To Cash Out, I Frantically Scavenge Trash in a Game

Meng Zhiyao downloaded a money-making mini-game platform. The sign-up reward was 8.8 yuan, and she could withdraw it. She could withdraw the 28 yuan she got for signing in every day. She could even withdraw the 188 yuan she earned from completing the beginner quests. Staring at the money that had really landed in her bank account, she solemnly concluded: This is a deal worth exploiting. Then she unlocked the so-called “advanced money-making mode.” Wasteland survival. While everyone else searched for guns from the start, she carried a woven sack and dug through a garbage dump, finding a water purifier, solar panels, and half an engine that could still be repaired. Cultivation management. While everyone else entered secret realms to fight over immortal artifacts, she crouched behind them and asked, “Do you still want that battered box the artifact came in?” Immortal’s restaurant. The cultivators took the demon cores and left. She looked at the whole demon beast they’d left behind. “You don’t want the meat either?” Pet rescue. System: Please rescue the injured stray animals. Meng Zhiyao looked up at the monster in front of her, three meters tall, with six eyes and drool dripping from its mouth. “...You’d better redefine ‘stray animal.’” She picked things up, sold them, and withdrew the money, all the way along. Thirty thousand, one million, twenty million... The System told her that once she’d earned a total of one hundred million, she could leave the game for good. Meng Zhiyao believed it. Until wasteland machinery appeared in the cultivation world, plastic packaging from the real world landed on immortal mountains, and an anomalous creature that was supposed to be just an “NPC” looked at her through iron bars and whispered: “You finally came.” After that day, the last gray icon on her phone lit up. [Ultimate Money-Making Game unlocked.] [Game name: Earth.]