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"Boss, can you explain, what is the situation in [Forgotten Cemetery]?"

As soon as Lin You finished talking with A Yi, he received another call from Yu Gu, chief strategist of the "Pacific Rim" development team.

Obviously, they were also a little confused.

[Forgotten Cemetery] They have indeed expanded some content in this place, but it is the first time they have heard of "human body modification hospital", "prosthetic body robber", "transformation of obsessive-compulsive disorder"!

These things are not on the development log at all!

If it weren't for the fact that the player base is really big enough, the information was dug out on the first day, and they don't know when they will know it!

Especially after seeing these things, Yu Gu didn't care about going to get off work and had already left work. He urgently called the project administrator authority and checked the partition directory of [Forgotten Cemetery], wanting to see what big things the boss has done without saying a word. Son.

Not to mention a lot of side plots and special NPC tasks, what surprised him the most was: the boss actually stuffed a game with a huge capacity here!

"[Mobile Ball Contest], what is it?"

"Well, easter eggs, they are all easter eggs." Lin You said nonsense with his eyes open.

Yu Gu on the opposite side was choked heavily.

It's nothing more than a side mission. You have prepared such a large competition, the venue, rules, selection mechanism, and even the contestants are all ready. If you pull this thing out, you can create a new game!

You call this an "easter egg"? ?

"Boss..." Yu Gu said helplessly, "Is there a second explanation? Everyone in the team is asking..."

"That's it... Actually, I just got a little itchy looking at this scene, and I've been a little free recently, so I couldn't help it."

Lin You told the truth.

"Gravity" was done so fast that even the Easter eggs were almost added.

Thinking about being idle, Lin You began to add things to the virtual world.

Just like when he and Xiaomeng had nothing to do before, they stuffed a dinosaur island in the wilderness of "Paradise", but this time it was changed to [Mobile Ball Contest].

Because the scope of application of this competition has not yet been decided-whether it is purely used as an entertainment in the game or developed into an e-sports competition, Lin You also set up two modes for this competition: [all ages] and [adult level] .

[All ages] is simply skating while grabbing and throwing the ball, green and healthy.

[Adult level] is allowed to carry weapons and modify prosthetic bodies. Everyone fights and kills on the track while grabbing the ball. The excitement is doubled, but the price is not harmonious...

And he stuffed more than just this stuff.

With more and more global server centers, Xiaomeng is getting stronger and stronger.

Moreover, Xiaomeng has participated in the production of every game of Yunmeng from the beginning to the end, and now she herself is already a top-notch game producer.

In addition, Zhu Cixia, a talented little coolie—she is indeed a genius, otherwise it would be impossible to keep up with the rhythm of Lin You and Xiao Meng.

In short, under the influence of these multiple factors, Lin You's speed of creating new things in the virtual world is much faster than before, and the scale of stuffing things is naturally increasing day by day!

He even worked with Xiaomeng and Zhu Cixia to set up a [planet generation algorithm]!

In the past, they could also generate a "virtual planet" at will, but those planets didn't make much sense.

Because in the virtual world, the success or failure of a randomly generated planet has little to do with its size.

What really matters is the planet's "species richness", "ecological rationality", "terrain exploration value and aesthetic value", "player interaction and creation space"... and many other factors.

Now this new set of [planet generation algorithm], although it can't perfectly solve all the needs, compared with the previous one, it has made great progress.

The "planetary embryo" generated by this algorithm has reached a very high level. On top of this, modifying it according to the needs can save a huge amount of work.

This is also an indispensable technical reserve for the virtual world to move towards the [Universal Era].

Afterwards, Lin You will also find time to continue optimizing this algorithm.

Specific optimization methods...

Optimizing in practice of course!

This is also one of the Easter eggs prepared by Lin You.

*

After some communication, Yu Gu left with deep shock and confusion.

Lin You still had to keep busy.

He has been answering the phone non-stop since before the game was released, and he hasn't stopped until now.

In fact, given his current situation, these calls are not obligatory. After all, they are only calls from the directors and deputy directors of the cultural and tourism bureaus of various places, and he can't control them.

——Most of the [Earth Online Team] he sent out to record natural scenery were sent overseas, and there were not many in China.

Even so, Lin You was already prepared to be rejected, and he specially told the employees of the domestic team to "not raise the price" and "don't force it", and give up if it couldn't be done.

Contrary to the situation where the overseas team has a lot of freedom to operate - for the overseas team, Lin You not only gave enough money, but even said such outrageous words as "Yunmeng's legal department is your most solid backing".

The new employees thought that Lin You was encouraging them to bribe officials of other countries, cross the border without a license, trespass into forbidden areas, secretly take pictures...

Even if Lin You explained to them: "In many places overseas, if you don't bribe officials, you can't do many things at all. I just want you to work with peace of mind." It can't change their minds.

In the end, Lin You had to ask the legal department to do a serious science popularization for them, the difference between "being brave to try" and "deliberately causing trouble", as well as "being arrested for causing trouble overseas" and "being sued across the country after returning to China" difference between.

Finally, these adventurous young people calmed down.

Getting back to the point, Lin You didn't reject these calls because of their purpose——

Their original goal was similar to that of the Director of Xia Jing Culture and Tourism Bureau. They hoped to create a "Yunmeng" centered on the mecha made by Lin You, combined with various "fun" things he made before and Yunmeng's well-known IP. Paradise" out.

They can provide various preferential policies to fully help Yunmeng build this park.

The only requirement is: to settle in their city.

Their purpose is obvious: they want to use Yunmeng's name to promote the development of local tourism.

But Lin You didn't agree, he just said: "I don't have this plan at the moment, I need to seriously consider it."

When he said this, he didn't mean to be perfunctory and refuse, but to really think about it seriously.

But it is not considering building a "Yunmeng Paradise" - at most one of these things can be built, and it is impossible to build a bunch of them all over the country.

What he has to consider is: how to solve their needs fundamentally, and speed up another important plan of his own by the way.

In today's summer, the cities with the best tourism development, excluding the "natural scenery type" where God enjoys food, the rest often have their own unique characteristics.

For example, the ancient city [Chang'an] that sacrificed certain development and convenience, or [Mountain City] that overcame the huge disadvantage of the terrain and even turned it into an advantage...

There are many similar examples, but considering the various constraints in reality, it is impossible to achieve the ultimate.

And in Lin You's hands, there happens to be a key technology that can help them achieve the ultimate——

Mixed reality technology based on [Bafang] headband!

Since there are many restrictions in reality, and you can't give full play to your creativity, wouldn't it be good to transform it in the virtual blueprint?

A virtual city is superimposed on the real city base!

As long as this technology is used, the ordinary modern city can be refurbished aesthetically.

Cities will no longer have only one dimension of reality.

Whether it is the ancient times hundreds of thousands of years ago or the future hundreds of thousands of years later, they can all be created and superimposed on the "now".

You can even customize a style and turn the whole city into "Forest City", "Technology City", "Rogue City", "Flower City", "Ice Forged City", "Hip-Hop City" "...even "Zootopia", whatever!

If we say that the number of users who used the [Bafang] head ring before is too small to support this idea.

After "Pokemon" became popular all over the world and the shipments of [Bafang] head rings continued to soar, the problem of the number of users has basically been solved.

If there is no problem with the technology and users, the only thing left is "output".

Kong Xinsheng's original idea was that [Journey Prosthetics] should contribute by himself, transform a city first, and make a sample out of it.

But now, these heads of cultural and tourism bureaus from various places who took the initiative to come over made Lin You aware of a good opportunity.

——If a company undertakes such a large project as transforming a city, how can cities be promoted quickly by themselves?

And it is completely possible to authorize more than a dozen cities at the same time.

When the time comes, you don't need to be reminded by Yunmeng or [Journey Prosthesis], they will roll up by themselves!

——No one wants to miss the first wave of network traffic and tourist bonus.

After the first round of mixed reality city construction is completed, the results are beginning to show, and the cultivation of relevant talents is basically completed, it will be the time for the second round of full authorization.

At that time, even cities that don't want to go to war, I'm afraid they have to take action!

After all, in Daxia, the "people grabbing war" between cities has never stopped. Under this background, everyone else has done it, but you don't do it, so do you still want young people?

Lin You felt that this plan could be implemented.

It's just that it's obviously not suitable to talk about this kind of thing on the phone, and Lin You doesn't want to waste a lot of time on trivial details.

So he didn't mention this matter on the phone, but planned to talk to Zhong Chang and Kong Xinsheng after work, and then set up a new department to take charge of this matter.

However, what surprised Lin You was that after hearing him say "you should think about it carefully", the directors and deputy directors of the Bureau of Culture and Tourism said one after another: "Can you customize a mecha with Yunmeng?"

"It's the same specifications as the [Crimson Storm] you're making now. It's best to have one that has appeared in the game before, and the price is easy to say!"

this request...

It was hard for Lin You to refuse!

He even dreamed up a scene where "all the provinces in the country drive their own giant mechs to fight a battle and fight it out".

Although he immediately shook his head and threw this outrageous idea out of his mind, inspired by this idea, he thought of another idea that was slightly smaller, but not low in value, and very likely to be realized——

It's unrealistic for big mechs to fight, but what about small ones?

His enthusiasm for this matter was much higher than [Mixed Reality City], so he immediately picked up the phone and called Lu Wei.

"Hello? Director Lu, are you busy?"

"Yes, busy."

"Ah?" Lin You was taken aback by Lu Wei's answer, "Then I say hurry up?"

"It's okay, just tell me, your business is more important."

"Uh... I'd better hurry up."

Lin Youyan briefly described his thoughts——

"You said, if I hold a [Robot Fighting Contest]—a competition in reality, and then allocate special funds to encourage students of corresponding majors in universities to research related technologies and build their own robots to participate in the competition, this matter Is it possible?"

"Ah?" Lu Wei was stunned for a moment, "You want to hold a robot version of the mechanical engineering design competition?"

Lin You didn't know about Daxia's national college competition before, but once he heard Lu Wei's words, he knew he had misunderstood.

"No, no, no, it's not that serious! Although technically it is indeed quite hardcore, but in terms of competition performance, I hope it will be a relatively relaxed atmosphere."

"It's not the kind of small circle activity for high school students, but for a wider audience, so that ordinary people who don't know anything about mechanical engineering can also be interested."

"In order to achieve this goal, I plan to invite a program crew to make the competition into a science competition program and broadcast it to the outside world."

"what do you think?"

After a few seconds of silence, Lu Wei suddenly thought of an important thing: "Wait! Let me confirm first, do you mean [automated machines] in the broad sense or [humanoid robots] in the narrow sense by 'robot'? "

"Of course it's a humanoid robot! Otherwise, how would you fight?" Lin You answered as a matter of course.

"Humanoid robot fighting?" Lu Wei subconsciously leaned back, "Then I would like to ask you: Do you regard all college students as you?"

"Build a robot that can not only move freely, but also fight against other robots... Do you really understand the difficulty behind this?"

"Are you worried about this?" Lin You explained, "It's easy to say, I plan to package the control system into a plug-in, and then the contestants will directly operate in the brain-controlled mode under the ring. They only need to design the body structure of the robot, and practice Just fight and chop people up."

After finishing speaking, he added: "By the way, it can also change the stereotype that 'academics are powerless'."

Lu Wei deliberately complained that "this may not be a stereotype", but thought that Lin You could beat ordinary people three or five times by himself, so he swallowed it again.

And think about a group of talented college students standing under the ring humming and haha ​​fighting in the air, it seems really interesting?

The contrast is full!

So he nodded and said, "As long as you invest enough money and there are no technical obstacles, then the implementation will definitely not be a problem!"

"Excellent! I'm going to write a general-purpose operating system tomorrow!"

Lu Wei's eyelids twitched when he heard this.

If there is a disagreement, it is necessary to write a general-purpose operating system for robots. Even if it is based on mature brain control technology, Lu Wei is still shocked by this terrible efficiency and technical confidence.

And just for "fun", it is also outrageous to invest millions in such a big project that I don't know if it can be profitable!

It can only be said that Lin You himself is too outrageous!

Only three minutes later, He Peng also had the same idea as Lu Wei.

Because he also received a call from Lin You.

On the phone, Lin You asked him: "Xiajing No. 3 Machinery Manufacturing Factory, can you still take orders for large mechas? I have more than a dozen orders..."

"???" He Peng immediately held the phone in front of his eyes, and looked at the caller's name.

——He suspects that he has encountered a scam call!

Dozens of mechs? ?

It's war! ?