The younger generation, starting from where the wind blows...

Chapter 163 East Journey

Fairfield by Marriott, Suite 8007.

Holding a glass of champagne, Ma Qiushan proudly chatted with Yang Muyi about his itinerary for the next three days.

I'm flying to Shanghai early tomorrow morning, September 31st.

I met with an outsourcing company at noon to negotiate, and in the afternoon I was invited by the Computer Science Department of Dongfang University to give a presentation on entrepreneurship.

On the morning of October 1st, I flew to Shenzhen. During the day, I negotiated with Tencent about launching "Happy Farm" on QQ Space. In the evening, I gave a speech at Shenzhen University.

I returned to Yanjing on October 2nd and gave a special lecture on entrepreneurship at the Yanjing University of Economics and Business in the afternoon.

"Outsourcing company?"

Yang Muyi, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, turned around.

He was also holding a glass of champagne.

"It's my fault, I forgot to tell you."

Ma Qiushan first took a sip of champagne with a satisfied smile, and then put down his glass before saying, "Just last night, the person in charge of Renren.com saw our 'Happy Farm' advertisement and immediately called me to reveal some inside information that is related to Kaixin.com."

Yang Muye immediately replied:
"Did Chen Yizhou's negotiations with Kaixin001 fall through?"

Ma Qiushan's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

"how do you know?"

Yang Muye, holding a glass of champagne, countered, "Kaixin.com has no shortage of funds or technology. It's a leader in the white-collar social networking field, and its social games have caught up and surpassed others. It has the opportunity to go public independently. Who would be confused about selling the website at this time?"

Ma Qiushan nodded.

That makes sense!
He immediately changed to a mysterious demeanor, deliberately keeping everyone in suspense, and said, "Then guess again, how does Chen Yizhou's Qianxiang plan to deal with Kaixin.com?"

What other way is there to deal with it?

Just like Tencent, if you can't beat them, just copy them!

I'll create a knock-off version of Kaixin001. Even if I can't beat the real Kaixin001, I can still give it a good thrashing.

After hearing Yang Muye's words, Ma Qiushan was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped to the ground.

It really lives up to that old saying about the college entrance exam.

He knew all the answers on the test, and guessed all the correct ones!
"So this is all the inside information the person in charge of Renren.com told you?" Yang Muye asked in a calm tone.

Upon regaining his senses, Ma Qiushan immediately shook his head.

"Their knock-off Kaixin.com could launch as early as next month, and they even paid a high price for the kaixin.com domain. Who knows, this fake might actually outperform the real thing."

The official domain name of Kaixin001 is kaixin001. For those who are unaware of the truth, it may be difficult to distinguish between the genuine and the counterfeit versions.

Yang Muyi countered, "If the genuine products are killed off by the counterfeits, don't you think that's a tragedy for the Chinese internet?"

Ma Qiushan then let out a sigh of sympathy for his fellow creatures.

But there was nothing that could be done, just as Yang Muye had said before.

The whole world is just a giant makeshift operation; it's an era where everyone's worse off is better.

"A clone of Kaixin001 will not succeed."

Yang Muye said with certainty.

Upon hearing this, Ma Qiushan suddenly raised his head.

His gaze was sincere, full of eagerness to learn.

“How come you see?”

"I don't know how the fake Kaixin.com is going to operate, but I do know Chen Yizhou. Let me put it this way: although Zhou Hongyi of 360 once said that he himself could only rank third among the smartest people in Hubei Province, Lei Jun ranked second, and Chen Yizhou ranked first, Chen Yizhou is only good at attracting investment and mergers and acquisitions, but he is not good at management. Xiaonei.com is the best example."

Yang Muyi took a sip of champagne and continued, "Before acquiring Xiaonei.com, Chen Yizhou already had 5Q.com, which had received several times more funding than Xiaonei.com. It had also fought several rounds of business battles with Xiaonei.com to compete for users. In the end, Chen Yizhou had no choice but to spend a high price to acquire Xiaonei.com again, so that he could finally gain a foothold in the social networking site for college students."

"Simply put, if Chen Yizhou's acquisition is successful, he will be able to establish himself in this industry; conversely, if the acquisition fails, he is destined not to achieve anything in this industry."

Kaixin.com is now the largest social networking site for white-collar workers in China. Chen Yizhou can't crack this tough nut, so his foray into the white-collar social networking field is destined to be a pipe dream.

The attempt to create a clone of Kaixin001 failed.

The subsequent renaming of the school's intranet to Renren.com was also proven to be a mistake.

Upon hearing this, Ma Qiushan's expression changed drastically.

He has already agreed to revamp "Happy Farm" into a new game and port it to the pirated version of Happy Farm website.

The outsourcing company I'm going to Shanghai to meet tomorrow is there to discuss this matter.

After hearing this, Yang Muye asked:

How much is the outsourcing fee?

"One hundred thousand."

Ma Qiushan glanced at Yang Muye somewhat guiltily.

The money wasn't much; the main issue was that outsourcing it was a bit of a lazy approach.

Yang Muye then asked:

Is that company reliable?

Seeing that Yang Muye didn't intend to investigate further, Ma Qiushan immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Do you remember the Renren.com Creative Programming Competition?

"I remember, it was a difficult decision, your breakthrough battle," Yang Muye teased.

Ma Qiushan blushed.

"The app that ultimately won first place in the creative programming competition was made by this outsourcing company that I hired."

Yang Muye glanced at Maqiushan unexpectedly.

"Well done, Brother Ma, you've really made something of yourself. You've even gotten the first place winner to do outsourcing work for you, a contestant who withdrew from the competition."

Ma Qiushan immediately clarified that he did not intentionally seek out this company.

Instead, it was the person in charge of the school's intranet who acted as a go-between, introducing the person in charge of this company to Ma Qiushan.

Ma Qiushan immediately understood and agreed to entrust the task of developing a farm game for the knock-off Kaixin.com to a company called Zhiyi Technology.

Ma Qiushan also explained that Zhiyi Technology was founded by several college students.

The person in charge is Xiao Nai, a third-year student in the Computer Science Department of Dongfang University.

Zhiyi Technology is also a student entrepreneurship project supported by Dongfang University.

This is also why Ma Qiushan was invited to give a lecture at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tokyo.

"Xiao Nai?"

Yang Muye was quite surprised when he heard the name.

Mount Machu was even more unexpected.

"What, you know him?"

Yang Muye took a sip of champagne and said calmly:
"do not know."

If Yang Muye hadn't then asked Ma Qiushan to book another plane ticket so he could go to Shanghai with him the next day, Ma Qiushan would have actually believed him.

Shanghai, male dormitory of the Computer Science Department of Southeast University.

Xiao Nai sat in front of the computer and showed three advertisements for "Happy Farm" to his three roommates, who were also his business partners.

After finishing, Xiao Nai turned to look at Qiu Yonghou, Yu Banshan, and Hao Mei:
"This is the outsourcing job I got from Shanye Technology: to develop a farm game similar to a new website."

"Old Xiao, does Shanye Technology have ulterior motives for outsourcing this job to us?"

The first person to speak was Qiu Yonghou, nicknamed Monkey.

Zhiyi Technology and Shanye Technology are old rivals.

If "Niu Le Ge Niu" hadn't announced its withdrawal from the competition, Zhiyi Technology would have likely only gotten second place.

At the time, several posts questioning Shanye Technology's violation of competition rules by "spending money" on marketing and promotion were anonymously posted by Qiu Yonghou.

"Yes, that's what they call 'a gentleman takes revenge, even after ten years'!"

Yu Banshan echoed.

He had a childhood trauma related to idioms, so he always likes to misuse them.

The others had shared a dorm room with Yu Banshan for two years and had gotten used to ignoring her various idiom mistakes. "They've made at least 20 million yuan from the cow/sheep mini-game, how could they possibly care about a 100,000 yuan bonus with us? I asked them, and they simply didn't have the time, so they decided to outsource this job."

Xiao Nai explained.

"If you ask me, we'd be better off going it alone than taking on this kind of outsourcing."

Hao Mei suddenly spoke up.

His programming skills were second only to Xiao Nai among the four in the dormitory, and he also had the highest aspirations.

Although they won first place in the last campus network creative programming competition, Hao Mei always felt that Shanye Technology didn't care about the prize money, which is why it was their turn.

I've always been resentful.

Qiu Yonghou and Xiao Nai exchanged a glance and asked together:
How do you go solo?

"Isn't Shanye Technology developing farms? We can develop fish farms and ranches."

Hao Mei shrugged: "This is at most a similar game. They can't sue us for plagiarism just because of that, can they?"

Qiu Yonghou and Yu Banshan both showed signs of interest.

As a result, Xiao Nai immediately poured cold water on the three of them.

"If you can think of imitation, do you think others can't? Farm, ranch, fishing ground, forest farm, all the possible related game names have been registered by Shanye Technology. And it's not just domestic social networking platforms, but also overseas websites like Facebook. It's too late for us to start thinking about doing it now."

Hao Mei was shocked after hearing this.

"Damn, are they trying to hog all the food?"

Xiao Nai said helplessly:
"Who can blame them for being the first to try something new?"

Qiu Yonghou and Hao Mei both fell silent after hearing this.

At this moment, Yu Banshan spoke up weakly:
"Should we still do the outsourced work?"

"Nonsense, of course we'll do it!"

Qiu Yonghou spoke first.

Since you can't snatch food from a tiger's mouth, if someone is willing to share a bone with you, can you complain that it's leftovers?

Hao Mei remained silent, which was tantamount to acquiescing.

Even someone as proud and arrogant as him could only succumb to reality.

What else can we do? Are we going to turn down money?

Finally, Xiao Nai said, "Since everyone agrees, I'll accept their offer when we meet tomorrow."

"Great."

Yu Banshan clenched her fist in celebration.

After completing this order, they will have 100,000 yuan in hand, enough to enjoy themselves in the game "Dream of Jianghu".

Yu Banshan had been looking forward to the release of "Dream Journey to Jianghu" since her sophomore year. Her three roommates, Xiao Nai and his two friends, all learned about the game through her.

The official promotion promised not to sell any stat-boosting items and to ensure fair PvP, which greatly appealed to Xiao Nai's four roommates.

The four of them are not only programming experts, but also gaming masters.

However, there is currently no online game on the market where you can become a top player by relying solely on skill without spending money.

The four of them have consistently spent a lot of money on games.

The prize money from previous programming competitions, as well as the earnings from taking on outsourced work for game companies, have basically all been spent.

This is also why Xiao Nai was willing to take on this outsourcing project from Shanye Technology.

The next day at noon, Qiao Jingjing and Yang Muyi arranged to meet at a Lanzhou noodle restaurant outside the Southeast University campus.

This morning, Qiao Jingjing learned that Yang Muye was coming to Dongda University, and she was quite puzzled.

Could it be that Yang Muye could foresee the future and know that he wanted to recommend Meng Yiran?

While the owner was still cooking noodles, Qiao Jingjing curiously asked Yang Muye about his purpose for coming.

Yang Muye gave an irrelevant reply: "I thought you would invite me to eat at the Dongda University cafeteria."

Qiao Jingjing shrugged: "If you don't mind being watched, I'll take you to the cafeteria this afternoon."

Yang Muye laughed: "It seems you're quite popular at Dongda University."

Qiao Jingjing sighed in distress: "Now you know why I don't stay in the dormitory, right?"

Since becoming an internet sensation, Qiao Jingjing has been wearing a mask and baseball cap to cover her face completely, except when she's in class.

Even so, I still get recognized quite often.

Yang Muye looked up at Qiao Jingjing:
"I'm quite curious. As a comprehensive university like Tokyo University with so many departments, you shouldn't be the only campus beauty."

"Of course I'm not the only one, it's just that I've become the one who sticks out now."

At this point, Qiao Jingjing suddenly looked at Yang Muye with a serious expression: "I want to recommend someone to you, Meng Yiran, a freshman in the music department!"

"very beautiful?"

“Yes, go to our school and ask any boy. At least seven out of ten will know Meng Yiran.”

As Qiao Jingjing spoke, she took out her phone and showed Yang Muyi photos that she had specially downloaded from the school's intranet.

The girl in the photo has a sweet and clean smile, and her bare face gives people a very comfortable feeling.

"You want me to sign her?"

"Isn't the Campus Beauty Alliance still missing two people? Anyway, I think Meng Yiran is quite suitable."

"We're still short one person."

Yang Muye looked at Qiao Jingjing:

"Any other recommendations?"

Qiao Jingjing was stunned.

I've already recommended Meng Yiran, and from what Yang Muye said, we need to find another person from Dongda University too?

"Ideally, this girl would also like playing games, and it would be even better if she was a pro."

Yang Muye added another condition.

This is getting more and more outrageous!

Qiao Jingjing glared at Yang Muye with her eyes puffed out in anger, her gaze a clear protest.

Yang Muye decided to stop teasing her.

"Your computer science department at Dongda University is so famous. Even though there might be fewer girls studying computer science, you can always find someone who's not bad-looking among all the short girls, right?"

With such obvious hints, even if Qiao Jingjing were slow-witted, she should have figured out who she was looking for.

"You mean Bei Weiwei?"

Qiao Jingjing lived up to expectations and said the name.

But Yang Muye denied it again.

"Who is Bei Weiwei? Is she very pretty?"

Seeing Yang Muye pretending to be stupid in front of her, Qiao Jingjing was immediately furious.

You yourself said there are few girls in the computer science department, so it's already good enough that I can help you find a suitable one.

You actually picked it?

"I don't know if she's pretty or not, but it's true that she likes playing games. Don't ask me how I know. She climbed out of the dormitory window to go to an internet cafe to play games after the power went out. The dormitory supervisor reported her to the whole dormitory. My classmates told me about this."

Yang Muye looked disappointed after hearing this.

"You've never met him in person?"

Qiao Jingjing shrugged, looking like she was there to kill but not to bury.

"I've only heard her name, I don't know her personally."

Yang Muye clapped his hands "happily":

"Great, I don't know him either!"

Then the problem is coming.

Where are they supposed to find Bei Weiwei now?
(End of this chapter)