prudence

Downstairs in the video game city are several floors of small shops, all of which are animation-related products.

When Lou Guo was a student, he had dabbled a bit, looking around all the way, watching with great interest.

"Maomao, do you want to take a stroll here?" He asked Lin Zhimao, "It seems quite interesting."

"Not interested." Lin Zhimao dismissed it.

The three quickly found a direct elevator.While waiting, Lou Guo noticed that Lin Zhimao's gaze was unnaturally looking aside.Following his line of sight, Lou Guo found a whole row of Ultraman card packs in the display area at the entrance of a store.

"You want this?" Lou Guo asked, pointing to the card case.

Lin Zhimao shook his head quickly: "No!"

Lou Guo recalled for a while: "I remember you said before... Are you collecting this?"

"That was before," Lin Zhimao was very upset, "I stopped playing for a long time. This kind of stuff is for deceiving children, only the first and second graders are interested."

Lou Guo wanted to laugh a little: "Aren't you a sophomore?"

"Strictly speaking, I'm a junior!" Lin Zhimao emphasized.

Lou Guo looked at him, suppressed a smile and shrugged.

"Anyway, I'm not interested," Lin Zhimao complained, "It's all a scam, cheap card packs can't get good cards at all, and the so-called guarantee of expensive cards is a good card with a lot of junk cards, good cards It may be repeated! Spending a lot of money is essentially just a few pieces of paper. And even if it’s all in place, a new card will be issued immediately, it’s just cheating money, and only fools play.”

He was so angry that the emoji on his head turned red, but he made Lou Guo amused.

Afraid of hurting the little boy's self-esteem, Lou Guo lowered his head and forced his lips together to suppress a smile, and nodded from time to time in line with Lin Zhimao's angry accusation.

"What are you laughing at?" Lin Zhimao asked.

"No," Lou Guo turned his head, "I..."

I wanted to quibble a few words, but suddenly got stuck.Because he found that Jian Lingsa was staring at him, with a lot of familiar and enthusiastic symbols floating on his head.

Lou Guo's heart beat half a beat faster in an instant.

At this time, the long-awaited elevator made a ding-dong sound and opened the door.

Walking out of the elevator, Lou Guo couldn't help sighing repeatedly.

Looking around, they were greeted by dozens of claw machines neatly arranged, and the whole hall was colorful.

"What kind of girly world is this?" Lou Guo looked at the macaron-colored wallpaper and the various lively and cute cartoon shapes on it, "It's so childlike!"

Going further inside, in addition to the doll catching machine, there are also some amusement machines such as playing billiards and shooting hoops.

Surrounded by ding-ding-dong-dong electronic sound effects, mixed with the sounds of children and young people frolicking, Lou Guo, who was already dazzled, became dizzy for a while.

He quickly put on his glasses and asked, "Maomao, what do you want to play?"

I saw Lin Zhimao grimacing, looking at another larger area separated by the decorative fence.

There is a sign at the only entrance to the decorative fence: Do not enter if it is not full.

"This is the game console!" Lin Zhimao said.

Lou Guo crossed the fence and looked in, and the rows of game consoles were brilliantly displayed. The battle, racing, and shooting games were exciting and interesting to watch.

"Do you like those?" Lou Guo asked.

"Otherwise," Lin Zhimao muttered, "whoever wants to grab a baby, what's the point of grabbing a baby?"

"Catching dolls is boring." Lou Guo walked to a nearby machine and looked inside, "Look at how cute this little penguin is!"

"Boring." Lin Zhimao said.

Lou Guo has already developed a strong interest in those naive little guys in the display cabinet.He walked half a circle around the machine and decided to exchange some tokens to try it out.

He raised his head and found that Lin Zhimao was still standing there stupidly, but Jian Lingsa was gone.

"What about others?" Lou Guo asked Lin Zhimao.

Lin Zhimao turned around and pointed to the service desk not far away.

Jian Lingsa was already exchanging tokens.

After a while, Jian Lingsa came back with a whole box of neatly arranged game coins.

"Here," he handed the box to Lou Guo, "try."

Lou Guo was inexplicably ashamed.

In order to ease his emotions, he yelled loudly on purpose: "Wow, do you look down on me, do I need so much to catch me?"

"Then catch a few more," Jian Lingsa said.

"Catch it quickly," Lin Zhimao beside him was listless, "I'm done catching and leaving."

"Let's go now? Wouldn't it be in vain?" Lou Guo said.

"But I can't get in," Lin Zhimao complained, "Anti-addiction also allows me to play a little bit every week, and there is a one-size-fits-all here!"

Lou Guo frowned and looked him up and down several times, then turned to look at Jian Lingsa.Jian Lingsa was obviously thinking the same thing, and nodded at him.

"Do you want to give it a try?" Lou Guo leaned over and offered a bad idea to the child, "Be more confident, walk in with your head held high, people may not stop you."

Lin Zhimao opened his eyes wide, suddenly realized, and turned to look at the staff sitting at the entrance.

"Go?" Lou Guo urged.

Lin Zhimao took a deep breath: "Go!"

The three of them tried their best to pretend to be natural and calm, and walked in in a line.The staff members were playing with their mobile phones with their heads down, but immediately raised their heads when they saw someone coming.

Lin Zhimao walked in front of Louguo, walking nervously like a robot.

Just two steps in, the staff member said: "Hi, please show your ID card."

Lin Zhimao paused and turned around stiffly.

The staff member repeated: "Hello? Could you please show me your ID card?"

Following the line of sight of the staff, Lin Zhimao blankly looked at Lou Guo behind him.

Lou Guo was even more confused, raised his hand and pointed at himself: "Me? You called me?"

"Please show your ID card." The staff looked directly at him and said with a smile.

Lou Guo asked the sky speechlessly, while taking out his ID card from his pocket, he complained: "I'm already 23! How do I look like a minor?"

"It may be related to the glasses." Lin Zhimao tried to analyze.

After the staff confirmed that Lou Guo was indeed an adult, the three of them finally entered the paradise that Lin Zhimao was looking forward to.Lin Zhimao excitedly ran to change the game coins, and then extended an invitation to Lou Guo.

Lou Guo was also very interested in these game devices, and immediately put the claw machines behind him.

The two chose a fighting game that could be used against each other, and played five rounds in one go.Lou Guo lost four games in a row. In the end, Lin Zhimao couldn't bear it, so he let him get back a game.

Although he was beaten to pieces, Lou Guo was still very happy.

Afterwards, the two switched to zombie shooting, teaming up with machine guns to shoot at the zombies walking on the 3D screen, which was very exciting.

Suddenly overwhelmed, Lin Zhimao became interested in the motorcycle racing not far away.Lou Guo followed him to the equipment and was about to ride it when he suddenly realized that he hadn't seen Jian Lingsha for a while.

There was a lot of noise all around, he looked around, there were quite a few people, but there was no sign of Jian Lingsha.

"Are you looking for Brother Jian?" Lin Zhimao said, "He just went out."

Lou Guo looked outside the isolation fence, and after searching for a while, he caught Jian Lingsa who was looking focused in front of the claw machine with the little penguin.

"It's about to start," urged Lin Zhimao, who was already straddling the motorcycle, "insert the coins!"

Lou Guo hesitated for two seconds, and handed all the game coins in his hand to Lin Zhimao: "You play first, I'll go out to catch my breath!"

When she quietly ran behind Jian Lingsa, Jian Lingsa was concentrating on operating the mechanical arm.

Lou Guo watched helplessly as a fat green penguin was firmly held by the mechanical claw, and then fell down due to the vibration the moment the mechanical claw returned to the top.

Jian Lingsa rubbed his chin and tilted his head, stared at the little penguin for a few seconds, then took out a coin from the box and stuffed it into the coin slot.

Only then did Lou Guo realize that the box was already half empty.

"You haven't been catching this all the time, have you?" He couldn't help but say, "You didn't catch any?"

Jian Ling Sa was startled, she made an operation error, and the mechanical claws fell naturally, catching nothing.

"With all due respect," Lou Guo walked to his side, "I have a little bit to order."

Jian Lingsa cleared his throat and pointed at the little green penguin he aimed at just now: "Did you see it?"

"I see," Lou Guo said, "it's only a short distance from the exit, isn't it difficult?"

"No," Jian Lingsa pointed to the corner, "It was originally at that location, but I spent more than 70 yuan to transport it to where it is now."

Lou Guo laughed out loud on the spot.

"...It is almost successful." Jian Lingsa added.

Lou Guo glanced at the notes posted on the side.It said that forty coins will not be shipped, you can directly ask the staff for one.

Jian Lingsa stared at the little penguin, licked his lips, and solemnly put in another game coin.

Most of the fun of catching dolls lies in the process of catching. Lou Guo decided not to spoil Jian Lingsa's game experience, and pretended not to see that line of words.

"Come on!" He encouraged Jian Lingsa from the side, "It's only a little bit close! Victory is in sight!"

Jian Ling adjusted the angle carefully while holding his breath, and then slammed down the OK button.

The mechanical claws fell slowly, grabbed the penguin's buttocks, and then slowly went up.Lou Guo shouted at the mechanical arm: "Okay! Okay! Hurry up! Hold on!"

I don't know if it was shocked by his sound waves, the mechanical arm shook violently, and just halfway up, the little penguin fell down.

Lou Guo was about to sigh, but saw the little penguin bounced lightly after falling, rolled half a circle, and finally fell into the exit with a "plop".

"Go in! Awesome!" Lou Guo shouted immediately, "Awesome!"

Many people around turned their heads and cast suspicious glances at the two excited adult men in front of the claw machine.

Jian Lingsa squatted down and took out the cute little green penguin, patted it lightly, and handed it to Lou Guo.

Lou Guo couldn't react for a while: "Give it to me?"

Jian Lingsa lowered her head, her gaze fell on the little penguin: "...Thank you for cheering me on."

"You caught it with great difficulty, why don't you keep a souvenir?" Lou Guo asked.

"The harvesting process is enough." Jian Lingsa said.

Lou Guo hesitated for a while, then said, "Wait for me a while."

After speaking, he quickly ran to the staff not far away, and brought the staff back after a while.

"This is the one," Lou Guo said, "We invested more than 70 coins just now, more than [-] coins, can we just get one?"

The staff was very straightforward, opened the cabinet with a key, and signaled him to choose at will.

There are three colors of little penguins, green, yellow and pink.The yellow one was too bright and a bit dazzling, Lou Guo thought for a while and picked a pink one.

After the staff left, Lou Guo proudly shook the little pink penguin in his hand at Jian Lingsa: "Okay, now we have two! You choose one!"

Originally, he was worried that Jian Lingsa would refuse again, but unexpectedly Jian Lingsa thought seriously, and took the little pink penguin from his hand after a while: "I want this." After that, he handed the green one to him. Lou Guo, "This is for you."

Lou Guo took the green penguin, looked down, and then looked at the pink penguin in Jian Lingsa's hand.

Looks like a couple.

His heart suddenly jumped violently.

After that, an inexplicable emotion gradually spread from his heart, staining his cheeks red.

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Maybe too childish for a 14-year-old junior high school student, but just right for an adult in love.