Chapter 234 Spending the night at an Internet cafe

"Have you checked Weibo today? The hot searches are WeChat and Qunxing."

After playing several ranked games in a row, the three of them took a short rest. Xu Niannian opened the video website out of boredom and chose a variety show to watch.

Next to them, Xu Xing and Li Zhibin went downstairs to buy barbecue and started chatting while waiting.

"I saw it." Xu Xing nodded, "It was expected."

"So how many WeChat users are there now?" Li Zhibin asked curiously.

"you guess?"

"I remember there were 30 million last time, so now it should be 40 million?"

"Well, almost."

"About how much?"

"60 million."

Li Zhibin: "...Damn! How are you similar here? It's much worse, okay!"

"It's not even hundreds of millions, it's really about the same." Xu Xing chuckled twice.

Li Zhibin patted him on the shoulder angrily: "Grandma, I came back to have a casual chat and pretended to be here."

"Don't worry, the WeChat press conference has just passed, and the power of version 2.0 has not yet been fully demonstrated." Xu Xing smiled and took the packaging box handed over by the owner of the barbecue restaurant, and said while paying, "In the future,

, until the end of the New Year, almost February and March, will be WeChat’s period of explosive growth.”

"Is it such an exaggeration?" Li Zhibin asked, "Is it just because of those updates?"

"What do you think of the updated content?"

"Is it okay? That QR code business card is quite interesting, but my parents have downloaded WeChat before, and I don't have anywhere to use it."

"Where's the circle of friends?" Xu Xing walked back carrying the packing box, "I see you are very diligent in posting."

"Moments is really good, but the functions are still a bit overlapping with QQ." Li Zhibin said, "If it weren't for my parents not using QQ, I probably wouldn't even bother to post on WeChat."

"What we want is this effect." Xu Xing nodded with satisfaction, "With QQ's size, it is impossible to completely defeat him. What we have to do is actually very simple, always maintain differentiated competition, and occupy QQ's untouched territory.

Just use your personal network.”

"Are you talking about the elders?" Li Zhibin thought of the press conference video promoted by WeChat that he saw online today, and when he thought of Liao Qinyu's mother Zhu Rongzhen, he immediately realized this.

"That's pretty much it." Xu Xing nodded, "Although many older people are still half-informed about the use of smartphones, compared with computers, using mobile phones is obviously simpler and more convenient."

"In other words, the interpersonal network that QQ on the PC could occupy was always limited to the group of people who could use computers."

"Don't look at the hundreds of millions of users it had at the time. In fact, many of them were the overlapping effect of one person using multiple QQ accounts. At that time, there were more than one billion people in the country, and it was a question whether one fifth of them could actually use a computer.

"

"But in the mobile Internet era, the rapid popularity of smartphones has brought about a different situation."

"Those who were once excluded from the Internet world will now gradually be included."

"And these people are often older and have not kept up with the development of the times before, but are finally involved in the new era and new life."

"Compared with young people who came into contact with the Internet earlier, although this group of people do not have a very sensitive Internet awareness, in real life, they are often at the upper end of young people."

“If WeChat can capture these people, what effect do you think it will have?”

Li Zhibin followed Xu Xing, walked into the Internet cafe door, and went up the stairs. When he heard this, he gradually came to his senses.

"Damn it, you have something."

"If my parents had used WeChat in the first place and then asked me to download one, I probably wouldn't have been able to refuse."

Li Zhibin touched his chin and thought, "Is it possible to let them download a mobile QQ?"

"This is the current limitation of QQ." Xu Xing shrugged. "It has been developed for more than ten years. All functions are complete, but complete means bloated."

"Middle-aged and elderly people who are new to the Internet may not be able to handle the complicated operations of QQ."

"It may be difficult for young people to understand that it is just a QQ that can be learned in a short time, but for those who have never used computers or come into contact with the Internet before, they need to learn everything from scratch."

"WeChat is definitely a communication and social software that is more suitable for newcomers to get started than QQ."

"How cunning." Li Zhibin followed Xu Xing back to the private room and couldn't help but sigh, "I don't know how you got such a brain, it's so outrageous."

"It's all God's blessing." Xu Xing sat back in his seat, opened the packing box, and handed a mutton skewer to Xu Niannian, who was watching a variety show.

When Xu Niannian heard what he said, he looked at the mutton skewers he handed over and glared at him: "What's wrong? You still want to be my God? Are you itchy?"

Xu Xing: "...you should watch your variety show."

The three of them had a barbecue, and at eleven o'clock in the evening, Li Zhibin had to go home.

Otherwise, my mother will nag me if I go home late.

On Xu Niannian's side, Bi Wenli called. When she heard that she had gone out to play with Xu Xing, she didn't say anything. She just told her not to go back too late, and she and Xu Yi went to bed first.

"Comfortable." After sending Li Zhibin away, Xu Niannian showed his true colors. He directly raised his legs on Xu Xing's lap and continued to watch the variety show while sitting sideways.

Xu Xing also watched it with her and went online to read the news.

The two of them stayed until early morning without realizing it.

The two people who have been familiar with each other since childhood did not notice the passage of time at all, but lived together naturally and harmoniously.

It wasn't until Xu Xing's WeChat message started to vibrate that he realized it was already late in the morning.

[Yanchi vinegar]: I can't sleep...are you asleep?

【Xu Xing】: I haven’t slept yet.

[Yanchi vinegar]: Then what are you doing?

[Xu Xing]: Still at the Internet cafe.

[Yanchi vinegar]: Oh, that’s it.

While chatting like this, Xu Xing glanced at Xu Niannian next to him and silently lifted up her two long legs.

"Why are you going?" Xu Niannian couldn't help but ask when he saw him getting up and walking out.

"Go to the bathroom." Xu Xing said as he put his cell phone in his pocket. After walking out of the box, he took it out and called Yan Chijuan.

"Hello?" Yan Chijue's voice was obviously a little surprised, and he asked cautiously, "Aren't you and Sister Niannian at the Internet cafe? Why did you call me?"

"I miss you too." Xu Xing said, already walking down the stairs, he found a secluded seat on the first floor and sat down, and started talking on the phone with Yan Chijuan.

"I cleaned the house today, and washed the sheets and quilt covers for Sister Niannian and myself." Yan Chijuan couldn't help but share what he did today bit by bit, "I also reviewed at night

After finishing my homework, I made a fruit salad to eat, and it was delicious."

"I just washed your sheets and quilt covers? Where's mine?" Xu Xing was stunned for a moment, then realized, "Where are you sleeping now?"

Yan Chijuan on the other end of the phone hesitated, then said with a smile: "I'm on your bed. If the sheets are washed off, there won't be any smell of you."

If he didn't have to accompany Xu Niannian now, Xu Xing would have already rushed towards Yan Chijuan by now.

The two chatted on the phone for more than twenty minutes, until Yan Chijuan became more and more sleepy as they talked, and sleepiness came to his heart. After saying good night to Xu Xing, Xu Xing hung up the phone and hurried back upstairs.

As soon as he returned to the box, he saw that the computer screen had gone black. Xu Niannian was lying on the single bed, sleeping soundly.

Xu Xing: "?"

"Hey, don't sleep."

Xu Xingke was not as gentle with Xu Niannian as he was with Yan Chijuan. When he walked to the bedside, he patted the guy's face and urged, "Can you go home and sleep again?"

"Well..." Xu Niannian frowned, but still refused to open his eyes. Instead, he made a sound of disgust and pushed his palm away, "It's too troublesome. If you don't want to go back, just sleep here."

"This bed is only of such a small size, where can I sleep if you sleep here?" Xu Xing was speechless, "I can't leave you here and go back by myself, can I?"

"You have the nerve to leave me here alone?" Xu Niannian moved into the bed and patted the empty space beside the bed, "Well, you can sleep here."

Xu Xing: "..."

Seeing the little space she had freed up, Xu Xing suddenly fell into silence.

How can I sleep in this position?

As soon as he lay down on the bed like this, wouldn't he and Xu Niannian be completely squeezed together?

If they were separated even slightly, he would probably fall to the ground.

"Okay, okay, you go to sleep first." Xu Xing couldn't resist her, and he didn't rush to go to bed. Instead, he sat back in front of the computer, "I won't sleep, I'll play games."

"Are you really not sleeping?" Xu Niannian blinked while covering himself with a quilt, "I have to go to work tomorrow."

"You also know that you have to go to work?"

"So I'm going to sleep now."

"..." Xu Xing was actually not in the mood to play games. He turned to look at the single bed and then at the sofa next to him. He simply turned off the light and went to the sofa. "Go to sleep. It's enough for one night."

"Am I so scary? It's not like I've never slept like this before."

As the lights in the box went out and everything fell into darkness, Xu Niannian became bolder and asked, "I helped you directly before. Are you embarrassed now?"
To be continued...