You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 222: Everything is definitely Lu Yu's conspiracy (2 in 1 order required)

"Peach... Taoyuan Township?!"

Liu Lan was shocked and stunned.

To be honest, after realizing that Xia Shangyu had found a new employer, she imagined countless possibilities in her mind, but they were nothing more than large companies including Tenghui, or multinational companies on the Fortune 500 list.

I didn't expect that Xia Shangyu would offend me by resigning, and finally went to a small place like Taoyuan Township?

"Director Xia, I asked you to poach people from Taoyuan Township, but you told me that you couldn't poach anyone, and instead they poached them. Shouldn't you give me an explanation?"

Liu Lan's eyes were very sharp.

"I'm sorry, Sister Liu, I failed to live up to your expectations, but I have indeed made up my mind. I will use this month's buffer period to stand my final shift for the group."

"You know, that's not what I want to hear."

Xia Shangyu heard the hidden meaning in Liu Lan's words, so she changed her tone and spoke in the tone of best friends.

"Sister Liu, this trip with Taoyuan Township on a team-building tour has taught me a lesson. I'm not a child anymore, and from now on, I want to live for myself."

"What? Taoyuan Township is going on another team-building trip?"

As a business manager, Liu Lan subconsciously focused on certain key points first.

I went to Dongming Island for a trip, it seems like it was only a few months ago.

“How many times does their company go on team-building trips?”

"It seems like every month." Xia Shangyu answered honestly.

"..."

Liu Lan was becoming increasingly confused. Employees spent more time eating, drinking, and having fun than sitting at their workstations doing their jobs. How had this company, with such a Buddhist management style and corporate culture, managed to grow its business to its current scale?

"Go on, I'm listening. Why do you say you live for yourself? Did the group imprison you or something?"

Liu Lan slightly suppressed his surprise, but still maintained the domineering aura of a chairman.

If it were before, Xia Shangyu would have been speechless due to this aura and pressure, but now, she understood that she had to get through this.

"Sister Liu, how should I put it? This time I accompanied the employees of Taoyuan Township on a trip and felt a whole new world.

This world is something I have never experienced since I was a child.

In my worldview, since I was born, everyone has been instilling in me that only those who win first place are successful and deserve respect, and everyone else is a loser.

So, whether in study or career, I am more competitive than anyone else, even to the point of being unscrupulous..."

Xia Shangyu closed her eyes and thought of the days when she had fought in dangerous situations for the group. She felt dizzy and the past was too painful to recall.

"Isn't this as it should be? The business world is like a battlefield, opportunities are always fleeting. You've done a great job, otherwise I wouldn't have promoted you to director of the headhunting department."

Liu Lan's voice was cold. She lit a cigarette for herself, but it took her several tries before she even aimed at the cigarette butt.

She frowned slightly, annoyed at her rare mistake.

"Sister Liu, I'm not against the Liu Group's wolf culture. I just feel that I'm already 28 years old, and the best years of my life have been spent in an office cubicle.

I don’t want to wait until I’m old and can’t go anywhere, and then look at my life wish list, feeling sad and regretful for all the wishes that I haven’t fulfilled in time.

I don't have any resentment towards the Liu Group, I just feel that I should change the way I live.

A way of living that can realize one’s own value.”

"So, if you change your job, you can realize your own value?" Liu Lan continued to sneer.

"Sister Liu, how should I put it? Taoyuan Township is really different..."

Xia Shangyu recalled the scenes of her travels.

Although the benefits of Taoyuan Township are indeed attractive, Xia Shangyu questioned her own heart.

The most crucial reason that persuaded her to change jobs was not these, but the atmosphere of Taoyuan Township.

The atmosphere was really relaxed and unrestrained, and the sight of them gathering together to discuss game development while eating was truly enviable.

It seems that for them, game development itself is really a joy.

The kind of thing where you create something interesting and then share it with players all over the world, waiting for them to immerse themselves in it, sometimes feeling happy and sad for the fate of the characters in the game, and completely immersing themselves in it...

This act itself is enough to make you feel happy and satisfied.

Moreover, she had never seen that kind of satisfied expression on the faces of Liu Group employees.

No, it should be said that in the entire world she had experienced from childhood to adulthood, no one had ever had such a satisfied expression.

So, although her profession wasn't game development, she was also curious about what possibilities and answers she could see in Taoyuan Township...

When mentioning Taoyuan Township, the light in Xia Shangyu's eyes also deeply shocked Liu Lan.

Xia Shangyu, like Wang Su, has been by her side for many years, but she has never seen this kind of look in the other person's eyes before.

It is a way of washing away all the hostility, fatigue and distracting thoughts, a pursuit of true clarity.

She knew that she could no longer keep Xia Shangyu.

So, she picked up the pen expressionlessly and signed the resignation letter.

"You don't have to hand over anything. Go pack your things and you can leave now."

This girl is already in Cao's camp but her heart is with Han. Even if she stays in the group for another month, it will only cause trouble for herself.

"Thank you, Sister Liu."

Xia Shangyu nodded gratefully.

The moment she opened the door and prepared to leave, Liu Lan behind her spoke slowly:
"From now on, we will be competitors, and the group will not show mercy to those who leave."

Xia Shangyu was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "I understand. Well then, goodbye, Sister Liu."

……

After Xia Shangyu left, Liu Lan lit another cigarette, walked to the glass curtain wall behind him, and looked at the hustle and bustle of traffic outside the window.

"Live for yourself. That's easy to say."

Liu Lan sneered a few times, and recalled the expression and words Liu Mengyuan said when he ran away from home at the beginning of the year. They were almost exactly the same as those of this little girl.

She recalled what her family elders had said to her when she was a child:
"Lan'er, everyone born into this world has their own mission, no one is exempt from it.

And you are the chosen one, and your mission is extremely important.

So, although your sisters in kindergarten can play with dolls, you can't. You have more important things to do. You have to learn English, learn arithmetic, learn to read people's expressions, and how to make the best use of teachers and other children to achieve your own goals.

The great grandfather gave these earnest instructions to the five-year-old Liu Lan.

"But grandpa, why don't they have to learn these things?" Liu Lan pouted, a little unhappy.

“Haha, I just said that, because everyone’s mission in this world is different.

Don’t think they are having fun playing with dolls now, but this is the happiest time of their lives. When they grow up, they will have a life of hard work.”

“What’s the hard work?”

"They burn their lives and contribute their value for people like us. Their fate is determined from the moment they are born."

"But……"

Liu Lan tilted her little head.

"But the fairy tales in kindergarten clearly say that all children are created equal and that everyone will be happy in the future..."

"Silly child, why do you think these words are printed in fairy tale books?"

"..." Liu Lan nodded, not quite understanding.

"But you can't relax either. You even have to work harder than them, because maximizing the benefits you get from them is a highly sophisticated management skill."

……

Liu Lan opened his eyes and came back to his senses from his memories.

The education she received since childhood made it difficult for her to understand what Xia Shangyu said.

Does a world where everyone can relax and leisurely do what they want really exist?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
This era is destined to become increasingly inward-looking, with zero-sum games prevalent in all walks of life.

Just as I was thinking this, there was another knock on the door.

Wang Su pushed open the door and walked in.

Liu Lan's expression relaxed, hoping that Wang Su could bring her some good news.

"Chairman, has Director Xia really resigned?" Wang Su asked nervously.

"Oh, let's not talk about her. Let's talk about how things are going on your side. Did that guy named Lu Yu put forward any conditions?"

Wang Su took a deep breath, mustered his courage and said:
"Chairman, before I formally report, I have something to say to you."

Liu Lan's delicate hand holding a cigarette stopped in mid-air, her expression full of surprise.

Do you have something to say too?

What's going on with you guys?

After going on a mission, was there a curse cast on me?

Wang Su continued:
"Chairman, although I know you are unhappy to hear this, I think it is better not to interfere too much in the young lady's private life.

She is an adult now and should have the right to live her own life and like whoever she likes.
If we forcefully interfere, it will have the opposite effect, and there’s even the possibility that all living beings in the world will be punished…”

Wang Su muttered to himself, such as spiders, fish, mice, and the disgusting tentacles of the octopus.

Her face flushed again.

How should I put it? Although in Greek mythology, the orc warriors who invaded the holy mountain were very presumptuous of the gods, every time after the warriors reached the top, the Gaia secret treasure growing on the earth would undergo some subtle changes.

The fruits are fuller and the colors are brighter.

In the myth, Gaia must have felt ashamed of this. Who could have imagined that the holy relic most carefully protected by the gods would actually raise its proud head from the earth.

If this continues, I'm afraid the door to some strange new world will open up. ...

Liu Lan did not notice the change in Wang Su's expression. She remained calm as she listened to these words. After all, the incident with Xia Shangyu was shocking enough, so Wang Su did not bring much shock to her.

She was filled with helplessness.

Okay, you all have to do this, right?
This was the first time Liu Lan felt a deep sense of powerlessness since he became the chairman of Liu Group.

She felt that her subordinates were gradually getting out of her control.

"You should go out first, I want to be alone."

After sending Wang Su away, Liu Lan lit his third cigarette.

The nicotine calmed her mind a little.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, the reason why his subordinates seem like different people now is because of their contact with this kid Lu Yu.

She even had reason to suspect that her daughter defied the family's authority and ran away from home in order to secretly meet with her lover Lu Yu.

What's wrong with this man?

Why do all the women who come into contact with him become different people?

As Liu Lan pondered, she happened to catch a glimpse of calligraphy on the wall. It contained a warning:

"Existence is reasonable."

When a person encounters something that he cannot understand, it is almost subconscious for him to look for an explanation for it based on his existing knowledge and common sense.

So Liu Lan thought about it for a long time, and when she was almost done smoking a cigarette, she finally understood -

Case solved!
There is no such coincidence in this world. Both Xia Shangyu and Wang Su were changed by this man.

He must have planned everything carefully from the beginning!
From the time when Liu Mengyuan ran away from home, to using the game platform under the Liu Group to start his own business, to setting up his own business and having the capital to compete with the Liu Group, he blocked the Liu Group in the live broadcast platform and game development platform business.
Even, he could humiliate Liu Lan by reverse poaching.
I'm afraid that every step is within the calculations of this man named Lu Yu.

If any link is miscalculated, Taoyuan Township would not be able to achieve its current scale!

Even the most senior actuary in Liu Group is no more than this!

……

For the first time, a serious look appeared in Liu Lan's eyes.

Normally, she would only use this look towards a competitor who she felt threatened by.

The cigarette in his hand trembled a few times.
As a person who is used to being in control of everything, Liu Lan finds it hard to accept these changes.

Haha, this man, I really underestimated him at the beginning.

She initially thought that the other party was just an ordinary young man.

After all, she had already done a family investigation on Lu Yu: his father was a retired hydropower engineer, his mother was a retired middle school teacher, he had an unremarkable background and an unremarkable life.

Who would have thought that in such a short time, the Taoyuan Township he managed could expand to this extent.

Perhaps this man also took her current predicament of smoking like crazy in the office into account?
Deep in Liu Lan's heart, even for a moment, a trace of imperceptible admiration arose.

Okay, since you like to calculate and plan, I will increase your strength a little.

……

Liu Lan opened his notebook and began searching for the latest news about the gaming industry.

She quickly searched for relevant information about the Tianzun Cup, and especially learned that Taoyuan Township would also participate in this action game development carnival.

So she called Shi Yi.

Shi Yi was quite surprised and flattered to find that the chairman actually called him.

Liu Group has dozens of business lines, large and small, ranging from physical industries to Internet industries.

So the chairman of the group is naturally very busy with all kinds of affairs.

I didn't expect the chairman to ask about it personally.

On the other end of the phone, Liu Lan got straight to the point:
"I heard that Mileyou's "Collapse 3" was first released in our Youyi Workshop, right?"

"Yes, Chairman. The Disintegration 3 project is currently using the Youyi Workshop engine, but they internally feel that the engine's scalability isn't strong enough, so they bought our license and modified the engine's middleware themselves."

Liu Lan didn't understand these professional technical terms, so she just said:

"You, Youyi, must elevate your support for this project to a higher strategic level. No matter what, you must ensure that this project wins the Tianzun Cup, becomes the new flagship project of Youyi Workshop, and drives a rebound in the Leopard Tooth Live Platform's business."

Hearing that Liu Lan wanted to elevate this matter to a strategic level, Shi Yi felt flattered, but also overwhelmed.

Recently, the loss of small game developers and players on the Youyi platform has become increasingly serious, and they have all run to Taoyuanxiang's game platform.

Many independent game studios have announced that they will launch their new works on the Taoyuan Fantasy World platform.

As if sensing Shi Yi's pressure, Liu Lan softened her tone a bit:
"Don't worry, this time the group will mobilize resources from other business lines to support Youyi's support for the 'Small Splitting 3' project. Previously... the group didn't fully understand the potential and threat posed by Taoyuan Township and Mr. Lu, but now, the group has officially listed him as a competitor."

The implication of Liu Lan's words was obvious. In her eyes, Taoyuan Township was not even worth a cat or a dog, at most a small shrimp. But now, she intends to look at him squarely and regard him as a competitor worthy of attention.

Shi Yi bravely asked, "Boss Liu, are you also aware that Boss Lu from Taoyuan Township is truly a scheming and calculating person?"

Liu Lan did not comment, but her brief silence said it all.

Shi Yi suddenly felt a sense of liberation in his heart.

at last!

The chairman finally understood his difficulties!
She finally realized that Mr. Lu was a king disguised as a bronze!

Even the thickest lasagna in the world can’t calculate as well as he does!
The reason why Shi Yi was so excited was that Taoyuan Township had been going all out recently, and the "Feast Simulator" was a surprise move that caught Youyi off guard and made him miserable.

If the group can pay attention to him, his pressure will be less.

Liu Lan: "If you use the power of the group, do you have the confidence to defeat Taoyuan Township in the Tianzun Cup?"

Shi Yi suddenly became serious:

"Don't worry, Mr. Liu. Disintegration 3 is Milegame's flagship project. With our support and the strong alliance between the two parties, we will definitely be able to win the game in one fell swoop.

In contrast, the employees of Taoyuan Township have no experience in developing action games.

Moreover, the team is small, and facing the tight schedule of the Tianzun Cup, they will definitely focus on the beginning and not the end, so -

The advantage is with us!"

……

On Tuesday, the organizing committee of the Tianzun Cup Action Game Carnival released the first trailer on its official media account.

At the beginning of the trailer, the screen goes black, and suddenly a thunderous sound effect sounds, as if the power of the universe is gathering.

The screen lit up, revealing a stunning montage of exhibited works.

Sparks flew, and the huge machine collapsed in the explosion, accompanied by burning flames.

"At this carnival, players will experience the intense impact of action games."

The screen changes instantly, and various game screens are presented alternately.

There are sci-fi futuristic cities, mechanical warriors fighting head-on, ancient battlefields, and samurai swords. Every frame is a stunning picture.

The perspective changes, and a hero like Dugu Qiubai leaps into the air, swords and knives clash in the air, and fists and feet fight fiercely.

“Every action is full of clever design, showing the game developers’ ultimate pursuit of detail.”

Then, some unprecedented innovative elements appeared on the screen from time to time, such as the next-generation cartoon rendering of The Fractured 3 and some virtual reality action games.

Suddenly the scene switched and some interview clips of game developers appeared on the scene.

They were full of energy and passionately shared their ideas and creative process for the game.

“At this carnival, every developer demonstrated their professionalism and passion for action games.”

The picture finally freezes on the smiling faces of the players.

Someone was typing away on the keyboard, screaming in the heat of battle,
Some people held the controllers and exclaimed that it was exciting because of the shocking game graphics, and some people stood up excitedly when they saw a special skill.

"Dedicated to all of you who love games."

"The Tianzun Cup Action Game Development Carnival is coming soon!"

"The future has arrived!"

……

As soon as this trailer was released, it instantly sparked new expectations and carnival across the entire Internet!
As soon as the trailer was released, players quickly spread the long-awaited news. Major social media platforms were instantly abuzz with excited discussions.

The trailer exceeded 1000 million views when it was first broadcast on D station, and the barrage of comments was like rain.

"This trailer is pretty good, folks. I've been looking forward to it for the entire time."

"Holy crap! Not only are Mi Le You and Tao Yuan Xiang participating, but there are also foreign manufacturers participating. This carnival is like a battle of the gods!"

"I'm crying my eyes out. The news about the Tianzun Cup has already affected my life."

There was also a frenzy on social media. Players on Tieba, Weibo, short video platforms and other social media platforms forwarded and liked the news, and some wrote down the games they were most looking forward to.
Some people excitedly @ed their gaming friends around them to share this expectation.

After seeing the enthusiastic response from players, many game producers of the participating games also responded interactively on social platforms.

They answered players' questions and revealed some interesting behind-the-scenes stories, which brought them closer to the players. This is a common promotional method.

Soon, a player ran to Taoyuan Township's official Weibo and left a comment:

"Taoyuan Township, you guys are all the rage lately. 'Feast Simulator' has completely broken the circle. It would be unreasonable if you couldn't come up with something better for dinner, right? Serve it up quickly, I can't wait!"

The comment quickly exceeded 5 likes.

At this moment, Lu Yu, who saw this Weibo post, was completely confused.

Damn it?

What the hell is "Feast Eating Simulator"?

Have we developed this thing?
(End of this chapter)