138: Don't want to play with me? Sorry! I want to earn foreign currency to build a base.

…When the big shots heard what Lu Xingye said, their faces turned green.

They had seen people raise prices on the spot, but never like this.

Raise prices directly by percentage points?

And it's one point per hour?

What the hell is this?

We think it's expensive, and you not only don't lower the price, but you raise it instead?

This…what kind of divine operation is this?

"Chairman Lu, did you mishear? We asked if it could be a little cheaper?"

"That's right."

"Chairman Lu, a 35% handling fee is already very expensive for us, and you're still raising the price? This is simply unbearable!"

"Can you lower the handling fee a bit? Even the famous Fruit Company's Fruit Tax is only in the twenties."

"How can you charge so much?"

...Microsoft, IBM, Qualcomm, Amazon, Fruit Company... all demanded a price reduction, facing Lu Xingye's back.

Chairman Lu.

We are all businessmen, can you be a little more reasonable?

However.

Lu Xingye didn't pay any attention to them.

He turned and left directly, without even looking back.

Besides dealing with the BUG of no NPCs in the virtual world, he also needed to research drones.

To prepare for exploring the Gray Mist Area.

How could he have time to waste with them here... After Lu Xingye left, the big shots, full of unvented emotions, quickly turned their attention to Jarvis.

Jarvis is Lu Xingye's intelligent butler.

Reasoning with Jarvis is the same.

As long as they reasoned with Jarvis, Jarvis would naturally tell Lu Xingye.

A 35% handling fee was too high; even large enterprises like theirs couldn't afford it.

Or rather... even if they could afford it, they would become ruthless tools. They would give everything to make money, only to find that the money earned wasn't even enough to cover the handling fees.

^_^ Funny / From the deep malice of capital.

Capital won't let you starve, but it will never let you live very well... However.

Their ideas were doomed to fail.

No matter what they said, Jarvis insisted that the handling fee had to be 36%, not a cent less.

The big shots haggled in the experience hall for half an hour.

Jarvis remained the same.

No bargaining, no price reduction.

Sign if you want, don't if you don't...

At the same time.

On the other side.

Mr. Xu from Huawei Group successfully signed the contract, a faint smile spreading across his face, as if signing for a 35% handling fee meant he had gotten a huge bargain.

"What are you still waiting for?"

"Hurry up and sign the contract!"

"Half an hour has passed, and there's only half an hour left before the handling fee increases."

"If you don't sign now... don't regret it later."

...However.

Mr. Xu's well-intentioned words were cut short by the scorn of these big shots.

Microsoft: "Damn it! You still have the nerve to say that? If it weren't for a traitor like you among us, how would we have fallen into this situation?"

IBM: "If you hadn't betrayed us, as long as we formed a united front, even if Suihuo Technology held our lifeline, the virtual world would be unplayable without developer support."

Amazon: "Exactly... exactly... You should compensate us for our losses. It's fine if you're willing to take the hit. But that doesn't mean we're willing to take the hit?"

...Mr. Xu's face turned pale upon hearing this.

To be honest, being denounced by so many big shots at once put a lot of pressure on him.

But... soon.

The pressure on his face vanished without a trace.

United front?

Sanction Suihuo Technology?

Are you guys stupid?

Have you forgotten that Suihuo Technology develops a hundred phenomenal games in a single day?

To go head-to-head with Suihuo Technology?

How foolish would that be!

Mr. Xu looked at them like they were idiots, then said nothing and quietly left.

He needed to go back and develop virtual applications.

If he could be one step ahead and release virtual applications, he would definitely seize the traffic first.

One step ahead is always one step ahead... Everyone continued to haggle with Jarvis for another twenty-odd minutes, seeing that an hour was about to pass.

The handling fee was about to increase from 36% to 37%.

Everyone finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"Give me a contract."

"I agree to the 36% handling fee."

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice, and the speaker was actually Mr. Ku from Fruit Company.

This surprised everyone.

Isn't Fruit Company famous for its toughness?

Back then, the Fruit Tax caused a huge uproar and was cursed by countless people, but Fruit Company simply refused to change.

They pushed the Fruit Tax to the end.

It was precisely because of Fruit Company's strong attitude that it became a trillion-dollar enterprise today... Facing the gazes around him, Mr. Ku remained composed and unconcerned.

If possible.

Who would want to be like this?

In life, one must learn to conceal one's sharpness.

What's a little loss?

Fruit Company had endured even worse beatings.

Moreover... the current situation of Fruit Company is similar to that of Penguin Group; both are almost crippled by Suihuo Technology.

Now, with the advent of the virtual era.

Mr. Ku wasn't thinking about how to avoid losses, but how to survive in the virtual era.

"Old Ku, that's not very ethical of you."

"We agreed to form a united front..."

"That's right. We should stick together. With such an expensive fee, if we don't sign, Suihuo Technology can't do anything to us."

...However.

Their voices were cut off again before they could finish.

"Jarvis, give me a contract. We are also willing to accept a 36% handling fee," the CEO of 360 Security Guard said, gritting his teeth.

Xiaomi Company: "I also agree..."

Alibaba: "I also want to purchase virtual world access rights to embrace the great wave of the virtual era."

...Because several major manufacturers took the lead.

So many domestic manufacturers agreed to the 36% handling fee.

Only those international enterprises were unwilling to accept it.

For example:

IBM, Microsoft, Amazon... They are all Fortune 500 companies; when have they ever suffered such an unequal treaty?

In their eyes.

A 36% handling fee was an IQ tax.

They simply couldn't accept it.

Just as they thought that if they persisted for a while, Suihuo Technology would lower prices or relax the virtual world's access rights.

The handling fee quietly increased.

Ten hours passed.

It had now risen from 36 points to 55 points.

At this price, no one could afford it anymore... Now these Fortune 500 companies somewhat regretted not buying virtual access rights.

However, regret was useless now.

Lu Xingye wouldn't indulge them.

Or rather:

This scene was exactly what Lu Xingye wanted to see.

Most manufacturers in Jiuzhou obtained virtual world access rights, and soon virtual applications would spring up like mushrooms after rain.

The virtual reality pie is huge.

Business knows no borders.

Once domestic manufacturers' virtual applications develop.

Then taking them to conquer the international market wouldn't be bad, would it?

What's the point of earning dragon coins?

As an excellent entrepreneur, one should go abroad to earn US dollars, British pounds... bringing foreign currency back to build one's own country.