Chapter 163 The game is released, and the little lady's big villa is available

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

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

   No, there was no press conference at all.

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

What Song Yuzhu saw was that the so-called public beta testing of games took place in this small workshop where most of the students were fresh graduates. Following the order of the young boss named Chen Ji, several programmers put together a multi-G game. After uploading, click a few buttons.

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

   A group of people started applauding.

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

   Then it's gone.

  There is a speechless protruding from the whole.

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

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

  In her opinion, President Zhou invested 10 million yuan to help the game be announced without saying a word. This money is completely wasted!

  What can you do with such a shabby product launch event?

   Ten million released something?

Nothing at all.

   Not even a single wave splashed.

  President Zhou also wasted a day here.

   Alas, I can only say that a woman who falls 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 be continuing to write the Dream of the Red Chamber.

  The three had a pleasant chat.

  The girl in ancient costume covered her mouth and smiled, with picturesque eyes, she said to Chen Ji: "My lord, so 'propaganda' means this. Do you need Shu Min to promote your game?"

   Invite beautiful women to promote?

  Song Yuzhu nodded secretly, it was a good idea.

   But she is still skeptical about the game "Zhao Guojianghu", and has never heard of it before.

   "You don't mind being in the public eye?"

  Chen Ji smiled at the little lady.

  Ancient women were quite taboo about such things, even in the world of martial arts.

  Xia Shumin was a little embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "If it was in Zhao Country, Shumin would definitely not dare to do this, but on Earth...Miss Wan'er, many women here do this, right?"

  While shopping in the brightly lit modern city last night, she saw many scantily clad women, and also saw many pictures of beautiful women with bare **** and legs hanging on the walls.

  When she saw that the people around her were used to it, she knew that this matter was normal on Earth.

   Zhou Wan smiled a little in her eyes, and said: "There are indeed many women doing the promotion. If you want to help, Ms. Xia, you can do it. Just take a few promotional photos."

   "Miss Xia, when you wear this dress, you really look very elegant. It is very suitable for use as a promotional picture."

   she added.

  Xia Shumin blushed slightly, and said softly: "Thank you, Miss Wan'er, for your compliment. Miss Wan'er, you are also beautiful, and your face is the only one Shumin has ever seen in his life."

  The two beauties boasted to each other.

  Chen Ji watched it pleasing to the eye.

   "Master?"

  Xia Shumin asked his opinion with his eyes.

   "A publicity thing? Okay."

  Chen Ji agreed.

  Promoting the game is secondary. He is very confident in the artificial intelligence created by Maien. It belongs to the unique gameplay in the world. It is only a matter of time before it becomes popular.

   More importantly, Xia Shumin has left more marks in this world, which seems to allow her to travel to the earth more easily.

   This time she was able to travel here, most likely because of the release of the electronic version of her continuation of Dream of the Red Chamber, Miss Ban Shu's fame spread, which gave Xia Shumin the "anchor point" to travel to the earth.

  Chen Ji guessed so.

   "Then... how to do it?"

  Xia Shumin became nervous.

   This is her first time working, and she is still taking game promotional photos on Earth, and she is helping the young master earn a lot of money, and will buy a big house that belongs to her and the young master in the future.

  Chen Ji thought for a while, and said, "It doesn't need to be too troublesome. I'll just take a few photos of Shu Min in the company and send them to the publicity and advertising company, so that they can change the promotional pictures to your photos."

  Xia Shumin has no comment.

  Young master said yes, so she would do it, and let him do whatever he wanted.

   Zhou Wan said: "You don't have a camera in your company, do you? I'll ask someone to bring one over. The photos taken by the camera will look better."

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

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

  Hongqin Capital does not have these people and equipment inside, but as the saying goes, everything can be done with money.

  Seven or eight minutes after the public beta started.

   "Brother Chen, someone is online!"

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

  1G multi-point game, download and install, almost someone has entered the game.

  The online data of the number of people is increasing little by little.

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

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

  The key is whether people can be retained.

Compared to Huang Hao and the rest who were startled, Chen Ji was very calm. He guided the little lady to play the game. Seeing that her white hand, which was usually used to hold a writing brush, was now holding the mouse and clicking awkwardly, controlling the game characters to walk, and interacting with NPCs. Dialogue, accept tasks to fight monsters, etc.

   "My lord, ah, it's really Yongkang County..."

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

  "Zhao Guojianghu" is about what happened in Yongkang County. The protagonist has several backgrounds:

  The wharf gang gangsters, the son of the rich family in Yongkang City, the hunter hunting in the mountains, the Xiafu family's day laborers, etc.

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

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

  What happened on Wednesday that my 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 herbs for a while, until the person who took the promotional photo came, she reluctantly turned off the game.

   Zhou Wan also tried playing 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 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 Spear King, Pirate Saint Liu Sangu, Chu Nantian, Li Changhao, major Jianghu sects, etc., all really exist in another world.

   "Chen Ji..."

  Zhou Wan looked at the young man, "I don't know how many secrets are hidden in him, and how many worlds have he seen?"

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

   "Miss Wan'er, what should I..."

  Xia Shumin hesitated, not daring to go up to take pictures alone, and turned to ask her with his eyes.

   "Let me help you."

   Zhou Wan chuckled, and walked to her side to give her advice on what shape and posture she should pose in order to better show her elegant and ladylike temperament.

  Chen Ji didn't participate, but watched the two beauties with concave shapes.

  The photos I took did not show off their heads or poses. They all showed Xia Shumin's reserved and gentle appearance, either sitting on the desk with a book in his hands, or covering half of his face with a round fan, or swaying the ink with a brush, writing beautifully.

  After the filming was over, the little lady in an ancient costume with a blushing face walked up to Chen Ji and asked him for his opinion.

   "It's very beautiful. As soon as my family Shumin appeared on the scene, the game Zhao Guojianghu really has a soul."

   "Hee hee~"

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

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

  Song Yuzhu couldn't understand more and more, why did President Zhou seem to have such a good relationship with Chen Ji's girlfriend?

   What she can't understand are games.

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

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

  One hour after the game's public beta test, the number of online users exceeded 50,000, and the number of people online has increased significantly.

   “Most game reviews are positive?”

  Song Yuzhu tried to search for game reviews, and found that most of them were five-star reviews, and a small number of negative reviews were also focused on the lack of guidance and the game being too large. There were not many negative reviews on the game content.

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

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

   "Brothers, I found one thing. Every time I enter the game, different tasks and dialogues will be generated. Most NPCs will be reset, and each dialogue will be different."

   "My God, what's the matter with the map of this game? There are tens of thousands of NPCs in it, and there are countless tasks, and there are many houses outside the city, and there are mountains in the distance?"

   "From my 15 minutes of observation, I found out that the scene in this game is done against the sky, and none of the NPCs on the road are repeated!"

  More and more players are amazed.

  Song Yuzhu probably understood:

This "Zhao Guojianghu" mobile phone and computer are dual-terminal interoperable, and uses a superb random algorithm. It uses the now popular AI to draw, and chats with the ChatGPT chat robot to simulate and generate a large number of game characters and events. You can experience different game tasks and dialogues.

  Every time a player enters the game, the NPCs and events in the game will change. The people are still the same, but they have already done their own things and acted according to their own personal settings.

   "This is a living arena!"

   "Free? No store?"

   "The AI ​​algorithm of this game is a bit powerful. Every game is different. Even every time you enter, the game will change with time."

   The word-of-mouth of the game quickly established itself among the player community, and began to spread in various chat groups.

  More and more players started to work, took screenshots to the group, and showed off that a beautiful ancient NPC was generated in the game.

  The number of online users continued to soar, and soon exceeded 100,000.

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

   "30 million to invest in Siwei Space-Time Company? Sorry, this game has invested 10 million when it was announced, 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 any chance to bargain.

  Chen Ji's reputation is not obvious now, and the company is also very small, so outside investment is to find her.

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

   Within an hour, as the number of online gamers climbed again, the calls continued to come in a steady stream.

  The investment amount changed from 30 million to 100 million, and the valuation of Chen Ji's company soared from 10 to 20 million to hundreds of millions.

  A game company has already offered a price of 100 million, accounting for 40% of the shares, and promised to give a lot of publicity resources and send a professional team to take charge of the follow-up research and development of this game.

  The conditions are rich enough.

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

"what is 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 thinks what Chen Ji means, and it doesn't look like he will make a big splash in the business field. It's better to sell the game to realize cash.

"not enough."

  Chen Ji shook his head, paused, and said: "My goal is to transfer the right to use AI in the game, and the company's valuation will start at tens of billions."

  You can’t make much money from selling games, Zhao Guojianghu is not polished enough, AI is the big head.

   "Ten billion valuation..."

  Song Yuzhu on the side heard it and didn't know what to say.

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

  Are you sure there will be someone who will give you a valuation of tens of billions and is willing to invest a lot of money?

  There are at most twenty game companies in China with a valuation of tens of billions.

  In foreign countries, there are dozens of game companies with a valuation of tens of billions of myths, but this obviously does not include the four-dimensional space-time technology.

   "Ten billion!"

  After Huang Hao heard it, his scalp went numb.

  Because he still retains 1% of the company's shares, wouldn't it be worth 100 million based on a valuation of 10 billion? !

   "Brother Chen is amazing."

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

   "It's difficult to estimate tens of billions, you need to wait, and you need your game to show a certain quality."

   Zhou Wan feels that it is difficult to achieve a valuation of tens of billions. This is not a decimal number. Many listed companies have valuations of less than one billion.

   But she obviously underestimated the power of the artificial intelligence created by Mayen.

Six pm.

  The game online exceeded 500,000, "Zhao Guo Jianghu" climbed to the top three free game download lists in major game stores, and the game discussion heat further increased.

  Basically all practitioners in the game industry have paid attention to this dark horse.

  Like game players, people in the game industry are also guessing, what exactly does this game rely on to make money?

  Without changing the content of the game and not selling stand-alone games, if you only rely on fashion to make money, then the game's ability to attract money will be 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 Guo Jianghu will enter the era of cultivating immortals, and "Zhao San's Love and Enmity Record" will be officially released, priced at 35 yuan.

  Friendly reminder, after purchasing this book, everyone remember to be prepared to die in the rivers and lakes. "

  Xia Shumin almost spit out rice, covering her small mouth and coughing.

   "Zhao San's Love and Enmity Record" was originally written by her to print for booksellers to make money, but the young master also wanted it to make money in the game.

   This book has indeed attracted the attention of Zhao Guozhong Yuan Wulin, and putting it in the game will also attract many players.

  There was some kind of wonderful interaction between her and the young master, between the two worlds.

   "Using game cheats to make money?"

   Zhou Wan didn't quite understand.

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

   "It means that if we don't buy the cheats of cultivating immortals, we can only practice martial arts step by step, right? It's really cruel. According to the settings in the game, it takes at least ten years for a character to level up to innate!"

   "Bought Zhao Sanhen is the version update? DLC?"

   "What do you mean by fleeing? I bought game cheats and have to run for my life?"

   "Hiss, I figured it out, people in the Jianghu also attach great importance to cultivating immortals?"

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

  In addition, online copying, large-scale events in the world, and more character backgrounds are also planned.

  The players felt relieved, and more people came to this game.

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

  He finally received a call from a heavyweight game company:

  From a vice president of the Penguin game department, Liu Ping.

   Zhou Wan was in charge of leading him and contacted President Liu.

  Chen Ji's goal is a big company. After all, there are only a few companies that can afford more than one billion yuan.

but.

  President Liu was taken aback when he heard that Chen Ji's quotation was valued at tens of billions.

   "Mr. Chen, are you serious?"

  With a valuation of tens of billions, if Penguin wants to take more than half of the shares, it must invest at least five billions, or four billions plus a large amount of equivalent resources.

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

Chen Ji smiled slightly: "I don't know how you evaluate my game internally, but I can say with certainty that in the next ten years, no company in the world will be able to come up with a game similar to "Zhao Guojianghu". Not a single game.”

"this…"

  President Liu Ping hesitated.

  Unique in the world.

   This is indeed a scarce investment, and the AI ​​of this game can also be applied to other games to generate a series of values.

   Not even just games.

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

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

Chen Ji refused, "I don't have that much time. I'm short of money right now, so I need to invest. If I can sell millions of copies of the game in seven days, then I'm not short of money, and I won't need your money by then." invest.

  If you want to talk to me, you must do so on the premise of valuing my company at tens of billions. "

   Liu Ping frowned. Chen Ji dared to wait seven days before selling it for money, which proved that he had confidence in his game, and that no one could hack his server and learn his AI away.

  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 probability of reaching 10 million copies.

   "I will reply to you within three days!"

   Liu Ping replied confidently: "There are not many companies in China that can invest billions of dollars, and our Penguin is the best choice. Don't worry, Mr. Chen, we will give you the most fair valuation!"

  Chen Ji smiled, "Looking forward."

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

  Who would talk about tens of billions of business like this?

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

  Chen Ji smiled and said: "It's not that I'm begging for investment. Besides, it's enough to have enough money. Now that the game has become famous, it's not a big problem to make money to buy a big house."

  He made a face towards the little lady.

  Xia Shumin pursed her lips and smiled. The son worked so hard to make money so that she could live in a big house in the future.

  Song Yuzhu was speechless.

  In the morning, she couldn't believe it even if she was beaten to death. This small company can actually be valued at one billion, and now it is even going for tens of billions.

   In other words, the man in front of me is definitely a billionaire?

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

   "It's not early tonight."

  Chen Ji said to Zhou Wan: "Shall I transfer you 10% of the shares? It was agreed before, in return for you to announce the funds to me."

  Before, the contract was only tentatively finalized and had not yet been signed, but Zhou Wan had already spent 10 million yuan for publicity.

  Zhou Wan took a deep look at him, and replied in a cold tone: "Just give me 1%."

  Chen Ji insisted on giving her more. After all, there is no 10 million announcements, and the game is very slow to become popular.

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

  Chen Ji reserved 3% shares for Xia Shumin. As the future proprietress, how can I do without shares?

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

   "Shares?"

  Xia Shumin was in a daze. She wasn't very familiar with shares. She only knew that the son gave her a gift, so she just accepted it.

   Anyway, her private money belongs to the son.

  …

  Nine o'clock in the evening, inside the mall.

   "Shu Min, do you want these cosmetics?"

  Zhou Wan took Xia Shumin to stroll in the shopping mall, while Chen Ji followed behind the two beauties carrying big and small bags.

  Knowing that Xia Shumin would return to her world later, Zhou Wan proposed to buy some things for her to take back.

  Of course Chen Ji will not refuse, the little lady rarely comes to the earth, so no matter what she wants to bring some gifts back.

  Thus, the three of them took Zhou Wan's luxury car and went to the mall to do some shopping.

   "Thank you, Sister Wan."

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

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

   "Wait a few days, I will take you to the doomsday world?"

  Chen Ji said to her.

  Zhou Wan nodded, hesitated for a while, and asked him: "Is it cold in the doomsday world? I need to prepare some winter clothes. In addition, your company will be very busy these days. We will go when we are done."

  Chen Ji has no objection, so the matter is settled.

  …

"Miss!"

  Xia Shumin returned home with a bunch of gifts from the earth. As soon as she appeared in her study, two maids surrounded her screaming.

   "Miss, you are finally back~~"

   "Miss Wow brought back gifts from the fairy world? Are these fairy fruits?"

   "How is it possible, the son also brought a lot of things earlier~"

  Back to her home, Xia Shumin's tone became much lighter. She stuffed the things in her hands to the two maids, clapped her hands, and acted like I was tired from shopping.

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

  Lu Zhu hurried to tell the master and wife.

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

  Unfortunately, it was already late at night. After the two of them probably listened to what Xia Shumin said about the earth, they let her rest well and talk about it another day.

  The master and wife left, but the two servant girls stayed with the young lady, pestering her to continue listening to the affairs of the earth.

  Xia Shumin was served by green bamboo and green bamboo. After taking off the skirt she had worn for two days, her slender body comfortably soaked in the wooden barrel to take a bath. She raised her smooth jade hands to count, and her ruddy face was full of pride:

   "Let me tell you, there are actually a lot of people on the fairyland earth. They set up wires beside the road, and the road is wide and straight."

   "Huh? Electricity, wire? What is it?"

   "The wire is a very long hemp rope, with the power of thunder flowing... This is not my nonsense, it is what the young master said, those lightning can kill people at once~"

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

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

  At night, the master and servant were lying on the bed.

The twin maids hugged their young lady's arms, listening to her talk about the fairy world and earth with sparkling eyes, and exclaimed 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 they ordered them to sleep, and they were not allowed to talk!

  Xia Shumin, who was wearing thin pajamas, lay on the bed too excited to fall asleep.

  As soon as she closed her eyes, her mind was filled with scenes of being on earth with the young master. Those miraculous things opened her eyes, and she couldn't think of such miraculous things based on her own imagination.

   What made her feel even more warm was that the young master 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, if you want to live in Zhao country, you can go back to Zhao country.

  Young master is so kind...

   "Miss, are you still asleep?" Cuizhu asked in a low voice.

"Um."

   "Hee hee, miss will marry uncle in the future, can we also go to earth?"

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

"think!"

  The three master and servant got their heads under the quilt, and chatted quietly again.

  Xia Shumin was no longer shy about the words "marry my uncle", but accepted it naturally, acquiescing to it in her heart.

   Waiting for Chen Ji's three letters and six rituals to marry her.

  (end of this chapter)