Zhang Guangyue: "Anyway, when they arrive, we will go to the sponsor to participate in a promotional event, and after the event, we will go to see the home stadium under construction, and finally discuss how to design the team uniforms. After that, it will be disbanded, and you can continue your vacation. ”

After that, I visited the villa that will be our new base inside and out, because it is still being renovated, the inside and outside look a little cluttered, but I can still see the overall design idea. The first floor is the living room and dining room, the second floor is the training room and several coaches' offices, the third floor is used for video playback and meetings, and the fourth and fifth floors are everyone's bedrooms.

The whole house is very well lit, on a sunny day like today, almost every corner of the house can shine in the sun, and even better is that the surroundings are quieter, and the villa also has a big yard.

Whether it is the surrounding environment or the room itself, it is much better than the old second floor that smells hot pot every day. Thinking of this, I can't help but feel a little more good about that sponsor boss, having money is good, not only can you do whatever you want, but it can also help us poor people get rich together. I believe that by living and training in such an environment, everyone's strength will be further improved.

However, the contractor that Luna just said is still very concerning, and I hope that our overly high-profile behavior will not arouse any suspicion from the other party.

It didn't take long for other teammates to arrive, and everyone got on the bus and went to the venue of the event.

This time, the sponsor is a game graphics card, and their owner is a fan of Luna before, and he is also the person who borrowed our large villa as a training base.

The process of this event is not the same as before, it is not a temporary stage as in the past, and then we have some interaction with the fans who are there. Instead, everyone in the team starts the live broadcast, and the content of the live broadcast is naturally the performance test of that graphics card.

On the way in the past, Zhou Zhenyu and I talked about things these days.

Me: "I still think I'm right, but I'll have to do something smarter next time." ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "What's a smarter way, you have to learn to eat a trench and grow wise, I warned you a long time ago, it's not good to fight against public opinion, and it's easy to give our opponents a chance, this time is not a good example." To be reasonable, if it weren't for Yang Jing and Sweet Zongzi to help this time, you might have been miserable. ”

Me: "You can't just look at these negatives, we can be regarded as having achieved phased results, as long as we are willing to work hard, the general environment will always get better and better." ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "I don't think it's that simple this time. ”

Me: "Oh? ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "Think about it carefully, what is the most talked about in that technical analysis post this time besides hacking you?" ”

Me: "Say I'm the product of the official gods, the son of the alliance or something." ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "Our league has been held for so many years, do we still need to create gods over the years?" From this angle, you seem to be a little out of tune. ”

It seems that this is really the case after he said this. We don't need to create gods in this league at all, because there is a ready-made "god" here - the lights are not shining, he has led the team to win the Open Cup for four consecutive years, and in all these years, no one has ever been able to beat him in a 1v1 match in the ring.

Me: "You're saying that even without yesterday's public livestream, these rumors would have been self-defeating sooner or later and would have had limited effect?" ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "That's what I meant. ”

Me: "The mastermind behind the scenes took great pains to secretly take a video of my duel with Lin Shan, and asked someone to write a technical analysis post to stir up public opinion. ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "It's not clear yet, but after I entered this industry, I checked a lot of relevant information, and the most interesting discussion point is what kind of practice can shake the foundation of a sports event? Do you think that smearing you casually like this, or inciting public opinion, can have the kind of immediate effect in the hearts of the people behind the scenes? ”

Me: "So what do you say will be effective?" ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "Don't talk about far, let's talk about e-sports." Twenty years ago, there was an RTS game that became popular in a neighboring country, and the treatment and fame of the game's e-sports stars even surpassed that of first-line idols, and the whole game was admired to the height of national technology. ”

Me: "Well, I know, that game is also quite popular in our country, but unfortunately it can't beat people." ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "Originally, the commercialization of the league has been very successful, until more than ten years ago, the whole league broke out of the match-fixing scandal, many media revealed that the victory or defeat of each game is actually manipulated behind the scenes, and those famous e-sports clubs that seem to have deep pockets are not making money from the fan economy, TV broadcast fees and sponsor advertising fees. ”

I wondered, "What is that?" ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "Gambling and money laundering. This is the main source of income for the league, and it is also the main source of income for the major esports clubs, and naturally, it is also the source of income for the star players. ”

Me: "......"

Zhou Zhenyu: "If you think about it, you can also know that in that economic situation back then, how could a small country like a neighboring country raise such a high salary and transfer fee for players? As a third-party event, the organizers of the league could not profit from the sale of games, and online payment was far less developed than it is today. Although the number of spectators is large, the payment rate is visibly low, so the source of funds for them to maintain the league is indeed very suspicious. In fact, those news reports only made public such a fact that anyone with a discerning eye could guess, but as soon as this incident came out, the basis for the sports event itself to live on 'fair competition' was gone, and the situation of the entire league naturally took a sharp turn for the worse. ”

Me: "You're telling me not to fake the game?" Do you think I might do this kind of thing? ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "That's not true, it's just that the world is sometimes more complicated than you and I imagined. ”

Me: "You've thought so much, why didn't you say it when I was so anxious the other day?" ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "Hey, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, like you said, as long as you are willing to work hard, it will get better one day." ”

Although Zhou Zhenyu has always been very smart, I always feel that he seems to have experienced something unimaginable at some point, so that he now looks a little "Buddhist", and he looks like he is sure of what will happen in the future. I don't know where his confidence comes from or what the basis is, but since he said so, I have to rest assured for the time being, after all, according to the current intelligence, we still have the initiative in the confrontation with the mastermind behind the scenes.