Volume 5: Twenty Undoubted Chapter 274: The New World
In a dormitory of the third-year male students at South China University of Finance and Economics, Longgang District, Shenzhen.
At 7:35 in the morning, a cell phone alarm rang. The other three college students living in the same dormitory woke up one after another and started to get dressed. Only Yuan Xudong was still sleeping soundly on his desk. The laptop in front of his head was playing the female-led drama "Our Golden Years". The plot had reached the scene where Jiang Nansun worked hard to pay off her father's debts. She was hugging another female lead, Zhu Suosuo, and crying bitterly. The two pitiful beauties looked quite pitiful, especially the caring gentlemen.
"Yuan Xudong, Yuan Xudong..."
"who?"
A familiar voice came from his ears, and he felt someone pushing his shoulder. Yuan Xudong slowly opened his eyes, climbed up from the table, and said in confusion:
"Who are you and why are you in my house?"
"Fuck, you're not?"
Looking at Yuan Xudong who had just woken up and whose head was still not clear, Xu Ji, who was sleeping opposite him, said happily:
"I told you not to stay up late to watch TV series and write novels, but you refused to listen. Are you schizophrenic now and can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy?"
"Fuck, fuck, are you Xu Ji?"
Finally coming to his senses, Yuan Xudong was shocked when he looked at Xu Ji, his roommate and good friend whom he had been with day and night for three years. He was about to finish his second online serial novel The Best of Times last night, so he thought about watching the TV series The Best of Times again. As a result, he was too sleepy, so he lay down in front of his laptop and prepared to take a nap. Then he had a dream, a very long dream, just like the third-rate novel he was writing.
It was the first time that Yuan Xudong had such a realistic dream. In the dream, he was still called Yuan Xudong, but he carried a golden finger heroine strategy system with him. Then he began his dissolute life until he was awakened by Xu Ji. It was incredible that he did not even realize that he was dreaming. He really thought he had traveled through time. No wonder such an unreasonable plot was possible. It turned out to be a dream. As the saying goes, there is everything in dreams. It depends on whether you dare to let your imagination run wild.
"Fuck, why are you reacting so strongly? Are you trying to scare me?"
Seeing that Yuan Xudong had woken up, Xu Ji held the bed ladder next to him and said with a smile:
"Great writer, you don't even recognize me anymore. Have you become so obsessed with writing online novels that you can no longer distinguish between reality and fiction?"
"How is that possible? I just woke up and my head is still a little fuzzy!"
Yuan Xudong said stubbornly that it was already embarrassing to write pornographic novels. If his classmates knew that he had such a dream, they would laugh to death. For the sake of face, he would never admit to such an embarrassing thing.
Without waiting for Xu Ji to continue speaking, Chen Qiang, who lived in the same dormitory, said as he was about to leave:
"I'm going to buy breakfast. Who of you wants me to bring it back?"
"I want a scallion pancake!"
"I want a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge, two tea eggs, and a pancake!"
"Get lost, you can only have one!"
"Then I want a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge!"
Liu Xuejian, who lived in the same dormitory with him, compromised.
Yuan Xudong was the only one who hadn't ordered yet. Chen Qiang looked at him and said:
"Yuan Xudong, what do you want?"
“Two tea eggs will do!”
"OK!"
While Chen Qiang was buying breakfast in the school cafeteria, Liu Xuejian climbed down from the bed and opened his laptop to play the online game Dungeon Fighter. He looked at Yuan Xudong and asked:
"Yuan Xudong, there will be a strengthening activity in the next version. How about we stock up on some strengthening protection scrolls?"
"no problem!"
Yuan Xudong thought for a moment and said:
"It's boring to play small games. I plan to make it big and strong. I'm going to make a big deal about this event. I know several professional game merchants. They stock up hundreds of thousands of RMB each time. It's possible to make tens or even millions of yuan in one go!"
Knowing that Yuan Xudong's family was poor, he had always wanted to make a lot of money. He had tried lottery, stocks, funds, game dealer, online novel writer, and even opened a small store in the dormitory. If he was not prohibited from entering the girls' dormitory, he would even want to resell sanitary napkins. According to him, there was no competitor in the school supermarket because the prices were too high. His reselling behavior was for the benefit of the majority of students. Instead of selling socks for five yuan a pair in the supermarket, he sold three pairs for ten yuan, and there were discounts for large quantities. Unfortunately, the student union cadres who inspected the dormitory reported it to the school, and Yuan Xudong's store went bankrupt. He then started working as a game dealer and an online novel writer.
Thinking back to when Yuan Xudong first came to school , he didn't even have a QQ number. I applied for a QQ number for him, and I was the one who took him to play Dungeon Fighter. He originally wanted to earn some gold coins, participate in the Southern Valley activities, sell Abyss Party Challenge Books, and then use the earned gold coins to do business in the game, use the gold coins to make more gold coins, and then go to the 5173 website to sell them for money. Unexpectedly, Yuan Xudong made 25 yuan from selling gold coins for the first time, and since then he has tasted the sweetness. He never thought that playing online games could make money, and at the same time, it could produce a sense of accomplishment like a businessman doing business, which is much more interesting than playing games themselves.
While others play Ghost Swordsman or Magician, Yuan Xudong plays Creator because Creator is very simple to play. You can control movement with the up, down, left and right keys, and attack monsters with two mouse keys. It is just right for Yuan Xudong, who is a little clumsy. He doesn't care about the character at all and doesn't expect to make money by brushing gold coins. His goal is to use this character to do business with other players, resell gold coins, equipment, materials, etc. All he needs is the level, because the level will affect the transaction limit, the size of the warehouse, etc.
Seeing Yuan Xudong and Liu Xuejian discussing the dungeon game, Xu Ji beside them also turned on the computer to play the game and said:
"I still have 50 million gold coins. I'll sell them to you for 100 yuan. Do you want them?"
"One hundred and twenty-five dollars, I buy at a rate of forty and sell at a rate of thirty-seven!"
"Okay, I'll mail it to you online. It's still the Angel Kanade Tachibana, right?"
"Yes, I'll transfer the money to you through Alipay!"
"OK!"
After logging into the game, Yuan Xudong received 50 million gold coins from Xu Ji through his email, and then transferred 125 yuan to his Alipay account. He also took a few screenshots of the transaction process and sent them to the trading group he created. Yuan Xudong originally sold gold coins on 5173, but found that the handling fee was a bit expensive and the transaction process was a bit cumbersome, so he created a trading group on a whim, and he became both the group owner and the game merchant.
Privately reselling gold coins, equipment, etc. in the group does not require any handling fees, and you can also earn a commission on the price difference. The transaction process is also very simple and fast. Transactions are made in the game and then settled through WeChat, Alipay, or QQ red envelopes. The only problem is trust. There are many scammers in the game. At the beginning, in order to gain the trust of others, Yuan Xudong chose to pay first. Fearing that he would be cheated, he chose to transfer five yuan each time. He gave others five yuan first, and then others gave him five yuan in gold coins. As a result, the other party ran away after receiving the money and blocked his WeChat. Damn it, he was cheated out of five yuan. Yuan Xudong was so angry that he didn't even have breakfast that day. Finally, he saved the five yuan back.
From then on, Yuan Xudong secretly decided not to trust others. No matter what others said, he would never transfer money to others first. Others had to transfer money to him first. Because if he wanted to be a game businessman, he would definitely come into contact with many players in the future. There was no idea how many scammers there were. Because there were no constraints, he didn't even know whether the other party was a man or a woman, and the cost of cheating was too low.
He set up a trading group, promoted himself in the game, promoted himself on the forum, and also went to other game groups to promote himself. Over time, the number of members in his trading group grew. From the initial distrust, Yuan Xudong patiently traded for one dollar at a time, then two dollars, and then ten dollars, one hundred, one thousand, and so on. It took more than two years, and Yuan Xudong got to know a lot of people in the game, including high-end players and other game merchants.
The most he spent was more than 40,000 yuan, and then he sold them quickly. On the one hand, he was afraid that others would steal his account, and on the other hand, he was afraid that the official would ban his account and say that his data was abnormal or something. He also spent tens of thousands of yuan to buy coupons, and then exchanged the points for gold coins, and then sold them to other players in exchange for RMB. The purpose was to become a Xinyue member. The official will definitely be more generous to players who spend money, and there will be exclusive customer service and so on.
In short, he has been playing from his freshman year to his junior year now, plus other scattered income, such as writing online novels, two books with more than one million words, he earned more than 40,000 yuan, he made 120,000 yuan as a game businessman, he made more than 5,000 yuan from the convenience store, plus the living expenses given by his family, etc., he now has 180,000 yuan. 130,000 is in the stock market, where he bought the safest bank stocks, which basically make no money or lose money, and the annual dividend is more than 5 points. The remaining 50,000 is all in games, leaving only a few hundred yuan for pocket money.
After playing the game for a while, Liu Xuejian put all the items in his warehouse that could be sold on the auction house at the lowest price, and sold them for nearly 100 million gold coins. He searched for enhanced protection scrolls in the auction house, preparing to buy some and stockpile them, and then sell them at a high price during the next enhanced event. This time, enhanced protection scrolls can be opened in the box of the update, and the time-limited enhanced protection scrolls given away in the street event have caused the price of tradable enhanced protection scrolls to drop from the previous 5 million to 6 million gold coins to the current 2 million. If you buy an enhanced protection scroll now and wait patiently for a while, you can make two to three times the profit.
Opening the auction house and clicking refresh, Liu Xuejian frowned slightly as he looked at the Enhanced Protection Scroll, which had an average price of 2.2 million gold coins and a current minimum price of 2.58 million gold coins.
"Why did the price suddenly go up? Is someone buying up the goods?"
"I, I'm shopping!"
Yuan Xudong smiled and said with some pride:
"I bought an auxiliary scanning program that scans the auction house once a second. It scans all the enhanced protection scrolls below 2.5 million gold coins. Even if I sell them for 5 million gold coins in the future, I can make at least double the profit!"
"The event is still a few days away. Do you have enough gold coins to buy the goods?"
When Liu Xuejian heard that it was Yuan Xudong's buying spree that caused the price of the Enhanced Protection Coupons to go up, he didn't care. He only had more than 100 million gold coins, and 2.5 million gold coins per coupon, or 2.6 million gold coins per coupon, would not have any impact on him. He just wanted to earn some pocket money, unlike Yuan Xudong who was thinking of making a fortune from games.
"I'm going to sell my stocks and then find other merchants to buy gold coins. This time I'm going to go big. I'm going to stock up on 180,000 worth of goods, and I can borrow 100,000 from Alipay, so the total is 280,000. Do you want to join me?"
As Yuan Xudong spoke, he put the protection coupons he had already bought back on the auction house. There were 400 of them in total, and the bidding price for each was set at 2.4 million gold coins. The total transaction price was 960 million gold coins, and the transaction limit was 800 million, so no one else could buy them.
Those who want to sell the protection coupons quickly will put the protection coupons on sale at a price lower than 2.4 million. Those who are eager to sell do not care about . After all, it is only a little more than 20 cents. This small difference can reduce Yuan Xudong's cost by at least four percentage points, so he can make more money when selling.
Of course, he couldn't lower the price too much. If it was less, others wouldn't care, but if it was more, he would be playing others for fools. Not to mention whether others were willing to sell or not, even if they were willing, his scanning program wouldn't be as good as others'. Among the merchants he knew, the most powerful game merchants spent several thousand dollars a month to have others write programs, which were then updated together with the official. Some of them were for assisted scanning, and some were for automatic gold coin generation.
Unfortunately, Yuan Xudong did not have the resources and could only buy very ordinary scanning auxiliary programs. As for those automatic gold-brushing programs, he bought them once, but the system detected data abnormalities within a few minutes and then sanctioned him for several hours. From then on, he stopped thinking of using crooked means and decided to be a game businessman and make money honestly.
Hearing that Yuan Xudong was going to spend hundreds of thousands to stockpile enhanced protection scrolls, although they knew the profits were huge, Liu Xuejian and Xu Ji were not so eager to make money at this time. Instead, they advised Yuan Xudong:
"You're crazy. How long are you going to sell all these Enhanced Protection Scrolls?"
"I've thought about it a long time ago. If I want to get rich, I have to seize every opportunity. The difference I make from reselling gold coins every day is only tens of thousands of yuan in profit after a year of hard work. It's not as much as what others can make from seizing a business opportunity. In the last Abyss Party Challenge Book event, a businessman earned enough money to buy a sports car. I made a little more than 10,000 yuan. If I had invested all my assets that time, I would have at least 500,000 yuan in assets now. My goal is to make my first million before graduating from college. I will definitely not be able to achieve this goal if I keep doing small things like this!"
“What if I can’t sell it?”
Liu Xuejian disagreed:
"The consumption of Enhanced Protection Scrolls is not that high, and there are many events now. What if there is another event next time where you can get Enhanced Protection Scrolls just by standing on the street?"
"I don't expect to sell it to ordinary players!"
Yuan Xudong operated his stock account and sold all the bank stocks in it. He had to wait until the next day to withdraw the money. At the same time, he explained to Liu Xuejian and Xu Ji:
"After this event, the price of Enhanced Protection Scrolls will definitely go up. The usual price is between 5 million and 6 million gold coins. I have hundreds of thousands of funds. It is impossible to control the prices of the entire game, but it is still possible to control Enhanced Protection Scrolls. I have inquired with other merchants. Some of them are hoarding Apostle Orbs, some are hoarding Abyss Party Challenge Books, etc., but no one is hoarding Enhanced Protection Scrolls.
At that time, I will buy all the enhanced protection scrolls with a price lower than 5.5 million in the auction house and control the price. When other merchants see that the enhanced protection scrolls in the auction house are not priced lower than 5.5 million, I will sell the protection scrolls in batches to other big and small merchants, 5 million gold coins each. Believe me, it will be easy to sell with a profit of 10%.
If the selling pressure is not too great, I can also cooperate with merchants with whom I have a good relationship to continue to drive up the price, 6 million gold coins per piece, 7 million gold coins per piece, or even 10 million gold coins per piece, just like speculating in stocks. There are so many merchants in the dungeon, as long as the price is lower than the auction price, someone will take it over. What's more, I am not reselling in one area. If I really can't sell it, I won't lose money even if I buy it for 2.5 million and sell it for 2.6 million. Except for being hacked or banned by the authorities, there is not much risk at all. I have upgraded Xinyue to level 3 and set up so many security protection measures. These unexpected situations are unlikely, so don't worry about them!"
"Fuck, so insidious!"
Seeing that Yuan Xudong spoke so clearly, Liu Xuejian and Xu Ji could not help laughing. Knowing that they were not interested, Yuan Xudong could not help shaking his head and said no more.
College students are still better, including female college students. College students who are still in the ivory tower don’t have a deep understanding of money. They use the living expenses given by their parents to play games, fall in love, etc. Yuan Xudong doesn’t know how other universities are, but at least the college students around him are all about eating, drinking and having fun. There are really not many people who study seriously, and they don’t care much about money.
Of course, he himself didn't like studying very much. Maybe he had enough of high school, and he completely let himself go when he entered university. Plus, the school didn't care much, and for the final exam the teacher gave him a question bank with the same questions as the exam paper, which was no different from giving the answers directly. If he still couldn't pass the exam, he would have the opportunity to retake the exam, retake the course, etc.
If one still cannot pass after so many opportunities, then this person is hopeless and will have to repeat the grade. Fortunately, few universities in China advise students to drop out. If the requirements are really strict, more than half of university graduates will be unqualified people who basically spend their four years in university eating, drinking and having fun. Few people will be strict with themselves and study hard.
When Yuan Xudong, Xu Ji and Liu Xuejian were playing the dungeon game, Chen Qiang came in with the breakfast he had bought and distributed it to everyone. Chen Qiang stood behind Yuan Xudong and watched him play the game and said:
"Yuan Xudong, how's your novel going? I just finished reading the Korean chapter, and I'm going to stop reading it again?"
"What eunuch?"
Hearing the word "eunuch", Yuan Xudong frowned slightly and defended himself:
"My head hurts a bit. There are still more than a hundred people subscribing. It's tasteless to eat it, but it's a pity to throw it away. I can't be a eunuch. Don't worry, I will continue writing slowly!"
"Fuck, you are such a jerk. The Korean chapter ended so hastily. How are you going to wrap it up? And what about my favorite Lin Yuna and Jiang Nansun? How are you going to arrange for them?"
"How should I know?"
There was no outline, so he just wrote whatever came to his mind. Yuan Xudong felt a headache, and suddenly thought of the dream he had last night. He just opened his mouth and said perfunctorily:
"How about this, at the beginning, didn't the protagonist Yuan Xudong suddenly travel through time while watching The Best Years? There is no such thing as time travel in this world, nor is there any system. The plot is not very reasonable. Just treat it as a dream. Isn't that how it is played out in TV dramas? In dramas like Charlotte's Troubles and Love in the Palace, Yuan Xudong just wakes up and the whole story ends. How about this ending? Isn't it okay?"
"Go away, what about my goddess?"
"Cold!"
After finishing the tea egg in his hand, Yuan Xudong turned on his computer and prepared to write a novel:
"I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going to write a novel. When I make money, I'm going to find a beautiful girlfriend!"
"Bah, you damn eunuch, be careful or your readers may send you razor blades!"
After a scolding, Chen Qiang looked at Yuan Xudong and said with a smile:
"By the way, in the girls' dormitory, I heard that Duan Jiabao really likes you. Her father does business in Sichuan, and she is the only child in the family. Why don't you just become a live-in son-in-law? You can save twenty years of hard work!"
"Yes, if you win her over, you can ask her father for a million yuan as a betrothal gift, and your goal will be achieved, right? When you win Duan Jiabao, remember to introduce her roommate to us. I have to say in advance that I like Liang Shuang!"
Liu Xuejian on the side interrupted.
"I like Luo Yan!"
"I like Jiang Xiaoguo!"
Xu Ji and Chen Qiang followed suit.
Liang Shuang?
Luo Yan?
Duan Jiabao?
Ginger fruit?
Hearing the familiar name, Yuan Xudong thought of Jiang Xiaoguo's roommates and was shocked. Aren't these characters from Twenty Not Confused?
Twenty Not Confused mainly tells the story of four college girls who are about to graduate. They experience a series of setbacks in the year before entering the society, but ultimately gain love and growth in life and career.
Standing at the watershed between campus and society, everyone has their own difficulties to overcome and problems to solve. Twenty Not Confused interprets the best form of youth for today .
At this age when they are still young and mature, they encounter many doubts about their career, friendship, family and love. Fortunately, they are always full of expectations for the future. For them, there is no definition of twenty. Everything is right and everything is good. Even if they don’t get what they want, they still want to live a life of peace of mind!
The memory in his mind flashed by, and Yuan Xudong turned on the computer and searched for Twenty Not Confused, but he couldn't find the TV series. He searched for Nothing But Thirty again, and the TV series was available. He found the episode that he remembered having an interactive plot, but the original interactive plot was gone. What was going on in this world? Was the world in the dream real, or was the world he was in now real?
"Yuan Xudong, I'm asking you a question, why are you in a daze?"
"What?"
Hearing Chen Qiang's voice, Yuan Xudong came back to his senses and murmured to himself:
"It's over, I might really be schizophrenic!"
"Fuck you, idiot!"
