Section 5 Lotteries
"Two hundred times?" This time Lu Wu was a little dumbfounded. Although electricity is now a part of people's lives, in a hurry, he really doesn't know where to get 20 times the amount of electricity used by ordinary electricity. Listening to Amber, this is not as simple as hanging the battery on the power supply to charge. Instead, it requires a large burst of electrical energy in a short period of time.
"Maybe it's not enough, about three hundred times it's enough. Amber said. "Electricity is probably the most common energy on Earth. As you just said, you are an ordinary person, and the energy that ordinary people can have and use should be easy to obtain. β
"I'm afraid...... This one...... Electricity is regulated by the state. Lu Wu spoke as he tried to think about how he could get the three hundred times the electricity that Amber needed. For a short time, all that came to his mind was high-voltage wiresβsomething that everyone knew was dangerous and could kill if he wasn't careful.
Wait! Yes! Lu Wu subconsciously thought of a good way. The high-voltage power line thing is too dangerous, and even if it succeeds, there will be consequences, but the gasoline generator is fine. An ordinary generator is enough to supply electricity to a household, and if there is 300 times the electrical energy, only 300 generators are needed. If you want to get a lot of power, even a dozen or so units are enough.
There is a generator downstairs in the school β it's so easy to use that anyone can easily use it.
"It was possible to use a generator. Lu Wu figured it out, compared to the dangerous high-voltage power lines, the generator was much easier and easier. And gasoline generators are a civilian commodity - which means that in this city of W, this kind of thing is very easy to come by. As long as you have money.
"Generator...... Is there some kind of machinery that can provide this energy?"
"Three hundredfold is enough?"
"Three hundred times should be enough, but just in case, it's best to reach about four hundred times. Amber said. "If electricity is the energy that is commonly used on Earth, it shouldn't be a big deal, right?"
"Difficulty is no difficulty......" Lu Wu sighed. "Not to mention dozens of generators, as long as you have money, hundreds are easy. But the question is...... I don't have any money. β
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"I just graduated, I haven't found a job yet, and now I only have a little money to live on. Lu Wu directly explained his current economic situation. "I'm poor. β
"What do you mean...... You don't have the ability to buy a generator right now?"
That's what it means. Lu Wu replied. "I can't help you right now, unless I can make some money. β
"What's the easiest way to make money on earth?"
"Buy a lottery ticket!" Lu Wu blurted out. "It's simple and convenient, and it doesn't arouse suspicion. β
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Diagonally across the street, there is a lottery shop.
In China, although there are many underground lottery shops such as "Mark Six", the real big names in the lottery world are those that are allowed by the country. Legend has it that you can make billions of dollars a year. This may not be a rumor, because Lu Wu stood there for only ten minutes, and he saw more than five people buying lottery tickets, and one of them waved his hand and directly bought two hundred.
Lottery shops are different from other stores, and the really important thing in a store is actually a ticketing machine that links to the lottery center. The rest of the space is occupied by furniture such as sofas, chairs, and coffee tables. On the walls are old winning numbers, lottery charts, and the like. In addition, like many stores, lottery shops are equipped with routers that allow you to connect to Wi-Fi.
Lu Wu held an umbrella and stood under the scorching sun. To outsiders, such a young man standing in the sun with an umbrella and a cardboard box in his hand is just waiting for someone here, and in fact it is the same.
It's just that unlike normal, Lu Wu actually doesn't know who he's waiting for.
It's a hot day, and there really aren't many pedestrians on the streets.
"Is that the person in front?" Lu Wu muttered in a voice that he could only hear.
"Yes, that person...... His luck ...... Very good. In her mind's eye, Amber said.
"How good is it?"
"At least in the short term, he is a lucky star, and he is worth a try. Amber said.
He was greeted by a middle-aged man in his fifties, very fat and sweating profusely because of the hot weather. Lu Wu hurriedly stepped forward to meet him.
"Uncle, can you wait?"
The other party looked at Lu Wu standing at the door of the lottery shop suspiciously, "Sales? I'm not a lottery player, I don't buy lottery tickets." β
"No, no, I'm just doing a survey, can you buy a lottery ticket for me?" Lu Wu asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Just an investigative exercise...... I pay for it, and you buy lottery tickets for me. β
"Inexplicably, I'm sick!" The middle-aged man didn't believe in this evil, and stretched out his hand to push Lu Wu away.
Lu Wu hurriedly took out the trick he had prepared. "Uncle, this is the task assigned by our teacher, do me a favor. It's so hot, this cold drink is my thank you. β
This move has had a good effect. Although the middle-aged man was full of suspicions, on the one hand, Lu Wu was full of student spirit, and on the other hand, he had an iced drink to give, so he finally entered the lottery shop and helped Lu Wu buy a lottery ticket.
At nine o'clock in the evening, Lu Wu returned to his residence.
In front of him, there was a whole row of lottery tickets. Ten yuan each, the one with five numbers on each sheet, a total of eight tickets. Coupled with the fact that a small number of drinks were given away today, a total of 100 yuan was spent today.
That's the hard work of the day. Standing on the streets on such a hot day is never a nice experience.
"These lotteries ...... Can you win the lottery?" Lu Wu asked. In fact, he doesn't ask for too much, as long as he has a card that wins five million, he is very satisfied.
"The odds of winning are relatively high. Amber said. "As for whether it will be able to ...... I'm not sure then. After all, there is such a thing as a lottery, even if you are very lucky, there is no guarantee that you will win the lottery. β
This is also Lu Wu and Amber's money-making plan. Lu Wu really has nothing in this situation at the moment, Amber is trapped on the outer edge of the world, and her strength is also limited. There are only two abilities she can have now. The first is that when holoera is operating normally and there is a WIFI connection, you can telepathize with Lu Wu and communicate with each other. The second is to sense the good or bad luck of others.
That's the good thing about magic. If Amber is not from a magical world, but from a high-tech world, then I'm afraid it won't help Lu Wu at all. If you want to use the scientific and technological knowledge of the heterogeneous plane, even if it is much more scientific and technological knowledge than the earth, you must have a certain amount of capital. Not to mention the bosses of large companies, at least there must be capital to transform technology into real products.
After weighing it again and again, Lu Wu finally decided to use this method of buying lottery tickets to make some money.
He thought very clearly, there are still two days left before the next lottery draw, including today, a hundred yuan a day, a total of three hundred yuan. If what Amber said was true (after confirming that the other party was really a traverser, Lu Wu did believe in Amber's abilities), then he should earn his first money in three days.
It's best to be able to hit five million, so that you can live up to your luck in meeting a traverser.
The next day it was about the same. Speaking of which, it seems that there are not many people who can be considered by Amber as "good luck and worth investing". Especially in the evening, when the sun goes down and there are many pedestrians on the street, Lu Wu did not encounter a significant increase in the number of "lucky people". On average, there are only about seven or eight people who can be taken by Amber every day. It's the lottery shop.,Because Lu Wu stays here in the lottery shop all day.,Got acquainted with the owner.γ
Of course, Lu Wu is still the same old as the shopkeeper's question: the teacher asks for an investigation. The answer is reasonable, and in these days there is a lot of investigative activity, many of which even sound ridiculous. But as long as these surveys don't cost money and can make a little souvenir, most people are actually happy to cooperate.
As for the other details, no one asked, and there was little interest in asking. Lu Wu was like that, at that age, he knew that he was a college student at a glance. It's normal for college students to come out and do surveys and work part-time.
Two days passed in a flash. At the end of the day, Lu Wu returned to his residence and quickly transferred the mobile phone video to the channel of the lottery draw.
"By the way, Amber, you're human too?"
"Humans, do the people of the earth call themselves their own race? Well, I guess so, as far as I can see, I don't see any difference between us. But in our language, we are 'Mabuden'. β
A mysterious syllable came to Lu Wu's mind, and this time Amber said something that was untranslatable, so Lu Wu could hear the true pronunciation of the otherworldly language that Amber mastered. In fact, there are hundreds or thousands of languages on the earth, at least in terms of Lu Wu's senses, there is nothing strange about this heterotopic language, it is just a foreign language.
"What's your world like?"
"And the earth...... It's very similar to Earth. The sky, the earth, the sea, the rivers, the day, the night, the sun, the stars, the moon, and all kinds of creatures. The world is made up of time and space, which is then filled with various elemental matter, and eventually gives birth to various living beings, including us. β
"Your world is not a planet?"
"It's a completely different world from the Earth. Beyond the earth, there is no endless starry sky to swim in. In addition, the entire universe does not expand indefinitely...... In short, there is an end to the world. β
However, at this time, Lu Wu's attention had completely shifted to the mobile phone. He lined up his tickets in a whole column and waited to see how the draw would go.
During the whole lottery process, Lu Wu watched it without blinking.