Someone rode the wave of hype and became a top streamer.

Someone managed to advance to a high-level laborer by handing out money.

April 27th, this day is one many people in the gaming community will remember.

Because... someone helped Li Yang win a game of PUBG, with four players teaming up to slaughter in one match, killing more than eighty people in total.

Among them, Li Yang himself killed over forty people.

You must know, as the number of players continued to increase, those trying to snipe Li Yang have also seen their skills improve rapidly, after all, there’s no shortage of talent in China.

Basically, the best of the best were participating in the sniping.

Even so, it still took Li Yang nearly a month to finally win the game.

This is enough to prove how strong his teammates were and even more so to prove how strong Li Yang was.

In other words, those three people will be getting a contract worth ten million.

This matter was handled by Wu Tianqi. Bai Qing fulfilled her promise by forming a team called the Koala team, letting Wu Tianqi serve as general manager to sign the three.

As a result... two of the three were under eighteen, and one was under sixteen.

In a sense, they were all minors.

"Considering the fact that all three are minors, the contract term will be three years, with fifty thousand for each of the first two years, and 2.34 million for the third year each!"

Wu Tianqi issued a statement, and no one found it inappropriate.

The ten million was given, each one was a minor, so betting on the third year was understandable.

Someone walked away with ten million, and Li Yang’s task of streaming was considered finished. Any subsequent traffic could be passed on to others.

The public test of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which had been going on for more than twenty days, at this moment, had already transformed.

The accumulated heat across the entire network may not be unprecedented, but at least it could rival the fervor of 2018 in a past life.

The official website of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds opened for reservations, and in just half a day, the number of reservations broke five million, and a day later, it surpassed 12 million.

"Fellow Daoist Li, can you lend me some money?"

Li Yang received a message from Wu Tianqi; it was rare for this guy to ask.

"How much do you need?"

"Five thousand is enough, I need to order takeout for the club."

Li Yang: "..., what does the club have to do with you?"

This sentence seemed to resonate with Wu Tianqi, and his words poured out.

"Fellow Daoist Li, my aunt placed the Koala Club right at the gate of Zhongzhou University and asked me to be the general manager to handle everything. But I’m still a student who can’t sign a labor contract or get a salary. I’m having a hard time... Recently, whenever you stream, I have to be on call all day. I don’t know how many people I have to add as friends every day, and every day is just transferring money and transferring money..."

"Do you want your aunt to pay you a salary?"

"No, I just want her to assign me an assistant, I think Yang Shanshan would be good."

Wu Tianqi dared not take Bai Qing’s money, even when he was broke and needed to borrow money.

Anyway, it’s just about getting through these two days; the living expenses from home will be sent soon.

"Damn! I thought you were fighting for rightful interests, turns out you just want to exploit your position for personal gain?"

Wu Tianqi was displeased, "What do you mean by exploiting my position for personal gain, Fellow Daoist Li, our friendship is fading..."

"You... alright, alright, I’ll put in a word for you."

"Since you put it that way, I won’t ask Fellow Daoist Jiang for money then..."

"..."

Li Yang transferred five thousand yuan to Wu Tianqi, and then... that was it...

He chatted with Bai Qing for a while, but didn’t talk about Yang Shanshan, just asked Bai Qing to arrange a female assistant for Wu Tianqi.

Bai Qing wanted to keep Wu Tianqi busy as a way to give him something to do.

Even if no one said it, it was clear to the discerning eye that Wu Tianqi, as an athlete, had little prospect.

His talent was average, and he didn’t have a height advantage; no matter how hard he tried, it was difficult to make a living from that specialization.

Even if his family could help and ensure he had no worries about food and drink, he still needed social recognition in the end.

...

The investment plan from Mouyu was already in Li Yang’s hands; after his agreement to participate, Xiangnu didn’t even announce it publicly and it was settled privately.

The valuation was four billion, raising eight hundred million.

This meant the chips in the hands of the current shareholders would all be diluted by 20%.

Li Yang previously held 30%, and after dilution, he was left with only 24%.

Xiangnu originally had 52%, and after this round of financing, only about 42% was left.

The rest of the shareholders together had only 14% left.

After seeing the quotation given by Li Yang, Xiangnu asked, "Is Wanliu Capital providing the funds?"

"Yes, but that will wait until June when Wanliu Capital’s newly issued bonds, still need to gather the money."

For Wanliu Capital to gather funds was actually quite simple.

Pawning shares to get tens of billions from the bank wasn’t a problem.

However, Jiang Banxia didn’t choose that route; instead, they decided to issue one hundred billion in bonds, which, after review, was finally passed with a fixed coupon rate of 4.72%. It’s expected to take another half month to get the money.

The whole process was incredibly fast; originally, a three-month timeline was reduced to ten days.

Just as Jiang Banxia said before, it seemed everything started going smoothly.

From obtaining the game version number smoothly, to Wanliu Capital’s expedited bond issuance process, Li Yang could feel that unseen hand.

It might not be a good thing, but he had no reason to reject these.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, officially launched for public testing on May 1st.

On this day, reservations reached 28 million.

The game introduced a War God leaderboard, and within a month, FPP and TPP single, duo, and squad modes - totaling six modes, with the top five hundred War Gods in each mode eligible for prize sharing, a pool of 28 million - which is the number of reservations.

On this day, the total number of online players reached 16 million, with a peak concurrent user count of 9 million, breaking the world record.