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Chapter 513 0501 [The Master of the Abstract Track]

When we arrived at the May Fourth Sports Center, it was already packed with people, and there was no way to find an empty space.

Chen Guiliang didn't come empty-handed either; he bought a large amount of barbecue outside the South Gate and had Yang Shuo carry it directly to the basketball court in two plastic buckets.

As soon as they arrived, Chen Guiliang shouted, "Everyone, let's have a barbecue! Help yourself to whatever you want, but bring your own drinks. Also, don't make a mess of the ground; whoever makes a mess is responsible for cleaning it up!"

Before he finished speaking, Chen Guiliang became the focus of the entire room.

"Old Master Chen has gone back to school!"

"Mr. Chen, you're so generous! Do you have any grilled kidneys?"

"Senior Brother Chen, wanna play basketball?"

"..."

Chen Guiliang then introduced Xie Yang, Wang Erlei, and others, and a game was quickly set up. It was a 5v5 full-court game, not a 3v3 half-court game, because so many students wanted to participate.

Chen Laozu was well taken care of; his teammates passed the ball to him relentlessly, and the opponents' marking was quite civilized.

"Ahhhh!"

Chen Guiliang, who hadn't played basketball in a long time, skillfully dribbled left and right, attempting a three-step layup but was blocked, so he made a sudden stop near the free-throw line for a jump shot.

The player who came to stop him was a school team player, who instinctively wanted to block Chen Guiliang's shot. But the school team player quickly realized that he should give Chen Guiliang some face, so he changed direction and started slapping the air.

"brush!"

The basketball hit the net.

"it is good!"

"Mr. Chen is awesome!"

The students watching cheered as they ate the kebabs, and even the opponent who had let them win gave a thumbs up.

Wang Erlei angrily cursed, "Damn it, how can you play basketball like this? You deliberately left him open and let him drive in, you could have stopped him from shooting but you didn't!"

Chen Guiliang laughed and said, "This is the aura of a master, making it impossible to guard against."

Xie Yang didn't say anything because he was assigned to Chen Guiliang's group.

However, when the opposing team attacked, they showed no mercy to Chen Guiliang and went all out to demonstrate their strength.

They played a close game, and students from other courts stopped playing basketball and came over to watch. The two buckets of barbecue had long been eaten, and the barbecue skewers had been thrown back into the buckets.

Even some teachers who were taking a stroll nearby came over to see what was going on when they heard the commotion.

Night had already fallen, and the lights illuminated the basketball court.

Chen Guiliang was soon covered in sweat, but the sweat from the exercise made him feel exceptionally happy.

After playing until they were exhausted, the first few players went back to the sidelines to rest, while other students vied to come on as substitutes.

Chen Guiliang sat on the sidelines, chugging Red Bull. A student asked, "Mr. Chen, I went to AcFun after watching your live stream, and now I'm a content creator on AcFun. I specialize in making parody videos, but I always feel like I'm not abstract enough."

"What exactly are you trying to say?" Chen Guiliang asked.

The student smiled and said, "You're known as the 'Grandfather of Abstraction,' since you were the first to use the word 'abstract' to describe people online. Could you teach me how to stand out in the abstraction category on AcFun?"

The nearby students all pricked up their ears to listen, and some even quietly asked what A-site was.

Chen Guiliang asked, "Have you seen the CCTV version of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms'?"

"I've seen it." The student nodded.

Chen Guiliang said, "When the opening credits are playing, do the portraits of heroes like Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei float by?"

The student nodded: "Yes."

Chen Guiliang then asked, "Do you know Ms. Cang?"

"Huh?" The student was taken aback.

"Do you know Ms. Cang?" Chen Guiliang asked again.

The student smiled shyly: "I've heard of it."

Chen Guiliang suggested, "Take screenshots of the teachers' faces and have them float across the screen like that. Set the background to a flowing stream. Add Mao Amin's 'The Sky of History' as background music."

The student froze, recalling the bizarre scene Chen Guiliang had described: a small stream flowing gurgling through the video, Mao Amin singing "vivid faces fluttering before my eyes," and the teachers' portraits scrolling by with smiling faces.

That's so damn abstract! No wonder it's the granddaddy of abstract art!

"Hahahaha!"

The students who were listening to Chen Guiliang burst into laughter.

"Damn, I'll make a video right now!" The student took off running, afraid that someone would steal his idea.

Chen Guiliang shouted, "The teachers' profile pictures should ideally be animated GIFs of them laughing!"

The student didn't even turn his head: "Understood!"

Li Yaqian asked Bian Guanyue in a low voice, "Is he like this all the time?"

Bian Guanyue said helplessly, "Anyway, he's not very reliable, like a child who never grows up."

“You two must have a lot of fun together,” Li Yaqian said with envy.

Bian Guanyue laughed and said, "It is indeed quite interesting. But most of the time, he can make you both laugh and cry. His thought process is different from normal people." Wang Erlei, who was also drinking Red Bull, said, "Today I finally understand why you are so popular online. This kind of skill is something that most bosses can't do, and they wouldn't have the face to do it."

Xie Yang chimed in from the side, "The trend of internet parody in recent years was started by Lao Chen and me. Back then, we were promoting 'Three Kingdoms Kill' by sharing photoshopped parody images on Tieba. Lao Chen really deserves to be called the patriarch when it comes to parody and abstraction."

Chen Guiliang sighed, "Alas, a hero doesn't dwell on past glories."

"You're even braver now, right?" Wang Erlei asked.

Chen Guiliang waved his hand: "We are people of status now, and we don't do such things anymore. I was just giving some pointers to the younger generation."

……

Just two days later, a video titled "The Tokyo Is Hot Chronicle" appeared.

And it quickly spread across various video websites.

This video is not only abstract, but also includes the words "Creative Consultant: Chen Laozu".

It made countless viewers burst out laughing.

Just then, news of Steve Jobs' death came, and countless cyber memorials instantly appeared on the Chinese internet.

Even netizens who didn't know who Steve Jobs was posted on Weibo to mourn him, not to mention the elite class.

Although the iPhone 4S has not yet been released in China, sales of the iPhone 4 have increased as a result.

Limited upside!

With the release of the TianShu Pro, the price of the TianShu, which is comparable to the Apple 4, has dropped to 2999 yuan, while the price of the Apple 4 remains at over 4000 yuan.

If you're not short of money, wouldn't it be better to add a few hundred yuan and buy the TianShu Pro?
If you're looking for a cheap option, you should definitely buy Tian Shu.

The price of the iPhone 4 is much higher than that of the Tian Shu, and its performance configuration is much lower than that of the Tian Shu Pro!
Market statistics for this month have not yet been released, but relevant media outlets have provided a "brand attention ranking".

Brand awareness is calculated by comprehensively analyzing data such as searches, browsing, discussions, and purchases.

To be honest, it's hard to reflect the true situation.

For example, due to Steve Jobs' passing and the release of the Apple 4S in the United States, Apple's search and discussion volume increased significantly, and its brand awareness surged to 9.6%.

Nokia is getting increasingly outrageous, releasing two new products without warning, both of which use Microsoft operating systems.

The president of Nokia China is furious because Microsoft's mobile operating system has long been ecologically dead in mainland China. The two new phones released by Nokia headquarters both use Microsoft's operating system; isn't that tantamount to abandoning the Chinese market?
They're practically asking for death!
In response to Nokia's latest official Weibo post, Chen Guiliang couldn't help but comment: "A grand showcase of human bewilderment? I thought I was abstract enough, but I didn't expect there to be experts in this field. My apologies (doge emoji)!"

Lei Jun immediately jumped on the bandwagon, saying, "President Chen is too modest."

Wu Ying quickly followed up: "A certain major mobile phone manufacturer is going to go completely bankrupt."

Rong Xiuli, who made a bet with Chen Guiliang on a TV program, initially firmly disagreed with the claim that Nokia was about to decline, but now she couldn't help but comment: "It's hard to understand, I'm deeply puzzled."

Professor Xiao Zhixing, who was forced to close his comment section after being bombarded with criticism from players, seems to have tasted the sweetness of online traffic and reopened his comment section to join the fun: "Before I went into academia, I worked at Nokia for two years. At that time, Nokia had a very perfect corporate value and management system. Now, Nokia has systemic management problems..."

Professor Xiao posted two long Weibo posts, analyzing the reasons for Nokia's decline in a very logical and reasonable way, just as he had when he praised Nokia.

Many programmers from third-party companies also commented on and reposted Chen Guiliang's Weibo posts to express their criticism.

"No way, has Nokia gone mad? Our company doesn't even want to develop Symbian apps anymore, and both new Nokia phones are running Microsoft OS? What the hell?"

"Let whoever wants to do it do it; I certainly can't. Who would use Microsoft system apps anyway?"

"Nokia's global president is a complete lunatic."

"Not exactly insane, but definitely a Microsoft mole!"

“I think it was because of a curse cast by Chen Laozu. Back when Nokia had a 75% market share in the Chinese smartphone market, Chen Laozu cursed Nokia to decline. To make his prediction come true, Chen Laozu specially went to Southeast Asia to invite a sorcerer to cast a curse on Nokia's top management across the ocean.”

"Hahaha, this black magic is hilarious! Nokia's global CEO: Oh dear, I can't control myself! What did I just do? Damn Eastern witchcraft!"

"..."

The claim that Nokia's CEO had been cursed by Chen Guiliang quickly overshadowed the news of Steve Jobs' death.

Because this rumor is abstract and outrageous enough.

It's highly shareable!
There's an internet celebrity on Tianya Forum who makes up stories with an air of seriousness and utmost sincerity.

This is what the Tianya internet celebrity posted:

Chen Guiliang has read many ancient books, as can be seen from his essays in competitions back then. In an early interview, he said that since he had no books to read growing up, he would rummage through garbage dumps and scrap yards.

According to Chen Guiliang's high school roommate, Chen's ancestor found a copy of "Detailed Explanation of the Secret Records of Nanyang Sorcery" at a junkyard. It appears to be a tattered handwritten copy from the Republican era.

Later, when Chen Guiliang started his own company, he would always cast spells on his competitors. These spells weren't fatal, but they would cause the target to become mentally disoriented, making them act against their will and making all sorts of illogical decisions…

This post on Tianya quickly went viral, with many netizens tagging Chen Guiliang.

Chen Guiliang was too lazy to explain, and instead commented, "I've already cast a curse on the person who posted this. I've sentenced him to a life without a wife, and he'll definitely lose control of his words and actions when he's pursuing girls in the future!"

Amidst the abstract pronouncements and confusing behavior from all sides, sales of HarmonyOS's four smartphones and one tablet computer have skyrocketed.

According to professional third-party organizations, HarmonyOS phones may achieve an 18% market share in the smartphone market in the fourth quarter of this year!

18% is a terrifying figure, but that only applies to the smartphone market.

In China today, a large number of users still buy feature phones.

Despite being viewed negatively by many, Nokia remained a giant in the feature phone market at that time.

(End of this chapter)