Chapter 9: Soaring User Growth and Skyrocketing Valuation

Until the gathering ended, Huang Feiyang and Chen Xiruo remained together the entire time.

This left many feeling quite frustrated!

For instance, some male classmates who wanted to pursue Chen Xiruo.

And also some female classmates who hoped to chase after Huang Feiyang.

After leaving the restaurant, Huang Feiyang went straight back to his own home.

As for Chen Xiruo, she was picked up by a Bentley from her family.

Sitting in front of his computer desk in his room, Huang Feiyang saw an email — or rather, a report — sent by George, and a satisfied smile spread across his face.

Over the past few days, the number of online users and registered users on Penguin had begun to soar.

Each metric had surged by more than a third.

Countless users had been drawn in by the two games: Space Farm and Ranch.

Additionally, the Penguin skins were also a great success.

This marked the official entry of Penguin into its profitable phase.

At the same time, the news pop-ups had achieved impressive results.

Frankly speaking, with a series of new initiatives rolling out, Penguin had officially stepped into a stage of rapid growth and profitability.

In the past couple of days, various news reports had illustrated many aspects.

Penguin’s vegetable stealing game had begun to sweep the nation at an increasingly astonishing pace.

Every day, millions upon millions of new users were added.

The number of concurrent online users also skyrocketed.

Some avid players even set alarms to sneak in vegetable thefts in the middle of the night.

Some found the game insufficiently thrilling and took the vegetable stealing game into real life.

The frenzy of these players sparked heated discussions online.

Experts, professors, netizens, and various social figures all joined in the debate.

One user, “Piercing Arrow,” said, “I really don’t get it! It’s just a game, is it necessary to be this crazy?”

Another, “Look, UFO,” responded, “Exactly! Hey, any pros out there, please teach me how to efficiently steal vegetables on Penguin’s Space Farm?”

“Old Immortal, always eighteen years old,” chimed in, “As a game studio planner, I can’t quite understand why such a simple game is sweeping the whole country.”

“Fairy, please stay,” exclaimed, “These players are already possessed! Ah! That damn competitive spirit!”

“Watching the Storm,” remarked, “Who said Penguin would soon vanish into the annals of history? Now, just relying on the farm, ranch, Penguin skins, and news pop-ups, they’re wildly harvesting users!”

“Soaring Sky,” added, “To be fair, this game is genuinely fun. As for the rest, how important is it?”

“…”

Seeing the overwhelmingly positive feedback from netizens, Huang Feiyang was not the least bit surprised.

After all, Penguin had already been a huge success in his previous life.

They had proven themselves with strength.

This time around, it was merely because he, as a person reborn with foresight, had pushed the company forward prematurely.

Owning 67% of the shares, Huang Feiyang had initially invested only 20 million.

Now, with Penguin’s latest valuation, his investment had at least multiplied several times over.

And this was all within less than a month.

He felt deeply moved inside.

The advantage of rebirth and prescience was exhilarating!

Any investment he made was a massive profit!

By year’s end, Penguin alone would bring him a substantial dividend, right?

Dividend!

Wait!

Suddenly, Huang Feiyang recalled a game.

A game about to sweep the nation!

“Legend!”

He wondered if he still had a chance now.

If he bought the rights, could he make a huge profit?

In his previous life, its success had proven many things.

This game had been a cash cow for a very long time.

Taking a deep breath to steady himself, Huang Feiyang decisively called his team.

His goal was crystal clear: if possible, to acquire the entire copyright of this game.

…

In Yang City, inside a private club downtown.

A middle-aged man with a sullen expression was speaking with a burly young man.

“Slaughter Biao!”

“How long has it been?”

“Can’t even handle a small matter?”

The middle-aged man looked at the burly youth with dissatisfaction.

A cold glint flashed briefly in his eyes.

“Boss!”

“I’ve tried contacting Huang Feiyang several times!”

“But right now, he’s completely ignoring me…”

After hesitating for a moment, the burly youth stammered.

In truth, he was already thinking of running away.

At the same time, he deeply regretted accepting money from the man before him.

By now, he clearly understood that this middle-aged man had ill intentions!

He was setting a trap for Huang Feiyang.

Ultimately, it was aimed at the Huang Group.

Just thinking about it made Slaughter Biao’s scalp tingle.

To offend the Huang family so thoroughly?

His fate would surely be miserable.

This man was from out of town; he could easily disappear.

But what about him?

Where could he run to?

Hearing Slaughter Biao’s words, the middle-aged man frowned.

“I’ll give you one more week!”

Saying this, he swept his sleeves and left.

Watching the man’s departing figure, Slaughter Biao’s face darkened with uncertainty.

After much contemplation, he finally took out his phone and dialed a number.

“Hello!”

“Young Master Huang!”

“It’s me! I need to tell you something!”

“…”

After hanging up, a playful expression involuntarily crossed Huang Feiyang’s face.

Someone had spent a fortune to buy off Slaughter Biao?

Trying to set him up?

Yet after weighing the pros and cons, Slaughter Biao chose to tip him off?

Tsk tsk tsk!

Interesting!

After some thought, Huang Feiyang called his father.

He briefly explained the matter.

“I understand.”

After listening, Huang Feiyang’s father said nothing more than that.

Then he chatted casually with Huang Feiyang for a bit before hanging up.

Putting down the phone, Huang Feiyang quickly pushed the matter from his mind.

He trusted his father would handle it well.

As for himself?

He didn’t intend to personally deal with such complicated affairs before his influence was fully established.

Right now, he was more interested in accumulating wealth and capital.

What Huang Feiyang did not know was that shortly after he hung up, something happened in Yang City.

The middle-aged man who had bribed Slaughter Biao was taken away for investigation overnight.

Slaughter Biao was also taken away.

Besides them, some factions related to Slaughter Biao were directly cleaned up.

Those in the know were not particularly surprised.

Someone wanted to scheme against the last scion of the Huang family?

Wasn’t that just asking for trouble?

Did they really think the Huang family’s power was a joke?