94: Chapter 94 of CrossFire has been released!

Qin Mo walked under the spotlight.

The eyes of the entire venue were fixed on him.

He did not walk fast, but his steps were steady.

At this moment, the barrage was completely out of control; countless live stream screens were filled with endless comments.

"Qin Mo, the founder of Douyin! He had never appeared in public before, yet it turns out he was the one who invested in Riot Games and created league of legends!"

"How does this CEO Qin look so young? Were both Douyin and league of legends his work?"

"Am I the only one who noticed that his looks are top-tier too?"

In just a few short minutes, the tens of millions of players watching the live stream pushed the search terms related to Qin Mo to the top of major platforms, second only to the Global Game Influence Conference.

No one had expected that the investor behind league of legends was also the founder of Douyin.

Two completely unrelated internet fields had been taken to the extreme by the same person!

The key was that Qin Mo was still young, handsome, and held the behemoth that was Douyin in his hands. Upon his first public appearance, he revealed his identity as the investor behind league of legends.

In an instant, the entire internet was in an uproar.

Meanwhile, inside the venue.

Ma stood in place, looking down at the two glasses of champagne in his hands.

Recalling the words he had just spoken, his expression turned quite ugly.

He had actually praised the other party's vision to his face, saying he had to admit defeat—this was truly too embarrassing.

If he could, he would want to travel back a few minutes and beat himself up.

Subsequently.

Ma took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing these emotions, placed the two glasses of champagne on a nearby table, and clenched his palms into fists.

His gaze returned to Qin Mo, who was walking onto the stage, and he squeezed out a few words.

"It was actually you who invested in IceFrog..."

"I still underestimated you..."

And it wasn't just Ma.

Sun Qiang, Vice President Chen Yongnian, and the others sitting in their seats were equally shocked.

Previously, they had no idea who was behind league of legends. They had various guesses, but they had never guessed that the other party was not an industry practitioner in gaming.

After all, in their view.

Anyone capable of having the vision to invest in IceFrog and Riot Games must be a veteran practitioner in the gaming field.

But they had completely failed to imagine.

The boss behind league of legends was actually that Qin Mo, the one who used Douyin to beat Weikan until it had no power to fight back!

One had to know that the other party had never touched the gaming field from start to finish, yet as soon as he entered, he created league of legends!

If someone had told them this information before.

They wouldn't even have believed it.

Sun Qiang turned his head to look at Vice President Chen Yongnian.

"The launch times of Douyin and league of legends were only a year and a half apart, and league of legends was only developed after being invested in, which took at least over a year."

"In other words."

He swallowed his saliva.

"When Douyin had only been on the market for a few months and hadn't fully taken off yet, he had already invested in IceFrog."

"In an extremely short period, he crossed two completely unrelated fields and produced nothing but phenomenal products. How on earth did he do it?"

Vice President Chen Yongnian did not speak.

His expression was even worse than Sun Qiang's.

On the other side.

CEO Ding and Kotick were sitting in the second row.

The expressions on both of their faces were equally fascinating.

Kotick stared at Qin Mo's back for a good while.

He muttered to himself.

"I remember there is a saying in Great Xia, 'young and promising,' which couldn't be more fitting for him."

During this time, the popularity of TikTok in overseas markets had been steadily rising, so Kotick had long noticed this Short Video software.

He also knew that the company behind it was called Inspur Technology.

But he had never connected Douyin with league of legends.

CEO Ding let out a long breath, finally suppressing the shock in his eyes.

Then he suddenly laughed.

He turned his head to look at the seats behind him.

Although separated by several rows of people, he could still vaguely see the direction where Ma was standing.

"Both Douyin and league of legends have caused Tencent Group to suffer quite a few losses."

"One is beating Weikan into the ground in the Short Video field, and the other is trampling dota 2 underfoot in the gaming field."

He leaned back in his chair.

"And all of this was done by the same person."

"I'm afraid Ma won't be able to sleep for a long time."

...

On stage.

Qin Mo had walked to the center of the stage.

He took the microphone from IceFrog.

The lights of the entire venue were focused on him.

"Thank you to the organizers, thank you to every Summoner..."

He said a few polite words, his tone steady, and briefly introduced his thoughts on creating league of legends.

Just when everyone thought Qin Mo would mention a few more things about league of legends.

He suddenly changed the subject.

"I think what Mr. Ma said on stage just now makes a lot of sense."

"The shooter game category should indeed get more attention from players."

"One point five million daily active users is far from the upper limit for shooter games, and I also believe this number should at least double, if not be even higher."

Off stage.

Ma's gaze was fixed intently on Qin Mo, not knowing what Qin Mo was up to.

And Qin Mo's voice continued to ring out.

"Besides league of legends, Inspur Technology does indeed have another game we are licensing that will soon enter open beta; this game is also a shooter."

Qin Mo paused.

"Originally, this game was planned to launch in three months, as there was still some final localization work to be done."

"However."

"I am afraid that this move would allow the achievements of this game to be snatched away by some games that enter open beta earlier."

"So, I am officially deciding to move the open beta time of this game up to one month from now."

"To compete head-on with alliance of valiant arms."

With this statement, Qin Mo was almost calling out Ma's actions just now; the fact that MOBA games could have twenty million daily active users was largely the credit of league of legends.

But it was precisely because dota 2 had first increased the daily active users of MOBA games to three million.

That was why Ma could shamelessly say just now that they were the ones who first expanded the audience for MOBA games.

Qin Mo naturally did not want such a shameless act to happen a second time.

After Qin Mo confronted him head-on like this, the barrage flooded in even more.

"Damn, so aggressive? Isn't internet business warfare supposed to be about social etiquette? Ma was already shameless in taking credit, and you just called him out directly!"

"Satisfying! I wanted to roast Ma earlier. Although dota 2 doubled the number of MOBA players, league of legends increased that number tenfold. How can you claim the credit? CEO Qin is my kind of person; he should be this aggressive!"

"Wow, is this young people straightening out the workplace? Even if you are Ma, even if you have Tencent Group, if you make me unhappy, I will say it on the spot, never letting myself suffer until the next day!"

"Just do it!"

Meanwhile.

Qin Mo turned to the side, and the big screen behind him lit up.

His voice continued.

"And this game is."

"crossfire."