Chapter 39: The Carpet
Although playing the game and playing the ladder are two different concepts, and playing the game sounds more high-end, Jim prefers to play the ladder.
Although these temporary teammates are not good at cooking, they are not as annoying as when they play.
You know, the so-called professional game is not a one-man game. Even if he is Jim, he has to listen to his teammates.
Let's not say that "Anti-Terrorism Operation" has not yet launched the voice chat function, even if it is launched, how to accurately report the point is also a big problem.
The matter of accurate reporting is not limited to the person who reported the point, but also limited to the person who listened to the report.
If the two sides have different understandings of a certain location, it is easy to lose the game because of the penalty report.
In the personal ladder, there is almost no such thing as reporting, and even if there is, by the time his teammates finish typing, Jim has already settled the battle early.
However, in the game, although his teammates are also very strong, and the reporting is also clear and accurate, Jim just doesn't like this feeling.
He feels that his life is a life of being manipulated by others, and since he was a child, his parents have always had a lot of requirements for him.
And those demands seemed to him like farting.
But who made them parents?
They have to meet their own demands.
As a result, at only 17 years old, he doesn't like to listen to other people's opinions at all, especially when it comes to the game "Anti-Terrorist Operations".
Because, in this game, he is already almost the strongest existence.
As the strongest, why do you have to listen to those rookies beep?
Why?
His words to his teammates are like, "You can do it, don't command me!"
Those teammates were a little unconvinced at first, because the people who could enter this team were selected from the entire 300 million people in the United States.
Jim didn't have any nonsense about these pride of the sky, so he came to SOLO to fight it alone, and when he staged a shot in the head again, all his teammates were silent.
Although Anti-Terrorist Action is said to be a team game, the basis for all of this is the individual gaming prowess.
If the individual's game strength is strong, strategy and tactics can be discussed, but if the individual's strength is weak, then what can be discussed?
Jim's personal strength is very strong, not only in talent, but also in perseverance.
Even these teammates, who have a little strain with Jim, have to admit that Jim is practicing really hard.
Even, for amateur players, the high-end ladder game, which already requires a lot of energy, is just a place to relax during a break for Jim.
Players who are lucky enough to kill Jim once in a while and post a screenshot on the forums to celebrate know the answer, and wonder if they will break down.
What kind of mood did they feel when they watched themselves kill the light of hope of the American team with the feeling of defeat in their hearts.
In general, the mood is not going to be very good.
Because, it was the sound of a broken dream.
The place where Jim now plays games has moved from the garage to the study at home.
The spacious and bright study room is covered with handmade carpets made in China.
Jim had always hated things like carpets because he thought they were dirty, dirty, dirty. Even he had never seen a clean carpet.
When he and his parents asked for the rug to disappear, he went out for a burger the next day, and when he got home, he found the rug in his study, showing a new state that he had never seen before.
Originally......
A brand new carpet feels like this.
While he was amazed, Jim's parents' hearts were dripping blood.
Why is it dripping blood?
Because a handmade carpet, even if it is made in China, is still not cheap.
A brand new carpet costs as little as four or five hundred dollars, while a new one in the study costs as much as a thousand dollars.
Of course, if the price is expensive, there will be a reason for the price to be expensive.
This carpet is very good both in terms of the pattern and the feel of the touch.
Of course, when they think carpets are expensive. Certainly do not know what kind of environment this carpet was produced in.
In a coastal province in southern China, it is unusually hot in the summer.
The factories that exist here have only low sheds, and there are no walls like that.
Although it was ventilated on all sides, the warm air did not flow at all.
Here, there are many female workers who look to be no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, and the oldest is no more than twenty years old.
What are they doing?
In front of them were a shelf, and on top of the shelf were blankets of varying degrees of completion.
Their monthly wages range from 300 to 600 yuan, although this is already unimaginable in their hometown.
However, in such a bad working situation, it does not seem to be much.
Of course, salaries are not paid every month.
What if every month the worker gets paid and runs away?
Therefore......
Salaries are paid once a year.
Of course, at the end of the year, when you get it, you won't have a monthly salary of 300, but as much as 3,600.
Although the factory owners of this never pay taxes.
But how is it possible to live and eat here?
Eat without spending money?
Does it cost money to live?
Deduct the cost of food and accommodation every month, plus the salary deducted from time to time.
Even for workers with a monthly salary of up to 600 yuan, the actual salary received in the last year is only 2,000 yuan at most.
As for the children whose monthly salary is only 300, it is already very good for them to have the money to go home.
So what do they do?
It's weaving carpets and tapestries.
It often takes about three months for a novice to finish weaving a rug.
Of course, because it is a novice, the price will not be too good, and the FOB price is about 300 US dollars at most, and it is generally around 200.
According to the exchange rate of RMB to US dollar to 8 to 1, it is equivalent to 1,600 yuan.
And how much does it cost?
If you calculate the salary of 300 a month, 3 months is 900.
Actually, though, not that much.
Stewed kelp and eaten aged rice every day, will a person have a hundred dollars for a month's meal?
Just spend some bricks to build a shack, can you rent a hundred a month?
No, neither.
It didn't take long for the factory owner who ran such a carpet factory to become a guest of honor of the local government because he was able to earn foreign exchange through exports.
And the young female workers, in the very occasional break, will also wonder how rich the foreigner really is.
I pay 600 yuan a month, and it takes two months to finish weaving a carpet, and they say they will buy it?
Foreign...... That's nice......