Wei Manman approached the computer desk and was surprised to find that there was also a laptop: "I'll go, and there is an Apple notebook." ”

The laptop on the side of the desktop computer is the PoerBook_G4 released by Apple at the beginning of the year.

Wei Dongsheng understands the consumer psychology of the electronics industry, and the vast majority of buyers pay attention to the performance of electronic products only at the frequency of the processor, the size of the memory and hard disk, and the remaining 70% of the factors tend to be the appearance of electronic products. Compared with the stupid big and thick desktop computers with 128M memory and 256M memory common in Wuping County, the appearance of the PoerBook_G4, with the G4 processor (800M), 512M memory, and 40G hard disk, it is simply a glance.

Wei Dongsheng previously went to Lutong City to buy computers and servers, and bought a PoerBook_G4 based on the public brand recognition and appearance parameters, and came back to give it to Huo Yongshan. Unexpectedly, Huo Yongshan was not used to and did not want to get used to the Apple operating system carried by the PoerBook_G4, so the laptop was left in the living room and abandoned.

When Wei Manman and Xia Mengjun saw PoerBook_G4 at this moment, they were instantly attracted by it and studied Apple's operating system with great interest. Browsing web forums and watching movies and videos, Wei Manman and Xia Mengjun used Wei Dongsheng's living room as an Internet café, and time passed unconsciously.

At around five o'clock in the evening, Huo Yongshan called hesitantly: "I found the cause of the problem." ”

Wei Dongsheng interrupted Huo Yongshan's narrative rhythm and judged the sentence pattern and asked: "Is it wrong to determine the account?" ”

Huo Yongshan: "It's confirmed." ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Are you sure that you have undercalculated 7,000 yuan?" ”

Huo Yongshan: "To be exact, it's 7,510 yuan." There is a ......"

Wei Dongsheng once again interrupted Huo Yongshan's narrative rhythm and ended the mistaken account: "You don't need to tell me the specific reason. Whoever is greedy for money, how he is greedy for ink, similar trivial things, since they start with you, they end up with you. I co-founded an Internet café game studio with you because I believe in you, I believe that you will not live up to my trust, and I believe that you have the ability to handle this matter well. ”

Huo Yongshan: "I want to talk to you about this matter, and the reason is ......"

Wei Dongsheng interrupted Huo Yongshan's narrative rhythm for the third time: "If you make a mistake, you can forgive him if you want to forgive him, and if you want to punish him, you will punish him, you don't have to tell me." In October, the sales of the game studio were 29.305 million yuan, and the gross profit of you and me was millions. If you make a mistake in the account, correct it and pay more attention to it in the future. ”

Huo Yongshan noticed Wei Dongsheng's resoluteness, and responded ignorantly: "Okay." ”

Wei Dongsheng did not pursue the wrongful account incident.

Why?

Wei Dongsheng set up an Internet café game studio, the purpose of which was not to subdue Huo Yongshan, but to earn the first pot of gold and complete the bloody accumulation of capital.

If you have a clear purpose, you won't be angry.

Wei Dongsheng didn't care about Huo Yongshan's loyalty, whether he did it deliberately or was deceived by others, it would not affect Wei Dongsheng's stated goal of earning the first pot of gold. As long as Huo Yongshan understands that Wei Dongsheng doesn't care about anything, as long as Huo Yongshan understands that Wei Dongsheng can supervise equipment transactions while sitting on campus, as long as Huo Yongshan doesn't dare to deceive Wei Dongsheng and deliberately drift away from daily sales, Wei Dongsheng will beat Huo Yongshan this time, even if he succeeds in achieving his goal. Of course, if Huo Yongshan has already developed anti-customer-oriented selfishness, it will be a different situation.

Wei Dongsheng didn't bother to listen to Huo Yongshan's explanation.

Wei Dongsheng only cares about the sales profits of the Internet café game studio.

The operation of the game studio is smooth, and the bills are no longer wrong, so that Huo Yongshan can prove his innocence and ability.

Looking back at the living room, Wei Manman and Xia Mengjun looked like seriously ill Internet addicted girls, playing on the computer until six o'clock in the evening, and seeing that the evening self-study time was approaching, they were reluctant to go out and go back to school with Wei Dongsheng.

Thinking about program optimization, compiling the main program of online games; Audit the game studio and private server industry chain to ensure that partners such as Huo Yongshan and Gao Yongqi take their responsibilities seriously. In this way, Wei Dongsheng's boring campus life fell into a new cycle.

On November 15, 2002, when Wei Dongsheng checked the latest news to verify his memory, he found a notice from the ninth city. The notice said that since the public beta of "Miracle MU" on September 30, illegal plug-in programs represented by "Miracle of God" have been introduced one after another. After the lawyer of the ninth city ignored the telegram from the other party, he decided to resort to the law and joined forces with the Harbin police to strike hard and destroy the "miracle of God" plug-in in Heilongjiang Province. The Ninth City advertised this victory in red and boasted that it dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the production and sale of illegal plug-ins.

The so-called victory is nothing more than the rhetoric of the Ninth City. In terms of nature, what the ninth city knocked out is only a plug-in provincial general agent, what about the general agent of other provinces? What about the plug-in maker? What about other plugins? The legal basis for the Harbin police's action is obviously more similar to the "legendary 007 plug-in case" in the previous life, which should accuse the agent of violating the laws such as value-added telecommunications business licenses.

The production and operation of private servers by plug-ins has not yet been criminalized by the law.

However, this incident must not be ignored.

In any case, this is the first time that a government has stepped in to protect the legal rights of online game operators. After the legend detonated China's online game industry, Internet companies, including NetEase, Sohu, Sina and other three major portals, followed suit. This announcement from the Ninth City means that relevant interest groups are optimistic about the windfall profits of online games and have begun to formulate rules to protect the legitimate interests of online game operators.

The wind has risen.

The plug-in industry and the private service industry are about to change from gray to black.

Time waits for no man.

In the following days, Wei Dongsheng worked overtime with the assistance of Orange Algae to make the prototype of the game, because the core mechanism adopts the battle of the Ten Kingdoms of the journey, and the game is tentatively named "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms". Wei Dongsheng's ability is limited, and the evolution of orange algae is also very limited, so the source code of the prototype version 1.0 is very bloated and inefficient. A small number of functions require a minimum of 256M memory to barely run. However, being able to operate normally and control characters to demonstrate gameplay on several rough maps is enough to show Jing Minqiang Wei Dongsheng's technical background.

Wu Pingyi High School has a high learning intensity, and there is a monthly exam once a month to check the learning status of students in that month. November 30 is the end of the month and Saturday, and on November 28 and November 29, the school arranges eight exams for eight subjects. On Friday afternoon, Wei Dongsheng filled up the geography test paper in 20 minutes, walked out of the school, and joined Huo Yongshan in the small park outside the south gate of the campus.

The air was already cold, the small park was empty and cold, and there were only two figures, Wei Dongsheng and Huo Yongshan.

Huo Yongshan is a little restrained today, rarely taking the initiative to speak, and is no longer free and easy for the boss to face the third brother in the past. Because of the wrong account incident at the beginning of the month, although Wei Dongsheng kept believing him, although Wei Dongsheng acted as if it had never happened at all, he still drew a deep rift in the boat of brotherly friendship between the two. To be precise, the rift knot is limited to Huo Yongshan. Huo Yongshan has just walked out of the junior high school campus, and the brotherly relationship is still continuing the oath of "dying on the same day, the same month, the same year" in junior high school; And Wei Dongsheng, who returned with thirty years of memories, only regarded Huo Yongshan as a trustworthy and cooperative friend from the beginning, rather than Lao Shizi's life and death brother.

Wei Dongsheng didn't regard Huo Yongshan as a brother in life and death, but he understood Huo Yongshan's entanglement, and took the initiative to guide the topic and said: "Do you remember the Harbin plug-in incident in the middle of the month? ”

Huo Yongshan: "I remember, at that time, you said that plug-ins and private servers were about to become illegal acts. ”

Wei Dongsheng: "So, we have to find a new way out. ”

The future in Huo Yongshan's eyes is a fog, and he subconsciously chooses to trust Wei Dongsheng's business sense: "What kind of new path? ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Do things, do things that can make money, and do things that can make money legally." ”

This is a nonsense, Huo Yongshan didn't know how to answer, so he simply pricked up his ears and waited for Wei Dongsheng to explain in person.

Wei Dongsheng did not explain how to make money legally, but talked about the future of Internet café game studios: "The risk of equipment trading and operating private servers is getting higher and higher, you know that I will not face the state violence machine as a puppet, I understand that you will not be reckless and provoke the dignity of the law, when the state officially declares that plug-ins and private servers are illegal, how do you want to change your career?" ”

Huo Yongshan sighed and said: "On September 29, the daily sales of equipment trading were 1.451 million yuan, on October 29, the daily sales were 670,000 yuan, and on November 29, that is, today, the daily sales were up to 490,000 yuan. Compared to September 29, daily sales are already down by two-thirds, and the total amount of orders is getting lower, the number of orders is getting more and more trivial, and the cost of processing orders for game studios is getting higher. If the Shengxing network updates the version and further increases the explosive rate of equipment, the prospect of equipment trading will definitely be more pessimistic. I also understand that no matter how profitable the equipment trade is, it is only a temporary prosperity. ”

"In the middle of the month, you said that the country was about to crack down on plug-ins and private servers, and I began to think about the future."

"But what can I do?"

"I really don't have talent in this aspect of learning, and it's a pipe dream to expect the college entrance examination to turn over; I have the ability to mix black rivers and lakes, but black is black, I can't walk in the sun, and I can't bring hope. Just like Ran Qianqian, I like her, and I also have conspiracies to make her accept me, but what about the future? I can't give her happiness, I can't give her hope, and the conspiracy to make her accept me is harming her, not loving her. I can only pestle in the distance, hoping that she will be willing to go to hell with me regardless of everything. If you can live well without being black, who wants to be black? ”

"These days, I think about it."

"Running an Internet café may be a way out. Wuping County is poor, many families do not have personal computers, and every Internet café is overcrowded. You don't have to think about business sense, you don't have to think about façade maintenance, you can set up a storefront and ensure the peace and order of the Internet café, and money will continue to flow into your arms. Although it can't compare to the huge profits of the game studio's equipment trading, if I can earn hundreds of yuan in gross profits a day, my parents will be proud of me, and my two sisters will no longer be able to leave their hometowns to work, right? ”