When Zhao Kang saw Chen Wan, he was so shocked that his chin almost dropped to the ground.
These days, the fashion taste in Haizhou City is very bad. There are not many specialty stores on the street. Li Ning is a big sports brand in the eyes of students, while the big casual brands are occupied by Baleno. Metersbonwe, which has been popular for a long time, does not yet have one. When driving to Haizhou, most young people have to go to the old pedestrian street to choose from various small stalls and shops to wear clothes, so it is very rare to find a beautiful woman like Chen Wan.
Unlike in the future when Taobao becomes popular and hot-selling clothes are sold across the country, now people have very few opportunities to come into contact with fresh products.
Zhao Kang, who has always been talkative, suddenly became stammering in front of Chen Wan. Apart from "Hello, sister," he couldn't even say a complete sentence, and he was as shy as a girl.
Because he brought Chen Wan with him, Li Mu wanted to treat him to lunch himself, but he couldn't get enough of Zhao Kang. In the end, he paid for it and bought three hamburger sets.
After dinner, the three of them ate cones and walked to the Big Spider Web Bar not far from the city center.
The Big Spider Internet Bar is the one that Li Mu and Zhao Kang visit most often. The fat boss is known as Er Bin in the world. He is 26 or 7 years old and has a good way with people. After getting to know him, everyone can enjoy the membership price here. Occasionally Even if you don’t have any money, you can still pay the bills, and it’s almost like a home court.
The prices at Haizhou Internet cafes range from NT$5 to NT$3 an hour, but the average price for most is NT$2. The more than 50 machines on the first floor of Big Spider are priced at NT$2 an hour, and only the partitioned booths upstairs are NT$3. piece.
There are two-person, three-person, and four-person rooms in the partition room. Apart from the partition, there is nothing special. However, after Li Mu entered the door, he found that dozens of men of all ages on the first floor were staring at Chen Wan. He stopped and said directly to the boss at the counter: "Brother Erbin, is there a private room for three people upstairs?"
"Hey, Xiao Mu, Yasuko." Er Bin greeted the two of them very familiarly, then glanced at Chen Wan next to Li Mu, and then said: "Upstairs 303, you can go directly."
Arriving at Private Room 303 with ease, Li Mu asked Chen Wan to sit in the innermost room, with himself in the middle and Zhao Kang sitting on the outermost side.
Zhao Kang has been feeling itchy while playing CS recently. Before the machine was turned on, he said to Li Mu: "Let's go into CS later and find a LAN in an Internet cafe to challenge them."
"It's boring. You can play by yourself. I'll check something first."
Li Mu is not here to play games today, he is here to study "Stone Age" and Abe's plug-ins.
As the main force in online games now, "Stone Age" has been in commercial operation for a certain period of time, and commercial plug-ins already have a user base. Since Abe's plug-in can achieve a multi-million-level industry chain, it represents the users of "Stone Age" The demand is still sufficient.
Li Mu thought very simply. He would study the Abe plug-in and then make an enhanced version that was better than it in all aspects. The plug-in market has always been based on technical strength. He believed that with his own ability, he could get rid of the Abe plug-in. Go a dozen streets.
"Damn it!" Zhao Kang said with some disappointment: "It's so boring to fight alone, I don't even have anyone to take care of me."
Chen Wan said cheerfully: "I will fight with you."
"Really, Sister Wan..."
Zhao Kang instantly forgot about Li Mu and went to play CS happily with Chen Wan.
After Li Mu turned on the computer, he saw the game "Stone Age" on the desktop, and went directly to search for the Abe plug-in.
From the analysis of the search results, the Abei plug-in at this time has reached a considerable scale. Many netizens discuss this plug-in on BBS, and it has a very good reputation.
In this era, there were no truly large-scale online trolls, so such a large-scale good reputation must not have been created by brushing up. Li Mu immediately downloaded a trial version of the Abe plug-in, registered an account for "Stone Age", and started Get familiar with this game and the functions of this plug-in.
Li Mu had never played "Stone Age" in his previous life. Before his senior year in high school, he did not dare to indulge in online games. He only occasionally played CS, Red Alert, and StarCraft. It was not until he entered college that he started playing "Legend" at the instigation of his roommates. , Therefore, "Stone Age" still needs to be explored from scratch.
Fortunately, in today's online games, the game world structure, mission system, character balance settings, and skill and equipment routes are all very simple. For a veteran technician, it is very easy to become familiar with them.
Li Mu concentrated on studying games and plug-ins. Chen Wan and Zhao Kang played CS together for a while. After more than an hour, they received a call and apologized to the two of them and had to leave first.
Li Mu sent her out of the Internet cafe, watched her get into a taxi, and then returned to the private room upstairs to continue studying the game.
After returning, Zhao Kang asked Li Mu out of curiosity: "Where did you recognize such a top-notch beauty as your sister? She's no worse than Su Yingxue in your class, and she's even a little more fashionable than you!"
"Nonsense, how old is Su Yingxue? Can an eighteen-year-old girl be the same as a twenty-one-year-old woman?" Li Mu rolled his eyes at him, thinking of the mysterious and unknown fate of this boy in his previous life, and asked tentatively: "Yes Okay, how do you feel about this college entrance examination?"
Zhao Kang stared at CS and said, "Hey, it's OK. My grades have always been average, but I feel that there shouldn't be any big problem if I pass the undergraduate level."
Li Mu frowned: "We haven't estimated the score yet, are you so sure?"
"About 70% to 80%." Zhao Kang smiled slightly, "I'm going to apply to a mechanical and electrical college under the Provincial Polytechnic University. I'll take three courses, and then apply for a junior college in the province as a backup. What about you?"
Li Mu did not answer his question immediately, but pondered in his heart. He didn't know how Zhao Kang lived in his previous life, but he had been away from home for many years, almost cut off contact with his parents, and he had not seen him again for more than ten years. This was because Li Mu could not Hope it happens again.
However, the discipline of Zhao Kang by his parents was well-known throughout the community. It could not even be regarded as discipline, it should be comprehensive hegemonic control. As far as Li Mu knew, Zhao Kang did not even decide to buy a piece of clothing before the college entrance examination. With power, Zhao Kang's mother would only pay for the clothes she wanted to buy for Zhao Kang.
In Li Mu's impression, Zhao Kang had a pair of cropped trousers that he liked very much, and he borrowed money to buy them secretly. If he wanted to wear those trousers, he would first put them in his schoolbag and find a place to change into before going to school. Changing it out and putting it back in the bag before going home from school shows how unhealthy the family relationship is.
After the college entrance examination, Zhao Kang's parents also forced Zhao Kang to repeat his studies, which led to him later leaving home in anger. From this point of view, he had to find a way to help him resolve the conflicts with his family in advance.
Immediately, Li Mu asked: "If you fail to pass the undergraduate level, will Uncle Zhao and Aunt Liu be willing to let you go to junior college?"
"I am willing, but they are definitely not willing." Zhao Kang blurted out: "My parents have long said that you must take a bachelor's degree. If you fail, you will repeat the course until you pass."
"Then what do you think about it?"
"Me?" Zhao Kang shrugged: "I will definitely not come to repeat the exam. Who the hell can bear it in the next year of high school? I will be tortured and go crazy."
Li Mu nodded slightly and said no more.
It seems that Zhao Kang's problem is still unsolved for the time being. His score has not passed the undergraduate level, and his parents are determined to force him to repeat his studies. Even if he wants to go to junior college, there is no chance. He is afraid that he will be forced to repeat his studies by his parents.
However, Li Mu then thought about it. If Zhao Kang could afford to go to college on his own, then his parents would not be able to stop him. Rather than letting him repeat the studies for half a year and disappear for more than ten years, they might as well find a way for him to go to college on his own. In junior college, even if there will be some conflicts between him and his parents, it is impossible to play the part of disappearing from the world again.
After making up his mind, Li Mu suddenly felt that his burden was heavier. Not only did he have to earn his own tuition and computer, but he also had to find a way to help Zhao Kang earn his tuition.
"Stone Age", this summer vacation, it seems that I can only rely on you!
With more than 500 yuan saved over the past three years, Li Mu went directly to Er Bin, the owner of the Internet cafe, and booked a private room for two people upstairs for three days, with no one else allowed in between.
The price of the private room is high. From 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock in the evening, the 15 hours are 3 yuan an hour. The night package is 3 yuan more expensive than downstairs, 8 yuan a night. After all, the cost of a computer per day is 53 Two computers cost 106 yuan, but Er Bin was a righteous person, and Li Mu could already enjoy the membership price, so he gave a preferential price of 200 yuan for three days.
Li Mu didn't have a computer of his own. If he wanted to make a plug-in, he could only develop it in a closed manner here. Fortunately, the technical content of this kind of plug-in was too low, so Li Mu was confident that three days would be enough.
Zhao Kang didn't know why Li Muxian had to spend money for three days in a row when he had nothing to do. Although the adults at home temporarily allowed them to indulge after the college entrance examination, he couldn't bear to spend three days and three nights in an Internet cafe, even if his parents didn't object.
But Li Mu said to him: "I have been studying programming for a long time, and I want to try to make a plug-in myself."
"Plug-in? What kind of plug-in? What is a plug-in?" Zhao Kang has only been exposed to stand-alone games so far, and has not yet started to play online games.
Li Mu said in the simplest language: "It's like calling a red alert online with someone else. The plug-in allows you to enjoy the full-screen view in advance before the full screen or map is opened. And even if the other party creates a black screen device, you can still Seeing through the situation can even make your troops of the same type move and attack faster than the opponent, allowing you to dig ordinary gold mines but get the price of diamond mines, or even directly earn money."
"Fuck..." Zhao Kang was stunned for a long time, and then he choked out a sentence: "Everyone is calling the red police in an Internet cafe. If you cheat like this, aren't you afraid that people will beat you up?"
Li Mu was dumbfounded. It seemed that Zhao Kang had never been exposed to online games. Although he understood that plug-ins were cheating tools to some extent, he did not understand the economic value contained in them. This was not for online games on the local area network at all, but for the network. Game services.
However, Li Mu didn't bother to explain to him, and just said in an encouraging tone: "If you do this well, you may be able to earn your first year's college tuition this summer!"