To become the richest man from the beginning of the game

Chapter 640 I firmly believe in this (ask for a monthly ticket!)

This sudden scene at the end completely stunned He An. When he came back to his senses, the list of credits at the end of the film had already appeared on the screen.

It's just that what's broadcast along with the credits is not the highlights of the game, but a news report.

"The president delivered a eulogy on the passing of Jeff Arnault, the current president of the luxury group, through the official White House blog. The full text of the eulogy is as follows:"

"'Mitchell (the President's wife) and I are deeply saddened to hear the news of the passing of Mr. Jeff Ernor. Jeff was hardworking, self-disciplined, and possessed a noble character. He was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, A best-selling author and a dear friend of ours.'”

"'He is good at thinking differently and believes that he can work hard to change the world and help others. His charitable foundation has relieved tens of thousands of homeless people, and his book "Strive and Grow Rich" inspired It has helped countless young people to fight for their dreams.'”

"'The world has lost a visionary who will always be missed. Mitchell and I send our thoughts and prayers to Jeff's wife, his family and all those who loved him. '"

"..."

"It is reported that Mr. Jeff Arnault was brutally murdered by murderers when he was signing a book in a bookstore in the Brooklyn area. Tens of thousands of people were excited and demanded that the murderer be severely punished by law."

"Currently, it is not clear the murderer's real motive for the murder. The police have not found any quarrel between him and Mr. Jeff. The murderer seems to have a mental disorder and refuses to answer any questions from the police. He just keeps repeating the word 'liar'. To the murderer Judgment, this station will continue to track..."

In the final news screen, the protagonist's parents, wife, and children were weeping at the protagonist's funeral.

The rich man's game is all over now.

……

He An was a little dizzy.

Gone?

ended?

What does this ending mean?

My career just took off, and then people disappeared?

Who is this murderer?

Why did he want to kill me?

Did I choose some options wrong before, so I played a tragic ending?

It always feels like something is wrong.

He An thought about it carefully, and the flow of the whole game seems to be okay, the transition between scenes is very natural, and the details are well done, which is very immersive.

The only thing is this ending, it's too abrupt, without any foreshadowing before!

He An thought about it, and felt that he might have missed some links and steps. If he played the second week or the poor version, he might be able to play other endings.

After all, there are at least dozens of branch lines to choose, and there may be some other options that can change fate hidden in it.

However, He An doesn't plan to play the second week of play now, the ending has left him with a bit of psychological trauma.

The game as a whole is very well done, whether it is the story, the plot, the lines or the details of the screen, there is nothing to criticize, but this story is the only one that makes people confused.

This feeling is like going to a banquet, good wine and good dishes are served one after another, but just after the first bite, the table is turned over.

"Is there something related to the rich man's version hidden in the poor man's version?"

He An couldn't help but have such an idea.

Although the introduction of the poor version is enough to dissuade him, He An still has some luck.

What if there is something special about it?

After thinking about it for a moment, he clicked on the poor version and started the game.

Like the rich man's version, the poor man's version also begins with an inner monologue.

……

"I am very grateful to my father."

"If it wasn't for him, I'd probably go to Polkin Elementary, one of the worst public elementary schools in the country, where half of the graduates go to secondary schools known as 'cesspools', where more than 40% of students do not graduate, so it is also known as the 'dropout factory'."

"There are [-] such 'dropout factories' across the country, and they will continuously send idle young people to society."

"In our state, where 68 percent of all criminals are high school dropouts, the state government has a comical inversion of funding for prisons and students, with enough money spent on an inmate every four years to spend a child in a private institution. After finishing K12 in kindergarten, the school can still have $2 left over to go to university.”

"There are 7 homeless people in the country's largest city. Every day on the streets and in subway stations, you will encounter countless beggars, disabled people, mentally ill, alcoholics, and criminals."

"Thirty-six per cent of them are children, and the remaining 36 per cent are mostly single mothers and single men without children."

"In this country, you have to have a sum of money first, so that you can continue to cycle your life in a cheap way."

"If you get to the point where you need relief, you can't find a job if you get relief, you can't rent a house without a job, and you can't do anything without a house. Once you become homeless, it means social death, even if You are in good health with sound hands and feet, and it is impossible for you to return to your previous life, so you can only live on the streets for the rest of your life."

"I'm sensitive to these numbers, I don't know if it's a gift or a survival instinct."

"Maybe the life of the poor is just a series of numbers."

"A lot of poor people complain about their parents."

"But anyway, I am very grateful to my father."

"He didn't make me one of those guys."

"My father has always told me that I should learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of the poor, work hard and not follow the crowd."

"Struggle will change your life."

"I have no doubts about it."

Different from the beginning of the rich version, the beginning of the poor version is not a specific event, but many fragmented scenes, depicting those pictures in the protagonist's narration in an abstract way.

Immediately afterwards, there are memories of the protagonist's childhood.

"Shortly after I was born, my mother had to quit her job and become a full-time wife because she was the only one who could take care of me."

"It didn't change until I went to kindergarten, because kindergarten dismisses at 1:[-] p.m. and leaving the child alone at home would be a violation of child protection laws."

"So, if my mother's after-tax salary can't go to kindergarten or cram school to meet the child protection laws, it's better not to work, but it will save more money."

"My father worked more than ten hours a day, and I rarely saw him. But his contribution was meaningful. He took me out of Polkin Elementary School and came to a better school district."

"We live in low-rent housing, which is a kind of luck, because you can only live in the 20% to 25% income range. You must be poorer than 75% of people, and richer than the lowest 20%. It's a very demanding number."

"Hobbies? No, that's a number I can't afford."

Accompanied by the protagonist's narration, scenes of scenes flashed across the screen.

In the low-rent housing, the protagonist's mother is taking care of the baby alone. She is so busy that the whole room is in chaos.

The protagonist's public school is also very different from the wealthy version of the private school, but what is even more surprising is the after-school entertainment.

In the rich version, the recreational activities of the players are horse riding, archery, learning music and painting, while in the poor version, the recreational activities of the players are running and jumping in the yard, riding bicycles or playing football and baseball.

Although these small games are also very well done, they become dull compared with the rich version.

He An wanted the protagonist to learn some hobbies instead of running wildly in the yard every day, but soon found that his funds were stretched.

Ask a teacher to come to teach cello, the price is 75 knives per hour;

Parents take their children to swimming lessons for 20 dollars per 30 minutes, and if it is a professional course, it is 200 dollars per hour.

Gymnastics class is 30 minutes, 5~10 children take it together, the teacher leads the warm-up for 2 minutes at the beginning, and the rest of the time is for parents to accompany the children to play with props and equipment, 20 dollars per class.

Even these low-quality and not-so-cheap courses need to be booked more than 2 months in advance.

For He An, the most prominent feeling between the poor version and the rich version is that it is boring.

With no money, there are only a few options to choose from, whether it's running around in the yard or riding a bicycle, it is obvious that I am wasting time.

Similarly, the poor version of the characters are also very facial, and the obesity problem is serious, which is also completely in line with the stereotype.

After childhood comes youth, where the main character works hard to get into high school and take out college on loan.In high school, there are more activities, you can join the choir and band, you can participate in the debate.

Although the protagonists of the poor and the rich work almost as hard, there is a big gap in the resources they can obtain.

Whether you can be admitted to university will determine the content of the game in the subsequent work stage.

If you don’t have professional skills, you can only work as restaurant waiters, cleaners, elderly care workers or supermarket tally workers, or even work seven days a week and work two jobs, and you will still go bankrupt;

A colleague accidentally sprained herself while cleaning. She didn’t dare to call an ambulance, or even go home to rest. She could only kneel on one foot and continue cleaning. Because she couldn’t lose a day’s salary, the team leader only told her to “calm down and rely on work to support her.” past".

If you want to get a job in the low-end service industry, you can only find a job in a big city, but the rent in the big city has been raised to an almost unaffordable level by the rich. If you can’t afford a deposit for a cheaper apartment, you can only If you live in a high-priced capsule hotel, you will become poorer and poorer. Once you get sick or the rent rises in the peak season, you may go bankrupt or even sleep on the street.

If you find a job through your own hard work and earn about $4000 a month, the situation will be a little better, but you will still be overwhelmed by various expenses, and the monthly fixed expenses account for all your income. 80%, 25% tax and insurance, 29% rent, 26% child education, 5% car, 5% water and electricity, 10% food and clothing, not including medical care.

Basically, it is difficult to leave 400 dollars a month, and if any accident happens, it is still bankrupt and homeless.

If you can make all the right choices and get a relatively high-paying job, your life will be relatively more comfortable, but various related expenses will also increase linearly, and some expenses that were originally unnecessary have become options that must be paid.

And this is also the point that makes He An feel the most outrageous. Obviously, he can save a lot of money, but many expenses are still deducted by the game forcibly, such as:

Buy luxury suits and bags for decent work;

Spent 2000 knives and took the child to the Sea Paradise for three days on his birthday;

Social expenses, including living communities, children's extracurricular studies, etc., are also a lot of money;

In order to save money, I am used to paying by credit card installments, so that the number of credit card repayments in each installment is very high, and I have no idea where the money is spent...

And these choices seem to be inevitable, such as buying luxury suits and bags. The protagonist didn’t want to buy them at first, but all the colleagues in the company are using them.

Therefore, the protagonist finally gritted his teeth and bought these things.

Arriving here, He An seems to have a little understanding of what the protagonist said at the beginning.

The life of the poor is a series of numbers, and these numbers are all kinds of expenses.

In the end, however, the numbers crashed.

As the consumption level of the protagonist is getting higher and higher, the sudden unemployment destroys everything, and the whole chain collapses quickly: loss of income, credit card, bank to take away the house, credit card debt and interest accumulation...

As a result, the protagonist's living environment has returned to the way his father was.

In one scene after another, the protagonist's voice sounded again.

"My father has always told me that I should learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of the poor, work hard and not follow the crowd."

"Struggle will change your life."

"I tried, but everything seemed to go back to the way it was, nothing changed."

"Is my struggle pointless? I don't think so. At least I'm not one of those homeless people."

"I often think:"

"If I hadn't lost my job..."

"If I save more..."

"If only I could spend less..."

"If... I can make some more correct choices, can I change my destiny?"

In the last scene, the protagonist returns home late at night after a day's work and sneaks into the child's room.

In the darkness, he looked at the sleeping child by the moonlight and covered him with a blanket.

At this moment, the child woke up, rubbed his eyes with his tender little hands, and asked, "Dad, why do you come back so late every day and never have time to accompany me?"

He was silent for a while, and touched the child's forehead: "Because mom doesn't have a job, dad has to work hard to make money."

The child said again: "When will Dad accompany me?"

He said, "Wait until Dad earns enough money."

The child's eyes were shining: "Dad, when I grow up and earn enough money, you can accompany me every day, right?"

"Then dad, how can I make enough money?"

The protagonist was silent for a long time, and then said: "Money doesn't fall from the sky, only if you are not satisfied with the status quo, can life change for the better."

"Learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of the poor, work hard, and don't follow the crowd."

"Only by working hard can you change your life."

The child's big eyes were shining brightly in the moonlight, and he nodded emphatically.

The game ended, and a list of production staff appeared on the screen.

In the ending scene this time, a young man is immersed in his studies. At the same time, another younger narrator whose voice is different from that of the protagonist sounds.

"My father has always told me that I should learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of the poor, work hard and not follow the crowd."

"Struggle will change your life."

"I have no doubts about it."

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