Chapter 127: Economic crisis 8

Salary cuts, layoffs, and factory closures have led to an increase in the number of unemployed people and a significant decline in the purchasing power of residents. Purchasing power continues to decline, and store profitability declines. Salaries and layoffs must be reduced to barely lose money... a vicious circle, and things are getting worse.
There are more and more homeless people on the street, and people have built simple shelters with wooden boards, old iron sheets, tarpaulins and even kraft paper. Some people even sleep on the street and cover up a newspaper directly on their bodies. Robbery and theft happen from time to time, but the streets are full of poor people. Even if they spend a lot of effort to rob, they can't get anything good. The shops that are still open for business are tightly guarded, and once the thief is caught, it is easy to fight.
The leftover bread sold by the bakery never needs to be thrown away. Because even if it is overnight, as long as they are willing to sell it cheaply, residents will queue up to buy it. It's just that there are not many people with money.
In order to survive, people began to eat wild grass roots and dandelions. After eating, I began to dig wild lettuce, and in the end even the weeds that had always been eaten by cattle were not spared. Occasionally, there are shops offering job opportunities, some people stay at the door all night, and some people walk across the town to the interview site. A job often has hundreds of competitors.
At the same time, in order to stabilize prices, shop owners had to reduce the scale of production and destroy a large number of "surplus" products.
It is absolutely impossible to give it away for free. Once this precedent is set, all residents will wait for the free supply of goods and will never buy from their pockets again.
It didn't take long for the corpses to be everywhere, hungry and hungry.
Zhong Rui rented a third-floor apartment for hiding. Seeing the tragedy on the street, he couldn't help but sigh softly, "No matter what problems the economy may have, it is ordinary people who are ultimately unlucky."
"Who said no." Su Han was deeply moved.
During the speech, the system's mechanical voice sounded at the right time, "On the 16th day of the game, hunger and poverty caused the residents to lose their senses and order gradually lost control."
Su Han curled his lips, slightly dissatisfied, "In the real world, although many people will starve to death during an economic crisis, at least law and order is still quite good."
Zhong Rui expressed his understanding, "After all, it is a game. Relying on money to solve all problems, there is no difficulty in the last few days, what is it called a survival game?"
That night, a robbery frenzy broke out across the town! Supermarkets, restaurants, pharmacies, convenience stores, bakeries... almost all shops that were still open for business were looted.
Su Han couldn't help thinking of the hyperinflation copy. If I remember correctly, a similar incident happened at that time.
She couldn't help wondering, "Why design a similar copy, and the difficulty has been reduced?"
Zhong Rui guessed, "Maybe Jinjiang Group plans to hold the second endless survival competition."
Su Han felt inexplicably justified.
The next development is exactly the same as in the hyperinflation copy. The desperate residents gathered together, searched for apartment buildings, and robbed them. Gamers need to escape the remaining 5 days in a chaos.
The trial players have experienced a lot of battles and have experienced similar dungeons before, so they are calm and calm.
At the end of the game for 20 days, everyone successfully cleared the game and survived to the end.
The game cabin slowly opened, and Li Yuechong nodded, "Thanks for your hard work, I have collected very interesting information."
"Planning to host the second endless survival competition?" Zhong Rui confirmed to him.
Li Yue readily admitted, "Yes, I have this plan."
"The registration fee is 100 per person. The difficulty of the first few dungeons has been reduced, so that everyone can live longer and feel the fun of struggling to survive. The later dungeons are extremely difficult and select outstanding talents."
"In addition, the top three players in the game will win cash prizes, and the top ten will have the opportunity to be invited by the group to become game trial players."
Only then did Zhong Rui realize that everything had already been arranged.
"Old fox, treacherous enough, one after another." He muttered to himself.
Su Han was poor and white, so he took the initiative to hand in the character card, and asked by the way, "When is the next trial?"
Li Yue smiled slightly, "The Survival Dungeon is relatively slow in research and development, but soon there will be other games that you need to try."
"No problem." Su Han simply responded.

The Jinjiang Group system is very user-friendly. After the trial play, employees are given plenty of holidays to rest.
When Su Han was bored, he went online, watched movies, and occasionally flipped through video websites. Then she was surprised to find that it seemed to be red unknowingly.
The number of views of the Survival series of videos easily exceeded 100 million, and with the group's key promotion, the data is still rising.
There are countless praises below
"I really like the survival video! I have read it five times!"
"Ahhhhh, I'm so cute! I like hoarding supplies like a hamster. I never get tired of it!"
"Life is endless, and the stockpile is endless. Just for the tireless spirit of stockpile, I have to support my real name."
"Hold your friends to watch together. By the way, when will the next Endless Survival Competition start? Can you lower the difficulty?"
"Wait for the 2nd Endless Survival Competition +1! The money is ready, just wait for the big guys video!"
So far, the endless survival game has been known to countless people, and it has become completely popular.
Strangely, the first thought that came to Su Han's mind was that he didn't know how much money he would receive in his account next month...
The phone ringing suddenly rang, interrupting her thoughts.
Su Han picked up the phone and asked casually, "Hello, who?"
The person on the other end of the phone was full of resentment when he spoke, "Are you not going to find me if I don't find you?"
This person is Zhong Rui.
God knows the phone number or ask Li Yue to come. Leaving the game, someone is as if losing contact.
Su Han blinked, and said innocently, "I just finished the trial play, I will leave you a few days to rest."
"No need!" Zhong Rui replied violently.
He felt that going out to go shopping with his girlfriend to watch a movie, and making appointments by the way, would make people more energetic and energetic.
When playing games together, the attitude is intimate, and when the copy comes out, he turns his face and refuses to recognize people. Oh, woman!
Zhong Rui's resentment almost turned into substance.
Su Han "pouch" laughed out loud. After clearing her throat, she asked solemnly, "Would you like to have dinner together tonight? Take time to make an appointment? Would you like to try dating?"
Zhong Rui remained silent for a long time, and said reservedly, "I think your proposal is very good."
"Then... do you want to agree to it all?" Su Han smiled.
"En." Zhong Rui replied softly, the corners of his mouth turned upward.
"There is a nice restaurant next to the company. See you at the door of the company at 7 this evening." Su Han happily sent out an invitation.
Zhong Rui responded with joy.
After chatting for a while, the call ended and the phone hung up.
Zhong Rui stared at the phone for a long time, only to realize that he was brought into rhythm. He found that his new girlfriend is simply a devil, and casually speeds up the heartbeat of the person, full of expectations.

At the end of the holiday, Zhong Rui went to work briskly, every step like stepping on the clouds. At the same time, his face was full of smiles, and he couldn't restrain the corners of his mouth from turning upward.
Li Yue was shocked when he saw it, his expression was strange, and he asked with concern, "Is this a jackpot?" Why does the whole person look abnormal?
But thinking about it, it's not quite right. This guy regards money as dung, and if it weren't for Su Han, he wouldn't want to come to work. How could he just bend for money casually.
"I have a girlfriend." Zhong Rui announced proudly.
Li Yue was taken aback for a moment, "I know, isn't it Su Han." After a pause, he showed a dazed expression, "What? Have you finally decided to communicate in public?"
Zhong Rui, "..."
He has the heart to share his joy with the world. However, in the eyes of everyone, he and Su Han were in a state of association for a long time.
For a time, Zhong Rui's mood was very mixed.
Next to him, Li Yue was still muttering, "The customs clearance video of the two of you was originally launched in the name of a couple of players. The whole company, plus all the audience who watched the video, all know about your relationship."
"It's not that I said, you two acted too obvious, not like a pure companionship at all."
"Whether you decide to make it public, you can communicate openly in the future. Don't worry, our company does not prohibit office romances, especially you are still playing the role of trial player."
Zhong Rui glanced at someone, had nothing to say, speeded up his pace and left.
"Shy?" Li Yuesi didn't know that she was disgusted, and thought Zhong Rui would be ashamed.

In the office, the trial players gathered together. Li Yue explained the situation to everyone, "The company plans to develop a new battle royale type holographic online game."
"When entering the game, everyone has random occupations and nothing on them. You must search around to get weapons, food and water."
"The concept of cleanliness is removed. The game characters only have two attributes: fullness and physical strength. If fullness is too low, negative states will still be triggered."
"Using different weapons to attack the target will cause different degrees of damage. If you are attacking a vital part, it will produce a crit. It may cause double damage, maybe triple damage, or more."
"A total of 100 people are divided into black and white camps. The same camp is teammates, but there is no damage immunity between each other. In other words, if the shooting is not allowed, it is possible to kill the friendly army by mistake. The other camp is completely destroyed, and the current survivor gets victory."
"Currently there are 20 players in total, so 10VS10 will play against each other and the map will be small."
The trial players nodded one after another to show that they understood.
Li Yue wanted to randomly draw game cards just like last time. But when I saw Zhong Rui, he acted unconsciously-what if someone and his girlfriend are in different camps and directly defected?
So he changed his mind and he divided the 20 people into two teams.
After the assignment, the players of the same camp took out a game card at will, then lay down in the game cabin and waited quietly for the game to start.

When he opened his eyes again, Su Han found himself standing on the street of a defeated town.
Withered yellow leaves scattered everywhere, the walls that had not been repaired for a long time revealed a sense of historical desolation, and even the sky looked rather gloomy.
Su Han tried to check the attributes. Soon, a transparent panel appeared in front of her, which read--
Name: Su Han
Faction: Black (10 people in the own camp and 10 people in the enemy camp.)
Fullness: 100/100
Physical strength: 100/100
Occupation: Medical soldier.
Remarks: Medical soldiers use drugs to treat the wounded, the effect will be better.
Su Han secretly wondered, that means there will be an extra bonus if she uses drugs?
In order to prevent a sneak attack, she ignored her thinking and took the lead in hiding in the nearest house.
The author has something to say: some of the information quotes Baidu Baike
I checked the data and found that the prices of asset-related commodities, such as gold and silver jewellery, stocks, antique calligraphy, etc., will drop significantly during the economic crisis. As for the necessities of life, there is no clear statement. It is said that in order to stabilize prices, a large number of "surplus" products are destroyed. So the game is set to keep the prices of necessities unchanged.