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Wang Mo was also very confident about these two functions.

These two functions would significantly accelerate WeChat's speed in surpassing QQ and Blue Wallet.

Both of these functions were actually designed to increase user stickiness, and they were also essential features of WeChat in his previous life.

The potential of mini-programs would not be discovered so early.

After all, at present, there were only a few mini-programs developed internally by WeChat and the integration of some small internet software.

This feature would only be considered complete when a large number of internet practitioners launched various mini-programs later on.

However, the most crucial part of this update was actually online Red Envelopes.

Previously in Yan Country, online Red Envelopes only existed in shopping software like Pinduoduo and Taobao, and had not appeared in Blue Wallet or QQ.

Most of the Red Envelopes in shopping software were also used as discounts for purchases.

The function of online Red Envelopes had actually been proposed by many people.

However, due to the existence of the transfer function, many people felt that the Red Envelope function was unnecessary and redundant.

Although QQ has now also launched a wallet function, no one has considered adding a Red Envelope function to it.

Only Wang Mo, who possessed memories from his previous life, knew clearly that the Red Envelope function in chat software would ignite the internet for a period of time.

The gameplay surrounding Red Envelopes was not as simple as others thought.

Especially, there was something called Lucky Red Envelope.

Wang Mo remembered very clearly that in his previous life, not long after this Lucky Red Envelope was launched, it became popular across almost the entire internet.

Whether it was WeChat or QQ, the existence of Lucky Red Envelopes directly made this Red Envelope feature a daily essential for many young people.

Even among the populace, a wildly popular game based on Lucky Red Envelopes emerged.

In any chat group, once someone sent out the first Lucky Red Envelope, the game began.

The person with the best luck would then send out the next Red Envelope, while others could continue to claim Red Envelopes until they themselves became the person with the best luck.

At that time, class groups in many universities almost all became Lucky Red Envelope game groups.

However, Wang Mo also knew very well that this function had almost no counter-measures for Blue Wallet, because Lucky Red Envelopes were still launched based on social attributes.

But now, QQ, with its wallet function, could also launch this feature, and the effect would be very good.

Wang Mo did not want QQ to copy this function in a short period of time.

Therefore, he chose to launch the update at the time when QQ had just launched Huabei.

After all, previously, Penguin Group's technical department was busy developing Huabei.

And at the point when they had just completed the development of Huabei, launching a new function would mean that Penguin Group internally would not have enough energy to immediately copy this function again.

Penguin could only find second-tier technical departments, and in that case, the time it would take for them to copy the new function would also be extended.

As long as WeChat was given a little time, then relying on this function and gameplay that had never appeared in Yan Country before, WeChat's user count would truly surpass QQ and Blue Wallet in a short period of time.

By then, it would be very difficult for QQ and Blue Wallet to catch up in user numbers.

And as time passed, it finally came to a few days later.

On this day, QQ's Huabei was finally developed successfully, and after simple testing, it was directly launched on QQ.

Because Penguin's data collection on QQ payment users was not yet sufficient, the credit score system had not yet been launched.

But in order to stop QQ's user loss rate, Pony still forcibly launched the Huabei function without a credit score.

At the same time, precisely because there was no complete credit score system yet, the activation method for QQ Huabei was simpler, and the difficulty of obtaining a high Huabei amount was lower.

Basically, any QQ user who had topped up in Penguin games could directly activate a Huabei amount exceeding two thousand.

Although Penguin now also understood that without the support of a credit score, they could not accurately pinpoint users' creditworthiness, and the final delinquency rate would definitely be very high, they could not worry about that much at this point.

As long as QQ's user loss was stopped, they still had a last glimmer of hope.

If nothing was done, then it was only a matter of time before WeChat surpassed them.

And with the support of QQ's massive young user base, as soon as QQ Huabei was launched, a large number of users poured in.

Within a few days, tens of millions of users had activated QQ Huabei.

And QQ's user count decline, which had lasted for over a month, finally slowly stopped after they also launched Huabei.

Of course, correspondingly, WeChat's user growth decreased again after QQ launched Huabei.

Now, basically only the chat user group is still maintaining a certain increase.

And QQ, a few days after Huabei was launched, QQ's daily active user count, like Blue Wallet after launching Huabei, also began to slowly rebound.

After partnering with Blue Wallet in the offline payment market, QQ Pay has also roughly rolled out offline QR codes in many cities.

And Penguin Group's large number of gaming industries are also important usage locations for Huabei.

Therefore, QQ Huabei's achievement was actually within Penguin Group's expectations, and Pony finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

After all, for the past half month, the technical department had been working overtime frantically, which allowed Huabei to be launched in a short time.

However, just as Pony was preparing to let his employees rest, WeChat pushed a brand new update notification two hours after QQ's update.

WeChat would undergo a major update the next day.

In the app stores of major mobile phones, this WeChat update content had only a short sentence introduction.

"This update will add mini-programs and Red Envelopes."

Looking at the update notification issued by WeChat's official blog, many users were a bit confused.

Red Envelopes were understandable, but mini-programs made many people wonder.

And under this message on WeChat's official blog, there were also quite a few users looking forward to it.

"What are Red Envelopes? Does it mean I can directly send online Red Envelopes to friends now?"

"But don't Blue Wallet and WeChat Wallet already have transfer functions? Why add another Red Envelope? This doesn't seem to make much sense."

"Direct transfers and sending Red Envelopes should still be somewhat different. Transfers are too cold, while Red Envelopes look a bit better."

"I don't think there's much difference."