game trailblazer

Chapter 229 South Korea Trip ([-])
After Jin Zechen verbally agreed to the acquisition request, it was almost noon. Under Jin Zechen's kind invitation, the two parties went to a barbecue restaurant called "Tianshe" near NCSoft to have lunch together.As usual, a pile of Korean kimchi was served first. Zhang Lexing didn't dare to put down his chopsticks after looking at it for several times. After a while, the lid in the middle of the dining table was opened, and a thick iron pan was placed on it, brushed with a layer of oil, and set on fire. a while.Then spread some grilled ingredients such as beef tenderloin, steak, beef tongue, and beef loin in the thick iron pan. In the blink of an eye, the aroma of the meat rises, and then the meat "sizzles" on the thick iron pan. The sound made the diners sitting around all salivate.

Only then did Zhang Lexing know that the legendary Chinese Korean barbecue was actually fried in this way. After a while, the aroma of the meat gradually became stronger. Under the signal of Jin Zechen, everyone picked up their chopsticks and stretched them towards the thick iron pot in the middle. Pick up a piece of beef tenderloin, dip it in the mixed seasoning sauce in the small bowl in front of me, and then put it in your mouth. The thick beef taste is mixed with sweet and sour taste, but it has a hint of freshness and refreshing, which is really unique. place.This meal was considered a happy meal for the guests and the host, but the guests' joy here was really joyful, and Jin Zechen, as the host, was more forced to smile.

After lunch, Zhang Lexing asked Wang Mengyao to arrange someone to stay with Jin Zechen to continue discussing the details of the contract, while he himself planned to relax and walk casually in downtown Seoul.Park Meixi still followed Zhang Lexing and fulfilled her duties, and Li Chengxu had re-arranged someone to take over the translation of the meeting with Jin Zechen, so there was no need for Park Meixi to run away.

Driving across the Han River Bridge, passed Sungnye Gate, and visited the five ancient palaces, including Gyeongbokgung Palace, which is said to have a history of more than 600 years. After seeing it, Zhang Lexing was a little disappointed, especially after thinking of the Forbidden City, the gap was even bigger. Yes, but this complemented the status of the two countries at that time. What is interesting is that all the plaques in the palace are Chinese characters. This may be the reason why some sticks believe that Chinese characters are "invented" by South Korea.

After leaving Gyeongbokgung Palace, Park Mi-hee introduced that the nearby Namsan Park had a good view, so the convoy turned around along the road and turned around to drive to the nearby Namsan Park.

"Mr. Zhang," as soon as she got off the car, Park Mi-hee pointed to a small foothill not far away and said, "That is Nanshan Mountain, 265 meters above sea level. Beacon Tower. There are Octagonal Pavilion, Hancheng Tower, Ocean Aquarium, Fountain on the top of Nanshan Mountain, and Nanshan Library on the halfway up the mountain. You can take the cable car up the mountain, or take a walk on the steps to the top of the mountain, or even drive up the mountain for a drive... On Nanshan The tallest place is the Seoul Tower, which is 236.7 meters high. It was built in 1975. It used to be a TV relay tower. It was later opened to tourists. The viewing platform above is a great place to watch the night view, but the facilities inside are outdated. point……"

Looking at the time, it wasn't too early. Zhang Lexing chose to take the cable car up the mountain. He set off from the place where the cable car was taken, and arrived at the top of Nanshan in just over three minutes.After getting off the cable car, Zhang Lexing saw the beacon tower Park Meixi mentioned at the foot of the mountain, which looked full of vicissitudes of history from a distance.After walking a short distance, Zhang Lexing and his party came to the Bajiao Pavilion. At this time, there were already a few tourists standing in the pavilion overlooking the scenery below the mountain. Zhang Lexing stood outside the pavilion and looked down the mountain. The scenery was quite pleasant.After leaving the Bajiao Pavilion, Zhang Lexing and others came to the famous Hancheng Tower, took the elevator to the viewing platform at an altitude of about 360 meters, looked down the mountain, it was much wider than the Bajiao Pavilion, looked southwest, and could overlook Go to the Daehan Life 63 Building on the south bank of the Han River. According to Park Mi-hee, the height of the building is the same as Namsan Mountain at 265 meters. With the help of a telescope, Zhang Lexing can even see the sea in front of Incheon.

After some sightseeing, the sky gradually darkened. Under the leadership of Park Mi-hee, I went to a nearby restaurant. However, under the strong request of everyone, I did not choose a Korean restaurant this time. I ate too much kimchi these two days. Now, it's time for a change.

The next day, the negotiation with NCSoft was still going on. After all, it was related to the long-term interests of both parties and could not be sloppy.However, Zhang Lexing did not go to join in the fun anymore, but went to the second company, Actoz, which is also located in Seoul, according to the schedule.

Actoz's office is located on the north bank of the Han River. It is quite far from the Intercontinental Hotel where Zhang Lexing and others live, but it is quite close to the places such as Namsan Park and Gyeongbokgung Palace that we visited yesterday. Although there is no watch along the way, Zhang Lexing feels that the car At least it took nearly an hour to arrive.Maybe it was because Park Meixi had called before coming here. When Zhang Lexing got out of the car, he saw a white-collar beauty standing downstairs in the building looking around. Park Meixi stepped forward and asked, she was really an employee of Actoz Company, administrative secretary Jiang Yuner.

Through Park Mi-hee's translation, Jiang Yuner greeted warmly: "Everyone, welcome to Actoz company..."

Under Jiang Yuner's leadership, everyone followed to the Actoz office on the 8th floor of the building.I heard Li Chengxuan introduced before that Actoz was established on October 1996, 10, just a little more than a year ago. Looking at it now, it is indeed the case. After all, it is still a small company, and it only owns a small company on the 29th floor of the building. Part of it is just an office.

Jiang Yuner pushed open the glass door of the office, and a man greeted him enthusiastically with a smile on his face: "Everyone is from Asia Interactive, welcome to visit Actoz Company! I am Cui Xiong, the president."

Zhang Lexing reached out to shake hands with Cui Xiong, and said, "Mr. Cui, my surname is Zhang, and I am here to inspect your company's technical strength on behalf of Asia Interactive, but at a rough glance, your scale does not seem to be large. "

Cui Xiong's smile faltered for a while, then recovered immediately, and continued to smile and said: "After all, we have not been established for a long time, so we cannot compare with your company. Mr. Zhang, why don't we go to the conference room first, and I will come to you Tell me about the Actoz company."

Zhang Lexing waved his hand and rejected the proposal, saying: "No busy, I heard that you are developing an online game, I want to see your technical strength with my own eyes."

Cui Xiong's face changed. It's true that Actoz is indeed secretly developing an online game, a game that the company hopes for. Before that, Actoz also developed a stand-alone game in a small way, but the results were not satisfactory. , and later inspired by "Online Genesis", the head of the company's game development department, Park Guanhao, proposed the idea of ​​developing online games, so this secret project came into being. Ordinarily, there should be no news about it. Why did the person who came today seem to be right? As if this was very clear, Cui Xiong couldn't help becoming suspicious.

"Oh, I don't know how Mr. Zhang got the news?" Cui Xiong planned to make a routine, to see if the company employee had a lot of talk.But Zhang Lexing just didn't answer his topic. Instead, he looked around and seemed to be checking the company's situation.

In fact, it’s not a bad idea to let people from Asia Interactive see the games the company is developing. After all, the truly confidential things will not be released, and when the game is almost developed, it will have to find someone to publish anyway. With Actoz’s current economic strength in Operations in South Korea are a bit reluctant, let alone other regions.What Cui Xiong was really worried about was that there was an insider in the company. This time, the news of the company's game development could be leaked, and next time, maybe even the source code could be leaked. That would be the real disaster for Actoz.But the visitor was obviously unwilling to reveal the source of the news, and Cui Xiong was not easy to use. After all, the future game release might depend on Asia Interactive. He gritted his teeth and decided to agree to Zhang Lexing's request first, and then followed carefully to observe. Maybe we can find out the clues of the inner ghost.

Thinking of this, Cui Xiong coughed lightly and said, "Since Mr. Zhang is interested, let me show you."

After speaking, he turned and walked towards the game development department. Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Zhang Lexing followed immediately. Along with him were Pu Meixi, Wang Mengyao and Ma Guanghai who acted as translators. The others went to the reception room under the leadership of Jiang Yuner.Cui Xiong held the idea of ​​finding the ghost, so he didn't go directly to the game development department, but deliberately led Zhang Lexing and others to other departments of the company first.

"Mr. Zhang, this is the HR department of the company, and this is Director Cui Zhiyin... This is the Planning Department of the company, and this is Deputy Director Kim Nam-soo..." While making the introduction, Cui Xiong paid attention to the relationship between the introducer and Zhang Lexing expression, hoping to find some clues from it, but unfortunately nothing can be seen.Walking around, Cui Xiong finally stepped into the game development department where he didn't want to come but had to.

It was the first time that the president personally accompanied him to visit, and the unusual behavior alarmed the staff of the game development department, but most of them just raised their heads and took a look, and then returned to their work. Only their Minister Park Wan-ho stood up and greeted him.

Park Guanhao glanced at the few people who came, they were all strangers, so he turned his gaze to Cui Xiong again, and asked: "President, are you..."

"Mr. Zhang, this is Minister Park Wan-ho of the game development department. Wait a minute and let him introduce the game we are developing." Cui Xiong didn't answer Park Guan-ho's question directly, but first gave an introduction to both parties: "Park Minister, these are the guests of Asia Interactive, come and show the game you are developing to the guests."

Park Guan-ho was taken aback for a moment, but he stretched out his hand instinctively, and mechanically shook hands with the guest.What the president said just now made Park Yu-ho a little puzzled. Now that the development progress of this game has not yet reached the point where he needs to seek investment, why would the president make such a strange request? But since the president has spoken, he can't say much what.

Park Guanhao was about to turn around and return to his seat, when suddenly Zhang Le walked up to stop him, winked at him, and said, "Mr. Park, this must be the first time we've met."

"Ah..." Park Guanhao was stunned again. Of course this is the first time he met, but the question was so weird that he didn't know how to answer it for a while. Could it be that the person in front of him had met before? After meeting, I accidentally forgot, but no matter how hard Pu Guanhao tried to remember, he couldn't remember where the two might have met, so he smiled awkwardly and said, "It should be the first time we met!"

But Park Guan-ho's expression changed in the eyes of the caring Cui Xiong next to him. Zhang Lexing's blinking action became a certain signal, and Park Guan-ho's expression of thinking hard became a certain response. Cui Xiong couldn't help but thump in his heart: "Could this inner ghost be Park Guanhao? If so, it would be terrible. He is the person in charge of the game development department, and he can get the source code of everything. If it is really him, the consequences will be disastrous."

But Cui Xiong also knew that if he directly questioned Park Wan-ho now, there would definitely be no results. No one would admit this kind of thing foolishly. It seems that we should pay more attention in the future, and put a pair of eyes around Park Wan-ho. Row.

Zhang Lexing glanced at Cui Xiong next to him. He didn't know whether his deliberate performance just now fell into Cui Xiong's eyes, and it didn't matter. He had prepared a lot, and I believe Cui Xiong would never miss it.In this way, even if the purpose of the acquisition cannot be achieved, Actoz will split up, and the threat will naturally be greatly reduced by then.

"Mr. Park, Mr. Park!" Zhang Lexing patted Park Guanhao who was still in a daze, and said, "Can I introduce your game now?"

"Ah... oh, oh!" Park Guanhao came back to his senses at this moment. After nodding repeatedly, he hurried back to his seat, pulled out the relevant pictures of the game from the computer, and began to introduce: "Zhang Sir, this is the game "Dragon" we are developing..."

Hearing the name repeated from Park Meixi's mouth, Zhang Lexing was taken aback, and thought, "Dragon? It seems that I have never heard that Actoz has never developed this kind of game. Shouldn't it be called "Legend"?"

Zhang Lexing, who was worried that he heard it wrong, couldn't help asking Park Guanhao directly in English: "Mr. Park, did you just say "Dragon"?"

"It's indeed "Dragon"!" Park Guanhao didn't expect the people from Asia Interactive to speak English so neatly, but then he remembered that Asia Interactive seemed to have developed from Hong Kong, and he was relieved.In the following introduction, Park Guanhao simply used English directly, so as not to need someone to translate in the middle, and if there is something wrong, he may not know it.

Park Guan-ho spoke happily in English, but in the eyes of Cui Xiong, he became a suspicious place again. He knew that his English was not very good, but he insisted on using English for the introduction. Didn't it make it clear that he didn't want him to hear clearly? Well, who knows if Park Guan-ho will take the opportunity to reveal something that shouldn't be disclosed, Cui Xiong's dissatisfaction with Park Guan-ho is getting deeper and deeper.

(End of this chapter)