Chapter Summaries

After winning his first match, Xiao Dingdang bought a deluxe pass, opened weapon crates, and equipped new clothes. Da Sima, frustrated by five quick defeats, joined Xiao Dingdang for a duo match, hoping to use his advice and skill to win.

• Xiao Dingdang checked the pass, bought the deluxe version for 39.9, and received five weapon crates and a character name card.
• Xiao Dingdang opened the crates, received 2,800 BP Coins and a pair of pants, then equipped the pants and his pass jacket.
• Da Sima wondered why he kept dying soon after landing, while viewers teased him about finishing five matches so quickly.
• Da Sima explained what he had learned about shooting after jumping from vehicles and aiming while dropping between floors.
• Da Sima accepted Xiao Dingdang's invitation, and the two agreed to play a duo match without random teammates.

Da Sima accidentally knocked down Xiao Dingdang during a PUBG fight, and both players became death crates. At Starfield Game Company, Su Ye saw PUBG’s strong launch and asked Deng Jiajia to investigate whether the platform could legally add a marketplace for players to trade items.

• Da Sima rushed in to help Xiao Dingdang, but mistook him for an enemy and knocked him down before an opponent eliminated them both.
• Livestream viewers laughed at Da Sima’s chaotic gameplay, and he apologized to Xiao Dingdang before they queued for another match.
• Su Ye and Luan Le'an checked PUBG’s first-hour figures, which showed over a million downloads and more than 14 million yuan in top-ups.
• Su Ye asked Luan Le'an whether the gaming platform could open a marketplace for player-to-player item sales, and Luan Le'an referred him to Deng Jiajia.
• Deng Jiajia said she would consult law students and professors, and Su Ye asked her to investigate the marketplace’s compliance and promised a reward.

After PUBG became a hit, Su Ye learned that someone was trying to tamper with its game data and organized Starfield to develop cheat detection and manual reviews. Meanwhile, Teng Hua ordered Qin Shou to make cheats to sabotage PUBG, and Su Ye decided to hire more staff.

• Su Ye saw PUBG trending and considered the game’s success incomplete until Starfield held its first tournament.
• Luan Le'an told Su Ye that someone had tried to modify PUBG’s data, so Su Ye called a company meeting.
• Teng Hua ordered Qin Shou to create a PUBG cheat program within the week after Shooting Simulator’s failure left Qisheng heavily indebted.
• Su Ye directed Luan Le'an to split the design team between game optimization and cheat detection, and ordered Starfield to add player reports and manual reviews.
• Su Ye assigned Deng Jiajia to recruit reviewers and told the publicity department to monitor cheat-related discussions.
• Luan Le'an warned that Starfield lacked enough development staff, and Su Ye ordered the company to recruit capable people.

Su Ye decided to build a company headquarters and asked Deng Jiajia to find land in Shencheng. Meanwhile, Da Sima won a PUBG chicken dinner after using smoke to misdirect his opponents, then claimed that experts sometimes had to go prone.

• Su Ye calculated that the company could afford to build a headquarters and decided to pursue the project.
• Su Ye told Deng Jiajia to look for plots of land in Shencheng, and she agreed to investigate.
• Da Sima played PUBG during a livestream and accidentally discovered a prone player beneath his feet before knocking him down.
• As the final circle closed, Da Sima threw a smoke grenade to draw gunfire while he crawled toward the circle.
• Da Sima defeated the last opponent from a prone position, won the chicken dinner, and joked that experts sometimes had to go prone.

Su Ye chose a huge tract of industrial research-and-development land beside Guangming Lake for Starfield Game Company’s future headquarters and asked the district to let him buy it all. Director Zhang Zhiguo was stunned when Deng Jiajia showed him the company’s daily revenue, which exceeded 200 million yuan.

• Deng Jiajia brought Su Ye information on available plots, and he chose the large tract beside Guangming Lake.
• Su Ye and Deng Jiajia went to the Guangming District Planning and Natural Resources Administration, where a staff member said the land could only be obtained through auction.
• Su Ye told the staff member he wanted to buy the entire tract, and Director Zhang Zhiguo came over to ask about his request.
• Su Ye introduced Starfield Game Company, and the staff member recognized it as the maker of Minecraft and PUBG.
• Deng Jiajia showed Zhang Zhiguo the company’s figures, and he was shocked to see daily revenue above 200 million yuan.

Su Ye negotiated with Zhang Zhiguo to secure 240 mu of land near Guangming Lake for Starfield Game Company's future headquarters, proposing to buy it in stages. He left Zhang to pursue district approval and learned that a marketplace for Xingye Gaming Platform transactions appeared legally permissible.

• Zhang Zhiguo was astonished by Starfield Game Company's financial records and agreed to discuss Su Ye's needs.
• Su Ye asked to acquire all 240 mu of reserved industrial land by paying one billion yuan upfront and buying more land each month.
• Zhang Zhiguo explained that reserving the land required district-level coordination for a key industrial project and approval from the city.
• After Su Ye left, Zhang Zhiguo called someone to investigate Starfield Game Company.
• Su Ye asked Deng Jiajia to coordinate the land work with Zhang Zhiguo and learned that a marketplace for gaming-platform transactions had no legal restrictions.

Xiao Dingdang discovered Starfield's new trading market and teamed up with Mai Senpai to climb PUBG's ranked ladder. After they took high ground on a mountain, one enemy squad attacked them, leaving the two fighting to hold their position.

• Xiao Dingdang explored the new trading market and saw PUBG skins listed at prices ranging from a few cents to hundreds of yuan.
• Xiao Dingdang reached diamond rank in PUBG and invited his friend Mai Senpai to play ranked with him.
• Xiao Dingdang and Mai Senpai cleared Pochinki, drove to a mountaintop, and took positions with their Kar98ks.
• Xiao Dingdang spotted a squad near the school, knocked one enemy, and then heard Mai Senpai warn that another team was approaching their position.
• Xiao Dingdang rushed to support Mai Senpai as the attacking team took cover behind a rock and threw grenades at them.

Xiao Dingdang and Mai Senpai were eliminated after being overwhelmed by two squads, prompting them to consider finding regular teammates and wondering whether Starfield would hold a PUBG tournament. Meanwhile, Chen Ze came up with a plan to organize his own Minecraft tournament and began drafting a proposal.

• Xiao Dingdang and Mai Senpai tried to retreat from two converging squads, but the school team ran them down and eliminated them.
• Back in the lobby, Xiao Dingdang and Mai Senpai agreed that recruiting two skilled regular teammates would help them compete against full squads.
• Xiao Dingdang wondered whether Starfield would hold a PUBG tournament, while Su Ye had already decided to wait until the game's player base and rankings matured.
• Chen Ze returned to Minecraft after finding PUBG unsuited to him, then remembered that the Starfield Building Cup had brought his livestream its biggest audience.
• Chen Ze decided to organize a Minecraft tournament and began writing a proposal to invite streamers including Muyu, Zimin, and Jianan.

Su Ye approved a streamer-run Minecraft tournament, launched plans to promote Minecraft overseas, and designed a distinctive cyberpunk-style headquarters for Xingye Company. When the construction team balked at the unusual design, Deng Jiajia raised the budget, and Wang Qiang agreed to find a way to build it.

• Deng Jiajia told Su Ye that streamer Chen Ze wanted to hold a Minecraft tournament, and Su Ye approved the plan.
• Su Ye told Deng Jiajia to start overseas promotion with Minecraft and learned the company had acquired ten mu of land in Guangming District.
• Su Ye designed a glowing, pixel-inspired cyberpunk headquarters and told Deng Jiajia to have it built according to his drawing.
• Deng Jiajia sent the design to Wang Qiang, who asked her to reconsider because his construction team lacked experience with such a building.
• Deng Jiajia offered to raise the construction budget to one billion, and Wang Qiang promised to hire experts and complete the project.

Chen Ze planned a Minecraft tournament featuring a Hundred Days of Mutation team survival challenge and a final PvP showdown, while Starfield prepared legal action against cheat makers. The tournament preparations continued, and the company delayed its cheat-detection update until after lawsuits were filed.

• Chen Ze told his livestream viewers he would hold a Minecraft streamer tournament the following week and kept its format and participants secret.
• Chen Ze planned a Hundred Days of Mutation competition with two teams, undercover agents, and a final sky-island PvP battle, then notified the streamers who had agreed to join.
• Da Sima said he would not participate because he was focused on PUBG rank points, while other streamers gave no clear answers about joining.
• News of Chen Ze's tournament reached trending searches, and he began having the server prepared.
• Luan Le'an told Su Ye that Starfield had gathered evidence implicating Qisheng and individual cheat makers, and Su Ye ordered the legal department to sue them.
• Su Ye told Luan Le'an to delay releasing cheat detection until after the lawsuits, and the legal department eagerly took up the cases.