"Li, this is insane. Are these people all gamblers?"
Max, flushed with excitement, placed the odds and ends in his hands in Bumblebee's trunk, then gesticulated wildly as he marveled at what he'd just experienced.
Seven in the evening.
This money-raking trip, which had left Li Si feeling quite pleased, had to come to an early end.
There were still far too few players in the game. The total was under a hundred thousand, scattered all over the world. Even with him stirring up trouble in New York, only one or two thousand new players had been drawn in.
This time was nothing like the last, when he'd had to set up cardboard boxes and open them by hand. The pack-opening machine was astonishingly efficient. It took the new players only a little over three hours to finish drawing their prizes. The ones left either had no money or didn't want to keep drawing. Li Si didn't want to waste time waiting for the stragglers still trickling in.
"Money isn't really money to them, and people always think they're the luckiest one!"
Li Si directed Bumblebee to put several large cardboard boxes on the ground, then explained with a laugh.
Players' money was even easier to earn than gamblers'. To them, U.S. dollars were just virtual currency, and they even got some for free when they started the game. How much could they possibly value it?
There were probably plenty of people who wanted more prize draws, anyway. The dollars in their hands could only be used to cover food, clothing, housing, and transportation in the game. For them, prize draws were actually a good way to spend it.
Otherwise, if this were like certain pay-to-win games where free currency was completely useless and all the good stuff required a