Chapter 27: This Moment Is the Birth of the Disruptor!

April first, Tuesday.

The weather wasn't particularly good; since some unknown hour in the night, the sky had begun to drizzle with a steady, light rain.

This should have been an ordinary workday: students going to school as usual, office workers hurrying along.

The entertainment industry was remarkably calm; no scandals involving popular actresses were circulating, and certainly no top-tier singers had released new albums.

Yet on such an utterly unremarkable morning, inside the MHY Studio located in Lanshan Apartments, Yun City.

Cai Qiu and Chen Wei were as busy as ants on a hot pan.

"Ah Wei, did you call Brother Yu? It's almost ten o'clock, and he still hasn't come to work?"

Cai Qiu paced back and forth, finally stopping in front of Chen Wei, though his gaze fell upon Qin Qin Xiaoyu's empty desk.

"I did, but no one answered... Maybe you should go look for him at his place?"

Chen Wei also shook his head helplessly.

Under normal circumstances, if Qin Qin Xiaoyu arrived a bit late, they wouldn't have cared at all.

But on a day like this, with such a grand occasion, without Qin Qin Xiaoyu, their main pillar, present, they were truly afraid they couldn't control the situation.

They had both participated in the massive server-opening event with millions of pre-registrations.

However.

That was in the dead of night, while asleep...

"Forget it, where do we have time to look for him now? If we don't start the game's pre-download soon, I reckon that crowd of players will blow up our official website!"

Thinking of the dense wall of messages on the official website, Cai Qiu felt his scalp go numb. "Fortunately, Brother Yu prepared everything yesterday, the license was approved smoothly, and the two of us know how to operate the system the same way.

Besides, if we can't even handle something this small, I'd have no face to claim my five percent share!"

Although Chen Wei felt in his heart that it seemed a bit inappropriate for Qin Qin Xiaoyu to be absent at such a crucial moment.

But Old Cai's last remark suddenly reminded him. Perhaps this was Brother Yu testing them.

So.

After discussing it, the two decided to launch the game's pre-download first, then wait for Qin Qin Xiaoyu to arrive before announcing the official server opening.

Making this decision was partly a measure of helplessness.

The other reason was that they really wanted to know exactly how many players would actually come to play this game.

Exactly ten o'clock in the morning.

Under the hosting of Cai Qiu and Chen Wei, the game titled "Genshin Impact" officially went live on the TAP App Shangcheng, offering pre-download services.

There was no extensive advertising; they simply posted an announcement update on the official website and the official account on Xiaopozhan.

However.

It was precisely this calm, uneventful announcement that caused countless gamers to immediately boil over with excitement.

"Holy crap, it's finally starting! I've been waiting since last night, almost died of exhaustion. Damn official, at least you have some conscience!"

"This is a victory for the night owls; let those players who chose to sleep regret it!"

"Are the two above crazy? I chose to sleep last night, but that doesn't stop me from downloading the game right now, okay?"

"Do you still have time to talk nonsense? I, the wise one, have already started downloading the game..."

"To be honest, just now my girlfriend tried to snatch my phone, so I slapped her right in the face. Well, now she's my ex-girlfriend..."

"My wife is divorced, my child has been given away; now nothing can stop me from playing this game!"

"..."

Half an hour later, the CEO of the TAP App Shangcheng sat before his computer, watching the real-time data change on the screen, and immediately lost his composure.

Five hundred thousand downloads?

This was only half an hour...