Chapter 62: Is He Trying to Hold In a Big One!

"Actually, I personally have always been strongly opposed to piracy; piracy infringes upon the interests of the Authorized Zhengban!"

"Although our movie DVDs have sold nearly 200,000 copies to date, but..."

"Moreover, we are the ones who have suffered the deepest harm from piracy..."

"Right!"

"Why?"

"These past days, our 'Sun Wukong vs. Superman 2' has, countless times, had its cover blatantly printed as 'Superman 2' by certain unscrupulous pirates, deceiving countless movie fans..."

"The reason 【Tianyu】 sent us a lawyer's letter is partly because we did indeed do some things wrong, but absolutely also because those unscrupulous pirate vendors, seeking greater profits, did all sorts of things like Li Kui and Li Gui, causing 【Tianyu】 to have a huge misunderstanding of us!"

"Yes, we admit we do have suspicions of paying homage to 'Superman 2', but homage is homage, piracy is piracy; these cannot be confused... they are completely different concepts!"

"Yes! We are truly victims; the controversy we received was no less than 'Superman 2'!"

"I have a friend—how could it be, that friend isn't me, I truly have a friend of a friend; they came specifically for our 'Sun Wukong vs. Superman 2'... but, as they kept buying, they ended up buying pirated DVDs of 'Superman 2'. The poor quality of the pirated DVD's picture quality is one thing, but the key is what? The most outrageous thing about these pirated DVDs is that, while playing, a standing figure suddenly appears in the footage... it was all recorded in poor quality..."

"My friend's friend was extremely angry and went to complain, but they couldn't find anyone at all!"

"I firmly support cracking down on piracy!"

The media gradually dispersed from the entrance of 【Tianyu Beijing Film Division】.

However, at the entrance of Zhou Yang's 【Xuan Shi Entertainment】, right now, a huge crowd of reporters had gathered, making the road at the entrance completely impassable.

Yang Bo, the webmaster of 【Movie Home】, was jostled back and forth in the crowd; after finally getting a decent shooting position, he widened his eyes, finding it hard to believe his ears, thinking he must have heard wrong!

He stared blankly at Zhou Yang, who was accepting an interview from the 【1819】 program, filled with righteous indignation!

Damn it!

What exactly did he hear?

Did he hear this Zhou Yang, who in the DVD market makes a living by hyping up various trends to fool users, saying he is utterly opposed to piracy?

Wait!

Is this something this guy could say?

What the hell!

"Yes!"

"If possible, I hope to unite multiple entertainment companies to crack down on piracy together and restore a clear sky to the DVD market!"

"Right, although we come from humble beginnings, we also have patriotic sentiments; we want to support positive energy, and in the future we will make movies with positive energy!"

"..."

Not far away.

The sun was setting.

Zhou Yang's silhouette stood under the sunset, his gaze exceptionally deep, looking even more upright.

A gust of wind blew, startling Yang Bo into a daze; Yang Bo shook his head violently!

Wait!

Positive energy?

Damn it!

If he hadn't previously bought that one 【Beast vs. Superman 2】 DVD, whose cover was very explicit, suspected of skirting the line, but whose content made one eat a pound of rice in shock!

He would have truly believed this guy's nonsense!

According to his latest confirmed news, when the movie 'Sun Wukong vs. Superman 2' was selling DVDs, it was specifically cooperating with this group of unscrupulous pirate merchants!

Moreover, it is highly probable that all the various chaotic DVDs on the market, sold under the name 'Superman 2' to grab attention, were all specifically made by Zhou Yang's hand!

And now, this person is actually speaking solemnly about cracking down on piracy and talking about positive energy?

What a joke!

When a person becomes shameless to the extreme...

Yang Bo no longer knew what to say.

Just as he was preparing to leave, his phone rang.

He answered the call.

On the other end of the phone, a colleague was excitedly reporting the data of the 【Movie Home】 website to him!

"The registered users of 'Movie Home' have already exceeded 35,000!"

"They are all discussions about Zhou Yang!"

"Quick, quick, do a special interview on Zhou Yang, hurry..."

"Yes, yes, yes, right now his popularity is very high; it can attract many people to come and scold..."

"Yes, whether we can break 40,000 registered users in these two days depends entirely on this special interview!"

"..."

"..."

The colleague's excited voice made Yang Bo feel somewhat exhilarated.

After looking back at Zhou Yang again, he hesitated for a while, and finally rushed excitedly into the crowd.

"President Zhou, President Zhou, I am Yang Bo from 'Movie Home', the webmaster Yang Bo; 'Movie Home' is the only movie review website in the country; you have many movie fans on this website, and they all hope to learn about the content of 'Zhengban Tiao Ren: Reboot'..."

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"I hope to conduct a set of special interviews with you!"

"Yes, they are all very much looking forward to our 'Zhengban Tiao Ren: Reboot'!"

"..."

Traffic.

Is a very magical thing.

Yang Bo felt he was originally a rather upright person, but the moment he thought about the traffic and buzz【Movie Home】would generate next, he suddenly felt a bit unrighteous.

Traffic breaks 40,000!

A website would then attract some small capital's attention!

If it developed well over the long term, capital might come to invest; with capital investment, 【Movie Home】would no longer be a small studio.

Thinking of the future...

Yang Bo excitedly squeezed through the crowd, handed the microphone to Zhou Yang's side, and began saying words he himself found disgusting!

"Here it comes, here it comes, the interview is here!"

"Hurry!"

"Okay, do some post-production, no need to retouch the photos! President Zhou cooperated very well with the interview, the angle is excellent, extremely topical!"

"Good!"

Around 9 PM.

In a rental house not far from Zhongguancun, Beijing, hanging the sign【Movie Home】.

A sound of knocking on the door rang out.

Immediately after, Yang Bo rushed into the rental house, uploaded Zhou Yang's interview in the form of photos and text to the homepage of【Movie Home】, and pinned it to the top.

Immediately after, a group of young people excitedly stared at the constantly rising data on the backend of【Movie Home】...

"It's moving, it's moving, registered users have broken 36,000!"

"The click-through rate on the special interview has broken 1,000, it broke 1,000 in just twenty minutes, a record broken!"

"Quick, quick, quick!"

"..."

August 10.

Zhou Yang...

Seemed to have become famous overnight!

An Xiaoshi stared blankly at the【1819】program on television.

She saw Zhou Yang's figure again; yesterday, in the【1819】program, Zhou Yang apologized at the entrance of【Tianyu】, and today, in the【1819】program, she saw Zhou Yang talking grandly about that so-called【piracy】, looking as if piracy was harming people terribly.

Wait, didn't that guy make money by scamming and swindling through piracy? How did he suddenly change the hell out of himself?

An Xiaoshi, somewhat bewildered, logged onto the internet.

Then, she saw people on the internet scolding Zhou Yang for breaking the pot after eating...

Some even exposed how Zhou Yang used various disc names to ride the heat of【Superman 2】.

The details of the exposure looked as if they had been witnessed with their own eyes...

Immediately!

She then saw the movie page on the BBS.

【Shocking, this bastard is making a new movie again?】

【Unrepentant! After apologizing for the terrible film《Sun Wukong vs. Superman 2》, he immediately releases another one, 《Zhengban Tiao Ren: Reboot》!】

【Mudslide of the film circle, vampire of the film circle! The box office of《Superman 2》hits a new low, possibly related to this person!】

【...】

Post after post, the entire text was all cursing.

Reading along, An Xiaoshi saw a post titled【Exposure of《Zhengban Tiao Ren: Reboot》!】

For some reason, as if guided by spirits, she clicked in, and then discovered that clicking in led to a website link named【Movie Home】...

After seeing the Movie Home website link...

She was even more shocked!

The homepage of this website was all about Zhou Yang...

For a moment, she even thought this was Zhou Yang's personal website!

That movie, 《Zhengban Tiao Ren: Reboot》, hadn't even been released yet, no one even knew what it was filming, yet it had already been given a combined lowest score of 1.5!

A total of over 20,000 people gave scores...

She clicked into the《Zhengban Tiao Ren: Reboot》interface and saw the introduction of this movie...

【Heroism boils like a volcano, passion surges like a vast ocean, desire is an endless abyss】

【Climb the path to heaven, walk while singing, with a snap of the fingers, block the sky!】

【...】

【The world's first epic masterpiece, lovingly presented by a Hollywood great director!】

【6 billion movie fans worldwide, a brand new version never seen before!】

【...】

What the hell is this?

Brand new version?

Isn't it a brand new version?

Wait!

This movie, is it really that perfunctory, perfunctory enough to have a typo in the introduction?

She looked at the comments below...

And discovered that all the comments were cursing!

Is this movie even worse than "Sun Wukong Battles Superman 2"?

How utterly deranged is it?

She called Zhou Yang.

But she discovered...

Zhou Yang did not answer the call.

She hesitated for a moment, left the room, and drove toward Zhou Yang's company.

But she discovered that although reporters were gathered around Zhou Yang's company...

but...

there was no sign of Zhou Yang, and Zhou Yang's company was empty.

"What the hell? This person has gone into seclusion?"

"What's going on?"

"He said he was going to create art? Direct two movies at once?"

"What is he holed up in seclusion to produce? A huge pile of shit?"

"..."