In March, the coldest weather has passed. There is still some residual snow outside the windows under the street lights. Before dawn, sprinklers and sanitation workers have already started to take to the streets to clean up the mess left yesterday.
With the hard work of these people, firecrackers, fireworks, festive banners and scattered ribbons and confetti were gathered into piles and finally loaded into trucks and transported to the suburbs.
A rubber shoe filled with muddy water stepped on a scrap of paper blown up by the wind. A hand wearing labor protection gloves picked it up. On the scrap of paper was printed a notice that someone had won the lottery, and only half of it was left.
, the other half may still be on the person who is extremely happy.
The sanitation workers carefully wiped away the muddy water on the paper scraps, because the paper has a certain waterproof effect and has not been soaked to rot.
After carefully wiping it clean, she took out a black leather-bound notebook from her arms and tucked it in.
In this book, there are many stickers, illustrations and commemorative things like scraps of paper preserved like specimens.
If you look carefully, you can see that this sanitation worker is not very old. He is in his thirties or forties, but his face is already full of weather.
After the streets and alleys were cleaned up, the genius was bright. The city woke up relatively late today after a night of carnival. At this time, it was time to start the day's livelihood, but there were still only a few pedestrians, and even taxis were very few.
.
The temperature is only about two or three degrees, and the weather forecast says that we will encounter the last wave of cold wave today, and then it will be the time for spring flowers to bloom.
Winter has passed, only a tail is left.
It wasn't until daybreak that this deeply inland city woke up from its silence.
Some office workers received notice of the holiday, while others did not. The former were naturally overjoyed, while the latter went out with full of resentment.
Didi didi...
There were more vehicles on the street, but there were far fewer people waiting at the bus stop than usual. A man carrying a briefcase hurried in, shook off the muddy water on his shoes, turned around and looked at the billboard.
The light box that was not extinguished contained "How to register and register as a second tourist" issued by the city.
"Fuck, when will it be my turn?", he complained softly, rubbed his hands in the cold wind, and looked at the time on his phone, "It's almost 8 o'clock."
8 o'clock is a very important time. It is the time for identity verification of the 12 million tourists who won the lottery.
12 million, this is an extremely huge number, almost three times the total number of players in China, enough to fill 120,000 square kilometers of online land (later expanded to 10,000 square kilometers).
That's an FJ province.
Some people have already proposed the establishment of a 35th provincial administrative region, but this administrative region will be online.
There are so many lucky people who have won the lottery, even this small, unknown inland city has thousands of them. Canaan is something floating in the clouds, but it is very close at hand, hitting neighbors and neighbors.
A pie on a relative or friend.
It just didn’t hit me, Gan!
The bus pulled into the station, and the man with the briefcase quickly lined up to get on.
There were not many people in the car, and everyone was watching the on-board TV.
"...it will be 8 o'clock in 15 minutes. I believe that many people in front of the TV are waiting excitedly, and many people even stay up all night. Professor Liao, in the last 5 minutes, please remind me of the things that should be paid attention to.
Bar!"
"OK!"
"I'm not a player. Is there something I need to pay attention to?"
Out of sight and out of mind, the man with the briefcase took out his headphones and put them on, and soon fell asleep.
"Wait a minute, master, wait a minute!"
The bus had just left the station, and the driver saw a man chasing after him in the rearview mirror. He didn't want to pay attention to it, but the man had already grabbed the bus and staggered, almost falling under the wheels.
The driver stepped on the brake lightly, opened the door angrily, and yelled at the woman who jumped up and gasped: "What are you doing, are you trying to kill me?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, master, there is something urgent."
"It's an emergency? Are you rushing to reincarnate? Get down!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
The woman was in her twenties, dressed simply, with a pretty face. She was sweating profusely from running, with tears in her eyes, she kept nodding and bowing, and held on to the railing tightly, as if she would never go down.
"What are you doing standing there in a daze? Swipe your card!"
The driver's bad attitude is excusable. The woman's behavior just now was very dangerous. If anything happens, it will be entirely his responsibility.
The woman quickly swiped her card and said, "Master, can't you get to the Canaan Online Affairs Service Center?"
"No!"
"ah?"
"Get off the bus and change to Loop 34."
"But, it's too late!", the woman looked like she was about to cry, "Taxi and online car-hailing all take time."
"Did you win the lottery?" an aunt sitting behind asked with a raised voice.
"Um!"
“It’s already this time”
"What did you do earlier?"
"It's okay now. After the time has passed, it will be considered as giving up automatically."
"Oh, that's such a pity."
"Why don't I have such a good life? Some people still don't take it seriously?"
"Does giving up automatically mean that the quota is vacant?"
"That's what the rules and regulations say."
"Then do we have a chance?"
"What are you thinking about? Who would be so stupid as to not complete the registration at this time?"
“Can’t it be done online?”
"You must go to the service center in person with a valid ID and proof of winning the lottery."
"It's unnecessary."
"If we don't bother like this, wouldn't so many people have nothing to do?"
The emotions of the people in the car were suddenly aroused. There were not many people, and they were all chattering. The girl burst into tears and said, "My brother lost the winning notice. I just found it."
"Sit tight!"
The driver said with a straight face.
"Master, help me!"
The girl begged.
"Sit tight!"
The girl hurriedly sat down in the front seat. The driver suddenly turned the steering wheel and started driving in the wrong direction on the road.
"What's going on?"
"Do you want to go to the service center?"
"Is it too late?"
"We are in a hurry too!"
The driver kept a straight face and said nothing, but drove faster and faster.
The girl quickly stood up and bowed to the people in the carriage and thanked the driver. The passengers looked at her and gradually shut up.
The car was quiet, except for a retrograde bus speeding down the empty street.
At the service center, the receptionist yawned and was about to lock the rolling shutter door when he heard a sudden brake sound, and then the door clanked.
"What are you doing? What are you knocking for? Off duty?" The staff member looked at the time on the wall, turned around and said impatiently.
"Sorry, I'm here to register."
"It's time to get off work. Come back tomorrow."
Tomorrow, today is the final deadline.
The girl outside the door panicked, but the bus driver did not leave. He kicked the rolling door and shouted: "How dare you ignore such a big event? Open the door, the time has not yet come!"
The staff counted the seconds on the wall without answering. The hall inside was extremely empty, with the mess left last night everywhere. The staff who were cleaning up and getting ready to get off work were chatting and laughing.
"Please, please open the door!" the girl begged with tears in her eyes.
"This is maladministration and dereliction of duty. It will be posted online so that you can go up and down without food," the driver threatened.
The staff had no choice but to open the door with one and a half minutes left, and angrily said to the girl who kept thanking her for coming in: "What did you do earlier!?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry for causing you trouble."
"Hukou, ID card, lottery winning notice"
Finally, the registration, tax and other related registrations were completed in the last half minute of the deadline. The girl was ready to thank some bus drivers, but when she came out, she found that they had already left.
——This is when you meet a good person.
The girl walked out of the door of the service center with infinite gratitude, facing the cold wind, and smiled sincerely.
When I got home, my parents and my brother who got into trouble were waiting for a long time. When they saw her coming back, they wanted to ask but didn't dare.
The girl laughed and said, "...Fortunately I met a good person."
"Long live!", the younger brother, who had been under tremendous pressure, threw the pillow to the ceiling, meowing, and the cat, who was lazily dozing, was frightened and rushed out, knocking over the flowerpot placed next to the sofa.
Bang for a moment.
"I, I didn't mean it..."
The younger brother was so frightened that he was about to apologize, but his parents had already laughed happily. The girl rubbed her younger brother's head and took out the card obtained from the service center.
In the afternoon, a car delivering tourists' helmets drove into the community, and there was a scene of loud gongs and drums.
The girl lined up nervously holding her card. There were more than a hundred lucky people in the community waiting to receive it. All the residents came out to watch the fun. Those who had won the lottery in the family were naturally overjoyed, and those who had not won the lottery also wanted to be happy.
Next time, I must win next time.
According to the order of the cards, the helmet with the identity of the first tourist began to be issued. Notaries and public officials stationed in the city by Canaan Company supervised the whole process and verified the identity of each person.
Tourist identities cannot be used interchangeably, and whoever wins the lottery belongs to the same person. Therefore, the crowd also saw an old man in his eighties, holding on to a moped tremblingly and beaming without letting his family members support him.
"Old man, are you following the fashion at your age? Can you bear it?"
"That's right, just let me have it."
"Master, would you like to think about it?"
The crowd made good-natured jokes, but the old man refuted them one by one with a stiff neck, his voice was loud and full of energy.
The girl is relatively young among the people in line. At this age, people usually want to be a player, but her parents didn't get it, and she got it, which is also a happy worry.
The tourist status does not delay the acquisition of player status. This lottery has been specifically explained because it is a national server and not a public server (tourists do not have the right to choose the partition). The support from top to bottom is very strong. I heard that various provinces and cities are working on it.
Each online administrative district is brewing, and each tourist's card has a group number, free housing, etc., which is better than the treatment of players.
In fact, we are going to follow the same rules as offline, but we have changed them to the system and Canaan's terms.
Tourists are much easier to control than players. Since then, population has been the foundation. With talents, everything is possible. How to use such a large number of tourists has not yet been clearly explained.
But the most important function of tourists is to "live" rather than "play". This has been established for a long time.
"Zhu Yuting, Shaanxi D10097 Zhu Yuting?"
"Ah, here we come."
"Where's the ID card?"
"Here it is for you!"
"Hukou, ID card, lottery winning notice"
Zhu Yuting handed over the bag in her arms again.
The staff began to sort the paper boxes behind them. After four or five people held instruments, checked and videotaped the entire process, and supervised by notaries and the producer Canaan Company, a blue box was handed over.
In her hands.
"Open the box and check it. If there is no problem, sign it."
"good!"
Zhu Yuting read a lot of precautions on the Internet. Unpacking and on-site inspection is a very important part of it. Since the number of winners this time is huge and widely distributed across the country, it is inevitable that there are places where supervision cannot be carried out, and some criminals are trying to change the situation.
, using fake tourist helmets to steal tourist identities.
Canaan's central brain doesn't care about the lottery results. A device only recognizes the first person who activates and logs in, so even if the person is caught in the end, the tourist identity cannot be recovered.
The box was opened, and an icy blue gradient, drop-shaped, and sci-fi-style helmet appeared in Zhu Yuting's field of vision. She took an excited breath, recalled the steps of online submission, picked up the heavy helmet, and inspected its various features on the spot.
function.
Built-in LCD panel... no problem.
Semi-relying ergonomic lining...no problem.
Relying entirely on the external bionic skeleton scaffold... no problem.
No-owner startup self-test...no problem.
Bluetooth connection to the mobile phone shows the factory code and anti-counterfeiting message...no problem.
Zhu Yuting signed the final signature and put the helmet into the box and wrapped it.
"Congratulations"
Finally, the notary and the people from Canaan Company congratulated her.
"Thank you, thank you!"
Zhu Yuting returned home among the people with the box in her arms. The neighbors looked at the box in her arms with envy.
"Xiao Zhu, why don't you take this baby back quickly? If it's broken and lost, there's no place to cry."
"Starting from tomorrow, Xiao Zhu will go to work in another world."
"Always making money."
"The one in our family who tinkers with incense in this temple all day long has failed to win the prize several times. I'm so angry."
"I'd better leave my luck to the winning players. Players are more advanced than tourists."
"You can't hit the tourists, so why bother the players? If you blow less, you'll die?"
"Just wait and see, the 7th test is coming soon."
Zhu Yuting's family escorted the baby back home and placed it in the living room. The four of them stared at it for several minutes. It was only at this moment that they had a sense of reality.
"Mom and Dad, don't be stunned. My sister will be online at 8pm."
"Ah, yes, yes, I'm going to cook"
"I'm going out to buy something. What does Tingting need to buy?"
Zhu Yuting looked at the time blankly, her mind going blank.
"It's not like we have to enter the examination room. Let my sister eat well, get some sleep, and recharge her batteries."
Zhu Yuting said, "Yes, but I can't sleep."
"Then go take a shower and travel light."
"oh."
"I'm telling you, sister, don't be nervous. You must remember what to do when you go online...Forget it, I'll check online. You go and take a shower."
"Uh-huh."
Zhu Yuting walked into the bathroom obediently.
"Mom, make the food lighter so that you don't have trouble with your stomach. And don't let my sister drink too much water. If there is no game room, it will be inconvenient."
