I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property

After his last phone call with Zhang Menglong, Michel couldn't help feeling restless for some reason.

Zhang Menglong's tactics were simply too numerous; he could play tricks on someone to bewilder and embarrass them, and even flaunt his wealth significantly.

But this time, things were eerily quiet. The entire American economic market was calm, and there weren't any drastic changes in the gaming market either; everything seemed to be under his control and as expected.

The calmer it was, the more nervous he became; knowing Zhang Menglong's character, it was impossible for him to just give up and retreat.

Moreover, even if Zhang Menglong behaved, both Ma Hua and Ding Sanshi were also unusually quiet.

You should know that their companies were among the ones most severely impacted in the Huaxia gaming industry; this all just wasn't scientific!

During this period, Michel's assistant had been keeping an eye on Huaxia, but had not obtained any significant information.

All they knew was that Ma Hua and Ding Sanshi had met with Zhang Menglong and went together to the E-sports Town in Jiangnan City, but afterward they went their separate ways.

What they discussed there remains unknown.

...

That day, a new game simultaneously appeared on the homepage of both Tengxun Games and PUBG Games.

This was indeed a rare occurrence, not to mention how a new game would choose two operators; most games are exclusively represented by one company.

Given that these two gaming giants were always in a state of competition, it was almost impossible for such a thing to happen.

This definitely signaled something extraordinarily unusual; these two companies coming together meant they were operating something far beyond a mere ordinary game!

"Huh? A VR game? That means you need to buy VR equipment. What the hell is this about?"

"How many people would really play this, considering the equipment alone must cost at least a thousand bucks."

"A survival action-shooting game as well? Isn't that the same formula as 'PUBG'?"

"Cut it out, VR technology isn't even mature yet; who would play this thing!"

Although this game had a high exposure, not many people were willing to download it.

'Self-developed'—these two words made many people give up on the game immediately. It's not that there weren't any domestic game developers that had tried this genre before, but the results were hilariously poor, unable to withstand the competition from already established games.

What's more, most of the players were concentrated on games developed by a few established companies; with no players, who would waste time playing this new game?

Usual games have closed beta tests, open beta tests, and then public beta tests, but here you are, coming out of nowhere with a new game without any market testing. How confident are you really? Was it Liang Jingru who gave you the courage?

"VR equipment for only 200? Hahaha, can something that cheap even be playable?" Some players clicked into the official game website, but this is just the mentality of Huaxia consumers.

Too expensive, and I can't afford it; too cheap, and I feel it's no good.

This news quickly reached Michel's ears.

"Oh? They made a new shooting game?" Michel was quite surprised, "Just a few days and they want to challenge our market? They're probably desperate, buying trash games from some third-rate developers."

"Boss, this is a VR game, and there's never been a bona fide VR-oriented strategic survival game on the market before. I think we shouldn't underestimate it," said Michel's assistant.

"Have you experienced this game?"

Michel's assistant shook his head, "I'm sorry boss, this game is only available in the domestic market, and you can only register an account after having a Huaxia ID and going through real person authentication. Moreover, they have clearly stated that they are currently refusing foreign agencies."

"A joke," Michel scoffed, "What kind of games can Huaxia people make with their technology, and they even restrict nationality and region. Do they think people would buy their lousy games? With such high costs for VR games, even if they were made well, not many people would play them."

"But boss, their gaming equipment is only 200."

"200? Ha ha ha ha!" Michel laughed even more wildly, his worries completely vanished at that moment.

His company, Explosive Mines Games, also developed VR games. For a decent gaming experience, even the cheapest VR equipment needed nearly 1000 Huaxia yuan.

What kind of junk could you make for 200 yuan? How terrible must the quality be to justify that price?

"They can't possibly be thinking of using that kind of game to declare war on us, can they?" Michel said, "The confidence of Huaxia people is really over the top. Such a product couldn't shake even a small company, let alone challenge the gaming development level in Huaxia."

...

As expected, even with Tengxun and Wangyi giving it the best promotional spots, the game's first-day stats were pitiful—128,090 true homepage visits, 980 downloads, 15 orders.

For the early operational data of a game, this could almost be considered a flop.

"The people nowadays!" Zhang Menglong, Ding Sanshi, and Ma Hua sat together, not at all troubled by the data as their major bombshell had not yet been dropped.

"Both of you, are your ad spots ready?"

"Ready," the two chuckled. Though Tengxun relied on games for profit, their greatest competitive edge lay in traffic and social networking; their advertising impact was tremendous.

"Experience 'Operation: Thunder Elimination,' win a villa worth up to 50 million!"

At 8 PM, an advertisement instantly flooded all channels—Tengxun News, Weixin pushes, Muyin ads, Weibo, and so forth; the announcement of the game link and its ads covered everywhere.

"Play games to win a villa? Are they joking?"

"Ma Hua is scamming people again. Given their track record, the odds of winning must be zero, right? They'll probably use an employee to pretend to be the winner."

"Please, there is no need for such hyped-up stuff. How long would you need to develop games to earn back all those villas and cars?"

"Absolutely outrageous. Do they take us for fools? Firm resistance it is!"

...

"Boss Ma, Boss Ding, your reputations aren't doing you any favors!" Zhang Menglong laughed, "Look, people don't believe you even when you offer them money. When I played one of your games, it had a 90% win rate, yet I didn't win anything after 10 tries—I would have won millions if I had bought lottery tickets with that probability!"

"Hehehe," Ma Hua and Ding Sanshi chuckled sheepishly, "We're just trying to make a living, after all, everyone needs to support their families."

"Forget it, it's all up to me now!"

Zhang Menglong finished editing his Weibo post and instantly published it on the platform.

"I'm paying!"

A simple three words plus a link.

As soon as the Weibo was posted, the read count, shares, and likes skyrocketed like a rocket.

1000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000...

"What? Boss Zhang is paying?"

"Damn! Who can resist that? Had he said this earlier, I would've downloaded the game this morning!"

"I wouldn't believe anyone else saying this, but when Boss Zhang says it, I feel like killing everyone here to stop you from competing with me for a spot."

"Crap! Ma Hua, your damn website server is so rubbish, it can't handle this amount of downloads!"

"Ding Sanshi! I'm going to curse your lineage to be barren if your neglect costs me this 50 million villa!"

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