Chapter 1424 General Manager Li Will Never Miss a Drop

After seeing off Xu Hu, Li Shi said to Che Rong, "We also need to make some corresponding changes here."

"My idea is to change the brand name of Xingniao Fitness to 'Xingniao Virtual Sports Experience Store.' Based on the original smart fitness clothes rack and Doubt VR glasses experience area, we'll expand further by purchasing safe and civilized driving simulators and creating a dedicated driving area!"

"If there's not enough space, it doesn't matter. We'll open another store next to, across from, or above each existing store, forming a twin-store or mother-and-child-store model. We'll consider the two stores as a whole, re-plan the equipment, and adjust the number of devices based on the number of customers."

Che Rong was stunned for a moment. "Aren't we going to cooperate with Hengyuan Driving School? Are we going to do it ourselves too?"

"Besides, safe and civilized driving simulators don't really have much to do with concepts like fitness and virtual sports, do they?"

Che Rong was clearly caught off guard.

He originally thought that Xingniao Fitness wouldn't be involved this time, after all, safe and civilized driving simulators naturally fit with driving schools, and there wasn't much overlap with Xingniao Fitness's current business.

But he didn't expect that Li Shi, having just seen off Xu Hu, the owner of Hengyuan Driving School, would start considering taking on some safe and civilized driving simulators himself?

Was that appropriate?

Li Shi shook his head slightly. "General Manager Che, don't be so rigid in your thinking."

"Who says that just because we're cooperating with Hengyuan Driving School, we can't do it ourselves?"

"Think about it carefully. Can Hengyuan Driving School meet all the market demand for safe and civilized driving simulators? Let's put aside those individual customers who are willing to spend money and have space at home to put simulators. What about those players who have to go outside to experience them because they don't have the money or the space?"

"Can Hengyuan Driving School take all of those people?"

"Hengyuan Driving School will put deluxe simulators with G-force seats in their registration stores, but that's all for recruitment purposes. They'll also put simulators in the driving school, but that's to serve their own students."

"But what if someone doesn't want to register for driving school? Or what if they already have a driver's license and just want to experience the simulator equipment, or continue to improve their driving skills on the track?"

"Who can meet this demand? Of course, we still have to meet it!"

"So, Hengyuan Driving School and our needs are different. They make money on one side, and we make money on the other side. Isn't that great?"

Li Shi paused and then said, "As for the concept of virtual sports, of course it's related."

"You probably don't understand direct drive steering wheels. I checked, and many enthusiasts call this stuff fitness equipment, specifically for training arm strength."

"The normal driving mode is fine, it's about as tiring as driving in real life, but once you get into race mode, the force feedback on the steering wheel is terrifying and requires a lot of strength to control. If you really concentrate and run for two hours, the amount of exercise is not small at all!"

"Look at real racers, none of them are very fat, right? Most of them are lean and full of muscle. That's because real racing is more physically demanding, not only do you have to fight the steering wheel, but you also have to fight the strong G-forces."

"Simulators can't really simulate that strong G-force. The existing G-force seats only simulate the feeling, but no matter what, playing this game is definitely not easy."

"Real racing is also a type of sport, so racing simulators can of course be called virtual sports!"

"In short, we have to find a way to incorporate Tenda's new products. This is not only a market expansion, but also a strategic defense plan."

"As long as we incorporate safe and civilized driving simulators, we can effectively prevent other brands and other stores from overtaking us by using simulators. It's secondary how much more money we make by introducing simulators. The key is to block the path of others!"

After Li Shi's analysis, Che Rong suddenly understood.

"I see! I understand!"

"That makes a lot of sense!"

Che Rong couldn't help but be sincerely convinced, and General Manager Li had given him another lesson.

As a boss, what am I lacking? Imagination and the ability to connect different fields!

Who says that catching a trend is a matter of luck? People like General Manager Li forcibly capture trends and use them for their own purposes!

Thinking about it carefully, it's really quite suitable.

Because the game *Safe and Civilized Driving*, like the previous *Animal Islands* and *Fitness Big Battle*, is replayable. If people really get into it, they might play it for hundreds of hours.

And this provides objective support for Xingniao Fitness's "internet cafe model."

If the game is only a temporary novelty, and players lose interest after playing for a few hours, then the subsequent customer traffic will be difficult to sustain, and Xingniao Fitness's model will be at great risk.

But now, after the smart fitness clothes rack and Doubt VR glasses experiments, this model has been accepted by many people, and with the addition of safe and civilized driving simulators, it can form a cluster effect.

Moreover, judging from the situation at the experience store, tourists' recognition of safe and civilized driving simulators is significantly higher than other large equipment, and the replay rate is very high, which also makes Che Rong more confident.

"Okay, General Manager Li, I'll arrange it right away!"

Che Rong was full of energy again. As expected, it's good to follow General Manager Li. As long as you stick with Tenda, you don't have to bother thinking about any business models yourself.

Mature business models will naturally come to you!

...

At the same time, in Tenda's game department.

After watching the newly sent video, Yu Fei said to Meng Chang with some worry, "Will this really work?"

Meng Chang said very decisively and firmly, "It will work!"

On Yu Fei's computer screen was a trial video of *Ghost General 2*.

This video was specially made by Cai Hong, a well-known domestic fighting game player.

When the demo of *Ghost General 2* first came out, the Tenda game project team had already contacted some domestic fighting game experts and asked them to experience *Ghost General 2* together.

The project team carefully considered and seriously modified the suggestions made by these fighting game experts. When encountering some changes that they felt were inappropriate, they would also organize fighting game experts and designers to have online meetings to fully exchange opinions before finalizing the modification plan.

This was an unavoidable step to make *Ghost General 2* an excellent fighting game.

And this group of fighting game experts, including Cai Hong, all got started very quickly.

Because as early as when *Ghost General 2* was being developed, Bao Xu had said that fighting games around the world basically have a set of tacit rules. Following these tacit rules and making innovations in some details is a "good fighting game", while not following these tacit rules is a "failed fighting game".

This is partly because the fighting game genre has been around for too long, the gameplay and mechanics are very mature, and the core players are completely adapted to it. On the other hand, it's because core players invest thousands of hours in fighting games to form muscle memory. If a new game doesn't match their muscle memory and common habits, they simply won't play it.

And since *Ghost General 2* was developed according to the tastes of these old players, they naturally got started quickly.

In the video, Cai Hong was playing a boss battle in the "Battle of Red Cliffs" level in the game.

In the game *Ghost General 2*, the "Battle of Red Cliffs" is an entire big chapter, divided into many small levels, and within the levels are different parts such as "Chain Scheme," "Borrowing the East Wind," "The Stratagem of Self-Sacrifice," and "Huarong Road."

Yu Fei combined the historical stories and the stories in the novel to adapt the story background of *Ghost General*.

For example, Pang Tong, the Phoenix orphan, after boarding Cao Wei's warship fleet, offered a chain scheme to activate the performance of the demonic warships with Phoenix blood, giving the warship fleet the effect of sharing damage, but deliberately didn't mention that this would lead to poor fire resistance, and that the flames would ignite the flame power hidden in the Phoenix bloodline.

In the game, players must control Pang Tong, complete operations at designated locations, and defeat enemies during Cao Wei's warship exercises to prove to Cao Cao that this will indeed improve the strength of Cao Wei's warship fleet.

Borrowing the East Wind is when Zhuge Liang ascends the Seven Star Platform and summons a large number of missiles to wash the ground in the form of performing combos, causing devastating damage to Cao Wei's warship fleet. During this process, players must not only control Zhuge Liang to perform combos to launch missiles, but also free up their hands to solve the Cao Wei army that comes to obstruct him.

In the Stratagem of Self-Sacrifice, players must control Huang Gai to cover the warships loaded with high-explosive fuel to hit Cao Wei's warship fleet.

In short, these links all have combat content, either mowing down mobs, or fighting against enemy generals, or completing n specific combo operations within a certain period of time in order to achieve the plot requirements.

And the Boss battle that Cai Hong was playing was set after Huang Gai's warship loaded with high-explosive fuel hit Cao Wei's demonic warship fleet, and after Zhuge Liang borrowed the east wind to launch a large number of missiles that caused the Phoenix bloodline in Cao Wei's warship fleet to erupt, causing a continuous fire.

The Lone Shadow Swordsman Zhou Yu rushed onto a burning warship and encountered the Iron Guard Tiger Fool Xu Chu, thus triggering a boss battle.

According to the plot, after the Black Lion King Hua Xiong was beheaded by the Azure Dragon War Saint Guan Yu, the Centaur and White Tiger tribes fought for Xiliang. In the end, Ma Chao of the Centaur tribe won, and Xu Chu, the son of the White Tiger tribe's chief, led his tribe to join Cao Cao. Cao Cao used demonic technology combined with the White Tiger tribe's gene samples to create the most elite biochemical troop, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and Xu Chu was the strongest of them.

Although the warship fleet was covered by fire, Xu Chu relied on Cao Wei's unique demonic technology to gain a bloodline blessing at home, his body swelled, and he was incredibly powerful. He not only had to cover Cao Cao's retreat, but also kill Zhou Yu, who had come to pursue him, on the spot.

Cai Hong must defeat Xu Chu within the limited time. Whether he dies or runs out of time, the mission is considered a failure.