A Tycoon's Game

Five minutes later.

More than 100 million posts were updated with the same content: The first winner had been selected, username "Little Flower's University Dream." 99 spots remaining!

Below the text was a screenshot.

A transfer record with the username hidden!

A full 500,000 transferred in one go!

"OMG! Is this for real?"

"Do people really get paid for answering questions?"

"I don't believe it. It's photoshopped!"

"Believe it or not, I believe it!"

"By the way, what was the answer? What did Little Flower actually answer?"

For a time, the comments beneath the posts surged!

But most netizens were still completely confused, because there were simply too many posts.

No one knew where the first winner had posted the answer!

"Heh heh."

Lying on his bed, Liu Di smiled meaningfully.

Keep it going, keep it going!

The hotter it got, the better!

In his view were all of Magic Child's operation records!

One hundred million posts had already been sent out.

And the number was still rapidly increasing.

The comments beneath the posts were also growing at a rate of nearly tens of thousands per second!

Without a doubt.

This was absolutely a post that had shaken the entire internet!

Guess-and-Win was bound to become the next major trend!

This was destined to be a sleepless night!

Four hours later.

Discussion of the topic had reached unprecedented heights.

More than 150 million posts and billions of comments!

The answer to the riddle had long since spread everywhere!

Almost everyone was participating!

More than ten million people had already guessed the answer, 12,115!

Some had even dug up every detail of mathematician Otto Red's life and history!

At exactly midnight.

When many people should have been heading to bed.

Liu Di ordered Magic Child to transfer ninety-nine prizes of 500,000 each at once!

Then he posted all the screenshots together!

The prizes for all one hundred winners had been delivered!

The online comments exploded once again!

"So it was actually real!"

"They really paid out! One of my friends is a winner!"

"Damn it, what a regret! I figured out the answer ages ago, but I didn't post it!"

"Quit bragging, guy upstairs!"

"500,000 just for answering one math question? I can't believe it!"

"By the way, who exactly is this Emperor San? What does he want?"

"Emperor San... could he be a fan of God of Song Di Yi? But where did Emperor Er go?"

Looking at the wildly varied comments.

Liu Di gave an amused smile.

Everything was progressing according to his plan!

"Magic Child, prepare the second question!"

Soon afterward, the mysterious account named Emperor San made another post!

"Guess-and-Win 2"

"The answer to the previous round is the riddle for this round!"

"Bonus hint: Do you believe there is another you in this world?"

"The first netizen to correctly guess the answer—prize: 100 million!"

"Signed: Emperor San."

The entire internet was in an uproar!

"He came up with another question, and the prize is actually 100 million this time!"

"Oh my god, 100 million!"

"What kind of game is this? A tycoon's game?"

"Creating the riddle of the century?"

"The previous answer was 12,115. That's the riddle?"

"What can anyone possibly get from 12,115?"

"Stop talking! Hurry up and figure out the answer!"

"Start looking things up! Get 100 million and the whole family rises to glory!"

This time, no one doubted whether the prize money was real!

Everyone stared feverishly at the 100 million yuan prize!

However.

This question was not nearly so simple!

Countless netizens searched through all kinds of information, yet none could find a single reliable answer!

Even 12115, the consumer complaint hotline, was inexplicably harassed countless times!

The netizens had gone mad!

The internet was boiling over too!

No one could sleep!

Their hearts screamed madly, What the hell is 12115?!

As long as they got it right, it would be 100 million!

But very few people realized.

What an incredibly successful internet event this was!

How massive the attention it had attracted was!

The trending searches that Emperor Yi had once dominated were now half filled with Guess-and-Win!

"Mysterious person controls tens of thousands of accounts, posts over 100 million times in ten minutes!"

"Guess-and-Win posts draw the attention of 800 million internet users, with prizes as high as 100 million—equivalent to twenty lottery jackpots!"

"Major Internet Events of 2020: Following God of Song Di Yi, another enigmatic figure, Emperor San, emerges!"

"Hot Topic: Do you believe there is another you in this world?"

"Thousands of scholars form discussion groups overnight, all to solve the second riddle!"

Over the next few hours.

Emperor San's posts surged in popularity again!

All kinds of bizarre answers appeared one after another!

Even deep into the night, the posts' views and replies continued to rise unstoppably!

They were even shared overseas.

Many international users also racked their brains over the 100 million yuan prize!

One hundred million yuan in cash was absolutely the largest prize in the history of online giveaways, unprecedented!

An astronomical figure!

Enough to drive anyone mad!

At exactly five in the morning.

More than a dozen scholars gathered in a conference room, agonizing over the answer.

"I know!"

A middle-aged woman who looked like a teacher raised her head from a pile of documents, her eyes bloodshot.

"12115 isn't a math problem! It's a set of coordinates!"

"Longitude 12, latitude 115!"

"There is a place there that fits his hint perfectly!"

Then, trembling, the middle-aged woman typed two words into her phone.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, they quietly waited for the result!

Thirty seconds later.

A notification was broadcast across the entire internet!

Countless netizens who had stayed awake all night saw a post that made them beat their chests in regret!

"Congratulations to ID Teacher He for successfully solving the second riddle!"

"Prize awarded: 100 million yuan!"

"Answer revealed: Gemini!"

Attached was another transfer screenshot!

There were so many zeros after the 1 in the amount field that it made people question their lives!

A solid 100 million yuan in cash!

The comment section burst its banks again!

"Holy shit!!! Someone really got it right?"

"The winner is a teacher!"

"100 million yuan! They've reached the pinnacle of life!"

"This is incredible!"

"The answer is Gemini??? What does that mean?"

"Why? Why? I want to know why!"

That night, the whole nation joined in!

There was only one cause.

The massive number of posts sent out by the mysterious person behind the account named Emperor San!

And the more than 100 million yuan in cash he had wildly handed out!

The second round of Guess-and-Win had ended.

Countless netizens sighed in regret.

While lamenting their failure to win the prize.

They could not sleep, wondering whether there would be a third riddle.

And the mastermind behind it all.

Had already gotten up early and climbed to the mountaintop.

Before him, the morning sun slowly rose.

Watching the tidal-wave-like data while calmly stroking his chin, he said slowly, "Magic Child, the buildup is about done. It's time to get to the main event!"

Since I didn't update on time today, am I about to get cursed to death? The author feels guilty, so here's a chapter first. I'll stay up tonight and make up for it! You can read it now or wait until tomorrow morning to read it all together. I swear I won't fail you! Please forgive me.