Chinese New Year's Eve in 2001 was spent in the sound of firecrackers, and the Chinese New Year's Eve without the Spring Festival Gala made Tang Xin always feel that something was missing.

Calling, texting, video chatting with good friends, QQ's video chat function played a huge role on Chinese New Year's Eve, giving relatives who are not in the same place the opportunity to communicate face-to-face. According to the news sent by the QQ data center of the micro era, QQ registered 150 million users on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the highest online reached 70 million. Coupled with tens of millions of people streaming together, this also puts pressure on bandwidth. Thankfully, both servers and broadband, Micro Times is well-prepared. Even if the number of people increases, there are backup servers for Legends that can be used.

As the largest Internet provider in China, with the development of the Internet, the competitiveness of China Netlink in the broadband business is also increasing. Nanguo Information and Communication, Dongfang Kuantong and Huaxia Communications are also growing in broadband, which has brought certain pressure to the development of China's Internet connection.

However, since the cooperation with Micro Times, China Netlink has felt the broad development prospects brought by this company to the company.

Since the launch of Happy Farm, the bandwidth of Micro Times has accounted for one-third of the bandwidth in Beijing, and with the launch of QQ, the bandwidth of Micro Times has been half of the bandwidth of Beijing.

Like Mango Technology, in order to win over this big customer, China Netcom has also given a free two-month trial strategy in broadband use. Now, the rapid development of the micro era has made the network painful and happy. The pain is that I missed the excess profit of the free period, and the happiness is because when the free period arrives, the business of Netlink in the micro era can bring a steady stream of funds every month.

The first day of the new year is destined to be a busy day for the micro era. Almost the entire "Legend" team stopped the Spring Festival holiday and chose to come to work in the company in anticipation.

Of course, the entire company, including competitors, is not optimistic about the online game "Legend", but the "Legend" team itself knows the charm of this game. They have put their heart and soul into this, and now is the time to produce results, and they are all going all out, with beautiful results to prove the results of their efforts during this time.

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Bai Ke is a junior who, like many third-year college students, has a lot of college life spent on the Internet, and he and the other five people in the dorm room always go to the Internet café all night when there are no classes the next morning.

Now that he has a winter vacation, he doesn't have a computer at home, and he often goes to Internet cafes to surf the Internet.

Especially now that QQ has been launched, it has made chatting more convenient.

At nine o'clock in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, white customers went to the Internet café to play as usual.

For the first two days, there are always some seats left over at the Internet café. Baike found that the Internet café was surprisingly popular on the first day of the new year, and he had to queue up on the plane. If it weren't for his quick eyes and quick hands, he saw someone get off the plane, and he rushed over to grab a seat, and he almost couldn't grab it.

Looking at the people waiting at the bar to surf the Internet, Bai Ke was glad for his speed.

Turn on the computer, when he logged in to QQ, he replied to a message with a friend, and suddenly, a pop-up window appeared: Micro Era New Year Offer, the annual giant online game "Legend" is officially open beta, QQ login without registration, and you will get a car and 100 million Q coins when you come.

This pop-up window must be clicked on the cross in the upper right corner to close, and the white customer just looked at it and subconsciously clicked in.

I saw a page appear on the computer, a huge dragon character appeared, and immediately after, a warrior wearing gold armor appeared with a similar huge treasure sword. He brandished the treasure knife in his hand, which made people's blood boil.

"Welcome to the Marfa Continent."

After a line of glittering golden letters, the official website of "Legend" appeared on the computer.

Announcement: Today's 10 o'clock legendary public beta, come to give away a car, laptop, 100 million Q coins.

Announcement: Alipay and Legend strategic cooperation, use Alipay to buy a point card, and the first order will give a point card worth 100 yuan.

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Bai Ke casually clicked on the first announcement and entered the announcement page.

"Send a car, send a laptop, send 100 million Q coins, and the five major activities of "Legend" welcome the public beta."

Activity 1: During the open beta period (February 22 to March 12, 2001), anyone who logs in to "Legend" and upgrades the character to level 30 will have a chance to get a car worth 150,000 yuan (cashable, tax at your own expense). The lottery will be held the day after the end of the open beta, and 5 lucky winners will be drawn from the players who meet the requirements of the whole server.

Activity 2: During the open beta period, every night at 8 p.m., 10 lucky players will be selected from all players who have reached level 10 and are online to receive a laptop worth 20,000 yuan.

Event 3: After the end of the open beta, the top 10 players in each server level will receive point cards worth 1,000 to 10,000 yuan.

Activity 4: During the open beta period, players only need to put "Legend" Prosperous Open Beta, luxury cars, laptops, and 100 million Q coins are waiting for you! Send the promotional slogan as your QQ signature to the five QQ groups, and upload the screenshot to the special section of the official forum of "Legend", you can get a potion gift package worth 99 yuan 100%! At the end of the event, five lucky winners will be selected from all participating players, and each will be rewarded with 100 yuan in point cards.

Event 5: During the open beta period, players can get a Q Coin lottery every 10 levels, with a minimum of 1 Q Coin and a maximum of 1,000 Q Coins, for a total of 100 million Q Coins.

The events related to the Legends Open Beta are displayed in red font on the official website. It's impossible for all Legends players to want to go unnoticed.

"This micro-era is really a big deal!" Bai Ke couldn't help but admire.

Bai Ke casually clicked the second announcement, what is the payment pass, Bai Ke is very curious.

After clicking in, Bai Ke knew that Alipay was an online payment software launched by Micro Times, which provides a safe and secure environment for online payment. Players only need to go to Luneng Bank and Huaxia Bank to open the online banking payment function, and then they can open the payment function of Alitong. After activation, players will receive a point card worth 100 yuan back when they pay with Alipay for the first time.

When Bai Ke saw this announcement, he was a little hesitant, because now there have been a lot of Internet frauds, and the network payment has given him a great sense of insecurity. At this time, it is not very safe to open online banking.

But even so, Bai Ke still has a huge interest in "Legend", anyway, play it first.

"Network administrator, can you download "Legend", this game will be open beta at 10 o'clock." Bai Ke couldn't help but shout at the network administrator.

The clinker network manager said to the white customer: "I downloaded it yesterday, and it is on the desktop." ”

Bai Ke looked down, and sure enough, a huge shortcut with the word "Legend" written on it was written below.

Like Bai Ke, there were many netizens who were attracted by the "Legend" event that day.

Since the beginning of the development of the domestic Internet, there has never been an Internet company to hold an event to send cars and computers, and this is the first time that such a large amount of money has been used in domestic game testing activities, which has stimulated many people to play "Legend".

The power of QQ's pop-up window was quickly revealed, and the number of requests to download the game on the official website of "Legend" was increasing by tens of thousands per second. Maybe the previous publicity of "Legend" was relatively low-key, but as soon as the QQ pop-up appeared, coupled with the physical rewards of cars worth 150,000 yuan and fifteen laptops, it greatly stimulated the nerves of players, so they called friends to play this game together.

One pass ten, ten pass hundred, for a while, QQ many people's signatures have all become "Legend", prosperous public beta, luxury cars, laptops, 100 million Q coins are waiting for you! In various buckle groups, there are group messages about the open beta of "Spring and Autumn Warring States" everywhere.