"800 silver coins are equal to forty thousand, 8,000 silver coins are equal to four hundred thousand, 80,000 silver coins are equal to four million... four million..."
All right.
There is actually a big problem with this calculation.
You don’t even need the epoch-making immersive virtual reality online game. Anyone who has played two phenomenal M-RPG games knows what the so-called “G price” is.
By the time he can actually take out hundreds of thousands of silver coins and sell them on the forum, I'm afraid the silver coins will no longer be that valuable.
but
If he can train to level 30 or even 40 when others are at level 20, and if he drives a star battleship and throws power armor down while others are wearing power armor, so what if the silver coins are not that valuable anymore?
When someone else has ten thousand silver coins in his pocket, he may have hundreds of millions in his pocket.
As long as he stays in the first echelon and is always ahead of the game, even if he earns 50 silver coins per dollar, he may not earn less than when he earns 1 silver coin and 50 dollars.
If a new version is released, new equipment is released, or a large number of players enter the game, the price of silver coins may actually rise.
At present, there are only 1,600 players in the closed beta test of "Wasteland OL", and the number of reservations has already exceeded one million. A group of people are just relying on booing and a bunch of cheesy game screenshots and CG videos.
The cry of science has sent the price of silver coins skyrocketing...
Where is this?
Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, everyone will hold a helmet and close their eyes to see the second world, and human civilization will move towards a new era.
At that time, regardless of the price of silver coins, his return will be far more than 40,000, and may even be more than 400 million...
This is just the beginning!
Ye Wei felt his heart beating fast.
This was the first time that he had the idea of playing professionally.
On the way back to the dormitory from the computer room, Ye Wei, who was carrying a huge sum of money, felt like he was floating. When he got to the door, he remembered that he had forgotten to have lunch.
"Awei, do you miss the girl?"
"Get lost."
Ye Wei looked up at his roommate lying on the bed.
The little man's name is Sun Qian, and I have a close relationship with him. They used to eat chicken double steak together, but he has quit the game for a while.
Ordinary games can no longer satisfy him.
"Are you going to eat?"
The roommate replied with a playful smile.
"Go, I'll go if someone invites you."
"I'll treat."
The guy's eyes widened instantly.
"What the hell? Real or fake?"
He just makes jokes every day.
I never thought about getting out of bed.
I heard that someone was inviting me to dinner, and the dormitory director and Brother Liu also joined in the fun and started making noises.
"Ah Wei Ba Ba!"
"Brother Wei is awesome!"
Ye Wei rolled his eyes.
"Stop beeping, get up quickly."
The four of us happened to not have eaten yet, so we went to the snack street together.
After finding a grilled fish restaurant by the lake with a good reputation, Ye Wei picked up the menu and made a few purchases. He calculated that it only cost two hundred.
He usually feels distressed by the 20 yuan takeaway, but now he even thinks it's cheap.
After all, 200 yuan is only 4 silver coins...
calm.
It can't be calculated like this.
Ye Wei took a deep breath and tried to convince himself to calm down.
Because just now, he suddenly realized that he had eaten a bowl of ramen worth 6 silver coins a few hours ago.
That was probably the most expensive bowl he had ever eaten in his life.
Seeing that my good brother took a deep breath and giggled at that moment, the three roommates looked at each other and made eye contact.
'I feel like A Wei is not feeling right today...Is there something going on at home?'
'Good brother, heroes think alike! I also think Brother Wei is probably single!'
'It makes sense. When this kid came in just now, I felt that he was a little in a trance. Maybe he was dumped.'
After a nonsensical exchange, the dormitory manager's eyes gradually became firmer. He looked at Ye Wei, who was sitting there counting fish bones, and held his shoulder with his right hand.
Ye Wei raised his head in confusion.
"...What are you doing?"
The head of the dormitory said with a serious face.
"The road of life is still long. There are no obstacles that cannot be overcome, and there are no people that cannot be let go. If you want to be a little more cheerful, brother, but if you really want to cry, Brother Liu can lend you a shoulder."
Ye Wei almost had a fish bone stuck in his throat. Brother Liu, who was sitting opposite, was even more exaggerated and almost spit out a mouthful of tea.
"Go away! You have to borrow it yourself! You want me to sell my body after just one meal... unless it's two meals."
"You guy! What about the relationship that we have shared in the same bed for more than a year? We, A Wei, are already like this, what's wrong with you?"
"Are you serious?"
"Ugh vomit vomit."
Ye Wei looked at the three of them in confusion.
"What the hell?"
The dormitory director laughed dryly and said.
"It's nothing, we just saw that you weren't in the right mood and were a little worried about you."
Ye Wei said, dumbfounded.
"No, no, you have misunderstood. I just... encountered some good things, and my mentality is a bit impetuous. Give me some time to adjust, and I will be fine."
Sun Qian asked curiously.
"What a good thing?"
Brother Liu also asked excitedly.
"Tell me, my impetuous kidneys are exhausted."
"..."
Ye Wei didn't know how to speak.
This topic has been discussed many times in their dormitory, but even if he showed them the official website, none of them would believe it.
Show them the bank card balance?
His emotional intelligence is not that low yet.
"If, I mean if...there is such a 100% real virtual reality online game, how popular will it be?"
The three roommates looked at each other.
"Brother Wei..."
"What?"
"What if, I mean what if..." Sun Qian said weakly, "One day you will go crazy and become possessed. No, the magic is great. Can you start by killing Brother Liu and the dormitory chief?"
Brother Liu: "Damn it! You are so vicious!"
"Hey, forget it," Ye Wei knew it would turn out like this. He shook his head helplessly and took a sip of beer. "Think of your father as a fart."
It's about two o'clock in the afternoon.
The group returned to the dormitory.
People get sleepy when they are full, and they don’t want to work when they are sleepy. The three of them decided to eat two handfuls of chicken first while studying, and they also called Ye Wei.
Although I know that this guy is probably not interested and shouting would be in vain, but whether to shout or not is another matter.
Standing on the balcony, Ye Wei thought about it and finally decided to be more conservative and transferred 6,000 to my mother's bank card first.
Before he could send a WeChat message to explain clearly, my mother's phone called.
"Wei Wei, what's the deal with the six thousand yuan?"
Hearing the concerned voice on the other end of the phone, Ye Wei couldn't help but feel warm in his heart.
"Mom, I recently... found a part-time job. I paid the tuition for this semester with my salary. If you transfer my tuition, I will give it to you first."
In the end, Ye Wei was too embarrassed to say that he earned money by playing games, so he could only find some excuse to deal with it first, and explain it bit by bit later.
"Part-time job? What part-time job? Why did you suddenly go part-time?"
"Electronic product reviewer... Anyway, the specific purpose is to help test some new equipment," Ye Wei said with a blushing face.
The voice on the other end of the phone hesitated.
"Testing new equipment... isn't that just being a guinea pig?"
"It's okay, it's very safe, and it's at night... I mean it won't conflict with class time, and it won't affect learning."
so close!
I almost spilled the beans!
Ye Wei felt that if he said that he worked at night, he would have misunderstood something.
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while.
"...Don't tire yourself too much. You still need to learn more knowledge when you go to college. Our family's financial conditions can easily afford you to go to college."
"Don't worry, Mom, part-time job is also a kind of learning. I learned a lot from my friends who took the test together, and don't I want to share some of the burden for the family? Jiujiu will take the college entrance examination in June this year, and she still studied When it comes to painting, there will be tuition fees, living expenses, buying paints... there are still many places to spend money."
"That's right, you don't need to pay me for living expenses in the future, I have enough money..."
Said a lot.
I finally finished dealing with my mother's side.
Ye Wei put down his phone and took a deep breath. After thinking for a while, he opened Goudong, picked out a phone worth about 4,000 yuan, and sent the link to his sister.
Jiujiu loves to eat pineapple: "?"
Wei: "Like it?"
Jiujiu loves to eat pineapples: "What do you want to do? Let me tell you first, I only have a little pocket money. If you can't afford to eat, I can lend you a little bit, but I can't buy a mobile phone. (Alert.jpg)"
Wei: "Gungungun, is your brother the kind of person who eats soft food? Forget it, I originally wanted to give it to you directly, but after thinking about it, it will affect your study too much, so I'll wait until you get admitted to Humei."
Jiujiu loves to eat pineapple: "NO! Brother!! I was wrong! QAQ"
Seeing his sister's bombarded emojis, the corners of Ye Wei's lips curled up unconsciously.
How will you spend your money after you get rich?
He really hasn't thought about this problem carefully.
Although he was an all-powerful T0 player in "Wasteland OL", with the slow testing progress of "Wasteland OL", he never expected to make a living from this thing.
And now, all his previous efforts have paid off.
While playing with your friends, you can also solve your worries and let your family live a better life.
hateful!
This damn operator is playing the sugar-coated card again!
Turning off his phone, Ye Wei looked at the bedroom behind him.
The roommates were eating chicken in three rows, and a fierce gun battle was breaking out on the screen. They kept shouting about "pull the gun cord" and "hit the cigarette".
But after all, this is a game in the "two-dimensional era", and those rough graphics no longer have much appeal to him.
Looking at the black helmet on the table, Ye Wei suddenly felt a slight warmth in his heart.
"Thanks, brother."
…
The same world.
Far away across the ocean.
The lights were dark in a room in Virginia, except for a computer that was still on.
This is the only laptop that doesn't have an internet connection.
Only a string of understated characters remained on the flickering screen.
"Don't try to be clever."
"Don't think your own rules can solve other people's problems."
"You have your own problems to solve, so you might as well take care of yourselves when you have that time."
"This is a warning."
This is also their only progress in the past six months.
Rubbing his messy hair with his left hand, the curly-haired man shook the mouse with a look of collapse.
"It's useless...this computer can't be saved either."
This is the office of the CIA's special operations team, codenamed "Wasteland," and their target is a website that "doesn't exist at all" but can be "accessed normally."
They first discovered the website in a gaming community.
At first, no one took it seriously, they just regarded it as a joke among a group of netizens in the Chinese cultural circle.
It wasn't until more and more CGs were released and a senior agent named Fick tried to find the backdoor of the website out of curiosity that he gradually realized the seriousness of the matter.
This website does not exist at all.
But it can be accessed normally.
This abnormal situation made him think that he had discovered aliens.
The Federation did not pay much attention to such trivial issues at first. After all, even such matters had to be taken special care of, and their grassroots staff would be exhausted.
However, considering that this phenomenon was indeed abnormal, after level-by-level reporting, the CIA finally established a team specifically responsible for this case.
For Fike, who is in charge of this team, this is an excellent opportunity. As long as he can complete this task beautifully, he will definitely be appreciated by the minister.
In this way, they worked overtime day and night in this dark room for half a year, and even taught themselves Chinese, but unfortunately there was no progress.
The security of the other party's server was impeccable, with no flaws at all, which gave the network information security experts hired by Fike a headache.
However, the situation has finally turned around recently.
The other party has released the game currency transaction of "Wasteland OL" in the update of "Beta 0.2 version".
As we all know, when a system is just developed, it often has the most bugs. Aren’t bugs always being fixed in previous version announcements?
Fike has reason to believe that this newly launched "silver coin trading platform" will become a breakthrough in conquering the wall of Troy!
In order for this operation to go smoothly, Fick called in the strongest information technology team he could find and asked them to hack into the website's server at all costs and find the location of the anonymous company.
If conditions permit, it is best to get the relevant data of the "Dreamland" system, which will be the key to his meritorious service!
Regardless of whether you can succeed or not, you have to give it a try.
Anyway, the other party had always been Buddhist before and had no response to their frequent temptations. After all, they did not dare to offend the powerful Milician.
However, what Fick didn't expect was that for the price of one Bitcoin, what he got was the collapse of the entire system.
The other party not only took down their server, but also deleted all the data in their server.
Looking at the paralyzed computers in the room, Fike felt his heart was bleeding, his scalp was numb, and his hands and feet were cold.
He seemed to have foreseen his boss's furious curse.
"All 147 servers were wiped out...it's over."
With his hands completely off the keyboard, another information technology expert sitting in front of the computer finally gave up his struggle.
"Our opponent is a monster. What is frustrating is not how clever their methods are, but their technology is beyond my understanding."
"Do you know what I just experienced? I felt like a primitive man holding a stone spear to defend the city, and in front of me was a giant sent by Odin. I'm not even sure if I angered it, But it still reached out towards me..." As he spoke, he showed the little finger of his right hand and continued to ramble on incomprehensibly.
"...At most one little finger, no more, and this has exceeded the limit of our server."
Fick swallowed hard.
"Don't scare yourself..."
He admitted that there may be some gaps between them in the field of information technology, but at most they are at the level of T64 and Leopard 2, and not to the extent of Xie Mantou.
However
The lack of confidence in his heart made him couldn't help but add a hint of doubt at the end of his words.
The information technology expert shook his head.
"It's not about scaring yourself...forget it, you don't understand even if you tell me. With all due respect, this is an asymmetrical duel. It's disgraceful for them to win, and there's nothing to be ashamed of if I lose."
After saying this, he leaned back on the chair exhausted.
That expression was somewhat self-defeating.
"I just wanted to ask, which of you turned off the lights?"
Glancing at the extinguished light above his head and then at the extinguished charging light on his laptop, he suddenly frowned.
"power cut?"
What's the point of having a power outage now?
Fick took out his cell phone and looked at it, but there was no signal.
At this moment, his subordinates walked in from outside in a hurry, with disbelief and horror written on their faces.
"It's stopped. It's not just here, the whole state is stopped! Damn it, the base station has no signal, it takes time to switch the backup generator, and now the whole department is in a mess. I don't want to connect the two things, but it happened A few seconds ago."
Looking at the man walking in from the door, the room was as quiet as death.
power failure……
And the entire state.
Compared to the economic losses caused by the entire state's power outage, the more than 100 servers they broke down seem insignificant...
Fike's Adam's apple moved with difficulty. Although it was still March, he felt that the room was suffocatingly hot.
His mind is very confused.
I can't even figure it out.
It was clear that the other party had been "submissive" and "dare not to fight back" in their previous cyber attacks. Why did they suddenly fight back this time?
Now that I think about it, the other party didn't dare to offend before, but just didn't bother to pay attention. But this time, the other party not only took action, but also counterattacked without distinction or restriction, directly turning off the power switch of the entire state.
Is this going too far?
The curly man sitting in front of the computer punched the table angrily.
"This is a terrorist attack!"
Fick glanced at him briefly and coughed slightly.
"Do you have evidence? If you don't have evidence...it's best not to connect these two things."
Once these two things are connected, they must make a formal response. And once a formal response is made, as the person in charge, he must be responsible for the losses caused by the failure.
Why bother?
No one claimed responsibility for this incident.
The generator restarted, communications were restored, and light returned to the room.
However, the atmosphere in the room was full of depression.
One of the detectives pinched his eyebrows and said with a headache.
"...What kind of company is this?"
Fick wanted to say the same thing.
With such incredible technology, they actually used it to...make games?
What's the difference between this and being reborn and running to play DOTA?
helmet……
It would be great if I could get a helmet.
Fike's heart moved.
If the wallet that received the Bitcoin can be traced, at least one player's identity can be locked. Even if the other player is on the other side of the ocean and it is inconvenient for them to send people to contact them directly, there are too many indirect methods to win over citizens of third world countries.
Got it
etc.
A drop of cold sweat suddenly appeared on Fick's forehead.
Just now, he suddenly realized that he might be planning something extremely dangerous.
It's not difficult to get a helmet.
But just getting a helmet won't solve anything.
The cost is even more unknown.
Those lunatics can paralyze a state's power system in a matter of seconds, and not only can they not find the problem, they don't even have evidence to prove that it is related to them.
perhaps……
You should seriously consider the true meaning of that "warning" and the risk of "hidden dangers" spreading from the federal power system to other systems.
After rearranging his thoughts, Fick took a deep breath and looked around at his colleagues in the room.
"There is a problem with the idea of invading the server...I don't doubt that we have the ability to break into their server, but there is no need for us to take this risk."
"The technical strength displayed by the other party is obviously not possessed by organizations or institutions known to our intelligence network, otherwise those people would have used it long ago."
"It is also obvious that we do not actually have a direct conflict of interest...perhaps using a milder method can make them feel our honesty."
Although everyone's expressions were strange, no one refuted.
"I'm glad we came to an agreement."
Fike breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and continued in a gentle tone.
"My expression just now may be more euphemistic, what I mean is..."
"How about we fill out a form first?"
…
The same thing is happening elsewhere.
Across the ocean.
somewhere.
The spacious and bright room was very quiet. The table was piled with documents, the trash can was filled with cigarette butts, and a few fell to the floor.
More than a dozen people were busy quietly. Judging from the dark circles on their faces, they had been working diligently for several days.
However, I should be able to take a vacation tomorrow.
Probably because they couldn't withstand their hard work for days, there was only one computer left that was not down.
Just treat it like that.
In fact, rather than what happened to the "non-existent website", they wanted to know how those "helmets that should not exist" appeared out of thin air in the hands of players.
This is much more serious than economic issues.
"Can you find that person?"
"I can check it, but I can't find it."
The old police officer frowned.
"What's the meaning?"
The young police officer sighed and said.
"All the messages before April last year have disappeared. There are no traces of deletion, but nothing at all. He is like a ghost who appeared out of thin air. Our only clues are the Penguin and several chat records as of April last year.
, he has nothing to hide, or in other words, he doesn’t even bother to hide it.”
Another colleague frowned and said.
"He always has his own social relationships, right? Where are the friends in the account? Where is the registered mobile phone number?"
Compared to "Xiaoqi" who doesn't even have a social account, the planner codenamed "Aguang" is probably their only breakthrough.
The young man was silent for a while.
"The most evil place is right here."
"We know a lot, but we can't find where he worked or his parents. We searched through the archives of Jiangcheng University and the local talent market and couldn't find any files about him, either.
It was forged or tampered with... He disappeared and never even appeared in front of our eyes. It was like a UFO flying from the sky and sucking him away along with the traces of his existence."
However, in contrast to this strange phenomenon.
It's easy to lock down the identities of those players.
The information on the website is shady, but you can always find some clues by monitoring the group chat information.
The level of their team is very high, and the circumstances of the case they are responsible for are extremely special.
Generally, there are still procedures required for relevant personnel to come to your home to check these sensitive things, but they can obtain them directly.
"In addition to chat records, there is also bank transfer information. Although the information within the website cannot be locked, all transfers of the same amount during the same period can be locked and screened. Purchasing game props does not constitute an offense, but we can ask them to cooperate with our investigation...
Do I need to contact them?”
The silent old man suddenly spoke.
"You mentioned banks. I was thinking just now, what if there is a problem with the banking system."
The young man was stunned for a moment and said nervously.
"Yin, bank? It's not like that..."
The old man thought for a moment and said: "It's just a hypothesis. Our work may add unnecessary trouble to comrades in the banking system."
The man with a Chinese character face who had been silent until now suddenly spoke.
"It's actually not necessary."
Everyone looked over.
He continued slowly.
"First of all, we have to admit that the other party's information technology is superior to ours."
Sitting in front of the computer, a middle-aged man wearing glasses had a look of shame on his face.
"Feel sorry……"
The man with Chinese character face shook his head.
"It's not your fault. They have technology that we have never heard of. They can interfere with dreams. Using this technology to steal secrets is childish to me."
"I even thought about whether aliens could understand our civilization level and thinking patterns through this method, and then decide whether to..."
As he said that, the man with the Chinese character made a gesture on his neck.
Everyone in the office looked at each other.
But soon realized he was joking.
The old man coughed dryly and said calmly.
"No matter how we talk about aliens..."
That's outrageous.
Even though this is probably the closest guess to the truth.
"It's just a hypothesis. Just now my colleague informed me that a large-scale power outage occurred in Virginia across the ocean...and it was not a district, but the entire state. The power grid there was interrupted for a full hour, and it was only connected to Washington. Across the Tomak River, their explanation to the outside world is that aging circuit problems caused the power company's system failure, and it has been restored to normal after emergency repairs, but they are not the only ones who know this."
The man with the Chinese character's face thought for a moment and continued.
"They know where we are and even showed a card in their hand. Putting aside the dream system built with the help of 'thinking cognition', their achievements in the field of information technology may be at least half a century ahead of us... and maybe even More."
"I still reserve the speculation that the operators of this game are aliens or extraterrestrial civilizations. This is not technology on earth at all. This is not my opinion alone."
No technology can be created out of thin air without a theoretical foundation, but the existence of that website is beyond their knowledge.
A layman may not be able to tell the difference between it and an ordinary website, but in the eyes of those who really understand it, it is like an isolated singularity.
The two sides are not on the same dimension at all.
And this is also the root of the problem.
The old detective coughed lightly.
"It seems we need to add a comrade from the aerospace system."
The person next to me made a joke to lighten the atmosphere.
"Is there any additional budget for the Nantianmen Project?"
The middle-aged man wearing glasses sitting in front of the computer still felt a little unwilling.
"This is the kind of technology that can change the world, if we can"
The man with the Chinese character face coughed lightly.
"Back to the topic just now, I think active intervention is the most unwise choice. Someone has already stumbled for us. There is no need for us to follow them and fall into the river again."
The old man frowned.
"But just let it go?"
The man with the Chinese character face continued.
"We don't know their motivations for running this game, we don't know the principles, and we don't even know...whether they are from Earth."
"However, they obviously knew us, and just a few months after the planner codenamed 'Aguang' disappeared, they quickly launched the MMORPG "Wasteland OL"."
"And his explanation to other netizens in the group chat was that he changed jobs."
"We assume that they come from outside the solar system, then this will be our first contact with extraterrestrial civilization. We represent more than just our own civilization. Compared with the possible consequences of arrogance, I prefer the most cautious contact."
"Why don't you observe it for a while?"
"The other party has shown us civilized sincerity. While we should remain vigilant, we should also show the sincerity that civilized people should have."
"No matter what their purpose is, the game has just reached round B. Maybe they from a distant world are trying to convey some kind of message or metaphor to us through 'games', a cultural form that we can understand."
"At least for now, it doesn't mean hostility. If it means aid, we could benefit a lot from it."
The old man thought for a long time and nodded.
"It's really rude to interrupt someone in mid-sentence. At least wait until they finish."
The person next to him nodded.
"I think so too."
The young man raised his hand.
"I object. I'm worried that external forces will attack those players. At least we should protect those 'players'."
The man with the Chinese character face said nothing. The old man smiled and shook his head.
"You think our opponents are too stupid."
Destroy it if you can’t get it?
This is a plot from a third-rate romance TV series.
If there really was such a stupid opponent, they would have won long ago.
As for controlling players...
There's no need for that.
The number of reservations exceeds one million and is still increasing. The existing technical means can only know who has forwarded the link, but not who has visited the website at what time. There is no way to know who will get the helmet next.
.
There is a black hole absorbing information, more mysterious than the world outside the solar system.
The other party chose them.
You can also choose someone else.
The young man sighed.
"It would be nice if I could get a helmet."
The man with the Chinese character face smiled and said.
"That thing is useless. I've had people study it, and the structure inside is so simple that it makes people confused. We haven't mastered the most basic principles. As for reverse engineering... just listen to it as a joke."
The old man looked at him in surprise.
"Where did you get the helmet?"
The man with the Chinese character face smiled sheepishly.
"It's a coincidence. Maybe I discovered it earlier. I filled out the form very normally, including age, major, things I'm good at, games I've played, and some multiple-choice questions that young people may be more interested in.
Then clicked the YES button."
To be honest, he hadn't played many games, most of them were online games from the ancient era like Legend, and he never thought he could actually get into it.
The other party didn't seem to care at all.
The helmet was placed directly in front of his house.
In fact, he has been playing for a while.
And this is why his superiors transferred him to this group to help from the beginning.
The old man was stunned for a moment.
"Did you fill out that form?"
"Does it make any difference whether I fill it in or not? Unless my file is completely deleted from the system, it will just be graffiti on the wall to them."
After a pause, the man with the Chinese character's face looked at the computer with a flashing screen.
"I even have a feeling."
"We are having a meeting here today behind closed doors, and the audience is far more than ourselves."