The best midlaner and jungler from the competition was taking part in a top-tier ranked game, thus fully embodying what it meant to do whatever he wanted.
The bullet-screen comments continued to be filled with question marks, but this time, it was not about because of Huang Wang’s tier. Instead, it was because of his taunts.
“I thought that Pang Ling taunted a lot already. Yet, compared to this midlaner, he seems more like an introverted child!”
“‘How dare this midlaner come up here and destroy his own experience level’? Is that something a human would say?!”
“How are you able to talk non-stop while attacking the other side relentlessly?”
“Holy sh*t, this midlaner is too ruthless, isn’t he? Who is he? Does he have a live stream account?”
“He’s doing whatever he wants. Has the other side completely given up after fifteen minutes?”
“If this midlaner had taken part in the competition, would he have lost?”
“I’m starting to understand why Pang Ling is always cursing at his own midlaner now. They’re really not of the same standard…”
“This midlaner is a bullet train! How can he keep talking without resting?!”
“Does he have a live stream account?! Quickly, get him to create one! I want to see his first-person’s view!”
Huang Wang conducted a massacre and won several times in a row, causing the number of viewers in Pang Ling’s live stream room to shoot through the roof. Obviously, the live stream platform had intentionally recommended his room as well.
After all, it was highly entertaining to watch one pair slaughter everyone else in a top-tier ranked match. As both of them continued to taunt each other comically, more and more people stuck around, and the increase in their viewership became unstoppable!
When he saw that everyone in the comments was talking about Huang Wang and not him, Pang Ling felt frustrated.
Fans! How fickle they could be!
After winning five consecutive rounds, Huang Wang prepared to leave.
“Alright, I’m not playing anymore. I’m going to work out. We lose every day in our mock competitions, and so we have additional training every day. I want to puke.”
Pang Ling quickly said, “Wait! A lot of my viewers are asking if you would start a live stream. They want to see your first-person’s view.”
“Live stream?” Huang Wang pondered for a moment and said, “Forget about it. I have to train every day, and I don’t have time to host live streams.”
Pang Ling: “It doesn’t matter. You can do it for fun. So many people with live stream accounts don’t host live streams regularly. You can always switch it on when you feel like playing ranked matches on your own. It wouldn’t be that troublesome.”
After some thought, Huang Wang decided that what Pang Ling had said made sense. “Alright, I’ll look into it when I get back from working out.”
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August 1st, Monday…
As usual, Pei Qian arrived at the office. However, today, he did not hum while walking. In fact, he looked quite worried.
What should he do about Fish-Catching Take-Out?!
Last week, Pei Qian had not much energy for anything else but observing Fish-Catching Take-Out. The longer he watched, the worse the situation seemed!
Fish-Catching Take-Out’s client base looked like it was rapidly expanding. What’s more, many households that had been cooking their own meals were now ordering from Fish-Catching Take-Out!
That was because cooking their own meals would generate a lot of kitchen waste, which would then have to be sorted before being disposed of.
Many households that were used to cooking their own food got lazy and started ordering from Fish-Catching Take-Out instead. That way, they would not have to deal with their kitchen waste.
Many office buildings also generated a lot of waste by ordering take-out each day. To save themselves the trouble, companies started to encourage their employees to order from Fish-Catching Take-Out instead.
Coincidentally, Food Harmony matched a portion of the customer’s needs perfectly.
At first, many people discriminated against ordering take-out because it was seen as unhygienic and unhealthy. However, with a twist of fate and a better understanding of Food Harmony and Fish-Catching Take-Out, all of those prejudices were knocked down one by one!
The worst thing was that Fish-Catching Take-Out seemed to be harming Deposit Fitness as well.
There were fitness meals available in Fish-Catching Take-Out, and those were meant for Deposit Fitness. Many people started getting curious and finding out more about Deposit Fitness.
Although this was not happening on a large scale, Pei Qian could already see bad signs, and he could not help but become cautious.
In short, the situation was becoming harder and harder to salvage!
They were still purchasing the microbial waste processors. Since the quantity was large, Pei Qian guessed that they would only start arriving from next week onwards. Still, after spending all that money, Pei Qian felt a little more relieved.
It wasn’t a lot of money, but it still meant that every Fish-Catching Take-Out branch that he opened from now on would cost an additional hundred thousand yuan or so.
That was probably the only piece of good news that had come out of all this.
Pei Qian was sorrowful. He could feel the impending danger, but he could not think of any way to help himself.
Knock, knock.
Just as he was worrying, he heard a knock on the door. Pei Qian looked up to see He Desheng. Instinctively, he frowned.
“Eh? Is there something wrong with the Fully-Automated Bickering Machines?”
Those were Pei Qian’s precious, hidden treasures! He could not allow anyone to find out about them!
Pei Qian was not asking for much. He only wanted to keep them hidden for this cycle, so that he would be able to lose a few million yuan. As for whether he could keep it hidden until the next settlement… he would not think about it for now.
He Desheng looked like he was momentarily at a loss for words. “Er, Zhang Wang should have told you about the problems with the Fully-Automated Bickering Machines, right?”
Pei Qian nodded. “Oh, that means everything is fine. Is there anything else?”
He Desheng was very eager. “Of course! Boss Pei, Dayak Corporation wants to buy all of our shares in Finger Games, including the management rights for IOI’s local server!”
Pei Qian frowned.
They really came knocking?
Logically, they did not need a hundred percent of the shares. Moreover, what did they want management rights of IOI’s local server for?
Pei Qian had already decided to turn IOI’s local server into its loss-incurring machine. It was fine if he didn’t have enough money to interfere in Dayak Corporation’s acquisition of Finger Games, but were they really coming after his loss-incurring machine now? That was overboard!
Pei Qian frowned and asked, “Why does Dayak want management rights for IOI’s local server?”
He Desheng hesitated and then answered, “Dayak Corporation and Finger Games both think that we have been doing a bad job of marketing IOI so…”
Pei Qian was speechless. “Nonsense!”
Don’t you know how horrible your game is?
I’ve done my best to help you, but to no avail. Shouldn’t you reflect and resolve the problems with yourselves? How could you blame this on us?!
We already gave you several suggestions on how to improve IOI earlier, but you chose to sit back and adopt none of them. Now, you’re blaming our management of the server?
F*ck you!
Pei Qian had no intention to sell the shares from the start, but he became even more adamant after hearing about their attitude.
“We won’t sell the shares or the management rights of the server!”
Pei Qian could not be bothered to waste his time arguing with those foreigners.
Pei Qian: “?”
What did this mean?
Are they trying to compete with us to see who has more cash? I’m sorry, I have a buff that would fend off 99.99% of cash attacks…
Moreover, what were they trying to imply? They would blow the matter up and turn ugly?
How awesome must you be to be able to swim across the ocean and hit me in the face? We, Tengda, aren’t even an international company!
What’s more, if turning things ugly would cause us to incur losses, I would be happy to do that! Would I still have to wait for you to do it for me?
Pei Qian calculated in his head. Fifty million US dollars… he had only bought it all for over four hundred thousand yuan back then. If he held onto IOI’s local server and treated it as a loss-incurring tool, he would easily be able to get rid of millions or tens of millions of yuan.
Did Dayak Corporation expect him to give up just for four hundred thousand yuan?
Go to hell!
Pei Qian’s expression darkened. “Tell them this: ‘F*ck off’!”
He Desheng started and quickly answered, “Alright, Boss Pei!”
…
As he walked out of Boss Pei’s office, He Desheng patted his chest to calm himself down. He had indeed gotten a bad scare earlier. He had never heard Boss Pei cuss.
Yet, speaking of which, Boss Pei was no ordinary person.
Anyone else would have been shaken by the offer of fifty million US dollars. They would probably also have been afraid of an international giant like Dayak Corporation.
However, Boss Pei had turned them down without a second thought. In fact, he had used the f-word to Dayak Corporation on the spot.
He was really daring and impressive!
Yet, He Desheng was worried because he knew that Dayak Corporation would be equally stubborn. It was obvious, judging from how rare it was for companies to escape its clutches after it expressed an interest in acquiring.
Dayak Corporation would not let the matter rest after being cussed at like that. Then, it would not be up to either party to decide how the story would develop.
“I rarely see Boss Pei this angry. This seems like a logical and ordinary business tactic, and Boss Pei is such a magnanimous person. It doesn’t seem like he has any reason to get angry.
“Perhaps… he has a back-up plan?
“Could it be that me using the f-word on Dayak Corporation is part of that plan?”
He Desheng pondered for a long time but still could not figure it out. In the end, he decided to follow Boss Pei’s instructions obediently and stick to the reply, word for word. He was better off remaining a by-stander in this war between celestials, instead of trying to interfere.
In any case, he could not go wrong following Boss Pei’s instructions.
Chapter 601 - Earning Five Hundred Million!
August 3rd, Wednesday…
At Fei Huang Workspace…
Huang Sibo returned to the office after a long time, feeling like he had just stepped into another world. Fei Huang Workspace was filled with life again!
Before this, when they had received Boss Pei’s orders to go into shock therapy, everyone felt confused for a long time. However, they soon discovered the true meaning behind Boss Pei’s ‘shock therapy’.
It was meant to repair everyone’s severe psychological imbalance!
Thus, Director Zhu Xiaoce gave everyone a mission to learn and register for postgraduate advanced training in Directing at Handong University. They would have lessons every weekend for two years.
At the same time, Director Zhu Xiaoce arranged for other supplementary classes like analyzing every day, learning a movie, reading works on film and television every week, writing book reviews, exchanging learning points and reflections, and so on.
After a period of learning, everyone better understood the intentions behind implementing shock therapy’!
Before this, none of them knew that they were that imbalanced inside.
After all, they had just climbed to the peak and produced an excellent move like Tomorrow is Beautiful. What’s more, others had praised them so much that, even if someone had pointed out that they were getting in over their heads, they would never have believed it.
Yet, as the saying went, someone’s skills had to match up to their place in society, or there would be dire consequences.
If they allowed themselves to bask in the ‘smooth and easy win’ as their inspiration continued to run dry and their foundation remained rocky, the next movie would probably take them off the pedestal!
The bigger they let their heads get, the higher they would set their goals. Yet, if they did not adequately train or improve themselves, they would only end up failing terribly.
However, after going through shock therapy, everyone’s mindset was different now.
First of all, they were much more grounded.
After going to learn from the professionals, they realized that their foundation had been rocky all along and that they had not even had a firm grasp of the basics. They had only managed to film a popular movie out of pure luck, but they were still a far cry from the elite film producers.
On top of that, they had renewed inspiration.
During this period, everyone’s ideas gathered and settled, but not all of them were usable.
Creators often found themselves in situations where only they thought their ideas were good. They would celebrate on their own and feel increasingly satisfied.
However, after leaving the idea on the back-burner for a while, they would return to realize that it was never that great to begin with. They had only thought it was so good because they had been hallucinating.
Most of the time, there were only two ways to break out of the hallucinations:
One could either be jolted awake by more senior creators, or one could wait for long enough that they could relook at the idea calmly and objectively and analyze or judge it afresh.
Thus, after letting it settle for a while, everyone ended up with ideas that had withstood the test of time. Now, their inspiration bank was refilled.
Thus, they all felt much more motivated and energetic than before!
Now, they could barely wait to start brainstorming and setting a direction for the new movie.
Looking at his ferocious colleagues who had just returned from ‘shock therapy’, Huang Sibo could not help but feel emotional. Boss Pei was really capable of rejuvenating everyone!
Speaking of Boss Pei… it was about time he updated Boss Pei on the current situation.
Although Boss Pei definitely remembered when Fei Huang Workspace would return from their ‘shock therapy’, Huang Sibo still thought it would be best to drop him a notification. It was not that he did not trust Boss Pei’s memory, but that he wanted to show Boss Pei how motivated everyone was and how ready they were to take on their new task.
At that thought, Huang Sibo dialed Boss Pei’s number.
…
Pei Qian was in Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, sipping his coffee and working on his mind map. Many lines connected back to Fish-Catching Take-Out, leaving Pei Qian very worried.
At that moment, his cell phone vibrated.
When he saw that it was Huang Sibo, Pei Qian jumped. All of a sudden, he recalled something.
‘This is bad!’
Fei Huang Workspace was out of shock therapy!
He had sent Fei Huang Workspace into shock therapy during the previous cycle when he still didn’t know how long the next cycle would be. Thus, he came up with a random number in his head.
However, this cycle turned out longer than any of the ones before. Now, Fei Huang Workspace had come out of shock therapy way before settlement!
; What should he do?
At this point, Pei Qian was worried that Fei Huang Workspace would cause trouble for him with renewed confidence. There were less than two months to settlement. If Fei Huang Workspace embarked on a huge project and didn’t manage to finish it in time for settlement, settlement would be delayed!
That was because Otto Technologies was already using up the allowance for incomplete projects this time, to finish the cell phones’ algorithm laboratory.
“Calm down. I can just hold them off using the gift of the gab.”
Pei Qian quickly calmed himself down. After all, bluffing his employees was much easier than trying to incur losses. It came naturally to him.
Pei Qian picked up his phone. “Hello?”
Huang Sibo’s excited voice sounded at the other end of the line. “Boss Pei, Fei Huang Workspace is officially back at work! Your ‘shock therapy’ was highly effective. All of us are bursting with inspiration and motivation now. We’re about to start brainstorming to decide what movie to film next!
“I wonder when you’ll be available to provide us with some guidance.”
Pei Qian froze. Was he sharpening his sword right in front of Pei Qian?! Did that group of people really want to shoot a movie?!
No way! There were only two months to settlement, and they did not even have a script yet. The movie would not premiere before settlement. If they really started the project now, all his effort this cycle would go down the drain!
That was because, each time the date for settlement was set, Pei Qian would work hard to achieve a loss by that date. As the date neared, he would also spend as much money as possible to create a loss.
If there was a change in the date and he received a large sum of money from out of nowhere, it would be extremely difficult for him to end up with a loss.
On top of that, delaying settlement meant going into the next cycle later. The System Funds would not be topped up until then.
Thus, Pei Qian could not allow settlement to be delayed. He would much rather make a profit than allow that to happen. He quickly thought of a strategy on the spot.
“Don’t film a movie.”
Huang Sibo was stunned. “Er… should we film an online series?”
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