Li Huailin was really tired. He was not joking. After going offline, Li Huailin fell asleep on the bed next to him.
Of course, the Cup of Nations was far from over. This was an outcome that no one had expected. The aftermath of the incident was too big. Just as Li Huailin was sleeping, all kinds of super big news began to spread both at home and abroad.
The Cup of Nations this time was an unprecedented competition. The attention was bound to be several times greater than the previous competition. The previous competition was a matter of the global gaming world. At most, it would affect the gaming industry. After all, the competition could only give out prize money, and the prize money was not much.
However, the nature of the competition this time was different. Not only was the prize money frighteningly high, but there was also the possibility of losing money. Therefore, the competition attracted almost everyone's attention. Of course, although there were so many people, no one could have imagined such a result.
The final winner was Hua Xia's team, and they won in such an exaggerated manner. The final result was also very serious. There were only a few countries that made money. Of course, Hua Xia's team made a lot of money. Several of its members, Kazakhstan, Guizhou, and Algeria, also made a lot of money. Argentina, who only helped Li Huailin defeat the Japanese team, got 80 points, which was about 5.2 billion. Their registration fee was only 1.6 billion, so they also made a lot of money. New Zealand also made a lot of money. Of course, the number of people who made a lot of money was only in the single digits.
The European Union teams and some small national teams barely made a loss. These were only in the single digits. Most of the national teams could not even break even, and they could not even earn back the registration fee. Most of them were small national teams. These countries were not very rich, and the development of the gaming industry was only average. They could not afford such a loss at all.
Of course, they were not the worst. There were also a few unlucky national teams this time. The defending champion, the United States, scored zero points in this competition. They ranked last, lost money, and lost face. Last year's runner-up, South Korea, was in the same situation. Last year's fifth team, India, was in the same situation. Last year's seventh team, Russia, was in the same situation.
Among them, the Japanese team suffered the most. Not only did they lose their money, but they also lost all their face. Now, the most serious thing was that there were problems with their characters. In order to curry favor with Hua Xia's team, the Argentine team's captain was desperately attacking the Japanese team. As a result, everyone in the Japanese team had at least a dozen or so points of Intelligence deducted. This was acceptable for Warriors and Thieves, but for Mages and Warlocks, it was simply ridiculous. How much Intelligence had been deducted for no reason? Was it a big deal? It wasn't that big, but it was hard to feel like you had a few less attribute points than others. The main problem was that they could not retrieve the Intelligence Points. Even if they found out that they could retrieve the Intelligence Points by killing the Argentine captain, the captain was still in another server, and the cross-server project had not been released yet.
Of course, the Japanese team members didn't have to worry about this first. Instead, they had to worry about their survival … Because they had played for three days and then lost 10 billion. This was really 10 billion, and it was in US dollars. Even if it was Japanese yen, they wouldn't be able to afford it. Of course, it wasn't their turn to lose money. It was the Japanese company alliance that was paying the bill, but … they couldn't afford it either.
Six hours after the end of the competition, the first wave of follow-up results began to break out. The first to suffer was on the Japanese side. The Saki Corporation, a member of the Japanese company alliance, held a press conference to announce that they couldn't afford the compensation and declared bankruptcy. They had already submitted a bankruptcy application to the court overnight, and the bankruptcy process would begin the next day.
Within half an hour after the Saki Corporation declared bankruptcy, 17 companies consecutively declared bankruptcy. Many of them were not members of the Japanese company alliance, but because they were involved in fundraising, they couldn't afford the result and went bankrupt.
After another half an hour, the Japanese Prime Minister made a public speech, saying that this was simply the biggest disaster in the Japanese game industry, and that the Japanese game industry was on the verge of collapse. He hoped that all Japanese companies and Japanese players would work together to overcome this crisis.
The same situation immediately appeared in Korea. As a highly developed game industry, even accounting for 10% of the country's GDP, the impact of this attack on Korea was unprecedented. This incident involved more companies than Japan, and because the compensation was too exaggerated, it caused big news. The competition here hadn't even ended yet, and the boss of a game company called Shanshan Group chose to directly donate money to escape. His company couldn't afford the compensation, so he might as well take the money and escape. In the end, he was caught at the airport. So at the airport, there were still a lot of foreigners. Someone saw the police arresting someone, so he took a picture of the incident and posted it on the internet. Then, the boss was recognized. Connecting the dots, everyone instantly guessed what was going on, and of course, this incident immediately went viral.
Along with this incident, more than 20 Korean game companies announced their bankruptcy. So, the headline of the news immediately became "The Korean game industry is also hit by a storm. 20 companies went bankrupt, and the president is preparing to escape with the money."
Of course, it wasn't just these two countries. They were only the first countries to be hit. After that, this problem immediately became a global problem. This was because a large number of countries, including the United States, had game companies go bankrupt. Of course, such a big problem didn't just affect their countries, nor did it affect the game industry. Soon, the follow-up problems came one after another. Because of this kind of big news, the amount of information was too much, causing people who paid attention to this problem to not know what to look for.
Now, the players couldn't sleep at all, because every minute, a big news would pop up on the internet. Of course, the players in the Hua Xia region treated it as a show, but after a while, they gradually felt that something was wrong.
The New York stock market stopped trading … Nine hours after the end of the competition, it was night time in the Hua Xia region, and the stock market opened in the morning in the United States. In less than an hour after the opening, the trading of 35 stocks fell instantly, and all the colors that could be seen on the entire page were green. The index price fell so fast that even the automatic stock price monitor couldn't keep up. Everyone was selling their stocks like crazy.
At first, it was only the stocks of gaming-related companies that fell. But soon, it wasn't the case. Everyone was selling their stocks, and the result was that those companies that had nothing to do with games were also affected. This kind of thing was a vicious cycle. Some people sold their stocks, and it fell. More people sold their stocks, and it continued to fall. This cycle continued, and it couldn't stop.
The Nikkei index had already started to fall after the competition ended, and now it was the United States' turn. This was a very bad situation. After all, the United States' economy affected the global economy. If the United States collapsed, the whole world would follow suit.
"This is going to be a big problem." Those who knew a little about economics knew that something bad was going to happen. They didn't expect that the impact of winning the Nations Cup would be so big. Maybe the global economy would be affected.
The stock market crash naturally began to affect everyone. Originally, everyone thought that they were playing games and that it had nothing to do with them if they lost. They didn't play games anyway. They didn't expect the impact to be so big. Of course, they didn't want to do it. This matter had nothing to do with them, so why did they have to lose money?
As a free country, the people here naturally started to look for the government when they were unhappy. Hence, the inexplicable losers started to cause trouble. A group of people rushed to the entrance of the city government and began to protest. The city government naturally couldn't solve this problem. This had nothing to do with them, so they quickly reported it to the higher-ups. Finally, it was reported to the State Council.
Of course, at this time, the United States Senate already knew about this matter. They were now in a meeting to discuss what to do. They didn't expect this matter to have such a big impact. In fact, although they knew that the stakes of this competition were very high, they didn't expect it to attract so much attention. The United States was rich. In their opinion, even if they lost all the money, the registration fee would only be 10 billion. It wasn't a big deal. However, they didn't expect that there would be a problem in the stock market now. The losses weren't as simple as 10 billion. Just an hour after the market opened, 6.2 billion had disappeared from the stock market. The money that had evaporated was unknown. This was only an hour after the market opened. Who knew what would happen after that?
"We must treat this matter seriously. This could develop into a national incident at any time. No, it's a global incident," a state representative said.
"I will hold a speech in half an hour and call on all parties to restrain themselves. The gaming companies here must not be allowed to go bankrupt. Immediately notify all the banks. I need the stock market to return to normal before noon," the president said immediately.
"Yes, please rest assured," the state representatives beside him immediately replied.
The result of the competition was very strange. The government in Hua Xia region was the biggest beneficiary. The government of the other national teams were also the ones paying the bills. Not many people were able to discover the battle behind the scenes.
When Li Huailin woke up, it was already the morning of the next day. As soon as he woke up, Li Huailin found someone in his room. He was slightly stunned when he realized that the person who appeared was Zhang Yonglin.
"Damn, why did you come to my room to have breakfast so early in the morning?" Li Huailin was too tired and slept like a log. He didn't notice when Zhang Yonglin arrived. "How did you come in?"
"No, your girlfriend was also here when I came, but she left after receiving a phone call. She made this breakfast," Zhang Yonglin said on the other side.
"Su Yan?" Li Huailin thought for a moment. He really did give Su Ruoyan the key. After getting out of bed, Li Huailin brushed his teeth and asked, "What the hell are you looking for me for?"
"Haha, I knew you didn't know. Something big happened," Zhang Yonglin said with a smile.
"Something big again," Li Huailin facepalmed. "Alright, what is it?"
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