50: Chapter 50 Shocking the Entire Audience

Gu Yi did not go up and boast about his product with a long-winded speech like traditional manufacturers. He simply walked forward silently and inserted the USB flash drive in his hand into the main console.

He picked up the microphone, looked at the dozens of players in front of him, and spoke in a tone as calm as if he were chatting with friends:

"Thank you all for coming to such a remote place. I won't waste any more words; let's just look at the big screen. Prepare your ears and eyes."

After saying this, Gu Yi pressed the play button directly and then retreated into the shadows.

Click.

The giant 4K screen lit up.

There was no flashy brand logo, not even a countdown.

"BOOM—!!!"

Accompanied by a soul-shuddering ancient chant, an epic symphony burst forth from the top-tier surround sound system in the Chaldea exhibition area like a breached flood, without any warning!

The sound was so pure and heavy; it lacked harsh high frequencies but carried a deep, penetrating power capable of making hearts resonate, instantly piercing through the walls of the sub-exhibition hall and spreading mightily toward the entire exhibition center!

Over at the main stage, Chairman Wang was preparing to announce the start of pre-sales for records of gods and demons.

Suddenly, that blood-boiling epic symphony forcibly overwhelmed the main stage's slightly thin sound system, reaching everyone's ears.

"What is that sound?!"

The media reporters and audience members below the stage stopped what they were doing and turned their heads in confusion.

The immense sense of narrative and incomparable grandeur contained within the music felt as if it were declaring the arrival of some ancient mythological era.

A commotion appeared among the crowd at the main stage.

"This soundtrack... this pressure! It's coming from Area E!"

"Let's go! Let's see what happened!"

Human curiosity is unstoppable, especially when this grand auditory impact far exceeds the boring light pollution of the main stage.

The first to move were several sharp gaming media reporters; they shouldered their cameras, abandoned Chairman Wang who was currently speaking, and jogged all the way toward the Area E sub-exhibition hall.

Following the leaders, the audience below the main stage began to surge toward Area E in large numbers, like receding seawater!

"Hey! Where are you all going! Our giveaway hasn't even started yet!"

Chairman Wang shouted anxiously on stage, but no one paid him any attention at all.

When the crowd, attracted by the music, squeezed into the Area E sub-exhibition hall, gasping for breath, all their gazes were instantly locked tightly onto that huge 4K screen on the wall!

On the big screen, what greeted everyone's eyes was an insanely long 2D tracking shot.

Amidst the sky-filling yellow sand, an ancient city so magnificent it was breathtaking—Uruk—smashed into everyone's retinas without reservation!

Immediately following that, the visuals, keeping pace with the beats of the impassioned symphony, began to showcase unreasonable action storyboards:

A figure with emerald green hair leaped down from the city wall, and countless chains shimmering with golden light, the Chains of Heaven, strangled the massive demonic beast with a physical tension that made one's scalp tingle;

At the top of the temple, the "Wise King" Gilgamesh, having shed his heavy armor, waved his hand proudly. Thousands of golden ripples cracked open behind him, and the golden firepower net pouring down from the sky washed the ground like a rainstorm!

And at the very end of the video, amidst a bone-chilling divine pressure, the silhouette of the Mother Goddess of Creation [Tiamat], vast enough to cover the sky, appeared faintly within the black mud...

In just a few minutes of footage, every single frame was frantically burning through an unimaginably terrifying budget!

"Is... is this 2D hand-drawn?!"

A veteran anime media person who had rushed over gasped sharply, their voice recorder nearly dropping to the ground.

The texture of the city wall bricks, the light and shadow on the fluttering cloth banners, the ultimate color rendering!

How could the audience of Blue Star have ever seen this level of 2D animation industrial standard!

More and more people arrived, and the entire Area E sub-exhibition hall was soon packed to the point of being impassable, with even the outside corridor filled with people standing on tiptoes to peek inside.

A wave after wave of incredulous exclamations erupted from the crowd:

"My god! The tracking shots and frame rate are explosive, right?! Is this really the texture that hand-drawn animation can produce?!"

"This animation tension, every second is burning money! This is simply a movie-level trailer for a masterpiece!"

"Who said 2D isn't as good as 3D?! Compared to this, that so-called five-hundred-million-cost Xianxia blockbuster from earlier is just like a soulless plastic toy!"

"Incredible... is this the foundation of Chaldea? A game company coming over to do animation and performing a dimensional reduction strike?!"

Those employees from traditional big manufacturers and peers who had followed the crowd now turned pale.

The industrial barriers they were so proud of appeared so ridiculous and vulnerable in the face of this few-minute 2D visual feast.

When the screen finally froze on the gold-stamped words [Absolute Demonic Beast Front: Babylonia]...

The entire Area E sub-exhibition hall fell into a silence that lasted for over ten seconds.

Afterward, thunderous applause, exclamations of awe, and even a few excited screams erupted suddenly!

"That was amazing! This is the real visual industry!"

"Chaldea is awesome! Father Gu is awesome!"

"When will it air?! I can't wait to watch it!"

The originally remote and deserted sub-exhibition hall had now become the undisputed, sole absolute core of the entire exhibition!

Meanwhile, not just at the exhibition site, but on all major live streaming platforms across the internet, especially in PD's live stream room, they had already been completely overwhelmed by this three-minute visual feast!

The netizens who were originally indignant because Chaldea was assigned to the sub-exhibition hall were now frantically typing on their keyboards, and the density of the barrage was so high that it even caused the top-tier servers of the Shark platform to experience short moments of lag and distortion!

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!!! Is this really the animation derived from that tower defense game we play?!"

"I'm sorry, I complained before that the gacha in this game was expensive. Now it seems that every cent I spent was taken by Father Gu and turned into this burning budget on the screen!"

"The big manufacturers' faces must be swollen from being slapped! What's the use of spending ten million to buy the main stage? Someone puts a trailer in a remote Area E, and it directly sucks away all the people from your main stage!"

On the forums, discussion threads about "Absolute Demonic Beast Front: Babylonia" sprang up like mushrooms in just a few minutes, aggressively dominating the headlines of all pan-entertainment trending searches with unstoppable momentum.

Tianpeng Interactive Entertainment's "records of gods and demons," which cost five hundred million, completely became a tragic background board for internet-wide ridicule in this carnival.

No one paid attention to their stiff, expressionless 3D models anymore; in all the players' minds, only Gilgamesh's golden firepower pouring from the sky and Tiamat's breathtaking divine pressure remained.

"Father Gu! Please release it quickly! As long as you dare to air it, whether it's a premium membership or pay-per-episode, I'll cover it all!"

"My wallet is already hungry and impatient! Hurry up and serve this god-tier series!"

No main stage snatched with huge investments, no flashy light shows or hosts. Just a screen and a three-minute video.

A truly good work is, in itself, the most dazzling spotlight.