Rebirth of the Godly Prodigal

Dream Dota League official website, Play Together official website, Easy Net, Soulang, as well as all the web portals in Heavenly State, published such a piece of news at the same time, a piece of news which could be said to have broken down the barriers between entertainment and sports!

Main title: Sports department, the Films and Entertainment department joint document—Sports department, entertainment department published [2014] number 159.

Title: “A notice by the Sports department, the Films and Entertainment department, regarding the combination of sports and online gaming to create the E-Sports”.

Content: Various provinces, autonomous regions, relevant departments of the direct-controlled municipalities:

A few days ago, Dali Technology’s made a huge breakthrough on how to blend both sports and games, and this has made a positive and active impact towards improving the physical fitness of the citizens of Heavenly State.

“Dream Dota League” (Abbreviated as Dream Dota) which was developed by the company will adopt this brand new technology, and currently, it has already perfectly combined sports and gaming. It will allow the public to exercise their bodies well while playing games at the same time.

Image attached—Below are a few pictures of how the gaming chamber looks like at its preliminary stage.

Due to Dali Technology’s outstanding contribution to Heavenly State, the related notices are as follows:

One: Sports department and Films and Entertainment department officially announce that they will, three months after this technology has been completely developed, hold the first Dali Amazing Cup E-Sports competition. The competition will be broadcasted through Dali Technology’s Holographic Projection Technology. The designated game in the competition is “Dream Dota”.

Two: Due to Dali Technology’s outstanding contribution towards Heavenly State, Dali Technology will be specially conferred the title of “Heavenly State’s National Outstanding Technological Research Center”, and Dali Technology’s CEO, Hong Dali, will be conferred the title of “National Wellbeing and People’s Livelihoods’ Scientist”, and confer Miss Lin, the main technician of Dali Technology, the title of “Big Engineer”.

Three: Due to this game being able to raise the national standards by a very large amount, allowing citizens to train and exercise their bodies while gaming, and freeing themselves from the hidden risk of deterioration of physical fitness as a result of sitting in front of the computer every day, the related departments of the nation have specially decided that in the future, after the development of the game has been completed, the gaming chamber will be produced by state-owned corporations, and the selling price will decrease to the lowest to cater to the public.

Four: The nation now encourages the citizens to test the “Dream Dota” game and pay attention to news regarding the development of “Dream Dota”.

—Sports department, Films and Entertainment department.

…

Once this piece of news had been released, the entire world was in shock.

This time, it was different from the previous explosive popularity.

The players were first shocked and stunned for a few hours, and the entire internet was totally silent, then it was like an atomic bomb exploded!

After all, the entertainment aspect in this world had always been so-so, because people in this world were more concerned about sports and exercise. Many sports-related large scale events were extremely popular, and this was totally not something the entertainment industry could compare to.

Before Li Nianwei’s appearance, the previously most popular Tai Yajing only had a net worth of a little more than 10 million. In the film aspect, an investment of 10 million or so was already considered a big production, and even Hollywood basically didn’t have any blockbuster movies. Had it not been Hollywood wanting to save its face and thus wanted to defeat Hong Dali, it would totally be impossible for a blockbuster of 50 million investment to appear!

In this world, compared to the entertainment aspect, more attention was paid towards the development of sports events! Usually, there was plenty of people doing various kinds of sports and exercises. Everyone saw sports as beauty, and players who liked to play online games were almost all seen as the odd ones out. This was also the reason why Hong Dali was so unwelcomed previously when his health was poor.

It was because this world valued sports too much. After all, the body was the foundation for everything.

But when Hong Dali launched such a gaming idea, everything became different. In fact, the previous night when the Bureau Chief heard of Hong Dali’s plan, and Lin Chuyin said that this plan was feasible, the high executives of Heavenly State held an emergency meeting—thus, this real E-Sports concept could be launched so quickly.

And after this piece of news had been released, as expected, the entire Heavenly State erupted, and the world was shocked!

…

As a die-hard online gaming fan, Han Chengwen had been very entertained by playing games these few days. And during his rest time after getting tired from playing games, he liked to browse through the internet for the latest news.

It had to be said that Spiritual Sword was overall pretty good. Han Chengwen was very satisfied. As an awesome and very high-level professional player, his ability was unquestionable. He could be said to be an extremely influential gamer, the chairman of a clan with a few hundred people under him… Thus, he could be said to have gotten lots of fame.

But today, just after he exited from the game and logged in the Play Together official website to enter the forum to kill time and brag, he was attracted by a title—

“A notice by the Sports department, the Films and Entertainment department, regarding the combination of sports and online gaming to create E-Sports? What the heck, what is this thing?” Without any hesitation, he clicked into it, and upon taking a look, Han Chengwen was completely stunned!

“What the heck! A combination of sports and gaming! Nation greatly supports it!” With just these few key points, Han Chengwen was instantly excited!

“Dream Dota! It’s Dream Dota!” Han Chengwen exclaimed in surprise. “It’s the Dream Dota developed by Young Master! What the heck, this is awesome! This game is able to combine sports and gaming? E-Sports?!”

As an online gaming lover, Han Chengwen was, of course, a geek. And to geeks, their biggest dream was to be able to train themselves physically to woo girls while playing games…

Previously, he’d really only thought about it, but now, everything was different!

He could happily play games! He could do physical exercises at the same time while playing games! And he could also participate in competitions and earn prize money in the midst of playing games and doing physical exercises! And the most awesome aspect was that, in the future, his girlfriend would very possibly be a gaming lover as well! Once he thought of how he could probably play games happily with his future girlfriend…

Oh god, that type of life would totally be heaven, wouldn’t it!

He hurriedly entered the Play Together forum. The number of Dream Dota posts almost blinded Han Chengwen!

Behind the Dream Dota League special zone, a huge figure impressively appeared—286,340! And the current most popular online game, Spiritual Sword special zone’s number of posts, on the other hand, was 225,498 posts!

That meant that within a short two days’ time, the popularity of Dream Dota League had already surpassed Spiritual Sword’s!

“Say no more, I’ll go and find my brothers to play it!” Han Chengwen directly took out his smartphone.

Very soon, the call was received, and Han Chengwen shouted incessantly, “Country bumpkins, quickly wake up and look at god!”

The person on the other end of the call was evidently groggy. “What’s the matter, look at god? It wasn’t easy for me to dream of a pretty girl just now, and then it was messed up by you…”

“Dream my foot! This time, there’s real, pretty girls!” Han Chengwen shouted, “Hurry up. Get up and go see the headlines of Play Together official forum’s main page! Quickly go and take a look, our dream age has arrived! What the heck! Within such a short time, the number of comments has already exceeded 200,000!”

“What the—what kind of news is so powerful?!” The other person hurriedly got out of bed, and after a short while, he screamed, “Damn it, am I not awake yet! Really? E-Sports?! A combination of sports and gaming?!”

“Of course it’s real! What kind of hero do you plan to play?” Han Chengwen anxiously said, “I’m planning to play as a mage!”

“You should be good at operating and playing as a mage. I’ll probably play as a tank!”

“Then it’s settled!”

…

Chenhui Building, ninth floor.

Hong Dali lay on Li Nianwei’s lap, smiling as he asked Ling Xiaoyi, “Xiaoyi, how are things going at Dream Dota now?”

Ling Xiaoyi looked at the report in her hands, smiled and said, “Young Master, currently, Dream Dota League has 40 servers open, and it looks like it’s still unable to deal with the continually increasing number of players. Why don’t… we open a few more servers?”

Hong Dali touched his chin and thought for a while, then he asked, “There’s no rush. Sister Xiaoyi, help me find out how much money the most expensive and best servers cost. I want the best ones, the most advanced ones! The ones that operate the fastest!”

“This…” Looks like Young Master wants to play it big! Ling Xiaoyi hurriedly went out to ask and very soon returned. “Currently, the most powerful server on sale in the world is produced by IM, and it needs to be ordered. They’re now calculating the price.”

“Ask them to contact me.” Hong Dali added, “Get someone who knows Chinese, I don’t know how to speak English.”

“O… OK…” Ling Xiaoyi hurriedly went to make the call. Very soon, Hong Dali’s smartphone rang, and a young male voice respectfully said, “May I know whether it’s Mr. Hong Dali? I am the manager of IM Asia.”

“Yes, it’s me.” Hong Dali humphed. “Xiaoyi has talked to you, right? I want the most powerful server in the world. State a price. And don’t talk nonsense, I don’t have much time.”

The person at the other end of the call was evidently stunned for a while, then he hurriedly replied, “Mr. Dali, currently, the most powerful server costs 146 million USD…”

“State it in terms of yuan.” Hong Dali humphed again. “I don’t use USD to count money.”

“165 million, Mr. Dali!” The person at the other end of the call was evidently very nervous—Looks like this Mr. Dali doesn’t have a good temper…

“How long will it take to be installed?” Hong Dali humphed yet again. “I’m a lazy person. I hate troublesome things.”

“The fastest would be…” The Asia region manager thought for a while. “At least 10 days or so.”

“I’ll round it up to 200 million. I want to see the goods two days later.” Hong Dali sniffled. “If you accept the order, I’ll give you 100 million as deposit in the afternoon. If you don’t accept it, I’ll find another person.”

“Accept!” Initially, the person was still rather hesitant, but upon hearing that Hong Dali would round it up to 200 million… Whoever didn’t accept it would be a fool!

“That’s good…” Hong Dali humphed. “I like decisive people. Send someone over in the afternoon with the contract.”

“O… OK!” The Asia manager was elated as he hung up the call…

“Dali, you aren’t planning to…” Tang Muxin carefully asked, “Concentrate all the players in the entire Heavenly State in one server, right?!”