The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 125: The Real Murderer, Split, and "Mirror World Story"

"Konjac game?" Assistant Chen Mengling was puzzled. "What happened to them?"

"Nothing." Xu Meng shook her head, "I just suddenly missed them a little bit."

“???” The young assistant couldn’t follow his train of thought and felt that the senior student’s brain was a little abnormal.

What do you want them to do?

But after following Xu Meng for a long time, she also knew how to deal with this situation.

——Just pretend nothing happened and get on with business.

"Then Boss, shall we arrange for the review and appease the players now?"

"Don't worry." Xu Meng shook her head. "Don't worry."

Aren’t you anxious?
The assistant is a little anxious.

Even if there are remedial measures, appeasing the players is a hassle and we have to act against the clock.

"Isn't this 10 working days?" Xu Meng calculated, "Subtracting the weekends, that's 14 days, almost half a month, there's still plenty of time."

Chen Mengling saw that Xu Meng was not in a hurry at all, but just thinking slowly, and suddenly came to her senses -

The boss cares about the game much more than she does.

But he can still be so calm now, there is only one possibility -

"Boss, do you have any other ideas?"

"Looking for a backer." Xu Meng was not shy about it. "We have to give it a try."

"Backing?" The assistant blinked, wondering what kind of backing Zhumeng had.

"Ningzhou Municipal Government?"

This month, Zhumeng just paid the corporate income tax for the last quarter.

In June, the revenue of "Frost and Snow Project" exceeded 6 million, part of which was dispersed in the channels, and the repayment was relatively slow, so the tax to be paid was not too exaggerated.

But it is considered to be ranked high in Ningzhou, and has become an officially certified major taxpayer and key tax source.

Considering the data that continued to soar in July, we will definitely have to pay more taxes in the future.

If you encounter major events that will affect the company's development and future tax payments, you can ask the government for help!
The young assistant thought happily.

But Xu Meng immediately laughed and denied it:
"Hahaha, no, how can the local government control the Press and Publication Administration? Even if they can exert influence, it won't be a short-term thing. It's too late."

"Huh? Who is that?"

The reason why Chen Mengling had wrong ideas was not because she was stupid, but simply because she lacked key information.

——Xu Meng’s special cooperation with the military, especially the exchanges and discussions with technical personnel, the assistant was not present and was not aware of these things.

"Guess?" Xu Meng smiled a little maliciously.

Then he took out his phone, opened the group chat named [War King Powerful Technology Outsourcing Team], and started sending messages:

“@Everyone, the company has encountered some troubles recently. I don’t have time to optimize the lightweight algorithm of the body sensing synchronization service for the time being. Sorry.”

"But I've given you the key to the technology. I believe you can handle it, too. Come on!"

"I'll be back to help as soon as I finish this."

As soon as this message was sent out, someone immediately popped up in the group:

"???"

"What's the trouble? Do you need help?"

"You are the leader of this project. How can we do without you?"

This person is Yin Zhiyuan, and now he has assumed some of the duties of a liaison officer.

——The Military Industry Research Institute is in Xiajing and Xu Meng is in Ningzhou, and a link is needed to connect the two places.

Yin Zhiyuan got involved early on, and since he also understands technology, he naturally took on the responsibility.

Others also popped up and asked what happened.

Xu Meng took a screenshot and forwarded the email about "Frost and Snow Project" that needed to be reviewed to the group.

And left a message: "I don't think you can help much, you are not in the same system."

"Don't worry, I can fix it, it just takes a little longer."

There are a bunch of technical elites in the group, but not many of them play games, and they don’t fully understand the significance of this email, so they all stand on Xu Meng’s side and criticize the Press and Publication Administration for causing trouble at a critical juncture, and some even express indignation that they will report this to the higher authorities!

Only Yin Zhiyuan knew what was going on.

After he returned from Jinghu that day, he downloaded "Frost and Snow Project" in order to learn more about Xu Meng.

This game...

It opened his eyes!

At one point he thought all mobile games were like this.

Later, he became the liaison between Xia Jing Military Research Institute and Neuromancer - to be more precise, Xu Meng alone. He then spent a lot of effort to carefully study all aspects of Dream Building Game Company and the Xiaguo game industry, which reversed his previous misunderstanding of games.

At the same time, he also realized that Xu Meng was not the "genius technology geek" he had imagined at first, but a very outrageous and bold person.

Yin Zhiyuan had done such good preparation that when he saw the email, he easily understood the difficulties Xu Meng encountered.

At the same time, I can understand that Dream Building is not completely wronged in this matter...

But "Frost and Snow Project" is the main source of income for Dream Building.

[Neuromancer] is entirely dependent on this game for its survival, and we must not let this game have any problems.

——In the eyes of the military and research institutes, although Dream Building makes much more money than Neuromancer, the value and potential of Neuromancer far exceeds Dream Building.

Because Dream Building is only Xu Meng's creation in the game, Neuromancer carries his exploration and creation in the field of technology.

The importance is completely incomparable.

Yin Zhiyuan did not speak in the group, but sent a private message to Xu Meng: "Don't worry, I will help you report it to the higher authorities to see if this problem can be solved."

"Okay, thank you." Xu Meng replied.

After replying, Xu Meng put away her phone and looked at the assistant: "Okay, let's wait and see what happens next."

"?" The young assistant blinked, wondering what other mysterious connections the boss might have.

But after a while, she was no longer in the mood to think about it.

For some unknown reason, the news that "The Frost and Snow Project" has undergone a second review and is likely to be removed from the shelves for rectification" was leaked online.

Chen Mengling thought there was a traitor in Dream Building, and she angrily checked to see who had seen the email.

But after checking, it was found that only a few people saw this email, and none of them were suspected of betraying the company.

Finally, I could only go to my boss in confusion.

……

The players didn't believe it at first.

However, during the subsequent confrontation, the whistleblower sent a receipt from the Press and Publication Administration regarding the handling of the report, which clearly stated that it was being processed.

This greatly enhances the credibility of the whistleblower.

Upon seeing this, Lu Ming immediately stood up and ran to find the boss in a menacing manner in the Konjac Game Company.

He wants to get to the bottom of it! ...

A few minutes later, the young assistant left Xu Meng's office and sat down angrily to do his own thing.

Lu Ming also left Fei Zhiyuan's office and thought all the way.

Finally, after returning to the office, I asked around in the industry and added Song Zhicheng as a friend.

Song Zhicheng was in the office, thinking about how to reduce the panic of the players, when he suddenly received a friend request -

[Lu Ming applies to add a friend]
[Note: Lu Ming, Chief Planner of the "Divine Bird" project]
He was immediately shocked.

The two of them fought back and forth for several rounds and just beat the other party up.

At this time, the other party's boss - or the second in command, suddenly came over to add him as a friend...

What's happening here?
be surprised.

But you can't be timid.

Song Zhicheng decisively approved the application.

Lu Ming immediately sent a message -

"Hello, excuse me for bothering you, but do you have Xu Meng's contact information?"

"?" Song Zhicheng directly sent a question mark.

Of course I have my boss’s phone number.

But you ask this right away, what's your purpose?
Could it be that he was unwilling to accept the defeat in the forward-looking battle and ran over to the middle gate for a snipe?
That's impossible for me to give it to you!

"What? You don't have it?" Lu Ming asked again.

“???” This time the question mark did not appear in the chat box, but appeared on Song Zhicheng’s forehead.

"Are you serious?" he asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Lu Ming asked.

The only number of the operation director of "The Divine Bird" was his, not Fei Zhiyuan's.

"Of course I do, but you have to tell me why, right?"

"I want to clarify some things to avoid misunderstanding."

"Misunderstanding? About our game being reviewed again?"

"Yes."

Song Zhicheng did not dare to delay and reported the matter to Xu Meng over the phone. After Xu Meng agreed, he sent her the phone number.

Lu Ming thanked him and called quickly.

The person on the other end picked up the phone.

"Hello, I'm Xu Meng, what can I do for you?"

"Are you planning to turn from darkness to light?"

"Welcome!"

“?” This time it was Lu Ming’s turn to have a question mark on his forehead.

I'm the chief planner of the "Divine Bird" project. I'm almost at the top of my job at Konjac Games. Why would I switch to your company, DreamCraft?
"No, you misunderstood." Lu Ming shook his head to deny it.

"I want to personally clarify to you: Shenniao and Konjac Games were not involved in the second review of Project Frost and Snow."

"Are you sure?"

"I can." Lu Ming said decisively, "I just verified it with my boss. If it's false, I can resign from Konjac Games."

In order to get accurate information, the atmosphere in Fei Zhiyuan's office was extremely bad just now.

"Hmm...is there any more concrete evidence?"

Lu Ming hesitated for a moment, but finally answered, "Yes, some companies joined together to make this happen. I know three of them."

He didn't keep anyone in suspense and simply announced the names: "Luzhu Games, Miaowang Games and Kashima Games."

Xu Meng heard a familiar name.

Kashima Game.

——Isn’t this the new company of Yang Hui and her group of boxing fairies?

"Okay, I believe you this time, thank you for the information."

After saying that, Xu Meng was about to hang up the phone.

After all, Dream Building and The Divine Bird are still rivals.

Lu Ming came to deliver the message at this time just to avoid being targeted by Zhumeng for no reason and to take the blame for others.

But before Lu Ming hung up the phone, he added:
"Mirror World Story will announce its first closed beta test in the next two days."

"Mirror World Story?" Xu Meng was stunned for a moment, "Why are you telling me this?"

"Nothing." Lu Ming already felt a little regretful, "I just thought you might be interested."

"Hahaha, I am indeed very interested! Thanks for letting me know, it's a great help!"

Xu Meng answered with a big laugh.

His laughter hurt Lu Ming like a needle, and he quickly responded with a "That's good."

Then he hung up the phone in a hurry.

Xu Mengze looked at the hung up call and couldn't help but play the recording of the call just now -

"Mirror World Story will announce its first closed beta test in the next two days."

"…You might be interested."

"Thank you for letting me know. It's a great help."

"That's good."
-
If a senior executive of a rival company suddenly calls him, he must be cautious, and recording the phone call is basic operation.

But he didn't expect Lu Ming to do this!
It seems that things are not going well inside Konjac Game!
As for his "hearty laugh", it's not that the news was really useful.

Rather, he deliberately acted as if the news was useful.

After that, as long as he takes advantage of the first test to give "Mirror World Story" some surprises, this recording will become a huge scapegoat and be put on Lu Ming's back!

Of course, Xu Meng doesn't want to use such vicious means for the time being.

He has no taboos when dealing with evil people.

But Xu Meng currently has a good impression of Lu Ming.

——For the sake of his own game, he did not hesitate to lower his posture and go to his competitors to explain and prove his innocence.

Such behavior really adds points to Xu Meng's opinion.

As long as he doesn't do anything disgusting afterwards, this recording will not be delivered to Fei Zhiyuan's ears.

Finally, there is "Mirror World Story"...

Since they are inviting players to test the game, it is obviously to change the topic and build momentum for the new game.

Well, I guess you won’t refuse free advertising!

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(End of this chapter)