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"lily."

"Ok?"

"Aren't all the computer parts of Jialan Company named after flowers? The computers in the coffee shop are basically all your parts, so I plan to name this graphics card Lily."

Jiang Wei said seriously: "Then use the two-dimensional modeling. Of course, I will definitely guarantee the materials used in the graphics card, and guarantee the quality and after-sales service."

"A two-dimensional look?"

Xiongxiong became interested: "You mean... something like 'graphics card girl'?"

"Yes, I have a ready-made plan."

“Have you designed it yet?”

"The corresponding graphics card girls have already been designed, but there are two of them."

Jiang Wei showed an expression that said "I am a profiteer": "Otherwise, how can it be called the Lily series graphics card? Am I right?"

"Two graphics card girls? Interesting."

Xiongxiong took out a pen and wrote a few words in the small notebook he carried with him: "Can you let me see the draft of your design?"

"Just Nuo'er and Xiaomo."

"what?"

"I said... the graphics card girl's design will use the virtual images of Nuo'er and Xiaomo. I have previously found an artist to design corresponding two-dimensional images for them."

Jiang Wei turned to me and said, "It just so happens that Nuo'er and Xiaomo are here too. We can discuss the copyright issue together."

"what?"

I was a little confused by Jiang Wei's sudden topic: "Why is a graphics card suddenly related to us?"

"I just want to use your and Xiaomo's avatars, just like the promotion of the coffee shop."

Jiang Wei took out his phone and showed me the cute two-dimensional picture of himself and Xiaomo on the computer he had given me before: "I am willing to use part of the share here to pay for the copyright of the two of you."

"That means Nuo'er and Xiaomo are also our shareholders. You will get a share of every time this graphics card is sold. How do you think?"

"..."

……

No. 271 Apocalypse Lily: Throne of the Elves

Xiaomo and I accepted Jiang Wei's proposal.

Theoretically, there is a limit to how much money you can make if you rely solely on your own efforts, but there is no limit to the amount you can make with a team.

Working in a coffee shop, even if I don't take a break for a whole month and work from morning to night every day, the commission I can get is limited. It also takes up almost all of my time. It's not worth it. It's better to cooperate with old friends like Jiang Wei Xiongxiong and do some side business.

In my impression, life seems to be like this - this is what I did when I was an uncle. I came home from get off work every day and tried to learn photo editing, and earned some money for snacks and fruits by PSing photos for others. Then I heard that writing novels could also make money, so I tried to write the first book in my life.

At that time, I even learned how to make games. Every day while eating, I watched the production videos of GPG games on my mobile phone. I understood the if else statements, learned the logical judgment of character behavior, and learned how to process pictures, audio, and skill data.

This is similar to... finding something to do for yourself. When we come into contact with a new industry, we are definitely excited and curious about it. We will work hard and learn all kinds of things in order to make money here. Eventually, we really make money in this industry, even if it is only a few dozen yuan, which is enough to buy some fruits or daily necessities outside. The sense of accomplishment it brings is also amazing.

"This is the first draft of the contract regarding this matter. I have already prepared it."

Jiang Wei went to the room and took out a document. He placed it in front of Xiaomo and me and said, "You can take a look at it. We are old friends. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Don't feel embarrassed."

"Ok."

After taking the document, I pulled it between myself and Xiaomo, spread it out one page at a time, and began to read it carefully.

This should be regarded as Jiang Wei asking us to "endorse" his graphics card? Can we think of it this way?

Hmm... a new part-time job, and it seems to be a relatively convenient part-time job?

I was short of money, and I had motivation to do other things after work. I got extra money because of my efforts, and bought the things I liked that I usually wouldn't dare to buy. I was very happy because I learned new knowledge and entered a new field. I will continue to work hard next time.

——I have always thought this is a very positive attitude towards life.

Otherwise, when a person enters the society, he comes home from get off work every day, eats a meal, turns on the computer to play games for a few hours, or watches videos on his mobile phone. When he sees that it is getting late, he takes a shower and goes to bed. The next day, he is reluctantly woken up by the alarm clock, gets up in depression and goes to work in the company. This cycle repeats over and over again. It is easy for him to start questioning the meaning of life, thinking that this is a life that can be seen at a glance, and that he is just living a life of eating and waiting to die, and eventually his mentality collapses.

I believe that Filo Gabriel and the others chose to stay on Earth with a similar mentality, because there are "pursuits" here that are not found in other worlds. The legendary "wear and tear" of the longevity species should be the same reason.

The longevity people live longer. They get up every day and do the same thing repeatedly, or simply eat and sleep, sleep and eat. After a long time, people become strange.

Now the company of Xiongxiong's family needs to open up the market in our country, and Shenbin City is the first test point. The first thing they considered was Tongmeng.com, which has various film and television entertainment businesses. Only after the deal was reached did they consider "individual merchants" like Jiang Wei.

The reason why Xiong Xiong was asked to come as a representative to negotiate is probably because the family also wanted to give some experience to this young lady who does not do any work every day and is always running around.

Jiang Wei wanted to have a child and needed "childcare funds", so he planned to reopen his old business and enter the computer market. Ye Zi was a distant relative of Ye Yuqing, and she heard about the needs of the Xiong Xiong Family Company from Ye Yuqing, so she told Jiang Wei the details, and the two of them got in touch. However, the current computer market is not so easy to re-enter, and if they want to expand, they must find a breakthrough point.

It's not that there are no businesses in the "two-dimensional" field of the computer market. Two-dimensional motherboards, two-dimensional graphics cards, two-dimensional chassis, two-dimensional water cooling... As long as there is demand, there is a market. If Jiang Wei just imitates the previous merchants to make "Bride Graphics Card" or "Graphics Card Girl", theoretically consumers will not easily buy it. He needs a special entry point.

Then this guy set his eyes on the “coffee shop poster girl” who is currently famous on the Internet because of the coffee shop incident, that is Xiaomo and me.

"We have no problem with most of the content in the contract."

After carefully reading the "copyright contract" handed over by Jiang Wei, Xiaomo and I exchanged opinions briefly and gave Jiang Wei a reply: "But as for the image of the card girl, I hope we can draw it."

In fact, if Jiang Wei was a little more selfish, he wouldn't have told us this.

Although Xiaomo and I have our own portrait rights and the photos we take are not allowed to be used for commercial purposes, in Jiang Wei's case, we asked the artist to do a secondary creation instead of directly pasting our pictures on the image.

The artist drew the pictures based on how Xiaomo and I look in real life, and the modifications were quite significant. If someone knows us, they would recognize our works the moment they see them. But this does not mean that it is necessarily an infringement of copyright in law. After all, it is very troublesome to argue about this matter - Xiaomo and I cannot say that we are wearing this outfit and posing in this way, and these are unique to us.

There are many similar examples in reality. Some businesses take advantage of this to engage in skirting advertising, pretending that they are the product endorsed by a certain celebrity and promoting it in various ways. They also put up relevant promotional pictures and make a lot of money. The two sides have been arguing in court for several years without any result.

"Noer, do you want to draw it yourself?"

Hearing me say this, Jiang Wei was a little surprised: "This is the first time I heard that Nuoer can draw."

"Xiaomo drew it, and I'm in charge of the post-production."

I explained: "So you need to give us the sample and design draft, and Xiaomo and I will show it to you after we have revised it."

I know Xiaomo's painting skills. Her clone has retained her painting skills for thousands of years and should be able to adapt to any style of drawing. I only need to help buy a tablet so that she can draw on the computer. What Xiaomo lacks is the technology related to "late-stage" photo editing.

I happen to be familiar with this area.

Before I started writing novels, I taught myself PS and learned how to edit photos and how to do post-production on photos. After getting involved in making small games, I also learned what image adaptation is. For example, some games only support PNG format files, some layers need to remain transparent, and in some games, character equipment, UI, CG, etc. must have a fixed resolution. If the image is a little bigger or smaller, there will be problems, not even a pixel will work.

Later, when I was taking orders on the platform, I also came into contact with web design. Because there was a huge market demand for this, I also learned how to use graphics software to design web pages, which involves various image tools. Over time, I gained relevant experience.

For things like computer graphics cards and computer cases, it is definitely not enough for an artist to just draw a picture. How big is the graphics card? When the artist's picture is printed on a printing press, where does the character need to appear on the graphics card? What is the resolution and ratio? What to do if there is a screw at this position on the graphics card? Where does the sunken part of the gold finger correspond to in the picture? Will important layers be missing? These all need to be considered.

Moreover, having a picture alone is not enough. When Xiaomo draws a picture, it is impossible to just paste it on the screen. The graphics card is a three-dimensional object. You need to consider the color and theme of the picture when designing. For example, Xiaomo draws me in elf mode, with green and white as the main themes. Then the whole graphics card will have to be designed to match the color scheme of us two "graphics card girls". Where to make green look good, where to paint white with some flowers and plants, where to add RGB light strips for Shenguan synchronization, all these need to be designed pixel by pixel.

I originally thought that all the messy knowledge I learned when I first entered society was not of much use except for doing part-time work, but now it seems... that is not the case.

Ouyang Xue also had trouble with art design before, and I happened to be able to help her...

“Do you design the graphics and themes for the graphics cards?”

Hearing what I said, Jiang Wei was a little curious: "Nuo'er, do you know how to do these?"

"Did you forget?"

I reminded him, "I helped with the post-production of some of Pipi's parent-child photos."

"Oh, now I remember, Nuoer was really good at photo editing back then."

Jiang Wei suddenly realized: "Then I will send you the graphics card sample and design draft, and you and Xiaomo will decide?"

“We make the decision together.”

I shook my head. "You are in charge of the connection between the factory and the technology. We are only a supporting role, so the final right of modification must be yours."

"Then we should just follow the original proposal?"

Jiang Wei thought for a moment: "Apocalypse Lily 3000 series?"

I turned to Sikong Yue and asked, "Does Xiongxiong only have the TQ3000 graphics card?"

"This is our top-of-the-line graphics card. We also have two entry-level models, the Apocalypse 2600 and Apocalypse 2800. Their performance is slightly worse than the Apocalypse 3000, but they are also relatively cheaper."

Sikong Yue explained: "If Mr. Jiang Wei is interested, we can also consider adding this graphics card to the mass production plan."

"Of course you need it. Apocalypse 3000 is more than yuan. If you want to expand your business, you can't just focus on high-end graphics cards. Ordinary people can't afford such high-end things. Most families only spend around yuan on a computer, and the graphics card only accounts for yuan at most."

Jiang Wei looked at the two contracts and said, "If you do this, you'd better consider the majority of families and set a lower price. The market here is very large."

"Yes, I understand. I will tell the family when I return."

Xiongxiong nodded: "Then how did you name these three graphics cards?"

"According to your naming convention, the Apocalypse 2600 is an entry-level graphics card, just like a ferocious cat, with sufficient performance and stability. Nuoer and Xiaomo can move towards a similar theme and call it 'Apocalypse Cat 2600'."

"The Apocalypse 2800 sounds like a mid-range graphics card, so let's use Nuoer's usual working state as the theme, Apocalypse Maid 2800."

"As for the strongest Apocalypse 3000, you can make it a little more domineering, such as... Apocalypse Lily: Throne of the Elf 3000."

"I'm just giving a rough idea. We can figure out the specific naming rules together later."

"..."

……

Finally, Jiang Wei, Sikong Yue and I finalized the specific cooperation matters in this house on the fourth floor.

As the new game "Age of Aquarius" is about to be launched in public beta, Xiong Xiong's company is entering the computer accessories market. As the person in charge of the liaison with Jiang Wei, Xiong Xiong's main task is to urge the family to control the quality of computer accessories and provide corresponding after-sales service.

Jiang Wei contacted the factory and some former computer manufacturer technicians to modify the graphics cards or graphics card chips sent by Xiong Xiong. His main tasks were the production and marketing of graphics cards.

Because both of them have invested huge resources in both technology and manpower, the profits mainly go to Jiang Wei and Xiongxiong Company. As the "spokespersons" of the graphics cards, Xiaomo and I's main task is to cooperate with Ouyang Xue and Tongmeng.com to increase its popularity... In fact, it doesn't matter whether we cooperate or not. If Shenbin City wants to develop, Ye Yuqing will definitely do everything possible to make the coffee shop popular at all costs. As employees there, it is impossible for us not to be well-known.

To put it simply, Xiaomo and I only need to go to work on time every day and do our jobs well as usual, and then Jiang Wei will give us a share of the profits from every graphics card sold. Although it is not high, after all, Xiaomo and I don't need to do anything and can just sit back and get paid, so it is a very good cooperation.

"How are those little turtles from before? Have they grown up a bit?"

Before leaving, Jiang Wei asked Xiaomo, Xiongxiong and me to go up to the fourth floor of the house and showed us the flowers and plants he planted and the pigeons he raised there.

"How can they grow so fast? I see them just pile up in the fish tank every day without any exercise."

After going upstairs, I walked straight to the open bird cages on the edge of the roof and tried to reach out to a pigeon.

"Gu Gu Gu Gu——"

What surprised me was that these pigeons didn’t seem to be afraid of people at all. They jumped onto my hands one after another and rubbed their little heads against my fingers affectionately.

"The Elf state will increase the intimacy of all animals."

Yin Xiamo, who was standing next to her, explained, “Even wild animals are not immune to this effect, so Nuoer, if you encounter a lion, tiger, or king cobra in the wild, don’t be afraid. They won’t attack you.”

Why did I encounter tigers, lions, and king cobras in the wild? Is the suburb of Kamihama City so scary?

“This pigeon doesn’t bite people?”

The heartwarming scene made Xiongxiong curious. She took off her Xiongxiong gloves and tried to reach out to one of the pigeons.

"Goooooooo!"

It was completely different from the treatment I received. I don’t know if these pigeons were frightened by XiongXiong’s dress or if they just had a bad temper. When they saw XiongXiong’s outstretched little hand, the flock of pigeons took off instantly. Some pigeons even turned around and pecked XiongXiong’s hands a few times.

“Completely different treatment!”

Xiongxiong looked at me a little aggrieved: "Is Nuoer really the mascot?"

Ah... this is actually just the effect of magic.

I didn't know how to explain it for a moment.

If I were in human form, these pigeons would probably peck at me too... probably.

"Why don't we take a photo to celebrate our successful cooperation."

At this time, Ye Zi came up with a camera, stood at the entrance to the roof, and pointed the camera at us.

"I agree."

When Xiaomo heard this, she hugged me and kissed me on the face: "I'll stand with Nuoer."

You just want to take advantage of the opportunity?!

"Great! Happy cooperation!"

Xiongxiong put on his gloves again, raised the two bear dolls, and stood behind Xiaomo and me. "With the bonus of Nuoer's mascot, I have a feeling that the old men in the family can count their money without having to lie down from now on."

"Hahaha, I think so too. I haven't felt this way for a long time. It's like I'm about to start a big business, as if I'm back to the time when I first started my own business at the age of 20."