game trailblazer

Chapter 128 Encounter

After completing the acquisition of Blizzard, Zhang Lexing kept his promise and did not interfere with its daily operations. The only change was that the game distribution was changed from Interplay to Activision. Other than that, it was the same as before. After the promised $500 million in development funds was transferred to Blizzard's account as scheduled, Alan Adhan's hanging heart finally let go.

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Time soon came to January 1994. The PS-X project jointly developed by Sony and KF-Panda (in name) finally produced results. The first batch of PS-X development machines and corresponding development materials were released shortly after the new year. When it came to KF-Panda, for this reason KF-Panda also set up a development studio called NewMillennium (NMM, New Century), which was specially responsible for developing games for PS-X.After years of development, KF-Panda’s development strength has become very strong, and there is no need for Zhang Le to be involved in game development. Panda picked up five sets of PS-X development machines, packaged them together with supporting development materials and sent them to Shanghai, intending to let the developers of Tianzhiyuan get familiar with them in advance, and wait a few years to catch up with the market maturity.

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In March, all the things that should be done have been done, and the annual conference and operating system seminar of the VisualSystem Group have also been successfully concluded. It is time for Zhang Lexing to leave the United States.

On March 3, San Francisco International Airport Terminal 12...

After Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin hugged, they took two steps back and said, "Sister Xin, I'm leaving, see you at the end of the year!"

"Brother, it's a good journey, remember to call my sister when you arrive." Yang Xinxin turned to look at the clock in the terminal building, then took two steps forward, patted Zhang Lexing on the shoulder and said: "Okay, Go to the security check, time is running out."

Zhang Lexing nodded, came to Mai Jiajun next to him, and said to him: "After I leave, I have to take good care of Sister Xin, otherwise, be careful and I will let Brother Guanghai take care of you."

"Don't worry, I will do my best, and there will be no problems." Mai Jiajun glanced at Ma Guanghai, his right wrist seemed to be hurting again, and he shrank back involuntarily.

Zhang Lexing turned around and waved to Yang Xinxin, then dragged his luggage and went to the security check with Ma Guanghai (this time the passport was obtained, so he came with him).After successfully passing through the security check, Zhang Lexing turned around and looked back. Yang Xinxin was still standing in the same place and looking towards this side, while Mai Jiajun slowly moved to her side, holding her shoulders as if to comfort her.

Because of the staff's mistake, she didn't book a first-class ticket this time, so she had to change to a business-class ticket, which made Yang Xinxin almost fire that unlucky guy.Fortunately, when he came to the terminal, Zhang Lexing felt that it was similar to the first-class terminal he had stayed in before, with the same free meals and comfortable soft chairs.Zhang Lexing ordered two plates of snacks, while eating, he read the book he brought with him to pass the time - Stephen King's "The End Is Near".

"The Last Days" tells the story of a kind of influenza virus quietly spreading in the world, and terror enveloped the people living in happiness. Most of the world's population died inexplicably. When rebuilding civilization, the devil extended his clutches to the survivors of the Americas... The virus attack, the piles of corpses on the road, the corpses of relatives who fell under their feet, the government's lies and suppression, the people's doubts and confrontations, The struggle of the survivors, the threat of the devil...

Not counting the devil part, every time Zhang Lexing reads this book, he can't help but think of "Resident Evil". Of course, there is still a big difference between the two. The virus epidemic in "The Last Day" caused most people to die However, the result of the virus epidemic in "Resident Evil" has created a large number of living dead.

After watching for about 20 minutes, the airport broadcast sounded: "Flight CA8889 from San Francisco to BJ has started boarding..."

It seemed that it was time to board the plane. Zhang Lexing closed the book in his hand and stuffed it into the suitcase, then took the boarding pass and ticket, called Ma Guanghai, and walked to the boarding gate.Passing through the special passage for passengers, Zhang Lexing and Ma Guanghai came to the plane. The two stewardesses in blue suits bowed slightly and said with a smile, "Hello! Welcome aboard!"

According to the number on the boarding pass, Zhang Lexing came to his seat and sat down.Although the seats in the business class are not as independent as those in the first class, they are spacious and comfortable to sit on. Even if you want to sleep, you only need to put the back of the seat down.

Zhang Lexing sat in the middle of the business class, with the aisle on the right and an empty seat on the left.When putting the suitcase into the overhead luggage rack of the plane, Zhang Lexing took out the book "The Last Days Are Near" again, planning to use it to kill time after the plane took off.After putting the book into the magazine holder on the back of the seat in front, some people boarded the plane one after another, and the business class gradually filled up, but the seat next to Zhang Lexing was still empty.

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Three minutes before the plane took off, the sweet voice of the stewardess sounded on the in-flight radio: "Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Air China flight CA3. The plane is about to take off. Passengers, please put away the small partitions in front and fasten your safety nets." bring……"

Zhang Lexing leaned back, fastened his seat belt, and looked forward.At this time, the curtain near the plane's boarding gate was opened a little, and a beautiful woman with slightly fluffy wavy hair came in dragging a suitcase.The beautiful woman looks about 24 or [-] years old, full of youthful vitality. She is wearing a white lapel shirt, covered with a goose yellow trimmed sweater, and her lower body is a water red tight-fitting miniskirt. An expression of relief.

Zhang Lexing suddenly felt that the whole time and space seemed to stop at this moment, everything around him seemed to disappear like light smoke, and it seemed that only this woman was left in the whole world in front of him, a strange feeling surged in Zhang Lexing's heart .

Shaking his head slightly, Zhang Lexing came to his senses and noticed that the beautiful woman seemed to have looked at the boarding pass in her hand, and then walked towards Zhang Lexing.As the beautiful woman got closer and closer, Zhang Lexing smelled a faint fragrance at the end of his nose, and his already sober mind felt a little dizzy again.

While fainting, a beautiful woman's soft voice came from Zhang Lexing's ear: "Sir, please let me go, my seat is next to yours."

"Excuse me," Zhang Lexing hurriedly stood up to get out of the way, and then a gentleman asked, "Excuse me, do you need me to help you put your luggage on the shelf?"

"Don't bother you, I can do it myself." The beautiful woman shook her head, walked to the side with her suitcase, and planned to do it herself.

Zhang Lexing rushed to the front, opened the cover of the luggage rack, and said, "Please be careful, if you need help, I am always happy to help."

The beautiful woman smiled noncommittally, grabbed the handle with her right hand and lifted the suitcase up, then held the lower part of the suitcase with her left hand, lifted it up with both hands, and then pushed forward to stuff the suitcase into the luggage rack In the middle, the movements are very skillful.

After putting away the suitcase, the beautiful woman returned to her seat and sat down. After fastening her seat belt, she took out a CD player from her carry-on bag, and took out a pair of earphones and something that looked like a remote control.

Sitting next to him, Zhang Lexing noticed that the beautiful woman took out a Walkman from her bag, so he turned his head to look at it, and said casually: "Well, your Sony D-11 was only launched in November last year, with ESP anti-seismic and super heavy. Bass DBB system, and it is also the first model with remote control, headphones and body separated."

The beautiful woman who was connecting the headphones and the remote control glanced at Zhang Lexing, and said lightly, "Oh, I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable about Walkmans?"

"It's not really research. In fact, a friend gave me a Walkman, which happened to be this model..."

The beautiful woman connected the earphones, plugged the earplugs, leaned back, and closed her eyes, not paying attention to what Zhang Lexing said.Originally, Zhang Lexing planned to keep talking, but in the end, he had no choice but to quiet down.

At this moment, the plane began to taxi slowly on the runway. Zhang Lexing opened his mouth slightly, feeling that the speed of the plane was getting faster and faster after turning a corner. Suddenly, a strong force hit Zhang Lexing, and his whole body was tightly pressed. In your seat, the plane takes off.

When the plane leveled off, Zhang Lexing noticed that the beautiful woman next to him was still listening to music with her eyes closed. It seemed that there was no chance at all, so he had to pick up his "The End Is Near" and planned to read it casually.But after the book was opened, although Zhang Lexing's eyes looked at the book, he didn't see it at all, and his eyes wandered from time to time.

After flipping through the book for a while, the stewardess pushed a trolley and began to distribute lunch.Zhang Lexing received a Yangzhou fried rice set, a large box of fragrant fried rice, a bowl of side dishes and a bowl of fruit, and a carrot meal bag for each person, plus a drink that can be refilled. Very appetizing.The beautiful woman next to her didn't continue to listen to music at this time. Instead, she ordered a Western-style set meal and a cup of coffee, and tasted it gracefully with the tableware, occasionally taking a sip of coffee.

After lunch, Zhang Lexing wanted to strike up a conversation for a while, but he didn't expect that beautiful woman to move faster. After lunch, she put on earplugs and closed her eyes to enjoy the music. "Recently" opened and went to read the book steadily.

"...

On June 6, her husband fell ill, and her daughter became infected the next day.She went to great lengths to seek medical treatment for them, while she herself was pregnant and afflicted with a disease.By the 25th, when her husband was unconscious, Enfield was in a very bad condition and completely cut off from the outside world.The TV reception is also not working properly, it is full of snowflakes.People die like flies.In the preceding weeks they had seen the marvelous movement of troops along the road, and none of them lingered for a place like Enfield. In the early morning of June 27, her husband died of illness. Her daughter seemed to be better on the 6th, but suddenly became worse that night.Died at about 28 o'clock.

......"

When Zhang Lexing was immersed in the plot of the book, suddenly a beautiful woman's soft voice came from beside him: "What's so good about this kind of book? It's all made up. How can there be such a virus."

After closing the book, Zhang Lexing frowned slightly, and said, "How do you know, you are not studying this."

The beautiful woman smiled slightly, like a blooming flower, which made Zhang Lexing involuntarily intoxicated, and almost didn't hear what she said next.

"Coincidentally, sir, I was studying microbiology at MIT, and my research direction happened to include bacteria and viruses." The beautiful woman said with a playful smile.

"Well, even if you are studying this aspect, then why do you say that there is no such virus?" Zhang Lexing asked in disbelief.

The beautiful woman said with an expert look: "From the perspective of evolution, a single virus is not enough to bring about the extinction of human beings. The most important reason is that generally a virus can only reproduce in one cell. Wiping out the entire human race is not good for germs."

"You said that this is the case in nature, but as for the laboratory, if it is artificially designed to produce viruses with special functions by deliberately guiding the direction of virus mutation in the laboratory. Do you think that in this case, whether the virus Also consider the theory of evolution."

"This..." The beautiful woman lowered her head and thought for a while, then shook her head and replied, "I need to do some research before I can answer you."

I didn't expect that this would be difficult for her. It seems that the beautiful woman's attainment in microbiology is still relatively small, Zhang Lexing secretly felt complacent.

"Then can we exchange contact information? Then you can tell me when you have the result." Zhang Lexing took out a business card and handed it over, and said while the iron was hot: "My name is Zhang Lexing, this is my business card, please accept it."

The beautiful woman took the business card, looked at it, put it in her bag, and handed it over with a business card: "My name is Chen Zishan, and this is the phone number of our school. I will call in a few days." back."

Zhang Lexing took the business card carefully, which indeed had Chen Zishan's name written on it, and there was a landline phone number beside it, which seemed to be from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Putting away the business card, Zhang Lexing became playful and said mysteriously: "Actually, the super flu virus mentioned in this book is not scary."

"Oh, what more terrifying virus is there?" Chen Zishan asked curiously.

"Yes, the super flu virus can only kill people. If there is a virus that can make dead people move around, and it is the kind that moves around like a puppet without consciousness, what is even more terrifying is this kind of living dead moving around. Only interested in one type of food."

"What?" Chen Zishan became even more curious.

Zhang Lexing said in a low voice, "They only eat the flesh and blood of living people."

"It's so disgusting, there won't be such a virus." Chen Zishan shook her head with a look of disbelief.

"There is no such thing in nature, but not necessarily in the laboratory, especially the military laboratory, who knows what they are researching."

Chen Zishan couldn't help shivering, and asked with a trembling voice: "Is there really such a virus?"

"Hehe, I'm just kidding. In fact, this is the T virus in the background story of the game, "Resident Evil."

"Tch, I've never heard of it. I'm lying, so I'll ignore you." After finishing speaking, Chen Zishan turned around and put on the earplugs, entering the world of music again, without looking at Zhang Lexing at all.

Zhang Lexing was very annoyed, his mind went into a daze, and he actually mentioned the game that hadn't been released yet. It is estimated that "Resident Evil" was still in Fujiwara Tokuro's mind at this time.Thinking of "Resident Evil", Zhang Lexing couldn't help thinking of the two crises of his production company Capcom, one in 2003 and one this year.

"In this way..." Zhang Lexing couldn't help laughing happily after thinking about it, until Chen Zishan next to him was puzzled and wondered if there was something wrong with the brain next door.

(End of this chapter)