The group of young delinquents who had dropped out of school early reminded Lin Yifeng of the few arcades still standing in the country.
Chaos prevailed, with the strong bullying the weak, petty theft, and brawls being common occurrences.
Seeing the thugs trying to snatch the game coins from his hand, Lin Yifeng's gaze involuntarily shifted to the bar.
He hopes the arcade owner or cashier can take care of this.
Clearly, Lin Yifeng was overthinking it.
The cashier at the counter wasn't even looking at them, and the arcade owner was busy breaking up the fight, so nobody paid any attention to Lin Yifeng.
Apart from his roommates.
"You son of a bitch, you dare to steal our coins?"
The first to step forward was Zhou Liangang. He was a big, burly man, and when he stood next to Lin Yifeng, the thugs opposite him couldn't help but get nervous.
The other roommates noticed Lin Yifeng's situation and walked towards him.
"Old Wang, Old Wang, stop staring! Brother Feng is being targeted by some thugs."
Although Sun Guowei was always jealous of Lin Yifeng's popularity with women in the dormitory, he was usually quite loyal to his friends. When he saw Wang Jianwei still standing behind an arcade game machine watching, he immediately shouted loudly to call him over.
The group of people around Lin Yifeng quickly overtook the thugs opposite him. Lin Yifeng calmly looked at the group and asked, "Want to borrow again?"
"I won't lend it anymore, I won't lend it anymore!"
The thugs across the way wisely left. Lin Yifeng glanced at his roommate standing beside him and a slight smile appeared on his face: "Brothers, you did a good job. You completely intimidated those thugs."
"A bunch of kids who haven't even grown their hair yet, and they dare to play with knives?"
Zhou Liangang was disdainful. Like Lin Yifeng, he was from the mountains. Before he left the mountains, he followed his father to play with guns and hunt.
To him, the fruit knives in the hands of the little kids were more like toys.
"Old Zhou, you're really fierce, but why didn't you bite back when the kid bit you just now!"
Sun Guowei brought up what had just happened in a cheeky manner, which angered Zhou Liangang so much that he raised his hand.
"I'm going to queue up to find a machine!"
Sun Guowei ran off in a flash, and the others dispersed when they saw that Lin Yifeng was alright.
Only Zhou Liangang remained standing beside Lin Yifeng.
"You're not going to bully the kids anymore?"
Lin Yifeng also jokingly teased Zhou Liangang, who sighed and shook his head: "There are too many people, there are simply no machines available."
"And there are too few types of games. There are only three or four fun games. Look how many people are queuing behind those few games."
"It's making me want to go back to school and play basketball."
"There are really too few types of games."
"The most crucial point is that it's too chaotic."
Lin Yifeng nodded. He was here today mainly to investigate the domestic arcade market.
Based on the current results, opening an arcade is not the best option at this stage.
First, the security environment is too poor. If Lin Yifeng were to open an arcade, he would at least ensure that no one is robbed or fights occur inside the arcade.
Currently, Lin Yifeng has no one under his command who can keep the place in check, so he can't very well ask Ye Wuzheng to send people to help him manage the place.
That would be a huge waste of talent.
"I can't possibly hire thugs as my underlings just to open an arcade."
"Being a gang leader is a stain on my reputation..."
Having been reborn, Lin Yifeng will not allow himself to be tainted or become a target of attack.
Lin Yifeng would never recruit thugs.
Otherwise, if a crackdown is launched in a few years, and the higher-ups find out that the gang leader is Lin Yifeng, then it will be a case of more harm than good.
Secondly, arcade machines are not easy to buy at the moment.
Lin Yifeng knew many people who could run arcade games in his previous life, but the key is that he has been reborn now.
Lin Yifeng knew them, but they didn't know Lin Yifeng.
“I can’t just go to the coast and specifically ask Yang Biaozi and his gang to get me arcade machines.”
"Given Yang Biaozi's personality, if I'm this arrogant, he'll either invite me to ride on foreign horses or drown me in the river."
Lin Yifeng couldn't help but grin as he recalled a business partner from his past life. Yang Biaozi was born with two hobbies.
One is to ride foreign horses by myself.
Secondly, he hired others to play with foreign horses.
As for drowning people in the river, this is not a hobby, but a means of deterrence.
Yang Biaozi lived a carefree life before the millennium, but in 2002, he was arrested. As for whether he ate peanuts or not, Lin Yifeng didn't know.
...
As things stand, arcades can only be considered as an alternative option.
Unless Lin Yifeng is particularly short of money, or the security situation suddenly improves, Lin Yifeng might launch the arcade project to make money.
As for the origin of arcade games...
At worst, Lin Yifeng could sacrifice himself to find Yang Biaozi and ride the foreign horse that Yang Biaozi gave him.
Lin Yifeng and his group stayed in the arcade for more than three hours, until Guo Fengsheng's game character died, before they left.
Guo Fengsheng is a low-key guy in the dorm, but he's really good at games. He played for more than two hours with just three game coins, and some of his moves amazed the onlookers behind him.
It was almost 2 p.m. when Lin Yifeng left the arcade. He sniffed the smell of smoke on his clothes and said with a look of disgust, "The smell of smoke in the arcade was too strong. It's only been three hours and I'm covered in smoke."
"The smell of smoke is okay, but there are a lot of fights. If it weren't for Lao Zhou being big and tough and looking intimidating, we probably would have gotten into a fight too."
"What do you guys want to eat? I suggest we go for braised noodles. I know a really good braised noodle place on this back alley."
"Then let's have braised noodles!"
"GOGOGO!"
Led by Liu Fugui, the group headed toward the dilapidated street.
Lin Yifeng, who was following in the crowd, wanted to say that he was going to his dormitory to change his clothes, but before he could finish speaking, he was pulled towards the run-down street.
Hebei Vocational University is not too far from Pojie Street. The group arrived at Pojie Street in less than 20 minutes.
It was past 2 PM, and there were hardly any people eating anymore.
When the group of seven arrived at the dilapidated street, Liu Fugui was surprised to find that not far from the noodle shop he had mentioned, several people were making a big fuss.
"What's the situation over there?"
"Why are people still making noise there at 2 a.m.?"
"It seems to be in front of Wallace's store. Is someone causing trouble at Wallace's?"
"Lin Yifeng, you seem to work at Wallace's, right? Do you know anything about it?"
The dormitory occupants' gazes shifted to Lin Yifeng, who, lagging behind the others, suddenly strode towards Wallace.
"I got food poisoning here. If you don't compensate me, who will?"
"What kind of lousy Western restaurant is this? It's so expensive, and it's not even clean. You get food poisoning and they don't even care. Is this how you run a business?"
"Pay back, pay back, pay back now!"
Lin Yifeng already knew what had happened before he even arrived.
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