With his dream of a game console, Zhang Lexing left the Game Research Institute, and after dinner, returned to the room booked at the Peninsula Hotel for a short rest. After watching TV for a while, Zhang Lexing threw the remote control onto the bed, yawned boredly, and then came to the big closet, opened the cabinet door, dragged the suitcase out, took out the laptop, and put the suitcase back in its original place.

Coming to the living room, Zhang Lexing put the laptop on the desk, connected the phone line, opened the notebook, turned on the power and entered the security code, and soon entered the system desktop. Start the preset connection in the dialer, a sound of "beep ~ beep ~ beep ......" sounds, the system prompts "start to connect to the server......", and after dozens of seconds, the system prompts again "the network has been connected".

Zhang Lexing glanced at the world clock in the system tray, and the local time was now 8:10 p.m., which is 8:10 a.m. in Boston. At this time, Chen Zishan should not be online, so Zhang Lexing did not start ICQ, but after casually taking a look at the news website, he entered the Hotmail mailbox that was about to be officially launched.

This Hotmail mailbox is not the Hotmail that was acquired by Microsoft in history, but under the suggestion of Zhang Lexing, one of the businesses that the Internet company under the VisualSystem Group intends to operate, of course, the name Hotmail was given by Zhang Lexing, and the name of the Internet company was directly used in order to save trouble.

After entering his account and password, Zhang Lexing logged in to his own mailbox (zhanglx@) and browsed it at will. Because the mailbox has only been opened for a long time, there are not many new emails in it, there is an email sent by Yang Xinxin to send greetings, and an email is a registration thank you letter automatically sent by the system, in addition to three spam emails, all of which are some unknown content.

"I can't imagine that spam is so rampant now, and the mailbox that has just been opened has been occupied, and it seems that I have given a good reminder to the technical department, and quickly add a spam filtering system, so as not to use the mailbox in the future. Zhang Lexing muttered as he ticked off the spam emails casually, and then clicked the delete button.

After deleting the spam email, Zhang Lexing wrote an email to Hotmail's technical department, suggesting that they immediately put in place an email filtering system to prevent the flood of spam and add validation to the mail sending server to prevent it from being used to send spam.

After doing this, Zhang Lexing saw that the time was almost up, so he double-clicked the ICQ icon on the desktop with the mouse, and started the ICQ to log in to his number. When the interface of instant messaging came out, Zhang Lexing was pleasantly surprised to find that Chen Zishan had gone online, so he immediately opened the chat window and sent a message over.

freedom: "howareudoing?"

Susan: "iamfine, howru.

The reason why the two people want to use English is also a last resort, because now the Chinese version of KylinWindows95 has not yet been listed, and even the plug-in Chinese system has not yet been seen, so they cannot input Chinese for the time being, and the two have to make do with English first (the same is true for the content of the following chat, but for the convenience of reading, it has been converted to Chinese)

Freedom: "What's the weather like over there?"

Susan: "The weather has been pretty nice for the past two days, and I went for a walk on the banks of the Charles River with my classmates. ”

freedom: "The two of us went there last time, and it was still nice to walk around in the morning or evening. ”

Susan: "yes, by the way, you're still in Hong Kong?"

freedom: "yes, I only arrived today, and I might have to stay for a few days. ”

Susan: "Then you should pay more attention to rest, and don't let yourself get too tired." ”

freedom: "You also need to pay more attention to your body, I'll have to check it up in a while." ^_^”

Susan: "Nasty, =^-^="

freedom：“@>>－－－>－－－”

Susan：“^.^”

……

Susan: "I'm sorry, I have something to do here, so I have to go first." ”

freedom: "Take care, 53880"

Susan：“513880，（：－*”

freedom：“”

Susan：“886”

freedom：“886”

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^_^ (smiley) = ^-^ = (blushing) @ >>--->--- (send you a rose)

^.^ (Cute smiley face of the girl) (:-* (kiss you affectionately) (drunk)

53880: I want to hug you

513880: I want to hug you too

886: Bye-bye

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The icon representing Chen Zishan dimmed, and Zhang Lexing's heart couldn't help but feel a burst of melancholy, and he lost the interest of continuing to play with the computer. After putting away the laptop, taking a shower in the bathroom and changing into pajamas, Zhang Lexing turned off the TV and lay down on the bed early......

The next morning, after breakfast, Yan Ruofei sent a report on the situation after the acquisition of Wizards of the Coast and TSR. Wizards of the Coast will remain in its entirety, with no changes other than financial management, and TSR will retain only 90% of its employees after Williams is gone, most of which will be relocated from Lake Geneva, where TSR is located, to Seattle, where Wizards of the Coast is located, nominally into Wizards of the Coast, but for the time being in a separate system. The other 90% was arranged in Hong Kong, ready to contribute to the oriental fantasy system planned by Zhang Lexing.

At the same time, an investigation report on EBay from Russell Market Research was also sent to Zhang Lexing's desk. According to the only clue "EBay" provided before, Russell Market Research Company never found a qualified auction website, and Zhang Lexing could not provide more information, so they simply expanded the scope of the investigation and investigated the situation of all auction websites.

When he opened the investigation report, Zhang Lexing was taken aback, and he didn't expect that there were already many companies engaged in online auctions. For example, the first item they sold on a newly established auction site called Auctionweb was a broken laser pointer, and it just so happened that the company was based in San Jose. Another auction site called Ubid uses Dutch auctions, and an auction site called Onsale has the same ownership of items, unlike Auctionweb, which is specialized in intermediaries. But after looking at it over and over again for a long time, there is no EBay that seems to be in my impression, and there is not even a name. Whether to wait and talk, or invest in a casual one now, Zhang Lexing is also worried, and he doesn't know which one to choose for a while.

In desperation, Zhang Lexing had no choice but to write the auction websites mentioned in the report on the top of several notes, and then write another note of "suspended", and then crumpled these notes into several balls, then closed his eyes and then searched for one, and opened it to see that the note said "Auctionweb". So Zhang Lexing decided to buy the auction site called Auctionweb first, and wait until EBay emerges in the future. After making up his mind, Mr. Zhang faxed the information about Auctionweb in the investigation report to the Red River Fund's office, and then made another phone call to ask them to buy the site.

……

During this period, many members who joined the Fengyun Game Club have received an official letter one after another, inviting the majority of members to participate in the club's first event "Game Fengyun Club" during the National Day, with popular reasoning social games in Europe and the United States, table games for multiple people to play at the same time, and mysterious game appreciation conferences, and free buffets. In addition to this official letter, Fengyun Game Club also put a membership solicitation order in magazines such as "Home Computer and Game Console" and "Video Game Software", explaining the time and place of the "Game Fengyun Club" (Oriental Video Game City), and asking all members who are interested in participating to register before the 25th of this month (mainly to prepare a buffet, and have a better heart).

As soon as this news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of many players, and those who were already members were naturally excited, or secretly guessed what interesting content the so-called table games and appreciation conferences had, while many players who were not members took advantage of the time to hurriedly buy such a set of games produced by Fengyun Interactive, and then sent out the membership application form as quickly as possible. This also includes a lot of foreign players who know that they can't rush to Beijing to participate, because they saw in the advertisement on the magazine that "in the next few years, Fengyun Game Club will expand from Beijing to other regions in China, and the first batch of planned development cities include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu and other places ......", which made many people's hearts full of hope. Suddenly, due to the popularity of players, several games under Fengyun Interactive whose sales have fallen have rebounded.

……

Time came to the National Day in a blink of an eye, and early in the morning of this day, Li Wenbo rushed to the Oriental Video Game City with his membership card and the admission ticket he received when he registered. As soon as he entered the hall, Li Wenbo saw Wu Yufei and Zhao Wei. After Zhao Wei's kid played in the Oriental Video Game City last time, he claimed to buy a game to apply for membership, but after he went back, there was no movement, and he still carried a floppy disk to exchange games with others everywhere. Unexpectedly, as soon as the advertisement in this month's magazine came out, Zhao Wei hurriedly bought a set of Fengyun interactive games, and immediately applied for membership.

Li Wenbo was curious for a while, and one day when he was at school, he stopped Zhao Wei and asked him: "Aren't you not interested in genuine games, why are you in a hurry to join the Fengyun Game Club now?"

As a result, Zhao Wei grabbed his hair and replied: "I don't buy genuine games because I don't have much money in my hands, and I don't have high requirements anyway, so I just have to play." However, this 'Game Festival' was different, and it was tempting just to hear the introduction, but only members could participate, so I had to spend some money to try it out. Besides, there is also a free buffet, eat a little more when the time comes, and it will return to the basics, hehe. ”

Li Wenbo felt the same way about Zhao Wei's previous reason, and he also thought that which activities should be interesting, so he remembered to participate. But Zhao Wei later held back a reason to eat back, which made Li Wenbo a little crying and laughing, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This guy, is he going to play or to eat!"

However, when he arrived at the event, Li Wenbo would not take Zhao Wei's "eating back", after all, they are all old friends and comrades-in-arms.

Seeing Wu Yufei and Zhao Wei in the hall of the Oriental Video Game City, Li Wenbo hurriedly walked over and said hello: "Wu Yufei, Zhao Wei, you two came quite early." ”

"There are a lot of people here today, I'm afraid I won't be able to get in if I'm late. Wu Yufei turned his head, leaned into Li Wenbo's ear, pointed to a few dusty people in the distance, and whispered: "Those few are said to have come from other places." ”

"But don't we have tickets?" asked Li Wenbo puzzled.

"You don't know how many people come to participate, no matter how big the space for the event is, the capacity is always limited, if you come really late, maybe you will be lined up until tomorrow. Wu Yufei explained.

Li Wenbo nodded suddenly in realization, and at this time, Zhao Wei patted the two of them, pointed to the side of the stairs and said, "Dude, stop talking, you're going to line up to enter, and if you don't go, you really won't be able to enter." ”

Li Wenbo and Wu Yufei looked in the direction pointed out by Zhao Wei, there were already two columns lined up on the stairs, and the length was still increasing, and the three of them hurriedly ran away and rushed into the back of the line.

"Don't crowd, don't crowd, everyone line up in order. Several security guards stood around the line, waving to maintain order. Li Wenbo and the other three who had already lined up looked at the increasing tails behind them, and then looked at the not too long line in front of them, and they couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

The players queuing in front of them checked their membership cards and admission tickets, and walked up the stairs one after another, and as the line in front of them became shorter and shorter, it was finally the turn of Li Wenbo and the other three. The three of them took out their membership cards and admission tickets and handed them to the staff on both sides. The staff took the membership card and checked the admission ticket, then returned the membership card to the three people, and the admission ticket was thrown into a box with a small opening next to it, and then reminded: "Go down the stairs to the second floor, which is where the event is held, if you want to go in again halfway, please find our staff." ”

The three of them put away their membership cards and ran up the stairs excitedly. Running to the second floor in one go, the three of them walked into the playroom of the Fengyun Game Club under the guidance of the staff.

As soon as they entered the door, the three of them saw a large sign in front of them, which marked several areas divided into the playroom activity room, namely Area A (game appreciation area), Area B (board game activity area), and Area C (interactive stage area). There were three young and beautiful girls standing next to the sign, and when they saw Li Wenbo and the other three walking in, they bowed together, said "Welcome!" in a sweet voice, and then each took out a delicate card and handed it over.

Li Wenbo took it and took a look, the front of the card was printed with the words "The First Game Storm", and the date of the event was also printed below, and the back of the card was the same as the content on the sign, which was also the area division of the playmates' activity room.

Zhao Wei looked at the card in his hand, looked at both sides again, and said, "I said, where should we go first?"

"Why don't you go to the interactive stage area first, and look at the sign that the nearest one is this. Wu Yufei thought about it for a while and said his own suggestion.

"This ......" Li Wenbo actually wanted to go to Area B (board game activity area) to take a look, but since Wu Yufei had already said it, he couldn't object, hesitated, and agreed, so the three of them walked together to Area C (interactive stage area) on the right side of the gate.

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