Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 578 Da da da da da...

Cheng Yi glanced through the documents and smiled, "Very well done."

Upon receiving Cheng Yi's praise, Du Yusheng's face immediately lit up with a happy smile.

It's like a child who has gained the approval of their father...

As Momo Group has developed to its current state, Du Yusheng's admiration for Cheng Yi has almost reached the point of blind devotion.

He was essentially Lu Wan, the man who served Liu Bang, and was so blindly confident that he believed Liu Bang could kill Xiang Yu in a one-on-one fight.

Just like now, Du Yusheng never thought that Momo Group would be unable to beat Microsoft. In his eyes, who is Microsoft anyway?
[Lu Wan: Brother, back when you were the village head of Sishui, you never lost a fight. Who does Xiang Yu think he is? Why don't you challenge him to a duel and show him what he's made of.]

[Du Yusheng: Boss, you've never lost a battle since you started your business. Who does Microsoft think they are? You should go head-to-head with them and show these foreigners what's what.]

Du Yusheng's admiration for Cheng Yi had reached the point of superstition, after all, he had personally witnessed Cheng Yi go from having nothing to his current scale.

That's even more outrageous than cheating.

Cheng Yi glanced at the excited Du Yusheng and said, "Although Zhang Lingyu is in charge of e-sports, she already has too many things to handle. Letting her take the lead is just to mobilize more internet cafe resources to boost the e-sports industry. Therefore, someone else needs to be in charge of the e-sports industry."

Cheng Yi thought for a moment and said, "Let's tentatively choose Su Duo. She has enough connections in Handong Province, understands the e-sports industry quite well, and she's also Sun Baxin's woman. Right now, the one who most wants the e-sports industry to rise is probably this guy."

"Okay." Du Yusheng nodded quickly and said, "I'll have my secretary draft the appointment letter later."

"Hmm." Cheng Yi then asked, "Have the results of the fifth test for the government and enterprise system come out yet?"

Du Yusheng said frankly, "It's out, and the response has been pretty good. However, our computer system is still in its early stages, and its stability is still slightly lacking."

“During this period, you don’t need to worry about anything else. Just focus all your energy on the procurement of the government and enterprise operating system. You can even live at Yu Sen’s company. I only have one requirement: in the government and enterprise operating system procurement in October, we must win a portion of the market, at least 20%.” Cheng Yi said very seriously.

"Yes." Du Yusheng nodded quickly.

Cheng Yi slowly said, "The core of our conflict with Microsoft lies here. If we can't get into the procurement of government and enterprise operating systems, then all the beatings we've endured over the past year will have been for nothing."

"I understand." Du Yusheng also felt an unprecedented weight on his shoulders.

The procurement of government and enterprise operating systems in Handong Province is now basically without problems.

However, the market share of Handong Province is only 8% of the national market, and it will be very difficult to capture the remaining 12%.

Although Moc-OS systems are becoming increasingly mature and stable, many government and enterprise software environments are still built based on Microsoft systems. Changing them abruptly would not only involve a large amount of engineering work, but also increase subsequent maintenance costs.

Although they could use patriotism to blackmail these government-enterprise platforms, Cheng Yi does not intend to do so.

If you want to get a share of the operating system market, you have to show real strength.

Those who only know how to make a living by patriotism will only find their path narrowing.

Users' choices must be based on the fact that the Moc-os system is comparable to Microsoft's system, not on moral blackmail.

The more demanding the users are, the faster the Moc-os system will improve.

Unconditional praise and flattery not only fail to solve the problem, but can also make it more complicated.

At this moment, in a dark alley in Jingzhou City, at an illegal internet cafe.

"Snap! Snap! Snap! Tap tap tap tap tap—!"

The dense and frantic sound of keyboard typing almost drowned out the upbeat music emanating from the cheap speakers in the internet cafe.

The sound didn't come from just a few machines; it permeated the entire internet cafe.

These teenagers all had ferocious faces and bloodshot eyes. Their right thumbs or index fingers were like motors, frantically pounding the poor space bar on the keyboard with a frequency and force that was almost self-destructive.

Each strike carries a fierce force, as if it wants to smash the keyboard to pieces.

"Perfect! A combo! Get me a combo!!" a blond-haired teenager roared, his thumb dropping 30% faster with spittle flying everywhere.

On the screen, his virtual character's dance moves were dazzling, the judgment aperture was perfectly explosive, and his score was far ahead of the competition.

"Brother Guang is awesome!"

"Guang Ge's keyboard typing speed is simply the fastest in the entire region."

The praise and eulogies around him made the blond-haired teenager lose himself. He frantically pounded on the clapper while cursing, "Damn it, these trash dare to bully my wife, they're asking for it, I'll stomp them to death!"

Behind the counter, the internet cafe owner's face was contorted in a grimace.

The spacebar keycaps on most of the keyboards in his internet cafe are now visibly loose, with even tiny cracks appearing on the edges, creaking under the strain of each heavy pounding.

"Damn it, go easy on me!" The shop owner finally couldn't take it anymore, standing up and shouting, "This keyboard is pretty expensive..."

But the teenagers ignored the boss's nagging and continued to do as they pleased.

You own an internet cafe and you're worried about your keyboard?

If you feel bad about it, then don't drive it!
"Da da da da da—!" The knocking became even more intense.

Seeing this, the internet cafe owner couldn't help but sigh and looked down at his hand, which had just been bandaged a few days ago.

A few days ago, he forcibly stopped this crazy keyboard-typing behavior, but the price he paid was that he almost lost a finger. Some hothead said, "If you can't afford it, then don't drive," and then he couldn't help but slap the hothead.

So, that hothead went out and bought a fruit knife and came back. If he hadn't been quick enough to grab the blade, he would have been banned by that hothead.

From then on, the internet cafe owner became indifferent. He had a family, a business, a wife and children; why would he bother with these lowly scumbags?

However, he was also well aware that if things continued this way, the keyboards in his internet cafe wouldn't last a week, and they'd be considered to be of high quality if they could even last three days.

This is the third batch of keyboards we've replaced this month.

I used to not be able to change this many times in a year.

The same scene is playing out in countless illegal internet cafes, and even in some Momo Internet Cafes that have secretly installed Windows.

The cheat for "Audition Online" perfectly stimulated the competitive spirit and destructive desires of teenagers with its simple and brutal mechanism of "the harder you hit, the stronger the cheat becomes".

Keyboards, especially the space bar, became the most direct consumable item in this nationwide frenzy.

KFC Member Service Center, Xinjiekou Store, Jingzhou City.

The store manager's hands were trembling as he looked at the weekly loss report that had just been delivered.

"Another...another 72 keyboards broke?" He could hardly believe his eyes, muttering, "We only have 300 machines in total! And so many have broken down in just one week?"

The network administrator at the service center said helplessly, "Manager, there's nothing we can do. Ours is considered to have low energy consumption. Those young people who play Audition Online are hitting the spacebar like crazy, with terrifying force. And they won't let us say anything. If you get angry, they'll even smash the monitor. Our keyboards simply can't withstand that kind of abuse. Besides, we're getting a lot of complaints now. Many customers are saying that the spacebar doesn't bounce back properly, which is affecting their performance."

The store manager slowly sat down in the chair, seemingly unsure of what to say.

He knew the internet cafe manager wasn't lying.

In order to rapidly expand these service centers, KFC has been controlling costs, and the keyboards it purchases are mid-range keyboards ordered in bulk, with a unit price of just over one hundred Chinese yuan.

Even if the price isn't high, the sheer quantity makes up for it!

With over 2000 KFC service centers nationwide and more than 60 computers, the number of keyboards that need to be replaced every week would be astronomical if calculated based on this failure rate.

The monthly procurement costs alone are approaching 5000 million RMB.

This doesn't even include the cost of manual replacement and the resulting decline in customer experience.

With trembling hands, he dialed the regional manager's number and said, "Manager... the keyboards... a lot of the keyboards are broken again. Please send us another batch of keyboards. It's not much, just a hundred yuan will do."

On the other end of the phone, the regional manager's voice was filled with exhaustion and anxiety: "Let's hold off on this batch of keyboards for now. We're out of stock. There's a meeting going on right now, with people from Microsoft and T3 there too. They're practically at each other's throats. You just have to hold on and try... try to minimize the frequency of replacements..."

"How can we reduce that?" the store manager couldn't help but ask. "If customers can't play the game, they'll start cursing."

"Then let him rant for a while. It won't hurt him to rant for a while, will it?" The other person hung up the phone after saying that.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the conference room at T3 Company's headquarters was so heavy it was almost palpable.

Microsoft Asia Pacific President Johnson and Samsung Group President Lee Jae-young were both present, and neither of them looked too happy.

“One month! Just one month!” Johnson said coldly, “Because of the abnormal and large-scale damage to the keyboards, KFC’s operating costs have surged by 300%, and the customer complaint rate has risen sharply. This has seriously affected MSN’s strategy of promoting itself through KFC channels!”

After Johnson finished venting, T3 CEO Mueller wiped the cold sweat from his brow, looked at Minister Park of the Anti-Cheating Department, and said, "Minister Park, do you have anything to say?"

T3's Minister Park, sweating profusely, explained, "We've been doing everything we can to trace the source of Audition Online, but their technology is very strange. They're extremely good at disguising their data, and banning accounts can easily mistakenly affect ordinary players... Moreover, it's very difficult for us to completely eliminate players' physical behavior through software..."

“Those are not excuses!” Before Mueller could speak, Lee Jae-yong said in a deep voice, “It is the failure of your game mechanics and anti-cheat system that led to this destructive behavior! Now, you must come up with a solution immediately!”

"A solution?" Minister Park smiled wryly. "The short-term solution is to force an update to the game and increase monitoring of consecutive Ps. If the threshold is exceeded, the player will be disconnected or warned. But this will greatly affect the player experience and may even cause greater dissatisfaction."

“Or…” He paused, his voice lower, and said, “I suggest that KFC purchase more… more durable keyboards. I heard that Microsoft has a high-end ergonomic keyboard that can withstand more than 200 million keystrokes. Perhaps we could…”

"Are you kidding us?" Lee Jae-yong was so angry he laughed, and couldn't help but yell, "Do you know how much it would cost to replace all 60 computers with keyboards? Even if we paid for all the membership fees and game revenue, it wouldn't be enough!"

Johnson raised his hand and said, "Hey? I think what this person said makes a lot of sense. Replacing it with a higher-end keyboard is indeed a very good solution. Our newly launched ergonomic keyboard from Microsoft can withstand not just more than 200 million keystrokes, but more than 1000 million keystrokes."

Lee Jae-young never expected that Johnson would suddenly turn around and support this damn guy who should be fired.

He said in a deep voice, "According to Mr. Johnson, our Samsung DT35 keyboard can withstand more than 500 million keystrokes, and it only costs $30, which is half the price of your ergonomic keyboard."

"As far as I know, some KFC service centers use your DT35 keyboards, but I've heard that they've already been replaced with a different batch. Is that true?" Johnson retorted with a smile.

“It’ll be the same if you replace your keyboard with an ergonomic one,” Lee Jae-yong said with some dissatisfaction. “You and I both know that the so-called 500 million and 1000 million keystrokes are tests conducted under constant and gentle typing conditions. These tests do not include violent typing. No matter how good the keyboard is, if you punch it hard, it won’t last more than a few hundred keystrokes.”

Seeing these two big shots arguing over keyboards, Mu Ye was at his wits' end.

Look at this, what kind of mess is this?
KFC President Clark, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but say, "Gentlemen, the keyboard issue is a minor matter. Our service center can use half of the keyboards from Microsoft and half from Samsung's DT35 keyboards, which is fine. But the most important thing now is how to completely resolve this issue."

Clark sighed and said, "To be honest, we are under a lot of financial pressure right now. We just acquired more than a thousand illegal internet cafes and replaced nearly 100 million keyboards. If you can't come up with an effective solution, we really won't be able to hold on any longer."

Clark's words finally brought Johnson and Lee Jae-yong's attention back to the cheat code.

Li Zairong thought for a moment and said, "If all else fails, I'll send mercenaries to Myanmar to have a good talk with this Golden Triangle digital group and try to solve this problem once and for all from the source."

“That’s not a good idea,” Johnson shook his head and said, “Let’s try to solve this from a technical perspective first.”

Mu Ye glanced at Johnson, feeling a surge of urge to curse.

Even at this critical juncture, Johnson is still thinking about how to make money.

If we want to solve this from a technical perspective, we would need to hire top engineers from Microsoft headquarters. Microsoft engineers charge extremely high fees; they charge $300 million for just 15 days.

Unless absolutely necessary, Li Zairong did not want to use the mercenary force. He slowly nodded and said, "Alright, let's try using technical means first."

(End of this chapter)