Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 91 Accidentally showing off a fat face

"What games do you usually like to play? I don't mean the console, but the games on the PC."

Seeing Jamie acting like he was talking seriously, Chuck also thought about it seriously and then gave his answer.

"I love Half-Life."

Jamie was a little surprised.

He also thought Chuck would prefer RTS games such as "Warcraft" and "StarCraft" that focus more on strategy.

"Have you ever encountered such troubles when playing PC games? To buy games, you have to go to the store to buy an installation disk. If you want to play games, you have to carry the CD with you at all times. Moreover, the CD is easy to break, and you have to re-install it. purchase."

Chuck was about to answer, but Jamie spoke out for him first.

"Well, I have seen that you don't have any trouble in this regard at all, because you have a driver to help you run errands, and you usually buy many game disks at one time, and prepare at least two copies for each computer. If it breaks, Get a new one immediately.”

Chuck looked at Jamie with a matter-of-fact expression.

Isn't that how you play games?
Jamie held his forehead.

Poverty limits people's imagination, but so does having money.

The poor do not understand why the rich still have troubles, and the rich also cannot understand the troubles of the poor.

So he wasn't going to talk nonsense to Chuck.

"Tomorrow I'm going to Seattle to meet with a Harvard dropout who and his partners have founded a very promising software company."

Listening to this familiar entrepreneurial script, Chuck couldn't help but complain: "You don't think this guy is a fan of Bill Gates, right?"

Jamie took a sip of wine and put down the glass.

"I don't know if he admires Bill Gates, but he does know Bill Gates quite well. The reason he dropped out of Harvard was because Microsoft hired him with a high salary."

Chuck automatically added:
"And then he was fired by Bill Gates because of a conflict of ideas about developing a certain software? Just like Steve Jobs was pushed out of Apple?"

"No, he fired Bill Gates. He was doing well at Microsoft, and the only reason he resigned was because he didn't want to do it anymore."

Jamie looked at the stunned Chuck with a serious expression.

"By the way, the Half-Life game you like was developed by this guy."

After a brief moment of astonishment, Chuck immediately asked excitedly:
"Are you talking about Valve Software? Are they planning to sell their shares in the company, or are they short of funds to develop new games?"

Jamie asked back:
"So you want to come with me?"

Chuck replied without thinking:

"Of course, my dad's private jet should be free tomorrow, and we can fly directly -"

Wait a minute!
Chuck suddenly realized that Jamie invited him to accompany him. Could it be that the real purpose was to borrow the Gulfstream G300?
So what has he become?
An exclusive ticket for Jamie’s trip?
"You haven't answered the question I just asked!"

Seeing that Chuck was not fooled this time, Jamie could only shrug with regret.

"Half-Life has sold more than 1000 million units, and it also spawned Counter-Strike through MODs. Do you think they may be short of money?"

Chuck looked at Jamie with a puzzled expression and was about to speak.

As a result, Jamie answered first:

"Normally they are not short of money, but that is only for the company's normal game development projects."

“If there are two stupid rich second-generation people who come to them now and claim to be loyal fans of their games, because they can’t stand the cheating and serious delays of Battle.net, which is currently used in “Half-Life” and “CS”. I have a terrible online experience and want to invest in Valve and let them make their own Battle.net. Do you think they will be short of money?"

Only a fool would refuse if he could have his own battle network for free.

Now that the investment problem is solved, a more important question remains.

Two rich second generations invested money to support Wilfort in setting up his own battle network. What do they want?
Chuck pointed this out on the spot, but Jamie planned to leave the answer until tomorrow when he meets with the two founders of Valve.

Jamie ended up asking Chuck just one question.

To go or not to go!
The next day, a Gulfstream G300 landed on the runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

After getting off the plane, Jamie and Chuck got into a Maybach.

The car took them to a building that didn't look anything special from the outside.

Chuck glanced out from the dropped car window. This was far from what he imagined Villefort's headquarters would be.

Just when Chuck was about to ask Jamie if he was in the right place, Jamie had already opened the door and got out of the car and walked straight towards the entrance of the building.

Chuck didn't see any company logo until he reached the elevator door, which made him wonder again whether he was in the wrong place.

Jamie said nothing and directly pressed the button for the 7th floor after entering the elevator.

Ding!
The elevator door opened, and what came into view were two huge graffiti walls from floor to ceiling.

On the left is a fat bald man with a bright red valve on the back of his head, and on the right is a man with a bright red valve on his left eye.

These two scary pictures are the opening scenes of "Half-Life" and "Counter-Strike". Chuck was frightened once when he played the game for the first time.

As he walked out of the elevator, Chuck couldn't help but complain, "Are the people like Villefort mentally ill? Why do they insist on putting a valve in a person's brain?"

"Maybe they feel that people's thinking is bound by their heads, so they need a valve to open it."

Jamie replied casually.In his previous life, Valve was nicknamed Valve Company by game fans. The games of this company are indeed the kind of imaginative works.

Valve Company has no front desk, and you can enter their work area by bypassing the graffiti wall directly opposite the elevator.

It's not like a traditional workspace cubicle, where everyone has their own workspace. It's more like a large open Internet cafe.

Naturally, there will be no separate offices for bosses or senior executives.

More than 30 people in the entire company are sitting in front of computers, wearing headphones, and some of them are working, writing programs or developing models.

And some people are playing "CS" online.

Jamie and Chuck have been here for a long time, but no one has gotten up to greet them or ask them what they want to do.

Chuck was quite speechless about this, and turned to ask Jamie if he had made an appointment with anyone in advance.

Jamie's answer was to ask Chuck to find the power distribution room and try to pull out the switches on the entire floor.

Nonsense, of course he had made an appointment with the other party.

After searching the entire area, Jamie quickly found the target.

A fat man with a body as big as a hill.

He was wearing headphones and had a multi-magnification lens on the screen in front of him. As soon as the policeman opposite showed his head, he was shot in the head.

Jamie walked over, stood behind him and looked at him for a while, and found that his skills were average and not at the same level as the master who taught him blind sniping skills in the Internet cafe when Jamie was a primary school student in his previous life.

Followed by Jamie patting each other on the shoulder.

The fat man raised his head and looked at Jamie suspiciously.

Jamie directly took off the headphones on the fat man's head, put them on his own head, and then motioned the fat man to get up and move around, so that he would play the next game on his behalf.

The fat man had obviously recognized Jamie's identity, but Jamie's behavior still made him feel particularly curious.

Chuck also stepped forward to see what Jamie wanted to do.

At the beginning of a new game, Jamie used the mouse and keyboard skillfully to buy a Desert Eagle and an AWP.

What Villefort and his gang are playing is a shopping map. It's simple and crude, and they can do it when they meet.

Jamie used the Sand Eagle at the beginning. As soon as a policeman on the opposite side showed his head, he fired at the opponent. Then he switched back to the AWP immediately after shooting. He opened the magnification scope and aimed and fired. When the gun went off, he switched back to the Sand Eagle again.

The whole process was completed between two clicks of the mouse. Anyway, there was a dizzying operation of changing guns, opening the scope, and then changing guns on the screen. The policeman opposite had been killed by a sniper rifle.

Once can be said to be an accident.

But then Jamie used the same method to blindly snipe the two policemen on the opposite side, and successfully won the game while losing only one robber player.

After a new round started, the fat man standing aside adjusted his glasses and put his face directly in front of the screen.

This time he saw Jamie's operation completely clearly, and the result was even more shocking.

Jamie relied on this blind sniping skill to kill five people in a row, ending the battle neatly.

The three police players opposite took off their headphones and stood up from their seats.

They all suspected that Fatty was cheating, but they saw a strange young man sitting in front of Fatty's computer.

Before these people could ask questions, the fat man pressed his hand and motioned for them to sit back and continue the next game.

At the same time, Fatty called the two players on the robber's side, one of whom was Asian, to watch Jamie's operations.

In the third game, the opposing police player outflanked the opponent.

After Jamie blindly sniped three police players in one breath, he was finally killed by the two remaining players on the opposite side who attacked him from both sides.

This made the two robber players beside Fatty sigh in relief.

Fortunately it's not a BUG.

After the pretense was over, Jamie took off his headphones, stood up and handed his hand to the fat man next to the seat.

"Mr. Gabe Newell, now you won't doubt that I am a loyal Valve game fan, right?"

The fat man adjusted his glasses and looked again at the young man in front of him who had just shown off his skills.

"Mr. Jamie Dutton, I must say that your gaming skills really amazed us all."

As he spoke, he pointed to the two robber players beside him.

"They are the creators of the "CS" game module, Jesse Cliff and Li Ming. Today we are testing the stability of the latest version of "CS" together."

Jesse Cliff and Li Ming shook hands with Jamie in turn, and expressed admiration that Jamie had taught them a lesson today.

The real masters come from players. This sentence is not wrong at all.

Jamie accepted the compliments from the two of them calmly, and at the same time introduced Chuck beside him to the opposite side.

G Fat Gabe Newell and the two founders of "CS" shook hands with Chuck again. Although their attitudes were very polite, Chuck could clearly feel that the attitudes of the three of them were not as eager as when they shook hands with Jamie before. .

(End of this chapter)