Chapter 54: Crazy Fission, New Customer Surge (3k for Follows)

"Classmate Chen Yansen, have some tea! Finding an accountant to handle your reimbursement is a trivial matter for me."

Cao Dahua leaned back on the sofa, patting his chest and boasting.

"Then I'll trouble Teacher Cao."

Chen Yansen lifted his teacup, took a light sip, and exchanged a smile with Cao Dahua.

"In February next year, the universities in Hui'an Province will hold a college student startup project competition. Classmate Chen, are you interested in participating?"

Cao Dahua took a sip of tea and spoke slowly and calmly.

Upon hearing this, Chen Yansen immediately guessed this was likely Tang Qingshan's idea. Without a second thought, he said, "Of course I am. Are there any benefits?"

In his view, participating in this college student startup competition was purely a waste of time.

However, since it was Tang Qingshan's wish, he could just send Song Yuncheng or Zhuang Rui there later. The person didn't need to go, but he had to pocket the benefits.

Cao Dahua waved his finger, wearing a helpless expression of 'you rascal'. He paused, then spoke seriously:

"The top three winners receive prizes ranging from 100,000 to 500,000. Additionally, the finals will invite some famous alumni and Hui'an-born entrepreneurs, especially graduates holding key positions in venture capital firms."

Having said this, Cao Dahua gave Chen Yansen a 'you know what I mean' look, a smile on his lips, waiting for the other's praise.

"People like Shi Yuzhu or Wang Chuanfu?"

Chen Yansen pressed further.

Cao Dahua's face stiffened. He smiled bitterly and said, "Don't even dream of that level of big shot. Let me give you a definite answer: if the project takes first place, securing 5 million in financing won't be a problem."

5 million?

Who are you looking down on?

Chen Yansen pouted, feeling quite disdainful in his heart. Fox Tao's current cumulative registered users had already reached 160,000, daily active users were stable around 20,000, daily orders exceeded 3,000, and gross profit was approaching the 15,000 mark.

Once the zero-yuan bargaining function went online and achieved the expected results, 5 million would be nothing more than his gross profit for about twenty days.

"5 million? Then I'll take the time to prepare seriously later."

Chen Yansen didn't want to dampen Cao Dahua's enthusiasm, so he deliberately made a surprised sound with his mouth and put on an expression of seriousness.

"Good to know. Have some tea."

Cao Dahua, having completed the task assigned by the principal, grinned.

Seeing his purpose achieved, Chen Yansen finished his tea in one gulp, then stood up to take his leave.

Cao Dahua didn't try to keep him, continuing to lazily slack off and kill time, humming a tuneless melody.

Back on the second floor, everyone was busy testing the 'Zero-Yuan Bargaining'. Requests for bargaining constantly echoed through the room: 'Zhang Wenbo, help me cut a slice', 'Zhuang Rui, why aren't you checking your QQ messages? Help me bargain', 'Chen Xu, lend me your Newman phone to check if the browser is compatible'.

Chen Yansen smiled slightly, walked to his seat, opened Zhuang Rui's requirements document, and read it through again.

Damn, this kid is truly cunningly wicked!

Zhuang Rui had divided the bargaining progress bar into three parts: existing customer bargaining, new customer bargaining, and bargaining for users who haven't placed their first order.

Simply put, existing users cut off the least price, and could only cut off 99.9% of the progress bar. The remaining 0.1% required inviting new customers or users who hadn't placed their first order to assist before success could be achieved.

The underlying logic was hard-coded; the value of new customers, existing customers, and users who hadn't placed their first order was all written in the document.

At six in the afternoon, after a thorough round of testing, Zhang Wenbo and Xiang Pengfei found a few more bugs. Only after fixing them all did they turn their attention to Chen Yansen.

"Launch it! Song Yuncheng, send the configured page link to Wenbo."

Chen Yansen nodded slightly and spoke loudly.

"Got it, Brother Sen!" Zhang Wenbo nodded, called over Zhuang Rui, Song Yuncheng, and Chen Xu, and the four walked together into the temporary meeting room in Room 204 to busy themselves with the final launch work.

Ten minutes later, Zhang Wenbo, through the glass, gave Chen Yansen an OK hand gesture.

Chen Yansen clicked the event page link. The first thing he saw was an event banner marked 'Get for Free at Zero Yuan'. From top to bottom, the prizes were an Apple 4 phone, a Nokia 5230, a Shanxing i8000, a box of apples, milk, tissue paper, and 1,000 yuan in cash, among others.

The event rules were at the bottom of the page. The gameplay was simple and brutal: invite new and existing users to assist, and you could win an Apple phone worth up to 4,999 yuan.

"@Everyone, help me cut a slice, thanks!"

Chen Yansen casually forwarded the link to dozens of QQ groups, then quietly waited for the message explosion.

"Brother Sen, was your account hacked? Is this link a Trojan? Everyone, absolutely do not click!"

"Helping you cut a slice. Are you not joking?"

"Brother Sen, I helped you cut a slice. Can this phone really be gotten for free?"

"Classmate Chen Yansen, I helped you cut off 39 yuan!"

"Senior, is this Fox Tao's new event?"

High school groups, campus card agent groups, new student exchange groups, and so on, suddenly erupted into a frenzy.

"This is a new event for our project. Welcome to participate. It is real and valid. Wishing everyone can get an Apple phone for free."

Chen Yansen replied uniformly again, thinking to himself whether he should quit the groups first to avoid being relentlessly roasted later.

This kind of bargaining gameplay was truly disgusting.

For instance, an ex-girlfriend calling late at night just to make me download Pinduoduo; an old friend I hadn't contacted in twenty years suddenly sending a message just because I was a new user.

Chen Yansen had no other choice. With limited funds, if Fox Tao wanted to develop quickly, he had to use unconventional means.

Wang Zihao and the other two were also exerting effort. On one hand, they spent money buying trending search terms; on the other, they frantically reposted the event link on the campus network, college student forums, and Tieba, posting on social platforms with different personas.

For example: "Brothers, I got the uncut version of Titanic, link attached"; "The story of seven men and a little girl, link attached"; "My ex-boyfriend has AIDS, should I go to the hospital for a checkup?"

These promotional messages spread rapidly across the internet like Trojan viruses.

Meanwhile, the external investment team placed interstitial ads on video sites like Youku, Tudou, and 6. cn, and also bought some peripheral ad slots on the three major portal websites.

The advertising material featured an Apple 4 phone paired with the eye-catching words 'Get for Free at Zero Yuan', achieving a very high click-through rate.

Until the sky was completely dark, everyone remained by their computers. Chen Yansen sighed, took out his phone, called the Shuangqing Hotel outside campus, and ordered over 1,000 yuan worth of dishes in one go, asking them to pack and deliver.

On the big screen, the number of registered users for the day climbed rapidly.

Normally, breaking through 1,000 user registrations was difficult, but at this moment, it had already reached over 10,000.

One hour later, two staff members from the restaurant specially drove a van over to deliver the food. This was their first time receiving such a large order, and they were afraid the food would get cold and the guests would be dissatisfied.

"Rest a bit, then eat!"

Chen Yansen patted the table and shouted loudly.

"Damn! Brother Sen, you're treating us to a huge meal!"

"Wow! How many dishes is this?"

"Brother Sen is generous!"

Hearing this, everyone put down their mice and flattered him with grins.

"What's that? Once sales break ten million, we'll go straight to the Sky Garden in the city."

Chen Yansen said in a flat tone.

With Fox Tao developed to this point, no one thought Chen Yansen was bragging anymore; instead, everyone's faces were full of expectation.

After all, the Sky Garden was the most luxurious hotel in Void City, with a per-person cost starting at 800 yuan; back then, they wouldn't have dared to even think about it.

"Brother Sen, can we cash it out?" Zhang Wenbo scratched his head and asked with a chuckle.

"Yeah, Brother Sen!"

As soon as Zhang Wenbo finished speaking, several people chimed in to agree.

"Cash out your head! Once the target is met, there will be bonuses, raises, and a seafood feast; everything is included."

Chen Yansen cursed and scolded Zhang Wenbo, but these words were also meant for everyone present.

In an instant, everyone was full of energy, wishing they could throw down their chopsticks and immediately throw themselves back into work.

On the other side, a thousand li away in Hu City.

Zhang Peng held his phone, running from room to room in the dormitory building; during the last Fox Tao voting event, he had won 888 yuan in cash and successfully withdrawn it to his account.

Therefore, his trust in Fox Tao instantly skyrocketed; in just one month, he not only placed over a dozen orders on the website in one go, but the moment the '0 Yuan Bargain' activity went live, he mustered all his strength and mobilized friends around him to help bargain.

Who wouldn't want an Apple phone worth 4999 yuan?

Ordinary people couldn't bring themselves to ask, so they would at most seek help from classmates and friends around them.

But Zhang Peng was different; at this moment, he seemed possessed, starting to sweep the men's dormitory floors; he first promoted the previous Fox Tao voting event to everyone, then took out his phone to tell the other person that there was now an activity to get a phone for free, asking if they wanted to participate.

This seemed unreliable, but the actual success rate was quite high; after all, college students lacked nothing but time.

After working hard all night, Zhang Peng's progress bar reached 93%; with only 7% left to get the phone for free, this made him so excited he couldn't sleep well all night, and the next day he continued to find people to bargain.

People like Zhang Peng were not few; seeing the progress bar almost at the bottom, who could give up a phone within easy reach?

Having already invested so much energy before, the sunk cost was too high, driving them to continue bargaining.

When Chen Yansen walked into room 206, Zhuang Rui rushed over with an excited face, shouting, "Brother Sen, this is awesome!"

"You're the one who's awesome!"

Chen Yansen rolled his eyes and said in a bad mood.

"After the '0 Yuan Bargain' went live, in just 16 hours, 46,000 new customers registered through the event link, and as the number of participants increased, the viral speed grew faster and faster."

Zhuang Rui was so excited his brain wouldn't stop; he didn't hear Chen Yansen's words at all and went on reporting data on his own.

"Not bad! Keep it up!"

Chen Yansen's expression remained calm; in his past life, he had struggled in the e-commerce field for over a decade and even successfully started a business, so his vision and scope were naturally not lacking; moreover, after rebirth, every step he took was ahead of the era's development.

For him, success was expected; failure was the accident!

Just then, Cao Dahua walked over with someone, his face full of smiles.

Chen Yansen looked up and didn't expect it to be an acquaintance.

(End of this chapter)