Chapter 17: Nightmares
Before Geng Jiangyue got off the game, he spent 3,000 game coins to buy a storage box from the game store.
The storage box is a lifetime item that all players must purchase, which is equivalent to the player's only personal space in the game. Due to the large amount, when ordinary people enter the game, they have to rely on gnawing old to get started. Because Geng Jiangyue had a bad relationship with his mother, he couldn't wipe his face and asked her for money, so he kept gritting his teeth and holding back. To this day, it almost made people explode their belongings. Depositing the remaining 11,660 game coins in the storage box, Geng Jiangyue breathed a sigh of relief, and finally didn't have to worry about the risk of being robbed of the game coins.
After doing this, he finally exited the game interface and returned to the intermediate buffer of consciousness between the game and reality.
It was a small all-metal space, and all four walls of the space were touchscreens.
Looking at the time, it was already early in the evening at half past seven o'clock in the evening, and I entered the game at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and six and a half hours passed in the blink of an eye.
Today's working hours have also accumulated to 11 hours and 32 minutes.
However, this is the norm, and Geng Jiangyue does not feel too tired.
He reached out and clicked on the timelap on the touchscreen on the wall, thought for a moment, and retracted his hand.
Working hours can only be withdrawn on the hour, and 1 hour is 10 points, which is converted into one dollar alliance coin.
The extra gross tickets, the city hall seems to look down on it, and is unwilling to provide such fine services for the citizens.
"Exit the game. Geng Jiangyue said lightly, and his eyes darkened, and his consciousness and the game were disconnected.
Take off your helmet and the lights in the room are already on automatically.
The automatic exterior wall in the bathroom has also been closed on time.
In fact, Geng Jiangyue really wanted to see the real moon in a safe environment, instead of just watching it in the game.
It feels like the mood is completely different.
But there is no way, in a situation like his, there is no choice in many things.
Who wants to let human batteries generate electricity for game companies all day long, isn't it all to fill their stomachs, there is no way......
"Hmm......" Geng Jiangyue stood up, stretched, then put the helmet away, slapped his limbs that were sitting stiffly, and moved his rusty joints. In the past, when he was in school, he thought that being a "professional gamer" did not require much physical requirements, but now that he has experienced it for more than two months, he knows that this job is the most devastating to the body.
Gasping slightly and walking into the bathroom, Geng Jiangyue washed his face first, wiped off his sweat, and then walked out of the room with his citizen card.
Today's work is basically completed, and I will go online again later, and I will talk to that inexplicable game administrator about [Bloodline Awakening], and I can rest. Geng Jiangyue, who had gained a lot all day, seemed to have completely forgotten about the danger last night, remembering that he had earned so much money in one day, and his steps were so happy.
Disliked that the elevator was too slow, Geng Jiangyue took the stairs down to the second floor.
After a while, I walked into the No. 18 cafeteria, and it didn't take long to line up to the window to get food. By this time it was past the normal dinner point, and only the more expensive and unpalatable things were left in the window. Geng Jiangyue's waist was bulging, and his courage to order food also took a lot of shape, and he asked for two meat, two vegetarian dishes, a large plate of fried rice noodles and a bottle of beer with a relaxed face, and the old aunt who was cooking looked like Geng Jiangyue was going to eat all the money she earned in the day, and she pulled her face and reported the number unhappily: "Eight yuan." ”
"How much?!" Geng Jiangyue was stunned when he heard it, and thought that there was something wrong with his hearing.
The old aunt calculated the account for Geng Jiangyue and said: "A large portion of fried rice noodles is eight cents, beer is six cents, a pound of braised beef is three yuan and five, half a roast duck is two yuan and two, edamame is three cents, salad is three cents, and pears are three cents, just eight yuan." ”
Geng Jiangyue was silent for two seconds, and said gently: "Put the beef back for me!"
The old aunt then looked at him with the eyes of a mental illness, and said coldly: "Four pieces of five." ”
Dinner at the price of four yuan and five, Geng Jiangyue can accept it.
After working all day, if you don't treat yourself to dinner time, what's the fun of being a human being?
Neatly took out the citizen card and swiped the money, Geng Jiangyue took the dinner plate and sat down at random. When he was upstairs, he didn't think it was much, but now that dinner was in front of him, his stomach was rumbling.
Picking up the chopsticks, Geng Jiangyue buried his head in eating.
Exhale and take a few bites of dry fried pho, and then grab half of the uncut roast duck and stuff it into your mouth.
In the entire canteen, few people eat as well as Geng Jiangyue every day.
Everyone generally controls the food cost within three yuan a day, which is not as good as Geng Jiangyue, who eats at least five yuan a day.
Geng Jiangyue purely felt that there was no need to be wronged all the time in order to save dozens of yuan a month.
Originally, I was just living to get a bite of food, and if I deliberately let myself eat badly, then I was sorry for life.
Is it easy to come to the world for a while? What about earning 300 and spending 200 a month?
Who says you have to save 15 a month?
What's wrong with Lao Tzu being willing to save only 100 yuan? At most, he will marry a daughter-in-law a few years later!
Yes, even if you would rather marry a daughter-in-law a few years later, you must eat well!
Being a man is such a pursuit!
Geng Jiangyue was snorting and eating happily, and when his mouth was full of oil, there was a person in front of him who made him lose his appetite. Ji Xiaoke sat down with a smile, and directly reached out and grabbed a handful of edamame from Geng Jiangyue's plate without being polite to Geng Jiangyue at all, and said with a smile while eating: "I found this place from the No. 17 canteen, and finally found you." You've eaten so well, you've really made a fortune today, haven't you? Don't say anything, treat yourself. How about I get a beer?"
"Put it down!" Geng Jiangyue snorted, glaring at Ji Xiaoke with unkind eyes.
"Just kidding! Why are you so serious?" Ji Xiaoke was not embarrassed at all, took his hand away with a smile, and complained again, "You are too stingy, a bottle of beer is only a few cents and you are reluctant to invite me to drink." If you do this, you will have no friends in the future. ”
Geng Jiangyue took a bite of the roast duck, reached out to take the beer, opened the bottle, and took a few sips before saying slowly: "Does it have anything to do with you? I don't plan to treat you as a friend." ”
These words are so straightforward, Rao is Ji Xiaoke is extremely thick-skinned, and he couldn't sit still, and forced a smile: "Don't be like this, we all came out of the same building, and we should take care of each other in this kind of place." ”
"Hiccup...... Geng Jiangyue burped and nodded slightly, "What you said makes some sense." ”
"That's what it was!" Ji Xiaoke quickly finished peeling the edamame in his hand, grabbed a handful from Geng Jiangyue's plate, and grinned, "Actually, if it weren't for my girlfriend, I wouldn't have moved here, and the monthly housing cost would increase by ten percent out of thin air!"
"Well, the city's flat price for a month's rent is 30 yuan, and 10 percent is 3 yuan. Wo Nima, can you not pretend to be forced when you speak? Three yuan has to say three hundred yuan, doesn't it?" Geng Jiangyue ruthlessly gave Ji Xiaoke another critical blow, and took another sip of beer and continued, "Also, you eat another one of my edamame, Lao Tzu has a stack of edamame for three cents, you grab these two, and there are already two cents in your stomach!"
The smile on Ji Xiaoke's face finally froze, he frowned slightly, stood up bored with himself, shook his head and said, "Forget it, you are too stingy, you have to worry about this little thing." I wanted to do some business with you......" muttered, and walked out of the cafeteria with a gloomy back, not at all like someone who could find a girlfriend.
Geng Jiangyue seriously suspected that he was bragging.
Simply driving away the people he didn't want to see, Geng Jiangyue continued to bow his head and eat his luxurious dinner.
After snoring and eating the pho and munching on the roast duck, the disc action was being carried out to the last stage with a tasteful taste, but the light in the cafeteria suddenly blinked twice. Immediately after that, when Geng Jiangyue looked up suspiciously, picked up the wine bottle with one hand by the way, and poured wine into his mouth, the entire canteen suddenly fell into darkness coldly.
Not only the canteen, but even the outside, all the electricity was cut off.
Geng Jiangyue was stunned.
He even forgot to drink, and most of the beer rushed directly to his face, wetting the clothes on his body.
The audience was silent for two seconds.
The whole world seemed to be turned off by sound.
It wasn't until two seconds later, outside the cafeteria, that someone screamed like crazy.
"There's a blackout, there's a blackout, there's a blackout!" screamed like a dead person.
But no one thinks there's anything wrong with calling it that.
Because in this world, a power outage at night is indeed about the same as a dead person.
At this moment, Geng Jiangyue dreamed back eight years ago.
Nightmare.