Chapter Seventy-Nine: Heading to the Arena
From military magazines, to animal husbandry, from children's picture books, to readers' digests, from novels to comics, they will all appear in this kind of booth.
That's the fun of this kind of stall, unlike other bookstalls, where books are wholesale, and this kind of bookstalls are bought at low prices from scrap yards.
Most people come here to pick up books and read books, in fact, they are also interested in treasure hunting.
For example, a few years ago, someone bought a yellowed ancient book at a price of 6 yuan at this kind of booksstand, and no one knows whether it is true or not.
Another example is that some people have bought genuine novels published decades ago by Jin Gu Huangliang Wen at a low price from this kind of bookstall, and they also have signatures and seals.
The bookstall that Promise found not only contained a large number of yellowed and dilapidated miscellaneous books, but also a large number of brand-new black pirated online novels.
In this day and age, black skin seems to have become a sign of pirated web novels.
Rough production, poor typography, and simple covers are the three major signs.
And in these books, Xu Yu saw "Three Thousand Years with Ghosts" almost at a glance, and she excitedly grabbed a book and flipped through it.
"It's all new, big girl, or I'll give you a cheaper price for the New Year?"
The boss was excited when he saw Xu Yue, thinking that she was going to buy it, so he took the initiative to talk, and Xu Yue nodded and asked for the price.
"How much?"
"Oh, five dollars a copy, if you buy three copies and get one free. ”
"So cheap?"
The promise almost choked the female boss to death, and the female boss thought that the other party would bargain, but she didn't say the words she was ready for, but the promise came more ruthlessly.
"Such a good book, at least 20 yuan a book! Come, give you money, 20 a book, just 100 yuan for five books." ”
She took out 100 yuan and threw it to the boss, and then took the first to fifth volumes of "Three Thousand Years with Ghosts", the female boss was stupid, and she was stunned for a long time with the money, and when the promise was far away, she touched her forehead and muttered.
"This person is afraid that his brain is not good, right?"
And Promise was even more excited with five books.
"Tut-tut, look, I can't imagine that these pirates are also keeping pace with the times, there were only three books last year, and this year it has come out to the fifth. ”
Tong Yao picked up the fifth book and flipped through it, the pirate dealer had already serialized about 2 million words, and there was still 800,000 words left behind Zheng Jia's current update, she thought, maybe it would not be long before the pirated book of "Three Thousand Years with Ghosts" would be published again.
The two went home with five books and a bunch of food, and the next day they took the car and started the rhythm of shopping, eating, shopping, and eating.
I walked around until the seventh day of the new year.
On the eighth day of junior high school, Tong Yao didn't want to go back to school, her manuscript was enough to last until March, but there was no way, Xu Yue and Meng Xue were invited to participate in the 3rd College Student Cyber Security Attack and Defense Competition, so they were notified by Director Liang that they must officially return to school on the 9th to report, and then start a closed training camp.
As soon as the promise left, it didn't make sense for Tong Yao to stay in the village alone, so he simply cleaned up and followed the promise back to school.
304 dormitories.
When the two arrived, Zheng Jia and Meng Xue had already arrived, chatting about interesting things about the New Year.
"Hey, I heard that several people in our class said in the Q group that they would not come after the New Year and would look for a job directly in their hometown. ”
"In this way, it is estimated that there will be a lot fewer people in our class at the beginning of this year. ”
"Yes, not only our class, I'm afraid there are few people in our building. ”
"The four of us have to move too......"
……
The four of them chatted in the dormitory until the afternoon, and then Director Liang came to visit in person, informed Xu Xu and Meng Xue of the location and content of the training camp that would start tomorrow, and repeatedly told the two not to be late.
Early the next morning, when Tong Yao woke up, Xu Yue and Meng Xue were gone.
After she and Zheng Jia finished washing, the school cafeteria was not open at this time, and the restaurants and restaurants outside were not open, so the two of them could only eat instant noodles to satisfy their hunger.
After breakfast, the two of them started their daily code words for the day again.
The 3rd College Student Cyber Security Attack and Defense Competition is scheduled for March 1, and there is only half a month left to calculate the time.
Listening to Xu Promise come back, Director Liang didn't know where to invite a master, she and Meng Xue were destroyed by the other party in only five minutes after joining forces, and the training camp was only one day, and the self-confidence that Promise had established for three years was shattered.
On February 12, the January manuscript fee will be distributed.
Tong Yao once again refreshed the historical record with 1266 yuan!
However, after a miserable time, people will become numb, and it is estimated that even if she gets 600 yuan a month, she will feel that it doesn't matter.
March 1, half past seven in the morning.
The day before, Director Liang made a special trip to borrow the school's usual Hutouben to pick up important leaders, and personally drove for more than 8 hours to bring Xu Promise and Meng Xue to the competition site in H City, more than 700 kilometers away.
Of course, Tong Yao and Zheng Jia, as the main members of the flag-waving and shouting, also came over with the car.
The 3rd College Student Network Security Attack and Defense Competition was set on the top floor of Tianxin Building, the most prosperous city center in H City.
As a result, as soon as they entered, they each sighed that their group of people turned out to be just frogs at the bottom of the well.
This is called a multimedia conference room, even the computer monitor is LCD, there are forty or fifty computers facing each other in a row in front, and there is a camera on each computer monitor that is used to connect to the projector to display it.
The player's operation on the computer can be synchronized to the projector for the audience to see.
In the back of the auditorium are rows of tables and chairs, and there are many beautifully crafted name tags on them.
Tong Yao only briefly looked at the name tags in the first few rows, and her mouth opened wide.
Almost all of the well-known Internet companies in China have sent representatives, and the last two rows are much shabby, and they are the seats of some contestants, and they don't even have their names, only 'so-and-so school'.
Even so, their name tags still stand out from the crowd.
Zheng Jia stood next to the seat and looked left and right, and whispered to Tong Yao with a red face.
"The schools that came to the competition this time are all from their own schools, and it seems that our school is ......."
Before she finished speaking, she saw two girls coming up from the seat next to her, wearing glasses, and walked over to greet them with a smile.
"Hello, we are from Qinghua, and we are also the contestants of this competition, my name is Li Qiao, her name is Wang Luotong, I am very happy to meet you. ”
Seeing the other party stretch out his hand, Zheng Jia stepped back in shame.
Tong Yao, like Zheng Jia, wants to die, but she is Qinghua, and her side is Baiyun Vocational and Technical College......
Thinking of this, she also shrank her hand, and turned the name tag on the table with her arm very covertly, afraid that others would see it.