Chapter Eighteen: The Super Plan

  A potential user base of 800 million, at this thought, Zhang Heng gets excited. Old Horse's Penguin Empire, why is it so powerful? After finishing off Doudou, Taobao, Lianzhong and Jiuyou, because they have hundreds of millions of users, relying on the stickiness of these users, they can prop up those branches and leaves.

  If I also have 800 million users...

  Isn't the whole world ours?

  "Ah-Dai, give you two days to help me sort out an improvement plan for 'New World'!" Zhang Heng said seriously. Since he had already pushed "New Century" into the market, Zhang Heng was not going to withdraw it again. The insufficient parts could be made up for, and as for playability, it could be gradually increased, as long as they could keep users staying, everything else was a small matter!

  "Master, Ah-Dai has already prepared a plan for you regarding the 'New Century' revision!"

  Zhang Heng nodded, he already understood Ah Dai's skills, so he didn't feel any surprise. "Take it out and let me see!"

  On the computer screen, a document has been replaced!

  "Virtual community?"

  Zhang Heng furrowed his brow and asked, "Why change 'New World' to a virtual community?"

  "Isn't the owner just wanting users? If we just make 'New World' the world's largest virtual community, won't users stay? As for game sections, entertainment sections and so on, we can completely add them freely!" Ah-Dai explained with a smile.

  Zhang Heng scratched his hair, he heard it, but didn't understand: "Now there are so many virtual communities around the world, basically every country has its own virtual community. What can we do to grab users from them? They have spent several years or even decades accumulating services!"

  "Let's talk about our 'Star River' plan," Ah Diao said. "Ah Diao plans to build 'New World' into a virtual community where all netizens around the world can log in at the same time. As long as people are online, they will be logging into 'New World'. In the future, 'New Century' will not only include various industries that already exist on the internet but also traditional industries such as food, clothing, shelter, and transportation."

  After a pause, Ah-Dai suddenly said: "Actually, these are also preparing for the future, truly 'virtual community'!"

  Zhang Heng was taken aback and couldn't help but ask: "The real 'virtual community', are you referring to virtual reality?"

  "That's right, abandon the current three-dimensional network and truly enter the thinking network era. At that time, humans can directly merge their spirits into the 'thinking' network." Ah-Dai nodded.

  In the era of virtual networks, many people yearn for it, and Zhang Heng is no exception. Although he can now enter a higher level of reality-virtual gaming space, he always feels that he is like a single-player player, not interesting. "Ah-Dai, with the current human technology, how long will it take to enter the virtual network era, or what you call the 'thought network era'?"

  "Given the current state of Earth's technological development, it will take 30 to 60 years to enter the 'Virtual Network Era'. Also, correcting the host a bit, the Virtual Network Era and the Thought Network Era are two different network eras. The Thought Network Era is more advanced than the virtual network era!"

  What a mess, Zhang Heng couldn't understand it, but if it takes thirty to sixty years to enter the virtual network era, how long will he have to wait?

  By then, you'll probably have grandsons already?

  "Can't it be faster? Best within a year, let people on earth enter the 'virtual network era'?" Zhang Heng thought for a moment and asked.

  The silly little brow furrowed, calculated for a long time before saying: "If the master has sufficient funds, he can mass-produce 'spiritual connection' devices, barely allowing people to enter the 'virtual network', but with current Earth technology, a set of 'spiritual connection' devices would cost around one million US dollars, and also need an obstacle-free object, at least ten square meters of space!"

  Looking at the simple diagram drawn by Ah Duan, Zhang Heng finally understood what it meant. The "Spiritual Connection" device had a headband, earphones and nine metal stickers that interfered with human thoughts, simulating colors, plants, animals and objects in a limited space, similar to virtual reality headsets in games, but more complex and requiring spatial restrictions. After entering the "Virtual Network", people looked like they were sleepwalking!

  One million US dollars? Zhang Heng calculated it, and it's not expensive. Anyway, now on this earth, people who can take out one million US dollars are countless.

  However, manufacturing and selling are a bit of trouble. Now Zhang Heng doesn't have that much money to invest in this project! After some thought, he temporarily put this idea aside!

  "Let's put the virtual network topic aside for now." Zhang Heng thought for a moment and said: "The most important thing right now is to solve the current problem. You've laid out too much, we can slowly cultivate users, my idea is to first make money with 'New World'."

  No money, all talk is useless.

  "I understand your idea, you want to take 'New World' as a model and create a new network, right?"

  "Ah! That's right." Ah-Dai smiled and nodded.

  If the 'new world' really develops to the point where everything is covered, do people still need to log in to other websites? Familiar with the interface of 'new world', system? Browser? Online games? Shopping? Travel? Search? All can be found in the new world, and in the future, the new world may not even need the existing network!

  Provide free wireless services to netizens, and all existing network operators, whether 3G or 4G or the Internet, will eventually be squeezed out by the "new century"!

  Will Zhang Heng still be short of money by then?

  "Hehe, eat your food one bite at a time, and do things one step at a time." Zhang Heng smiled wryly. Ah-Dai didn't have the power to control global networks and various forces yet. If it were a complete 'Super Intelligent Light Brain' from a 7th-level technological civilization, then that would be no problem. The issue was, it was just a fragment.

  "Got it!"

  "But don't be sad, your plan will come true one day, believe me!" Zhang Heng comforted her. Artificial intelligence also has its own thinking and emotions, which Zhang Heng had already sensed from Ah Dai.

  "Ah, Ah-Dai believes in Master." The cartoon beauty on the computer screen nodded, her face red as she said: "Then Ah-Dai will go and help Master make a 'down-to-earth' plan right now!"

  Zhang Heng lay on the bed, his mind still thinking about the virtual network and cognitive network that Ah Diao had mentioned. Now that he could enter the game space, what kind of 'network' was this? Even the things inside could be taken out...

  Zhao Xue's eyes widened in shock, staring incredulously at the long footprint on the beach. He had used his lightness skill, and yet he was able to take a stride of five or six meters?

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