636: Customers make trouble, two families are uneasy

During the time Ning Buxiu was engrossed in Cultivation, he didn't forget to launch the online team-up feature for the mini-games.

And the hottest topic in Five Directions City during this period was naturally the telephone.

Before, everyone would still talk about the large number of incomplete Gu that mysteriously appeared after the landslides outside the City.

Their conversations were filled with a chilling aura.

But now, their conversations have completely changed.

"What's your ranking in Snake? Only over eight thousand on the overall list?"

"Wow! You're that expert called 'Killing Without Blinking'?! One of the top hundred in City Escape?!"

The two mini-games were the most discussed topics.

Ning Buxiu could clearly see through the System panel that the daily online users for these three mini-games exceeded eighty thousand!

Not far away in Wanhua Brothel, Tu Jia stared blankly at the Demon Blade, which smoked more frequently than incense offerings at a temple.

After the online feature was launched, games like Snake were played by real people in every round.

Considering that not everyone was willing to spend money on games, Ning Buxiu also removed the restriction of buying game play attempts with money.

Common players could play normally.

But if they didn't spend money, they only had one life in a half-hour game.

And if they died mid-game, that was it.

For paying players, if they died mid-game, they could directly consume game crystals to revive in the current game; as long as they had crystals, the number of revivals was unlimited.

Although the initial length was reset, the length before death was still recorded in the current game, and the previous length would continue to stack with the newly revived Little Grass.

Ning Buxiu's method could be said to have distinctly differentiated the gap between paying players and common players.

There was no concealment at all!

However, regarding this.

Common players were not displeased in the slightest.

Every era has class differences, and this era is even more so.

Common players had the right to start the game, and although they only had one life, they had the chance to play until the end, and could even kill those wealthy young masters they didn't dare to look up to in the past, hidden behind the telephone screen, feeling physically and mentally pleased.

And the wealthy young masters who were occasionally severely beaten in the game also experienced a frustration they had never felt when playing with servants in the past. They inexplicably became stubborn, constantly spending money to revive, vowing to kill the person who killed them in the current game!

After constantly reviving and finally defeating the opponent, the previous frustration instantly transformed into a strong sense of satisfaction.

The game's format was thus structured.

Common players who don't spend money can act as tools.

Those with good skills can be teammates for those who spend more.

Those with poor skills can be targets for paying players to vent on.

Providing emotions for the rich, helping Ning Buxiu retain customers, it seems cruel, but this is how he operates these games. In his previous life, many game companies also used this model to make money.

It's just that Ning Buxiu's approach is more obvious.

Compared to Snake and City Escape, the response to Dou Dizhu was also significant.

Directly copying the rules of Dou Dizhu was obviously not suitable; the local people needed time to adapt.

Considering this, a few days ago, after Ning Buxiu spent a sum of money to update Dou Dizhu, he replaced some of the local card rules.

On the day after the replacement, the number of people who went online to play this game reached over ten thousand!

The takeout feature, however, remained lukewarm.

This was also significantly related to Ning Buxiu not providing a promotion plan.

He himself understood the key issue.

The reason takeout didn't become popular was related to demand.

Within Five Directions City, everyone could cook at home. If they really wanted to eat outside food, they had plenty of time to leisurely go to a restaurant and eat hot food.

People didn't have much demand for takeout.

According to statistics from his previous life, the target audience for takeout was basically office workers who didn't have time to cook and construction site workers.

Among those working at construction sites, those of a certain scale had their own canteens.

And office workers who worked online were widely distributed and didn't have time to cook, making them the main target audience for takeout.

Of course, there were also those who were purely lazy and those who were craving, but this group was ultimately a minority.

When the professions derived from his internet emerge in the future, takeout will likely be driven.

Now, it's not to say that takeout isn't making money.

Those who played games to the point of neglecting sleep and meals, whose families weren't poor but also not wealthy enough to have servants, would also order takeout conveniently.

There were also some constables who were apprehending criminals and didn't have time to go to a restaurant, so they would order takeout.

As for payment, it was all cash on delivery.

It should be known that on the takeout feature.

Once opened, the arrangement of shops within was very particular.

Ning family West City Restaurant

Ning family North City Restaurant

Ning family East City Restaurant

...

Within the takeout feature, it was all Ning family's restaurants and inns.

Currently, the takeout traffic maintains an inflow and outflow of five to six hundred taels daily, which Ning family's restaurants can completely handle, so they naturally wouldn't share it with other businesses.

As for delivery personnel, Ning family's current manpower can also cope.

Ning Buxiu didn't extensively expand the takeout business mainly because he considered the turmoil that would occur in Five Directions City later.

When that time arrives, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Five Directions City at night would be like a hundred Ghosts walking at night, and sending people to deliver takeout would have too great a safety risk.

Besides the Small Grass Map, the dialing software's free call time for the first batch of telephone users ended yesterday.

Those officials who were initially forced to have telephones were now facing the choice of whether to top up their phone bills and how much to top up.

While the telephone industry on Ning Buxiu's side was so popular, the unease in the hearts of the other major families in Five Directions City was constantly intensifying.

Days passed, but the telephones they sold always had a fatal problem.

That is, they couldn't turn on at all! They couldn't make calls, view maps, play games, or order takeout like the telephones sold by Ning family!

At first, everyone confidently believed that the telephones would turn on by themselves after some time.

Especially Qiong Family Head, who was deeply convinced of this.

After all.

He heard Wang Family Head say with his own ears that their telephones were produced exactly according to Ning family's steps, without any errors.

In fact, from the same batch, they even took out a portion to sell themselves.

It was like the same batch of goods, just sold at different stores.

This was Qiong family's initial idea.

But now.

They sold more and more telephones, so many that they had already covered over a hundred thousand common people.

In this situation, not a single customer's telephone automatically turned on!

It was like a stone, with no reaction at all!

These days, the two families collected a huge sum of over five hundred thousand taels from the business of selling telephones!

Originally, the two Family Heads were smiling so much their mouths couldn't close all day.

But now, they felt that the money they earned was constantly rising in temperature, and even faintly, there was a feeling of being completely ignited and burned by a fierce fire that would consume their families!

"Lord! Another hundred customers have come to cause trouble, saying their telephones just won't turn on and demanding a definite answer from us about when the telephones will be usable."

The servant ran to report, his face mournful.

"When will it turn on? How would I know?!" Wang Family Head paced the living room irritably, fear faintly appearing in his eyes.

Now the matter of the telephones not turning on was getting bigger and bigger, and the County Office had come to persuade them several times.

At first, Wang Family could handle it by saying things like they just needed to wait a little longer and it would turn on.

But now.

Four or five days have passed, and the telephones they sold are still like stones with no function at all. The customers' dissatisfaction has already escalated into anger.

That's a hundred thousand common people! Once this anger is vented, let alone their Wang Family and Qiong family, even the County Office wouldn't be able to bear it and would have to directly lose their official position!

"Lord, this is a letter from Ning family!"

Suddenly, on the other side, a servant hurriedly presented a letter.