What had happened in Bernier City was soon "livestreamed" in full by vampire players from the Thorn Clan and posted on the forums, where it sparked heated discussions among the players.
The main reason was that after version 3.2's "Calamity of the Eternal Night" ended, the story had entered a lull, leaving the players with nothing to do.
The secondary reason was that, after some insiders revealed what they knew, many players learned how important Boss Huo and Brother Crow had been in the "Misty Sea Trading Company" incident. So even before the chaos in Kafhoka began, all kinds of "hot takes" about it had already appeared.
Some people were cursing Old Huo and Crow on the forums for being absolute bastards.
After all, the disaster they had plotted would surely cause a terrible calamity in Kafhoka, indirectly affecting an astronomical number of innocent people. Some radicals had even gone so far as to call for Old Huo and Crow to be "strung up on lampposts."
But others applauded this "cyberfinancial megabomb."
Some players, especially those who loved playing by underhanded rules, practically treated Old Huo and Crow's methods as gospel. They even compiled a "complete collection" to study in detail, eagerly preparing to replicate the whole thing somewhere else.
As for the business-minded players who enjoyed trading in the game, they saw this operation as "divine revelation for the business world of another world."
Before this, merchants like Serak Finda had done little more than buy low and sell high. The bolder ones might "role-play" as pirates in some remote parts of the Misty Sea. But Old Huo and Crow's operation had truly opened their eyes. They had seen for themselves that business players could do much more in the game than simply act as "scumbag merchants."
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