"Who do you ultimately plan to cooperate with?"

Rice or Tencent?

During this period, players have been observing the market from the primary to the secondary market.

The asset allocation that was supposed to be completed was finished in the first half of the year, further weakening its significance for the launch of virtual reality devices and the future of the real world. The impact of these two negative factors has been largely absorbed.

Currently, neither the market nor the industry has found a good way to break through.

In the secondary market, large A-shares are mainly driven by sentiment-based speculation, and have been hyping IP concepts since August.

In the realm of virtual worlds, intellectual property (IP) holds value, and virtual worlds built around well-known IPs are particularly attractive.

Whether in the real world or the virtual world, population is the decisive factor.

Speculative funds may engage in speculation, but mutual funds are unlikely to use large positions for such speculation.

Therefore, Li Shuyao has had very little work recently. She has worked at Dongwu Fund for over ten years and is doing quite well as a senior public fund manager.

Thanks to having more information than others, she has achieved remarkable results over the years.

After her relationship with Li Miaomiao, who is biologically related to her, became known to the outside world, the size of the fund she manages has been increasing year by year.

However, the market has been difficult this year, and her Dongwu Qimingxingchen No. 1 public fund has experienced a significant drawdown.

Of course, a fund manager, especially a star fund manager, will not manage only one fund. QiMingXingChen is a representative fund managed by Li Shuyao.

After returning home, Li Miaomiao shook her head and said, "Let's wait for news."

It will take a relatively long time to arrive.

The development rights for the virtual world are limited. Unlike the VR era, where any company could develop an app, which is essentially a world in itself.

In the future, each virtual world will be a complete ecosystem, and not all companies will have the ability to build and maintain virtual worlds well.

Therefore, development rights are very limited and will not exceed one-time purchases.

To be honest, I don't know exactly who will get it right now.

This news was bound to get out sooner or later, given the large number of participants in the afternoon meeting.

However, the information Li Shuyao received was more accurate.

After receiving information, the outside world needs to verify it from multiple sources before the authenticity of the information can be determined.

Li Shuyao doesn't need to use it; just use it directly.

She nodded and said, "Haha, I suppose most people don't want to go to a world where winning or losing is purely determined by spending money."

I thought you would give Tencent and Xiaomi the development rights to the virtual world.

I don't know what will happen under Lei Jun's leadership, but Tencent will definitely create a world where you can become stronger by spending money.

When I was venting to my friends privately, they joked that Tencent was going to create a fantasy world where you could increase your stats by spending money.

Deep Blue has changed from adding points to adding money.

Li Miaomiao shook her head: "Then what is the point of the virtual world?"

If the virtual world still needs to be anchored to real-world money, then the meaning of the virtual world is like Bitcoin being tied to the US dollar, losing the original vision of cryptocurrency.

The virtual world and the real world can overlap, but such an obvious entanglement will not be allowed.

The world we developed, the fantasy world, is a single-player world; there is no pay-to-win element.

The magical world has no built-in pay-to-win features, but we will not prevent player-to-player trading.

In other words, players can use their real-world resource advantages to gain certain resource advantages in the virtual world.

However, we will not take the initiative to intervene, nor will we sell any official resources.

This is a process that players explore on their own.

We wouldn't even try to make money from that, so there's no way we'd allow Tencent to do it.

Li Shuyao asked, "So, the virtual world isn't fundamentally about making money, is it?"

That's definitely Zheng Li's style.

He's always maintained this style.

Li Miaomiao: "You can tell from the pricing that making money is not the goal at all."

Li Shuyao sighed and said, "I came to Suzhou today to see your product launch. This afternoon, while you were having a meeting at the company, I went to visit some second-hand housing agencies in Suzhou."

The price has doubled.

Previously, the housing prices in the Guanqian Street area, including the old houses that were twenty or thirty years old, were only around 30,000 yuan per square meter.

And they are very difficult to sell.

I took a look today, and they're all over 50,000, with the most even doubling in price.

That's really outrageous.

I feel that after this wave passes, Suzhou's housing prices will be able to catch up with those in Shanghai.

I kind of regret not buying an apartment near Jinji Lake back then.

Li Miaomiao smiled and said, "That's the scarcity of resources."

In the entire country of China, only Suzhou can provide bio-communication services, so the temporary price surge is normal.

Things will gradually return to rationality.

Li Shuyao shook her head: "In the short term, only Suzhou is an option."

Unless it can be rolled out globally on a large scale, it will take a long time for housing prices in Suzhou to return to a rational level.

Moreover, the most enthusiastic investors in Suzhou real estate right now are not individuals, but companies.

From internet giants to traditional enterprises, some economically successful companies want to establish guild-like organizational structures to explore and discover the potential of "The Magic World".

The first networked virtual world is valuable enough for these companies to intervene in through business management.

They need to expand in Suzhou, and the first thing they need to do is rent office space and hire employees who bring their own virtual equipment.

Haha, a headhunter I know complained to me privately that they've been getting a lot of inquiries lately.

"Have them conduct research, and once your virtual reality devices are on the market, see if they can poach customers who buy them."

Shenhai probably has the most headhunting companies among its enterprises, and these headhunters are very knowledgeable and experienced.

However, this is the first time I've heard of a demand where people specifically seek out and snag a particular product.

Li Shuyao continued, "Office rents in Suzhou have also increased."

Prices are skyrocketing across virtually all businesses related to real estate.

In the Suzhou Industrial Park, the rent for industrial land will increase as soon as it is confirmed that there are bio-communication base stations nearby.

When the stock market opens the day after tomorrow, companies with a large amount of self-owned commercial real estate in Suzhou will see their stock prices surge.

Should this be called a Suzhou concept stock or a virtual reality concept stock?

Li Miaomiao smiled wryly: "I guess many people will complain about us. The fact that housing prices in Suzhou have been rising steadily over the past ten years is largely due to the fact that the headquarters of Kechuang Biotechnology is located in Suzhou."

This kind of price surge will definitely lead to many disputes between landlords and tenants.

The resulting conflicts and resentment certainly stemmed from some irrational individuals who subsequently directed their anger at Kechuang Biotechnology.

Li Shuyao: "Why should we care about them?"

At most, they'll vent a few words online.

Resources are always scarce, and you need strength to possess scarce resources.

You bear some responsibility, but only a very small part of it.

This was originally a purely market-driven activity.