Sorting Out

Inside the rental house. After finishing the remaining instant noodles, Long Ming picked up his phone and checked his balance. Only 5,710 Shan coins were left. He spent 12,000 Shan coins a month on medication alone, and this small amount was nowhere near enough. Long Ming sighed softly and walked toward the bedroom. He went to the bedside, picked up the helmet and put it back on, then lay down. "Huff~" Long Ming took a deep breath, then raised his hand and pressed the power switch, then closed his eyes. To be honest, playing this game had left Long Ming with some psychological trauma. When Long Ming opened his eyes again, he was already in Fanxing City. He immediately raised his wristband interface and saw a red dot on the mission log icon. Long Ming directly opened the mission log. Prompt: Survival (Newbie Mission) completed, obtained 500 Yiwei coins. After glancing at it, he began to tally the gains from this instance. Gold nugget (white), rough necklace (white), unknown ring (blue), golden short staff (purple), golden double-barreled short gun, M24 sniper rifle, perception serum *1, invitation letter *1, 500 Yiwei coins. Looking at the tallied gains, Long Ming also revealed a satisfied expression. Although he had thrown away many things, the remaining things were not few either. He just did not know how much profit these things could bring him, and he was extremely short of money right now. At that moment, a string of cursing voices came over. "Damn, what a lousy game, made so realistic!" "Wuwu, so scary, so painful!" "Strongly demand lowering the pain level, otherwise we will file a complaint!" Long Ming turned his head to look and saw many players gathered together, angrily accusing this game. At that moment, several players from the City of Sin passed by. Hearing their accusations, they sneered and retorted. "A bunch of idiots. If you can't afford to play, don't play." "Who are you calling an idiot? We are defending our legitimate rights. This game obviously has problems. I feel like I actually died." "Defending legitimate rights? I think your brain is short-circuited. They wrote it clearly enough. This game itself is meant to let you experience the pleasure of death. If you don't want to die, then survive and evacuate!" "We're not pros. Where do we get such good skills? And where is it written?" "There are notes on the civilization experience scroll. You just didn't read them carefully." "Ah!" The protesting players were also stunned. Seeing this, Long Ming also revealed a thoughtful expression. Actually, these people's protests were not completely without reason. The game was too realistic; if evacuation failed, the experience of death could cause a certain trauma to a person's mind, and not everyone could bear it. But this had nothing to do with him. Others might choose to retreat after setbacks, but he had no choice. If he could not make money from this game, his subsequent survival would be at risk. Long Ming exhaled deeply, quickly adjusted his mindset, and turned to look around. He now needed to convert the things in his hand into game currency or Shan coins. But at a glance, no one was setting up stalls to buy or sell. However, he saw many people walking toward the mechanical obelisk at the center of Fanxing City. Long Ming thought it over and followed them. When he approached, he saw many players standing under the mechanical obelisk, looking down and clicking on their wristbands. At that moment, a prompt popped up on Long Ming's wristband. "Open the mall?" After seeing the prompt, Long Ming immediately understood why so many people had gathered here. However, he did not open the mall right away. Instead, he opened the friends interface and tried to add Gu Yi as a friend. Although the items were brought out by himself, without Gu Yi and the others' cooperation, he could not have evacuated safely. In a sense, they were also his teammates, so it was not appropriate to keep everything for himself. At that moment, the wristband interface showed the addition was successful. A chat box immediately popped up. "Holy shit, big shot! You actually added me as a friend. Actually, I wanted to add you as a friend long ago, but unfortunately your name was too long, so I couldn't remember it." Gu Yi sent a string of messages, extremely happy. "Uh, that..." Long Ming did not know what to say for a moment. "Aw, you don't need to say it. I understand. The items are gone, they're gone." Gu Yi could tell at a glance that Long Ming must have failed to evacuate and was finally killed. But that was normal. After all, Zheng Bin and his group were not just generally disgusting. "No, I brought the items out." "Brought them out? Did you evacuate successfully?" Gu Yi was completely dumbfounded, his face full of disbelief. "Yes." Long Ming replied calmly. "Awesome, as expected of a big shot! Hahaha!" Gu Yi immediately laughed out loud. Long Ming had actually evacuated successfully. He could imagine how angry Zheng Bin and his group were. He was so happy. "I added you as a friend to tell you about the items brought out. Although you said you'd give them to me, those items also include your share." Long Ming directly explained the matter to Gu Yi. "Aw, we don't want those items. They're all yours." "Isn't that inappropriate?" "What's inappropriate? If it really doesn't work, next time we meet in an instance, you can bring a brother along once." Gu Yi replied very generously. Long Ming fell into silence. To be honest, he instinctively wanted to refuse, but he was indeed short of money right now, so he replied. "Okay." "Fine, it's settled. I won't talk to you anymore. I have something on my end; I need to go offline first." "Okay." Long Ming closed the chat interface, then opened the mall. The consignment interface immediately popped up. Above hung all sorts of dazzling goods. Round pearl necklace (white) Price: 500 Yiwei coins. Gargoyle bronze statue (white) Price: 800 Yiwei coins. Looking at the various goods hung on the consignment interface, Long Ming was also very surprised. He did not expect that in just two days, so many things would be produced. Long Ming kept scrolling the interface, checking if there was anything on consignment that was the same as what he had in hand, to confirm the current market price. Unfortunately, things went against his wishes. Long Ming searched for a long time but couldn't find anything. And these consigned items were each like one-of-a-kind pieces. There were so many types it was dazzling. At that moment, Long Ming suddenly heard a player next to him complaining to his companion. "Damn, what the hell? I've had my items up for consignment all day, and they still haven't sold. Are there no rich players in this game?" "Bro, what are you selling?" "Jewelry." "You idiot. Jewelry belongs to artworks. Why put them on consignment? Sell them to ghosts?" "No, these are things I painstakingly brought out. Aren't they valuable?" "They're valuable, but they're not of much use to players. Would you buy them?" "I wouldn't buy. Then what should I do?" (End of chapter)