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In the afternoon of August 23, the topic "Black Myth: Wukong suspected of plagiarism" quickly topped the hot search list.

Around 0:00 on the 23rd, Weibo user "塞上李云中" posted a post with a picture of the "Great Sage's Remains" chapter in "Black Myth: Wukong", which was similar in posture and movement to the Monkey King in "Journey to the West Character Atlas" published in 2012. He said, "It seems that the Monkey King I drew has changed his equipment. Maybe he has leveled up by beating monsters. So handsome."

It is worth mentioning that "Sai Shang Li Yunzhong" later emphasized that he was not questioning the plagiarism of "Black Myth: Wukong" and said that he had no intention of "riding on the popularity". Earlier, he said, "In fact, I also found several evidences that "Black Myth" borrowed from my works."

On the evening of the 22nd, Weibo user "玄鏐108" posted a Weibo post comparing Yang Jian's armband in Black Myth: Wukong with his previous designs, lamenting that "it's been copied again. Is it so difficult to be original?"

In addition, Weibo user "南山禅" also posted a post comparing previously taken pictures with the pictures in the game, and directly @ed the game producer Feng Ji and art director Yang Qi, saying "Hello Wukong, I was not informed when using Monkey King's pictures. Please contact me if you see it. Thank you."

According to Phoenix Finance, Li Yunzhong is a young painter from Inner Mongolia, known as the first person to paint "Journey to the West". The blogger of "Xuanlu 108" is Li Hui, a Chinese armor artist and Beijing arts and crafts master.

As the first domestically produced 3A game, "Black Myth: Wukong" became a hit on the entire Internet after its official release on August 20.

According to SteamDB data, after breaking through 2.2 million people on the first day of its launch and breaking through 2.35 million people online the next day, the number of concurrent online users on Steam for Black Myth: Wukong broke through 2.4 million on the third day (August 22). This record is second only to the shooting sandbox game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

According to statistics from the domestic game best-selling list, "Black Myth: Wukong" has sold more than 3 million copies on the Steam platform. Together with the Epic, WeGame and Play Station platforms, the total sales volume has exceeded 4.5 million copies, with total sales exceeding 1.5 billion yuan, significantly breaking the sales record of domestic games.