Wu Tong stopped tapping on the keyboard and drank a glass of water.

At four o'clock in the morning, Ningjiang has the scenery he is most familiar with.

At this time, the company is not busy during the day, quiet and peaceful, Wu Tong likes this feeling very much, as if he is the only one in the whole world.

He came to the windowsill, looked at the city that had not yet awakened, and sighed.

Glancing at the computer screen, it was not a familiar interface for writing code, but a document.

It reads "Resignation Application" in large letters.

Wu Tong was tired, and he felt that his path in Tomato Video Network had come to an end.

Before his father was seriously ill, Wu Tong immediately applied for a vacation from the leader, but the whole process went for nearly a week, and the leader who said that he was actually traveling at public expense came back from the island before he slowly passed the process, and criticized Wu Tong for not knowing how to dedicate himself to the company, and when Wu Tong went home, his father had fallen into a severe coma, and he couldn't even see the last side of his son.

Sometimes, after Wu Tong finished writing the code, he stood in front of the window, and wanted to jump down like this, but he was cowardly in nature and didn't even have the courage to commit suicide.

Liu Xueyan's resignation may be the last straw that crushes the camel, Wu Tong is not many people who can speak in the company, and Liu Xueyan, who has often been developed before, is more familiar, through him, Wu Tong also saw the essence of Tomato Video Network.

Back in his seat, he finished writing the resignation report, printed it out, put it on the leader's desk, and then quietly left the company at eight o'clock in the morning.

Today is Sunday, and he was supposed to work overtime to fix some small mistakes in the player, but Wu Tong had already made a decision, he fixed the mistake overnight before writing a resignation letter, and although he had to leave, he still had to stand on the last shift.

Wu Tong walked to the park next door, he had never been here, this old park was exceptionally quiet, Wu Tong followed the map navigation to the door of a four-story building, which is the headquarters of the phantom animation.

He walked in.

Phantom Electric is also closed today, but there is still a security guard at the front desk, Wu Tong registered, walked to the second floor, and saw Xu Rui sitting in front of the computer, and Liu Xueyan sitting on the chair behind him, looking at Xu Rui's computer screen intently.

"Ah, Wu Tong, you're here."

Liu Xueyan noticed Wu Tong's figure, so he beckoned him to come over.

Wu Tong hesitated for a moment before walking to Liu Xueyan's side and looking at Xu Rui's computer screen.

An animation was playing on it, something he hadn't seen before, a pink-haired girl with two ponytails walking in a world with a rather heterogeneous texture.

This is the first episode of Madoka Magi.

Wu Tong's understanding of animation is average, mainly because he usually doesn't have time to watch it at all, he has watched a few under Liu Xueyan's recommendation, and the most impressive is "Unnatural Death", which reminds him of his family.

He only felt that the animation was very delicate and colorful, giving people a lively and cheerful feeling.

At this moment, at the top of the screen, a string of text suddenly floated through.

【Test Test Test】

“？？？”

Wu Tong was stunned.

He thought it was from the anime, but it was too weird.

Xu Rui saw that he successfully attracted Wu Tong's attention, so he restored the playback window, and you can see that there is a string of windows showing comments next to the window where the animation is played, Xu Rui typed a few words casually, and soon, the text appeared in the window where the animation was played, scrolling by.

"What is this?"

Wu Tong is a little curious, in the video player he recently developed for Tomato, there is a function that when the video is not maximized, comments can appear on the right side of the window, which he thinks is a means to promote audience interaction.

But he didn't expect that Xu Rui had pushed this interaction method forward more than one big step.

Wu Tong's head immediately began to think, although this way of commenting to a certain extent reduces the sense of substitution of the video, but also enhances the communication between the audience, in the past, the audience only after watching the video, leave a message below to interact, this interaction is relatively detached from the work.

Even the player developed by Wu Tong before, this kind of ability to see the picture and the comments next to it at the same time is not timely enough.

But the player in Xu Rui's computer, this form of synchronization between comments and the picture can allow the audience to see the corresponding comments immediately when they see the picture and their emotions fluctuate, forming a resonance.

Wu Tong thought about it roughly, this form of comment is more suitable for videos with discussion points, such as funny, videos with exciting scenes, which are very suitable for this form, while those suspenseful and sensational videos are not very suitable for this form of comment.

"It's called barrage, Mr. Wu."

Xu Rui said that this is an extremely rudimentary version that he asked a few senior students from the School of Computer Science of Ningjiang University to make, which can only be nested locally outside the native player, and this thing cannot be used at all, and its value lies in letting Wu Tong and Liu Xueyan see this barrage.

"The video website I plan to build will install this function, so that viewers can send their comments in time for other viewers to see."

Xu Rui turned off the player, turned around and continued to speak.

"I used to like to watch movies and animations with my friends while discussing the plot that was going on, and this experience could even make some not-so-good movies better, but in the age of the Internet, we have become sitting in front of the computer and watching videos by ourselves, and there is no such communication, and I want to use the barrage so that viewers who need this need can feel that they are not alone when watching animation."

"I've never heard anyone think about it......"

Wu Tong sighed softly.

"People in China actually have an obvious need for the Internet, look at the wide audience of Weibo and chat software, we prefer things with social attributes, many times, the reason why I will use a software, will play a game, is not because I particularly like it, but because the people around me are using it, using it to make yourself successfully integrate into the surrounding social environment."

Xu Rui explained that things with social attributes are inherently more capable of spreading than other types of things, and this is true of the fraud at the beginning of "Soul Eater: Zero", as well as the barrage video site.

Word of mouth is more powerful than any advertisement.

"Both, I sincerely hope that you can join my video website and bring a little bit of different ripples to this unstable industry."

Xu Rui saw that the two of them were already a little moved, so he opened his mouth to invite.

"What's the name of this video site of yours?"

Liu Xueyan was silent for a moment and asked.

Xu Rui heard the other party's question and knew that this was a signal of acceptance, so he spoke.

"It's very simple, it's called Hatsune Barrage Video Network."