In 1999, the most popular game in Internet cafes belonged to the era of LAN games. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The days of the single-player game Legend of Sword and Fairy, which used to be popular in Internet cafes, have slowly passed, and have been replaced by Red Alert, Diablo, and Duke Doom.

Opening an Internet café in this era is definitely profitable.

The machine configured in an Internet café is about 3,500 yuan, and the Internet fee for an hour is at least two yuan, deducting the investment of electricity, rent, labor, etc., and the net profit of a computer for an hour is more than one piece of five.

According to the investment of 100 computers, the machine cost is about 350,000. Then it is enough to rent a house of about 200 square meters, and the rent is 20,000 yuan a year. Then the next certificate needs to spend 20,000 yuan. If you hire three network managers in three shifts, one person's salary is 10,000 yuan a year, and the three people add up to 30,000 yuan. Over the course of a year, the cost of electricity, hardware wear and tear and maintenance is about 70,000 or 80,000 yuan.

The money for the machine is a one-time investment, and it is not too much to eliminate the last batch of computers in about four or five years, so that the annual investment of the machine fee is about 80,000 yuan.

In the end, the annual investment in opening a regular Internet café with 100 computers is about 200,000 yuan.

What about income? According to the calculation that each computer works 15 hours a day, two yuan per hour, so that the total income of 100 computers in a year is about 1.1 million. And that's not even counting the income from selling cigarettes, drinks, instant noodles, etc., that come with Internet cafes.

It can be said that in 1999, opening a regular Internet café with 100 computers and earning 800,000 yuan a year was like playing.

In 1999, Internet café owners never worried about machines being empty. Because, in an Internet café with 100 computers, there are basically dozens of people waiting to queue up for the Internet.

Yang Ming turned on a computer with the help of the network administrator, and then looked at the computer screen for a minute.

In 1999, many people came into contact with computers for the first time when they entered Internet cafes, most of them were computer illiterate, and then it was fashionable to enter Internet cafes.

And once you sit down at the computer, you don't know what to do.

At this time, the biggest role of the network management in the Internet café is to help people restart the computer, help people apply for mailboxes, help people apply for QQ numbers and other ridiculous jobs.

Sitting on the machine next to Yang Ming was a fat man, older than Yang Ming, should be less than twenty years old, and his fat face was as cute as a half-child. This guy was wearing the clothes of the chef class of Lanxiang Technical School, and at first glance, he knew that he was a student of the chef class.

"Dude, your first time online, right?"

The little fat man was playing the red police, and he was about to win, so he tilted his head and glanced at Yang Ming.

Yang Ming nodded, glanced at the little fat man's machine, and said, "Play Red Police." ”

When the little fat man heard this, he immediately became excited: "Hey, buddy still knows that I play Red Police?" How about it, do you want to play together? I'll take you. ”

Yang Ming said, "Okay." ”

After the little fat man pushed the opponent's base, he then called up to the main page of the red alert. When he was about to tell Yang Ming how to activate the red alert, he found that the other party had already turned on the red alert.

"My name is Luo Guang, what's your name?" The little fat man asked.

"My name is Yang Ming."

At this time, behind the little fat man who claimed to be called Luo Guang, a thin and very dark boy ran over, also wearing the student uniform of the chef class, ran behind Luo Guang, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Luo Guang, tell you a funny joke." Look at the girl over there, she entered the QQ number and password into the address bar of the browser for half an hour, and I memorized her QQ number and password. ”

When Luo Guang heard this, he couldn't help but laugh with a snort.

Yang Ming, on the other hand, looked in the direction of the little thin man's finger and saw a girl wearing a tailoring class student uniform.

The girl was very delicate, her straightened hair was smoothly draped over her shoulders, and her whole body gave people a very clean and comfortable feeling.

Yang Ming frowned, and then Luo Guang next to him said: "Han Xiao, this buddy is online for the first time, let's go online to fight the red police together." Han Xiao, you deal with two simple computers, I deal with one crazy one, let's take Yang Ming, and the three of us deal with three simple computers and one crazy computer. ”

The little thin man named Han Xiao glanced at him in disbelief, then scratched his head and said, "Fat brother, three simple, one crazy?" ”

And Yang Ming sneered and said, "Let's fight five crazy ones." ”

Luo Guang and Han Xiao were startled, and the fat man pushed his eyes and looked at Yang Ming: "You, have you ever beaten the red police?" ”

Yang Ming shook his head and said, "I haven't fought before." ”

Han Xiao frowned: "Obediently, okay, fat man, come on, it's a big deal to lose." ”

Luo Guang slapped the keyboard violently and said, "Okay, it's a big deal to lose!" Brother, have courage, come on, come on, I'll build a game, you guys quickly join in. ”

After saying that, Luo Guang turned on the local area network, and then set up five crazy computers.

Although Yang Ming has never played Red Alert, he has watched Wang Zheng play for two years, and he also has some ideas about how to play this game.

After entering the game, Yang Ming's development speed was fast, and he quickly established his own technology, and his defense was also very good.

However, computers are crazy computers after all, developing much faster than players, and soon, the first wave of computer attacks rushed up.

There were two computers next to Yang Ming's position, and then when the first wave of soldiers and tanks rushed up, Yang Ming's defense force was only infantry and air defense.

However, this game, as long as you are familiar with the map, and then fill the important intersections with soldiers, basically even if the crazy computer rushes up, it is just to add experience to your own soldiers. And once their own soldiers are hung up with three stars, even if a large number of tank troops rush up, it will have no effect.

The GI blocks the road, and then develops technology rapidly, and when the prism tank comes out and can attack from a long distance, then destroying the computer is like playing.

However, if you want to destroy the crazy computer, you must hurry up, once the other party's nuclear weapons are all built, no one can withstand a wave of nuclear strikes on the five computers.

When the first wave of computer-made soldiers rushed up, Luo Guang and Han Xiao were still immersed in development, and the soldiers and dogs had not yet made a few.

Seeing the crazy computer rushing up, Luo Guang and Han Xiao also sweated.

However, Yang Ming took precautions.

Next, Yang Ming quickly built more than a dozen engineers and pulled them with engineering vehicles. Then there were more than a dozen engineering vehicles in front of the road, and the last three engineering vehicles full of engineering soldiers made a detour and rushed directly into the base of a computer closest to Yang Ming.

All the engineers got out of the engineering truck and immediately got into the computer building, and then all the buildings of a crazy computer immediately became Yang Ming's family. And this time, the money that Yang Ming stole from the computer house was enough for the rioters.

Han Xiao and Luo Guang were dumbfounded, watching Yang Ming destroy all the computers in three strokes and five by two, and even did not develop themselves.

"Genius! What a genius at playing games! Han Xiao and Luo Guang looked at Yang Ming in surprise.