Chapter 7: Public Opinion Out of Control (Part )
Xianyu is a short video application launched by Tencent in 2016.

As a time traveler, Pei Yunteng has no reason to miss out on short videos, the strongest and most powerful outlet in the mobile Internet era.

Sure enough, due to the popularity of Xianyu short videos, Tenghai Company finally successfully transformed from a game company to an Internet company, and eventually reached its current scale.

This time, the inside story about Ye Qiu's retirement was revealed on Xianyu.

It goes without saying who is the driving force behind the scenes.

Sure enough, not long after, bursts of exclamations suddenly began to be heard in Xingxin Internet Cafe again.

Pei Yunteng, the boss of Tenghai, who often appears on social media and is known as the most people-friendly super-rich man,

Using all his social media accounts, he simultaneously posted another video.

It is the recording of the meeting between Jia Shi and Teng Hai.

It contains all the content of the part where Pei Yunteng stood up for Ye Qiu.

The post reads: "The world is a huge makeshift team."

Pei Yunteng's statement completely shattered the only hope in the hearts of Excellent Era's diehard fans.

If the video at the beginning could be fake,
Then, when Pei Yunteng took action personally, no one doubted it anymore.

The sky is falling!
This is the only emotion in the hearts of Jia Shi fans.

There's nothing we can do. Sun Xiang has never played a single match and basically has no Excellent Era fan base.

Currently, the vast majority of Excellent Era's fans are fans of Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng.

Were they suppressed by the club?
Then there is no need for the club to exist.

Xingxin Internet Cafe.

The atmosphere was so depressing that it seemed about to explode. An aura of despair spread in the gloomy environment of the Internet cafe, rising wildly with the second-hand smoke.

If Ye Qiu's retirement brought them a kind of loss like the end of their youth,

Then the exposure of Excellent Era's inside story is really reminding them of a fact:
Excellent Era, it's really about to fall apart.

There were sobs, insults, and roars all mixed together, but no one was in the mood to care, and the terrible atmosphere was allowed to ferment.

There is no other way. As the Internet cafe closest to the headquarters of Excellent Era, the customers who surf the Internet at Xingxin are basically all die-hard fans of Excellent Era.

After all, Excellent Era's headquarters building is right across the street...

...Huh? Yes, Excellent Era is right across the street!
"Damn it! I can't stand this! Let's go find that old bastard Tao Xuan and ask for an explanation!"

"That's right! Let's go together! Let's go together!"

I don’t know who was the first to react and rushed out of the Internet cafe in big strides.

Then came a surging crowd.

Hundreds of people from Xingxin, filled with anger and despair, sharpened their knives and charged towards the Excellent Era building.

They want to defend the Jia Shi family that they have loved throughout their youth.

"No wonder Brother Pei said that the power of fans is endless..."

Looking at the aggressive backs of a group of old customers standing up for him, Ye Xiu felt inexplicably touched.

In the past, he has always firmly believed that playing Honor of Kings, playing professionally, and competing for the championship are only matters between himself and his teammates, and have nothing to do with anyone else.

But seeing so clearly the enormous influence he has in the hearts of so many fans, this deeply rooted idea seems to have loosened slightly.

Ye Xiu put a cigarette in his mouth and was about to take out his lighter.

When he turned around, he saw Chen Guo with red eyes, staring into his eyes with an indescribable complex look.

Ye Xiu's heart moved, and he said with a smile: "Boss lady, why don't you go with us to ask Excellent Era for an explanation? Don't you like Ye Qiu and Su Mucheng the most?"

Chen Guo looked at the guy in front of him who was clearly in a desperate situation but still remained calm and unrestrained. He was silent for a few seconds before he slowly spoke:

"Are you, Ye Qiu?"

The voice is exactly the same as in the recording, with a monthly salary of 1,800 yuan, a network administrator living in a storage room, and Xingxin's geographical location is close to Excellent Era.

Ye Xiu’s identity is about to be revealed.

“Didn’t I tell you long ago that I am Ye Qiu? You just don’t believe it.” Ye Xiu smiled.

“But the name on your ID card is clearly—” “Ye Xiu, right, my real name.”

Ye Xiu's eyes showed some emotion of reminiscing about his youth:

"When I ran away from home to play games, I stole the luggage that my younger brother Ye Qiu had packed. Of course, there was only his ID card in it."

"When you sign up for the professional league after that, naturally you can only use his ID."

Chen Guo was a little stunned. Running away from home? To play games?
She had thought of many reasons why Ye Xiu kept his identity secret, but she had never thought of this slightly childish possibility.

Chen Guo couldn't help but ask, "You never went back afterwards?"

"I went back, but we parted on bad terms."

"why?"

"Because they always think that playing games is not a proper job."

The calm and silent answer left Chen Guo speechless.

In fact, in this world where even the term e-sports has not yet become popular, ordinary people would not believe that running away from home to play games is not a waste of time.

Even Chen Guo would subconsciously think that Ye Xiu was ridiculous at the first moment.

This feeling made Chen Guo very sad.

Ye Xiu... these years...

But before she could feel sad for long, Ye Xiu laughed again.

Compared with the depressed Chen Guo, he, the person involved, was in high spirits.

“So, now I have a new goal to strive for.”

"What goal?"

"To correct the name of playing games, no, e-sports."

"Let all the e-sports people who work hard for the e-sports industry no longer have to endure the misunderstandings of others!"

Chen Guo's mouth slowly opened, shock pulling her facial features into a funny structure.

What a lofty ambition and what a great determination this is!
"is it possible?"

Ye Xiu recalled the words that a certain chicken soup master had said to him last night, and he casually replied:
"It's man-made."

……

Across the street is the headquarters building of the Excellent Era Club.

The surging crowd surrounded Jia Shi in three layers. Not only Xingxin Internet Café, but also half of Jia Shi fans in H City came over one after another with great anger.

They shouted slogans that were uneven but loud:

"Tao Xuan, get out here! Give us an explanation!"

"Liu Hao, an ungrateful bastard! A traitor to his own people!"

"Cui Li is dismissed!"

The shouting was so deafening that all the nearby shops and homes closed their doors and windows at the same time.

Most of them had no idea what the people downstairs were shouting about and thought they were migrant workers demanding their wages!

The neighbors were so scared, and Jia Shi, who was at the center of the storm, was even more scared.

The doors and windows were sealed tightly and the curtains were drawn tightly, for fear that people outside might be able to observe even a little bit of what was going on.

In the conference room where the quarrel broke out last night, all the senior executives and active players of Excellent Era gathered.

The atmosphere was as depressing as if it was a funeral. Except for Su Mucheng who was humming and whistling, everyone else was sweating profusely, with distorted expressions, a mixture of fear and panic.

Out of control, completely out of control.

The huge fan base that Excellent Era had accumulated over the past seven years was finally transformed into a sharp knife stabbing their hearts due to their own foolish actions!

In the dead silence, Manager Cui Li finally couldn't help but look at Tao Xuan who was silently playing with his phone:

"Boss Tao, what should we do now?"

(End of this chapter)