January 24th, the second day of the New Year.
Zhao Xuming and Long Yu Corporation's employees who were visiting Los Angeles landed at Shanghai Airport.
Zhao Xuming felt like a lifetime had passed since he stepped onto Shanghai's soil again after more than a month.
Zhao Xuming, Long Yu Corporation's employees, and two clubs were together when they went. However, only Zhao Xuming and Long Yu Corporation's employees were left when they returned.
That was because those two clubs had already been eliminated after the group stages. Naturally, there was no reason for them to continue staying in Los Angeles. They had already flown back.
It had been a long time since they heard any news about these two clubs on the internet.
The reason was very simple. Of course, they had to pretend to be dead since the international competition was already like this!
It had to be said that these two teams' pretending to be dead was still effective. Now, basically no one on the internet was criticizing them anymore. In fact, their public opinion had even improved to a certain extent!
On one hand, it was because FV Team had won the championship for domestic players. Everyone was busy being happy and could not be bothered to criticize these two teams. On the other hand, it was because all sorts of news had been gradually revealed during the international competition. Most people realized that the players could not be blamed for the failure of these two teams. There were many reasons for the failure.
Naturally, these two teams would not be the focus of the firepower now that the blame had been split.
Thus, the trip to Los Angeles might not have gained much from these two clubs, but they did not lose much either.
At the very least, their air tickets and accommodation would be reimbursed. It would not be a loss for the players to go out and play in international competitions.
However, the entire trip to Los Angeles was terrible for Zhao Xuming!
Zhao Xuming generously arranged for all his employees to sit in business class because there were very few people on his way back. He finally made up for the grievances he had suffered when he went to Los Angeles.
However, he deliberately chose a later flight to Shanghai because he did not want to meet the group of people from FV Team.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be equivalent to whipping himself if everyone sat in business class and everyone from FV Team discussed the championship happily on the plane?
Logically speaking, Zhao Xuming was the person-in-charge of IOI's domestic operations. It should be a glory for him for the domestic team to win the IOI World Finals. However, the problem was that FV's championship had nothing to do with him. Instead, it was a slap in the face!
Zhao Xuming would definitely be very happy to ride on the popularity and take some of the credit for winning the championship if the other two teams won the championship.
FV Team was the only one that Zhao Xuming could not win.
He could not possibly say that "Boss Pei paid for the logistics team because I did not bring them to Los Angeles for early training. That was why FV was able to win the championship. Did I deserve this?"
Thus, Zhao Xuming could only choose to avoid FV Club's group and return to Shanghai at the wrong time.
Thinking about it this way, this trip to Los Angeles was really a complete failure for Zhao Xuming!
He had not wanted to bring FV Team at first, but they went at their own expense and even bumped into each other at the airport.
He was sitting in economy class, while the other was sitting in business class.
He was staying at the Marriott, while the other was staying at the Ritz-Carlton.
He booked a small corner on the first floor of the internet cafe, while the other party booked the second floor.
If he walked to training, the other party would have a car to pick him up and a bodyguard to protect him.
He could only beg to find a European or American team to train with him. They brought their own two sparring teams, and the training effect was better.
The two teams that he supported were eliminated in the group stage, and the other team won the championship with a 9: 0 score without losing a single game.
This was truly a complete blow to the ground that was visible with the naked eye!
The most infuriating thing was that it was the Chinese New Year holiday. FV Team had spent this year in Los Angeles, which was very memorable. On the other hand, Zhao Xuming had spent this year in Los Angeles, which was extremely bitter!
Thus, Zhao Xuming only had one thought now. He had to hurry back to the headquarters to report his work, then go home to rest and comfort his damaged heart.
After leaving the airport, his subordinates had already arranged for Long Yu Corporation to send a commercial car to pick him up.
Zhao Xuming got into the car without saying a word. He closed his eyes to rest after fastening his seatbelt, not wanting to say a word.
The flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai took about twelve hours. Business class could sleep and rest comfortably, so Zhao Xuming did not feel very tired.
His fatigue mainly came from his spirit.
The employees of Long Yu Corporation who were accompanying him were also core members of IOI's operations and cooperation department. One of their important missions in Los Angeles this time was to visit, communicate, and learn at Finger Games' headquarters. Naturally, they were also paying attention to the IOI World Finals.
The others were not as frustrated as Zhao Xuming. They were not directly in charge after all, so they treated it as a public holiday.
Everyone had been sleeping and watching movies on the plane. Their cell phones had been turned off. Now that they had returned to Shanghai, many people turned on their cell phones and went online to check the latest news.
Suddenly, an employee said in a panic, "Boss Zhao! Bad news, our company seems to have been scolded and trended! The people from the public relations department are looking for you! "
Zhao Xuming, who had been resting with his eyes closed, opened his eyes instantly. "What?!"
Why was he suddenly scolded and trended?
What had happened on the plane for more than ten hours?
Obviously, being scolded and trended was most likely related to the IOI World Finals. As the person-in-charge of IOI's operations and cooperation department, Zhao Xuming did not dare to be negligent. He quickly took out his cell phone to check.
As expected, Long Yu Corporation had really been scolded and trended!
Many netizens were crazily attacking Long Yu Corporation, especially Zhao Xuming. One of the most representative posts directly dug up old scores. It pulled Finger Games, Long Yu Corporation, and Zhao Xuming together and scolded them badly!
"Let's take a look at the domestic IOI operator, Long Yu Corporation, while FV is working hard to win glory for the country!"
"Based on the melons that have been released so far, we can at least confirm the following:"
"First of all, Long Yu Corporation brought the other two clubs to Los Angeles without FV at all. It's complete discrimination and unfair treatment! If Boss Pei had not generously paid for it out of his own pocket, FV might not have been able to play mock competitions! "
"Secondly, Finger Games and Long Yu Corporation changed the version randomly. Not only did they expose the failure of IOI's original gameplay design, but they also seriously damaged the interests of all old players! However, they have been using the tactic of stalling, hoping to cover up this topic through the popularity of the IOI World Finals! "
"Finally, and the most disgusting thing, Finger Games actually sent a Game Balancer to guide FRY Team in private! I want to ask, where is the fairness of the competition if the organizer personally guides the club to play games? "
"Obviously, Finger Games' official platform did not want FV Team to win the championship. That's why they came up with such a despicable method!"
"How could Long Yu Corporation's Zhao Xuming not know about this as a partner? He definitely knew! However, he did not stop it. What does that mean? It means that he's guilty. He knows that he will be scolded to death for treating FV differently. That's why he doesn't want FV to win the championship. The honor of the country and the nation in the competition cannot compare to his personal interests in his heart. In the past, we usually called such people 'traitors' and 'traitors'! "
"If FV Team had not been strong enough to still win the championship under such circumstances, if someone had not exposed this matter, I'm afraid the people who did not know the truth would still be flaming FV Team. The two main culprits, Long Yu Corporation and Finger Games, would be hiding in the dark and laughing!"
"From this point, we can also see the essence of Finger Games and Long Yu Corporation:"
"Not only is Finger Games full of discrimination and prejudice against domestic teams, but they are also a company that cannot afford to lose. If they can't win openly, they will use such small tricks;"
"As a large domestic company, Long Yu Corporation is acting as an accomplice for their own interests under such circumstances. It's very despicable!"
"Now that something like this has happened, the only way for players to do anything other than denounce it online is to boycott it!"
"Players who don't play IOI have to boycott because Finger Games and Long Yu Corporation have treated our champion team differently. Players who play IOI have to boycott because Finger Games and Long Yu Corporation have never truly respected the rights of players!"
Zhao Xuming was dumbfounded, and his hands and feet turned cold.
What was going on?
How did the matter of Finger Games arranging a data balancer for Fry get exposed?!
He roughly read through all the popular discussion threads on the Internet, and his hands couldn't help but tremble slightly.
The public opinion was already one-sided, and everyone was pointing fingers at him!
This was an unprecedented public relations crisis for both Long Yu Corporation and Finger Games. If it was not handled well, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Looking carefully at these hot topics, most of the content had already been exposed before.
For example, IOI sacrificed the interests of old players when it first pushed out the new version, causing a lot of criticism on the internet.
At the end of the top eight, someone revealed that FV had gone to Los Angeles at their own expense. Long Yu Corporation did not bring them along at all.
At the end of the semifinals, FV used GOG's tactics. Someone used this to refute the view that IOI's design was better than GOG's, believing that GOG's gameplay and tactics were ahead of IOI.
At that time, these posts had already caused a certain amount of influence on the internet. However, the finals had not started at that time, so the influence was limited and could still be suppressed.
However, now that FV Team had won the championship, these things were naturally dug out by netizens and they began to settle the scores!
The most critical tipping point was the incident reported by the foreign media that Finger Games had sent a data balancer to help FRY formulate tactics!
Obviously, when this news came out, it directly ignited all the hatred that had accumulated before!
That was because even though the netizens thought that the previous things were very bad, they were still barely acceptable. However, this matter was absolutely unacceptable!
Finger Games was the organizer of the competition after all. The organizer had sent the game's data balancer to guide FRY Team and directly intervened in the finals of the two teams. Wasn't that biased?
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