The next morning, Henry looked at Bob Doerr's departing figure and muttered, "I don't know what he would have thought if he knew that I was the real culprit behind the 9/11 incident, hehe......"

Henry then returned to the hall and sat by the fireplace in the classical European style while reading a book.

Henry's brain was unusually active, like a scanner, looking at a page, and in a short time, he read a thick book of hundreds of pages of biotechnology. On his right-hand side, fifty or sixty books were stacked on top of each other, piled up like a small mountain. Most of these books are on biotechnology and artificial intelligence. Although Henry himself is already a veteran expert in these two areas, it is good to learn a little more from others.

Heaven has given Henry a talent far beyond ordinary people, if he doesn't use it, wouldn't it be a waste?

History is changing little by little, and only knowledge is Henry's greatest wealth and dependence. He wants to use his talent to become a scientist and develop better technology. Tony Stark, the protagonist of Marvel's "Iron Man", is an inventive genius, but Henry thinks he should be even more genius than Tony Stark!

There was a large personal laboratory in the basement of Williams Manor, where Henry sometimes went to do some research. Before Bob Doerr arrived, Henry had been living on the manor and had not gone out. Princess Ulysses has long since returned to England, Karina is preparing for the Asian financial crisis, and Helen is busy with the film company.

Previously, Helen failed to acquire Shogakukan and Shueisha in Japan, mainly because the Japanese government intervened, and manga is one of Japan's pillar industries, and it will never be allowed to be acquired by foreigners. Today, Karina is the queen of the investment world, and she is famous in the business world. But Helen can't be too bad, so Henry asked her to take over Galaxy Pictures and be the queen of the film industry. Bobby Robin, the former CEO of Galaxy Films, took over ABC TV.

Henry can only be alone at home, how to spend a long time? Then he can only immerse himself in scientific research.

……

On November 1st, the registration for the WCG competition will begin, and the registration method is to log in to the registration area of the Firefly game platform.

The prize money for the first place is $2 million, the second place is $1 million, and the third place is $500,000. Due to the high prize money, it attracted a lot of people to sign up for the competition. Among them, South Korea has the largest number of participants. "StarCraft" is a hot mess in South Korea, and everyone in the Internet café is playing "StarCraft", so many masters have also been born. In the previous life, from the first WCG "StarCraft" in 2000 to 2011, when Starcraft 2 replaced Starcraft 1 as a WCG competition event, all WCG champions were Korean players. StarCraft can be called the national game in South Korea!

There are also a lot of people playing StarCraft here in China, and there are many masters.

As soon as they heard that the winner of the contest was worth $2 million, everyone became fanatical. $2 million is equivalent to more than 16 million RMB. Winning the championship is enough for a lifetime.

In China, parents are strongly opposed to playing computer games. However, as soon as the bonus came out. Parents were shocked, it turned out that the game was so profitable......

"Son, have you signed up for the WCG competition?"

"Nope!"

"Then hurry up and sign up!"

"But...... The college entrance examination is coming next year?"

"Stupid boy, is it important to have 16 million yuan in the college entrance examination? Didn't you say that your skills in playing games are the best, and no one can beat you?

patted his son on the shoulder, and said earnestly, "Remember to fight hard, be careful and serious, don't be nervous!"

……

On November 15th, the WCG official tournament was held.

The competition is divided into preliminary round, semi-final, and finals. The preliminary round is played by randomly selecting opponents through the Firefly game platform, and the 100 strongest players in each country are selected. In the semi-finals, the players go to the competition area designated by each country to compete, and finally select 3 opponents to participate in the finals. The finals will be held at the headquarters of Firefly Games.

In this cold winter, the race is in full swing.

At this point, the attention of the entire gaming world shifted to WCG matches.

WCG tournaments have such high prize money that players who didn't play StarCraft in the past are following suit. According to the statistics of Firefly Games, the number of new players in the WCG competition from registration to selection exceeded 10 million.

The reason why the number of players has skyrocketed, the bonus is undoubtedly the most attractive to them. In addition, everyone has a herd mentality, everyone else is playing this game, if you don't play it, wouldn't you be out? So, join the ranks of this game.

This time, Firefly Games, as the organizer, can be regarded as a big show, and its popularity has skyrocketed, and the recent major game magazine pages are basically WCG and Firefly!

Firefly Games held a press conference to continue adding to the fire.

"Next year, Firefly Games will have a number of games that will join the WCG competition, and the prize money for each competition will not be less, at least more than two million dollars!!!

This is simply a naked ~ naked temptation!

And the purpose of Firefly Games to offer such a high prize money is to develop WCG into a World Cup in the game industry! As the organizer, the influence will be extremely huge! This competition project is only "StarCraft", but it will increase every year, and there will be "CS", "Warcraft", "Age of Empires", "DOTA", "LOL" and so on...... As the scale of the competition grows, so does the popularity. On the one hand, it can promote the development of the game, on the other hand, the ratings of the game are high, and the naming rights, advertising fees, and broadcast fees are very expensive. At the same time, some new industries were born, such as game commentators.

The Football World Cup, Rugby Super, the Olympics, etc., every time an event is held, it makes billions or even tens of billions of dollars, and WCG should be able to do the same. Therefore, the bonus in the early stage is considered an investment, as long as the fame is big and the ratings are high, the money will naturally roll in.

On December 20th, the WCG competition ended. However, to Henry's speechlessness, the top three were all divided between South Korea.

On the podium, the Korean champion proudly said: "The game level of "StarCraft", we are the first in Korea, and players from other countries are vulnerable, if anyone is not convinced, you are welcome to challenge me at any time!"

When the players present heard this, they immediately gritted their teeth, but at the same time they were ashamed. There is indeed a gap between their strength level and that of the Korean champions, and it would be self-inflicted humiliation to challenge him.

However, Henry couldn't stand it anymore, he had already abused South Korea.

Henry's eyes narrowed, and he smiled disdainfully: "Since you are so arrogant, don't blame my brother for abusing you to death!"

(I'm a little tired today, only 3 more, write a little more tomorrow.) ）

(To be continued.) )