novelODS Chapter 296 Trial! Execution!
Chapter 296 Trial! Execution!
Yun Shu was stunned. She had never bought this kind of USB flash drive before, nor did she remember putting it in the box.
"What is this?" She picked up the USB drive and looked at He Yingtang with a puzzled expression.
He Yingtang leaned over for a look and casually said, "It's probably from the company, right? Did you accidentally bring it back when you were packing?"
"Just plug it into the computer and you'll know what it is."
"What if it's some kind of Trojan virus?" Yun Shu hesitated.
"Who would be so bored?" Su He pouted.
"You didn't save... study materials, did you?"
Yun Shu jumped up: "How is that possible!"
"I was just thinking of replacing this crappy computer anyway, so I don't care if it's a Trojan horse."
"Let me see what it is."
He Yingtang took the USB drive and plugged it into the computer's USB port.
The computer recognized the device.
Yun Shu and Su He leaned over, and the three of them stared at the screen.
He Yingtang double-clicked to open the folder. Inside, instead of a jumble of documents, there were two files neatly arranged:
An audio file and a Word document.
"What the hell..." He Yingtang casually clicked on the audio.
The next second, a familiar voice came from the speaker—
"I've already contacted the DMA cooperation team..."
Bitcoin…
The three girls gasped simultaneously, staring at each other with wide eyes.
"This...this is..." Yun Shu's voice trembled.
The voices of Ziying and Suming!
He Yingtang suddenly covered her mouth, her eyes wide open.
He Yingtang's hands were shaking so badly that she quickly opened the Word document.
The screen is filled with dense text and tables—a list of collaborating teams, transaction details, Bitcoin wallet addresses, and timestamps.
Ironclad evidence.
He Yingtang slammed her notebook shut, extremely excited: "Yun Shu, we...we might have gotten something incredible!"
Outside the window, the afterglow of the setting sun streamed into the rented room, illuminating the black USB drive with a cold and dangerous sheen.
"The question now is how to handle this," Su He said, remaining the calmest. "Should we just give it to Brother Feng?"
"No way!" He Yingtang and Yun Shu shook their heads in unison.
He Yingtang bit her lip and said worriedly, "If we give it to Feng, he'll definitely choose to make it public. Even if they win against Delta in the end, Tencent will definitely hold a grudge against him. You've all seen Tencent's influence in China. If we really push them too far, Feng might not even be able to stream games anymore!"
"He was already a hero for standing up that day, there's no need to take this risk again!" Yun Shu added. "Besides, if you ask him about the origin of the document, he can't explain it clearly, and it will only cause him trouble."
"Should we hand it over to the higher-ups at Tencent?"
"How do you know they won't protect each other and ultimately betray the three of us?"
The three fell silent.
Suddenly, Su He's eyes lit up: "I have the best candidate."
The three exchanged glances and said in unison:
"Yifeng?!"
……
October 14th, afternoon.
The hashtags #SuggestingCheatingAssaultAsSignedAsCriminal# and #SaudiAsksToBuyDelta# are still trending, causing a stir all day.
The lights in Tencent's PR department have been on since last night, coffee cups are piled up like a small mountain, and everyone is wearing dark circles under their eyes, frantically deleting comments and suppressing the hype.
And it was at this critical juncture that Jiang Feng began broadcasting.
Without any prior notice or pre-event promotion, the number of viewers in the live stream skyrocketed at a visible rate.
In the video, Jiang Feng wasn't sitting in his usual gaming chair, nor was there a familiar computer screen behind him. He was wearing a simple white hoodie, sitting at a table, with a mountain of beautifully packaged boxes piled up behind him.
"No games today." Jiang Feng said calmly to the camera, as if he were just saying the weather was nice. "Today I'm doing a product livestream."
The live chat exploded instantly, with trolls mixed in with the fans immediately stirring up trouble:
[Sure enough, once they have traffic, they start selling products and ripping off customers.]
[Their eating manners are appalling; they should at least put on an act.]
I thought it would be something special, but it's just like everyone else.
But it's mostly the fans who are protecting them:
Do you need to say more? I'll definitely buy anything Fengshen endorses!
Even if it's just exploiting people, I'll accept it; it's better than giving money to Tencent!
The cream strawberries I ordered last time arrived, they're delicious! They even replaced the few spoiled ones!
Jiang Feng glanced at the comments, smiled faintly, and offered no explanation.
"Today I'm selling something different."
He reached behind him and picked up a box, then slowly turned around, revealing the striking blue logo on the packaging—Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
"I'm here today to give everyone a treat."
He opened the box, took out a silver-gray solid-state drive, tapped the surface of the drive lightly with his fingertip, and simply and clearly stated the parameters and price.
In its class, this price is basically the lowest on the market, offering excellent value for money.
So you're just selling hard drives?
This hard drive is recoverable!
[Genuine benefits.]
"This is a co-branded product I launched with Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd., and it offers excellent value for money. But that's not the main point—"
Jiang Feng paused, then said, word by word:
"Anyone who can provide genuine and valid proof of hard drive damage caused by playing Delta Force will get a 50% discount! No matter the brand or model of the SSD, if it was damaged by Delta Force, contact me for a 50% discount on a replacement!"
The live stream went silent for three seconds.
The next second, the comments exploded like a volcanic eruption:
Holy crap?! Half price?!
[Fengshen is going to lose money! How much will they lose?!]
[I knew Fengshen wasn't the type to just cash in!]
[I'm so touched, this is a real blessing for everyone!]
[If Tencent doesn't intervene and Fengshen doesn't intervene, who can still criticize them?]
After the barrage of comments subsided slightly, Jiang Feng continued:
"I know you want to ask where the money comes from."
Thanks to the manufacturer's support, they will use a portion of their profits to subsidize the costs.
I will not take a single penny of the booth fees and commissions from this live-streaming sales event; I will use them all as subsidies.
Thanks to the manufacturer's support, they will use a portion of their profits to subsidize the costs.
Ensure that every player whose hard drive is damaged due to Delta Force can buy a new hard drive at half price.
He looked at the camera with a firm gaze:
"This is something I promised you. If TX doesn't care, I will."
[Wind God is awesome!!!]
This is a huge slap in the face for Tencent!
[Buy! Must buy! Support domestic products! Support Fengshen!]
[Buy more, the more you buy, the less Fengshen will lose!]
[Buy it if you need it! Domestic storage solution plus a conscientious livestreamer!]
The number of viewers in the live stream instantly exceeded 200 million.
Yangtze Memory's official flagship store was instantly overwhelmed with customers, and the pre-orders for the co-branded solid-state drives exceeded 100,000 units in just ten minutes.
In fact, Jiang Feng had been negotiating this collaboration for almost half a month.
His only requirement was that he could take less commission, but he had to agree to his condition of a 50% subsidy.
Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (YMTC) hesitated at first, after all, it meant taking on huge losses.
But seeing Jiang Feng stand firm amidst the overwhelming negative press, seeing him gain official recognition, and seeing his fans united like never before, the two parties finally signed a contract on the afternoon of January 13th.
Jiang Feng's move was tantamount to slapping TX across the face twice.
You, Tencent, don't care about the players' lives or deaths, but I will.
Tencent Games will not be responsible for any damage to players' hard drives, so I will personally compensate players out of my own pocket.
Even though Tencent has banned me and won't let me stream your games, I'm still thriving, even more popular than before.
Just then, the system suddenly popped up a notification:
Main Quest 3: Before Dawn (150/100%)
[Mission Evaluation: Dawn has broken! Perfect! Overachieved!]
Start Mission 4: Trial! Execution! (0/100%).
[Mission Hint: The darkness is about to end, and judgment will come. The good will be rewarded, and the evil will be punished!]
……
At that moment, Yi Feng, without any warning, started a live stream...
The live stream's name is simple, only two characters, yet it's like a drawn sword:
the truth.