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"Mr. Xu, is this the next phase of our Zhurong Studio's development plan?"

"That's right."

Xu Liang nodded affirmatively.

After writing the development plan for "Bubble Hall", he also wrote "Kart Racing" at the same time. However, the former was relatively easier to develop, so he worked on the former first.

However, the brilliance of "Kart Runner" is not inferior to "Bubble Hall" at all.

In the original history, less than 10 days after the public beta began in March 2006, the number of players online at the same time exceeded 200,000, becoming a new generation of Internet cafe rookies.

In February 2007, the number of people online at the same time reached 800,000, making it one of the most popular online games.

In order to paint a picture, Xu Liang started playing as soon as he got off work, running almost day and night. And follow the online guide and study the traces.

For more than 30 yuan, a car can be used for a year. Other than that, you don’t have to spend any money. It can be said to be a good conscience.

Occasionally on weekends, he would go to a nearby Internet cafe to play friendly matches.

It's a pity that his level is a bit low and he has never won the official competition. There are too many great players.

Although QQ later copied QQ Speed, he still preferred racing karts. After all, it is difficult to change habits.

As the saying goes, "If you don't want to die, you won't die."

After the end of the PRO era in 2008, Century Tiancheng, a racing kart agency, was supposed to update to the SR era that everyone was looking forward to, but the update was delayed.

It was not updated until January 2009. This move has caused many players to abandon the game sadly.

Later, Tiancheng also realized that slow updates would lead to loss of users, so he speeded up the update of the national server, but new problems appeared again.

A common problem in all South Korean online games is cheating.

Kart Racing's plug-ins are awesome and can keep up with the speed of official updates. For example, the various masters of "Monkey Island" not only allow players to offline and play alone, but also can turn three laps into one lap, and can even The game ends after the countdown!

The most frightening thing was that Tian Cheng had nothing to do and was completely cold now.

It was at this time that Xu Liang gave up.

Of course, DNF, the sweet temptation, is also one of the reasons.

"Mr. Xu, don't worry, I will develop the game as soon as possible." Wei Xiao promised.

"Don't worry, your department hasn't had a break in developing "Bubble Hall" for a long time. Now the game is on the market and the results are good. I'll give you a week's vacation. After you have a rest, you can come back to develop "Kart Runner"."

"yes."

"Go ahead."

He waved his hand and asked Wei Xiao to leave.

Xu Liang took a piece of paper and wrote 2001 first, and then "Legend of Hot Blood", "Bubble Show" and "Bubble Hall" at the back.

In 2002, he wrote "The World", "Miracle Mu", "Red Moon 2", "The King of Fighters 2002", and "Samurai Shodown 10".

2003, "Legendary 3: Legend of the World", "Dragon", "Millennium 2", "Hungry Wolf 8", "Metal Slug 4".

In 2004, Xu Liang thought for a while and wrote the online version of "The King of Fighters" and "Kart Racing", and then put a question mark behind them.

The time was so far apart that he couldn't be sure what games would be available by then.

In the Hongmeng game business, basically four or five games are launched on the market every year, and at least one or two games can dominate the market.

Doing the math, Hongmeng has developed quite a few games now.

On the Chinese side, there are "The World" by Dijiang Studio, "Dragon" by Jumang Studio, and "Bubble Hall" and "Kart Racing" by Zhurong Studio.

Hongmeng South Korea's production studio has "Legend", "Red Moon", "Miracle MU", "Millennium" and "Bubble Show".

Hongmeng Japan Studio has "The King of Fighters", "Samurai Shodown", "Metal Slug" and "Hungry Wolf".

Altogether there are thirteen styles.

Even more if you include board and card games.

It combines several major genres including role-playing, fighting, racing, casual puzzle, and action shooting.

It can already be called a large multinational gaming company.

"But it's not enough."

Xu Liang said.

Hongmeng’s strategy within the next five years is to become the world’s top player in games; compete with Google in Internet search; compete with Apple’s iTunes in the music business; and capture a sufficient share of the offline market.

Games, music and internet searches.

It is the focus of Hongmeng in the next five years.

While Xu Liang was working hard on the development of Hongmeng, time slowly passed through the hot July and entered the furnace-like August.

——

Goldman Sachs Asia Headquarters in Hong Kong.

"James, I studied Enron's business carefully."

"How is it? Are you very healthy?" Silva James asked quickly.

"On the contrary, it's already very bad." John Thain said solemnly.

James was stunned for a moment and said in disbelief: "How is it possible? Their second quarter financial report was as high as 18.7 billion U.S. dollars, how could they be short of money?"

“Although Enron’s net revenue was very high, the profit from electricity wholesale was too low, only 5% or even 2%, so they didn’t make much money.

Moreover, more than half of Enron's foreign projects were losing money, which was a huge loss with no hope.

Therefore, if Enron cannot shrink its overseas investments in time and reduce expenditures through layoffs, I am not very optimistic about their future. "

"Is it already this serious?" Silva James thought to himself.

He was not in the United States, and he only watched Enron's situation from afar, and did not understand the real inside story.

And there was no way John Thain could lie to him.

"It is indeed very serious."

The affirmative answer made Silva James feel a strong jealousy in his heart.

Not surprisingly, Hongyan’s short selling of Enron will make huge profits again.

"Why is it always the yellow-skinned monkey?!"

After cursing in his mind, he said, "John, so there is no chance to do long Enron this time?"

"No, the chances are very good."

There was excitement in John Thane's voice.

"Now that Enron's financial situation is very poor, we are going short just in line with the general trend. When Enron's stock price is almost squeezed out, we will control public opinion and go long."

Although Enron's financial situation was poor, no one would have imagined that it would be so bad that it collapsed.

After all, Enron is now ranked 16th on the Fortune 500, the world's largest energy company, controls the longest natural gas pipeline in the United States, owns power plants worth US$34 billion, and last year's revenue exceeded US$100 billion.

Silva James responded uninterestedly.

Although he hides white supremacy in his heart and looks down on Xu Liang, he is also a genuine financial elite.

It was clear that once Enron's stock fell short, it would be much more difficult to pull it back up.

Even if it can be pulled up, it will be difficult to reach the original stock price.

Therefore, Hongyan Fund must have made money from short selling this time. It is a matter of making more or less.

“We can only look for opportunities in the future.”

Silva James thought.

——

Xu Liang drove to New Dream Company.

As Hongmeng Company continues to grow and develop, although he is full of energy after his rebirth, it is difficult for him to be as meticulous about the development of the new dream company as he was in the past.

Throughout 2001, he spent most of his time on Hongmeng, and his new dream had not come for more than two months.

When I have something to do, I just send emails and make phone calls.

Fortunately, Teng Huaming, a Columbia University doctor, is indeed very capable. Although the development of the new dream is not as dramatic as the previous Xu Liang era, it is also moving forward steadily and growing day by day.

Xu Liang was relieved.

Therefore, Xu Liang, who once planned to use New Dream, Hongmeng and Hanhua Hongyan as the core companies, has already put New Dream on the second line.

From now on, he will only be responsible for strategic planning, leaving all other matters to Teng Huaming.

The car drove into the 798. The road was still familiar, but compared to before, the old and dirty factory roads had become much cleaner.

A black Santana appeared at the end of the road in the distance, and a few artistic words could be vaguely seen, but they were not very clear.

"It seems that the 798 Art District has begun to take off."

Xu Liang said.

Follow the hardened road to the entrance of New Dream Company.

In order to prevent the group of energetic boys from going to the Internet cafe to play games, guardrails were installed at the exits of the factories leased by New Dream.

There are also security guards standing guard at the exit.

As soon as he saw him coming, the guard who knew the license plate number quickly opened the door.

As the passage slowly opened.

Hardened with asphalt, a smooth and solid road surface appears in front of you.

Green belts were opened on both sides, with neatly trimmed hollies inside and clovers planted on the ground.

The surrounding walls still look like factory buildings from the 1960s and 1970s, but they have been cleaned very well and damaged areas have been specially repaired.

After driving forward for a while, a huge wall painting appeared in front of me.

The content is a lotus pond.

Emerald lotus leaves, red and white lotus flowers, and dark green or olive lotus pods, plus a few dragonflies and frogs lying on the lotus leaves, form an almost realistic and vibrant lotus flower. picture.

Xu Liang stopped the car, looked at it for a while and then continued to drive forward.

Soon a vibrant landscape picture appeared in front of us.

There are several similar wall paintings. Judging from the color, it didn’t take long to finish them.

Xu Liang put the car in the parking lot and walked towards the office building.

Teachers and employees who were coming in and out saw him, were stunned for a moment, and then quickly said hello.

"headmaster."

"Mr. Xu."

Xu Liang smiled and nodded in greeting, but did not stop.

Step in.

The New Dream Office is still the same, but there are many more teachers and employees than when he arrived more than two months ago.

Dong Dong…….

Climb the steel stairs to the president's office on the second floor.

Everything is still the same and the bathroom is very clean.

After turning around, I came to the window and looked out, just in time to see the studio I saw when I entered the door earlier.

"Bruce Art Studio?"

Soon there was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

As the door opened, Teng Huaming, wearing a black suit, opened the door and walked in.

"Mr. Xu, you are here."

"Well, I haven't been here for a long time, so I just wanted to take a look."

As he spoke, he waved to Teng Huaming and pointed to the studio behind him when he came to him.