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It was difficult for He Peng to figure out what President America thought, but fortunately, Lin You could ask directly.

He decisively called Lin You.

But Lin You was also puzzled: "How do I know what they think?"

"You don't know either..." He Peng became even more confused, "Then I have to figure it out..."

"Mechs are definitely not their original plan. Before you proposed this thing, there was almost no such concept."

"After you raised it, they didn't move. It must have been affected by something until they suddenly raised it now."

"The recent information related to the mecha... It seems that you are the only one who showed the blueprints and the construction of the machinery factory, right?"

"..." As He Peng spoke, he came back to his senses a little bit, "They don't think that the mecha you built can be used in actual combat, do they?"

"..." Lin You was also a little speechless, "How would I know?"

"If this is the case, then it will be interesting." He Peng's stomach immediately started to boil, "When do you plan to release this new game?"

Lin You estimated the time, "Maybe in the middle of this month."

"Could it be later?"

"This doesn't affect it. Anyway, the [Rehabilitation Program] overseas will be delayed for some time, and it can be pushed to the end of the year."

"Okay, okay, this long time should be enough." He Peng was satisfied, "Leave the rest to me. Don't answer the questions about mechas on the Internet."

"Success." Lin You agreed smoothly, and then hung up the phone.

But He Peng stopped him again: "Wait!"

"What's wrong?"

"Let me ask you one last time, are you sure, really, not, developing that kind of large mech for combat?"

Lin You was speechless, "I'm sure, really, I haven't done it. When nuclear fusion technology breaks through, I will consider it."

"Okay, okay, that's good." He Peng finally hung up the phone in peace.

Lin You also put down the phone and continued to play "Animal Party" with Xiao Meng and Zhu Cixia.

And after He Peng hung up the phone, he immediately called the director of the third machinery factory to ask him to wrap another layer around the original rainproof cloth!

In the next half a month, he will keep the person on the other side busy!

*

The next morning, Lin You put on the chemical protective suit again, followed the princess's bodyguard and car, and went to Journey Prosthetics Company.

Yesterday, Kong Xinsheng called for a long time to ask questions, and today he simply went to the company. It happened that he hadn't been there for a long time, and he could check his work by the way.

When Kong Xinsheng saw Lin You, he paused immediately, and even took half a step back subconsciously.

——He never expected that Lin You would appear in front of him in this posture.

After calming down, he rushed to greet him again, and was about to say something like "The boss is awesome, he handles the whole process from drawings to objects by himself", when he suddenly saw the person next to Lin You.

He stopped abruptly again, "Princess...princess?!"

The anti-chemical suit was too eye-catching before, which made him ignore this person, but now that he got close, even if Zhu Cixia was wearing a mask, he couldn't hide it from anyone!

Her popularity and recognition are simply too high.

Kong Xinsheng was puzzled: Why did the princess appear here? Does she know the boss? Or by chance?

A bunch of question marks rolled around in his mind.

Zhu Cixia replied politely: "Hello, Manager Kong, Lin You is not very convenient these days, I want to follow him to help a little, but I'm sorry to bother you today."

Kong Xinsheng's eyelids twitched when he heard this sentence.

What is "Lin You is inconvenient these days"?

It is inconvenient for him to send out the princess to follow her personally and take care of her personally?

This shelf is too big!

Kong Xinsheng complained wildly in his heart, but smiled and waved his hands again and again: "Ah, don't bother, don't bother."

"Please come in."

There was no need for him to lead the team, so Lin You quickly walked into Kong Xinsheng's office and sat down to listen to his work report.

But before the report started, the little princess opened the suitcase she had been carrying, and took out two blueprints of the brain-controlled robotic arm—the version with three robotic arms and the version with four robotic arms, and handed them to Kong Xinsheng.

Kong Xinsheng took it with both hands, browsed it briefly, and then asked doubtfully, "Why are there two versions?"

"Because this thing is considered a peripheral of the game, it's just released one step earlier than the game... After the game is released, it will correspond to the content in the game."

In "Pacific Rim", the core gameplay is undoubtedly mechs.

The player's "upgrade route" is no longer to improve physical fitness, but to improve the ability to control the mecha, and unlock more components such as weapons, power, operating system, etc., so that they can modify their mecha.

——He still hasn't given up on the idea of ​​[Eight-armed Yama].

Since it is difficult to achieve in reality, let's implement it in the virtual world. In the game, players can install as many arms as they want!

At that time, everyone will look back at these two versions of the robotic arm, and they will surely smile.

"I see, I understand."

Kong Xinsheng nodded and stopped asking, and began to report the company's current situation.

In addition to conventional product production, overseas sales, software technology research and development, and overseas [Rehabilitation Program], one of the company's development priorities is to rely on the [Bafang] headband to create a richer mixed reality ecology.

No longer limited to "pathfinding software" and "reality beautification", but to implant richer and more practical optional function plug-ins.

For example, if you look at the stop sign at a bus stop, you can get the information that the next bus will arrive in a few minutes; you can get explanations when you see uncommon words; you can get real-time translation when you read foreign books and newspapers; Being able to translate directly—translating sign language will have fewer and fewer application scenarios in Daxia, but it is still of great value overseas.

There are many similar functions, and the engineering team is gradually enriching the software ecology of [Bafang], and the more they study, the more they feel that this technology has unlimited potential.

Lin You was very satisfied with their work, and made a suggestion: "Try to see if the child prevention system can also be connected to it and made into a functional plug-in. It should be very useful."

Kong Xinsheng immediately said: "Some engineers have already proposed this idea, and we are already doing it."

Hearing this answer, Lin You was even more satisfied.

After two more laps in the technical department, he and Zhu Cixia left the company together.

Zhu Cixia opened the door for Lin You, carefully watched him get into the car before running to the other side to get in the car.

Noticing the princess' eyes and caring little movements when she looked at Lin You, Kong Xinsheng finally reacted belatedly——

"These two are not in love, are they?!"

"So arrogant! Aren't you afraid of being discovered?"

...

Not only were Lin You and Zhu Cixia not afraid, they even went to the second stop - Yunmeng's office arrogantly.

Lin You wants to check the production progress of the second chapter of "Chang'an" and assist in the development of "Pacific Rim".

On the other hand, Kong Xinsheng quickly summoned a team of engineers after Lin You left, carefully studied the drawings of the robotic arm given by Lin You, and after confirming that there were no problems, he quickly contacted his own factory to start production, while formulating a publicity plan and pricing strategy.

By the afternoon, they had produced two brand-new prototypes extremely efficiently, followed by taking product promotional photos and launching the product pre-order page.

However, they choose to book in advance, not to get cash back faster-the journey prosthetics are not short of money at all.

Pre-ordering is just to determine the order of delivery.

Netizens, who had been looking forward to Lin You's video since he released the video, also burst into great enthusiasm in an instant, and the number of reservations took off immediately, exceeding one million in less than an hour!

Among them, 70% are from overseas.

In the second hour, the big summer players began to exert their strength, and at the same time the predetermined number exceeded two million, the ratio was pulled back to four or six—four in big summer and six in overseas.

The number and growth rate of this order far exceeded Kong Xinsheng's psychological expectations based on past experience, so he immediately notified the factory to increase the initial batch of 3 million units to 10 million units.

His surprise was entirely understandable—

According to the instructions, this thing is sold to healthy people. Although it is not impossible for people with disabilities to use it, there is no subsidy for this thing!

For the series of brain-controlled prosthetics, there is a huge difference between domestic pricing and overseas pricing, and the key to this huge gap is a strong subsidy system for disabled users.

Now that there is no subsidy, Kong Xinsheng is really surprised that such a hot booking can still come.

——Of course, no subsidy does not mean no discount. If you are Yunmeng's [Honorary Player], you can still buy it at a 5% discount.

Since a few months ago, Yunmeng has gradually enriched the preferential treatment of [Honorary Player], and now, this status is no longer a simple honor in the early days, but has begun to generate actual material benefits, and the value of the title has also increased. A rising tide lifts all boats.

However, as the total number of players continues to increase, it is becoming more and more difficult to obtain the title of [Honorary Player], and players are working harder and harder to compete for this honor.

After Lin You came to the company, Qin Songyun reported to him the progress of the second chapter of "Chang'an", and also mentioned something related to [Honorary Player].

However, the angle of his question made Lin You a little surprised: "When selecting honorary players in the [Try the Sword World] and [Sword from Heaven] activities, should the player's merit value also be taken into consideration?"

When [Honorary Player] was first launched, Yunmeng hadn't officially launched the [Mertiful Virtue] mechanism, so the selection naturally didn't include this.

And every time [Honorary Players] were selected before, the [Merit Points] of the selected players were also above the standard line, and it was a little bit lower, which was harmless, so it was not discussed specifically.

But now Qin Songyun couldn't help mentioning this, it was really because of the appearance of a very special character - Hong Chen.

In recent days, this guy has caused a huge disturbance in the player circle.

First, it spread "itchy powder" on a large scale on the peaceful public map, and then decisively changed the name after arousing public outrage, trying to make the gangsters blamed.

But under the power of money, he was dismantled and locked up after only 12 hours. Then, a battle royale activity started, and countless netizens joined in this pursuit.

As an ordinary player, most of them would give up at this time, and it is normal to not go online for a few days to avoid the limelight.

But the world of mortals is not!

Not only did he not counsel, but he was aroused to be rebellious, so he insisted on going online!

Not only went online, but also changed the name back, swaggeringly went online to the public world, and did not miss any of the two events [Try the Sword World] and [Sword from Heaven].

[Trying the Sword World] It's okay to say something, it's just a group arena, he just needs to run fast after participating in the competition.

But [Sword from Heaven] is different, this event is a pure player brawl, every time he appears on the stage, he will be chased and killed by people, and instantly becomes the most beautiful boy in the audience - even better than the luminous [Uranium Sword] Bright kind.

After all, it is hard to say how much a weapon is worth, but it is very clear how much his head is worth——

Kill once, you can get 300 yuan in cash, and you can get unlimited cash until the "bonus pool" is exhausted!

It is conceivable how fanatical the idle player will be. Chasing and killing him is more enthusiastic than grabbing a sword.

But Hongchen was jumping up and down in such a situation of being "pointed at by thousands of people", not only provoking a large number of players to get angry, but even snatched a [Sword from Heaven]!

A small part of the reason why he can do this feat is that he has practiced martial arts for many years in real life, and he has a relatively good foundation. In the game, he is more agile and has learned a lot of various light skills. His level is not low, and his mobility is super strong. .

But a large part of the reason has to be attributed to "scientific research capabilities"——

He used all his wealth to buy materials and made big bags of "itchy powder". Every time he appeared in public, he would carry a big bag on his back.

Once being chased by someone, he would just hold his breath and scatter wildly like a goddess scattering flowers while running.

At first, the players chasing him were not vigilant enough, so they sucked in a few waves.

As a result, half of the men and women chasing him went offline on the spot, and the remaining half who were determined and refused to admit defeat scratched their itch while taking off their clothes, and yelled at him not to run away.

Hearing this, Hongchen didn't say a word, turned around and sprinkled another bag of medicine powder, startled by the sound of cursing.

Soon the scene turned into a bunch of men and women wearing only underwear, scratching their itch while chasing and killing the world of mortals with swords, guns and halberds.

As Hong Chen ran, he turned around to take pictures of them provocatively...

Moreover, the powder he sprinkled could not precisely control the range, and as a result, some innocent passers-by would be affected by the fish every time.

Many of these unlucky passers-by were angry and joined the hunting team, making this restricted-level hunting team longer and longer, and even stealing the limelight from [Sword from Heaven]...

Relying on this "secret weapon", Hong Chen was very domineering for a while.

Then those who chased and killed him all changed to wind-up guns, and there were more and more ruthless people who chased and killed him. Many people's mentality changed from simply "offering a reward" to "personal grievances".

But even so, he still appeared in the public world on time at 8 o'clock every day, provoking everyone's nerves, even if he was hunted down in a panic, and even occasionally missed and beaten to death, he would never give up, just to mess with other people's mentality.

Later on, it even turned into a man-made carnival. Even players who had no grievances or enmity and didn't want to make money came to join in the fun.

In this process, it is inevitable that many NPCs will be affected, some houses will collapse, and dozens of shops will be burned down.

Hongchen's merit value, which had already plummeted, reached a new low.

But he still didn't know about it, and just wondered why the price of raw materials for medicine powder became more expensive.

According to the evaluation of the development team, the enthusiasm brought by Hongchen to the game is amazing, and he successfully won a [Sword from Heaven] in the layers of pursuit and fierce competition. In addition, in the individual competition of [Try the Sword World], His performance is also quite good-according to the evaluation, he has at least the strength to break into the top 64 in the world.

Once these conditions are combined, he is fully qualified to be on the [Honorary Players] list in February.

but……

Let a person whose merit value is ridiculously low and who is hunted down by players collectively every day become an [Honorary Player], just thinking about it, Qin Songyun feels weak.

—Is this really an honor?

"Hmm..." Lin You also hesitated for a while.

But in the end, he still feels: the game world belongs to the game world, don’t connect too much with reality, “do evil” in the virtual world, and give “punishment” in the virtual world, which should not be easily exceeded.

but--

"There is no need to add merit points to the evaluation of [Honorary Players], but the enthusiasm brought about by the troublesome behavior that will affect the game experience of other players cannot be counted as a contribution. The evaluation mechanism of Honorary Players must be eliminated."

"Understood." Qin Songyun nodded.

Excluding the contribution in popularity, he may have to enter the top three in [Test the Sword World], or even the champion, to be eligible to enter the list of honorary players, and this difficulty...

"Also, don't forget to dispose of that medicinal powder."

"Well, it's already being processed."

...

After finishing the "Chang'an" work, Lin You took Xiaomeng and Xiaoxia to the "Pacific Rim" project team.

A few days ago, he was basically stocking the "Pacific Rim" project team, because their main work was related to world construction-concentrating on making city maps, mecha bases, important characters, mechas and monsters of all levels Wait for these things.

The specific mainline plot adjustments, mech upgrade and modification plans, and more gameplay development are still in the discussion stage.

And today is the time for Lin You to check the results of their discussions and make a final plan.