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Lu Feng hung up the phone, left the villa, and headed for Qingfeng Network Company.
Now that he had the game, he needed to get it promoted as soon as possible.
After receiving the call, Wang Kai had already gathered the game department and was waiting. As soon as he saw Lu Feng arrive, he walked up to greet him. "Chairman Lu, the game department is all in the conference room."
"To the conference room!" Lu Feng said, already heading in that direction.
Wang Kai followed, and they walked in together.
The two of them arrived at the conference room, where the game department staff were already gathered.
Lu Feng sat down and handed the USB drive containing the game *Swordsman* to Wang Kai.
After taking the USB drive, Wang Kai turned to the game department staff. "Alright, everyone, the game department has work to do. This is a game Chairman Lu acquired. Your job now is to analyze it and then promote it with everything you’ve got."
"Manager Hu, you handle the setup. Let’s have everyone take a look at this game!"
"Yes, President Wang." A young man in the first seat to the left stood up. He was Hu Lin, the manager in charge of the game department.
At an internet company, the employees tended to be young, especially at an up-and-coming one like Qingfeng Network Company.
After taking the USB drive, Hu Lin extracted the game from it and clicked ’install’ on a computer.
The computer was running a special mode and operating system, making it function almost identically to a mobile phone.
Once *Swordsman* was extracted, everyone in the game department could see its file size.
"This game isn’t big at all. It’s much smaller than *Honor of Kings*."
"Yeah, a lot smaller!"
Hu Lin’s brows furrowed slightly.
He knew the company had spent 1.5 billion on a new game. This was also because their own game department had failed to develop a complete game.
But for such a small game, the possibilities and playability couldn’t be very high. After all, the file size itself was a limitation.
’Was this really worth 1.5 billion?’
Wang Kai was also aware of this; the game was very small.
However, he still had faith in his boss. If Chairman Lu had acquired this game, it definitely had to have its merits.
Soon, *Swordsman* finished installing.
The simplest way to see if a game was any good was to play it yourself.
So, Hu Lin and the game department immediately turned their attention to the game icon on the computer and clicked to launch it.
The game started with the Qingfeng Company logo, something Lu Feng had specifically asked Cheng Sisi and her team to add.
Then, the game began.
But when the game started, Hu Lin and the entire game department were stunned—by its playability, its open-world design, its free-trading system, its story...
This was completely unlike anything a game of this size should be able to display.
’Are you kidding me?’
Even if this game were ten times bigger... no, twenty times bigger, it would be impossible to achieve this level of quality.
But this game was even smaller than *Honor of Kings*, yet it had managed to do this. The compression technology was simply unbelievable.
Hu Lin immediately had the game department staff start playing the game, but as they played, they found themselves completely immersed.
That’s right. As game developers, they were completely hooked.
Generally speaking, people who make games rarely get sucked into other games, because they all have their own understanding of game design.
The fact that it could captivate all of them proved this game was amazing. It was guaranteed to be a massive hit.
Wang Kai also tried it and was similarly immersed. The opening of the story mode was incredibly interesting.
His starting character was a Quanzhen Little Daoist.
He discovered his martial uncle spying on a female warrior from the Ancient Tomb Sect. While she was immobilized by an acupoint strike, his uncle covered her face, intending to defile her.
Naturally, he played the hero saving the damsel, shouting to scare away his martial uncle.
But as he looked at the female warrior and was tempted to do something himself, a prompt appeared, warning him that his actions would not be righteous. If he proceeded, he would become a villain, hunted by both the imperial court and the forces of justice.
In that situation, he thought, ’To hell with it, a villain’s a villain,’ and made his character go through with it.
Afterward, he discovered that even though he’d done the deed, as long as he wasn’t found out, his villainous identity wouldn’t be exposed.
So, he directly exposed his martial uncle, claiming he saw him go to the female warrior’s location.
His uncle was then hunted down by the female warrior, becoming the scapegoat.
This gameplay left Wang Kai utterly stunned.
PC games couldn’t even achieve this level of open-endedness, let alone mobile games.
Yet this mobile game had managed it, and it was so small.
Just then, Hu Lin shouted to the others in the game department, "Five of us have accepted a quest to suppress some mountain bandits. You guys try to ambush us."
The game department staff did as he said. A moment later, someone exclaimed, "Isn’t this combat style just a 5v5 MOBA mode? But the controls are so much better, and the playability is on another level!"
Who knows how much time passed before they finally snapped out of it and remembered they were supposed to be working. But the shock and awe for the game were still written all over their faces.
"This game is going to be a massive hit!" Hu Lin said.
"Mhm!" Wang Kai agreed. "Chairman Lu, the game you acquired is just unbelievable!"
The other members of the game department nodded vigorously, all in complete agreement.
Chairman Lu was truly incredible.
First, it had been that intelligent assistant software, and now it was a game this amazing.
Wang Kai immediately gave another order: "Check the game’s source code and encryption program right now."
Hu Lin nodded and immediately had his team get to work. For a time, the conference room was filled with the nonstop clatter of keyboards.
But as time went on, Hu Lin and the entire game department looked at each other in dismay.
"It’s the same encryption program as the Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant Software," Hu Lin said, his face a mixture of awe and shock.
’Without knowing the source code, who could possibly crack this kind of encryption?’
’Even a computer master at the level of Technical Director Wang Xin, if he invited ten other experts of the same caliber, probably wouldn’t be able to crack it, right?’
Wang Kai was relieved to hear this.
After all, he knew from his brother just how incredible this type of encryption was.
He was now curious about where on earth Chairman Lu had acquired this game. Without a doubt, the team that created it possessed absolutely terrifying computer technology skills.
In the words of his brother, Wang Xin, they were capable of completely subverting existing computer software technology.
As for how to release the game, that was a no-brainer. The Qingfeng Intelligent Assistant Software was the best distribution channel they could ask for.
Before long, Qingfeng Company announced that its new game, *Swordsman*, would be launching soon.
Qingfeng Network Company had been under intense scrutiny lately, especially due to its rapidly growing user base. It could be said that every company in the internet industry was crying wolf—and this wolf was starving.
Therefore, everyone was curious about which direction Qingfeng Network Company would expand into next. Once a company had a large user base, diversifying was inevitable.
Thus, whichever sector Qingfeng Network Company set its sights on, the companies that dominated that sector would have to face a massive new competitor.
Now everyone knew: Qingfeng Network Company’s next step was gaming. And this was going to be a good show, because the biggest player in the gaming sector was Penguin, the leading conglomerate in the internet industry.
With Qingfeng Network Company entering the gaming industry, it was a given that Penguin would try to block them. This was standard practice.
Almost every game from other companies that faced Penguin’s obstruction either faded into obscurity or ended up becoming one of Penguin’s own games.
At Penguin Company, that Boss Ma quickly received the news about Qingfeng Network Company’s upcoming game launch.
"Take a look, everyone. They’re coming to take a piece of our pie." Boss Ma took this news very seriously, convening a meeting with his top executives immediately.
After saying this, he immediately continued, "However, when it comes to gaming, we at Penguin are the absolute rulers. Their intelligent assistant software might be formidable, but in the world of games, we call the shots."
"I imagine the entire internet industry is watching us right now, so we can’t just sit back and do nothing. On the day their game releases, *Honor of Kings* and *PUBG* will both launch major in-game events. Our new game, *Awakening Dawn*, will also launch on the same day to compete with them head-on."
"We’ll attack on multiple fronts and show them what a real market block feels like. At the same time, we need to assemble a team to crack their game as quickly as possible so we can rapidly release a similar game of our own."
In short, the purpose of this block was to buy time to pirate their game.
As long as they could rip off the other party’s game, they had ways to crush the original.
Mr. Ma quickly issued one order after another. He was extremely confident about this. When it came to games, they had never lost.