Chapter 700: For the Market
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The island city is tens of thousands of kilometers away from Frankfurt, and even if you take a subsonic jetliner, it will take more than ten hours or even more than a day to reach it.
In the economy class of the Boeing 777 plane, Wang Shan saved the document and exited the editor, then closed the laptop with a depressed face and stuffed it into the computer bag, and the battery icon in the lower right corner of the desktop had begun to flash a warning.
There are two 10,000 mAh power banks in his bag, but they are not allowed to be used on the plane, so they can only be used as decorations for the time being. And the seemingly high capacity of the power bank is only more than 50 watt-hours when converted into watt-hours, which is only enough for the notebook to use for one or two hours, and because of the boost loss, the actual use time is even less.
Looking at the small screen behind the seat in front of him, the navigation chart showed that the plane had just flown out of the country, and he still had to stay in the sky for hours.
raised his eyes and looked at his colleague Lan Mei next to him, and saw that the other party was using a mobile phone to code words, and the laptop had already been put away.
This time, in order to report on the MC World Mobile Congress, the home of the machine sent Wang Shan, who is in charge of the bee version of the news, and Lan Mei, who is in charge of the Android version, to Barcelona together, there are few people and heavy tasks, and the two of them used the flight time to write the script, but unfortunately the laptop battery is not strong enough, and it was just flown out of the country and suffered the embarrassment of the computer running out of power. If you can still find a charging port in first class or business class, but in cheap economy class, you can only use it with your mobile phone.
Leaning over to look at the content on the screen, Wang Shan sighed in a low voice: "Alas! Bee and Qualcomm are also true, why don't you launch a long-lasting notebook with a butterfly screen?"
Lan Mei stretched out her hand to look at her colleague, "You can take the bee tablet on the plane, it's enough to use all the way." ”
"Alas, I would like to, but they have never released a model above 12 inches, and they are all educational boards and entertainment boards. The keyboard holster or something is so lo, how can you be embarrassed to get it?"
He reached out and grabbed his mobile phone, but in the end he didn't take it out, "Forget it, it's really boring to play a single machine without the Internet, I'd better sleep." ”
"Can you sleep?" Lan Mei reached out and poked the direction of the porthole next to her, although she couldn't enjoy the blue sky and clouds outside through the porthole due to the distance, she could still see that the sun was shining outside.
This is also normal, most of the time civil airliners fly at the bottom of the stratosphere, above the clouds, away from the fog and haze clouds, and the outside is either a clear blue sky or a clear starry sky. It was afternoon when the plane took off, and then it chased the sun all the way west, and of course it was spring outside the porthole.
Sunlight isn't really a big deal, after all, there are blackout eye patches, but the whistling noise in the cabin and the crowded seats can't stand it. As the cheapest class on the plane, the economy class is already noisy and crowded, coupled with the sound of more than 100 passengers whispering and playing games, even if the earbuds are plugged in the ears, it cannot be completely isolated, and people are even more irritable.
Sure enough, not long after the blindfolds and earbuds were put on, they were ripped off by Lao Wang, and they continued to look around boringly.
"After all, you're not sleepy enough!" Lan Mei raised her head and said in her busy schedule.
"I can't help it if I can't sleep," Wang Shan said casually, his attention was already on the seatback TV in front of him, although this product has a low resolution and less small screen content, but it is better than nothing, it is better than nothing, it is more interesting than those flight magazines and in-flight newspapers.
Soon he discovers a new continent: "Hey! Disney is a cow, and the movie trailers are on the plane!"
Wang Shan stretched out his hand to push the colleague next to him, and the other party glanced at him and said disdainfully: "The trailer of Team America 3, you haven't seen it before?"
"I really haven't seen it," Lao Wang scratched his head, "Anyway, when it's time to release it, these things will be said everywhere on the Internet, and I can't miss the time to watch the movie." By the way, who is this black man? Marvel has also kept up with the times and created black heroes?"
"I'm really convinced of you! Don't you care about the original comic book when you watch comic movies?" Lan Mei stopped typing at the moment, saved and exited, then opened an app on her mobile phone, and handed it to Wang Shan, "Let me tell you, this guy is the richest man in the anime world, and he has no friends!"
"Spoiler death!" Wang Shan muttered, "Besides, I don't really like the muscular style of American comics." ”
Saying that, he reached out and took the mobile phone handed over, Lao Wang looked down and wondered: "This can't be a copycat, right? I remember that Donald Duck is the richest man in the animation world, why did he fall to the fourth place all of a sudden?"
In other words, Forbes, a financial magazine that became famous in the world because of the compilation and update of the Forbes rich list, later extended its claws to the virtual characters in the animation world. They used various mathematical tools to compile the rich list to rigorously and carefully estimate the wealth of superheroes and roaming game protagonists. For example, after calculation, they found that Mario, the plumber, had saved a billion net worth by collecting gold coins with bricks, so they put him on the tenth high position on the virtual character rich list, and Luigi, who was also able to top a box of mobile phone gold coins, had a net worth far less than that of his brother Red Hat because of the limitations of his 2P identity.
Also on the list are the anime world's No. 1 gold mining tycoon, Donald Duck McDonald, as well as Batman Wayne and Iron Man Tony Stark, who both parents died and inherited the family business.
"Although this app is a copycat, the data source is from the Forbes official website, and the data is still credible. Lan Mei said: "As for Donald Duck's ranking down, it's because the international gold price has fallen. Not only did our aunt's gold speculation group suffer heavy losses, but Donald Duck, who is the world's No. 1 gold mining tycoon in the animation world, was also greatly affected, and his net worth shrank a lot. ”
"Is this okay? Reality has also affected the virtual world?"
"Why not? Readers will substitute real prices. For example, the beef that heroes often eat is not something that can be bought in any rural shop in ancient times, and there has not been such a developed animal husbandry since then, and the Central Plains government has always forbidden the killing of cattle and the sale of beef without permission in order to protect the political correctness of farming cattle and promote agriculture. ”
"Well, that seems to be the case. ”
Wang Shan lowered his head and continued to look at the application in his hand, this copycat application called "Forbes Anime Character Rich List" is doing a good job, the data is detailed and the layout is clear, obviously it is still attentive.
On top of Donald Duck, it is Tony Stark, who inherited the international arms giant Stark Industries, Mr. Iron Man is undoubtedly very rich, the 10,000-foot beach villa is demolished, and the super flight suit worth hundreds of millions of dollars is blown up, anyway, there is a steady stream of companies to make money for him, so he can naturally enjoy the cool feeling of not going to the old and not coming to the new. And as the comic book movies he appeared in attacked cities and seized land all over the world, Stark Industries' "business conditions" also rose, making Iron Man finally break through the bottleneck and rise from a billionaire to a billionaire.
However, there are more strong players among the strong, and Mr. Iron Man, who is rich enough to rival the country, meets the "rich country" Black Panther Tichara, so naturally he can only sigh and settle for third.
In the past, superheroes were all "the poor rely on mutation, and the rich engage in technology", the typical representatives of the former are Spider-Man and Hulk, and the latter is represented by Iron Man and Batman, but the second-generation Black Panther, who is about to appear in "Captain America 3", has completely broken this traditional law.
He eats inherited herbs to strengthen his physique, wears sound-absorbing steel suits to increase his defense, studies in Oxford, England to learn technology, and protects the elite guards, and hangs part-time until he has no friends. Just showing his face in easter eggs, cartoons and trailers has attracted countless discussions, and there are faint signs of redefining local tyrants and gold coin warriors.
The superhero inherited the African nation of Wakanda, the world's largest source of vibranium, a fictional rare metal that is extremely hard and energy-absorbing, and is made of the shield of the American team and Iron Man's new suit. Relying on exports, Wakanda got rich quickly and developed, becoming the most economically and technologically developed country in Africa.
In the past, because the main battlefields of comic book heroes were in American cities, exaggerated New York, fictional Gotham, etc., the Black Panther in a corner naturally did not have many scenes, and for the crooked nuts who only watched movies and did not watch comics, the presence of this black superhero was even less. So although the first generation of Black Panther was already very rich, his name still failed to make it to the anime rich list, until his son, the second generation of Black Panther, showed up, and finally got what he wanted.
It's a pity that at the same time that Black Panther was turned out, another supervillain was also found from the thick comic books, and the richest hat that Wang Shan saw was brought to Thanos's head. This evil god who played soy sauce in "Avengers 2" has the ability to destroy the universe, and his wealth is naturally infinite, becoming the richest man as it should be.
After reading all the lists, Wang Shan summed it up with a complaint: "Obviously, the editors of Forbes have not read the starting point, what is it to destroy a universe with a snap of a finger, and what Dianniang has is the power to control the universe and even create the universe." ”
"It's extreme, even if you don't put the protagonist of the online article, you can put Sakyamuni and the ancient Buddha of the burning lamp in it, they are all powerful people in one flower and one world, how to say it, they are better than these guys who only mess around on the virtual earth!"
Hearing Lan Mei's slightly ironic statement, Lao Wang also felt that something was wrong: "This is not good, the difference in levels is too great, and there is no comparison at all." Here, the Mario brothers are still working hard to collect gold coins, Donald Duck is still looking for gold mines everywhere, and the gods and powers over there have long mastered the technology of turning stones into gold and refining heaven and earth, so put them together is not bullying!"
Lan Mei suddenly raised her head and looked around, then leaned into Wang Shan's ear and whispered: "By the way, let me tell you about this black hero, his background is also quite interesting." ”
The first Panther, Tchaka, the father of the second Panther, who has recently appeared in movies and cartoons, first appeared in 1966, when the black movement in the United States was on the rise.
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and strongly promoted the introduction of the Civil Rights Act, the Election Act, and other laws to give equal rights to blacks in law, for which he himself won the Dynamite Peace Prize the following year.
But at that time, there were some blacks who felt that relying on peaceful protest did not guarantee equal rights for blacks, and that they should take the line of armed confrontation, and some of them used the panther as a flag symbol. In 66, the Black Panther Party, a left-wing black political party, was founded in California, they advocated the use of laws and weapons to protect the rights of black people, encouraged black people to carry rifles on the streets to supervise the law enforcement of the California police, and even advocated the establishment of black self-governing communities.
In 1968, after President Martin and President Kennedy were shot and killed, Capitol Hill passed the Comprehensive Crime Control and Street Safety Act and the Gun Control Act, which began to drastically restrict the carrying and use of guns, and the Black Panther Party, which patrolled the streets with guns, began to decline and finally disbanded in 1982.
In 67, the Black Panther Party openly brought guns into the California Capitol in front of Ronald Reagan, setting off the prelude to the modern gun rights movement, and the concept that "individuals have the right to bear arms, restricting guns is national disarmament is persecution" was picked up by the National Rifle Association (NRA) after its dissolution motto.
Lao Mei does not practise rent-seeking, but it is legal and reasonable to lobby and appoint external consultants during his tenure, the Oscars can lobby, and the legal provisions can also lobby. The NRA, which has strong support from arms dealers and earns more than $200 million a year, is a very effective congressional lobby. Under their opposition, stricter gun ban laws have always been difficult to promote, resulting in frequent gun crimes and high social security costs.
Although Stan Lee said at the beginning that the superhero Black Panther and the Black Panther logo of the Black Movement were actually just a coincidence, he said this purely to save face, and they often quoted the topic of Zhengzhi at the time in the comics. Wakanda is the only country in Africa that has not been tainted by colonizers because it is guarded by the superhero Black Panther, and they set such a country and heroes to come out, obviously to please the black community, after all, there are one-tenth of black people in the United States, and it is worth tailoring a hero for them. And this was obviously successful, and Marvel later simply relented and got another black heroine, Storm Girl. Now Asian superheroes are also starting to have, and Chinese superheroes are also coming soon. Lan Mei finally concluded.
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