Chapter 29: Yang Yun, let's see about that!

  Zhao Yongping and Ma Dajun opened FC honestly and entered the circus game.

  The first pass, the clown rode a lion jumping through a ring of fire, it was quite simple.

  The second pass, high-altitude tightrope walking and jumping little monkey.

  The third level is to tread on a leather ball on flat ground.

  The first three levels were quite easy, but the fourth level was difficult to jump over with a horse. Three lives couldn't even get past the first spring, so I had to restart the game from the first level again.

  Tortured...

  Zhao Yongping and Ma Dayong did not have the patience to play through, they were more concerned about whether the game was selling well or not, whether it was easy to promote, and played casually.

  "This song is quite nice! It matches this game very well!" Ma Dayout suddenly said.

  Zhao Yongping, after all, is a cultured person who has studied for a master's degree. He educates Ma Dayout: "This is the American patrol song! Ah, world famous melody, foreign song."

  Ma Dajun exclaimed and sighed: "No wonder, some foreign songs are indeed good, the music in Tetris is not bad."

  "Of course, otherwise how can it be called a world famous song?"

  A flash of insight, Zhao Yongping quickly grasped: "Tetris? Background music? Hmm..."

  Zhao Yongping suddenly stood up in a panic, grabbed Ma Dajun and asked: "Did Mao Danxin say anything else just now? Did he say which factory produced this Red Sun game Four-in-One?"

  Ma Dajun inexplicably said, "He didn't say anything, just mentioned that the new cartridge for the Red Sun game is a recent release from an old Jiang from Beijing. Previously, they made educational cartridges but weren't well-known, it's a small factory. Right, he seemed to have a somewhat gloating expression."

  Zhao Yongping slammed down the receiver and personally called Mao Daxin. After hanging up, he was speechless for a long time.

  Ma Dayout saw that something was wrong: "Director, what's going on here?"

  Zhao Yongping looked at the clown standing on the steel wire, listening to a familiar world famous melody, and sighed: "This circus game is made by a new game company called Longteng Entertainment Game Company, and the boss is an old acquaintance of ours..."

  Ma Dajun's first reaction was: "Yang Kechang?"

  "That's right..." Zhao Yongping sighed: "This is the style of Director Yang, casual games, casual songs. If this game doesn't catch on, then it's really unfair!"

  "What about Jin Gang and 1949?"

  "Super Mary is a family, all of Nintendo's. In this four-in-one, only Circus is Yang Yun's original work, the other three are pirated Nintendo games. Red Sun Game Four-in-One, Red Sun Electronics Factory, haha, Yang Yun still found an electronics factory to cooperate with!"

  The two fell silent for a moment. How long has it been? Yang Yun left only a month ago, right? So soon he's made a new game and even opened a company?

  Longteng Entertainment Game Company, this name, like a great mountain, weighed heavily on both of their minds.

  "Great courage, sales you'd better hurry up! Those extra 500,000 game cards, get them all out for me!" Zhao Yongping made a decision after a long time, "I'm going to the technical department now, I want to find Shen Jun and let them see what's called shame! It's been a month, they haven't given me anything, just dragging my hind legs!"

  Zhao Yongping grew angrier and angrier, eventually exploding in a fit of rage and storming off.

  Bam!

  The door of the technical research room was heavily pushed open, and the programmers who were discussing in twos and threes inside looked at Zhao Yongping in surprise. Shen Jun didn't turn his head back and scolded first: "Which blind guy... Director Zhao?"

  Zhao Yongping's face turned gloomy: "R&D department meeting!"

  The atmosphere was very strange, Zhao Yongping's manner of asking for punishment made everyone in the technical department feel uneasy.

  Of course, if the sky falls, there is a tall man to hold it up. Now Shen Jun is the head of the technical department, and if he wants to get angry, he will come at him, and he has to take it.

  "Director Shen, you've been the head of the technical department for a month now. Has the technical department developed any new games?"

  Zhao Yongping's face was expressionless, and Shen Jun didn't take it seriously: "Our four-in-one sales are not bad, you've added three programmers to us, we're sorting out the materials, I've made short-term, medium-term and long-term plans, and I'm about to arrange for each person to study and learn the spirit."

  Zhao Yongping raised his voice: "So you're saying you've accomplished nothing?"

  Shen Jun was unhappy: "Director Zhao, you can't say that. You also come from an electronics factory background, you should know that technical reserves can't be rushed, how can you say we've accomplished nothing? We're learning and summarizing every day, making progress every day, and have accumulated rich game development experience. Moreover, we've come up with new methods for encrypting learning cards..."

  Bang!

  Two boxes of plastic cassette tapes were flung onto the table, crashing against the hard steel, shattering the outer casing and sending a small piece flying out, bouncing towards other people.

  "It's been a month! I won't mention why Yang Kechang left! In less than a month, he has developed another best-selling game, and what about you? Have you improved production line efficiency? Technical reserves? Who guaranteed the output to the higher-ups? Did we produce the 50,000 sets of FC that were scheduled at the beginning of the month?"

  Zhao Yongping was furious, Shen Jun was avoiding the main issue and making a fuss about technical improvements, affecting production with his rigid university laboratory attitude, and still insisting on that set of plans that would never change quickly. He felt that these people were completely holding him back, not even reaching one percent of the tacit understanding between him and Yang Yun.

  He now especially misses those days when he fought side by side with Yang Yun!

  Shen Jun seemed to be startled, gesturing for Su Xiuyun to hand over the game cartridge that had popped up in front of her, looking at the words "circus" and personally putting it on the test machine next to her to run.

  It has to be said that in this era of entertainment scarcity, a simple 32K game like the circus type is still quite marketable, fun and enjoyable for all ages.

  Before long, Shen Jun put down the handle and counted in his heart.

  Zhao Yongping's anger had dissipated by about half, but he was unwilling to let Shen Jun off so easily: "Director Shen, in just one month, Director Yang created his own game company, developed his own games, and found a factory that could mass-produce cartridges. These cartridges are now selling like crazy in the capital. Meanwhile, your technical department has made no progress whatsoever, with no results to speak of. Don't you owe me an explanation?"

  As soon as this was said, many people who were close to Yang Yun whispered excitedly.

  "Wow! Did Yang Ke start his own company?"

  "I knew Yang Kechang wasn't an ordinary person! Following him is great, this is what I call exciting!"

  "I also have high hopes for Director Yang, he will definitely make a big splash in the future! It's only been a few days and another classic game is out!"

  "We have a chance to go to Beijing, we must go and see Yang Kuo-chang..."

  Director Yang Director Yang Director Yang...

  Shen Jun's heart was burning with rage. This damned guy had already quit, so why were these people still obsessed with him?

  This son of a bitch was arrogant when he was here, now that he's gone, his evil spirit still lingers!

  At the beginning of his resignation, he should have been restricted and not allowed to enter the game market. Not even a one-year buffer period can be given!

  A lowly porter, how could he possibly be the opponent of a prestigious Tsinghua University computer science graduate student like me? How could I possibly lose to such an insignificant person?

  "Director Zhao! I've said it before, our technical reserves are already very well-prepared, and we can produce a game that's even more exquisite than this circus at any time! I guarantee you, within three days, I'll come up with a new game!"

  Zhao Yongping grunted heavily and said in a low voice, "Then I'll be waiting for good news from Shen Gong! If because of Shen Gong's reasons, our Little Overlord falls behind others in the market, I will report it to the higher-ups truthfully! Hmph!"

  Shen Jun's eyes were red and he gritted his teeth, saying: "I dare to guarantee that I will definitely defeat him! Yang Yun, let's wait and see!"