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Chapter 206: Daily Active Users Plummet by Four-Fifths, The Competition Ends!

9 PM that evening.

Inside Ma's office on the top floor of Penguin Group.

“It’s almost time.”

“I just contacted Zheng Haidi; he should be on his way now.”

Ma's voice echoed in the office.

At this moment, besides himself, his office also held Ma Liuyun and other high-level executives from Penguin.

Because the data for Penguin Waimai was extremely important today, everyone else wanted to know the specific situation and details as soon as possible.

They hadn't inquired about the situation from Zheng Haidi beforehand.

They knew that the daily active user data for a food delivery app could only be initially confirmed at this time of day; earlier data wasn't accurate.

Regarding the performance Penguin Waimai would achieve today, most people had their own estimates.

Although their estimates had already significantly lowered the number, they still had great expectations for it. Their guess for Penguin Waimai's daily active users today still hadn't fallen below 30 million.

In their view, the number of users who stopped ordering from Penguin Waimai because the previous promotion ended should be at most 15 million, not too exaggerated.

It was precisely because their expectations were already quite high that everyone looked relatively calm at this moment, waiting for Zheng Haidi's arrival.

“As long as our daily active users can remain stable at around 30 million, then we will have completely established ourselves in the food delivery market.”

“After that, with the help of the unique online cafeteria, it’s not impossible for us to become the leading software in the food delivery market.”

Ma Liuyun’s voice also rang out.

At the same time, while everyone was chatting, a pale-faced Zheng Haidi, holding the specific document in his hand, arrived at the door of Ma's office.

Listening to the discussions in the room, Zheng Haidi's face grew increasingly grim.

He lowered his head and looked at the data in his hand again, his eyes still filled with considerable disbelief.

Because the data he held at that moment was indeed too low.

Penguin Waimai's order volume did not experience the expected surge during dinner time; the growth rate remained incredibly slow.

So slow that his first thought was to suspect if the system had made an error.

He then directly contacted the Penguin Big Cafeteria in various major cities and ultimately received information about a sharp drop in daily orders.

In other words, Penguin Waimai's data for that day was accurate and had nothing to do with the system.

Indeed, a massive number of users were lost after the Penguin Waimai promotion ended.

After a long sigh, Zheng Haidi gritted his teeth. After knocking, he still pushed open the door to Ma's office, his face pale.

Instantly, everyone in the room turned their gaze towards him.

“Manager Zheng, how was the battle today?”

Seeing the newcomer, Li Wenqiu subconsciously asked.

But in an instant, he realized that Zheng Haidi's expression was not right.

At this moment, not only him, but everyone else in the room also immediately noticed that Zheng Haidi's face was extremely grim.

And Zheng Haidi's expression being so grim at the moment likely had something to do with Penguin Waimai.

“Why do you look so grim?”

Ma Liuyun asked directly.

“Is Penguin Waimai’s performance unsatisfactory?”

Zheng Haidi nodded.

Seeing this, everyone instantly became worried; the previous laughter and relaxed atmosphere completely vanished.

And after seeing Zheng Haidi nod, Ma Liuyun couldn't help but continue to ask, “Could it be that it’s far from the 30 million daily active users?”

(bifj) Because previously, Penguin's internal estimate for Penguin Waimai's daily active users after the promotion ended was basically around 30 million, Zheng Haidi was also aware of this information.

And Zheng Haidi still nodded.

“Not 30 million, but surely 20 million?” Ma Liuyun continued.

This time, Zheng Haidi did not make any further movements.

He just slowly looked up at Ma.

And upon seeing Zheng Haidi's expression, Ma couldn't help but take a deep breath.

“As of 9 PM just now, how many users placed orders on Penguin Waimai?”

Facing Ma's inquiry, Zheng Haidi swallowed directly, then slowly began to answer in an extremely hoarse voice.

“Nine.”

“Nine million.”

As soon as these words came out, the temperature in the entire office seemed to drop by more than ten degrees instantly, falling into a chilling silence.

Everyone else's expressions froze on their faces after hearing this number, finding it hard to believe, and the room instantly became incredibly quiet.

“Say that again.”

“How much is it?” Ma couldn't help but ask again.

And Zheng Haidi still gave the same answer.

“Nine million.”

As he spoke, he handed the document in his hand to Ma.

The document recorded all user order volumes for the entire day up until 9 PM just now, and even specifically how many people used Penguin Waimai at certain time points.

And listening to Zheng Haidi's words repeated again, the others in the room exchanged glances, their expressions quite grim.

At this moment, everyone finally understood why Zheng Haidi's expression was so grim when he entered the door just now.

The number nine million was a full five times less than the previous day!

No one could have imagined that Penguin Waimai's daily active users could directly decrease from 45 million to 9 million in just one day.

Although there were still several hours until the end of the day, everyone knew that these few hours could at most add a few hundred thousand user usages, which was merely a drop in the bucket.

“The promotional activities of Penguin Big Cafeteria actually had such a big impact?”

Ma Liuyun couldn't help but murmur.

They knew before that Penguin Waimai's daily active users would definitely decrease after the promotion ended, but no one expected it to decrease so much.

Meanwhile, Li Wenqiu's face was even grimmer, because the moment he heard this number, he immediately thought of Wang Mo's previous statement.