Chapter 44: Success in the challenge would be terrifying, but he didn't want anything to happen...

"His nephew won't be able to use it, so you can just keep it." Fortunately, Fu Siyan took the initiative to speak and broke the deadlock. "If none of you want it, we can only give it to the children here."

"That's right, but to be honest, we don't really like dealing with children." Yan Mu agreed, "Actually, you can also use these to exchange for a few larger sizes at the front desk, whichever you like."

"By the way, you can also go home and tell your sister that you caught it. We don't mind." Yan Mu suddenly thought of something and added.

Finally, at the insistence of Yan Mu and Fu Siyan, Zhang Miao and Fang Chengyu each received a large doll, one to go back for his younger sister, and the other to go back for his older sister.

In addition, he was holding a small bag in his hand - if there was not enough left, he would exchange it for a bigger one.

"Brother Yu, you and Brother Jiang really don't want any of them?" Zhang Miao asked hesitantly, carrying two large bags.

"It's only enough to exchange for one. You both have a younger sister and an older sister, and we're both only children. If I take it back, I can only give it to my mother—and she probably won't be interested."

"But I think you really want that big stuffed goose."

Yu Xiang: “…”

I saw a hint of unnatural expression flash across his face. After holding it in for a while, he tried hard to squeeze out an expression of indifference: "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I like it..."

"Stop being stubborn and come with me." However, Jiang Ci interrupted him directly, grabbed Yu Xiang's wrist without saying anything and headed in one direction.

"Hello?! Where are we going??" Yu Xiang was led away by Jiang Ci with a confused look on his face, shouting as he walked.

"What's going on? Wait for us!" Seeing this, Zhang Miao hurriedly chased after him.

"Oi, do you feel that this kind of domineering behavior is very similar to what you did when you first went out to play with me?" Yan Mu tried his best to suppress his laughter, turned his head and asked Fu Siyan meaningfully.

The latter gave him a slightly innocent look in response: "Very domineering?"

Yan Mu crossed his arms and asked, "Isn't it?"

Fu Siyan smiled lightly: "I don't think so."

"Tsk, that's just nonsense." Yan Mu shook his head helplessly, but didn't say much. "Let's go, let's join in the fun."

Also rushing to the scene to join in the fun were Zhang Miao and Fang Chengyu, who hadn't yet realized what was happening.

After the group followed one after another, they realized what Jiang Ci was doing with Yu Xiang - he probably wanted to use his own strength to catch dozens of small dolls, and then exchange them for the plush goose that Yu Xiang wanted.

Very challenging practice.

"Are you really going to do this?" Yu Xiang was sweating profusely from the sidelines. "I think we should stop wasting our coins. We won't be able to catch many. The claw machine is a huge pitfall..."

Before he could finish his words, he saw Jiang Ci controlling a doll that he had grabbed with his claws and moving it shakily to the top of the cave entrance, and then falling in accurately.

Jiang Ci bent down, fished out the doll, and stuffed it into Yu Xiang's hand: "Here."

Yu Xiang's face was almost numb: "...Believe me, this must be just a coincidence. Maybe I just happened to encounter the guaranteed result. The next one won't be so easy."

As soon as he finished speaking, the next doll entered the hole.

Yu Xiang: “???” This is fake, right? How is this possible? Is the machine malfunctioning? Can these weak claws really pick up the doll?

So Yu Xiang, who didn't believe it, reached out and took two coins from the basket that Jiang Ci had placed aside, and stuffed them into the coin slot of the claw machine next door, intending to try it himself.

As expected, the claw only loosely grabbed a doll, moved it shakily for a short distance, and finally fell down very close to the cave entrance.

Yu Xiang's hand was still on the joystick, and he stared at the doll inside through the glass with mixed feelings, thinking that there was nothing wrong with the machine.

Could it be that Jiang Ci did something?

"Come on, come on, support every dream." Yan Mu stepped forward with his long legs, took out a large pile of game coins from somewhere, and put them all into the basket of coins next to Jiang Ci. "These are the leftovers we just played. It would be troublesome to return them. You're welcome."

He moved so quickly that Jiang Ci had no time to refuse and could only say thank you.

"Yu Xiang." He suddenly stopped what he was doing, turned around and called Yu Xiang in a light tone.

"What's wrong?" Yu Xiang turned around when he heard the voice.

"You can go play other projects with them first."

Yu Xiang glanced down at the basket of coins, which was still quite full. He was still very suspicious that these were not enough for Jiang Ci to make coins. Moreover, he was also curious about how many coins Jiang Ci could catch with these coins. So he replied, "I think it's more interesting to watch you catch them here."

"Okay." Jiang Ci naturally couldn't force him, "Then do you want to try it?"

Yu Xiang shook his head like a rattle and refused without a second thought: "I don't want to. There's no sense of accomplishment in playing, it's all just a waste of money."

Jiang Ci raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this: "Are you worried about my money?"

"Of course..." Yu Xiang immediately sensed something was amiss after answering, especially after feeling Yan Mu's meaningful gaze. He quickly tried to find a way to justify himself, "I, I mean, I'd feel bad no matter whose money it was... Wait, why are you saying this? Isn't that the point? Hurry up, catch it if you have to, or you'll be late for dinner..."

He wanted to say "it's your turn to treat", but he had an inexplicable intuition that with Jiang Ci's terrible view of money and generosity, he might not regard this as a threat at all, but would gladly accept it.

That was terrible, he didn't want things to turn out like this.

So when the second half of his sentence was on the tip of his tongue, he abruptly changed his tone and said, "You, you go get in line."

"Okay." Jiang Ci agreed.

For the next period of time, Yu Xiang, Yan Mu and Fu Siyan were watching Jiang Ci's battle with the claw machine. Zhang Miao and Fang Chengyu were halfway through watching when they became interested and each spent some coins to try it out.

However, the ending was not very good. After feeding all ten coins to the machine and still coming back empty-handed, they stopped in time and went to play other things.

When they came back after playing around, they found that Jiang Ci had a small cart next to him, the same one that Fu Siyan had pushed just now, and there were many dolls piled in it.

"How could there be so many?" Fang Chengyu was surprised and curious as he stepped forward to roughly count them. "How many coins do I need to catch these?"

"More than a hundred, probably less than a hundred and fifty." Yu Xiang answered casually.

"Doesn't that mean it's less than ten coins per day?" Zhang Miao gasped. "That's not right. Why didn't Lao Fang and I just spend ten coins and get nothing?"

"Because he will catch it, but you won't." Fu Siyan glanced at them indifferently and said.

"No way, he can do this too?" Zhang Miao was really starting to doubt his life. He quietly slid over to Yu Xiang and asked in a low voice, "When did he learn this technique? He didn't learn it right away, did he?"

"According to his admission just now, he learned it a long time ago." Yu Xiang's expression was more complicated than at the beginning.

"So great? Did you know about this?"

Yu Xiang said with a wooden face: "Just telling a joke, I just found out about it too."

"How could that be, Brother Yu? Didn't you grow up with him?" Zhang Miao rubbed his chin, thinking frantically, "Then this is a serious matter. How could he learn from you without your knowledge?"

Yu Xiang: "Yeah, how could he learn it secretly behind my back?"

There was a certain gnashing of teeth in his words. Zhang Miao felt a chill run down his spine and couldn't help but wince. "This is too much, Brother Yu. You have to fight back."

Yu Xiang gave him a strange look: "How do you fight back?"

This question stumped Zhang Miao. After pondering for a moment, he answered uncertainly, "Uh... maybe I should learn something secretly and then scare him?"

Yu Xiang asked back: "For example?"

Zhang Miao raised his hand and wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead. "For example, if he suddenly gets 150 on a math test? He'd be scared to death."

Yu Xiang rolled his eyes speechlessly at him. "I'm not sure if it will scare him to death, but he will definitely be pissed to death."

Zhang Miao was stunned. "Angry to death? Why? Angry that he couldn't even beat you on the test?"

Yu Xiang: "Stupid guy, there's no way I could get 150 on the test, even if my ancestors' graves smoked. He's definitely going to be mad at me for cheating."

"Idiot—" Fang Chengyu heard this outrageous conversation as soon as he came over, and mercilessly mocked Zhang Miao in his ear, "How on earth did you manage to get into our school with your brain?"

Zhang Miao stood up straight and defended himself, "Of course I could have imagined that. I just thought, since it's all just fantasy, why not be a little bolder?"

"Please, there's no need to express your unrealistic fantasies out loud." Fang Chengji continued to mock.

"Aren't you ashamed to say that? Who is it that always drags me into unrealistic daydreams? He even talks about starting a big company, becoming his own boss, and marrying a beautiful and gentle wife..."

"How is that unrealistic? It's totally possible, right?"

"Then you'd better do what you say."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Yu Xiang saw the two idiots quarreling for no apparent reason and spoke up to stop them. "The teacher is still here. Can you please calm down a little?"

The two of them only then realized that there were two teachers here. They shut their mouths immediately, secretly confirmed that Yan Mu and the others should not have noticed them, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"That should be enough, let's go." Jiang Ci had finished the battle at this time, and walked in front of Yu Xiang with the remaining coins.

"What? They've already caught all the coins?" Zhang Miao immediately lowered his head to look at the basket in Jiang Ci's hand. "Are there even extra coins?"

"Yeah, there are still a few left." Jiang Ci estimated the number of remaining coins and asked Yu Xiang, "Do you want to play some arcade games?"

Yu Xiang took out his cell phone and checked the time. It was exactly half an hour before dinner time. He also felt like playing, so he simply agreed: "Sure." Watch how I torture you.

As he was thinking about it, a variable appeared.

"Arcade? I'm also itching to play. Want to PK? Fu Siyan and I will be on one team, and you two will be on the other." Yan Mu looked at him with squinted eyes, then pointed at Zhang Miao and Fang Chengyu, "Then the two of them will be on one team. Perfect."