The richest man started taking advantage of loopholes after joining Alibaba.

Beijing, Weiguang Technology Building.

Top-level command center.

This place is even more lively than the Spring Festival Gala venue.

The huge data screen illuminated the entire room in a bright red light.

The red curve represents new users.

It is vertical.

Like a rocket that has just been ignited and launched, it ignores the Earth's gravity and pierces straight into the stratosphere.

"Server alarm! CPU utilization at 95%!"

"Bandwidth limit exceeded! Switching to backup line!"

"SMS verification code channel is congested! Requests per second have exceeded 5!"

The operations director's voice became hoarse from shouting, and sweat streamed down his face.

"Expand capacity! Expand capacity immediately! Activate all of Alibaba Cloud's spare instances! If that's not enough, borrow some!"

Lin Che stood in front of the big screen, still holding the half-finished glass of whiskey in his hand.

He stared at the wildly fluctuating number.

Real-time online users: 5,000,000

Real-time online users: 6,200,000

Real-time online users: 8,000,000

Every second, tens of thousands of people flood into this new world.

"The boss has gone mad..."

Shen Nan held his phone, his hands trembling.

"Our App Store rankings were outside the top 500 at 8 AM."

"Now......."

He showed Lin Che his phone screen.

On the screen, the App Store's free app chart.

Those apps that have consistently topped the charts, such as WeChat, Alipay, and Taobao, are now all overshadowed.

The top spot is represented by a black icon.

No.1 Micro-light Video.

"We squeezed WeChat out..." Shen Nan's voice carried an unreal, dreamlike quality. "On New Year's Eve, on WeChat's home turf, we squeezed it out."

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Lin Che took a sip of wine.

The spicy liquid slid down my throat.

"This is just the beginning."

He pointed to the constantly scrolling user IDs on the screen.

"What you're seeing are just numbers."

"But what I see is time burning."

Lin Che turned around and looked at the group of young employees behind him who were so excited they were almost fainting.

Some were screaming, some were hugging each other, and some were even secretly wiping away tears.

They made history.

"Don't stop."

Lin Che's voice pierced through the cheers, as calm as a bucket of ice water.

"Current users are coming for the 'face swapping' feature; it's all about novelty, and that novelty only lasts for three days."

"Algorithm team, listen up."

Wang Jian immediately looked up from the computer, his eyes bloodshot.

"Boss, what is it?"

"All new users tonight who like a certain type of video or stay on a video for more than 5 seconds will be considered new users."

"Immediately! Right now! Recommend 10 similar videos to him."

"I'm going to keep them glued to the screen."

Lin Che walked behind Wang Jian and looked at the densely packed user tags in the background.

"If he likes looking at beautiful women, recommend the sexiest ones on the entire internet to him."

"If he likes watching comedy, recommend the most outrageous ones to him."

"If he likes inspirational stories, recommend the most sentimental ones to him."

Tonight is New Year's Eve.

"Many people stay up all night to welcome the New Year, and many people can't sleep."

"I want them to scroll until dawn without even realizing it."

Lin Che glanced out the window.

Fireworks are rising over Beijing, their vibrant colors illuminating the night sky.

But beneath the dazzling fireworks, countless cell phone screens, glowing faintly, are forming a giant net.

This net doesn't catch fish.

It is the soul.

"Boss."

Old Zhao ran over with a freshly printed monitoring report, his expression complicated.

"Weibo is... in an uproar."

"Five out of the top ten trending topics are about us."

"#MicroLightFaceSwap# is trending"

"#My WeChat Moments is flooded with this post# It's going viral!"

"#What is Weiguang software?# New"

"And..." Old Zhao swallowed hard, "Many celebrities have started doing it too. Just now, Yang Mi posted a hand gesture dance video filmed with a dim light, and the server almost crashed because of her fans."

Lin Che smiled.

Celebrities are animals with the most sensitive sense of smell.

Wherever there is traffic, there they are.

When a celebrity of Yang Mi's caliber enters the market, it means that Weiguang has completed a qualitative leap from a "tool" to a "community".

"Give Yang Mi more weight."

Lin Che casually instructed, "Give her video 1000 million views. I want all celebrities to know that with Weiguang, they can become famous, and even more famous."

At this moment.

In millions of families.

The song "Unforgettable Tonight" from the Spring Festival Gala finally began to play.

But many people did not go to sleep.

Li Qiang lay in bed with his phone plugged into the charger.

He just wanted to see how many likes the video he had just posted had.

But when he swiped his finger, he saw another funny video.

"Haha, let's see one more."

He slipped again.

"Holy crap, that girl has such long legs, let me see another one."

slip.

slip.

slip.

Time has lost its meaning.

Only the constantly changing light and shadow on the screen reflected his expressionless yet extremely excited face.

When he checked the time again, he found that the sky outside the window was already turning a pale white.

Its daybreak.

And on this night.

Weiguang Video's daily active users (DAU) have officially surpassed 3000 million.