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Zhang Qian did not take them to the hotel for accommodation first, but drove them directly to the company.

In a small conference room, apart from Xiang Kun, Tang Baona, and Yang Zhener, there were only Zhang Qian, Director Lin, and two other senior executives of "Tengjiao Interactive Entertainment", as well as Zhang Qian Xiao Nie, the new assistant.

"Mr. Xiang, Miss Tang, Miss Yang, if you are hungry, you can eat some pastries first. We have also prepared hot drinks, including milk tea and coffee. If you want to drink anything, you can also tell our little Nie, She will ask people to prepare. I will simply finish what I want to say first, and then we will go to have lunch together." Zhang Qian stood in front of the projection screen and said to Xiang Kun and the others.

In private, she calls Nana and Zhen'er by their first names, but in more formal occasions or in the company, she still uses their honorifics.

Xiang Kun raised his hand to signal Zhang Qian to continue, and they all cooperated with the arrangement.

He knew that the reason why Zhang Qian picked them up and dragged them over to the company for a meeting in such a hurry was because she was afraid that he would leave for something else and not have time to meet. From this point of view, he is indeed somewhat unqualified as a collaborator.

Zhang Qian began to explain using the PPT projected on the screen. The first few pages were about the user data of the game during this period, as well as the evaluation of the game by some players, including the media, and the questions that players responded to most often.

Zhang Qian had already talked about most of these contents on the way here, so she only went through them briefly here.

Then, the new page of the PPT was changed to a theme that seemed to be somewhat general-social.

Zhang Qian did not immediately introduce the content on the PPT, but asked Tang Baona: "Ms. Tang, what do you think of 'social products'?"

Tang Baona was stunned for a moment and said: "Social products? Do you mean QQ, WeChat, etc.? Well, they are the applications we need every day and are used frequently?" After thinking about it, she added: "The monopoly is very strong, in a single field , basically winner takes all?”

Zhang Qian asked Yang Zhener the same question again, and the latter said: "Douyin, Kuaishou, Weibo, etc., too? It seems that most of the most popular Internet products are related to social networking."

Zhang Qian asked Xiang Kun again.

Xiang Kun said: "Compared with other Internet products, social products have higher user stickiness and are easier to occupy users' time. They can derive a lot of business. Whether they sell advertising or expand other businesses, they can get huge benefits. However, compared to Douyin , Weibo, and other social media, and social communication software such as QQ and WeChat are more difficult to operate. I think that only when the information interaction methods and environment undergo huge changes again, will this new social platform have the opportunity to challenge the old hegemon? .

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Zhang Qian nodded and said: "Mr. Xiang is right. Compared with products with strong social attributes such as QQ and WeChat, Douyin and Weibo have stronger media attributes and more communication power, but the connection between users and The interaction should be weaker, and the core should be on the content.

“The social products I want to discuss today are mainly strong social products such as QQ and WeChat. As Mr. Xiang just said, every time the way of information interaction changes due to the development of technology, it is an explosion period for social products. .

"When the Internet first emerged, EMAIL began to replace part of letters as the communication method for 'pen pals'. With the popularity of the Internet and PCs, more and more people learned to type, and various chat rooms began to appear, and then ICQ , OICQ, MSN and other instant messaging software were born.

“At that time, the very thing of ‘online typing and chatting’ attracted people’s curiosity. It was a new way of socializing and communicating, and people would actively seek out strangers to chat with.

"After the rise of the mobile Internet, WeChat seized the opportunity to transform social networking from a pure network to a semi-reality. People are curious about 'people nearby' and who they will see when they 'shake', so they will take the initiative to use it. These functions enable social interaction with strangers and develop new social relationships.

“Nowadays, it is difficult for people to feel novel about socializing through text. Few people meet strangers through pure text chat anymore. It is necessary to build a specific social scene and social environment, such as some MMO games. , such as classified forums, etc. But the problem is that the connections established by players in the corresponding scenes will not always exist in the scene, but will be transferred to other commonly used communication software, such as QQ, major gaming platforms, Battle.net, etc. , it is also difficult to develop into a comprehensive strong social connection platform.

“Many people are exploring video and voice-based social methods, but because they display strong real-life attributes, attention is destined to continue to gather on a small number of users, forming a one-to-many weak social attribute, but with stronger Nature of media.

"I originally thought that the next generation of strong social platforms would appear after the popularization of VR equipment and the large-scale application of VR technology. Fresh social methods and richer social scenarios will allow all users to start focusing on The social experience itself, and a certain degree of virtuality, can also allow people with different real-world conditions to have relatively fair social opportunities, so that most people can have similar social experiences.

"However, the emergence of our game..."Sound Genesis", the game's data performance during this period, feedback from some users, and my own experience have made me change my original view.

“There is no suspense that Sound Genesis itself will become a hit game, but I think we may be able to do more experiments with it.

“Traditional voice social software cannot succeed because it is not virtual enough, there are not enough application scenarios, and many new users are not used to voice chat. Traditional MMO games cannot retain social relationships in the game because the application scenarios are too many. Single. But we all have solutions. For the former, our own gameplay can solve it. In the game, all users can rely on the plot and story to play. The sounds may be different in the game, but each The personal space for play is the same. Once users have developed the habit of voice communication in our games and become familiar with the sound environment, then we can use voice as a social carrier to develop broader applications. In this way , the latter problem can also be solved.

""Sound Genesis" is our trump card embedded in the social field!"

Zhang Qian said, feeling a little excited. She sorted out her emotions, continued to click on the PPT, and began to introduce some of her ideas on how to use this sound game to build a social network with sound as the main social method:

"I initially divided our strategy into three directions: virtual, reality, and hardware. 'Virtual' refers to sound games or related entertainment applications based on "Sound Genesis"; 'reality' refers to joint applications through real scenes, such as Set up the 'Voice Bottle' in a fixed place. A transmits a voice message to the platform in a certain area of ​​the pedestrian street. Then at a random time in the next 24 hours, stranger B appears in the same area of ​​the pedestrian street. There will be a chance. After receiving this voice from A, he can choose to reply, or he can choose to directly 'throw' it back to the voice library, thereby building a voice communication model based on part reality and part virtuality; in terms of 'hardware'..."

Xiang Kun didn't wait for Zhang Qian to finish, and couldn't help raising his hand to interrupt: "Um...Mr. Zhang, please talk about what you just said about your prospects for social interaction in the VR era."

Zhang Qian was stunned for a moment and said doubtfully: "Although the current VR technology is developing very quickly, it has not yet reached the level of comprehensive civilian use. There are still very few related applications, such as games, and there are many different ideas. It seems They all seem to be feasible. It is difficult for us to determine which path can be at the forefront and lead the trend. The most important thing is... we do not have any accumulation or advantages in VR technology and related applications. I am now We talk about voice socialization because of our game..."

Xiang Kun said firmly: "Don't worry about technical matters. Just tell me where to start if you are doing VR social networking."

"But we can't discuss it based on technology. Technology is the foundation." Zhang Qian was a little confused. Xiang Kun's statement was a bit amateurish, but she knew that Xiang Kun was not an amateur, let alone someone who spoke openly.

Xiang Kun thought for a while and said: "Let's do this, Mr. Zhang, if you want to do voice social networking, I support you. You can see what technical needs you have and list them one by one. As for VR, you can also learn about it. Then make a request based on your ideal design, and I will be responsible for the technical implementation. Whether it is hardware or software, if you look at the current VR technology and have any flaws that you think will affect your plan, you can put forward it."

Zhang Qian was a little dazed when she heard Xiang Kun's words. It didn't sound like he knew much about VR technology, but his tone made it sound like he was a Doraemon or a genie lamp. If you need anything, just make a wish. Can be solved?

Isn’t this too loud?

"OK, it's almost time. Let's go have lunch. Look, our Mr. Yang's eyes are green with hunger." Xiang Kun stood up and said with a smile.

Yang Zhener, who was also in a daze, reacted immediately and said angrily: "Whose eyes are green, please speak up, it's a meeting!"

But Xiang Kun had said so, so naturally he couldn't continue the meeting. Anyway, Zhang Qian had basically conveyed what he had planned to say and what he wanted to convey. Since Xiang Kun has no objection, we can talk about the implementation and details later.

Zhang Qian took everyone to the restaurant that had been booked for dinner. On the way, Tang Baona couldn't help but get close to Xiang Kun and asked him in a low voice: "You didn't deliberately deceive Mr. Zhang just to eat quickly, did you?"

Xiang Kun laughed softly: "How is it possible? Am I that kind of person?"

Yang Zhener also came over and whispered: "To the chef, tell me honestly, does the secret organization behind you master any black technology? Is it like a wishing fountain, where you tell what you want and what you want? What can you create?

"Yes, but this is a secret. Remember not to tell it outside, not even to Mr. Zhang." Xiang Kun said seriously.

"Really or not?" Yang Zhener said, "I always feel that your tone is deceiving me... Chef Xiang, tell me honestly, is there a secret organization?" Xiang Kun "worked in seclusion" before At that time, she ran to take a peek, but found that Xiang Kun was really in the house and had not gone anywhere, which made her doubt her own theory that "there is a secret organization behind Xiang Kun who often performs secret missions."

Xiang Kun looked at her: "Yes. And Lao Xia, Little Apple, Little Bell, Jin Shining, and Egg Yolk Pie are all members."

"Okay, you are really fooling me." Yang Zhener rolled his eyes and said, "Is your organization called 'Chongyun Village Amusement Park'? If so, Nana and I are also the backbone, okay? "

Tang Baona couldn't help laughing and said: "Okay, Yang Laosan, are you now directly 'hypnotized' by Xiang Kun to become a member of the 'secret organization'?"

After successfully changing the topic, Xiang Kun thought about Zhang Qian's previous proposal.

He had been cautious and step-by-step before, but as Alice completely integrated into the "super-sensory object system" and the "branch" began to extend crazily, planting all over the Internet and filled with many electronic devices, after gaining absolute control over the digital world, Xiang Kun is ready to start applying Alice's abilities on a larger scale - because this not only means that his ability to obtain information is stronger than others, but his ability to hide and tamper with information is also very strong.

Especially after understanding the operation method of "Shenxing Technology", Xiang Kun also decided to establish a technology company with huge capital and technology, as a bargaining chip to communicate and cooperate with the government and "Shenxing Technology", and to increase his own It also shows its own ability - he is different from other "mutated creatures". What he can bring is not only his own research value.

But he doesn't have much energy to lead these, and he is not willing to go directly to the front desk, so letting Zhang Qian take the helm and cooperate with her is a better choice.

After lunch, Zhang Qian still reluctantly invited Xiang Kun and the three of them to the company in the afternoon, and continued to discuss and exchange her previous ideas about voice socialization, as well as the VR technology that Xiang Kun suddenly mentioned.

In the evening, after being treated to another meal by Zhang Qian, Xiang Kun, Tang Baona, and Yang Zhener ran to the commercial street to buy food and gifts for the little fat girl, and did not return to the hotel until around ten o'clock.

In the early morning, Xiang Kun left the hotel alone, but instead of going to Shouwang Building, he went to a factory.

After Xiang Kun climbed over the wall and entered, he directly found a warehouse and entered it without the sight of the scattered staff. As for the surveillance, it was under Alice's control, so he didn't have to worry.

Xiang Kun followed Alice's instructions and found a black box that looked like a safe. After opening it, he put thirty balls and a black circle graffiti inside.

At two o'clock in the morning, a truck will come and take some goods from the warehouse and the box to the third basement floor of Shou Wang Building.

The box was not originally included in the shipment, but Alice added it to the delivery list.

According to Alice's understanding, there are many groups of staff on the third underground floor, and they are responsible for different tasks. When goods, accessories, and equipment are shipped from outside, they will only look for what they need. If they don't need it, they won't. Go and touch it, because it may be something from another group, and the delivery and entry into the warehouse are strictly done through the electronic system.

That box is used by "Shenxing Technology" to store some special accessories. It has a wireless remote control module that can be controlled remotely. Alice can directly let it open a slit. When the time comes, Xiang Kun will have the "love object" graffiti in the black circle. "If it exists, you can directly enter the "super-sensory state" and guide the thirty balls to quietly enter the elevator shaft and drop them deeper underground to Mr. Liang's location. After reaching that depth, the "rabbit wood carving" as an "emotional object" can take over, and he can continue to control in the "super-sensory state".

This method is safer and easier than Xiang Kun's previous method of running to the second basement floor of Shouwang Building and then controlling it.

After the delivery is completed, Alice can change the list and have the box transported back to the factory warehouse, or she can have the box placed in the warehouse on the third floor underground.

At two o'clock in the morning, Xiang Kun returned to the hotel. When Alice told him that the truck had entered Shouwang Building with the goods and the boxes had been unloaded, he began to enter the "supersensory state."

According to the surveillance footage of the third underground floor sent back by Alice, Xiang Kun knew that the box was currently in the blind spot of the two staff who were still working, so he controlled the "super-connected object" to release it.

After completing the delivery, Xiang Kun emerged from the "super-sensory state", and the remaining work was Alice's.

Previously, there were not enough "super-sensory objects" in the underground space, so Alice's operation to steal the data from the storage device failed. This time, with so many "super-connected objects" added, it should have been successful.

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