"Only half?" Everyone was stunned to hear that. Did that mean the other half of the items were not yet revealed?
But the problem was, the blind boxes were only so big, could they fit double the items inside?
Just as everyone was bewildered by Leng Zhimeng's statement, they saw Leng Zhimeng on stage turn over the figure in her hand, revealing its base. At the same time, the camera zoomed in for a close-up of the base.
Then everyone discovered that on the bottom of these figures, as well as the models, there was a piece of paper attached. Each piece of paper had a line of text printed on it.
This line of text was not short, consisting of about 16 characters. Each character was grouped into four characters, forming four strings of text.
But the problem was that although everyone recognized each of these 16 characters individually, no one could understand them when they were combined.
For example, the text captured by the camera's close-up was like this:
Da Ding Guang He - Mo Tian Niu Shu - He De Me Ge - Liu Gu Miao Ren
My goodness, apart from the second string, "Mo Tian Niu Shu," where a slight meaning could vaguely be grasped, the other three strings were completely incomprehensible.
"Ahem, everyone, please don't try to decipher any meaning from these 16 characters, because these six characters themselves have no meaning. This is just our Chinese redemption code! It's the same as those redemption codes like Bgid-dsLg-jfsd-kfjd," Leng Zhimeng explained with a smile.
"What, these are Chinese redemption codes!" Everyone was shocked by Leng Zhimeng's statement.
Redemption codes were something everyone knew. Like activation codes, they were not new things.
But such Chinese redemption codes were truly novel. For the people of 2002... oh no, even in 2021, not many netizens had used Chinese redemption codes. This was incredibly fresh!
"President Mengmeng, why did you guys come up with such Chinese redemption codes? Don't you find it troublesome?" someone from the audience shouted, asking out of curiosity.
"Excellent question!" Leng Zhimeng immediately replied. "Firstly, we believe that Chinese redemption codes offer higher security compared to English redemption codes. Because English has only 26 letters, and even with uppercase and lowercase, that's only 52 letters. In this way, a 16-digit redemption code is not very secure."
"Conversely, our Chinese language has 2500 commonly used characters. Therefore, if Chinese characters are used to create a 16-digit redemption code, the variations that can be generated are more numerous than the planets in the universe. Even the most advanced computers, after hundreds of years of calculation, would not be able to decipher our redemption codes. Thus, Chinese redemption codes possess higher reliability, security, and uniqueness than English redemption codes!"
"Besides this, there is another reason: We Chinese are playing games and using a Chinese system in China, so why should we have to input English redemption codes?"
"Of course, due to technical limitations, we often have to use English on computers. But there are no technical limitations for redemption codes, so we used Chinese. Moreover, in the future, all products from Jiangnan will use Chinese redemption codes. We Chinese will only input Chinese characters!" Leng Zhimeng declared loudly.
"Good!"
"Fantastic!"
"Jiangnan Group is invincible, awesome!!!"
A wave of cheers erupted from the audience again. Everyone's emotions were ignited to the extreme. Yes, as proud Chinese people, why should they input English redemption codes? Why couldn't they be Chinese?
Later, this matter spread online, once again causing the nationwide favorability towards Jiangnan Computers and 00 to skyrocket.
Frankly speaking, although Chinese redemption codes were partly intentional, to put it bluntly, it was to leverage national sentiment to enhance their brand reputation. But this tactic worked, and it cost nothing. More importantly, it truly fostered a sense of pride.
In another world, Huang He was already very unhappy with the pervasive English everywhere on computers... no, English everywhere in China.
Some people might argue that China has Chinese everywhere, and there are hardly any English letters visible on the streets, so how can it be said that English is everywhere?
This situation is not overt but hidden.
The simplest example is the use of English abbreviations. Whether it's television stations, certain organizations, or even some professions in games, they all come up with English abbreviations.
Like CCTV, or...
"Similarly, there are only 9999 of these redemption codes in total, and once they are sold out, they will not be restocked!"
"So, our blind boxes are 10 yuan each, will you buy them?" Leng Zhimeng asked finally.
Ten minutes later, the preliminaries began, but no one was watching the competition. Everyone was at the blind box sales point on-site, purchasing the newly released Warcraft 3 collaboration blind boxes.
In less than an hour, all 30,000 blind boxes on-site were snapped up.