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

Chapter 592 The Star Lords' Discontent (16)

The discussion about the Disaster Response Department in the live stream came to an abrupt end. All the content posted was only visible to the person in charge and then disappeared without a trace.

Without discussion, the relevant content naturally sank without a trace, but some ideas were still preserved and became sparks of their thoughts.

The audience's attention quickly turned to the discussion of the cards. Multiple groups of players began to harass various cities according to Yuan Jie's summary and kept killing the Red Prince Zhao in order to obtain cards.

The new gameplay rekindled players' hope. Despite the immense pressure from the masked man, they continued to collect cards and fight on.

Three days later, Jiang Qiao was rehired.

After re-entering the workforce, she immediately opened her spiritual brain, retrieved her recent dream data, and then let out a surprised sound.

These past few days, the attacks targeting "Journey to the Abyss" have made it completely unwatchable.

A large number of players are online intensively, humming incomprehensible words like "spell cards," "divine power cards," and "spirit beast cards" every day, and then frantically engaging in guerrilla warfare and causing damage online.

Various instructional videos sprang up like mushrooms after rain, teaching people step by step how to fight guerrilla warfare and how to defend themselves, all in order to lure people to their city to fight.

Because no matter how they fight, they will be knocked down by the masked man, so the players are now cursing and fighting at the same time.

Jiang Qiao had expected the online data to plummet to an absurd level, but after seeing 600,000 online users, she was speechless.

Why are you guys cursing so harshly while having so much fun at the same time?

Are players' interests really that strange these days?

Compared to the previous peak of 300,000 concurrent users, Jiang Qiao couldn't help but exclaim, "President Chen is truly amazing! He's an expert at capturing the flow state of players. But why are players still playing for so long even though things are so difficult?"

"Because players don't actually know what they want." Chen Yu looked at the data and said with satisfaction, "Many players think they are pursuing the thrill of being invincible, but they easily get tired of that dream. What they actually want is the feeling of hardship mixed with success. They don't mind if there are more difficulties, and they can even accept a 90/10 chance."

"I see."

Looking at Chen Yu with admiration, Jiang Qiao felt that President Chen was shining brightly, radiating the light of wisdom.

Pointing to the data, she continued, "I was wondering where this card game strategy would be used, but I never expected it to be here. By gradually releasing existing content to attract players and thus retain them, Mr. Chen is truly amazing."

“Indeed.” Chen Yu stared at the data, equally satisfied.

He followed the entire event, and the players' reactions were exactly what he expected.

The card drop rate wasn't very high to begin with, but after discovering that players weren't organizing to harass the occupied areas, he immediately realized that the players in this world didn't seem to have thought of this, so he decisively increased the drop rate to attract players to attack.

If Yuan Jie doesn't appear, then he'll have to consider adding some random storylines to entice players to attack.

With the addition of cards, players are more motivated to continue, moving forward amidst hope and despair, and giving themselves a lot of negative emotions.

Feeling the fragrance of negative emotions, Chen Yu was prepared to welcome the explosion of negative emotions, and then happily earn magic power.

Moreover, the players are doing well, having acquired a total of 1800 cards during their intensive sweeps.

Many of these cards are duplicates, so you can eventually create about five decks.

The chosen players carry everyone's last hope, preparing to use these cards to duel the masked man and carve out a future.

Then they will find that the masked man is stronger than they imagined, but after thousands of duels, they will eventually be able to defeat him.

At that point, the dungeon will end with the players' resounding victory, but before that, the player will have already reaped enough negative emotions, and the player's positive emotions will have reached a threshold, which the player can then continue to reap later.

perfect!

During this period, Chen Yu was completely unconcerned about the slander from the outside world.

In their past lives, which game company didn't make money while being criticized? Besides, they haven't even made any money yet, so what's wrong with reaping a little negative sentiment?
However, just as Chen Yu was getting ready to open the champagne, he suddenly felt a chill.

Chen Yu had a bad feeling that something bad was about to happen, triggered by a sudden impulse.

This premonition was stronger than ever before, causing him to tremble uncontrollably. Rubbing his arms, Chen Yu was utterly perplexed.

The situation is so perfect right now, so where exactly is the problem?

Before he could figure out what was going on, Lian Qu looked up. Her already fair skin looked even whiter, and she even illuminated Jiang Qiao next to her.

Looking at the sky outside, Lian Qu exclaimed, "Oh no!"

Jiang Qiao also felt a chill run down her spine and couldn't help but rush into Lian Qu's arms, asking anxiously, "Mother, what happened?"

"Don't call me mother!"

Even so, Lian Qu still patted Jiang Qiao's head and looked at Chen Yu, saying, "Chen Yu, you're cursed."

"Hmm, they really did come."

Why do you have that 'I knew it all along' look on your face? Just how many bad things have you done before?

"It's not that much, but I have so many enemies and I've threatened so much of the capital's interests, so it's normal for me to be set up by capital."

Looking at the confident Chen Yu, Lian Qu actually felt that what he said made a lot of sense.

However, she shook her head: "This time is different. This time it's some star lords who are dissatisfied with you."

"Huh? Why?"

"Your reputation is terrible now."

Chen Yu looked at Lian Qu with a puzzled expression, and after a long while asked, "That's it?"

"What else? This is part of the media war, I thought you knew that."

"I have only been cultivating for a year and a half, not even a Kun year. Moreover, even normal cultivators don't know about this kind of thing, so how could I possibly know?"

“That makes sense… This is indeed a secret of the Star Lord, it’s normal that you don’t know it. I’ll try my best to explain it to you as clearly as possible.”

After gathering her thoughts, Lian Qu said, "A star lord will bestow blessings upon someone he likes, and will cast curses upon someone he dislikes. You understand that, right?"

"Understandable."

"Media warfare involves smearing a person through various news reports and commentaries, causing their reputation to plummet rapidly in a short period of time, thereby influencing the Star Lord's judgment of that person."

"That makes sense too."

"Well, if this person is mediocre, it's fine, but if this person is outstanding, then the Star Lord's dissatisfaction will turn into a real curse and descend upon you."

"Why is that?"

"It's probably because of the feeling of being angry at their lack of ambition."

"Does he have such a strong fatherly vibe?"

After hearing Lian Qu's description, Chen Yu became a little nervous and then asked, "What kind of curse is it?"

"I don't know, but it probably manifests as some kind of cause and effect, and then affects you or things around you. Do you have any scapegoats or anything like that around you? If you can have the other party take the hit for you, there might still be an opportunity."

"No."

"Then you'll have to take it yourself. But don't worry, it's unlikely to be fatal; you'll just be unlucky at most. Don't worry, I'll protect you."

"Thank you."

(End of this chapter)