The Legend of Jin Yong's Legend of the Online Game

Chapter 610 Traffic Jam

Chapter 620 Traffic Jam

Since the beginning of entering the game, Fang Jie has not gone through the normal route, so he is not very clear about some basic systems of the game. After some conversations, he learned from Lao Suntou that the running business system is a part of the game. This method of making huge profits gives ordinary players the opportunity to earn money, learn martial arts and improve their talents, and builds a fairer environment between non-RMB players and RMB players. Players may not be able to fill up their talents and learn good martial arts. This is a basic principle that the game system has always adhered to: hard work can make up for weakness, and efficiency and money can be exchanged for each other.

Of course, although it is very profitable to run merchants, especially popular goods, it is not without restrictions. Next, Lao Suntou mentioned that it would take a month to transport popular goods from Yangzhou City in the south to Hetuala City in the north. It is impossible to transport it at all, because it is impossible to teleport when running a business and the distance is too long. Even if you rush day and night, it is impossible to arrive. This has been personally verified by many running business players who have lost their money.

Therefore, running popular goods depends on the cooperation and logistics management among runners. Generally speaking, there are two types of running routes in the whole rivers and lakes. , which is the route that Lao Suntou is running now; the second is the medium and short-distance routes between various cities in the pass, such as the Foshan-Hengyang-Yangzhou route on the southern route, and the Dali-Kunming-Jingzhou-Xiangyang-Luoyang route on the southwest route... …wait.

This type of line inside the customs is different from the line outside the customs. It is often adjusted according to the situation of popular goods in each city. It is characterized by flexibility, relatively short distances, and relatively less time-consuming. The popular goods between the two cities It can be completed within a month, and you can even go back and forth. However, the corresponding profit is relatively small. Old man Sun said 50-100 times the profit of popular running business, and the profit of popular in Guanzhong is 50 times that of the bottom. Sometimes there are even only about 30-40 times the profit.

However, if you want to become popular outside the customs, you must rely on the business players inside the customs.

Every month, the market in each city will refresh a fixed amount of popular goods. Although these goods may not be the popular goods in Hetuala City this month, they may be next month, so the runners in the customs are running During the fashion process, if the destination is BJ, sometimes some non-popular goods will be shipped along with them and sold at a higher price to some middlemen in the city who buy and sell players. After the fashion is refreshed next month, these middlemen will When there are popular goods from Hetuala City, they will be resold to runners outside the customs at high prices. In this way, although the profits of runners outside the customs are diluted, they do not need to purchase goods from Yangzhou City, saving a lot of time. It makes it feasible to run a business outside the customs.

Here Fang Jie found a problem, thinking that since running popular in the customs can earn at least 30-40 times the profit, why do these running merchants in the customs want to sell non-popular goods to middlemen by the way?Wouldn't it be more profitable to bring all the popular goods?

In this regard, Lao Suntou’s explanation is that there is a fixed amount of popular goods in each city every month, that is, each kind of goods only has a quota of 100 million points of load, although 100 million points of load may sound scary. There are so many players, if one person transports a little, the 100 million loads of popular goods will be divided up at once, and those running merchants who are late and do not enter or do not have a full warehouse of popular goods can only buy other goods. The road is gone, but despite this, the profits of these goods are at least 5-10 times when they are shipped to the destination. If there is a middleman to buy them, sometimes it can even reach 20 times the profits. It does not lose money and also provides convenience for players outside the customs.

After listening to these introductions, Fang Jie couldn't help being dumbfounded. The merchant running system in the Ganqing game has formed a relatively mature industry. The terminal running business players, which also include the accompanying products player guards and player horse thieves, really is a big world, full of surprises, it is hard to imagine that this will appear in a virtual reality online game.

Just when Fang Jie was full of sighs, the old grandson smiled triumphantly and said, "Hey, that's why I said, there are many paths in this mall if you have many friends. Others buy popular goods from BJ City, and they often can't buy them." , Even if you buy it, it is impossible to fill the warehouse. After all, there are hundreds of popular goods. Those middlemen are purely lucky. In terms of friendship, they can always give me some popular goods, so every time I go down, I don’t lose money.”

"So it is!" Fang Jie couldn't help admiring.

If Fang Jie thought that the old grandson was just being sincere to others before, then now, besides this, he thinks that the other party is very shrewd and has a business sense. Most of the huge benefits are based on connections and relationships. Old Suntou's trick of being full of peaches and plums can be said to have grasped the essence of connections. Others can get 50 times the profit in one trip. You can make a hundred times the profit without saying a word, the so-called specialization in skills, Fang Jie can only feel inferior in this respect.

It seems that because Fang Jie had a very good impression, the old grandson shared his experience without any secrets: "If you want to run a business, I suggest you go to the customs first, because the distance is short and the danger is relatively small." , you can get acquainted with the process first and learn some experience, and then run outside the customs after the business skills are high, so that you won’t lose everything!”

"I'm running a business?" Fang Jie was stunned. Although he was more interested in running a business, he didn't intend to waste a lot of time doing it. He just asked on the spur of the moment. Maybe he would use it after learning about the game. Yes, but there is no such plan at present, there are more than 20 billion yuan in the bank, and a quote is-we are not short of money!

However, in front of the old grandson, Fang Jie didn't want to tell the truth to hurt the other party's interest, but after looking around, he asked along the topic: "I always heard you said that running a business is dangerous, but I don't think it seems What's the danger?"

"Hehe," the old grandson was amused by Fang Jie's ignorance, and he couldn't help laughing: "This running business is actually the same as your martial arts players doing tasks. When you do martial arts tasks, are you sent by the system?" NPCs and even players come to intercept? There are still NPCs and players to intercept during the business run! Not to mention NPCs, as for those players, some of them come purely for killing people, but most of them come only after receiving special sect missions. Yes, when the time comes, either his death or my death will be the result, it’s nothing if I die, if this pile of goods is gone, I’ll lose everything!”

"So that's how it is..." Fang Jie nodded knowingly, thinking to himself that this would allow martial arts players to interact with business players. Although a business player loses an item once, it is not hurting, but it is It will also bleed a lot, but if a martial arts player fails to rob and is killed, it is also very depressing. This is the PK system that the game system has painstakingly created. Hello, I am good, everyone is good in this system There is not much living space in the village at all. In the end, it depends on who has more money to hire a large number of expert guards, or whose martial arts is so powerful that one can defeat a hundred-this is more like a quack.

Thinking of this, Fang Jie looked around again, and after counting, he found that this caravan with more than a hundred carriages and the guards plus him had less than 20 people. This seems to be a little too small, right?With this in mind, Fang Jie couldn't help asking: "Your old business team has at least a hundred or two carriages, right? But if you only hire twenty guards, will you be unable to take care of the situation?"

The old grandson smiled casually, and said: "The carriage has an attached NPC driver, and we players don't need to drive it ourselves. As for the guards... 20 people really can't take care of them, but take a look..."

Having said that, Old Sun raised his finger around, and Fang Jie took a quick look, and saw other caravans walking slowly around the caravan, and these caravans hired some guards, and there were not many people. Many, seeing this, Fang Jie seems to have guessed something, and the old grandson also gave the answer in due course: "There is an unwritten rule on this line, that is, once a certain caravan encounters robbers, the nearby caravan They are all obliged to send people to help. My caravan is short of manpower, but how about adding the guards of other caravans? Hey, speaking of it, I was the first to make this rule. I sent people to help the team when something happened, but as a result, everyone came and went like this.”

"This..." Fang Jie glanced at Lao Sun with admiration. In his view as a realist, such a rule of obligatory help is simply impossible. Menqianxue’s mentality, but the facts told him that this impossible thing happened right in front of his eyes, and it was advocated by the old grandson. Fang Jie had to admit that this touched him a lot, and felt that this world There is still a nice side to it.

However, it didn't take long for this good feeling to be broken by one thing, and this thing is a phenomenon that people have long been accustomed to in reality-traffic jam!
The game is different from reality. There are neither one-way traffic lights nor traffic police. NPC officers and soldiers only care about murder and arson. Maintaining traffic order is not within the scope of duties of NPC officers and soldiers. Therefore, although the official road is wide enough, it cannot withstand crowds. Teams of business runners get together, especially some people are born with the kind of scum without social morality, and they can do whatever they want without the restraint of the management mechanism.

In fact, after many years of running-in, the running business players in the game have gradually formed an unspoken traffic rule, which is similar to the actual highway driving rules. The official road with five parallel carriages is divided into five driving lines. The driving line is used as an emergency passage, and the two lines on both sides are used as a round-trip driving line, and these two driving lines are divided into a fast lane and a slow lane, and the slow lane is the one closest to the side.

The reason why there are fast and slow lanes is that according to the skill level of the runners and the amount of investment, one-wheel, two-wheel and four-wheel trucks can be rented or purchased from the market in each city. Trucks of different levels have different loads and speeds. Different, the stamina consumption of horses is also different. In addition, you can also increase the number of horses to increase the transportation speed. Runners can also adjust the speed according to the actual situation to save the stamina of the horses. In short, in this way, There is a difference in driving speed, and a fast lane for "overtaking" is born.

This is the unspoken rule that almost all business players default to. After all, no one wants to see a chaotic traffic situation affect their business plan, but this is like queuing up at the cafeteria or buying tickets at the station in reality. , there are always some social scum with low quality, corrupt morality, and ignoring public morals because their skin is thicker than the city wall. This is the reality, let alone in the game of talking with fists. What makes Fang Jie depressed is that he is now Encountered such a disgusting thing.

The cause of the incident is actually very simple, that is, the aforementioned scum occupies the fast lane but moves slowly like a snail. Use it, but the problem is that the speed of this caravan is exactly the same as that of a caravan in the slow lane. After the two teams come together side by side, the caravan behind cannot pass.

What should I do if I can't get past it?The people behind started to get anxious, thinking that you broke the rules in front, then I will not be polite. I immediately led the team to the emergency passage in the middle and wanted to pass quickly, but the problem came out again. I did it once or twice and it still didn’t happen. What's the problem, but there are always some caravans whose speed is not much faster than the scum caravans in front, and the faster caravans in the back are gradually blocked behind.

Things got out of hand if things continued to evolve. Some caravans drove directly to the opposite of the official road, blocking all the passages back and forth. No one is willing to give in. The situation is almost the same as the big traffic jam in reality. If there is a difference, it is that if the problem is not solved by yourself, this traffic jam is possible for a year. There is no enforcement of traffic police fine points, and there is no tow truck to tow away these carriages full of goods.

Seeing the traffic jam in front of him, and the busy trucks couldn't see the end, Fang Jie said very depressedly: "When will this traffic jam last! Can't we leave the official road?"

Although the old grandson has long been accustomed to this, he still couldn't help but sighed and said: "Oh! I can't help it, I can only admit that I am unlucky, now you know why you don't necessarily catch up with the epidemic once a month, right? It’s not impossible to walk from the side of the official road, but it’s better inside the pass. Look at the two sides of the official road. It’s icy and snowy. The horse’s speed will be affected by the snow, and it will also consume a lot of stamina. This stamina is money. If the horses are exhausted after being in the snow for a long time, but the goods don’t arrive, it’s really ineffective every day!”

Speaking of this, the old grandson seemed to be a little unsatisfied and said: "Besides... well, this person is unwilling to suffer, especially when he has done nothing wrong. What about those who let themselves suffer because of public morality?"

Fang Jie nodded approvingly and said, "Well, if it were me, I wouldn't want to suffer this kind of loss for nothing. In terms of responsibility, that scum should bear it. I'm just a victim."

"That's what you say." The old grandson glanced at Fang Jie very understandingly, but said: "Isn't there a saying called taking a step back? It's no big deal to suffer for a while, can it be blocked here? Will everyone get better in a year?"

Hearing this, Fang Jie smiled disapprovingly, and said: "Boy, I am not as open-minded as you are. I do things based on my conscience. If I am worthy of others, I must also be worthy of myself. The so-called people fight for their breath, and I can take a step back in some things. There are some things that I can't back down no matter what..." At this point, Fang Jie thought for a while, and asked tentatively: "Since you keep saying that, do you want to go down the official path and move on?"

The old grandson smiled wryly and said: "You kid deliberately run on me? I want to leave the officialdom, but my horses can't bear it. After running for so many years, I have already explored a set of the most economical and efficient running If it goes down the official road, I'm afraid the convoy won't be able to reach Ningyuan Town in front of us, and we'll have to take a break!"

Fang Jie couldn't help laughing, and said proudly: "That's right, that's why I said that some things are not enough to retreat, and sometimes you have to fight!"

"Fight? How to fight?" The old grandson was stunned for a moment, but guessed something, he quickly grabbed the rein in Fang Jie's hand, and warned in a low voice: "You boy, don't mess around! The old man I've seen There are more things in the world than you eat, and some things are not as simple as you imagined..."

Speaking of this, after looking around for a while, the old grandson used his superficial internal strength to transmit a voice and said secretly: "Boy, it's not the old man, I look down on you, you can't fight this matter. Normally, the official road Things like today happen occasionally. Since the caravan in front dared to block the road, it must be a bit emboldened. I have encountered this situation once before. They relied on being a disciple of the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau, and they had someone behind them... You may I don’t know yet, Zhenyuan Escort Bureau is a bully on the official road of BJ-Ningyuan line, if you mess with them, there will be no way to escape this line in the future.”

"Zhenyuan Escort Bureau?" Fang Jie was slightly taken aback, and thought to himself: "The head of Zhenyuan Escort Bureau is in BJ City, and what they do is to carry darts and run business for a living. It is reasonable to control this business route... ..."

Seeing that Fang Jie was silent, the old grandson thought that Fang Jie was afraid, so he hurriedly called the railway: "It's just a trivial matter for the people in the Zhenyuan Security Bureau to break the rules and block the road. You will know when you get to Ningyuan Town, just break the barrier You have to pay a toll of 100 taels of gold for every carriage entering the city. The cost of eating, drinking, and sleeping in the town is a hundred times more expensive than other towns. They were all confiscated."

"Is there such a thing?"

Although Fang Jie did not object to this kind of disguised collection of protection fees, he also felt that the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau's charges were too dark. When he was about to say something, he saw the caravan that was blocked in the middle of the road began to move forward slowly. Wriggling, at this moment, I saw a horse galloping ahead with billowing dust and smoke, and the man immediately shouted loudly and repeatedly every time he walked: "Passing caravans, please pay attention to maintaining formation! We are outside the pass. Hu’s law enforcement brigade, the road ahead is clear, please abide by the traffic laws consciously!”

Hearing this nondescript call, Fang Jie couldn't help being stunned, and said, "Huh? The Hu family outside the pass? That's right, the outside of the pass should be the sphere of influence of the Hu family..."

(End of this chapter)