I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property-Chapter 578 - 576: Gentlemen First, Villains Later

"Hong Yi, help me look up the phone number of the owner of Thunderstorm Games, and also get me his personal profile." To deal with someone, naturally, one must know both the enemy and oneself to achieve invincibility in every battle.

"Mr. Zhang, I have already sent you his contact information, and here is his profile for you to take a look." In less than 5 minutes, Hong Yi had sent him a set of documents.

"Michel, 31 years old, truly young," Zhang Menglong hadn't expected the owner of Thunderstorm to be a post-90s.

Michel was not the first owner of Thunderstorm. The company was originally founded by three students from a university, who developed it from scratch with their superb skills and advanced ideas.

However, for a company to grow big, the involvement of capital is essential, and Michel became the largest shareholder afterward.

Michel is a true American; his father started in cross-border e-commerce, making him a second-generation rich kid.

Having been exposed to eSports from a young age, he had many of his own ideas in this area and had his own dreams.

In his early years, he also competed in eSports and had organized many Esports clubs. In this year's Esports Olympics, several of the competing teams were ones he had trained from scratch.

He had thought he could shine in this Esports Olympics, but the LSP club formed by Zhang Menglong and Wang Ling turned out to be so powerful that they beat Esports players from all countries decisively and swept all the gold medals outright.

This made Michel very dissatisfied. Why could Huaxia players be so powerful? After being overshadowed by Qingqiu Country in eSports, now being stepped on by his old rival Huaxia sparked this thought in him.

He must make Huaxia players lose badly!

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"How's the situation with the servers recently?" Michel lay comfortably on his office chair.

"All the servers are almost full, I think we can introduce some paid items for conversion soon, we estimate the monthly turnover could reach ten billion scale."

"You know that's not what I'm concerned about," Michel said blandly, "I was the one who led the development of this game, and I have absolute confidence in its profitability. I want to know what impact it can have on the world of eSports!"

"I understand!" His subordinate immediately knew what Michel wanted to know.

"Currently, 127 countries and regions have applied for servers, and according to our comprehensive statistics, America is ranked first, Qingqiu second, and several European countries take from third to seventh place. As for Huaxia...hahaha, they are ranked past 70th!"

"Hahaha!" Michel couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Currently, several surrounding servers have launched attacks on the Dragon Continent area, and they have already lost 7.5% of their original land area. Now, Huaxia players have adopted a new strategy, tightening their defense and giving up the outlying land. But with the mechanics of this game, unless they cheat, they simply can't catch up."

"Cheating, hahaha," Michel laughed even harder, this game's engine had taken them more than three years to build; let alone cheats, even the chance for bugs to appear was next to none.

In the system, they also added a self-check device, any external interference once detected is met with immediate account suspension, even auxiliary plugins that facilitate operation without affecting game balance couldn't be incorporated.

At that moment, Michel's phone rang, "You may leave now, keep me posted if anything arises."

The head of the marketing department left the office, and Michel answered the phone, "This is Michel."

"This is Zhang Menglong!"

"Shush!" Hearing this name, Michel's back went instantly damp; it was a name that caused headaches for entrepreneurs and politicians all over the world.

But a moment later, Michel regained his composure, "So it's Mr. Zhang. I've long admired your reputation. Mr. Zhang managing to get my private number truly impresses me."

"As long as I want to, I could even get your wife's phone number," Zhang Menglong said bluntly.

"Mr. Zhang is quite the joker," though feeling infuriated inside, Michel held back for the moment, wanting to know the purpose of Zhang Menglong's call.

One could figure it out easily, it was definitely about that game.

He had analyzed Zhang Menglong, and besides being wealthy, his most prominent trait was patriotism.

It had been several weeks since the incident with the game map, and according to Zhang Menglong's habits, he should have spoken up long ago. Why was he approaching him only now?

"I wonder what Mr. Zhang would like to discuss?"

"I don't like beating around the bush, so I'll get straight to the point," Zhang Menglong said directly, "I want you to shut down 'Dominators of the Era' immediately, wipe all current game data, and restore the Dragon Continent's map to how our Huaxia map was."

"Wow, do Huaxia people discuss matters so straightforwardly? Starting with such a heavy demand?" Michel realized that Zhang Menglong was indeed different from those he'd dealt with before.

At his level, almost everyone desired respect, and if there were any real disputes, they definitely wouldn't bring them up directly. This was an unwritten rule in the business world.

"Mr. Zhang, actually, I've heard about this matter abroad," Michel had already figured out how to respond, "I have great respect for history and facts, but you should also understand this game. It's a world completely different from ours; we've only referred to the world map."

"I remember your game's promotions stated that the scenes were built exactly according to the world map at a 1:1 scale."

"That's just the media's doing, you can look into it. There has never been any official statement," Michel countered, "Virtual worlds, Mr. Zhang, should we really tie them so closely to reality? Doesn't that seem a bit childish?"

"I'm sorry, I'm only a 23-year-old guy, a college student, how mature do you think I can be?" Zhang Menglong's principle was simple: if you reason with me, I'll reason back, and if you play dirty, I'll play dirty, too.

You call me childish, and childish I am, what can you do about it?

"Mr. Zhang, if you insist on taking it personally, there's nothing I can do, but stopping the servers is out of the question. As an entrepreneur yourself, you should understand the tremendous impact it would have on our game and our company's reputation if we were to stop the game or even wipe the data."

"That's not my concern," Zhang Menglong stated, "Mr. Michel, you should understand, as an adult, you are responsible for your actions."

"I'm sorry Mr. Zhang, but I don't think I've done anything wrong, so I don't see any need to bear the so-called responsibility you're talking about. You can sue our company in any way you like, but believe me, your accusations are likely to be ineffective."

Michel had already consulted legal advisors; their official promotions had never stated that the map was based on the world map. It just resembled it, and if people insisted on associating it, there was nothing he could do, right?

"Mr. Michel, I always try to be a gentleman first and a scoundrel second, but please don't force me to do something I'd rather not."

"Hahaha, Mr. Zhang, I know you're wealthy, but that move doesn't work on me unless you can directly beat my PUBG with a game."

"So you mean you're unwilling to shut down the game, unwilling to alter the map, and even unwilling to apologize, is that right?"

"Hmm?"

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"Very well," Zhang Menglong said, "Have you ever heard of a 'Twilight of the Gods' occurring in PUBG?"

"Uh?" Michel was taken aback; he hadn't heard of it. Twilight of the Gods, wasn't that a story from their Western mythology?

"No worries, you'll know in a few days."