Such praise was overflowing on the internet, in just over half of the trial period, the number of players in 'Shattered Heaven Zhu Xian' reached a staggering ten million. Of course, after the subscriptions started this data would be reduced, but it'll still firmly occupy the top of the list of games with the world's largest number of players. 'Star Warfare' also had very impressive results in the West, the current number of downloads was five hundred and fifty thousand, and increasing day by day.
Before, the players had worried about technical problems that were bound to appear, but the longer they played, the more they understood just how perfectly the two games were produced. 'Shattered Heaven Zhu Xian' encompassed four grand instances of the Human World, the Devil Realm, the Immortal World, and the Spirit World, each world having many smaller instances.
The game was currently updated to the Human World instance, after reaching a higher level, the instance you joined also becomes more difficult, and the degree of sophistication doubles. It was the type of game where the more you played, the more you were unable to stop. Furthermore, there was strict level divide between Lianqi Qi, Zhuji Qi, Jindan Qi, etc. Promotion required carrying lightning tribulations, making the players really experience the feeling of cultivation.
[Instances- Wikipedia "In massively multiplayer online games, an instance is a special area, typically a dungeon, that generates a new copy of the location for each group, or for certain number of players, that enters the area."]
Basically, once you started playing 'Shattered Heaven Zhu Xian', very few people were willing to leave.
In contrast, 'Magic World's technical problems still haven't been resolved, dropped connections, lag and lost equipment incidents were occurring more frequently, so many players were directly deleting the game off their computer.
In their words – I'm too busy playing 'Shattered Heaven Zhu Xian' and 'Star Warfare', I simply don't have any interest in or time to play other games, especially not garbage like 'Magic World'.
Currently, 'Magic World's trial period was over, and Tengda had started charging the players, Fang Zhifei received the financial reports and glanced over the extremely tragic data.
Tengda not only didn't make any money, it also lost nearly 10 million in one month, if coupled with the 75 million to purchase the game's copyright, the loaned 20 million for publicity and post-production costs, and the 5 million US dollars to hire the hacker to modify the code, Tengda's deficit was up to 130 million.
To save Tengda, they not only needed to fill this huge deficiency in time, but also inject a huge amount of money into the company, just like how Yi Group saved ZHOU. But where would they find another Yi Zheng? After the scandal about Fang Zhifei being an illegitimate child, and how he might've framed and imprisoned the legitimate child burst out, the people that used to be close to him deliberately alienated him, even avoided him.
Until this moment, Fang Zhifei hadn't realized how much the damage to his reputation had affected him. Cooperation between two companies first valued each other's character and credit line, then the strength. And his character and credit line was clearly already bankrupt.
Now he was like a cornered beast, hovering over the edge of despair and madness every day.
However, for Zhou Yun Sheng, the game was far from over. He sent a few documents to the Inland Revenue Department, and used 008 to synthesize a video file and two audio files, then embedded them in Fang Zhifei's finance folder.
On the following day, Fang Zhifei entered the company to see uniformed tax officers sealing up the accounting office and his own computer. The chairman had been sent to the hospital because of a heart attack, so he had no choice but to go over to negotiate.
"We received a report that your company has a large amount of illegal financing, according to the law, we've come to review your accounts."
"Of course, we will try our best to cooperate as necessary." Fang Zhifei glanced at his computer. He was confident that no one could find his hidden financial documents, so he wasn't even slightly tense.
A tax officer turned on his computer and easily found the finance-related documents, after opening a few folders, his expression slightly froze. He very calmly pressed the pause button, then put on his headset and continued playing. A few minutes later, he took off his headphones and shouted, "Boss, come look."
Fang Zhifei stood outside the office, saw the two people staring at his computer with strange expressions, and his calm mood began stirring. The offices were under control of the tax officials, so he couldn't trespass, he could only pace back and forth.
After a while, the leading tax officer made a phone call and glanced over at Fang Zhifei with cold eyes. Fang Zhifei wiped off the cold sweat that had broken out on his forehead and walked stiffly towards the office kitchenette.
He poured two packets of instant black coffee powder into his cup and tried to dilute his restlessness with the bitter taste. Two tax officers walked by, seemingly casually, saw that he hadn't absconded, then waited outside in the corridor.
At this point, Fang Zhifei was aware of the unusual atmosphere, he felt that he had to get out of here, otherwise, he would be in a very dangerous situation. He pretended to accidentally shake his cup, the coffee splashing onto his body, then pretended to casually walk towards the bathroom.
However, the two tax officers followed him in, staring at him with cold eyes.
He had no choice to wash out the coffee stains and obediently go back, but before he reached the office door, several police officers rushed over and cuffed him while declaring his rights.
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In an interrogation room, facing the glare of the lights and the cold faces of the investigators, Fang Zhifei hoarsely asked, "Police comrades, what crimes have I committed?"
The ones responsible for interrogation was the same old and young police officer. The younger detective took out a laptop wrapped in an evidence bag and asked, "Do you know what this is?"
"Yes, it's my laptop."
"Then explain to us what this is." The younger detective turned on the laptop, brought up a video hidden in the finance folder, then turned the screen to the suspect.
Fang Zhifei twisted his eyebrows as he watched, then his face suddenly paled. It was a recording of the red skirt woman being gang-raped by the two burly men, from her dragging unconscious Zhou Yun Sheng into the room, to calling Meng Wan, and then to the two burly men coming in to gang-rape her. The sequence of events was very clear.
"This laptop has always been something I and my girlfriend share, I don't know why there's such a video on there." Fang Zhifei put on a stunned expression, but suddenly noticed something in the lower left corner of the video. A diaper wearing 3D toddler appeared out of thin air, took out its water gun, pew pewed two times and disappeared.
He instantly understood that he had fallen into a trap set by his enemy again, and the dangerous situation was even more serious. His expression turned from startled to fearful, he stressed loudly, "This video has nothing to do with me! I don't know everything Meng Wan stores inside. Check it out ah, this laptop has more of her fingerprints than it does mine! She's a designer, she usually uses it more than me."
The younger detective quietly turned off the video, then clicked to open an audio file, Fang Zhifei and Meng Wan's voices came out clearly.
"Meng Meng, what about that thing? Did you find anyone?"
"I did."
"Is she reliable?"
"She's reliable. That woman is a credit card slave, she earned over 100,000 in overdraft fees just to maintain her high consumption lifestyle. I found her in a bar threatening suicide to scare people. I told her, if she puts Zhou Yun Sheng in jail I'll give her 200,000, plus she'll get Zhou Fangfang's (Zhou mother) hush money. I described how rich Zhou family was, how they casually give out millions, and she didn't even pretend to think it over before agreeing."
"Good, you be careful."
"I know, love you beau!"
The sinister conversation ended in sweetness, the disparity making people shudder. The younger detective gave Fang Zhifei a cold glance, then opened the second audio file.
"Zhifei, Zhou Yun Sheng's unconscious. The play can't go on. What do we do? "
"Find a substitute."
"Do you mean… have someone really rape that woman?"
"If you have to."
"But that's illegal!"
"It's only a crime if you get caught, if you're not caught, it's not a crime. Videotape the rape and the woman will keep quiet. Got it? Go ahead."
The conversation stopped abruptly, and Fang Zhifei had only one thought in mind – the audio is fake! He never said these words! Even if he had to say them, he wouldn't have said them so bluntly, just imply them.
Someone was framing him!