Fist of Imagination

Liang De pretended to be very skillful and took out a hundred-dollar bill from her pocket. He opened the banknote verification pen, and the weak blue-violet light swept across the group of workers' portraits printed on the banknote, and finally stopped under the name of the bank.

The colorless denomination numbers on the front of the banknote fluoresce orange.

Fluorescence identification is not a very reliable means of identifying counterfeiting. It is far inferior to infrared penetration, magnetic analysis, laser detection and other methods. Identifying fluorescent numbers can only be considered as a necessary and insufficient condition for "this is a genuine coin".

But if you go out late at night to do shady business, you can't carry a banknote detector with you.

Besides, technology can never defeat the soul. To succeed in illegal transactions that happen by chance, what is needed is trust between people, not a cold currency detector.

"Brother, don't worry."

The young woman selling banknotes smiled with a sticky affinity. The last time Liang De saw this kind of smile was at the place of an older sister selling pirated cassettes with her child in her arms.

The young woman rolled up her sleeves, revealing a row of plastic near-field communication tags. The fingernail-sized tags were neatly stuck on the sleeves of her bottoming shirt. There was a distance of three or four centimeters between them, and she touched her mobile phone. Just pay.

"There are accounts in restaurants, clothing stores, and cigarette shops. For more than 1,000 yuan, I recommend going to cigarette shops. The price of good wine is high. After finishing the transaction, my sister-in-law asked me and said that I could just give it away after drinking. I couldn't keep it." Something went wrong.

How much do you want to buy? "

Liang De stuffed the hundred-dollar bill back into her coat pocket, held the money detector pen in front of her eyes with her index finger and thumb, and examined it carefully.

"This..."

"Don't worry, brother, the pen is definitely fine. The brand I bought is branded. Look, there is an anti-counterfeiting mark here. It can't be fake."

Liang De still shook his head: "I didn't want to buy money when I went out today, so I didn't bring my own pen. Otherwise...are you usually around here?"

The young woman's smile became a little lighter. She took the banknote verification pen from Liang De's hand, zipped up her coat and said:

"Brother, let's talk about it next time. We are destined to meet again."

She shook her hair, turned around with her hands in her pockets, and walked quickly towards the entrance of the alley.

"See you again, okay."

Liang De watched her leave, and spread his right hand flat to make a box of original fried chicken. A faint aroma floated from the gap in the carton, like a spider's thread, hanging on the body of the young woman selling banknotes.

"Old Liang, you are quite leisurely. If you buy or not buy, it will waste other people's time."

Li Zhixian, who watched the whole process, said:

"Why is she selling real money at a higher price, collectible coins? It doesn't look like that."

Liang De was eating fried chicken and said in a confused voice:

“I’m already looking into the money matter.

It's not to waste time, I just want to chat with her a little more and build a relationship with her. "

"Tsk tsk tsk, Lao Liang, Lao Liang, you are on a business trip alone this time with no one to accompany you. The scumbag's tail is exposed so quickly. No, I think this girl is so ordinary that I can't even describe it as ordinary. You can't Bar."

Li Zhixian shrank back, his expression as if a smelly wet sock suddenly hung in front of him.

"Where's your manliness!"

The chief priest of World Blue Star No. 415 of Thunder Pure Sect said in a shocked voice.

"The Sony Ericsson radar vibrated just now."

Li Zhixian looked solemn: "Is she the source of the doomsday?"

Liang De shook his head: "It's not her."

He crumpled up the empty fried chicken carton into a ball and threw it into his mouth, saying:

"There was no movement on the radar when she followed. I originally wanted to make a guest appearance in an urban legend and scare her by suddenly disappearing, but as soon as I saw the money, the radar reacted.

It should be that money, or banknotes, are highly related to this doomsday. "

After hearing this, Li Zhixian clicked on the live video and rummaged forward.

"Didn't you go to a convenience store in the park during the day? Why didn't it vibrate at that time?"

"There was no cash in that convenience store. I went through the entire park and I didn't see any cash."

"Is the level of electronic payment development here so high?"

“It’s not just electronic payments.”

Liang De took out his work tablet and filled the screen of the information files he had just been distractedly organizing.

"It's digital currency, digital legal currency."

In this land, the strategy of comprehensively promoting digital currency has been implemented for nearly two decades.

The central bank will no longer issue banknotes and coins, and will continue to recycle the issued banknotes and coins, gradually withdrawing them from the circulation market.

However, even after two decades, there are still a large number of banknotes in circulation, and they are more valuable than digital currencies of the same denomination.

The reason is that digital currency is too advanced. It is not only very convenient to use, but also has the attribute of "controllable anonymity" and can meet regulatory requirements such as anti-money laundering, anti-tax avoidance, and anti-illegal financing. Moral quality is not yet worthy of this advanced currency.

They always want to spend money that they don’t want anyone to know where they spent it.

Controlled anonymity is not completely anonymous after all. The issuer of digital currency and relevant management agencies can detect every fund flow.

That is, both parties to the transaction can remain anonymous to each other, but behind the scenes... who knows.

Officials have repeatedly emphasized that they will strictly manage and operate prudently to achieve a perfect balance between protecting personal privacy and combating illegal crimes.

But how can those with a guilty conscience believe it?

What they are most afraid of letting others see is their consumption records.

So now paper money has become a special commodity. In the black market of some strictly controlled areas, the exchange rate of digital currency and paper money sometimes even exceeds 1.5:1.

This behavior is of course not allowed by relevant institutions, but it is in high demand and profitable. Despite the severe crackdown, real money dealers are still rampant.

Li Zhixian finished reading the information Liang De had compiled and said:

"What does this have to do with the end of the world? You haven't even seen cash in the park, have you?"

"I haven't thought of the connection between paper money and the end of the world. There is a hint of inhumanity on the money, but I can't smell what it is.

The "Mirror of the World" is missing information records from the last 153 years. Maybe the answer lies in those missing information.

The center of the end of the world is in the park, but the cause of the end of the world may be outside the park."

Liang De looked at the dark city park in the distance and said:

"Because we knew from the beginning that it was a doomsday catastrophe that swept the entire world, our attention has always been on the cosmic environment, ancient gods and demons, and international situations.

Brother Xian, have you ever thought that maybe this Blue Planet Doomsday was caused by a very subtle event, so small that we can't notice it."

"Are you saying there will be a butterfly effect?"

"I don't know either. Let's keep looking in the park and see if the butterfly will fly in front of me."

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