Chapter 193 Otto Phone's Launch Event

March 4th, Friday.

Pei Qian arrived at the company early and opened the backend to check.

The purchase data for *BeQuiet* was still zero!

Clearly, players hadn't made any breakthrough progress in such a short amount of time.

Of course, this was all part of President Pei’s plan!

This password was hidden in *Lonely Desert Road*. It could be found after driving for three hours, and once one person found it, everyone could participate in the puzzle.

If he simply wanted to dissuade players, requiring all of them to complete the eight- or even sixteen-hour journey in *Lonely Desert Road* seemed like a more effective method, but the system clearly wouldn't allow it.

Therefore, Pei Qian had to pay attention to the difficulty when setting these puzzles.

If the difficulty was too high, unreasonable, and players couldn't obtain the purchase conditions at all, the system wouldn't allow it.

If the difficulty was too low and couldn't form a barrier, players would quickly be able to start buying, and Pei Qian would have worked for nothing.

Pei Qian's main goal in setting this filter was to reduce the number of players who obtained purchase qualifications as much as possible before the cycle settlement, which was in less than a month, thereby reducing game sales.

As for what to do in the next cycle, he would deal with it then.

Pei Qian's ideal situation was that this puzzle could hold players back for a month, so there wouldn't be any sales this month.

And since the game had already been launched, if players couldn't buy it because they hadn't solved the puzzle, not because President Pei's game wasn't finished, it wouldn't be considered an unfinished project and wouldn't cause a delayed settlement.

Even if it couldn't hold them back for a month, holding them back for two or three weeks was better than letting players buy it right away!

Players on the forum had come up with many solutions for this password, and a batch of experts had emerged.

The solutions included grouping, English to number conversion, number to Nines Palace, reverse order, cross, sequence, AsCii, hexadecimal, and so on, which was dazzling.

In fact, Pei Qian was just an ordinary person. He hadn't learned those very complicated encryption methods. The decryption ideas he used were completely derived from commonly seen, relatively simple puzzles.

It was just that there were a few more steps.

The players' solutions did have the correct ideas, but because the last step of the decryption method was relatively unpopular and magical, some players mistakenly thought it was a dead end after solving to this step, so they didn't delve into it further.

As a result, this correct decryption path didn't receive much attention.

gAiCCCCCCACBiAdBhCeA

After observation, it could be seen that the frequency of ABC appearing in it was very high, and the last letter in the sorting was i. According to the arrangement of A=1 and B=2 on the alphabet, i happened to be equal to 9, indicating that this string of English was originally converted from a string of numbers.

71933333313291428351

Continuing to observe this string of numbers, it would be found that the numbers separated by one digit were regular.

71933333313291428351

The numbers in the latter digit didn't exceed 4. This was a very common mobile phone Nines Palace grid.

71 represented the first letter of the 7 key on the mobile phone Nines Palace grid, which was p. Similarly, all the subsequent letters could also find corresponding letters on the mobile phone Nines Palace grid.

pyffdewhvj

But at this step, it seemed to be completely irregular, so the players who thought of this path before failed to continue to deduce it. From the posts and comments of other players, many people obviously didn't realize that this was the correct solution.

This step wasn't a complicated password. Its large category was very common in reality, but this branch was extremely rare, so the base of people who knew and understood it was too small.

Pei Qian also occasionally learned a little about it out of interest, so he used it in the password on a whim. He didn't expect the effect to be unexpectedly good.

Moreover, even if the password was solved, the decryption process was only one-third complete.

"Everyone, keep up the good work. If you can't solve it, I'm going to lose money this settlement cycle!" Pei Qian couldn't help but feel a little smug.

Otto Phone was going to hold a press conference this weekend, and Pei Qian had to go to the press conference to take a look and make sure everything was safe.

But before that, Pei Qian sent a message to the programmer in charge of this puzzle.

"The clue for *Lonely Desert Road* has been found. You can adjust the time required to find the clue from three hours to 15 minutes."

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March 6th, Sunday.

Oasis Seasons Hotel, Jingzhou's largest five-star hotel.

Tengda had cooperated with this hotel for many activities before, including high-standard business receptions, employee recruitment entrance exams, annual meetings, and so on.

This press conference was also held in the hotel's banquet hall. Many technology media had been invited in advance, and rooms had been booked for them. Food, accommodation, and round-trip transportation were included on the day.

As for the others, they were directly given tickets to customers of Fish-Touching Internet Cafe, Upwind Logistics, and other businesses.

In any case, there was absolutely no problem in filling the entire venue.

The press conference was officially scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m. Pei Qian sneaked into the hotel venue at 2:00 p.m. and found a corner to sit down.

If he wanted to, he could totally sit in the front row, but this press conference was arranged for live broadcast with cameras throughout the whole process. If Pei Qian wanted to sit in the front row, he would definitely be on the camera. Wouldn't that expose himself?

Therefore, Pei Qian told Chang You that he would come, but he didn't tell him where he was sitting specifically.

With so many people on the scene, it was harder than ascending to heaven to find President Pei.

In this way, President Pei would not only expose himself but also achieve the effect of supervising the battle from the front. It could be said to kill two birds with one stone.

The scene was playing soothing and soft music, and people were bustling about. Many people were entering the venue one after another.

It was probably a little early. The big screen was still black.

If it was a press conference of other mobile phone brands, some short films would be played on the big screen to warm up, and then promotional pictures of the spokesperson would be played.

But Pei Qian thought about it. Otto Phone didn't seem to have these things?

Chang You seemed to have asked about the spokesperson before, but Pei Qian hadn't thought about it at the time, so he didn't tell Chang You about it.

Presumably, Chang You had also forgotten about it?

If there wasn't even a spokesperson, then there probably wouldn't be any warm-up short films?

Well, that was fine too. He would just talk dryly as soon as he came up, talk about the shortcomings of the phone for an hour, and then get off work at the speed of light, which was very much in line with President Pei's wishes.

Pei Qian was thinking happily when the lights suddenly dimmed.

The big screen lit up!

A technological logo slowly appeared on the big screen. It was like the rising sun, dispelling the darkness, and instantly attracting everyone's attention.

The camera gradually pulled away, the logo became smaller and smaller, and a back view appeared in front of the camera, just blocking the bright light, outlining a handsome outline.

Then, he stretched out his right hand and grabbed the ball of light in his hand.

A ray of light instantly burst from his hand, and the logo was engraved on the back of the phone after shrinking, emitting a faint breathing light effect!

At this time, the back view also turned around. Lu Zhi Yao, who was dressed up to be suffocatingly handsome, looked at the venue through the screen, holding a phone that looked very grand. The logo on the back was flashing, full of technology.

That wasn't the end of it. There were two more advertisements, including the "Drone Delivery" advertisement.

Finally, the screen froze on the promotional picture. Lu Zhi Yao was holding the otto Phone with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Pei Qian was stunned in his seat. He even forgot to drink the mineral water he had just unscrewed.

"What the hell..."

"Isn't this the advertisement from *Tomorrow is Beautiful*???"

Pei Qian couldn't help but think of the scene when he watched *Tomorrow is Beautiful* in the cinema before.

At this moment, it was exactly like that moment.

The same unpreparedness, the same confusion!

When Pei Qian was watching the movie before, he did see the advertisement and logo of this phone, but it wasn't the same as the otto Technology logo in his impression, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

As a result, otto Phone copied the movie?

Riding the heat?

Shameless!

Moreover, when did Lu Zhi Yao come to endorse it?

Lu Zhi Yao could be said to be very popular now. After *Tomorrow is Beautiful* was released, his identity as a "box office poison" was instantly cleared. With his breakthrough acting skills and originally good popularity, he once again strongly entered the ranks of domestic A-list male artists.

If he won an award, it would be even more amazing.

Considering Lu Zhi Yao's achievements in *Tomorrow is Beautiful*, it seemed reasonable for him to repay the favor and come to endorse otto Phone...

For Pei Qian, this should be a surprise.

However, Pei Qian couldn't feel any surprise at all now. He only felt shock!

This opening was much better than ordinary warm-up videos because *Tomorrow is Beautiful* was still being shown and was quite popular. Many people present had already seen it.

These advertisements had all appeared in *Tomorrow is Beautiful*. The filming was attentive and the style was distinct, which was significantly different from most mobile phone advertisements. When the audience saw this advertisement, they naturally associated it with the futuristic mobile phone brand in *Tomorrow is Beautiful*.

Chang You had not revealed this in the promotional materials before, so the audience on the scene was obviously surprised!

The somewhat lifeless venue instantly became lively!

The technology media reporters sitting in the front row were all talking to each other. Obviously, just this advertisement + Lu Zhi Yao's endorsement was a good gimmick.

Pei Qian was fidgeting and panicked.

The beginning of this press conference was far from what he had imagined. This didn't seem to be a good sign...

He unscrewed the bottle cap and took another sip of mineral water to calm himself down.

"Calm down, calm down."

"The situation shouldn't be as bad as I thought."

"A good start may not necessarily be useful. Maybe it will turn into a tactic of suppressing first and then elevating."

"As long as Chang You makes the ppt according to my requirements and completely goes against other mobile phone manufacturers, there will definitely be more and more scolding later."

"At that time, the cool beginning will turn into a flaw."

"So, don't worry too much now. Everything will be fine!"
Hu Die Lan