The Midnight Owl

Chapter 31: haggle

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Under the boat, Mao Qiping waited patiently for the customer to place an order in the floating ball, while the four people on the boat gathered on the deck a little further away to study their purchasing power.

These days, a mobile phone can go around the world, and few people carry too much cash with them. Xu Wang has a total of 600 yuan. Thanks to the blessing of the second visit to the airport yesterday, he found that the cash can be circulated in the "Owl", so he deliberately renewed it. Take it out from the established public account and put it on your body, just in case you need it.

How can you think that "consumption" comes so quickly.

"I still have one hundred and five." Qian Ai handed all the belongings - one hundred and fifty - to the captain, and the fifty yuan was the change that was found at the airport yesterday.

"I only brought a hundred." Kuang Jinxin also handed over his private property to the organization.

"Okay," Xu Wang received the money together, "Let's keep the accounts first, and calculate what the public account owes you."

Captain Xu, who was holding eight hundred and fifty yuan, naturally looked at the only silent military division, Wu.

Wu Sheng shook his head neatly: "I didn't bring any money."

Xu Wang was speechless: "It's been yesterday, you came in without money?!"

Wu Sheng was very at a loss when questioned: "I'll take you with me."

A slight breeze came out of the thick fog, and it blew comfortably on one's face.

Qian Ai looked at the captain who suddenly began to concentrate on counting the money, and then looked at the soldier who was still full of innocent eyes, and always felt that something was strange. He understood Wu Sheng's implication that since you, the captain, has a public wallet, what other money do I bring. But how to change it to "inside the words", when it is omitted into five words, it sounds like a little... affectionate

It was right to choose Xu Wang as the captain, but Qian Ai suddenly became frightened. If Wu Sheng was really chosen, either the "logic" and "structure" of Yishui would be completely incomprehensible, or he would suddenly give you an "earth-like love story". "It's too stressful to be a player.

Xu Wang put the recounted money into his pocket, and laid out three lists: "A total of 850. Let's study which information to buy."

"The content of a third level is 400." Qian Ai really has no confidence in the purchasing power of his team, "And this daily level experience, the current price? Is this selling seafood?!"

"The third level must be asked," Xu Wang patted Qian Ai to soothe his partner's excitement, and then asked the other two partners, "What about the rest?"

"The endless sea," said Kuang Jinxin, "always make clear what is in front of you."

Xu Wang thought for a while, then reached out and tapped a few questions on the Endless Sea list: "Then... 2, 4, 7?"

"And this." Wu Sheng pushed forward the list of rules and tapped the second rule with his fingertips.

The opinions of the partners are summarized together -

[Rules]

2. Injury and death related. (100 yuan)

[Levels]

3. The third level content and customs clearance strategy. (400 yuan)

[Endless Sea]

2. What are the four lighthouses? (100 yuan)

4. The best strategy for the four routes. (200 yuan / piece, package price 700 yuan)

7. The best strategy for the four lighthouses. (200 yuan / piece, package price 700 yuan)

Just as Xu Wang was about to start his mental calculation, Wu Sheng had already given the exact package price: "One thousand, if only one of the routes and the lighthouse strategy is chosen."

"I don't have enough money..." Kuang Jinxin muttered in annoyance.

"Well," Wu Sheng nodded, "at least one item has to be cut off."

"Then we can only cut this," Qian Ai pointed to the "What are the four lighthouses" item in Endless Sea. "Anyway, I have to ask the guide, maybe I can use the guide to push back the final reward?"

"Cut what to chop!" Xu Wang rolled his eyes at the group of teammates who "don't want to make progress", gathered three pages of paper and walked to the railing. He probed down and shouted, "Mao Qiping—"

The fog had completely obscured the sea under the boat, but fortunately, a warm response quickly came out of the vast whiteness: "Where is it—"

Following the answer, the telescopic pole slowly protruded from the fog to the outside of the railing.

Xu Wang cooperated and hung the three pages again: "We have chosen, and we want rules 2, 5, levels 3, 4, and endless seas 2, 4, and 7."

The three partners were stunned, they didn't seem to choose so many, right

"Okay—" Mao Qiping's voice rose immediately, revealing the joy of "about to count money".

Between doubts, the telescopic rod has been retracted by the owner.

one second.

two seconds.

three seconds.

Mao Qiping, who was in the fog, finally confirmed that he only received the paper, the three printed by himself.

"Rules 2, 5, level 3, 4, endless sea 2, 4, 7—" Xu Wang said loudly again in a brief silence.

Finally, Mao Qiping's maddening voice came from below: "I know, but you have to give money!"

"We don't have enough money." Xu Wang said.

Mao Qiping collapsed: "Then why don't you ask so much—"

"Meeting is fate, you can give me a friendship price." Xu Wang was neither impatient nor impatient.

There was no movement in the fog for a long time, and it was estimated that he was calculating the amount. After a while, Mao Qiping spoke again: "A total of one thousand sixteen, I will give you a 10% discount, one thousand four hundred and four, and forty ten I will also wipe it off for you. One thousand four, is that interesting enough?"

Xu Wang: "50% off, 800%, you don't need to pay any fractions."

Mao Qiping: "...bye!!!"

"Hey, bargain, there are cuts and additions, don't get excited."

"You cut me in the middle with a knife, what else are you talking about!"

"It's not that I want to be cut in half. We only have eight hundred on us. If you don't believe me, come up and search. If you find eight hundred and one, I will give you ten times!"

"That doesn't work either. As much as I have, I can take as much information as I can. I've been going through the wind and waves, and I've earned hard money. It's impossible to sell half of it and give it away."

The tone of voice was not loose at all, but the tone was softer than before, meaning to chat with one's heart.

Xu Wang was silent for a long time, and seemed to make up his mind: "Well, I don't want the content of the transcript and the fourth level, one thousand fourteen deducted one hundred, another six hundred deducted, seven hundred left. Seven hundred yuan, I bought 23247, we are poor, we can't let you suffer!"

Mao Qiping always felt that something was wrong. After doing the calculations, he finally understood: "You deducted the original price that was not discounted from the 10% discount I paid?!"

The three "auditing" partners did not say anything, but they all calculated the amount in their hearts. From 1,600 yuan to 1,400 yuan, it actually means that every item in it has been discounted. The price of 700 yuan should be deducted from the inside and outside, but Xu Wang directly deducted 700 yuan, and tens of yuan was wiped out inside and outside.

Captain, you can.

Captain Xu, who is well-received by the team members, is now covering his chest with his eyes wide open, and regardless of whether he can see it or not, he is heartbroken from his actions to his voice: "I let the two items be so sincere, you and I care about it. That eight hair?!"

When it comes to bargaining, be soft when it should be soft, and be hard when it should be hard.

"Okay, okay," Mao Qiping finally let out a sigh, "Who told me that I didn't meet anyone else today, so I met you."

Xu Wang smiled comfortably: "That's it, we all have to cherish this relationship."

The telescopic pole came up again: "Take the money, everyone can rest assured when you ask and make a conclusion."

"Oh yes, we were discussing it just now," Xu Wang held onto the telescopic pole, "What do you mean by 'current price' when you share your daily brushing experience?"

"It means to look at my mood," Mao Qiping was obviously in a bad mood, "Don't you have only seven hundred yuan, what's the use of asking so much?"

"I just found another hundred dollars in the cockpit. Let's change your question."

"As long as eight hundred and one are found, I will give you ten times... am I hallucinating!!!"

"Then you didn't come up to search."

"… "

"I promise, this is really all our possessions," Xu Wang said, stacking the money into long strips and tying them to the telescopic poles one by one, "Don't ask and make a knot, you give us the friendship price, and we will trust you too. This friend, 800 yuan is here, keep it!"

After tying the last fifty yuan, Xu Wang gently shook the telescopic rod.

The telescopic rod slowly retracted, and it was quiet for a long time, so long that people had to wonder if he ran away with the money, Mao Qiping's voice penetrated the fog and came slowly—

"Here, wounds are real, death..."

deal, reach.

800 yuan to buy 1,000 yuan of information, and a "current price" message is attached, and the final budget has 50 yuan left to spend.

Wu Sheng, Kuang Jinxin, and Qian Ai looked at each other and were filled with emotion.

When I came up, I said that I wanted to buy more, first earn a discount price, then cut it in half, collapse the other party's psychological price, and then take out two questions to make a step, it seems that there is still a lot of negotiation, and finally post a hundred plus questions, not at all. Giving the other party some thought and a breather captures the other party's heart with the sincerity and atmosphere of paying the full amount in one fell swoop.

Their captain is a dragon and a phoenix.

"Death is also true?" Before Xu Wang could taste the joy of bargaining, he was disturbed by Mao Qiping's information.

"It should be said that the feeling of the moment of death is real, so real that you don't want to experience it a second time."

"But death still doesn't exist. Whenever there is a danger of death, the 'owl' will bounce people back to reality, right?"

"Yes," Mao Qiping acquiesced in the naming of "owl", which is obviously the mainstream, "not just death, but also serious injury. As long as it is judged that there is a danger of serious injury or even death, the 'owl' will send people away. Back to reality, I call this the 'start protection mechanism'."

Wu Sheng interjected: "What kind of injuries can be kept, what kind of injuries will trigger the protection mechanism, is there a clear boundary?"

Mao Qiping said: "No, but according to the information I have collected, it seems that skin trauma and ordinary fractures will be preserved. No matter how serious the injury is, I have never seen it, so my understanding should be that the injury that does not affect the movement will be recognized. "

"It's all broken, but it doesn't affect the action?" Qian Ai suspected that the "Owl" had a deviation from the human society in the cognition of the injury identification.

"It's alright," Mao Qiping said. "The fracture is nothing more than a plaster cast and a crutch. I've seen teammates helping push wheelchairs. Those who run swish and run like lightning!"

"..." Qian Ai didn't care about the injured, and wanted to interview the teammate who pushed the wheelchair.

"What about suicide?" Wu Sheng suddenly asked, "Will suicide be bounced back to reality?"

Mao Qiping was silent for a while, then replied, "Yes."

Wu Sheng frowned, as if he had discovered a bug during debugging: "If that's the case, people who don't want to stay here, come in and cast the sea once a day, and go home in a blink of an eye."

"You can think of it, someone has already thought of it." The fog covered Mao Qiping's face, but he could hear the bitterness in his words, "Death also requires courage, like here, if you fall into the sea, you will not Immediately bounce back to reality, but a little bit of loss of temperature, sinking, and suffocation in the sea, only when you have tasted the taste of dying from beginning to end will you be sent back to reality. This experience, once is enough , few people are willing to try a second time."

Mao Qiping's description was filled with immersive despair, as if he had died like this once, and he didn't want to relive it again.

Xu Wang remembered the time he was pounced by a bear.

It was the first day he entered the "Owl", and he didn't even know the north, south, east, and west. From the beginning to the end, he thought it was a dream, so when he was attacked by the bear, he was actually not too afraid. When I think about it now, I still don't have too many lingering fears. But he remembered the pain at that moment, and he will never forget the pain in his life. Just thinking about it, the wound on his shoulder ache faintly.

"There are always people whose 'going home obsession' exceeds their 'death fear'," Wu Sheng understood Mao Qiping's emotional statement, but he was more willing to proceed from a rational point of view, "The effect of pain is diminishing marginally, and a person will be afraid once he dies, Die ten times is not the same, even if the damage is objectively the same, the subjective pain will gradually decrease."

"Commonly known as, numb." Xu Wang hurriedly explained to the following people, so as not to be confused by his teammates.

"Of course there are people like this. I met one when I was going through the second level. When I came up, I detonated the bomb, causing us to bounce out together. He said that he just wanted to try suicide. I can say goodbye to this hellish place..."

"What happened later?" Xu Wang always felt that there was more to come.

"Later, I met their team again in this endless sea, but there was no him in the team. I thought it was a reorganization of the team, but the other three people said that when they committed suicide for the tenth time, only the three of them bounced back to reality."

"That person stayed in the 'owl'?"

"No, it disappeared. Whether it is here or in reality, this person has never appeared again."

"… "

"Why didn't the other three disappear?" Wu Sheng asked, "Strictly speaking, they also committed suicide ten times."

"No," Mao Qiping said. "When that person committed suicide for the first time, he teamed up with other people. Later, he was kicked, so he teamed up with the three of them. So in total, the other three committed suicide only nine times."

Kuang Jinxin was sweating for those three people when he heard it: "They will definitely not dare to try the tenth time again..."

"I couldn't figure it out before, it's all death, how can this ghost place tell the difference between an accident or suicide? Later, after staying for a long time, I understand," Mao Qiping sighed lightly, with a hint of banter, "'Owl 'Ah, staring in our heads."

A wisp of sea breeze blew away a small cloud of fog between the ship and under the ship without warning. It seemed that the wind was coming towards the fog, so that the people on board and under the ship could see each other for a moment.

Xu Wang and Mao Qiping, whose eyes collided, were stunned at the same time. The latter still had the sadness and bitterness in his eyes that he had not had time to restrain.

The "profiteer" under the boat is not as open-minded and careless as he has shown.

"What about the third level," Xu Wang asked naturally, pretending he didn't see the other side's strangeness, "We know about injuries and deaths. I can't wait for the content of the third level!"

Mao Qiping was stunned, and immediately borrowed the donkey: "Zombie, the third level is to fight zombies."

This time, it was Xu Wang's turn to be stunned.

Taking advantage of the fact that Qian Ai could still see the boat, he hurriedly stretched his arms and jumped on the spot twice: "This kind of zombie in Qing Dynasty clothes?"

Mao Qiping was speechless. He raised his hand and showed two "black claws digging out his heart". At the same time, his upper and lower teeth "clicked" twice: "This zombie of Plants vs. Zombies!"

"Oh," Qian Ai was very disappointed, and all the Hong Kong zombie films in the 1980s that he consciously watched were useless. "You just say that the zombies are over."

"Okay, then zombies," the customer is always the biggest, "after entering, you will get vaccines and random weapons, and the vaccines will be successfully delivered to the central hospital, which is the traffic clearance."

"The environment after entering is a city?" Qian Ai asked.

Mao Qiping said: "Half the city, half the ruins."

Kuang Jinxin was startled by Qian Ai's calm and coherent question. Is this still the insecure Qian brother

Zombie, just thinking about that picture, his scalp felt numb: "Brother Qian, aren't you afraid?"

"What are you afraid of?" Qian Ai said. "This thing doesn't look like a ghost. From its appearance to its skills, it's ever-changing. It's scary. When dealing with zombies, as long as you don't get bitten, the rest is just like fighting."

"And their movements are very slow," Wu Sheng was calmer than Qian Ai. "As long as we run up and rush out of a bloody path, as long as we have enough physical strength, they will never try to catch up with us."

"That's right!" Qian Ai nodded vigorously with "I was about to say this".

The fog rose again, and Mao Qiping's face gradually blurred.

But the voice was clear: "Well, you may have misunderstood the zombies in the third level, they are not slow..."

Wu Sheng frowned: "They can run?"

"Everyone is the Bolt of the zombie world." Mao Qiping said.