game trailblazer

Chapter 227 South Korea trip ([-])

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In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Lexing habitually did physical exercise for a while, and practiced the self-defense moves taught by Ma Guanghai a few times, then went to the bathroom to take a shower, changed his clothes, sat in the living room comfortably, and started Enjoy the breakfast called by Park Mi-hee.

Picked up a piece of bread, poured a little honey with a small spoon, rolled it up and was about to stuff it into his mouth, Zhang Lexing looked at Pu Meixi who was still standing aside, and asked: "Miss Park, have you had breakfast? Do you want some too?" .”

"Thank you, I've already eaten." Park Meixi bowed slightly and replied with a smile.

Zhang Lexing didn't say any more, and directly stuffed the bread roll in his hand into his mouth. After swallowing the bread roll, he picked up the cup and took a few sips of milk.At this time, Wang Mengyao also came in from the outside, Zhang Lexing raised his head and said, "Mengyao, have you had breakfast? Would you like to have some?"

"I haven't had time to eat yet." Wang Mengyao approached the dining table and sighed, "Boss, your breakfast is really rich."

"Yeah, I can't finish it all by myself, why don't you help me out."

"Boss, then I'd rather be respectful than obedient." After Wang Mengyao finished speaking, she pulled the chair opposite Zhang Lexing and sat down, picked up the tableware and started.

After waiting for Zhang Lexing to finish his breakfast, Pu Meixi took out a notepad and began to report to him: "Boss, the two companies have already contacted each other. We will go to one company today and the other company tomorrow, so that there will be plenty of time." Some, you can look carefully."

Zhang Lexing nodded, and said: "That's fine, anyway, I'm not in a hurry. By the way, Miss Pu, which company is it arranged for today?"

"NCSoft Co., Ltd. has already made an appointment with their president, Mr. Jin Zechen, and we will go there at nine o'clock in the morning." Park Meixi raised her wrist and looked at her watch, and said, "It's only eight o'clock in the morning, and there is still plenty of time."

NCSoft can be regarded as a giant in the Korean game industry in the future, not one of them, but it is still a very small company, not even a game company.I heard Li Chengxuan’s introduction yesterday. NCSoft was founded by Jin Zechen and other 17 young people on March 3 this year. The company’s president is Jin Zechen. So far, no game works have come out. The company’s main business is to provide network integration solutions for enterprises. Mainly.

However, Zhang Lexing still has a little understanding of NCSoft. He knows that it has obtained the opportunity for rapid development by virtue of the success of its first work "Paradise". When "Paradise" entered China, he also tried it. Not very good, but the connotation is relatively deep compared to other Korean "kimchi".After that, NCSoft continued to develop games such as "Lineage 2" and "Guild Wars". Regardless of the final results, at least the company's scale has grown rapidly, and it has occupied the online game market in many parts of the world. Compared with other Korean game companies It can be regarded as very successful.Moreover, NCSoft has also tried to control virtual finance during the operation of "Paradise", coupled with the influence of "Paradise" in the Korean market, these are Zhang Lexing's values.

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At 10:[-], Zhang Lexing and his team came to the parking lot of the Intercontinental Hotel. After getting into their cars, the cars started one after another and drove towards the NCSoft office.The convoy was driving along the road. Along the way, Zhang Lexing noticed that, maybe because of the financial crisis, there were not many cars running on the road, but there were many Korean men with briefcases on the sidewalk, hurrying along. . NCSoft seems to be not far from the Intercontinental Hotel where Zhang Lexing lived, and within about [-] minutes of driving, the team stopped in front of a building.

Pu Meixi opened the curtain and took a look outside, then turned to Zhang Lexing and said, "Boss, this is it, the office of NCSoft is in this building."

Zhang Lexing opened the car door and got out of the car. He looked up at the building in front of him. The building seemed to have twelve or three floors, which was not too high. He couldn't see anything about the pile of Korean characters on the website, but it didn't matter, as long as NCSoft was here.

After the others got off the car one after another, Zhang Lexing took the lead, and the others followed. The group walked into the building, passed through the lobby downstairs, and came to the front of the elevator.It happened that an elevator opened the door, and a few strong men came out of it, looking menacing, but Zhang Lexing also had many bodyguards, so nothing unpleasant happened.

After these ferocious men walked away, two bodyguards stepped forward to check the elevator. After confirming that there was no problem, they made a safe gesture, and Zhang Lexing and his party walked into the elevator.As soon as she entered the elevator, Park Meixi reached out and pressed the floor button on the ninth floor, and then explained to Zhang Lexing: "Boss, NCSoft's office is on the ninth floor, and the first office on the right hand side after exiting the elevator is their place."

Zhang Lexing nodded, turned his attention to the floor indicator screen, and watched the numbers on it beating little by little, starting from "1" and slowly changing to "9". With a sound of "ding", the elevator The door slowly slid open to both sides, and the ninth floor arrived.As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, Zhang Lexing noticed the sign facing him, but he couldn't understand the Korean characters on it. Fortunately, he turned to the right and immediately saw the signboard of NCSoft. Although he couldn't understand the other characters, " The English letters "NCSoft" are still very conspicuous. Zhang Lexing knew that he had found the right place, so he stretched out his hand and pushed open the glass door of NCSoft's office, and walked inside.

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Jin Zechen sat in his own independent office depressed. Since he founded NCSoft with a group of like-minded friends at the beginning of the year, the company's business has not improved. At first, the company's business was to provide network integration solutions for enterprises and develop Internet software. , its first official product is "NCHTML Editor", on which NCSoft made a little money.However, Jin Zechen is not satisfied with just doing network integration solutions. His ideal is to make a great set of online games, just like the "Kingdom of Wind" developed by his friend Song Zaijing who is currently working for Nexon. ", and then his target was changed to Richard Garriott's "Network Genesis".

After officially investing in the development of online games, Jin Zechen discovered that the guys in his company were good at developing commercial software and making some solutions, but they were still confused about the direction of developing games. Not only could they not come up with any good game ideas, even if they had I couldn't think of a way to realize the ready-made idea, and I barely worked out one, but it became a four-face that couldn't be played at all. Not only did I lose the money I earned before, but the company also owed some foreign debts.

Up to now, Jin Zechen has only two choices, one is to completely give up the idea of ​​developing online games, honestly go back to do network integration solutions, and occasionally develop some Internet software; , Persist in game development to the end.In the end, Jin Zechen, who was unwilling, chose the second way, but obviously relying on the company's current team, it will take a long time to develop a decent game. Too much money to burn, so he thought of Song Zaijing, a friend he met during his military service.It just so happened that Nexon encountered financial problems and could hardly continue to operate. Under the temptation of Jin Zechen, Song Zaijing took his team to NCSoft, and Jin Zechen managed to get some funds. The company's game development The project "Paradise" finally started smoothly.

Song Zaijing is indeed a veteran in the game industry. About a month later, he led the development team to produce a decent demo version of the game. The overall progress of the development is almost 20%. It's also spent a lot of money, and financing is needed again.It should have been smooth, and Jin Zechen had almost reached an agreement with the two big companies. However, when the financial crisis reached South Korea, one of the two big companies went bankrupt, and the other was acquired by others. Obsolete.But by this time, Jin Zechen found that there was no company willing to invest in games at all. Many companies that were rich before went bankrupt, went bankrupt, shrank, and resold. The game development company is dead or alive.

In desperation, Jin Zechen finally did what he had been unwilling to do. He borrowed a sum of money from the finance company, and together with the money borrowed from relatives, he could finally ensure the smooth completion of the development of "Paradise". There will be no problems with the company's daily operations, but it has also brought about side effects. From this week, from time to time, a few big guys will come to the company to sit for a while, and they didn't mention the payment reminder, but they disturbed the company. There is no peace, and even the development progress of "Paradise" has been affected a little.

Just when Jin Zechen was about to despair, he suddenly received a call from Asia Interactive. Although the two companies had never cooperated before, Jin Zechen had heard of the name of Asia Interactive. Although he didn’t know why Asia Interactive wanted him, But he couldn't help but cheer up, and sighed in his heart: "As long as Asia Interactive is willing to invest, "Paradise" will definitely not have any problems. Could it be that his luck has come?"

But what happened today almost made Jin Zechen feel angry. For some reason, those guys from the finance company came to the company ahead of time. If the people from Asia Interactive saw this, there would probably be no hope.Jin Zechen was in a hurry, begged for a long time, and finally invited these offending guys away, and he had just returned to the office and sat down, before he could get out of his depressed mood, his secretary Jin Yingzhen knocked on the door and came in .

"Mr. Zechen, the people from Asia Interactive are here." Jin Yingzhen walked in and said in a low voice.

"Ah!" Jin Zechen stood up and asked, "Where is he?"

"There are too many of them, and there is no room for them to sit in the reception room, so I had to let them sit in the meeting room."

"Okay, you go out first, I'll be there right away."

After Jin Yingzhen left, Jin Zechen took out a comb from the drawer, combed some scattered hair, and then straightened his clothes before walking to the company's meeting room.

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When Zhang Lexing and others walked into NCSoft, Jin Yingzhen was shocked by those men in black suits with expressionless faces. She thought it was the accomplices of the previous group of people who came, and she couldn't help covering her eyes. Shut up and exclaimed: "What are you doing here again?"

"What are you doing again?" A woman among the group of people stepped forward and said in Korean: "Miss, I don't understand what you mean. We are interactive in Asia. I have contacted you before. Mr. Jin Zechen should know."

After the woman finished speaking, she turned her head and whispered a few words to a young man beside her. Jin Yingzhen blinked her eyes. She knew that the people from Asia Interactive were coming to visit. Obviously, these people in front of her were not here. Trouble, now her heart is finally back in her stomach.

"Hi everyone, welcome to NCSoft! I am the administrative secretary of the company, and my name is Jin Yingzhen." Jin Yingzhen greeted these visitors with a smile, while silently counting the number of visitors.

But after counting the number of visitors, Jin Yingzhen was worried again, because the company has not been in business for a long time, and there are not many visitors, that is, there are only two or three people occasionally, so the company's reception room is not large. Five visitors are no problem, but there are more than ten people in this group, it is not impossible to force them into the reception room, but that would be too impolite. The room is still relatively large, and it has been furnished three days ago, and it is just in use now.So Jin Yingzhen led Zhang Lexing and others to the conference room, and after serving tea carefully, he hurriedly informed the company president Jin Zechen.

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Zhang Lexing was sitting in the conference room of NCSoft, watching Jin Yingzhen busily poured the tea, pleaded guilty, and left in a hurry. It took a few minutes for him to reappear. He didn't dare to think that this time he brought good news. .

"I'm sorry, everyone, please wait a little longer, Mr. Zechen will be here soon." Jin Yingzhen bowed and said apologetically.

At this moment, a man in a striped suit walked in from the meeting room. He apologized repeatedly as soon as he entered the door: "I'm sorry for keeping everyone waiting for a long time. I am Jin Zechen."

(End of this chapter)