Since we are both reborn, of course I would choose the rich woman!

Chapter 195 Signs of Crisis (6k subscription required)

On January 2015, 1, the "She Le Ge She" project team of Nanguangan Online Game Company joined.

Lu Yao was called by Chen Li, the boss of the "Shoot" project team, to attend a meeting.

But even when he sat in the meeting room of the project team's office, he was still a little confused.

Looking at the project team managers who kept entering the office, Lu Yao looked at Chen Li who was constantly browsing the PPT beside him. The other person's hair was dripping with oil, and the dark circles under his eyes were so dark that it looked like he hadn't slept for ten thousand years.

The winter in Shangnan is cold and dry, so the dead skin on Chen Li's lips is curled up, and there are dried bloody cuts.

Lu Yaoren is a little bit numb.

Huasheng Life has arranged a vacation for me, so Sister Wang was free last night and bought a bottle of good red wine to celebrate New Year's Day with me. After dinner, they went out for a walk and came back, and they stayed up very late before going to bed.

Lu Yao also arranged holidays for all the companies under his name.

The working environment in 2015 was still pretty good. There was no "wolf culture" like that of a certain company later on. The bigger the company, the better the implementation of the vacation system.

Lu Yao is now also the "big boss" who manages many large companies. Many things must be done in accordance with rules and regulations, otherwise the operation of the entire system will be a mess.

But the system is the system.

Some project teams under the company are too eager to make progress.

For example, the "Shoot a Shot" project team.

Lu Yao had clearly given them a holiday, but Chen Li still called back all the management of his project team for a meeting. You are such a pushover!
If you want to roll it, just roll it yourself. Why are you pulling me, the boss, up to roll it?

Lu Yao felt numb after being woken up by Chen Li's series of life-threatening calls early in the morning.

Before I became a boss, I was rolled around like a dog. Now that I am a boss, I am still rolled around like a dog. Doesn’t that mean I have been a boss for nothing?

Lu Yao looked at Chen Li who was concentrating on the meeting and opened his mouth to speak, but stopped. Finally, he said, "Brother Chen, you can hold similar meetings on your own in the future. Send me the briefing after the meeting and I will take a look."

Chen Li paused when he heard this, then turned his gaze away from the laptop screen and looked at Lu Yao.

That look was like the one Zhuge Liang gave to Liu Bei when he made a straw hat for him. The suspicion and surprise in his eyes almost became real.

"My lord, do you have no ambitions?"

Chen Li almost blurted out this sentence, but he took a deep breath and said, "Boss Lu! I have received news that the person in charge of the "Legend of the Brave" project team at Penguin has been moving around like crazy recently. He not only took back the promotional resources that were taken away from Guangliang Studio."

"We also brought back a lot of resources."

Chen Li pulled his notebook over and showed it to Lu Yao. "This is an open letter from Penguin. It is a letter from Zeng Lun to his direct superior. The letter is passionate and full of fighting spirit, and it is deeply loved by the management of Penguin Interactive Entertainment Group."

This open letter was sent to the mailbox of Penguin Interactive Entertainment Group last night.

This email details the future prospects of mobile games and also explains in detail the huge choice and challenge that Penguin is now facing.

Especially the commotion caused by Lu Yao and others from Shangnan. In Zeng Lun's email, Zeng Lun described Shangnan as an almost unstoppable unicorn-level emerging online game company.

Every move and action made by Guang'an Online Games recently has unexpected decisions.

For example, the "PVE+PVP" gameplay.

For example, in the current environment, the gold-earning and brick-moving gameplay on the computer is transplanted to the mobile terminal.

For example, Lu Yao cooperated with Xiaomi Interactive Entertainment and ByteDance to join forces to create a new "social + game" architecture for the Internet.

Zeng Lun simply described Guangan Network as the lifelong enemy of Penguin.

This open letter from within Penguin shows that Penguin Interactive Entertainment Group is optimistic about Zeng Lun's performance. It is also a wake-up call from the management of the Interactive Entertainment Group to its four major studios.

Because so far, the four major game groups that have been broken up and reorganized have not produced any outstanding performance, especially the Guangliang Game Studio, which has almost seized the best and most powerful force in Tencent's game business.

However, from the end of 2013 to the present, Light Studio has not achieved any outstanding results, which has caused the management of the Interactive Entertainment Group to complain about Light Studio.

In the original timeline, although Guangliang Studio had always been highly anticipated, it just didn't live up to expectations.

The only achievement it has to show off is the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds mobile game, which was a 1:1 replica. After the version number was issued and the game was changed from free to paid, the gaming experience plummeted.

Then it gradually cooled down.

Of course, this is not the fault of the amount of light, but the popularity of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has nothing to do with the amount of light.

In mid-2015, Guanglianghui launched their self-developed MOBA mobile game "King of Glory" based on "League of Legends". Although the game performed well at the beginning, its market share was quickly squeezed out after "Heroes of War" was re-developed.

Now, the Interactive Entertainment Group suddenly released Zeng Lun's research email on the last day of 2014. The person who is under the most pressure at Penguin is probably Chen Yu, the president of Light Studio.

This email has not been widely circulated yet. It is estimated that after New Year's Day, this open letter will appear in the industry news in the gaming circle.

Guangan Network will also become a little popular because of this.

But Penguin takes Guang'an Online Games so seriously that they even made Zeng Lun's research email public, which shows that Penguin is serious this time.

Because Lu Yao really touched the reverse scale of Penguin, the Internet giant.

The Internet concept of "social + game" has always been exclusive to Penguin. Now someone wants to rush in and challenge them, and Penguin can't stand it.

However, Lu Yao is no longer the Lu Yao of the past. With Xiaomi Interactive Entertainment and ByteDance working together with him, Lu Yao even wants to give Penguin a try.

In 2014, the market value of Penguin was around 1000 billion US dollars.

Xiaomi's market valuation is only half of Penguin's, and ByteDance's valuation is only US$5 million.

But the entrepreneurial core and resilience of these two teammates cannot be underestimated. In ten years, ByteDance's market value will surpass that of Penguin, and Xiaomi's market value will be comparable to that of Penguin.

Both of these companies have emerged from the shadows of Internet giants such as Penguin and Alibaba.

This time, with Lu Yao who has a future perspective and the energy Lu Yao has accumulated over the past year and a half, they... have a chance.

Of course, they can't surpass the Penguins in all aspects, but it's also difficult for the Penguins to defeat them easily.

Chen Li continued, "I have received news that Penguin has not only increased its investment in Brave Legend, but there are also rumors that they are working hard to develop plug-ins to target our game."

Lu Yao had never heard of this, so he immediately became serious: "Is it true?"

Chen Li shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter whether it's true or not. What matters is that since the rumor has spread and our game can really make money, we must be on guard."

Cheats are extremely harmful to all games.

Many very fun games gradually become unpopular because of poor management by the operators, which leads to failed in game operations and the proliferation of plug-ins. Over time, players get tired of the games and lose interest in them.

Just like the later "Apex".

Is this game fun?
It's fun.

Is this game running well?
If you ask 100 Apex players, 200 of them will tell you that the management of this game is shit! Not only can they not control the cheats, but they even want to destroy their own skills and cut off many game settings that can perform cool operations, causing players to complain.

While they were chatting, all the management members of the "Shoot It" project team had arrived.

Chen Li started the meeting immediately. He first used his opening remarks to affirm everyone’s work results last year, and then took out an open letter from Penguin to put pressure on everyone while encouraging them.

And look ahead to the end of the year one and a half months later.

When he got to this point, Chen Li pulled Lu Yao up and asked Lu Yao to tell him the year-end incentives they had agreed upon.

This is why Chen Li must pull Lu Yao over. Everyone comes out to work to make money, and the year-end dividend guarantee is always a little lacking for Chen Li. It would be perfect for Lu Yao to do it.

Lu Yao was not a stingy person, and he immediately agreed to increase the year-end dividend ratio. As long as everyone performed well, everyone could have a good year.

Having worked under Lu Yao for so long, everyone is well aware of the treatment in Lu Yao's company. Since Lu Yao has made a guarantee, as long as they perform well, they will definitely make a lot of money at the end of the year.

As soon as Lu Yao finished speaking, a member of the management team laughed and said, "Can we invite Mr. Zhu to join us at the annual meeting?"

All the resources under Zhu Junyan's control are of marginal value. After trying it once, these IT and engineering guys became addicted to it.

Lu Yao knows IT and engineering men too well.

What Mr. Wang of AAA Building Materials likes most is not eating coriander.

Therefore, in the years when the economic situation was good, young girls with internet celebrity faces were particularly popular, among which IT men and science and engineering men were the main consumer group of those who "don't like vegetables".

Lu Yao worked with a female middle-level manager in the Ju Factory for some time. She told Lu Yao that there were many people in their company who particularly liked "Bu Chi Cilantro". The most exaggerated one among them was that he was lured by Bu Chi Cilantro three times in a row and most of his annual salary of one million was taken away, but he was still happy to do it.

After hearing what the IT guy said just now, many managers cast hopeful glances at Lu Yao.

Lu Yao laughed and said, "Do you still need to ask me this? Can't you just go and talk to Mr. Zhu yourself?"

Everyone couldn't help but smile knowingly when they heard this. Giving enough money and giving good women has always been the best way to boost morale.

After talking about motivation, everyone immediately entered into discussion mode, expressed their opinions on how to proceed with the next work, and put forward many constructive suggestions.

Especially for the upcoming hacking attacks, the technical team assured: "We will do a good job of protection and try our best to prevent hacking from affecting our games."

Lu Yao listened to them discussing technical issues and was completely confused.

He doesn't know much about technology, but he knows that there is a party in the Internet industry that has very strong technology, especially in network security protection, and that is 360.

How perverted is 360?

In the future, it has been incorporated and participated in the protection of national network security. It can not only block massive overseas network attacks, but also trace the source and dig out national-level hackers.

Then many of these overseas state-level hackers suddenly died.

The two most exaggerated achievements are -

He installed a bird wallpaper on a computer in a particularly high-security network, and then during the AI ​​battle, 360 and all domestic network defense agencies forced the opponent to play the "Great Compassion Mantra" at the highest volume. In addition to the previous grievances between 360 and Penguin, Lu Yao was thinking, can 360 also be involved?

But Lu Yao thought about it and let it go.

The uncle in red has the reputation of "investment beacon" in the Internet industry. Basically, every investment he makes goes bankrupt. Although this rumor is ridiculous and unscientific, how can a businessman not be superstitious?

Just like Emperor Li Pao who was very popular on the Internet later, whenever he cooperated with a big internet celebrity, that big internet celebrity would be in trouble. Even Pan Hong in the park could not withstand the curse of Emperor Li Pao. He could be called a human-shaped luck devourer.

So after thinking about it, Lu Yao gave up the idea of ​​cooperating with 360.

When it comes to technical ability, he has Brother Wang!

So when the meeting was over, Lu Yao pulled Chen Li and Brother Wang into a small group to chat.

Lv Yao: "@Wang Ge, I'm in trouble."

Wang Shan: “[Question]?”

Lu Yao: "Didn't I just go online with Penguin? Now Penguin is preparing to develop a cheat to deal with me."

Wang Shan: “No big deal.”

The confidence of technology giants is so awesome.

Technical competition is like solving math problems. If you know how to do it, you know how to do it. If you don’t know how to do it, you don’t know how to do it. When you meet together, you will be judged immediately.

Chen Li couldn't help scratching his chin when he saw Wang Shan being so nonchalant in the group. He knew there was a master behind Guangan Network, but not one so powerful that he didn't even take Penguin seriously... Who is this big shot?

With Wang Shan protecting him in terms of Internet security, Lu Yao feels very relieved.

He continued to make a request, "It would be best if we could trace the user of the cheat so that I can send them to a stable job."

Wang Shan replied “OK” in the group, and then there was no further movement.

After the chat, Lu Yao yawned and stretched, then leaned back in his chair and said to Chen Li, "The cheats are handed over to Brother Wang. You guys should do a good job of operation here. Don't overly disrupt the balance of the dungeon gameplay. You must keep your promise about limited edition skins and enhanced equipment. I would rather not make money than have a bad reputation."

Chen Li nodded and said, "With you watching, I definitely won't do that."

Lu Yao flipped through his recent work log and found that "She Le Ge She" had already launched the only limited mythical skin for 2015.

This skin is a "limited-time mythical skin" and there are only 24 of them in the entire server. Each one has a different theme, corresponding to the 2015 solar terms in 24.

The way to obtain this skin is to clear the latest level of the dungeon, the 45th floor "Endless Maze", where there is a chance it will drop.

And the chance of dropping is very low.

However, because of its attached "year" logo, "limited edition" logo, and built-in new actions, voice, and special effects, this 2015 limited-time skin has attracted strong attention from many people in the game as soon as it was released.

Many big guys and brick-moving studios have begun to frantically stockpile equipment and supplies, preparing to impact the newly opened 45th floor and to get the limited edition skins out as soon as possible.

For this skin, Lu Yao has also made preparations for marketing.

So after the meeting, Lu Yao said, "When this year's solar term skin is released, notify me immediately."

Chen Li: “Okay!”

Lu Yao stood up and said, "Then I'll go back and take a nap."

After being called to a meeting by Chen Li early in the morning, Lu Yao's energy level had already reached its lowest point.

Although he was very busy every day before New Year's Day, Lu Yao would always let himself sleep until he woke up naturally no matter how busy he was.

Waking up naturally and being woken up and forced to turn on the phone are two completely different experiences. When Lu Yao works as a corporate slave in the future, the sound he hates most but has to hear every morning is the radar ringtone of his iPhone.

That thing was like poison. Every time it sounded, Lu Yao's heart felt uncomfortable.

But if you don't use that thing and use other ringtones, the effect of waking people up is particularly poor.

Therefore, Lu Yao, who has become the boss, hates being woken up and getting up early, but he did not expect that this time he would be managed upwards by his subordinates and forced to turn on the computer.

When I got home, Sister Wang, who had just taken a nap, had already gone out.

Lu Yao packed up everything again and lay down on the bed to recover his energy.

……

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Yao finally regained his energy and woke up naturally from the bed.

When he woke up, the air outside the window was cold and chilly, but the sunlight was very bright. The bedroom in Sister Wang's apartment was very warmly decorated, so Lu Yao felt very comfortable when he woke up after a good sleep.

If you sleep until four or five in the afternoon, with the dim sunset outside the window and the cold winter atmosphere, the feeling of being abandoned by the whole world is really terrible.

Lu Yao got up and made himself a cup of coffee, then picked up his phone and started browsing the content on it.

His current group has a lot of information.

This is the result after transferring a lot of information to Lin Yongzhen and Liu Mulin.

If Lu Yao had to handle all the information, he would not be able to finish reading all the information every day.

Lu Yao was wearing a bathrobe, drinking coffee and eating snacks in the heated room, while replying to messages on his mobile phone.

As he was replying, he saw two text messages from Jian Xiaojie: "Where are you?"

Then came the message a few minutes later: "Reply to me when you wake up."

The one with Jian Xiaojie was a message from Rong Nianqing: "Are you free tonight? Let's get together on New Year's Eve."

Lu Yao first called Jian Xiaojie.

The call was quickly connected, and Jian Xiaojie on the other end immediately said, "Are you awake?"

Lu Yao said apologetically, "I was called to a meeting early in the morning, and I turned off the sound of my phone when I came back to catch up on my sleep."

However, it shouldn’t be a big problem on Jian Xiaojie’s side. If the problem is particularly serious, she will come directly to your house.

Jian Xiaojie said on the phone: "It's okay, Nianqing should be looking for you. Let's meet later and chat together."

It was only then that Lu Yao realized that what Jian Xiaojie and Rong Nianqing encountered might not be particularly urgent, but it should be very serious, so serious that they had to find Lu Yao to get a preventive measure in advance.

Lu Yao replied: "Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yao immediately began to check in his mind whether there was anything particularly important that happened in 2015.

After a thorough investigation, no information related to Rong Nianqing's family was found.

Lu Yao knew that many things could not be seen at the moment, and many things would not surface until several years or even ten years later, with some clues being revealed through many seemingly irrelevant, even ridiculous and nonsensical things.

Just like what was described in a later TV series of the highest level, many of the things in it would not be clear to you what they were trying to convey even if they were made into a TV series.

After Lu Yao went over many things about the future in his mind, he suddenly thought of something that would happen in the distant future.

The famous online historical writer "Yang Jinshui" suddenly went crazy.

Lu Yao's scalp suddenly felt a little numb.

"Yang Jinshui" once worked in Haijin. Yang Jinshui's benefactor was also a big shot from Haijin, and the Rong family was very powerful in Haijin.

Lu Yao immediately turned on the computer at home and searched for relevant information.

So he saw that Yang Jinshui was already the third in command of a company, but in Lu Yao's memory, this glorious Yang Jinshui would suddenly become the deputy general manager of a cultural company in 2016.

Through various clues, Lu Yao realized that between 2015 and 2018, Rong Nianqing's family might not have had an easy time.

After 2018, as the domestic real estate bubble grows bigger and the game of passing the parcel becomes unstoppable, the Rong family, a leader in the financial circle, will return to the center of the stage.

However, by that time, the Rong family might not be far from collapse.

After deleting all the search and browsing history, Lu Yao leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to meditate.

He probably knew what Rong Nianqing and Jian Xiaojie wanted to talk to him about, and he also knew why Sister Wang was thrown into prison in the original future, and why Jian Xiaojie failed to rescue her good sister after all her efforts.

In the next one or two years, I am afraid that people like Jian Xiaojie will disappear from the group.

In other words, the crisis facing Sister Wang, Jian Xiaojie, and even Rong Nianqing came earlier than Lu Yao expected.

"call--"

The more Lu Yao thought about it, the colder he felt, and the more numb his scalp became.

He hadn't even sat down to eat yet, but because of the choices he had made along the way, he was passively drawn into the struggle in the Heavenly Palace. Or perhaps this was normal.

If something changes in heaven, the first to suffer will definitely be the demons in the lower world.

Just like in the billion-dollar movie "Ne Zha", the battle to become the gods has not yet begun, but the Immortal Wuliang has already started leading the monster hunting team to hunt down monsters and make them into elixirs.

After thinking about all kinds of things in his mind, Lu Yao took a shower and then began to prepare clothes and accessories for the evening.

Especially at times like this, the more we need to stay calm.

God’s defeat always begins with the first sign of defeat.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Lu Yao received the meeting place and time sent by Rong Nianqing. Their meeting place was in a manor between Zhongshan Mountain and Moling Lake. Sister Wang, Jian Xiaojie, Gan Xiaoxi and others would all be there.

(End of this chapter)