At two o'clock in the afternoon, "Zhao Guojianghu" was in public beta.

This is the most shabby product launch conference that Song Yuzhu has seen in the past ten years of work.

No, there was no press conference at all.

There were no reporters coming, no rented venues, no celebrities, no warm-up before the press conference, and no industry insiders present.

Song Yuzhu saw that the so-called game public beta was in this small workshop, most of which were just graduates, and with the order of the young boss named Chen Ji, several programmers uploaded a multi-G game and clicked a few buttons.

Then, the young boss named Chen Ji announced the successful release of the game.

A crowd began to applaud.

The girl in ancient costume wearing a skirt also applauded and congratulated, and President Zhou also smiled and applauded.

After that, it was gone.

The whole thing protrudes into a speechlessness.

"Ten million, ten million, it's gone without even setting off a little wave?"

Song Yuzhu applauded, but the smile on her face was very stiff.

In her opinion, President Zhou invested 10 million yuan to help promote the game without saying a word, and the money was completely wasted!

It's such a shabby product launch, what can you do?

What did 10 million post?

Nothing.

Not even a splash of the waves.

President Zhou wasted another day here.

Alas, it can only be said that a woman who is in love is unreasonable.

Song Yuzhu also saw that after the product was released, President Zhou sat and chatted with Chen Ji and the girl in ancient costume who was said to continue to write the Dream of Red Mansions.

The three of them chatted quite happily.

The girl in ancient costume covered her mouth and smiled, her eyebrows were picturesque, and she said to Chen Ji: "Childe, it turns out that 'publicity' means this, does Childe's game need Shumin to promote?" ”

Ask a beautiful woman to promote?

Song Yuzhu nodded secretly, but it was a good idea.

But she was still skeptical of the game "Zhao Guojianghu" and had never heard of it before.

"You don't mind showing up?"

Chen Ji smiled at the little lady.

Ancient women were still quite taboo about this kind of thing, even in the martial arts world.

Xia Shumin was a little embarrassed, and whispered: "If it was in Zhao Kingdom, Shumin would definitely not dare to do this, but in the earth...... Miss Wan'er, a lot of women here do this, right? ”

Last night, when she was shopping in the brightly lit modern city, she saw many scantily clad women, and also saw many photos of beautiful women with bare breasts and legs hanging on the walls.

When she saw the way people around her were accustomed to it, she knew that this was a common thing on earth.

Zhou Wan showed a little smile in her eyes, and said: "There are indeed many women doing propaganda things, Miss Xia, if you want to help, it's not impossible, just take a few promotional photos." ”

"Miss Xia, when you wear this dress, you are indeed very temperamental, and it is very suitable for use as a promotional picture."

She added.

Xia Shumin's face was slightly red, and he said softly: "Thank you Miss Wan'er for your compliment, Miss Wan'er, you are also a beautiful country, and your face is the only one seen in Shumin's life." ”

The two beauties boasted to each other.

Chen Ji was pleasing to the eye.

"Childe?"

Xia Shumin asked his opinion with his eyes.

"Propaganda? All right. ”

Chen Ji agreed.

Promoting the game is secondary, he is very confident in the artificial intelligence created by Mayin, which is a unique gameplay in the world, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes popular.

What's more, Xia Shumin left more marks in this world, which seemed to allow her to travel to Earth more easily.

This time, she was able to travel over, most likely because she continued to write Dream of Red Mansions released an electronic version, and Miss Banshu's fame spread, giving Xia Shumin the "anchor point" to travel to the earth.

Chen Ji guessed so.

"That'...... How? ”

Xia Shumin became nervous.

This is the first time she has participated in work, and she is still taking promotional photos of games on Earth, and she is helping Childe make a lot of money and buy a big house that belongs to her and Childe in the future.

Chen Ji thought for a while and said, "Don't bother too much, just take a few photos of Shu Minling in the company and send them to the publicity and distribution advertising company, so that they can change the promotional picture to your photo." ”

Xia Shumin has no opinion.

Childe said okay, she did it, and let Childe toss as much as she wanted.

Zhou Wan said: "You don't have a camera in the company, right?" I'll ask someone to bring one over, and the camera will look better. ”

As a secretary, Song Yuzhu is responsible for solving the problems ordered by the president.

She picked up her mobile phone and called the assistant to the president, asking the other party to immediately find a way to get some shooting equipment, and arranged for a professional photographer to come over and make promotional pictures.

Hongqin Capital doesn't have these people and equipment in the company, but it's still the same sentence, you can do anything with money.

Seven or eight minutes after the start of the open beta.

"Brother Chen, someone is online!!"

Huang Hao, who was staring at the background data, shouted, and a group of employees gathered around.

1G multi-point game,Download and install,Almost someone has entered the game。

The number of people online is rising little by little.

From 1 to 10, then to 100, hundreds, and thousands.

In terms of the speed of data growth, it is worthy of the result of Zhou Wan's 10 million publicity, and the number of players entering will not be much less in the next few days.

The key is whether or not you can retain people.

Compared with Huang Hao's surprise, Chen Ji was very calm, guiding the little lady to play games, looking at her white little hands that she usually uses to hold the brush, and now holding the clumsy clicking of the mouse, controlling the game characters to walk, talking to NPCs, taking tasks to fight monsters, etc.

"Childe, ah, it's really Yongkang County......"

Xia Shumin's black and white eyes stared at the computer screen, and his face was full of joy.

"Zhao Guojianghu" is about what happened in Yongkang County, and the protagonist has several backgrounds:

The gangsters of the docks, the rich boy in Yongkang City, the hunters who hunt in the mountains, the short-term workers of the Xia family, and so on.

They all have one thing in common, that is, the protagonist has a clear goal, and he is working hard to become a master of the innate realm, looking forward to happiness, or joining the court as a big catcher.

In Yongkang County, which Xia Shumin is familiar with, she uses some things she is familiar with to deduce all kinds of strange game plots.

What Wednesday mother's chicken disappeared, Aunt Li's son was bullied by gangsters, Uncle Wang went up the mountain to pick herbs and broke his leg, etc.

The little lady was addicted to catching chickens and picking medicine for a while, and it wasn't until the person who took the promotional photos came that she reluctantly turned off the game.

Zhou Wan also tried it out with her mobile phone for a while.

Others will only think that this is a game created with AI, and the plot of the game is all written.

But she knows that a very important character in the game: Miss Xia is a real person.

It can be seen that many NPCs in the game, such as Zhenbei Gun King, Thief Saint Liu Sangu, Chu Nantian, Li Changhao, major Jianghu sect forces, etc., all really exist in another world.

"Chen Ji is ......"

Zhou Wan looked at the young man, "He doesn't know how many secrets he has hidden, and how many worlds he has seen?" ”

The appearance of Chen Ji and those dreams was like a pebble thrown into the lake, breaking her previous peaceful life.

"Miss Wan'er, I—How should I ......?"

Xia Shumin hesitated, didn't dare to step forward to take pictures alone, turned his head and asked her with his eyes.

"I'll help you."

Zhou Wan chuckled lightly, walked up to her and gave her an idea, what kind of shape and posture should be put on, so as to better show her elegant and ladylike temperament.

Chen Ji didn't get involved, and watched the two beauties on the side.

The photos taken are not scratching their heads, all of them are Xia Shumin's reserved and gentle appearance, or sitting on the desk with a book, or holding a fan to cover half of his face, or holding a brush to sway pen and ink, writing a good hand.

After the shooting, the little lady wearing an ancient costume skirt walked up to Chen Ji with a blushing face and asked for his opinion.

"It's very good, as soon as my family Shumin appears, Zhao Guojianghu's game is really soulful."

"Hee-hee~"

Xia Shumin, who felt that she had helped her son, returned to her seat with satisfaction and continued to play her Zhao Guojianghu game.

This time, she pulled Zhou Wan and the two played together.

Song Yuzhu is getting more and more incomprehensible, why does President Zhou seem to have such a good relationship with Chen Ji's girlfriend?

What she couldn't understand was the game.

After the number of online users exceeded 1,000, this small game, which seemed to her to be inconspicuous, began to enter a stage of explosive growth.

Three thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, thirty thousand.

An hour after the game's open beta, the number of online users exceeded 50,000, and the increase was sufficient.

"Most of the game reviews are positive?"

Song Yuzhu tried to search for game reviews, and found that most of them were five-star praises, and a small number of bad reviews were also focused on the lack of guidance, and the game was too large, and there were no bad reviews for the game content.

"This game is outrageous, it's obviously 2D, but it feels bigger than Los Santo!"

"I'm shocked, what kind of fairy game is this?? The people on the streets of the city are all NPCs? ”

"Brothers, one thing I found is that every time you enter the game, different quests and dialogues will be generated, most of the NPCs will be reset, and each conversation will be different."

"Oh my God, what's going on with the map in this game? There are tens of thousands of NPCs in it, there are too many quests to count, and there are many houses outside the city, and there are mountains in the distance? ”

"From my fifteen minutes of observation, I know that this in-game scene is done against the sky, and none of the NPCs on the road are repeated!!"

More and more players are expressing their amazement.

Song Yuzhu probably understood:

This "Zhao Guojianghu" mobile phone and computer are interoperable, and use superb random algorithms, use the now very popular AI to paint, and ChatGPT chatbot, simulating and generating a large number of game characters and events, to ensure that each player can experience different game tasks and dialogues.

Every time a player enters the game, the NPCs and events in the game will change, and the people are still the same people, but they have gone to do their own things and act according to their own personas.

"This is a living river!"

"Free? Don't have a mall? ”

"The AI algorithm of this game is a bit powerful, every game is different, and even every time you enter, the game will change over time."

The game's word-of-mouth quickly became a neutral among the player base and began to spread among various chat groups.

More and more players began to live, taking screenshots into the group, showing off that they had generated a beautiful antique NPC in the game.

The number of people online continued to soar, soon surpassing 100,000.

Two hours after the game's open beta, a call came to Zhou Wan's phone.

"30 million investment in a four-dimensional space-time company? I'm sorry, this game was announced and released with an investment of 10 million, and Chen Ji's company is not short of funds for the time being. ”

Zhou Wan hung up the phone lightly, not giving the other party more bargaining opportunities at all.

Chen Ji is not well-known now, and the company is very small, so outside investment is to find her.

The news that Hongqin Capital is responsible for the promotion of this game has spread.

Within an hour, as the number of people online in the game climbed again, the phone calls continued to flow in.

The investment amount has changed from 30 million to 100 million, and the valuation of Chen Ji's company has soared from 10 million to hundreds of millions.

There are already game companies offering 100 million yuan, accounting for 40% of the shares, and promising to give a large number of publicity resources and send a professional team to be responsible for the follow-up research and development of this game.

The conditions are already lucrative enough.

The continuous operation of the game is also a technology, from community management to game updates and more.

"What about your opinion?"

Zhou Wan asked Chen Ji.

She thinks that selling 30% of the shares for 100 million is enough to make a lot of money, after all, she doesn't look like Chen Ji is going to show her strength in the commercial field, so it is better to sell the game for cash.

"It's not enough."

Chen Ji shook his head, paused, and said: "My goal is to transfer the right to use in-game AI, and the company's valuation starts at 10 billion." ”

You can't make much money selling games, Zhao Guojianghu's polishing is not enough, and AI is the big one.

"Valuation ...... 10 billion"

After Song Yuzhu on the side heard it, she didn't know what to say.

A company with a valuation of tens of billions, but the product launch is like this?

Are you sure that there will be a big wronged person who will value you at 10 billion yuan and be willing to invest a lot of money?

There are only 20 game companies in China with a valuation of tens of billions of yuan.

There is a myth that there are dozens of game companies abroad that are valued at tens of billions, but this obviously does not include four-dimensional space-time technology.

"Ten billion!"

When Huang Hao heard this, his whole scalp was numb.

Because he still retains 1% of the shares in the company, according to the valuation of 10 billion, isn't it worth 100 million? !

"Brother Chen is awesome."

Several old employees who also had some shares were full of excitement and exclaimed in a low voice.

"It's hard to have a valuation of 10 billion, you need to wait, and you also need your game to show a certain quality."

Zhou Wan feels that it is difficult to achieve a valuation of 10 billion, which is not a small number, and the valuation of many listed companies is less than 1 billion.

But she clearly underestimated the power of the artificial intelligence that Mayien had created.

Six o'clock in the afternoon.

The game exceeded 500,000 online, and "Zhao Guojianghu" climbed to the top three of the free game download lists of major game stores, and the popularity of game discussions further increased.

Basically all those who work in the game industry have paid attention to this dark horse.

Like gamers, people in the gaming industry are speculating about what exactly this game is going to make money on.

Without changing the content of the game and without selling it alone, if you only rely on fashion to make money, then the game's ability to attract money is greatly reduced.

When Chen Ji was having dinner with Zhou Wan and Xia Shumin, he used the company's Weibo account to post a Weibo:

Seven days later, Zhao Guojianghu will enter the era of cultivating immortals, and "Zhao San's Hatred and Hatred" will be officially released, the price: 35 yuan.

Friendly reminder, after buying this book, everyone remember to be prepared for death. ”

Xia Shumin almost sprayed rice, covering his small mouth and coughing vigorously.

"Zhao San's Hate and Hatred" was originally written by her to the bookseller to print to make money, but Childe also wanted it to make money in the game.

This book has indeed attracted the attention of Zhao Guozhongyuan Wulin, and when it is put into the game, it will also make many players rush to it.

There is some kind of wonderful interaction between her and Childe, between the two worlds.

"Earn money with game cheats?"

Zhou Wan didn't quite understand.

But there are many players under Weibo who guessed Chen Ji's intentions.

"It means that if we don't buy the secret book of cultivating immortals, we can only practice martial arts step by step, right? It's really ruthless, according to the setting in the game, it takes at least ten years to level up the character to the innate! ”

"Buying Zhao Sanhate is a version update? DLC？ ”

"What does it mean to be a dead man? I bought game cheats and still have to run for my life? ”

"Hey, I guessed it, the people of the rivers and lakes also attach great importance to cultivating immortals?"

Chen Ji selectively replied to some people's comments, saying that cheats are a necessity that only comes once every six months, and future version updates will be released as DLC.

In addition, online dungeons, large-scale events in the rivers and lakes, and more character origins are also planned.

Players are relieved and more people are coming to this game.

Chen Ji returned to the company after eating, and the number of online players in the game officially exceeded one million.

He finally received a call from a heavyweight game company:

A vice president from Penguin's game division, Liu Ping.

Zhou Wan was responsible for giving him the lead and contacted President Liu.

Chen Ji's goal is a large company, after all, there are only a few companies that can afford more than one billion dollars.

But.

This Mr. Liu was still taken aback after hearing that Chen Ji's offer was valued at 10 billion.

"Mr. Chen, are you serious?"

With a valuation of 10 billion, if Penguin wants to take more than half of the shares, it must invest at least 5 billion, or 4 billion, plus a large number of reciprocal resources.

Such a large investment must be discussed in a meeting before it can be decided.

Chen Ji smiled slightly: "I don't know what your internal evaluation of my game is, but I can say for sure that in the next ten years, there will be no company in the world that can come up with a game similar to "Zhao Guojianghu", and there will be no one." ”

"This ......"

President Liu Ping hesitated.

The world is unique.

This is indeed a scarce investment, and the game's AI can be applied to other games to generate a range of value.

It's not even just games.

If it can spread to other fields, the valuation of 10 billion is indeed not much.

"Shall we make an appointment tomorrow to talk?" Liu Ping tried to ask.

Chen Ji refused, "I don't have that much time, I am currently short of money, so I need to invest, if I can sell millions of copies of the game in seven days, then I am not short of money, and I no longer need your investment at that time."

If you want to talk to me, you must do so on the premise of valuing my company at 10 billion. ”

Liu Ping frowned, Chen Ji dared to sell it for money after seven days, proving that he was indeed confident in his game, and confident that no one would be able to crack his server and learn his AI.

The DLC, priced at 35 copies, is undoubtedly very cheap for the size of the game.

Judging from the current popularity of the game, player retention, online time and other data, it is not a big problem for the first DLC to sell more than 5 million copies in seven days, and there is a high chance that 10 million copies can be reached.

"I'll get back to you in three days!"

Liu Ping replied confidently: "There are not many companies in China that can invest billions of dollars, and our penguins are the best choice, Mr. Chen, you can rest assured, we will give you the fairest valuation!" ”

Chen Ji smiled, "Looking forward to it." ”

After he hung up the phone, Song Yuzhu couldn't help but say, "Mr. Chen, the tone of your voice really doesn't look like you're doing business. ”

How can anyone talk about tens of billions of business like this?

What's more, standing opposite Chen Ji is still the leading giant company in China.

Chen Ji said with a smile: "It's not that I'm begging to invest, besides, as long as the money is enough, now that the game has gained popularity, it's not a big problem to make money and buy a big house." ”

He made a face at the little lady.

Xia Shumin pursed her lips and smiled, Gongzi worked so hard to make money for her to live in a big mansion in the future.

Song Yuzhu was speechless.

In the morning, she couldn't believe that this small company could be valued at a billion, and now it is even more than 10 billion.

In other words, the man in front of him is bound to become a billionaire?

President Zhou's vision is really powerful, and he easily invests in the best quality people.

"It's not too early tonight."

Chen Ji said to Zhou Wan: "I'll transfer you 10% of the shares, right?" As agreed before, as you give me the publicity funds in return. ”

The contract was only preliminarily set before, and it has not been signed yet, but Zhou Wan has already taken out 10 million to make a publicity.

Zhou Wan glanced at him deeply, and replied in a cold tone, "Just give me 1%." ”

Chen Ji insisted on giving her more, after all, there was no 10 million publicity, and the game was very slow to become popular.

In the end, Zhou Wan only accepted 3% as a condition for joining Chen Ji's company and becoming a shareholder.

Chen Ji kept 3% of the shares for Xia Shumin, the little lady is the future boss, how can she do without shares?

She can do without, but she can't do without.

"Shares?"

Xia Shumin was confused, she was not very familiar with the shares, she only knew that her son gave it to her, and she just accepted it.

Anyway, her private money is also Gongzi's.

……

Nine p.m., inside the mall.

"Shumin, do you want these cosmetics?"

Zhou Wan took Xia Shumin to walk around the mall, and Chen Ji followed behind the two beauties with large bags and small bags.

After knowing that Xia Shumin would return to her world later, Zhou Wan proposed to buy some things for her to bring back.

Of course Chen Ji will not refuse, it is rare for a little lady to come to the earth, so she has to bring some gifts back.

So, the three of them took Zhou Wan's luxury car and came to the mall to shop.

"Thank you, Sister Wan."

Xia Shumin was very interested in rouge on the earth, and listened carefully to Zhou Wan's explanation of lipstick and eyebrow pencils.

When she left the mall and went back by car, the trunk of Zhou Wan's Rolls-Royce was already stuffed with various gifts, and she also helped carry it up to the sixth floor where Chen Ji lived, and watched Xia Shumin disappear in front of her with various things.

"In a few days, I'll take you to the apocalyptic world?"

Chen Ji said to her.

Zhou Wan nodded, hesitated, and asked him, "Is the apocalyptic world very cold?" I need to prepare some winter clothes, and besides, your company will be very busy these days, so we'll go back when we're done. ”

Chen Ji has no opinion, and the matter is settled.

……

"Miss!!"

Xia Shumin returned home with a bunch of gifts from the earth, and as soon as he appeared in his study, two maids screamed and surrounded him.

"Miss, Miss, you're finally back~~"

"Wow, Miss also came back with a gift from the fairy world? Are these fairy fruits? ”

"How is it possible, Childe also brought a lot of things before~"

Back at his home, Xia Shumin's tone was much lighter, stuffed the things in his hands to the two maids, clapped his hands, and made it look like I was tired from shopping.

Cuizhu hurriedly asked the young lady to sit down, poured tea again, and pestered the young lady to ask about the fairy earth.

Lu Zhu hurriedly went to tell the lord and the lady.

After a while, Lu Rui and Xia Yongcheng arrived, and they were all relieved to see their daughter come back from the fairy world.

It's a pity that it's late at night, and after listening to what Xia Shumin said about the earth, they let her rest well and talk about it another day.

The lord and the lady left, but the two maids stayed with the young lady and pestered her to continue listening to the things of the earth.

Xia Shumin was served by green bamboo and green bamboo, and after taking off the skirt that he had been wearing for two days, his slender body soaked comfortably in the wooden barrel and bathed, his smooth jade hands were raised and counted, and his ruddy little face was full of pride:

"Let me tell you, there are actually a lot of people on the fairy earth, they have set up wires on the side of the road, and the road is wide and straight."

"Huh? Electricity, wires? What is it? ”

"The wire is a long, long hemp rope that flows with the power of thunder...... It's not like I'm talking nonsense, it's what Childe said, those thunderbolts can electrocute people at once~"

"Wow!! Immortals with the power of thunder? Miss, really? ”

"Well, the city where Childe lives is very large, with as many as 20 million people...... People live on pavilions hundreds of meters high, which are smooth and straight, reaching into the sky......"

At night, the three of them lay on the bed.

The twin maids put their arms around their young lady, and listened to her talk about the fairy world and earth with sparkling eyes, and let out exclamations from time to time, until Lu Rui got up in the middle of the night and sent someone to listen for a while, knowing that they hadn't fallen asleep yet, so she ordered them to sleep and didn't talk anymore!

Xia Shumin, who was wearing thin pajamas, couldn't sleep excitedly in bed.

As soon as she closed her eyes, her mind was full of scenes with Childe on the earth, those magical things, which opened her eyes, and she couldn't think of such magical things in her own imagination.

What made her feel even more warm in her heart was that Childe was afraid that she would not be used to living on the earth, so he specially told her that she could live wherever she wanted in the future.

If you want to go to the earth, you can go to the earth, and if you want to go back to Zhao to live, you can go back to Zhao.

Childe is so nice......

"Miss, haven't you slept yet?" Cuizhu asked in a low voice.

"Hmm."

"Hehe, Miss will marry my aunt in the future, can we also go to Earth?"

"Hmm, do you want to go to Earth?"

"Yes!"

The three masters and servants dug their heads into the quilt and chatted quietly again.

Xia Shumin is no longer shy about the words "marrying my uncle", but naturally accepts it, and acquiesces in this matter in her heart.

just waited for Chen Ji's three books and six ceremonies to marry her.

(End of chapter)