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Chapter 117 The 3Q War

Yanjing, Jianguomenwai Street, 360 Headquarters Building.

The atmosphere in the chairman's office on the top floor was subtly tense.

Zhou Hongyi leaned back on the sofa, scrutinizing the composed young tycoon sitting opposite her, her eyes revealing a hint of wariness and inquiry.

As a veritable "rogue leader" in the domestic internet security field, Zhou Hongyi has always been a fearless troublemaker in this circle.

But facing Li Feng, who is currently riding high and controls a vast pan-entertainment empire, he has no choice but to be on his guard.

"Mr. Li, I've heard about how Haofeng Networks has been getting into a real mess with Tencent these past few days."

Zhou Hongyi spoke with a half-smile, "QQ Doctor cut off the internet access to iQiyi and Three Kingdoms Kill at the lower levels; that's certainly a dirty trick. However, this is a feud between Haofeng and Tencent. Mr. Li, you didn't fly to Beijing specifically to see me today, did you? You wouldn't be hoping I'd take the fall for you, would you?"

"President Zhou is a smart man, let's speak frankly." Li Feng's voice was full of confidence.

"I'm not here today to ask for your help, but to remind you that the penguin's knife is about to be held to your throat."

"What a joke." Zhou Hongyi scoffed. "My 360 accounts for over 80% of the computer installations nationwide. Tencent does its social networking and gaming, and I do my security. We keep to ourselves. Why should he touch me?"

"Keep to yourselves?"

Li Feng couldn't help but laugh out loud. "President Zhou, didn't you go to Shenzhen a while ago to see Pony Ma, hoping to discuss a deeper collaboration on security with Tencent? They didn't even offer you a cup of tea before kicking you out the door?"

When Li Feng exposed Zhou Hongyi's embarrassing situation of being rejected, her expression changed, and a hint of anger flashed in her eyes.

"You really think Tencent created 'QQ Doctor' just to target Haofeng Network?"

Li Feng tore off the veil of truth: "Targeting me was merely a drill used by Tencent to test its low-level permission interception capabilities!"

"Pony Ma's ambition is to upgrade QQ Doctor into an all-in-one PC manager! By forcibly bundling it with QQ, he aims to take over the underlying permissions of all internet users' computers!"

"Once he's finished killing my software, his next step will be to uninstall your security software, Zhou Hongyi! By then, you won't even have a chance to scream for help!"

These words struck Zhou Hongyi like a thunderclap.

He was well aware of the penguin's thuggish nature of "taking other people's paths and leaving them with no path to take," and his sense of crisis was amplified to an extreme degree.

Just as Zhou Hongyi was gritting her teeth, caught in a fierce internal struggle.

"Buzzing—"

The phone on the coffee table vibrated.

Li Feng glanced at the screen, a playful smile playing on his lips, and pressed the speakerphone button in front of Zhou Hongyi.

"Hey, Brother Li!"

A hearty laugh with a heavy Jiangzhe accent came from the other end of the phone, "It's Jack Ma! I heard you've been disgusted by that penguin in Shenzhen lately? How about it, need some firepower support from your old brother?"

Jack Ma?! The head of Alibaba?!

When Zhou Hongyi heard this voice, her eyes almost popped out of their sockets!

"Mr. Ma, you're too kind. It's just a small trouble," Li Feng said with a relaxed smile.

"Oh dear! This is no small matter! Tencent's rogue behavior of using its power to stifle innovation is a cancer on the entire Chinese internet!"

Jack Ma was indignant on the phone, saying, "Alibaba's traffic interfaces are ready to be fully opened to Haofeng at any time! If you need funding, Alibaba can lend you a billion yuan anytime! We absolutely cannot allow a monopolistic oligopoly like Tencent to run rampant!"

"Thank you, Mr. Ma. I appreciate your kind offer. After I finish this battle here, I'll come to Hangzhou to have tea with you."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Hongyi was still reeling from the strong support from Alibaba.

The phone rang again!

This time, it's a number from Guangzhou.

Li Feng pressed the speakerphone button again.

"Mr. Li! This is Ding Sanshi!"

The pig farm owner, Mr. Ding, chuckled, "Oh dear, I heard Tencent is sabotaging your computer desktops? That Pony Ma is too domineering! Does he really think he owns the Chinese internet?"

"Mr. Li, go for it! Starting today, all of our 'Pig Farm's' portal website, email pop-ups, and all the public chat broadcasts in 'World of Warcraft' and 'Fantasy Westward Journey' will be given free links to Haofeng's Weibo! Count me, Ding Sanshi, for this disgusting thing with Tencent!"

Two phone calls in a row!

Alibaba! Pig Farm!

The heads of two top internet giants personally called to show their support and offer their assistance!

Zhou Hongyi sat on the sofa, her back already covered in a layer of white sweat.

Looking at the excessively young boss in front of him, a storm raged in his heart!

Just how terrifying are Li Feng's connections and resources?!

It's astonishing that the usually shrewd and calculating Jack Ma and Ding Sanshi would so clearly form a united front against the penguins at such a time!

"Mr. Zhou, did you hear that?"

Li Feng put away his phone and looked at Zhou Hongyi, who was already wavering, with amusement.

"The world has suffered under penguins for far too long!"

"When one place is in trouble, others add to the chaos. Tencent has made too many enemies over the years through plagiarism and suppression; internet companies across the country have long wanted to destroy it!"

"Alibaba and NetEase have already launched attacks from the flanks. As the dominant player in the security field, are you planning to continue sitting idly by and wait to be slowly boiled alive by Tencent, or will you ally with me, Li Feng, and dig up Tencent's ancestral grave on the front lines?!"

The humiliation of being met with indifference, coupled with an overwhelming sense of crisis that the fate of the penguins would be intertwined with their own, and then looking at the unprecedentedly powerful anti-penguin alliance before them...

Zhou Hongyi's inherent banditry and warlike nature were ignited!

"Done!!"

Zhou Hongyi stood up, a fierce glint flashing in her eyes!

"Pony, you're so heartless, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

"Mr. Li, don't worry! When it comes to the fundamental technologies of computers, 360 is the undisputed master!"

Zhou Hongyi gritted his teeth and unleashed his counterattack:

"Isn't QQ Doctor supposed to block your software? I'll go back and have the tech team work through the night to develop a dedicated removal tool called '360 QQ Protector'!"

"I want to classify QQ as a 'malicious virus' that steals user privacy! I'll completely block QQ's pop-up ads! I'll strip QQ of its low-level permissions to scan user hard drives! I'll block the QQ Doctor's running process!"

"I want to turn his QQ (Penguin) into a piece of junk that can be uninstalled with a single click on the computers of 80% of internet users nationwide!"

Hearing Zhou Hongyi's crazy plan to "cut off his lineage," Li Feng smiled with satisfaction.

"Great! Mr. Zhou, you're very agreeable!"

Li Feng stood up and clasped Zhou Hongyi's hand tightly.

"You're responsible for bleeding QQ dry at the bottom, and I, Haofeng Weibo, will be responsible for nailing Tencent to the pillar of historical shame in the public opinion arena!"

……

The next morning.

An unprecedented battle of the century on the Internet has suddenly broken out!

While netizens across the internet were still complaining that iQiyi and the game "Three Kingdoms Kill" wouldn't open.

360 Security Guard suddenly launched a forced upgrade via pop-up notifications across the entire network!

A small tool called "360 QQ Protector" was installed on hundreds of millions of computers across the country along with an upgrade package.

Immediately afterwards, countless users who had just logged into QQ were horrified to find a huge red exclamation mark warning popping up in the lower right corner of their computer screen!

[360 Security Guard alert: Malicious malware "QQ Doctor/QQ" has been detected on your computer. This software is illegally scanning your hard drive's privacy settings! We recommend immediately using "QQ Protector" to block or uninstall it with one click!]

This blow landed squarely on the penguin's artery!

At the same time, the public opinion bombshell on Haofeng's Weibo was officially ignited!

A massively popular article titled "Damn Tencent" was pinned to the top of Weibo's trending topics by Li Feng's PR team!

The article brutally denounces how Tencent has used its social media dominance to copy startups, force-install content, and stifle innovation in the Chinese internet industry over the years.

This battle cry ignited long-simmering anger across the internet!

Official Weibo accounts of tech giants like Alibaba and hog farms joined in, reposting and liking the post, further fueling the fire.

"Tencent is disgusting! They're not only a habitual plagiarist, but now they're even preventing us from using other software?"

"Support 360! Support Haofeng! Tencent, that rogue company, should be punished!"

Uninstall QQ Doctor! Clean up your computer environment!

Faced with this sudden online attack, Pony Ma in the Fiyta Building in Shenzhen was furious!

"Has Zhou Hongyi gone mad?! Is he going to fight Penguin to the death?!"

Pony Ma's eyes turned red as he watched the number of QQ uninstalls skyrocketing and the revenue from blocked Google services.

But as a top-tier crocodile, it naturally wouldn't sit idly by and wait for its demise.

"If they can form alliances, why can't we penguins also try to build up our own allies?!"

Pony Ma coldly issued the order, "Contact Baidu! Contact Kingsoft Antivirus! Contact Keniu Antivirus and Maxthon Browser!"

"Zhou Hongyi has been working on security software for years, and she's already thoroughly offended these companies!"

"Tell them that Tencent is leading the formation of the 'Anti-360 Alliance'! As long as they are willing to stand up and issue a joint statement, Tencent will give them full preferential treatment in terms of traffic access!"

Driven by the lure of huge profits for penguins and a shared desire for revenge.

Several companies that had been bullied by 360, including Baidu, Kingsoft, and Keniu, responded quickly!

That afternoon, a massive counterattack matrix led by penguins took shape!

Major platforms jointly issued a "Joint Statement Against 360's Unfair Competition and Strengthening Industry Self-Discipline," targeting Zhou Hongyi and 360, accusing them of abusing their security software privileges and being true internet thugs.

However, this was merely foreplay.

At 8 p.m. that evening, Tencent unleashed the most infamous ultimate nuclear weapon in the history of the Chinese Internet!

All QQ users across the network received an open letter from Tencent when logging into the chat window – “A Letter to QQ Users”.

The contents of the letter sent chills down the spines of the entire Chinese internet community:

"Dear QQ users: By the time you see this letter, we have just made a very difficult decision. Until 360 stops its plug-in attacks and malicious defamation against QQ, we have decided..."

"QQ will be stopped from running on computers with 360 software installed!"

"Choose one! 360 or QQ, or QQ or 360!"

boom!!

The robbery clause that forces hundreds of millions of netizens to choose between two options has caused an uproar across the country!

The most brutal and sensational "3Q War" in the history of the Chinese Internet, orchestrated by Haofeng Networks, has reached its climax with a greater involvement of industry giants than in its predecessor!