Cultivation: I Studied Abroad in the Modern Era
Chapter 73

Comparing Misery

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The game Zheng Fa wants is similar to the scroll that Senior Sister Zhang used to test Seventh Young Master.

It means that according to Origin Talisman, a large number of Talisman Diagram can be displayed on the screen for Zheng Fa to click, and finally the accuracy of his selection can be judged.

Zheng Fa knows very well that his greatest advantage is the Topology knowledge of this world, or more specifically, the notebook Old Man Bai summarized.

This is the source of Senior Sister Zhang's deep belief in his Talisman Dao talent.

Something that Senior Sister Zhang values so much makes it easy for him to maintain a genius persona on Immortal Selection Fair.

What he needs now is to turn the knowledge in this notebook into instinct.

Hearing his request, Old Man Bai frowned and thought for a while, "I am an old antique who doesn't know much about computers, but it doesn't sound difficult."

Zheng Fa nodded. According to him, this thing is probably at the level of a web game.

"It's those ghost pictures again..." Old Man Bai looked at him for a while and said, "I don't even ask you why. This game is easy to handle and difficult to handle."

"What's so difficult to do?"

"I need money." Old Man Bai said bluntly to Zheng Fa: "I can help you ask your former colleagues to see which computer students are free to help you get this, but it can't be free."

"How much?" Zheng Fa felt very guilty when he heard this. He really didn't understand this aspect.

"How much can you offer?"

Old Man Bai knew about his family's situation and asked directly without being secretive.

Zheng Fa calculated in his mind that he had savings.

His parents' pension plus their lifetime savings totaled over one million yuan. The community staff helped him get a large certificate of deposit, and the annual interest was about 50,000 yuan.

He was not prepared to use the principal.

But coupled with miscellaneous subsidies, Zheng Fa's annual disposable income is stable at more than 50,000 yuan.

He lives a very frugal life, rarely going out or socializing. The total cost of eating in the cafeteria five days a week is less than thirty yuan. On weekends, he occasionally buys roast chicken and other supplements to supplement nutrition and improve his food. He spends just over a thousand yuan on food a month.

If other miscellaneous expenses are added in, his annual expenses are basically controlled within 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

In the five years since he came to this world, in addition to his original savings of around one million, he actually has more than one hundred thousand more.

"Eighty thousand?"

He thought for a while, but still left some living money, and nervously said a number.

"..." Old Man Bai stared at him for a long time before saying, "I think you have some misunderstandings about college students."

"... isn't it enough?"

"According to my observation, college students basically have the same characteristics." Old Man Bai said quietly.

"What?"

"Poor!"

"..."

"Okay, let me ask for you, don't be too stupid. People say the price is what it is. Remember to bargain!" Probably because Zheng Fa really didn't understand the market, Old Man Bai also warned.

Old Man Bai acted quickly and quickly pushed a business card to Zheng Fa on social media.

"I asked, this student is the best for you."

"Does he have the best technique?" Zheng Fa asked.

"He is the poorest! What kind of skills do you think you need for that crappy thing? Who would be willing to do it for you if it weren't for the sake of money? When I told people about it, the teacher laughed at me and said that making this thing is an insult to their computer science students."

"..."

"This guy recently had a girlfriend and is short of money."

I understand - love or dignity, sometimes you can only choose one.

The person introduced by Old Man Bai has a profile picture of a white cartoon puppy. The rope holding the puppy disappears in the upper right corner of the profile picture. The user name is Han Xiaobai.

He sent the other party a friend message, and the other party quickly approved it.

"Boss?"

"Hello, do you know the specific needs?"

"Know."

"Then may I ask, how much does it cost to make such a game?"

Zheng Fa saw "Inputting..." displayed at the top of the dialog box.

Later this line disappeared again.

Then the same prompt appeared again, and so on, and it took three minutes before I saw the other party's reply:

"Fifty thousand!"

Zheng Fa remembered Old Man Bai's reminder and moved his finger to cut the fracture according to the price.

"5000!"

The other party fell into a longer silence.

"Boss, this is too cruel."

"Just 5000."

"I really can't do it. I'm still a student. Please give me more."

"I'm in my third year of high school, it's cheaper."

"..."

The other party typed another long paragraph to show off his misfortune:

"You don't know, this money is really indispensable. I recently got a girlfriend, and thieves can spend money. There are more boys than girls studying computers, so it's not easy to find a girlfriend. She spent all my living expenses! She recently bought a new mobile phone that cost several thousand, and I was too embarrassed to ask my parents for money, so I took this job."

"..."

"You can spend so much money on games when you are only in high school. Maybe you don't understand my difficulties. Recently I really can't even afford food in the cafeteria..."

"... I really envy you for having parents." Zheng Fa typed with his lips pursed.

"???" The other party first put a row of question marks, and then said, "Fuck! 5000 is 5000!"

In the evening, Zheng Fa saw the other party again and sent him a few words:

"To be honest, this game is not difficult. You can make it with a free template. The only troublesome thing is the input of those pictures, which is also purely physical work. It costs 5,000 yuan to barely make it."

"But this game has no future. If you are in the situation you said, I would advise you not to do it."

Zheng Fa replied, "Are you not short of money when you fall in love?"

"For what it's worth, this crappy game is so rubbish. I thought you were a stupid rich man who didn't know the ropes, and I just wanted to cheat you out of money." The other party said frankly, "But in your situation, I can't see you wasting your money."

"Thank you." Zheng Fa thought for a while, "I do this for other purposes."

"That's good, I'm just reminding you."

"How much does the mobile phone cost? Let's use that price when the time comes."

"The boss is awesome! I promise to do the job quickly and well for you!"

"Zheng Fa, what are you doing again?" asked Zheng Fa and Wang Chen, looking at Zheng Fa who suddenly became depressed again.

"Play games." Zheng Fa closed his eyes, and his mind seemed to still have the dense Talisman Diagram on the computer last night.

"Play games!" Wang Chen suddenly became excited, patted Zheng Fa on the shoulder and said, "You finally got lost on the road of being a top student and separated from the masses? What are you playing? Let's play in double queue!"

"Small games, you've never played them before."

"What little game is so fun?" Zheng Fa and Wang Chen were really curious looking at Zheng Fa who was too lazy to open his eyes.

"Just..." Zheng Fa thought about how to describe it, "It's equivalent to giving you a human face. You have to find his parents, his grandparents, his seventh aunt, his eighth aunt, and even his eighteenth generation ancestors among tens of thousands of faces..."

"What's so fun about this game?"

"You don't understand, I am cultivating my own talent."

"What talent?" Wang Chen frowned and asked, "A talent for performing paternity testing with the naked eye?"

Having said this, he suddenly looked at Zheng Fa with sympathy. "I know you have low self-esteem and are under a lot of pressure when you are with Tang Lingwu, but you also have to have some trust in people - at least you can't prepare for a rainy day so early."

"?"

Xuanwei Realm, Senior Sister Zhang's small courtyard.

"Immortal Selection Fair's rules have changed this time. It doesn't determine the product, but depends on the ranking." Senior Sister Zhang said to Zheng Fa and Seventh Young Master: "It means it's not just that you Talisman Dao have good talent, but that you are better than others."

Hearing this, Seventh Young Master's face changed.

(End of chapter)

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