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Chapter 317 - Chapter 317 Chapter 317 Powerfully Slapping the Face

Chapter 317: Chapter 317: Powerfully Slapping the Face Chapter 317: Chapter 317: Powerfully Slapping the Face Wang Hao finished speaking, and the whole room was shocked!

Before, he accused the first two books of being fabricated by the Supreme God, and it turned out that the data of his own books were fake!

“God, today really opened my eyes, it turns out that this so-called veteran deity’s data is actually fake!”

“It’s absolutely splendid, hahaha! Isn’t this just a case of a thief shouting to catch a thief, but ending up throwing himself in?”

“This will be fun! Let’s see what he has to say!”

Supreme God’s face darkened, standing there sweating profusely, he suddenly shouted loudly, “You are twisting the facts! The data you mentioned can’t be counted! Who knows if you’re in cahoots with them…”

Before Supreme God could finish, Wang Hao interrupted him and laughed, “Don’t rush, why are you so eager to prove yourself? I haven’t finished yet, buddy!”

Wang Hao then opened up the Baidu website, went straight to the Baidu Index page, and said with a laugh, “Supreme God, to be honest, I quite admire you. You knew to push the recommendation list while brushing the click list, not too dumb after all. But you might have forgotten one thing, and that is called ‘Even the wise have their oversights.’ The Baidu Index, you forgot to brush it, didn’t you?!”

He then typed energetically on the keyboard, soon pulling up the Baidu search indexes for “Heavenly Martial Heroes,” “Break the Heavens,” and “Devouring the Stars.” The audience was stunned when they saw the results!

The Baidu search index for Break the Heavens was incredibly high, reaching over one hundred and eighty thousand! Absolutely sky-defying!

Devouring the Stars, not yet on the market, only had about twenty thousand index.

This was actually all still fine, but the self-praised “Heavenly Martial Heroes” by Supreme God had a pitiful index of… only fifty thousand!

An enormous gap of several tens of times!

Everyone in the room was astonished, and the conference room burst into discussion–

“The Baidu search index for Break the Heavens is so high! This can’t be faked!”

“Exactly, Baidu search belongs to the Zhao family among the four big clans, no one can afford to manipulate those numbers!”

“This time, the truth is out, his real performance is only fifty thousand, so little!”

“Supreme God,” Wang Hao said with a grin, “with such a low Baidu Index, it seems like your data isn’t looking so good. This list, did you not anticipate it, or couldn’t you afford to brush it? Or are you saying the index absolutely can’t be manipulated?!”

“Nonsense!” Supreme God’s face turned the color of a liver, he shouted loudly, “Books have their highs and lows, I’ve been writing a transitional chapter these past few days, it’s normal for it to have fewer hits!”

“Of course, whether you faked the data or not, you couldn’t admit it anyway,” Wang Hao laughed and shook his head, “I didn’t say you faked anything, I merely stated that the two books before yours weren’t falsified!”

As soon as Wang Hao said this, everyone in the room burst into laughter, even Chairman Cheng couldn’t hold back and chuckled aloud!

This guy was too crafty; if his data were real, then by comparison, that meant his data must be fake, right?

“You’re just making a scene!” Supreme God pointed at Wang Hao and said urgently, “This is supposed to be an animation seminar today, I mainly came here to talk about online literature adaptations, and everything you said was definitely meant to cause trouble!”

“Oh? Me causing trouble?” Wang Hao laughed and shrugged his shoulders, “Everyone said I was just here to make up the numbers, but you insisted on provoking me, so you can’t blame me, right? You can say my data is manipulated, but I can’t mention it? Fine, today I’ll show you what I’m actually here for! This is an animation seminar, right? I’ve just invested in an animation company these past few days, namely Golden Cloud Animation. So, in fact, I don’t really have any issues being here!”

Golden Cloud Animation? What company is that? Never heard of it?

The entire venue started whispering among themselves–

“Have you heard of this animation company?”

“I haven’t heard of it, is it a small company?”

“I remember now! It’s the company on the verge of bankruptcy! I heard that its total assets shrunk from five million to one million these past few days!”

“Lord! He actually invested in such a company?! Can it succeed?”

Just as everyone was discussing, suddenly a young man, looking like an assistant, rushed into the venue and whispered a few words into Cheng Dequan’s ear. Upon hearing it, Cheng Dequan was so shocked that he stood up abruptly and asked loudly, “What did you say?!”

What now?

Seeing Cheng Dequan so startled, everyone became curious, and quite a few asked, “Chairman Cheng, what’s wrong?” “Is there some bad news?” “Could it be that there’s some problem?”

Facing the questions from everyone present, Cheng Dequan wiped the sweat from his brow and said urgently, “Go quickly, get me the detailed data!”

“Okay!” The assistant scurried out, and hurried back in no time, saying, “Chairman Cheng, I’ve brought back the data! Please have a look!” He held a USB drive, which Cheng Dequan promptly plugged into the computer on the conference table.

Then, on the large screen in the meeting room, a set of detailed data appeared–Comics World Sales Summary:

“JH City, physical copies: 500, all sold out.”

“Zhonghang City, physical copies: 2,000, all sold out.”

“Zhonghai City, physical copies: 5,000, all sold out.”

“Tianjing City, physical copies: 5,000, all sold out.”

“GD City…”

“SZ City…”

“Online orders: 68,000 sets, currently being printed, estimated release in five days…”

Looking at such data, everyone in the room was flabbergasted!

What’s going on? This issue’s physical copies are all sold out?! And not only that, nearly 70,000 sets were ordered on Taobao! The printing is already scheduled five days later?!

How is this possible? Aren’t physical copies declining now?!

“Fake, right?! How could their sales possibly be this high this issue?!”

“Yeah, what’s going on?! Previously, an issue of Comics World totaled just over 20,000 copies, and that was considered pretty good!”

“This issue directly multiplied by so much?!”

“This… this…” Looking at the data on the big screen, Cheng Dequan was utterly confused; he stuttered “this” for a while before looking around the venue, “Is Chief Editor Wei of Comics World Magazine here? Could you come up to the stage and say a few words?”

“Here, I’m here!” Wei Ningze hurried onto the stage, grabbed the microphone, and was already too excited to speak coherently, “Thank you everyone, thank you all, thanks to our readers, thanks to the journalists, our magazine’s sales for this comic are still okay…”

The crowd below was already seething with excitement. Someone asked, “Chief Editor Wei, how many sets of this issue of Comics World did you print?”

Faced with the question, Wei Ningze finally regained his composure, hastily responding, “We printed a total of… 50,000 sets… yes, 50,000 sets!”

“All sold out?!” The audience exclaimed in disbelief, “Impossible, right?! I remember your magazine is always released on Friday, and it’s sold out in just two days?!”

“I… I’m not sure either,” pondered Wei Ningze, then suddenly shouted, “Could it be because of Chairman Wang’s new comic…”

New comic? What comic?

People were curious when suddenly someone loudly said, “Right, I remember which company Golden Cloud Animation is now! Their newly drawn Detective Conan is really good to watch!” “So it’s them, I’ve also watched Detective Conan, truly a masterpiece!”

Detective Conan? A detective comic?

But even if it’s a detective comic, could it really have such an impact?!

Everyone craned their necks, eager to see what the comic was like. Cheng Dequan decisively turned his gaze to Wang Hao. “Wang Hao, could you tell everyone what this comic is about?”

“It’s just a detective comic,” Wang Hao said with a smile, looking at the Supreme God and continued, “The Supreme God just mentioned that physical comics weren’t feasible. I think we should let him explain why physical comics aren’t feasible. After all, he’s a long-time expert, highly experienced and very accomplished. As a newcomer, I certainly don’t want to steal his thunder.”

“Wang Hao, you!” Supreme God was instantly left red-faced and speechless by Wang Hao!

He had just claimed that physical sales were weak, and now he was directly proven wrong!

But there was nothing he could do, as the sales numbers were right there, undeniable!

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Shoulder periarthritis, rhinitis, pharyngitis, cold…

Got lots of medicine, absolutely crushed, I’m almost a walking pharmacy now!

I feel like in a couple of days, I’d be perfect for the role of a medicine box, running in tears!

Normal update at 6 PM tonight~