Lin Zhao, 28 years old, is a quantitative trader in Lujiazui. He earns 50,000 yuan a month and manages tens of millions of funds. A layoff caused him to fall from the clouds to the bottom. 4.6 Million in debt—mortgage, credit loans, loans from friends, losses from customers—were like four mountains, weighing on his chest.
When he was desperate, he remembered the "game economics" he studied in college: as long as the game has a trading system, there must be room for arbitrage. And "Operation Delta", which has just been released to public beta, is the next trend he is waiting for. 3,000 Hours of PUBG, 2,000 hours of Escape from Tarkov, three years of quantitative experience in Lujiazui, three pieces of the puzzle, pieced together into a key.
Practice skills in the first three months, and study arbitrage in the next three months. From the running knife of No. 0 Dam, to the escort in Longbow Valley, from the combat preparation of Tidal Prison, to Bakshi's desperate survival. He uses financial thinking to dismantle games, uses arbitrage models to harvest price differences, and uses systems thinking to build a studio. Bullet arbitrage, manufacturing arbitrage, room card economics, intertemporal arbitrage, event-driven - he wrote every strategy into a script and let the system make money for him 24 hours a day.
Using a voice changer, a female escort, and two-way ambiguity, he struggled to survive under the weight of debt. Blackwater Studios, peer competition, official sanctions, he is looking for boundaries in the gray area. Faceless live broadcasts, Bilibili hits, and paid knowledge, he uses content to build his own moat.
This is a novel about games, but also a novel about survival.
