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April 21st, 17: 15 pm.
Izual piloted two Iron Ships and took off from Mang Jie City. He chose a suitable route in the open sea and flew towards Shanghai at an extremely low altitude.
The satellite that provides signals for the Steel Aircraft is not the Rongcheng Military District's satellite. It is BAE's satellite.
BAE is not famous in the civilian industry and is even less famous in Xia Xia. 99.99% of Xia people do not know what BAE is.
In fact, BAE is not famous and was established not long ago. In 1999, BAE was formed by the merger of British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems.
BAE is not translated into Xia. Its full name is BAE System. PLC. Translated into Xia, it is BAE Systems.
The suffix PLC stands for Public Listed Company, which means a publicly listed company.
BAE is not famous and does not have a long history. But this does not mean it is not powerful!
In 2000, which is the second year of BAE's establishment, BAE is ranked third among the world's 100 largest military companies. There are only two companies ahead of BAE. Lockheed Martin in Lijian Province and Boeing in Lijian Province.
These two companies are very famous in the world. Most people in Xia Xia have heard of Boeing. Their impression of Boeing is that they only manufacture civilian airliners.
But Boeing is not only manufacturing civilian airliners.
They are the world's largest civilian airliners and the largest military aircraft manufacturer!
The military fighter jets they manufacture are extremely powerful!
As for Lockheed Martin, it might not be as famous as Boeing. But its C-130 Hercules, C-5 Milky Way, F-117 stealth fighter jets, F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, etc., are you familiar with these names?
The F-117 stealth fighter jet used to be feared all over the world!
The F-22 Raptor is the world's first fifth-generation fighter jet to enter service!
The F-35 Lightning II fighter jet is also a fifth-generation fighter jet. Its performance is better than the F-22 Raptor. The F-35B can take off and land vertically.
Lockheed Martin's other products, such as missiles and rockets, will not be introduced further. I will only use one sentence to describe Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin, why are you so powerful?!
Lockheed Martin is very powerful, right?
In 2008, BAE surpassed Boeing and was only second to Lockheed Martin. In 2011, BAE successfully became the leader in the field of military supplies, surpassing Lockheed Martin!
One could only imagine how powerful BAE was!
BAE's satellite system provided services for Great Britain, and its performance was much more reliable than that of the Rongcheng Military Region. Shi Lei was using BAE's satellite system, and the Steel Cruise Ship would never lose its signal and fall into the sea.
Since BAE is so powerful, how did Shi get access to BAE's satellite system?
The answer is very simple!
BAE provides satellite system rental services. Shi Lei used an anonymous account to rent a satellite system from BAE. Then, he disguised the data and deceived BAE's inspection system.
After all, Shi Lei did not hack into BAE's internal system. Why would BAE have the time to conduct a large-scale inspection?
Or to investigate Shi Lei's account?
Shi Lei is the world's top hacker. However, there are no rules that say a top hacker must hack into a satellite system to get access to it.
If he had to hack into a satellite system, Shi Lei would rather borrow Tao Wenxian's Level 3 GPS control authority or hack into a commercial company's communication satellite. He would not use a military equipment company's satellite system.
Military equipment company is just a glorified name. In fact, it is just an arms dealer!
With the help of BAE's satellite system, the two Steel Ships flew to Shanghai's Zhongtang Island under Izur's control. Zhongtang Island was used as a transit station. After filling up with fuel, they continued to fly to Voisin Dongjing.
The two Steel Ships traveling together ensured that there would be a backup in case of an accident.
At the same time, Shanghai's Zhongtang Island was more than 1,700 kilometers away from Voisin Dongjing. Even if the two Steel Ships were equipped with external fuel tanks, they would not be able to fly back to Zhongtang Island from Zhongtang Island without refueling.
The situation in Voisin Dongjing was very unclear. If Ye Feng and the others bought large amounts of fuel from Voisin, they would be suspected.
At this time, the second Steel Ship was needed. Most of the fuel in the second Steel Ship's fuel tank would be used to replenish the first Steel Ship's fuel storage.
As for the second Steel Ship's fate?
Of course, it would be strapped to a liquid bomb and choose to self-destruct in the open sea to destroy all evidence.
April 21st, 22: 00 pm. There were still 26 hours before the World of Heroes open beta. Shi Lei checked the closed beta invitation code statistics system on Dream Entertainment's official website.
After several rounds of activities and daily consumption, there were currently 81,382 closed beta invitation codes left. 80,721 closed beta invitation codes were activated. There were only 661 closed beta invitation codes that were not activated.
The activation of the closed beta invitation codes meant that they were registered on Dream Entertainment's official forum and stored in the closed beta invitation code system as a random string of data. This was to prevent the closed beta invitation codes from being leaked and causing losses to the players.
The closed beta invitation codes were in the hands of AMD, Sapphire, MSI, and Asustek. These four companies did not plan to continue to sell them. Instead, they submitted an application to Dream Entertainment to draw the closed beta invitation codes.
Currently, Dream Entertainment had approved the application. The remaining 661 closed beta invitation codes would be distributed to the four companies at 9: 00 am tomorrow.
Although there were a total of 81,382 closed beta invitation codes, the number of players entering the game would not be the same as the number of closed beta invitation codes.
This was because some rich players had a lot of closed beta invitation codes. They were waiting for Dream Entertainment's last event.
Mu Shuang and Shi Lei had discussed the issue of Dream Entertainment having too many closed beta invitation codes. This was not in the interest of Dream Entertainment.
This was because the rich players had a large number of closed beta invitation codes. They could gather a large number of people.
Moreover, the World of Heroes allowed players to freely choose their birthplace. This would give them a huge advantage in the early stages.
Mu Shuang suggested that Shi Lei use some activities to reduce the number of closed beta invitation codes in the hands of the rich players. Shi Lei naturally agreed with Mu Shuang's suggestion.
Therefore, an announcement appeared on the homepage of Dream Entertainment's official website. It stated that Dream Entertainment would be releasing a lucky draw system at 12: 00 am on April 22nd. At the same time, they would be releasing part of the World of Heroes' equipment.
Shi Lei planned to use the lucky draw system to reduce the number of closed beta invitation codes in the hands of the players.
However, before he carried out this plan, he used Izur to do a very precise calculation to ensure that the value of the players' closed beta invitation codes would not decrease significantly. This was to avoid any protests from the players.
On the official player forum, players from all over the world, regardless of whether they were rich or not, were looking forward to the update of Dream Entertainment's official website.
The rich players held the closed beta invitation codes in their hands as they waited for the lucky draw to begin. The poor players were naturally waiting for the update of the World of Heroes' equipment, hoping to get more information about the World of Heroes.
Among the rich players, Lijian Province's Super Rich Storm was definitely the craziest.
There were only 80,000 closed beta invitation codes, but after wasting them everywhere, Storm still had close to 2,000 of them. That was almost 1/40th of the total number of closed beta invitation codes!
Storm arrogantly declared on the official player forum that he must get some good stuff and become the world's number one player in the World of Heroes!
Although Storm was arrogant, he had too many closed beta invitation codes. The other rich players did not refute him. It was as if Storm had really become the world's number one player in the forum.
It was close to 12: 00 am on April 22nd. Shi Lei controlled Dream Entertainment's website to update part of the World of Heroes' equipment and lucky draw system in the background. Once the time was up, the system would automatically update.
At 12: 00 am on April 22nd, Izur precisely controlled the update of the official website. A large number of players began to flood the website to check out the World of Heroes' equipment.
The lucky draw system was divided into two levels. The first level was 100 closed beta invitation codes per lucky draw. The price of 100 closed beta invitation codes had risen to 600,000 Chinese Xia Yuan, which was more than 70,000 USD. It was not a small amount of money.
This level of lucky draw was something that only the rich could afford!
For an unknown online game to require 600,000 Chinese Yuan just for one lucky draw, it definitely required a lot of courage!
The second level was 10 closed beta invitation codes per lucky draw. As long as you were a rich player, you could afford it. Most of the rich players were aiming for the second level.
Lijian Province's Super Rich Storm did not lack money. He only lacked excitement and novelty. 600,000 Chinese Xia Yuan might seem like a lot, but in Storm's eyes, it was not much different from 1 RMB in the eyes of a normal player.
Super Rich Storm was the first to start the lucky draw. The other rich players seemed to want Storm to take the lead and see if Dream Entertainment's lucky draw was a scam.
However, in order to arouse the interest of the rich players, Shi Lei purposely set up the first three lucky draws so that they would definitely get something good.
Storm directly chose the first level of lucky draw with 100 closed beta invitation codes. In the first round, Storm drew a powerful defensive equipment, the Heavenly Silk Garment. In the published equipment and item guide, the Heavenly Silk Garment was second only to the Golden Silk Armor.
Storm was a smart person. He immediately realized that Dream Entertainment might be compensating the first person to draw the lucky draw to arouse the interest of the players.
After guessing this possibility, Storm did not say anything and continued to draw the lucky draw. He drew five times in a row and got three good items. The other two were not bad either.
The lucky draw page showed the results of Storm's lucky draw. When the other rich players saw the results and compared it to the equipment and item guide, they also realized that they were at a disadvantage!
How could the rich players let Storm be the only one to show off?
They all started the lucky draw. Most of them chose the second level of lucky draw with 10 closed beta invitation codes per lucky draw. After all, there were not many rich players, or they were not willing to invest.
Shi Lei looked at the Lottery System's data and was overjoyed. This was a good start. After the rich got used to spending money in the World of the Bravehearts, they would invest even more money in the future and become the most loyal players in the World of the Bravehearts.
Of course, all of this was based on the premise that the World of the Brave was good enough!
If the World of the Brave was bad, not only would the rich players not be satisfied, they would even band together and cause trouble for Dream Entertainment.
However, was the World of the Brave not good enough?
On the first day of the World of the Brave's open beta, Shi Lei would give the players a big surprise!
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