Actor: Thank you.

As the saying goes, a bull won’t drink water if you force it.

Anyone who can be the best in a field has a temper.

Especially as Chinese people, those who can make a name for themselves overseas all have bad tempers.

So is Uncle Long and so is Yao Ming.

Even if he is not as top as them, look at Fan Zhiyi who was the captain of Crystal Palace in English League One. How could he have a small temper?
Therefore, Yao Ming is naturally very happy to see Brother Chen Long now.

After all, who hasn’t watched Big Brother’s movies when they were a kid?

It must be a good feeling to be able to meet big stars and idols.

"I've seen your movie, Kung Fu."

Dayao is a decent man and greeted him warmly.

This person basically doesn't watch TV series, but he does watch Stephen Chow's movies, so I recognized him.

The reason he doesn't watch TV series is not because he dislikes them, but mainly because he has spent most of his free time playing games since he was a child.

He joined the Shanghai Basketball Team when he was a teenager and started playing game consoles such as Saturn and PS in his dormitory.

Old game home.

"We came here just in time to talk about our future cameo appearance in the movie." Uncle Long said to the other party, looking up.

"Okay..." Dayao replied uneasily.

"Come on, I'll treat you to a meal and we'll have a good chat." Uncle Long smiled and took Dayao's arm.

Zhang Yuan followed behind.

From a distance, it looked like an orc was leading a hobbit...

Uncle Long is still very respectable. Even in Salt Lake City, he used facial recognition to find a restaurant for several people that required reservations several months in advance.

And not only Yao Ming was invited, but all members of the Rockets team, including coaches and substitutes, were invited.

In this way, teammates know that it is because of Yao Ming that they have the opportunity to have dinner with Chen Long, and Yao Ming will also have face.

Yao Ming's complexion looked better.

Doing so will help consolidate his position within the team.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Foreigners also drink, but they don’t compete in drinking.

Basically each person drank a bottle of expensive red wine.

Zhang Yuan ate very little, after all, the filming of "The Disciples" had not been completed yet.

At the same time, he also lamented the workload of NBA players.

These giants, who are about two meters tall on average, can eat several kilograms in one meal.

The big eaters do it for show, but others do it for a living.

After dinner, I invited these guys to go to a nightclub to have fun.

Dayao was not very interested in the nightclub environment, and the three of them happened to find a quiet place to chat.

There are indeed big differences between China and foreign countries.

Dayao likes a relatively quiet environment, while those black guys like it very lively.

But these teammates were nice to him.

I came to Yao Ming's house for dinner in February this year.

These people didn't know where they heard about the Chinese custom of giving money in envelopes as gifts during the Chinese New Year, so when they visited Yao Ming, they all brought "red envelopes" for him.

How about cultural differences?

When he heard that they were giving out red envelopes, Yao Ming was quite happy, but then he took them out and took a look.

Every one of them was packed in a white envelope...Yao Ming was so scared that he didn't dare to accept any of them.

"It's an honor to be a Chinese. Thank you very much for your help." Uncle Long thanked him repeatedly.

He also saw that the other party was not that happy.

Uncle Long still has a lot of face. As Zhang Yuan expected, Dayao's mood was indeed much better when he saw the two of them coming.

However, in his eyes, Zhang Yuan was just a bonus, and he did it mainly for Uncle Long's sake.

My eldest brother talked to him about the drama for a while. Although he agreed to show up, he kept making excuses saying that he was not in good health and had injuries, and tried not to arrange any action scenes.

Uncle Long thought, if there’s no action scene, then why did they ask you to come?

According to the director and Chen Long's design, he and Chris Tucker's black friend had to attack Yao Ming together, but they were beaten to pieces by him.

And it also has to reflect a sense of contrast similar to the battle between the Lilliputians and the Giants in "Gulliver's Travels".

But even though the General Administration of Sports called him and asked him to "help".

Although he said it was to help, Yao Ming also knew that he had to help whether he wanted to or not.

He thought that Uncle Long had contacted the people above.

I never thought that the young man who was always smiling next to me was the "mastermind behind the scenes".

Just like he would never have thought that the young man whom he had ignored would make him an offer he could not refuse.

"Brother Chenlong, my body really won't allow it."

"After all, in addition to NBA games, I also have to represent the Chinese team in international leagues."

"So try to make it quieter for me when I'm on a guest appearance..."

Uncle Long saw that this Tai Chi master was good at it and was not affected by any tactics, so he felt that there was no good solution for a moment.

After all, it's a great honor for them to come.

"Uncle Long, how about I talk to Brother Yao?" Zhang Yuan spoke softly at this time.

"That's good. You young people have something to talk about." Uncle Long reacted slightly and remembered that it was Zhang Yuan who brought it up in the first place.

Since he was the one who proposed it, based on his usual behavior, he would definitely not be doing it without a purpose, so there must be some way.

Zhang Yuan clinked glasses with Dayao with the cocktail on the table. Neither of them drank the whole thing, but just took sips.

He was not in a hurry and started by talking about the sports world in Shanghai.

In particular, he mentioned that he had just organized a charity race at the Magic City Race Track in the first half of this year.

By the way, he mentioned the time he met the leader of the Magic City Jiushi Group.

When Dayao heard this, he became a little more polite.

Only then did I realize that Zhang Yuan also had connections in the sports world.

Secondly, anyone in the Shanghai sports world who wants to make a name for themselves, especially if they want to go abroad, cannot do without the support and sponsorship of the Jiushi Group, which is under the Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

Jiushi Group also made a lot of efforts to help Yao Ming come to the NBA.

Even later on, when he wanted to go into politics and join the CBA management team, he had to sell the Shanghai Sharks.

After all, if you are the chairman of the Basketball Association and you still own a team, who would believe that you have no shady dealings and will not help your own team?
The party that is selling the team is Shanghai Jiushi Group.

So as soon as they started talking about this unit, the relationship between the two of them quickly became closer.

After chatting for a while, Zhang Yuan saw that the time was almost right and then he got down to business.

"Brother Ming, I heard that you are a master of World of Warcraft?"

When this was mentioned, Yao Ming laughed so hard that he showed his emojis.

"how?"

"You play too!"

Uncle Long on the side was shocked.

Yao Ming was listless the whole night, so how come he became excited after just chatting with Zhang Yuan for a while?

That's the age gap.

In Uncle Long's eyes, games are not serious stuff.

In fact, compared to the things he often does, such as messing around with women, racing cars, and gambling, games are very serious.

This is a prejudice of the older generation.

However, Zhang Yuan already knew that Yao Ming would have this reaction.

There has always been a joke about Yao Ming.

He knows which hotels in 29 cities across the United States have the best Internet speeds.

The reason he knew this was because after every game and training, he would hide in the hotel and play World of Warcraft!
Now he carries a top-of-the-line Alienware laptop in his backpack.

He seemed to be lacking interest all along. Besides not wanting to be a guest star, there was another reason...

Why are you so annoying?

Can we disperse quickly?

Please don’t disturb me from going back to play games!

As I mentioned before, Yao Ming’s left foot has been repeatedly injured since the end of last year, and he has been in and out of the hospital for surgery several times.

If you are injured all the time, you will have a lot of time to recover.

If we can’t train during the recuperation time, then what can we do?

Hiding at home and playing World of Warcraft like crazy!
This guy plays the Horde and his profession is Troll Rogue.

I'm not familiar with the foreigners, and those black guys are always drinking and partying, so we can't have fun together.

So Yao Ming has been pulling together his former teammates from the Shanghai Sharks to play dungeons together.

Moreover, this person had not logged in for more than two months because he was playing games continuously. When he logged in again, he found that his account had been hacked.

To make him angry...

But Yao Ming thought to himself that he is now an international superstar and he has to show off!
He directly called the customer service of 9City, the domestic agent of "World of Warcraft" at the time, and revealed his identity.

"Hello, this is Yao Ming, my account has been hacked."

And then... no more.

The customer service thought he was crazy.

Do you think I'm stupid? Yao Ming is so busy playing in the NBA, how could he have time to play games?

Yao Ming: …

He couldn't get away from North America, so he asked his friends in China to go to 9you Company, and finally he got his account back.

And Yao Ming loves to do two things when playing World of Warcraft.

One is to chase after players whose names contain the words "Yao Ming" that are sarcastic, mocking, or insulting.

Another thing is that I particularly like to kill dwarf and gnome players of the Alliance.

This guy is tall and calm in real life, but once he enters the game, his true colors are revealed, he looks down on short people... He is quite mean. So, like Nicholas Tse, this guy is a hardcore player of "World of Warcraft".

Basically, we fight wherever we go.

Apart from work, the rest of my time is spent on games.

He was so busy that he even had less contact with Ye Li.

Zhang Bozhi should be able to relate to this.

"I'm usually busy filming and don't have time to play." Zhang Yuan replied frankly.

"Oh..." When Dayao heard this, his expression dimmed again.

"But, play more games with the guild system, you know?"

"I know. Our union also uses it." Yao Ming replied immediately.

The guild he belongs to is called "To Unite For Eternity" and he plays in the first zone of the national server.

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"It's like this, I'm a shareholder of Duowan."

"It just so happens that they are going to hold a union activity recently."

"The largest trade unions in the country will come to the offline team building."

“I think we can hold an event.”

"Select the strongest group of World of Warcraft players in the country."

"Then we'll gather these strongest people together to form a union, and then you can join us, how about that?"

Whoops!

Yao Ming's eyes widened.

This is such a good relationship!

Just when I was worried that no one would teach me, a sticky rice dumpling fell from the sky!

I recently trained an Alliance Hunter alt, and I'm being chased by a Tauren all day long.

The other party killed the bird first and then the person, which was very humiliating.

It makes Yao Ming depressed.

But there was no way I could defeat him.

Although he is abroad, he knows about Duowan Guild.

The largest "World of Warcraft" guild system in the country, used by most World of Warcraft players.

Select and purify from the guilds you play with, and form a guild with me.

Wouldn't that mean I'm asking the elite among tens of millions of players in China to play with me?

That would be so exciting!

Don't I have to walk sideways across the entire server?
I'll see who dares to kill my mount!
Yao Ming rubbed his hands and said with a playful smile: "Really?"

"Of course." Zhang Yuan answered firmly.

Isn’t it just about selecting a group of people to accompany the prince to study?

Little things.

Now he is the third largest shareholder after Duowan founder Li Xuelin and angel investor Lei Jun.

If he can't even handle this simple thing, then his $200 million is wasted and he should just stop holding shares.

Besides, Duowan originally planned to organize activities to gather the hearts of players.

Well, there is a ready-made activity theme here.

Everyone has a hobby, and as long as you can grasp your hobby, many things are actually not difficult to accomplish.

"Why don't you leave me your contact information? I'll contact you at any time."

"Okay, okay..." How could it be bad if someone organized a play date? Dayao immediately left his cell phone number and email address.

"The guest appearance thing you just mentioned." After painting a big picture for him, Zhang Yuan got back to the topic.

“It’s actually quite safe to shoot.”

"Not only will they buy insurance, but there will also be a professional martial arts team on site to provide guidance."

"We will try our best to simplify your movements and reduce the difficulty."

"But some action scenes are inevitable."

"I hope you can understand."

"Uh... okay." Dayao replied, pursing his lips.

Chen Long on the side hugged his shoulders and didn't dare to say anything for a long time.

I wasted a lot of time talking but it was all in vain.

He agreed right away?
Uncle Long didn’t know how to describe it.

"Am I really old?"

"My old tricks don't work anymore?"

Show your face, treat others, and talk about money, this is the big brother’s routine.

But these are indeed not attractive to Yao Ming.

Not in the entertainment industry, not greedy, and not short of money.

His current contract salary is nearly 500 million US dollars, not including income from endorsements and business.

With his fame, it is no problem for him to earn nearly 10 million US dollars a year.

The only hobby left is playing games.

Everything went smoothly after that.

After chatting with Yao Ming for more than half an hour, he left early, making the excuse that he had to train the next day.

In fact, I was addicted to games and hid in the hotel to play.

Leaving the bar, the eldest brother grinned and patted him on the back.

If he was a little weaker, he would easily suffer internal injuries.

"Well done!"

"I didn't expect you could do it so beautifully!" Chen Long praised.

"Having Yao Ming join as a guest star will give the film another selling point and help with publicity."

"Next time you come to Hong Kong, I will treat you fully. Have fun and I will pay the bill!" Uncle Long said, patting his chest.

"Thank you, Uncle Long."

Chen Long was so excited that even his steps became much lighter.

After a busy day, they both went back to the hotel to rest.

I'll rush back to New York tomorrow morning to report.

After returning to the hotel, Zhang Yuan picked up the landline and called Li Xuelin, the boss of Duowan Games, who was on the other side of the ocean.

There is a time difference of more than ten hours between China and the United States.

It's already midnight on Zhang Yuan's side, but it's only noon on Hua Xia's side.

"What!" Li Xuelin, who was eating lunch, almost spit out the sweet and sour pork ribs in his mouth.

"Are you sure?"

"Playing World of Warcraft with Yao Ming?"

"Is it that Yao Ming?"

Zhang Yuan was helpless.

Who else could it be if not him? Where can I find you another tall guy who is 2.26 meters tall?

"It was him. I just met with him in Salt Lake City and had a detailed discussion with him."

"You can organize some activities and publicity here."

"Are you sure it's Salt Lake City and not Salt City?"

Why are you going to northern Jiangsu to mess with me?

After repeated confirmation, Duowan’s boss Li Xuelin finally felt relieved.

“This is too big!”

When Zhang Yuan invested, he did say that he would help with publicity.

He had said before that there would be offline activities before the end of the year, and he also confirmed that he would be there in person to create an atmosphere.

Just as said when investing, other stars will be brought in as well.

But even if Zhang Yuan and Nicholas Tse were put together, their influence is not as great as Yao Ming's!

Li Xuelin had already foreseen it.

Participate in the guild selection for Duowan Games and have the opportunity to form a guild with NBA superstar Yao Ming and play games together... Once this news comes out, what a big stir it will cause in the small circle of "World of Warcraft"!

That’s okay!

Li Xuelin is not a fool who doesn't know the value of things.

What is Yao Ming's current net worth?
How much money did Zhang Yuan spend to get this done?
Hundreds of thousands of dollars?
Li Xuelin knew very well that with Duowan Games' current limited funds, it would be difficult just to maintain daily expenses and software development.

Without the support of shareholder Zhang Yuan, they wouldn't even have the budget to hire second-tier artists.

Not to mention first-tier stars like Nicholas Tse and international superstars like Yao Ming!

If he knew that Zhang Yuan relied on freeloading, his jaw would probably be dislocated with shock.

In any case, Li Xuelin knew.

With Yao Ming as a selling point, Duowan's guild system will definitely be far ahead of its competitors.

Zhang Yuan is trying to match up two parties and make money from both.

Whether it is Yao Ming joining the crew or playing more games to increase his popularity, they are real benefits for him.

This is a win-win situation.

He won twice alone.

After this incident, when Duowan Games held its annual meeting this year, no one dared to pick up their chopsticks when he didn't come.

After arranging everything, Zhang Yuan finally relaxed and fell on the bed.

Now, I just have to wait until tomorrow to return to New York and get this film contract... (End of this chapter)