33: Chapter 33 Making a Name for Oneself

They saw the photo he had posted of the phone taken at a mobile phone shop.

At the time, he was asking fellow forum members if they had heard of this phone, but it was clear he had gotten his hands on it now.

So, many people asked him below: "Daxian, Daxian, is it smooth when you play honor of kings on this device?"

Wang Hongda replied below: "Very smooth."

"Then what about the frame rate? Roughly how much is it?"

Wang Hongda: "It starts at 30 FPS, and sometimes it can even stabilize at fifty or sixty FPS."

"What? Is it that smooth?"

You have to know that the previous heroic battle records was only 30 FPS.

Back then, everyone was used to playing it, so they felt 30 FPS was already very smooth.

Unexpectedly, after the later updates to honor of kings, the optimization was complete garbage, and it couldn't even reach 30 FPS; this was also the reason why many players felt it was lagging.

But now, there is actually a device that can push honor of kings to the 30 FPS threshold, and even reach fifty or sixty FPS!

Being able to play a game at fifty or sixty FPS on a mobile phone—in the eyes of many, this was simply unthinkable!

When many people heard Wang Daxian say that this phone model was the xiaomi 5, they all went online to search for the xiaomi 5, but they couldn't find any information.

There was simply no such mobile phone manufacturer called Xiaomi!

Occasionally, they could see a few posts about xiaomi phones, but they were using the xiaomi 4; it looked like the xiaomi 5 should be the iterative model of the xiaomi 4.

How could such an awesome phone be completely unknown?

Whose subordinates were these, anyway?

Which technology company launched this product?

Many people wanted to know, so they went to ask Wang Daxian again: "Daxian, I searched online, and it seems there is no shop selling this Xiaomi brand phone around here. Where did you buy it?"

Wang Hongda didn't keep it a secret either and gave them a reply right away: "I bought mine around our school. There is a mobile phone shop around a certain university. I also saw the sign on it by chance, which is how I knew about this phone. If you can't buy it, if it really doesn't work out, I'll go ask the boss to see where he gets his stock."

"Daxian, you really are a kind person!"

"Daxian, I want one too!"

"Daxian, help me order one too!"

After Wang Hongda's comment was posted, many people immediately left messages under his post very enthusiastically, wanting to order this kind of phone.

Wang Hongda had been playing games all afternoon and hadn't even eaten lunch, so it was time to go out for a walk and get some food.

So, he strolled over to this small mobile phone shop again and saw the shop owner busy attending to several college students.

Seeing Wang Hongda walk in, Peng Rizhao looked over immediately.

He still had an impression of this kid; he was the one who had bought the first xiaomi 5 sold at this shop at noon, so he was a bit surprised to see him return.

"Young man, what's wrong? Did you run into any problems using it?" Peng Rizhao asked, feeling a bit puzzled.

Wang Hongda shook his head repeatedly: "The phone is great to use, very smooth. It's still very comfortable to play honor of kings on. And I played for the whole afternoon without feeling that the phone was particularly hot; it was only slightly warm, and it was still very comfortable to play."

Peng Rizhao hurriedly said to the few students in the shop who were still hesitating about looking at the phones: "Everyone, did you hear what he said? This is not a shill I hired; this is a student from your school who came here specifically to give this phone a good review. Let me tell you, I only ordered one hundred units, and once they're sold out, they're gone! If you want to buy one, you have to act fast!"

He then turned his head and continued to ask Wang Hongda: "So what are you here for now?"

Wang Hongda said: "Boss, it's like this. I posted about this phone on a gaming forum, and many people came to ask me what brand the phone is. I told them it's a xiaomi 5, but they said they couldn't find any information about the xiaomi 5 brand locally, so many people want me to help them pre-order. I just wanted to come and ask if it's possible to pre-order."

Peng Rizhao scratched his head and said: "Oh, pre-order? If it's a pre-order, I'm not the source here either. I'm just a middleman. I only ordered 100 units, and once they're sold, they're gone."

Peng Rizhao actually didn't want to deal with these pre-orders because pre-orders meant that customers couldn't take the devices away for a long time, which meant he couldn't get the money for a long time, so the funds wouldn't circulate.

Who knew if any other accidents might occur during this process?

So, he wasn't very willing to do this kind of business.

However, Boss Bai was the only source he knew of at the moment.

He thought Boss Bai probably had plenty of stock and shouldn't be worried about capital turnover issues, so he said: "How about this, I'll write an address for you. You go over there and look. I also got my stock from him. You go and ask to see if he can take pre-orders on his end."

So, he wrote down an address and handed it to Wang Hongda.

Wang Hongda said: "Okay, thanks, boss. Then I'll be going. There might be a lot of local forum members coming to your place to buy machines later."

Peng Rizhao nodded: "Okay, thanks a lot for helping us promote it, student."

Wang Hongda: "No, no, no, no need to thank me. This is what I should do. Such an awesome phone that can smoothly play honor of kings, and it's not even expensive—I think I should promote you more!"

Afterward, he hurried back and posted online again: "Brothers, I've found out. I got my own phone at the address below. There is a mobile phone shop inside. You can just go there directly to buy it, but the quantity here is limited. The boss himself said he is just a middleman and also gets his stock from someone else. He only has 100 units, so brothers who want to buy one should hurry up. And then there is the address below, which is where that mobile phone shop boss gets his stock. If anyone is nearby, you can go take a look. People from out of town can also call this boss to ask. His phone number is below."

Some netizens living locally quickly identified the identity of this shop.

"Holy crap! This address is actually also a mobile phone shop! I thought it was some kind of technology company!"

"Yeah, I also thought that for such a high-performance phone, the source location would at least have to be in some high-tech industrial park. I didn't expect it to be a mobile phone shop too..."

"What do you guys think about the possibility that this phone is a new sub-brand launched by a well-known major mobile phone manufacturer, and they are doing gray-box testing now, so they released a batch of goods to the middlemen at the mobile phone shops first?"

"That is indeed a possibility. Maybe the boss at this address is also a middleman and got the goods directly from the manufacturer. Has anyone local gone to ask?"

"Oh man, I really want to go buy one too, but these two addresses are both quite far from me."

"Just pre-order online. Didn't they give you the boss's phone number?"

"If it's a pre-order, I don't feel at ease. On one hand, I haven't touched the phone with my own hands, so I still can't believe it. Can this phone really stabilize honor of kings at 30 FPS? On the other hand, I'm also afraid the mobile phone shop will run away. If I want to pre-order, don't I have to pay a deposit? It would be painful if I couldn't get the deposit back later."