Speak, how much were you paid?

However, the content of this post-credits scene completely exceeded everyone's expectations.

Inside the screen, on the plaza in front of the hallway, hundreds of people wearing Prime Minister masks shouted in unison:

"Which team battle is the strongest? Sweep the World is the absolute strongest!
Which tactical formation is the strongest? Sweep the World is the absolute strongest!"

Hearing this roar, the viewers in front of their screens felt dizzy. Was this supposed to be an advertisement?

It totally caught them off guard!

It had become quite common for creators or streamers on the Nebula Platform to promote various merchants in their videos, but this was the first time the Great God Angel had inserted an advertisement into one. The strangest thing was that it looked like an ad for a low-budget, small-company mobile game. Could they possibly have had enough money to hire the Great God Angel?

Many viewers immediately swamped the comment section:

[Spill it, how much were you actually paid?]
[So this was the main feature all along!]
[Isn't this the game endorsed by the Prime Minister? They even managed to hire the Great God Angel?]
[Since it's a recommendation from the Great God, I'll go check it out first.]
......

Although they were puzzled as to why the Great God was promoting this mobile game, many people expressed curiosity and stated they would go try it out. Even if only a small fraction of people were interested, against the backdrop of his massive popularity, a huge wave of users registered accounts in a short span of time. This undoubtedly far exceeded the game development company's expectations.

......

In the city of Shanghai, inside an ordinary commercial building, General Manager Xiao Mingfeng sat in his office, listening to the performance report for the current period.

During the past two months, their company had spotted the currently trending Three Kingdoms theme, intending to ride the wave and make a quick profit. To that end, they had even specially hired Tang Guoqiang, the actor famous for portraying the Prime Minister, to shoot advertisements. Unfortunately, the results had been consistently negligible.

"General Manager, up until this month, the registration count for our company's flagship mobile game, 'Sweep the World', has not even reached 300,000. As for the truly active participants..."

Directly opposite him, an articulate and professional-looking woman in her thirties reported the company's current reality as it was. The company's recent earnings were right there, looking utterly disastrous and entirely impossible to conceal.

How could Xiao Mingfeng not know the company's general condition? It was simply as bad as it could possibly get. With a registration volume of fewer than 300,000, the number of people actually willing to play probably amounted to only tens of thousands, and those willing to pay were even fewer. How could they possibly carry on like this?

One must know that he had originally been very optimistic about the prospects of 'Sweep the World'. Not only did it launch at an opportune time, but the development team also spared no effort in refining the game's details, hoping to make a fortune out of it. Who could have foreseen the current predicament?

Although the development cost for this type of mobile game was traditionally low, a significant amount of money had been spent on advertising and employee salaries, not to mention the rent for the company's commercial office space. They were even starting to feel the pinch of expenses exceeding income. If things continued this way, their small company would sooner or later go under.

"Manager, should we... should we step up our promotional efforts?"

Xiao Mingfeng was not the only one worrying about the company's losses; the employees under him were equally anxious, as this directly concerned their jobs and livelihoods. This month's salaries hadn't even been disbursed yet, and goodness knew if they would even be able to pay wages.

Xiao Mingfeng glanced at these restless employees and sighed helplessly. Things simply could not go on like this; if they didn't figure out a solution soon, they would have no choice but to give up.

As for stepping up promotional efforts?

Leaving aside whether they could even scrape together such a sum of money right now, even if they actually had it, they had to consider whether tossing it into this bottomless pit would yield any return.

"Manager... Manager!"

Just as the scene lapsed into a silent and awkward atmosphere, a programmer burst in flustered and frantic, wearing a joyous expression and failing entirely to notice that he had neglected to knock beforehand.

"What on earth is the matter?"

Xiao Mingfeng frowned with displeasure. If not for the joyous look on the man's face, which suggested it might be good news, he would have already reprimanded him sharply.

Yet, at this stage of the game, what kind of good news could there possibly be? Could some wealthy benefactor have suddenly dropped tens of thousands? Or had one of their other mobile games suddenly blown up?

"The registration count for 'Sweep the World' has broken one million! And it keeps climbing non-stop. At this rate, reaching two to three million in the next few days is absolute certainty!"

The programmer was no fool; he naturally saw the look of displeasure clearly visible on Xiao Mingfeng's face, but he also knew that Xiao Mingfeng was certainly in no mood to hold him accountable right now—this was earth-shattering good news!

"What? Are you serious?"

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Xiao Mingfeng no longer had any mood to care about such trivial details. He grabbed the programmer and pulled him forward. The growth in registration numbers had always crawled at a turtle's pace; how could it possibly have surged by so much within a single day?

"What on earth is going on? Are these data figures correct?"

After reviewing the backend data, Xiao Mingfeng was instantly dumbfounded. Within a few short hours, the registration count had actually increased by a full million, and it was still continuously climbing upward. Clearly, their company hadn't done a single thing!

Where on earth did this surge in numbers come from?

However, the reality lay right before Xiao Mingfeng's eyes, so it naturally could not be false. Yet, unlike the cheering employees around him, while Xiao Mingfeng was thrilled, he was equally baffled. He knew the company's promotional status inside and out, and it was absolutely impossible for it to produce such an effect!

"During this period of time, has any major event related to our company occurred?"

Xiao Mingfeng forcibly suppressed his surging emotions and asked the employees under his charge.

"Well... it seems the Great God Angel promoted 'Sweep the World' at the end of his latest meme video." Just as everyone was looking at each other in blank dismay and utter confusion, a timid voice rang out.

The employee who spoke looked around at the gazes directed at him and swallowed hard. Would he dare admit he had been slacking off during work hours and thus happened to watch a meme video?

"The Great God Angel?"

Currently, Luo Chen was the streamer with the highest popularity on the Nebula Platform. His fame was by no means weaker than that of A-list stars, and perhaps even slightly higher due to the massive media storms he had stirred up recently.

Yet that was precisely what made it stranger. Could their company possibly have enough money to hire this Great God?

Facing the inquiring gazes gathering from his employees, Xiao Mingfeng was equally bewildered. How come he hadn't received any news about such a major event? Surely the Great God Angel wouldn't have promoted them of his own accord, right?

Xiao Mingfeng knew the exact quality of 'Sweep the World'. Even he himself wouldn't believe it was captivating enough to achieve this. So what on earth was going on here?