The world is in trouble

Chapter 332 So powerful it inspires despair!
Neither Li Zhongtian nor Zhang Yin agreed to arrange a meeting.

First of all, Zhang Yin was Li Zhongtian's first love and his mentor in many ways, so it was impossible for him to be nonchalant when they met. Therefore, even if he brought her spouse along for dinner, it would still be unfair.

Of course, Li Zhongtian once had some very immature ideas.

For example, I'm so successful and doing so well now. Zhang Yin, on the other hand, is just a white-collar worker in the US, outwardly glamorous but actually working incredibly hard. And I heard her boyfriend is a foreign writer, which must be very romantic, but also very promiscuous, leaving her heartbroken. Then, the two met by chance. I, Li Zhongtian, gave her a friendly, forgiving smile.

Whenever he thinks of that scene, he still feels a little bit of satisfaction.

However, this idea only existed at the very beginning.

Eventually, a mutual friend of both sides revealed the news.

Zhang Yin got married; her husband is still the same German writer she worked with years ago. He works at Dreamworld and is one of the core writers for Stranger Things.

Later on, things actually got even more outrageous.

That was Lyon, whom Li Zhongtian's wife, Ding Yuanzhi, had met earlier.

Ding Yuanzhi started at Target Studio, but later felt it wasn't challenging enough, so he wanted to push into the highest level of game technology and joined the domestic branch of Er Gou Studio.

Around two years ago, Fallout 4 began to gradually enter the development process.

Leon is exceptionally talented in fragmented writing. That's why Erdog Studios brought him into the Fallout 4 writing team to write some side stories.

Ding Yuanzhi is a mid-level manager at Er Gou Studio, and they often hold online meetings and video conferences together.

There will be extensive discussions between the Chinese and international divisions.

In the current development cycle, the screenwriter is actually the core.

After they finish writing the script, they still need to have extensive discussions with the art and game designers.

Make sure you know what you want to show, and what I can offer you.

Despite having attended many meetings together, including numerous video conferences, Ding Yuanzhi was unaware that Lyon was Zhang Yin's husband.

Fortunately, Li Zhongtian was already quite outstanding when he was with Ding Yuanzhi.

Now, he is even more outstanding. Therefore, Ding Yuanzhi's feelings for him were quite intense from the beginning.

Within the Lightning Group, Li Zhongtian has already made it into the top twenty.

After about one or two years, he will be able to hold the title of vice president.

Although he is not yet a vice president, the resources and power he controls already exceed those of many vice presidents.

The entire precision advertising model of Lightning Group was developed step by step over the past seven years.

Even more fortunately, he was Lin Xiao's brother, the most direct descendant among the direct descendants.

Therefore, he only needs to be himself and can devote all his energy to his profession. He doesn't need to get involved in office politics or engage in too much interpersonal communication.

As a result, he has cultivated his strengths and expertise more and more deeply, and has become an absolute top-level expert in this field.

Moreover, he can refuse the vast majority of social engagements.

On the contrary, Zhu Hongbin, although a graduate of East China University of Political Science and Law, did not go to the legal position at Lightning Group, but instead went to work in human resources.

Wang Lei, on the other hand, went to the public relations department.

The third press conference on quantum technology is coming up soon, and Li Zhongtian and Ding Yuanzhi have come to Ningbo from Shanghai.

Having finally found some free time, the couple started shopping at the mall.

As he strolled around, Li Zhongtian's professional instincts kicked in, and he started counting how many digital stores were in the mall and how many people were walking by.

How many Apple phones, Android phones, and X system phones were sold per unit of time?

Moreover, he almost instinctively observed everyone's mobile phone, silently calculating the market share of each system's mobile phones, the male-to-female ratio, and the approximate occupation of the phone owners, etc.

These seemed to be instinctive, directly transforming into data and charts in his mind.

Ding Yuanzhi didn't care; her mind was full of Fallout 4 game designs.

The two of them wandered around aimlessly, hardly buying anything.

Immediately afterwards, two people appeared on the other side.

Li Zhongtian instinctively looked at his phone.

Quantum NOTE+2.

The woman was dressed fashionably and elegantly, but the colors weren't particularly vibrant; she was probably a high-level white-collar worker.

The man was white, dressed casually but with great taste.

These are two more high-end users of quantum phones.

Huh? !

The two people in front of them actually stopped.

Li Zhongtian raised his eyes and looked at the other person's face.

Wow!
It looks so familiar.

what? !

Senior Sister Zhang Yin?!
Seriously? Is the world really that small?
A while ago, a mutual friend secretly asked him if he wanted to meet with Senior Sister Zhang Yin, but Li Zhongtian refused. He never expected to run into her in this shopping mall.

But... it's not entirely accidental.

Because the press conference is just a short distance away, in a luxury hotel and the largest commercial district.

So it's normal to encounter this here.

"Sister?"

"Li Zhongtian".

"Miss Ding?"

"Leon?"

The four people looked at each other.

Now, we can't avoid seeing each other.

"Have you eaten yet?" Li Zhongtian asked.

Zhang Yin: "I've already eaten."

Li Zhongtian: "Well, how about we go grab a coffee together?"

Zhang Yin: "Okay."

When the four of them sat together, it was mostly Li Zhongtian and Li Ang who had the most lively conversation.

"My God, you're actually the cult leader's classmate? You started this business with him from the very beginning?"

Next, he kept asking Lin Xiao about his first entrepreneurial experience.

Because this was a relatively unfamiliar and mysterious area for him.

"Amazing!"

"His life is even more legendary than I imagined."

Next, the two sides began to talk about their work, games, and so on.

Zhang Yin and Ding Yuanzhi, on the other hand, spoke relatively little.

But Zhang Yin looked at Ding Yuanzhi very seriously, and then couldn't help but say, "You're so handsome."

This wasn't against my conscience. Ding Yuanzhi was androgynous before, but he was actually quite good-looking and very distinctive.

After joining Li Zhongtian's group, she immediately gained an incredibly powerful group of girlfriends.

Li Duanduan, Jiang Lier, and others are top-notch in aesthetics and makeup.

In less than a year or two, Ding Yuanzhi transformed into a great beauty.

Moreover, she was especially fair-skinned.

"When will Fallout 4 be released?" Zhang Yin asked.

Ding Yuanzhi: "Do you play too?"

Zhang Yin: "I don't play, but Lyon loves to play, so I often sit next to him and watch. I've become very familiar with it and know it very well."

Ding Yuanzhi: "I don't know. The leader values ​​this work very much and has extremely high standards. Although development has been going on for several months, the script is still being polished. The leader attends more than three out of ten script meetings."

Zhang Yin: "I know that. He directly led the game's scriptwriting team and has already scrapped more than two or three million words of script."

Ding Yuanzhi: "Because Fallout 4 and The Last of Us are different, Fallout 4 is an open world. And an open world means that there may be repetition and emptiness. In the first twenty or thirty hours, you may feel that the world is very rich and realistic. But after playing for a hundred hours, you will feel that the world is very empty, and you may not even find the motivation to develop yourself. Also, Fallout 4 is mainly about personal leveling up, while The Last of Us is often full of plot and destiny."

"The leader wanted to incorporate some of the strengths of The Last of Us, but the world of Fallout 4 is more realistic and even grander." "According to his plan, he hoped that Fallout 4 would be twice the size of Fallout 3, but also very substantial."

"According to estimates, the development team for this game may exceed 1500 people, with 1,000 of them in China. The development time will be more than three and a half years, and the development cost is tentatively set at $380 million, but it will definitely exceed the budget."

Leon: "So, there's even a feeling that I want to live for this game. The years before this game came out were bland and tasteless. But thankfully, CDPR's The Witcher 2 came out a year or two earlier, and that game was also very, very big. Whether it's the game's scale, the lineup, or the entire map, it's very large; it's an epic work."

Next, the four of them chatted enthusiastically about the game.

Lin Xiao's regard for Fallout 4 is unprecedented; he wants to push the game to unprecedented heights.

Whether it's the game map, the game size, or the game graphics, they'll all be piling on top of that.

The richness of the storyline, the richness of the free world, base construction, and so on.

Many players will find after playing for hundreds of hours that even if they build all the volunteer camps on the entire map and connect them all, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

The volunteer soldiers' camp still only consisted of a handful of rookies.

Moreover, whether it's the Railroad, the Brotherhood of Steel, or the Institute's side quests, while they certainly have their merits, they are generally quite bland.

Moreover, it's impossible to push it up even during climax.

It's not big enough, etc.

We really need to learn from The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 in this regard.

Therefore, Lin Xiao's requirement for Fallout 4 was that he would rather the series never have a sequel than fail to make it the best it could be.

In his mind, the game's development cycle could even be three and a half, four, or even four and a half years.

The stated production cost was $3.8 million, but he had already prepared $5 million in his mind, which is about four times the historical development cost of Bethesda.

Making money is irrelevant; what matters is that it becomes a milestone in gaming history.

The four of them ended up chatting for several hours and then discovered that they were staying at the same hotel.

We had a very enjoyable chat and felt quite relieved.

However... we probably won't be eating and chatting together again anytime soon.

After finishing work in the evening, Li Zhongtian and Ding Yuanzhi watched TV together, embracing each other.

“Leon is somewhat similar to Lin Xiao in some ways; he is full of romantic sentiments, possesses extraordinary emotional appeal, and has extraordinary charm,” Li Zhongtian suddenly said.

"Perhaps," Ding Yuanzhi said, looking at the TV, his answer not very serious.

Li Zhongtian: "Yuanyuan, am I too boring?"

Ding Yuanzhi turned to look at Li Zhongtian for a while: "I'm bored too. We're more focused on psychological security. I can't handle those intense emotions; I need something calmer."

It really is.

The way Ding Yuanzhi and Li Zhongtian get along at home is very natural and comfortable.

Both of them have their own studies, but they usually work in the same study. They can go for hours without saying a word, or they can start talking non-stop.

No matter when, looking up and seeing the other person brings a strong sense of security and belonging.

For example, right now, Li Zhongtian is feeling sentimental, but Ding Yuanzhi doesn't suspect anything.

She could even perceive Li Zhongtian's emotions with remarkable precision; he was wondering why he wasn't as talented and charming as Lin Xiao.

then……

Li Zhongtian looked at Ding Yuanzhi.

She looked dazed, especially when Li Duanduan and Jiang Lier pressed her down in a chair to do her makeup; she looked so embarrassed.

Often during gatherings with a few people, I inexplicably find myself spacing out and lost in thought, wandering far, far away.

She's adorable even like this.

So incredibly cute!

She's cuter than Senior Sister Zhang Yin.

When Senior Sister Zhang Yin was dating him, she was always mature, tolerant, and composed.

It's good, of course, but it lacks passion.

Although he and Ding Yuanzhi mostly lived a peaceful and uneventful life, they would occasionally do some silly and crazy things for no apparent reason.

Therefore, when Li Zhongtian and Zhang Yin were dating, he even had the feeling that the other person seemed to have no flaws.

Perhaps when she's with Leon, many of her flaws, or rather, weaknesses, will become apparent.

For example, right now she and Ding Yuanzhi are exposing all their weaknesses to each other with almost no defenses.

Lin Xiao is right, Senior Sister Zhang Yin is from a very good school!

For him, that's all.

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In the past few months, the Android camp has continued to release heavyweight products.

For example, Samsung's second-generation Android flagship.

Another example is the low-cost mobile phones that Linksys started to distribute wildly all over the world.

It's fair to say that both products were successful in some respects.

Samsung's second-generation flagship continues to sell very well.

Just looking at this one camp, you can feel that it is booming and its global shipments are constantly increasing.

but……

Just look at the overall market share.

Google executives were quite frustrated to find that once the momentum started, it was really hard to reverse.

Over the past four months.

Apple's iOS shipments increased by about 20 million.

Meanwhile, the number of Android smart devices has increased by about 28 million.

This result should be cause for celebration, as the increase is even stronger than last year's, proving that budget phones are indeed unbeatable.

Meanwhile, the X operating system based on quantum technology has seen an increase of over 50 million users in the past four months.

This number is utterly despairing!
The key issue is that neither of the two trump cards of the X OS camp, the high-end quantum phone and the mid-range Coolpad K2, has been released yet.

The shipment volume of over 50 million units in these four months mostly came from Er Gou's strategy of flooding the market with cheap machines.

In addition, OPPO and VIVO's phones priced at around 2,000 yuan have also achieved success in the Chinese offline market.

The "Ergou" cult leader truly relied entirely on these new Chinese mobile phone brands to push the total shipments of the entire camp to nearly 1.2 million units.

Although Google's Android shipments are surging, the gap with the quantum technology camp is widening.

Currently, there are only half the number of devices running the Android system compared to the X operating system.

The gap between the two sides has widened to 60 to 70 million units.

Moreover, LG released two phones two months ago.

With roughly the same configuration and prices around three hundred US dollars, they are typical mid-range devices.

LG even kept a low profile when releasing these two phones, without holding a press conference.

However, many eyes around the world are still focused on LG's sales figures.

Because this is the world's first giant to simultaneously produce phones with two operating systems.

In a completely level playing field, who has stronger sales?
This will become a clear indicator.

Two months later!

LG sold 260 million Android phones.

The phones running the X operating system sold 390 million units.

When this number came out, Google executives could hardly believe it.

This could very well trigger a domino effect.

This is tantamount to proving to the world that as long as a phone uses the X operating system, it will sell better than the Android system.

Other major mobile phone manufacturers, what are you waiting for?
Are you going to go against the market? Are you going to go against users worldwide?
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