Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 697: Three Years of Sword-making, Self-developed Power
Under the personal guidance of Chen Mo and the full support of the Douyin platform, the "Ten Sons of Douyin" have risen rapidly, with each member growing into a top-tier anchor on the platform, with millions of loyal fans, and each demonstrating unique professional charm in their vertical field.

At this moment, in the two Douyin live broadcast rooms officially operated by Bianhua, two ace anchors among the "Ten Sons" are launching a unique PK of selling products for "The Return of the Great Sage".

Here is the live broadcast room of the special blind box of Higanbana:

"There are six in a box, and there will be no duplicates. It's only 180 yuan. If you buy a whole box, you will also get a free movie ticket for "The Return of the Great Sage". There is also a chance to win a hidden model. Family members, go for it!"

"This figure is made of high-toughness PVC material, and look at the texture and feel of the Monkey King's armor. According to the information we have obtained, the cost price of this hidden version of the Monkey King is as high as the selling price of this box."

"As the film "The Return of the Great Sage" has become the No. 1 box office hit in China, this official figurine is of great collection value."

"If you are quick, you will miss out. If you miss this batch, you may not be able to get it later."

In the next live broadcast room, the host showed various levels of Monkey King collectible cards.

"Like SP Monkey King, Scholar Demon King Chaos, UP Little White Dragon. The probability of our Monkey King cards is all publicized."

"The rarest one is the director's autographed card. The chance of getting one is 0.01%. That's one in a million~"

"Each pack costs 10 yuan, and contains 10 cards. Each pack will definitely produce an SR card, and there is a 10% chance of drawing an SSR card. The BP, SP, and UP of each large box depend on your luck."

"And as the card level increases, the production process will also be different, such as SSR's 3D effect, BP's gold stamping process, and UP's flash card."

"Buy a whole box and get a free exquisite movie theme card book. The quantity is limited, first come first served."

Under this offensive, tens of thousands of viewers instantly flooded into the live broadcast room, and the barrage of comments on the screen was comparable to the rush for tickets during the Spring Festival travel rush.

Some people buy ten boxes in a row to draw hidden models, some people directly order a whole box to collect cards, and even a secondary market of "drawing on behalf of others" and "exchanging cards" has emerged.

But some products cannot be bought whenever you want. Since the preparation time for Higanbana is still short, even with the supply chain of Pop Mart and Kayou, the originally prepared inventory is being consumed at a terrifying rate.

In just three days, all the blind boxes and cards were sold out, with daily sales exceeding 5000 million.

Then we had to start pre-sale. Even so, in just a few days, we received the pre-sale money for January next year.
Even in the second-hand market Xianyu, the blind box with an original price of 30 yuan was sold for 60 yuan, and the hidden version was directly priced at 599 yuan, and the same was true for cards.

An analyst in the cultural and creative industry pointed out that "this is not only a victory for IP, but also an awakening of China's derivatives industry."

As one film critic said, "When the audience is willing to pay for the sentiment, the explosive power of horror really begins."

This hot scene made the media sigh that these people are "crazy"
Feng Ji doesn’t care whether the market is crazy or not. Anyway, he is almost driven crazy in the past half month.

Ever since the video of "Black Myth: Wukong" became a phenomenal internet event, they also took the trouble to put a recruitment email address at the end, hoping to use this film to attract top talents from the industry.

Because I initially thought there would be only a few hundred people, but now the number of unread emails in my mailbox has reached five digits, and it is about to "burst".

按照行业惯例的“10-3-1”筛选法（看10份简历，面试3人，录用1人），最终能招到10~20名顶尖人才就差不多了。

Now they can’t even read the resumes.

This allowed You Ke to finally experience the treatment that Ivy League College receives during its annual enrollment. The admission rate of one in a thousand is even more exaggerated than that of getting a job.

What gave Feng Ji even more headaches were the uninvited "pilgrims". The most outrageous one was a fanatical young man who rushed across provinces, carrying a bag and blocking the company's door, vowing to "dedicate himself to domestic 3A."

When asked about the technical details, he was hesitant and could not answer, and finally he had to settle for the next best thing and wanted to be a security guard...

Feng Ji was forced to post a notice on his official Weibo account, persuading everyone not to come to the office and disturb normal work, and put up a sign at the entrance of the company to "dissuade" those job seekers and clock-ins who came to the company.

Although the email explosion exceeded expectations, Feng Ji was not overwhelmed by the popularity and still maintained the previously set recruitment plan of 10 to 20 people.

He was very calm inside. The risk of doubling the size of the team was that the values ​​they originally had in common might be diluted, and the friction and clashes between various talents from all over the world would affect development efficiency and have the opposite effect.

He decided to spend at least three months to slowly screen and digest these resumes. After all, making stand-alone games requires passion, not enthusiasm.

In fact, it is relatively easy to deal with these job seekers and fanatical fans who come here for his reputation. What really gives Feng Ji a headache are the business cooperation requests that come in like a tide.

Publishers eyeing the issue, journalists pursuing the issue, venture capital firms waving their checkbooks, and all kinds of business brokers under the banner of "strategic cooperation"
Faced with this sudden commercial hunting, Feng Ji initially patiently declined one by one.

But when he found that his office was about to be broken into by lobbyists from all walks of life, he had to use the ultimate shield and could only move out the giant Buddha on the other side as a shield.

This trick really worked. After hearing the name of Bi'an, most investment institutions immediately gave up.

Only the old employer Tencent still refuses to give up.

On this day, Feng Ji's former direct supervisor came to his house in person, hoping to rekindle their old relationship.

"Yocar, you are from Tencent after all. How well did we cooperate in the DouZhengShen era? I think you should not refuse this investment for both public and private reasons. I promise that Tencent only wants 5% of the shares this time and will not interfere with operations."

It would have been fine if we didn't mention this, but once we did, Feng Ji got furious.

"How did Dou Zhan Shen fail 1326 days ago? Have you forgotten?! Want to invest? Sure, go find Bi'an. If Chen Mo agrees, I will accept your investment without hesitation!"

The other party was almost suffocated by Feng Ji's words.

After Feng Ji finished speaking, he deliberately placed the sign next to the note with the word "Uncle in the Hat" on the door, then walked in without looking back.

"It seems that what the big boss said is true. In this kind of environment, we really need to move!" On October 10, the lights went out for the midnight show, and the box office figures were confirmed as follows.

"GangJing" ended with 11 billion, but after breaking the 10 billion mark, it seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, with the single-day box office plummeting to the million level;
"Nine-story Demon Tower" crashed with a huge investment of 2.5 million yuan, and the final box office of less than 5 million yuan made the investors lose all their money;
"Saving Mr. Wu" completed a Jedi counterattack with a low screening schedule with 3.2 million yuan;

"Charlotte's Troubles", which cost only 5000 million yuan, raked in 13.14 billion yuan, becoming the most astonishing dark horse of the year.

But all eyes were focused on that earth-shattering number - "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" knocked "Monster Hunt" off the throne of domestic film history with an astonishing record of 26.68 billion.

Although "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" has a global box office of 4.08 million US dollars (about 26 billion RMB), ranking 101st on the global box office history list with a slight gap, only one step away from the "gatekeeper" "The Matrix 3" (4.24 million US dollars), this does not affect its status in the hearts of Chinese movie fans at all.

Once the box office data was released, it immediately caused an uproar on the Chinese Internet.

Chinese movie fans who have always been strong-willed have launched a support activity called "Send the Monkey King into the Top 100" under the organization of "Tap Water". Calls for "second and third viewings" have emerged on major social platforms, vowing to help this light of domestic animation break into the global top 100 list like "Havoc in Heaven".

Fans joked: "Sun Wukong didn't make it to the Lingxiao Palace back then, so we must make him into the top 100 this time!"

Faced with such high public opinion, Bian'an Pictures responded quickly.

After multiple coordinations with theaters, the screening key for "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" was finally confirmed to be postponed for another month, and will continue to be released until December 12.

This decision will undoubtedly inject a shot in the arm for the box office sprint.

Industry insiders predict that with the current average daily box office trend and the year-end movie-watching craze, there is no doubt that "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" will enter the top 100 global box office.

As for how high it can climb in the end, let's see what miracles this spontaneous "box office defense battle" by Chinese movie fans can create.

After all, this is no longer just a ranking battle for a movie, but also carries the dreams of animators from across the Taiwan Straits to go global and the expectations of hundreds of millions of viewers.

Even so, this victory is enough to shock the entire industry - it is the first time that Chinese animation has proved itself both commercially and artistically.

This was the moment of enshrining Chinese animation - when the Monkey King's golden cudgel split the screen, it not only shattered the industry curse of "animation is childish", but also announced to the world the rebirth of Chinese animation with its oriental aesthetics of ink-splashed landscapes and industrial-grade production standards.

Eighty thousand hand-painted original paintings, more than a thousand special effects shots, and three years of silent perseverance in the industry's cold winter finally blossomed the most dazzling light this summer.

What the market invests with real money is not only the box office, but also a vote of confidence in high-quality content.

When the entire industry is obsessed with the false prosperity of traffic stars, when capital games pile up empty special effects spectacles in front of the green screen, and when speculators use data falsification and marketing bombardment to try to squeeze every penny from the audience.

The script polishing, character arcs, emotional accumulation and technical accumulation, which are regarded by capital as "inefficient production capacity", burst out with amazing energy in every frame of "The Return of the Great Sage".

This 26 billion-dollar box office champion movie taught a lesson to all parties involved in the film and television industry: what can truly penetrate the times and reach people's hearts is always a good story full of sincerity.

The significance of this victory goes far beyond commercial success. It also sets a benchmark for the domestic animation industry. Although Monkey King has come this far, its appearance has illuminated the way forward for those who come after it.
This gives hope to other Chinese studios that are quietly polishing their works.

While the box office myth of "The Monkey King" is still lingering on the screen, keen capital has already smelled a new trend.

Investors who once disdained the animation industry are now pouring investment intentions into independent animation studios.

The explosion of movies, games and cultural creation has brought Bi'an back into the media's attention.

"The Monkey King: Hero is Back, topped the box office with 26 billion, the rise of Chinese animation!"

"Black Myth: Wukong's playback volume exceeds 30 million, and Game Science avoids visitors"

"Monkey King: Return peripheral products are snapped up, the cultural and creative industry is upgraded, and the Chinese comics IP is commercialized successfully!"

"The rumor about Bi'an acquiring Douban is not groundless. Relevant sources revealed that Bi'an has started a one-month due diligence"

Among them, 36Kr even launched an in-depth report titled "From the Surface of the Monkey King, Seeing the Value of Beyond Technology", which was like a huge rock thrown into the lake.

The article unravels the mystery and reveals the shocking truth about the industry:

The amazing landscape particle rendering of "The Return of the Great Sage" and the stunning "heavenly" engine performance of "Black Myth: Wukong" all come from the independent research and development of the Bi'an Innovation Research Institute.

As soon as the report came out, the technology area of ​​​​Bilibili was instantly boiling.

The hardcore UP hosts disassembled and compared the films overnight, and finally came to a surprising conclusion: although "The Monkey King" is slightly inferior to Disney in terms of the sophistication of character modeling, its original landscape particle technology has already achieved a curve overtaking of international giants - every stroke of ink flowing on the screen contains a physical algorithm with completely independent intellectual property rights.

What is even more exciting is that the "Tiangong" engine has been on par with international mainstream engines such as Unreal 5 and Unity in core indicators such as multi-threaded rendering and light and shadow processing.

True gold fears no fire. After passing the test of the "public judges", people suddenly realized that Bi'an had been quietly doing great things in the past few years.

It turns out that Xiaomo's enjoyment of the people and his indulgence in games on the other side were just appearances. All these funds were transformed into the core combat power of this technology company.

After a deep investigation by the resourceful netizens, it was found that Mi'an Xinsheng, which is currently emerging in the chip field, was also invested by Bi'an, and it started its layout as early as three years ago, and invested hundreds of billions in the past few years.

This technological carnival quickly spread across the entire network:

The number of views of the topic #大圣隐款黑盒# on Weibo exceeded 10 billion, and the hidden model was sold at 10 times the original price on Xianyu;
The cumulative number of views of Douyin's "Monkey King Blind Box Unboxing Challenge" has exceeded 50 billion times, and even intangible cultural heritage masters have joined the ranks of secondary creation;
Even CCTV's "Cultural Observation" defined this case as "from cultural confidence to industrial confidence."

In the office on the top floor of the Bi'an Building, these boiling social voices, record-breaking box office figures and enthusiastic user feedback, after layers of data integration and intelligent analysis, were finally condensed into a bold paragraph in a monthly report on Chen Mo's desk.

Chen Mo finished reading and flipped through it.
(End of this chapter)