Chapter 118 Second Update 1 Paradise Mall
Xia Qingqing rubbed her eyes, suspecting she'd misread. She reread the text word by word, her heart beating so fast it felt like it was about to jump out of her throat. After a moment, with shaking hands, she called Fantasy Park's customer service number.
Xia Qingqing: "Excuse me, is the item recycling information popping up in the Paradise app real? Or is there a bug in the system backend? I saw it saying my item can be sold for 3,000 yuan?"
The response from the other end of the phone was quick, "Hello, ma'am. Please provide your park ID number and nickname so I can check the system immediately."
Xia Qingqing first said a string of numbers, then looked left and right and whispered, "The nickname is Striving Dragonfly."
After about ten seconds, the staff member on the other end said, "Hello, ma'am. The results are correct. Your item is indeed worth recycling. Please check the park's app for details."
Xia Qingqing was silent for two seconds before she said, "Okay, thank you."
After hanging up the phone, she took two steps on the spot, then suddenly jumped a few times excitedly.
Xia Qingqing is a girl from a small northern city. After graduating from college at the age of 23, she returned to her hometown to work at the request of her parents. However, less than half a year after she arrived, her parents asked her to go on a blind date and get married. Xia Qingqing was not happy about it, so she packed her bags and came to the capital alone, determined to settle down in Beijing through her own efforts.
After several years, she secured the conditions for household registration, but unfortunately, she couldn't afford to buy a house in the capital. Prices were high, and rent was the highest. To save money, she lived in a remote area, with a four-hour daily commute. Repeating this routine day after day, she felt like she was no longer a person, but a routine that ran at a fixed time.
But what else could she do but live like this? At least in this busy metropolis, there were no relatives gossiping, no one constantly lecturing her, and no one nagging her about not being wanted because she didn't wear makeup or dress up. In this kind of life, her soul seemed to be elevated. Floating in the smog, others might think she was a terrifying ghost, but in reality, she was just a numb white plastic bag.
One night, she drank too much coffee and couldn't sleep. She lay in bed scrolling through her phone in despair, and suddenly she saw a video of Fantasy Park.
At that moment, she suddenly felt a strong yearning and longing, just like when she was a child and was anxious to go home after school to watch cartoons.
After actually visiting the Wonderland, this feeling intensified. Xia Qingqing felt as if she had come alive, with renewed enthusiasm and radiance. She began to look forward to her work, counting the day's tasks, calculating how much bonus she'd get at the end of the year, and how long it would take her to visit the Wonderland.
She had originally thought she would never have the chance to go to the Fantasy Park again before the New Year, but unexpectedly, a surprise happened: the props she got in the park could actually be sold back to the park! What a great deal!
This event in Fantasy Park is actually real!
Maybe, I can go to the park early! A few thousand yuan is not worth mentioning for rent in the capital, but it is enough for her to go to the fantasy park for travel expenses and food and accommodation!
This unexpected wealth is like a bonus for her hard work, and can be used as a reward for herself!
Xia Qingqing immediately sold her prop, the lead umbrella, to the Paradise Mall for three thousand yuan, instead of following the app's advice and putting it up for auction.
The vast majority of people made the same choice as Xia Qingqing.
After all, the redemption amount this time is really large. Everyone thinks that Fantasy Park may not be able to control it and directly cancel this event. After all, the total amount of money added up by so many people is too huge, so it is better to cash in the money as soon as possible.
Someone has listed the exchange prices of various props on the Internet: Level 1 props are the most common, and the effect of killing monsters is only slightly better than the sticks provided for free in the park, and the recycling price is 500; the recycling prices of levels 2 to 9 are all increased by 100 yuan on the basis of 500. From level 10 onwards, it is unusual. The price doubles with each additional level. The recycling price of level 10 is 1,500 yuan, and at level 12, it is 3,000 yuan.
Although the probability of item dropping is not high, some people may not get a level 1 item even after killing monsters ten times, but if you kill monsters more times, there will always be a chance of item dropping. If you are lucky enough to get a level 12 item, it will be enough for a month's salary.
Many were surprised by the park's generosity, while even more quickly sold their items to the park, baffled by the company's incomprehensible nature. Aren't all these items produced there? It's unheard of that items earned from killing monsters in games could be sold back to the game's owners. Most video games strictly restrict the trading of items between players, aiming to entice more players to spend money. So why was the reverse true at Fantasy Park?
That night, the term "Fantasy Park Cash Recycling Props" became the number one hot search, triggering a wave of people going to the park to fight monsters and grab props.
When the accountant Xiao Song calculated the amount of money exchanged in the background, he was shocked and thought that his boss was crazy. There was no such thing as doing charity!
Then, the next day, the theme park mall was refreshed, and many people found that the items they had sold to the mall were listed on the homepage, with the price being ten times the return price! And the key is that people actually bought them. Rich tourists even bought dozens of items at a time and showed them off one by one in live broadcasts.
Netizens who watched the whole process: ...
——I feel like I have become a poor worker, and the platform boss is making a fortune by buying Mercedes-Benz and BMW with our “blood and sweat”.
—Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter. These props were originally made by Fantasy Park. If Fantasy Park really wanted to make money, they could just change a few numbers in the backend and make tons of money, right? Why would they have to go through us? They're just trying to fulfill their social responsibility by letting us go to the park and make a little money at the same time.
——I’m confused by what was said above. Does it mean that the park provides us with a new job – playing props?
However, that netizen never showed up again.
In places that ordinary people cannot reach, special departments have also downloaded the theme park app. They are all on high alert, staring intently at the conclusions given by the intelligent combat power analysis system. If there are employees of the theme park standing here, they will be surprised to find that many of them are familiar faces who often come to the theme park to "play", and several of them are big guys in the top 100 of the merit list.
"My results are in!" a female member said excitedly. "The intelligent combat power analysis system says I'm leaning towards illusion skills. I can buy the Lead Umbrella as a supplementary item. Once I learn illusion skills, my combat power will triple!"
"Congratulations!" Others hurriedly congratulated him.
The female member had no time to respond and immediately clicked on the homepage of Paradise Mall. The price of the lead umbrella on the homepage was 30,000, which was ten times the recycling price of Xia Qingqing. However, when the female member clicked to buy, the page paused for a few seconds and a reminder popped up.
[Ding, it's detected that you belong to the national special operations department. You have participated in multiple operations to eliminate inbound monsters and have rescued ten innocent people from monsters. You will receive special subsidies and discounts.]
[Damn, the price of the Lead Umbrella is 5000.]
"Paradise, they even know this." The female member murmured to herself. The others also noticed this. They were silent for a moment, and after the captain took the lead, they all followed her and saluted in the direction of Paradise.
***
In the fantasy park, Chi Yizheng was also busy with his work.
He had already planned to launch the park app. Everyone knew that after a park has been operating for a long time, it would have its own official app online. This is a very common business operation nowadays. What no one expected was that he actually added a mall in the park app where props can be traded, and gave visitors the right to trade freely.
Outsiders thought he was crazy and that the park would go bankrupt sooner or later if it continued to operate like this.
But Chi Yizhen knew full well that most of the buildings and facilities in the park were purchased with points, which were earned with every ticket purchased by visitors. He hadn't suffered any loss at all. However, he had indeed considered the launch of the park mall for a long time.
In the past, he needed experience points to level up, but now he doesn't. The experience points that tourists gain from killing monsters just flow into his reservoir, but Chi Yizheng cannot adjust the experience points allocated to tourists. This will increase the level of tourists in a short period of time, making it difficult to restrain these people in the future.
What's more, although he used many methods to impose restrictions, the gap between the rich and poor tourists in the park was still getting bigger and bigger. The rich came to the park every day to fight monsters, and their ranking on the merit list became higher and higher, while people with poor economic conditions came occasionally, which would not bring any improvement to themselves. This led to the richer people becoming more powerful, which was not what Chi Yi really wanted to see.
After all, it is open for business. Can he still limit the number of times rich people can enter the park? I am afraid that the park will be criticized and become a hot topic.
So after much thought, he launched the theme park mall online, and turned some of the experience points that flowed into the reservoir into extraordinary materials or low-level extraordinary props, so that ordinary people would have more motivation to enter the park to fight monsters. The recycled props could be sold to the rich at a high price, or sold to people on the government side at a slightly higher price.
He also imposed restrictions. The props sold to the national team could be used by them when fighting monsters, and the props sold to the rich could only be used in the park. From the outside, this was still just a holographic effect created by the fantasy park.
Game: [The players are amazing. Over time, the park has added a large amount of debt to its account. The poor have gained another way to make money, and the rich have enjoyed the pleasure of spending and showing off. Crucially, these props are still in the park and haven't been sold out in large quantities.]
Chi Yizhen: smilejpg.
But he still pretended to be modest and said: "No, no, there are still many areas that need improvement."
Game: [For example?]
Chi Yizhen looked up at the sky and sighed: "For example, my problem of being overly modest."
game:……
***
Time flies, and the day of Frost Descent arrives in the blink of an eye.
The park’s large-scale new event will also officially start on this day, and just the night before the event starts, the park’s official promotional account finally released the mount renderings.
Everyone looked forward to entering and then started shouting.
——Powerful, so powerful, powerful and beautiful!
The picture seems to be a desolate mountain. Under the desolate dead trees and cracked rocks, a mythical creature with a leopard body, a dragon head, a crocodile tail and cow hooves is lying on the ground. It looks towards the camera, its white mane neatly braided into a bunch, and its gradient, blue shell-like scales sparkling.
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