game trailblazer

Chapter 184 The Gaming Conference
With the dream of a game console in mind, Zhang Lexing left the game research institute. After dinner, he returned to the room he reserved at the Peninsula Hotel for a rest.After watching TV for a while, Zhang Lexing threw the remote control on the bed, yawned boredly, then came to the big wardrobe, opened the door, dragged the suitcase out, took out the laptop, and The suitcase was put back in place.

In the living room, Zhang Lexing put the laptop on the desk, connected the phone line, turned on the laptop, turned on the power and entered the security code, and soon entered the system desktop.After starting the preset connection in the dialer, there was a sound of "beep-beep-beep..." and the system prompts "Starting to connect to the server..." After tens of seconds, the system prompts again "The network has been connected".

Zhang Lexing glanced at the world clock on the system tray. It is now [-]:[-]pm local time, which is [-]:[-]am in Boston.At this time, Chen Zishan probably wouldn't be online, and Zhang Lexing didn't activate ICQ. Instead, he browsed the news website casually, and then entered the Hotmail mailbox that was about to be officially launched.

This Hotmail mailbox is not the Hotmail that was acquired by Microsoft in history, but one of the businesses that the Internet company under the Visual System Group plans to operate under the suggestion of Zhang Lexing. Of course, the name Hotmail was given by Zhang Lexing. The company's name also directly used Hotmail.

After entering his account number and password, Zhang Lexing logged into his own mailbox ([email protected]), browsed at random.Because the mailbox has not been activated for a long time, there are not many new emails in it. One email is a greeting from Yang Xinxin, and another email is a registration thank you letter automatically sent by the system. In addition, there are actually three spam emails. It's all unintelligible content.

"I didn't expect spam to be so rampant now. The mailbox just opened has been occupied. It seems that I should remind the technical department to add a spam filtering system so that the mailbox will not be used in the future." Zhang Lexing said. Muttering, he ticked off the spam emails, and clicked the delete button.

After deleting the spam, Zhang Lexing wrote another e-mail to Hotmail's technical department, suggesting that they install a mail filtering system immediately to prevent the flood of spam, and increase the efficiency of the mail sending server to prevent it from being used to send spam.

After finishing all this, Zhang Lexing checked that the time was almost up, so he double-clicked the ICQ icon on the desktop with the mouse, started ICQ and logged in with his number.When the instant messaging interface came out, Zhang Lexing was pleasantly surprised to find that Chen Zishan was online, so he immediately opened the chat window and sent a message.

(Zhang Lexing's nickname) freedom: "howareudoing? (how are you?)"

(Chen Zishan's nickname) Susan: "iamfine, howru. (I'm fine, how about you?)"

The reason why the two people have to use English is also a last resort, because the Chinese version of KylinWindows95 is not yet on the market, and even the plug-in Chinese system has not yet been seen, so they cannot input Chinese for the time being, so the two have to make do in English first (the following chat The same is true for the content, but for the convenience of reading, it has been converted into Chinese)
freedom: "How's the weather over there?"

Susan: "The weather has been pretty good these two days, and I went for a walk along the Charles River with my classmates."

freedom: "The two of us went there last time. It's very pleasant to walk around in the morning or evening."

Susan: "Yeah, by the way, are you still in Hong Kong?"

freedom: "Yes, I just arrived today, maybe I will stay for a few more days."

Susan: "Then you should pay more attention to rest, don't make yourself too tired."

freedom: "You should pay more attention to your body, I will come to check after a while. ^_^"

Susan: "I hate it, =^－^="

freedom: "@>>－－－－>－－－"

Susan: "^.^"

……

Susan: "Sorry, I have something to do here, so I have to download it first."

freedom: "Take care, 53880"

Susan: "513880, (:-*"

freedom: ""

Susan: "886"

freedom: "886"

————————————————Meet, Digital Learning Area————————————————

^_^ (smiling face) =^－^= (blushing) @>>－－－>－－－ (send you a rose)

^.^(cute smiling face of a girl)(:－*(kiss you affectionately)(drunk)

53880: I want to hug you
513880: I want to hug you too

886: Goodbye
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The icon representing Chen Zishan dimmed, and Zhang Lexing couldn't help feeling melancholy, and lost the interest to continue playing on the computer.Put away the laptop, went to the bathroom to take a shower, changed into pajamas, Zhang Lexing turned off the TV, and lay down on the bed early...

The next morning, after breakfast, Yan Ruofei sent a report on the situation after the acquisition of Wizards of the Coast and TSR.Wizards of the Coast will remain as a whole, and will not make any other changes except for financial management, while TSR will only retain 90% of its employees after Williams left, most of which are from Lake Geneva, where TSR is located. Moving to Seattle, where Wizards of the Coast is located, nominally merged into Wizards of the Coast, but temporarily retained an independent system. The other part of the 90% was arranged to Hong Kong, ready to contribute to the oriental fantasy system planned by Zhang Lexing.

At the same time, an investigation report on EBay from Russell Market Research Company was also sent to Zhang Lexing's desk.According to the only clue "EBay" provided before, Russell Market Research Company has never found any auction website that meets the requirements, and Zhang Lexing can't provide more information, so they simply expanded the scope of investigation and included all the auction websites. They all came back to investigate.

Opening the investigation report, Zhang Lexing was taken aback. Unexpectedly, there are already many companies engaged in online auctions.For example, a young auction site called Auctionweb, the first item they sold was a broken laser pointer, and the company happened to be based in San Jose.Another auction website called Ubid uses a Dutch auction, which has the same ownership of the item as an auction website called Onsale, unlike Auctionweb, which specializes in intermediaries.But after looking over and over for a long time, there is nothing like the EBay in my impression, not even the name.Whether to wait and see, or to invest in a random family now, now Zhang Lexing is also worried, and he doesn't know which one to choose for a while.

In desperation, Zhang Lexing had no choice but to write the auction websites mentioned in the report on several pieces of paper, and wrote another "suspended" note, crumpled these papers into several balls, and closed the Then his eyes searched for one, and he opened it to see that "Auctionweb" was written on the note.So Zhang Lexing decided to buy this auction website called Auctionweb first, and wait until EBay shows up in the future.After making up his mind, Zhang Lexing faxed the information about Auctionweb in the investigation report to the office of Honghe Fund, and then called them to ask them to acquire the website.

……

During this period of time, many members who joined Fengyun Game Club have received an official letter one after another, inviting members to participate in the club's first event "Game Fengyun Club" during the National Day. There are reasoning social games that are popular in Europe and the United States. Table games played by multiple people at the same time, as well as a mysterious game appreciation conference, and a free buffet is provided.In addition to this official letter, Fengyun Game Club also posted membership solicitation orders in magazines such as "Home Computer and Game Consoles" and "Electronic Game Software", explaining the time and place of the "Game Fengyun Club" (Oriental Electronic Games City), and requires all members who intend to participate, please sign up before the 25th of this month (mainly for the preparation of the buffet, so that you can be more confident).

As soon as this news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of many players. Those who are already members are naturally rejoicing, or secretly guessing what interesting content is in the so-called table games and appreciation conference, while players who are not members Many people rushed to buy such a set of games produced by Fengyun Interactive while there was still time, and then sent out the membership application form as quickly as possible.This actually includes many foreign players who know they can't make it to BJ to participate, because they saw in the advertisement on the magazine that "In the next few years, Fengyun Game Club will expand from BJ to other regions in the country, and the first batch of planned development cities Including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu and other places..." The words filled many people's hearts with hope.All of a sudden, due to the popularity of players, several games under Fengyun Interactive whose sales had fallen back actually rebounded.

……

In the blink of an eye, during the National Day period, Li Wenbo hurried to the Oriental Video Game City with his membership card and the admission ticket he received when he signed up.As soon as he entered the hall, Li Wenbo saw Wu Yufei and Zhao Wei.That boy Zhao Wei played around in the Oriental Electronic Game City last time, and claimed to buy games to apply for membership, but after returning home, there was no movement, and he was still carrying a floppy disk to exchange games with others.Unexpectedly, as soon as the advertisement in this month's magazine came out, Zhao Wei hurriedly bought a set of Fengyun Interactive's game, and immediately applied for membership.

Li Wenbo was curious for a while, so he stopped Zhao Wei at school one day, and asked him, "Isn't he not interested in genuine games? Why are you so anxious to join the Fengyun Game Club now?"

As a result, Zhao Wei scratched his hair and replied: "I don't buy genuine games because I don't have much money. Anyway, I don't have high requirements, so I can play if I have something to play. But this time the 'Game Wind and Cloud Club' is different. It’s very tempting to just listen to the introduction, but only members can participate, so I have to spend some money to experience it. Besides, there is a free buffet, so eat a little more at that time, and you will get back your money, haha.”

For Zhao Wei's previous reason, Li Wenbo felt the same way. He also thinks that some activities should be very interesting, so he thinks of participating.But Zhao Wei later came up with a reason to get back his money, which made Li Wenbo a little dumbfounded, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This guy, is he just here to play or to eat!"

But the emotion is the emotion. When he really came to the event, Li Wenbo would not use Zhao Wei's "eating back to the original" as an example. After all, they are old friends and comrades-in-arms.

Seeing Wu Yufei and Zhao Wei in the lobby of the Oriental Video Game City, Li Wenbo hurried over to say hello: "Wu Yufei, Zhao Wei, you two came quite early."

"There are a lot of people coming today. I'm afraid they won't be able to get in if they come late." Wu Yufei turned his head, leaned into Li Wenbo's ear, pointed to a few dusty people in the distance, and whispered: "Those few It is said that they came from other places.”

"But don't we have tickets?" Li Wenbo asked puzzled.

"You don't know how enthusiastic the participants are. No matter how large the space for activities is, the number of people that can be accommodated is limited. If you really come late, maybe you will be queued until tomorrow." Wu Yufei explained.

Li Wenbo nodded in a sudden realization, at this time Zhao Wei patted the two of them, pointed to the stairs and said, "Dude, stop chatting, we have to line up to enter, if you don't go, you might really not be able to get in. "

Li Wenbo and Wu Yufei looked in the direction pointed by Zhao Wei. There were already two lines lined up on the stairs, and the length was still increasing. The three quickly ran away and rushed to the end of the line.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, everyone line up in order." Several security guards stood around the queue, waving to maintain order.Li Wenbo, who was already in the line, and the three of them looked at the growing tail behind them, and at the not-too-long line in front of them, and they couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

The players queuing in front had checked their membership cards and admission tickets, and walked up the stairs one after another. As the line in front of them became shorter and shorter, it was finally Li Wenbo's turn and the other three.The three of them took out their membership cards and admission tickets and handed them to the staff on both sides.The staff took the membership card and the admission ticket and checked them, then returned the membership card to the three people, and threw the admission ticket into a box with a small opening next to it, and then reminded: "Go up the stairs to the second Building, that is the place where the event is held, if you want to go in after leaving, please contact our staff."

The three put away their membership cards and ran up the stairs excitedly.Running to the second floor in one breath, the three of them walked into the player's activity room of Fengyun Game Club under the guidance of the staff.

As soon as they entered the door, the three of them saw a large sign facing them, which marked several areas of the player's activity room, namely Area A (game appreciation area), Area B (board game activity area), Area C (interactive stage area).Standing next to the sign were three young and beautiful girls. Seeing Li Wenbo and the other three walk in, they bowed together and said "Welcome!" in sweet voices, and each took out a delicate card Handed over.

Li Wenbo took it over and took a look. The front of the card was printed with large characters of "The First Gaming Conference", and the date of the event was also printed on the bottom. The back of the card was the same as the information on the sign, and it was also the area division of the player's activity room. .

Zhao Wei looked at the card in his hand, then looked to both sides, and said, "I said, which side should we go to first?"

"Why don't you go to the interactive stage area first, and this is the nearest one on the sign." Wu Yufei thought about it and said his suggestion.

"This..." Li Wenbo actually wanted to go to Area B (the board game activity area) to have a look first, but since Wu Yufei had already said it, he couldn't object anymore, he hesitated for a while, and agreed, so the three Together, they went to Area C (interactive stage area) on the right side of the gate.

(End of this chapter)