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Qiao Hong looked at Xiao Gou who lowered his head with a very guilty expression, and said, "When did it happen?"

Xiao Gou whispered: "Just last week, we have established a group for five days."

Qiao Hong asked, "Why didn't you tell me?"

Xiao Gou whispered: "They refused, saying that you don't want to contact your former friends yet, but they also want to know about your recent situation and are very worried about you."

Qiao Hong asked again: "Who is there?"

Xiao Gou said with a mournful face: "Nicknamed Sting Tou, Shitou and Daniu, they are the three people who called you back at that time. I secretly checked your call records, and the phone numbers they gave me are the three people who called you at that time number, I believed them. But then I thought what I did was not good. I must have a brain twitch to do it... The next day I felt like I had a brain twitch, but I was afraid to tell You, I'm afraid you'll be angry."

Qiao Hong raised his eyebrows: "Then why are you telling me now?"

Xiao Gou faltered and said: "Because, because just now you said you trusted me, I, I felt even more guilty, so... I'm sorry, Da Qiao, I shouldn't have done this."

Qiao Hong said blankly: "Pull me into the group."

Dejected, Xiao Gou took out his mobile phone and invited Qiao Hong. After Qiao Hong entered the group, the three people who were chatting and spanking in the group immediately fell silent.

Qiao Hong stretched out his hand to Xiao Gou, and Xiao Gou obediently handed the phone to Qiao Hong.

Qiao Hong briefly looked through the group chat records, and found that apart from the unnutritious mess in the group chat records, the three naive ghosts were bragging about how close they were to him before, and then Xiao Gou jumped out and said that he lives with himself now. How harmonious and happy.

Qiao Hong couldn't help but glared at Xiao Gou.

Xiao Gou smiled with guilt: "They drove first! They said 4P! At least I didn't drive!"

Qiao Hong hit Xiao Gou on the dog's head hard, and then used his account to send a message in the group: "What did you do behind my back?"

Stinghead replied: "Compete for favor?"

Qiao Hong almost dropped the phone.

Are all of you retarded? !

After Sting Tou replied, other people followed suit.They all acted like a playwright, crying that Qiao Hong had neglected his old love when he had a new love. They could only ask the new love in a low voice and groveling about the emperor's recent situation.

Qiao Hong scolded each other with explosive hand speed, while turning his head to Xiao Gou and said, "What are you doing with them? These unscrupulous people will spoil you. If you feel free, then go to work overtime."

Seeing that Qiao Hong didn't look angry, Xiao Gou breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I'm not... It's because they care about you very much, so I agreed to their unreasonable request by accident."

Qiao Hong snorted coldly: "How did you use the idiom correctly this time?"

Xiao Gou made fun of him, took back his mobile phone and joined the chaotic chat, helping the "Emperor" fight against the "old love".

After chatting for a while, Qiao Hong realized something was wrong, and asked, "They only told you their nicknames? Didn't they tell you their real identities?"

Xiao Gou nodded.

Qiao Hong frowned: "They won't say?"

Xiao Gou shook his head: "I didn't take the initiative to ask. I usually chat in the group, and I didn't touch this question."

Qiao Hong felt a little uncomfortable.

He directly introduced the names and identities of these three people to Xiao Gou in the group, and then said: "You can just poke me if you want to ask anything, and ask Xiao Gou to find out what, are you engaged in spy warfare? Are you free this weekend? Together Have a meal."

Qiao Hong posted a picture of holding a knife behind the words, and his three friends were crying and howling that Qiao Hong was going to kill someone.

Xiao Gou asked: "This weekend? Saturday or Sunday? One meal or the whole day? I try to avoid cooking alone."

Qiao Hong said: "Whatever you cook, you go with me."

Xiao Gou was surprised and said, "I'm going too?"

Qiao Hong stopped typing, turned his head and said, "Do you think I won't take you there? Because we are not in the same circle?"

Xiao Gou was a little embarrassed: "We are not in the same circle..."

Qiao Hong said: "Now it is." He continued to lower his hair and rage at his three friends.

Xiao Gou was at a loss at the side.

After a while, he whispered: "Well, is it really okay for me to go? I may not be able to blend in..."

Qiao Hong didn't raise his head and said, "You can be friends with me, and you can also be friends with them. They are all ordinary people, and they don't talk about picking up girls, racing yachts and gambling every day like the novels you read. Stinghead likes to play games Shitou is interested in the entertainment industry and even opened a gossip studio, Daniel likes his cats and dogs..."

Qiao Hong had two things in one mind, scolding his friends, and introducing some information about his three friends to Xiao Gou, by the way, blowing up their vests on Facebook, and letting Xiao Gou search their online comments by himself.

While listening to Qiao Hong's introduction, Xiao Gou followed the three of them with his own account, watched their irritable gossip and quiet time on the Internet, combined them on the Internet, in the group, and the ones introduced by Qiao Hong, in the bottom of his heart Slowly outline the image and character of these three people.

Qiao Hong raised his head and looked at Xiao Gou, who was looking at his blog seriously, as if he was reviewing the exam materials, and the pain in his heart expanded a little.

Qiao Hong stretched out his hand and rubbed Xiao Gou's head hard: "Relax, you don't have to be friends with them, I just introduce you to them. You have to know the people I know in the future, right? The two of us But brother. You have friends, and you should introduce them to me."

Xiao Gou immediately said: "Of course, but I don't have many friends, and they are not in the imperial capital. When they come to the imperial capital, I will definitely introduce them to you."

"Well." Qiao Hong said, "I don't have many friends who can be regarded as good friends, just these three. The elders are still in contact with only Uncle Zou's family. Next time Uncle Zou returns to Beijing, I will take you to meet him."

Xiao Gou thought for a while, and said with a sad face: "I found that I have no elders to contact now! Is my social circle too lonely!"

He used to be an otaku waiting to die, and his social circle was really too narrow.

"Actually, I'm pretty much the same." Qiao Hong smiled reassuringly, "Actually, I know a lot of my peers and elders, but...there are only a few who can talk now."

Then Qiao Hong waited viciously for the phone screen: "But some friends, maybe it's not bad to break up."

Xiao Gou couldn't help laughing.

It was the first time for Qiao Hong to show his emotions like this, and it seemed that the relationship with those three people was indeed very good.

After being friendly for a while, Qiao Hong threw the phone on the sofa, slumped on the sofa and rubbed his wrists: "It was a mistake for me to waste time on them."

Xiao Gou joked, "Looking at how lively you are fighting with them, this time may not be wasted."

Qiao Hong glanced at Xiao Gou, and Xiao Gou immediately withdrew his smile and made a gesture of confession.

Qiao Hong said: "Although they also have good intentions, don't hide this kind of thing from me in the future."

Xiao Gou nodded vigorously.

Qiao Hong hooked his fingers, and Xiao Gou approached courteously: "Today I want to eat lamb chops with cumin."

Xiao Gou immediately said: "I'll go to the supermarket to buy it right away!"

Qiao Hong shook his head and said, "I'll give you a call and you can order there."

Xiao Gou immediately sensed something was wrong: "How much?"

Qiao Hong smiled: "It's not expensive, a lamb chop is less than five figures."

Xiao Gou: "..."

Xiao Gou took several deep breaths, and said solemnly, "It's okay, I can afford it!"

Qiao Hong nodded: "Use my VIP card, and then we'll go out as soon as we get ready."

Xiao Gou asked in a low voice: "Going out? Don't they deliver such expensive lamb chops to your door?"

Qiao Hong said helplessly: "Which high-end restaurant will deliver to your door? Do you think you order takeaway? I want you to book a seat, and then we will go out to eat together."

Xiao Gou's eyes widened: "What?! Go out to eat! Don't we just buy a lamb chop?"

Qiao Hong looked at Xiao Gou with a half-smile.

Xiao Gou weakly raised his hands in a gesture of surrender: "Eat! You can eat whatever you want, let alone five figures, a meal can be six figures! Now I am a rich man."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Gou paused, and asked in a low voice, "Really six figures?"

Qiao Hong raised his eyebrows: "The two of us may not be able to eat, but with the three of them, we will definitely eat six figures. I will take you there first, so as to prevent you from having a myocardial infarction."

Xiao Gou clutched his chest and said, "You guys can really eat... Six figures, we can open another studio."

Qiao Hong said with a "puchi" smile: "Okay, I'm treating you, don't feel bad."

Xiao Gou bitterly said: "Let me invite you. Don't talk about six figures, now I can afford meals in seven figures. Nuan Nuan is still very profitable. But I haven't adjusted my mentality to the level of rich people. On. That’s why others say that the aristocratic temperament can only be cultivated after being rich for at least three generations. I’m a nouveau riche now.”

Qiao Hong's tone was so gentle that he didn't realize it himself: "You are not the same as the nouveau riche. The nouveau riche are afraid that others will say that they are not brave enough, so they want the most expensive and the best. You have made money, and you can live a peaceful life. In the past life, this normality has been compared to most rich people. As for luxury enjoyment, you can buy it if you like it, and don’t buy it if you don’t like it. This is what you call temperament."

Xiao Gou felt much better after being comforted by Qiao Hong.He rubbed his face and said, "Let's go, my brother invites you to dinner. I want to see how his four-figure lamb chops are different from my own."

Qiao Hong said: "Probably the ingredients are different. Change into more formal clothes. This restaurant has requirements for customers' dress."

Xiao Gou asked curiously: "Is there a request? Then you can go in like you used to?"

Qiao Hong smiled: "Who says makeup can't be considered formal?"

Xiao Gou was silent.Well, well, everything you say is right.

Xiao Gou changed his clothes, and with his "salary card" in his pocket, he prepared to go to the garage to pick up the car nervously, but Qiao Hong said he would take the subway.

Xiao Gou was stunned: "How can I take the subway to such a high-end restaurant?! What if my clothes are wrinkled!"

Qiao Hong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Going there has to go through the city. During this period of time, traffic jams are very serious no matter if you go to the center of the city or around the city. If the two of us drive there, we probably won't be able to reach our destination in four or five hours. The restaurant is in Near the subway entrance, of course we take the subway. Why can’t we take the subway to go to high-end restaurants?”

Xiao Gou said coyly: "I always feel that there is a bit of disharmony between taking the subway and going to a restaurant to eat six-figure meals."

Qiao Hong patted Xiao Gou's dog's head and said, "Not only can you take the subway, but you can also ride a bicycle or walk. Otherwise, how do you think we will go when there is a traffic jam?"

Xiao Gou muttered: "In film and television dramas, you all go there by helicopter."

Qiao Hong looked at Xiao Gou with eyes of caring for the mentally retarded: "But the imperial capital prohibits private jets."

Xiao Gou sighed: "Suddenly I feel less nervous."

Qiao Hong laughed: "There is no need to be so nervous. Let's go, the appointment is two hours later, we can't be late."

Xiao Gou nodded.

……

There were a lot of people on the subway, when Xiao Gou and Qiao Hong came out of the subway, their clothes were wrinkled, and the two even went to the bathroom of the subway to clean up their clothes.

The reserved restaurant is on the top floor of a bustling business district in the center of the imperial city.

It was the first time for Xiao Gou to come to this kind of top-floor revolving restaurant. If he didn't want to lose Qiao Hong's face, he really wanted to take out his mobile phone and do a live broadcast.

top floor!spin!go sightseeing!Inviting three or two friends will cost a six-figure restaurant!

If you go to such a restaurant live, will you get a wave of rewards and get your blood back.

Xiao Gou leaned close to Qiao Hong's ear and whispered his proposal, but Qiao Hong knocked him on the head.

"Don't make trouble." Qiao Hong led Xiao Gou to the reserved private room under the guidance of the waiter, "We reserved a private room with a view. The night here is not bad."

Xiao Gou originally wanted to ask "Did you come here often before", but the words slipped down his throat and he swallowed them down.

Qiao Hong must come here often, and maybe he still comes with his family.He still doesn't ask.

As if afraid that Xiao Gou would continue to be nervous, Qiao Hong introduced some special dishes of this restaurant to Xiao Gou in a low voice, and then said to the waiter: "I haven't been here for nearly a year, the menu here should have been adjusted, right? Can you tell us about the new dishes?"

The waiter immediately opened the menu with a smile and introduced the new dishes that will be launched within a year to the two.

When Xiao Gou heard that a plate of stir-fried vegetables could sell for hundreds of dollars, his face became stiff.

What precious stir-fried vegetables can sell for hundreds of dollars!

The waiters seem to be used to many customers being shocked or dumbfounded when they hear the price of their meal.There was no disdain on his expression, nor was he eloquently introducing how different his own dishes were, but with a faint smile, he continued to briefly describe the prices, materials and taste of new dishes, which was of extremely high quality.

After Qiao Hong heard this, he ordered a lamb chop for him and Xiao Gou, a new dish launched this year, Jinsha Lobster, a cup of Buddha Jumping Over the Wall, and a plate of super-noble stir-fried vegetables that Xiao Gou's heart beat wildly. .After ordering, Qiao Hong ordered two servings of rice and today's soup, as well as snacks recommended by the chef, and freshly squeezed juice for drinks.

Adding these dishes together, plus the service fee, the total price is almost [-].

After Xiao Gou heard the total price, he actually had a strange feeling of relief that "it's still worth it".

After ordering, Xiao Gou joked to Qiao Hong: "In the food reviews, isn't this restaurant listed as [-] per person?"

Qiao Hong said: "It depends on what you eat. It's no problem to eat [-] yuan. But this restaurant is indeed not the best restaurant in the imperial capital. I went to several famous restaurants with my parents. Those restaurants You need to make an appointment at least one week in advance. When your next game is successful, I will take you there."

Xiao Gou thought for a while, and said: "After going out to eat a noble meal with you, you now say that you have an even more noble meal, but my heart does not fluctuate, and I even look forward to it. It seems that people As long as you cross that line, you will never come back. As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal, tsk tsk."

Qiao Hong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Then you will come to eat often in the future?"

Xiao Gou immediately put on an aggrieved face: "Is the food I cook not tasty enough?"

Qiao Hong chuckled: "It's delicious. I don't know how to cook, so I can only invite you to eat outside."

Xiao Gou said: "No, no, it's agreed that I'll treat you to this meal. I'll come to learn from the scriptures and see how their lamb chops, lobsters and noble vegetables are made. When you go back, you buy the ingredients and I'll cook them."

As he said this, Xiao Gou did not hide his stinginess anymore.Not only does he have to eat at home, but Qiao Hong also needs to buy the ingredients.

Not only did Qiao Hong not despise Xiao Gou's stinginess, he even looked forward to it in his heart, probably because Xiao Gou lowered his compulsion.

Soon, the meals were served by the waiters one by one.The portion is not too much, and with so many dishes, two adult men can still eat enough.

Xiao Gou savored carefully with an attitude of learning from the scriptures, and kept nodding: "This restaurant can be so expensive, the craftsmanship is indeed good."

Qiao Hong wiped his mouth, turned his head and looked out the window, his eyes somehow blurred and sad: "The scenery is not bad."

Seeing Qiao Hong like this, Xiao Gou knew that he was remembering his family.

Xiao Gou immediately changed the subject and said: "By the way, Da Qiao, after this mobile game is successful, I plan to develop an RTS game with a gameplay similar to MOBA but more hardcore. Oh, RTS means real-time Strategy games. I think there is a MOBA mobile game as a base, and a more competitive real-time strategy game should be accepted by players.”

Qiao Hong was successfully distracted by Xiao Gou: "Hardcore? How hardcore?"

Xiao Gou introduced: "You have played "Spiritual Warfare", the RTS map is similar to "Spiritual Warfare", but in "Spiritual Warfare", players only need to control their own characters, while RTS games also need to control resources and buildings. The elements of groups and arms..."

The RTS games that Xiao Gou is talking about now may be the most famous in the world of his previous life, "StarCraft" and "Warcraft", especially "StarCraft".Although "StarCraft" was already cold when he died from overwork, a game has been popular for so many years and brought "e-sports" to the world stage. Many players shouted ""StarCraft" will not die" Just feelings.

Speaking of "StarCraft", e-sports and South Korea cannot be avoided.Although the first official video game competition in history was the Nintendo World Championships held in 1990, South Korea designated "StarCraft" as a key support project after the economic crisis in 97, and the e-sports industry derived from it, in [-] At that time, the output value of related industrial chains even surpassed that of South Korea's automobile industry, which is one of the pillar industries.

There is a joke in the game industry, ""StarCraft" saved Korea" refers to this matter.Although this sentence is of course exaggerated, it can also be seen how many jobs and output value "StarCraft" provided for South Korea.

This game, which was born in 1998, was eventually eliminated by the times, and "StarCraft II" did not continue the reputation of its predecessor.However, the RTS game in Xiao Gou's world has been greatly developed. He can combine other successful RTS games to make "StarCraft" shine again in another world.

Moreover, this world has developed holographic game equipment, and Xiao Gou can even transplant "StarCraft" into the holographic game, allowing players to truly experience the shadow of dispatching troops.

"RTS games have very high requirements for players, and the player audience may not be too wide. So I will port "Spirit War" to the PC platform at the same time, and it should also be ported to the holographic platform in the future." Xiao Gou said his own Intend.

Qiao Hong immediately grasped the point of Xiao Gou's words: "Performing? Competitive? Do you want to develop them into e-sports competitions?"

Xiao Gou nodded.

There are already e-sports competitions in this world, but due to the lack of gameplay, the game is not very competitive and entertaining. In this world, e-sports competitions are almost in the nature of exhibition games and promotional games, and have not been classified as official games. of sports.

Qiao Hong looked at Xiao Gou quietly for a while, and then said after a while, "Your ambition is really great."

Xiao Gou grinned and said: "That's natural. We will hold our own e-sports event sooner or later. I don't intend to let this e-sports event become an exhibition game or a promotional game. Since capable governments all over the world are supporting the game industry, then It is a natural development trend for e-sports competitions to become mainstream sports events, right?"

"MOBA games are easy to learn, and may become the e-sports competition with the largest number of participants; RTS games are hardcore enough, and may become the most important and difficult competition in the industry. I also plan to rely on semi-holographic card games, No. 1. Shooting games and other games that can be used for e-sports..."

Qiao Hong looked at Xiao Gou, whose eyes were shining, and the more he talked, the more excited he was, he couldn't help but be moved by Xiao Gou's enthusiasm.

Xiao Gou is really excited, because his plan is feasible, and the future of e-sports in this world is bright.

In Xiao Gou's world, while e-sports is gradually being recognized as a formal sport by various countries, e-sports has entered its own winter.

The E-Sports World Cup (ESWC), known as one of the three major e-sports events in the world, was founded in 2003, but from 2006 to 2008, it began to default on the prize money of the winners, and declared bankruptcy in 2008. Even though it has changed hands several times now, it The economic situation in China is still not optimistic, and it is estimated that the prize money arrears to the players is still not settled;

The professional e-sports league (CPL), one of the three major e-sports events, also declared bankruptcy in 2008, was successfully acquired in 2009, and officially returned in 2011. It is currently the only surviving global e-sports event, because The World Electronic Sports Championship (WCG) was also announced in 2014.

No one knows how long CPL can live.After all, e-sports seems to attract a lot of attention. In fact, in the environment of Xiao Gou's previous life, it was too difficult to make money from e-sports competitions, and it was an inevitable end to stop them.Using love to generate electricity is always a joke. E-sports events are not purely sports events, and the events they compete in themselves are also a commodity.No sponsor is willing to advertise the products of other manufacturers, and you can't make much money just by broadcasting and tickets.

The author has something to say:

In fact, the inability to hold several e-sports events is not only the reason mentioned in the article. The game is updated too fast, there is no stable profit model, and so on.These problems will also be encountered in a different world, but this article is foolish and pretends that all problems have been solved.What logic does Shuangwen want!