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The product department of a household products company...
"Wang Yi, Wang Yi?!" Xiao Zhang, who had just arrived at work, threw his bag away excitedly and sat down next to the young man he had just greeted. In this era, because interstellar colonization takes up a lot of manpower, the price of human resources is unprecedentedly high. At the same time, because everyone is highly educated, companies only need to hire a few percent of the original staff to meet the requirements. There will no longer be the situation where a large company employed tens of thousands, or even tens of millions of people.
For this medium-sized household products company targeting young people, there are only two young people in product planning, Wang Yi and Xiao Zhang.
"You know? I bought a novel last night, and fell asleep while reading it... Then guess what I dreamed about? The scenes in the novel - I declare that it is a novel with no sense of body. . I dreamed of wheat fields, endless, huge wheat fields!" Xiao Zhang said as he took out a chip from his bag and pushed it in front of Wang Yi. A natural scenery is printed on the chip, with the Chinese characters "My 20th Century" simply written on it.
"It's the scene described in this book. It tells a lot of interesting things... It makes people look at it and wish they could really go back to that era to see it!"
His colleague Wang Yi was still in a daze. Xiao Zhang knew that Wang Yi was a talented person. He often suddenly came up with some fantastic ideas after being in a daze for a long time. Therefore, Xiao Zhang was no longer surprised by his appearance and continued talking indifferently. "It was a wheat field in autumn. The golden color covered the field, and the waves of wheat slowly undulated with the wind... It was really wonderful. In my dream, I kept running in the wheat field..."
"Aren't you tired after running all night?" Wang Yi suddenly raised his head and interjected. Looking dazed, he not only heard it, but also found the bug.
"Oh..." Xiao Zhang was caught off guard by this question, and he thought about it for a while. Then he said, "My hands just feel sore..."
"Your answer... there are too many flaws! I'm too lazy to complain..." Wang Yi weakly leaned back on the table. "I just suffered a major setback in my life. Don't bother me now."
"Haha. Is Zhaomin Culture releasing a new product again?" Xiao Zhang said half teasingly and half self-deprecatingly. The two of them can be said to love and hate Zhaomin Culture!
You can see it if you look closely at their work room. Almost all products placed up and down in the whole room are Zhaomin Culture products! In addition to those on the display shelves, there are many that have been disassembled on the table - even Xiao Zhang himself. Although he already has a fully functional multi-purpose tool, he still likes to use the fruit candy bar phone produced by "Zhaomin Culture".
The emergence of Zhaomin Culture is like a beast rushing into the home furnishing market, wielding a machete called "nostalgia" and disrupting the entire market. Zhaomin Culture is famous for its accurate restoration of culture from the 17th to 21st centuries. Somehow, it won the favor of the market. Their products are highly recognizable - highly restored rough processing techniques, paired with extremely precise retro cultural styles, making them almost impossible to imitate!
And despite the high price of Zhaomin Culture’s products, buyers really don’t think they are expensive at all!
Let’s take the fruit phone used by Xiao Zhang as an example - when the casing is taken apart, every part inside is completely in line with the characteristics of that era, and the structure is as exquisite as a work of art! Especially the chip produced with the ancient eight-micron processing technology - your sister's! Just for the sales of several million units, is it necessary to open a new classical wafer production line in order to create a chip that meets the technological level of the time? !
Anything involving mass production won't be cheap - it seems. Zhaomin Culture's ability to waste money goes beyond their products!
Some people have also suspected that behind the Zhaomin culture. Is it supported by an uncivilized planet? They have a civilization similar to humans, and then naturally produce those products - this guess is almost close to the truth!
But this speculation was completely rejected by an Asari research laboratory!
Their analysis is very convincing - the products of Zhaomin Culture have civilization levels spanning four centuries of the earth! And the middle is discontinuous - from vacuum tube technology to miniaturized nuclear fuel cells, there have been several leap-forward developments - the missing scientific generation gap is at least 200 years! Whose civilization could evolve like this? ! Wouldn’t that make him disabled? ! (Oh - the Dawn scientists collectively bowed their heads and pretended to be ostriches, everything was the fault of the exchange...
"Actually, we don't have to worry about Zhaomin Culture. They follow the retro route, artificially limit the level of technology application, and lack competitiveness in technology products..." Xiao Zhang was halfway through his reasons when he saw Zhang Yi pointing wordlessly. The fruit phone he is holding. I can only stop silently. "This is... a handicraft... you know, in order to be able to get on the buoy network. I specially installed a 4G simulation module!" After saying that, Xiao Zhang felt that he couldn't go on. Just change the topic.
"Hey, Wang Yi, what do you think of that wheat field?"
"How about what?" Wang Yi was a little confused.
"Virtual image!" Wang Yi jumped up and said, "Why have you become so slow! What a wonderful bedside ornament this is... Every night, it's like sleeping in a wheat field, looking up at the starry sky above. Then I fell asleep amidst the sound of the waves of wheat... It must be so comfortable!"
"What about the bedside ornaments?" Wang Yi repeated numbly, still looking very listless.
"What's wrong with you? Are you worried about copyright?! No problem, this book is pure text, there are no image copyright issues. And let me tell you, it mentions things like heavy rain in the countryside, plateau snow-capped mountains, The deep night, the vast ocean, the bright lake and the moon... This author is an interesting guy, and he especially likes to write about these lonely scenery! We can completely change it, this idea will be no problem!"
"Yes..." Wang Yi raised his head blankly, "But what you don't know is that it is said that a talented designer who is only thirteen years old has entered Zhaomin Cultural Enterprise. Yesterday was the day when her first work came out. Zhaomin Culture's new products will be launched simultaneously, and the main focus is bedside ornaments!" He pulled his backpack gloomily, took out a transparent cube and placed it in the center of the table. "From now on, the bedside ornaments market... is over! That virtual image idea of yours should be changed to a smart sleep project."
"Only thirteen years old?! Damn...it's not like we're in the children's market..." Xiao Zhang almost cursed!
But he finally held back - speaking of it, the two young men were actually huge fans of Zhaomin Culture. Whenever a new product comes out, they rely on their own company's funding. Always buy, buy, buy! Of course, some are too personal. Also pay for it out of your own pocket. It was said that I would buy it to learn from it and provide inspiration. In fact... Zhaomin Culture's products are so "high-end" that all similar products on the market are low-end imitations.
This is also the direction of their design - specifically to fill the low-end market!
For example, the transistor radio, Zhaomin Culture's "Peony" brand radio, consists of a total of more than 140 parts! In order to listen to the buoy network, another more expensive module must be used! But such a bulky device with electronic noise. It’s fun to use! After it was worn out, I took it apart and saw, oh my god! It's the capacitor that's burned out! Then, under the guidance of multi-purpose tools, users can repair it themselves, and they are extremely happy - Zhaomin Culture's products are so interesting! So meticulous!
Look at those imitations again. The shells are only slightly different from the genuine ones, but when you take them apart... you'll find a shrunken multi-tool communicator hidden inside! It won't break even after five hundred years...it's really painful!
Xiao Zhang stopped his eyes on the crystal cube on the table - the object looked like a product of Zhaomin Culture, without any big trademark, but with a large reflective surface, inorganic materials, accurate geometric lines and mechanics. A combination of principles - this is a typical "old science fiction" style and a 21st century person's fantasy of the future. In the movies of that time. Such cold and hard "high-tech" materials can be found everywhere.
"Accurate, so accurate!" Xiao Zhang has been trained for a long time and is already considered to be a relatively high-end nostalgic cultural aesthetic. He often posts explanatory articles online. The analysis of retro culture has been sought after by many people.
"But this ornament... it's too tacky! Isn't this produced by Zhaomin Culture?" Looking at the rolling gold coin in the middle of the crystal, Xiao Zhang finally blurted out his negative words! This is full of nouveau riche atmosphere! Zhaomin Culture—Where is the culture that was promised? !
"What do you think?" Wang Yi smiled helplessly. He clicked on the crystal and opened the holographic scene projected on top of the crystal - this is also one of the characteristics of Zhaomin Culture. Their products are equipped with very rich Background knowledge, and even highly restored images of that era! (As expected, they sell culture... This is the fundamental reason why the product is so popular.
Moreover, speaking of it, Zhaomin Culture’s level of virtual imaging technology is the best in the galaxy! so. Although Zhaomin Culture’s products have the highest failure rate in the entire galaxy! But it didn't cause any negative impact. The market generally believes that this is a company with the "four qualities" of culture, persistence, technology and sentiment!
The video first showed a scene of a sail battleship battle - a battle between one ship and more than twenty ships under a desolate sky raging in a storm. Finally, with the help of the tsunami, the lone hero achieved a great reversal! ——This kind of war scene, which is no less than a space battle, made the two young people's blood boil with excitement! (For different users, the played clips are also different.
Then there is a long paragraph of text and image introduction. "This is a gold coin from a shipwreck from the Caribbean era of the sixteenth century, when pirates were raging. At that time, the Spanish royal family carried out a large-scale plunder of the Americas and sent a new colonial governor, Leblanc..." With the introduction, about the sixteenth century The variety and development of European gold coins in the century, the transfer of minting rights and financial centers, the treasure fleet, etc., will be explained one by one!
The most amazing thing is the gold content of this gold coin - because the Indians used natural gold ore and smelted it using the most primitive method, the gold content of this gold coin is only 80%! After the image is enlarged, you can see that there are some pores scattered on the uneven surface of the gold coin... The craftsmanship is absolutely primitive - so no matter how many times you zoom in, you can't find the cutting marks left by modern processing tools!
"Although the gold coins have been specially cleaned, due to excessive impurities and exposure to the air, the surface will quickly oxidize and turn green..."
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The video played for half an hour, and the two of them just sat there in a daze, motionless for half an hour! Even Wang Yi, who had already watched it, watched it again. After the introduction is finished, look at the gold coins in this ornament... Xiao Zhang's vision has turned into an appreciation of the artwork...
This ornament, in fact, Comrade Xiao Zhang, a senior Zhaomin cultural expert, is right. It does not match the overall style of the company - because this time, some "new technologies" are used. This is absolutely not seen in Zhaomin Culture’s past products.
Twelve tiny mass effect generators are built into the transparent crystal cube, making the gold coins sealed in the box completely weightless. In this way, as long as it shakes a little, the gold coin will automatically jump up, like a perfect golden elf, jumping and rolling on the six walls, and making "wow, wah," "ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. "So cute...no!" It's an evil voice!
Xiao Zhang was watching intently, and suddenly he stretched out a hand from the side and took the crystal cube.
"Give me..." Xiao Zhang reached out to grab it angrily. Only halfway did he realize that the person who took it was Wang Yi, who was the owner of this thing! Suddenly there was some sarcasm...
In the end, Wang Yi didn't mean to blame him at all, and patted him on the shoulder empathetically, "I understand, but I took it away for your own good... You can't look at this thing for too long! That gold coin kept spinning, just like It's like hypnosis! Tmd, it's a crime to put this kind of thing on the market!
You know - the kids couldn't control themselves after watching it! Let me tell you, according to surveys on the Internet... people who stare at it for more than a minute will buy it if they lose their money! It’s really a product designed by the devil…”
After saying this, Wang Yi returned to his depressed look, and after a while, he murmured, "No more talking, I'd better find a way to pay off the loan first..."
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Hakureimu, a young designer who has recently joined Zhaomin Culture, brought her creative design - "Caribbean Dream".
The new ornaments triggered a shopping frenzy as soon as they came on the market. Gold, silver, and copper grades, as well as ornaments with various racial characteristics such as shells and element zero crystals, were sold indiscriminately to all races in the galaxy - countless trade barriers shine with the magic of gold coins. It collapsed suddenly! It is said that the Wallers, who are the stingiest in consumption, rank first in the galaxy in terms of purchasing volume!
This young girl, who is only thirteen years old, has pushed up the market value of Zhaomin Cultural Enterprise by 20 percentage points in one fell swoop!
The name of genius designer Reimu Hakurei shines on the planet Ilim!
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ps: Sometimes Lao Lei can't help but want to write these side details instead of the battle - the interval of the battle - the next battle.
Because this is not an RPG's triggered dialogue, nor is it something like the "butterfly effect" that is completely pushed to the logic chain. Here, Lu Yuan and his companions are subtly affecting all aspects of the world! ——"The world is different because of you" is no longer a love saying.
ps2: In the book review area, book friend Ouyang Yu (Potato?)’s re-reading notes are very well written and loving. (To be continued)
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