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Chapter 300: #300 - Year-end dividends for cloud shareholders! (Monthly votes requested!)

Xu Meng's actions were very swift.

Especially after Xiao Meng noticed his master's movements, she immediately joined in.

In less than three minutes, Xu Meng had already shrunk into a foxhole and completed the preliminary adjustments to the code.

He didn't completely block the [Smell] sense, but added a switch to it.

At the same time, he made a note in the memo, planning to further improve the switch after the game time ended, adding a custom adjustment for olfactory sensitivity.

If a large number of players enter the Dream World in the future, they will always need the sense of smell to experience the fragrance of flowers, gunpowder smoke, and delicious food.

Oh, and the body fragrance of virtual wives.

It's impossible to delete it just because of the farting issue.

As for why not delete the [Farting] behavior, or reduce the smell of stinky farts, or even directly turn farts into fragrant ones...

Just kidding, Xu Meng himself was almost熏晕 by it!

With such a unique experience, how could he not let the players experience it in the future?

Besides, human preferences are diverse, what if some players just like the smell of stinky farts?

If this function is deleted, wouldn't it deprive them of their fun?

Xu Meng convinced himself in this way.

In short, he quickly solved the stinky fart problem and plunged back into the battlefield.

Well, that is, continue to be bombed.

...

In the second game, they actually won.

The [Sweet Potato Grenade Launcher] was a far cry from the original grenade launcher in terms of absolute lethality and suppression.

And the enemy was still targeting Xu Meng to bomb.

When his teammates saw through this and turned Xu Meng from a "key protection object" into "bait", they successfully gained an advantage after a few rounds of counter-kills.

Everyone was very happy.

Except for Xu Meng.

But Xu Meng still gave out money.

After finishing this game, the brave sniper hand suggested: "Boss Xu, why don't you change your ID?"

"Your ID, [Da Meng], has been completely exposed."

"OK."

Xu Meng was very easy to talk to, and changed his ID quickly—

[Zhong Meng]

Xiao Meng patted his arm to express her dissatisfaction.

Entering the game, he was still being chased.

The brave sniper hand, Orange Juice, and Qi Huahua really felt a little sorry for Xu Meng.

After discussing a few words, they took the initiative to ask Xu Meng: "Why don't we turn off the broadcast first?"

They asked this because they were not sure what Xu Meng thought.

What if Xu Meng pulled them together to play, also with the purpose of promotion?

Although Xu Meng said that this invitation was purely a "player behavior" and did not pay any promotion fees.

But their careers took off, indeed riding on the Dream Building's big ship, and they were all very willing to help.

But they didn't expect that Xu Meng would agree without even thinking about it.

So, they turned off the broadcast and continued.

Unfortunately, he was still being chased!

...

Until the team broke up, although the team had wins and losses, Xu Meng never escaped the fate of being chased.

Throughout this day, and the days that followed, whether Xu Meng teamed up with others or played solo.

Whether playing [War Zone], [Hell on Earth], [Manic Era], or [Color Paper War], he would invariably be targeted and chased by his opponents.

Even when strolling around in Mansheng Metropolis and Silver City, every now and then one or two civilians would pop up, wanting to scare him.

But Xu Meng didn't say a word, just kept giving out red envelopes.

...

On the 14th, when the last batch of holographic devices before the New Year went on sale, he even created a record of sending out more than 13,000 red envelopes in one day!

On this day, he stood in the central square of Mansheng Metropolis, giving one to each player who came.

Later, for efficiency, players spontaneously lined up, one after another receiving red envelopes from Xu Meng.

The long queue circled the central square again and again.

Players from different countries and ethnic groups, with different skin colors, speaking different languages, all stood in the same queue, receiving red envelopes from the same person.

The atmosphere was harmonious and warm.

This unprecedented event lasted for a whole day.

It almost topped the homepages of major media websites around the world.

It even completely overshadowed the news that the third batch of holographic devices was put on the shelves and sold out in a very short time.

No one complained that Xu Meng was playing hunger marketing, deliberately dangling users.

Anyone who dared to say that would immediately have a group of netizens come over to kindly educate him:

"Boss Xu is busy giving out money! Where does he have time to work on screws?!!"

"It's almost the New Year, what's wrong with Boss Xu taking a few days off?!!"

"Do you know how long it takes for a new technology to go from the laboratory to the market? Dream Building is already as fast as flying!"

"If you think it's too slow, go work on screws yourself! The Ningzhou Super Factory is also recruiting people now!"

...

The Super Factory, although also within the Dream Building system, is the only unit that completely follows the statutory holidays.

The tens of thousands of people here will not have a holiday until New Year's Eve.

The Super Factory is nominally and in terms of shares Xu Meng's, but in fact Xu Meng basically doesn't participate in any management, he is just a hands-off shopkeeper who collects money and takes goods.

In a sense, except for not having a formal establishment, the Super Factory is basically a state-owned enterprise.

So Xu Meng did not raise any objections to the holiday arrangements, but prepared three times the salary for the employees who worked normally these days, as a sign of consolation.

It is said that they were very happy.

The netizens who maintain Xu Meng on the Internet are not all those who have received his red envelopes and been bought by him.

Many people just have a good impression of him because of what Xu Meng did, so they spontaneously want to support him.

Many of these people are not even players.

Of course, the players' support for him is the strongest!

This "support" has also spread to the game.

Xu Meng's gaming experience began to slowly improve.

The behavior of "crossing half the battlefield to get you" became less and less every day.

When the 15th arrived, Xu Meng, with Xiao Meng, used the latest holographic display technology to cross half of China and airdrop into the Huacheng Medical University Affiliated Hospital, sending New Year greetings to all patients—especially underage patients! This trend became even more obvious!

In the end, he even had a very good gaming experience.

When strolling in the Metamorphic City, people would also greet him kindly, instead of swarming around him asking all sorts of questions.

Of course, by this time, the "gaming experience," which Xu Meng considered very important, was seen by the outside world as the least important thing.

The trip to the Medical University Affiliated Hospital, besides making netizens praise Xu Meng for being kind and having a childlike heart, the really important thing was:

Xu Meng demonstrated a feasibility of holographic equipment to everyone—

This thing can actually allow people thousands of miles apart to meet in the same room!

Without any delay!

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Adding the somatosensory synchronization suit, they can even hug each other!

This communication experience completely surpasses any phone call or video.

Based on this, expanding the thinking, remote tourism, remote teaching, remote office, remote medical care, remote business…

Countless industries and countless fields may usher in disruptive changes because of this technology!

The day this technology is widely promoted will inevitably eliminate many old jobs, and at the same time create a large number of new jobs.

And this day seems to be very close!

—At this time, the outside world does not know that maintaining this real-time holographic dynamic display requires quite complex algorithms and consumes a lot of cloud computing power. It is not something that just anyone or any company can handle.

They just feel that since Xu Meng can do it so easily in just a few months.

Then the popularization of the technology should not be too difficult!

So everyone is very optimistic, and all walks of life have begun to imagine the future, chatting and chatting on social networks.

In this widespread discussion, Xu Meng's image has gradually transformed from a game producer to a scientific research genius who promotes social progress.

Coupled with his indiscriminate money-giving behavior among the players these days, he has won the favor of almost all netizens in the world.

He only took a week to establish an extremely distinct and positive personal image.

And he is closely tied to Dream Building.

Netizens love the house and its crows, and their goodwill towards him personally will naturally be passed on to the company and its products.

If you want to achieve this kind of publicity effect through marketing, you don’t know how much time it will take and how much money it will cost!

And Xu Meng only took a week.

Of course, he also spent a lot, a lot of money.

No one can estimate the exact amount for the time being—only that it must be a very large sum of money!

This is also the most curious thing for everyone now—

How much money did Xu Meng spend?

The [Colored Paper War] of "Frost Snow Project", giving cash red envelopes to all players, probably costs several hundred million.

The players of "War of Kings" were not treated differently. No matter which mode they played, there was a chance to drop cash red envelopes at the final settlement, and the probability was not low.

It should also be an expenditure of over 100 million.

In comparison, the one million or so red envelopes that Xu Meng sends out every day are just a drop in the bucket.

At this point, everyone already felt that Xu Meng was really generous enough.

But soon, everyone realized that they had underestimated Xu Meng again!

New Year's Eve.

Xu Meng once again appeared in the Metamorphic City with Xiao Meng.

At this time, the Metamorphic City also ushered in the lowest point of the player online rate.

But at the same time, most of the Xia country people who are still in the game world at this time are players who have no home to return to on New Year's Eve, cannot go home, or have no one at home to reunite with.

—After all, a few people who are really addicted to the Internet are also in the game at this time, not on the streets of the Metamorphic City.

At this time, both the Metamorphic City and Silver City were snowing heavily.

The streets are also decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and the Spring Festival atmosphere is very strong.

In such an environment, Xu Meng said "Happy New Year" to all online players.

Then, the Metamorphic City and Silver City began to rain.

This is a red envelope rain.

Still, cash red envelopes!

—Each player can receive one, and those who receive more will become credit points.

At the same time, there are also some fortune cards mixed in.

Xu Meng put the five kinds of fortune cards, [Golden Fortune Card], [Wood Fortune Card], [Water Fortune Card], [Fire Fortune Card], and [Earth Fortune Card], in various New Year activities for players to collect.

At the same time, following the "tradition", on this last day of New Year's Eve, a large amount of fortune cards were distributed to facilitate everyone to collect them.

After collecting them, you can still share the money!

One big red envelope after another made the players and netizens a little dizzy.

Countless people began to inquire online: "How much money will Xu Meng spend on this round of Spring Festival marketing????"

At the same time, a series of doubts arose:

"How rich is Xu Meng now? What level of rich is he?"

"How much money did Dream Building make in the past year to allow Xu Meng to squander like this?"

And the most important thing—

"Why is Xu Meng doing this?"

"Is there really no problem with the cost performance of this kind of marketing???"

These questions were given an answer that was not an answer on the evening news the next day—

At the end of the news, the reporter asked Xu Meng this most popular question on the current network.

Xu Meng did not say the specific number, but he did not evade the question either.

He clearly replied:

"It's probably 10% of Dream Building's total profit from the game business last year."

"Dream Building's profitability is inseparable from the support of all players."

"So, this is the year-end bonus that Dream Building is giving to everyone."

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