I Can Gain One Skill Point Per Second - Chapter 309: Giant Divine Soldier Before the Waterfall! Breakthrough Probability 0%!
Chapter 309: Chapter 309: Giant Divine Soldier Before the Waterfall! Breakthrough Probability 0%!
“Holy crap! It’s the forbidden zone!”
“How long has it been since we last heard this BGM?”
“At least over a month!”
“Is another big shot tackling the Oasis again?”
“Let’s go take a look!”
In an instant, crowds of gamblers on the 27th floor.
Ears were perked up.
Anyone who could make it to this floor knew about the legendary giant pinball machine at Cloud Peak Entertainment City.
They had tried playing it before.
But none had ever made it to the fifth zone.
Surpass this stage,
and the ultimate prize awaits!
The tense and exciting BGM, combined with the extreme light effects.
No one could help but get excited.
Spotlights were also directed towards Lin Yi’s location.
Undoubtedly, it was the casino’s doing.
So all eyes in the room would focus on the player with the real chance at the ultimate prize.
Pop, pop, pop…
Endlessly shooting pinballs.
Dazzling light effects.
Coupled with dynamic BGM.
Lin Yi instantly became the star of the show.
Countless eyes turned towards him.
Lin Yi, of course, noticed the crowd gathering around.
This also indirectly indicated one thing.
That getting into the fifth zone was really rare.
Otherwise, not so many would gather to watch.
Understanding this,
Lin Yi pondered for a moment and then released control of the two steel balls he was maneuvering into the Oasis Zone.
Then he splurged once more, exchanging for 2 billion Sallis worth of pinballs!
Clatter, clatter!
Piles of pinballs poured into the pinball chamber beneath Lin Yi.
The onlookers grew even more excited.
“Holy shit!”
“How much did he change now?!”
“Judging by depth, it’s at least 400,000 pinballs!”
“Whoa! Doesn’t that mean he spent at least 4 billion Sallis?!”
“That’s right!”
“We’re kneeling to this big shot!!”
“The last time I saw someone spending this lavishly was ages ago!”
“What the hell are you babbling about?!”
“Hahaha, don’t you remember how long it’s been!”
“It’s rare to see someone with enough money to bulldoze the Endless Oasis. The hope is slim!”
“Clearly, this big shot got lucky. I heard someone calculated it takes around 1.8 billion Sallis to produce one pinball entering the fifth zone, the Divine Forbidden Area in the Oasis Zone.”
“Judging by the pinball chamber, he’s only shot out roughly 800 to 900 million pinballs and already gotten three or four in.”
“Those odds are terrifying!”
“Look at his technique, all the controllable levers seem perfectly timed!”
Exclamations came one after another.
“Wow, it’s amazing. I wish I could give it a try too…”
Feng Sanyou’s eyes were full of envy.
Sun Dachuan slapped the back of his neck: “Do you even realize your worth?”
“You who lose 10,000 chips at lightning speed in 10 seconds at the casino, just keep quiet.”
Nangong Ling scolded: “You’re not much better.”
“After winning a million, you lost it all in one go and shamelessly came to borrow from me.”
“It’s good enough you didn’t hold us back.”
After Nangong Ling’s reprimand, Sun Dachuan felt a bit embarrassed.
Not only did he lack luck in gambling, but his gambling conduct wasn’t great either.
While they conversed,
an exclamation erupted from the spectators.
“Oh no!”
“What a shame!”
“It almost reached the Celestial Falls!”
“Why did it fall off?”
“Too bad, it’s a total wipeout!”
The four pinballs Lin Yi just got into the Oasis Zone,
all dropped out of the Oasis Zone, and upon entering the Divine Forbidden Area, they promptly encountered Divine Punishment and were ejected!
The dynamic BGM disappeared, and all the light effects faded away.
In that instant, it felt like a mere dream.
“What a pity…”
“Don’t worry, this big shot still has hundreds of thousands of pinballs on the way, where there’s one, there’s a second!”
Of course, Lin Yi intentionally let those few pinballs hit the traps and get ejected.
Otherwise, it’d be too obvious.
…
On the 27th floor, in one of the rooms in the loft.
An executive with a gold nameplate on his chest stood with arms crossed, watching the monitor.
The screen naturally displayed Lin Yi trying to clear the Endless Oasis.
“Another rich but brainless fool has come knocking. Manager Durand, looks like the Oasis jackpot will exceed 70 billion today, haha!”
An old man with a hunched back, standing behind the executive, chuckled softly.
He was one of Durand’s confidants; as a core senior of the casino, Durand rarely appeared in the entertainment city.
Today he was merely on a routine inspection.
He never expected to stumble upon Lin Yi lavishing tens of billions of Sallis to challenge the Endless Oasis.
Naturally, he decided to stick around and watch.
“What’s the setting in front of the Giant Divine Soldier at the Celestial Falls today?” Durand asked, eyes fixed on the screen.
The final fifth zone of the Endless Oasis was almost three to four times larger and more complex than the starting Desert Zone.
To enter, pinballs first had to survive various jungle traps.
Even if they happened to make it to the Celestial Falls,
they would face the first super-difficult barrier of the entire game.
In front of the waterfall’s sluice gate stood two high-speed fans.
These fans spun at over 3,000 RPM.
Any pinball hoping to enter the Celestial Falls had to perfectly time its descent through the fan blades at the right moment to have a chance of getting through.
At such high speeds, most pinballs would be swatted away by the blades.
Even if one managed to get through during a momentary gap,
there was still a chance they’d be struck into the Falls at a bizarre angle by the fans.
The waterfall also contained boulders and restricted flow rates.
Without enough speed, it was still a failure!
Because it was nearly impossible for pinballs to breach the two fans’ blockage, gamblers dubbed them the Giant Divine Soldier.
This was the Gatekeeper before the Eye of the Oasis!
“Of course, it’s in automatic recognition mode, haha!” The old man cackled.
The so-called automatic recognition mode meant the fan speeds and frequency appeared indistinguishable to the naked eye.
But in reality, they were controlled by a central computer.
The computer could detect pinballs entering the fan zone at the microsecond level.
It then calculates their speed,
making slight adjustments to the fan blades’ speed to ensure a 100% hit rate!
In this mode, pinballs breaching the Giant Divine Soldier’s blockade was impossible.
This was one of the ultimate defenses of the 27th-floor Endless Oasis pinball machine!
Measures like these were typically active.
Only when senior management decided, based on public opinion surveys, that the jackpot’s collection phase was due,
would they send in an ’insider’ to retrieve the jackpot.
On that day, all defenses of the Endless Oasis would be deactivated.
Cheng Xiao’s calculation was ultimately wrong.
The true probability of entering the Eye of the Oasis wasn’t one in 926 billion,
but zero!
