Abyss Express

Under the Tula River bed in Ulaanbaatar, across the fertile land of the grassland and through the underground rock formation of nearly 6,100 meters, a huge cavity covering an area of ​​63,000 square kilometers has become a settlement for people .

This is District 41, a rich and poor place.

The two large areas adjacent to it are both the territory of the Greenstone people. Going west along an underground water vein is the Eurasian Continental Bridge Vault starting from the Gold Country and ending at the Kulpo Gold Mine. People call this huge underground storage area the treasure of King Solomon.

District 41 happened to be in the middle. Greenstone people, who were good at agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry in the early years, reclaimed fertile land for it, and took this little boy on the road of modern industrialization.

From the 1980s to 2032, for more than 50 years, it changed its appearance and devoted itself to heavy industry, and then transformed into light industry and tertiary industry.

This set of procedures is similar to other blocks, but District 41 has never had any troubles with crazy butterflies, and it is a rare safe haven in the turbulent era.

It is neither a traffic artery of the Asia-Europe railway network, nor does it have special products such as disaster beasts and psychics. District slipped away - so the older brothers naturally came to help the younger brother.

It is said to be poor because it is difficult to obtain water in these cities, and the residents are short of water. They have to transport water from the 36 geysers dug by manpower in the surrounding area, and other basic supporting facilities for people's livelihood are also very simple.

It is said to be rich because District 41 has not suffered from spiritual disasters. It is like a gem that has not been hit by wind, water and rain, and has not been eroded by nature. Most of the underground cities that settled near Mongolia at the same time have experienced serious disasters.

Let us cross the four dams of the Haila water vein, come to the drier loess land, transfer from the 18th station in the direction of the Nine Realms to the Golden Township, fly over the winding and complicated mountain slopes, and cross the underground world. One hundred thousand mountains.

Qi Ji lives in the first stop of District 41, in a small county town.

This county town has a nice name, Morning Light, because the light source in the morning is the brightest no matter the seasons of the year when viewed from here to the neighboring houses with criss-crossing mountains and the 40th District.

Greenstone people who love production and labor are very close to the salary kings. In the supporting facilities next door, there is also an expensive energy source called the "sun". In the early morning, Chenguang County can get some sunshine. There is no sunshine all the time.

Go from the railway station in the county town to Tulahan Square, cross two commercial streets, come to the water diversion of the geyser, follow the artificial river of the canal for more than 700 meters, and you can see the flea market.

There is a fast food restaurant in the flea market. The owner is a Uighur man in his forties. His Chinese name is Ma Youguo.

The shops on the first floor are used to entertain guests, and the second floor is brother Qi Ji’s rental house——

——Morning is the busiest time for Ma’s Mutton Restaurant. Before Chenguang County has time to welcome the sunshine, Boss Ma has to take two apprentices on a tricycle and go to the fresh food stall and slaughtering morning market four kilometers away.

Boss Ma's daughter will help look after the store. From 5:00 am to 7:00 am, Ma Fenfen can hear rustling noises coming from the rented house on the second floor - that's little brother Qi Ji earning money.

She didn't know how this young tenant made money from the Internet. Maybe he advertised various products just like the web anchor, but could he live broadcast the goods just by tapping the keyboard and clicking the mouse?

Qi Ji made her feel strange. This little brother has lived in his father's store for more than half a year, and his daily schedule is unshakable. He goes to bed at 12 noon and wakes up at 7 pm.

Before 7:30, when Ma Fenfen came home from school, he could see the dark-haired boy with gloomy eyes, crawling down the ladder like a walking dead, asking Ma Youguo for a bowl of noodles with mixed sauce, a plate of vegetables, and a basket of steamed dumplings .

He doesn't eat peanut butter, and he wants the cheapest kind of vegetables. If it's suitable, follow the season. If it's not suitable, it's the omnipotent tomato scrambled eggs.

Ma Youguo would occasionally go out to play cards, but Qi Ji couldn't find the boss, so he asked Ma Fenfen to open the back kitchen and cook for himself.

In Ma Fenfen's eyes, this little brother looks sixteen or seventeen years old, and for some reason, Qi Ji, who is as old as her, has already left his hometown and moved to District 41, living a life of isolation.

Maybe this is [Otaku]?

This term was popular for a while in the very early days of the Internet.

But later, after various distortions and stereotypes, it became a strange name.

You must know that the second floor was originally a warehouse, with only two ventilation windows. At first, the boss rented it out because it was too troublesome to carry ingredients up and down the stairs. After a simple renovation, it was rented out as a house.

There were six tenants running back and forth, but none of them could bear the narrow, oppressive and dark environment, and people would get depressed after living for a long time.

But little brother Qi Ji lived for more than half a year, but his health is getting better and better——

——This is something that Ma Fenfen can't understand, maybe some people are born to like to be alone, like to be alone. They are not social animals, and they are different from ordinary people.

This autistic kid only eats two or one meal a day, except for his strange physical routine.

He loves cleanliness very much. When he enters the kitchen, he will dislike Boss Ma's poor craftsmanship. Every time he cooks by himself, he will clean up the stove and kitchen counter.

He doesn't have much flesh on his body, and the farthest distance he can go out is to go to a barber shop more than 300 meters away to cut off his excess hair and expose his forehead so as not to block his view.

If you want to talk about Qi Ji's work in detail, it's very complicated——

——After six o'clock, Qi Ji slowly climbed down from the second floor and asked Ma Fenfen for something to eat.

Ma Fenfen was sitting at the door of the shop doing Douyin, when she heard the sound of the ladder, she suddenly raised her head: "Ah! It's rare to see you! Why do you want to have supper today?"

Qi Ji looked very tired, his lying silkworms and eye bags were connected together, his voice was green, and he was short, maybe less than 170 centimeters, only 1.68 meters.

He was wearing a vest and shorts, and he was wearing thick non-slip slippers. The palms and backs of the hands are clean, but the fingers have calluses. He is a ruthless keystroker.

"Help me, miss." The boy shook his arms, stretched his sore muscles, and expressed apology, "I encountered a few hard dishes today, and I don't have enough mana. I have to eat something to last until twelve o'clock." Sleep again."

In terms of Qi Ji's schedule, eating at seven o'clock in the morning is supper.

"Okay! I'll do it for you!" Ma Fenfen was overjoyed when she heard the title "Miss". The boastful attack of a boy of the same age, who looked clean and decent, naturally paid special attention to it.

When Ma Fenfen put down his phone and went into the kitchen, Qi Ji stood beside the kitchen counter with his hands behind his back like a veteran cadre.

As soon as Fenfen picked the ingredients, Qi Ji immediately commanded from a distance.

"Don't choose beef, it's too expensive."

Ma Fenfen immediately said, "You won't be charged!"

Qi Ji: "It's too hot."

Ma Fenfen changed to a string of mutton.

Qi Ji: "It's still hot, it's very dry, can you cook some potatoes for me?"

Ma Fenfen obeyed the order and exchanged for two big potatoes.

Qi Ji: "There are too many, choose one and cut it in half, I will eat half."

Ma Fenfen was upset when he heard this: "The gas to start a fire is more expensive than this thing!"

"Uh..." Qi Ji thought for a while, and retorted in the simplest and most direct way: "One side of gas is only seven yuan, and it doesn't cost that much to cook a potato."

"Tsk" Miss Fenfen glanced at Qi Ji, not knowing what to say: "Are you losing weight?"

Qi Ji: "No."

Fenfen immediately took the half-hanging beef and threw it into the sink: "Then eat it! Don't you eat Qingre Xiaoyanning when it's hot?"

Qi Ji couldn't say anything, he looked at a loss and muttered in a low voice.

"Overeating while taking medicine is not healthy"

After a while, when Fenfen washed all the dishes, she was about to start marinating the meat.

Qi Ji immediately continued to direct——

"—Don't put soy sauce, less salt."

Fenfen obeyed and sprinkled salt.

Qi Ji: "Less less."

Fenfen put it away, and then shook the bottle.

Qi Ji: "More, more, more, more! More, more, more!"

Fenfen couldn't laugh or cry and said, "What's wrong with you?"

Qi Ji emphasized: "A little bit, just throw it away. I seldom exercise, and I don't sweat that much. Too much salt also leads to high blood pressure--my profession is quite special, and I am prone to high blood pressure if I am not careful. .”

"Then you do it yourself?!" Ma Fenfen asked angrily, "What do you eat with so little salt? It doesn't taste like anything!"

Qi Ji explained: "You usually make fast food for the uncles on the construction site. They do so much work every day, it doesn't matter if the food is a little salty, I am different."

Ma Fenfen raised the salt shaker: "Then show me a demonstration. Once I learn it, I will cook for you every day."

Qi Ji still didn't understand the meaning of these words——

——He wanted to get the salt shaker, but Ma Fenfen didn't let go.

The little girl had a lot of tricks in her mind, and her calculations were messed up.

Qi Ji didn't go to school, where did he get the money to pay the rent?

Dad said that this kid is either speculating in stocks, or playing with high-end people. In short, he is either engaged in financial services or marginal services. He must be very flexible.

Boys like this who don't go out, don't cause trouble, don't play pornography, gambling, and drugs, and stay at home and make money are simply endangered animals at the national level in this era.

It is the dream of many young people to be able to work at home. Qi Ji seems a little lonely and weird, but he has fulfilled so many people's dreams at a young age. In Ma Fenfen's eyes, this is the strong man in society.

So when Qi Ji held the salt shaker, he also held Fenfen's hand, demonstrating like an old pedant.

"You see, when shaking the salt grains, it should be tilted to about minus twelve degrees, because of the physical parameters of our real life, the natural gravity will carry the salt powder to the bottle mouth."

Ma Fenfen pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Yeah! Min Mo! So cute!"

"It's not cute." Qi Ji pointed out: "These small powders can be tapped out with fingers, slowly tapped out."

Ma Fenfen responded vigorously: "Yes!"

Qi Ji tapped the bottle lightly, and white salt mist fell from the mouth of the bottle.

"That's the feeling, the feeling is all right - I can't tell, anyway, it seems to be sprinkled, but there is a feeling of not sprinkled."

"I seem to have heard this passage, but I feel like I didn't hear it." Ma Fenfen squinted her eyes and suppressed a smile, not knowing what to say.

"There is more." Qi Ji sprinkled the salt, and said to Fenfen: "I don't want you to cook for me every day. Today is really a special situation. I still have a few big orders to finish. I have to go back after eating. Go to jail, thank you!"

Ma Fenfen: "Okay! Just wait!"

Fifteen minutes later, a bowl of rice with potatoes and beef was delivered to Qi Ji.

The boy started cooking sullenly, Ma Fenfen asked curiously.

"Brother Qiji, what exactly do you do? What order did you mention just now? What is it?"

Qi Ji still had food in his mouth, he swallowed it whole, and immediately replied: "I'm just a gamer, I like to play games, and I help people play games to make money."

"Mobile game?" Ma Fenfen immediately became interested.

Qi Ji answered while eating, and his eating speed slowed down.

"It's a junk market."

It seems that this explanation is not very good, so Brother Qi Ji talked more.

"Mobile games are different. Compared with desktop online games, their account depreciates too quickly, and the money recharged shrinks ten times in less than a second. The items in the official mall are very expensive, but transactions are restricted. Players and There is no interaction between players, the social attribute is almost zero, and there is no way to realize it—thugs who help leveling can’t make much money.”

"However, there are some exceptions. Some mobile games are engaged in the high-end market, such as war games with historical themes. The resources consumed are equivalent to real currency. The studios cannot afford to play them. The cost is too high. If you want to profit from it, you must not only cooperate with To fight against local tyrants, you have to play with the official company of the operator—that is, to fight wits and bravery with officials. I don’t do these things, and I can’t afford it.”

Ma Fenfen half-understood--

"—then what do you do?"

Qi Ji: "Playing online games."

Ma Fenfen: "Huh?"

"Are you surprised?" Qi Ji didn't understand.

Ma Fenfen: "Specifically? What game do you play?"

"Anyone who comes is welcome." Qi Ji patiently explained: "Any desktop online games, online games you can still see now, they are still alive, and most of the players in them are in their 30s and 40s."

"They have been working for a long time and have spending power. The item trading of online games is not as rigid as that of mobile games, and it is easy to cash out."

"This group of users has feelings for the game, but they can't play it very much, so they will entrust us thugs to help raise the characters."

Speaking of which -

——Qi Ji paused.

"Yes, it's raising characters. These old users treat the characters in the game as their children and partners. This is the game they played when they were young."

"The two orders I mentioned before are Korean Kimchi online games. This game has survived for more than 20 years and has not closed down. The game level has been opened to level 150, and a lot of stinky and long plots have been released. For the task, the boss gave me a lot of money, and asked me to boost two new characters and upgrade them to the full level."

"The price of these two orders is one hundred and eighty pyroxene coins, enough for me to spend half a month."

"Then how long will it take you to level up?" Ma Fenfen immediately changed the question: "How long will it take to complete these two orders?"

Qi Ji replied: "At least three days."

Ma Fenfen looked worried, and thought he had found a money-making expert, but it turned out to be exactly what Qi Ji said - a bad gamer.

"Brother Qiji, how do you support yourself like this? Working for three days, earning living expenses for fifteen days, and eating miscellaneous sauce noodles and steamed dumplings every day, the body will not be able to bear it."

Qi Ji didn't answer right away because he had a little secret.

In addition to this most basic leveling, he also has a lot of orders.

These include but are not limited to MOBA rankings, auction houses buying low and selling high for futures, new game lottery initial sales, finding game bugs for profit, or uploading bug videos to ask for salary from the operating company.

It is very appropriate to call Qi Ji an electronic gold farmer. He is a thug, and he is a very good thug. Whether it is an online game or a mobile game, including the racing competition of console games, as long as the price is right, he will try to be a reward. gold hunter.

There are only games left in his life. He is a very pure person, an omnivorous animal, and is not picky at all.

As I said just now, the reason for not accepting orders for mobile games is simply because the market for mobile games is very rubbish. Electronic gold farmers like him can't make much money in this market. With the same time and energy, you can get more money in other games.

His secrets don't stop there, if Ma Fenfen has the chance to climb to the second floor to take a look.

There are six computers and three mobile phones in Qi Ji's workshop. Ten split screens plus a projection, including the handle, together with the keyboard and mouse to operate the game, these input devices are all over every corner.

Each screen is divided into different work areas, which can be played manually, or directly open the macro and hang up, or occasionally pay attention to the fluctuation of the price of the auction house in the game.

He is almost like a human computer, thinking about how to play the game all the time. The reason why he can support his physical multi-tasking is very simple. He has a spiritual body and can manipulate so many devices at the same time, so he can multi-task.

He has successfully pupated, possessed spiritual silk and a part of the complete mass of silk thread, and is heading towards the stage of cocooning.

"I said, Brother Qi Ji?" Ma Fenfen shook his hand at Qi Ji: "Brother Qi Ji?"

"Oh! Go ahead." Qi Ji came back to his senses.

Ma Fenfen: "You play games so hard and earn 180 in three days, why don't you go out and find a job?"

Having said this, Ma Fenfen's voice became smaller and smaller.

Because she could feel that Qi Ji seemed a little angry.

She is not a psychic user, but she can feel the changes in the tide of psychic energy. The plastic water cup is foggy, which is the drop in temperature caused by the fluctuation of psychic energy.

Qi Ji pursed his lips, and after clearing the dinner plate, he and Sister Fen Fen nodded their thanks. After thinking for a long time, they still wanted to make things clear.

"Everyone has something they're good at, right?"

Ma Fenfen: "Indeed."

Qi Ji: "Why?"

Ma Fenfen couldn't understand, what was this "why" asking?

So Qi Ji asked patiently.

"Why can you point and point at me? Missy."

"Why? I didn't steal or rob, I didn't break the law, I didn't hinder others, I didn't disgust others."

"I didn't go to school like you, because I really can't read, I can't understand, I can't learn."

"I also want to find a class, if possible."

"Sometimes it's not like this, miss, it's not like this. It's not as simple as you understand."

"Why can you simply say - so hard to earn so little money, it is better to go out to work."

"I can't do manual labor, I can't, I can't hold it, I hate this life."

Qi Ji's tone was very humble, and he spoke sincerely to Fenfen.

"I want to decide my own life by myself. I really like playing games very much. Although I am always alone, because I almost don't have time to reply to the news on the Internet. I have many friends. "

"I have many friends"

Ma Fenfen said nervously: "I'm sorry. I'm not. I didn't mean to make you angry on purpose."

"I'm not angry." Qi Ji's tone was very calm: "I'm just very sad."

Ma Fenfen doesn't understand Qi Ji's sadness——

—she didn't understand.

Qi Ji put it another way, and he talked about the one hundred and eighty yuan before.

"Actually, my work efficiency is very high, and it's not about money. The most terrifying thing about those two 150-level characters is that they want to be fully trained within three days. It's not how boring it is to run missions and run maps."

Ma Fenfen asked suspiciously, "What is that?"

"You'll know at a glance." Qi Ji collected his emotions, waved to little sister Fenfen, and pulled her up to the second floor.

When she came to his workshop, Fenfen was stunned. The whole place looked like the headquarters of the mysterious hacker in the movie.

Qi Ji led Fenfen to a certain screen——

"—it hurts too much."

On the screen of the game, the characters who need to upgrade the service on behalf of the player are wearing revealing clothes, very erotic, it is simply [Unsightly, the world is declining, where is the morality? Where is the bottom line? Where is the link? ] The kind of vulgar! To be severely condemned!

Fenfen covered her face, feeling her cheeks were hot, and couldn't help but peek through her fingers——

— so strange! Take a closer look!