"!"

The real world, somewhere.

Looking at the two lines of announcements popping up on the official website, the trader sitting in front of the computer couldn't help but burst into a foul language.

Seeing his colleagues looking at him in unison, he coughed dryly to hide his embarrassment, and said quickly.

"Temporary suspension...... The deal can't be made. ”

This sentence stirred up a thousand waves with one stone.

"Can't trade?!"

"What's the situation?!"

"Is it a problem with money?"

"How to drop the chain at such a critical time!"

There was an uproar in the office, and the old man sitting at another desk suddenly stood up and asked anxiously.

"Why can't you trade? What the hell is going on? ”

The trader pushed away the chair, the back of his head resting on the cushion, his brow pinched with a headache.

"The official website explains that the server network fluctuates...... In short, you can place or cancel orders now, but you can't continue to fill them. ”

Everyone: "......"

Network fluctuations are ok.

This excuse is too bad, isn't it?!

The servers of the whole earth fluctuate together, and the official website of "Wasteland Online" will not be affected.

The man with the national character face coughed dryly.

“…… It's kind of that guy's style. ”

That guy is naturally referring to Ah Guang.

In the past six months, they have collected and sorted out almost every post, every sentence, and even every punctuation mark that Ah Guang made on the forum.

All of this is done so as not to miss critical information.

For example, this auction.

If they ignore this clue, let the competitor buy the technology.

That's a big loss!

Sitting up from his office chair, the trader paused and continued.

"However, while the bad news is that trading is suspended, the good news is that ...... The auction has been brought forward to the present. ”

Everyone in the office whispered.

The old man asked with a frown.

"Is that good news?"

"Of course," the trader said of course, "we have a first-mover advantage, although we are not sure how many counterparties have bought and how much our opponents have bought, but in terms of the proportion of our trading volume in the trading volume, we have a great advantage!" ”

Hearing this, everyone finally stretched their brows.

The old man who had stood up earlier also breathed a sigh of relief and sat back in his chair.

After the meeting yesterday, he immediately found Academician Liu Yiping of the Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and consulted in detail about lithium batteries and lithium dendrites and other technical issues.

In order to understand the twists and turns, he made several pages of notes alone!

According to Academician Liu Yiping, although there is little hope of solving the problem of lithium dendrites in a short period of time, once this problem can be solved, the impact on the domestic new energy industry and even the national energy strategy will be amazing.

This time, even Academician Liu, who has always been rigorous, used the exaggerated expression "amazing".

The significance of this can be imagined!

In any case, they must take this auction!

The man with the national character face coughed lightly.

"Let's not set up this F...... I mean, let's not talk too much, what about the rules of the auction? ”

The trader touched the bridge of his nose and stared at the computer screen.

“…… The rules are the same as those of other auctions, the highest bidder wins, and the price increase shall not be less than 1% each time. However, since the transaction is completed on the other party's platform, and the transaction currency is limited to silver coins, the quotation cannot exceed the account limit. ”

The amount of credits held in each account is anonymous, but it is a clear card for the operators of Wasteland Online.

In other words, it is not possible to inflate the auction price, and the balance of the account is the upper limit of the offer.

The man with the national character face frowned.

“…… In other words, you can't quote a high price first, you have to wait until the delivery date to make up. ”

The trader nodded.

"Yes, according to the rules, delivery will take place immediately after the auction is completed...... That's actually good news for us. We only need to bid one 'minimum markup' above the 2nd place to win the auction. ”

The old man then asked.

"When does the auction start?"

The trader turned his gaze to the screen.

"It's already started!"

Not to mention that it has already begun.

The competition between all parties has even entered the white heat!

An anonymous account was the first to quote the floor price of 1 million silver coins, and then the second account did not hesitate to raise the price directly to 2 million silver coins, and then the parties began to pull in units of 100,000.

According to public information, as of the suspension of the silver coin trading platform, the highest price of silver coin trading has approached 600!

The average transaction price of the day was directly pulled from 50 to 80!

According to the average price, these 2 million silver coins are equivalent to 160 million!

It's insane!

However, everyone sitting in the room knew very well that compared to the value of the auction itself, the price of more than 100 million was probably more than a fraction.

A painting can sell for hundreds of millions, let alone this key technology that can change an industry?

The reason why there is no 0 is simply because there are so many chips in the market.

At present, the total number of players in the game is about 3,000, and the average person has 10,000 silver coins in his pocket, which adds up to 30 million.

Counting a few high-level players who have industries in the game, doubling the "total amount of currency in circulation" to 60 million is already remarkable.

In addition, there is a large group of cloud players involved in trading, diverting a part of the silver coins, and the counterparty hidden in the trading platform is also selling.

Even if they have already bought it with blood, they have only grabbed 10% of the chips in one day.

Don't look at 10%, this number seems to be very small.

As a non-issuer of the currency, holding 10% of the total circulation of the currency - that is, nearly 6 million silver coins is already quite an aggressive silver buying strategy!

The cost of hundreds of millions, if in the end is exchanged for an e-card that says "Thank you for your patronage", everyone in the whole house will be responsible.

In a sense, their fate has been tied to "Wasteland Online".

Although the vast majority of them have never entered the game......

Staring at the laptop on his lap, the man with a Chinese character face clenched his fists, and his palms seemed to be oozing with sweat.

He is also a closed beta player.

Brother Guang never cheats his own people.

He believed that Brother Guang would not pit him!

As the minutes passed, the auction price quickly increased to 3 million silver coins, and the rate of increase began to slow down.

The trader, who had been holding his breath on his feet, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

“…… 4 million should be their limit. ”

"Each price increase shall not be less than 1%, as long as we directly hit the price to 4 million, counting the price increase of 40,000, we will basically win."

As he spoke, he tapped his index finger on the keyboard and typed in a string of numbers.

After carefully checking the string of zeros, he then knocked enter.

It's like a button to stop time.

The moment the quotation is sent, the entire auction window seems to be paused, and no new offer pops up.

Then, the pop-up window that happens every 3 minutes starts flashing.

[4 million once!] 】

[4 million twice! ] 】

【…… Deal! 】

The office, which had been quiet for 9 minutes, burst into excitement.

"It's done!"

"Hahaha! We won! ”

"Well done!"

The man with the Chinese character face finally stretched his eyebrows, and his fists were released and clenched.

Even if he has always been steady, he couldn't help but cheer along with his colleagues.

The old man excitedly walked up to the trader and approached the computer.

"Where's the thing? What kind of membrane is that...... How did they give it to me? ”

The auction was won, and there was no suspense about it.

The vast majority of players trade with RMB, and it's only a good idea to lose if you can lose.

But now the question is, where is the auction?

There was silence in the office.

The man with the Chinese character face stood up suddenly, threw his laptop on the sofa, walked quickly to the door of the office and pulled the door open.

The ground was empty, and there was nothing.

Luckily, there was nothing.

Delivering a helmet to his doorstep was scary enough.

It would be terrible to get here!

The others reacted differently than he did, and they all rushed to the computer, staring nervously at the screen.

Soon, a line of pop-ups was sent.

The trader said excitedly.

“…… The other party has made a data transfer request to us! ”

"Quick, hurry up that confirmation!" The old man urged excitedly, "Don't make a mistake! ”

"I know!"

It's obviously impossible to make a mistake.

No matter how much the hand holding the mouse shakes, it is impossible to shake the fork in the upper right corner.

It didn't take long for the 10G data to be transferred, and what was downloaded was a compressed package in rar format.

However, it doesn't matter how the data is stored, and the decompression is done quickly.

Looking at the pile of materials lying in the folder, the people gathered in front of the computer couldn't help but hold their breath.

“…… Improved artificial SEI membrane! ”

"It's not just about researching the literature...... Even the process is there! ”

The old man standing in front of the computer said excitedly.

"Quick! Send the information to the Institute of Materials Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences immediately! ”

The man in the green shirt nodded solemnly and said cleanly.

"Yes!"

The assistant on the side also took out the mobile phone that was turned off in his pocket.

"I'll go outside and make a phone call to Academician Liu Yiping!"

The old man hurriedly said.

"Let me talk to Academician Liu!"

"I just asked him yesterday about what lithium dendrites are, and I told him that I would explain it more clearly."

Because of these 10 G's of information, the office is busy inside and out.

This kind of technology, which is related to the national energy strategy, naturally cannot be sent by network disk or email.

It didn't take long for the special cars with white plates to leave the compound one after another and drive in different directions.

At the same time, across the ocean.

The office of a CIA project team.

Seeing the auction item being taken away by a mysterious buyer, Fick kicked the table in a swearing.

"Fack!"

This is the third time he's done it today.

The table leg was almost crippled by his kick, but it still couldn't relieve his anger.

4,000,000 credits!

Where did such a big bid come from?

"The time was too rushed, and it happened to coincide with the temporary suspension...... For a day, there is no room for manipulation at all. The trader sitting in front of the computer had a pained expression.

He has been working overtime for almost 24 hours in a row, but now he has encountered such a bad thing, which can be said to be physically and mentally exhausted.

The colleague sitting next to him shook his head.

“…… We've almost bought up all the chips in the hands of the speculators, and no matter how much we raise the price, it's useless to have no volume. ”

"The battle is over before the bullets are gone...... Shet, I've never such an aggrieved plate! The trader scratched his head.

"The most. The bottom line is that it's not just us who place orders in dollars! Someone is grabbing chips on a plate with us! ”

"Damn, can't these dogs wait?! We didn't sell it to them at the end of the shoot! What do you and your own people rob! ”

There was a whining voice in the office.

Working overtime for 24 hours in exchange for such a result, no one can accept it.

The trader looked at Fike, who was in charge of the case.

"What now? The auction was over and we spent a fortune on a bunch of waste paper...... Do you want to throw it away when the market opens? ”

Fike's face was gloomy, and he crossed his arms and thought for a long time, then suddenly spoke.

"There's no need to rush to throw it away...... This auction may not be the only one. ”

spent tens of millions of dollars to buy a pile of waste paper, even if he had a backstage that couldn't keep him.

Not winning this auction is a tactical defeat at best.

And if you choose to stop the loss at this time and throw away the silver coins in your hand, it is tantamount to admitting your strategic failure.

No matter how much he reduced the economic losses for his financiers and superiors, he could not save his own career.

Now he has only one way to go, and that is to prove that the string of numbers in his account is not worthless.

How to prove it?

Very simple.

As long as the buyer who buys the auction item sends out the "buyer show".

Whether it is active or passive, as long as he lets his superiors and financiers see that the silver coin can indeed buy good things, and the reason why he didn't buy it is because the support of the top management is not enough, instead of being demoted because of a tactical defeat, he can get greater support from the headquarters!

What is truly valuable cannot be concealed at all.

As long as you keep an eye on the relevant news in the industry, you can always find some clues.

Thinking of this, Fick gradually calmed down and regained his confidence.

One loss is nothing.

They still have 3 million silver coins on their account!

The next auction doesn't have to be a chance.

“…… But when is the next time? There are no new announcements on that website. The trader whispered.

Everyone in the office looked at each other and whispered to each other.

"It doesn't matter when the next time it is!"

Fick raised his voice, interrupting the conversation between the crowd.

“…… It is important that we establish a mechanism for the regular acquisition of silver coins. ”

"Not only did we not have to throw our chips away, but we had to keep buying when the price was right to make sure we had enough silver in our account."

"So that when there is such an opportunity next time, we will not be in such a hurry as we are today!"

At this point, he changed his mind.

"So at the end of the day...... The reason for this defeat is not that we did not contribute, but that the headquarters did not support us enough!

"If they had followed our advice and started buying silver coins a month ago, what happened today wouldn't have happened at all!"

Looking around at the people in the office, his voice was firm, even fanatical.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a gift from an extraterrestrial civilization, and those crazy bidding orders are proof of this, and the value behind this is far beyond what money can measure! And we're not the only ones who have discovered this! ”

"I'm going to write a report right away, propose it to our headquarters, and enlist the support of Congress to get them to increase our budget!"

"In any case, we must not be left behind in this race!"

There was a lot of discussion in the office, and everyone had different expressions on their faces.

Some nodded in agreement, while others thought he was crazy.

Gambling on a career or even an entire career on something that is not certain at all.

Not to mention them, even Fick himself thinks he must be crazy!

Familiar scenes are being played out all over the world.

It's not just intelligence agencies that are staring at the auction, but also industry giants with a stake in them.

This includes the darlings of the new energy industry, as well as the giants that sell oil and gas.

Although the auction item was not even as sold for a piece of art as they had at home, it was very likely to stir up a market of hundreds of billions or even trillions.

Or even revolutionize an industry!

At least they had to figure out what the auction was.

And who was the person who took it?

And how will you use it?

Intelligence agencies in various countries are working overtime, busy like ants on a hot pot.

Everyone is racking their brains to find a way to investigate the identity of the mysterious buyer.

And the mysterious buyer was not idle, he was also working overtime, trying to restore the mysterious film in the laboratory......

……

On the other side, the wasteland world.

The illuminated Dawning City Square has completely escaped into the embrace of the night.

As the clock strikes 12 o'clock, stalls serving beer and food close one after another.

Those who had drunk to their heart's content walked home with their shoulders crossed, and those who had drunk to the point of being unconscious simply lay on the side of the road, waiting for the guards to drag them into the bureau to sober up.

Just looking at this place, there is no trace of wasteland!

It's paradise!

In the banquet hall not far from the square, the sound of staggering has gradually come to an end.

Looking at the long banquet table that seemed to have been swept by a typhoon, Chu Guang gently hummed a little song that he heard from nowhere, enjoying the afterglow of the end of the banquet.

And that last little bit of good time.

Just looking at his current lazy appearance, no one can associate him with the "mastermind" behind the turmoil in another world.

"Master, the auction is over." Xiao Qi whispered in his ear.

Chu Guang replied in a casual tone.

"Oh, got it."

After waiting for a long time and not having a follow-up, Xiao Qi asked curiously.

"Huh? Isn't the owner curious who took the thing in the end? ”

Chu Guang smiled.

"What's so curious about this, they have a few silver coins in their pockets, I know better than they do."

Joke.

Since the Alpha 0.1 version, he has developed a good habit of rummaging through players' warehouses to "check accounts".

Now in beta and the new alliance's digital management has deepened, there is no reason to abandon this fine tradition.

This wave not only directly recovered 4 million silver coins, but also indirectly locked the liquidity of at least 30 million silver coins.

Only by locking up a part of the excess liquidity can more liquidity be released to industries that need money.

Otherwise, it will create inflation.

I really can't understand it, you can understand the silver coins in the pockets of cloud players as fixed deposits with no interest.

The treasury of the new alliance increased by 4 million silver coins, and the central bank of the alliance added 30 million silver coins to the credit balance.

The former can be used to invest in public utilities and build new settlements to fill the fiscal deficit caused by the war, while the latter can lend money to companies that need money to help expand production on the supply side.

It doesn't matter if it's a player-run business or an NPC-run business.

As for the ordinary players whose pockets were emptied, they didn't lose either.

They can spend RMB or USD in real life, and work harder to earn credits.

Whether it's a new alliance, a player, or a cloud player who isn't involved in the game at all, the benefits are all reaped.

Because no one loses at all.

So this wave is of course a win-win situation!

As for the specific number of wins, Chu Guang is too lazy to count it for the time being, he just wants to concentrate on enjoying the banquet now.

It's been a long time since I've been so relaxed.

Since the announcement of the start of the Northern Expedition two months ago, he has not been idle for a moment.

Now the taut string in his brain has finally relaxed a little.

As for troublesome things.

You can wait until tonight passes.

Seeing the last player staggering away from the banquet scene, Chu Guang raised his wine glass towards his back.

"Enjoy!"

"Honor belongs to you!"

"This is the reward you deserve!"

Don't blame you for pausing the silver coin trading platform.

This is to protect you.

After taking a shallow sip of the wine in the glass, Chu Guang put the cup aside.

If it weren't for the fact that today was a special day, he wouldn't have drunk at all.

Boss Xia, who loves to eat and drink, has already lay on the table, grinning and smirking.

Xiao Yu stared at the cake on the plate, and took small bites with a happy face.

Pai, who sat next to her, was not so ladylike.

The first time she had eaten such a luxurious delicacy, her mouth was full of cream and chocolate crumbs, and she yelled excitedly before she could swallow the contents in her mouth.

"Oh oh! What is this thing! Damn, it's so delicious! ”

Xiao Yu curled the corners of his mouth slightly proudly.

"Cream! And chocolate! Dessert is a specialty of Dawning City! ”

"What about that, what about that?" Pai, who was holding the fork, looked at the other plate on the table with sparkling eyes.

"It's a charcoal-grilled deer leg...... However, it's best not to eat barbecue with cake, it will be very tired! ”

Although Xiao Yu was earnestly imparting the experience of tasting food, Pai didn't listen at all, and couldn't wait to stuff a large piece of sliced roast meat into his mouth.

I tried to swallow the food.

Touching his slightly bulging lower abdomen, perhaps unable to fit it anymore, Pai finally put down the cutlery in his hand and leaned back in his chair.

"Woo woo, I don't understand, why do you have so many delicious food!"

Xiaoyu asked curiously.

"Don't you have it there?"

While the two had been chatting earlier, she learned that Camp 101 was a place similar to Bate Street.

But instead of the old mayor who exploited them, there were many more knowledgeable people than Grandpa Charlie. They invented a lot of useful things and lived a life without fighting.

To be honest, Xiaoyu has a little envy in his heart.

Especially listening to her, when they are very young, they will be taught to write and count, and when they are a little older, they can learn more powerful knowledge.

It was an experience she had never had.

If it weren't for Brother Chu, she would probably still be worried about how to carry the bulky big iron pot to the stove, and she wouldn't have learned so much interesting knowledge.

"Hey," Pai sighed at the point of his own home, "though synthetic food is not inedible...... But that smell, I advise you not to get too much hope. ”

"Is it a nutritional paste?" Xiaoyu asked curiously.

"It's not just a nourishing paste...... We're a little bit better off than the average survivor settlement, but we don't have enough energy or material resources. ”

At this point, Pai suddenly thought of the great gift that the previous manager had given them.

That truck seems to be loaded with a lot of goodies!

The thought that everyone in the camp could also share these delicious delicacies made Pai's heart feel like eating honey, and he was indescribably happy.

What the master said was indeed right.

Share it with others, and even monotonous food will become delicious.

Not to mention such food!

Glancing at the manager who was leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes and pretending to sleep, Pai made up his mind.

As a representative of the visiting delegation, she must sign a beautiful agreement to go back!

Let everyone eat such a delicious meal at once!