Under the Tula River bed in Ulaanbaatar, across the fertile land of the grassland, and through nearly 6,100 meters of underground rock formations, a huge cavity covering an area of 63,000 square kilometers has become a settlement for people.
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This is District 41, a place of rich and poor.
The two adjacent areas are the territory of the Greenstone people. Going west along an underground water vein, it is the Eurasian Continental Bridge Treasury that starts from the Golden Township and ends at the Kuerpo Gold Mine. People call this area
A huge mineral reserve hidden deep underground is called King Solomon's Treasure.
District 41 happened to be sandwiched in the middle. In the early years, Greenstone, who was good at agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, opened up fertile land for it and took this little brother on the road to modern industrialization.
In the more than fifty years from the 1980s to 2032, it changed its appearance and devoted itself to heavy industry, and then transformed into light industry and tertiary industry.
This process is very different from other blocks, but District 41 has never had a mad butterfly, and it is a rare safe haven in turbulent times.
It is neither a transportation artery of the Asia-Europe railway network, nor does it have specialties such as disaster beasts, psychic mediums and other specialties. The water vein network branched from the Pompeii Sea is almost adjacent to District 41, from the two large areas where the Greenstone Man is located.
District slipped away - so the brothers naturally came to help this younger brother.
It is said to be poor because it is difficult to obtain water in these cities. Residents are short of water. They have to transport water from the 36 geysers dug by surrounding people. Other basic facilities for people's livelihood are also very rudimentary.
It is said to be rich because District 41 has not experienced spiritual disasters. It is like a gem that is not affected by wind, water, rain, and natural erosion. Most of the underground cities settled near Mongolia at the same time have experienced serious disasters.
Let's cross the four dams of the Hella Water Vein and come to the drier loess land, transfer from the Nine Realms to the 18th station in the direction of Huangjin Township, fly over the winding and complicated mountain road slopes, and travel through 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, called Morning Light. The reason is that from here looking towards the neighboring houses with mountains and the 40th arrondissement, the light source in the morning is the brightest no matter what time of year it is.
The green stone people who love productive labor are very close to the salary kings. In the supporting facilities next door, there is also expensive energy like "sun". In the early morning, Chenguang County can get some sunshine. In addition,
There is no sunshine at all.
Go from the railway station in the county town to Tulahan Square, cross two commercial streets, and come to the water diversion mouth 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 in his forties, a Uyghur man whose 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——
——The morning is the busiest time for Ma's Mutton Restaurant. Chenguang County has no time to welcome the sunshine, so Boss Ma has to take two apprentices on a tricycle to go to the fresh food stall and slaughter morning market four kilometers away.
Boss Ma's daughter would help look after the store. Between five and seven in the morning, Ma Fenfen could hear rustling noises coming from the rental house on the second floor - that was brother Qi Ji making money.
She didn't know how this young tenant made money from the Internet. Maybe he was like an online anchor, advertising various products, but could he bring products live just by typing on the keyboard and clicking the mouse?
Qi Ji made her feel strange. This little brother had been living in her father's shop for more than half a year. His daily routine was the same, going to bed at 12 noon and getting up at 7 pm.
Before 7:30, when Ma Fenfen came home from school, she could see this black-haired boy with gloomy eyes, climbing down the ladder like a zombie, and asking Ma Youguo for a bowl of mixed noodles, a plate of vegetables, and a basket of steamed dumplings.
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He doesn't eat peanut butter, so he chooses the cheapest vegetables. If it's suitable, it depends on the season. If it's not suitable, it's all-purpose tomato scrambled eggs.
Ma Youguo would occasionally go out to play cards. Qi Ji couldn't find the boss, so he asked Ma Fenfen to open the kitchen and do it himself.
In Ma Fenfen's eyes, this little brother looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old. For some reason, Qi Ji, who was the same age as her, had already left his hometown and moved to District 41, living a solitary life.
Maybe this is [otaku]?
This term was popular for a while in the very early Internet era.
But later, through 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. The boss initially rented it out because it was too troublesome to carry ingredients up and downstairs, so he simply renovated it and rented it out as housing.
I had six tenants in succession, but none of them could stand the cramped, depressing, dark and lightless environment. People would become depressed after living there for a long time.
But little brother Qi Ji has been here for more than half a year, and his health is getting better and better——
——This is something that Ma Fenfen cannot understand. Maybe some people are born to like to be alone and like to be alone. They are not social animals and are different from ordinary people.
In addition to his strange physiological schedule, this autistic boy only eats two or one meal a day.
He loves to be clean. When he enters the kitchen, he will despise Boss Ma's poor cooking skills. He will also clean up the stove and kitchen table every time he cooks by himself.
He didn't have much flesh on his body. The furthest he could go out was 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 we want to talk about Qi Ji's work in detail, it would be very complicated——
——Waiting until 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, scrolling on Douyin, when she heard the sound of the ladder, she suddenly raised her head: "Ah! It's a rare sight! Why do you want to have a midnight snack today?"
Qi Ji looked very tired, with both sleep and bags under his eyes. His voice was green and he was short, probably less than 170 centimeters tall. He was only 1.68 meters tall.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He was wearing a pair of tank tops, shorts, and thick non-slip slippers. The palms and backs of his hands were clean, but his fingers were calloused. He was a fierce key player.
"Help me, Miss." The boy shook his arms to stretch his sore muscles, apologetically, "I encountered some hard food today. I don't have enough food. I have to eat something to last until twelve o'clock.
Go to sleep again."
According to Qi Ji's work and rest, eating at seven o'clock in the morning is a midnight snack.
"Okay! I'll do it for you!" Ma Fenfen was overjoyed when she heard the title of "eldest lady". A boy of the same age was boasting and attacking. He looked clean and respectable, so naturally he paid special attention to it.
When Ma Fenfen put down her phone and entered the kitchen, Qi Ji stood next to the kitchen counter with her hands behind her back like a veteran cadre.
It started with Fenfen selecting the ingredients, and Qi Ji immediately commanded remotely.
"Don't choose beef, it's too expensive."
Ma Fenfen immediately said: "I won't charge you any money!"
Qi Ji: "It's too hot."
Ma Fenfen changed it to a skewer 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 got two big potatoes in exchange.
Qi Ji: "There are too many. Choose one and cut it in half. I will eat half."
Ma Fenfen was upset when she heard this: "The gas to turn on the fire is more expensive than this thing!"
"Uh" Qi Ji thought for a while and retorted in the simplest and most direct way: "One unit of gas only costs seven yuan, it doesn't cost that much to cook a potato."
"Tsk" Little sister Fenfen glanced at Qi Ji, not knowing what to say: "Are you losing weight?"
Qi Ji: "No."
Fenfen immediately took the half-hung beef and threw it into the sink: "Then eat it! Don't you take Qingre Xiaoyanning when you are angry?"
Qi Ji didn't know what to say. He looked at a loss and muttered in a low voice.
“It’s not healthy to overeat while taking medicine.”
After a while, Fenfen washed all the vegetables and was about to start marinating the meat.
Qi Ji immediately continued to direct——
"——Don't put soy sauce, less salt."
Fenfen obeyed and followed the instructions with salt grains.
Qi Ji emphasized: "A little bit, just throw it away. I rarely move and don't sweat that much. Too much salt will also increase my blood pressure - my profession is quite special, and I can easily develop high blood pressure if I'm not careful."
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"Then do it yourself?!" Ma Fenfen asked angrily, "Why are you eating so little salt? It has no taste at all!"
Qi Ji explained: "You usually make fast food for your uncles at the construction site. They work so much every day, so it doesn't matter if they eat a little salty. I'm different."
Ma Fenfen raised the salt shaker: "Then show me how to do it. If I learn how to do 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.
This little girl has a lot of evil ideas in her mind, and her calculations are all messed up.
Qi Ji didn't go to school, where would he get the money to pay the rent?
Dad said that this kid is either speculating in stocks or working with high-end people. In short, he is either in the financial services industry or in the peripheral service industry. He must have a very flexible mind.
A boy like this who doesn't go out, doesn't cause trouble, doesn't engage in pornography, gambling or drugs, and just stays at home and makes money, is simply a nationally endangered animal in this era.
It is the dream of many young people to be able to work at home. Qi Ji seems a bit lonely and weird, but he has fulfilled the dreams of so many people at such a young age. In Ma Fenfen's eyes, he is a strong person in society.
So when Qi Ji held the salt shaker, he also took Fenfen's hand and demonstrated like an old scholar.
"Look, when you shake the salt grains, you have to tilt it to about minus twelve degrees. Because of the physical parameters of our real life, natural gravity will carry the salt powder towards the mouth of the bottle."
Ma Fenfen pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Yeah! Yan Mo Mo! So cute!"
"It's not cute." Qi Ji corrected: "These little powders can be knocked out with your fingers, slowly."
Ma Fenfen responded vigorously: "Yeah!"
Qi Ji gently knocked on the bottle, and white salt spray fell from the mouth of the bottle.
"It's this kind of feeling, the feeling that it's okay to feel it - I can't explain clearly, anyway, it seems like I've let it go, but there's a feeling that I haven't let it go."
"I seem to have heard this, but I feel like I didn't." Ma Fenfen squinted her eyes to hold back laughter, not knowing what to say.
"Also." Qi Ji finished spreading 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 potato and beef rice bowl was delivered to Qi Ji.
The boy started to cook with his head down, Ma Fenfen asked curiously.
"Brother Qi Ji, what exactly do you do? What order did you just talk about? What is it?"
Qi Ji still had food in his mouth, so he swallowed it wholeheartedly, and immediately replied: "I'm just a bad game player. I like to play games and help others make money by playing games."
"Mobile games?" Ma Fenfen immediately became interested.
Qi Ji answered while eating, and his eating speed also slowed down.
"That's a junk market."
It seems that this explanation is not very good, so Brother Qi Ji talks more.
"Mobile games are different. Compared with desktop online games, their accounts depreciate too quickly, and the money charged shrinks ten times in less than a second. The props in the official mall are very expensive, but transactions are restricted. Players and
There is no interaction between players, the social attributes are almost zero, and there is no way to monetize it - the thugs who help with power leveling cannot make much money."
"However, there are some exceptions. There are mobile games that are in the high-end market, such as historical-themed war games. The resources consumed are equivalent to real money. Even studios cannot afford to play them. The cost is too high. If you want to make a profit from them, you have to not only compete with them.
When fighting local tyrants, you have to play with the official company of the operator - that is, you have to compete with the official to compete with your wits and courage. I don't do this, I can't play it, and I can't afford it."
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"——Then what do you do?"
Qi Ji: "Let's play online games."
Ma Fenfen: "Ah?"
"Is it surprising?" Qi Ji didn't understand.
Ma Fenfen: "What exactly? What game do you play?"
"No one will be refused." Qi Ji explained patiently: "Any desktop online game, the online games you can still see now, they are still alive, and most of the players in them are thirty or forty years old."
"They have been working for a long time and have spending power. The prop trading in online games is not as rigid as in mobile games and it is easy to cash out."
"This group of users has feelings for the game, but they can't play it anymore, so they will entrust us thugs to help raise the characters."
Speaking of which——
——Qi Ji paused for a moment.
"Yes, it is raising characters. These old users regard 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 were for the Kimchi online game from South Korea. This game has been around for more than 20 years and has not yet closed down. The game level has already reached level 150, and there are a lot of stinky and long plots.
As for the mission, the boss is very generous and wants me to level up two new characters and upgrade them to full level."
"The price of these two orders is one hundred and eighty pyroxene currency, which is 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: "It will take at least three days."
Ma Fenfen looked worried, thinking she had found a money-making expert, but it turned out to be exactly what Qi Ji said - a bad game player.
"Brother Qi Ji, how are you going to support yourself like this? You work for three days to earn fifteen days of living expenses, and you eat miscellaneous noodles and steamed dumplings every day. Your body will not be able to bear it."
Qi Ji didn't answer immediately because he had a little secret.
In addition to this most basic power leveling, he also has a lot of orders.
These include but are not limited to MOBA rankings, buying low and selling high for futures in auction houses, selling initial numbers in new game draws, finding game bugs to make profits, or uploading bug videos to ask for salary from the operating company.
It is more appropriate to call Qi Ji the electronic gold farmer. He is a thug, and a very capable thug. Whether it is online games or mobile games, including console game racing competitions, as long as the price is right, he will also try to be a rewarder.
gold hunter.
There are only games in his life. He is a very pure person. He is an omnivore and not picky about food at all.
As I said just now, the reason why I don’t accept orders for mobile game production is just because the mobile game market is very rubbish. Electronic gold farmers like him can’t make much money in this market. With the same time and energy, it can be exchanged for
In other games, you can get more money.
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 workspace. Ten split screens plus a projection, including controllers, along with keyboards and mice for operating games, these input devices are everywhere in every corner.
Each screen is divided into different work areas, where you can either do manual work, directly open the macro and hang up, or occasionally pay attention to the price fluctuations in the auction house in the game.
He is almost like a human computer, thinking about how to play games all the time. The reason why he can support his multi-player physics is simple. He has a spiritual body and can control so many devices at the same time, allowing him to multi-task.
He has successfully pupated, possesses spiritual threads and a part of the complete silk thread mass, and is heading towards the stage of cocooning.
"I mean, brother Qi Ji?" Ma Fenfen waved her hand towards Qi Ji: "Brother Qi Ji?"
"Oh! Go on." Qi Ji came back to his senses.
Ma Fenfen: "You work so hard playing games and only earn one hundred and eighty in three days. Why don't you go out and find a job?"
Speaking of this, Ma Fenfen's voice became smaller and smaller.
Because she could feel that Qi Ji seemed a little angry.
She is not a psyker, but she can feel the changes in the psychic tide. The fogging up of the plastic water cup is caused by the drop in temperature caused by the psychic fluctuations.
Qi Ji pursed her lips, cleared the plates, and nodded her thanks to little sister Fenfen. After thinking for a long time, she still wanted to make her words clear.
"Everyone has something they are good at, right?"
Ma Fenfen: "Indeed."
Qi Ji: "Why?"
Ma Fenfen couldn't understand. What exactly was this "why" asking?
So Qi Ji asked patiently.
"Why can you point fingers at me? Miss."
"Why? I didn't steal or rob, I didn't break the law, I didn't bother others, I didn't disgust others."
"I didn't go to school like you because I really couldn't read or understand, and I couldn't learn."
"I would also like 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 - it's so hard to earn such a little money, why not go out and work."
"I can't do manual labor. I can't help it. I can't stand it. I hate this kind of life."
Qi Ji's tone was very humble, and she spoke sincerely to Fenfen.
"I want to decide my own life. I really like playing games. Although I always stay alone, because I almost don't have time to reply to messages online. I have many friends.
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"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 sad."
Ma Fenfen doesn’t understand Qi Ji’s sadness——
——She doesn’t understand.
Qi Ji changed his story and talked about the one hundred and eighty yuan thing before.
"Actually, my work efficiency is very high, and it's not a matter of money. The most terrifying thing about those two level 150 characters who want to be fully trained in three days is not how boring it is to do missions and run around the map."
Ma Fenfen asked in confusion: "What is that?"
"You will know at a glance." Qi Ji gathered his emotions, waved to little sister Fenfen, and pulled her up to the second floor.
Arriving at his workshop, Fenfen was immediately stunned. The place looked like the mysterious hacker headquarters in the movie.
Qi Ji led Fenfen to a certain screen——
"—it's too hurtful."
In the game screen, the characters who need to be upgraded are scantily clad and very pornographic. It is simply [unsightly, the world is declining, where is the morality? Where is the bottom line? Where is the link?] and vulgar! It must be severely condemned!
Fenfen covered her face, feeling her cheeks burning hot, but couldn't help but peek through her fingers -