I am a demonic cultivator, not a capitalist with a conscience.

Chapter 548 He Lost (36)

Chen Yu did not have this idea.

He just felt that something was wrong with the current situation.

His backstab radar kept going off, making him feel that something big was about to happen, and he had to deal with it quickly.

Compared to his own premonitions, Cao Zhen, this legendary Buddhist talent, was nothing special; he might as well just deal with it as soon as possible.

But Cao Zhen immediately injected all the medication into his veins and roared, "This isn't over!"

Chen Yu waved his hand, and Ma Daqiang behind him immediately understood and stepped forward, pointing at Cao Zhen and saying, "Are you sick in the head, you good-for-nothing! My godfather is giving you face by asking you to surrender. If you resist again later, be careful my godfather will rip your head off and stuff it into your anus, so you'll know what rectal bullying is!"

"It's workplace bullying, but I feel like you're being a bit harsher."

"There are still seventeen sentences left, pay attention," the Inspector General of Changsheng Prefecture reminded him. "Cao Zhen, do you have any new evidence on your end?"

"Yes! Our Dreamland started its promotion a few days ago. Little Dreamland has already been launched. Based on the launch time, it is obvious that Little Dreamland came first. It is definitely plagiarism of our Disaster Response Department."

The chief inspector of Changsheng Prefecture's lips twitched, and his gaze toward Cao Zhen was already turning sour.

How despicable!

Cao Zhen's approach was to let players seize the initiative and use the time difference to make players believe that "Little Dreamland" came first, and then influence the Star Lords' perceptions through the players.

This is a common tactic used by capital, and also a common combination of their strategies.

By suing to control the other party's release time, and then quickly imitating and releasing their own work ahead of time, they can then use history to portray themselves as the original author and claim that the other party is the plagiarist.

Even if they lose the lawsuit, they can still win a lot of public opinion points; it's a tactic that relies on burning money.

How could you possibly stop such a blatant scheme, Chen Yu?

Although the Chief Inspector of Changsheng Prefecture already felt that the outcome was decided, he still glanced at the scales and then found that the scales had dropped to 7:3 and were moving towards 8:2.

"How is that possible?" the Inspector General of Changsheng Prefecture asked, puzzled.

Upon seeing this, Cao Zhen stood up in astonishment and exclaimed, "How is this possible!"

Under intense emotional turmoil, the blood vessels in his temples could no longer hold, and a spurt of blood gushed out, creating a small fountain on the top of his head.

Pressing hard against her ruptured blood vessels, Cao Zhen stared intently at Chen Yu and demanded sharply, "Chen Yu, what did you do? You were under my surveillance the whole time, what did you do?"

Faced with Cao Zhen's emotional outburst, Chen Yu calmly said, "I don't know either, but calm down!"

"How could I possibly calm down! I bombarded you all with 'Buddha's Mercy,' a single shot costing 80 million, totaling 240 million! I made 'Little Dreams,' spending 200 million on the production costs alone. I spent money on lawyers, and part of the losses in Tianmu City are also on my end. And yet you haven't shared a single penny of the consequences. How can you expect me to calm down! Tell me, what did you do?"

"I really do not know."

"Ahhhh!"

Seeing Cao Zhen's outburst, Chen Yu realized how harmful a gambler's mentality can be.

However, Chen Yu didn't know why this was happening. The monk on the other side saw the message, smiled bitterly, and said, "Cao Zhen, you're not as skilled as him, so let it go."

"I refuse to accept this! At least let me know how I died!"

At this moment, Cao Zhen's face was flushed, and his blood pressure was soaring, causing multiple blood vessels to burst throughout his body, making him look extremely frightening. The monk sighed again, waved his hand, and opened a live streamer's room, showing it to everyone.

This streamer was paid by Cao Zhen to promote the show, and the content of the stream was "Little Dreams".

The content of the live stream was fine, and the content shown in the dream was fine, but the viewers in the live stream room had a lot of questions.

[Strange, is this "Little Dreams"? It doesn't look the same as the one I played a few days ago.]

Me too. The one I played was much more fun; this dream world just didn't have that same feeling.

[Yes, I experienced it while riding the Traveller bus. I even forgot how many legs the tour guide had along the way, but I still remember how amazing that dreamlike experience was; it was truly fantastic.]

Same here. I was still wondering how to get through "The Road of Mortals," but the streamer didn't show me anything. If it weren't for you guys, I would have thought I made a mistake.

Indeed, and what about all those girls you could pursue in "The Road to Immortality"? Why can't we see any of them here?

So, the streamer was playing a pirated version?

Various comments kept emerging, leaving Cao Zhen bewildered and wondering why such remarks were being made.

It wasn't until he saw an apology statement that he understood Chen Yu's entire plan.

In the video, a bandaged man covered in bandages bows sincerely to the camera and says, "Everyone, I'm sorry. I am the owner of the Cloud Manufacturing Factory, the Bandaged Man. I deeply apologize for the 'Little Dreams' circulating on the market. I illegally stole 'My Dreams' and published it, and I want to express my apologies to Mr. Chen Yu for this. At the same time, I want to clarify that although my pirated version of the dream is titled 'Little Dreams,' it has absolutely no relation to the 'Little Dreams' of the Disaster Response Department; it just happens to have the same name."

The video was only one minute long, but for Cao Zhen, it felt like being slowly tortured for sixty years.

"It can still be like this!"

Despite his best efforts to guard against it, he never expected the bandaged man to pull a fast one and start selling pirated goods.

By publishing the dream in advance through piracy, they preemptively created evidence of its release.

Furthermore, the pirated version was renamed "Little Dreams," forcibly linking the dreams of Dawn and the dream of the Calamity Response Department, forcing players to make a comparison.

The opponent's quality is far superior to one's own, and the result of the comparison can only be a crushing defeat.

He could already picture the scene: when someone mentioned Little Dream, someone would definitely ask, "Which one? The one with the bandaged man as a bootleg, or the one with the Calamity Response Department as a bootleg?"

Now, not only is his own reputation ruined, but the Disaster Response Department will also become a laughing stock. Not only did he fail to achieve his goal of seizing "My Dream," he also made a huge blunder.

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The sound of blood hitting the ground continued to ring out, but Cao Zhen could no longer hear anything.

The promotion of "Little Dreams" continues, but the more he promotes it, the louder the related doubts become.

The outcry has already formed, and the condemnation of the Disaster Response Department has begun. This is the prevailing trend on the Dream Network, and he can no longer resist it.

Influenced by the public outcry, the attitudes of the Star Lords are also changing.

从最开始的3:7，到4:6，再到5:5，6:4，象征着裁定的天平在不断地倾斜，最终来到10:0。

The fate of the world has been decided, the general trend has been determined, and everything has settled down.

He, Cao Zhen, lost.

(End of this chapter)