Pei Qian held his forehead, falling into silence.

He had to admit, there were some real experts among the netizens.

They had analyzed the cause and effect of this matter so clearly, even more so than Pei Qian, the hidden boss behind the Dawn Games platform.

But…

This wasn't a good thing at all!

The Dawn Games platform had mastered the art of slaying dragons?

This wasn't dragon slaying at all, it was clearly aimed at slaying him!

Of course, Pei Qian understood what this netizen meant. By "the art of slaying dragons," he meant that the Dawn Games platform's mechanism was a kind of dimensional strike against other game platforms, a magical and completely different kind of technique, extremely powerful and difficult to imitate, hence the name "the art of slaying dragons."

And as long as there was a perfect opportunity, such as the appearance of a super hit game, then the art of slaying dragons would have its use.

But even though he understood the reasoning, Pei Qian felt that this dragon-slaying blade was ready to chop at him at any moment.

"What a scam!"

"I was originally hoping that this appraiser system would be my last-ditch reversal, but before it even started, it's already declared that I'm doomed?"

Pei Qian refused to give up. He had been pressed under the Five Finger Mountain and thought he was about to turn the tables, but after struggling for a while, he realized that he had only turned over.

And it was from lying on his stomach to lying on his back, being pressed even harder…

But after thinking it over and over, he couldn't think of any good solutions for the time being.

When he handed over so many rights to the players, many things had already become uncontrollable.

"Since I can't think of any good solutions for the time being, I shouldn't act rashly, let's wait and see."

"After all, a game platform doesn't become a hit overnight, there should still be time to carefully consider it."

Pei Qian silently closed the relevant web pages, sinking into thought once more.

…

…

Wednesday, September 26th.

Pei Qian had just gotten up when he received a call from his good brother, Eric.

"Why are you calling me so early in the morning, can't you let me rest?"

Pei Qian looked at the time. It was only a little after 9:00 AM, he had just woken up and hadn't even had time to brush his teeth.

But since it was a call from his good brother, he definitely had to pick it up immediately.

"President Pei, uh…"

Eric on the other end of the phone greeted him, then paused slightly, stammering a bit.

Pei Qian couldn't help but feel a little nervous and quickly asked, "What's wrong? Did your higher-ups not agree?"

Eric paused for a moment, explaining, "After I reported it, the headquarters' higher-ups held an emergency meeting to discuss it, um… they accepted most of the conditions."

Obviously, the higher-ups of the Dayak Corporation didn't expect President Pei to accept the conditions completely, and they were a little apprehensive.

They quickly held a meeting to discuss whether there were any traps behind this.

Pei Qian continued to ask, "Then what was the result of the discussion? Which conditions weren't accepted?"

He was a little puzzled. This was clearly an unequal treaty, requiring GOG to fulfill a long list of obligations, while IOI had basically none.

What else could the higher-ups of the Dayak Corporation not accept?

Eric explained, "To be precise, they hope to add one more condition on top of the original conditions."

"That is, both sides jointly invest in a new event."

"The name of this event is 'Fantasy of the Gods, Together to the Peak' – of course, this name was suggested by President Zhao Xuming."

"The content of the event is to set a popularity target for the two games, the popularity mainly refers to player activity and the number of online players. When the two games reach their respective targets, players can get generous physical rewards."

"Of course, these physical rewards are provided by both of our companies…"

Eric's voice became softer and softer as he spoke, even he himself felt a little unsure.

Asking for the sky three times and four times was indeed a bit inhumane.

But there was no way, business matters couldn't be soft-hearted, especially when the other party was the cunning President Pei, so there couldn't be any compassion.

Therefore, he carefully introduced the details of the event.

Pei Qian nodded, "Oh? This event name is quite good, President Zhao is quite capable."

He thought about it for a moment and quickly understood the intention of the event.

The name "Fantasy of the Gods, Together to the Peak" was quite good, he didn't realize that Zhao Xuming had some talent in naming things.

But then again, Zhao Xuming was the chief person in charge of Long Yu Corporation's agency for IOI, this was his old profession, so it wasn't surprising that he could come up with a beautiful name.

Why would they come up with such a name?

Because GOG's full name is "Glory of Gods", while IOI's full name is "Imagine of Infinity."

As for why the names of these two games were so similar, it was because Pei Qian had used this format when naming GOG.

This event took half from each of the two games, and put them together to become "Fantasy of the Gods."

Adding the four words "Together to the Peak" implied that the two games would hold hands, be harmonious and beautiful, and make a lot of money together.

Of course, this was all on the surface for the players to see. Even if they wanted to beat each other's brains out in private, they still had to maintain appearances.

Because this event, in the final analysis, was hoping to divert traffic from GOG to IOI, so they had to create an attitude of "we are good brothers." If they deliberately emphasized the competitive relationship between the two sides, it would definitely cause resentment among GOG players. At that time, they would rather not have the rewards than go to play IOI, wouldn't that be very embarrassing?

As for the specific content of the event, it could be seen as an escalation of the original content.

This event was jointly funded by both parties, providing physical rewards, and the way to get these rewards was for the two games to reach their respective popularity targets.

But the problem was that GOG had high popularity, while IOI had low popularity.

So, in order for IOI's popularity to meet the requirements for receiving rewards, players had to go to IOI more, play more games, and recharge more.

In fact, they were still trying to find ways to divert GOG players to IOI.

While Pei Qian was seriously thinking about the specific details of this plan, Eric was also thinking about his own affairs, and there was a moment of silence on the phone.

Eric was considering the thoughts of the higher-ups.

GOG had more players, IOI had fewer players, and players were currently flowing from IOI to GOG, this was an established fact.

Holding such an event would inevitably run the risk of IOI players continuing to leave.

But with risk, there was naturally opportunity.

Although it was difficult to convert GOG players to IOI, wouldn't it be impossible for all of the diverted players to leave?

Even if only a small number of players stayed, wouldn't that be fresh blood?

There must be some people who were tired of playing GOG and wanted to change their taste.

If they believed that none of the GOG players could be retained, then what was the point of IOI struggling? They might as well give up resisting and surrender directly.

The higher-ups of the Dayak Corporation still felt from the bottom of their hearts that IOI had a chance to fight, otherwise they would have sold it off long ago.

This confidence made them feel that IOI players would not lose a large number of players because of such an event.

Moreover, during the event, IOI's various data, whether it was activity, popularity, or recharge data, would definitely look good, and there would be real economic benefits.

The main problem that the Dayak Corporation's higher-ups were thinking about now was not to continue fighting with GOG, that would hinder them from making money too much.

They hoped to take advantage of IOI's current state to make more money and recover as much loss as possible.

And this joint event was actually a good opportunity, after all, there were data targets in the event that could only be achieved by recharging in IOI.

In the face of such interests, taking some risks was normal.

Moreover, IOI was very cunningly putting on two faces: in the in-game activities, in order to prevent player loss, IOI would not give players who went to play GOG too good rewards; but in this "Fantasy of the Gods, Together to the Peak" event outside the game, it would bear half of the rewards.

The latter was mainly to shut up the players, so as not to put themselves at a disadvantage in terms of morality, while the former was to minimize their losses as much as possible.

Eric considered the pros and cons of this, and felt very uneasy.

He didn't know if such a choice was really appropriate.

But fortunately, he was just a mouthpiece now, he didn't need to worry about such things anymore, and he didn't need to confront President Pei head-on anymore.

In any case, the blame could not be shirked.

After the two had considered it for a while, Pei Qian said, "Okay, I agree to this condition."

"Let's create some hype together and cooperate for a win-win situation."

Pei Qian said it very sincerely, in a sense, his behavior was indeed "cooperating for a win-win situation."

GOG makes less money, IOI makes more money, and lasts longer, isn't that cooperation for a win-win situation?

Eric chuckled, "Of course."

Saying "of course" on his lips, but in his heart, he didn't believe a word of it.

President Pei never said a word of truth, whoever believed him would be sold and would have to count the money for him!

In fact, after much thought, Eric had mostly guessed a little bit of President Pei's intentions.

Perhaps he wanted to dig up some more players from IOI through this event?

But this was like two masters competing in internal strength. Although your internal strength was stronger, you could only use 30% of your strength, while I could use 100% of my strength, so the final outcome was still unknown.

After hanging up the phone, Eric told himself again that he was just a mouthpiece, he wouldn't be blamed if something went wrong, he wasn't in that position, so he shouldn't meddle in it.

Zhao Xuming was standing on the side, asking, "So… President Pei agreed?"

Eric nodded, "Agreed, we can start preparing for the related activities."

"By the way, President Pei also praised you, saying that you came up with a good name for the event."

Zhao Xuming's eyes lit up, "Oh? Is that so? I'm very lucky to get a compliment from President Pei!"

Eric joked, "Actually, with President Pei's appreciation for you, maybe when IOI really goes bankrupt, you can jump over there and get a position or two."

Zhao Xuming quickly waved his hand, "You can't say that! I am a loyal subject of Long Yu Corporation! How could I go and take refuge with my nemesis, President Pei? That's absolutely impossible!"

"I'm going to do the activity preparation work now."

Zhao Xuming immediately turned around and quickly left the office.