"What was that about?" Liu Qingyan asked curiously. "Didn't it grab it just now?"
"Yeah, that's the claw machine's mechanism." Lu Zheng explained, "Claw machines aren't really about whether you aim accurately, because their claws aren't tight every time. Depending on how conscientious the owner is, the claw only grips tightly once every dozen to several dozen tries."
"So you have to aim accurately on that particular try to grab the doll." Lin Wan picked up the explanation. "So besides skill, grabbing dolls also depends heavily on luck. You have to guess how many empty grabs that machine has already made."
Liu Qingyan was dumbfounded. "Isn't that a scam?"
Lu Zheng shrugged. "But those are the rules. Still, I've heard that some people have special claw machine techniques that can grab dolls even under those circumstances."
"What techniques?" Shen Ying asked.
"I don't know." Lu Zheng shook his head. "I never paid attention to it before. But honestly, I don't really believe it."
"Want me to try?" Shen Ying was eager to give it a go.
"Sure! But I need to top up the card first." Lu Zheng smiled.
So they went to the counter first. Lu Zheng loaded five hundred yuan onto the card, and then they returned to the claw machine that had first caught Liu Qingyan's eye.
"Watch me grab it for you!" Shen Ying smiled as she linked arms with Liu Qingyan. Then, looking every bit the part, she swiped the card and began moving the joystick.
"Bzz—bzz—bzz—"
With Shen Ying's cultivation, she did not need to check left and right at all. Effortlessly, she lined the claw up with the easiest doll to grab and pressed the button.
"Clack—"
The claw descended, tightened around the doll after touching it, and lifted it slowly in its