.”

"As for the domestic clubs, everything is safe. Our Longyu Group has cooperated with three old clubs to coordinate and help them strengthen their teams."

"These three old clubs are all well-known clubs in China. They are currently the strongest and there will be no problem in qualifying for the qualifying rounds. The other clubs have also received good transfer fees by buying players. When the time comes, they will participate in the qualifying rounds and accompany them. It can play a certain role as a foil."

"This can be considered a win-win situation for all three parties, the small club, the big club and our organizers."

"In short, we are ready for the ioi World Finals!"

Chretien nodded: "Yes. Among the three clubs you mentioned, is there one called FV Club?"

Zhao Xuming was stunned for a moment: "Ah? No."

"The fv club is a small club with no reputation. Even if they participate in the qualifying rounds, they are just running along. Their strength is far behind."

Chretien couldn't help but frown slightly, looking a little surprised.

Obviously, there was a certain deviation in the understanding of information between the two parties.

"Then why does this fv club seem to be spending its own money to promote the qualifying matches? I thought this was the instruction of your Longyu Group." Chretien said.

Zhao Xuming was confused: "When did it happen? Why didn't I know?"

Chretien was a little unhappy: "Since yesterday, Mr. Zhao's recent news doesn't seem to be very well-informed."

Zhao Xuming hurriedly explained: "I have been busy these past two days and haven't paid much attention to these."

He turned to look at the subordinate next to him: "Do you know about this?"

The subordinate nodded: "I know. In fact, these propagandas only appeared yesterday afternoon or evening. I have sorted out the relevant content and originally wanted to report to you after today's meeting."

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, the subordinates quickly took the blame on themselves.

Zhao Xuming said with a cold face: "Bring it immediately!"

The subordinate quickly got up and left. After a while, he came back with a compiled document and handed it to Zhao Xuming.

Zhao Xuming reached out to take it and browsed it quickly.

Judging from the report, FV Club has promoted it in many places, including some live broadcast platforms, video websites, forums, etc. In addition to buying hot searches and advertising, there seems to be some water in these topics. signs of military activity.

It has indeed greatly increased the popularity, but all these marketing activities are limited to the domestic qualifying matches of fv club and ioi.

Moreover, because the fv club itself is not well-known, it must use the ioi world finals for marketing, so the fv club is not the most important part in these publicity.

No wonder Chretien thought these marketing activities were carried out by Longyu Group under the instructions of FV Club.

Zhao Xuming was completely confused. What was going on?

The emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is?

Longyu Group does not deliberately promote ioi’s domestic qualifying competition, mainly because there is no need to waste money on this.

There are only a few teams participating in the domestic qualifying competition. Except for three old clubs such as SUG, the other participating teams are all accompanying teams, which have been determined when the team members are selected.

Moreover, this qualifying competition will not attract much attention in the country, and there will not be many people watching the competition. Longyu Group does not plan to spend more money on the venue, but just found a studio to make do, thinking of going there. Just a cutscene and that's it.

In this case, why spend too much money on marketing?

By then the excitement has started to build, and when the audience comes in to take a look, this is the stage? Is this the level of competition? It’s far different from GPL!

Spending money may not necessarily produce good results.

So it's not that Zhao Xuming forgot to promote, but he deliberately didn't want to promote it in a big way. He just went through the motions and sent the three veteran teams to the World Championship, and then promoted it vigorously to create heat when the World Championship was held.

Money must be spent wisely.

Unexpectedly, the fv club spent its own money to promote it!

Zhao Xuming felt very confused and thought that this qualifying competition had nothing to do with them?

It would be fine if clubs like SUG paid for promotion. After all, they can get real popularity and traffic, but FV club is just a sidekick. Isn’t it a waste of money to promote it?

Seeing Zhao Xuming's confused look, Chretien was a little unhappy.

He knocked on the table lightly and said, "Mr. Zhao, the impact of the fv club incident is not very good."

"Our own publicity is not strong enough. Many players get information from the fv club, but there is no news from the official side. This seems very unprofessional on our part!"

"I originally thought that the promotion of the fv club was directed by you, and I thought you were a bit unprofessional in handling this matter. But I didn't expect that you didn't know about it at all? This is even more unprofessional!"

"Out of trust in Longyu Group, we have never interfered with the domestic qualifying competition, but the current situation seems to have betrayed our trust, right?"

The corners of Zhao Xuming's mouth twitched slightly, and he was speechless inside.

This is so unlucky!

According to the original plan, the domestic qualifying competition was just a casual affair, as long as the scene was passable. The teams were all pre-determined and no one was watching, so why bother causing such a big battle?

It’s not too late to save the money and wait until the World Championships to try again.

As a result, the fv club is now doing this, putting the official in a difficult position. Players see that the official promotion of ioi is not as good as a club? They will definitely feel that Zhitou Company and Longyu Group are particularly unprofessional.

To use a simple analogy, Longyu Group is like a department leader. Originally, he led the entire department to fish together, and others could not see it. At most, they just felt that this department was not very powerful.

As a result, one person in the department suddenly worked hard and worked overtime every day, and the rest of the department was exposed and turned into a bunch of trash waiting to die.

Especially the department heads are definitely scolded the most.

Zhao Xuming hurriedly said: "Don't worry, it's still too late to remedy the situation!"

"The competition will only start on Saturday, and there are still two days left. We will invest some resources to promote the ioi qualifying tournament, so that players will feel that the fv club just obtained inside information in advance and promoted it earlier than the official.

They think we are unprofessional.”

"Furthermore, with the momentum created by the fv club, if we carry out publicity at this time, we should be able to achieve relatively good results."

Chretien nodded and expressed satisfaction: "It's best to remedy the situation. I believe in your professional ability."

Zhao Xuming was smiling and calm on the outside, but in fact he was cursing inside.

Isn’t this fv just looking for trouble? It harms others but does not benefit oneself!

Now Longyu Group has to spend a large amount of money to invest in this qualifying competition.

Not only the advertising and marketing expenses, but also the venues for the competitions have to be worked on quickly to make them more flashy, right?

As attention increases, there will definitely be more players finding faults. If the venue is not beautiful enough, it will definitely lower the level of the game, which will be embarrassing.

Of course, the game starts in two days, and the time is too tight. It will definitely be too late to change the venue. The only choice is to purchase some more decorations to improve the venue effect as much as possible.

Zhao Xuming still couldn't figure out why FV Club had to spend money to promote itself when it had nothing to do, but he didn't have time to study it in detail.

After all, time was tight and the competition was about to start in two days, so Zhao Xuming had to put all his energy into preparing for the qualifying competition.

…

At the same time, the imperial capital.

Tang Yishu got off the car and carefully set foot on the land of the imperial capital.

This was her first time here, and although she was scared along the way, miraculously no accidents happened.

However, this did not make Tang Yishu feel at ease. Instead, she felt more dangerous.

Maybe it's because the previous safety measures were too good, and the bad luck didn't find an opportunity to take advantage of, but accumulated all the bad luck. I don't know what kind of breakthrough will be found, and it will suddenly break out.

Xiao Sun drove the car directly to the hotel parking lot. Qiu Hong had already booked the room for him and was waiting in the lobby in advance.

According to the itinerary, we will have something to eat and take a rest at noon, go to the independent game incubation base in the afternoon, go up to the cold noodle girl the next day, and return to Jingzhou in the afternoon.

Qiu Hong looked at the mechanical watch in his hand and estimated that the time should be almost there.

After waiting for two minutes, he looked up and saw Tang Yishu arriving at the main entrance of the hotel.

The two drivers stood on the left and right like bodyguards, carefully protecting her safety, but the automatic revolving door at the hotel entrance suddenly stopped for some unknown reason, and the three of them froze in place.

Qiu Hong hurriedly stepped forward and opened the side door: "Xiao Tang, right? Come over here!"

Tang Yishu and the two drivers had no choice but to take the side door, but as soon as they entered the lobby, the revolving door at the entrance of the hotel returned to normal.

Qiu Hong didn't pay attention, thinking it was just an unexpected episode, and shook hands with Tang Yishu.

"It's been a hard journey. The three of us must be tired after the long journey. The itinerary is as follows: We will go to a nearby place to have a quick bite, and then we will go back to the hotel to rest at noon. At two o'clock in the afternoon, we will gather in the lobby.

I’ll take everyone to the incubation base to have a look.”

"The time now is... huh?"

Qiu Hong subconsciously raised his wrist to check the current time, but found that the mechanical watch that had been working fine just now was no longer running.

He was a little confused. He had been wearing this watch for several years without any major problems, and it had just been wound up some time ago.

How come you are walking so well and then suddenly stop?

Tang Yishu looked up at the sky with some embarrassment, pretending that nothing had happened.

…

Noon, independent game incubation base.

Wu Zhicheng was eating in the rest area with a few new independent game producers.

"Look, let me just say that the fried tomatoes and eggs in Moyu's takeout are particularly delicious, right? It's different from those cooked in restaurants outside. The dishes in Moyu's takeout are absolutely healthy."
To be continued...