Xi Xiaotian ultimately didn't go forward. The moment someone called her from behind, she saw Gu Fei turn his head. She knew that this person had an extraordinary sensitivity to others' attention. He knew someone had been watching him, but he had ignored it all along. Hearing this call, he finally turned around and glanced at Xi Xiaotian.
With just that one look, Xi Xiaotian knew that her thoughts had been too excessive.
No matter how lonely he looked, the determination in this person's eyes had never disappeared. He might feel lonely, but he would never feel lost. He might sigh at the uselessness of his kung fu, but he would never regret choosing it.
Even if the world is destroyed, I will see my chosen path through to the end! The determination revealed in Gu Fei's eyes conveyed this message to Xi Xiaotian.
Indeed, violent! But your violence is really reassuring, giving me courage as well. Perhaps we are walking two paths that will never intersect, but two people persevering is always better than one.
Xi Xiaotian suddenly smiled, winked at Gu Fei, and turned to chase after the girls.
This day was destined to be turbulent; when someone laughs, someone else will be in tears.
The bosses of the studios were in tears at this moment.
Duo Mu Mu Duo was efficient and published the article shortly after completing the interview. The event report was true and credible, immediately causing a huge reaction among the players. This happened to be the peak period for players gathering at night. Everywhere, both in and out of the game, there were denunciations of the Yingqi Studio. Moreover, this time, the players were not just arguing; they took practical actions. Players in various main cities organized themselves to smash Yingqi's shops and kill Yingqi's people.
That night, Yingqi Studio had to close all its shops in the game, and all the staff who were in the market collecting goods had to remove their names. In Cloud City and the twenty-six guilds that were insidiously used by Yingqi Studio, players took to the streets, holding up banners and parading to demand that the game company ban a despicable studio like Yingqi. The march received a positive response in other main cities, and some more radical players shouted slogans demanding the purification of the game environment and the complete banning of all studios.
Gaishi Qiying was cowering in his warehouse, his face ashen. After all the bosses logged off and scattered like birds and beasts, he asked Chen Qiyi what was going on. Chen Qiyi hadn't deliberately created a misunderstanding in the first place. Now that Gaishi Qiying asked in detail, he answered carefully. In the end, Gaishi Qiying understood what was going on with the Gu family and realized that the other studios had misunderstood and were scaring themselves.
Gaishi Qiying hurriedly wanted to tell everyone the truth, but by this time, half of the studio bosses had blacklisted him, and the other half immediately blacklisted him after receiving his so-called truth, clearly stating that their relationship ended there.
The bosses didn't believe him! In their view, Gaishi Qiying was the culprit, and they were definitely going to be finished this time. This guy was trying to drag people down with him before he died, and he was extremely hateful.
At this time, Duo Mu Mu Duo's report was published, making the bosses even more tearful. The temporary consolation was that the report had not mentioned their names, but had completely exposed Gaishi Qiying and Yingqi Studio. But who could be sure that their names wouldn't be mentioned in the following content? Duo Mu Mu Duo's report was actually serialized, and not in chronological order. It was possible that their connection with Gaishi Qiying would be exposed in some segment.
Seeing Yingqi Studio's treatment online and offline, like a rat running across the street, the bosses couldn't help but shudder. They even suspected that Duo Mu Mu Duo's report was the rich second-generation's planned counterattack.
The bosses were now showing their skills. Some tried to find out the content of the follow-up reports through their connections; others actively stood with the players, denouncing Yingqi's despicable behavior and declaring that they were definitely not like Yingqi; still others began to cry about being deceived by Yingqi, admitting that they had a bit of a disgraceful record in this incident, and now they regretted it too late, hoping that the players would look at their future performance...
In short, all the studios resolutely implemented the spirit of "better a dead Daoist than a poor monk", willing to step on Yingqi two, three, or four times, as long as they didn't fall into this pit themselves.
Whether this would work or not, they didn't know. At this time, they felt only endless trepidation.
None of the studio bosses could sleep that night, and all of them sat in front of their computers, browsing the forum posts all night. They observed the players' reactions, listened to the players' voices, and paid even more attention to Duo Mu Mu Duo's serialization.
Before dawn, Duo Mu Mu Duo's serialized report issued another draft, which was a continued in-depth exposé of Yingqi Studio. The names of other studios were still not mentioned. The bosses were relieved, but they were still very apprehensive about the "to be continued" written at the end of this draft.
Gaishi Qiying was also sitting in front of his computer, but he just sat there motionless, sitting like this all night.
He was really powerless to turn the tide.
Players scorned him, colleagues abandoned him, and the game company's attitude was also unclear. All the discussions were only full of rebuke, rebuke, and more rebuke. There wasn't even a single voice speaking up for him. At first, Gaishi Qiying wanted to mobilize his army of keyboard warriors, but the keyboard warriors who had just trembled and posted a few posts had already been banned, and even the forum moderators were resolutely resisting Yingqi.
Then, in the second draft issued by Duo Mu Mu Duo before dawn, which gave an in-depth analysis of Yingqi's methods, several of Yingqi's alternate accounts on the forum were exposed. Players with a spirit of research ran to the forum to specifically find these accounts' posts and study them, greatly confirming the report once again.
He was powerless to stop all the voices, and he could only watch all of this continue to expand. He finally personally experienced the terror of rumors. In the players' discussions, more and more unsubstantiated charges were added to his head. Any malicious event that occurred in the game could be fabricated and associated with Yingqi's conspiracy. Looking back at Duo Mu Mu Duo's report at this time, Yingqi Studio was as clean as a little white flower.
"It's dawn?" Gaishi Qiying looked out the window, his eyes dull.
The rising sun shone through the window, falling on his face, causing a slight stinging sensation. The telephone suddenly rang sharply, startling Gaishi Qiying. Who would be calling so early?
"Could it be the game company?" Gaishi Qiying's hands trembled a little. The game company's attitude was something that could completely determine his fate.
"Hello..." Gaishi Qiying answered the phone.
"Get out of the game!!!" A roar came from the phone, startling Gaishi Qiying so much that he threw the phone away.
When he hurriedly picked it up again, the other party had already hung up.
Gaishi Qiying was confused for a moment. Just as he put the receiver back on the phone, the bell rang again.
"Hello?"
"Get out of the game!!!"
This time, Gaishi Qiying didn't throw the phone, but the other party hung up immediately as well.
As soon as the phone was put back, it immediately rang a third time. Gaishi Qiying was already prepared, and he simply pressed the speakerphone button.
"Fang Xiaoshi, you big idiot!" That's what came from the phone, and then it hung up.
Gaishi Qiying was shocked. Fang Xiaoshi, that was his real name!
In the time that followed, the phone began to ring constantly, landline and mobile. As long as he answered, there was no more talk, just a scolding. Gaishi Qiying already understood what was going on. He had been dogpiled...
After opening the forum on his computer, he saw, sure enough, that his information had been dogpiled by players in detail overnight: name, address, phone number, mailbox...
The Parallel World had a large player base, which also brought a huge collective power. Gaishi Qiying felt a chill. He felt as if countless eyes were staring at him outside the window, like sunlight, leaving him nowhere to escape.
In the replies, Gaishi Qiying even saw the guy who had just called him to scold him bragging, and saw someone saying very depressedly that they had turned off their phone, and it seemed that the players in the same city as him were discussing coming to smash his windows that night...
Before Gaishi Qiying could see what more terrible things might happen, his computer suddenly went black. Gaishi Qiying was stunned. Before he could react, a huge bloody human head suddenly popped up on the screen, staring at him with bulging eyes.
Gaishi Qiying screamed and fell over, chair and all. Then he heard a terrible sharp laughter coming from the screen, and several bloody words jumped onto the screen: Fang Xiaoshi's whole family dies!
Obviously, the computer had been hacked. Gaishi Qiying jumped up angrily and directly pulled out the power cord. He walked to the window and picked up a cigarette, but his trembling hands couldn't light the lighter no matter what. He finally managed to make a fire, but then forgot to light the cigarette—he suddenly saw a few shady-looking guys loitering downstairs outside the window.
Have they already come to his door? Gaishi Qiying was shocked. There were many players in the posts in the same city who said they would come to make trouble, but Gaishi Qiying didn't pay attention to the time these people posted. Could they have arrived at this moment? What are these people doing? Are they here to smash the windows? Or to pour dog blood? Or is that the one who threatened to make him eat shit?
Gaishi Qiying stretched his head out, trying to see exactly how many people had come, but with a whoosh, a large chunk of his beard, eyebrows, and hair were burned off. The lighter in his hand was still on!
Gaishi Qiying screamed and threw away the lighter. This scream seemed to startle those people. Gaishi Qiying saw them pointing upstairs, were they pointing at him?
Gaishi Qiying finally didn't dare to stay any longer. He neatly packed up some things and prepared to leave. At least the dogpiling posts didn't have his photos. Gaishi Qiying secretly rejoiced that he didn't have the habit of showing off his photos online.
"Not good!" Gaishi Qiying suddenly remembered that his computer had just been hacked! There were some photos of him in the computer, maybe they had already been exposed online?
He had to leave as soon as possible, and first go to avoid the limelight! Gaishi Qiying couldn't bother to hesitate any longer, and hurriedly went out and downstairs. Those few guys were still downstairs. Gaishi Qiying raised his collar to cover his face and walked out quickly. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that those people seemed to be looking in his direction. He immediately didn't care about anything else and ran away.
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Hello everyone, this is also an automatic update. After reading the recent content, I believe the keen students have already noticed that Close Combat is coming to an end...