Dream Guide

Sales of Space Box continue to be booming, with sales exceeding eight million units in the first three quarters, and the number of registered users worldwide exceeding 20 million. The sales data for the fourth quarter have not yet been compiled, but there is no pressure to achieve the full-year goal of selling 10 million box sets and 30 million registered game users.

The selling price of the box has always remained unchanged at US$50,000. This was Mei's strategy. The total sales revenue for the year suddenly exceeded the annual turnover of the world's number one Wal-Mart Group. If the production lines of FSK and HW companies were not able to keep up, this number would be even more terrifying.

Although Mei Yiqiu split the distribution rights of the game and the sales channels of space boxes to many different companies in order to quickly spread it around the world, the newly established technology company under the Third Space Foundation for this game Still rising rapidly, even Mei's Laboratories, which owns core technologies, has become the darling of the capital market.

Capitalists with a keen sense of smell came to visit Professor Mei in an endless stream, hoping to get a share of this promising project. Professor Mei was bothered so much that he finally closed the door and thanked all guests. No one was seen, and he only communicated with the outside world through the internal quantum communication network.

This made Hou Biao, who was once very nervous, relax, and also made Mei Ziqing, who had been too busy recently, feel dizzy.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon. The first day of the new year is the first anniversary of the release of the "Dream Guide" game and the space box. The Penguin Group, which is responsible for the game's release, proposed to hold a global annual event before the year to better promote the game. . Huanyu International and BFB also support the idea.

Mei Yiqiu doesn't matter. He clearly knows that the appeal of "Dream Guide" is not comparable to those mindless games. Those games need constant publicity and star power to stimulate consumption, but Dream Guide does not. This is a game more addictive than opium. Once you play it once and create a world of your own, you will never be able to put it down.

It does not rely on the crude world view of game planners and architects. It uses your subconscious mind to reconstruct a brand new world using all the memories in your brain. You can let all your imagination run wild. In this game, nothing is impossible, only unexpected.

When you create this world, this world exists. It truly remains in your memory, in your dreams, and in your subconscious, just like your past life and next life. You will gradually regard it as a real world parallel to this world. You will be obsessed with it and unwilling to give up on it, just like you came to this world and were reluctant to leave it.

However, several companies have made plans for the annual festival, and Mei Yiqiu is also happy to see the results. It is also a good thing to push forward a little progress. A new domestic production base has been built, and three new production lines are being tested. After the year, more can be added. Yield.

This grand ceremony not only invited a large number of celebrities, but also brought together many top rich people and investors. Because the first batch of players in the world were originally wealthy people, this game was first recognized in the circles of the wealthy.

Although he agreed, Mei Yiqiu had his own ideas. He doesn’t want to turn this annual event into a farce, nor does he want to arouse the resentment of most people around the world who can’t afford to play games yet.

Those investors may not care about the feelings of the poor, because the rich alone can make enough money. In their eyes, if such an expensive box sells 10 million units a year, it will take ten years for the middle class to develop, and it will take thirty years for it to spread to the general consumer group before the cost of technology is significantly reduced. This is unbearable for capital, so their annual festival plan has completely become a feast for the rich and a show off in front of the poor.

Ke Mei’s goal is to sell one billion units within five years!

Except for a few core team members, he has never mentioned this goal to anyone. If he told him, people would just call him "old madman".

The number of rich people is limited, and it is impossible to sell too many space boxes at the current cost, but Mei Yiqiu has his price reduction plan, and even in the end, this box can be free of charge and can be used by poor people. rise. He couldn't tell investors these things because it would be useless.

So he could only use a tough stance to change their grand ceremony plan and move in the direction he expected. He didn't want to offend the poor, and he was more worried about exposing the true purpose of the game.

Mei Ziqing was very busy with this matter. She needed to convey Professor Mei's meaning to those who planned this grand ceremony. However, the brains of these rich people and the professor's brains were not the same thing. They took themselves too seriously. That was not the case, or that they took their money too seriously, and the professor did not bother to talk to them directly, so Mei Ziqing had no choice but to act as a sounding board between them over and over again.

Later, the professor probably got fed up and said to Mei Ziqing: "Whoever takes me seriously again will get out of here!"

Mei Ziqing said: “They all invested money, and they said they would withdraw their investment if we didn’t do what they wanted.”

The professor said: "Fuck your money! The most worthless thing in the world is money! If they want to withdraw their capital, just withdraw it and find someone else to do it, I don't care!"

"But professor, we signed a contract with them."

“The Americans even signed the Paris Agreement!”

After receiving Mei Yiqiu's instruction, Mei Ziqing began to become tougher in her speech at the investor meeting. As soon as she became tough, those investors immediately became intimidated and repeatedly stated that they would continue to support the release of the game and the sales of space boxes. Work, as for the global festival, everything is according to Professor Mei's wishes.

Mei Ziqing finally understood how some people behave. When you hand him a piece of cake, he always dislikes it and wants to take a bite of your hand. But if you push the cake directly into his face, he will obediently Lick your share and never covet the remaining share in your hand.

"Professor, everything has been arranged." Mei Ziqing came back to report.

"Oh, thank you for your hard work!" Mei Yiqiu held his pipe in his mouth and puffed out a puff of smoke. His white hair exploded, and he seemed to be stiffer than before.

"Professor, you don't turn on the purification system!"

Mei Ziqing reached out to press the switch on the wall, but was stopped by Mei Yiqiu.

"Don't move, this is good!" Mei Yiqiu's face was hidden behind the smoke, "If you are afraid of smoke, just go out first."

"I'm fine, Professor. I'm just worried about your health." Mei Ziqing said, brushing away the second-hand smoke swirling around her.

Mei Yiqiu has been looking at the computer screen, which is filled with data analysis tables. He pointed his pipe at a line of numbers on the screen and said, "There is still something wrong with the game's data!"

"What's wrong, professor?" Mei Ziqing asked.

Mei Yiqiu said: "In the data collected through the space box in the black box stage, so far there are only more than 300 people who are abnormal, and these people are all suspected parasites. However, the number of registered players in the game is close to 30 million. According to this number, the parasite ratio The column is only a little over one hundred thousandth."

Mei Ziqing said in surprise: "Isn't this ratio high? There are seven billion people in the world, and one hundred thousandth is more than 70,000. In other words, one hundred thousand people in the world have been parasitized. I think this is already very high. It’s scary!”