Chapter 724

Talking about all kinds of topics, after lunch, grace followed Simon for a walk in the exaggerated mountain manor, arm in arm.

I had the feeling of first love.

Inexplicable guilty.

My daughter happens to be in love.

However, who cares so much.

"So, don't you really need to go to work in the afternoon?"

"There were some arrangements, but they were put off temporarily."

"For me."

"Moved?"

"Isn't that good?"

"There's nothing bad about it. The westero system is an increasingly large machine. One of the goals I hope to achieve is that this machine can run on its own for a long time even if it leaves me completely. Otherwise, in a few more years, even if I split myself into several pieces, I will not be able to get busy at all. "

“……”

"What's the matter?"

Grace glanced slightly at the little man beside her with a smile on her lips. "I wonder if you would be at a loss if this machine doesn't need your control at all?"

"Of course not," Simon Blaise said with a smile. "I'm the owner of this machine, not the operators who are worried about losing their jobs, so the more automatic the machine, the better. If one day this machine is completely out of my control, I can't stand it. I even have the right to break it up and sell scrap iron. "

Power never comes out of thin air.

Simon's current source of power is the huge business machine of westero system. The more westero system expands, the more powerful Simon will be.

As for the control of this business machine, Simon is a good decentralization man. However, decentralization is only temporary, not permanent.

Maybe the head of state of a country will be overhead, but Simon is very unlikely to encounter such a situation. Because the leaders of most countries in the world, at least nominally, are elected and appointed by the people. Simon is the real owner of the westero system, which supports his own source of power.

The boss of other large enterprises will hand over the company to the management, because the mature enterprise team can not be achieved overnight, nor can it be replaced in a short time, so it may be occupied by the Hatoyama, and it is often a great loss of vitality to want to regain power.

Simon has no such scruples.

On the one hand, Simon's family background is deep enough that no management of any westrow system subsidiary has the strength to challenge him, and he is not afraid of the injury of one or two companies. On the other hand, the most indispensable part of the westero system is the talent pool, including senior professional managers who can be independent. Therefore, no one below Simon can not be replaced.

Unconsciously, at the end of the lawn of the manor, there was a steep slope surrounded by shrubs and iron nets outside the neat dwarf pine fence, and behind it was the brilliant afternoon sun.

Unable to move on, grace didn't turn around. She sat down on the lawn, felt the grass's softness in the sun, and lay down comfortably.

Simon sat down next to grace, touched with one hand, and was held down by the woman. He didn't retract or make any unnecessary moves.

Grace turned around, put her head on the man's lap, continued to hold the man's big hand, looked up and asked softly, "when are you leaving?"

Simon raised his left wrist and looked at his watch. "We'll be back in Los Angeles at five. We have three hours left."

"Enough."

"So easy to satisfy?"

"Is it OK not to be satisfied?"

"No way."

"Oh," said grace, touching Simon's handsome face and feeling the light stubble in her palm, "I can't understand you."

"That's good. It's said that mystery is the most attractive trait for women."

"Very skilled."

"Yes," Simon's voice suddenly murmured, "it's been tens of thousands of years."

Grace's pale blue eyes, which are common in northern Europe, flashed: "ah?"

"Did I say anything?"

Grace said, "you said it. It's been tens of thousands of years."

"You heard me wrong."

"No

"Well, actually I'm trying to make a mystery. You know, if a little boy wants to cheat his elder sister, he can't do it without some means."

The woman said, "well, make up a story for me."

Simon hesitated for a moment and said slowly: "a long time ago, it was a complete famine. There was no country, no nation, and even no perfect language system. Because of hunger, a primitive man secretly went to a lake outside the cave to catch fish in rainy days. Unfortunately, he fell into the water. By coincidence, a flash of lightning struck down hundreds of millions of people The volt voltage makes the primitive human body change suddenly. From then on, he no longer grew old, always looked like a young man, and began to wander in the world like a ghost. He witnessed the fusion of tribes, the formation of a country, countless primitive and cruel cold war, the preaching of Jesus, the birth of Buddha, the whip of the Mongolian God, and the arrival of the era of great navigation And witnessed two world wars that destroyed the sky and the earth. In order to avoid his immortality being discovered, every ten to twenty years, at most thirty years, he will use his accumulated strength in the secular world to find a substitute, change his name, or even change his appearance, and start his life again. This time, his name is Simon westero. "After listening carefully to the man's narration, Grace's blue eyes blinked for a moment and finally showed a smile: "it's a good story."

"Believe it or not?"

"I don't believe it."

Simon asked with a smile, "why?"

Grace reached out again and gently stroked Simon's face, saying, "if you are really an ancient human who has lived for tens of thousands of years, you will not let yourself be known by the world as you are now, but try to hide yourself as much as possible."

"You are wrong. In fact, there was a lifetime when my name was Alexander III. I led my own army through Europe."

“……”

"Later, because I was interested in physics, I temporarily found myself the identity of Isaac Newton, and then you must know everything that happened. When he wanted to get away, he could only be replaced by a fool who was interested in alchemy, and he never made any achievements in his later years. "

“……”

"More recently, I feel that human beings have been ignorant for too long, so they made steam engines. Since then, human civilization began to explode exponentially. That time, my name was James Watt

“……”

Simon held the woman's face in his hand, and his voice became secluded again, with some remote vicissitudes: "little girl, do you want to know who I was before Simon westero?"

Grace's light blue eyes blinked quickly, as if struggling to protect her collapsing outlook on life.

A moment later, feeling the familiar and gentle smile on the man's face, grace forced herself to relax and said, "will you kill me?"

"Why kill you?"

"I know your secret."

"Just now, it's just a script that I designed on my own initiative. You asked for it yourself."

“……”

"It's an idea I had a long time ago, but some joints have not been figured out, which may cause religious disputes. Now, the idea is suddenly smooth and can be completely bypassed."

“……”

"I'm going to shoot this movie with 100000 dollars. I'll do it in a month or two when I get back. I just happened to attend next year's Sundance Film Festival. Bob complained last time that no good movie has appeared in Sundance in recent years. This time, let them feel the charm of the movie again. With 100000 dollars, I can shoot a top science fiction movie. I've got the name of the movie What do you think of this man from earth

"Simon, I promise I'll never tell you a secret."

"God, do you really believe it?"

“……”

"It seems that I need to help you wake up," Simon said, picking up the woman's light body and walking to the villa with a warning: "remember, it's just a story."

"Well."

"Well, I suddenly found that I still have the potential of a god stick. Maybe now I can take advantage of the situation to create a religion, which is definitely more promising than the scammers of science religion. You are the first believer."

“……”

"Give me all you have."

"Well."

"Stupid earthman."

"Ah, it hurts."

"Bear it, I must wake you up before I leave today. I knew I would not tell you any ghost stories."

"Was that really a story?"

"Of course."

"But..."

"Idiot."

"Don't say that to me, you little boy."

"Well, I'll give you a place. You can choose one of the girls in your name to take part in this film. Forget it, just Tracy Goff, so as to avoid a group of goblins fighting. Tracy's image is just right. I'll spare some time for her to have some acting lessons."

"Can I play it?"

"20-year-old student sister, did you play it?"

"I can be a teacher."

"Don't make trouble. Be your agent."

More than five o'clock, to appease Grace's wishful thinking, Simon left his potola Valley manor, and last night ran to C girl there for the night a girl meet, boarded the return to Los Angeles Boeing 767.

In the afternoon, I was going to attend a meeting about igritte's online game business, and the core was happy farm, which has been burning for more than half a year. Later, I felt that it didn't matter whether I participated in the meeting or not, so I simply let Alison take the place of myself and steal half a day with grace in the potola Valley manor.

When the plane takes off, girl a will give Simon the minutes of the afternoon meeting and a summary of the operation of happy farm.

After the launch of this social network leisure game based on flash technology in the first half of the year, the user growth curve of happy farm began to slow down.

Even so, in the seven months since its launch, "happy farm" has reached a staggering 53 million players worldwide, easily breaking through the expectation that the game operation team will achieve 50 million players in the first two years. At this stage, the growth rate is also higher than expected in the first half of the year, and the number of global Internet users has reached 200 million.Therefore, the player scale of "happy farm" has already occupied one fourth of the number of Internet users in the world, and the activity may be different, but one in every four Internet users who have access to the Internet activates "happy farm", which is still a terrible proportion.

EA and Facebook teams responsible for the development and operation of the game have been considering applying for Guinness records for the game, but the number of players of happy farm is still rising, which has not been put into action for the time being. Some media in the industry even predict that the total number of players of happy farm will double again in the next two years, breaking the unprecedented 100 million mark.

Because of the super popularity of this game, for more than half a year, EA and Facebook have specially set up a team of more than 100 people to be responsible for the operation of this game.

Because of the careful care of the two technology and entertainment giants, this time's "happy farm" is obviously out of its former leisure nature. Instead, it shoulders more missions and significance in the early development of the Internet. Such a phenomenal online game, which has been tried by many universities to enter MBA cases, has too much value in development, operation and other aspects What can the visitors learn from.

A large part of the teams of the two companies are quietly collecting and sorting out the operation modes and key data that can be used for reference in the future.

In order to make way for happy farm, although igritte company has opened flash technology and IE game platform, in the past half year, leisure games similar to happy farm have been basically suppressed, and some obvious imitators have been prosecuted.

Even in EA, happy ranch, which is similar to happy farm, will be put on hold for the time being after its development.

Because "happy farm" is still on the rise, as long as its playing methods are constantly updated, its popularity will not go down for the time being, so there is no need for "happy Ranch" to add icing on the cake. The team plans to choose the right time to launch "happy Ranch" within 12 to 18 months after "happy farm" goes online.

Depending on the linkage of the two games, the vitality of happy farm will be extended to the greatest extent.

For the outside world, many people are most concerned about how much money happy farm makes.

The two companies did not give too clear figures on this. However, it is only the estimates of some media in the industry. Even the underestimated figures are enough to make too many game manufacturers and even other parties' capital envious.

Simon has the most detailed data in his hands.

At the beginning, just in the first week of its opening up, happy farm earned $2.61 million in props sales, with less than 7 million users at that time.

At present, the total scale of game users has reached more than seven times of the initial level. Because the payment channels in many overseas regions are not smooth and the payment rate will inevitably decrease due to the increase of users, the weekly revenue has not increased by the same multiple level. However, the daily revenue of the game in the past week still reached $13.91 million.

To sum up, from the launch on March 25 to the latest revenue statistics cycle on October 20, in seven months, "happy farm" has accumulated a huge revenue of $196 million by relying on its huge player base.

The development cost of an online game is less than 1 million US dollars, and the revenue is 196 million US dollars in half a year. Even Latin American drug lords will be envious of this huge profit.

Besides, drug trafficking is a crime, but the game is legal.

Stimulated by the success of happy farm, hundreds of new game companies, large and small, have sprung up in North America in the past six months. Although most of them are just two or three person studios, there are also many capital giants involved.

Many people certainly understand that the success of "happy farm" is not only because the game itself has been lucky enough to meet the needs of the players, but also because igritte has spared no effort to support it. However, who can be sure that he will not be the next lucky one? What's more, even if only one tenth or even one percent of the success of happy farm is a kind of peak for many people.

Although the interests of happy farm are absolutely inviolable, over the past six months, igritte company has, intentionally or unintentionally, fostered a number of successful cases of reaching the peak of life through the development of flas *.

Not only that, "happy farm" is popular all over the world, but also makes the flash technology launched by igritte company become the industry standard with absolute advantage. Therefore, igritte's related software is also on sale, continuously bringing a large amount of revenue to the company.