<h4>Chapter 403: Killing Someone Without Spilling Blood</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>As Studios <strong>Editor: </strong>As Studios
Very soon, from 8:00 AM on the next day onwards, a new round of advertising for Dream Dota League had started.
And the focus this time was mainly concentrated on the advertisements for thepetition!
First ce in the grouppetition, reward of one million yuan! Second ce reward, 500,000! Third ce reward, 300,000! Even the lowest participation award was of a Dream Dota League’s official logo style keychain, which was close to 10 yuan.
Once this news was announced, everyone got excited once again.
After all, this was the first time there was going to be apetition with such a huge amount of rewards in the online gaming industry! Previously, for thepetition of Draconic Continent, there was also prize money given as reward, but that was only a small scalepetition with regards to game-rted products. After all, Draconic Continent wasn’t a truepetitive game.
However, this time it was different. This time, ording to the various news that had been released officially, Dream Dota League was a fullypetitive game. This game only had two or three maps, and all the battles would happen on them.
Thus, the style of the entire game could be described as—Fight!
It was a fight between yers!
For this type of game, the battles would definitely be spectacr.
Thus, ever since this piece of news was published on Dream Dota League’s official website as well as various web portals, the poprity of Dream Dota League rapidly rose once again!
On the official Tieba forum, it started to increase from 550,000 people to 640,000 people within one afternoon. On y Together forum, the number of posts about Dream Dota League had also risen by leaps and bounds, and within one afternoon, the number of posts had reached more than 40,000. After all, during the previous day, the Tieba forum of Dream Dota League only had a little more than 60,000 posts throughout the entire day.
Even on the inte, quite a number of game special zones on various web portals had stated that this time, Dream Dota League was definitely madly fighting back, and their target was, needless to say, Flying Dragon Network’s Spiritual Sword!
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In Tianjing City, at Shiroishi Kazuma’s secret den.
Shiroishi Kazuma crossed his legs and clicked on theputer screen, seeing thetest progression of things. He insipidly said, “Competition with prizes. Hehe, this is indeed a good idea. But unfortunately, this type of trick has totally no use at all.”
“Mr. Shi.” Qian Youjin respectfully asked, “Then what do we need to do? The hype created by the other party this time is very big. They’re offering such high prize money for the first ce in thepetition. In the face of such an attack, it’s indeed not easy to withstand it.”
“Hehe, it’s not difficult to deal with this move of theirs.” Shiroishi Kazuma disdainfully smiled and said, “I heard that Hong Dali doesn’t care about matters rted to online gaming, and currently, Tang Muxin is working with Liu Mingxin on Hong Dali’s behalf?”
“ording to thetest intelligence, that’s the case.” Qian Youjin answered, “Tang Muxin herself is an extremely intelligent girl and has a very deep rtionship with the Hong Family. She’s Hong Dali’s fiancée.”
“En, unfortunately, she’s still too young.” Shiroishi Kazuma softly said, “Let her understand that our Jaban empire will not be threatened by them little children. Oh right, currently, how many people do we have online?”
“It’s already broken past one million people, and every day, more than ten new servers are added in order to deal with the rapid increase in the number of yers.” Currently, Qian Youjin was looking at Shiroishi Kazuma as if he were the most devoted follower looking at his deity.
And in fact, Shiroishi Kazuma indeed deserved such a gaze from him.
Previously, when he waspeting against Hong Dali in the online novel website aspect, Shiroishi Kazuma lost because he’d underestimated the enemy. And he obviously would not make the same mistake twice. Now, Shiroishi Kazuma was careful and prudent, carefully taking every step. He’d already crushed the other party till they couldn’t even breathe.
Within just a short few days’ time, the poprity of Spiritual Sword had already broken past one million people online at the same time!
With such an ability, it had to be admitted that he indeed lived up to his name.
“En, one million...” Shiroishi Kazuma thought for a while, then said, “This figure is more or less still fine. But ording to the poption base in Heavenly State, it’s just so-so. What we need to do next is topress the market of Dream Dota League. If I don’t remember wrong, they’re officially starting their open beta testing tomorrow at 2:00 PM, right?”
“Yes, Mr. Shi.” Qian Youjin cautiously asked, “Should we make any moves?”
“Of course. At such a good time, we’ll naturally have to give them a big present.” Shiroishi Kazuma smiled and softly said, “Tomorrow at 2:00 PM, double the drop rate of the equipment at the server. Continue it for four days. Go.”
“Understood.”
Upon getting the orders from Shiroishi Kazuma, Qian Youjin instantly went out.
Just after he went out of the room, Qian Youjin fiercely shook his head and softly mumbled to himself, “This old fox is so ruthless! Double the drop rate for four days! ording to the current equipment price in Spiritual Sword... Gosh, won’t the server be packed till it explodes during these three days? This time, the other party will probably break down. Haha, as expected, he lives up to his name as the chief consultant of Toyoda Conglomerate. He’s just too scary.”
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y Together forum, Spiritual Sword special zone.
Spiritual Swordprehensive discussion zone—
“Latest news,test news, Spiritual Sword’s official announcement, starting from 2:00 PM tomorrow, all the servers will have double the equipment drop rate! Double! Brothers, it’s for four consecutive days! A whole four days! Hahahaha, I’ve already prepared cup noodles and soda. I’m just waiting for a big overnight battle!”
“I said it long ago, I’ve applied for leave already! Double the drop rate, as long as it drops a valuable piece of equipment, that would be worth hundreds of yuan! If I’m luckier and it drops a better one, I can live on this sum of money for one year!”
“Tsk, look at how little ambition you have. I already prepared myself. Once it drops something valuable, I’ll go find girls!”
“What the heck, this makes sense!”
...
At the same time, Dream Dota League special zone.
Different from the Spiritual Sword special zone, at the Dream Dota League special zone, it could be said that the morale was wavering, and countless people were hesitating and undecided.
“We’re done for, we’re done for. Brothers, Spiritual Sword’s side says that the server will have double the drop rate tomorrow at 2:00 PM. What do we do? I still have an ount there. I was initially thinking of supporting Dream Dota League, but this...”
“Don’t be so troubled, aren’t I facing the same problem? My ount over there has almost reached level 40. If I y with all my might these few days and get some valuable pieces of equipment and sell them, just by thinking of it feels so great!”
“But there’s an activity here at Dream Dota League too. Thepetition will start three dayster, and I heard that the first prize is one million!”
“Forget it, don’t we know ourselves what kind of standard we are at? We won’t be able to get that reward. Instead, at Spiritual Sword, the dropping of equipment totally doesn’t depend on skills but on luck. I feel that it’s worth a try!”
“Makes sense, it really makes a lot of sense! Then we’ll wait and see!”
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Mingxin Network, in Liu Mingxin’s office.
Tang Muxin tightly pressed her lips and sat on the sofa, staring at theptop screen on the coffee table in front of her.
The atmosphere in the room was extremely tense.
As Hong Dali’s fiancée, Tang Muxin wasn’t as resistant towards Hong Dali now. That meant that in the future when they were at a suitable age, there was a 90% chance of them bing husband and wife.
But Hong Dali usually liked to squander. Though his ideas were all very valuable, hard work was needed to discover the potential within. Initially, Dream Dota League had rtively big potential, but now that Hong Dali was developing a new technology and wasn’t free, as Hong Dali’s fiancée, Tang Muxin could only personallye and help to handle matters. After all, she was a girl who wasn’t willing to be a pretty vase.
But the opponent this time was especially powerful. If they didn’t deal with it properly, this golden idea of Hong Dali’s would very possibly bepletely crushed.
If everything went by without any change, this online game would definitely have very good prospects, and a yearly profit of more than 100 to 200 million would totally not be a problem. But now, because the opponent this time was too tough, it was on the verge of being destroyed. How would Tang Muxin be able to take this lying down?
After all, even Tang Muxin’s father’s Tang Medical Enterprise only had a yearly profit of around 100 million.
“Young Master Liu, Spiritual Sword’s side has grasped the timing too ruthlessly!” Tang Muxin fiercely said, “They aimed exactly at these few days when we are going to open our servers, and with double the drop rate of equipment for four days, I’m afraid that the poprity of our opening server...”
Four days of double drop rate, it would just nicely cover the time period from the opening of Dream Dota League’s server as well as its firstpetition that was going to be held.
If the poprity was really low during the open beta testing, it would directly make a first bad impression on the yers towards this game—if the poprity was low even on the first day of the open beta testing, then the quality of the game was definitely questionable.
This was also the reason why many online gamingpanies, on the first day where they opened their servers, would rather spend money to hire professionals to increase poprity.
Poprity, it was poprity! Online games yed exactly with the word poprity!
“This Flying Dragon Network is very impressive.” Liu Mingxin rubbed his forehead and said in a troubled voice, “The problem is not money, it’s their poprity that is too high. This is an obviously open and upfront battle now. The business world is like a battleground, killing others without spilling blood.”
“Miss, why don’t we ask Young Master about it?” Seeing the situation, Ling Xiaoyi thought for a while and softly persuaded, “Young Master should have an idea, right?”
“Don’t ask him!” Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Tang Muxin firmly said, “Nobody is allowed to disturb him!”
“This...” Liu Mingxin curiously asked, “Miss Muxin, why is it that this time...”
“Sigh, I’m also hoping that I can do something for him.” Tang Muxin sighed and softly said, “Sister Nianwei is a big star; she can be of great help to Dali in the entertainment business. Sister Chuyin is a technological geek; the things which she manufactures are very useful. But I... I... I’m Dali’s fiancée, yet I’m the only one who is of no use. I don’t want to be a pretty vase. I also want to do something for Dali, even if it’s just a little bit!”
Speaking up to this point, Tang Muxin firmly took in a breath, her expression extremely determined. “Before Dali finishes what he’s busy with, we have to hang in there no matter what!”