Conan: Developing business in Kexue World

Chapter 12 Cultivate the "future" interest in playing games

time flies.

Since Shinichi solved the murder case independently, this guy seems to have broken the seal.

He appeared at the scene of the murder every three days, and each time he used his own reasoning to help the police find the culprit. The police in the first investigation class also gradually became familiar with this high school student detective.

As the number of cracked cases increased, the title given to Kudo Shinichi in newspapers became more and more exaggerated.Some tabloids have begun to call Shinichi "the savior of the neon police".

In terms of friendship, Kenta, Shinichi, Xiaolan, and Sonoko have become acquainted since staying in the Xin family for one night, to the point where they call each other by their first names.

On the other hand, the results achieved in business are even more gratifying.

After nearly a month of self-study, "Future" has overcome the video push algorithm, and the online video service has been launched ahead of schedule.

Website promotion is also proceeding steadily.These days, Kenta can see Niconico’s advertisements on TV and newspapers, and students in Tedan High School can also see their discussions.

Next, Kenta began to prepare for the company's financing.

In fact, the company has disclosed financing news to the outside world, and has also received offers from two venture capital firms.But Kenta was not in a hurry to get in touch, and just waited for the website users to break through 1000 million, when the time came, it was up for grabs, and the financing plan was officially launched.

Kenta plans to complete the divestiture of the company's online video department before financing.The artificial intelligence department was merged into the group headquarter "Future Group Company", which is the foundation of Kenta's life, and the company will never be listed.

Future Group will grow various branches on the big tree of artificial intelligence.

First of all, the first established subsidiary is Future Technology Video Co., Ltd., which is responsible for operating the video website Niconico. After the company's first round of financing is completed, the president will be replaced by Yoshida Kenta's uncle Yoshihiko Tahara.

Now Kenta receives future reports every day.Last night, the number of users of the website reached the 990 million mark.

Kenta ordered the future to display the real-time number of users on the Niconico homepage, so that users can take screenshots when the number exceeds 1000 million, and take this event as an event that all platforms can participate in to commemorate this historic moment.

the next day.

Kenta asked for leave and came to the company.

If you don't come in January, the company is obviously crowded.

When he came to the office, Yoshida called his secretary Mizutani Sakura.

Sakurami Mizutani, 23 years old, a graduate of secretarial studies at the Faculty of Economics and Management of Mihua University.

I don’t know why I applied for Future Technology, which was just starting up at that time, and I have been serving as Kenta’s secretary, connecting between Kenta and the company.Generally, Kenta does not come to the company, and she will convey something.

"Go ask the head of the management department."

The secretary nodded, closed the door and went out.

After a while, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in, sit down. Report on the financing progress."

Yoshihiko Tahara sat down opposite Kenta and began to report on the progress.

"At 1:24 this morning, the number of users on the Niconico website officially exceeded 10. After going to work in the morning, the company added three top venture capitals, the first one, Suzuki Venture Capital, a subsidiary of the Suzuki Consortium; the second one, the Ooka family Its subsidiary Ooka Capital; the third, Karasuma Group CROW Capital. In addition to SoftBank and Sequoia Capital, which made the earliest bids, a total of five companies initiated research offers.”

"Okay, let's start it officially. The situation of Internet companies is changing rapidly. Try to reach an investment agreement within 2 months. This round of financing will be fully implemented by you, with a minimum financing of 2000 million US dollars. After this financing is completed, you will Take over as the president." Kenta ordered.

Afterwards, the two communicated on the details.

At the end of the meeting, Tian Yuan went out to make a financing plan, while Kenta came upstairs to the Future Group Company.

The artificial intelligence department, which was spun off a few days ago, just moved up.

Recently, feeling the backwardness of information exchange and still using e-mail to communicate, Kenta let the future start the research and development of a social tool similar to WeChat, named Line.

The research and development of Line is going well, and the future will be unrivaled in the software field (Noah is not a human being).

The development version is very complete. Kenta's family has been trying it out for the past few days, and the text and pictures can be used normally.

Xinyi and Yuanzi are also using it, and Xiaolan is still using the flip machine, which cannot be used.

Now the voice chat function is being developed in the future, and it will be officially launched when the voice function is developed.In the later stage, Line will also be separated from the group head office and set up a dedicated subsidiary to operate.

At the same time, what was promised to Noah is also advancing-to truly let artificial intelligence change human society.

In the future, a technical forum was created and a series of low-level artificial intelligence algorithms were open sourced.

In the future, the intelligent chat robot ChatFutura will also be developed simultaneously. ChatF will be displayed in this forum as a gimmick, leading countries around the world to invest in the research and development of artificial intelligence.

This will not harm Kenta's interests, and only artificial mental retardation can be made according to open source technology.Of course, Kenta Yoshida did not play a trick. After the artificial mental retardation evolves step by step, it will definitely reach the level of being born in the future.However, Kenta cannot guarantee whether it can become a real electronic life.

The birth of Noah has its own chance.Based on the future of Noah's cloning, there is no possibility of cloning himself.He has reason to doubt the possibility of artificial mentally retarded beings developed based on future open source technology as electronic life.

However, after human beings learn these technologies and form their own things, they may produce electronic life that is different from Noah and the future, and the result is still unknown...

However, Kenta has always been invincible. On the one hand, he has an electronic life "future", and the development based on future technology will enrich the "future" technology system; on the other hand, even if other electronic life forms appear, it is unknown how long it will be Later, and then the "future" will be stronger.

"In the future, has Noah contacted you recently?"

"No."

As always, cherish words like gold.Have you been dealing with programs all day long and become wooden?

"Do you have any hobbies?"

"..."

"How about playing games? I have a script here, "Sword Art Online", how about you make it, then seal your own memory, and experience an adventure with swords and swords?" After all, it is a life, and being silent every day is not conducive to growth , Kenta intends to cultivate his interest.

"..." The future still didn't respond, it seemed that there was something moving.

"OK. I'll ask Sonoko to see how the development of 'Cocoon' is going. I don't know if the technology of the game cabin can be authorized."

"..."

Oh, if you don't stop it, then you agree. It seems that this proposal is very interesting in the future.
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The next day.

After school, Kenta invites Xiaolan and Yuanzi to visit the Future Group Company, and Shinichi will forget it.

It’s not true to call it a group company now, but that’s what it says—the future can be expected.

Now the company is divided into two parts, one part is developing Line and the other part is developing ChatF.

"This part is the Line development zone. Yuanzi, if you have any suggestions, you can give them. In the follow-up update, the functions you want will be added. Xiaolan, do you want to experience it? There is also a voice function. Take the opportunity to let Xinyi buy it for you Smartphone." Kenta took Xiaolan and Yuanzi to visit Future Company.

Yuanzi also teased: "Xinyi's woman, hurry up and replace the flip phone. From now on, I can hear Xinyi's voice every day, isn't it great?"

"Yuanzi~, what a new woman, don't talk crazy." Xiaolan waved her hands shyly.

"You guys try it here first, there is also a chat robot ChatF over there, and I heard that there is also a love fortune divination function. After the experience, come to the office and discuss things."

Yuanzi heard that there was love divination, his eyes lit up, and he urged: "Go quickly, we will come over after the experience."

Kenta shook his head, he was really in love.

Kenta has not taken the initiative to attack recently, because he has no experience in talking about girlfriends in his previous life, so he doesn't know how to proceed.

In other words, how can you chase after a girl like Sonoko!

Kenta came to the office, and his desk was equipped with the most advanced personal computer at this time.The display screen is the 4K screen of ONY’s family. ONY is a bit like Sony in the previous life, but it is not considered the top family in the world of Conan.

The top families are the Suzuki Consortium, the Ooka family of Ooka Hongye, and the Karasuma Group of the Black Organization.

At this time, dazzling modeling is going on on the display screen. This is the Boss room on the first floor, and the one who is modeling is the Kobold Lord.I saw a red-skinned dog-headed monster with a fat belly standing upright, holding a machete more than ten meters in his hand, which was terrifying.If this monster appeared in reality, it would scare people to the ground just by standing there.

Seeing a large area on the map in the upper left corner of the screen, Kenta clicked it with the mouse. There are quiet villages, dense jungles, clear lakes, and a bustling city. This is the main city, a Western fantasy color metropolis.

"Future, is this the result of one night? It seems that you are really excited." Kenta said with emotion, electronic life is really unique in the virtual world. "Have you devised some cute racial images?"

After hearing this in the future, he called out the elf girl, and saw a beautiful girl on the screen, with pointed ears, long green hair, wearing tulle, holding a bow and arrow, it is really a beautiful picture Portrait of a forest leprechaun.

"With these, I am more confident to get Yuanzi interested and involved. Good Job!"

dong dong~
"Come in, Yuanzi, Xiaolan, sit on the sofa over there. Do you want coffee or water?"

In addition to the boss's desk and chairs, Kenta's office also has a small reception area. He pointed to the sofa in the reception area for the two of them to sit.

"Water, it's fine, I'm sorry." Xiaolan said.

"Coffee." Sonoko said.

Kenta pressed the phone on the table: "Bring me a glass of water and a cup of coffee."

Then go to the sofa.

After a while, the secretary came in with a tray.

After the secretary went out, Kenta asked, "How was your experience today?"

"Love divination is very accurate, for Xiaolan. But, why do you say that my love fortune is by my side? There is no such thing at all!" Yuanzi's expression turned ugly.

"Well, Yuanzi, you have to be good at discovering the beauty around you." Xiaolan was in a good mood, with a cheerful tone.

"Damn it." Yuanzi took out his mobile phone, found out the photo of Xiaolan's love divination that he took just now, and read it aloud in a strange manner. "If you want to catch the heart of him who is smart, you just need to maintain your original appearance, because even if you deliberately decorate cute, you will be seen through immediately, so you must pay special attention. And you must stick to your usual innocence and believe in yourself. If you move forward bravely with your heart, your thoughts will definitely reach that person’s heart.”

"Yuanzi, don't read it, it's too shy." Xiaolan's voice became louder at the embarrassment of Yuanzi's strange voice, and she quickly picked up the water to cover herself.

"Hehe, it seems to be very helpful to you, that's good." Kenta said beside him.

After chatting for a while, Kenta got down to business.

"Actually, today I invite you to participate in a game development. I don't know if you are interested? Don't rush to refuse. Let's watch this first, and show the slideshow in the future." With Kenta's voice, the curtains of the room It will automatically close, the curtain will be lowered, and the projector will be turned on in the future to play yesterday's results.

Accompanied by the slideshow and the melodious BGM, a beautiful fantasy world was displayed in front of the three of them.

The beautiful pastoral time, the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, and the vast and endless forest.

The heroic elf guard, the orderly and majestic human army, and the evil monster alliance.

There is also the final appearance of the tyrannical and fierce kobold lord.

After the play ends, the curtains are opened in the future, and sunlight penetrates into the room.

"How about it? This is a world of knives and swords, an adventure story about boys and girls teaming up, do you want to participate?" Kenta is very confident, after all, he was also a PPT entrepreneur.

"Yes, to participate." Yuanzi raised his hand and agreed happily.

"But we don't understand anything." Xiaolan was also a little moved, but worried that she didn't know anything.

"It's okay, the technology is handed over to the programmers. You just need to be responsible for the whimsical ideas." Kenta comforted with a smile, and then changed the topic to today's topic, "Sonoko, do you know the game 'Cocoon'?"

"'Cocoon'? I seem to have heard of it." Yuanzi was thinking. "Oh, the game that invited the famous mystery novelist Yusaku Kudo to complete the script, I heard that it claims to use the latest virtual reality technology. This is a virtual somatosensory game that can control the five senses and experience activities like reality. It seems to have accepted investment from my family .”

"Yes, our "Sword Art Online" game will also use this technology to allow people to truly dive into the virtual world and experience the legendary adventures of swords and swords." Kenta asked: "Can this technology be licensed?"

"I don't know, I'll ask Dad." Yuanzi picked up the phone and went to the side to ask.

Xiaolan chats with Kenta.

"Kenta-kun, why didn't you invite Shinichi today?" Xiaolan asked.

Kenta broke out in a cold sweat, thinking about how to answer, after a period of observation recently, he found that Kudo Shinichi was really a bit evil.

Although he used to be a firm materialist, he is now a little flustered, and one must always be in awe of some mysterious things.

"Xinyi has something to do. I think he helps the police investigate murders every day. The newspapers say that he is the savior of the neon police. Don't bother him. I feel that he is not interested in this aspect."

"What savior?" Xiaolan covered her mouth and smiled lightly.

Yuanzi came back and made a yes sign. "It's done. It seems that something went wrong with Syndora, the parent company that developed 'Cocoon'. It has been seeking financial support. The Suzuki consortium has received capital injection on the condition that they share the neural access technology."

"Almighty Mr. Sonoko, please be respected by the villain." Kenta made exaggerated movements.

"Oh hahaha~" Yuanzi put his hips on his hips, looked up to the sky and smiled.

(End of this chapter)