Chapter 164: First charge for Zhang Xinjie, sign in and get Sun Xiang.

In the blink of an eye, it is the day for the public beta of E-Sports Manager.

Although the Glory Alliance does not and cannot carry out saturation propaganda as crazily as Fujiko in another world.

However, with the continuous advertising of its star players in the live broadcast room for many days, and the slight promotion and assistance of Tenghai Group under the suggestion of Pei Yunteng,

This game, which did not have much publicity in the early stages, still received enough attention before its public beta.

Especially the audiences in the major live broadcast rooms are full of anticipation for the public beta of the game and the live broadcast gameplay promised by the anchors.

After all, the star player plays himself?
The title alone is enough to make the show interesting.

Han Wenqing’s live broadcast room.

At 11:30 am, the live broadcast room opened on time, and the audience who rushed in saw Han Wenqing, who was wearing his team uniform and sitting upright as usual.

"Good afternoon, everyone." A simple greeting.

Fans have also become accustomed to Han Wenqing's mode of treating live broadcasts as meetings, and suddenly all kinds of amazing comments began to be fired crazily.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Brain!"

"Captain Han is so cute~"

As a star player in the league with very little negative information and even gossip, Han Wenqing doesn't have many jokes about him, so the fans' comments are mostly crazy.

Seeing this scene, Han Wenqing calmly turned on the automatic gift-thank you voice system and began to introduce today's arrangements.

His "Live Broadcast Anti-Phishing Guide" is not for nothing.

As for fans and the like, just leave them there and ignore them.

“Since Honor: Esports Manager will start its public beta today, the main content of today’s live broadcast will be the trial play of this new game.”

"According to our understanding, the main content of this game will be to play the role of a club manager, recruit your favorite players, and compete for the championship of the Glory League."

Han Wenqing introduced the main contents of E-Sports Manager in a serious manner.

But to be honest, there is nothing much to introduce.

The publicity work of the e-sports manager has deeply grasped Pei Yunteng's essence of avoiding the important and focusing on the trivial, focusing on selling emotions and almost glossing over the most important gameplay part.

So much so that Han Wenqing couldn't even tell the length of the live broadcast by just reading the introduction.

Seeing that there were only ten minutes left before the game's public beta test began, Han Wenqing, who had nothing to do, gritted his teeth and started interacting with the barrage.

"Is there anything you want to see about the game content later?"

For a while, there were many different opinions in the comments.

At the beginning, it was quite normal, like "In the second season, he led Tyranny to overthrow the Excellent Era Dynasty".
Or something like "return to the eighth season and overthrow the reincarnation team to win the championship", most of which are some of the uneasy expectations that fans of Tyranny already have.

However, after a large number of people came in for fun, some strange suggestions began to emerge.

"Can the anchor control Excellent Era to overthrow Tyranny and win four consecutive championships in the fourth season? Excellent Era fans really need this!" The speaker proudly swiped a plane.

"Can the anchor get Han Wenqing to join Excellent Era and play Brothers of Glory with Ye Xiu?"

"It feels better if Han Wenqing and Ye Xiu swap careers..."

Han Wenqing was able to carefully write down the fans' demands at first, but when he saw these, his face began to turn dark.

But I couldn't think of any way to fight back at the moment, so I could only stumble over and say, "Please don't make unrealistic demands."

"How is it unrealistic? It is possible that Excellent Era will overthrow Tyranny in the fourth season!" The fan who made the suggestion was very confident when he saw that the fish had finally taken the bait.

"That's different..."

Amid the noise and laughter in the live broadcast room, time gradually approached twelve o'clock.

The time for the public beta of E-Sports Manager has arrived.

Han Wenqing, feeling relieved, said hello to the live broadcast room as if he was escaping, quickly entered the simulator, downloaded the e-sports manager, and logged in.

As soon as you enter, you will hear a wonderful soundtrack:

"We do imagine that this final, which will decide the fate of the two teams, will be very intense and exciting."

“But I’m afraid few viewers would have thought that this game would be so shocking and crazy!”

"Blue Rain and Samsara have fought to the last drop of blood for the final victory!"

Hearing Wei Chen's iconic voice and passionate commentary, Han Wenqing's face froze slightly: "It's the eighth season finals."

He subconsciously felt a little embarrassed.

Although the bloody battle at the Bird's Nest in the eighth season finals was indeed the most exciting, bloodiest and most interesting finals of Honor in recent years.

But it was also the beginning of the collapse of glory.

Whether or not the skill point championship of Samsara is reasonable is still controversial to this day.

Isn't it a bit inappropriate to use this scene as the opening animation?
But since that's how the game is made, Han Wenqing couldn't say anything.

Now that you are here, have fun.

"In that case, I should be controlling Jiang Botao's Wulang against Yu Wenzhou's Soksar."

The magic swordsman's operating skills quickly ran through Han Wenqing's mind.

Although I don’t know how the mobile version of Honor of Kings is operated, I think there are similarities.

While Han Wenqing was thinking, the film on the screen continued.

Sure enough, with the appearance of Huang Shaotian's iconic seven shadow sword steps, the extreme one-for-one exchange against Zhou Zekai was achieved. Yu Wenzhou in the distance also controlled Soksar to start chanting the Death's Gate almost at the same time.

"Is it coming?" Han Wenqing was greatly encouraged.

Although there are various controversies, there is no doubt that Jiang Botao's comeback against Yu Wenzhou is an absolutely exciting moment.

The audience in the live broadcast room also gradually stopped joking around, and everyone held their breath, ready to witness the five-kill streak that changed the fate of Glory.

However, just when everything was beginning to reach its climax, the game screen went black.

When it lit up again, the style of the painting had completely changed.

The interface that was originally completely consistent with Honor suddenly became cartoony and mini.

Jiang Botao's Wulang turned into a little man in Q-version style, wearing cheap plastic-style equipment, which could barely be seen as Wulang's silver suit.

Below the character is Jiang Botao himself, with his head in a middle school pose, and three extremely perfunctory health and blue bars next to it.

"This is..." The momentum that Han Wenqing had accumulated with great difficulty was instantly shattered by this incident. His breath was stuck in his throat, making him feel uncomfortable.

Not to mention him, the audience in the live broadcast room were also stunned by such an epic mess.

It suddenly went from being an exquisitely realistic 3D masterpiece to a cheap two-dimensional card matching game in a second. It would be hard for anyone to keep up with it.

But the e-sports manager would not give them any awkward time. The screen went dark, leaving only an enlarged and brightened arrow pointing at a fancy icon on Jiang Botao's data bar.

Han Wen counted them somewhat numbly.

"I always believe that Samsara can win, no matter who the opponent is!"

Obviously, the lines were very exciting and passionate, but Jiang Botao read them awkwardly, without any emotion, like a forced reading.

Following a not-so-gorgeous special effects explosion, blue flames rose from the Q version of Wu Lang.

At the same time, the two or three skill icons on the operation bar also changed.

The last three-stage slash icon turned into a five-stage slash.

Faced with such a perfunctory performance, Han Wenqing woodenly clicked the flashing five-stage slash button.

Sure enough, there was another perfunctory special effect. The Q version of Wulang made five advances and took down Soksar, who was already left with a little blood.

The moment Soxar fell, the screen cut back to the real scene of the finals, and suddenly, that feeling of passion came back.

But Han Wenqing could no longer be brought in.

“What the hell is this—” His face turned black and he couldn’t help but start to criticize sharply, but then he remembered that this was an official game and it was his job to promote it, so he forced himself to hold it back.

But he doesn't need to criticize it personally.

"No more words, Captain Han. We understand what you mean."

"I'm a stone carver, and this is a stone lion!"

"The league officials don't think it's humorous to have a bunch of big-headed dolls facing each other, do they?"

"I heard that this thing will be launched simultaneously around the world..."

……

Amidst all the controversy, after the opening animation, the game finally entered the main storyline.

Han Wenqing plays the manager of the Glory Team, which just joined the league in the ninth season and is just about to establish his own team.

Then it’s time to decide on the team logo and team name.

Originally, Han Wenqing wanted to come up with a team name and logo of "Ba Tu".

But when he thought of the disastrous experience in the opening final, he subconsciously didn't want to continue.

Since Tyranny doesn’t work…what about this?
Han Wenqing subconsciously entered "佳朝王朝" in the team name, and then selected the Jia Shi team logo.

Well, although Excellent Era was no longer in the league, since they had retained the copyright from previous years, and with a little green light from Pei Yunteng, the e-sports manager was able to keep Excellent Era's team logo.

Since duplicate IDs are not prohibited, this team name was passed smoothly.

Han Wenqing's unintentional choice had an explosive effect on the show.

"Oh my god, Captain Han, are you serious?"

"Are they really going to Excellent Era to lead Ye Xiu to win the championship? It turns out that Ye Xiu is the true love of the Korean team!" The barrage of comments immediately began to cheer crazily.

After choosing a name, you will officially enter the main level.

The first few levels seem to be teaching levels, telling players how to play and operate the game.

Simply put, it is a game of cards matching.

All tactics, equipment, professions, and skill points in Glory have been converted into the purest values.

Han Wenqing's expression became more and more ugly.

until--

"Manager, I have to remind you that a player on our team is injured." The assistant in the game reminded.

"So let's go find a new player to fill his spot!"

"Why don't you find a replacement candidate in advance?" Han Wenqing frowned.

In his opinion, signing a player temporarily is far less effective than having a substitute who has been well-integrated into the team.

But the game obviously ignored his doubts and insisted on leading him to the "Player Signing" area.

Han Wenqing patiently clicked in to take a look.

I saw that the sophistication of the game graphics suddenly increased to a higher level, and the music also became a lot more cheerful.

High-definition photos of a group of star contestants, led by Han Wenqing himself, Wang Jiexi, Zhang Xinjie, Xiao Shiqin, etc., were hung high in the most conspicuous position on the screen.

Below is a line of bold text:

The probability of star player pool in the ninth season has increased!

Han Wenqing hadn't figured out the problem yet, but experienced viewers in the comments had already started to answer:

"Le, it turns out that they paid to draw cards and change skins, no wonder they are so shoddy."

"Do you want to bet on how many draws it will take for the Korean team to pick you out?"

"It tastes right, using salary to create happiness, no money to play ___!"

And at this moment, the entire game truly revealed its true colors.

There are numerous activity entrances on the homepage, such as first deposit, sign-in, market, guild...

The mall and recharge pages are placed in the most conspicuous position, as if to encourage players to make a recharge as soon as they log in.

Han Wenqing suppressed his discomfort and clicked on them one by one, only to see Zhang Xinjie's avatar appear in the first-charge gift package.

Han Wenqing suddenly regretted playing this game.

Even though he didn't know much about games other than Honor, he could still tell how this game was played.

To put it bluntly, it is simply spending money to buy combat power.

Spending money to buy combat power is almost the thing that the Glory Alliance avoids the most after the Samsara incident.

It took Honor half a year to gradually alleviate the impact of the turmoil that year.

But now, this game tells all players and fans one thing in the most straightforward and ugly way:
That's right, we spend money to buy combat power.

Han Wenqing wanted to quit directly to preserve the last bit of dignity for Glory.

But the fans certainly wouldn’t want to stop here, and they all frantically gave gifts, asking Han Wenqing to spend money to start drawing.

Looking at the surging waves of barrage, Han Wenqing didn't know why, but he wanted to laugh.

This game... this league...

There is indeed no hope.

……

Han Wenqing had a lot of feelings about just spending money to draw a card, but some honest people didn't have so many concerns.

For example, there is a certain popular anchor who is rising in popularity. His brain circuit is obviously not enough to support him to figure out such complex issues as the future of the league.

"Want to draw a card? Sure, just draw it." Sun Xiang took out his mobile phone and started to charge money.

He had no prejudice against spending money to buy combat power. On the contrary, he thought it was quite convenient, as it saved him from leveling up and training his account from scratch.

He made a lot of money from live streaming during this period and was quite generous with his money.

While charging, he opened the prize pool list: "Let me see, where am I?"

However, it was not found.

"No, why not me?" Sun Xiang was stunned.

However, his question was soon answered by a comment.

"Brother Xiang, don't look for it anymore. You can get it on the seventh day of signing in at the sign-in interface."

Sun Xiang clicked on the sign-in interface and saw himself in the seventh day's rewards.

You can sign in for seven days to get it, or you can spend some coupons to get it in advance.

It turns out that I, One Autumn Leaf Sun Xiang, am just a free gift for signing in for seven days, right?

Sun Xiang's expression was somewhat distorted.

The 86 rating of Sun Xiang's card made him even angrier.

The card drawing interface of the e-sports manager has a general score for all players, indicating his combat strength.

In the current prize pool, no character has a score higher than 90 points.

The highest score was given by Zhou Zekai with 89 points.

Below Zhou Zekai, Wang Jiexi's 88 points and Han Wenqing's 87 points are considered high.

Sun Xiang, along with Jiang Botao, Xiao Shiqin, Yu Feng and others, ranked in the 86th place.

Sun Xiang is such a competitive person, how could he accept that he is not even in the top three in the league?
I immediately got angry.

This immediately caused a lot of ridicule:
"No, aren't you satisfied with getting 86 points in the top eight? Didn't Yu Feng, the runner-up, also only get 86 points?"

"I've told you so many times, our brother Xiang is not even in the top eight, please know."

Sun Xiang ignored the barrage of comments and clicked on the card draw while muttering things like "There's no way I'm weaker than Han Wenqing" and "The people who make games are blind."

In the first ten consecutive draws, nine were blue and one was purple. The only purple one was Dai Yanqi with a score of 77.

In fact, this score was not low by the standards of a newcomer, but it was obviously not to Sun Xiang's liking.

"Rubbish!" Sun Xiang muttered to himself, and then continued to draw.

However, he didn't know that his words had been recorded by countless marketing accounts, and they immediately started editing them at full speed.

In less than twenty minutes, a series of videos titled "Sun Xiang sharply comments that Thunder rookies are garbage" began to spread on major platforms.

Sun Xiang continued his card drawing process without noticing anything.

"Zhao Yuzhe? That howling elemental mage, 79 points, useless."

"Lü Boyuan? Samsara Judo, eighty-three, not bad."

"Yu Feng? Not as good as me!"

"Zhou Zekai? That's good, but he can only be the vice-captain!"

Amid the laughter and joy in the barrage, Sun Xiang spent a lot of money and drew the lottery, and finally drew out the most perfect lineup in his mind.

In fact, it’s not a lineup at all. It’s just a combination of the highest-rated cards at the moment to form a lineup.

Then spend some coupons to get Sun Xiang himself, and set him as the captain of this team.

I don’t have the talent to be a captain in real life, but it’s ok for me to have some fun in the game, right?

Then go to the arena with full confidence.

"I have such a luxurious lineup, we can't lose, right?" Sun Xiang said confidently.

But I hit the nail on the first try.

Because of the blind pursuit of high scores, Sun Xiang's team almost has no front-line tanks.

The one with the highest tankiness is Han Wenqing’s Desert Smoke.

This resulted in Sun Xiang's team, which lacked a front row, being defeated by an opponent whose lineup score was lower than his but whose configuration was obviously much more reasonable.

The key is that due to the opponent's strategic choice, the core target is Sun Xiang himself in the game.

His One Autumn Leaf wasn't able to deal much damage before he was killed instantly by the first concentrated fire.

"No, Brother Xiang, I haven't seen you for a few days, why are you so tired?"

"Sun Xiang rushed forward! Sun Xiang was targeted! Brother Xiang fell! (crying voice)"

"It's worthy of being given for signing in!"

I can only say that the game E-Sports Manager has various problems and shortcomings.

But the characterization of Sun Xiang is, for some reason, very Sun Xiang.

　The second update brings you to 5,000 words, which is not a small amount.

　　I'm so tired, I'll change the update to the second day, 12,000 tomorrow.

　　来点月票。

　　
　
(End of this chapter)