doomsday beta

Dongshi in early March has already heated up.

The sun was high in the morning, but it was covered by dark clouds, and it seemed that it was going to rain.

Fang Zhou woke up from the loud quarrel between the husband and wife outside the door, and picked up his mobile phone to check the time.

March [-]th, Women's Day, the news feed is full of impetuous people's livelihood news rooms, mixed with shopping festival advertisements on online shopping platforms, even "Noah's Ark" has given up the traditional meaning of this day, and opened the game mall Advertisement for a big deal.

After eating, Fang Zhou went downstairs for a walk, sweating slightly on his back, and an inexplicable feeling hit him, sticky like a heart covered with moss, damp and stuffy.

Looking at the dark clouds above his head, he couldn't see the undercurrent surging in the clouds, but he already had a vague feeling that something was about to happen.

Going online in the morning, Su Cheng still didn't care about Fang Zhou, so Li Chui and others came to meet Fang Zhou.

When Fang Zhou was reviewing the book, the well-informed Li Liangfeng and others talked about today's festival welfare announcement: not only the items in the mall and cash top-ups are greatly discounted, but even the invitation code exchange is open for limited-time cash transactions for the first time, [-] one , cheaper than the "market price" in the mall, and the sales immediately exploded.

"Not only the invitation code, but I think the sales of many products are at the bottom of [-]. There should be a lot of online supplies, and I don't know what they want to do?"

"Heh, maybe they want to make a fortune for the country! I heard from the bank that there are huge capital flows in the accounts of many private companies in Jiao Province..."

Driven by the hot atmosphere of shopping, even the non-virtuous tortoise and the moral tortoise that were put up for auction in the Ark were sold at high prices because of their rarity.

After warming up the book, Fang Zhou took a group of people through the task of apprenticeship, went offline for lunch at noon, and others learned trigger skills in the afternoon, and Fang Zhou ushered in the last monthly exam.

The last three lessons of each skill are the most important, the difficulty can be imagined, Fang Zhou waited carefully and was busy until the last moment before passing the test safely.

When the sun rises in the game, Fang Zhou reminds others to prepare for tomorrow's exam in advance.

A group of people sat at the entrance of the main hall of the school, chatting about novel skill experiences while reviewing books:

For example, brainstorming about whether those fish with many children and many women can make men and women pregnant in the game?Is the item identification level used to increase the number of identifications per day or to identify items of different levels?

When the discussion was in full swing, Noah's group came over, and the surroundings fell silent for a moment.

Jiang Xun glanced at Fang Zhou with his head down, and said first, "Don't worry, I won't inform you!"

Li Liangfeng and the others had just breathed a sigh of relief, but later found that among Noah's group, except for Jiang Xun, whose eyes were glued to Fang Zhou's body, all the others had bright eyes, like hungry wolves with green eyes in the dark night, which made people suddenly see shivering.

Maybe it's too cold in winter in the game.

The silly white sweets thought to themselves, and Noah and the others swarmed around them and sat down.

These few are all experienced players in the game. Li Chuan wanted to make a few clichés after a few words of greeting. Unfortunately, the young diplomat, who has always been invincible in the past, hit a wall in front of Li Jie, a thoughtful guy. This man showed a clear price The various packages of the company have recently launched a skill assessment package project, which is still in trial implementation with zero sales.

Since the ban, the income of the studio has plummeted, and it has been a long time since they have not received any income. If they hadn't discovered the secret behind the game, Noah's team would have disbanded.

Now each show their own unique tricks, the Red Devils said one by one, "Is it not for the sake of face", forced to buy and sell according to the head, Li Liangfeng claimed the package, the He family brothers intercepted the troubled brothers and sisters sitting in other rows to attack, and the beauty responsible Weiwei even sold out the color routine The player orders the "escort" project.

The other teammates struggled to make a living. As the boss, Jiang Xun took the lead and did not do his job properly. He only wanted to flirt, squeezed the ark to sit down, and said enthusiastically: "How many skills have you mastered now? Our team has passed everything except fishing."

Fang Zhou moved his buttocks three feet away, brushed the life skills panel without raising his head, and did not stop Jiang Xun's determination to carry the awkward chat to the end.

"Why don't I show you, what else do you need to learn?"

As he was about to act, Li Jie frowned.

The twin brothers next to them were talking in a hurry and forced the three players to accept a "Skills Demonstration and Explanation" item. They couldn't help crying out now, but they still couldn't stop the determination of the obsessed boss.

The three of them took back the hand of paying, and followed Li Chui and others silently, watching Jiang Xun's mouth babbling, explaining all the skills until he was dizzy, and even hit himself on the head with an identification technique. Go up, show to Ark: 【Made in China.Attributes: mass-produced inferior items. 】

"Didn't expect it? People are also in the identification range."

"Fuck! Are people counted as objects?"

"This game really doesn't treat people as people!"

Li Chui and others were surprised, and those who had mastered the identification technique also threw a skill backhand on themselves, and the result was exactly the same "Made in China", which made everyone laugh.

Although the system is racist, it is also very humorous.

Seeing that Fang Zhou didn't move, Jiang Xun wanted to tease him, so he used another opportunity of the second-level identification technique on Fang Zhou. Unexpectedly, the answer he got was: [Unidentified! 】

No joke, but it provoked Fang Zhou to retaliate against Jiang Xun's identification technique once today, and got a different answer from just now: [A man with a pompous appearance, he has no use for the time being and a lot of nonsense!Attribute: Renewable resource. 】

The attribute item is confusing, but the contempt and sarcasm in the previous sentence couldn't be more obvious. Li Liangfeng and others, who have been discriminated against by the system since they made friends with Ark, are not surprised and are full of emotion.

Li Jie's eyes moved slightly, and an identification technique hit Fang Zhou's head, and it was still: [Unidentified! 】

"Everyone else is mass-produced and inferior, why are you the only one who is not ordinary?"

Jiang Xun had already discovered from Jiang Cheng that the game mastermind treats Ark differently, and was just about to chat and bring up the topic, when the system uttered a voice to clear the siege.

[School Channel]: "Entering the results settlement period, the first batch of candidates will be ranked soon, and the list will be announced in the main hall. Please wait patiently..."

"It's really timely."

Li Jie grumbled, but didn't say any more. He lowered his head and opened the panel. In the mailbox, there were single-subject transcripts just sent by various schools.

Aside from the passing rate of less than [-]% in the fishing examination, Ark is still a fisherman apprentice. The other three subjects have reached the passing standards, and he has achieved a small amount of success.

After a while, the red list in the main hall will be posted.

Ark is impressively listed, and the results are far ahead.

No.2 Jiang Xun and his teammates, although their grades are not very satisfactory, are in the top ten of the red list. Even if they fail the assessment, as the only few students who participated in the assessment, even if they are at the bottom, they are still on the list, but most of the skill names are apprentices.

It was late at night, and each went offline.

……

That night, Fang Zhou was a little restless, and he couldn't describe the illusory premonition, just like waking up in the morning and seeing dark clouds covering the top, a kind of uncertain haze enveloped his heart.

In the dream, he was playing the elimination game in a bizarre way, but he was the pawn to be eliminated, not the hand controlling the game.

After waking up at night, he went to the toilet, swiped his phone aimlessly for a while, watched the frequent social chaos in the news, became more impetuous, and simply played the game.

He informed Su Cheng as usual that he was still busy, so Fang Zhou sat in front of the main hall and summoned Nian Beast to accompany him.

The Nian beast spit out the virtuous tortoise, and Fang Zhou bought food and tortoise food in the mall, and fed it to one big and one small.

The younger one just took a bite and spit out a note.

【spirit】

Eat one, spit one.

【Light】

When I was feeding the third mouthful, the air beside the ark suddenly trembled. I looked up and saw Jiang Cheng approaching from a distance, and then looked to the side, where the original Nian Beast's place was empty, only the wind wrinkled.

Fang Zhou put away the [[-]] note, and Jiang Cheng sat down beside him.

"Why are you still online so late?"

"Aren't you too?" Fang Zhou continued to feed the turtle food. It was only the fourth mouthful, and the turtle hiccupped and spit out the last note.

"Isn't it because of you? In the past two days, the traffic of Fable Village's new account has soared, and the Anti-Terrorism Office is too busy. No one cares about you, so I sent me, an idler, to come over and take a look."

Jiang Cheng said, seeing Fang Zhou took the note with the word "now" and was about to ask what was going on, when he saw Fang Zhou pinching the word "a flash of light" and suddenly raised his hand to rub his forehead, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, as if thinking deeply .

Jiang Cheng didn't bother him, and got up to look at Zhengtang.

At the end of the two roads on the left and right, the small door is closed tightly.

Although there is no lock on the door, it is as solid as a rock. The system prompts: [The Library Pavilion in the backyard is an important place in the school, and no-name juniors are not allowed to enter indiscriminately! 】

Going back to the main hall, there is a ranking list posted on the door, and Ark is at the top of the list.

When Fang Zhou put down his hand rubbing his forehead, Jiang Cheng said, "Can you enter the backyard now?"

"It should." Fang Zhou was absent-minded.

Jiang Cheng tilted his head to look at him, "What are you thinking?"

"Have you confiscated the game cabin, have you calculated how many invitation codes are invalid?"

Jiang Cheng didn't understand why Fang Zhou said this, "What did you think of?"

Fang Zhou raised his head, "So, how many invitation codes are in stock?"

Jiang Cheng was stunned for a moment, and only belatedly realized this obvious problem.

In the invitation code rules, there is an open inventory, which seems to be unlimited purchases, but everyone can understand that each person only has one chance to register by real name, which means that the upper limit of inventory will never exceed the total population of the world.

In China, there were tens of millions of registered users with invitation codes earlier, and a small number of them were resold into the private sector due to the Valentine’s Day turmoil. void.Later, players started to wage guerrilla warfare, confiscated a batch, cleared a batch, wasted a batch, registered another batch, and continued to consume repeatedly. It was not until the Ear Day a few days ago that they began to let go to avoid clearing their accounts.

In addition to these, Ark contributed nearly one million invitation codes. The businessman surnamed Qin stole the invitation codes registered with resident information and a large number of [-]-yuan registration invitation codes in the mall were unsold and unactivated.

How much inventory do these take up?

Jiang Cheng immediately contacted the young master to count the number of relevant invitation codes in the country.

The workload is heavy, especially when the team members are out of skills.

Fang Zhou handed the question to Jiang Cheng, and the haze that suppressed his heart gradually dissipated.

He bid farewell to Jiang Cheng, left the school, stuffed the turtle back into Nian Beast's mouth, and went offline.

About to get a good night's sleep.

Only Jiang Cheng waited anxiously in the game until the day turned to night, and the twilight merged, and the results were finally calculated there.

In order to face-to-face accuse Jiang Cheng of exploiting and oppressing, the disgruntled young master went online to deliver the information himself.

"My team members finally finished their work, and you were called to work overtime after less than 2 minutes of delay! Can you be a little more self-conscious?"

Jiang Cheng ignored his complaints and read the materials carefully.

According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 3.7 million invalid and activated invitation codes, and as many as 7000 million unactivated invitation codes that have not been sold in the shopping malls and the government and private individuals took advantage of the March [-] event to buy cash.

Jiang Cheng flipped through the pages, "Why are they all general data, can't be more accurate?"

"How accurate do you want to be?"

Young Master yawned, he was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, his mind became a mess, he spoke without thinking, and his tone was unavoidably irritable.

"The shopping mall purchases one order after another, the sales history and inventory are changing, and new invitation code products are constantly being put on the shelves. How can it be accurate? The exchange page does not display inventory and real-time purchases. Today, there are huge amounts of money in various countries. Funds flow to Chuangshi Company, and there are people who buy products and invite codes. There are so many things to count, how can I separate out the ones that buy invitation codes for you to see? You can watch it if you can, and you can’t just count it yourself. Really I don't know why you suddenly calculated this? You think we are not busy enough!"

After the young master finished speaking, the outside line suddenly rang wildly.

After he said "hmm" a few times, he said "I see" and hung up the communication with a serious expression.

Jiang Cheng: "What's wrong?"

The young master opened the game's official invitation code trading page and signaled Jiang Cheng.

"You counted the invitation codes for this?"

Jiang Cheng went over to take a look, and saw that the original transaction exchange had disappeared, replaced by a bright red sold out announcement:

【——As of 6:30 a.m. Beijing time.

Inventory in the China service area, 440797901 is sold out, and the exchange transaction will be closed immediately, and will not be reused. 】

Does this number look familiar?

Jiang Cheng suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly opened the web search, and found that China's 2028 census shows that there are a total of 4.4 million households in the country.