deltrittennovels #183 - Extreme Pressure (Please Order)
#183 - Extreme Pressure (Please Order)
"My son's grades are all below the average score! He's in the second year of junior high. What am I supposed to do with him?"
"All you do all day long is farming and collecting精灵. It's going to ruin you all!"
"You have no future, I'm telling you!"
"Wouldn't it be better for you four hundred plus people to study hard? What's the point of playing this Peach Blossom Utopia game all day long?"
The direct reason for Youyi's ban on the island owner's life was the large number of parental complaints they received.
Liu Mengyuan rubbed her temples and asked, "Then what about NekoPara Adventure? Who could possibly be offended by such a cute game?"
Mo Xiaoxuan's PPT showed a news item from a few days ago:
"In a residential area of Jianghai City, a perverted, unemployed man in his thirties stole intimate clothing that his female neighbor had hung out to dry on her balcony."
"When the police found him, he claimed that he mistook the panties for a cotton hat."
"His parents said that he usually had some mental problems, and his delusions became even worse after playing NekoPara Adventure."
"This itself is a case of the game providing negative guidance."
The employees of the NekoPara team laughed in anger:
"This is like blaming the Earth's gravity for not being able to poop!"
Meng Yue, the business girl from the NekoPara team, asked, "President Lu, should we release a public statement to defend ourselves?"
Lu Yu waved his hand: "It's useless. Give a dog a bad name and hang him. Youyi is determined to ban us. Even if these things didn't happen, they would find other ways to fabricate charges."
Zhang Fan sneered: "Heh, in previous competitions, everyone was just playing cards on the table. But this time, Youyi is directly overturning the table! Aren't they afraid of harming themselves in the process?"
Lu Yu propped his chin up and analyzed:
"Youyi must have made this decision after careful consideration and taken many measures to appease other manufacturers, including offering commission rebates and other concessions."
"Moreover, this move must have been approved by the group headquarters. Shi Yi alone wouldn't have the guts to play so big."
Xu Lu, the business girl from the island owner team, said with a sob:
"What do we do? Our game is only available on the Youyi platform. If we're forced to shut down the servers, the losses will be immeasurable."
Lu Yu rubbed his temples and said in a deep voice, "Don't panic. Everyone, continue to do what you're supposed to do, maintain the company's operations, and I'll think of a solution."
Seeing Lu Yu so calm, the employees immediately felt reassured and relieved.
That's right, what is our Peach Blossom Utopia's biggest trump card? It's definitely our President Lu!
With a resourceful and strategically brilliant leader in charge, Peach Blossom Utopia will definitely be able to overcome this crisis.
......
Meanwhile, at Youyi headquarters, in Shi Yi's office.
"Xiao Fan, you've done a great job." Shi Yi looked at the official announcement with satisfaction and nodded slightly.
Standing in front of him was a young man who had just been parachuted into Youyi from the group headquarters.
This person was tall and slender, with pale skin, wearing black-rimmed glasses, and with deep, dark eyes.
He was wearing a smart and capable suit,
but his gentle and refined temperament revealed a different kind of coldness and insidiousness.
Fan Langtao, 24 years old, after graduating from Jianghai University, served as a management trainee in the Liu Group for two years, and is now the General Manager of the Platform Department of Youyi Company.
Shi Yi closed the computer, propped his chin up, and looked at his new subordinate:
"However, why did you give Peach Blossom Utopia a week's buffer time?"
Fan Langtao adjusted his glasses and smiled:
"Manager Shi, the Liu Group's headquarters' merger strategy emphasizes quick, accurate, and ruthless moves, with multiple approaches."
"First of all, I directly used the review rules as the entry point to ban Peach Blossom Utopia, which occupies the moral high ground and is justified."
"At the same time, cutting off technical support for the server can further exacerbate the other party's internal panic."
"Our public relations department, cooperating with the hype of some negative news about Peach Blossom Utopia, will continue to amplify this panic."
"But this week's buffer time seems to give the other party hope of survival."
"At this time, it will be relatively easier for me to talk to President Lu of Peach Blossom Utopia about the acquisition."
"As a last resort, if the pressure from this step is not enough, and President Lu is still stubborn and unwilling to accept the acquisition, then we will continue to block the other party's engine authorization."
"In this process of repeatedly giving the other party hope and then taking away hope, torturing the other party's mentality, we can negotiate a good price. This trick is also called 'extreme pressure'."
Shi Yi looked at the other party with a complicated expression. As expected of a management trainee from the headquarters, his methods were far beyond his age.
"But I still have to remind you that this President Lu of Peach Blossom Utopia is not so easy to deal with. In the previous battle between Youyi and him, the other party took every step carefully and was resourceful. It's not easy to figure out his bottom line."
Fan Langtao smiled:
"Thank you for the reminder, Manager Shi, but rest assured, my understanding of this President Lu may be more than others, because... we were both members of the game club at Jianghai University back then."
Shi Yi suddenly understood.
No wonder! There are plenty of people in the group headquarters with more seniority than Fan Langtao, but they parachuted him in to be the platform manager.
Letting classmates use fatal moves against each other, the headquarters is ruthless...
......
Monday night, Jianghai City, on the bank of the Redpu River, the luxurious Black Pearl three-diamond restaurant - Tang Wenge.
Lu Yu, dressed in a suit, had just entered the door when Fan Langtao, sitting by the window, smiled and waved to him.
In the afternoon, Lu Yu received a text message from the other party inviting him to dinner, and he readily accepted.
"Senior Fan, you look good. Have you been promoted quickly in the past two years?"
"Junior Lu, are you deliberately mocking me? I'm still a miserable working man. You've already become the president of a game company. Come on, order whatever you want. It's on me."
The two ate, drank, and chatted about the fun things from their university days.
Lu Yu joined the school's game research club when he was a freshman. Fan Langtao, who was a junior at the time, served as the vice president.
But because the official president was too lazy, Fan Langtao was basically in charge of the club's affairs.
After a few rounds of drinks, Fan Langtao looked at the tour boats outside the window and suddenly said:
"Actually, this time I came back to Jianghai City, besides contacting you to connect, I also want to apologize to you for what happened back then."
Lu Yu smiled slightly. He naturally knew what the other party was talking about.
In the second year, Youyi Company held a college student game development competition.
In addition to "The Way of the Cat" co-developed by Lu Yu and Liu Mengyuan, another game from the Jianghai University Game Research Club was entered in the competition. That game was developed by Fan Langtao.
In the end, The Way of the Cat won the third prize, while the other party's game didn't win any prizes.
Soon, Fan Langtao's group began to sourly gossip, saying that the prize for "The Way of the Cat" was predetermined because Liu Mengyuan was Liu Lan's daughter.
Lu Yu couldn't stand it, and had a big fight with Fan Langtao and others, and withdrew from the game research club.
Fan Langtao took a sip of wine and smacked his lips:
"I was really stupid back then. I thought I was so awesome, and I couldn't stand this and couldn't stand that. I always had 'the evil capital' on my lips."
"What happened? After going to Shenzhen for two years after graduation, I experienced countless social beatings, and I realized that people like us who were born as cattle and horses either become capital or can only depend on capital."
Fan Langtao shook his head with a wry smile and drank the wine in his glass:
"Junior, you are awesome. You have always adhered to your original intention."
"I really didn't expect that you could carry forward the original idea of "The Way of the Cat" and make it into "NekoPara Adventure", and start your business directly with this game."
"But, the more I know how difficult your process of realizing your dream is, the more I hope you listen to the advice of an old senior..."
Speaking of this, Fan Langtao's eyes inadvertently flashed with brilliance, revealing his trump card:
"In this situation, you can only rely on capital to protect your hard-won business."
Lu Yu smiled, put down his chopsticks, and asked instead:
"Senior Fan, are you inviting me to dinner today as a university classmate or as the manager of the Youyi platform department?"
Fan Langtao's pupils shrank suddenly, and he was stunned for a moment, then relieved:
"Good boy, you already knew my position, didn't you?"
"Hey, after all, the circle of classmates is so big. You can find out about it with a little inquiry. Senior has a high position in the Liu Group."
Fan Langtao's face twitched, but he quickly returned to a smiling expression:
"Since that's the case, then I won't pretend. Let's open the skylight and speak frankly."
"The Liu Group will offer a good price to fully acquire Peach Blossom Utopia. You can also get a producer title in Youyi Company and continue your game production dream."
"Junior Liu can also go home, and I can also report to the board of directors smoothly. Everyone is happy, isn't it beautiful?"
Hearing the other party mention letting Liu Mengyuan go home, Lu Yu suddenly realized.
No wonder Youyi is willing to use the trick of killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to besiege Peach Blossom Utopia.
While thinking about it, his phone suddenly rang. After answering, Liu Mengyuan's voice came from the receiver:
"Aren't you coming home for dinner tonight? The turtle soup is getting cold."
Lu Yu's voice was soft: "Yeah, I'm not going back. Put it in the refrigerator first. I'm having dinner with Senior Fan."
"Oh, well, when you go home tonight, please buy me a pack of sanitary napkins, I... my stomach is a little uncomfortable."
"Huh? Upset stomach?"
"No, there are always one or two days every month..."
"Oh, I understand, then I'll buy you some motherwort granules and brown sugar. Be careful not to touch cold water, wait for me to go back."
After hanging up the phone, Fan Langtao looked shocked,
With a snap, his chopsticks fell directly on the table.
"You, you and Junior Liu are living together?!"