While Guhan and Qing Pin were happily eating the pork dishes, the forum was in a frenzy. All sorts of posts about the First Clear of the Instance Dungeon kept popping up. There was one post that was the most popular. The post had a big and eye-catching title: "The Beginning of the Decline of a Prosperous Dynasty: The Throne of Canglan Billows".
The post first used an attitude of someone who had seen through the changes of the world. It talked about the metaphysical principle of 30 years in the east, 30 years in the west. It pointed out that the upward curve of the Canglan Billows had ended. After the peak, the Canglan Billows had entered a downward curve.
The main point of the post was that the Canglan Billows had been defeated by a new player who had teamed up with a sword sect that was not even in the top 10. They had also lost a large amount of sword sect resources and the Three Demon Suppression Sword Formation left by the founder, Gu Jin Guan. This huge failure was a sign that the Canglan Billows' strength was rapidly declining. All sorts of bureaucracy prevailed, and all sorts of useless nepotism occupied the top positions of the Canglan Billows. The Canglan Billows was like an old man with an incurable chronic disease. It was only a matter of time before it was destroyed.
The post praised Guhan and the Yaoguang Sword Sect. It said that the Military Governor was definitely the most outstanding and dazzling player in the past 30 years. He was much more dazzling than Ou Geo and Yaoguang from 10 years ago. Whether it was his intelligence or strength, he had crushed the newbies of the same generation. In the future, there would definitely be a place for the Military Governor at the peak of the gaming world.
The post was not exaggerating. It listed the super achievements that the Military Governor had so far. For example, he was the first SSS-rank player to clear the Yue Wang Goujian Sword Instance Dungeon in 200 years; he found the Wu Dang Peak Instance Dungeon Easter Egg that no one had found in 200 years; he triggered an Emperor Sword Quest at the youngest age; he led the team to snatch the First Clear from the Canglan Billows at the youngest age.
The Military Governor's achievements were all real. Guhan had only been in the game for a month, and he had entered the game at the minimum age of 18. He wasn't a veteran who had been fighting outside for more than a decade and entered the game at the age of 30.
Just look at the achievements of Yaoguang, who was known as the leader of the new generation, and Ou Gen, who had been in the game for a month. Their combined achievements weren't even one-fourth as dazzling as the Military Governor.
The post even compared the Military Governor to Gu Jin Jiandi, who had just entered the game. Even though the author of the post didn't think that the Military Governor's final achievement would be on par with Gu Jin Jiandi, he believed that it was possible for him to be second only to Gu Jin Jiandi. He also guaranteed that the Military Governor would rule the game for one or two generations and become the undisputed king of the game.
The author used all his strength to praise Guhan from the beginning to the end. Those who didn't know would think that the author was a fake army that the Military Governor had spent a lot of money to hire.
Unbeknownst to them, when Guhan saw the post, he was also confused. Did this person want to curse him to death?
Gu Han thought that the people who replied to this post were all scolding the OP for being an idiot and scolding the OP for being a water army that he had hired. In the end, when he opened the post to take a look, there was actually a large amount of praise and praise. They all said that the OP had written well and that the Admiral was indeed the future leader.
There were even people who tipped the OP a few hundred RMB, praising the OP for speaking their minds.
Guhan flipped through more than ten pages of posts and found that 90% of them agreed with the OP and flattered him. Occasionally, there were one or two sensible people who felt that the Military Governor needed more time to observe before making a conclusion. However, they were attacked by the crazy fans of the Military Governor. In the end, they didn't even dare to say anything bad about him.
"There's something wrong here!"
Gu Han closed the thread, and the corner of his mouth curled into a smile. The author of this thread and the replicant were undoubtedly fake reviewers.
However, they weren't the fake army hired by Guhan's supporters. Instead, they were the fake army hired by the enemies who didn't like Guhan. Their purpose was very simple. They wanted to promote Guhan on the internet as high as possible.
Everyone might ask, "Aren't they crazy?"
Since they were Guhan's enemies, why did they promote him?
Shouldn't they slander Guhan in all kinds of ways?
Of course, Guhan's enemies weren't crazy. On the contrary, they had high IQs.
This was because they knew that if Guhan didn't take the initiative to make a mistake and didn't expose any explosive scandal or failure, it was impossible to discredit Guhan with just their words.
Then, in turn, they would promote Guhan.
Guhan's current achievements seemed very dazzling, but in fact, there weren't many achievements that could become the cornerstone of Guhan. Now that Guhan was being praised so highly by them, it was like a bottomless platform or a floating cloud in the sky.
And if Guhan were to be blinded by these praises and really thought that he was such a powerful person, then due to his arrogance and carelessness, failure was inevitable.
Just like a certain reverse Q player before the apocalypse who really believed in the praises of the world's number one mid laner on the internet. As a result, it would be difficult for him to climb back up after falling for the rest of his life.
Guhan was also in the same situation. As long as Guhan made a mistake, then the entire platform would collapse. In the past, Guhan's enemies praised Guhan as highly as Guhan fell. This could be said to be a vicious scheme.
Guhan quickly understood all kinds of nonsense, but Guhan didn't intend to deal with these open and covert attacks. In Guhan's opinion, there was no need to do so. Let them praise him as high as they wanted. Anyway, he wouldn't fall for the rest of his life.
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In addition to this malicious post praising Guhan, there were even more posts begging the Military Governor to quickly release the Strategy Guide for "King Arthur's Betrayal." These gamers kept posting posts like this:
"Has the Military Governor's Strategy Guide been released yet?"
"When will the Military Governor's Strategy Guide be released?"
"Military Governor begs you to release the Strategy Guide as soon as possible. My sword lady is dying for it."
"Military Governor, if you release the Strategy Guide before 7 pm, I will tip you 1888 RMB. Do you believe me?"
Yes, these were probably the voices urging Guhan to release the Strategy Guide as soon as possible. These kinds of posts occupied more than half of the main page of the forum. This was a very impressive achievement.
Guhan didn't want to keep these gamers in suspense. He was happy to release the Strategy Guide now, but this wasn't practical. This was because he hadn't written a single word yet.
From six in the afternoon to twelve in the evening, Gu Han finally finished writing the entire guide. It took him a total of six hours to do so.
The reason it took him so long was not because Guhan was very conscientious and wrote a lot of words. In fact, the total number of words was only about 4,000. In the hands of a web novelist, it would only take two hours to finish.
The reason why it took six hours was because Gu Han had been seriously writing this guide. He had listed out many details that could affect the rating, as well as things that needed to be taken note of. When chatting with NPCs, he had listed out all the taboo topics that should not be discussed, and so on.
For example, after killing the coyote, he had to remember to clean up the carcass. When talking to Lu Ban, he had to maintain respect for him. When interacting with Artoria, he had to show her enough respect.
Finally, Guhan was very considerate. He listed out all the questions he had answered during the college entrance examination, as well as the questions that Gangshan and the others had answered. He even included the standard answers.
Of course, this was just a drop in the bucket for the dungeon's question bank. It was only one percent.
When the entire Strategy Guide was finished, Guhan carefully revised it again. He corrected some typos and sentence problems. He named it "Military Governor's Post: Guide to the First Clear of King Arthur's Betrayal Instance Dungeon." He set the subscription amount to 5 yuan. After splitting the revenue with the official account of Yaoguang Sword Sect, he posted the Strategy Guide.
The administrator behind the forum was probably keeping a close eye on Gu Han's actions. When he used his alternate account, 12580, to confirm and post the guide, this post was set to be the pinnacle of the forum by the administrator and appeared at the top of the forum.
"Dear Swordsman Guhan, someone has read your sub-account, Military Governor 12580's post on the forum." Military Governor's Post: Guide to the First Clear of King Arthur's Betrayal Instance Dungeon. "After paying 5 yuan and deducting 20% of the personal income tax, your game account has been automatically credited with 2 yuan."
"… …"
In an instant, Guhan's personal terminal began to crazily accept such subscription messages. Fortunately, Guhan had taken precautions and set up the "do not disturb" mode. Thus, the series of prompts did not cause his brain to explode.
Ten minutes after the post was posted, the number of views of the entire post had exceeded 200,000. Just the subscription fees alone amounted to 500,000 RMB being transferred into Gu Han's account. This didn't include the tipping fees … 100, 588, 1888, 5888, 10000, etc. All sorts of tipping fees were thrown towards this guide post. In the tipping statistics section of the post, Gu Han could see that the person who had tipped the most was an unknown nouveau riche called "Ze Ze Is My Wife". He had actually tipped this guide post 100,000 RMB in one go!!!
This caused Guhan to sigh. The nouveau riches of this world are really willful!
By the time Guhan woke up the next morning, the Strategy Guide had earned Guhan 15 million in subscriptions and 22.51 million in rewards.
Based on Guhan's calculations, the Strategy Guide should have earned 30 million in subscriptions and 45.02 million in rewards. That would mean a total of 6 million people had read Guhan's Strategy Guide.
The number of readers was still rising. There were a total of 120 million people in the eight base cities on Earth. It was estimated that there would be a total of 50 million readers in the end. After all, among the 120 million people, about 100 million were poor people who didn't have jobs and could only rely on games to pass their empty spiritual lives.