This sudden scene at the end left He An completely stunned. When he came to his senses, the credits at the end of the film had already appeared on the screen.
It's just that what was broadcast along with the credits was not the highlights of the game, but a news report.
"The President issued a eulogy on the death of Jeff Aylnault, the current president of Luxury Group, through the official White House blog. The full text of the eulogy is as follows:"
"'Mitchell (Mrs. President) and I are deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of Mr. Jeff Ernault. Jeff is diligent, self-disciplined and has noble character. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Best-selling author and good friend.'"
"'He is good at thinking about problems differently and believes that he can work hard to change the world and help others. His charitable foundation has helped tens of thousands of homeless people, and his book "Struggle and Grow Rich" inspires
It has inspired countless young people to fight for their dreams.'"
"'The world has lost a visionary who will forever be missed. Mitchell and I want to send our thoughts and prayers to Jeff's wife, his family, and all who loved him.
'"
"..."
"It is reported that Mr. Jeff Ernault was brutally murdered by a murderer while signing a book signing in a bookstore in Brooklyn. Tens of thousands of people became excited and demanded that the law severely punish the murderer."
"Currently, the murderer's real motive for the murder is unclear. The police have never found any connection between him and Mr. Jeff. The murderer seems to have a mental disorder and refuses to answer any questions from the police. He just keeps repeating the word 'liar'."
The trial will continue to be followed by this station..."
In the final news scene, the protagonist's parents, wife, and children burst into tears at the protagonist's funeral.
The rich man's version of the game is now over.
…
He Anren was a little dizzy.
Gone?
it's over?
What does this ending mean?
My career just took off, and then the people disappeared?
Who is this murderer?
Why did he want to kill me?
Did I choose some wrong options before, so it ended in a tragic ending?
I always feel like something is wrong.
He An thought about it carefully and found that the entire game process seemed to be okay. The transitions between various scenes were natural, the details were well done, and it felt very immersive.
The only thing is that the ending is too abrupt, with no foreshadowing at all!
He An thought about it and felt that he might have missed some links and steps. If he played the second game or the poor version, he might be able to get other endings.
After all, there are at least dozens of branch lines to choose from, and there may be some other options hidden in them that can change your destiny.
But He An doesn't plan to play the second show now, as the ending has left him with a bit of serious psychological trauma.
The game as a whole is very well done. Whether it is the story, plot, lines or picture details, there is nothing to fault. It is the story alone that makes the game confusing.
This feeling is like going to a banquet, where good wine and delicious food are served one after another, but as soon as you take the first bite, the table is turned over.
"Is there something hidden in the poor version that is related to the rich version?"
He An couldn't help but have such an idea.
Although the introduction of the poor version was enough to persuade him to quit, He An still had some luck.
What if there is any special content?
He thought for a moment, then clicked on the poor version and started the game.
Like the rich version, the poor version also begins with an inner monologue.
…
"I'm very grateful to my father."
"If it hadn't been for him, I would have attended Polking Primary School, one of the worst public primary schools in the country, with half of its graduates going on to secondary schools, known as 'cesspools', where more than 40 per cent
of students cannot graduate, so it is also known as the 'dropout factory'."
“There are two thousand such ‘dropout factories’ across the country, and they will continuously deliver idle young people to society.”
“In our state, 68% of criminals are high school dropouts, and the state government’s investment in prisons and students shows a comical putting of the cart before the horse. The money spent on one prisoner every four years is enough to send a child to a private school.
After finishing kindergarten to K12, I can still have $20,000 left to study in college."
"There are 70,000 homeless people in the largest city in the country. Every day on the streets and in subway stations, you encounter countless beggars, disabled people, mentally ill people, drunkards, and ex-convicts."
"36% of them are children, and the remaining 64% are mostly single mothers and single men without children."
"In this country, you first need to have money to continue your life in a cheap way."
"If you are reduced to the point where you need to take relief, then you can't find a job when you receive relief, you can't rent a house without a job, and you can't do anything without a house. Once you become homeless, it means social death, even if
Even if your body is healthy and your hands and feet are intact, it is impossible to return to your previous life and you will have to live on the streets for the rest of your life."
"I'm very sensitive to these numbers. I don't know if this is a talent or a survival instinct."
"Perhaps the life of a poor person is just a series of numbers."
"Many poor people complain about their parents."
"But no matter what, I am very grateful to my father."
"He didn't make me one of those people."
"My father has always told me that I should learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of poor people, work hard, and not follow the crowd."
"Struggle will change your life."
"I have no doubts about it."
Different from the beginning of the rich version, the beginning of the poor version is not a specific event, but many fragmented scenes, depicting the scenes in the protagonist's narration in an abstract way.
Next, there are memories of the protagonist's childhood.
"Shortly after I was born, my mother had to quit her job and become a full-time housewife because she was the only one who could take care of me."
"This situation did not change until I entered kindergarten, because kindergarten ends at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and leaving children alone at home would violate the law for protecting children."
"So, if my mother's after-tax salary cannot be used to go to a kindergarten or cram school to meet the child protection laws, it would be better not to work, which would save more money."
"My father works more than ten hours a day, and I rarely see him. But his efforts are meaningful. He took me out of Bolkin Primary School and came to a better school district."
"We live in low-rent housing, which is a blessing because you can only live in the 20% to 25% income range. You must be richer than 75% of people and at the same time richer than the lowest 20%.
This is a very harsh number."
"Hobbies? No, that's a number I can't afford."
Along with the protagonist's narration, scenes flashed across the screen.
In a low-rent house, the protagonist's mother was extremely busy taking care of her baby, and the whole room was in a mess.
The protagonist's public school is also very different from the rich version of private school, but what is even more surprising is the after-school entertainment activities.
In the rich version, players' entertainment activities are horse riding, archery, learning music and painting, while in the poor version, players' entertainment activities are running and jumping in the yard, riding bicycles or playing football or baseball.
Although these mini-games are also very sophisticated, they become boring compared to the rich version.
He An wanted the protagonist to learn some hobbies instead of running around in the yard every day, but he soon found that the funds on hand were stretched thin.
Ask a teacher to come to your home to teach cello, the price is $75 per hour;
Parents take swimming lessons with their children for 20 dollars per 30 minutes. For more professional lessons, it is 200 dollars per hour.
The gymnastics class lasts for 30 minutes, with 5 to 10 children taking it together. The teacher leads the warm-up for 2 minutes at the beginning, and the rest of the time is spent by parents playing with the children with props and equipment. Each class costs 20 dollars.
Even these low-quality and not-so-cheap courses require booking more than 2 months in advance.
For He An, the most prominent feeling between the poor version and the rich version is that it is boring.
Because I have no money, I only have a few options to choose from. Whether I am running around in the yard or riding a bicycle, I can clearly realize that I am wasting my time.
Similarly, the poor version of the characters are also very facial-looking, have serious obesity problems, and completely conform to the stereotype.
After childhood comes youth. The protagonist studies hard to enter high school and takes out loans to go to college. In high school, there are more activities. You can join the choir and orchestra, and participate in debates.
Although the poor protagonist and the rich protagonist work equally hard, there is a big gap in the resources they can obtain.
Whether you can get into college or not will determine the content of your career in the future.
If you do not master professional skills, you can only work as a restaurant waiter, cleaner, elderly care worker or supermarket tally clerk. Even if you work seven days a week and work two jobs, you will still go bankrupt;
A colleague accidentally sprained herself while cleaning. She didn't dare to call an ambulance or even go home to rest. She could only kneel on one foot and continue cleaning because she couldn't lose a day's salary. The team leader just told her to "calm down and rely on work to support her."
past".
If you want to get a job in the low-end service industry, you can only find a job in a big city. However, the rent in big cities has been driven up to an almost unbearable level by the rich. If you can't afford the deposit for an apartment with a cheaper monthly rent, you can only find a job in a big city.
If you stay in a capsule hotel with high daily rates, you will become poorer the longer you stay. Once you get sick or the rent goes up during the peak season, you run the risk of going bankrupt or even sleeping on the street.
If you find a job through your own hard work and have an income of about $4,000 per month, then the situation will be slightly better, but the various expenses will still be overwhelming, and the monthly fixed expenses account for all income.
80%, tax and insurance 25%, rent 29%, child education 26%, car 5%, water and electricity 5%, food, clothing and transportation 10%, not including medical care.
Basically, it is difficult to have 400 dollars left every month. Even if something unexpected happens, you will still be bankrupt and homeless.
If you can make all the right choices and get a relatively high-paying job, then your life will be relatively comfortable, but various related expenses will also increase linearly, and some expenses that were originally unnecessary have become options that must be spent.
And this is what makes He An feel the most outrageous. Although he can save a lot of money, many expenses are still forcibly deducted by the game, such as:
Buy luxury suits and bags for decent work;
I spent $2,000 to take my child to the Sea Paradise for three days on his birthday;
Social expenses, including the community where you live, children’s extracurricular studies, etc., are also a lot of money;
In order to save money, I am accustomed to paying by credit card in installments, so that the number of credit card payments in each installment is very high, and I have no idea where the money was spent...
These choices seem inevitable, such as buying luxury suits and bags. The protagonist originally didn’t want to buy them, but all his colleagues in the company are using them. If he doesn’t have them, he will be out of tune with his colleagues and find it difficult to integrate into their circle.
Therefore, the protagonist finally gritted his teeth and bought these things.
At this point, He An seemed to understand a little bit what the protagonist's first sentence meant.
The life of a poor person is just a series of numbers, and this number is all kinds of expenses.
However, in the end, this number collapsed.
As the protagonist's consumption level gets higher and higher, sudden unemployment destroys everything, and the entire chain quickly collapses: income is lost, credit cards cannot be paid, banks come to seize the house, and credit card debts continue to accumulate without paying interest...
As a result, the protagonist's living environment returns to what it was like when his father was there.
In each scene, the protagonist's voice sounded again.
"My father has always told me that I should learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of poor people, work hard, and not follow the crowd."
"Struggle will change your life."
"I've tried hard, but everything seems to be back to the way it was before. Nothing has changed."
"Is my struggle meaningless? I don't think so. At least, I have not become one of those homeless."
"I often think about:"
"If I hadn't lost my job..."
"If I had more savings..."
"If I could save some money..."
"If... I can make more right choices, can I change my destiny?"
The last scene is when the protagonist comes home late at night after a day's work and quietly walks to the child's room.
In the darkness, he looked at the sleeping child through the moonlight and covered him with a blanket.
At this moment, the child woke up, rubbed his eyes with his soft little hands, and asked: "Dad, why do you come back so late every day and never have time to accompany me?"
He was silent for a while and touched the child's forehead: "Because mom doesn't have a job, dad has to work hard to make money."
The child then said: "Then when can daddy accompany me?"
He said: "Let's wait until dad makes enough money."
The child's eyes were shining: "Dad, when I grow up and earn enough money, you can accompany me every day, right?"
"Then Dad, how can I make enough money?"
The protagonist was silent for a long time, and then said: "Money will not fall from the sky. Only if you are not satisfied with the status quo can your life get better."
"We must learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of poor people, work hard, and don't follow the crowd."
"Only by working hard can you change your life."
The child's big eyes were shining brightly in the moonlight, and he nodded seriously.
The game ends, and the list of producers appears on the screen.
The ending scene this time shows a young man immersed in reading. At the same time, another younger narration with a different voice from the protagonist sounded.
"My father has always told me that I should learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of poor people, work hard, and not follow the crowd."