After completing the acquisition of Blizzard, Zhang Lexing kept his promise and did not interfere with its day-to-day operations, the only change was that the game publishing was changed from Interplay to Activision, but other than before, when the promised $5 million in development funds were transferred to Blizzard's account as scheduled, Alan Adhan's hanging heart finally let go.

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In January 1994, the PS-X project jointly developed by Sony and KF-Panda (nominally) finally came to fruition, and the first PS-X development machines and corresponding development materials were sent to KF-Panda shortly after the New Year, for which KF-Panda also set up a development studio called NewMillennium (NMM, New Century) to develop games for PS-X. After years of development, KF-Panda's development strength has been very strong, and there is no need for Zhang Lexing to mix in the game development in the middle, compared to the foundation of Tianzhiyuan is much weaker, so Zhang Lexing pry five sets of PS-X development machines from KF-Panda, and sent them to Shanghai together with the supporting development materials, intending to let the developers of Tianzhiyuan be familiar with it in advance, and wait for a few years to catch up with the maturity of the market.

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In March, everything that needed to be done was done, the VisualSystem Group's annual conference and operating system workshop were successfully completed, and it was time for Zhang Lexing to leave the United States.

March 12, San Francisco International Airport Terminal 2 ......

After Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin embraced, they took two steps back and said, "Sister Xin, I'm leaving, see you at the end of the year!"

"Brother, it's easy to walk all the way, remember to call my sister when you arrive. Yang Xinxin turned her head to look at the clock in the terminal, then took two steps forward, patted Zhang Lexing on the shoulder and said, "Okay, let's go to the security check, time is running out." ”

Zhang Lexing nodded, came to Mai Jiajun next to him, and said to him: "I have to take good care of Sister Xin after I leave, otherwise, be careful that I let Brother Guanghai clean you up." ”

"Don't worry, I'll definitely do my best, and there will be no problems. Mai Jiajun glanced at Ma Guanghai, his right wrist seemed to hurt a little again, and his body involuntarily shrank back.

Zhang Lexing turned around and waved to Yang Xinxin, and then dragged his luggage and Ma Guanghai (this time the passport was issued, so he came with him) to go to the security check. After successfully passing the security check, Zhang Lexing turned around and looked back, Yang Xinxin was still standing in place and looking this way, while Mai Jiajun slowly moved to her side, holding her shoulders as if comforting.

Because of the mistake of the clerk, I didn't get a first-class ticket this time, so I had to change it to business class, so Yang Xinxin almost didn't fire the unlucky guy. Fortunately, when he came to the departure hall, Zhang Lexing felt similar to the first-class waiting hall he had stayed in before, with free meals and comfortable soft chairs. Zhang Lexing asked for two plates of snacks, and while eating, he read the book he brought with him to kill time - Stephen King's "The End Is Near".

"The End Is Near" is about a flu virus that creeps in the world, horror envelops people living in happiness, most of the world's population dies inexplicably, and when the last few remaining people struggle to rebuild civilization, the devil extends his clutches to the survivors of the Americas...... The invasion of the virus, the piles of corpses on the road, the corpses of relatives who fell under their feet, the lies and repression of the government, the doubts and confrontations of the people, the struggles of the survivors, the threat of the devil......

Not counting the devil part, every time Zhang Lexing opens this book, he can't help but think of "Resident Evil", of course, there is still a big difference between the two, the result of the virus epidemic in "The End is Approaching" caused most people to die, and the result of the virus epidemic in "Resident Evil" created many living dead.

After watching it for more than 20 minutes, the airport radio sounded: "Flight CA8889 from San Francisco to Beijing has begun to board......"

It seemed that it was time to get on the plane, Zhang Lexing closed the book in his hand and stuffed it into his suitcase, then took the boarding pass and air ticket, called Ma Guanghai, and walked to the boarding gate. Passing through the passenger passage, Zhang Lexing and Ma Guanghai came to the plane, and the two flight attendants in blue suits bowed slightly, and said with a smile: "Hello! Welcome to board!"

According to the number on the boarding pass, Zhang Lexing came to his seat and sat down. Business Class seats are not as independent as first class, but they are spacious and comfortable, and even if you want to sleep, you just need to put the backrest of the seat down.

Zhang Lexing sat in the middle of the business class, with the aisle on the right hand side and an empty seat on the left hand side. When he put the suitcase into the luggage rack above the head of the plane, Zhang Lexing took out the copy of "The End is Approaching" again, planning to kill time after the plane took off. After putting the book into the newspaper folder on the back of the seat in front of him, some people got on the plane one after another, and the business class gradually became full, but the seat next to Zhang Lexing was still empty.

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Three minutes before the plane took off, the sweet voice of the flight attendant sounded on the in-flight radio: "Good afternoon, passengers, welcome to Air China flight CA8889." The plane is about to take off, please close the small partition in front of you and fasten your seat belts......"

Zhang Lexing leaned back, fastened his seat belt, and looked ahead. At this moment, the curtain near the boarding gate of the plane was opened a little, and a beautiful woman with slightly fluffy wavy curly hair walked in with a suitcase. The beautiful woman looked twenty-four or five-year-old, full of youthful energy, wearing a white lapel shirt with a goose yellow trimmed knit sweater on the outside, and a water-red tight miniskirt underneath, with a relieved expression on her face.

Zhang Lexing suddenly felt that the entire time and space seemed to stop at this moment, everything around him seemed to disappear like light smoke, and the whole world in front of him seemed to be the only woman left, and a strange feeling surged in Zhang Lexing's heart.

Shaking his head slightly, Zhang Lexing came to his senses, noticed that the beautiful woman seemed to look at the boarding pass in her hand, and then walked in the direction of Zhang Lexing. As the beautiful woman got closer and closer, Zhang Lexing's nose smelled a faint fragrance, and his already sober mind felt a little dizzy again.

When he was dizzy, Zhang Lexing's ears heard a beautiful woman's soft voice: "Sir, please give way, my seat is next to you." ”

"I'm sorry," Zhang Lexing quickly stood up and got out of the way, and then asked a very gentlemanly: "Excuse me, do you need me to help you put your luggage on the shelf?"

"Don't bother you, I can do it myself. The beautiful woman shook her head and walked to the side with her suitcase, intending to do it herself.

Zhang Lexing rushed to the front with an arrow step, opened the cover of the luggage rack, and said: "Please be careful, if you need help, I will be happy to help at any time." ”

The beautiful woman smiled noncommittally, grabbed the handle with her right hand and lifted the suitcase up with force, then held the lower part of the suitcase with her left hand, held it up with both hands, and then pushed forward and stuffed the suitcase into the luggage rack, and the action was very skillful.

After putting away the suitcase, the beautiful woman returned to her seat and sat down, fastened her seat belt, and took out a CD Walkman from her bag, and took out a pair of headphones and something that looked like a remote control.

Zhang Lexing sat next to him and noticed that the beautiful woman took out a walkman from her bag, so he turned his head to look at it, and said casually: "Well, your Sony D-626 was only launched in November last year, with ESP shock resistance and super bass D.B.B. system, and it is also the first model with wire control, headphones and body separation." ”

The beautiful woman who was connecting the headphones and the remote control glanced at Zhang Lexing when she heard this, and said lightly: "Oh, I didn't expect you to have such a good study of the Walkman?"

"It's not much research, but a friend gave me a Walkman, which happens to be this model......"

The beautiful woman picked up the headphones, plugged the earbuds, leaned back, closed her eyes, and didn't care about what Zhang Lexing said. Originally, Zhang Lexing planned to say it in passing, but he had to stop talking.

At this time, the plane began to slowly taxi on the runway, Zhang Lexing opened his mouth slightly, feeling that the speed of the plane began to get faster and faster after turning a corner, and suddenly a strong force attacked, Zhang Lexing's whole person was tightly pressed on the seat, and the plane took off.

When the plane was flattened, Zhang Lexing noticed that the beautiful woman next to him was still listening to music there with her eyes closed, and it seemed that she didn't have the slightest chance, so she had to pick up her copy of "The End is Approaching" and planned to take a look at it casually. But after the book was opened, although Zhang Lexing's eyes looked at the book, he didn't look into it at all, and his eyes were always deserted from time to time.

After flipping through the books for a while, the flight attendant pushed a trolley and began to distribute lunch. Zhang Lexing received a Yangzhou fried rice package, a large box of fragrant fried rice, accompanied by a bowl of side dishes and a bowl of fruit, and a carrot meal bag per person, plus a drink that can be refilled, which is really appetizing. The beautiful woman next to her didn't continue to listen to music at this time, but asked for a Western-style set meal and a cup of coffee, and tasted it elegantly with tableware, and occasionally took a sip of coffee.

After lunch, Zhang Lexing wanted to talk for a while, but he didn't expect the beautiful woman to move faster, she had already finished lunch, put on her earbuds and closed her eyes to enjoy the music.

“……

On June 25, her husband fell ill, and the next day her daughter also became infected. She did everything she could to get them treated, and she was pregnant herself and was suffering from a disease. By the 27th, when her husband was unconscious, Enfield was in a bad situation, completely cut off from the outside world. The TV reception is also not normal, it is full of snowflakes. People are dying like flies. In the weeks earlier, they had seen the astonishing movement of troops along the road, and none of them had nostalgia for a place like Enfield. Early in the early hours of June 28, her husband fell ill and died. On the 29th, her daughter seemed to be better, but her condition suddenly got worse that night. He died at about 7 o'clock.

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When Zhang Lexing was immersed in the plot of the book, suddenly the soft voice of a beautiful woman came from the side: "What's so good about this kind of book, it's all made up, how can there be that kind of virus." ”

Closing the book, Zhang Lexing frowned slightly, and said, "How do you know, you are not studying this." ”

The beautiful woman smiled slightly, like a blooming flower, which made Zhang Lexing involuntarily intoxicated, and almost didn't hear what she said next.

"Coincidentally, sir, I studied microbiology at MIT, and my research interests include bacteria and viruses. The beautiful woman said with a playful smile.

"Well, even if you are researching this, then what reason do you say that there is no such virus?" Zhang Lexing asked unconvinced.

The beautiful woman said with the look of an expert: "From the perspective of evolution, a single virus is not enough to bring humanity to extinction. One of the most important reasons is that a virus can usually only multiply in one cell, and destroying the entire human being is not a good thing for germs. ”

"You said that this is the situation in nature, but what about the laboratory, if it is artificially designed, by deliberately guiding the direction of virus mutation in the laboratory, to produce a virus with special functions. Do you think that in this case, the virus will still consider the theory of evolution? ”

"This ......" The beautiful woman looked down and thought for a moment, then shook her head and replied, "I need to study it before I can answer you." ”

I didn't expect this to stump her, it seems that the beautiful woman's attainments in microbiology are still shallow, Zhang Lexing secretly felt proud in his heart.

"Can we exchange contact information? Now that you have the results, let me know." Zhang Lexing took out a business card and handed it over, striking while the iron was hot and said: "My name is Zhang Lexing, this is my business card, please accept it." ”

The beautiful woman took the business card and looked at it, put it in her bag, and then took a business card and handed it over: "My name is Chen Zishan, this is the phone number from our school, and I will go back in a few days." ”

Zhang Lexing carefully took the business card, which did have Chen Zishan's name written on it, and a landline phone number next to it, which looked like it should be from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

After putting away the business card, Zhang Lexing's heart suddenly became playful, and he pretended to be mysterious and said: "Actually, the super flu virus mentioned in this book is not terrifying. ”

"Oh, what is more terrifying about the virus?" asked Chen Zishan curiously.

"Yes, the super flu virus can only kill people, if there is a virus that can make dead people move around, and it is the kind of unconscious puppet moving around, and what is even more terrifying is that this kind of moving living dead is only interested in one kind of food. ”

"What is it?" Chen Zishan was even more curious.

Zhang Lexing lowered his voice and said: "The flesh and blood of the living, they only eat the flesh and blood of the living. ”

"It's so disgusting, there won't be this virus. Chen Zishan shook her head, looking incredulous.

"There is no such thing in nature, but not necessarily in the laboratory, especially in the military's laboratory, who knows what they are studying. ”

Chen Zishan couldn't help but shudder, and asked in a slightly trembling voice, "Is there really such a virus?"

"Hehe, just kidding, in fact, this is a game backstory, the T virus in "Resident Evil". ”

"Cut, I've never heard of it, I'm a liar, ignore you. After Chen Zishan finished speaking, she turned around and put on her earplugs, and entered the world of music again, her eyes not looking at Zhang Lexing at all.

Zhang Lexing was annoyed, his mind was dizzy, and he actually told the game that had not yet been listed, and it is estimated that "Resident Evil" was still in Fujiwara Tokuro's mind at this time. Thinking of "Resident Evil", Zhang Lexing can't help but think of the two crises of his production company Capcom, one in 2003 and the other this year.

"In this way......" Zhang Lexing couldn't help but smile happily when he thought about it, so much so that Chen Zishan next to him couldn't figure it out, and thought that there was something wrong with his brain next door.

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