Conan: I am really a good person

Chapter 8... Huh?

Ishida Eiko's fear is somewhat obvious.

It was not as if she was facing a relative who had just come to her and was in a state of dependency. It was like facing a robber who broke in with a knife, and she had an instinctive fear.

This fear caused her to be angry and stiff, and she spoke nervously. Even when pushing a future into the game cabin, she looked careless but was cautious.

...But considering the debt of '3000 million US dollars', Ichijo Mirai felt that this aunt's reaction was normal.

If one day, his relatives came to him in a hurry and dared to say, "I owe 3000 million U.S. dollars."

A future will definitely be closed.

He walked into the bedroom, picked up the quilt from the floor, put it on the desk chair, and found a box on the desk.

The color of the box is the same as the egg-shaped game cabin. It is silvery white and very thin. There is a stack of paper inside. There is a [Respectfully] on the first page of the homepage, which looks very polite.

This is a printed notice.

The notice politely informed: Our company has completed the loss estimation and confirmed that the final amount is 3000 million US dollars. We hope that Yitiao can be returned within one year. If it is not returned within one year, high interest will be charged, and some harmless and unfair methods will be used. Collect money through illegal means.

Polite, but not very polite.

A future: "?"

The uncle is the one who owes the debt. He owes 3000 million US dollars with nothing. Isn’t this terrifying? Why does the creditor speak to him in such a stiff tone?

I was so sad that I decided not to return it and ran away!

Mirai Ichichi continued to look down and saw the reason for the debt: as a scientific researcher, Mirai Ichichi falsified data, which caused the company to increase the degree of authenticity unnecessarily in the progress of the development of the game cabin, and increased the cost by hundreds of millions. , and the internal testing was two years later than expected.

Oh, no wonder I owe 3000 million US dollars and no police officers have come to visit. It turns out that it is not a crime, but... a former official staff member of the game? !
A future: "??"

He quickly flipped through the stack of papers and quickly found a termination contract.

The contract was very formulaic, but the position emerged: an ordinary researcher with an annual salary of [-].

He is also the Minister of Scientific Research Department.

Ichijo Mirai: "???"

Sorry, this body must be in his 20s at most. How did he become a minister? Even if he became a minister, he could still successfully commit fraud. Is your company a pig?

This is not the point. The point is that the annual salary of a minister of scientific research is only [-]? !
Mirai Ichijo swallowed the question politely and said the answer, "Yes."

He returned the notice, scanned the words below, and found the reason why the notice was so tough and not afraid of the uncle running away: when he joined the company, the company recorded various information about the body in detail, such as fingerprints, tooth marks, DNA, and also collected family information. information.

This information ensures to a certain extent that even if the creditor runs away directly, police experts can speculate on the escape route, transportation mode and destination, and can even directly arrest him.

Mirai Ichijo: "Oh."

He glanced at these polite and threatening words, his expression unchanged, "Few criminals abscond cleanly. The police don't know any information, right?"

If you know, you know. If you can't catch it, you can't catch it.

A few paragraphs below the threat is evidence that the game company believes it will be able to repay US$3000 million within one year.

The notice stated that this is a story-based game characterized by extreme realism. The plot is extremely important. It is currently in the internal beta stage. There are only a few internal testers who have undergone strict review, and Mirai Ichiichi is one of them.

Now is the first round of closed beta testing.

Once you perform well in the first round of internal testing and get as many plot clues as possible, you can resell it to people in the second, third, and even public testing through official channels. If the sale once is not enough, you can sell it a few more times.

And: "In the game, the game coins obtained by players are divided into two types, one is the 'funds' obtained by completing tasks, and the other is..."

Mirai Ichijo stared at the black and white words on the printing paper and slowly read out the key information: "Virtual currency used by NPCs." For example, the box of 200 million yen in the car.

"The former, the exchange rate with real US dollars is 1:10, one hundred funds is one thousand US dollars. The latter, the exchange rate with reality is 10:1, taking the Japanese yen as an example, 200 million yen in the game is the reality 20 yen."

The official meaning of the game is very obvious, a future automatic translation: No money?Sell ​​information.Didn't get the information?You can always rob you, but it won’t take a minute to rob a few more banks to pay off your debts!

Successful translation, a future: "Oh haha."

As long as you work hard enough, paying back the money is indeed a matter of minutes.

"The situation is low," he said in awe, withdrawing his decision to run away. "It turns out that the official holds the simple concept that 'hard work will definitely lead to money', which is very smart."

Just, "This example..."

The directions of '100 funds' and '200 million yen' are too obvious. They are two incomes that Ichijo will receive in the game in the future.

He automatically translated: Officials are encouraging players to have the idea of ​​robbing banks.

"It seems that the official prefers players to take the black route," Ichimi Mirai speculated seriously, "There is no other way, I can only respect the official opinion."

He glanced down a few times and saw a line of innocuous prompts that could be ignored: [Please do not have the inappropriate idea of ​​robbing banks directly because of this, illegal activities will increase the wanted level of your game character. ]
It's just a wanted by the police. It's a money robbery, but there are always some innocuous consequences. Ichijo will accept it perfectly in the future.

He ignored the official tendency of approving the collection of intelligence and disapproving of directly robbing banks, and then looked down and saw a message, "Along with the repayment notice, there is a bracelet linked to the game, which allows you to see yourself in real time. The amount owed?”

The bracelet is at the bottom of the box. It is no different from an ordinary sports bracelet. Even the display screen is the same. After putting it on, the four corners of the screen actually show the time, battery, heart rate, and steps.

In the middle is a string of numbers: 29.

There are zeros and wholes.

There is another piece of information represented by this string of numbers: two future incomes in the game have been automatically converted into real currency and automatically returned to the game company.

“…just know that the example when prompting the conversion rate is intentional.”

Ichijo Mirai put down the paper, sorted the documents, put them back into the silver box, and pushed it to the innermost side of the desk to prevent it from falling.

When he was about to stop his hand, he paused, but instead of taking it back, he went to open the window.

He was quite uneasy.

This is a strange world, and it has a holographic game cabin that only appears in science fiction movies. What does this mean?It shows that the technology of this world is very high.

It also shows that the police in this world have more advanced equipment.

And Ichijo Mirai doesn’t understand.

There is only one consequence for fugitives who do not understand the level of the police: they go to jail.

Mirai Ichijo didn't want to go back to prison for the time being. He held his breath, held his desk, and looked out the open window:

Busy traffic.

There is a lot of traffic outside the window, and every passing car drags its clumsy body, passing by the poor residential buildings with only three or four floors at most, struggling to move forward on the dusty streets, and then getting grayer again. Stop at the traffic light.

Pedestrians walked through the traffic lights, and several of them were talking on the phone, holding mobile phones that were about the size of their hands but so thick that they were almost like small bricks to their ears.

……what?

　*The conversion of Japanese yen to US dollars uses this year’s exchange rate.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)