Chapter 16 The price starts from the ground
The days from August 5th to 8th were impressive. The heavy rain that had been stuffed for a long time poured down. After three days of attachment, several canals in the city flooded the streets.
The heavy rainfall over these three days overturned the ridges and farmhouses, making people think of it in 1998.
On the third day, the rain gradually subsided, and the sky cleared after the rain, and the air emitted the fragrance of rainwater soaking the soil, and the weather seemed to be less hot and unbearable.
On this day, Qi Ming was woken up by the rushing phone ring at home. After rubbing his sleepy eyes, he heard Zhao Zeming's anxious voice on the other end of the phone.
This kid wouldn't call himself for no reason. If he could call in early in the morning, there must be something urgent.
"Qi Ming stop sleeping, come to my house. I have something to tell you."
Hearing Zhao Zeming's speech was urgent, but he did not express his intention, Qi Ming responded calmly: "Wait, I'll pack up, change my clothes and go."
After hanging up the phone, Qi Ming did not go out in a hurry, but took a shower slowly, changed into clean clothes, and even put a few small wontons in the kitchen, and then he slowly left the door.
Although the air is fresh after the heavy rain, it is August after all, and the heat is not there, but the air is extremely stuffy.
I didn’t choose to ride a bicycle or take a bus, but I took a taxi in a luxurious way.
At this time, the starting price of Zhongzhou taxis is only 2 yuan, 50 cents per kilometer. It is the kind of two boxes of Fukang and big red. When the sun shines through the carriage in summer, it smells so good.
When he came to Zhao Zeming's house in a taxi, Qi Ming found that Liu Xuqiang and Fang Wenjin got up earlier than him.
Obviously, Zhao Zeming not only called himself. However, what surprised Qi Ming was that there were two familiar faces in the room that had met for the meeting.
Liu Shanshi, who has a beard but has a fair skin, and his beautiful girlfriend Su Feifei.
The other party had obviously revealed his identity, so Zhao Zeming did not dare to neglect it, so he took his father's Longjing from the tea cabinet and soaked it.
"I won't say that before. My cousin also gets goods from us? In fact, my cousin often goes to the technology market and gets to know Mr. Liu after a while."
Zhao Zeming saw Qi Ming enter the house, what surprised him slightly was that when Qi Ming saw Liu Shanshi and Su Feifei, there was no surprise between his eyebrows, and it seemed that he had already expected today's meeting.
"What Mr. Liu, my girlfriend and I stayed in Zhongzhou for half a month. We thought we could make a quick money, but we didn't expect you to be a warning." Liu Shanshi held the tea cup and drank the tea, but he was not polite at all.
With his eunuch's voice that was pinching his throat, he was so sarcastic.
Su Feifei looked at Qi Ming. Perhaps because she had been together in the computer room of the Internet for the past few days, Qi Ming gave her a good impression, so she said politely, "If it weren't for the heavy rain a few days ago, we would have visited us long ago."
Qi Ming took out a box of cigarettes and handed it to Liu Shanshi. Regardless of Zhao Zeming's rolling eyes, Qi Ming started to suck himself, "You two are here today to crack the price of the game?"
Liu Shanshi was holding a cigarette and was about to light it, but Qi Ming continued: "It's true that there is a vicious competition. Not to mention eating meat, we can't even eat the meat residue in the end."
Then Qi Ming did not give Liu Shanshi and Su Feifei room to talk, and continued, "It would be good for us to sit together and chat calmly. After all, it is boring to compete in secret. No one can get the advantage of it, right?"
"To be honest, I admire you very much. You can find such a good game. But you burned so many copies and then shipped them out at the lowest price in the market." Su Feifei closed the black hair at the corner of her eyebrows, and her tone was quite tactful.
At this time, Zhao Zeming and Liu Xuqiang could see that the pair of wild mandarin ducks in front of them were obviously one who sang blushed and the other sang blushed.
"You don't do this in business. Everyone cooks food on the same table. If you have short chopsticks and can't reach it, just spit into the food. Although our table is not a Manchu and Han chew, you can't do such a price reduction." Liu Shanshi lit the cigarette, then knocked on the table and said with a high voice.
Qi Ming smiled and said, "I am a high school student and I know what kind of business is not business. I just want to sell the inventory in my hand, and then each of us students will share a share and happily report to the university."
After saying that, Qi Ming's face appeared again when he was in the Internet business that day, with a trace of innocent smile in his sincerity, "So, Boss Liu has to ask you to be proud."
After hearing this, Liu Shanshi slapped the table: "I'm so proud? I'm so obedient. How could I be so proud of those cracked games? "
"Qi Ming, if you say this, there is nothing to talk about. We came here with sincerity. I want to talk to you about whether we will set a price for these games together." Su Feifei also seemed a little unhappy after hearing Qi Ming's words.
Qi Ming sat opposite them, crossed his legs and said, "I said everything, I'm just a fun ticket. I just thought about selling it all from the beginning. I don't know what business is, let alone what business is not commercial."
After saying that, Qi Ming became serious in his eyebrows, "I also know that the two of you came with sincerity, so I will tell you my sincerity. If I were asked to ship, it would be the lowest price and sell as much as I could."
Without waiting for Liu Shanshi to speak, Qi Ming took the lead and continued his words and said, "But you two are professionals, and you must have a far-sighted view of problems than me. Just say that if we continue to waste this, we will not be able to sell the goods in the end, which one will suffer the greatest losses?"
When Liu Shanshi heard this, he changed slightly, but Su Feifei didn't understand it very well, but he also heard the meaning of Qi Ming's words and said, "What do you mean by Qi Ming?"
Qi Ming looked at Liu Shanshi, "The game is cracked by Brother Liu, and he knows the technical aspects of the most. So Brother Liu, you should know that if we continue to waste this, in another month, no, in another week. Do you still have the first-mover advantage?"
The light words could not even hear too much tone in Qi Ming's words, but just this sentence fell into the negotiation like a bomb.
Even Fang Wenjin, who only knows translation, understood Qi Ming's words.
The implication is that games that Liu Shanshi and the others can crack, so naturally there are others on the market that can crack them.
Now this game is only popular in Zhongzhou City, but what about a week later? Will other domestic cracking experts also launch cracking? At that time, these games will be installed in computer rooms across the country, even in home computers.
This is what Qi Ming mentioned first-mover advantage. Liu Shanshi and his team can record infinitely because they have cracked versions in their hands, because they have no competitors except Qi Ming.
But when others reacted, Liu Shanshi and the others had no advantage.
Liu Shanshi wanted to swear and scold the streets. Before coming, he did his homework. The worst plan was to lower the price and continue to fight price wars. He even believed that as long as Qi Ming and others went to school, they would naturally have no time to continue interfering in the cracking game business.
But who would have thought that Qi Ming saw farther than himself, and that he could poke his heart like a knife.
Su Feifei Assassin looked at Qi Ming. He was no longer the young man who was like a little girl who was watching TV series with the wind before.
She couldn't figure it out no matter what. In front of her, a pretty young young man was actually an old man with a sweet sword in her mouth.
Is this a fucking thing that high school students can do?
Liu Xuqiang and Zhao Zeming, who were on the side, and of course Fang Wenjin, had a clear change in their eyes when they looked at Qi Ming.
Thinking back to Qi Ming's entry, he first took the initiative to control his voice, and then he explained Liu Shanshi's doubts in his heart in one sentence. This is just like playing cards. He knew his opponent's trump card as soon as he was dealt. How could he play this?
Looking at Liu Shanshi's white face, Qi Ming knew that the time was coming, and said, "Boss Liu, you are a smart person. You should have expected that the price is not the main contradiction, and I am not your opponent. Your opponent is time."
The cigarette in Liu Shanshi's hand was almost ignited to the filter. He looked at Qi Ming and did not dare to look down on the young man sitting opposite him, with a slightly lazy expression, but he was always calm and confident.
But after all, he is one of the earliest experts in China to crack software. Whether it is technology, connections or resources, he is confident, but only time is his biggest enemy.
As the name says, if you don’t need to use it for another month, cracked games will probably be installed in computer rooms across the country. What I have to do now is not to waste time with Qiming, but to seize the market as soon as possible.
"How many cracked games do you have in your hands?" Liu Shanshi finally let go.
Qi Ming said calmly: "Six games, more than 400 copies in total."
"I want it all."
"Yes, but all are based on the original price."
Hearing this, Liu Shanshi slapped the table: "Do you want shame?"
After a rough calculation, he would have to buy all the cracking games in Qi Ming's hand, which would cost 30,000 yuan!
"Boss Liu, you should be clear. Not to mention our Chinese level, just say that all our games retain cutscenes and burning quality. Apart from the lack of packaging, ours is no different from genuine games. Do you think you are feeling sorry for the price war? I feel more distressed than you." Qi Ming said with a smile.
His words undoubtedly revealed the shortcomings of Liu Shanshi and others in cracked versions, which was to reduce the cost of burning, cutscenes and opening animations were deleted.
For example, "Exotic Soul-Suppressing Song" has five genuine CDs, while Liu Shanshi and the others only need three.
Chapter completed!