A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

Fang Shiqing thought over and over again, and agreed to Zhao Jun's proposal.He was very interested in the "profitable business" that the other party said, and no matter what it was, there was no harm in going to see it.Zhao Jun was very happy about this and expressed his thanks repeatedly.

After that, the players came one after another.

When seeing Xiao Fengdi, Fang Shiqing was frightened again.

The big guy's condition looks bad.His state today is even worse than the worst time a few days ago; if his appearance could be described as "a bit fierce" a few days ago, then today he might have to use the word "vicious".

Along the way, no matter the player or the NPC, no one dared to talk to him.

Fang Shiqing tentatively leaned over and touched his shoulder: "That... big brother, are you okay?"

"--fine."

Even though he said so, Xiao Fengdi's current situation was obviously so bad that he could even notice it himself.

"It's just that I haven't slept well these few days." He lowered his eyes and pressed his temples, "Just leave me alone."

Fang Shiqing saw that there seemed to be faint bloodshot eyes in his eyes, and he really looked like he was suffering from lack of sleep.

Although I was a little worried, there was nothing I could do.

Because the suggestion of reporting income and expenditure every month was put forward by Zhao Jun, the reporting work was naturally presided over by him.The content is actually nothing special, that is, simply talk about this month's work and income.

As for the specific situation of the players, Fang Shiqing needless to say; Zeng Xin's salary is a stable one thousand a week.

Gu Jinhong usually earns around [-] to [-] per day from part-time jobs. The last time he was able to get [-] in one go, but the opportunity to be on stage is not available every day.And he also has expenses for stage costumes and instrument maintenance updates.

You Qingyu, the daily income of odd jobs fluctuates between zero and two hundred, but because part of it has to be paid to Aunt You, the remaining amount is not enough.

He Xiangwu's business is on the right track, but he only spent 5000 yuan to upgrade the stove in the store, resulting in a temporary negative growth in income.

Zhao Jun's net profit is about [-], which is considered the best in this statistical result.

After the others finished speaking, Zhao Jun took a tentative look at Xiao Fengdi, but he didn't dare to ask after all——

The latter has been quietly leaning against the bulletin board, exuding a low air pressure that idlers should not enter.

The players looked at each other for a while.Xiao Fengdi noticed the strange atmosphere, and said by himself: "My income here is too low, so it can be ignored."

His voice was a little hoarse and his complexion was bad, but his manner of speaking was not bad.

The daily salary of a librarian is 50 yuan, and the working days are only three or four days a week.

Calculated in this way, he only had a maximum of two hundred yuan in the account a week, and he was well-deserved at the bottom of the seven players.

"……Oh."

Zhao Jun responded in embarrassment, and quickly changed the subject.

No one dared to dwell on this topic, let alone ridicule his poor income.

Not to mention anything else, just saying that Xiao Fengdi has the strength to put it there. In the dungeon in the future, everyone may need his help, so no one can think of blaming him.

The simple communication activities ended in such a hurry. After the players confirmed that the content of the announcement had not changed, they returned to continue working.

According to the previous agreement, Fang Shiqing did not go back to Qingliang Farm directly, but followed Zhao Jun to his work place——

*

Zhao Jun's occupation in the game is the delivery and dispatcher of the only delivery point in the town.

There is only one large express company in the game world, named "Tongxing Express".All incoming and outgoing packages will be uniformly marked with the blue logo of the company, which looks uniform.

Fengyue Town's courier point is located on the northwest side of the town. It is a rather spacious warehouse with a striking "Trade Company" logo painted on the outer wall.

The interior of the warehouse is very clean, with several rows of tall shelves neatly arranged, some empty, and some with boxes or sealed bags on them.

Zhao Jun led Fang Shiqing into the delivery point, and briefly introduced his work situation.

The work here is basically to send and receive express delivery.

Usually, the express mails from the outside world will be placed here in a unified manner, and the staff—that is, Zhao Jun will sort them out, sort out the express delivery numbers and paste them outside the door, and wait for the recipients to pick them up.

And if there are townspeople who want to send a package, they also need to be weighed and packaged by the staff, and a fixed courier fee will be charged.

[-]% of each courier fee goes to Zhao Jun.

The cost of express delivery is not expensive, and the circulation of goods is not large, so it is difficult for him to make any money through this method.

His more important way of making money is to sell the daily necessities produced by Tongtong when customers send and pick up their packages.Every time you sell one piece, you can get a [-]% commission.

"How did these express mails get delivered outside the town?"

Fang Shiqing looked at the express delivery site and felt a little surprised.

Generally speaking, Fengyue Town is a closed town, and even buses to neighboring towns are only dispatched once a month.However, there is an express delivery industry here, which is strange no matter how you think about it?

"The trucks sent by Tongtong Company come from the neighboring town about once every three days, put down the incoming express mail, and take away the outgoing express mail." Zhao Jun replied, "I heard that Tongtong Company is the only company in the world that has the ability to A company that has steadily expanded its business to such a remote town, God knows how it does it."

"That..." Fang Shiqing's mind suddenly turned rapidly, "Can someone be taken out on the truck? Or if I pack myself into a courier, can it send me to a neighboring town?"

Wouldn't it be much more efficient to take a bus once a month if you could leave Fengyue Town to a neighboring town with the help of a courier truck?

"No," Zhao Jun replied quickly, "I've inquired about this a long time ago! First, no living things are allowed in the express; second, the truck driver NPC refused to agree to take me for a ride, saying it was a violation of the regulations. In short , Only goods can go out, not people.”

"..."

It seems that this is intentionally set by the game system, which only allows them to exchange goods with the outside world, and does not allow the rapid flow of personnel.

"Let's not talk about that, it's not the point."

Zhao Jun led Fang Shiqing through the warehouse and into the small room at the back.This seems to be where he usually rests and works.

"Look, the cooperative business I want to talk to you about is related to 'this'."

He opened the drawer, took out a thin thing, opened it, and put it on the table.

Fang Shiqing was stunned for a moment.

that……

It turned out to be a laptop!

"Where did this come from?"

Shocked by the excessive astonishment, he felt that his tongue was useless.

Since entering the game, electronic products seem to be insulated from players.

In the entire Fengyue Town, no one has seen anyone using mobile communication devices, not even smartphones for the elderly, let alone smartphones; tablet computers, etc. have never been seen before.There are no Internet cafes or LED screens in the town, but there are occasional radio broadcasts, which feels like the [-]s.

The only thing that is connected with technology is the small broken TV in his room, and he can't receive any channels. At most, he can only watch the weather forecast, and the screen will snow every now and then.

However, here today, he actually saw a light and thin [-]-inch laptop!

"You mean this laptop? It's been here all the time. It's been there since the first day I came here. It seems to be office supplies provided by Tongtong Company for employees." Zhao Jun pressed the power button, "But the function Rarely, it’s incomparable to normal computers in reality.”

The screen lit up, and the logo of "W○ndows" jumped out.

Fang Shiqing stared at the screen with mixed feelings in his heart.

In reality, he was originally a dead house who never left his electronic products.Now that I have entered the game, although it is good to be able to directly play life as a game, but usually I can’t touch the mobile phone or see the electronic screen, and I always feel that something is missing.

I thought that there were no electronic products in this world, but now it seems that there are no such products, it's just that Fengyue Town is too backward.

After the computer started up, the desktop was empty, except for a browser icon.Zhao Jun double-clicked it to open it, and a website with a color scheme similar to ○bao was displayed on the page——

"Look at this." He pulled away the chair in front of the table and motioned Fang Shiqing to sit down and watch.

Fang Shiqing barely suppressed the shock in his heart, and looked down.

This website is called "Mission Shopping", and its operation method is not like the shopping websites outside, but rather like the task board in online games.The buyer publishes the product information he wants to buy, and the seller receives the task, prepares the product, and sends it by express.

He glanced at it roughly, and found that there are really many kinds of tasks on it.

There are those who want to buy organic agricultural products, those who want to buy out-of-print records, and those who want to buy old-style wool coats from 30 years ago... I also saw a person who asked for an old-fashioned radio. There are more than 1.

He gasped, thinking that he had lost a lot of money by packing up and selling everything in one go.Why didn't I expect such an opportunity!

"When you say 'cooperate in business', do you mean... use this?"

"Yes," Zhao Jun nodded, observed his reaction, and said slowly, "Don't you think it's very profitable to accept tasks from here?"

"I've read it carefully, and there are a lot of purchases that can be obtained from your side, such as agricultural products, collections, etc. As for the profit rate-look at this," he selected a task with the cursor, " The task requires five potatoes, and the reward is 550 yuan, how much does one retail potato cost?"

Fang Shiqing had never grown potatoes before, but only looked at the price list of agricultural products, and recalled: "Is it more than 80 or [-]?"

In this way, the profit is indeed considerable.

"However, even if I take out the product, I still need to send it by courier, and if the courier fee is included—"

"This is up to me," Zhao Jun said, "I'm an employee of Tongtong Company. If you go through my channel, you can get a very favorable piece rate. I've made inquiries about these."

Fang Shiqing understood.

The "cooperation" that Zhao Jun mentioned is this: Zhao Jun will provide the channel to receive the mission and mail the goods, and Fang Shiqing will prepare the mission items and complete the mission together.

"As for the income after the delivery of the goods, I only take [-]% of the profit." Seeing that he seemed to be motivated, Zhao Jun continued, "But anyway, everyone is making money to end the game, and whoever gets the money earned it's the same."

It does sound like a good deal.Fang Shiqing was about to agree immediately, but suddenly thought of this question: "Speaking of which, why did you come to me in private about this matter? Can't you tell everyone directly?"

Zhao Jun just provides a channel, which is equivalent to an intermediary, and there is no need to only cooperate with specific people.

The types of commodities that Fang Shiqing can produce are limited, at least not including metal products.If He Xiangwu and the others can be brought in to participate, there will definitely be more tasks that can be accepted.

Zhao Jun hesitated for a moment: "To tell you the truth, I also plan to contact He Xiangwu in private. As for the others, let's forget it. They can't provide goods anyway, and it's useless to know. If they know that there are computers here , maybe I have to shop online, and I can't stop it."

God knows how much they will spend shopping online!

In Zhao Jun's opinion, this kind of unnecessary consumption needs to be stopped at the source, otherwise it will take some time before he can save enough 200 million to leave the game.

Fang Shiqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "No, that's not the case, right? They're not stupid."

You Qingyu had been arguing with Zhao Jun before, but in fact, he didn't really spend money outside.

Zhao Jun looked at him inexplicably for a moment, then smiled, pulled a chair from the side and sat down.

"By the way, everyone has never heard your opinion on this issue—"

He said slowly.

"To be honest, I really can't understand their overly relaxed attitude. As long as I think that I am staying in a game now, I feel uncomfortable all over. I can't eat or sleep. I can't wait to sell my kidney to earn 200 million, and immediately return to reality. Go, how can you have any entertainment?"

"Actually, they don't relax much," Fang Shiqing said, "Everyone is quite afraid of being thrown into the game suddenly."

"No, now it's not about what they think, it's about you," Zhao Jun asked with a smile, "You should really want to end all this as soon as possible, right? To put it bluntly, among all the players, only me and You are the two most dedicated to making money."

Fang Shiqing: ...You misunderstood, in fact, I was just playing the game seriously.

"The feeling of wanting to leave as soon as possible should be the same for everyone, can you understand?"

"……can."

"It's over," Zhao Jun spread his hands, "Actually, games and life are the same. Many people have lofty ideals when they are young, but only a few can realize them. They can only spend their lives in an ordinary way, never reaching the height they imagined. The goal is clearly there, but there is no way to achieve it, do you know why?"

"..."

Fang Shiqing didn't speak this time, and the smile on his face faded.

Talking about life and ideals has always been what he hates the most.

But Zhao Jun is very satisfied with his metaphor, and he is still talking about it.

"Achieving a long-term goal requires not only hard work, but also proper planning. What we lack most now is reasonable planning.

"Two million is not a small amount, and it is not easy to earn it. In the process of hard work, blindly pursuing relaxation will only make you farther and farther away from your long-term goal; this is what I am most worried about."

He patted Fang Shiqing on the shoulder, "Their children pay too much attention to the entertainment in front of them, and they don't know the planning goals at all. But I think, at least you are still sober; so after I discovered this way of making money, the first Time to think of working with you."

"..."

Fang Shiqing suspected that Zhao Jun might be a small middle-level executive in a private company in reality. This talk about life was quite slippery, and after going around in a circle, he finally pulled it back and got close.

Unfortunately, he got something fundamental wrong.

Fang Shiqing is the most unsuitable audience to listen to these.

"Well, let's do this first," Fang Shiqing didn't want to talk to him, stood up and said, "You also know that my farm is full of zombies, and I can't grow crops for the time being, so let's talk about this matter after I can farm normally. Can you discuss it?"

Zhao Jun also stood up, as if he wanted to say something more.At this time, there was a sound from outside, as if someone pushed open the door of the site and walked in.Then a suspicious female voice sounded outside: "Where is the person? Is there someone sending a courier?"

"Come on, wait a minute!" Zhao Jun immediately responded loudly, and hurried out, "Do you want to send something?"

Fang Shiqing followed out and found that the person who came was a young woman holding a little girl by the hand.

"I want to send it to City N." A package popped out of the young woman's empty left hand like a magic trick, it should have come out of the props bar, "Please give me a delivery note, do you have a pen?"

"Yes, yes, you fill in here—"

The little girl's round eyes kept staring at Fang Shiqing.

Fang Shiqing felt that she looked familiar. After thinking about it, he felt as if he had met her at the entrance of the library, and he seemed to have given her a few flowers at that time.

"Brother from the farm," the little girl ran over suddenly and held out her hand to him, "Here is this for you."

"……what?"

Fang Shiqing took it suspiciously and found that it was a rainbow candy.

"I'll give you some candy," the little girl said, tilting her head. "Aren't you very unhappy? Come and eat some candy to be happy, be happy."

Fang Shiqing was startled, turned his head to look at Zhao Jun, and found that he was busy calling customers to fill out the express form, and he didn't hear the conversation here, so he was a little relieved.

"Thank you," he thanked the little girl, "Actually, I'm not particularly unhappy,... just a little bit, a little bit."

"I understand, I understand," the little girl said with a mature face, "Whenever my mother says 'a little angry', it means she is already angry enough to want to tear down the house."

"..." Fang Shiqing was speechless.

After saying goodbye to Zhao Jun, he walked outside the house.

After leaving the warehouse, he came to the street, and walked under the green street trees, his heart was at a loss.

How should I describe this feeling...

so troublesome.

Whether it's Zhao Jun, You Qingyu and the others, or other players, or game missions, or life and the future, it's all the same trouble.

What he said about "life ideals" and "reasonable planning" are completely different from what he originally thought.

At the beginning, he thought that he could finally ignore everything and just play games wholeheartedly.

However this is impossible.

The reason why players work hard to play the game is just to return to reality one day.

And of course; everything here is unreal, only reality is real.In reality, they have families, relatives, lovers, careers, and real bodies and lives.

For everyone's consideration, of course, we should work hard to make money and complete tasks as soon as possible.

But, on the other hand, returning to reality means "ending the game"——

End... everything here.

After a while, he slowly raised his hand and threw the rainbow candy in his hand into his mouth.It is lemon-flavored, the sweet and sour taste melts on the tip of the tongue, and the taste cannot be more real.

That little girl isn't even ten years old, so it can't be that the player turned into an NPC, right?Is she a character who grew up in this game world?Can such beings as them think for themselves and have their own emotions?

NPC...

He turned his head slowly, observing the pedestrians passing by on both sides of the road from time to time.

How do they exist?

Do they count as "alive"?

if--

in case……

After a while, he managed to put aside these messy thoughts, and started to move forward again.The direction of progress is not west, but northeast.

Instead of entangled in those illusory ideas, it is better to solve more realistic problems.

*

The library is still the same as before, except for the faint construction noise, there is no sound, and even passers-by just pass by the door, and few are willing to enter and take a look.

Fang Shiqing entered through the main entrance, and the manager's seat was empty again. It seemed that today was not Xiao Fengdi's working day.

He went straight into the reading room, and didn't look at the "Simulated Farming" bookshelf. Instead, he walked around to the "Other Books" in the corner and searched for it from memory.

——Yes.

This is the book "The Past and Present of "Mission Shopping": Unraveling the Mystery of Shopping Website Operations".