

"I'll give it a try."

After half a minute, Xiaoxiao was hugging a teddy bear in one arm and a Spongebob in the other. Her cheeks were rosy, apparently due to her good mood.

"Here's one for you, Sister Leng." Cheng Nuo didn't forget about Mu Leng. He got a Squidward for her.

By now, Xiaoxiao had started to look at Cheng Nuo differently. She was so amazed by his remarkable skills.

"Cheng Nuo! I want this!" Xiaoxiao stood with her arms akimbo, looking at the claw machine as if all the toys inside were hers.

"I mustn't waste Cheng Nuo's claw machine skills. I have to make full use of it!" she thought.

Hence, for the remaining time, no matter which toy Xiaoxiao wanted, Cheng Nuo always delivered. Until all their game coins had run out, Cheng Nuo hadn't failed even once.

Once the claw had been activated, something would surely fall into the hole!

In the end, both Xiaoxiao and Mu Leng were struggling to hold all the toys they'd gotten.

Initially, there were about 20 toys in the machine. But none were left after they had used all their coins.

Mu Leng stared at the empty claw machine in disbelief. She was at a loss for words.

On her side, Xiaoxiao was grinning from ear to ear, hugging her bag of toys.

"Cheng Nuo, there are too few toys in this machine. Let's move on to the next one!" Xiaoxiao said as she waved her hand happily.

Mu Leng was speechless.

"Is one whole machine of toys not enough for you? How many do you guys want?!"

However, Mu Leng was relieved at what Cheng Nuo said next. Cheng Nuo showed Xiaoxiao his empty hands and said, "But Xiaoxiao, we've run out of game coins,"

Xiaoxiao tilted her head and thought for a while. Soon, an evil smile emerged on her lips.

"Wait for me. I'll be right back!"

With that, Xiaoxiao scuttled off with more than ten toys in her arms.

Cheng Nuo looked at her curiously. Then he saw Xiaoxiao approach a young couple with her sweet smile. After a quick chat, Xiaoxiao handed a toy to the girl, whose boyfriend gave Xiaoxiao a few game coins in return.

She repeated the same trick on the other couples in the claw machine area. A few minutes later, Xiaoxiao walked back, humming a soft melody. She was radiating joy and happiness.

Xiaoxiao poured all the coins she had just exchanged in Cheng Nuo's hands with a crash.

Woahh!

Cheng Nuo counted and, to his surprise, there were 80 coins.

Xiaoxiao had just used around ten toys to exchange for 80 game coins. That was equivalent to about 4 Yuan per toy—a reasonable price. Some people might need to spend more than 20 coins to get one toy. Moreover, many young couples had mistaken Xiaoxiao for a cute, lovable middle school girl. That's how Xiaoxiao had managed to "sell" the toys so easily.

"Here, Cheng Nuo. Let's get more toys from this machine!" Xiaoxiao called over to Cheng Nuo when she found a vacant machine.

Cheng Nuo shrugged his shoulders and walked towards her.

Mu Leng felt sorry for the shopping mall, but she followed behind Cheng Nuo.

With the immense calculating power of his brain, Cheng Nuo didn't need to adjust the position of the claw repeatedly. He was simply following the set of instructions clearly laid out in his mind.

And he never failed. After 60 rounds, three more claw machines had been emptied.

Xiaoxiao had even gone to find a big bag just to contain the toys Cheng Nuo had gotten. "Wah! Cheng Nuo! What a bumper crop we've got!" Xiaoxiao exclaimed as she shoved the toys into the bag.

"Cheng Nuo, I think we should… stop," Mu Leng said softly, biting her lip.

It was impossible not to attract any attention after Cheng Nuo and Xiaoxiao had emptied three claw machines.

Moreover, Cheng Nuo's success rate was truly incredible too.

At that time, there were already four couples and two families discussing them near the claw machine area.

"Wah! Yang Jian, look at that boy! He's so good! How come he can get the toy every single time?!" a girl with an oval face said to her boyfriend.

"Hmph! He must have practiced for a long time just to impress that little girl beside him."

"Even so, he's still better than you. You don't even bother to practice. We've spent all morning and you haven't caught one single toy!"

"Well… You know I'm very busy now and I don't have time to practice! Next time, I'll get you all the toys you want!" the guy promised.

Deep down, however, he thought bitterly, "Damn him, how free must he be to spend time practicing useless skills like this!"

He thought that Cheng Nuo must have trained himself for hundreds of hours to become so skillful.