As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 185 Idle Chess
Before Chen Ran could react, a text box in TXT format appeared on the screen of his mobile phone.

"Hi, I'm Merlin, Mage Merlin."

Chen Ran was so surprised that his brain stopped functioning. As the most popular character in Blue Star, Merlin never thought that he could interact with such a character.

The live performance in Stockholm at the end of last year has become the most played video in Youtube history in just three months.

The combined playback volume of all kinds of edited videos alone exceeds [-] billion, excluding the popular interpretation videos.

In Chen Ran's cognition, Mei Lin is a high-ranking figure, and he is busy every day with how to stir up a bloody storm in the dark.

Although he is a well-known game producer, his social status is only that of a senior worker.

Like the middle-level employees of large factories, it is true that their income is high, but their social status and income do not match.

Chen Ran knew that this was unlikely to be a hacker intrusion, and he had never heard of such an intrusion method in the IOS system.

Chen Ran took a deep breath, knowing that no matter what Meilin's purpose was, the most important thing for him now was to calm down: "Calm down, calm down."

"Mr. Merlin, hello, what can I do for you?"

Chen Ran tried to type, and found a white area like a text box, he could also type in text.

Since Meilin only said a word on the phone, and there was no face-to-face pressure, Chen Ran quickly regained his basic composure.

"I need to make a game, and I will give you some technical support and financial support. All you need to do is to make the game according to my needs."

Chen Ran had countless questions in his heart, shouldn't Merlin be a foreigner?Why did you find yourself?

We must know that there are many foreign game producers who are better than him in terms of popularity and ability.

On the contrary, he didn't find it strange that Merlin was fluent in Chinese.

Judging from Merlin's public thesis on magic.com, coupled with the cognition of mages in film and television works, it is quite normal for mages to learn multiple languages.

"Why choose me?"

"There is no reason, if your work satisfies me, I will give you extra rewards.

The basic reward is that the company and the work, as well as the subsequent income, are all yours. "

Chen Ran was moved, or in other words, when Merlin made the request, he already wanted to agree directly.

The opportunity to work for Blue Star's only magician is not available to everyone.

Not to mention Merlin's so-called extra rewards.If it was a magic coin, Chen Ran fantasized about himself killing all directions with a magic wand.

"I would like to cooperate with you, I want to know."

Before Chen Ran could type the rest of the words on the screen of the phone, a little light appeared in front of his eyes.

Although it was a very faint light, it attracted all his eyes.

After the dim light went out, a flying insect about the size of a mosquito appeared in front of his eyes, and then approached him with lightning speed.

Chen Ran felt as if his neck had been bitten, and a sentence sounded in his mind: "The cooperation has been achieved!"

Four words popped up in Chen Ran's mind: "Space Teleportation"

He was very excited in his heart, and transmitted the classic skills belonging to the legal system.

Chen Ran tried to touch his neck with his hands, but found that there was no trace of bugs at all.

"*****"

"The above is the wallet address of BTC, and there are [-] BTC in it as your start-up capital."

"Remember not to reveal my existence, if you do, you will bear the consequences."

"60"

"59"

A countdown appeared in the text box, and Chen Ran realized that the text box would be closed after the countdown ended.

He quickly copied the BTC wallet address.

Chen Ran still heard about Merlin's curse.

Coupled with the bug that just appeared out of thin air, and the voice in his mind, Chen Ran dared not tell anyone about Merlin's existence.

Globally, cryptocurrencies have been affected by many factors and have been rising since mid-2023.

The emergence of Merlin and magic coin fueled the enthusiasm of the cryptocurrency market.

Even the mage's economic system uses decentralized cryptocurrency as the basic carrier.

The brain hole of magic coin amazed the currency circle.

It's a pity that we don't have this level, and we can come up with theories similar to Heber constant and Heber algorithm.

Compared with the Heber algorithm that calculates the cosmic coordinate system, the hash algorithm falls behind.

As for some people outside, magic coin is not a decentralized currency at all, it has Merlin as the center that cannot be bypassed.

In this regard, the currency circle investment leader said:

"We can look at magic coin from this angle. If the cosmic coordinate system you calculated satisfies Heber's algorithm, can Merlin deny your cosmic coordinate system?"

"In other words, Merlin is just an authenticating party, and there is no centralization in the system of Heber Algorithm and Cosmic Coordinate System."

"Merlin is giving you a stamp to authenticate your magic coin with him."

"This is the same as the London gold market does not recognize the gold qualifications produced by Russian gold smelters, but although the London gold market does not recognize it, can you say it is not gold?"

"For another example, Merlin disappeared, and everyone on magic.com can't log in. But the magic coin system can still work in Blue Star?"

"I'm sure all countries will launch a blockchain system based on the magic coin mining mechanism."

"So magic coin is obviously a decentralized cryptocurrency, and this set of algorithms is very advanced."

After the magic coin went out of the circle, the price of BTC has been rising all the way, and almost all cryptocurrencies are rising.

After the Stockholm Concert Hall incident, Merlin launched a multilateral currency trading system in the magic forum.

This system is a trading system based on the underlying technology of blockchain.

Facing the gradual disappearance of the swift alliance, there is no way to fight back.

American's financial nuclear weapons were directly demolished.

The camera turned to Chen Ran. As a novice player in the capital market, he still had a certain understanding of the value of BTC.

After all, the news reports every day that the price of BTC has broken through new highs.

In addition to being in a major Internet company, there are many colleagues who play virtual currency around him, so Chen Ran also downloaded a certain software to watch the real-time market price of cryptocurrency.

Three hundred BTC, the current market value is equivalent to about 2 million RMB.

At a cost of 2 million RMB, it's a bit awkward to make a 3A masterpiece, but it can still be achieved by reducing the requirements for the picture.

If you do online games, the cost is a bit high.

Chen Ran was thinking about the cost in his heart, and he didn't know what Merlin's request was for two hundred million.

In addition, a message popped up in the QQ mailbox on his mobile phone.

An email address is[email protected]The e-mail was sent to his mobile phone, which contained a compressed file of several hundred megabytes.

When Chen Ran looked at the email address, he knew it was from Mei Lin.

He hurried to the study, turned on the Mac, downloaded and decompressed the attachments in the mailbox on the Mac.

After he downloaded it, the email disappeared without a trace.

In the compressed file is a detailed story document and a requirements document, as well as a lot of weird plant pictures.

All angles of the same plant are clearly visible.

Merlin's requirements are clearly written in the requirements document, the background story given by him needs to be adopted, and these plants in the game must become the background of the game.

At the same time, Merlin also gave a game engine online address in the document.

It is claimed that the use of this cloud engine can greatly speed up their work efficiency and work intensity.

Merlin asked them to allow players to fully immerse themselves in the game world and to attract real hardcore players.

Zheng Li hopes to use this to create a game with a complete world view and form a subculture.

To allow players to study the background story of this series of games, it is best to form a large number of sophisticated parties.

Maybe traces of magic plants can be found in the future.

Spending two or three hundred million yuan is nothing to him.

In addition, the cloud game engine provided is equivalent to lending part of the computing power of the biological cloud to Chen Ran.

As for why Chen Ran was chosen, because Zheng Li only knew him as a player.

The background of the incident was as simple as that. When Li Miaomiao reported the incident to Zheng Li, Zheng Li was impressed by the plan of Chen Ran and his group.

So after the initial formation of Clark Island, Zheng Li directly approached Chen Ran.

As for worrying about Chen Ran exposing his existence, the effect of the injection that Chongzi gave Chen Ran was to prevent him from ever being able to say the word Merlin.

Chen Ran still doesn't know that when his friends talk about Merlin in the future, he will find that he can't say the word Merlin at all.

It's as if when you reach your mouth, your brain will subconsciously tell you not to speak.

After that, Chen Ran's awe of Mei Lin deepened.

For Zheng Li, this is just a leisurely move after work.

As for now, Chen Ran needs to speed up the progress, change BTC to RMB, and then form a team to start working.

Merlin only gave him one year.

Due to Merlin's high requirements for immersion and the trend of brain-computer connection VR, Chen Ran plans to make a fantasy RPG based on brain-computer connection VR.

Where are the most talented developers of VR games?Of course it is a goose factory.

"I'm going to quit my job and develop my own game. Do you want to come with me?"

Early the next morning, Chen Ran approached Chen Chi and confessed all his thoughts:
"Before our project was not selected, I have always been very unwilling. Only recently have I made up my mind to make games by myself. Do you want to come with me?"

"It's more than 30, if you don't go out, you won't have a chance."

The main planner of the game is different from the programmer. The time when this position will be laid off depends on the time when you can't keep up with the times.

Some were laid off when they were in their 20s, and some worked until they were 40.

There are people who work abroad until they retire.

After hearing this, Chen Chi looked at him in surprise: "How can such a rational person like you suddenly be so impulsive?"

"Did you get a venture capitalist?"

"Funds, projects, if these are confirmed, I am willing to go out with you."

"But most of the people in our previous team might not go out with you."

Chen Ran nodded: "So I plan to find people from other project teams."

The reason why I won't go is because the monthly performance of "The Last of Heroes" is amazing.

At that time, most of Chen Ran's team joined Photon Studio to work on the project "The End of Heroes".

The astonishing monthly turnover of "The Last of Heroes" means that they will have an unexpected year-end bonus.

At that time, "Onmyoji" industry rumors issued a year-end bonus of 100 months' salary. The exact amount is not clear, but this amount is almost the same as the actual amount.

The year-end bonus of the "Heroes Doom" project team will not be much less.

There is still hope for the one-tenth suite in Pengcheng.

Chen Ran is clear about this: "I got [-] million in the first round of investment, and we have [-]% of the shares."

"I will give all the [-]% of the shares to everyone, and I don't want any of them."

"The salary is paid according to the average level in the industry."

"We need to find the main program and main beauty first, and build the team framework first."

Chen Chi is the system planner, and Chen Ran is the main planner, so there is no need to worry about the game planner.

"You can also pay attention to powerful battle planning and numerical planning, and try to find people inside the goose factory."

"I'll resign first to recruit staff for company procedures and daily affairs."

The basic finance and personnel of the enterprise are needed. When there are few employees in the early stage, the finance and personnel can be one person.

Chen Chi felt ashamed after hearing this, because he had been looking for someone to invest, let alone 5000 million, and no one was willing to invest [-] million to test the waters for him.

Especially in the past two years, there are very few angel investors who are willing to invest in the game industry.

"Black Myth Wukong" repeatedly skipped tickets because it couldn't get investment.

The version number is difficult to get, which leads to the game industry going directly into winter.

"You gave us all the shares, so what do you do?"

"Two hundred million is enough if we only make one game."

Chen Ran shook his head: "You don't have to worry about me, the investor asked us to release the game within a year."

"And there are certain requirements for sales and word of mouth. I signed a VAM contract with the investor. As long as the VAM conditions are met, he will give me an additional 15.00% of the shares."

After hearing this, Chen Chi felt relieved for his friend, since starting a business is a narrow escape.

If the game doesn't get made or isn't successful, the stake is meaningless.

Ten percent of the shares, the employees of a start-up game company must be enough.

Chen Chi said: "The investor gave a budget of [-] million yuan and a year's time."

"That is to say, we have to burn [-] million in one year, leaving a little follow-up publicity and labor costs."

"We maintained a team of 50 people in the early stage, and then gradually added people later, and finally formed a scale of 300 people."

The production scale of a 3A masterpiece also depends on which game it is. There are development teams with thousands of people, and there are also development teams with two to 300 people.

"Ten percent of the shares are distributed to the entire team, and I am sure to find a few good players to come over."

"We must know that there are still many people in Goose Factory who really want to make games well."

"What we need to do is get the team together and get to work!"

(End of this chapter)