Digital Life - Chapter 1

Picked babies!

Hui Long Internet Cafe, a small internet point in the city of Wuhan, at Jiang An district located along Jiang Da street. It was afternoon while three seven-years-old boys were coming out from the internet point. As soon as they went out, all three together close their eyes simultaneously, they frowned and they turned their head to one side in a painful way.

Actually, it was way too hot. At the moment, it was the weather of August, the hottest time in Wuhan, when the temperature exceeded 40 degrees centigrade. And the reason the internet cafes are better place was the air conditioner, but at the time you crossed the door, ready to go out, it was something really unbearable for anyone.

“Wei Wei, can you get any money from your home?” A little boy asked to the 170 meters height boy standing between the others.

“It’s a bit hard” the boy named Wei Wei frowned and says: “f.u.c.k! I got it a lot! My old man looks like a rabbit, hiding the money and holding it so tight that you’re not aware of it. I can’t get it in any way. Hui Hui, think and find a way. ”

“I’m thinking about chicken s.h.i.+ts. My old man is keeping it tighter than your old man. He’s taking me as a thief, totally.” The little man named Hui Hui, said at the end, depressed and then he glanced at the other boy tall alike Wei Wei.

“Don’t look at me, you all know that I am poor like a ghost. I don’t have any other choice.” Li Yang shrugged his shoulders helplessly, but then he started to complain depressed again. “Grd (***), getting money is becoming harder and harder, now. Before, when you played The Legendary, just in one day like another you could make dozens of hundreds bucks, even walking on the fire you could earn a few hundred bucks. Everyday, living with incredibly comfort. Now, if you want to make money for one day even working in the night, 6 bucks won’t come out!”

“You grd*** what are use saying that for? Think and use your brain to get some money.” Hui Hui said impatiently and pushed Li Yang.

“f.u.c.k, all together we have to find a way to get some money, whether you can get it or not. Tonight, at six o’clock, we meet here. ” Wei Wei upset waved his hand and he turned around and went home. Then, the other two boys frowned without saying anything and walked away separately.

Wei Wei lowered his head and step slowly in the shade beside the road. While he was walking and kicking the debris under his feet, he was deep in his thoughts, over-thinking to find a way to ask to his father for money as soon as he was back at home! It must be something that could be credible at once, many excuses were already out of use, this year cheating people must be innovated, original and reformed.

Just right at the moment his head was into explode, he suddenly notice that the was kicking at a white transparent plastic bag, with something inside sheeny and white like a b.u.t.ton looking and another thing bright and white .. a ring!!

He said nothing else, he bent straight down with the fastest speed as he ever did and he caught them and put it in his trouser’s pocket. After that he kept going ahead as nothing happened. The whole process was less than 0.1 second, it was so fast that no one on the street noticed he just bent down on his hips.

His heart was constantly beating “thump” “thump”. Because his feeling told himself “Caught it!”. White. ‘What kind of jewel is this white metal? Silver! That I’ve been seeing a lot! Absolutely impossible. Then there’s only one thing . Platinum!’

Jeez! The Legendary said that platinum was more expensive than the yellow gold. He grabbed with his hand the ring and the b.u.t.ton and shook in his trousers a couple of times. He felt pressing on his hand and realized the estimated weight. Then, it was worth it.. Wei Wei immediately turned around direct to the farthest gold shop from his home, because the one close by home was very well-known by his father, if he went there, no one will give a penny to him and after all it will end up in his father’s hand, then he won’t get any money, things will be gone and still enduring for a meal.

“Sir! Help me to check out. These worth few bucks of money.” Wei Wei gave the two objects that he collected before to the proprietary of the gold shop and awaited anxiously.

The owner took the ring first then gazed at it very carefully several times, then he took again the b.u.t.ton and checked for a second time, and only after that he asked to him: “Do you really want to sell me these? ”

Wei Wei as soon as listened to him, he pretended to be a stick and said promptly: “c.r.a.p! Don’t sell, then why do I look for your a.s.s? Quickly! How much is that, I’m in a hurry, don’t get me rip off, I know pretty much about the market conditions so don’t take me as a laity one.”

“Don’t worry, when I do business I always tell the truth, never rip off! I must to say that it would be a next time, don’t you agree?” The owner squinted his eyes into laugh and said to him. “If you really want to sell them, I’ll give you the retail price money, I swear I don’t take a penny form it, so you have it easily clear instead of bargain with me, what do you think? ”

“Sir! You say the whole bulls.h.i.+t for nothing, just tell me how much money worth it! People who knows to calculate don’t blather!” As the owner listened and agreed, he said without hesitation with dazzling eyes.

“All right! I want us to become good friends, I’ll take the loss for buying your two objects.” Said this, the man suddenly looked distressed and he gritted his teeth, then he continued to speak like a suicide squad: “The total is 1 buck for both!”

“1 buck?” Just a moment ago, the man was so flattered and I was convinced about what he said. Gradually, Wei Wei was so excited that his eyeb.a.l.l.s were about to bulge out and said the last words. “Do you mean 1 Yuan of renminbi”

“No kidding! Of course is 1 Yuan renminbi or do you even want 1 dollar?” The owner saw at his stupid look, and all of a sudden he was happy. He threw back to the boy the two ‘babies’ and said to him: “Two ‘stainless steel’ stuff , do you really think those can be worth any money? All over the street, people who set a stall on the ground will sell three objects for 1 Yuan. I’m giving you 1 Yuan, I’m the one going to die. Forget it. Take it back and play with yourself. Don’t take them out, it’s embarra.s.sing.”

Wei Wei as soon as he caught the two ‘stainless steel’ gadgets his face suddenly become into reddish color, he turned and ran way back. Nevertheless his heart was more depressed than before.

“Could it be that I was wrong?” On the way he walked, unconvinced, he took out the two ‘stainless steel’ objects again and starred at them carefully. “How is that possible? I realize myself I still believe these two objects are something valuable, and still, what I have it’s a very strong feeling. How could it be just ‘stainless steel’ stuff?”

The more he was thinking about it the more he was convinced that was impossible to believe. He straightforwardly put on the ring, he wanted to try. ‘Why do I still have have that strong feeling in my heart?’

A ring. It was just a shape of a ring, to be precise, maybe it was a frame of metal, just a shape that looks like a ring, it was a least half bigger than a common ring, that’s why he could wear it without efforts. Wait. It should be placed on the finger.

Although, when he put it on, he knew perfectly why he had such a strong feeling that the ring wasn’t a trash stuff. Furthermore, it was a very rare thing, so rare that it made him frightened!