Starting with Genshin Impact, the whole world is going crazy for it.

[Red umbrella, white pole, lying on a board after eating?]

[Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter!]

However, these little mushrooms are clearly much more useful than the Peashooter.

Although their combat power is not as good as the Peashooter, they are cheap!

Who wouldn't love the joy of getting something for free?

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Tuantuan has planted two rows of sunflowers.

Three more rows of small mushrooms were planted.

"Oh my god, they're so cute... What kind of mushrooms are these? Are they spores?"

As they were speaking, the alarm suddenly went off!

The final wave of zombies is coming.

Little Tuantuan planted a carnivorous flower.

The carnivorous plant bit off a zombie in one bite!

"This level is over, and these tombstones don't seem to have moved..."

Xiao Tuantuan breathed a sigh of relief.

If this zombie crawls out of the tombstone at such close range, I really don't know how to deal with it.

She also got a new plant, the Sun Mushroom!

"Sun mushrooms are so cute... They look just like sunflowers, but they're even cheaper!"

Little Tuantuan is increasingly finding the game fun.

Unbeknownst to her, the number of viewers in her live stream skyrocketed from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands!

She was stunned when she suddenly looked up at the comments section.

"There are so many active, living people here today?"

"I thought most of the people in my live stream were zombies!"

I don't know why, but saying this feels incredibly fitting for this game!

I get it, you're implying that the game you're playing right now is against the audience, right?

[I just don't like sending comments, does that make me a zombie?]

Waaaaaah, I've turned into a zombie too!

[Seriously, how can a streamer talk about someone like that!]

Zhou Tiankuo was also amused by the comments.

Based on my behavior of always watching live streams but never commenting, I guess I can be considered a zombie!

Chapter 68: Professional Award Results Spark Public Outrage

Even into the night, Xiao Tuantuan was still playing Plants vs. Zombies with great enthusiasm.

The second chapter is entirely set in a nighttime mode.

Although collecting sunlight is a bit difficult, the little Sun-shrooms will grow bigger.

Moreover, the little mushrooms in night mode look quite cute.

The viewers in the live chat got excited as they watched.

[How can you be so incompetent? Zombies are already here! Placing a plant here is just feeding them!]

My poor tall nut!

[Tall nuts really give people a great sense of security...]

I love Tall-nut too, and I love Sun-shroom too! Sun-shroom is such a sweetheart!

[Pass this on! Little Tuantuan is no good; she can't even beat this zombie!]

Little Tuantuan shouted angrily, "This zombie has a metal bucket on its head, did you see that? We need to hit it several times!"

"It was wise of me to put tall nuts in front of it."

I kept interacting with the comments while also playing the game.

Zhou Tiankuo yawned.

Zhou Tiankuo's eyes would light up only when he saw the giant mushroom.

Because their combat power is simply too strong.

For players who haven't played this game before, watching this live stream is obviously very interesting.

But Zhou Tiankuo is clearly not one of them.

As someone who has already completed Plants vs. Zombies and played the endless mode before, watching this live stream isn't really fun!

But just then, Zhou Tiankuo suddenly heard a "ding" from the system.

"what happened?"

This is the first time I've ever done something like this.

Previously, the system would speak directly when it wanted to, but now it just made a "ding" sound without any other action, which puzzled Zhou Tiankuo.

"Host, although this matter has nothing to do with you, we still need to inform you because you have been involved in the related trending topics!"

The system's voice quickly sounded.

Zhou Tiankuo asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

What appeared on his computer was a webpage.

Xiao Tuantuan's live stream was redirected directly there.

"This is the result of the professional award of the Starlight Design Competition... Host, after this award was announced, many players on Weibo spoke up for you, and many also tagged the studio's Weibo account."

Zhou Tiankuo glanced at it briefly.

When he went to the Starlight building for the last interview, he didn't ask about this.

Based on his analysis of the system and the information he had researched, he already knew that those professional awards were simply a way to enhance the prestige of games from major companies.

This is also why some games only release trailers but never actually launch.

"So these are the games that won awards. Aren't they all copies of my games?"

Zhou Tiankuo dismissed it with disdain.

Looking at those professional awards, gold and silver medals, he only felt irony.

"But system, why wasn't I selected for these awards?"

This is what Zhou Tiankuo really cares about.

The system said, "That's right, host! The selection of the professional award requires the studio to have certain qualifications. Your studio has just been established and is only nominally affiliated. It does not have enough qualifications to participate in this selection."

It turned out to be the case.

Zhou Tiankuo nodded.

"I've arranged everything else that the host could apply for!"

Zhou Tiankuo said, "I understand. You did a great job. I'll go check it myself."

Open Weibo.

He hasn't checked Weibo for several days since the results of the last lottery were announced.

The Weibo posts still contained the words of interaction from other players, as well as comments expressing gratitude and offering suggestions.

As soon as I opened it, I saw countless messages.

[@Tiankuo Studio, your game has been copied, and the copied game even won an award!]

[Tiankuo Studio, come take a look! Young man, look at the game you've worked so hard to make!]

What happened to the young man we interviewed last time?

[I really don't understand what the Starlight Design Competition was thinking. You gave all the awards to Tiankuo Studio, and now you're giving design awards to these plagiarized games. Don't you think that's pathetic?]

[So many dogs from Tiankuo Studio? What benefits did he give you? It's just a game, right?]

[Please stop turning everything into a fan culture frenzy, it's disgusting.]

What Zhou Tiankuo saw were all sorts of arguments.

He recalled the list he had just seen.

The game "Elemental Continent" developed by Tencent won the gold award in a professional competition.

The silver and bronze awards were also for games that were plagiarized.

One is from Tencent, and the other is from NetEase.

"These three games have basically copied all the games I just released..."

Genshin Impact, League of Legends, and Counter-Strike.

Except for not copying the newly released Plants vs. Zombies, it's all there!

Zhou Tiankuo himself didn't say anything, but the players' anger exceeded his expectations.

Zhou Tiankuo was somewhat moved to see so many people tagging him and speaking up for him.

So he turned around and asked the system, "Is the evidence I submitted to you last time, which was to check for plagiarism, ready?"

"It's all set up, host! I've put the file on your desktop."

The system allows you to directly place items on Zhou Tiankuo's desktop.

Of course, it can also delete some things from Zhou Tiankuo's computer.

Zhou Tiankuo had become accustomed to such extradimensional and transdimensional existences.

Opening the file on the desktop reveals textual evidence as well as some screenshots for comparison.