Chapter 21 Alarming Signals

"Senior, it seems that DGE Club is currently participating in a 'Making a Scene Competition' organized by ZZ Live. It's said that winning a match can bring in a maximum of 100,000 yuan in prize money, split evenly between the players and the club."

"Senior, Feihuang Studio seems to have received a project from Sloth Apartment, helping to edit a promotional video for Sloth Apartment. They even asked Chen Lei to write the theme song for the promotional video."

The enormous danger instantly alerted Pei Qian!

DGE Club was already teetering on the brink of crisis. The previous 2 million yuan sponsorship was already a very dangerous signal. He didn't expect that just a few days later, they would come up with new tricks!

Winning a match, 100,000 yuan?

It didn't sound like much, but this "Making a Scene Competition" was likely to gain extremely high exposure!

If DGE Club's exposure increased, it might receive more sponsorships, and then the situation would be terrible…

As for the collaboration between Feihuang Studio and Sloth Apartment, it caught Pei Qian off guard.

Moreover, he never expected that even Chen Lei would secretly sneak back to Jingzhou, wanting to ambush him!

Pei Qian was speechless. You, Chen Lei, kept saying we were good friends, but after returning to Jingzhou, you didn't come to see me first, but instead went to find Huang Sibai, thinking about how to harm me!

Both of these things were extremely dangerous.

But it was too late to stop them. He could only try to salvage the situation now, immediately.

Regarding Sloth Apartment, Pei Qian thought of a way: to have Liang Qingfan write the rental requirements of Sloth Apartment on the Sloth Apartment website and the Tengda Life App!

Sloth Apartment had numerous regulations, especially the lack of storage space, the inability to purchase furniture or change the room layout, and the acceptance of only long-term rentals and not short-term or shared rentals. These could deter the vast majority of people.

Clearly stating everything from the beginning would definitely effectively dissuade most people!

Pei Qian was indeed worried about online exposure channels like promotional videos, but he was also very clear that exposure was unavoidable.

Tengda's every move now attracted a lot of attention. Having a Sloth Apartment rental project couldn't be kept secret forever.

Pei Qian was more worried that these potential customers would actually come to the site, see the house, and decide to rent it in the heat of the moment!

After all, Sloth Apartment was designed by Liang Qingfan. This minimalist style had a very visual impact, and many people might not have time to think about the shortcomings of Sloth Apartment and would move in impulsively.

Therefore, Pei Qian had to make Liang Qingfan write out all the shortcomings and problems of Sloth Apartment first, and dissuade potential customers before they came to see the house.

In this way, there should be very few people who rented Sloth Apartment on a whim.

And even if they did rent, the inconveniences in life would create a continuous deterrent effect after living there for a long time.

As for DGE Club, Pei Qian hadn't thought of a very good solution yet.

He could only slowly think of a solution later.

Soon, the management trainees had all reported.

Pei Qian was very satisfied with the first management trainee meeting after the exam week.

"Everyone has done a great job, please continue to work hard!"

…

In the afternoon, ZZ Live platform.

The "Making a Scene Competition" was about to begin!

Before the competition had officially started, a large number of viewers had already poured into the live broadcast room, mainly due to the overwhelming publicity that ZZ Live had done to promote the competition.

Moreover, the name "Making a Scene Competition" naturally had excellent propagation attributes. Hearing these four words, many people would subconsciously want to understand the rules of the competition.

The schedule had already been released. ZZ Live platform had invited the best teams in the country, and the "Invincible Team DGE," which Waiwai Live had been hyping for a long time, was also among the participating teams!

Therefore, many viewers had come to ZZ Live platform, wanting to see if the legendary "Invincible Team" was really invincible, or just hyped up by the live broadcast platform.

Waiwai Live had worked hard to create hype for Huang Wang, but ZZ Live had taken advantage of it.

But Waiwai Live was not to be outdone.

You can leech off me, so can't I leech off you?

ZZ Live invested a lot of publicity resources for this Making a Scene Competition. Waiwai Live knew that it was difficult to stop it, so it simply didn't try to stop it, but instead prepared to directly pick up the ready-made benefits.

Because Huang Wang was streaming his first-person perspective here on Waiwai!

Indeed, the competition was being held on your ZZ Live platform, but want to see Huang Wang's first-person perspective? Sorry, you still have to come to our Waiwai Live.

What's more, the participants in this competition weren't just the members of DGE Club. Members of clubs like H4 also participated, including Pang Ling and others, who had signed contracts with Waiwai Live.

Therefore, although they were competitors who usually couldn't wait to beat each other's brains out, the two sides had miraculously reached a consensus on the "Making a Scene Competition."

You leech off me, I leech off you. We'll each take as much heat as we can, and no one will mess with anyone else.

And the two major live broadcast platforms were both promoting the Making a Scene Competition, which made the competition accumulate a huge amount of hype even before it started!

Most viewers already understood the rules of the Making a Scene Competition.

In short, the Making a Scene Competition could be seen as an entertainment match. Viewers rated the teams based on the Making a Scene Index, but the prerequisite was that they had to win.

If you lost, it didn't matter how good the act was.

The reason for setting such a rule was mainly to ensure that the competition had enough antagonism. If it was purely about making a scene, and both sides chose ten unpopular support heroes to mess around, then the competition would have no viewing value at all.

The biggest advantage of the current rule was that the primary goal of all teams was to win, and to make as much of a scene as possible while ensuring victory.

In this way, both sides would play very seriously, and the competition's competitiveness, antagonism, and viewing value could be guaranteed.

At the same time, this rule also ensured that the strength of both sides could be close, avoiding the situation in regular matches where one side went all out and shut out the other side.

If the act was good, the prize money could be doubled, so strong teams would rack their brains to make a scene, increasing the entertainment effect of the competition; but this kind of act might also backfire, and they might be overturned by a weak team that was playing seriously.

Whether the strong team won by making a scene, or the strong team's act backfired, it would be very topical.

Therefore, this rule balanced entertainment and antagonism very well, and created enough gimmicks.

In DGE Club, Huang Wang began to distribute the program list.

Winning without making a scene would only get 50,000 yuan, but winning by making a scene could get 100,000 yuan, which was double the amount.

Therefore, Huang Wang and others had already prepared several strategies for making a scene, and they could use them directly when the competition started.

For example:

Sending heads across the field without killing a single enemy, but ensuring economic parity through laning and grabbing map resources, and finally winning the match with 0 kills through split pushing, kiting, and stealing the base;

The whole team choosing five unpopular and weak heroes to win;

One person AFK hanging up the whole game, winning four-on-five;

Winning with the ultimate four-protect-one strategy;

Winning by cutting creep waves and cutting three lanes of creep waves on the high ground;

Winning by not dying and not going home;

Winning by bringing Ma Zong to the match...

Of course, bringing Ma Zong was too difficult, so everyone decided to play two matches first to test the opponent's current level before deciding whether or not to deploy Ma Zong.

After all, making a scene was making a scene, but if they screwed up, it would mean losing 100,000 yuan, which was too painful.

The reason for preparing so many ways to make a scene was mainly to prevent the audience from getting bored.

By interspersing various tricks, and making the act better and better as the competition progressed, the audience would feel refreshed and give high scores, and only by getting high scores could they get the full 100,000 yuan prize money.

The second team went first. Huang Wang signaled the team members to follow the first script and win the match without killing a single person.

…

The competition began, and dense barrages of comments began to float across the live broadcast room.

Five minutes into the game.

"DGE's second team has a very solid foundation! Their last hitting is like a painting! Their positioning is also very good, and their ability to pressure the enemy's health in lane is also very strong. They have advantages in all three lanes!"

"Huang Wang is a bit fierce, the opponent has already been forced back home twice, and missed a lot of creeps."

"DGE Club being hyped as invincible doesn't seem to be unfounded."

Ten minutes into the game.

"What does DGE mean by this? Why did they suddenly start with a 0-5 score? The jungler keeps stealing jungle monsters, ignoring the lives and deaths of the laners?"

"The anti-gank awareness in all three lanes is very poor. Why are they being caught so frequently? When did the opponent's jungler become so fierce?"

"Fortunately, DGE's players die after pushing the lane each time, so their development hasn't fallen behind, and they've also taken all the map resources. The economies of both sides are still equal."

"So, are you guys making a scene? Why do both teams seem so serious, and no one is playing any tricks?"

"Is this the DGE that's being hyped as invincible? This is quite funny!"

Twenty minutes into the game.

"Why is DGE already 0-12? They can't get a single kill?"

"The opponent's players successfully escape with low health every time? Their luck is too good…"

"These members of DGE aren't doing this on purpose, are they? Look, they die one by one, and they never get wiped out in a team fight, but when the two sides team fight, the opponent is reduced to five low-health players and can only go home, while DGE can take map resources."

"DGE even took the Baron? If I covered up the kill count, I would have thought that DGE had a big advantage!"

"The opponent has so many kills, but the economy of each position is not as good as DGE's? Is this too magical?"

Thirty minutes into the game, DGE steals the base and wins.

"I went there! They actually won?"

"They can win with 0 kills in the end? What kind of match did I just watch!"

"I understand, DGE has been making a scene from the beginning! Their goal is to win without getting a single kill! I was wondering, Huang Wang felt like he had several chances to solo kill or reap the rewards, but he gave them all up. I thought he was being timid, but it turned out that he was doing it on purpose!"

"Damn, so that's how it is. DGE's acting is too good! They not only deceived their opponents, but also deceived the audience!"

"Awesome, they can win even like this. I believe that DGE is an invincible club!"

Many viewers belatedly realized what was going on, and began to vote like crazy, and the Making a Scene Index instantly maxed out!