A game of dreams

Chapter 26

When Zhao Shouyu woke up, he only felt tightness in his chest. After lying down for too long, his heart was suffocated.

Someone at the foot of the bed said, "Don't move."

He recognized the voice and sighed: "...it was an accident, I didn't think much about it at the time."

Yuan Chong didn't answer the call right away. After a while, he came over with hot water.Only now did Zhao Shouyu have a chance to raise his head. He was so thirsty that he just waited for this saliva.Yuan Chong was afraid that he would choke, so he patted him on the back and said, "I asked Anna to go back first. The little girl was quite frightened, so I asked her to rest for a night before coming back. I also made decisions about the company's affairs privately. something urgent."

"Is everyone alright?" Zhao Shouyu was most concerned about casualties.

Yuan Chong confessed: "Two are gone. The others are not in danger for the time being."

Zhao Shouyu's face turned gloomy, and he didn't drink any water.

Yuan Chong shook his hand: "You also know it was an accident, not your responsibility. You stayed in the operating room for seven hours, and when Anna called me, you didn't know how scared I was."

Zhao Shouyu looked at him with a particularly fragile expression.Yuan Chong sighed and picked him up.The atmosphere seemed a little heavy.

"The times are different. I didn't expect making games to become a high-risk industry." Yuan Chong deliberately eased the atmosphere: "In the past, if we were unhappy playing games, we would stop playing. Now it's good. If we are unhappy, we will die."

The continuous sinking of users is something that all industries must face.Zhao Shouyu suffered a loss early, so he should have learned a lesson.

"Crime is crime. How come there are so many reasons." Boss Zhao sneered: "Third-rate things will become tough after playing games? I was an Internet addict ten years ago, who still looks down on others."

Yuan Chong smiled: "They should be sent for electric shock therapy."

Zhao Shouyu was still ignorant, he couldn't say much and wanted to sleep again.Yuan Chong slept with him for two hours, and when he got up, he received a call from the production director, waiting for him to return to the company for the next step.

When Anna came to pick up the day shift, Yuan Chong asked the little girl to accompany the boss first.The company's assets were liquidated, and the results were not ideal.Several important computers were damaged, and a large number of original game drafts including "Mirage" were stored in them. The art team suffered heavy losses, and the male team leader in his thirties sat on the ground and cried bitterly.

"Where is the specific number? I want to see it." Yuan Chong sat down.

The director printed the form to him: "There is no shortage of money. The financial team has confirmed that it is mainly due to environmental damage and damage to machinery and equipment. In addition to the original drawing drafts, some special effect files that are being made by "Star Tower" are also gone, which is relatively large. The loss. Re-doing special effects is a lot of money."

Special effects are not cheap, and good special effects are even more expensive than gold.In the past, Zhao Shouyu's approach in the company was to do some basic special effects by himself, and outsource the more demanding ones to professional special effects teams and film and television companies.But in the past two years, Zhao Shouyu has paid more and more attention to special effects. He specially recruited someone from the United States who had done special effects for DreamWorks. The technique was so beautiful that the special effects team was brought in.

But the cost of hiring a senior special effects artist is also extremely high. With such a high salary a month, you need a high-end machine to do it. These are real money, and the cost can be recovered as soon as possible. It's just spending money back and forth.

The three prisoners came in and hacked and smashed people. The damage was so random that no one could say which computer was chosen.The art team was the hardest hit, not only paying for the painting but also lost the soldiers. Next to the art is the special effects. Seeing tens of thousands or even 10,000+ machines being smashed to pieces, no matter how generous they are, they have to grit their teeth.

These are not the most important, the painting can be repainted, the special effects can be remade, and the camera can be repurchased, but it is difficult to appease the panicked hearts.

Before Zhao Shouyu was discharged from the hospital, Anna had already started to receive resignation letters one after another, and several of them were even from key middle-level personnel.

This signal is terrible, not to mention that it is difficult to find someone to fill the gap when the middle management is gone-they are familiar with the company and the team, and it may not be suitable for them to go through a long break-in period.The resignation of these people may also drive the entire team to go together.We have been doing things together for a long time and trust each other. When the leader leaves, the people below will naturally follow.

In this way, the team that has been built with great difficulty will face the crisis of dissolution, and the company's short-term plans will definitely be shelved, which will further affect the long-term future.

"I'll talk about it one by one, and keep as many as you can." Zhao Shouyu couldn't lie on the hospital bed, and insisted on getting out of bed.

Anna persuaded earnestly: "The doctor said that you will lie down for at least a month! You have a broken bone! You can't come down..."

"The whole company will be ruined if we get down again!" Zhao Shouyu was furious.

When Yuan Chong came in with the bone soup, he heard this sentence, and scolded him coldly: "Lie back! Don't even look at your own situation. Are you just joking about the bone thing? Let me tell you about Zhao Shouyu, then A broken company loves to give you a discount, if you move again, you can see if I will give you a discount!"

Even Anna couldn't help but laugh.

Zhao Shouyu pouted very displeased.

Yuan Chong doesn't argue with him, he can reason about everything, but this is not the case!He pretended he didn't see it, and as soon as the lunch box was opened, the aroma of bone soup wafted out, and Zhao Shouyu immediately softened, moaning and wanting to be hugged and fed.

Yuan Chong is a diligent nurse who goes to the hospital three times a day without stopping. The ribs soup spoon Yuan Chun boiled with fresh bones is the best calcium supplement——

"Although the situation is not optimistic, it is still the old saying that there are opportunities when there is danger."

Zhao Shouyu chewed the cartilage loudly: "Then what do you say?"

"We must talk about it, but we need to find out what people want." Yuan Chong analyzed: "The progress at this juncture is not because of salary, nor is it because of personnel adjustments. I'm afraid it will be endless in the future, and similar incidents will emerge one after another. That's why I am determined to leave."

Zhao Shouyu frowned: "But this time it was an accident."

Yuan Chong shook his head: "I don't think so. They think this accident is because of "The Tower of Stars", but you want to make a second one, what do you think?"

Zhao Shouyu understood.This is not simply caused by fear, but the essence reflected is that the company's style and direction have been questioned.Employees think that the company's adherence to this style may bring the risk of continuous rise, so no matter how high the salary is, no matter how good the benefits are, it is not as important as a life.

If Zhao Shouyu wanted to convince these people, he would have to face many very real problems——

Will the company change direction?Do you want to stick to the original game style?How can the company ensure the safety of employees' lives and property if they continue to do so and extreme crimes occur again?

If Zhao Shouyu couldn't answer these questions, he would still leave.

Yuan Chong prevented him from talking now because he could see that he was not ready to answer these questions yet.So even if you go, it’s useless.Zhao Shouyu was indeed uncertain: "Do you want to change the direction of the company?"

"The company is yours, so you can do whatever you want." Yuan Chong replied.

"I want to do the second part."

"Are you confident?"

"50.00%."

Establishing and being recognized for a company's style is not a simple matter. For game companies, style represents recognition, recognition represents the company's brand, and brand represents the company's long-term development. "Mirage" and "Tower of Stars" have already made a lot of preparations, established a unique style, and attracted a group of loyal users. At this time, it would be too wasteful to give up and start again.

"It's amazing to close the door after finishing the second part." Zhao Shouyu made the worst plan: "I won't do the dog tail thing anyway, so I have to make a graceful exit. Besides, what if there is a bloody road?"

Yuan Chong liked his optimistic look: "Can you really think about it?"

"There's nothing wrong with that."

"Actually, it doesn't necessarily mean it can't be done."

"Do you have another way?"

Yuan Chong analyzed: "This matter is not only a problem of games, but also a problem of public opinion orientation. Extreme players can be found everywhere, in every game, and it is inevitable. Not only game companies don't like them, but the public also doesn't accept them. .So we need to let the right voice out and let people know our difficulties. Only then can we win more support.”

Zhao Shouyu understood: "Pretending to be pitiful?"

Yuan Chong smiled: "It is very useful to pretend to be pitiful and coquettish when necessary. Besides, it is not pretending, we are really pitiful. Why don't you be pitiful to the end. If users follow this set, we will immediately get greater support, and employees will also Finding that our customer base is still very large, we will naturally have confidence in the company, which is more useful than how many promises you make in front of them.”

"Have a press conference, and I'll take a bow."

"Why are you bowing like this now?"

"It's better to let reporters come to interview in the ward."

Zhao Shouyu made up his mind: "Then I will leave this matter to you. You are familiar with the media now. We are a small workshop and we don't have a dedicated public relations staff. You have to control how you speak and act." : "You are an expert now, you get money, and you have to work."

Yuan Chong teased: "Then I really brought the reporter here. Are you afraid of losing face if you are seen like this?"

Zhao Shouyu's state is really not good.He also wanted to save face: "No, you can't meet people like this."

"It's good to see people like this."

"No, I'm so ugly."

Yuan Chong only thought his coquettish appearance was cute: "Not ugly, you are the most beautiful, okay?"

Boss Zhao flattened his mouth and arched his head into his lover's arms: "You don't love me."

Yuan Chong pinched his ears: "How old you are, you still act like a baby."

"Who just said that acting like a baby is useful?" Boss Zhao looked for his lips: "I'm so hurt and pitiful, you still don't kiss me."

Yuan Chong took it absent-mindedly.Yes, so pitiful, of course I want to kiss.

The press conference was scheduled for Monday morning, and the production director came out to apologize and bow, detailing the company's losses.The speech was written by Anna, edited by Yuan Chong, and the little director performed well, choking up twice and grasping the timing well.Zhao Shouyu watched the live broadcast on his mobile phone in the ward. The nurse came in and saw that he was in a good mood, and even ate the disgusting pasta, and praised him——

"Mr. Zhao did a good job today!"

Zhao Shouyu proudly pointed at the TV screen: "My love, handsome or not?"

The little nurse laughed: "There is no one in the entire nurse's station who doesn't know Mr. Yuan. He runs to the hospital so diligently and brings us something to eat, which is better than those who accompany the delivery in the obstetrics department."

Zhao Shouyu blushed instantly.What obstetrics, he is not a woman!

After lying in the hospital for nearly a month, he really couldn't stop, and the company was waiting for him to preside over it. After the stitches were removed, he couldn't wait to go to work, and returned to the company after he was discharged from the hospital.Anna was startled when she saw him—

"Why did you come back? Didn't Teacher Yuan come back with you?"

Zhao Shouyu has been getting a little bored with Yuan Chong recently. He has never been so sticky before, wishing he could just get out of bed and leave, but now he is always under his nose, asking him to eat this and that.Nightlife is also banned, what's the fun in that?Before you are old, you are already a mother-in-law!

"I don't care about him, let's talk about it when he comes. I can't come back to my own company?" Boss Zhao said angrily, "You have called everyone, and the meeting will start at ten o'clock. I'm not in the company, so I'm fucking lazy Bar!"

It was rare for everyone to be present in the large conference room, and about a hundred people all looked at him with helpless and confused eyes.This month was really tough, Zhao Shouyu endured the pain on his back and bowed: "As the person in charge of the company, such a big accident happened. In the final analysis, I neglected the safety measures. I apologize to everyone here. I assure everyone , security measures will follow soon, and please trust me and continue to walk with the company.”

Anna's eyes were slightly red, and she hurriedly supported him: "You still have injuries on your back, be careful."

Whether people can stay or not depends on fate.But Zhao Shouyu felt uneasy if he didn't come to make this bow.

He went to visit the family members of the deceased. The little girl at the front desk had just got married, and the decorations in the wedding room hadn't been removed yet. Her husband's mouth turned white from crying because of the loss of his lover.Zhao Shouyu stood in the house plastered with the word "Happy" and apologized repeatedly. Although her husband was grieving, he was sensible and didn't make things difficult for him. When he left, he even sent him to the door, saying only——

"Mr. Zhao, you don't know how happy I was when she agreed to my marriage proposal. I think I'm not alone anymore, and someone is willing to accompany me. I just want to live a simple life with her. She Gone, I can't even get out of bed every morning, and I don't know why I'm going to spend the rest of the day. If you have a lover, you'll understand me."

Zhao Shouyu shuddered. He helped the desperate man up, but he didn't dare to say anything.