It's the students' fault if they are too popular.

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Mid-April.

A game called "Overwatch" from North America is about to be launched. It has ignited the entire Internet, and the discussion of the rapidly developing "League of Legends" has been quickly overshadowed. The little girl is frowning every day.

Ruan Qian looked at the game and found it really great, FPS+MOBA, and she wanted to play it after seeing it.

This is not good news for Wanxiang Company. The competitors are more sophisticated and even more fun. Players have limited energy, and their games will definitely attract a large number of players, especially when the mall system has just been launched and players have cursed them.

But the decision of the mall system was successful.

The mall was updated, and three new beautiful heroes came with it. Those players who said they would quit the game if they had to spend money, couldn't help but go online to try it out when they heard there were three new heroes. After finding them fun, they began to think that it was not a bad idea to open a mall.

Anyway, you can just get it for free slowly.

When the store opened, Ruan Qian stared at the screen with her employees in a video conference. There were constant messages showing that players' recharges were arriving in their accounts. The first day's revenue made the entire company cheer.

With money, they have the confidence to make the game better.

In addition to work, Ruan Qian did not forget one thing.

April 4th was Teacher Tong’s birthday. Although she couldn’t go back to Changsha, she also carefully prepared a gift.

On that day, Tong Yao received a video from the little girl.

She downloaded it and opened it. The first person who popped up was Xu Yin. Xu Yin was holding a heart-shaped paper in her hand and said with a smile:

"Happy birthday, Teacher Tong."

Jiang Yiming and his college roommates were making fun of each other in the dormitory, like a group of silly savages: "Happy birthday, Teacher Tong!"

There were Ji Chen, Yin Jiali, Xu Hao, and even Yan Zhi behind them. There were more than 80 people in total, and she taught two classes. I don't know how much effort the little girl had put in to get the blessings of these people.

The little girl's blessing is placed at the end, but her address is different from others:

"Yaoyao, happy birthday."

Tong Yao watched this video several times.

This was the best gift she had ever received.

Chapter 179: Angel

This weekend, when Tong Yao went to the hospital, she hesitated downstairs in the inpatient department.

She hasn't called the Red Cross back yet. Sometimes she actually wishes someone could make decisions for her. Jiang Wu helped her refuse. Perhaps this was the answer that best suited her thinking.

But she felt ashamed to face Misu.

She didn't dare tell Misu that she did not agree to donate stem cells.

When she arrived at the door of the ward, she weighed the fruit she brought and pushed open the door. The nurse inside was drawing blood from Misu.

"Is there any place where I can get an injection?" Misu asked pitifully.

The nurse said, "Yes, I'll look for it again."

During the acupuncture treatment, Misu closed her eyes, not daring to look, and held her breath until it was over.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw her.

"Teacher Tong!"

"Yeah." She sat aside. It was a rare sight to see Misu not receiving an IV. "Are you done with the injections?"

"No," the girl said with a bitter face, "I've already taken four bottles this morning, and there are still five more in the afternoon."

"I've been there, too." Tong Yao smiled, "It's really uncomfortable."

But appendicitis is nothing compared to leukemia. To paraphrase, my pain is greater than yours.

For a moment, there was nothing to say. The girl lay on the bed, trying to find something to say, but her face was frowning, and she felt physically and mentally exhausted:

"It hurts..."

The lymph nodes affect all the nerves and cause pain.

Tong Yao felt a little upset and asked softly:

“Is there any way to alleviate this?”

Misu shook her head: "No."

"What about the bone marrow bank? Have you applied for a match?"

"Yes." Speaking of this, Misu's eyes lit up, "There are three volunteers in the database, one of whom agreed and is going to prepare for the subsequent matching."

Tong Yao was stunned. At this moment, she finally realized what "no coincidence exists" meant.

It turned out to be Misu.

During the phone call, the Red Cross staff also told her that there were three people entering the warehouse.

She and another person refused, or did not reply, but one last person stepped forward, willing to save a life, to save Misu.

No wonder, even in so much pain, Misu is still cheerful.

"The Water Drop Fund is almost full." The girl smiled and said, "Thank you teacher and classmates for helping me spread the word."

It sounds like everything is going well.

Tong Yao was startled for a moment, then laughed:

"That's great."

"It's a blessing in disguise." said Misu.

"By the way, do you play games?" Tong Yao asked.

The students at the branch school are basically all game enthusiasts.

"Yes," Misu said excitedly, "I play World of Warcraft."

"Eh? I think that's quite rare." Tong Yao laughed, "Do you play League of Legends?"

Misu shook her head: "I don't like playing that type of game."

That's a bit regrettable.

Tong Yao thought for a moment and then asked, "Do you know about Blizzard's new game Overwatch?"

"I know!" Misu's pale face lit up. "It's open for testing today, but only those who pre-order can play it. It will be free to test it in a few days."

“Then use my account,” Tong Yao suggested, “I pre-ordered it.”

Mi Su couldn't believe it: "Teacher Tong, are you still playing games?"

Tong Yao smiled but did not answer.

If the little girl's game is defeated by Overwatch one day, she is not innocent.

"This seems to be a shooting game," After downloading it, Misu placed the laptop on the table on the bed. Before playing, Misu first tried to improve her poor skills, "I'm not good at aiming."

"There are heroes who don't need to aim."

So, Misu chose the hero Angel, a nurse, whose background profession was set to be a doctor. The line of her ultimate skill was "Heroes are immortal", and she could revive teammates.

Maybe because of her illness, Misu especially liked angels. She thought it would be great if the angels in the game could come to reality. She didn’t ask for them to resurrect anyone, as long as they could cure her illness.

"Misu, is there anything else you want to do?"

"Teacher Tong, what you said makes me feel like I'm going to die soon."

"I didn't mean that..."

"I know." Misu stared at the defeat on the screen, still having fun. She whispered, "There's nothing I want to do, just survive."

This is the truth.

She has people who love her and whom she loves. She should have a youth that blossoms freely and a life that is colorful. There are anime that she hasn't finished, games that she hasn't finished, and novel sequels that she can't wait for.

She really wanted to live.

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With the emergence of a huge competitor, Wanxiang Company did not dare to relax in May and accelerated the update frequency and benefits. However, with the impact of "Overwatch", the number of active players inevitably decreased.

Online games are something that have social attributes. A considerable number of people play games not because they like to play them, but because they play what people around them like to play. The game stickiness of these players is not high, but there are a lot of them.

How to reduce the losses caused by player turnover and increase popularity is the primary issue.

Ruan Qian’s plan was to hold a competition.

Not a cup competition that comes and goes, but a stable one like a football league.

Competitions are definitely a bonus for games. Players can watch, cloud players can watch, and players who have abandoned the game can also watch. Players watch and love the game more; cloud players watch and may be eager to join the game; and those who have abandoned the game will watch the league and get excited, and may go online to play a few games and return to the game.

There are so many benefits to the competition, the only disadvantage is that you will burn and lose money in the early stages.

Even so, it still has to be done.

League of Legends still has advantages, and its biggest advantage is that it has a large number of players, especially in China and South Korea. As soon as their game landed in South Korea in January, it quickly jumped to the top three in the download list. Koreans' love for it is simply incredible.

As long as there are many people, the competition will be lively.

In early May, Wanxiang released the competition plan for "League of Legends". They will hold the first competition with great fanfare and expand the scope of the competition. There will be no global finals for the time being, and each region has its own plan. Not counting other regions, the prize pool in Asia is 15 million RMB.

Such a player scale and prize money may have attracted some investors who see the potential of the game. E-sports is not just a toy for the rich and the second generation of the rich. There are rich people and ordinary people with dreams in the game. It is a real mixed bag.

This is what Vientiane Company wants, a competition that most capable people can participate in.

"Can the prize money in other regions be reduced a little more?" Tong Hua was frowning. After the financing, his equity was diluted a lot.

What's more, he felt it was too much to bear the huge expenditure after just making a profit.

Ruan Qian said: "There is still room for HP's sponsorship to increase, as they are going to launch a new version of Omen. And Nvidia... Also, Toyota is very interested in our competition."

Tong Hua said with interest: "Toyota? Do they think our audience will buy cars? As long as the sponsorship is enough, I can change the game icon to the Toyota logo."

"Maybe," Ruan Qian paused, "Also, Sicheng Home Appliances..."

When this name came out, Tong Hua fell silent.

A subsidiary of its own company. The father has "I'm here to give you money" written all over his face.

"You handle it." Tong Hua finally said, "Bill Gates's orders also came from his parents."

But he would not eat food given out of pity, so he let Ruan Qian eat it.

The little girl nodded reluctantly. Their business was on track and they didn't want to rely on their parents' help. Besides, they were not without sponsorship...

But they gave too much.

Not accepting it would be a waste of God's gift.

Thus, the girl started the simplest business negotiation in her life. The representative of Sicheng Appliances simply let her ask for anything she wanted, and asked for a very low frequency of advertisements. She was too embarrassed to ask for anything, so she just accepted the win-win price she analyzed.

All in all, it seems that hosting a competition doesn't mean you're losing money.

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In the early morning, the white dew has not yet dried.

Tong Yao sent Dong Yang to school as usual. When they reached the intersection of the community, they saw several students from the branch school in school uniforms gathered by the bushes. One of them was Song Zhifei. After recognizing him, Tong Yao walked over and patted Song Zhifei on the shoulder:

"Why did you run out?"

Dormitory students are not allowed to leave the campus unless it is a holiday, but the supervision is relaxed in the morning and there is a chance to sneak out.

Song Zhifei took a step back, pointed at the sauce pancake in his hand, and said, "I just came out to buy breakfast. I eat noodles in the cafeteria every day, and I want to change the taste."

As she moved aside, Tong Yao discovered that the students were surrounding a kitten. When she saw the kitten, she was stunned because the kitten was foaming at the mouth, fell to the ground, and trembled violently, looking very painful. The color was exactly the same as the tabby cat she had seen a few days ago.

"Auntie," Dong Yang couldn't bear to look, "It looks like the cat downstairs in our house..."

"Yeah." Tong Yao squatted down, not knowing why the kitten was like this. A life struggling in front of her eyes, anyone would feel sorry for it.

The boy next to him said: "It must be the rat that ate the Chinese medicine and got poisoned."

"Oh, how pitiful." The girls watching whispered.

“Does it have any virus?”