Penny Lock

Cheng Ye, a graduate student in food engineering, was queuing up for a limited-edition late-night snack at the back door of the school when he discovered that someone was not grabbing food at all, but the right to "be at the head of the queue." A screenshot can change hands, a position can be sold for money, and orders can be locked up for just one penny. The website even has a template for "how to suppress comments when there is a controversy" written in advance. When he checked the queue numbers, team leader pictures and anonymous reports, he realized that he had also been photographed by others. He originally thought that what he encountered was just a small problem in a late-night snack business, but later he realized that the real value was never the food, but the traffic, identity and emotions that grew around it. Any similarity is purely coincidental and please do not imitate. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.