Chapter 699

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Shi Lei's original plan was to announce the success of the World of the Brave on the official website and let some people know about it. However, he had underestimated how much attention the world's media paid to Dream Entertainment.

After the announcement was posted on Dream Entertainment's official website, it was seen by the world's media. The world's media had been waiting for Dream Entertainment's news.

Regardless of whether the World of the Brave failed or succeeded, it was a sensational news topic.

If the World of the Brave succeeded, the world's media would summarize and praise the past successes of the World of the Brave.

If the World of the Brave failed, they would report about it. They had already prepared the headlines and content in advance. Once the World of the Brave failed, they would report about it crazily and belittle Dream Entertainment.

For the media, integrity did not exist. They only needed to attract attention and capture the audience's attention. The World of the Brave had achieved great success in the past. If the open beta really failed, the media would not only attack Dream Entertainment, but they would also ridicule Intel and AMD.

Fortunately, the World of the Brave was destined to succeed. Moreover, it was a crazy, unbelievable, and miraculous success.

It could be said that the World of the Brave became the world's number one online game in an instant!

The world's media, including Xia Xia, used a lot of space to report on Dream Entertainment's success. Xia Xia's media had already praised Dream Entertainment as the God of online entertainment.

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The Shuangqing Morning Post's official website had a very high evaluation of the World of the Brave:

"Dream Entertainment, the pioneer of culture!"

"Shuangqing's Dream Entertainment developed the Xia Xia Wuxia style online game, which set off a worldwide craze for Xia Xia Wuxia.

In just half an hour, the number of players in the World of the Brave exceeded five million. More than seventy percent of them were overseas players.

As these overseas players came into contact with the World of the Brave, they would understand the brilliance of Xia Xia's ancient culture and the long history of Xia Xia. "

"We can no longer treat the World of the Brave as a simple online game. It is the disseminator of Xia Xia's culture. It bears the burden of spreading Xia Xia's culture to the world."

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The Shuangqing Morning Post's official website reported the World of the Brave very highly. If Shi Lei saw the report, he would definitely find it strange. It seemed that Dream Entertainment did not give the Shuangqing Morning Post any benefits?

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The official website of Today's Li Jian Daily, which had a wide influence in Lijian Province, also reported the achievements of Dream Entertainment:

"Miracles and dreams coexist!"

In that faraway eastern country, an online entertainment company quietly rose up. It was originally a small company, but now it had created a miracle that shook the world.

Five million players were simultaneously online!

We don't know if this data is true or not, but based on Dream Entertainment's credibility in the past, we have reason to believe that this is true.

How much profit would such a huge user ecosystem bring to Dream Entertainment?

Our country's AMD Corporation and Intel Corporation are currently negotiating with Dream Entertainment in Shuangqing City of Xia Country. No matter which company it is, if they succeed in cooperating with Dream Entertainment, we will first congratulate them. This is definitely extremely good news.

After all, Intel had once worked with Dream Entertainment and achieved a worldwide sales miracle.

We are looking forward to the birth of the next miracle!

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The attitude of the Wall Street Journal of Lijian Province was obviously not very friendly, even nasty. They openly criticized Dream Entertainment and AMD on their official website:

"The cooperation of liars and lunatics, the people of the world were fooled!"

"Dream Entertainment and AMD worked together to perform a trick to deceive the world!"

"According to our reporter's understanding, Dream Entertainment's parent company, Mirage Technology, obtained a loan of three billion USD in Xia Xia. This loan was currently missing, and Mirage Technology did not announce the whereabouts of this loan."

"However, on the Nasdaq stock exchange, several unknown shell offshore companies suddenly invested a huge amount of money to buy AMD's shares. These unknown offshore companies had already pushed up AMD's share price by more than 675%, and it was still increasing. "

"Our reporter interviewed a senior investment practitioner on Wall Street who did not want to be named. He said that the fluctuation of AMD's shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange was most likely caused by Dream Entertainment behind the scenes.

This senior investment practitioner, who did not want to be named, also showed some relevant information to our reporter, including several shell offshore companies that had invested more than six hundred million USD to buy more than one hundred and seventy million AMD shares. "

"Our reporter randomly interviewed many securities investment staff working on Wall Street. Almost all of them said that the source of the stock fluctuation on the Nasdaq stock exchange was Dream Entertainment."

"Dream Entertainment bought AMD's shares on a large scale. AMD and Dream Entertainment discussed cooperation, and Dream Entertainment announced that their Hero's World had achieved a miraculous victory."

This series of events indicated that AMD's stock would soar, and Dream Entertainment would achieve a win-win situation for both parties. "Hero's World and the Nasdaq stock exchange were successful on both fronts."

"Our reporter condemned the collusion between AMD and Dream Entertainment. This is an act that disrupts the normal order of the stock market. We call on the China Securities Regulatory Commission to investigate AMD and sue Dream Entertainment for unfair competition."

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The Wall Street Journal's influence in daily life was not widespread, but it was quite influential in the professional field. At least among the shareholders, the Wall Street Journal existed like a weather vane.

When the Wall Street Journal publicly accused Dream Entertainment of colluding with AMD and conducting an internal transaction, AMD's share price on the Nasdaq stock exchange did not fall. Instead, it rose crazily.

At 66: 05 AM, AMD's share price had only reached 9.07 USD. Mu Shuang's premium only maintained the price of 9.11 USD per share.

However, after the Wall Street Journal's condemnation report, AMD's share price quickly rose to 9.47 USD. In less than an hour, it increased by 95 cents.

The price continued to rise. Although the speed of increase slowed down, the growth was very stable. There was no sign of it falling.

Xia Xia, Shuangqing City, Shuanghu District, Jade Building, B0.

Shi Lei looked at Izur's feedback information:

Number of online players: 0,976,732

Number of registered players: 0,274,786

Main server load: 18%

City support server load: 30%

IWN Secret Network load: 87%

Shi Lei smiled bitterly as he looked at the gender ratio of the players. The gender ratio was somewhat miserable. Male players made up a little over 20% of the players, while less than 70% were female players. Moreover, more than 60% of the female players were overseas players.

The Brave World was not unsuitable for female players. The Brave World was not just about killing and leveling up. It also had leisure and entertainment activities, including a large number of lifestyle sub-professions. There were even professions that required female players.

Looks like I should increase the publicity and let more female players join. Only then can I adjust the balance of the game, Shi Lei thought to himself.

The more female players there were in a game, the easier it was to attract male players. The Brave World was not Crossfire, and female players did not like it.

As long as the publicity was good, female players would definitely join the Brave World. If it did not work, Dream Entertainment could hire some shills!

Of course, hiring shills was the last resort. Unless it was absolutely necessary, Shi Lei would not choose this path.

"Izur, is the Brave World's main framework stable?" Shi Lei asked. With more than five million players online at the same time, Shi Lei was worried that the main framework would collapse or that the Sword Spirit Game Engine would be destroyed.

"Sir, the main framework is running stably. No bugs have been discovered. Some maps have too many players, and the mission to transfer maps has been automatically activated," Izur replied.

The Brave World did not have a fixed main storyline. Instead, it simulated a strange world similar to the ancient times of the Xia of Xia.

The characters that the players played were just like what Dream Entertainment had advertised. The players would enter a virtual world and start a strange life journey.

In the Brave World, there were too many players in certain areas. Izur took over the main system and dynamically generated the corresponding missions. Once the players completed the missions, they could transfer to other areas.

This dynamic method of generating missions was a special feature of the Brave World. Whether it was daily missions, storyline missions, or hidden missions, they were all dynamically generated. The players would not receive the information in advance, completely preventing cheating.

As for the time wasted during the transfer process, the mission rewards would compensate for it. The players would not lose out too much. In fact, there would even be some profits, so that the players would have the desire to transfer.

If the players were determined not to transfer and stayed in one place no matter what, Izur had a way to deal with them. One of the ways was to rob the bandits!

A large number of players gathered together was a large amount of wealth. As long as the players' location was not prosperous enough, which meant that the map size was not big enough, it would attract the attention of bandits and robbers. This would trigger the storyline of bandits and robbers invading the village and massacring the players.

The Brave World tried its best to simulate a real world, but it was controlled by Izur and Dream Entertainment. It was impossible for the players to deliberately destroy the game's entertainment environment.

"Izur, take care of everything according to the normal operation of the Brave World." Shi Lei set the standard. "Contact me if anything happens!"

Shi Lei stood up and walked out of the core area of the computer room. He took the elevator to the 83th floor and walked toward Mu Shuang's office. He wanted to check on the progress of the acquisition of AMD's shares.

He still did not know that the world's media was in a mess!

He pushed open the door and walked into Mu Shuang's office. Mu Shuang raised her head and looked at Shi Lei before continuing to stare at the monitor. Shi Lei walked to Mu Shuang's side and asked softly, "Mu Shuang, how's the acquisition of AMD's shares going?"

"Not good! We just offered a price of $9.11 per share and only bought 69 million shares. Currently, AMD's shares have risen to $9.43 per share. It's only a matter of time before it breaks through $0.55! "Mu Shuang frowned.

Shi Lei was not too worried. He smiled and said, "Don't be afraid. We will acquire AMD no matter how expensive it is!"

The popularity of the Brave World gave Shi Lei a lot of confidence. Unfortunately, AMD's higher-ups had already guessed that Dream Entertainment wanted to acquire AMD. The Wall Street Journal also condemned Dream Entertainment and AMD for their insider trading.

Under the current circumstances, it would be extremely difficult and impossible to continue acquiring AMD. Fortunately, Mu Shuang had already prepared a countermeasure …

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