Salary cuts, layoffs, and factory closures have led to an increase in the number of unemployed people and a significant decline in residents' purchasing power. Purchasing power continues to decline, and the profitability of stores has declined. Salary cuts and layoffs are necessary to barely avoid losses... A vicious cycle, the situation continues to deteriorate.
There are more and more homeless people on the streets. People use wooden boards, old iron sheets, tarpaulins and even brown paper to build simple shelters. Some people even sleep on the streets, covering themselves with newspapers. Robbery and theft happen from time to time, but the streets are full of poor people. Even if you spend a lot of effort to rob, you can't get anything good. The shops that are still open are heavily guarded, and once you catch a thief, he will be beaten up.
The leftover bread from the bakery no longer had to be thrown away. Even if it was left overnight, as long as they were sold at a low price, residents would line up to buy it. But there weren't many people with money.
In order to survive, people began to eat wild grass roots and dandelions. After eating them, they began to dig wild lettuce, and finally even the wild grass that was traditionally eaten by livestock was not spared. Occasionally, a store offered a job opportunity. Some people waited at the door all night, and some walked through the entire town to the interview location. There were often hundreds of competitors for one job position.
At the same time, in order to stabilize prices, shop owners had to reduce production and destroy large quantities of "surplus" products.
Giving away goods for free is absolutely impossible. Once this precedent is set, all residents will wait for goods to be provided for free and will never pay for them from their pockets again.
Soon, corpses and starving people were everywhere.
Zhong Rui rented a third-floor apartment to hide in. Glancing at the miserable conditions on the street, he couldn't help but sigh softly, "No matter what problems the economy encounters, it is the ordinary people who suffer in the end."
"Who said it wasn't?" Su Han was deeply touched.
As he was speaking, the system's mechanical voice sounded at the right time, "On the 16th day of the game, hunger and poverty have caused the residents to lose their minds, and order is gradually getting out of control."
Su Han curled his lips, a little dissatisfied, "In the real world, although many people will starve to death during the economic crisis, at least the public security is still pretty good."
Zhong Rui expressed his understanding, "It's just a game after all. If you can solve all problems with money and the last few days are not difficult at all, then what kind of survival game is that?"
That night, a looting frenzy broke out throughout the town! Supermarkets, restaurants, pharmacies, convenience stores, bakeries... almost all shops that were still open for business were looted.
Su Han couldn't help but think of the hyperinflation copy. If I remember correctly, a similar incident happened at that time.
She couldn't help but wonder, "Why design a similar copy with a lower difficulty?"
Zhong Rui guessed, "Maybe Jinjiang Group is planning to hold the second Endless Survival Competition."
Su Han inexplicably felt that it made sense.
What happens next is exactly the same as in the hyperinflation instance. Desperate residents gather together, search apartment buildings, and break into houses to rob. The player needs to survive the remaining 5 days in the chaos.
The testers were experienced and had experienced similar dungeons before, so they were not panicked and responded calmly.
The game ended after 20 days, and everyone successfully passed the level and survived to the end.
The game cabin slowly opened, and Li Yue nodded to everyone, "Thank you for your hard work. I have collected some very interesting information."
"Are you planning to hold the second Endless Survival Competition?" Zhong Rui confirmed with him.
Li Yue readily admitted, "Yes, I have this plan."
"The registration fee is 100 per person. The difficulty of the first few copies is lowered so that everyone can live longer and experience the fun of struggling for survival. The difficulty of the later copies is extremely high to select outstanding talents."
“In addition, the top three players will receive cash prizes, and the top ten players will have the opportunity to be invited by the group to become game testers.”
Zhong Rui then realized that everything had already been arranged.
"What a cunning old fox, he keeps scheming one thing after another." He muttered to himself.
Su Han was penniless, so he took the initiative to hand in his character card and asked, "When is the next trial?"
Li Yue smiled slightly, "The development of the survival copy is slow, but soon there will be other games for you to try out."
"No problem." Su Han agreed simply.
**
Jinjiang Group's system is very humane, and it gives employees ample vacation time to rest after the trial period.
Su Han was bored, so she surfed the Internet, watched movies, and occasionally browsed video websites. Then she was surprised to find that she seemed to have become famous without realizing it.
The number of views of the survival series of videos has easily exceeded 100 million, and with the group's focused promotion, the data is still rising.
There are countless good reviews below——
"Love the survival video! I've watched it five times!"
“Aaaaah, this is so cute! I love it when he hoards supplies like a hamster. I never get tired of seeing him!”
"As long as life continues, stockpiling will never stop. Just for this tireless spirit of stockpiling, I have to give my real name to support it."
"Invite your friends to watch it together. By the way, when will the next Endless Survival Competition start? Can the difficulty be lowered?"
"Waiting for the second Endless Survival Competition +1! The money is ready, just waiting for the big guys' video!"
At this point, the Endless Survival Game was known to countless people and became completely popular.
Strangely, the first thought that came to Su Han's mind was, I wonder how much money I will receive in my account next month...
The cell phone suddenly rang, interrupting her thoughts.
Su Han picked up the phone and answered it, and asked casually, "Hello, who is this?"
The person on the other end of the phone spoke with resentment, "If I don't look for you, will you not look for me?"
This person is Zhong Rui.
God knows that the mobile phone number was obtained from Li Yue. After leaving the game, it was as if someone had lost contact.
Su Han blinked and said innocently, "We just finished the trial, so I'll give you a few days to rest."
"No need!" Zhong Rui replied angrily.
He feels that going out shopping, watching movies, and having a date with his girlfriend can make him feel more energetic and vibrant.
When playing games together, they are very affectionate, but when leaving the dungeon, they turn hostile to each other. Oh, women!
Zhong Rui's resentment was almost turning into reality.
Su Han burst out laughing. Clearing her throat, she asked seriously, "Would you like to have dinner together tonight? Make time for a date? Do you want to try dating?"
Zhong Rui was silent for a long time, and said modestly, "I think your suggestions are all very good."
"Then... do you want to agree to all of them?" Su Han asked with a smile.
"Yeah." Zhong Rui responded softly, with the corners of his mouth curled up.
"There is a nice restaurant next to the company. See you at the company entrance at 7 o'clock tonight." Su Han happily made an invitation.
Zhong Rui happily agreed.
After chatting for a while, the call ended and the phone was hung up.
Zhong Rui stared at his phone for a long time before he realized that he was being led astray. He found that his new girlfriend was simply a devil, who could easily make people's heart beat faster and full of expectations.
**
After the holiday, Zhong Rui walked briskly to work, and every step seemed to be on the clouds. At the same time, he was smiling, and he couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
Li Yue was shocked when he saw it, with a strange expression on his face, and asked with concern, "Did you win the lottery?" Why does the whole person look abnormal?
But on second thought, it doesn't make sense. This guy regards money as dirt. If it weren't for Su Han, he wouldn't have been willing to come to work. How could he so easily bow down to money?
"I have a girlfriend." Zhong Rui announced proudly.
Li Yue was stunned. "I know, it's not Su Han." After a pause, he showed an expression of sudden enlightenment. "Why? Finally decided to make the relationship public?"
Zhong Rui, "..."
He wanted to share his joy with the world. However, in the eyes of everyone, he and Su Han had already been in a relationship.
For a moment, Zhong Rui's mood was very mixed.
Beside him, Li Yue was still muttering, "The clearance video of the two of you was originally released in the name of a couple of players. The entire company and all the viewers who watched the video know that you are dating."
"I'm not saying anything, but you two are too obvious in what you're doing. It doesn't seem like a pure relationship at all."
"It's good that you decide to make it public. You can date openly in the future. Don't worry, our company does not prohibit office romance, especially since you are testers."
Zhong Rui glanced at someone, had nothing to say, and just quickened his pace and left.
"Are you shy?" Li Yue had no idea that he was disliked and thought that Zhong Rui would also be shy.
**
In the office, all the testers gathered together. Li Yue explained the situation to everyone, "The company plans to develop a new holographic online game of the battle royale type."
“When you enter the game, everyone has a random occupation and nothing. You have to search everywhere to get weapons, food and water.”
“The concept of cleanliness has been removed. Game characters only have two attributes: satiety and stamina. If the satiety is too low, negative states will still be triggered.”
"Using different weapons to attack a target will cause different degrees of damage. If you attack a vital part, it will result in a critical hit. Maybe it will cause double the damage, maybe triple the damage, or maybe more."
"There are 100 people in total, divided into black and white camps. People in the same camp are teammates, but there is no damage immunity between each other. In other words, if you shoot incorrectly, you may accidentally kill friendly soldiers. The other camp is completely wiped out, and the current survivor wins."
"There are currently 20 testers, so we will play 10v10 and the map is small."
The test players nodded one after another to show that they understood.
Li Yue wanted to randomly draw game cards like last time, but when he saw Zhong Rui, he paused unconsciously - what if someone was in a different camp from his girlfriend and directly defected?
So he changed his mind and divided the 20 people into two teams.
After the distribution, players in the same camp picked up a game card at random, then lay down in the game cabin, waiting quietly for the game to begin.
**
When he opened his eyes again, Su Han found himself standing on the street of a run-down town.
Withered yellow leaves were scattered everywhere, the long-unrepaired walls revealed a sense of historical desolation, and even the sky looked quite gloomy.
Su Han tried to check the properties. Soon, a transparent panel appeared in front of her, with the words -
Name: Su Han
Faction: Black (Currently 10 people in your own camp and 10 people in the enemy camp.)
Fullness: 100/100
Stamina: 100/100
Occupation: Medic.
Note: The effect will be better if medical soldiers use medicine to treat the wounded.
Su Han thought to himself, does that mean there will be extra benefits when she uses the medicine?
In order to avoid being attacked, she didn't bother to think and hid in the nearest house first.
The author has something to say: Some of the information is quoted from Baidu Encyclopedia
I checked the data and found that during an economic crisis, the prices of asset commodities will drop significantly, such as gold, silver, jewelry, stocks, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc. As for daily necessities, there is no clear statement. But there is a saying that in order to stabilize prices, a large number of "surplus" products will be destroyed. So the game setting is that the prices of daily necessities remain unchanged.
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