Light and brisk folk music swirled in the hall, quietly rendering a cheerful and lively banquet atmosphere.

The chips are staggered, the cups and plates are clanging, and a feast is nearing the end.

The people sitting here are all lucky viewers who have just witnessed the launching ceremony of Jiayun Zoo. The event ended at noon, and then everyone was invited to the host's side for lunch.

If you really want to think about it, the grade of the banquet is actually just average. It seems that the table is full of seafood and mountain delicacies, but they are all artificially cultivated species, and there are no wild sea-caught goods that are only two or two. It's just a coincidence that the time is not coincidental, and it is still the off-season fishing period, and it will not be until the middle of the month when the ban is lifted, and there will be more sea fishing shrimp on the market. Fortunately, the quality of the ingredients is good, the chef's skills are online, and the dishes are full of flavors, so everyone still has a lot of fun.

Putting down the chopsticks in his hand, Wu Pan let out a long breath, took a sip of the teacup with his right hand, and unconsciously put his left hand on his lower abdomen, obviously a little overwhelmed.

took out a napkin and wiped his mouth casually, Vice President Wu of Grinding Plate Technology said hello to several northern diners next to him, squeezed out the chair and walked towards the door of the restaurant.

The staff at the door handed over three cards, and Lao Wu took them casually. I glanced down, the white one is the bee garden visit ticket, which is valid this week, and the other two blue ones are from the Zhilan Hotel, one nap coupon and one overnight ticket, which are also valid this week, which is the last benefit given to everyone by Jiayun.

Shaking the three paper coupons casually, Wu Pan still said: "The bee garden visit is free, and the two Zhilan add up to 200 yuan, this trip is a big loss!"

Hearing this, Qi Linlin beside him glanced at him, turned sideways slightly, and pulled away from him, putting on a distant posture that I was not familiar with.

Seeing his girlfriend's performance in his eyes, Wu Pan simply put down his reserve, lightly supported his belly with both hands to draw circles, turned his head and asked with a smile: "Did I say anything wrong, what do you dislike?"

"What do you dislike, you don't know?" The girl turned her head to look at her boyfriend, and was just about to open her mouth when she saw someone's slightly vulgar movements, and immediately said in disgust: "I didn't bring you here if I knew it, and I would definitely be laughed at when I went back!"

Jiayun drew an invitation letter from the lucky audience, and Qi Linlin drew a double copy for her luck, so she pulled her live-in boyfriend to come over.

At the dinner table, she kept her figure, and she only tasted every dish, and hurriedly put down her chopsticks just when she felt a little full, and she didn't even dare to drink more juice. This guy in front of her is good, it's like a starving ghost, she eats it all with her belly open, and she complains about the loss at the end, which really makes her feel embarrassed.

"What's the joke?" Wu Pan responded to his girlfriend with confidence: "These two tickets are not cheap, how can I be willing if I don't help you eat more?"

On the surface, the opening experience voucher and the reception luncheon just now are free, saying that they are to give back to the new and old audiences. However, everyone knows that the potential cost of this thing is really not small, and the invited guests all have consumption records without exception, especially Qi Linlin, who has received multiple invitations, are all high-rollers who can be ranked on the fan list.

Glaring at him, the girl said unhappily: "I make my own money and spend it myself, can you manage it?"

"Hey, of course I don't care," Wu Pan put on a gloomy posture, "It's just that the thought of being as good as a dog makes my heart full of sadness." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Sort of," Wu Pan nodded calmly.

"It's really careful!" Qi Linlin said with disdain: "Ah Huang is so pitiful, he was abandoned by his master, his leg was broken by the city management, and he was almost destroyed by humanity." It's so miserable, you still have to deal with it, it's really weird!"

Ah Huang in her mouth is a stray dog, because of his tough resistance to the "cleaning and rectification" work, he was accidentally broken by the urban management team. The animal shelter center treated, sterilized, and recruited it according to the process, but unfortunately its size and severed limbs were lost too much, and no one was willing to adopt it.

Not only Ah Huang, but the other sheltered animals are actually in a similar situation. Most of these animals are adults, they don't look as pitiful and cute as kittens and dogs, and they still have diseases, disabilities, and bad habits, and it is often difficult to find good Samaritans who are willing to adopt. According to the animal containment procedure, animals that have not been adopted by people or organizations for a long time need to be humanely destroyed and euthanized. Both PETA and the internationally developed cities of Hong Kong Island and Tokyo are implementing similar strategies, with the difference being that PETA and the Hong Kong AFCD prefer lethal injections, while Tokyo's animal shelters prefer carbon dioxide suffocation.

Ah Huang had already entered the next batch of euthanasia lists, but in the end, he ushered in a turnaround because the "posthumous photo" taken by the staff for him became popular on the Internet. Many people were moved by Ah Huang's pitiful and innocent eyes, and took the initiative to contact the center to express their willingness to fund Ah Huang until his death. And it itself is more competitive, so it recovered from the serious injury of a severed limb, hung up the pet walker sent by well-wishers, regained its mobility, and became a small Internet celebrity.

Later, Jiayun Zoo took the initiative to contact the shelter center, took the disabled Ah Huang over, and gave him a lawn where he could run freely. With his miserable life experience, amiable warm smile, and tenacious attitude towards life, Ah Huang, who is running on wheels, can always easily impress the audience, especially the sympathy of young and middle-aged women, and thus receive a large number of virtual and physical gifts, including the one from Qi Linlin.

was despised by his girlfriend, but Wu Pan didn't intend to admit it, and said stubbornly: "Ah Huang was indeed pitiful in the past, but now it has turned over and reached the peak of dog life." Believe it or not? It makes more money than you pay?"

It is well documented how many gifts Ah Huang has received, and it is indeed higher than Qi Linlin's salary. Not only her, but the combined salaries of the four shareholders of Mopan Technology do not make as much money as this dog doing live broadcasts.

It's not that people are not as good as dogs, but the real reason is that they pay themselves low wages in order to avoid taxes reasonably. The state implements a progressive tax rate for personal income tax, with a monthly income of more than 3,500 yuan, you need to pay a minimum of 10% and a maximum of 45% of the personal income tax, while the tax rate on dividend income is only 20%, and low wages and high dividends are obviously more cost-effective.

Although they want to keep money to develop new games, their shareholders have not paid dividends for half a year, but because large consumption can be linked to the company's account, life has not been affected, and they still have spare money to spend on other things.

Hearing this, Qi Linlin couldn't help but roll her eyes, "Of course I believe it, the combined salaries of the four of us are not as much as it." But it still has a big family to raise, and the situation is not the same at all!"

Ah Huang has a generous character, and he often surrounds and follows a few puppies, and in the eyes of the audience who are keen to make up cp, he naturally becomes Ah Huang's fatherhood and takes the initiative to adopt those puppies. In fact, the puppies are also adults, and they just think that the big dog seems to be safer, and they just instinctively get together.

Wu Pan pouted, "There are a bunch of puppies to raise, and I don't know if I can raise a dog among Cao Song." ”

"Who is Cao Song?" Qi Linlin didn't know why, and looked at her boyfriend suspiciously.

"Ahem," Brother Qi coughed lightly, learning the tone of the teachers of the Hundred Schools' Forum, and said in a tone overlooking history: "Cao Song is the adopted son of Cao Teng, a frequent servant in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his son is Cao Cao. ”

The tone changed suddenly, and it switched to a gossip tone: "Oh yes, these puppies have also been cut, I'm afraid that it won't be Cao Song, even Lin Zhennan." ”

As the founder of a small game, Qi Linlin naturally knew the basic Three Kingdoms setting, and knew that Zhongchang Shi was the official name of the eunuch of the Han Dynasty. Knowing what her boyfriend wanted to say, she suddenly became angry: "Obscene! boring!"

Leaving someone behind the clutching and screaming in pain, the girl stepped away on two long legs.

Fortunately, the other party was not wearing high heels, and Wu Pan's feet quickly recovered from the heavy blow. Quickly caught up with the girl in front of him, and asked with a shy face: "Dear, there is still an afternoon, should you go back to the company or go somewhere else?"

It's Saturday, and Shen Mosun and the others are still working overtime in the company to test and adjust "Disaster Messenger", and make every effort to prepare for the icmarket92 that will be held next week. The latter, as the world's largest doujinshi instant sale, can always attract the attention of a large number of otaku. A large number of houses gathered, and independent games, model peripherals, and music series manufacturers that targeted it also went to participate in CM and staged a different kind of "pan-entertainment feast".

The plot of this disaster simulation game is seriously detached from reality, and it is not surprising that they did not get the version number, and they were too lazy to modify and polish the product back and forth, so they simply continued to choose the overseas distribution route. If you go to a small experienced island country first, and then go to Southeast Asia for a few shakes, you can probably make money. With the smooth development of the "Little Bee" plan, there are more and more low-end bee mobile phones, and the distribution capacity of bee games in Southeast Asia, South Asia and other countries is also rising. These places are often hit by earthquakes, typhoons, droughts, and floods, and have an abundant population base, so the market potential for disaster games is huge.

Hearing him say that he wanted to go back to the company, Qi Linlin suddenly had a big head. She is not a quiet character like Sun, and it is really embarrassing for this girl to sit and work in a company on weekends, so she immediately shook her head like a rattle, "I'm not going, I'm going to you!"

"If you don't go back, you won't go back," Wu Pan nodded, "Then where are we going?"

The deadline is approaching, the project has been finalized, and now I am only going back to the company to check a few more times before submitting the paper for peace of mind, in fact, it is difficult to find many bugs and omissions.

Looking at her boyfriend dressed as a "stall", Qi Linlin said with a disgusted face: "Where else can I go?

In fact, Lao Wu is still a famous brand, and all of them add up to three or four hundred, which cannot be regarded as stalls. It's a pity that this guy didn't add some points to "deep water Taobao" and "dressing and matching", the clothes he bought are all the kind of clothes that are particularly provocative, others wear all kinds of good-looking, and they are all kinds of ugly and strange when they are changed to themselves. Over time, he also gave up on treatment, and he became more and more casual in dressing.

Hearing that he was going to try on clothes, Wu Pan suddenly had a big head, but unfortunately his thighs couldn't twist his arms, so he had to follow aggrievedly.

said that she wanted to help her boyfriend pick out clothes, but when people entered SM Plaza, Qi Linlin herself habitually entered the women's clothing department and forgot about her boyfriend.

SM City Plaza was invested and built by SM Group in the Philippines, which first started by selling shoes, so it was named Shoe Mart (shoe market), and later the company transformed into a retail department store and still used the previous abbreviation as the brand. Ludao SM opened sixteen years ago, the entertainment company is only a small reputation, sadomasochism is still a mental illness, as a native of Ludao, Wu Pan naturally does not have strange associations with the name of the store, just like Hong Kong Island fans will not find the shield SB logo of Shaw Brothers Pictures very strange.

Sitting on the bench in the rest area, Lao Wu took out his mobile phone and played a game.

He is not playing a few of his own works, but the new work of another Ludao game company, Yufeng: "The Legend of Shushan Instrument Spirit".

Putting aside the ancient stand-alone era, Yufeng used to be the most famous online game company in Egret Island, but unfortunately it was very unlucky.

In 2004, they participated in Chinajoy with their entrepreneurial work "Shushan OL", and easily won the "Top Ten Most Anticipated Games" with their unique 3D ink painting style and Xianxia theme with countless fans. It's a pity that their investor is an "industrialist" who started as a shoemaker, and he was unwilling to invest in accelerated development at a critical moment, and the game was delayed until the end of 05 before the closed beta was launched, when "World of Warcraft" had been in commercial operation for half a year.

By the time Yufeng finally found an agency, the time had come to 2007, and the mainstream of the market had become a free-to-play game.

Finally got Shengda's strategic investment, and sent the brainless shoe merchant gift out of the door, and Yufeng handed over the game to the Maopu network agent who was new to the operation of online games for various reasons, and was pitted by the latter.

In this way, because of missing several key time points, this company became a typical representative of making art with heart, making IP with hands, playing with legs, and picking partners with feet, and finally sank and disappeared from the sight of most players. In the past ten years, not to mention compared with Bee You, which has grown into an industry giant, even 9943, which started as a flash game, can throw off the wind a few streets.

In the past two years, Shengda intended to withdraw from the game industry and sold off its game companies, and this stunted old neighbor was also taken over by Bee Games.

With the technical and financial support of Bee Game, Yufeng finally recovered his strength, and regained some popularity and vitality by transplanting old games to the mobile phone. Some time ago, they grandly released a new concept mobile game "The Legend of the Machine" on CJ, which has been polished for two years.

Traditional MMORPGs require players to invest a lot of time in managing game characters, which is not in line with the trend of fast-paced, fragmented, and mobile. Although it has successfully continued its life twice by relying on the F2P free model and the re-repetition of mobile games, it is also a fact that the core gameplay of the management characters is becoming more and more unpopular with post-95 and post-00 players. Compared with doing daily work and checking in copies every day, young players obviously prefer MOBA mobile games such as "pesticides" and "white sauce" that are simple and easy to use and do not require too much time, and even idle mobile games can gain good popularity and income.

"The Legend of the Machine" is an advanced form of idle online game, the player is no longer a newcomer to Xiuzhen, but a magic weapon in the pocket of a newcomer to Xiuzhen, the gameplay is similar to that of a mobile game, but the picture performance, interactive intensity has to throw off the predecessors a few streets.