Global Mining

In the turbulent years, the global economy is weak and unemployment is surging.

The Internet economy, which is oriented towards artificial intelligence, has absorbed a large amount of excess finance. Based on the basic algorithm of traditional digital currency mining, a magical business adventure game "Global Mining: Golden Continent" has been developed that has swept the world. Mining coins can be more conveniently exchanged for real currency. Players can also mine and make money while sleeping or working. A brand-new huge industry has begun to lead the future!

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"Xiaoqin, I'm leaving. Xiaofan, you have to listen to your mother these days when your father is on a business trip. You are not allowed to play games..."

Dachun was waiting at the bus stop with a depressed mood.

In fact, Dachun has been laid off, but he dared not tell anyone because he was too embarrassed to tell anyone. Every day, he still wore a suit and tie and held a tablet briefcase and pretended to go to work.

I also tried to apply for interviews everywhere, but I won't mention it. In the end, I stayed in a 6G high-end Internet cafe for a month to mine. This is the most popular game in the world. The public beta will end at 0 o'clock tonight. My so-called business trip is to work all night in the Internet cafe for a week to earn a high-income part-time job.

A black car with a sci-fi look stopped in front of Dachun and rolled down the window.

"I actually met Brother Chun! Waiting for the bus?"

Meeting the most glorious old classmate at the worst time...

Dachun smiled faintly: "Mr. Jiang changed his car again?"

Old Jiang was very proud: "Shenjiang Super Factory Limited Edition BNB Tang, come and experience it?"

Dachun agreed: "I really have to experience this legendary world-class..."

Entering the car, the light scene changed as if entering a space capsule.

Lao Jiang sighed: "The rise of high-end will definitely bring a new round of industry reshuffles - I heard that Chun Ge's big factory laid off employees. Will Chun Ge be okay?"

Da Chun sighed awkwardly: "Layoffs, one person has to do the work of several people, do you think he will be okay?"

Lao Jiang laughed: "That's right! Chun Ge was a top student who won all the scholarships, married a white, rich and beautiful beauty, and now he is a top engineer, a big winner in life. No one can lay off Chun Ge?"

Da Chun changed the topic: "What white, rich and beautiful, just an ordinary family. But Mr. Jiang has no plans to get married?"

Lao Jiang sighed: "I have a lot of female anchors who need to be helped and taken care of, how can I be busy?"

Fuck!

The car computer made a sound-system prompt: Congratulations! With the lucky blessing of the program celebration, you successfully dug out the mithril mine, and the mining skills were promoted to expert level! Get talent reward: expert-level mining hoe mastery...

Lao Jiang was very happy: "It's worthy of the festival event on the last day of the public beta, and it really promoted to expert level!"

Da Chun was surprised, he was playing too?

Lao Jiang waved his computer and it showed: "Global mining! The world's hottest and most high-free mining coin exchange, is Chun Ge playing?"

Da Chun suddenly saw his ID, Jiang Mo Yu.

It turned out to be him! A master ranked in the top 1000 of the public beta world celebrity list, surrounded by a bunch of female players, very high-profile...

Da Chun was a little surprised: "Mr. Jiang is so rich that he would like to see this little game income?"

Lao Jiang smiled: "Don't underestimate it! Take this car for example, it's high-end and can be sold to Europe and the United States. Then Europe and the United States must sell something to us, right? As a result, we don't like the things over there. They are anxious and shout about trade imbalance. We are also anxious. We can't let them print money! What should we do? It won't be another Opium War to sell opium, right?"

Da Chun laughed: "So they sell games?"

Lao Jiang laughed: "That's right! Besides, if there is no breakthrough in technology, then internal roll layoffs, a lot of People are unemployed! When technology breaks through, there won't be so many people who are still laid off and unemployed! What to do? We have to find something to pay them, right? Just when foreign money is printed too much, they come up with this game to distribute money while promoting the digital currency strategy. As a result, the sales of chip cockpits are popular and they can make a profit! Not to mention that the big guys on the development side also want to develop brain-computer interface consciousness immortality, this business opportunity is huge! "

Dachun was really in awe: "So Mr. Jiang is going to do a big project?"

Lao Jiang said seriously: "I plan to integrate those beautiful anchors to set up a girl group studio, but I just need a technical supervisor. If Chunge is too tired in the big company, he can go to my place to be the supervisor?"

I was caught off guard! That's it?

Dachun smiled helplessly: "Boss Jiang, you are kidding. How can I, a love saint, go there? If there are any equipment and line problems, I can help check them, but I can't help with other things..." Seeing that it was almost time, he pointed to a noodle shop on the roadside: "I'll get off here. The kidney noodles here are good." Lao Jiang smiled and said, "If you have anything, contact me. Let's drink another day." Dachun shook his momentum and waved his hand without looking back, showing his bureau style. Because there is an Internet cafe 100 meters away from the noodle shop, there is a street view camera that can see this place. His extraordinary temperament and the rule of working from nine to five made the bartender guess that he might be an official who was squatting on the spot, and she was tired of asking him indirect questions. Then borrow his car to pretend. It's not that I like to pretend, but the more embarrassed I am, the more I have to be energetic and impeccable, otherwise I will be beaten by society more if I am poor. At this time, Lao Jiang closed the car window and pooh-poohed at Dachun's back: "Your resume has been sent to my agency, but you are still pretending. Even your classmates can't help you..."

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After finishing his noodles, Dachun came to the Internet cafe calmly.

The bartender took Dachun's membership card with a smile: "Welcome, Mr. Ding, the private room on the second floor has been disinfected and cleaned, and the water dispenser has been replaced with new water. Please feel free to use it."

It can be seen that her respect has doubled today, and she is as innocent as the NPC flower girl in the game.

Dachun did not go directly to the private room on the second floor, but continued to "inspect" the ordinary seats on the first floor with a large cup of chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea as usual. In fact, there is also a mysterious third floor, which is said to be a private venue for a certain Cangqiong professional e-sports team. No one is allowed to enter.

Internet cafes once declined due to the popularity of home computers, but the emergence of "Global Mining" has once again made Internet cafes popular. First, the cost of upgrading the game to a cockpit is a bit high. Second, the central host needs to provide 6G network speed. Otherwise, the main city will be flooded with millions of players as soon as it goes online, and ordinary networks simply cannot support it.

Ordinary Zama are all monthly masters who have been staying in Internet cafes for a long time. If you go to them in Dachun and ask and read, you can quickly learn a lot of things and generally know the development trends of players around the world.

The masters have long been accustomed to Dachun and make random jokes: "The leader is here to investigate again? There is no female companion, this is a serious Internet cafe!"

"What are Brother Chun's plans? I will formally serve you immediately so that I can take Brother Chun to the countryside to dig high-end mines!"

"Are you kidding me? How can Brother Chun dig mines when he is a leader who lives in a private room? After all, he has to go out for a fishing trip and have a love affair with a mermaid..."

"Are you going to use this to test Brother Chun's weakness?"

Dachun actually enjoyed this feeling: "How much did Wei Shen pay for it?"

"At least I can earn back the monthly fee, and I won't go out of town to grab villages in the official server."

Another great god smiled and said: "That's what Foot Pot Curry thinks. By then, tens of thousands of people will fight in team battles and their brains will be blown..."

It has to be said that all the strategies for starting alone and in groups have been thoroughly understood by the masters of the public beta. Compared with these young people, compared with conventional operations, Dachun has no advantage.

Therefore, Dachun can only fight for the hidden mission stream that all the public beta masters do not recommend. If he succeeds, even if he is only half a step ahead of ordinary players, he will be able to stand out among hundreds of millions of players around the world. If it doesn't work out, then you can only work part-time as a miner and continue looking for a job.

Dachun returned to his private room on the second floor to start the game.

The background of the game is very simple. Five pioneer fleets from the old world discovered a supercontinent full of monsters and minerals. The fleets could only land on the seashore and defend monsters at first, and then expanded with difficulty, and finally developed the landing point. It has become five prosperous and powerful seaport city-states. These are also the five major professional main cities where novice players are born.

Because it is an old city, most of the valuable mines around it were mined during the city's founding period. Therefore, it is difficult for newcomers to dig high-grade mines. They can only follow the footsteps of the pioneers and go deep into the villages and towns in the hinterland of the mainland. There are many mines there, and transportation is difficult. Those who don’t want to mine can go fishing and trade or take the One Piece route.

The city's finances are both developed and conservative. Players have no cash on them. All income and expenses are paid through bank accounts, and real currency is exchanged through banks. The advantage is that thieves and pickpockets are eliminated. However, banks do not support transfers between players, which means that as soon as the game starts, players are blocked from raising funds to instantly accumulate a rich man. Players setting up street stalls are similar to bartering at a flea market.

Of course, compared to the mysterious Golden Continent, the real mystery is this old world. Players are all pioneers and don't know much about the old world.

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Spring has arrived in the city, and the whole city is filled with fireworks and festive celebrations.

——System prompt: Welcome to log in to the game, it is 20:10 pm Golden Continent time. You receive a lucky bonus from the "Black Iron Pioneer City" festival celebration! May all your wishes come true.

——System prompt: You can mine and sell mines offline and earn 83 coins automatically. The open beta will end today and will be deleted. Players are advised to go to the bank in the main city to exchange mineral coins in time to avoid losses.

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The relationship between game time and real time is 1:1, based on the Western Hemisphere. Chinese players will be "reversed day and night" when they go online, but it is not a big problem.

At this time, most players are having a blast clearing out and shipping out items. But Dachun wants to use all the 6,000 coins he has saved to fight against the hidden quest line of "Flower Girl" and "Bar Dancer". During the entire open beta period, Dachun concentrated his resources on only three things: mining to make money, buying flowers, and giving flowers to bar dancers. Do not participate in any other activities.

According to Dachun’s understanding of the artificial intelligence developed in this game, artificial intelligence must be realized through huge amounts of big data. Women’s shopping emotional topics are the world’s largest database, and “love assistants” and “scumbag men and women’s trap prevention” have been born. Assistant" and other small intelligence. So Dachun targeted these two female NPCs who were both "shopping" and "emotional".

On the other hand, the game developers are not authentic, and use the "fraudulent game" of NPCs to deceive players to defeat human IQ and achieve artificial intelligence - so this is why all the public beta masters do not recommend hidden task flows. NPCs are really a scam. ! In other words, the overall moral standard of this golden continent is generally not high.

But Dachun has his own understanding. When people interact with each other, ten friends and nine holidays. But every enemy I encountered was real! So in a sense, the enemy is more reliable. As long as it is reliable, it is not unplayable...

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Dachun first goes to the flower shop to find Shirley, a simple-looking girl who works the night shift. There is only one way to improve friendship with her: buy the products she recommends and let her get sales commission.

The high-end product she recommended to Dachun was a bouquet of chilly "Wang Ting's Flower Crystal Rose", which cost 3,000 coins, which is equivalent to more than 3,000 yuan in real life.

Dachun confirmed again: "Excuse me, is there only one?"

The flower girl smiled and replied: "Yes, because it is rare, it is precious. This is Miss Vivian's favorite."

"I bought it!"

-System prompt: You spent 3,000 coins to buy it from the flower shop... You greatly improved the favorability of the clerk Shirley.

The girl was very happy: "Welcome to patronize, I wish you unexpected good luck during the festival!"

What kind of festival good luck is there? Even if you buy the most expensive flowers, your hidden event will not be triggered.

Go to the next step.

This time, Dachun did not go directly to the bar, but took the flowers to the furnace in the blacksmith shop to heat them up. This step is very important.

When the flowers were almost baked and began to seep water, Dachun immediately stopped and went to the Harbor Bar Nightclub to find the dancer Vivian. Her characteristic is scum, and scum means ambition, betrayal, love, and wildness, which is most likely to trigger events.

The dancer took the flowers lazily and looked at Dachun: "Then I will dance for you personally..."

After the dance, there was still no event.

Even if you buy the most expensive and favorite flowers on the last day of the festival, you still can't impress these two people. This is a failure. This is the pit that the public beta gods warned about.

Then go all out to provoke her. The enemy is more "reliable"! But you can't really turn against her. This degree must be accurately grasped!

Dachun said: "Miss Vivian, although I am not a noble yet, I would like to ask you to help me get a liquor franchise license because I admire you so much..."

The dancer was very impatient: "How far is your ideal, how far you can go!"

Dachun understood her bad taste and apologized immediately: "If I learn to bark like a dog, can I make you happy?"

The dancer laughed: "Learn to bark like a dog?"

Waiting for this sentence from her!

Dachun imitated her speech just now: "How far is your ideal, how far you can go!"

The dancer was stunned for a moment!

Dachun waited nervously. With her intelligence, she could definitely turn the corner and knew that this was scolding her. Under normal circumstances, scolding her would definitely be forked out and beaten by the bar bouncer, and the friendship level would immediately turn against her and drop sharply. But this is not normal! Which word did I curse her with?

As expected, the dancer laughed and said, "You are so brave. Wait for me after get off work!"

Dachun breathed a sigh of relief and successfully triggered it! But this hidden event is very likely to be "It is not convenient to fight now, you have to fight after get off work", so you have to trigger another one for insurance.

...

Dachun returned to the flower shop again and checked the container first. There was a frost rose in the container-the key is that it was a little bit withered!

Dachun smiled. This flower was either a new product or the one given to the dancer. This was the purpose of deliberately going to the blacksmith shop to bake the flower and mark it.

So now it can be confirmed that one sells flowers at a high price, the other collects flowers, and then sends the flowers back to the flower shop to continue selling-there is such an insider trading chain between the two NPCs, so you can imagine how huge the economic circle of the entire city should be. Isn't this a hundred times more meaningful than mining and fighting monsters?

Then it's time to capture the little girl! It's still the same idea as before, being an enemy is more reliable but can't turn against each other.

Dachun first complained to the little girl: "I just made a holiday joke with Miss Vivian, but she seemed angry. What kind of flower should I buy to calm her anger?"

The little girl smiled and said: "Of course I should buy another frost rose for her!"

You are really a love assistant...

Dachun decisively exposed her: "This flower is not newly arrived, it is just one I bought just now!"

The little girl panicked: "It is newly arrived!"

The exposure will reduce her friendliness. Normally, you have to buy flowers to make up for it, but now this abnormal situation cannot be bought normally.

Dachun used a big move: "I'll buy this flower for you, but if you want it, I will buy it. If you don't want it, I won't buy it, and I will complain to the boss. Do you want it?"

The dancer has a setting for receiving gifts, but Shirley is a clerk without this setting. She can't give it away by buying flowers directly. But the clerk has a setting for increasing sales and getting commissions, which is a huge loophole! If successful, it will be a big move to break the rules!

The girl looked around nervously: "It's so embarrassing, you can't tell anyone."

Dachun was excited: "I won't tell anyone, I'll buy it!"

The last 3,000 coins were put on the line! This is why Dachun prepared 6,000 coins.

-System prompt: You spent 3,000 coins to buy from Shirley... Your friendship with Shirley changed from "passion" to "tacit understanding"!

Fuck!

The system prompt has changed! I used to buy from the "flower shop", but now I buy from her! The flowers were placed on the counter without moving, and she got 3,000 more coins! She is embezzling the business money, and the boss can't reconcile the account!

So it means that in the future, I can keep sending money to her private account by sending flowers to her? Is this considered as sponsorship?

Dachun hurriedly confirmed: "Dear Shirley, what is your ideal?"

Shirley was both excited and nervous: "Don't look at me like this, I am actually an apprentice mage. My ideal is to become a court mage, but the tuition of the academy is very expensive! It is very difficult for me to pay the tuition by working here..."

It has been seen that she has a good foundation in magic! Player mages are all small fry who cannot learn all the skills. NPC mages are mages. If you can provide an NPC mage with a thigh, even if it is a long-term meal ticket, it is worth giving up the lead. More importantly, this frost rose is actually the product of the noble star female mage Fafner. She must have a relationship with Fafner...

Dachun continued to confirm: "We in Black Iron City are good at warriors, and only in Gem City are good at mages--"

Shirley hurriedly said: "But the beginner class in Black Iron City is cheap. I will go to Gem City to study abroad after I have laid a good foundation."

I see! The atmosphere has been set here, and Dachun didn't waste words: "Then how about I work hard to mine to support your study abroad in the future?"

Shirley said happily: "Great, then I will definitely repay you! By the way, I can help you now. Wait until I get off work at midnight, and go to Miss Vivian together! I can also use the extra money to buy you a mage escort quota..."

So direct! One sentence perfectly responded to all of Dachun's expectations. As a long-term meal ticket, he has a bright future. He should be happy even if he is cheated. Maybe this is the joy of Lao Jiang being the top brother on the list...

...

Then he waited for her to get off work. Dachun stayed outside the flower shop and did nothing to avoid unnecessary trouble.

In the square opposite the flower shop, players were performing festival dog training acrobatics, and a large number of NPCs were watching and rewarding. That was Tata War God, an Indian high-end player who had long understood the hidden profession of animal trainer. It was said that his performance income for one day could equal his mining income for a month, and he could not even imagine the income during the holidays.

So how much gap could I close when I was about to trigger the hidden event?

While thinking, a system warning suddenly came from the headset: the current network speed is unstable...

The lights in the private room flickered, the game screen flashed, and it looked like the voltage was unstable and the power would go out at any time.

Dachun was shocked. How could the power go out at the critical moment when they were waiting for them to get off work!

No, this was the latest worm virus attack, which could increase the voltage and burn the machine. Because there was a tripping protection, it could not burn for the time being, so it would keep tripping... Who did this Internet cafe offend?

Finally, the Internet cafe was dark and tripped!

The whole audience was in an uproar, and the bar girl shouted anxiously: "Network administrator brother..."

This matter is not something that the network administrator can handle!

For a moment, the network administrator called in panic: "What? Xinghui Internet Cafe, Tianlong Internet Cafe, and more than 30 large Internet cafes have tripped?"

The masters were furious: "It must be the bastards! They just don't want us to have a holiday breakthrough..."

Dachun had no choice but to take out his office tablet and calmly came to the bar girl: "Let me do it, take me to the main computer room, and find three more data cables."

Everyone was silent in an instant, and the bar girl did not hesitate: "Mr. Ding, please!"

The masters of the Internet cafes couldn't sit still, and they also squeezed outside the computer room to watch.

Seeing this, Dachun remembered something and gave his phone to the bar girl: "Help me take a work video."

The girl seemed to understand: "I know."

Know what? It's just to deal with my wife checking up on me, letting her know that I'm doing something big...

Dachun connected the tablet to the main computer to check, which seemed troublesome but was indeed not simple. In the past, it was necessary to negotiate a labor fee of tens of thousands to solve this kind of private work, but now I have to fight for self-protection...

After using the module toolkit that he had worked on for many years to crackle and bang for more than ten minutes, Dachun put the tablet on the host and warned the network administrator: "There is a chip inside that is the insider who opened the backdoor. You have to contact your boss to change the machine immediately. I will hang up this tablet here. Lock the computer room and no one can move. You can open the gate."

The next moment, the lights in the Internet cafe were brilliant.

All the masters cheered: "I knew that Brother Chun was from SHIELD! Awesome!"

The network administrator was even more impressed: "Brother Chun is a real master! If something goes wrong, I might be fired..."

Although Dachun is used to this feeling, he suddenly felt strange this time.

Perhaps he also understood why he was fired. It was not just because he was old, had a high salary and many reliable colleagues, but that he could influence the boss...

Back in the private room and started the game, the verbal battle in the game had already shocked the world. It turns out that it's not just the dozens of big Internet cafes in this city that are affected, but basically all the big Internet cafes in the country have been cleaned up.

Block the messages, go to sleep and wait.