Prologue Gambling on the Snake
Teenagers, the main group of gaming, I have to deal with them every day. When I was their age, the world was still dominated by video games, and who would have thought that today's children would be able to play fully virtual online games that run with brain-controlled technology.
I've been working for this game company for a few years now, and I started out as a dealer in a virtual casino, and the great thing about working in this environment is that you can't suddenly pull out a gun and shoot at you even if the opponent loses so much.
I remember that I was promoted two months after joining the company, and I think it was the management who discovered my talent in gambling. In fact, in my opinion, gambling is the same as other skills, if you want to be exquisite, you can work hard, to put it bluntly, people with talent just spend less time than people without talent to accumulate, the kind of guy who can be above everyone purely by talent does not exist, at least I haven't seen it.
After I was promoted to the lobby manager of the casino, my colleagues began to gossip, and they used to ridicule me as a "cold-blooded murderer", and I recognized it, because I was really not good at words, and I didn't like to laugh very much.
So, not long after, a player with an ID called "God of Gamblers" challenged me. It's kind of funny, where a player challenges a GM to a gambling contest in a game.
To be honest, I didn't take it too seriously at the time, but the company seemed ready to hype it up, and secretly promised a substantial reward if I won.
I had no reason not to take the low-hanging fruit, so I thought, win him, win a little bit completely, and create the feeling that I am invincible at the table, once and for all.
After that gambling game, the "God of Gamblers" has never been on the line, listening to colleagues in the data department, he deleted the number, and after many months, they came to tell me that the player changed an ID to a relatively low-key vest and returned to the game, hehe, the young people now, it is really interesting.
Anyway, as a winner, I did get rewarded by the company, promoted to become the general manager of the casino, and had my own independent office, which was nothing more than an in-game office. Of course, in reality, there is no point in giving me an office, except for a few departments and leaders who have no substantive work content, most people in the company spend time in the game pod when they go to work, including me.
In the past few years, my life has been smooth sailing, the only time it was the "big crash" that caused a sensation in the global online game industry a year ago, which caused the company a lot of losses, many data losses, countless player complaints, and colleagues in the technical department said that they could neither find out the cause nor solve the current situation, and it took a week for the company to restore the normal operation of the game. Fortunately, the players are more foolish, and most people are content to shut up when they get a little meaningless virtual compensation.
Three days after the "Great Collapse", HL actually sent someone to our company to walk around, and it seems that some rumors heard in the past are true, and the game's super AI system is really related to some technology in the Empire, and it is estimated that they are worried that someone will use the same method to hack and destroy the computer system of government agencies.
But every time I recall the events of the "Great Collapse", all I remember is a guy who killed me at the gambling table, that was a madman with bad character, I still don't understand the methods he used, and the data about him has not been checked, and I even suspected that the events of the day were directly related to him, but as time went on, I didn't care too much.
Later, the peaceful days continued, and I enjoyed this ordinary life, and if I could live like this since I was a child, maybe I would have dreams and have the opportunity to achieve them. Now, my dream is to maintain this hard-earned peace, I have a stable job, a decent income, and some friends. In the dead of night, I wonder if I can start a family like a normal person......