Chapter 306 A Ray of Light

The magic capital, Longyu Group.

A gloomy atmosphere filled the conference room.

Zhao Xuming shrank his neck like a little chick in a slaughterhouse, trying his best to lower his sense of presence.

Eric, on the other hand, looked at the report, his face becoming increasingly unsightly.

Obviously, they had already learned about what had happened over the weekend.

With Qiao Laoshi's video, the online sentiment had completely reversed. The players, who had almost forgotten about the matter due to the lottery event, suddenly became unimpressed and felt that Tenda's benefits were more conscientious!

In particular, the lottery model of "Fitness Battle" was not only conscientious but also very educational, instantly widening the gap in terms of ideological realm!

Eric and Zhao Xuming had originally thought that Tenda would be on holiday over the weekend and would not take any counterattacks, right?

So Longyu Group also took a break on Sunday and was not fully prepared.

By the time the online opinion had formed, it was too late to respond, and they could only stare blankly at the report on Monday.

"As expected of President Pei, he had already arranged a backup plan before taking a break with peace of mind."

"This move is simply cutting off the fuel supply. Instead of competing with us, he deconstructed the motives of our lottery event. This is the so-called dimensionality reduction attack."

"But… how exactly did he predict that we would use a lottery event?"

Eric couldn't help but glance at Zhao Xuming.

Zhao Xuming quickly coughed twice: "Well… I think we fell into President Pei's trap. Because our original event and the 515 Game Festival event used most of the discounts and promotions, except for the lottery method."

"And President Pei predicted that we would inevitably use a lottery model, so he prepared an article in advance..."

Zhao Xuming made a strong analysis, with the subject pronoun being invariably "we."

Obviously, this idea was his, but he absolutely couldn't bear the blame alone. Since everyone approved it together and no one objected, then everyone would have to share the blame.

Eric was also kind enough not to continue to pursue the matter and changed the topic: "Alright, let's not talk about this. President Pei is good at calculations, and it's inevitable that we will occasionally make mistakes."

"The key question now is, how do we end this lottery event?"

Qiao Laoshi had already predicted in the video that the grand prize of Longyu Group's lottery event, the car, would definitely be won by a tycoon, and the money spent by the tycoon would definitely be far more than 100,000 yuan.

This move was really too heart-wrenching.

Now a large number of netizens, whether they participated in the lottery or not, were all staring at where this grand prize would end up.

If it was really won by a tycoon who spent a lot of money, then it would prove that what Qiao Laoshi said in the video was completely correct: this lottery was a fake probability, designed to make money, and rare prizes could only be obtained by spending more money, and ordinary players could only accompany the run even if they spent money, and would never be able to win this car.

In fact, Longyu Group's lottery program was indeed designed this way, and Qiao Laoshi guessed correctly.

So Longyu Group was considering whether to force the award to a lucky ordinary person in order to prove that Qiao Laoshi was wrong?

But in this way, netizens would suspect that this was a rigged operation, and those tycoons who had spent a lot of money in the lottery event would be very unhappy: why did he win the car after spending only a few hundred yuan, while I spent hundreds of thousands and didn't win the car?

This matter was embarrassing.

It seemed that no matter how the car was distributed, it would offend people and be scolded!

Doing it according to the original method was beastly; but if it was changed, it would be worse than a beast.

Everyone lowered their heads in silence.

Eric sighed softly and continued: "What's even more deadly is that Tenda seemed to have secretly changed the probability of the 515 event yesterday."

"Although there is no solid evidence, many players speculate that the drop rate of various rare props and even cash red envelopes has at least doubled!"

"Tenda's is a real probability, secretly changed to increase the drop rate; while ours is a fake probability..."

"As a result, players' trust in us has greatly decreased, while their trust in Tenda has reached an unprecedented height..."

Everyone continued to be silent, their heads seemingly buried even lower.

Everyone was well aware of the seriousness of this matter.

Many players on the Internet were joking: I didn't expect you, Tenda, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, to secretly change the probability too!

But other companies secretly changed the probability to make it lower, secretly cheating people; Tenda secretly changed the probability to make it higher, giving players double the benefits!

If the 515 Game Festival event required payment, this behavior of secretly changing the probability would definitely make the players who had spent money before dissatisfied. But the event didn't make the players spend money, and those who got rewards before could continue to get them now, so the players were all ecstatic.

After this incident was exposed, the players' enthusiasm for Tenda's 515 Game Festival was even higher!

With this ebb and flow, although this money-burning war has not completely ended, in terms of popularity and reputation, it is vaguely already a complete victory for Tenda.

Eric considered for a long time and had to ask and answer himself: "The car matter should still be done according to the original method. There are already many people who have spent tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands in this lottery event, and they won't feel unbalanced if the car is given to this group of people."

"As for the online public opinion, we can only wait for this period to pass before slowly thinking of a solution."

Between two evils, choose the lesser one. Relatively speaking, it is still necessary to take care of the tycoons' mentality.

Moreover, although this lottery event has plummeted in popularity due to President Pei's dimensionality reduction attack, it is only not as good as Tenda, compared to other game companies, it is still very conscientious and worthwhile.

Therefore, players will not go to extremes and spray it to death. As long as they avoid the limelight and don't fight Tenda to the death, some players will still appreciate it.

Zhao Xuming quickly said: "That's right, we still can't be led by the nose by President Pei, we have to follow our own rhythm."

Eric glanced at him, feeling a little tired.

Just then, Zhao Xuming received a message on his phone.

He confirmed it repeatedly, and then his face lit up.

"Good news!"

"Tenda is already considering selling the building!"

Eric also instantly perked up when he heard this: "Are you sure? Is the source reliable?"

Zhao Xuming said: "It should be reliable! Tenda seems to be interested in selling the Lazy Sloth Apartments, the building that was just bought and renovated some time ago, and it is said that they are not asking for a sky-high price, obviously wanting to close the deal as soon as possible."

"This news has been verified by many parties, it shouldn't be false!"

In the conference room, everyone's expressions quickly improved.

Sure enough, a smile appeared on Eric's face: "Sure enough, our approach is correct! Tenda's funds have finally run out, and they have to consider selling the building for turnover!"

"I have to sigh, Tenda's funds are really abundant, they have managed to persist until now."

"We have to continue to burn money!"

"At least until President Pei successfully sells the building and gets the money, Tenda should be unable to compete with us. As long as we do a new event after Tenda's 515 Game Festival ends, we can let Tenda be beaten unilaterally and take back all the popularity that we lost before!"

"During this vacuum period, we will definitely gain a lot by burning money!"

The faces of everyone in the conference room were filled with smiles.

After persisting for so long, they finally saw the dawn of victory!

Of course, Tenda has many buildings, and they can persist for a long time if they sell them one by one. There is no doubt that this money-burning war will continue for a long time.

But this represents a signal.

After a long period of burning money, Tenda has finally begun to run into deficits.

Before, no matter how much money Tenda burned, they seemed to be able to earn it back, like a god who would never bleed. But once a god bleeds, it means that it can also be defeated!

…

At 5:00 PM, Pei Qian was preparing to get off work.

He, who was preparing to sell the building, felt refreshed and seemed to see the dawn of losing a large sum of money this cycle.

However, just as he walked out of the office, he glanced at the employees in the office area and suddenly stopped, feeling that something was not right.

What was wrong…

Where did all the snacks on everyone's desks go?

Pei Qian remembered that when he came before, most of the employees' desks were filled with snacks, and they were eating non-stop. Only a few employees who were seriously losing weight didn't eat snacks, but most of them would also take some low-calorie snacks or sugar-free drinks.

But today, everyone's desks were empty, with neither snacks nor drinks!

Pei Qian was dumbfounded, what's going on?

Isn't everyone hungry today?

He specifically went to the water bar to take a look, wasn't the snack area fully stocked with snacks? There wasn't a shortage?

What exactly was going on?