Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 319 Bewitched
Zhong Cheng and Zhou Hu were shocked by Wang Anlin's estimation of the "Second World". They never thought that a virtual world would attract so many people.

"Don't doubt my prediction. I still lowered the expected value as much as possible, because the World Virtual Space Management Association is negotiating with the three major federations to relax the restrictions on entering the 'Second World'. If the negotiations are successful, the number of people will skyrocket!"

Wang Anlin continued: "If you don't believe it, the cruise ship has the most advanced login equipment, you can go in and have a look, and you will know the attraction of the 'Second World' to users."

"You don't play games, so let's take virtual tourism as an example. You can visit all the tourist attractions in the world for free without leaving home. The degree of authenticity is almost fake. What do you think?"

"hiss!"

Both Zhong Cheng and Zhou Hu gasped. If Wang Anlin said it could be true, virtual tourism would be very attractive to people like them.

For various reasons, they haven't even visited many domestic attractions, let alone the world.

But they also hope to take their families to travel around the world, and the "Second World" can realize their luxury.

Zhou Hu asked puzzledly: "Users are free, so does this 'Second World' make money by collecting rent? I've heard of this rent, and it's not too high!"

Lei Yongzhong pulled Wang Anlin back, and replied first: "We don't want a penny of the rent paid by the company. The money is all used to ensure the normal operation of the 'Second World' server and the operation of the association."

"Are you also one of these 36 Internet companies?" Zhong Cheng heard the name.

"It's not us. Leizi's cloud network company is the founding member. My company just entered last year. It was because I entered the 'Second World' that I found Leizi." Wang Anlin explained.

"Oh!" Zhong Cheng nodded, expressing his understanding.

Lei Yongzhong continued to answer Zhou Hu's question, "Companies entering the 'Second World' have different profit models due to different industries. For example, shopping companies cannot be free."

"But our game companies don't charge money from ordinary users, but the payment from VIP users is enough to make us a lot of money."

"In previous online games, there were a lot of rich people who spent a lot of money, and now there are even more. And you know, online games are said to be free, but if you want to play happily, you have to pay."

"The current users will spend more or less money to buy props, and these props are basically zero cost for us."

Lei Yongzhong became energetic as soon as he mentioned money, Zhong Cheng had to interrupt him.

"Okay, I know you start an online game company to make money, but you can't possibly want to pull me to run an online game company together?"

Lei Yongzhong got stuck for a moment, Zhong Cheng muttered to himself, he must have let himself know for sure, he was really not interested in this.

Wang Anlin glared at Lei Yongzhong, then took the conversation.

"Among the 36 founding companies in the 'Second World', the three major federations each accounted for 12, which was still a three-thirds of the world. However, in just over two years, the 12 companies in the Asian federation accounted for 15% of the global users. It's down to [-] percent."

"Online game users accounted for 20% of the 'Second World', and the proportion of users of the Asian Federal Company has also dropped to [-]%. A lot of money has been made by Europeans and Americans."

Zhou Hu asked disapprovingly: "A lot of money? How much can you have?"

He is now the general manager of Red Star Company, and he really doesn't like the money of less than a few hundred billion.

"The total revenue of the 'Second World' in 2032 is 6 trillion yuan. This year it is expected to reach 15 trillion yuan, and next year it will exceed 36 trillion yuan. Is this enough money?" Wang Anlin snorted at Zhou Hu.

Both Zhong Cheng and Zhou Hu were taken aback. Although the operating income was high, they paid more attention to the growth rate.

Such a doubled growth rate also shows how popular this 'second world' is among the general public, which makes it difficult for them who are engaged in business to accept it.

The metaverse is nothing but a virtual world. Except for servers and networks, the operating costs are very low, which is not comparable to that of the real economy.

Zhou Hu asked back: "You are so powerful, how can you be suppressed by Europeans and Americans?"

Wang Anlin was speechless this time. Zhou Hu is indeed qualified to laugh at them. Red Star Company has suppressed Europeans and Americans for more than ten years in the field of heavy industry, and even made them give up the idea of ​​competition for a while.

If it wasn't for some unknown reason that Red Star Company was stuck, the current solar system would be full of Red Star Company's bases, and there would be no Europeans and Americans at all.

"cough!"

Lei Yongzhong had to explain, "Virtual reality online games have three major elements, one is the simulation technology of the virtual world, the other is the human-machine interface technology, and the third is the content, plot and theme of the game."

"But unfortunately, we don't have an advantage in the first two points, and we just don't have a disadvantage in the third point, so their games and entertainment services are more attractive to users."

Zhou Hu was overjoyed when he heard this, "To put it bluntly, you can't compare to others in anything!"

Both Lei Yongzhong and Wang Anlin were speechless in embarrassment.

Zhong Cheng waved his hand to stop Zhou Hu from continuing to tease, "You came to us today because you want Red Star to provide related technologies for your Internet company?"

Lei Yongzhong and Wang Anlin nodded quickly.

Lei Yongzhong said: "In order to reverse the passive situation, An Lin and I have prepared to jointly develop a brand new game, which will absolutely crush them in terms of content and theme, but we need the technical support of Red Star Company."

"The underlying program of the 'Second World' is the Taixu Experimental System developed by you. I believe that your use of this system is far superior to that of Europeans and Americans, and you also have the Yang Jian evaluation system, which is an artifact for building virtual world NPCs. .”

"There is also the White Tiger Mecha that you made. If the control system that integrates man and machine is used in virtual reality games, it will be amazing."

"With your technologies, if the new game I develop can't compete with Europeans and Americans, then I'll just jump off this cruise ship and drown in the sea."

The more Lei Yongzhong spoke, the more excited he became, his eyes sparkled.

Zhong Cheng and Zhou Hu looked at each other, thinking in their hearts, it seems that they have already been thinking about these technologies of Red Star Company.

Wang Anlin said: "I know that your Red Star company is not short of this money, it is impossible to sell the technology to us."

"We are three parties working together to develop this game, and the technology is still mastered by your people. We only provide the content and plot of the game and its future operations."

Seeing that Zhong Cheng and Zhou Hu were still silent, Wang Anlin bewitched:
"Maybe you don't like this little money, but think about it, if hundreds of millions of people play this game in the future, and we use this game to promote Chinese culture, what a great thing it will be!"

"cough!"

Wang Anlin's words almost made the three of them choke. If Zhong Cheng said this, it would be difficult to accept, but when he said it, it would look ridiculous.

However, Wang Anlin's mention of "hundreds of millions of people" made Zhong Cheng a little bit moved.

Wang Anlin added embarrassingly, "At least the Europeans and Americans are not allowed to control this 'second world', am I right?"

Zhou Hu laughed and said, "This is like a human saying!"

Lei Yongzhong asked: "Boss, what do you mean?"

Zhong Cheng thought for a while, "Tomorrow afternoon we will go back to Beishan. You come to Shanhai Building to find me in the morning, and I will give you an answer!"

(End of this chapter)