"Mr. Arakawa, do you have any advice?" Zhang Lexing took the mobile phone handed over by Wang Mengyao and said with a smile.

"I don't dare to advise, I just want to ask again, Mr. Zhang, is your last invitation still valid?" came Arakawa's slightly panicked voice on the phone, of course, he was not really flustered, but only out of an instinctive habit to bring this tone.

"Of course, it's still in effect, and I'm always welcome to Mr. Arakawa. Zhang Lexing replied with a smile.

"Then Mr. Zhang, when do you think it's appropriate for me to visit you?"

"I've just arrived in Beijing, and it's a little late, so it's tomorrow. Which hotel does Mr. Arakawa stay in, I'll ask the driver to pick you up tomorrow. ”

"How embarrassing is this, Mr. Zhang, if you tell me the place, I'll take a taxi myself." ”

"Anyway, I'm the master in Beijing, how can I let Mr. Arakawa take a taxi by himself, and if you find the wrong place, it will delay time. ”

"In that case, I might as well be respectful. Mr. Zhang, I'm staying in Room 1105 of the Beijing Hotel, or I'll be eight o'clock tomorrow morning, can you see it?"

Zhang Lexing thought about it a little, although eight o'clock seemed to be a bit early, but Beijing always has to jam traffic from time to time, so it is good to come out early, so as not to be delayed on the road, so he said into the phone: "Yes, Mr. Arakawa, then I will ask the driver to pick you up at eight o'clock tomorrow morning." Rest early in the evening and see you tomorrow. ”

"Okay, Mr. Zhang, see you tomorrow. After saying that, Arakawa didn't rush to hang up the phone, until he heard the sound of the phone hanging up from the receiver, he put the phone handle back in place, and then sat on the sofa and let out a long breath.

Arakawa is in a calm mood, since he has made a decision, naturally he will not care about thoughts, anyway, the worst is to maintain the status quo, stay up for a few months and then roll up and leave, but if there is hope, maybe he can still usher in a turnaround. But it all depends on the situation of tomorrow's talk, Arakawa is still not clear what Mr. Zhang wants, if it crosses his bottom line, he can only refuse, although the arrangement of the old man makes him very unhappy, but after all, Nintendo, especially the North American company, is all worked hard by him, and he doesn't want to be ruined in his own hands.

Minoru Arakawa leaned back and touched his face with his hand, everything will not be known until tomorrow is discussed, and now there is nothing to do for the time being, his eyes swept over the empty guest room, and a sense of loneliness welled up in his heart. This time he came out in a hurry, and Arakawa Minoru didn't want others to know where he went, so he didn't even bring his secretary with him, and he didn't realize anything when he was thinking about it in his head, but he would inevitably feel a little lonely after this quiet.

Unconsciously, Minoru Arakawa took out a business card from his coat pocket, which he received from a minister during the day today, and it was amazing that there was still Japanese on the business card, although it seemed a little unsmooth, but the men understood the meaning of it. It was just after nine o'clock, and Mr. Zhang had just arrived at the airport a little late, but it was still very early for Minoru Arakawa, "a long night without sleep", thinking about it, his hand slowly reached for the telephone next to the sofa......

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On the morning of August 26, Zhang Lexing woke up from his sleep, habitually reached out to the side and touched it, but he felt empty, and then he remembered that he was not sleeping in his own home, but in a star-rated hotel very close to the Times Fashion Building. Because he made an appointment with Arakawa Minoru to talk about things today, in order to avoid traffic jams, Zhang Lexing did not return to the Longyuan villa on the bank of the Chaobai River last night, but deliberately chose a hotel close to the Times Fashion Building to live.

Walking out of the bedroom, Zhang Lexing found that a breakfast had been set up on the dining table in the living room, a simple ham omelette, a sandwich, and a glass of milk, but it seemed that it had just been put out for a long time, and the milk and ham omelette were still steaming. There is no need to guess that Zhang Lexing knows that this must have been arranged by Wang Mengyao, and like Yan Ruofei in the past, the two of them have always been very careful in this regard.

It just so happened that his stomach was already rumbling, Zhang Lexing looked at it, Wang Mengyao didn't seem to be in the room, so he was no longer polite, sat down and picked up the tableware, and tried his best to eliminate the breakfast on the plate. It looks like a simple combination, but it tastes a little aftertaste, the bread in the sandwich is toasted hot, with a hint of wheat, plus lettuce, chicken, cheese and some unknown stuff as fillings, which add other complex flavors to the wheat aroma. After cutting, the slightly fried ham slices are arranged in a circle, and in the middle are two fried golden eggs, accompanied by some tomato slices and green vegetables, which is both beautiful and delicious. Finally, drinking a glass of fresh milk immediately filled Zhang Lexing's stomach.

After eating breakfast, Wang Mengyao walked in with a stack of materials, came to the dining table, took out one of them and handed it over: "Boss, this is a briefing on the situation in the game industry in the past two days." ”

Zhang Lexing took it and flipped through it, there was really something he wanted to see on it, and casually returned the briefing to Wang Mengyao, he took out a tissue and wiped his mouth, then stood up and ordered: "Okay, the time is almost up, let's go first." ”

"Okay boss, you please wait. Wang Mengyao nodded, turned around and left the room.

Zhang Lexing took advantage of this effort to go to the bathroom to take care of his appearance, and changed his clothes after coming out, at this time Wang Mengyao was also ready and returned to the guest room, so the two of them, accompanied by bodyguards, took the elevator to the underground parking lot of the hotel, and then got in the car directly to the Game Museum, which is not far from the Times Fashion Building.

The hotel where Zhang Lexing lives is seven or eight hundred meters away from the game museum, if you want to walk, it doesn't take much time, but there are a lot of media gathered over there, he doesn't want to be pestered to ask endlessly, and he doesn't want the news of his presence at the WCG finals in the newspapers and the Internet every day, so he simply took the car.

The car drove into the underground parking lot of the Times Fashion Building, Zhang Lexing and others went directly to the top floor of the building from a special elevator, where a relatively secluded reception room had already been prepared, the room was spacious and comfortable, and several large-screen TVs inside could also see the upcoming WCG competition and the video screen of the entire venue from multiple angles.

Zhang Lexing randomly chose a sofa and sat down, turned on the TV with the remote control, and looked at the situation in the venue. As soon as he took two sips of tea, Wang Mengyao walked in from outside, leaned into his ear and whispered, "Boss, Mr. Arakawa is here." ”

"Let him in, well, and pour another cup of tea. Zhang Lexing commanded.

"Okay, boss. Wang Mengyao agreed, turned around and left. Not long after, the door of the reception room was opened again, and a man in a white shirt appeared at the door.

"Mr. Arakawa, the road is going well. Zhang Lexing sat on the sofa and greeted.

Minoru Arakawa smiled and said politely, "It's going well, Mr. Zhang, thank you for sending a car to pick me up." ”

Zhang Lexing smiled, at this time Wang Mengyao came in with a cup of freshly brewed tea, she came to the coffee table in front of the sofa, bowed down and carefully put the teacup in front of Arakawa Minoru, and said lightly: "Mr. Arakawa, please use tea!"

Smelling the faint aroma wafting from beside him, Minoru Arakawa habitually turned his head, his eyes followed the neckline of the woman in front of him and was about to explore inside, and then he remembered that he was not in Raymond's office now, and the woman next to him was not his secretary, Miss Kawaguchi. Arakawa really planned to talk about business, he didn't want his eyes to be discovered by others, especially the man sitting next to him, according to his understanding, there was always some ambiguity between the "secretary lady" and the boss, if he ate tofu with his eyes in front of others, the result would definitely not be much better.

In a flash of thought, Minoru Arakawa's eyes immediately moved upward, looking at the "Secretary Lady" who brought the tea, and said with a very "sincere" smile on his face: "Thank you!"

"Miss Secretary" put down the tea, bowed slightly, and turned to leave. If it were in his office, Minoru Arakawa would definitely appreciate the swaying back of "Miss Secretary", but now he can only keep his head down and drink tea hard.

According to Minoru Arakawa, after drinking this cup of tea, it should be time to get down to business, and to be honest, he was really curious about what the man next to him thought. But the development of things was not what he expected, Zhang Lexing drank two sips of tea, and after two gossips such as "the weather is good today", he invited him to watch some WCG game being broadcast on TV.

If it weren't for Nintendo's work, Arakawa doesn't know if he will like games in his life, even if he has been in Nintendo for many years, he is also not very interested in games, and only occasionally uses minesweepers and cards on the computer to relax his nerves. The game being broadcast on the TV screen was complicated at first glance, and Minoru Arakawa watched it for a while, and he didn't see what was fun at all.

But others are also full of enthusiasm, and Arakawa Minoru is not good at not giving face, so he can only endure looking at the big-screen TV with blank eyes. After holding it for a while, just when Arakawa Minoru turned his head and was about to say something, Zhang Lexing suddenly seemed to be hungry at random and said, "Mr. Arakawa, I thought you wouldn't be able to come." ”

"Mr. Zhang, why do you think that?" Arakawa felt a little strange, his mental activities should not be known to outsiders, let alone so far away, but the man next to him seemed to guess his hesitation.

"Oh, I heard that your company held a show yesterday in Muhari, Tokyo, where the next-generation portable handheld and 'Dolphin' console were officially announced, and I thought Mr. Arakawa would be in attendance. Zhang Lexing took a sip of tea, stretched out his finger and pointed to the dim sum on the coffee table, and said, "Mr. Arakawa, don't just drink tea, try this old Beijing-style dim sum, it tastes quite good." ”

Minoru Arakawa's face darkened, if he had done before, he would not have been absent from this kind of exhibition, otherwise he would have held a larger exhibition in the United States, but now even if there is, there is nothing for him, which is why he has time to come to Beijing. Minoru Arakawa's mood immediately deteriorated a lot when he was told something unpleasant, but he paid attention to the expression of the man next to him, and it seemed that he was deliberately trying to laugh at him, which was understandable, after all, the struggle within Nintendo was difficult for outsiders to understand.

Zhang Lexing's words, Arakawa was difficult to answer for a while, did he want to say that he had been marginalized by the old man Yamauchi, although this was already the truth, but it was still very difficult for him to admit it himself, so he could only laugh a few times, hoping to fool this matter over.

Without getting an answer from Minoru Arakawa, Zhang Lexing smiled disappreciatively and changed the subject: "Mr. Arakawa, what do you think of the future prospects of NGC (Nintendo GameCube, the official name of the 'Dolphin' console)?"

Although "this ......" has been marginalized, Minoru Arakawa still learned about the "Dolphin" console, which is now NGC, and in terms of hardware specifications alone, NGC's performance is still good, but the 8-inch mini special DVD drive is a bit extreme.

It took a lot of hard work to persuade the stubborn old man Yamauchi to accept the disc as the next generation of storage media, but who knew that Yamauchi Pu came up with a new idea, saying that in order to prevent piracy, he actually asked Panasonic to design a reading device that is smaller than an ordinary DVD drive, and the storage media has become the 8-inch mini disk that is smaller than the DVD disc. Originally, the use of optical discs as storage media was to reduce costs, but Yamauchi Pu came to this hand, and the custom drive and special optical disc made the cost rise again, although it is still much cheaper than cassette, but compared with others using ordinary DVDs, the cost is at least more than doubled.

Of course, this is just a small thing, and more importantly, NGC arrived too late. According to Minoru Arakawa, it will have to be launched by the end of this year at the latest, not only in Japan, but also in North America. However, Yamauchi and the old people at the headquarters were fascinated by the false brilliance of the N64, believing that the early release of NGC would affect the money from the N64, so they postponed the release date of NGC to the middle of next year, and North America was three months behind Japan. Based on his own experience, Arakawa knows that if NGC does not go public until next year, unless their opponents make a few mistakes for most of the year, there will basically not be much of a chance. However, it doesn't matter if the new generation of portable handheld GameBoyAdvance is there, anyway, the portable handheld market is basically dominated by Nintendo, and there are no significant competitors at all.

But these words are not easy to say, how to say that he is still a Nintendo person, and he is also the son-in-law of the old man Yamauchi, there is no reason to pour cold water on his own company, he had to talk nonsense: "...... Of course, the prospect is still very promising, after all, the performance of NGC is still quite strong, and the cost of storing media is not too high, I believe it will be very popular with game development companies......"

Without waiting for Minoru Arakawa to finish his nonsense, Zhang Lexing suddenly interjected: "Mr. Arakawa, do you believe what you said?"

Minoru Arakawa got stuck before he could say anything.,yes, if you don't even believe it.,Can't others really see it.。 In this case, Arakawa Minoru couldn't go on any longer, he could only smile helplessly, picked up the teacup and took a sip, hoping to hide his embarrassment by drinking tea.

"I don't want to comment on the performance of NGC, but as far as the release date announced at the show yesterday, I can be very sure that NGC is dead!" Zhang Lexing glanced at Minoru Arakawa, who was drinking tea, and said seemingly casually: "Mr. Arakawa, are you willing to watch it like this, according to me, Nintendo North America is a company that you and a few partners have worked hard from scratch, and when the performance was at its best, it once contributed 70% of Nintendo's revenue, but now it ......"

Minoru Arakawa shook his head bitterly: "What can I do, Mr. Zhang, you really think highly of me." ”

"No, I know you have a way. The original resurrection of the N64 was all due to Mr. Arakawa's ingenious planning in North America, otherwise Nintendo would have collapsed long ago. ”

When it comes to his good past performance, Arakawa Minoru is still quite comfortable in his heart, but the realistic dilemma makes his tone of voice still not easy: "But that's all in the past, and now, I just want to do something and can't do anything." ”

"If I can give Mr. Arakawa a chance to show his talents at Nintendo, I wonder if Mr. Arakawa would be willing?"

"How is this possible?" Arakawa Minoru shook his head, he knew exactly how stubborn the old man in Yamauchi was, and it was even more difficult for outsiders to convince him than to ascend to the sky.

"Mr. Arakawa, you don't care what method I use, I just want to ask, are you willing to be as muddy as you are now, and never have the opportunity to show your abilities, Mr. Arakawa, are you willing to continue like this?"

Minoru Arakawa shook his head, he was an adventurous guy, of course he didn't want to eat and wait for death every day, if it wasn't for being suppressed by the old man Yamauchi, he would be reluctant to be the boring president now. Minoru Arakawa was actually very ambitious, or he used to be very ambitious, according to his idea at that time, he wanted to build Nintendo into a successful listed company, which was also the philosophy he had when he left Red Pill Trading Company. However, Zhang Lexing's proposal also made Arakawa Minoru vigilant, and he felt that the motives of the man next to him must not be simple, so he said with a calm face: "I won't betray Nintendo!"

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