The first lesson of the exam, Chinese.

The exam time was two and a half hours, and Li Xiaoming handed in the paper an hour later, and Chen Wu was about the same.

Exam 2 Lesson, Mathematics.

The exam lasted two and a half hours, Li Xiaoming handed in the paper in 40 minutes, and Chen Wu was slightly slower by more than 10 minutes.

Exam Session 3......

The entrance exam, which is crucial to the life of the students of Qinqing, passed undisturbed here by Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu.

In the next few days after the exam, the two stayed together almost every day, discussing the future and what they needed to prepare.

The first is the idea of "Legend".

The game is still a year away from the open beta of the Southern Dynasties, and even its development company has not yet been born. There is plenty of time.

And Li Xiaoming has a bolder idea.

"Chen Wu, we have seen a lot of legendary engines made by the Internet gods themselves to set up personal servers to play, you said that we now directly write a set of engines to make this game directly, how do you think it is feasible?"

"Damn, you're so dark, you don't even want to give money?" Chen Wu said.

"Hehe, since it's already a life, what if it's too much? Besides, those engines will look like that in the future, after all, it's the analysis of the technology around 2010 to the technology in 2001, which is simply a dimensionality reduction blow. What's more, we are still at the level of technology in 2019. ”

"The engine is the server side, which is not very difficult, the question is what are you going to do with the front end? The mechanism of the program is not very problematic, but we don't have the art. Chen Wu listened to Li Xiaoming's words, felt that it made more sense, and began to analyze.

"Let your brother-in-law go to Rongcheng, we have plenty of time in the summer of two or three months, go and set up the company's shelves, isn't it okay to invite someone?"

"Can we support it with our funds now?" Chen Wu was still hesitant, after all, like a game development team in later generations, they would often have a salary of tens or millions a month, and they would definitely not be able to afford it with their current salary.

"You're funny with your brains? I'll come at the back end, you come at the front end, to put it bluntly, all we need is art, how much can we spend?" Li Xiaoming disdainfully: "Besides, in the future, our company signed back to Wanwan Province for such a high-quality stand-alone mobile game, and there are only two people, a program ape and an artist." It's enough that we have two artists. ”

"It's also like that, that's okay, anyway, it's not a matter of rent or anything now, and now according to this development every month, there are about 300,000 funds. Chen Wu listened to it and felt that it made more sense, after all, when the game in Wanwan Province was signed back by the company, it really caused a great sensation, and a week after it was launched, Qiao's platform directly pushed the game to the homepage recommendation of more than 100 countries around the world, and it didn't move the ranking for a whole month: "Then, try?"

"Try it. ”

The two said they would do it, they first went to report their thoughts to their respective parents, and on the premise of ensuring that the results of the high school entrance examination were absolutely excellent, they then pulled their brother-in-law Comrade Wang Maoli and embarked on a trip to Chengdu.

This time, it really doesn't need to be explained.

The three of them once again stepped into the territory of Rongcheng, and this time Li Xiaoming's feeling for the city was completely different from the last time.

Last time, it was at most a purchase, and the passers-by were in a hurry. And this time, it is going to set off a bloody storm of the Chinese Internet in this place.

He looked at this peaceful and leisurely city, and his heart was full of pride.

At this time, the high-tech zone in Rongcheng has experienced nine years and has expanded from the initial 2.5 square kilometers to 47 square kilometers.

As a state-level high-tech industrial development zone affiliated to the main urban area of Chengdu, the entry of Internet companies is bound to be welcomed by the district government.

In line with this purpose, the government has given a lot of preferential policies when the three of them go through various procedures.

Of course, the registered capital of 1 million advanced in advance given by Chen's father is naturally a political achievement that the leaders of the government of the high-tech zone are willing to see. One million in this era is by no means a small amount, especially for high-tech industries and enterprises that still pay in.

In order to settle in this enterprise, the district committee of the high-tech zone also specially sent an office director to assist several people in handling the relevant procedures for industry and commerce, culture, taxation, etc., and also won three years of rent-free office space for them in the high-tech industry incubation park.

This was indeed beyond the expectations of Li Xiaoming and the three of them, especially Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu, when they heard such good conditions, they could almost stuff two big duck eggs with their mouths open because they were surprised.

Next, the three of them went to the telecommunications bureau to find an engineering team and an office supply store to improve their office space.

The first is access to ADSL dial-up Internet access, followed by simple decoration such as wall painting, wiring change and lighting, and finally the installation of desks and chairs, as well as computers.

Because of Boss Zhang's relationship in Rongcheng, this time he personally came to the door to install all the equipment they needed. This can be regarded as saving a lot of time for a few people.

At the same time, an idea of Li Xiaoming also emerged.

Dig people.

He plans to dig up Boss Zhang to be in charge of the hardware, because there is no so-called telecom hosting business in this era, and all the servers can only be built by themselves. This is very important for Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu, who only know some technical indicators and do not know how to operate at all.

During the period of cooperation between Boss Zhang, almost all the people in the development process of the general direction of the computer will communicate frequently, and Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu often suspect that he is also a traverser because of Boss Zhang's words and deeds.

However, I later learned that this guy was a top student of Zhejiang University, and although he did not graduate with a doctorate, his doctoral supervisor was very famous in later generations!

With this in mind, it's a bit unreasonable for the two to not poach people. Sometimes a small sapling is quietly planted, and it is very likely that it will grow into a building tree in the future.

So after the equipment in the office was installed this time, Li Xiaoming pulled Boss Zhang to sit down: "Brother Zhang, we've known each other for a few months, what do you think of our brothers?"

Boss Zhang was a little confused: "It's very good, thank you for helping me, not only gave me such a big order, but also opened up the way for suppliers, my current business is much better than before, my brothers really didn't say it." ”

"Okay, let's not beat around the bush. Li Xiaoming said seriously: "We plan to invite you to join our company and be responsible for all the work related to hardware, what do you think?"

Boss Zhang was taken aback: "Little brother, aren't you kidding?" He didn't think that these two little brothers were incompetent, but he really couldn't figure out what he needed to do with these office computers.

"That's like this, Brother Zhang, you may not know much about the business direction of our company, we plan to make Internet games, that is, online games. We need to build our own computer room, and the stability of the computer room is the fundamental guarantee of the game, which you should understand, so we invite you to join, mainly because of this aspect of related things. ”

Now Boss Zhang understands it. The bursting of the Internet bubble abroad has only happened in the past few years, but for China, the Internet is still a blank slate, and if it can really make a difference, it must be very good. Besides, this is also his area of interest, so why not do it? After all, youth is capital.

"I'm personally interested, but what if I come?"

"Shop, you can ask someone to help you continue the business, and you don't usually need to show up now, right? Besides, your eloquence is still more suitable for playing on the hardware. ”

"Do I have such a can't speak?" Boss Zhang understood the meaning of Li Xiaoming's words, and co-authoring him was not a piece of business material.

"Hehe, Boss Zhang, everyone has their own strengths, this place is indeed more suitable for your development, what do you think?" Li Xiaoming was not embarrassed at all, just told the truth. He is also sprayed by the system from time to time and can't find the north.

Boss Zhang rubbed his hands back and forth, unable to hide the excitement in his heart. If it comes to doing business, to be honest, if it weren't for Li Xiaoming and a few of them, it would be a matter of time before Boss Zhang's buddy would be starved to death.

"Cheng, I promised, when will I come to work?"

"You arrange your affairs quickly, and then come over immediately, and then we will go to the incubator to give us a suitable site to build the machine room." Then you get to work. ”

"Okay, then I'll go back right now, I'll be here in two days. Boss Zhang said just do it, stood up and prepared to leave.

"Don't worry, Boss Zhang, have you forgotten something?"

"What's the matter?" Boss Zhang was a little confused.

Li Xiaoming was really speechless now: "You don't ask about the treatment?"

"Uh...... I'm sorry to get excited, I forgot. "Boss Zhang is really embarrassed now.

"Hehe, Boss Zhang is dedicated to technology, which is understandable. "Chen Wu, this guy didn't forget to sprinkle a handful of salt on the wound.

Seeing that Boss Zhang's face was about to swell and red, Li Xiaoming said with a smile: "It is because of the spirit of Boss Zhang, we can rest assured that we will hand over this matter to Boss Zhang, just kidding, don't mind." ”

"That's right, we plan to be here with Boss Zhang, the salary may not be very high, about 3,000 yuan a month, and then we plan to cash out 1% to 3% of your shares in the next three years. ”

"Enough is enough, enough is enough, two little brothers, don't talk about it, I'll hurry back and get it over, thank you for your love, really!" Boss Zhang was really moved.

Now Boss Zhang relies on the business brought by Brother Li Xiaoming, and he also has an income of more than 10,000 yuan a month, and 3,000 is indeed not high for him, but that is now. Before Brother Li Xiaoming came, he couldn't pay the rent. Besides, he himself is optimistic about the Internet industry, and he doesn't believe that there will be no good future in the future.

Two days later, Boss Zhang arrived as promised.

Now you can't call Boss Zhang, Boss Zhang's full name is Zhang Li, a master's student in the Department of Computer Science of Zhejiang University, but he has not finished his doctorate. But there is no problem with the technical aspect, and Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu are convinced by the reading opinions on the hardware.

In the past two days, Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu have also received a lot of responses to the recruitment information, and the art, administration, personnel, and finance have all arrived at their posts one after another. In this era, job seekers are not as picky as they were in the future, and it is still relatively easy to recruit people.

All aspects of the company are progressing in an orderly manner. Li Xiaoming's back-end engine is written very quickly, after all, there are not a few private servers that he has studied in later generations.

He has always felt that the legendary engine is a masterpiece, and only a few modifications are required to implement powerful in-game functions through a very simple script, without the need for repeated modifications and trial and error in the underlying architecture. To put it bluntly, this engine is actually a framework, as long as the front-end art changes, and the back-end modifies the functional scripts at will, it is a new game, instead of writing every game from scratch.

Programming apes should understand.,The same set of programs.,Not to mention how troublesome it is to pick up a personal class to write.,Even if you write it yourself.,In the case of annotations.,When you rework multiple books.,Even you can't understand what was written at that time.。

And the legendary engine will not have such a problem, the core is nothing more than the reading of front-end materials, experience, equipment, monsters, blood volume, etc. After the core is fixed, everything else is through a semi-open source method similar to programming software, specifying the role of variables and statements, and then writing the function in a script, and then the engine can read and execute it.

Of course, Chen Wu's front end is not very slow, but it is subject to the artist, and there will be more coordination.

And the awareness of copyright and patent protection is the most lacking in the current era. For every innovation, they file a patent application.

Trademarks, copyrights, and other related things are also strictly filed and filed.

By the way, the company founded by the two this time is called Rongcheng Longtu Network Technology Co., Ltd.

The meaning of Longtu: "Longxiang is far away, Hongye Yongtu." ”

The title of the game, Legend, has not been changed.

Although the rebirth of the two will definitely change too many things, the memories that can be preserved should be left a little more. The secret that no one can tell is that it is not easy to wear a little less.

With the continuous supply of blood from Internet cafes and bouncy castles, the progress of the company's side is also advancing rapidly.

In mid-July 1999, after staying up late for nearly half a month, the first version of "Legend" was completed.

Games require rigorous stress testing and vulnerability finding, and this problem is not difficult for Li Xiaoming and his brothers.

Li Xiaoming burned the client on the CD, and then asked Comrade Wang to drive back to Yuan County.

Walking into their own Internet café and looking at the overcrowded scene, Li Xiaoming sighed with emotion: "It's still good in this era!"

Although it has been open for a few months, there are still people behind each computer in the Internet café to stop and watch, and there is basically no place for the night, only to watch one to see if they can wait for others to get off the plane.

Li Xiaoming walked to the network management machine, said hello to Liu Cheng, then sat down and opened the optical drive, and inserted the disc that burned "Legend".

After more than 10 minutes of installation, the game appeared for the first time in an operating Internet café.

He stood up and said loudly into the lobby of the Internet café: "Friends, if you are interested in playing online games, you can open the online neighbor, find the No. 1 machine, copy the game to your computer, and start playing!"

Almost everyone turned their heads to look at Li Xiaoming, and the expression on their faces read, "Boss explain to us?"

Li Xiaoming said: "This is a new online game, that is, there is no limit to the number of people who can play together at the same time, everyone is just a character in it, cutting monsters, leveling up, playing equipment, and PK each other." ”

"Little boss, what does PK mean?" asked a netizen for everyone.

Li Xiaoming touched his forehead and said: "It means that you can fight with each other, let's take a look! The game is very rich, you can explore more!"

After everyone in the Internet café listened, almost everyone withdrew the game they were playing now and began to operate according to what Li Xiaoming said.

The games were copied by the players on their respective computers one after another, and the pioneers of Huaxia Internet games were launched for the first time in such an environment.