Chapter 1642 Lu Xiaoping's Interpretation

Meanwhile, at the Shanghai airport.

Lu Xiaoping had just gotten off the plane and was in the special car sent by Sheng Yun Group to pick him up, but his brain was still a mess.

"What exactly is going on here?"

"Can someone explain to me what the plot of this game is all about? What is Boss Pei thinking?"

Lu Xiaoping felt completely bewildered.

After returning to Fanqi Media, Lu Xiaoping had been busy with the publicity and distribution of the new movie. He had been working non-stop for the past few days.

Tengda Corporation's movie, *You Choose the Future*, had not yet been officially released, so although Lu Xiaoping took it seriously, he didn't pay too much attention to it.

Anyway, the movie had already won awards, so it must have real substance. In the end, it would definitely be a real battle, and there was no use in worrying too early. The outcome would inevitably be revealed after the two movies were released.

Lu Xiaoping was also full of confidence in his own movie.

He wasn't too concerned about the game. Although the game had the same name as the movie, it didn't directly compete with Fanqi Media. It wasn't worth spending too much energy on.

But today, after the game was officially released, a lot of information about the game was thrown directly in Lu Xiaoping's face.

The most shocking thing for Lu Xiaoping was that Tengda Corporation was playing the big villain in this game, playing a real monopolistic consortium.

This was outrageous!

Moreover, no matter how hard you tried to find it in the game, you couldn't find any image of other companies in the anti-Tengda alliance. There were indeed several large consortia in the game that supported the rebels, but you couldn't see any clues from their images, trademarks, or the appearance of their leaders.

If you had to force it, it was the companies that were closer to Tengda, such as Tianhuo Studio, Shenhua Group, and Fuhui Capital, that looked more like them.

In short, Tengda Corporation went into the game to be the villain and be defeated, and the whole game didn't mention anything about the anti-Tengda alliance at all.

This made Lu Xiaoping feel very pained, as if his full-strength punch had hit the air.

Originally, he and Nie Yunsheng had judged that since this was a cyberpunk satire, the Tengda Alliance would definitely use the various companies of the anti-Tengda alliance as villains to highlight the importance of their own actions. But they didn't expect that all of their predictions would fail.

They had been building momentum online like crazy, but after the game came out, everything instantly reversed.

The posts that had been building momentum before had turned into very funny performance art, and would be laughed at by countless people.

That's right, not scolded, but laughed at.

A quick browse through the discussions among netizens would reveal that the anti-Tengda alliance had miscalculated this time, and had lost face in terms of public opinion.

"There were so many people who said before that Tengda Corporation wanted to use *You Choose the Future* to damage the reputation of other companies and engage in one-voice-ism. Where are these people? Come out and take a walk."

"I'm dying of laughter. These people are just being too presumptuous! Tengda Corporation didn't even mention this."

"You trash companies actually want to show your faces in a game made by Tengda. Do you know what Tengda's games and movies are? That's art. Not just any Tom, Dick, or Harry is qualified to make a cameo appearance."

"These people are frantically attacking Tengda Corporation for eliminating dissidents and being narrow-minded, but in the end, they realize that it is they themselves who are narrow-minded. They speculate with the worst intentions, but Tengda is broad-minded and very generous, going in to be the villain themselves."

"Do the companies in the anti-Tengda alliance all have persecution complex?"

Seeing these netizens' ridicule, Lu Xiaoping felt as if a mouthful of old blood was stuck in his chest, and he almost spat it out.

Especially when he thought about how Boss Pei had specially tried every means to notify Nie Yunsheng, first by posting on Weibo and then by contacting him privately, trying to tell Nie Yunsheng that Tengda Corporation really didn't arrange anything about the anti-Tengda alliance and Nie Yunsheng in the new game and movie.

But Nie Yunsheng just didn't believe it.

Not only did he not believe what Boss Pei said, but he also thought that it was Boss Pei's trick. He became even more determined to bite on to this point.

The result was: the higher you jump, the harder you fall.

And what made Lu Xiaoping even more desperate was that the movie hadn't even been released yet.

The worldview of the game and the movie was basically bound to be related. Tengda Corporation had already made a cameo appearance as the villain in the game, so it would most likely be the villain in the movie as well.

They couldn't be the villain in the game and then become the good guy in the movie, right? Wouldn't that be schizophrenia?

If that were the case, then all of Fanqi Media's current plans for Tengda Corporation's new movie would be useless, because they had guessed the enemy's strategic intentions wrong from the very beginning.

If it was wrong from the root, then there was no point in talking about what came after.

This put Lu Xiaoping in a very passive position. He began to seriously consider the entire movie's publicity strategy, and wanted to make some corresponding adjustments, but he didn't know where to start.

While he was thinking, he arrived at Sheng Yun Group headquarters.

Lu Xiaoping quickly went to Nie Yunsheng's office, only to find that Zheng Hao and several other company bosses or executives were also there.

Obviously, they had all been stunned by Boss Pei's game and were discussing countermeasures.

The biggest scapegoat, Nie Yunsheng, didn't look too good at the moment. When he saw Lu Xiaoping, he quickly stood up to greet Lu Xiaoping and asked him to sit down, in order to ease the awkward atmosphere.

"I can only say that Boss Pei is a master of psychological warfare. I was indeed tricked by him for a moment. This person is so unpredictable that it's really hard to guess what he's thinking."

"But what's done is done, and we still have to find a way to solve the problem. Otherwise, all the groundwork we laid before the movie's release will be wasted."

"Everyone, if you have any good ideas, please speak up quickly. This concerns our last resort."

In the midst of being open and honest, Nie Yunsheng unconsciously shifted the blame onto the air.

Of course, the others also felt it, but this wasn't the time to assign blame. They still had to solve the problem.

This time, it was a desperate counterattack by the anti-Tengda alliance in a situation where Tengda had already gained a comprehensive advantage in various fields.

If they failed again this time, then the anti-Tengda alliance could really pack up and leave.

Lu Xiaoping had been thinking about several ways to deal with the situation on the way here, and now it was up to him to come up with an idea.

"I think we need to change our strategy now."

"Continuing to stick to the previous strategy is tantamount to seeking our own death. Our attacks saying that Tengda is using the game to slander other companies, engage in one-voice-ism, eliminate dissidents, and smear other law-abiding companies are completely untenable now."

"But we can use their counter-arguments to our advantage."

"There are a lot of people online who are praising Tengda Corporation's self-deprecating spirit, after all, Tengda Corporation did put its own image in the game and made itself the ultimate villain."

"But this is also a point that we can seize, use, and attack."

"That is, Tengda Corporation's self-deprecation is actually not profound, and is even a form of self-beautification."

"If we can interpret this game as Tengda Corporation's beautifying propaganda, then we can dissolve its other connotations and lay the foundation for the success of our movie."

Nie Yunsheng and the other bosses couldn't help but light up, as if they saw hope and dawn.

It sounded like it might actually work.

Currently, the anti-Tengda alliance's biggest worry was that the failure of the public opinion war during the game would also have an adverse impact on the upcoming movie. So the current strategic goal was to at least reduce this adverse impact and lay the groundwork for the movie.

Some players online now want to make this game a masterpiece and extend the game's popularity to the movie, and what they have to do is constantly suppress the game's connotations. Make this game seem very superficial, and then elevate their own movie.

Everyone looked at Lu Xiaoping, "But from which angles should we attack this game?"

Lu Xiaoping thought for a moment and said, "I've briefly watched the recording of this game. In general, the overall plot arrangement of this game is somewhat similar to the movie, so I tried to analyze its connotations in the style of a movie."

"I think that although this game superficially portrays Tengda Corporation as the ultimate villain, Tengda Corporation is actually more like an innocent victim."

"Especially in the plot, the person in charge surnamed Wu almost explicitly stated that although Tengda Corporation has a monopoly position, it has not used this artificial intelligence system for military purposes, nor has it excessively invaded and controlled ordinary people."

"In other words, Tengda Corporation, as a monopolistic group, has retained the most basic conscience, and it is this conscience that has led to their failure. And the business leader hidden in the rebels actually seized this power and stole the fruits of the rebels' struggle. It is conceivable that in the future, it will inevitably develop into a more malicious monopoly tycoon than Tengda Corporation."

"So I think this is a clear denigration and a hidden praise. On the surface, it makes a self-deprecating gesture of making Tengda Corporation the villain, but in the details, it tries every means to beautify Tengda Corporation, making everyone have a subconscious impression: Tengda Corporation may not look very good, but it is still the best of all companies."

"Those companies that clamor to surpass Tengda Corporation will end up being worse than Tengda Corporation."

"Once the audience has this kind of subtle subconsciousness, it is a double harvest for Tengda Corporation."

"On the one hand, they get heat, traffic, and fame through self-deprecation, and on the other hand, they establish such a subconsciousness in the audience's mind, making Tengda Corporation always stand one notch above other companies."

"In short, it's all calculation!"

"But precisely because of this, we can counter this point and conduct a counterattack. We can find a way to dismantle the hidden intentions in this game, expose Boss Pei's conspiracy, and analyze the superficial intention of this game."

"If a cyberpunk work is not criticizing the big chaebols but is actually praising the big chaebols, then the meaning of the existence of this work itself is dissolved by us."

"In this way, the movie *My Property* will naturally be able to completely surpass Tengda's work in terms of intention. Whether it is a game or a movie, it will form a comprehensive crushing!"

"This is turning a crisis into an opportunity!"