Hu Die Lan
Chapter 878 A One-Sided War of Public Opinion
"This... the reputation of the guild is ruined, it will be difficult to develop in the future, right?" When You Ge said this, he glanced at Jian Gui.
"This requires everyone to wait and see." Han Jia Gongzi still had an indifferent tone.
You Ge looked at him, then at Jian Gui, and then at the others. It seemed that no one wanted to continue expressing any opinions, so he had to continue to be depressed.
The boss of Ying Qi, Gaishi Qiying, was really too busy at this time. After gathering a group of online commentators to create a storm on the forum, he also wanted to make some noise through formal media such as online game websites. However, Gaishi Qiying refused the interview request that Hao Wan Game Network took the initiative to make. He knew that Xi Xiaotian was a fake, but he had seen the certificate with his own eyes, and it was clearly correct, which left him with a lingering worry. More importantly, Gaishi Qiying was unwilling if the initiative to interview was really to uncover the truth of the matter. Because if you traced the source, it was their studio that started the trouble in the first place. Thinking of this, Gaishi Qiying couldn't help but glare fiercely at Wu Ye on the side. Gaishi Qiying didn't expect that this general manager's failed action would cause such a big disaster.
At this time, Gaishi Qiying was using his connections and looking for friends. He wanted to find a reliable website media to be his mouthpiece and speak for him, even if he paid some labor fees. In addition, the Eagle Squad was ready to go again. This time their destination would be Yunduan City. But from the head of the group, Yongyuan, to every member, their expressions were no longer as relaxed as when they performed tasks in the past. They knew that their opponents were completely equal to them in a head-on confrontation. When would this entanglement end? No one had any idea.
Fortunately, Gaishi Qiying didn't place all his hopes on the Eagle Squad this time. He seemed to understand that this opponent was more difficult to deal with than the Ten Guild Alliance. He invested a sum of money and handed it over to Yongyuan to manage, preparing to recruit a group of thugs in the game.
"It doesn't necessarily have to be professional players or mercenary groups, preferably experts, with prestige, background, and as many people with these qualifications as possible." Gaishi Qiying instructed Yongyuan when he handed over the money.
Yongyuan nodded silently. He couldn't help but sigh at the boss's trick, which was really vicious. He was going to spend money to drag people into this chaos. Experts with prestige and background, if they were involved in this vortex and suffered major losses, they might take revenge themselves without Ying Qi's request. At this time, their prestige and their background would become Ying Qi's free weapons, while Ying Qi could turn around and get out of the situation, reaping the benefits.
"I think you understand what to do, right?" Gaishi Qiying seemed to be afraid that Yongyuan would not understand, so he emphasized it again.
"Understood." Yongyuan nodded. The boss's words clearly showed his thoughts. This group of people would not even be there to win, but to lose, to be sent to their deaths at the hands of Qianli Yizui, Jian Gui, and Yun Zhong Mu. Then wait for them to take revenge. And their Eagle Squad's main mission this time was to direct this show behind the scenes.
Yongyuan sighed and did as Gaishi Qiying instructed. Although it was very vicious, Yongyuan had to admit that the feasibility of this poisonous plan was very high. Yongyuan was also an old gamer and was familiar with all kinds of players. He knew that this kind of person could be easily found.
Yongyuan temporarily left the game and posted a hero recruitment post on the forum. The general idea was that Ying Qi Studio had been looted by players and was suffering from a lack of combat power to deal with it. Therefore, they were asking for help from experts all over the server, hoping that someone could come out to uphold justice. The opening was all nice words, pretending to be pitiful, and arousing sympathy. The real trump card was at the end: Gaishi Qiying's offer.
Gaishi Qiying's offer included not only money, but also equipment and scrolls. Yongyuan listed these extremely tempting things in large, bold fonts. He believed that as soon as he entered the game again, his mailbox would be flooded with letters. Yongyuan also attached requirements, requiring applicants to attach their name, level, equipment, and skill proficiency to prove their strength. But in fact, Yongyuan didn't care about their strength. After seeing outstanding applicants, he would immediately find out about their background. This was the focus of their recruitment this time. For Ying Qi, which had employees and workers everywhere, this was not difficult, but now most of the main cities no longer had负责人 (fù zérén - people in charge), so they often had to run errands to contact them personally.
Gaishi Qiying listened to Yongyuan's report and was quite satisfied with his arrangement. At this time, he had finally found a game website willing to help him speak for him after preparing a red envelope. Gaishi Qiying was ready to receive the other party's interview, but at this time, Hao Wan Game Network had already published an article by Duo Mumu Duo, making the whole story public.
Duo Mumu Duo also wanted to learn more details and enrich the materials in her hand from multiple perspectives. However, after Ying Qi Studio rejected their interview request, the keen old reporter realized that something was wrong. There was competition between guilds and guilds in the game, and competition between studios and studios. Wasn't there competition between websites in their news circles?
Ying Qi rejected their interview request, but seeing their offensive on the forum, they obviously didn't understand how to use public opinion. In this case, there was only one possibility: they needed a website they trusted to report.
With such explosive material, everyone would of course rush to publish it first. Because Hao Wan Game Network couldn't care too much, they quickly asked Duo Mumu Duo to organize and publish the existing data, and then do follow-up reports to supplement it.
Duo Mumu Duo had to do so. This report naturally set off a new wave of storms. The news稿 (gǎojǐan - manuscript) was quickly reprinted by major forums, and players could start discussing it based on the report. Compared to those messy commentators, Duo Mumu Duo's name had a different weight.
Many players' views were quickly reversed. Some immediately became extremely rebellious supporters, while others simply issued comments of "dogs biting dogs" and despised both sides together.
This time, Ying Qi's counterattack was also very rapid. The commentators moved at the news, playing word games and criticizing Duo Mumu Duo's report point by point. The most powerful of these was to seize on the section where Xi Xiaotian impersonated a reporter and mixed into Ying Qi Studio. What kind of reporter was impersonated? A reporter from Hao Wan Game Network! And now Hao Wan Game Network was making this kind of report that leaned towards Fei Chang Ni Tian. The commentators seized the opportunity to frantically exaggerate the relationship, wishing they could directly nail Fei Chang Ni Tian and Hao Wan Game Network together with a stapler.
Duo Mumu Duo would certainly not run to argue with the players who were reading the posts, and Fei Chang Ni Tian would not do what Ying Qi did and bring out some commentators. In the end, You Ge desperately argued a few words under an alias while reading the posts, but the commentators' firepower was so fierce that they instantly wiped out You Ge and he fled into the game for refuge.
"Duo Mumu Duo's manuscript has been sent." When the forum was lively, You Ge would always be busy, often conveying news up and down, taking pleasure in this. What made him unhappy was that the gossip on the forum that made him excited was always met with a lifeless look from the listeners around him. This time, You Ge felt that it shouldn't be like this. After all, this time it was closely related!
This time it was indeed different. Compared to the past when everyone just said "Oh", "Um", "Is that so", this time at least someone asked, "And then?"
"It's a fierce quarrel. The commentators from Ying Qi... uh, that's right, they must be commentators, they all came over to accuse us, accusing us of colluding with Hao Wan Game Network." You Ge said angrily.
"Well, that can't be said to be completely unfounded, we do have a slight collusion." Han Jia Gongzi said.
"But it's definitely not what they said!" You Ge said angrily.
"You Ge, what are you worried about? Is there any other news?" Han Jia Gongzi asked.
"No, but I see that they are now working hard to seize on the Xi Xiaotian line. I think, will Xi Xiaotian's identity be dug up?" You Ge said.
"This..." Han Jia Gongzi was stunned for a moment, turned to ask Gu Fei if Xi Xiaotian was a very famous liar, but when he looked, Gu Fei was already offline.
"Let them make trouble!" Han Jia Gongzi said.
"Duo Mumu Duo hasn't reported on our plan to throw equipment." You Ge said.
"Hehe, explosive material has to come little by little. Don't worry, they are professionals with news skills. Don't worry about it, you gossipers, just watch the show!" Han Jia Gongzi said.
You Ge was speechless. At this time, he was not in the mood to watch the show. It was a closely related matter, but the public opinion was one-sided. Duo Mumu Duo's publication had just reversed the situation a little, but those commentators came over and wiped it back, and he had taken a lot of shots. He really wanted to slash someone! You Ge looked at the friend list, Gu Fei was not online. He was very depressed, he really wanted to follow Gu Fei to do some wanted missions.
The forum continued to be popular. The commentators brought by Ying Qi were doing their best, constantly provoking the players' emotions. In comparison, Fei Chang Ni Tian was a bit weak, and no one involved came out to argue. Other irrelevant people couldn't make their voices heard even if they wanted to speak! This was not even a scolding match, because one of the parties had never really been on stage.
At this time, another heavy bomb was dropped. The boss of Ying Qi Studio, game ID Gaishi Qiying, personally accepted a joint interview with the reporters Shouwang Daotian from 52 Game Network and Mutong Bo from Jiujiu Game Network. The two websites had successively published the interview稿 (gǎojǐan - manuscript). Compared to the report on Hao Wan Game Network, the reports on 52 Game Network and Jiujiu Game Network pushed the hatred between Fei Chang Ni Tian and Ying Qi Studio further forward. It had been pushed to the cooperation event between Wu Ye and Qianli Yizui et al. on the efficient leveling method.
In the description of the two websites, Wu Ye was a sincere businessman in this negotiation. He made concessions again and again to the harsh cooperation conditions put forward by Qianli Yizui and others, only wanting to promote this cooperation. But in the end, the negotiation failed because of some unacceptable terms, and Qianli Yizui revealed his fierceness at this time, killing Wu Ye, the general manager of Ying Qi, after the negotiation broke down.
And the behavior of General Manager Wu Ye secretly organizing the Yunduan City guild to destroy Fei Chang Ni Tian, which was reported on Hao Wan Game Network, had been changed in this report. The kind General Manager Wu Ye wanted to cooperate with Fei Chang Ni Tian on the business of the relevant urban areas regardless of past grievances. But due to the previous incident of being violently killed by Qianli Yizui, he found some Yunduan City players to accompany him this time, and also wanted to borrow the fame of these large numbers of Yunduan City players. As a result, Fei Chang Ni Tian was extremely arrogant again, unwilling to cooperate, and even caused a catastrophe in the entire Yunduan City. This catastrophe directly led to a decrease of 0.47 levels in the average level of players in Yunduan City. Countless people lost their beloved equipment. And the war was also extended to Yueye City. At this point, the reporter again emotionally interjected Gaishi Qiying's regret for the dissolution of the Ten Guild Alliance in Yueye City, encouraging the players of the Ten Guild Alliance not to give up because of the betrayal of their former president, Yun Zhong Mu. Everyone should work together and can eventually reproduce the glory of the Ten Guild Alliance.
This time, it was also a report from official media, and it was from two. They were also famous reporters in the online game industry, and there were two of them. Although their fame was less than that of Duo Mumu Duo, after two plus one, the sense of reality was strengthened by several points. Fei Chang Ni Tian, who had already been suppressed by one side, was even more despised like pigs and dogs on the forum.
You Ge was about to vomit blood after reading the posts, cursing "shameless villains", and reconnected to the game, again indignantly broadcasting to his brothers. This time the response was finally a bit bigger, Zhan Wu Shang, Yu Tian Shen Ming and others finally cursed a few words of shamelessness.
"Hum! They can turn white into black. These two must have been bought by Ying Qi. There were so many participating players in this incident, I don't believe they can buy them all." You Ge believed that justice was in the world.
"They don't need to buy them." Han Jia Gongzi said lightly.
"What?" You Ge was puzzled.
"Mu Yun Guild, Black Black Alliance... Do you expect these guys who were devastated by Qianli and then extorted a large sum of money to speak for us?" Han Jia Gongzi said.
You Ge was dumbfounded: "Could it be that they will also be shameless together?"
"Everyone is shameless... I don't think so, but those who have the weight to be interviewed will definitely be shameless; those who are not shameless, their words have no weight." Han Jia Gongzi said.
"This... what should we do?" You Ge panicked a little.
"Isn't what to do agreed upon long ago?" Han Jia Gongzi said.
"What?"
"Throw equipment!" Han Jia Gongzi said lightly, "I think there's no need to wait for Duo Mumu Duo's report, you love to go to the forum so much, go post!"
"How should I write it?" You Ge said.
"Ying Qi Studio is despicable, shameless, lewd, obscene, filthy, and harms players. We robbed a batch of the blood and sweat that these guys plundered from the players from Ying Qi's warehouse, and now we are giving it back to the players in Yunduan and Yueye cities who have been harmed by Ying Qi's despicable, shameless, lewd, obscene, filthy, and obscene. Everyone, go online early tomorrow, we are going to throw equipment out, whoever picks it up gets it, everyone come and try your luck." Han Jia Gongzi said.
"Write like this... is it okay?" You Ge muttered.
"That's the central idea, you can figure it out!" Han Jia Gongzi said.
"It's set for tomorrow?" You Ge said.
"Let's do it tomorrow!" Han Jia Gongzi said.
You Ge left. This time it was not a formal media outlet, there was no large group of commentators following behind, a simple post became the most important bomb of the day.
Compared to this, what was the messy gossip between the two companies? That was just a little seasoning for players who were bored with the game. In fact, it had nothing to do with too many people. But now, there were actually real benefits, what was gossip?
All the posts were instantly ignored, everyone gathered under this post, some questioned the truth of the matter, some asked what things there were, and some asked the time and place... and some said: Don't reply to this post, let this楼 (lóu - floor/thread) sink. The intention of this was of course not explained.
In any case, this post was absolutely impossible to sink, and even the discussion posts related to this post washed the entire forum, and more of them were suspecting the truth of this matter.
"Whether it's true or false, we'll know tomorrow." A player replied.
"Which city are you from?" Someone asked.
"Yunduan." Answer.
"Damn, I'm from Aqitai City, damn it, I'm not chatting, I'm going back to the game to hurry..."
That night, it created the highest record of online players in the early morning since the operation of Parallel World, surpassing the online record of players during the city war activities. The game officials felt ashamed for this. It turned out that creating a game online record could be so easy.
The game officials have also been following up on this matter. How should this matter be judged? Does the official need to come forward and make any changes? The debate generated within the game was much more intense than on the forum. There was no fight on the forum at all, because one party never came forward to answer the other party.
"Compared to this, do we have something more important to do now?" Suddenly a staff member said.
"What?"
"If all the players in the Parallel World are concentrated in one or two main cities, how can the server bear it?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this! No one knew better than them that Parallel World was said to be a worldwide server, but in fact it was operated by multiple servers in parallel. A main city was generally carried by one server. Switching to a main city was equivalent to cross-server. But now, if all the players in the Parallel World uniformly cross-server, and want to concentrate on one server together, this is absolutely impossible to bear. The server may crash, or the "lag" that has disappeared from online games for who knows how many years will reappear...
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