Resurrection Empire

The supply and marketing cooperative is a 13-story square building that stands out among the crowd at the junction of the slums and the rich area.

Each floor has an area of ​​2,500 square meters and is filled with a dazzling array of products.

As long as you have money, you can buy everything here except basic food and weapons.

Daily chemicals, advanced food, household appliances, home furnishings, decorative building materials, etc. are all available.

There is no greeter in the building, and there are no salespersons or cashiers inside.

The entire supply and marketing cooperative is unattended.

Customers have three ways to purchase.

People who own official watches can place orders online at home and have them delivered by drone.

Or you can go to the lobby on the ground floor of the supply and marketing cooperative, check the product list through the ATM-like console, check out pictures and video introductions, place an order together, and then the supply robot inside the building will quickly collect the goods and deliver them to you. .

Customers can also walk into the mall by themselves, place orders on the spot while looking at the actual products, and receive their packages directly from the conveyor belt inside the door when leaving the building.

Ren Zhong didn't want to waste time, so he didn't go into the building to take a closer look at each floor. He only used the console in the lobby on the ground floor to scan the product list at a very fast speed, and then from the seemingly clean and tidy, technologically advanced building. The building read desolation and loneliness, as well as the word "cannibalism".

The three sales models and all-inclusive products of Yersun Supply and Marketing Cooperative have greatly improved the efficiency of economic and trade activities in Xinghuo Town.

But it is precisely because of the existence of the behemoth supply and marketing cooperative that it has completely blocked the space for the poor people at the bottom of the town to make a living through basic jobs such as small commodity retail and express delivery.

People at the bottom can only do trivial small businesses such as repairing clothes and renting used books that big companies look down upon. They also have to face brutal inward competition among the same class.

Even a fly restaurant is not allowed to open. Starting from the source of raw materials, everything is controlled by big companies. No one can reduce the cost of their own restaurant to a lower level than that of a canteen.

Even if it is unique in taste, it is impossible to compete with those unmanned private dishes that are also affiliated with the large company Tianlong Hi-Tech.

The unmanned private kitchen uses artificial intelligence machinery to cook fully automatically. The heat is controlled extremely accurately, and the material ratio is accurate to micrograms. In terms of price, taste, etc., the unmanned private kitchen can overwhelm ordinary people with cooking skills. sexual advantage.

In addition, the huge Yaersun Supply and Marketing Cooperative only needs a dozen managers to maintain its operations.

It is said that these dozen managers are all official citizens and live in villas per capita in wealthy areas with white walls.

Ren Zhong searched for the official watch in the list, confirmed that the price was 100 points, clicked the purchase button, and attached the temporary watch on his left hand to the sensing area of ​​the console.

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A bone conduction electronic female voice sounded, "Purchase a first-level official watch and it will count as 100 contribution points."

After waiting for thirty seconds, a square hole with a length of three meters opened in the ceiling above the console in front of Ren Zhong, and a small mechanical telescopic arm with a palm-sized tray dropped from above, hovering in front of his eyes.

Ren Zhong's new watch was packed in a cardboard box, a typical work package.

He felt in his heart that from now on, he would also belong to the Biao family.

Regardless of the Internet function of the official watch, if you just wear this watch to sleep, you can get 0.9 more contribution points every day, and you can get your money back in full in 112 days.

Even the best among the deserters like Zheng Tian's team could not bear to do a "business" that could pay back its capital in less than four months. Instead, they spent their limited money on other more important things.

It can be seen how tight the shackles of this world are on the desolate people, how low the survival needs of the desolate people are, and how difficult it is to save a hundred yuan.

Then Ren Zhong took out his official watch, touched it on the dial of the temporary watch on his left hand, and said: "Fund transfer."

The bone conduction sound sounded in his cochlea again, "The fund transfer was successful, the current balance is 101.72 contribution points."

Ren Zhong was stunned.

Something is wrong.

Collect 200 points from Sun Miao and get 0.72 from selling the remains of the Crystal Wing Fly. The total wealth should be 200.72.

After spending 100, the remaining balance should be 100.72.

Why is there one more point?

Where did it come from?

When he got the temporary watch before, he thought he was a pauper anyway, so he didn't check the balance and didn't notice this phenomenon.

After he made money later, he didn't bother to check it. Anyway, he could tell by just doing a mental calculation of such a simple number, and he didn't even turn on the voice prompt to read the balance.

The problem was discovered at this moment, and Ren Zhong looked at his temporary watch again with a puzzled expression.

Could it be that there was 1 o'clock in the temporary watch from the beginning?

Or maybe the value of the temporary watch is now included in my wealth balance?

After a few seconds, Ren Zhong's eyes fell on the recycling button on the console, clicked it, then selected the temporary watch item, and clicked to confirm recycling.

The mechanical arm fell down again, Ren Zhong put the temporary watch in, and then immediately put on the official watch.

"Selling a temporary watch, the price is 1 contribution point, the tax is 0.1 contribution points, and 0.9 contribution points are obtained. The current balance is 102.62 contribution points."

The task is determined.

It seems that the recycling value of the temporary watch was not included in the calculation, and there was an extra point in my account inexplicably.

This is not a small amount, it is enough for ten days of rations for the low-level deserters, and it is also the average harvest of the members of Zheng Tian's team in one day.

Ren Zhong thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what went wrong.

He checked, but there was no transfer record. It seemed like it had been lying in his account from the beginning, just like the crumpled dollar that was suddenly dug out of the washed toilet paper when doing laundry.

This matter cannot be analyzed clearly. It is not due to IQ, but it is really a supernatural event.

For a rigorous scholar, he hates this kind of situation that is not predicted at all. Just like Heisenberg, who was the first to discover the law of uncertainty, was tortured by the obsession in his heart for a long time.

The subsequent electronic double-slit interference experiment was even called God's dice because it was so weird.

All things that cannot be explained by science can be attributed to religious metaphysics.

God's will is done.

Alas, if I had known earlier that when I collected money from Sun Miao, I should have asked the voice message to report the balance.

But Ren Zhong finally came out of self-torture.

He said to himself: "Forget it, it's just one more piece instead of less. More money is always a good thing. No matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still meat. Besides, the electronic double-slit interference experiment was achieved after many attempts. Have you come to a conclusion? I still have a chance..."

There were 40 minutes left before the scheduled meeting time with Zheng Tian, ​​so he couldn't waste it. Ren Zhong decided to find a safe and clean place to try surfing the Internet for a while.

There is an empty and deserted tea bar on the side of the lobby of the supply and marketing cooperative building.

Ren Zhong thought for a moment, then walked into the tea bar and was stopped by the service robot. He ordered a cup of plain tea worth 0.1 contribution points and sat down.

It’s not that he’s wasting money, but that he doesn’t have a house of his own. When using a watch, his nerves and brain will be immersed in interference from bioelectrical signals. He needs a clean and relatively safe environment. The tea bar in the supply and marketing cooperative building is just right. meets requirements.

After a short while, Ren Zhong, who had closed his eyes and fell asleep, once again had a VR giant screen appear "in front of his eyes", and the advertisement of Shenzhen Xun Group rang in his ears again.

Skip the ads and click decisively on Internet features.

The urban projection on the giant screen disappeared and was replaced by a completely black picture.

The beautiful synthesized female voice sounded in Ren Zhong's ears again.

"Welcome, new user. This is your first time using the Internet function of our independently owned computer. Do you want to skip the newbie tutorial?"

"No skipping."

"This auxiliary brain supports custom interface functions. Please follow the tutorial below to set the interface that meets your personal preferences."

More than ten minutes later, Ren Zhong "looked" at this antique window interface that was exactly the same as the popular Windows system in the 21st century, and felt sincerely comfortable and satisfied.

Various newly downloaded program icons are neatly arranged on his desktop according to different functions and icon colors, which is good news for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

If others could see his interface, they would definitely complain about his outdated aesthetic.

But that doesn't matter. What I like personally is the best.

Ren Zhong's eyes flickered past an icon called Virtual Life, and he hesitated for a while before clicking on it.

When he was searching for necessary software just now, he saw that this virtual life is the most mainstream communication and social software on the Origin Star. It has multiple functions such as simulation games, social networking, advertising distribution, etc., and is comparable to WeChat, QQ or Twitter in the 21st century. The software is almost the same, but its functions are countless times more powerful.

Ren Zhong actually wanted to register a new account, try to communicate with more people online, and experience the social atmosphere of the entire Source Star from a higher perspective at a faster speed.

But he endured it.

The time is not yet ripe.

The targeted killing of hunters reminded Ren Zhong.

As early as the 21st century, artificial intelligence big data was lurking pervasively in the social world of the Internet.

These big data systems can analyze the thoughts of certain groups and individuals by collecting all information such as language, text, pictures and videos left by user groups on the Internet, and establish models in the virtual world that represent the characteristics of the group's thoughts, and based on Model, make various targeted and subtle guidance of information flow to achieve the purpose of controlling people's thoughts.

All this is also called an information cocoon.

Ren Zhong suspected that there might be a similar but more powerful information cocoon in this deformed world.

For safety reasons and to avoid exposing himself prematurely, he decided to temporarily avoid socializing on the Internet.

Wait for half a year or a year, and when you have fully understood the entire social structure and can disguise yourself perfectly, it will not be too late to participate in Internet social interaction.

At the same time, he has actually taken a risk by surfing the Internet like this. He is just seeking wealth through risk, so he should try it first.

If the information found by searching the Internet is exposed, then I am afraid that I will have to give up using formal watches and stay with temporary watches for a long time.

After waiting for another five minutes, the hunter did not appear beside him.

That's it, Ren Zhong breathed a sigh of relief and clicked on the Ruins Beast Database (Public Version) icon in the Reference Book column.

If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.

He has decided to become a mecha warrior, but before doing so, he feels that he should get to know his opponent better.

Especially the Crystal Wing Flying Dragon, who has a blood feud, and the Blade Beetle that he may face tomorrow.

Study whether the Blade Beetle has a breakthrough point and whether it can be reckless.

If you are too reckless, you will change your strategy. If you are too reckless, you will jump to the next level and defeat monsters.

Brother Tao, you are here too! Thank you! ! ! Too polite!