Chapter 8: A Blue Ocean Offline

Chapter 8: A Blue Ocean Offline

Chapter 8: A Blue Ocean Offline

It can be done unless prohibited by law.

This is not just empty talk, nor is it even private approval, but encouragement that is put on the table!

Just like Coral Polyp, its download volume almost surpassed the genuine QQ. I don’t know how many lawsuits were fought, but in the end, we won the lawsuit after suing for infringement.

The Internet in 03 was in its wild growth stage, and no one took many things seriously.

Besides, Xu Mingyuan is not a fool. How could he put himself in the crosshairs just to make some quick money?

Nowadays, there are at least 8,000 people who make cheats. They just quietly make some money and leave without anyone noticing.

Xu Mingyuan doesn’t know how to make plug-ins, but it shouldn’t be difficult for him to learn how to disassemble a package.

Even if you can't learn all of these, you can find someone else to do it. These are not a problem at all.

Thinking of this, Xu Mingyuan opened the web page and searched for the plug-in keyword. In an instant, the entire page was filled with plug-in download addresses. You could scroll from the beginning to the bottom and turn two pages.

Xu Mingyuan's heart suddenly sank. Wasn't this competition a bit too fierce?

The spirit of the Internet is sharing, and this is real sharing. Many plug-ins are free and are provided for free download and use. Only a small number of plug-ins with comprehensive functions that seriously damage the gameplay will be charged.

The way out he just thought of was blocked, and Xu Mingyuan couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

I registered for a random game and downloaded a cheat, but it suddenly crashed within two minutes of using it.

"poisoned?"

Xu Mingyuan was stunned, and almost forgot that this was an era where you could get poisoned just by browsing a web page.

I just clicked on restart and saw that the time was already past 11pm.

When he thought that Xiao Yangzhi was still waiting for him at the night market, Xu Mingyuan felt that he was quite unreliable, so he went to the bathroom to wash his hands carefully.

Since it's already late, these two minutes won't make any difference.

Walking back, from a distance, Xu Mingyuan saw Xiao Yangzhi's thin figure busying around, apparently helping a couple who were selling clothes to close their stall.

"You kid, why did you come to pick up your sister at such a late hour? Yang Zhi was already anxious. She stood up after sitting for a while and took a look. As a brother, you really aren't worried."

"Excuse me, Auntie. Isn't she under your watch? It's a good opportunity to give her some exercise."

Xu Mingyuan apologized with a smile, chatted for a few minutes after helping the other party load the car, and then left with Xiao Yangzhi.

"I'm late, can't you go back by yourself? You're so brave, how can you get lost when you're such a grown-up? You've embarrassed me in public."

Seeing that Xiao Yangzhi kept her head down all day, she thought that she thought she was thrown away by her again.

Yang Zhi remained silent and just shook his head slightly.

In fact, she was not worried that Xu Mingyuan would abandon her. She just felt that it was so late. She also knew that Xu Mingyuan was a prickly person, so she was worried that he would get into trouble outside.

After all, Xu Jun had gotten into trouble, and Xu Mingyuan had just recovered from his injury. If something happened again, Yang Zhi would really be sure that he was a disaster star.

"Didn't you eat?" Xu Mingyuan asked.

"It's time to eat."

"Then let's go get some midnight snack."

"I'm not hungry."

"Then just watch me eat."

"..."

After several days of contact, Yang Zhi has understood one thing.

When Xu Mingyuan asked for his opinion, he was not asking himself to make a choice, but to inform...

At this time, almost all the stalls except the barbecue stalls were closed, and I just bought some fruits in the end.

Xu Mingyuan wiped the plum he bought with his clothes and took a bite.

"Tsk, it's a bit sour and not tasty."

Then the plum in his hand drew a parabola and hit the trash can, making a crisp "bang" sound, and disappeared into the darkness.

It seems that it was not thrown in.

Xu Mingyuan did not correct this uncivilized behavior. Now, you can see garbage thrown away casually every few steps on the street.

As the so-called broken window effect goes, Xu Mingyuan has never been a person who takes the initiative to abide by the rules.

On the contrary, Xiao Yangzhi was a very rule-abiding person. He walked obediently to the trash can and threw the banana peel in his hand into it.

"Brother, how about going to the market tomorrow?"

"Sold out?"

Xu Mingyuan glanced at the schoolbag behind Xiao Yangzhi.

"It's almost done. Sales are good today. We've made over 300 yuan."

Yang Zhi felt a little secretly delighted and wanted to take credit for it.

"Bring it here."

"Oh."

Yang Zhi held the bag in one hand and took off her schoolbag with great effort, but the entire bag was taken away by Xu Mingyuan.

Xu Mingyuan simply took out the bag of glass jewelry and threw them into the trash can one by one. "Don't throw it away, there are still a lot."

Yang Zhi was stunned and wanted to go up to stop him.

"You don't have to sell tomorrow. Just stay at home and study. Don't you have a placement test at the beginning of the school year? Don't fall behind in your studies." Xu Mingyuan said casually.

"It won't delay me. I have time during the day and I won't fall behind in my studies."

Although Yang Zhi wanted to stop it, she didn't dare to resist, and the pain in her eyes was about to burst into tears.

"Did you rank in the top ten in your grade? You said you wouldn't fall behind? I would be embarrassed to say that if I were you!"

Xu Mingyuan scolded and emptied his backpack.

"..."

Xiao Yangzhi was silent.

She still remembered that Xu Mingyuan was doing her math homework out of boredom yesterday. Although math was her worst subject, she could tell at a glance that the questions Xu Mingyuan wrote were wrong.

It’s not that the answer was wrong, but Xu Mingyuan didn’t even understand the solution format of the one-variable equation. Most of the time he was just scratching on the draft paper, sighing with a sad face.

Yang Zhi always felt weird when the poor student criticized the good student for not studying well.

In the dim light of the street lamp, Xu Mingyuan saw the sadness in Xiao Yangzhi's eyes, so he took out a few glass beads that were left at the bottom of his schoolbag and stuffed them into her hands.

"Keep it as a souvenir. After all, it's the first money you've ever earned. Learning these little things from me can ensure that you won't starve to death in the future."

"Um……"

"What a shame to sigh at such a young age."

Seeing that Xiao Yangzhi was like a deflated bun, Xu Mingyuan gave her a light bang on the head and pushed her head towards home.

After returning home for a while, Xu Mingyuan finished washing up and suddenly caught a glimpse of Youyou's gaze. He glared at her, told her to do what she should do, and went to bed.

When the sun was high in the sky the next day, Xu Mingyuan opened his eyes with sweat all over his forehead and sighed with a heavy heart.

He lit a cigarette, took a deep puff, then looked at the smoke and threw it aside as incense.

Looking at the warm sunshine outside the window, a sense of loneliness inexplicably arises in my heart.

He was awakened by the heat.

It is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. The life where the central air conditioning was not turned off all year round is still vivid in my mind, as if it happened yesterday.

After washing up, I wanted to ask Xiao Yangzhi to go downstairs to buy breakfast, but I saw her bringing a bowl of soaked noodles with a soft poached egg on top.

In the past, he would get up early and make a phone call, and within ten minutes he would bring a bowl of meat porridge with crisp green vegetables and a few plates of exquisite snacks.

In contrast, nowadays, there are only clumpy noodles and a plate of pickled mustard tubers, and they come in three bags for one dollar.

Xiao Yangzhi doesn’t know how to cook. When Xu Jun is not around, she can just fry an egg. The taste isn’t bad, but it’s just so-so.

The three or two dollars squeezed out of one's teeth are not enough. If being frugal can make one rich, then all the rich people must be gathered in the fields.

Although Xiao Yangzhi doesn't like noodles and pickled mustard, if Xu Mingyuan doesn't finish them, she will probably secretly eat the leftovers at noon.

This child has endured hard times and knows how to survive with the lowest cost, but Xu Mingyuan doesn't.

"Buy yourself something to eat at noon. I may not be back."

Xiao Yangzhi had already folded the stack of money on the coffee table according to the amount. Xu Mingyuan took out a hundred yuan from the bottom and put it in his pocket, then greeted her.

There are more than two thousand yuan on the table, which is enough to last for a while.

"Oh."

Yang Zhi nodded.

In the past, Uncle Xu would go out and disappear without a trace, and she had long been used to it.

After thinking about it last night, Xu Mingyuan already had some ideas.

At first I didn’t think it was because I was stuck on the convenience of mobile payment. But at that time, let alone mobile payment, only a few people had online banking.

Since plug-ins are rampant at this time and the online competition is too fierce, let's go offline.

The offline market is a vast ocean, and those who make plug-ins are all technical geeks, who are more interested in showing off their skills. Moreover, they are thin-skinned and think plug-ins are a side job. Even if someone wants to sell them offline, they are too embarrassed to promote them.

But Xu Mingyuan doesn't have this burden, he just wants to make money.

Nowadays, most people go online to play games. Not to mention asking players to find plug-ins online themselves, most people find it difficult to type a few words except for their own account passwords. These people are naturally potential customers.

Most online games in 03 were mechanical, involving completing tasks, killing monsters, and leveling up.

It may seem boring in the future, but gamers who have not been exposed to much gaming experience never get tired of this way of playing.

But mechanical games always cause fatigue. If these boring tasks can be helped, people will definitely buy it.

This kind of tool already exists, and there are even offline plug-ins. Later, a software called Keyshot appeared and became widely popular among the gaming community.

Can a tool that does not modify the game content be called a plug-in?
It should be called auxiliary.

Xu Mingyuan, who had no psychological burden at all, found an excuse for himself.

As long as you integrate the mechanisms of some popular games, it is not difficult to make this kind of idle script. The difficult part is how to collect the money, but Xu Mingyuan knows where he can teach this technology.

At that time, there were many technology sharing forums on the Internet, such as the Red Hacker Alliance.

(End of this chapter)