Urban Sims

Money can buy everything you want... Zhou Ming finally understood the meaning of this sentence.

Wealth, job, status, partner, life span... everything can be purchased with money.

On the job trading information board in front of you, even the city's mayor, police chief and other senior government positions can be purchased with money, proving that in this world, money = everything.

Without money, you can't do anything. You can't buy a job, you can't find a partner, you don't have any social status, you can only be the lowest level of garbage, and you're always on the verge of being swept away.

But doesn’t Zhou Ming have a piece of money in his hand? On the career information panel, aren’t there some low-priced positions that can be purchased, such as a worker at Dalin Agricultural Company in Baowan Town? This position can be bought with 1 money or 70,000 credits. It can be bought, but he doesn’t have that many credits, doesn’t he just have one with money?

Zhou Ming shook his head. This money cannot be spent. It represents his qualification to stay in Area 52. Once he loses this only piece of money, the balance of his account will be zero and he will become a "returner". Then, what awaits him, It will be the tragic fate of being swept out of Area 52.

"This place can be called heaven...yes, it can be called heaven, a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor!"

Now Zhou Ming is a poor man, and the whole city hopes that he will go bankrupt.

Fortunately, from Fat Boss and the others, they got the first pot of gold in this world - more than 8,000 credits in total, so they don't have to worry about food and clothing in the short term.

As for Fat Boss, will they call the police and seek justice from the police? After Zhou Ming calculated the financial accounts for Fat Boss and the others, he concluded that they should not call the police.

It costs money to call the police. The first is the police fee of 500 credits/day, and the second is the cost of mobilizing city-wide surveillance and searching the database. The person who reported the crime must pay for it. After the case is solved, no matter what the loss is recovered, How much, the police will split another half... So for any case where the economic loss is less than 10,000 credit points, it is better to go to the police than rely on yourself.

In addition, Zhou Ming grabbed so many credit points from seven or eight people, and each person didn't grab much. How to share the cost after reporting the crime is probably a headache for Fat Boss and the others.

The most important thing is that the credit points of Fat Boss and the others were originally obtained through various methods of extortion. In the police reporting system (reporting a crime does not cost money, but calling the police requires money), they have a lot of criminal records. Even if they don't go to the police, some policemen who are short of money will take the initiative to go to them...

Therefore, this is the reason why the crime rate in this city is so low, and Zhou Ming dares to commit crimes.

In the next month, Zhou Ming made some freelancing attempts, preparing to use his skills or talents to create a job with a considerable income.

The first is carving, which he is best at. He spent more than 1,000 credits to customize a set of alloy knife carving tools, and then purchased 15 pieces of wood at a price of 80 credits per piece (probably for environmental protection reasons, The price of wood is very expensive), and then set up a street stall on a pedestrian street with a large flow of people in Yaoxing City to demonstrate carving skills and sell handicrafts.

However, Zhou Ming miscalculated. In three days, facing the daily traffic of over 10,000 pedestrians, he did not sell a single sculpture... Even though there were many people watching when he showed off his unique carving skills, after watching the performance, he was very disappointed. Quickly spread out, there is no one to buy.

Could it be that the price of the wood carvings is set too high?

After thinking about it, Zhou Ming lowered the price from 500 credit points per wood carving to a thin profit of 300 points per wood carving.

Now among the passers-by, more and more people showed excited expressions on their faces, especially a 15- or 6-year-old girl with an oval face. She came to Zhou Ming for several days in a row to watch him perform carvings, and looked at those cute Q Exquisite wood carvings, eyes glowing with desire.

"Can you carve one for me?" On this day, the girl with an oval face gently handed over the pink electronic card in her hand and said to him in a small voice.

"Can!"

Zhou Ming, who was the first to open a business, was overjoyed. After asking her what kind of wood carving she wanted, according to her request, Zhou Ming made her a wood carving of an angel with wings. The exquisite wood carving is a holy and beautiful angel. The dove-oval-faced girl was very happy. After taking the wood carving, the expression of struggle and hesitation on her face disappeared instantly like the haze illuminated by the sun.

With the good start of the girl with the pigeon face, Zhou Ming sold two more wood carvings in a row in the next two days. The buyers were all young girls, and one of them was a classmate brought by the girl with the pigeon face.

But on the third day, when the pigeon-faced girl ran to Zhou Ming with red eyes, handed over the wood carving in her hand, and sobbed and asked for a return, Zhou Ming was taken aback and asked, "It's the wood carving that has a problem." Well, why do you want to return it?”

"My mother said that 300 credits are my lunch money at school for a month. If I spend all this money, she won't give me any more money for lunch. I haven't eaten lunch these days, but my mother doesn't even have dinner. Don't let me eat one more bowl, brother, I'm sorry, I like this wood carving very much, but..."

The girl with the dove-shaped face became more and more sad as she cried, and her tears fell like raindrops.

"Is there still such a mother in the world?"

Zhou Ming couldn't believe it. This was just a toy worth about 300 yuan. With the productivity and salary level of this world, it's not like he couldn't even afford such a small toy, right?

But seeing the girl crying so sadly, and her stomach making gurgling sounds from time to time, it was the age when she was growing up, she didn't eat lunch, and she wasn't allowed to have a full dinner, all because of a wooden sculpture.

After thinking about it, Zhou Ming said to her: "Since there is no problem with the wood carving, I will not accept the return. However, I will refund half of the credit points to you. The wood carving will be sold to you at the cost price. Is that okay?"

The girl's original despair suddenly turned into surprise. She nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, okay!" 150 credits is almost enough if you save a little.

What's more, she still has her favorite wood carving in her hands, which makes her very surprised.

"Thank you, brother, thank you, brother!" After receiving the credits transferred to her by Zhou Ming, the girl with the dove-shaped face bowed several times gratefully, and turned back to say hello many times when she left.

Two days later, when the oval-faced girl followed her classmate and her classmate's mother, three people came over again and said that half of the money for the wood carving in the hands of her classmate would be refunded. Zhou Ming was hurt by this world. He asked the classmate's mother loudly: "How can you be so poor that you have to bargain like this for a 300-point wood carving? Is it because you have poor taste, or is my wood carving really worthless?"

The words of the classmate's mother almost defeated Zhou Ming: "It's just a piece of wood. It can't be eaten or used. It's a waste of money. It's not worth a single credit point. What's the value of something that deceives people's eyes? Give me the money quickly." I will return!"

"Brother, I'm sorry. Xiao Min is my good friend. I told Xiao Min about this, and then her mother..." The girl with the dove-shaped face cried again. She was so simple that she couldn't understand the values ​​​​of adults.

"You guys can play slowly, I won't wait for you anymore!"

After putting the tools and wood carvings back into his backpack and carrying them on his back, Zhou Ming left this place without looking back. Xiao Min's mother held his hand to prevent him from leaving. Zhou Ming shook her hand and pushed him far away. I could jump on my feet and curse at him, but I didn't dare to get close to him anymore.

After changing streets and disposing of all the wood carvings at a loss at a price of 50 credits each, Zhou Ming found that the wood carvings were not easy to sell at all, so he chose the second path: street performing.

So he spent nearly a thousand credits to find someone to make a guitar with good sound, and then wrote his electronic consumption card account number on a piece of paper (which can be transferred). Zhou Ming sat on a stone bench in a fountain square. , after adjusting the strings twice, he started singing:

Write and tell me what the color of the sea is

So what does it feel like to accompany you to the sea every night?

…

Listen to the sound of the sea crying

Sighing, who has been hurt but still not awake?

It must not be me. At least I am calm.

But tears, even tears, I don’t believe

Listen to the sound of the sea crying

…

Zhou Ming sang this song "Listen to the Sea" with great concentration, completely immersed in the atmosphere of that sad love song, and the effect was very remarkable. Perhaps he had never heard such highly infectious music before, and more and more listeners gathered around him. After singing a song, there was a burst of applause, and several emotional audience members even shed tears from the corners of their eyes.

As for the reward amount... 0.

Isn't it touching and sensational enough?

A song called "Broad Sea and Sky" is given to you again.

There are more listeners around, and the applause is more enthusiastic, but what about credit points? 0, or 0.

Zhou Ming didn't believe it anymore, and sang "I Only Care About You", "Ruthless Rain, Ruthless You", "At least I still have you" and more than a dozen songs that he thought were very classic. He sang for more than an hour. There were hundreds of people gathered in front of the audience on three levels inside and three outside. After every song, there was extremely warm applause.

What about tips? How about the number of people using electronic cards to transfer money?

0, always 0.

Zhou Ming stopped singing until he became discouraged. His heart ached for the decline of music in this world. And the listeners who listened to it for free for more than an hour wondered if their consciences were hurting?

Until a man dressed as a policeman walked up to him, took out an electronic consumer card from his pocket, patted his shoulder and said: "Young man, you sang very well. Come on, transfer the account. The total is 300 credits." point."

Zhou Ming was overjoyed, took his hand and said: "Thank you, thank you Mr. Police, you are the first listener to reward me, you are a person who truly loves music!"

The policeman shook his head and said: "No, no, you misunderstood me. Because you made a noise of more than 70 decibels in a public place, which violated the "City Appearance Law" and was fined 300 credit points. I just said Evidence collection has been completed, so please cooperate.”

Zhou Ming: ...

…

A month later, Zhou Ming, who had tried various professions such as sculptor, guitar master, and magician for a few days, finally despaired of this city that refused to spend money on art. The investment of more than 6,000 credit points only got back With less than 2,000 points in return, I spent more than 2,000 credits on eating, drinking, sleeping, and sleeping. Now I have less than 2,000 credits left.

In order to save money, he had to leave the city, bought a maglev train ticket, and went to Baowan Town, 150 kilometers away. Baowan Town is an important agricultural town in Yaoxing City, with a large number of private farms and agricultural companies. Zhou Ming wanted to come here to try his luck and solve his livelihood problems.

I feel that if everyone reads pirated copies, the hell for online authors will be similar to this.