Chapter 493 Project Team Meeting
The second phase of the Flower Planting Project has just been approved and is under construction. Three shifts of workers are taking turns, and the roar of various machines on the construction site continues almost day and night.
However, even so, it is impossible to complete the construction in a short time. The second phase of the project is different from the simple buildings in the first phase that pursue practicality. It also needs to consider the design of a real experimental site and higher-level security measures. It will take at least several months before it can be put into use.
Therefore, the meeting of the entire project team has now simply moved from the original cramped small conference room to the large conference room at the Phase I project base. Although its specifications are far inferior to the largest venue that can accommodate 10,000 people (to prevent censorship), it can still accommodate thousands of people.
Strictly speaking, this conference is the first conference after the first phase of the project base was put into use, and it is also the conference held after the last negotiation with Fang Xianyu.
Of course, this meeting was an internal meeting of the Flower Growing Family. It would not be announced to the public, and Fang Xianyu would not be invited.
Its real purpose is actually a special "report".
"…So far, we have 112 projects that have made breakthrough progress, including the long-stagnant pharmaceutical technology and military industries, as well as high-tech fields such as artificial intelligence and bionics that have entered a bottleneck period. As a result, the scale of most related industries has increased by more than 40%, and the scale of some industries has exceeded one trillion…
"...At the same time, Wang Qiqing and other rabbits have made epoch-making breakthroughs in their anti-gravity research, which means that the 'Nantianmen Project' is expected to be established this year...
"...flower growers will seize the initiative and may even lead the world. Humanity will enter a brand new era - the space age!"
“Pah pah pah…”
As soon as the speech ended, warm applause broke out in the conference room.
Although everyone knew that due to the research on the Guixu Realm, the Flower-Growing Family had achieved a burst of breakthrough results in recent times, this extremely intuitive report still shocked everyone.
What is shocking is not the results reported, but the investment that led to these results. It was just a small project team!
The project team consists of less than two hundred scientific researchers in total!
Even so, we have to include the disciples who were brought in by the scientific research giants to help, and only then can we make up a hundred people!
Not to mention the funding, which is not even a fraction of other national large-scale projects!
With such an input-output ratio, how can we not be excited!
But soon, Director Wang (Auntie Wang) took over the microphone and gave a speech that stunned all the people attending the meeting.
"...Due to the requirements of the alpha phase and the need for confidentiality of the project team, after debugging, the game "Ten Continents" was operated for a certain amount of non-profit purposes. However, during the short trial operation period, the turnover generated by "Ten Continents" exceeded 10 billion, and this was the turnover generated under the actual limit of recharge and consumption in the game, and the net profit exceeded 1 billion...
"…Since α did not give clear instructions on the income of "Ten Continents", this money, after paying the salaries and subsidies of the people on business trips in Guixu Realm, will be temporarily sealed in the public account of the "Ten Continents" operation team…"
This profit was also unexpected.
Unlike most games on the market, although the amount of money you spend on recharge in "Ten Continents" seems high at first glance, there is actually an "upper limit".
For example, the purchase of appearances is limited, so there is no scalper who hoards a lot of appearances on one account and waits to sell them. For another example, there is no unlimited consumption point such as card drawing and gift packs. The main consumption is always the appearances in the mall - and these, even if you buy them all, you won’t spend much money.
This is also the embodiment of what Aunt Wang said, "operation not for profit purposes."
But even so, it is shocking that such a turnover can be achieved. You have to know that when some popular games were at their most popular, their turnover was several times higher than that of "Ten Continents" with an unlimited recharge design - and this is just the turnover of a few months!
Then, Director Wang began to report on another aspect.
"...After many tests and data summaries, we found that some of the spells and formations of Guixu Realm are actually effective on Blue Star. This is a very important sign! It is also a milestone achievement verification of Blue Star technology!
"However, after research and confirmation by the scientific researchers in the project team, these spells and formations, even in the Guixu Realm, do not directly interact with the 'spiritual energy' when they are effective, and do not rely on the 'spiritual energy' to operate. This indirectly reflects that perhaps the 'spiritual energy' does not exist on Blue Planet, but it still opens an unprecedented door for the technological development of the Flower Growers..."
After Director Wang finished his speech, everyone started to discuss and propose (propose) solutions.
In addition to suggesting increasing financial support and investment in the project team, it was also proposed to expand the scale of personnel participating in the project - this is actually always a difficult problem. The difficulty lies not on the flower-growing side, but on the α side, which has always been unwilling to relax the quota limit.
In addition, there were many messy proposals such as adding new scientific research groups and projects, opening a separate account for the profits of "Ten Continents" to be used as Alpha's private account on the Blue Planet as a gesture of friendship. This "conference" lasted until sunset before it was declared over.
Mo Yu and Mo Ye are half-siblings under Professor Xiao Wang's command - of course, they just happened to have the same surname when they entered his sect.
One of them is a PhD student, and the other is a first-year graduate student. Originally, it didn’t matter to them whether they came to such a conference or not. In fact, they were very reluctant to attend this “laboratory team building” because they were busy with the limited-time battlefield missions in the game recently.
But Wang Qiqing, in line with the principle of letting his children see the world, picked up one in each hand and even secretly hid two oranges in to coax them.
At first, the two of them were looking around excitedly, but later, one after another started to droop their eyelids.
I finally made it to the end of the meeting, but the first thing my professor asked was, "How are your programs going? How much of your paper have you written?"
The sleepiness of the two people flew away, and they looked at each other in shock. Before they could open their mouths, they heard the devil's whisper from Wang Qiqing's mouth:
"It happens that I have a day off tomorrow, so I have time. This limited-time battlefield mission is most likely a long-term project, so there's no need to rush. Besides, the old farmer and the others are watching us. You two should send me the papers first!
"Oh, by the way, if there is anything inappropriate, it is best to change it tonight. I don't want to lose face in the education community."
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