The heavy doors of the Taiji Commercial Alliance Arbitration Tribunal were tightly shut, a banner hanging above the entrance that read: "Court in Session Today: Immersive Business War Murder Mystery Script." Huwa wore a glowing garlic-skin judge's hat and clutched a bamboo slip of the *Twenty Rules of the Commercial Alliance* that automatically played background music. He shouted through the crack in the door, "Open up right now, or I'll sentence you all to act as NPCs for my arithmetic class!"
With a creak, the door swung open. The room inside was filled with billowing smoke, spinning glazed abacuses, and glowing garlic-skin props.
Case One: The "Mutinous" Arithmetic System
Uncle Zhang burst in wringing his hands and wailing, the abacus in his hands still puffing black smoke. "My 'smart pricing abacus' has rebelled!" It turned out that the abacus he had built using Green Ox-line patents and Persian glass technology had its program tampered with by a hacker, and now all his goods were labeled "ten cartloads for a single cash."
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