Japan, being company.

In this era when time is more precious than money, everyone is working like crazy when it comes to work.

Mazuo Matsumoto, thirty-five years old, is still an ordinary clerk, and his daily life is 9 to 5, and then when he has free time, he goes to an izakaya to sit for a while, and when there are too many people, he goes crazy with a tie tied to his head, and nothing else is out of the ordinary.

"When is this kind of life a head...... he lamented, and although it was the prime of a man, his face was already full of wrinkles.

"Matsumoto-kun, the sixth group of videos of the planning team's B case is uploaded to Dawning.com." Behind him, a majestic male voice sounded.

"Okay, Deputy Section Chief Sakamoto." He replied copistically, familiarly clicking on the folder that he saw every day, and he couldn't be more familiar.

Reproduction, "The Ayumi Hamasaki Era - Influencing a Generation of Popular Culture," uploaded.

With that done, he whistled and turned to double the coffee on the hot water heater.

When he came back whistling again, he found something strange.

Stuck.

The progress bar is stuck, always at 0%.

"Yaga!" He scolded hatefully, he has a career with no future, a hazy life, and now even the Internet is against him.

He canceled the upload and repeated the pointless gesture he had just done.

After he took a sip of hot coffee, he was surprised to find that it was still 0%!

"Whew......" he let out a long breath, his heart inexplicably irritable.

This group is only for Ayumi Hamasaki, and in the history of Japan, there has never been an artist like her, who has changed the pop culture of an era, and BEING has regarded her as the company's cash cow and treasure in the palm of her hand. There was even a special group.

"Miss Shimura, is the network stuck?" He typed on the keyboard with a headache and asked the woman next to him with a frown.

"Nope." Shimura looked at him suspiciously, she was uploading a video of Ai Nei Rina, which had already been uploaded to 90%.

"It's weird." Matsuda muttered and chose to upload for the third time.

However, with the sound of "Di", the next paragraph on the display almost made his jaw drop.

"Because this IP chose to upload illegal videos, the IP address has been blocked, and the unfreezing date is unknown."

"Crazy!" He was so angry that he almost smashed the keyboard, "Ayumi Hamasaki's video is called an illegal video?!" Dawning's network inspector is a waste of users' money! ”

Just when he was angry, an angry voice sounded behind him at the same time, "What the hell is going on with the Dawning Network?" Can you go up? All the videos uploaded by the Ayumi Hamasaki team are stuck! And my IP is locked! ”

"Aha, it's Takeuchi-kun." "Takeuchi-kun, you drank too much last night. Did you upload it to Ms. Muto's video? "Takeuchi-kun, such a thing shouldn't be put in the company. Deputy Section Chief Sakamoto is a strict person. ”

Colleagues in the company laughed, but there was one person who didn't.

Matsuda's mind suddenly flashed with an extremely inappropriate thought.

"No......"

He swallowed his saliva and quickly got on MSN to contact another colleague.

"Nishino-kun, I'll pass a document to you, you can help me pass it, Miss Hamasaki's file, there seems to be a bit of a problem with the network, you can pass it three times."

After the document was sent, he was a little agitated, and nervous, tapping the mouse aimlessly.

In less than a minute, an angry roar rang out from a corner desk, "Matsuda-kun! Did you give me Ms. Ozawa's cuts! Why is my IP also locked! ”

Matsuda's whole body was shaken, and at the same time, his eyes were straight.

Just now, he was extremely bored and began to search for the video of Ayumi Hamasaki on the dawn.

The search page just opened, but he found that there was none!

MVs, commercials, clubs, concerts...... Anything about Ayumi Hamasaki, all disappeared without a trace!

As if this person had never existed!

And, you can't upload any of her videos again!

"Blocked ......" His eyes straightened, he swallowed his saliva, and everyone seemed to be paralyzed, slumped in his chair, and said the last thing he wanted to say.

BEING, the Japanese music giant, their treasure in the palm of their hand, Ayumi Hamasaki in the Heisei Sanhime, actually found the only video network in the world to block!

"Matsuda-kun?" Ms. Shimura, who was next to her, looked at Matsuda, whose face turned blue in confusion, and asked, "What blocking?" Who to ban? ”

Matsuda shuddered and suddenly came to his senses.

Ayumi Hamasaki was blocked, and there was no need for their task force for video sites to exist, that is......

He will face the company's choice!

Since the advent of video sites, it has developed at a steady and rapid pace, and there are similar groups for the company's heavyweight artists, whether in the United States, or China or Japan, dedicated to promoting the positive image of the artists.

"Nothing." He felt his clenched fists, which were covered in cold sweat, and looked up at the office.

Some are staring at the screen irritably, some are laughing and talking, and some are pouring coffee.

No one realizes that an invisible ban on one of BEING's most popular artists has quietly kicked off!

He quietly removed his chair and quietly walked over to Deputy Section Chief Sakamoto's desk.

bowed his head and said a few words, and Sakamoto's eyes, who was reading the information, suddenly widened.

"What!?" Although he tried his best to suppress his voice, his tone was full of uncontrollable consternation.

"You say it again?!" He suspected that his ears were wrong.

Matsuda swallowed hard and whispered, "Ayumi Hamasaki...... It seems to have been completely blocked by the Chinese side of Dawning...... Not only were all the previous videos emptied...... And, moreover...... The new video cannot be uploaded, once uploaded three times, the IP will be blocked immediately! ”

Sakamoto didn't say a word, and quickly clicked on the dawn network.

"Yaga!" A minute later, he finally gritted his teeth and cursed, "These Chinese!" These Chinese! Why did they do it! ”

"It's so thoroughly cleaned! What kind of holiday does BEING have with them! ”

"A bunch of bastards!" His face was pale, his face was dark, he stood up, and walked quickly to the general manager's office.

Ten minutes later, there was an angry shout from the general manager's office.

"Immediately! Call Mizutani back from Kanagawa to me! ”

In just forty minutes, Mizutani was back at BEING.

Her face was very ugly, in fact, she had already guessed the result, but when she received the call, she didn't know what to say.

"Smack!" A stack of materials was thrown in front of Mizutani, and the general manager Nobu Uehara's face was not much better than the bottom of the pot that was deducted, and he stared at Mizutani deadly, "I need an explanation." ”

"You tell me, why did the Dawning Network ban Ayumi Hamasaki!"

"Do you know that there is only one video network in the world?! Who's behind it?! Aside from the small company in China, Sequoia is one of the top five venture capitalists in the world! Microsoft and Oracle have both accepted each other's investments! Now Ayumi Hamasaki has been blocked by Dawn! Why, exactly! ”

Mizutani stared at the stack of materials, his mouth bitter.

You don't need to look at her to know that it is nothing more than that at the dawn of the world, there is no trace of information about Ayumi Hamasaki.

Bitterness is bitterness, and it should be said that it should be repaid.

By the time she finished talking about the causes and consequences of a week ago, Uehara Shin's face was already like the eve of a storm.

"In other words, Ayumi Hamasaki played himself out in order to play a big name?!" His voice was grinding his teeth, and he slammed the table, "She's twenty-seven!" Can't you tell which is more important! Do you really think you're still a seventeen-year-old girl?! ”

"There is only one video website in the world, and now at least half of the artist's exposure is on Dawning! She's not digging her own grave for anything! ”

"Mizutani, I'm very disappointed in you!" Uehara looked at Mizutani like a cannibal, "As her agent, you didn't do your job!" ”

Mizutani smiled wryly and pulled a letter out of his jacket pocket with both hands.

"So, I'm here to submit my resignation."

She maintained a bowing posture and held her resignation with both hands, "Uehara-kun, you know, Ayumi Hamasaki has already angrily left the two agents appointed by the WMA, as far as I know, one of them was Sharon Stone's agent, but AYU turned others away because Sharon Stone was a hit." ”

She smiled wryly, "General Manager Uehara, I really can't stand the torture of this diva anymore......"

"Before the WMA meeting, I reminded him of Lin Jun's identity, but she didn't listen at all. She's a little girl, and even though she's twenty-seven now, I don't think she's any different from seventeen...... With my abilities, I really can't be her agent......"

Uehara sat in a chair, looking at the resignation with eagle-eyed eyes, but did not answer.

After a while, he stood up and pushed back with his hand, "Miss Mizutani, it's not your fault, for the development of AYU, I will continue to choose to consider." ”

Mizutani wanted to say something, but Uehara waved his hand and motioned for her to go out.

She walked out, and Uehara immediately picked up the phone.

"Gather a few assistant managers and have a meeting right away."

Half an hour later, the leaders of BEING gathered in the conference room.

Uehara didn't talk nonsense, and said directly, "Ayumi Hamasaki has been completely blocked from Abono from Aboreal, and I summoned you just to discuss how to deal with this matter." ”

"AYU is the cash cow of BEING, the Japanese diva, and the spiritual idol of the young generation. Within today, there must be an emergency PR. ”

As soon as this sentence was finished, everyone in the conference room was solemn.

"Sugon's parent company is in China." An obese manager spoke: "They are not exerting force now because they have appeared for too short a time, and the antitrust law is like a knife on their heads, and they are waiting and seeing." I wonder if we can take advantage of this opportunity to start a media war against Dawn, completely erase its influence, and establish our own company in Japan? ”

"Yes, you can start in the name of Ayumi Hamasaki, and later you can use it in the name of BEING." Someone immediately chimed in, "Dawning bought the copyrights of most artists, but we didn't agree, now is the opportunity." Otherwise, if it continues to develop like this, once the anti-monopoly department does not take a stand, they will surely grow. ”

There was a lot of discussion, but Uehara did not speak.

Suddenly, a voice rang out, "Why don't you take advantage of the moment to reduce the influence of Ayumi Hamasaki?" ”

Uehara finally smiled.

It is his confidant who speaks.

Everyone knows that in 04, a famous event happened in Japan, which was led by Ayumi Hamasaki.

The retirement of artists in the entertainment circle!