Chapter 586: Terrifying Profits

Pan Jinlong really hated ads, but he hated spending money even more, so he’d rather put up with the ads than pay for a membership.

Often, he accidentally clicked on those ads and downloaded some random, messy apps.

Some apps even took a good amount of money from him through sneaky tactics.

Even so, Pan Jinlong still refused to pay for a membership to remove the ads.

Right now, Pan Jinlong was reading a novel titled “Drunk, Mistaking My Sister-in-Law for My Wife”.

Having finished a chapter, he took a drag on his cigarette and tapped his phone screen, ready to read the next chapter, when he accidentally clicked on an ad on the screen.

Usually, if he clicked on an ad, he would just exit out, no big deal.

If he downloaded some random, messy app, he would just uninstall it.

But this time, after clicking on the ad, he heard a voice.

“Gu Tianle has turned green, Gu Tianle has turned green…”

That was all the ad kept repeating.

In an instant, Pan Jinlong was captivated by the ad’s catchphrase.

Looking back at the screen, he saw that Gu Tianle, apart from his familiar face, was green all over—even on top of his head.

Staring at this version of Gu Tianle, Pan Jinlong was dumbstruck.

For a moment, he lost all desire to keep reading the novel.

Gu Tianle was Pan Jinlong’s idol in his youth; when he was in middle school, it was when Gu Tianle’s “The Giant Eagle Hero” was sweeping through north and south of the river.

Even if it meant skipping classes and climbing over fences, Pan Jinlong would go to watch Gu Tianle in “The Giant Eagle Hero”.

Later on, Pan Jinlong watched all of Gu Tianle’s TV shows and movies.@@novelbin@@

Now that he was older, he was no longer as crazy as he was in his youth.

But he would still go online to watch a pirated version of any new movie starring Gu Tianle.

What did it mean for Gu Tianle to have turned green?

Before he could figure it out, the Gu Tianle on screen started speaking.

“Greedy Play Today is a fun game with free trading, where you don’t have to spend a penny on equipment. Find your legend here—if you’re brothers, come play!”

Legend?

Pan Jinlong was startled once more.

Back in the day, Pan Jinlong was one of the players of Legend.

Playing Legend could engulf him until it was dark outside and life itself felt eternal.

The word “Legend” brought back memories of the passionate times he had spent with his brothers.

At that moment, he could feel the blood in his corpulent body burning with fervor once again.

So, he found himself clicking to download the game involuntarily.

He wanted to relive those passionate days he had spent with his brothers.

…

“Gu Tianle has turned green, Gu Tianle has turned green…”

After a night of fermenting, the ad had completely blown up.

To promote this ad, Wang Xiaocong had really gone all out.

Of course, it was Xu Yang who had told him to do it.

No matter where netizens went, they could see this ad.

The hosts from Xu Yang’s Fengcai Guild naturally joined in promoting it as well.

And the major video websites go without saying.

With the push of money, as long as you open a video, if you don’t spend a little money, you had to watch this ad.

It drove many netizens crazy; seeing Gu Tianle all green made their own faces turn green with envy.

No matter the website, under the influence of money, they were all madly playing this ad.

The trending search list was also dominated by the ad’s catchphrase that Gu Tianle had turned green.

Following that were Greedy Play Today and the resurgence of Legend.

In the app stores, the ad for “Greedy Play Today” was everywhere, inducing downloads in all kinds of ways.

Some apps even came bundled with it.

Such software zones, of course, received a lot more money.

This advertising slogan is a bit vulgar.

But it was this vulgarity that really caught on with people.

Overnight, the slogan fermented, and the whole nation knew about this advertisement.

Naturally, “Greedy Play Today” saw its download volume soar, rocketing to the top spot for fastest-growing downloads in record time.

…

In Harbor City, at the presidential suite of the Crown Hotel.

After watching the advertisement for a while, Wang Xiaocong dialed the phone number of Yang Song, the general manager of the game company, and asked, “How are the download numbers now?”

Yang Song replied, “Mr. Wang, overnight, we reached a stunning eight hundred thousand downloads, and we should break through two million today. Although, there is quite a bit of padding in those numbers.”

Wang Xiaocong said, “No worries, it’s normal for there to be some padding in this kind of promotion. But no matter what, with so many downloads, there are bound to be quite a few players hooked. You all need to maintain the servers well. We don’t want the servers to struggle under the load of downloads—that would be troublesome. Xu Yang and I are in Harbor City. After we sign with the stars, there will be even more people downloading.”

Yang Song said, “Don’t worry, Mr. Wang, we won’t drop the ball!”

Wang Xiaocong then asked, “How’s the bank turnover?”

Yang Song replied, “I’ve had someone tally it up; it should almost be ready. Just give me a moment, and I’ll go check.”

Soon after, Yang Song’s excited voice came through, “Mr. Wang, our turnover has reached two hundred and fifty million, with a net profit of two hundred million!”

“What, that much!” Wang Xiaocong was astonished.

He had expected the game to make money, especially with Xu Yang’s promotional strategy.

But to make two hundred and fifty million overnight still shocked him.

Even though Xu Yang was prepared, he was left stunned when he heard about the profit data.

While the system had projected an annual revenue of ten billion,

making two billion in one day was still terrifying.

Two billion a day, twenty billion in ten days, a hundred days would tally up to two hundred billion.

In just fifty days, they would achieve the ten billion in profit that the system had mentioned.

But he knew that was impossible, there couldn’t be that much every day.

Managing to make ten billion in a year’s time would already be a miracle.

…

Pan Jinlong was a veteran player of “Legend.”

After downloading “Greedy Play Today,” he became a new player of it.

After all, despite “Greedy Play Today” being a copycat of “Legend,” there were still many differences.

Pan Jinlong didn’t start playing “Greedy Play Today” just because he was brainwashed by Gu Tianle’s advertisement; it was more about reminiscing over his long-gone youth.

However, after downloading “Greedy Play Today,” he discovered it was quite different from “Legend,” even though it was a copycat.

“Greedy Play Today” had automated pathfinding, combat, and questing.

At first, Pan Jinlong felt somewhat disgruntled.

Everything is done automatically; what am I here for?

But soon, he discovered the thrills.

The game’s pace was incredibly fast, leveling up the character was rapid, and it got the blood pumping.

Before he knew it, Pan Jinlong became hooked on the feeling of speeding through levels.

But then he realized that without spending money, he could only watch others dominate the battlefield and show off.

He was always a mere newbie, either getting killed by others or looked down upon.

Such results left Pan Jinlong feeling extremely frustrated.

Being a billionaire, he wanted to relive the passionate days of his youth without that frustration. How could that do?

So, he immediately made a purchase of ten yuan.

After spending money, he found his combat ability greatly enhanced, and he enjoyed a spree of crushing victories.

However, it wasn’t long before an opponent took him down, mocking him and calling him trash.

Unwilling to accept that, he went all in with a hundred yuan to buy impressive gear and slayed the opponent who had scorned him, calling him trash!

But if he was topping up his account with cash, so were others.

He invested a hundred, others invested five hundred, and after reviving, they beat him down hard.

In the face of gear worth five hundred yuan, his hundred-yuan equipment was just begging to be crushed.

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