The last sudden scene made He An completely stunned, and when he came back to his senses, the list of production staff at the end of the film had already appeared on the screen.

It's just that the list of producers is not a wonderful footage from the game, but a news report.

"Through the official White House blog, the President delivered a eulogy on the death of Jeff Airnor, the current president of the Luxury Group, and the full text of the eulogy is as follows:"

"'Mitchell [Mrs. President] and I were deeply saddened to hear the news of Mr. Jeff Airnor's passing. Hardworking, self-disciplined, and of noble character, Jeff is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, best-selling author, and a good friend of ours. ’”

"He's good at thinking differently and believing that he can work hard to change the world and help others. His charitable foundation has helped tens of thousands of homeless people, and his book, Endeavor and Prosperity, has inspired countless young people to fight for their dreams. ’”

"'The world has lost a visionary who will always be missed. Mitchell and I want to send our thoughts and prayers to Jeff's wife, his family, and all who love him. ’”

“……”

"It is reported that Mr. Jeff Ernaux was brutally murdered by the murderer while signing a book in a bookstore in the Bronklin, and tens of thousands of people were agitated and demanded that the law severely punish the murderer."

"At this time, it is not clear what the murderer's real motive is for, the police have not found that he had any trouble with Mr. Jeff, and the murderer appears to have a mental disorder, refusing to answer any questions from the police, just repeating the word 'liar'. The trial of the murderer, this station will continue to track ......"

In the final news scene, the protagonist's parents, wife, and children are seen crying at the protagonist's funeral.

This is the end of the rich man's version of the game.

……

He Anren was a little dizzy.

Gone?

It's over?

What does this ending mean?

My career has just taken off, and then people are gone?

Who is this murderer?

Why did he kill me?

Did I choose some of the wrong options before, so I ended up with a tragic ending?

I always feel like something is wrong.

He An thought about it carefully, the flow of the whole game seems to be okay, the transition between various scenes is very natural, and the details are also very good, with a sense of substitution.

It's just this ending, it's too abrupt, and there was no foreshadowing at all before!

He An thought about it and felt that he might have missed some links and steps, and if he played the second week or the poor man's version, he might be able to play other endings.

After all, there are at least dozens of side quests to choose from, and there may be some other options hidden in them that can change your fate.

However, He An doesn't plan to play Erzhou now, and this ending gives him a bit of serious psychological trauma.

The game as a whole is very well done, whether it is the story, plot, lines or screen details, there is nothing to find fault with, but this story is the one that makes people confused.

This feeling is like going to a banquet, where good wine and food are served one by one, and as soon as you take the first bite, the table is lifted.

"Is there something hidden in the poor man's version that is related to the rich man's version?"

He An couldn't help but have such thoughts.

Although the introduction of the poor man's version is enough to persuade him to quit, He An still has some luck mentality.

What if there's anything special?

He thought about it for a moment, then clicked on the poor man's version and started the game.

Like the rich version, the beginning of the poor version also begins with an inner monologue.

……

"I'm thankful to my father."

"If it weren't for him, I would probably attend Porkin Elementary, which is one of the worst public elementary schools in the country, and half of the graduates go on to secondary schools known as 'cesspools,' where more than 40 percent of the students don't graduate, so it's also known as the 'dropout mill.'"

"There are 2,000 such 'dropout factories' across the country, and they will continue to send idle young people to society."

"In our state, where 68 percent of offenders are high school dropouts, the state government has a comical reversal of the money it spends on prisons and students, spending enough money on one prisoner every four years to finish K12 from kindergarten in a private school, and $20,000 to go to college."

"There are 70,000 homeless people in the country's largest city, and every day on the streets and subway stations, you will encounter countless beggars, disabled people, mentally ill, drunkards, and ex-convicts."

"Thirty-six percent of them are children, and the remaining 64 percent are mostly single mothers and single men without children."

"In this country, you first have to have a sum of money in order to keep your life in a cheap way."

"If you're reduced to the point where you need handouts, then you can't get a job, you can't rent a house without a job, you can't do anything without a house. Once you become homeless, it means social death, even if you are healthy and able-bodied, you will not be able to return to your previous life, and you can only live on the streets for the rest of your life. ”

"I'm sensitive to the numbers, and I don't know if it's a talent or a survival instinct."

"Maybe the life of the poor is a series of numbers."

"A lot of poor people will complain about their parents."

"But no matter what, I'm grateful to my father."

"He didn't make me one of those people."

"My father always told me that I had to learn from those good people, to change the thinking of the poor, to work hard, not to follow the crowd."

"Struggle will change your life."

"I'm convinced of that."

Unlike the beginning of the rich man's version, the beginning of the poor man's version is not a specific event, but a number of fragmented scenes that depict those in the protagonist's narration in an abstract way.

Immediately afterwards, there are the memories of the protagonist's childhood.

"Soon after I was born, my mother had to quit her job and become a stay-at-home wife because she was the only one who could take care of me."

"That didn't change until I went to kindergarten, because it ends at 1 p.m., and it's against the law to leave children alone at home."

"So, if my mother's after-tax salary can't help but go to kindergarten or cram school to meet child protection laws, it would be better not to go to work, and it would be more economical."

"My father worked more than 10 hours a day, and I rarely got to see him. But his dedication was meaningful, and he took me out of Polkin Elementary School and into a better school district. ”

"We live in low-cost housing, which is a kind of luck, because you can only move in if you are in the income range of 20%~25%, you have to be richer than 75% of people, and at the same time you have to be richer than the bottom 20%, which is a very harsh number."

"Hobbies? No, that's a number I can't afford. ”

Accompanied by the protagonist's narration, scenes flash on the screen.

In the low-rent house, the protagonist's mother takes care of the baby alone, and the whole room is in chaos.

The protagonist's public school is also very different from the wealthy version of the private school, but what is even more surprising is the after-school entertainment.

In the Rich Edition, the player's pastimes are horseback riding, archery, music and painting, while in the Poor Man's Edition, the player's pastime is running around the yard, riding a bicycle, or playing soccer or baseball.

Although these mini-games are also very delicately done, they become boring when compared to the rich version.

He An wants the protagonist to learn some hobbies instead of running around the yard every day, but soon finds that his funds are stretched thin.

Ask a teacher to teach the cello at the door, the price is 75 knives per hour;

Parents take their children to swim lessons for 20 dollars every 30 minutes, and if it is a more professional course, it is 200 dollars per hour.

The gymnastics class lasts for 30 minutes, 5~10 children go together, the opening teacher leads the warm-up for 2 minutes, and the rest of the time is for parents to accompany their children to play with props and equipment, 20 knives per class.

Even these low-quality and not cheap courses need to be booked more than 2 months in advance.

For He An, compared with the rich version, the most prominent feeling of the poor version is boring.

Because I don't have money, there are only a few options to choose from, whether it's running around the yard or riding a bike, you can clearly realize that you are wasting your time.

Similarly, the poor version of the characters is also very face-painted and has a serious obesity problem, which is also completely in line with the stereotype.

Childhood is followed by youth, and the protagonist enters high school with hard work and takes out a loan to go to college. In high school, there were more activities, you could participate in choirs and orchestras, and you could participate in debates.

Although the poor protagonist and the rich protagonist work almost hard, there is a big gap in the resources they can obtain.

Whether or not you can get into university will determine the content of the game in the subsequent work stage.

If you don't have professional skills, you can only work as a restaurant waiter, a cleaning worker, an elderly caretaker or a supermarket tally clerk, and even work two jobs seven days a week and still go bankrupt.

My colleague accidentally sprained herself while cleaning, and she didn't dare to call an ambulance, or even go home to rest, so she could only continue cleaning on one knee, because she couldn't lose a day's salary, and the team leader only told her to "calm down and survive by work".

If you want to get a job in the low-end service industry, you can only find a job in the big city, but the rent in the big city has been pulled up to an almost unaffordable level by the rich, and you can't afford to pay the deposit for a cheaper apartment with a monthly rent, so you can only go to a high-priced capsule hotel, and the more you live, the poorer you become, and once you get sick or enter the peak season, the rent rises, you are at risk of bankruptcy or even sleeping on the street.

If you find a job through your hard work and have an income of about 4,000 dollars a month, then the situation will be slightly better, but all kinds of expenses will still be overwhelming, and the monthly fixed expenses account for 80% of all income, 25% of taxes and insurance, 29% of rent, 26% of children's education, 5% of cars, 5% of water and electricity, 10% of food and clothing, not including medical care.

Basically, it's hard to have 400 dollars left every month, and if something happens casually, you're still bankrupt and homeless.

If you can make all the choices and get a relatively high-paying job, then life will be relatively comfortable, but the related expenses will also increase in a straight line, and some expenses that you don't have to spend have become necessary options.

And this is also the most outrageous point that makes He An feel the most, obviously he can save a lot of money, but many expenses are still forced to be deducted by the game, such as:

Buy a luxury suit and bag for decent work;

spent 2,000 dollars, and when the child celebrated his birthday, he took him to the sea park for three days;

Social expenses, including the community where they live, their children's extracurricular studies, etc., are also a lot of money;

In order to save money, I am used to paying in installments with my credit card, so much so that the number of credit card repayments is very high in each installment, and I have no idea where the money is spent......

And these choices all seem to have a certain inevitability, such as buying a luxury suit and bag, the protagonist originally did not want to buy it, but all the colleagues in the company used it, and if they didn't, they didn't fit in with their colleagues and it was difficult to fit into their circle.

So, the protagonist finally gritted his teeth and bought these things.

At this point, He An seems to understand a little bit of what the protagonist means by the first words.

The life of the poor is a series of numbers, and this number is all kinds of expenses.

Eventually, however, that number collapsed.

As the protagonist's consumption level becomes higher and higher, the sudden unemployment destroys all this, and the whole chain quickly collapses: losing income, not paying off the credit card, the bank taking the house, and the card debt not paying the interest accumulates......

As a result, the protagonist's living environment returns to what he was when he was a father.

In the midst of the scenes, the protagonist's voice sounded again.

"My father always told me that I had to learn from those good people, to change the thinking of the poor, to work hard, not to follow the crowd."

"Struggle will change your life."

"I tried, but everything seemed to go back to the way it was, nothing changed."

"Is there no point in my struggle? I don't think so. At least, I wasn't one of those homeless. ”

"I often think:"

"If I hadn't lost my job......"

"If I deposit more......"

"If only I could spend less......"

"What if...... If I can make a few more choices, will I be able to change my destiny? ”

In the final scene, the protagonist comes home late at night after a day's work and softly arrives at the child's room.

In the darkness, he looked at the sleeping child by the moonlight and covered him with a blanket.

At this moment, the child woke up, rubbed his eyes with his tender little hands, and asked, "Dad, why do you come back so late every day and never have time to accompany me?" ”

He was silent for a while, and then touched the child's forehead: "Because mom doesn't have a job, dad has to work hard to make money." ”

Then the child said, "Then when will Daddy be with me?" ”

He said, "Wait until Dad makes enough money." ”

The child's eyes lit up: "Dad, when I grow up and earn enough money, you can accompany me every day, right?" ”

"Then Dad, how can I make enough money?"

The protagonist was silent for a long time, and then said: "Money will not fall from the sky, only if you are not satisfied with the status quo, can life be better." ”

"We must learn from those who are excellent, we must change the thinking of the poor, we must work hard, and we must not follow the crowd."

"Only by working hard can you change your life."

The child's big eyes sparkled in the moonlight, and he nodded heavily.

The game ends, and a list of credits appears on the screen.

This time, the ending scene shows a young man immersed in hard reading, and at the same time, another younger narrator with a different voice from the protagonist sounds.

"My father always told me that I have to learn from those good people, to change the thinking of the poor, to work hard, not to follow the crowd."

"Struggle will change your life."

"I'm convinced of that."