Winters at high latitudes are undoubtedly cold and dark, and it quickly darkens after 15 o'clock, when it is already completely dark.

There were no lights in the room, only the computer monitor was on, and the white light illuminated Alicia Larson's face.

Looking at the small circles that kept spinning on the white interface, the blonde girl screamed and called out to Telia, hoping that their network could be more powerful and not have problems at this critical moment.

The time in the lower right corner reached 17 o'clock, and her long-awaited "Double Eleven" officially opened.

Although they are tens of thousands of miles apart from each other, it does not affect Alicia to know the name of this man-made festival, and she has already seen the target and prepared ammunition, and when the time comes, she will immediately swing her knife and slaughter. It's a pity that she thought about the beginning but didn't guess the result, but at the critical moment, Telia's wired network went wrong, and the web page in the favorites couldn't be opened.

"Bang!" suddenly there was a knock on the wall in front of him, and then the shout of his younger brother Holsten was heard, "Ellie, it's not enough to pray to Telia, you should also add Polish Telecom, Ukrainian Telecom, Russian Telecom, Kazakhstan Telecom, and ALi on the other end of the network, they are the ......"

"Shut up!" Alicia blushed and kicked the corner of the wall with her legs, making a dull noise from the wooden wall, and the annoying male voice on the other side disappeared.

The prayer seemed to work, and pictures and text finally appeared on the web page, and the page of the bee flagship store gradually appeared.

It's a pity that it's still a little late, and the eye-catching "inventory: 0" next to the buy button stabbed her eyes, and she couldn't help but have red circles under her eyes.

Both siblings are Swedish natives who have created the game studio SnowRoom at their home in Stockholm and are die-hard fans of Bee Mirage and own a large collection of bee products. The newly released holo1 holographic glasses have long been included in her dream list, and this time she heard that there was going to be an hourly spike during the Double 11 period, Alicia immediately took action, pulling her brother to snap up with her, but in the end she lost to the network delay that spanned thousands of miles.

Alicia stood up and reached out to knock on the wall, "Hall, how are you doing over there?"

"Haha, I got it!" the other man's voice pierced through the walls, full of pride.

"Really?" the girl's eyes lit up, and her tone of voice was much softer.

"Of course!" replied Holsten confidently.

No longer suspicious, Alicia ran out of the room in her fluffy slippers, pushed open the wooden door next door, ignored her brother sitting next to her, and threw herself straight at the computer monitor.

Sure enough, the screen was a successful logistics inquiry page, but she soon found out that it was wrong, "This delivery address is wrong! Are you lying to me?"

"How come?" Holsten shrugged, "I knew I probably wouldn't be able to grab it, so I found a special foreign purchasing agent." They placed an order locally, changed the harvest address to a Stockholm agent, and I was able to pick it up in a few days. ”

"Is it reliable?"

"Of course it is reliable, the seller is an international student from SU (Stockholm University), we have agreed on cash on delivery, there will be no risk. ”

"That's good!" the beautiful blue eyes rolled twice, and Alicia patted her brother on the shoulder, "This piece of equipment will be a studio asset in the future, you can ask them to help you snap up another one!"

This is about to confiscate and forcibly occupy, and the blonde boy immediately protested, "Ellie, you can't do this! Holo1 is particularly in short supply, and the purchasing agent has long said that one person will not take new orders." ”

Then, unsurprisingly, his protest was suppressed, "I don't care! These glasses will be mine from now on, you can stay at home and buy them slowly, and you may be able to grab them late at night." ”

"Ellie!" Holsten suddenly shouted.

"Huh?" Sitting on her brother's bed, Alicia replied in a nasal voice.

"I have decided to suspend the escort agreement between us. ”

The girl stood up suddenly, "Are you sure?"

"Yes!" Holsten turned to look at his sister, nodded, and said with a solemn face: "If you leave me at home tonight to buy glasses, don't even think about calling me when you go out at night in the future!"

"Hahaha!" Alicia got up from the bed, crossed her hands and laughed three times, "Others are afraid of them, but I am not afraid! I am a woman with a gun! They should be afraid!"

"It's you," leaned over at his brother as he propped up the back of his chair with one hand, "and those people are said to like blonde guys too!"

Thanks to the efforts of women's rights groups, if Swedes report to the police that they have been ******, the police must file a case of rape. The move, which was intended to intensify the crackdown and promote gender equality, has also led to a significant increase in the rape rate in the Nordic country, which has been among the top five in the world since 2006.

Due to the fact that there are so many ****** complaints that this number is "watery", it has become an international scandal, and Stockholm has been nicknamed the "rape capital".

However, with the influx of more and more "underage" refugees into Sweden, the name "Rape Capital" is gradually becoming more and more worthy of its name.

After the outbreak of the war in Syria, Sweden began to accept refugees in large numbers, the highest number in Europe. At most, hundreds of thousands of people from Syria and elsewhere applied for asylum, half of whom were able to get tickets to Gothenburg, mostly young men, or middle-aged people posing as "minors" who were teenagers younger as soon as they shaved their beards.

However, multiculturalism is easier said than done, and Swedes cannot stand the discrimination and victimization of women by refugees in the Middle East, and refugees cannot accept the strict rules of Swedish law on sexual assault, after all, there are no such crimes in their country. The gap between reality and imagination further exacerbated by the fact that some people regretted going to Germany, some people fought with people, and some people even went down the road to crime.

The violent crime related to refugees has increased dramatically, which has really made the melon-eating masses in other countries exclaim, "Nordic paradise pill!" The attitude of the locals has also changed subtly, from the initial blind optimism to welcome the signs, and gradually return to normal calm and rationality with a hint of caution, Alicia mouthful of "I'm not afraid of them" is a reflection of this attitude.

Squeezing her eyebrows and throwing a playful look, Alicia straightened up and was about to walk out, "Stay at home obediently and watch the house, and I'll bring you souvenirs when I come back!"

"Don't!" Holsten hurriedly stood up, ran a few steps and hugged his sister's waist from behind, "Ellie, it's too dangerous for you to walk alone, take me with you, I can help you keep an eye on your back!"

"Let's go, then," Alicia pointed to the room hanger with her chin smirked, "Let's go change your clothes yet!"

Affected by the Gulf Current, winters in northwestern Europe become warm and wet, with an average temperature of around 0 degrees Celsius in January, far from being comparable to the east coast of Northeast Asia and North America at the same latitude. The Scandinavian peninsula, where Sweden is located, is also blessed by the world's strongest warm current, with long but not cold winters.

The warm current brings heat and herring, and also brings abundant snowfall, coupled with the scarcity of sunshine in winter, which really affects the mood, the locals have to develop a good habit of cat winter, and hide in the house as soon as it gets dark and drink wine around the fireplace to add nonsense, and then there is a very yellow and violent Nordic mythology. In modern times, the fireplace has been replaced by a more convenient heating device, and the habit of drinking nonsense has not changed, but it has been changed to a bar.

Changing into thick clothes, the siblings stepped out of the house, stepped onto the street covered with a thin layer of snow, and walked towards the nearest bus stop under the watchful eye of countless street lamps.

Their destination is an indoor stadium, but not to exercise, but to get up close and personal with the VR roadshow car parked there.

This is not a new thing, and Bee Mirage has long loaded VR equipment into trucks and toured within designated areas to better promote its products. Later, as there were more and more offline experience spaces, the roadshow car that burned money gradually fell silent, and it was not until last month that it suddenly revived, but the reason was related to the Khronos Group.

The latter is a display industry technology alliance established at the beginning of this century, initiated by the major graphics card manufacturers at that time, and their main work results are the graphics program interface OpenGL and the successor Vulkan, both of which are cross-language, cross-platform, and free of licensing fees, and are welcomed by relevant manufacturers.

In an effort to clean up the fragmented VR industry, Khronos has come out and called for a cross-vendor, royalty-free open access standard that clears the way for VR content compatibility.

For consumers and content creators, a unified interface that can make more games and easier to develop is a good thing, and industry giants such as Bee Mirage, Valve, Oculus, and ARM have responded positively and then started to tear up like crazy.

As the saying goes: third-rate enterprises sell products, second-rate enterprises sell services, first-class enterprises sell standards, super enterprises sell buildings (this is crossed out), and Qualcomm of the United States, which receives soft 3G/4G patent fees, is a successful example of selling standards.

Now that there is an opportunity to create standards, various stakeholders will naturally not sit idly by, and have taken action to show their muscles and pull favors, hoping to make more of their own patents enter the final standard. Even if the API interface will be free and public, the giants will still be able to make profits with the help of development tools, technical training, key hardware, peripheral technology, etc.

Bee Mirage restarted the VR roadshow car in order to brighten up its muscles. I always say how much I lead, consumers and the media have cocooned their ears and have immunity, so they simply put everyone's equipment together, so that consumers everywhere can feel it up close and intuitive, and it is clear who is good and who is bad at a glance.

The fact is also the same, there is no harm if there is no comparison, the city where the roadshow car passes, the share of the Dream Walker's equipment will obviously jump a notch, while the competitors will decline a lot, and those who pay attention to demeanor will also praise the promotion role of the roadshow car, and the one who tears his face simply scolds the bee for not following the rules, and will only bully people with professional supercomputing.

Using this equipment, Bee Mirage "restored" the Colosseum in Rome, "rebuilt" the Parthenon in Greece, "dug up" the underground palace of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and allowed Viking pirates wearing horned helmets to reappear in the fjord. Then those manufacturers who produce mobile phone VR boxes are all unlucky, users who have eaten a big meal can tolerate street food, but they can't swallow compressed dry food, low cost, poor experience of mobile phone boxes are these annoying dry food.

Alicia's purpose is also a professional supercomputer installed in the roadshow car. There is no shortage of ordinary equipment in the igloo studio, but you can't get this kind of VR supercomputer for tourist attractions and historical sites, since you have the opportunity to experience it up close, you can't miss it.

In addition, they also have a little bit of caution, that is, to bring their own works to the exhibition, if they can get the appreciation and funding of the bee mirage, it will be perfect.

The roadshow car traveled from city to city, not only promoting VR products, but also acting as an industry gathering, blowing up many developers who only knew their names everywhere they went. Seeing this situation, Bee Fantasy simply added an exchange activity called "VR One Day Talk", inviting developers from surrounding cities to communicate with senior siege lions from Bee on the spot, and if they encounter a good plan, they will also sprinkle support money and guaranteed issuance agreements on the spot, which has really created many new stars in the industry.

This is also a means of winning over allies, but it is excellent for small and medium-sized developers to use their limited strength to build a strong voice.

The product brought by the SnowRoom Studio, also called "Snowroom", is a cartoon-style miniature sandbox game.

In 1900, Erwin Pelzi, a Vienna-based medical device technician, was inspired to invent the SnowGlobe when he tried to amplify candlelight with a water-filled glass sphere. He filled a small miniature house and a doll in a transparent glass ball, sprinkled it with artificial snowflakes, and then filled it with liquid to seal it, creating this wonderful toy that "snows" when shaken.

For more than 100 years, romantic and beautiful snowflake balls have been very popular in Europe and the United States, and many girls have received such Christmas gifts when they were young. When smartphones took the world by storm, it didn't take long for developers to bring this classic toy to their phones and make them into live wallpapers and mini-games, making the same small fortune, including Alicia.

After earning her first pot of gold, she joined her brother to set up the Snow Room Studio, continued to refine her product, developed it into a unique style of idle games, and now plans to move towards the Dreamwalker VR platform.

The game continues to maintain the general appearance of snowflake globes, with transparent borders, heavy snow, forests, houses, and humans and animals living in them. The player is the owner of the snowflake ball, and has the ability to partially alter the environment inside the snowflake ball, thus affecting the humans and animals that "live" it, and thus generating more wonderful interactions.

And the final result also made the two of them satisfied, seeing the effect of the demonstration, the person in charge immediately took it down, after all, Christmas is coming.

(End of chapter)