278: Chapter 278 Terrifying Global Money-Making Ability

In the end, Guanghui Group invested a total of 30 billion.

This covered purchasing the building and the land.

Settling some of the debts.

Upgrading the fire safety systems.

Renovating the hotel.

Installing the intelligent management system.

Setting up the security system.

Assembling a high-end service team.

Plus, the reserved interfaces for future aerial platforms and the renovations for employee welfare facilities.

30 billion.

Put this way, it might have sounded a bit scary in the past.

But for the current Guanghui Group, it actually seems quite modest.

After all, the main structure of the building was already finished.

Guanghui Technology essentially picked up a semi-finished product to renovate.

It saved at least two or three years compared to starting from scratch with land acquisition, permits, design, and construction.

Meanwhile, in Beining City, Guanghui Technology had already secured four core plots of land.

Guanghui Technology clearly couldn't just stand by and watch regarding that future pilot smart city.

All four plots were handed over to the Guojian Construction Group for development.

In the future, it will house the smart city integrated service center, residential areas for Guanghui Technology employees, a Robot dispatch center, pilot communities for urban feedback, low-altitude transport hubs, and a branch of the public welfare laboratory.

However, the scale there is larger, and the standards are higher.

It is expected to take at least two years before it can be officially put into use.

By comparison, the Guanghui Yunting Hotel in Mingzhu has become the group's fastest-implemented self-owned supporting asset.

The top floor.

Inside the presidential suite.

After finishing the tour, Lu Li was already lounging lazily on the soft, large sofa.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was the rapidly expanding city skyline of Mingzhu's Chengbei District.

The suite was huge.

It had everything: a living room, study, lounge area, private cinema, scenic bathroom, and an aerial terrace.

The room also had a reserved space for a Virtual Helmet immersion pod.

In the center of the living room stood the Mirage Air Imaging equipment.

On the outside of the terrace, there were interface positions for future low-altitude vehicle docking platforms.

In a sense, this was no longer a traditional presidential suite.

It was more like a high-end lifestyle showroom built by Guanghui Technology using its own technology.

Su Qingxue had just finished her inspection and walked into the living room, only to see Lu Li completely sunk into the sofa.

She glanced at him.

"Mr. Lu, inspecting your own hotel, and you ended up on the sofa?"

Lu Li replied with a straight face:

"I'm experiencing the core selling point of the presidential suite."

"If the sofa isn't soft enough, it will affect the group's image."

Su Qingxue rolled her eyes at him.

"You certainly know how to find excuses for being lazy."

Lu Li lazily rolled over.

"I am the chairman's family member."

Su Qingxue walked over and sat down beside him.

"You're not just a family member now."

Lu Li thought about it.

"Then I'm the chairman's husband."

Su Qingxue: "..."

She clearly wanted to say that Lu Li was the mastermind behind Guanghui Technology.

But she had long been accustomed to Lu Li's wisecracking.

The two of them were getting along more and more naturally now.

It wasn't like when they first married, with an inexplicable sense of distance between them.

Nor was it like the outside world imagined, with one being a cold, domineering president and the other the true technical source behind Guanghui Technology, who should be discussing corporate strategy seriously at all times.

Most of the time, they were more like a married couple who had been living together for a long time.

She knew he was lazy.

He also knew she was stubborn.

She disliked his lack of seriousness.

And he could always make her break her composure in just a few words.

Lu Li picked up a tablet and opened Guanghui Group's latest financial report.

As he read, he couldn't help but click his tongue softly.

"No wonder Apple used to be so profitable."

"Hardware profit is a scary thing once the scale kicks in."

The first page of the financial report was the Virtual Helmet business.

From its official launch on June 1st of last year until now, it had been exactly seven months.

The cumulative global sales of Guanghui Technology Virtual Helmet had exceeded 300 million units.

300 million units.

This number was exaggerated enough in any consumer electronics field.

What was even more exaggerated was the profit.

The domestic version of the Virtual Helmet was originally priced at 60,000 yuan.

With increased production capacity and a decrease in the cost of some components, it had now dropped to 50,000 yuan per unit.

But even so, countless people were still willing to buy it on installment.

There was no helping it.

The temptation of the second world was too great.

For gamers, it was an unprecedented immersive experience.

For fans, it meant close-up virtual concerts, virtual meet-and-greets, and virtual interactive spaces.

For the film, education, social, office, tourism, and training industries, it was no longer just an entertainment device, but a gateway to a new world.

Not to mention the international version.

Lu Li's pricing for overseas markets was not polite at all.

80,000 yuan per unit.

Take it or leave it.

Anyway, during the peak sales period last year, Guanghui Technology was the only one in the world capable of making them.

It was only in the last two months that Google Virtual Helmet had entered the market, but they could only drink the soup.

Moreover, foreign users were buying them even more crazily than domestic ones.

Many overseas wealthy individuals, tech enthusiasts, gamers, and people in capital circles were not short of money.

What they lacked was the qualification to enter the second world.

In the end, after calculating.

The average net profit after tax per Virtual Helmet was as high as 8,500 yuan.

300 million units multiplied by 8,500 yuan.

A full 2.55 trillion.

Seeing this, Lu Li's mouth twitched slightly.

"This thing can actually earn so much."

Su Qingxue sat beside him, her tone calm.

"This is just the net profit after tax for the hardware."

"The platform revenue from the second world hasn't been fully calculated yet."

Lu Li continued to read down.

The sources of revenue for the second world ecosystem were even more complex.

Platform service fees.

Game revenue sharing.

Virtual concerts.

Virtual idol interactions.

Corporate virtual office spaces.

Virtual real estate.

Advertising revenue.

Education and training courses.

Virtual social memberships.

Virtual tourism projects.

In the end, since the launch of the Virtual Helmet, the total revenue of the entire ecosystem had exceeded 6 trillion.

If the Guanghui Technology Virtual Helmet company were split out separately, its valuation would crush Apple.

Even in the eyes of many investment institutions, it was no longer a hardware company.

But the gateway to the next generation of the internet.

Looking at the financial report, Lu Li couldn't help but sigh:

"Once you grasp the gateway, whatever you sell afterward will make money."

Su Qingxue nodded.

"So what people outside are most jealous of right now isn't the Virtual Helmet itself."

"It's the second world."

Lu Li hummed in agreement.

He was certainly aware of this.

The hardware was just the ticket.

What was truly terrifying was the world behind the ticket.

And following closely behind the Virtual Helmet was the Guanghui Technology Robot Company.

This company first gained attention from the outside world because of the Doraemon series of household Robots.

Later, the dorami series was released.

After that, the Lanyangyang, Meiyangyang series of companion Robots, the Sailor Moon series of simulation Robots, as well as various special Robots for industrial, security, fire fighting, and public security systems were launched one after another.

Its business line had become so complex that it didn't look like an ordinary Robot Company anymore.

It was more like a massive platform covering household, industrial, public safety, emergency rescue, urban governance, and high-end companion services.