Chapter 777: Eating melons at home
Just as everyone was gearing up for the fight, Wang Jianhua's phone rang. He quickly took out his phone and said, "Excuse me, I need to take a call."
He lowered his head slightly, covered his mouth, pressed the answer button, and said softly: "Hello, hello."
The person on the other end of the phone said a few words, and Wang Jianhua's face suddenly changed. He said in a deep voice: "Okay, I understand."
After hanging up the phone, Wang Jianhua looked up and found that everyone in the conference room was looking at him. Bao Yueqiao asked, "What's the matter? Why are you so shocked? Is the sky falling?"
Wang Jianhua felt a little dry in the mouth, swallowed hard, and said with a strange expression: "The sky didn't fall, but it was the richest man Lu who came to kill me."
"Mr. Lu?"
"Boss Wang, what do you mean by this?"
After hearing what Wang Jianhua said, all the executives in the conference room could no longer sit still.
For them, the name of Mr. Lu, the richest man, is well-known, and Wang Jianhua's use of the word "kill" is definitely not a good sign.
In recent years, all the companies that had conflicts with Lu Yiming were either acquired by him or driven bankrupt by him. Basically, none of them had a good ending.
Therefore, when Wang Jianhua said this, everyone was shocked and felt some people were panicking.
Bao Yueqiao asked doubtfully, "Old Wang, can you explain?"
Wang Jianhua didn't say anything, but took out a laptop and clicked on the QQ web ad.
On the huge page, Li Ming, Liu Tianwen and Chow Yun Fat, who had played the role of God of Gamblers, stood together. They recited the advertising slogans seriously in their magical Cantonese.
"Want to know who is the real God of Gamblers? Come to the QQ chess and card room. We have all kinds of chess and card games here. We will also hold an online God of Gamblers competition in the near future. As long as you sign up, you can get a lot of cash gifts. What are you still hesitating about? Hurry up and register with QQ and log in with one click!"
After Bao Yueqiao finished reading it, he was completely dumbfounded. He looked at Wang Jianhua in disbelief and asked, "Isn't QQ fighting with MSN ? Why did they come to attack us?"
Wang Jianhua said helplessly: "How would I know this?"
Jian Jing thought about it carefully and soon came up with a possibility: "Could it be that we have also joined the 'Anti-QQ Alliance' and were pulled out by Mr. Lu as an example to others?"
If we were to talk about the circumstances under which Lianzhong might have a connection with QQ, and a bad connection at that, it would only be this "Anti-QQ Alliance".
Bao Yueqiao was very unconvinced and said, "Even if that's the case, Mr. Lu should pick on the weak. Why are you looking for us?"
Bao Yueqiao became more and more angry the more he thought about it. Not only was Lianzhong being targeted by QQ, but QQ also considered it the worst one!
Not only kill people, but also destroy their hearts!
In the anti-QQ alliance, Ourgame is by no means the weakest player. In fact, in terms of profitability, Ourgame is the undisputed number one.
But so what?
Lu Yiming is the first one!
This wave is to kill the monkey to scare the chickens.
"This Mr. Lu is really going too far. If they have the guts to take down Microsoft, they can just go and destroy it."
"That's right. All you can do is fight among yourself. What kind of ability is that?"
All the executives were very angry, but they had no other options but to vent their anger by cursing.
After all, the strength of Asia's richest man is here, and they have no way to deal with him. In the face of absolute strength, any strategy is pale and powerless.
At Shihe University, Lu Xiangbo, a junior student, walked towards the dormitory with a sad face.
Just this morning, his beautiful girlfriend, who he had been dating secretly for two years, broke up with him. The reason was that she had graduated from college and didn't want to be in a long-distance relationship anymore. But when he saw his girlfriend getting into a black, old-fashioned Audi, he knew that things were not that simple.
He was angry and reviewed every detail of the past few years when the two of them were together, all the love and care, but in the end, he was told that he didn't like long-distance relationships.
He felt helpless, remembering that he came from an ordinary rural family. Not to mention providing his girlfriend with a material life, he had to rely on part-time jobs on weekends to earn money for their meals.
There is no doubt that he is smart and hardworking, but intelligence and hard work are nothing compared to material things.
After opening the dormitory door, he was just about to call his friends to go get drunk with him, but before he could open his mouth, his three roommates stared at him in unison. The way they looked at him was as if he had been caught cheating in an underground relationship.
"Old Lu, you are finally back."
Lu Xiangbo said with some fear: "Ah, yes, I'm back. What are you doing..."
My roommate Lan Xinyang said, "I heard you are really good at playing cards?"
Lu Xiangbo was a little surprised: "Is that all?"
Lan Xinyang asked back: "What else?"
Lu Xiangbo heaved a sigh of relief, feeling relieved, and said confidently: "I am indeed good at playing cards. In fact, playing cards requires skills, which are memory, mental arithmetic, and probability of permutations and combinations."
Shihe University is one of the top universities in Northwest China. Students who can study here are not bad, and Lu Xiangbo is a big shot in the mathematics department.
Playing cards is ultimately a matter of arithmetic, so people who are good at math won’t be too bad at playing cards.
Lan Xinyang said excitedly: "I feel relieved when you say that. QQ has launched the QQ chess and card room. Hurry up and sign up for the God of Gamblers Cup Competition. I heard that the top ten will be eligible to take photos with the Four Heavenly Kings, and there will be various prizes, including concert tickets!"
Lu Xiangbo was very surprised and asked, "Is there such a good thing?"
He immediately thought of his girlfriend who was born in the Greater Bay Area and was very obsessed with the Four Heavenly Kings. Not only did she have various stickers of the Four Heavenly Kings on her various stationery, but she also only sang the songs of the Four Heavenly Kings in the karaoke bar. Her dream was to go to a concert of the Four Heavenly Kings.
If I could participate in this competition and get into the top ten, wouldn't that satisfy all my girlfriend's wishes? She would definitely change her mind then!
Thinking of this, Lu Xiangbo was immediately full of energy and said without hesitation: "I want to sign up. How do I sign up?"
Lan Xinyang said: "It's very simple. You just download the QQ chess and card room, log in with QQ, and then you can enter the competition area, and fight your way up one circle after another. After participating in the competition, players will have 2,000 happy beans as initial funds every day, and then the settlement will be carried out before midnight, and the ranking will be determined by the number of happy beans in hand."
While Lu Xiangbo was operating his computer, he listened carefully to Lan Xinyang's introduction. When he saw the recharge window in the game, he quickly found a loophole: "If the score is calculated only based on the remaining happy beans, then whoever recharges the most money will be the champion, right?"
No matter how strong you are, as long as you have money, you can recharge directly in the game. Great effort can make miracles happen. What is the meaning of this competition?
Lan Xinyang said disdainfully: "Do you think the organizers are fools? The Happy Beans used in the competition are bound and cannot be bought or sold. In addition, the opponents in each game are random. You don't know who is playing against you before you start. It's basically a competition of who has better luck and card skills. It tests your true strength."
Lu Xiangbo was relieved and asked, "What about the rewards? You just said that the top ten will be eligible to take photos with the Four Heavenly Kings and get concert tickets, so what are the other rewards?"
Lan Xinyang said: "I heard that the champion will get a prize of 50,000 yuan. In addition, the top 100 people each day will also receive various rewards, such as happy beans and QQ dolls. The first place winner each day will receive a Tianyin MP3."
Lu Xiangbo was shocked again: "What the hell! Tianyin MP3? That thing costs thousands of dollars."
Because his girlfriend likes the Four Heavenly Kings, he also tried to listen to music. When he learned that Tianyin MP3 was the best music listening device on the market, he also thought about giving one to his girlfriend. However, because he was so poor, even though he tried very hard to save money, he still couldn't wait to buy Tianyin MP3, and his girlfriend broke up with him.
Lan Xinyang said, "Yes, that's why he is called the richest man in Lu. He is very generous. He gives away all kinds of things in every competition, either money or prize money. I feel like he is doing charity. Just imagine, tens of thousands of yuan are given away in rewards to the top ten every day."
Lu Xiangbo is ready to go.
Not only does he want to be in the top ten of the overall ranking and take photos with the four kings, he also wants to become the champion and get a bonus of 50,000 yuan. In addition, he will never miss the daily Tianyin MP3!
Thinking of this, he couldn't wait to ask: "When does the game start?"
Lan Xinyang said: "You can sign up for the competition at any time now. The ranking will be determined according to the rules every day. In short, the earlier you enter the game, the greater the advantage you will have. Those who enter the game later will only encounter experts."
Lu Yiming directly copied the QQ chess and card room from the later QQ game center. Compared with the current game platforms, the QQ chess and card room is more than one level higher in terms of completion and exquisiteness. For example, when playing special card sets such as "plane" and "bomb", there will be cool sound effects, and in the game, players can also choose to use various emoticons to taunt or congratulate their opponents. Give players enough pretense.
Lu Xiangbo entered the game with the intention of winning the game, but after playing a few hands, he was completely fascinated by the game's various special effects and fair battle system.
"Fuck, this is so cool, right?"
It was the first time that Lu Xiangbo realized that playing cards could be so cool.
Especially after he first had an "airplane" and then a "bomb", the roar of the plane engine whizzing past like an air raid and the cool sound of the bomb exploding made him deeply addicted from then on.
As for the previous Lianzhong account?
Who is Lianzhong?
Really unfamiliar!
In the office of the backend data department of Junzi Interactive Entertainment, on the large LED screen on the wall, a line shot up like a rocket and intertwined with other lines to form a complex but beautiful line graph.
It’s like you just went all in on a certain stock and found that the K-line is so beautiful that it goes straight through the sky.
Jiang Rongfa said excitedly: "Boss Lu, your ideas are really great. Our QQ chess and card room is now receiving a warm response, and the number of registered users has skyrocketed!"
Lu Yiming knew very well how QQ Game Center had killed Lianzhong and Haofang, and the performance before him was exactly in line with his expectations. Therefore, compared with the excited executives of Yixun Technology, Lu Yiming was obviously very calm. He said calmly: "What is the reaction from Lianzhong?"
Jiang Rongfa said: "We haven't received any news yet. They must have been stunned by the sudden launch of the QQ chess and card room and haven't reacted yet."
He went on to say, "Speaking of which, Mr. Lu is really amazing. When you said you wanted to launch the project last year, I was still wondering why you would come up with this thing. Now I know that this thing is a killer, haha."
With the launch of QQ Farm and QQ Chess and Card Room, the number of simultaneous online users of QQ has now stabilized at over 10 million.
In 2004, there were 94 million Internet users in China, and the number was about to exceed 100 million. Among these 94 million, at any given time, 10 million people were logging into QQ at the same time, accounting for one ninth of all Internet users. This ratio can be said to be quite terrifying.
Lu Yiming warned: "It is better to pursue the enemy with the remaining courage, rather than seek fame by imitating the tyrant. We should either not fight, or fight to the death and kill the monkey to scare the chickens."
Lu Yiming also crossed his arms in front of his chest, looking at them with disdain: "I want to see who dares to join this anti-QQ alliance in the future. Do you really think I'm easy to bully?"
In Beijing, the backend data department of Lianzhong Games quickly reported the situation to Bao Yueqiao.
"Boss Bao, our number of concurrent online users has dropped to 200,000, and the number is still decreasing."
This number shocked Bao Yueqiao, and he quickly asked, "Why is this happening?"
Today is a weekend. According to usual practice, there should be 400,000 people online at the same time. But now the number has been reduced by half, which is definitely not normal.
Before his men could say anything, Wang Jianhua opened the door and walked in, his face as black as charcoal: "QQ has taken action. Not only have they invited two of the Four Heavenly Kings, they have also invited Brother Fa. They can also receive generous rewards for playing cards. Many of our users have gone over there."
"ah?"
When Bao Yueqiao learned about the situation, he immediately became restless.
He had a feeling of uneasiness before, but who could have thought that Mr. Lu's offensive would come so suddenly and so fiercely?
For several days, with the pop-up ads on QQ, the news about the God of Gamblers competition spread more and more widely, and the QQ chess and card room also successfully carved out a path for itself.
On the other hand, the status of industry veterans such as Lianzhong has become precarious.
In fact, it is not just Ourgame that is suffering from severe user loss, but also the 263 casual game platform.
Similar to Lianzhong, 263 is also one of the earliest chess and card casual game platforms in China, with more than 30 casual games, mainly chess and card, casual, and guessing games.
The founder, Li Long, was on a business trip and then suddenly bad news came. This is a real case of being an innocent victim.
Baiyun City, at the newly built Future Capital headquarters, Lu Yiming had just finished a meeting and had not yet left the office when Yu Jiayi walked in with a cell phone.
"Mr. Lu, there's a call for you."
Lu Yiming frowned slightly and asked, "Who called?"
Yu Jiayi said: "It's Mr. Li Long from the 263 casual game platform."
Lu Yiming frowned even deeper, and searched his mind carefully, but to no avail, he asked doubtfully, "Do I know him?"
It's not that Lu Yiming looks down on people. There were many small platforms like this at the beginning of the century, and Lu Yiming didn't specifically count them, so it's normal that he doesn't know.
But soon, Lu Yiming reacted. From the name, it can be analyzed that the casual game platform is similar to the QQ chess and card room and Lianzhong game platform. And this time, when Li Long called, Lu Yiming felt that he was most likely injured by mistake.
And this is indeed the case.
When the city gate catches fire, the fish in the pond are affected. This is what happened to unlucky people like Li Long.
When QQ and MSN were fighting each other to the death, he was just watching the show.
When QQ was about to take drastic measures against Lianzhong, he was still just watching the show.
Then he became the melon that was eaten, and it was others' turn to watch his show.
"Okay, give me the phone."
Lu Yiming picked up the phone and said into the receiver: "Hello?"
Li Long must have been holding it in too much. As soon as the call was connected, he shouted, "Mr. Lu, Bao Yueqiao provoked you, but I, Li Long, didn't provoke you, did I? Do you have to be so ruthless?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Mr. Li, I'm sorry. I didn't want things to turn out like this."
Li Long asked Lu Yiming: "Boss Lu, can you please show some mercy? If the QQ chess and card room continues to hold activities like this, we at 263 will not be able to bear it."
263 was originally a small platform that survived by attracting some of the users that slipped through the net of other large platforms. Now, after what happened, even those few users are gone.
However, the war machine has already started. As long as Lianzhong is not defeated, QQ will not stop its attack. Lu Yiming will naturally not stop just because of Li Long's pleas for mercy.
"Mr. Li, I'm so sorry, but I don't have the final say on this matter anymore. Why don't you just sell the company to me? QQ Chess Room is the flagship product of Yixun Technology, and the promotion will only get stronger and stronger in the future. I'm sure to take over this market."
Li Long was furious at Lu Yiming's response, but he could do nothing about it. The two parted unhappily, and Li Long thought about it and decided to contact Lu Yiming again to sell 263.
A few days later, Jiang Rongfa contacted Lu Yiming and said, "Boss Lu, Lianzhong Games has also followed our example and organized a gambling competition. The prize for the champion is also 50,000."
Lu Yiming mocked, "We are holding a gambling god cup chess and card competition, and they are holding a gambling holy grail, right? They plagiarized so carelessly, I am so disappointed."
Jiang Rongfa asked: "Should we use this incident as an opportunity to find some online trolls to stir up trouble?"
Lu Yiming said with a relaxed look: "No need. Since they are willing to compete with me in spending money, let's see who will have the last laugh. And I just took over the 263 casual game platform. As long as we digest this part of the market share, our QQ chess and card room will be able to surpass Lianzhong and become the number one in the industry."
