5: I, the Midnight High, am a moral

Midnight Gao Sou's brow twitched.

500,000 yuan, that's not a small sum.

Don't look at him being a big streamer with millions of followers.

Relying on fan donations and charged videos, he only makes a little over ten thousand a month.

The bulk of his usual income comes from these advertisements.

500,000 is enough to last him a long time.

Even if the money is a bit dirty.

It's still money!

Who would turn down money?

Midnight Gao Sou would!

"Reject them!"

Midnight Gao Sou waved his hand.

He was still live streaming.

He immediately shouted:

"Even if I, Midnight Gao Sou, starve to death, I will not accept such plagiarized advertisements!

"Antarctic Studio, screw them!"

The assistant was stunned.

The live stream's bullet comments exploded!

"Well done, you've got backbone!"

"That's right, even if we starve to death, we can't touch plagiarism!"

"Antarctic Studio is a cancer; whoever promotes them is a sinner in the Chinese gaming industry!"

"Gao Sou has backbone! I'm subscribing!"

Watching the bullet comments float by one by one.

Midnight Gao Sou scratched his head, a bit embarrassed:

"It's not really about backbone.

"It's just that if I did something like this, I'd feel terrible inside and never forgive myself."

Midnight Gao Sou is a streamer with strong moral principles.

When other streamers followed hot trends and profited from others' misfortunes, he just quietly played games.

When others were killing and burning in games, he still abided by the law.

In a certain urban crime game, he even waited for red lights while driving.

In a certain North American Western-themed game, he was even robbed by NPCs.

Normally, everyone called him a coward.

But now, everyone felt that Gao Sou was indeed Gao Sou, a man of noble character!

"Brothers, didn't Illusion Dream Game Studio say they were going to continue competing?

"Does anyone know what their new work is?"

Midnight Gao Sou sat in front of the camera, laughing happily.

Not only did he refuse Antarctic Studio's promotion.

He also wanted to help Illusion Dream Game Studio promote their work!

"New work? It doesn't seem like there's a new work?"

"With only seven days left, what new work could there be?"

"Exactly, although it's the AI era now, the planning and design of a game aren't that fast."

"I checked their official website, no new work, they just remastered 'heroes in troubled times' and said they added some things."

"Official website? Brothers, give me a link, I'll go check it out."

Midnight Gao Sou quickly clicked on Illusion Dream Game Studio's official website.

The homepage immediately displayed a large image:

A white-robed ancient-style man was stepping on a Flying Sword, surrounded by swirling Qi currents, with distant buildings and mountains vaguely visible suspended in mid-air, imbued with Immortal Qi, quite extraordinary.

"Wow, this scene is pretty cool!"

"Cool is cool, but how is he stepping on a Flying Sword?"

"Did Huanmeng make a mistake? This is an ancient-style game competition. He's not making sci-fi, is he?"

"Stepping on a drone, right? That's too funny."

The bullet comments discussed animatedly.

Not a single person knew this thing was called Xuanhuan.

They either thought Illusion Dream Game Studio had produced a BUG, and the AI generated a wrong image.

Or they thought Huanmeng hadn't read the prompt and was making a sci-fi game.

Midnight Gao Sou also felt a bit strange.

He was a professional game streamer, having played hundreds, if not thousands, of games.

However, he had never seen such a strange image.

An ancient-style man stepping on a Flying Sword?

Was this Flying Sword really a drone?

But its shape, no matter how you looked at it, was an ancient longsword?

"Brothers, this Illusion Dream Game Studio seems a bit strange, doesn't it?"

Midnight Gao Sou was puzzled and clicked around on the official website.

At this moment, he suddenly saw the promotional slogan above:

"Illusion Dream Game Studio, in seven days, will overturn the game landscape with an unprecedented worldview!"

"What big talk!"

An unprecedented worldview?

Overturn the game landscape?

Goodness, Illusion Dream Game Studio, they're really good at boasting, aren't they?

"Brothers, I saw it, this designer is named Jiang Feng, he's a newcomer, and heroes in troubled times is his debut work."

"New designer? Such big talk?"

"Could it be that he's angry and embarrassed because of the plagiarism?"

"Who cares, I'll definitely buy the game when it comes out. Hey, Brothers, I just want to disgust Antarctic Studio!"

"Right, everyone, don't forget the main contradiction, we are striking against Antarctic Studio!"

Bullet comments kept flowing.

Most people didn't have much expectation for Jiang Feng's game.

They just intended to support it with the idea of striking against Antarctic Studio, buying it to gather dust in their inventory.

Even Midnight Gao Sou thought the same at this moment:

"That's right, no matter the quality of this game, I will buy a copy and stream it for the Brothers.

"Seven days from now, let's wait and see!"

While the live stream was discussing.

Antarctic Studio also erupted in arguments.

"Tang Er, the online public opinion is very unfavorable to us now. The higher-ups have decided that you will take the blame, to clear our Antarctic Studio's name."

Xue Sancha, the head of Antarctic Studio, sat in his boss's chair, crossing his legs, looking arrogant.

"What? Let me take the blame? I followed your instructions to bring the game here! You promised me!"

Tang Er was furious.

He was Jiang Feng's original friend, who took away the game design and dozens of employees, causing Illusion Dream Game Studio to shut down.

But now, with the online public opinion boiling, Antarctic Studio actually wanted to discard him after using him.

They wanted him to take the blame and portray Antarctic Studio as an innocent party who knew nothing.

This made Tang Er extremely angry.

"Promise? Do you have proof?"

Xue Sancha was calm and collected: "Tang Er, if you take the blame now, we'll just put you on ice for a few years, and you'll still be a high-level executive at Antarctic Studio later. But if you refuse, we'll issue a ban, and you won't even find a job then. I heard you still have a mortgage in Modu? It's not low, is it?"

Tang Er was full of anger, yet helpless.

He finally understood that Antarctic Studio had been planning to discard him after using him from the very beginning.

Once the game was copied, and slightly re-skinned, it would be theirs.

As for the plagiarism scandal, hadn't the plagiarist already been thrown out and dealt with?

Tang Er plagiarized, what does that have to do with our Antarctic Studio? We didn't know beforehand!

We are also victims!

This was a common tactic used by big companies for plagiarism.

Highlighting a venture with no capital but huge profits.

Tang Er was filled with endless regret and felt even more guilty towards Jiang Feng.

But regretting now was useless.

He could only honestly appear in person, record a video, stating that everything was his doing and had nothing to do with Antarctic Studio... Meanwhile, at Illusion Dream Game Studio.

Jiang Feng saw Tang Er's video and scoffed:

"Tang Er apologized, and their game just changed its name from 'heroes in troubled times' to 'turbulent times warrior'; nothing else changed.

"And yet, some netizens actually believe Antarctic Studio is truly a victim?"

Jiang Feng felt very speechless.

But now he was outnumbered and indeed helpless against Antarctic Studio.

The lawyer he contacted earlier also expressed difficulty.

The lawsuit could be fought, but it would require more money.

It seemed he could only wait for the release of 'mystical world: the rise of the weak' to gather enough money to overthrow Antarctic Studio.

"Boss, boss! I've finished all my work, can I play the game now?"

Liu Meiqin was elated and eager.