As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 377 Science City

What led to a fundamental change in the views of financial practitioners was the virtual world development rights conference held by Ke Chuang Bio after the press conference.

It was made clear at the meeting that the development rights of the virtual world would not be opened up on a large scale.

At least in the short term there are only five virtual worlds.

Among them, Blue Star 2 is already under development, but the other two virtual worlds don't even have plans yet.

It alleviated capital's concerns about a sharp drop in demand.

The virtual world is limited, which means that the choices are limited, and the real world cannot be abandoned.

Under this premise, the virtual world is only a supplement to the real world, and can provide more jobs and more assets for the people of Blue Star.

It is equivalent to interstellar colonization in a sense.

The population of Blue Star is enough to support five worlds.

With a population of eight billion, everyone can exist in different worlds at the same time.

Population is the source of wealth, and all wealth cannot exist independently of population.

The fundamental reason why there are more and more types of assets is the population growth and more people participating in financial activities.

Take virtual currency as an example. For a long time after its birth, virtual currency did not have any value.

At the same time, its claimed decentralization is also prohibiting Russians from trading and directly clearing the virtual currency in Russian wallet addresses, making it look like a joke.

Previously, people felt that both BTC and ETH were too closely tied to the U.S. dollar, and therefore had certain doubts about decentralization.

After Maozi’s virtual currency assets were cleared, the core pillar of the value of virtual currency was interrupted.

BTC itself cannot be taken away, but the virtual currency you put on the exchange can be taken away.

Not to mention that virtual currencies have no meaning in the real world.

The meanings that people have conceived have all been falsified.

However, it does not affect the market value of virtual currency exceeding 10 trillion RMB.

The value of assets contained in the virtual world is far more than 10 trillion.

So after the meeting on the virtual world development rights of Ke Chuang Biotechnology was held, the news spread very quickly. It was almost over in the afternoon, and everyone who needed to know knew it by the evening.

After making preparations, the leading players in the capital market launched this global bull market.

“In fact, the greater significance of the virtual world to me is to screen out sufficiently excellent talents.

Blue Planet has a population of over 8 billion. Even if only 1% of the talents are missed out in the traditional education system, that would still be 80 million.

When they use virtual reality devices, their brain areas and some parameters related to scientific research capabilities will be scanned in the future, and individuals with real potential will be screened out.

This is just a preliminary screening, because IQ in this area is only one of the factors that determine whether or not results can be achieved.

In addition to IQ, it is also related to psychological factors such as mentality, perseverance, and work attitude.

There will be a whole set of tests later to screen out sufficiently talented people.”

Li Miaomiao actually predicted Zheng Li's thoughts.

What Zheng Li said personally only verified her guess.

"Can't brain-computer connected VR do this?" Li Miaomiao asked curiously.

Zheng Li shook his head: “I can’t do it.

Brain-computer connection VR can only capture your brain nerve signals superficially.

It's impossible to fully scan your brain.

With Blue Star's current technological capabilities, it is impossible to condense the optical instruments on a helmet to completely scan the human brain.

Not to mention that some of the parameters I need to capture cannot be detected by optical instruments."

Li Miaomiao added: "And if you use a brain-computer interface to connect VR for scanning.

Will this data be detected by other companies or organizations? "

Zheng Li replied: "It should be discovered. After all, such a huge amount of data is easy to be discovered.

But it doesn’t matter, even if it is known, it doesn’t matter.

It’s just that brain-computer connection technology based purely on silicon chips can’t do this.”

Li Miaomiao continued to ask: "How can you guarantee that these talents will work for you?

According to this standard, the number of talents who meet the requirements is at least in the hundreds of thousands.

Even in the millions.

I don’t think any country would let go of the talents that the Master personally selected.”

Zheng Li replied: "Sharing the results.

I don't mind if the results of his research are made available to other countries on this planet for free.

Blue Planet’s intellectual property protection mechanism cannot interfere with the mother planet far outside the galaxy.

Even if I can't go back and I have to stay on the blue planet, I still don't mind sharing my results for free.

Because I have no shortage of money and money is not important to me.”

Li Miaomiao: "It is equivalent to you planning to treat Kechuang Biotechnology as an international joint research institution, and then individuals who meet the requirements will enter this research institution to work.

The results of their work are shared with their home countries.”

Zheng Li: “It’s not Kechuang Bio, but Lion City.

I will be negotiating with Malaysia soon, and they will transfer some land around Lion City to me, and I will build a new science city.

Individuals who meet the requirements will be invited to work in the Science City.

In the future, Lion City will have two cities, one is the current Lion City, and the other is Science City.

In addition, the results of the work are shared with their home countries or with the companies or institutions where they work.”

Zheng Li has a complete plan for what he wants to do in the future.

In his opinion, if he serves as the head of the research institute and is responsible for setting up projects and providing some technical guidance, he will be able to advance Blue Star's scientific research speed to a whole new level.

For Zheng Li, Blue Star's research in some aspects is more in-depth than that of the Mage Alliance. What he needs to do is to further advance this part of the work.

The Science City will be a purely scientific research project without any commercial elements involved.

As for the transformation of science at the technological and application levels, it will be carried out by Kechuang Biotechnology or other organizations.

Of course, the project establishment here is only if the researchers want to research in a certain direction and Zheng Li happens to know about it, he can give some suggestions.

Instead of a mechanism of assigning topics like a tutor guiding students.

Zheng Li will not personally provide guidance to the few researchers who have no foundation.

Instead, a certain system is formed, with senior researchers providing guidance for the projects.

Li Miaomiao: "Can they bring their families to Science City?"

Zheng Li: “No, the Science City will only have researchers.”

Li Miaomiao said helplessly: "Then how can they reunite with their families?
Is it possible that we will be in a long-distance relationship forever?

But if you can bring your family, it’s hard for Science City to maintain the pure atmosphere you want.”

Zheng Li explained: "This is a complete solution. Lion City and Science City can complement each other very well.

For researchers with families, they can live in Singapore and work remotely through virtual reality equipment.

For experiments that require on-site visits, just take public transportation to Science City.

Lion City is a functional city.”

CERN, which is headed by Zheng Li and is still the number one manager, has many researchers who Zheng Li thinks are good.

But given Zheng Li's control over CERN, there would be no difference between them being at CERN and at the Science City.

"Are you so sure that Malaysia will give you the land?"

"All intelligent life forms have desires. If I can offer a bargaining chip that the other party cannot refuse, the other party will naturally accept my conditions."

After doing business with the bigwigs in America, Zheng Li saw through their nature of having only resources but no spirit.

Individuals who do not possess great power but rely on capital or power to control a large amount of social resources will become mortals when they are old, no matter how strong their spirit and cognition are when they are young.

Human beings cannot fight against time. In the face of time, the principles that once existed will be compromised, and the interests that once could not be let go can now be let go.

Zheng Li can not only increase life expectancy, but also increase life expectancy by making you younger.

Simply put, it is not about letting you live another 30 years as an 80-year-old, but about letting you live to 80 years old as a 50-year-old.

This is an interest that human beings in power cannot resist at all.

Not to mention that Zheng Li asked for very little, neither his power nor his wealth, just some marginal land.

Even if Zheng Lixiang wants Johor Bahru, Malaysia will agree.

Johor Bahru is a Malaysian city separated from Lion City by a bridge and connected to Lion City by a causeway. More than 100,000 people travel between Lion City and Johor Bahru every day.

“Take the World Cup as an example. The total revenue of the World Cup has been increasing, and the revenue of the 2030 World Cup will reach billion US dollars.

This time, Kechuang Bio is selling the live broadcast rights for five years and will not sell it again.

The popularity is no less than that of the five World Cups.

The price we offer must be at least tens of billions of dollars.”

Li Miaomiao handed over the task of reselling the virtual world live broadcast rights to other executives.

The solution that the executive came up with was a secret-price auction.

Tell them about this, and then everyone will find a time to hold a meeting, submit their prices, and the five companies with the highest bids will win the bid.

“Isn’t 10 billion too expensive? After all, it’s not unlimited live broadcast rights.

If we can only live broadcast one person, it is difficult for us to guarantee that this person will be liked enough.

If it is unlimited, we can hire as many people as we want and open as many live broadcast windows as we want.

Then I would not hesitate at all. Let alone 10 billion, I don't think 20 billion US dollars is expensive.

But the problem is that with only one person, the risk is too high.

Even if we choose the most popular anchor on the market right now, there is no guarantee that he will be popular with the majority of viewers.

Able to broadcast content that is attractive enough to the audience.

What if we spend tens of billions to buy the live broadcast rights, but by the time the number of viewers is less than a million? "

“To put it bluntly, this deal cannot be measured in money at all.

First of all, as one of the five companies with live broadcasting rights, our growth in the capital market alone is enough to cover the 10 billion.

Secondly, after the purchase, we discuss advertising placement with major brand manufacturers to see if this can cover part of the cost.

Furthermore, have you ever thought about the fact that we don’t have it, but ByteDance does, how big an impact will it have on Tencent?

We can also change people midway, and we can change people frequently, until we find an anchor that everyone is satisfied with.”

“Yes, I want to say that after we obtain the live broadcast rights, we will not let one anchor broadcast for 24 hours.

Instead, different anchors take turns broadcasting live in the virtual world, interspersed with some programs.

For example, host A broadcasts for two hours first, and then the commentators explain his behavior and some story background of the virtual world, etc., and then host B takes over.

Then when the anchors encounter some interesting main plots, they can be given the camera throughout the whole process.

If one person broadcasts 24 hours non-stop, wouldn't that be like The Truman Show? "

What finally moved Pony and made him spend a huge amount of money to buy the live broadcast rights was this sentence: if others have it, I must have it too.

"Geely, ByteDance, Google, Microsoft and Apple bought the rights to broadcast live in the virtual world for approximately 10 billion yuan.

It is reported that after several rounds of negotiations, the above five Internet companies from China and America each bought the virtual world live broadcast rights of Ke Chuang Biotechnology for a period of five years.

According to insiders, just to purchase the live broadcast rights of the virtual world, each Internet giant has spent more than 10 billion yuan, and the one who spent the most is close to 20 billion yuan.

Kechuang Biotechnology has made a commitment that within five years, only these five companies will be able to obtain the live broadcast rights.”

An international media outlet first broke the news on Twitter, and then a large number of media outlets quickly followed suit.

After "Future" was officially released to the public, due to its extremely small production, opening up the right to live broadcast in the virtual world has become the hottest proposal during this period.

What everyone didn't expect was that Ke Chuang Biotechnology did open up the live broadcast rights, but not in the way everyone thought, but authorized it to a limited number of companies.

After foreign media reported the news, domestic media reprinted it.

Tencent and ByteDance also joined in the fun at the right time. After all, these two brothers who were fighting each other till death bought it.

How could I not take advantage of the popularity?

"Geely will start live streaming in the virtual world in the near future, so please stay tuned."

“Want to watch live broadcasts of the virtual world? All the exciting content is on TikTok.”

The advertisements of the two major manufacturers filled the vision of Chinese audiences.

Relevant advertisements can be seen in almost all apps.

Of course, ByteDance and Tencent are incompatible. You can’t see Tencent’s advertisements on ByteDance, and you can’t see ByteDance’s advertisements on Tencent.

"Science and Technology Innovation Biotechnology is really good at making money. It made 50 billion US dollars in one go, which is equivalent to the combined net profit of PetroChina for five years. It's really too ruthless."

“It still requires high technology. I have seen how technology monopolies make money.

In the past, only the Americans could reap our profits, but now Chinese companies can also reap the profits of the Americans by relying on their technological monopoly.”

“As a future user, I am very dissatisfied. The live broadcast function can be opened, but it is deliberately not opened, and the permission is sold to Internet giants.

This is a disregard for the rights of players. "

"That's enough for the above. If you are not satisfied, just return the product. It's obvious that you just want to take advantage of this wave of traffic.

Unexpectedly, Ke Chuang Bio will not let you get the traffic at all. If you want to get this wave of traffic, you can only sign a contract to sell yourself to Tencent.

It's urgent. "

“It’s true. Because I bought my future, I became a relatively well-known up-loader on Bilibili, and ByteDance just contacted me.

Asked me if I was interested in being a virtual world anchor.

I'm quite interested, and I plan to go talk to ByteDance tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)