Record: All players have now reached 365 days of game time. The game will automatically issue a random New Year gift pack.
Record: The gift pack rewards are completely random. Please open your gifts in an open area.
Record: We wish all players an enjoyable game! At this celebratory moment, the game has also, unusually, changed its skin.
The originally pale green game interface had turned into a festive rainbow color scheme.
Although it had not explained what the gifts actually were, for the vast majority of players still living below the poverty line, this was nevertheless an unexpected benefit.
"Whoa, I opened a huge bottle of cola. It's the two-liter kind, too!"
"A wooden fish. Are they trying to make me become a monk? No, I still need to carry on the bloodline of my Old Wang family."
"An Old Phone. Holy crap, I struck it rich! This thing can be recycled at the Logistics Department for three copper coins."
"Tsk, tsk. Does anyone need underwear? Why would they give a grown man like me this as a reward?"
"I do! I'll trade you a razor for it!"
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Hoping that a gift pack distributed to everyone could produce a grand prize capable of changing one's fate was impossible.
When the red gift boxes were opened, all sorts of flashy little trinkets appeared before everyone's eyes.
Some people were lucky enough to receive items they could use and happily showed them off to those nearby.
Others were less fortunate and received things they had no use for. They simply began hawking them around the venue and started trading directly.
"Damn it, did I use up all my luck last time? Why did a perfectly good gift pack give me this?"
Sitting on a distinctive piece of rotten wood, Man