Time rewinds slightly.
As the wave of layoffs caused by the diversification trend swept through the European and American industries, some companies in Xia also joined in the fun.
Ludao Games announced the closure and dissolution of the entire company on the same day that Du Huo Studio confirmed its disbandment.
They didn't even wait until the next day to be blacklisted by Xinyou Games Station.
At this point, the three game companies that Xu Meng had publicly named during the "Frost Snow Project Second Review Storm" had all closed down.
This thoroughly cemented Xu Meng's ominous reputation as the "Industry Doom Light."
Whether it was a coincidence or Fei Zhiyuan wanted to reduce the impact,
Moyu Games also carried out a large-scale layoff on this day.
The "Mirror World Story" remake project was completely shelved, the project team was disbanded, and all but a few core personnel and key talents were transferred, with the rest being brutally dismissed.
For a time, whether at home or abroad, a large number of developers in the game industry were unemployed.
It was like a tsunami.
And Dream Builder, with its bulging wallet and thirst for talent, took action at this opportunity!
In this wave of unemployment tsunami, various extreme rainbow people and boxing enthusiasts did suffer heavy losses and were unemployed.
However, there were too many layoffs and bankruptcies, and many normal people were also affected.
These skilled workers with sufficient development experience and no interest in gender issues were exactly the talents that Dream Builder wanted most.
Dream Builder's personnel department acted quickly, poaching people from all over the world!
The "Mirror World Story" side was very simple.
There were already employees who had left the "Mirror World Story" project in the "War King" project team, and a simple connection brought together most of the reliable normal people in the project team.
Overseas was more troublesome.
However, after Xu Meng nodded and established an overseas studio, things quickly became smooth.
— When the global economic situation is very tense, it is really difficult to refuse an olive branch from a super-rich, technologically powerful company like Dream Builder.
In order to cope with the increasing number of employees, Dream Builder once again bought a large office building located on the edge of Jinghu Lake.
He finally finished the last few stops of his visit to the veterans and returned to the South before December.
But before he had time to meet the acquaintances who had transferred from Moyu, he was pinned to the gleaming marble floor by two security guards the moment he stepped into the company gate.
Chen Peng slammed heavily on the ground, his left face pressed against the cold marble floor.
His whole body was in severe pain, and his face was blank.
It wasn't until he was dragged into the small dark room that he realized that Xu Meng might have called the police.
But the actual situation was far more serious than this—
The people who held him down came from the Xia National Security Bureau.
And all this was because of a conversation Xu Meng had at the Shencheng National Laboratory of Materials Science.
—
That day, after Xu Meng released the network of contacts and interests related to SBI, he stopped talking.
He just ate melons with passion and silently admired the explosion of this big firework that had been brewing for a long time.
Until a batch of experimental monkeys temporarily coordinated from elsewhere—
Three crab-eating macaques and two rhesus monkeys were sent to the laboratory.
Xu Meng reluctantly closed the computer and turned his attention back to the new substance that urgently needed to determine safety.
"Which one should we send first?" Xu Meng asked.
The middle-aged researcher who came with the monkeys flipped through the folder in his hand and pointed to one of the rhesus monkeys.
"Let it go first, I just gave him a physical examination this morning."
So the dazed monkey was sent into the isolation room through the airtight door.
The second tube of compound was injected into the observation room.
— The previous ones had already failed.
A group of people stood in front of the glass observation window, staring silently at the rhesus monkey.
The monkey had been in the cage for too long, and suddenly came to the spacious observation room, excitedly scurrying around, running and jumping.
It took a while to calm down.
It didn't look like there was any discomfort.
But Xu Meng didn't speak, but looked at the researcher.
The middle-aged researcher shook his head slightly, "We have to wait for a while, it's best to let it exercise more."
After speaking, he looked at the monkey in the observation room and tried to knock on the window, hoping to make the monkey move.
"Or, let Baihu come out to scare the monkey?" Xu Meng asked Yin Zhiyuan.
Yin Zhiyuan shook his head firmly.
Xu Meng sighed and had to sit there bored, watching a group of people operate the robotic arm in the observation room to tease the monkey.
It took nearly an hour of procrastination before the monkey was dragged out and given a comprehensive physical examination by researchers in full isolation suits.
Especially the nasal cavity, oral cavity, blood, and lungs were checked very carefully.
While waiting, a crab-eating macaque was also sent in.
Then came the second rhesus monkey…
…
The whole verification process was much more complicated than Xu Meng imagined.
— He originally thought that he could just send a monkey in, come out and see that it was okay.
He didn't expect that it would be one after another.
Different varieties and different times must be tested.
Even if the examination is over, you have to wait long enough to observe the aftereffects.
Xu Meng was so bored that he continued to surf the Internet and eat melons.
He was also the only person in the entire laboratory who could connect to the external network.
— After the results came out, everyone in the laboratory who had been in contact with this experiment was cut off from external information.
By the time Xu Meng had a good time eating melons and was finally allowed to enter the observation room, it was already the afternoon of the next day.
For his safety, someone had already gone in before him.
Xu Meng was a little disappointed, but he still put on the haptic gloves, connected to the computer, and walked in.
As soon as he passed through the airlock, he saw a pink-haired little guy standing inside, opening his arms and rushing to hug him.
It was a pity that he was in a hurry and only brought a pair of haptic gloves.
Xu Meng raised his hand and rubbed the little guy's pink head, feeling a subtle daze.
—He had seen Xiao Meng many times in the VR world before, and of course, it wasn't the first time he had rubbed his head.
But seeing the other person with his naked eyes without any obstruction, compared to through VR glasses, the feeling was very different!
Even without wearing a haptic suit, the sense of reality was much higher!
"Hello, Xiao Meng."
"Hehe, hello Master!" Xiao Meng happily tiptoed, his soft ears trembling slightly.
… …
Outside the observation room, a group of people widened their eyes again.
Not because they saw Xiao Meng.
—In fact, they didn't see anything.
They didn't see Xiao Meng, nor did they see Xu Meng.
From their perspective, after Xu Meng stepped into the observation room, he suddenly disappeared into the air.
The entire observation room was empty, with nothing in it.
Fortunately, the person in charge reacted quickly, ran to the console and looked at the thermal imaging, successfully capturing Xu Meng's position, and stopped Yin Zhiyuan from rushing in and making trouble.
The people outside couldn't see what Xu Meng was doing.
Xu Meng didn't know what the people outside were thinking.
He only knew that after he walked out of the observation room, Yin Zhiyuan asked him with a serious face: "Are you sure you want to make this technology public and use it in the gaming field?"
"Yes, what's wrong?" Xu Meng asked back.
"Do you know what this technology can be used for?"
Before Xu Meng could answer, Yin Zhiyuan rattled off a series of military uses, "Optical stealth ghost troops, artillery positions that drones can't catch, fake military bases...there are too many amazing uses!"
"Stop, stop, stop." Xu Meng quickly raised his hand to stop him. "I know, I know, you can use it, I didn't say you can't."
"What I mean is..." Yin Zhiyuan paused, "Is it possible not to make this technology public and make it a secret weapon?"
"The country will compensate you."
Xu Meng looked at Yin Zhiyuan and sighed: "But I made the dumplings just for this vinegar!".
"Besides, isn't our country always trying to avoid war as much as possible? Once this technology is released, other countries will see: Wow! This technology has been released for civilian use, the military must have even more powerful technology! Then they won't dare to provoke us even more, right?"
"Subduing the enemy without fighting!".
"Besides, how much economic benefit can this technology create when it is used for civilian purposes? This is not just about Zhuzhumeng making money—you know, I don't love money now, many people and many companies will benefit."
"You should also be clear about the impact of technological development on productivity and the economy, right?"
"Anyway, the media synthesis method and the holographic image translation algorithm are in our hands, and the technology will not be leaked."
Yin Zhiyuan was speechless by Xu Meng's words.
He was a soldier, and to be honest, he didn't care much about the economy.
When he saw a powerful technology, his first thought was to use it for military purposes.
But with the birth of this new technology, Xu Meng's weight was no longer what it used to be.
With just the haptic suit, the country would of course protect him and value him.
But coupled with this "true holographic display" technology that can deceive the eyes—and after completing such an amazing technological breakthrough in such a short period of time with miraculous efficiency, his weight was already that of a national treasure!
No, more precious than a national treasure!
Giant pandas can't build you something that can be invisible!
"I will report your opinion to my superiors." Yin Zhiyuan said with a sigh, "However, some old leaders in the army have a heavier pre-war mentality and may not be very happy—of course, it won't really affect your decision, so don't take it to heart when the time comes."
Not everyone in the special action team is from the army, and Yin Zhiyuan's superiors cannot forcibly prohibit Xu Meng from putting the technology into civilian use.
Xu Meng shook his head: "Change the content of your report."
"What?" Yin Zhiyuan was taken aback.
"Just say, I have a new idea, one that is more powerful than the holographic display device, um...not necessarily."
Speaking of which, Xu Meng was a little unsure, "It's definitely more powerful in the gaming field and the medical field, but it's really hard to say in the military field..."
After thinking for a while, he said: "Anyway, just say that it is a technology as powerful as the holographic display device. This technology can pull a group of people into the same dream, and they will clearly remember everything that happened in the dream after waking up."
"Agree to me commercializing the holographic display device, and I will also create this technology and authorize you to use it for free, how about it?"
In the entire observation room, everyone seemed to be busy with their own things, but in fact, everyone was paying attention to the conversation between Xu Meng and Yin Zhiyuan.
As a result, hearing Xu Meng's words suddenly in a state of complete psychological unpreparedness, one by one was so surprised that they froze in place.
So much so that the originally busy observation room suddenly became silent!
