Chapter 8: The Black Market#
"Scoring ads?" Qi fans really haven't heard of it.
With a knowing expression, it seems that this news should be quite secret. But he still explained to Qi fans that "swiping point advertising" is not actually an advertisement, but a verb, which is an important method of black market trading.
Beijing and St. Petersburg are two old districts, each of which has an entertainment program that can be exchanged for cash. In the Beijing district is the "Old Town", in the St. Petersburg district is "Red Snow (ΠΡΠ°ΡΠ½ΡΠΉ_ΡΠ½Π΅Π³)". In these two places, the points obtained by players completing tasks can be exchanged for real yuan or rubles, so at the beginning of the opening of the brain-like body, many people swiped points for money. But soon people found that the exchange rate of points to money was too low, and most players no longer expected to make money on it, but at this time, many players were still obsessed with scouring points.
After the reasoning of a bigwig on a Russian forum, this is actually a means of advertising on the black market. Merchants in the black market expect to hire a person privately to brush the rankings for a short period of time when trading, and this sudden and large increase in rankings in a short period of time can attract the attention of other players. Knowledgeable players know that the merchant behind this person has "goods" in their hands, and they can complete the transaction through contact.
This is actually the same as the number of steps advertised by micro-businesses on WeChat in the past, but hiring people to brush points itself is more hidden. And since there were a lot of players in the old city and Hongxue who were crazy about farming points at the beginning, the points themselves would not attract the attention of the administrators of the brain-like companies.
Qi Fan vaguely knew what the "old city" was, and it was actually a scene she imagined when she was a child. At the time, she thought her mother was a special forces figure.
"Then how do you know that this kind of scoring is really a black market advertisement?" Qi Fan asked.
"I'm not really sure." Parasitic said in a low voice, "And this thing can't be asked casually, otherwise it's dangerous, isn't it?" β
"So what are you talking about here?" Qi Fan was a little dissatisfied, she was not very interested in the ethereal news.
"But I thought of a solution." Ji Fusheng immediately said, "I know that there is an old player on the Old City High Score List who definitely doesn't advertise on the black market, maybe this person will know something." β
Qi Fan asked with some curiosity: "How do you know if a person is advertising?" β
Parasitism smiled mysteriously, but explained honestly: "Black market merchants need a big change in the standings to advertise, so they don't hire the same person to advertise all the time." Then the person who has always scored high in the standings should just be there to brush up points. β
There is some truth in this reasoning, but Qi Fan still asked: "But you also said that points can't be exchanged for much money, why are there still ordinary players who brush points?" β
"Then who knows." "I wanted to test it, but he almost didn't throw me off the roof." β
"I'll go, that's dangerous enough." Qi Fan sighed.
"Actually, it's fine, it's just that I can't move in the brain-like body for a week." Parasitic waved his hand and said as if he didn't care.
In fact, he was scared to death. The experience in the brain-like body is exactly the same as reality, if you really fall from a height, you have to scare him out of a heart attack.
"And what are you going to do next?" Qi Fan asked.
"What...... What to do? Parasitic was a little unintelligible, "I want to support you in fighting for inheritance, what does this have to do with the black market?" β
However, Qi Fan thought that if she could solve the hidden danger of the brain-like black market, she would definitely be able to impress her mother. It's definitely a viable path.
She told the parasitor about it, but the parasitor said, "Empty alley, it's too dangerous. Do you know what people sell on the brain-like black market? I've heard that there are still people selling personal information in Russia. This is a threat to personal safety. β
It does sound dangerous. However, Qi fans know that high returns often have high risks. Now she has reached a dilemma where if she doesn't advance, she has to do a big ticket.
"What's the danger?" Qi Fan said, "'If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger', only this kind of challenging task can reflect my true talent." β
Seeing her calm and determined appearance, Ji Fusheng nodded admiringly: "Okay, I support you." β
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On weekends, Qi Min usually doesn't go to work - in fact, she goes to work on weekdays, and rarely has to go to the laboratory. BECAUSE YESTERDAY I WAS TOO HIGH IN THE BRAIN-LIKE BODY, NOW I JUST SLUMP ON THE SOFA AND WATCH TV FOR A WHILE, LEISURELY FOR A WHILE.
However, Anton was a little worried, and after thinking about it, he walked up to Qi Min and said, "Min, what do you think Mimi is going out for?" β
"Didn't she go to play with her classmates?" Qi Min said boredly, "Why are you so strict." β
"Why don't you worry about it at all, do you know which classmate Mimi is playing with?" Anton said, "Why haven't you heard her say it before?" β
Qi Min thought about it, and indeed her daughter didn't often talk about school when she came home. But because there is full monitoring when she goes to virtual elementary school, and Mimi has a good relationship with any classmate, parents can see it, so Qi Min and Anton are not worried, and they will not deliberately ask her. But now there is no monitoring in the physical school, and Qi Min and Anton have not asked about Mimi School again, so now they are in a dark eye, and they don't know anything.
Qi Min felt that this might really be her dereliction of duty as a parent. However, there are only a few students in Mimi's class, and a parent group has been established at the beginning of school, and all parents probably know what they do, and there are no serious people. Qi Min didn't think there was too much need to worry, just wait for her daughter to come back and ask.
Seeing that she didn't care, Anton had to remind her: "No, aren't you afraid that your daughter is going on a date?" β
Appointment? Qi Min realized that Mimi was twelve years old, although this age was a bit early, but it was not impossible to fall in love.
"Uh...... Dating is dating. Qi Min didn't quite understand, "It's normal for adolescent children to fall in love." β
"Bah, why is this called normal?!" Anton immediately became anxious, "This is called pedophilia, do you know it?" ...... with people under the age of 14 Whether it is voluntary or not, it is called rape! β
Qi Min knew that he hated pedophilia the most in his life, and that childhood memory had always been a psychological shadow, so he couldn't understand what kind of normal thinking it was for minors to fall in love.
She had no choice but to say, "Don't think too much, Mimi just went out by herself once, and you think she's in love?" There has to be a process of falling in love, and she will come back and ask if she is okay later. β
Anton thinks about it and makes sense, his daughter has been very powerful since she was a child, and as a parent, she is not very afraid that she will suffer from her classmates. But if anyone dares to seduce him into falling in love with his daughter, Anton will definitely open that bastard's head - whether it is a man or a woman.