In the early morning of the next day after the SARS epidemic in Yanjing was announced, many overly sensitive Yanjing people began to flee Yanjing, and they consulted about the SARS situation through relatives and friends scattered all over the country, and drove to a city without SARS, found a hotel to stay in for a while, and if SARS was found locally, they would change to the next one.

Although this approach is somewhat overreacting, in front of Yanjing, which has a population base of 20 million, there are not a few such people.

Many people who had plans to travel to Beijing changed their travel plans after learning of the outbreak in Yanjing, and the tourism industry in Yanjing began to enter a months-long winter overnight.

The transportation between Yanjing and other provinces and cities also immediately entered a kind of "Spring Festival transportation mode", and the number of people entering Beijing plummeted, and the number of people leaving Beijing increased sharply.

At that time, the only few hotels and hotels in Haizhou were all full, and there were a large number of Beijing cars running on the streets, which poured into Haizhou like a tide when SARS arrived, and disappeared without a trace after the end of SARS.

In Li Mu's impression of Haizhou for decades, the spring and summer of 2003 was the time when Haizhou's foreign population was the largest.

At this moment when outsiders could not avoid it and locals fled one after another, Li Mu's parents drove off before dawn and marched all the way to Yanjing.

At the same time, there was also Zhao Ziqiu's mother Xie Yun.

Xie Yun brought a nanny and two drivers from home, and the last row of seats in the business car was full of daily necessities that she had sorted out overnight, and this time, she was ready to stay in Yanjing until the second half of the year.

Although Zhao Xianliang was a little reluctant to leave Xie Yun, after putting aside the childlike irrational self-esteem in the old man's heart, he also recognized Xie Yun's decision, after all, Xie Yun's decision is indeed the best solution at the moment, and there is no one.

This also made Zhao Xianliang, who is in his forties, realize a truth, although adult men are the main producers of society, and also have a more rational and comprehensive thinking mode, but men's personalities are not as stable as women at many critical moments.

The most powerful thing about Xie Yun is that she is stable enough, she may not be able to do ten points in anything, but she can achieve eight points in most things, Zhao Xianliang himself can reach a height of ten points in some aspects and some times, but sometimes he will fall into his own shackles, and he can't even get a passing score.

This incident also made Zhao Xianliang understand a truth, a successful man is inseparable from an excellent virtuous helper, if there is no strong error correction mechanism around him, a man is likely to be ruined by his personality and paranoia.

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Zhao Ziqiu was happy for a night.

She was extremely distressed in the first half of the night, and she couldn't sleep at all in the second half of the night.

When her mother told her on the phone that she wanted to come to Yanjing to accompany her, she was so excited that she yelled and woke up half the floor in the hallway.

Fortunately, Zhao Ziqiu's popularity is better, otherwise shouting and screaming in the middle of the night will affect so many people to sleep, I am afraid that it will attract group hatred.

In the morning, Zhao Ziqiu kept texting her mother, asking where she was, whether she had eaten, whether she was tired, whether she was blocked, and she looked impatient and looking forward to it, so that Xie Yun wanted to squint in the car for a while without a chance.

Li Mu has been extremely busy this morning.

In order to give employees enough incentives, Li Mu went to Makino Technology early in the morning and took the company's senior management to hold a meeting with all employees, the core purpose of the meeting was to let employees know that at critical moments, the company's senior management will stick to their posts with them, and at the same time, the company has also made a lot of preparations for everyone's safety, so that everyone can reduce fear as much as possible.

After the mobilization meeting of all employees, Li Mu immediately held a meeting with Kong Lingyu, Chen Tong and Fang Xudong and other senior personnel of the company to discuss the key work in the near future.

At present, Plants vs. Zombies has exceeded 100 million players around the world, basically 90% of YY users are playing this game, and because of this game, it has also provided YY with 28 million new account growth, thanks to the fact that "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is completely placed in YY's ecosystem, and anyone who wants to play "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is , you must log in to the YY account, even if it is a stand-alone mode, which forces every player who does not have YY to register a YY account.

The biggest difference between social games and ordinary online games is that ordinary online games can still be played without "connections", but social games without "connections" will lose more than half of the fun of the game, "Plants vs. Zombies Online" and "Paradise Town" play exactly the same role in this regard: guide game users to improve the game experience, and increase their network accumulation on YY.

At present, the number of HD wallpaper downloads of Plants vs. Zombies Online has exceeded 100 million times, and if you calculate by user, remove the data of duplicate downloads, there are more than 20 million different users downloading, which proves that there are more than 20 million users who are interested in the peripheral products of Plants vs. Zombies Online.

And YY has also launched the exclusive skin of "Plants vs. Zombies Online", and the number of times the skin has been used is higher than the number of downloads of wallpapers, exceeding 30 million people;

At the same time, the YY show with the theme of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" was also officially launched on the YY show mall, and with the popularity of YY promotion, it created sales equivalent to 50 million yuan in just two days;

And the better ones are the various skins in the game "Plants vs. Zombies Online", and the super cute version of various plant skins can greatly enhance the user's recognition and sense of superiority when friends fight, just like "Glory of Kings" and "LOL" The game has launched more than 300 kinds of skins, with a cumulative purchase of more than 200 million times in a few days, an average price of about 2.8 yuan, and overall sales of an astonishing 560 million.

The sales data of "Plants vs. Zombies Online" completely subverts the business model of the current game market, there are not many demon moths in the current game market, and there are basically two ways for game companies to make profits, either to sell games, or to charge by time, especially online games, almost completely follow the model of hourly charges, but, suddenly a game is free for users, the key is, it can achieve such a high sales turnover by selling "virtual images", which is almost a subversion of the three views.

Even the "Legend", which is still popular at the moment, has not been able to reach the current scale of "Plants vs. Zombies Online", the legend is under the impact of miracles, coupled with the troubles caused by plug-ins, the current daily net profit can barely reach the scale of 200,000 yuan, but compared with the scale of more than 1 million yuan per day in the same period of the previous life, the combat effectiveness is weaker by more than a little bit.

After Kong Lingyu reported the data of the game, he patted Lao Xu, who was in charge of the game structure next to him, and said to everyone: "Lao Xu came to me yesterday and showed me a prototype of a new game mode he designed. ”

Lao Xu nodded and said modestly: "Leaders, our "Plants vs. Zombies Online" At present, we have indeed achieved very remarkable results, but from my personal point of view, although our game is very good, but the mode of the game is still slightly not full, which may bring the problem that the game life is not long enough, everyone is crazy obsessed with our game at this stage of time, but it is likely that after a year or even half a year, when the fun of the game itself is tapped and consumed, users will gradually lose, so I think it is necessary to upgrade and expand our game mode as soon as possible, especially on the issue of friends working together online。 ”

Everyone including Li Mu agreed with Lao Xu's point of view, "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is a small game after all, simple to use, fast spread, but there is also a relative lack of foundation, lack of energy, in Li Mu's impression, such a game can rarely maintain a lasting and vigorous vitality, so if you want to make it live longer, you must carry out in-depth development on the game architecture.

So Li Mu said to Lao Xu: "Lao Xu, if you have any good ideas, you can tell you in detail." ”

Lao Xu said: "Mr. Li, you previously classified the core of this kind of game as' Turret defense game, gamers are born with a defensive mentality, and a sense of achievement in defense success, which I very much agree with, and also gave me great inspiration, I now finally understand, why I play red alert battle with my friends online, I like to use France the most, and I like to build a huge cannon and prism tower and anti-aircraft missiles around the base, in fact, every user psychology has such a defensive psychology, in some cases, the sense of achievement of successful defense is more prominent than the sense of achievement of successful attack, so I will unknowingly, the red alert played'Turret defense' games. ”

"The reason why Red Alert is very playable for me is because it has a variety of maps, and the terrain is also diverse, ice and snow, Bering Strait, Arctic Circle, and eternal arena, these maps are fun because the terrain is changeable, islands, tidal flats, plains, mountains, passes, bridges, many elements can allow players to give full play to their organization and coordination capabilities, for different maps, different defense layouts, I believe that everyone plays the Bering Strait, When playing the Arctic Circle, most of them will break the bridges on both sides of the island in the initial stage, and when playing in the ice and snow, they will find a way to grab the gem mine in the middle, and when they play the Arctic Circle, they will find a way to grab more oil wells.

"So I think that our game copy must be vigorously developed in depth on the game map, and it must not be just a fixed two or three scenes, and then simply adjust the number of zombies and the degree of difficulty, so that users will be bored in the future, we might as well learn from the diversity of the red alert map to develop more interesting and more new maps with more gameplay, such as why do zombies have to go in a straight line? Why can't it be a bigger map, a map with intricate roads, players can make different fortification combinations according to different roads, and even change the path of zombies by planting plants, so that the gameplay can be upgraded on the existing basis!"